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Amazon has always been viewed in the long-term as the 'big winner'. But, Apple makes good money and is growing revenue, on the back-end with their 850 million iTunes users.

Amazon's dominance is always a 'future certainty', meanwhile Apple eats it's lunch.

i.e.
"iTunes, Software and Services has been growing between 30% and 40% for four years and is on its way to $30 billion/yr in transactions and sales for 2014."

http://www.asymco.com/2014/05/09/measuring-not-getting-the-c...
I got my kid a Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 when he was 5 years old. I bought it used for less than $200 and installed Linux Mint on it.

The small keyboard of the CF-18 is perfect for little hands, the rugged construction means he probably won't break it whatever he tries, and Linux Mint just works, as usual.

He uses it mostly for watching movies, playing educational games (GCompris and such), looking at small things with a USB microscope I got from DealExtreme, taking to Grandma on Skype, and recently, he has started making little Scratch programs. He's really proud to own a real computer.

Preschool children are not the target market of Panasonic Toughbooks, but they actually are a great fit.
Routine use of antibiotics to promote growth encourages antibiotic resistance, if nothing else.

The down voters believe your characterisation of them as utterly stupid is misplaced and adds nothing to the thread.
If this is as smooth as my Kindle Fire (newest one), I might want one in 2-3 versions. I keep finding things on my first Android phone that could have been fixed with a little more polish. My Kindle Fire is perfect in every way. Amazon seems to understand how important it is to get expensive consumer electronics right and not leave a lot of rough edges.
This phone allows you to point your device to basically anything "media" and buy it. Pointing the phone at the television, identifying the actor on TV and buying some movie is a very powerful feature for people interested in consuming media...
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This is false in Amazon's case.

Amazon sells you a rake made by a 3rd party who was put into FBA by a wholesaler and makes a reasonable cut of the profit in the process.

Amazon has more control but also takes all the blame when things go wrong.

Tbh, as someone who works at a business who does both the ads & selling stuff via Amazon as a manufacturer...Google actually makes more money off of us than Amazon does. I don't mean like a "little more money", I mean something like 5x as much money. This part is anecdotal obviously but I think you are very, very wrong in assuming that "Sell Product" > "Sell Ad".
Sorry, how are you lowering their taxable income?
> Use of anti-biotics for livestock has not been banned in Europe, where exactly do you get this info from?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock#E...

(And by Europe I meant the EU)
Sadly, not all countries seem to respect the ban.
On being a senior engineer (2012)
Bitcoin Faces Biggest Threat Yet: A Miner Takeover
Analyzing Minecraft with New Relic Insights
Dear Internet Companies, Stop Making Smartphones
the votes are prime numbers that are multiplied into a composite number. to verify your vote, divide the published composite by your prime twice. If it shows up with an integer remainder after the first division, your vote was counted at least once. After the second division, it was counted multiple times. Non integer for the second division, only counted once.
No, that is exactly the problem.

This eliminates mining pools entirely.

The only players who need mining pools are the small individual miners.

The end result of this change would be a move towards centralization.

Exactly the opposite of the intended effect.
It's likely possible now, because GHash doesn't actually own 51% of the hashrate. They own ~15% and the rest comes from their pool, and since this fork would strongly disincentivize pools, they'd likely not have the means to control the protocol.
"Marginal tax rate" is precisely the rate at which your next/last ("marginal") dollar is taxed.
Sure but I don't think it meets the "permanent" criteria
http://goo.gl/GPrHx8
You can't see pupils really. Watch the videos they showed behind Bezos and they show the test apps with raw video.
Hackers Wanted: An Examination of the Cybersecurity Labor Market
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#History_of_the_uni... states:

"a healthy human can produce about 1.2 hp briefly and sustain about 0.1 hp indefinitely; trained athletes can manage up to about 2.5 hp briefly and 0.3 hp for a period of several hours."

And for those who wonder how a human can be stronger than a horse: peak output of a horse is way higher than 1 hp ("The peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.9 hp.")
I am so excited about this, while I realize switches are perhaps one of the last bastions of over priced software I would love to have a switch where it is just a freakin' switch. It isn't trying to be all things to all people at some level and doing that badly. I've got Blade, HP, Cisco, Supermicro, and Mellanox switches that have been in this role (Top of Rack) and so often they bite the big one when it comes to some random protocol going nuts. Every single site outage in nearly 4 years of 'launch' has been due to a switch bug.
I must admit this makes me confused -- do RethinkDB and Firebase integrate in some non-obvious way? Both appear to be JSON databases with real-time change feeds so it would seem they'd be competitors if anything... Any chance you can clarify the relationship? Thanks.
NASA Is Building a Tiny Mothership to Explore Distant Lunar Oceans
No I meant that there would be no central system connecting drivers and riders. They would connect directly, as if all buyers and sellers met at a predetermined location to match each other.
You can paste/import in many different ways, independent of browser.

