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I have this exact design on my wrist; just get a Mondaine Big Date watch. Extremely readable and elegant design. I get comments on it all the time. And it's quite affordable!

http://www.amazon.com/Mondaine-White-Black-Leather-A627-3030...
Another submission of the same story contains a link to a (German) newspaper article at http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/mobil/Apple-kopiert-die-... .

There it is claimed that the SBB (Swiss Federal Railway company) holds the copyright and trademark on the clock.
A representative claims that the use is indeed unauthorized, and that they are contacting Apple, trying to seek a legal and financial solution.
Release early, release often. Luckily Apple themselves don't have any delays getting revisions into their app store.
I live in the Netherlands and it seems to work like a charm so far. the whole upheaval sounds like an internet pile-on to me.
> The negative PR and reduction in the quality of the core experience might cause a reduction in sales or consumer opinion of Apple.

Could be. Remember though that they also added at least one notable feature (turn-by-turn), so it's more like 1 step forward and 2 steps back rather than just 2 steps back.

Also remember that Apple took a pounding for the whole antennagate thing, to the point where Steve Jobs had to hold a news conference to get everyone to calm down. That was an issue that "regular people" knew about. (I was asked by people at a bar if the iPhone 4 I had at the time had reception issues, for example.) And yet, Apple sold a ton of iPhone 4s, and no long-term damage was done to the Apple or iPhone brand.

So I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that this will cause long-term problems. However, it is important for Apple to improve their maps data quickly.
The flaw is not triggered over NFC. The payload is uploaded once, and the payload executes the exploit repeatedly (locally) until it works.
If you touch the corner to reveal the map options, "Report a Problem" is next to "Data from TomTom and others." You can report incorrect search results, incorrect street labels, missing location (POI) or problems with directions.
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You should weigh the PATH train negatively, favoring the F/M trains instead (unless you're going to Hoboken).
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Sorry - my point is that (minus sarcasm), for the first time, Apple has done something to discourage folks from upgrading both on the hardware and OS fronts. Not a great move.
I'm doing this and I also added the bing app which, although it's a bit clunky, seemingly has transit directions.
I am working for Zalando, the biggest fashion eCommerce platform in Europe, founded by Rocket. I am astonished that this does not happen more often. In Germany, there are just some local companies who try to compete. UK is a tough market but those companies also don't expand beyond UK. Europe is a big market where eCommerce just recently started to evolve and competitors are rare.

(This is my personal opinion and view of the situation)
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Not to mention battery problems from having the GPS and wireless data going constantly.
Totally agreed on every level. If you want to add security, you do it from the high level; exposing low-level building blocks is a recipe for disaster.
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That's because "executes arbitrary code" is still a reason for rejection, unlike "duplicates core functionality."
> Of course, Apple apologists will jump to say that you can just get a 3rd party app ...

I don't think Apple "apologists" will be jumping in on this one. In this particular case, Apple has, objectively, significantly reduced (or outright eliminated) the usability of a core feature of their phones.

Anyone in a significant population center will find this to be incredibly irksome, and by the very definition of population centers, there are a lot of people in significant population centers.
That sounds a lot like SEO to me, optimizing for keywords to rank higher, etc... (Perhaps "appstore search engine optimization" - ASEO?).
It's not that easy. I use the "push" authentication model, aka Google sends me an SMS whenever I need to authenticate a device. I don't request it explicitly. The pairing is made between the authentication code, and that device. Now, if it happens that I'm stupid enough to enter my login details into a fake page, the interesting part would be the lack of SMS from the Google side, but I will get an SMS when somebody else would try the credentials. Tough break. Besides, this week's phishing attempt asked me my: name, Google account, password, recovery email address. They say that https is as secure as the user that's using it. Same goes for this stuff.

device = browser profile, aka for two browsers on the same machine you need two authentication tokens. Same goes for the same browser with two profiles.
It's not known if Maps was removed because of Apple or Google or both. So while there's no choice on having Google's Maps removed in iOS 6, the reason it happend isn't clear. When it came time to renew the contract one or both parties could have made unacceptable demands, leading to the current situation.
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Are there alternate map apps on iOS that anyone could recommend?
I know this is not related to the new profile pages, but it does relate to changes at Github, and I was reminded of it by the "public activity" mentioned in profiles.

I'm still rather disappointed at the loss of a useful homepage. I used to have a stream of activity for repositories I watched there (e.g.: rails), but ever since stars were introduced, this is no longer the case. I tried watching the repository again (instead of just starring it), but that results in me getting emails that I can't stop. So I either have to accept that I'll get an endless stream of emails every day along with an updated homepage, or just have a homepage that never changes.

