skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks a bit bigger than your typical semi-articulated trailer... They make some good points favor nuclear power that I happen to agree with, but I think they do everyone a disservice if they claim this "can't melt down". There are aspects of design that make it a more robust reactor, intended to avoid problems that have contributed to previous melt downs. That doesn't mean it "can't melt down". The engineering needs to be reviewed and the designers need to continue to be vigilant. Operators need to be cautious and safe. I promise you there's SOME WAY you can make this melt down.
Clarified my comment by editing it to "their" highest bracket. If they lower their taxable income by $10, that is where it comes from, yes?

The benefits you describe mainly come from state and local taxes, and they'll still be paying property taxes (directly or through rent). Except if you want to talk about disenfranchising federal subsidies - yet another example of their interests being undermined.

The problem is that with no way to opt out of supporting just the blatantly harmful facets of government, the beneficial aspects are held over one's head any time they talk about reducing funding. Witness the local appeal to underfunded teachers every time residents balk at raising property taxes, while newly created functions continue unhindered. The only winning move is to reject the skewed compromise.
You can certainly side load applications so Firefox is not a problem and if you know what you're doing Chrome isn't either. Definitely less than ideal though.
Interestingly, the presumption appears to be positive in the statue absent the express carve out--which is essentially for "immorality" or "provocation".

U.S. Code › Title 15 › Chapter 22 › Subchapter I › § 1052
15 U.S. Code § 1052 - Trademarks registrable on principal register; concurrent registration

No trademark by which the goods of the applicant may be distinguished from the goods of others shall be refused registration on the principal register on account of its nature unless it—

(a) Consists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute;...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1052*
How about a stand that makes it easy to use the phone as a game console? (HDMI output for TV) With all of those front cameras, would it be workable to have motion sensing games?
Ping sounds so..corporate, or adult.
I agree about the mayday. One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well here.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.
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Everyone thought Amazon would undercut, but it makes sense that Amazon is targeting high-end flagship phones with the device. They're definitely not messing around. The 3d features are obviously unique, and the camera makes it a serious contender for the 1-device crowd. The Android base gives it an instant familiarity. It remains to be seen whether FireOS is going to be easy to adopt.

I'm disappointed by the AT&T exclusivity, but I actually see good reasons behind it. Amazon is new at phones, and they've had limited success with advertising campaigns. AT&T is still big enough to throw money around, but they're haemorrhaging users shockingly fast. AT&T has an incentive to market Amazon's product, and they should be willing to given the success the iPhone brought them. Amazon has something AT&T wants, and they'll pay for it once with the contract and twice for advertising. AT&T will basically offer Amazon a strong market foothold.

The announcement said the screen was 720p and the product page says 1080p. Was this just a mistake from Bezos?
That's a good call, we'll add a link to the amendment now. The amendment was only made public this morning so we didn't have it when we were making the site last night. The whole site was made in about 16 hours, so apologies it's not more fully-baked.

Edit: Link added.

Edit: Just re-reading your comment. We definitely don't think you're sheep-like or feeble-minded. In fact, quite the opposite. It was simply an accidental omission.
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This is an example of the Perfectionist Fallacy I was talking about in the article.

You can't verify that someone isn't MiTM'ing with a stolen certificate. You can't verify that the CA hasn't been coerced into forging a valid certificate. You can't verify that your government hasn't ordered that computer manufacturers install surveillance devices. That doesn't mean that the internet is unusable.

Some things are vulnerable to active attacks, and if they were attacked, nobody would know. Every cryptographer knows this. It's not a big deal.
This is interesting I think...

iPad: Kindle Fire, Nexus 7

Apple TV: Kindle Fire TV, Chromecast

iTunes: Amazon Prime Streaming TV + now music, Google Play

iPhone: Kindle Fire Phone, Nexus 4

I think they're all playing for the same territory. The big difference seems to be that Apple really only sells the technology. Google sells the technology so that they can sell advertising for third party products. Amazon has the only complete end to end solution where they sell you the products and advertise for their own "other stuff" they sell. IMHO Amazon is going to be the big winner in the long run. Whether or not that's good for all of us is yet to be determined.
I'm not sure what this told me, other than stuff that's been around a while is used a lot. Which isn't anything I didn't already know.
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The FCC also decided that broadband is not a Title II service. One bad decision as a consequence of the other. If you put broadband under Title II where it belongs then you don't need VoIP to be there because anybody who can use VoIP (because they have broadband) is already paying into the USF.
You need balance. If corporations and government and people were all about equally powerful things would probably be pretty good. As it is now, people have little to no power, and the government is basically corporate controlled through K-street.