The 'Poetica Button' is only available for Chrome at the moment, but I would very very surprised if they don't implement it for other browsers (based on demand) soon.
XCOM
This is also precisely the problem I was trying to avoid by introducing formality.

Is it like saying that a tank made of paper sheets is insecure, or is it like saying that a heavily-armored tank is insecure (against a nuclear weapon)?

It is never okay to omit important information like the threat model in cryptography. That information is essential to the system's analysis.
He didn't forbid anyone from using it however they want, you just can't do whatever you want and call it TrueCrypt, or distribute whatever you do with it without saying it's TrueCrypt-derived. I've never understand why the "Free and Open" software community is so opposed to attribution clauses, it seems only fair to give credit.
The API is open as of today, and I suspect you only get information on the events (looked [direction]; peeked [direction]), not raw data.
One of the best features of IBM mainframes used to be the documentation: every possible message that could appear on the console was indexed in the run manuals.
Preventing mining pools will only solve the 50% problem if the resulting network doesn't end up with even worse hash-power inequalities.

But I think it would have worse inequalities, or at least, not be obviously better.

If you can't trust hashing partners, then the largest users will be those who can enforce "cooperation" some other way, probably by being independently wealthy. That, it seems, has a sharper power drop-off than the ever-fluid mining pools.

[Made the same point in the previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7891243]
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First of all, thank you for your insight into the F/A-18.

>We need some sort of '5 year hiatus

I was under the impression that it was already illegal whenever a conflict of interest exists, and that the laws were simply being ignored.

Before I started my current position, I spent a couple of years as a defense contractor doing entry and intermediate level IT work. Whenever I applied for a job, as a low level employee, I had to fill out questionnaires that asked dozens of questions about whether or not I had been a senior leader in a government organization that could have impacted the decision making process for government contracts. I assumed that these questions were designed to filter out any applicants that might present a conflict of interest, but I frequently hear stories about Colonels and Generals jumping right into executive positions at the same companies they negotiated government contracts with just a few months earlier. IMO, the people who are doing this AND the people who are knowingly hiring them should end up in federal prison.
But there's a secret message in Latin. How much more proof could you ask for?
Everyone Can Program
Surviving in the Post-Indie Bubble Wasteland
Motivation is the key factor in becoming a successful freelancer. I freelanced for about 2 years and in that time I learned 2 new languages and countless libraries. My average week would be about 50 hours of which I was billing between 30-35 hours at $100-150/hour (NYC area). The other 15-20 hours was finding clients, writing proposals, dealing with self-employment business issues (taxes, accounting, invoicing). Its definitely not the easiest life but the pay was good and the problems were more interesting than corporate development. Looking back on freelancing I appreciate the many skills I gained (both technical and soft-skills).

Tips:

1. Pick a programming language and complete a comprehensive tutorial. Then start to find clients at $15/hr rate (check elance.com and odesk.com). Your goal should be to fill up 35 hours of your weeks with billable time. Once your weeks are full and your skills increase, creep up your rate by $5/hour until its difficult to keep your week full.

2. Look into local entrepreneurship/business Meetups as a good source of clients and avoid equity-only business people who don't value your time.
High-School Dropouts and College Grads Are Moving to Very Different Places
Oh I agree - I think they SHOULD have drones of their own, I just think they're a lot less likely to have access to them than miners in America or most parts of the middle east. Don't know much about China, but yeah. I should have posted my comment as a top-level comment because it ended up being a more general response than to your comment specifically.
Linear algebra by the David Poole's book "Linear algebra: A modern introducing" (not even learning seriously, just refreshing 'cause I am CS-graduate)
Why can't hobbyists take advantage of low electricity costs? Are there no hobbyists in Iceland?
Apple's New Entry-Level iMac Will Create Heartburn in PC Land
From what I recall, grsec's rbac doesn't give you the same flexibility as selinux's mac. You have to pick and choose whether you want advanced heuristics to prevent different kinds of attack, or just get really fine-grained with your system control. I prefer grsec personally, but only because i'm lazy, and it's more than likely not certified for top secret systems.
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Hilary Clinton only cares about two things, power and control. I really doubt that she has anyone's interests in mind other than her own. I say this as a moderate conservative who would have voted for her husband to serve a 3rd term against any of the republican candidates from the last two elections.
Instead of trying to fight pools, why not embrace them? Tweak the protocol so instead of miners racing to a discreet payoff, all miners get a payout proportional to all of the mining work they do.
There is nothing to enforce about a hardfork. This proposal will produce a mutually incompatible protocal, so unpatched clients would reject it as invalid, and patched clients would reject the unpatched clients as invalid. This is in contrast to the accidental fork we saw last year (or was it longer?), where the new client would accept as valid the old clients chain.

