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Instead of laws and wishful thinking why don't people take action toward an alternative technology: http://mailmarkup.org/value.xhtml

You can tell the people who really care about this subject from those who just need something to whine about by looking at the contributions they make.
Point.

Incorrect assumptions/starting points:
* Customers pay Uber, and Uber takes 20 percent of the fare, while the rest goes to the drivers.
[actually, this varies by uber type, and can be significantly less than 20%]

* How you estimate Uber’s future cash flows depends, mostly, on three things: the size of its potential market, the size of Uber’s share in that market, and what percentage of gross receipts Uber takes. The assumptions you make on each question can dramatically affect Uber’s valuation, so let me walk through mine.
[This is correct in that small changes can dramatically affect the valuation, and makes some assumptions about Uber being unable to innovate past its current market segment. Estimating these numbers is basically a poorly educated guessing game, and materially changes the analysis, and thus makes the conclusion poorly substantiated]

* For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.
[ Most of the arguments in favor of Uber's high valuation are around extending the market, not supplanting it, and thus the author completely ignores the entire basis of the valuation ]

* Assuming taxi revenues in the rest of the world add another $50 billion to this total, I arrive at a total market of $100 billion.
[ "Let's just guess at 50% of the market, hand wave." ]

* The bad news is that the market will be tough to dominate. Unlike technology companies in other businesses, like Google, Facebook and eBay, the network effect and winner-take-all benefits are limited.
[ Unsubstantiated ]

* That, along with the regulatory restrictions protecting the status quo and the competition Uber faces from Lyft, Hailo and others, lead me to estimate a market share of 10 percent.
[ Woof, handwave ]

* My instincts tell me that Uber’s slice will decrease over time, but I’m going to make the optimistic assumption that the company will find a way to differentiate itself and continue to claim 20 percent of gross receipts.
[ More handwaving ]

* Other assumptions are going to affect my estimate of Uber’s value: how much it costs to operate the company,3 how much it spends to grow the company,4 the tax rate it pays,5 and how costly it is for Uber to borrow money or attract new investors.6
[ Great, we've determined that small changes in profitability/operating expenses/market size dramatically affect valuation, but let's just guess at all of the major parameters. Not that the author has a better option, just that it makes the conclusion highly suspect ]

Also, though not explicitly mentioned, the author picks an arbitrary return on capital, 10 year time horizon for NPV, and other makes assumptions/simplifications that drastically affect valuation.
I'd probably just use my phone to call 9-1-1.
There is certainly a lot of things that NSA may do, but the website references FISA 702, but doesn't understand it: http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/topics/section-702

This is not a back door but an order given to a US company AND the person CANNOT be in the US, regardless if the person is a US person or not.
Plus, fine motor skills seem easier with my fingers rather than my whole hand having to learn to tilt in increments. I find that mobile browsing (especially with smaller text on my phone) involves smaller, fine movements that I can't imagine doing by tilting.
This could be on par with the switch from resistive to capacitive touch screens.

It's a smack in Apple's face that they took a feature that iOS 7 had as a utterly useless and distracting gimmick and did something useful and disruptive with it.
That seems like the only way to prevent it from being some kind of torture chamber. Although it still could be, hopefully you can turn it off if necessary.
Fingers are very bad for some games, menu-based RPGs for example :) but those weren't good ports to Android.

If there's significant adoption, it could enable some gimmicky gameplay :) (like Nintendo DS) or gimmicky apps.

Maybe one of those turns into a killer feature and we'll see the next gen of smartphones playing catch-up.

It's an interesting gamble.
You're questioning whether someone wants a phone without easily available support? I'd venture to say if anyone marketed a phone with a 'feature' like that, it wouldn't do well.

Or are you questioning whether a grandmother want's a smart phone? The answer is yes.
My guess is, and I'm not trying to be funny, that they are trying to provide an alternative to Apple/Google/Microsoft. They are also trying to make shed-loads of $ € ¥. They don't strictly have their own OS the way those guys do but they plumb Android to remove everything customer facing from Google (App store, music store, book store, browser, ...). I wish them well because I think that the more competition there is the better off the consumer is. As an open-source advocate I feel that anyone building on top of Android is the open-source model working as it should.
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"I'm not entirely convinced about websocket solutions in Python yet, but I've been told flask-websockets is awesome. Nevertheless this doesn't solve the problem for you. Cause the request is just keeping an open line and waiting for a response....blocking is bad."
Tornado only blocks if you do something silly. It's event based, and can keep hundreds of connections open and waiting for it's async response event before actioning/responding the open connection.