The revolving door between Wall street and government, the dark money in super pacs, the "massive" fines for actions which resulted in much larger profits for banks and corporations, the extremely restrictive costs of running a campaign, all of these things point to the United States being what is essentially a kleptocracy.

Of course you don't trust the government. You have little to no representation. When was the last time congressional approval was above 30%? And does anything ever change?

And until these things change, until people have actual representation by their representatives, there will be no check on either the encroaching police state exemplified by collusion between agencies (DEA and NSA), the Obama administrations attempts to hide police force cellphone interception, and the rapid militarization of police forces around the country or on corporate wrong doings.

Admittedly, the situation is rosy in some respects. The drug war seems to be winding down, albeit slowly. The war on terror might even be abating a bit, although this new situation with ISIS and Ukraine may yet prove fruitful for those who are entertained by the idea of war. The LGBT community is recognizing the rights they deserve. There have been "some" checks on the banks.

But is it enough?

Just a footnote, some of this is a relatively simplistic view of incredibly complex organizations and power structures.
I actually wouldn't buy the phone either: This phone is totally unappealing to a superuser, except for that one appealing feature.
I just called Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, my rep from eastern WA. The woman who answered was quite pleasant, but didn't know anything about this amendment. She said that I was the first person to call about it, and that they needed more people like me who "pay attention". Since my rep is a far-right Republican, I'm hoping that she has enough libertarian in her to vote the right way.
Both offer different price tiers based on volume. If you split between the two you could end up paying more percentage than just one. Besides it being annoying to deal with two systems.
It's not necessarily a guide, but I like the web development class at Udacity. It builds a solid foundation for web development.
I'm not in SF, but the whole taxi experience is shitty in LA:

1. Long waits (~10m minimum usually)

2. Unreliable (they'll take calls and never manage to show up)

3. Bad attitude/customer service

4. Constantly trying to rip you off by taking weird routes or trying to use the meter on flat-rate airport trips

5. High prices for shitty cars compared to Uber's range of services

I'd ride taxis, but only when I had to. The bus system was a more pleasant and reliable way of getting from one place to another. Uber has really changed that. For the 30% of the population that lives in cities it's a realistic alternative to dealing with a car, particularly if you're not a kid chauffeur.
>> That said I don't see why these folks don't have drones of their own

There's some important historical context here. The client was a South African mining company (I assume - it said mining company, and the company is in South Africa). There were recent riots in South Africa between a miner's union and the mine, and the miner's got slaughtered (literally). Most likely not the same company, but miner's in South Africa have a long, unfair history and it's getting worse. They're extremely destitute and there's no way I see them showing up to future protests with their own air support.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_miners'_strike
I used Carlypso to sell my Honda Civic a few months ago. Everyone involved was helpful and professional. I ended up getting a lot more than I would if I traded it in to CarMax, and the steps involved were minimal. I'd definitely recommend them.
It's not about your finger being in the way necessarily, it's about usability. Supppose I'm eating lunch. It would be nice to read an article with my phone in one hand and hold my sandwhich in the other. Or if I'm lying in bed just reading. It would be great to not have to keep scrolling the phone with my other hand. I'd rather my phone just do it for me.
So, essentially, a high end Android phone, only with Amazon's ecosystem rather than Google's.

As others have mentioned, the price seems to be difficult to swallow. They'll be fighting against Samsung's flagship Android device and the iPhone.

What sells the Amazon phone at that price? I don't think 3d tilting gimmicks will.

Its primary differentiator versus other Android phones is that Amazon controls the ecosystem for this device, rather than Google, and while that will appeal to some, it will be a negative for others, and a non-factor to many.

I think the price needs to drop for this to be a real competitor, but I certainly am glad to see Amazon entering the game even if the initial offering doesn't seem to be a home run. More competition against Samsung and Apple is good.
So who's the actual manufacturer? I had read at one point that Google has locked up most major cell manufacturers so they are prevented from offering handsets with non-Google-integrated Android. That and the somewhat lackluster screen leads me to believe it's a no-name OEM.
What does the market usually expect from fresh software engineer grads?
I just got my bachelor's degree. What does the market expect?