I appreciate the work going into Github, but not all of it is for the better.
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This is an homage - Apple makes it absolutely clear as to whether they adopted Hilfiker's clock for the iPad, whether they adopted the 1977 Braun calculator for the iPhone, or Dieter Brahm's Tape recorder for the Podcast app. They are paying tribute to those iconic designs.

I guess the question is - whether someone who was going to purchase Hilfiker's clock for their wall, will mistakenly purchase an iPad instead...

Seriously though - I have to believe in this IP excited environment that we're in, that the lawyer must have signed off (in triplicate) before they released this clock on the iPad.
If I were you I'd wait a bit to see what the next Nexus offers, and/or for Google's version of Maps which is sure to come out on iOS soon-ish (though lacking the level of integration Apple Maps provides).
I'm tired of these stupid sensationalist articles. Pre-IPO everyone talks about how amazing it is, post-IPO everyone just talks about it dying and failing. People need to do something better with their time then speculate over stupidity. It's simply way too early to tell anything.
I searched for the airports, the search is still borked for non-Japanese but they're on the map and show up if you search in Japanese. Airport codes are a mixed bag, 'NRT' returns narita airport correctly but 'HND' gives me a Nevada result. So I don't know if the claims above that they aren't even on the map or return factories are inaccurate or they've already started fixing the more egregious results. Probably fixes I'd guess.
The offset is still there on ditu.google.cn, it's just that they've also munged the satellite imagery to have the same offset.
This is already on the front page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546703
Funny subtitle: "The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not."

People seem to think "amazing" == "cool". Not so! It just means astonishing or surprising. Which makes the word so much more interesting to use. "We charge $9 for a bottle of Corona." "That's amazing!"*

So the iOS 6 maps really truly are amazing :)

*True story
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PATH is cheaper, cleaner, and except late at night runs very frequently. I've taken it for entirely-within NYC trips when it makes sense.
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I just upgraded to iOS 6 last night and just used it to get around downtown Boston. It was unusable. It had some incorrect data about some locations, it was confusing to use, and when I typed in a location, it would look in different cities instead of the one I was currently in. Unfortunately, one of the biggest apps I use regularly has taken a big step backwards.
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>> "I'm sure that in your mind, democrats flip-flop all the time. I just don't see any evidence of that regardless of your personal enlightenments."

I'm not entirely sure how I implied dems flip-flop, or do so more than repubs? I was more making the case that people will stick to their "tribe/pack mentality" even when the other side is doing something congruent with their "beliefs". I also wasn't attacking Obama above, but supporting some of his actions.

But now that you mention it... Obama pledged to bring change and transparency to the presidency, but he's been the harshest president on whistle blowers, and actually operates more behind closed doors than any before him. He also flipped on the gitmo/prisoner thing. They all flip-flop (politicians, red or blue), this is politics, say whatever it takes to get yourself in office, then say whatever it takes to keep yourself there. The American public is buyin.
Why does no one ever state the real facts on this issue? (Well, that is obvious, the truth is censored, oops, I mean politically incorrect.)

American's score better than everyone else, or at worst, second or so. What am I talking about?

...

To appreciate how an average can obscure huge variations in academic performance, just subdivide US test scores by race and ethnicity (for these data, see here). In the 2009 PISA reading scores for fifteen year olds from 65 nations and regions the average score is 500. The United States as a nation scored 500, a result hardly befitting a world power committed to educational excellence. The top scores come from Shanghai, China (556). But in second place are American students of Asian ancestry (541) who even out-perform students in Korea, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. In 7th place are US whites whose test scores exceed those in every European nation except Finland! Far down the ranking list are Hispanics (466) and near the bottom are US blacks (441). The 2007 TIMMS math results show nearly the identical pattern. Here in both 4th and 8th grade, US students of Asian ancestry cluster near the top together with Asians in Asia but close by are white Americans and further below are Hispanics and, near the bottom, American blacks.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/academic_excellence_a...
Several of my friends have quit Facebook. Many on multiple occasions.

Nearly all of them have eventually come back. Many of them multiple times.

I think the ones who are still gone will come back sometime.

Some inevitably won't.

But I think the number of people who dislike Facebook enough to never want to use it are in the extreme minority. I think most people just don't think about whether it's evil or not. It's just where they message their friends, upload and view photos, and keep track of upcoming events.

The author of the post references his kids. Someday, his kids will probably be embarrassed by their dad and grow somewhat distant from him as they grow up. Most of the time, though, I think people realize that family is important and so I'll bet that his kids will rediscover the value of their father's love.