Practically, this could be implemented as blocks after block X must follow the new rule, blocks X and earlier must follow the old rule. Where X is sufficiently far in the future to allow for people to update.
A swarm of small drones with photographic flashers could give one side of a gunfight a huge advantage.
I believe Duck Duck Go has had success with Reddit Ads
Also in the same space is beepi. http://www.beepi.com

They solve your second concern by not offering test drives to potential buyers.
Managers at South African mining companies already have good reason to be worried about retaliation from workers. Details in my other comment on this thread - but in short, buying a drone is really just throwing fuel on an already well-fueled fire in this case.
Quanta + Cumulus is pretty much already there.
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Are you searching for heavy equipment? Well Bar None Auction has a great selection of dozers, farm equipment & skid steers in our industrial construction vehicle & commercial truck auction.
It isn't just about the web site owner and their traffic... It is also about you. Don't you want Google to give you good results? Wouldn't you be unhappy if the best result got hidden on page 50 because someone link spammed them?
How about Terminator themed post apocalyptic LARP?
So why don't you move your current system to Gentoo? You know someone has to start it right?
>> Searching via photos is awesome, but the only use case it seems well suited for is shopping.

So it's useful for the single thing Amazon is most interested in encouraging.
"frameworks usually enforce their view of the world upon their developers, and trying to choose correctly at the point where you understand the least about the project is nigh-on impossible."

Spot on.
The logo has the bike going left. This is against visual conventions and it seems backwards.
Interesting coincidence. I just wrote http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-javascript-crypto-i..., in which I explain the threat model implied in the Matasano's article doesn't apply to most applications.
> How many consumers do you honestly expect to know, recognize, and understand?

Probably around the same number who care that their traffic is going through Amazon first.
This very much seems like a v1 entry into the market for them. Improving the ease of 3D photos will probably be their biggest focus, as the "take a picture and buy" feature is the key for them being able to eventually reduce the cost.
The JSR-133 Cookbook for Compiler Writers
A Ruby version (gem): https://github.com/hpoydar/worldcup-2014
The TL team essentially do the impossible-- the software is large and very complex and the people skills required are no less of a challenge-- and they do it every year. Karl and the others are wizards.
> The problem, of course, is that Google seems to have that segment wrapped up.

No, there's still place for a great, cheap phone that's aimed at the consumer market rather than the geeks or the developers who usually buy Nexus devices.
I talked to Sam Whittingham briefly after his speed record fell last September. 133.78 km/h beat his old record by 0.6 km/h. I think his record stood for about 13 years. He says now it all comes down to the tires, they are the one component that takes major money to custom make. Nobody makes tires for 133km/h bicycles. As long as everybody is using the same tires, nobody is going to go significantly faster. Hopefully they've found a source for high speed tires.
This will work with pass-by-value primitives, but not pass-by-reference objects unless the getter re-creates the object for every get action.
I've written a research paper about a more heavyweight version of this scheme:

Nonoutsourceable Scratch-Off Puzzles to Discourage Bitcoin Mining Coalitions

http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/nonoutsourceable_full.pdf

But the general idea comes across very well in this blog post.

The main difference between this post and our "weakly-nonoutsourceable" scheme is that ours uses a custom hash-based signature scheme, which has exactly the properties we require. The SIG scheme in the original post would be hard to instantiate otherwise (ECDSA, for example, totally doesn't work).

The "strongly-nonoutsourceable" scheme, which uses zero-knowledge moon-math, is aimed at also discouraging cloud-mining, which is also a serious concern.
"One-handed reading" —at last. A phone designed for mobile porn.
Even ignoring that, you will need assistance to get in and out of these recumbents.

For examples, look at the various "catch practice" videos at http://www.hptdelft.nl/en/index.php?option=com_youtubegaller... (the current world record honderd, if I am not mistaken)

Three wheels might make these things more practical, but apparently, that doesn't make them faster.
Take it both ways at once. That is the essence of reducing friction. Amazon does better at that than at marketing.
It seems like this would completely shut out small time miners as they are by far the biggest beneficiaries of the pool reducing variance. Is that the right direction?