What are some skills and books I should work on or read while looking for a job?
But that's a wrong-headed assumption. "Red-skin" is not a per-se slur, its a translation of a french phrase, and that was apparently derived from orginal native american usage. The latter referred to "white men" and "black men". Nobody is arguing that the native americans object to the french term "peau-rouge" ? or are they? Just curious on the data.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peau#Etymology
Thought that Guy Martin already broke that speed record on his TV show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT0eJXtrwHg
I'm really curious why we haven't seen a datacenter with a nuclear reactor as power source. Presumably the regulatory hurdles and costs are very high, but it seems like a great long term way to cleanly power a ton of servers. Maybe you could use big evaporative cooling ponds to help cool the servers too.
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lol, This is exactly what I was trying to stop people from doing! I'm not endorsing or damning it--I'm talking about it sensibly and objectively so people can learn to use it properly.

Please read the article again carefully. I think you'll find the answers to your questions.
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The only smartphone with...

Emma Watson

was my first reaction.
You make a good point:

Apple: Sell at high price, modest tie-in revenue.
Google: Sell at low price, modest tie-in revenue.
Amazon: Sell at low price, high tie-in revenue.

It does seem like Amazon is bound to win in the long run, based on pure economics, if this trend continues.
For a mining (or any) company to buy this to control workers is reprehensible, and it's rather shocking that they would publicize this as their first order. They could have just as easily said that an undisclosed buyer has purchased the first 25 of them. It's as if they are trying to market this as a slave-control copter.

However, this makes me wonder why we don't have small military drones with guns on them. It seems like they only have the large missile carriers and tiny surveillance drones. Something in the middle that is armed would eliminate most soldier-to-soldier battlefield confrontations. They could just send several small armed drones out and fire at their opposition with near perfect accuracy for every bullet since a computer would control the aiming and firing.
At the risk of asking an unanswerable question, what kind of "legitimately secret projects" do you think must remain funded by a covert budget?
I agree. At a pure product level this isn't competitive with an iPhone. It's exclusive to ATT and apparently only available in the US but still priced to compete with the iPhone. They should have done something with sponsored data or subsidized it heavily for Prime customers, but as it stands this isn't a compelling offering in the market.
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Then again, it could be more about software and services than just hardware. They've offered a competent competitor to high end smartphones to be sure, but they've also extended and bolstered the Amazon ecosystem with Firefly. I don't think it would share the same fate as Windows Phone, because it is still largely an Android phone and switching from samsung android to Fire won't be as costly. At the same time, it has some interesting features to compete with Apple as well. Windows Phone models never had that much differentiation, and on top of that. its metro UI was a big change for smartphone users that didn't gain traction.
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> Breakaway’s same day courier delivery services, including bicycle and foot couriers, allow for easy, same day courier delivery of small packages less than 15 lbs.

http://blog.uber.com/RUSH
"Your messenger will be on bike or on foot, and will not be able to deliver some oversized items"

It is a bike messenger v. bike messenger situation.

Eh? Seems similar to me.

What I've been getting at here is Uber doesn't have a competitive advantage. It isn't cheaper. It isn't better. It doesn't even have first mover advantage.

Sure, it'll make some money but not enough to justify a massive valuation that it has.
AFAIK the device is just a GPS transponder. On my Civic it was plugged into the same port that's used to test emissions.
Google Goggles was always able to look at pictures of all sorts of things and provide you with more information about them, including but not limited to UPC codes, books, etc. The rub lies in the fact that Google wouldn't actually sell those third part products but Amazon more than likely does.

I agree with you entirely on X-Ray. I don't have any Fire products personally but that's clearly a missing integration on the competing devices.
I don't see why this is being done on KickStarter. Surely a soft drinks company or even a bicycle company would be able to find the $30K without too much effort? Even a relatively small company supplying cycling components/accessories could find the money for this. If naming rights are part of the deal and there is a chance of getting into the Guinness Book of Records, then some sponsor outside the bicycle trade should be easily findable, particularly given the size of the advert space presented by the aero-fairing.

Even the rights to a TV show about this would cover the $30K (maybe they have bagged that already). Maybe they are ideologically opposed to sponsorship and don't want to be a 'Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro' (that was the official F1 name for the Ferrari team as recently as 2011). Or perhaps Kickstarter has worked for them in the past and it is now their goto for $$$. Regardless, this particular project is crying out for sponsorship money rather than Kickstarter.
Maybe someone can enlighten me; but why does AT&T seem like a popular launch partner with new mobile handsets?

The only reasons I can come up with are a) money (AT&T taking a smaller cut of subsidies/paying the manufacturer more for the device) and b) "portability" between the US provider and International providers.

Are there any other reasons? Or is it really that simple?
SELinux is supported by the principal Linux vendor, Red Hat. As a result, on RHEL/CentOS systems, there's tons of high-quality policy pre-written for any daemon you could want to install.