Facebook is like your online social homebase. You leave it, travel different places, see new things, meet new people, but it's what you come home to. It's a part of your identity as it serves as an online archive of your life. And for many of its users this archive started pretty early.

In 20 years, I think I'll be happy that I have my Facebook to look back through.
I don't use Thunderbolt so I never noticed. But everything other than that should work perfectly.
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We currently work with Nokia on street imagery. We also have a bunch of (we hope) interesting facebook integration including photos that will start to build our own library over time.

On geo coverage (http://coverage.lumatic.com), we're nuts about cities and expect to do them all.
>"She has at last count at least three accounts, possibly more, which she uses for different purposes – some of them just to play those stupid spammy Facebook games and quizzes."

Impossible! According to Facebook, multiple accounts are not an issue, and people like this are outliers!

And yet, almost everyone I know has more than one account. That 900MM user number is phonier than a three-dollar-bill. I wonder what the real number is?
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Having just bought a Galaxy S3 from T-Mobile, I can tell you that it ships with NFC turned off by default.
Wait - you're saying it's embarrassing YC funded this project, but it's a great game? Adding "no offense" isn't some magic spell. Why wouldn't YC fund this? Do you even know the reputation of the developers?
While we are ragging on maps...

I live in New York City. Sometimes Google doesn't put the street names on all the streets. I often have to scroll left or right or out to see what street it's on. Obviously you can't list the names on every street when it is zoomed out, but even when there aren't more than 4 or 5 streets on the map, the street names still don't appear. It's like they'd rather list local restaurants than street names. Has anyone else experienced this with Google maps?
Ha, hitting http://localhost:631 and using the CUPS interface is the easiest ways to fix a few problems on Lion/Mountain Lion.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting recognition for work that you do. Especially when Github is a great way to show future employers your contributions to OSS. Why make that harder to see?
The Google Reader redesign fiasco? Google Wave to Google+ transition?

It's not like Apple "usually reverts in quality" either. This was a business decision, probably forced. They had to create something of their own for maps from what they could license and buy quickly.

Goes to show that you should not depend on your competitors for core technology. Which Apple always tries to avoid, but probably in 2007 (when the iPhone come out) the didn't think of Google as a competitor. They weren't in the phone business back then...
>"Pachinko Gundam" train station

Wow. You couldn't make it up, could you?

For those unaware, "pachinko" refers to a form of gambling, gaming machine, comparable to the Western "slot machine".[0]

"Gundam" is a popular anime series in Japan.[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam
So maybe quitting Facebook is like quitting cigarettes. It usually takes multiple attempts, cold turkey, to be successful.
I think that when you condense your original comment, you lose a lot of it simply due to politeness. A point that you can make softly and persuasively, for instance by allusion to the social value of reading Latin, would necessarily read a bit more cuttingly if sharpened down to its essence.
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Smart move, going with edX & offering certificates of completion.
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We'll see [1]. Some people miss the critical bit about maps on phones.

Ask yourself, "How can Google make sooo much money on search advertising?" I mean seriously, rounded to the nearest billion they don't have any other businesses. The insight that explains it is that search advertising exploits the fact that the consumer is "looking" and they have what they are looking for "the query". When that signals a possible purchase intent "car safety reviews" for example, at that instant in time Google gives advertisers a way to put their message in front of the consumer's eyeballs when they are most receptive to that message. The effectiveness of a car dealership advertisement in a Harry Potter movie preview? Lots of eyeballs, few if any looking for a car. In a search query on cars? Lots of eyeballs, many if not most of which are looking for a car.
This is what makes search advertising an insanely better advertising vehicle then pretty much any other form of advertisement.

Now lets look at maps on mobile devices. This has the same fundamental super power as search advertising, mobile maps are a search api. Many people don't put that together but when you are using your mobile device's maps you are seeking out directions, what you are looking for signals intent, and on that intent one can build a very profitable advertising platform. If I pull out my iPad and click 'coffee shops' on the maps search box I have signaled both where I am, and that I'm looking for a coffee shop. As a shop owner how much would you pay to have that person go to your shop? $0.50? $1? $2? How do you know your ad worked? Well there is an NFC payment, or a coupon you can offer up on the mobile device, or your local WiFi hotspot (remember that?) can tell you that the wifi mac address of the device that did the maps search, just walked into range of your hotspot.

Do you see it yet? Mobile Maps is as big a business as Google's search advertising business and its still un-plundered. Apple will do everything they can to 'dominate' this particular 'free to use' service.

[1] Best scene ever in "Charlie's War"
When you're submitting a patent application you are required to have done a prior art search and list found prior art.