"The most simplest advise I would have is to have the ajax request trigger a background task and return immediately. The background task will then have some kind of side effect (ie. write some result to a database somewhere) which the ajax request can the look for with some kind of polling mechanism (on some other endpoint)."
Wow, overkill much? Polling is bad, and is exactly the kind of bad solution that a lot of these libraries are in place to prevent developers from needing to do.

Websockets were made to solve the long-polling and poll-spamming that was prevalent. Now all you have to do is keep a light, open web-socket connection to the server. And the server, being async/evented, will respond when the task is good and ready. Nice and clean.
So what you've established is that only an idiot would order groceries through Uber Courier. Which means that we agree that you're not the target market.

Edited to add: 25% more expensive may be comparable, depending on how it scales. The price of a bike messenger goes up significantly if you want a rush, something larger than a legal-size document, etc.
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Right...I should've clarified...by "editorial", I meant the team that focuses on the public facing news projects, such as Derek Willis's campaign finance apps and utilities (http://itemizer.herokuapp.com/)...I don't think they do a lot of monolithic-type Rails apps currently, though, at least compared to client-side-heavy projects
I made a list of some useful free tools: http://taprun.com/guides/seo/
They should and yet they so often don't, at least not to the level you would expect.
This is great!

Now if they could just expand it to real estate...
My point is that it’s a mistake and a distraction to believe this law is “action”.
This is a contract question, specifically the End User License Agreement. It is not a case of innocent until proven guilty. It is innocence because there is no guilt. Civil courts do not determine guilt. Civil procedure is concerned with establishing damages. This isn't just semantics. This is the entire definition of what these words mean.

In the case of running Mac OS X on a non-Apple computer, Apple is not wronged. Where are the damages? What has Apple lost? Apple has lost nothing.

Running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware damages Apple as much as putting on a Harry Potter puppet show at a children's library damages JK Rowling. Zero. It just makes people more interested in Apple hardware and JK Rowling books and movies respectively.

If Apple can find you, they can send you a cease and desist letter. That is the most action they can take. Likewise for JK Rowling shutting down a puppet show using characters she created.
If the original (non-Fire) Kindle is any indication; no. I gave mine a pre-Paperwhite Kindle and she loved it. Then someone bought her a Kindle Fire ("If you like that you'll LOVE this. You can play games!"). She hated it and went back to the regular Kindle.

Turns out, if she wants to play games she'll grab a deck of cards.
he/she already sold all coins mined and caused market dip
I didn't read it to see what you were referring to, but that's the second edition of an older book, so maybe they didn't update everything for the new edition. Google has been banging the software-defined networking drum for a while now (configuration is part of the compute engine APIs now, for instance[1]).

[1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/04/enter-androm...
I was thinking the same thing. Yet another product that I can't use for couch surfing.

More people need to copy the old HP stuff where you used the bezel for navigation and commands.
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I came here to post Neither is Facebook but found this thread, instead. Basically, there's a lot of people tasked with finding places to invest money who need to look busy and the US - nay - the west - is pretty dry on real productive organizations right now. Software slash services has become the excuse for capitalism, and fundamentally we're just delaying the inevitable. Growth has stopped. Resources are finite. It's official.
they might not right now, but presumably all calls will be recorded for quality assurance purposes. they'll assemble a list of all questions people have, at all levels, and can improve at all levels as well.

Apple's essentially owned 'end to end' for a while - they design the chips and hardware, the physical retail stores, and handle customer support. The amount of info they have on problems people have and how to optimize for that must be huge. Amazon getting in on direct customer interaction for support will give them a similar, yet different, potential usability goldmine for years to come.
Amazon can't make folks do anything. So they have to concentrate on what makes money. They can sell features to developers as ways to make more money, thus making their phone more desirable. Those are the creative folks anyway. So Amazon enables them, and makes a buck too.
Your FBLogin sucks and you don't know it
I am co-founder of Sweetch. We develop an iPhone app to help drivers find parking on-street instantly in San Francisco. 10% of our users did not manage to login to our app because of FBLogin and I just figured out why. We used to ask FB API for the email address of our users. It turned out that, in some cases, the new FB API doesn't return this information even when the user give you the permission to access it. The reason is that some of the users have set their Facebook email address (name@facebook.com) or their phone number as main email address in Facebook. Many apps (including Airbnb) have this issue but don't even know about it.
If you want me to help you to debug, leave comments on this post ;)
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Great insights into speeding up mobile web load time.
I know. They are supposed to be unique in that regard according to pcmag.
You're not the only one. I'm very close to giving up and using an Android phone as my main phone, but I love physical buttons.