Instead of writing thousands of lines of policy from scratch, even a very complex system configuration might require a one-liner tweak to the Red Hat-provided policy.
"That he stuck to his guns is imo a mistake, that google can be manipulated into dropping sites from their rankings at the behest of others is a serious problem."

There are two main ways of dealing with issues:

* Prevent them from happening

* Mitigate the risk so the fallout is minimised if it does happen

Because there are flaws in the first way doesn't mean the second hasn't been explored or carried out.

We mitigate risk all the time. Seat-belts, looking both ways before crossing the street, insurance. The entire banking system.

So you get hit with a manual penalty for spammy links. Deal with it. Document it in great detail, publish it, share it with Google. Then SEOers will have both the data they need and a Google rep to talk to. Plus, if it is as terrifying as SEOers keep telling us it is, the news headline boost alone will make up for the link profile damage.

I think I know why SEOers are in an uproar about this: they'll have to collaborate with Google on a new level of openness. Effectively, recipients of negative SEO attacks, who then notify Google, will also have a nice shiny Google light shone on their SEO tactics leading up to the negative SEO attack. And I guess almost all SEOers have done something they are not entirely proud of, or wish to be forthcoming about. It's the fear of being seen as something other than completely white-hat.

The ways to avoid reaching that uncomfortable point is:

* Hope their fellow SEOers don't hit them first with a negative SEO attack

* Hope Google reverses this decision, so they don't have to venture down that road.

It's a bit like that Simsons sketch where the whole family are in a shock therapy session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4INdt_-fk

The SEO fear is one of their fellow SEOers pressing the button.

Hopefully it will make them more forthcoming in cleaning up their industry. A bit of public naming and shaming would be nice.
It would be great if Cap'n Proto had better library implementations. This is one area where Protobuf, MsgPack, and, of course, JSON win.
While I was at google, I had (and have) a minor pet dander allergy. There were _many_ dogs regularly in the office, and perhaps I'm being overly paranoid/judgemental of the culture, but mentioning your own discomfort would have been read very negatively against you by not only the dog owners but by all the people who do buy in to that it is some part of the culture.

Whether you read that as a feature or a frustration, it comes down to that it simply becomes another line item that potential candidates may be judging you on, and you may never know about it. (it's certainly something I keep an eye out for nowadays.)
Only for suitably small values of "bullet". :)
> Consider your 128k a gift from the rest of us, which it is, and say "thanks" every now and then...

From one city-dweller to another: give me a break. Did it ever occur to you that we city-dwellers benefit from having people living in rural areas? These are the people who grow our food, work in our mines, generate our electricity, and so on. And when do you plan to thank them for all the services of ours that they pay for? Think: preventing acts of terrorism, securing ports, virtually every other telecom law?

The point, of course, is that, as common members of a society, we all pay to support one another in various ways. Such a network of mutual support is what makes us a community and not just a swath of land with a border around it. There's no room for smug demands for gratitude.
Weeee it a phone... like any other, but with it's own currency (Amazon coins) so I don't know the value of anything.

If Amazon build a phone that they believe is better than other smart phone on the market, wonderful, I hope they sell a bunch of the an make a profit. Honestly though: It's a smart phone like any other, but with a gimmicky feature and similarly priced (over-priced).
That $17 billion is current value, not future value. The investors are paying now.

They will want to make a profit, so they must assume the company, some time in the future, must become worth more than that (stochastically).
Finally a solution other than thumb removal! High four to Amazon!! (I already had my thumbs removed).
They will just =not count= more stuff - same as negative counting.
Overall the entire ranking business depending on external links instead of the actual content will always be exploitable to some degree.
My thinking (often flawed) is that as an iPhone user, if I could buy an iPhone or a Fire Phone for the same price, there's no way I'm going with a Fire Phone just for one of these features.

If, however, I was an Android user, I would consider buying the Fire Phone as a replacement device, along with similar phones like the Samsung Galaxy.

You can sum up Google and Apple's market positioning in a tweet if you wanted. (Apple: premium phones, premium prices. Google: give away the software, monetize the search.) Amazon's positioning here is more vague, or perhaps nuanced.
Which method did you use? (there are 3 options after enter your car info).

I am thinking of selling my Honda Element and the prices offered seem pretty low.
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html#fbid=GgQnk...

Scroll down to family plans. Now a new line just costs $15 if its a phone not on a contract. Else its $40
Check out OpsGenie, it works well and they are more friendly for bootstrappers.
From the "About Fire Phone" video:

"It's almost like the world is a hyperlink."

That right there is gold! That is UX victory and low friction for users in a nutshell.
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