Also, completely shutting out the pools might lead to a true hard fork where the pools keep going their own way. Especially if one of them has >50% of the hashing power. Will they be willing to die, given that operating a large pool must be quite lucrative?
You can always build a newer batch with more modern avionics.
> "Many people in the community, including us, have noted that etiquette or the good will of miners are not sufficient to keep monopolies at bay"

I can't believe they didn't realize that to begin with. It's such a large chunk of 20th century human history.
except this may not be either useful or disruptive. Perhaps Apple relegated it to a gimmick because they knew that tying something as fundamental as navigation to it would not work. Just think of all of the people who claimed they got sick from or were simply terribly annoyed by all of the motion in iOS7. Now imagine that this motion is the foundation of your device. Does not sound useful or disruptive to me.

I think Apple's face is blissfully smack-free after this particular announcement
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Well, I was making very conservative assumptions about true cost per mile. The real cost per mile could decrease substantially before it catches up to the numbers I put in my post.

And there are some pretty hard lower bounds on this. Drivers gotta eat, man. At $1.36 per mile, if you get 20 paid miles per hour (which I don't think anyone genuinely does on a regular basis), that's $26.72 per hour -- gross. Take away 20% for Lyft, driver's making $21.38 an hour. Take away $2 for gas for those 20 miles, it's $19.38. Another $1 for maintenance costs, and you've got a real income, pre-tax, of about $36k for a year of full-time work. There may be some room for downward pressure on that price, but there isn't a lot.

(In actual fact, I assume that average per-mile prices for Lyft rides are much higher than $1.36, due to prime time tips and wait time).
Some of the API calls for Fifa World Cup 2014
I really wish one of the big hardware vendors would just start shipping validated, certified and warrantied Open Compute Project hardware at the substantial savings that can be had from it. Or maybe I'm ignorant here and there are little savings to be had.

The rest of this post is just a rant from my perspective in the SMB space.

In my space, everything that's worth getting is too expensive, and everything else is crap. The switch and storage market is a racket, as near as I can tell, where every opportunity to get you to pay another 20 or 30 percent premium over what you had before is taken with selling you features you don't want or can't use. Software defined storage is, ultimately, limited by your network. Software defined networking is here (OpenFlow, network virtualization) but SDN is being used as a value-add to get customers to pay even more. The result is that software designed storage is a crapshoot (only as high quality as the network) and whether or not you save money is debateable.

Shared storage is a tremendous racket because adding "SAS" to anything doubles or triples its price. Consumer SSDs are advancing the state of the art much faster than enterprise tech (which tends to accommodate slower purchasing cycles and longer service lifetimes), but to get an older, slower SSD for a shared SAS JBOD means paying five or six times as much per gigabyte.

I really want a virtual SAN that doesn't suck, and a network that doesn't cost $1000 dollars per port to connect a handful of servers. Alas, it doesn't look like anything like that is coming soon.
Google's core business is making services that people like to use. That they monetize some of those services via advertisements is a function of the industry that they operate in: There was no market for a pay search engine, or even a pay consumer mail provider: Those genres had long been supported by ads, and users expected that. Anything else was a non-starter.
Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas (2010)
Please read my comment and point out where I typed "antibiotics" or any other term commonly understood to mean that class of drugs.

I'm slightly dyslexic, and my brain must be scrambling the word, because when I read through it again, I don't see it.

> The down voters believe your characterisation of them as utterly stupid

Then they've proved me right. The correct way to show me wrong is to actually compose a salient rebuttal, which would by its nature show me to be a fool. Hell, I might even end up so shamed I'd apologize. The only conclusion possible though is that they knew they could not do this and did not make the attempt like the cowards that they are.

> and adds nothing to the thread.

How can it not add to the thread? Well, unless you want the thread to be an echo chamber and demand conformity of opinion.
Sorry you feel that way: It's really more about how free, reasonable, expression is being suppressed on twitter.com based on a somewhat radical slant on what is acceptable speech in the tech community.

Shanley Kane writes on tech, with an emphasis on venture capitalist like YCombinator. Actually YCombinator is often the focus of Shanley Kane's criticism of VC in Silicon Valley.

http://bit.ly/1impCn6

Hacker News, to it's credit, seems to be more open/less gameable than other sites, and being able to express your own opinions on tech culture/community -- is a very significant issue.
Only one data point, but I'm a Prime customer that spends significantly more than $1340 a year on Amazon and I have a Nexus 5 which costs just a little more than half what this Amazon phone costs.

I don't need a "budget" phone, I can afford something much higher-end; but I still like to get value for price and in the face of the Nexus 5, the Moto G, the Moto E or the Lumia 635 all of which cost half or even less than a quarter of the price of the the Amazon Fire phone, it just doesn't look like a good value to me.

YMMV if the 3D perspective thing is that appealing to you, or you want a cellphone with a relatively very good camera, but neither of these are particularly important to me.