What effect do you think this would have on small inventors?
I encourage anyone who's doubtful about MinoMonsters to download it and give the iPhone to their kid, niece/nephew, little sibling, etc.

It's one of the few truly great (and great-looking) iOS games.
so it's just a useless stat?
Even if Google releases a standalone maps app, isn't his Yelp address example still a non-starter? It has been a long time since I was a daily iOS user (iPhone 3G), but unless things have changed drastically it doesn't have an Android-like Intent system and I doubt Apple will make the default action for clicking addresses in other apps be to start Google Maps now.
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How exactly is the $263 billion dollar market cap company that pays dividends and has $2 earnings per share with millions of customers dying? Slowed growth at that scale is an artifact of size relative to market potential. It doesn't mean the company is dying. Not even if you really dislike it.
Directions being ok most for most people, most of the time, is hardly acceptable

Directions that are perfect for everyone, all of the time? Has that ever happened? I don't think so. I think it has always been a steadily improving mess. This may be a step backwards, but let's be realistic, here.
I'd like to see a declarative way to sign or encrypt parts of a document or form submission to protect them from tampering by the origin server. But js is under the control of the origin server, so I don't see this as a security advance over TLS, just a crutch for broken apps with no non-js mode using HTTP correctly.
"I'm about to release an app into the app store for the first time and I'm happy about it."

You are like a virgin trying to give advise to prostitutes on the street corner on how to improve their game. You literally have no idea what you are stepping into.
Wow, thank you Vlad! Much appreciated.
Yeah, I was wondering about that -- it was in the original story, but I edited it out.

Are Xnu and iOS updated in parallel? I mean, is the version of Xnu that's publicly available at the moment the same as that in iOS 6? Or is Xnu a few weeks/months behind?
awesome - looking forward to the update.
This is all anecdotal, but frankly I have noticed a serious decrease in Facebook's quality since their IPO. More often I have ads thrown (not so coincidentally) at the top of my feed, and I feel like Facebook has practically started begging me to 'like' various companies' pages.

Also I've seen and endless amount of meme pictures. Surely this is related to the people I'm friends with on Facebook, but I know I'm not the only one who is being bothered by this.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

This programming mantra is applicable to a much wider range of problems -- or rather, proposed solutions -- than just optimization because what it is really saying is, don't try to solve a problem without first understanding what that problem is.

Education reform is lousy with this. There are probably more armchair education reformers than armchair generals, prescribing sweeping changes to our education system based on their own narrow prejudices. I myself am not qualified to diagnose the various problems we face, but I'm pretty sure that most of our proto-innovators are making it out of high school without being soul-crushed into little automatons. If anything, putting in the minimal effort to excel in a boring environment while doing more interesting things in your copious free time -- which is I'm pretty sure how most of us spent K-12 -- is great preparation for doing the same thing in the real world.
its as if they want to make it known that they are unashamadly, and without apology, cloning to the pixel, rather than taking the same idea and taking it into a new market. There is an element of cheek and disrespect that detracts from their credibility as entrepreneurs.

I wonder if this has (accidentally?) become part of their winning formula. Psychologically it seems quite likely that a competitor will give less respect (and therefore thought) to a company that seems cheap and uninspired.
I hit a maps link for a restaurant in the Maryland suburbs of DC, which had latitude and longitude in it, and it still took me to the wrong place. Removing the restaurant name and just leaving the lat/lon showed the right place, but of course I didn't figure this out until I had already driven past the wrong place and wondered where the restaurant was.

It's just atrocious. OK, so you have some bad POI coordinates, that's bad but somewhat understandable. But how do you prefer your bad POI data to the correct coordinates that you're given? It boggles the mind.
Your point is that people will only appreciate advice that confers direct results (fancy car->invited to fancy parties). I evaluate advice against where I am and where I am aiming to be, which means that advice that isn't practical now (ie how to sell a company) can still be useful for guiding future decisions.

Perhaps a useful metaphor would be that future-oriented advice is a amplifying lens on the headlights of my business. I can make better decisions, because I can see further down the road.
Hi Nate, we need to work up to real personalization. Per greg's comment below (hi greg!), people's feelings on this stuff varies widely and doesn't correlate well with transit agency performance data.
It's you. You don't grasp that the combination of

(a) the fact that good startup ideas have to look like bad ideas initially and

(b) that the optimal way to grow a startup is to launch something as small as possible as fast as possible

together mean that most startups look bad initially.

I wouldn't say just you though, because there are a lot of people who don't grasp this.
Just look around this thread. Apologists abound. HN isn't immune to worthless fanboy comments.
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