The most painful one is the camera button, it's the one killer feature of Nokia phones and Windows Phone.

(I have a Nokia N86 currently as my main phone).
hehe, congrats! :-)
I have been fascinated with chip diagrams like these for a long time:

http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2012_04_19_Ivy_Bridges_GP...

http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Architect...

Of course the ones he's planning to photograph are older generation ones but worthy nonetheless.

Would be interesting to map structures on the metal mask to chip level structures but that's for later.
> It doesn't change the world in any way

It changes it far more than yet another cool ninja JS framework for chatting with people near you
To answer 4:

Human beings perceive things through emotion, so anything that cause a perspective shift that enables them to deal with their emotions/the situation in a more positive manner helps them cope, be that getting religion, losing religion, or some other circumstance in their life.

Also, you're an asshole for using this thread to start pushing an agenda.
The talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0lyL_0OAM

The paper: http://viennot.com/playdrone.pdf

Slides: http://viennot.com/playdrone-slides.pdf

Source code: https://github.com/nviennot/playdrone

The speculation on how Amazon did scan the Play market in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491272 is over :)
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I know that there are lots of guides for creating web apps in X language or Y framework. What I am looking to find specifically is a guide or series of information on creating/monitoring/maintaining/troubleshooting web apps in general. One with best practices for logging, dev(staging/qa/production), testing,tools for debugging and inspection,deployment, etc. Does such a thing exist, or something close to if not more in depth of what I describe?
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He also seems to have a business selling high-end audiophile gear, which is difficult to square with his apparent engineering expertise.
I don't need to know you better, I'm just more honest about who you are.
> Life is short and it is amazing.

I'm sure you mean well. But if there's a more efficient way to alienate someone than presenting the direct opposite of their experience as if it were some great objective Truth, I can't imagine what it is.
I am surprised that anyone would be caught off guard by this sort of thing. After all it is going to be much more effective to fly over a crowd and shoot at them than to try to hit them from behind a riot shield.

The Union outrage is interesting too, mostly because I agree that as your government (or companies) acquire tools for crowd control it certainly has a chilling effect on peaceful assembly. That said I don't see why these folks don't have drones of their own. They were used to good effect to document some of the protests in Turkey. As the drone is probably efiltrating its video during operation it is much harder for a repressive regime to shut it down and suppress the video.
It is ambiguous. Sure, if they upload a clip of a movie, that's not ambiguous. But fair use certainly exists, and you certainly have copyright assignment rights on works that appropriate other works as long as it fits the fair use criteria (or are sufficiently transformative).

And you'll still have hordes of unhappy users when you take down their Let's Play videos and videos of their kids when they had Prince playing on their computer in another room of the house.
"Ultimately, I'm counting on the free market to work its magic and provide a sensible and convenient method of demonstrating mutual consent."

LOL, libertarians. Because "click the button on your phone or I'll beat the fuck outta you" totally wouldn't happen.
I think Amazon is a perfectly reasonable model of success. Even if I don't particularly like Amazon.

They succeeded without doing anything unusually unethical in the marketplace.

If be relatively average ethically and a corporation worth billions isn't a model for success in a capitalist society, what is? Honestly?
From their twitter stream "My mom should get @YoAppStatus just so I can yo her and let her know I'm still alive."

That's a great use case. My family would love to know I'm still alive when I go mountain climbing and calling is too much of a hassle.
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Also, it's called a "yo", and not a "poke". Important.
His reply was in the context of you labeling yourself an atheist. Perhaps you should avoid that term in the future.
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Sorry to pile on here, but this is not a real problem for me and as someone who is 6'2" with hands to match, someone would seem to have to be really fat fingered for this to be an issue; plus tilt scrolling is worthless in one of the primary contexts I use my phone, which is mounted to my dashboard as a GPS/hands-free unit.

I bought a Nexus 5 this year and kind of pre-regretted it because I thought I should wait to see what Amazon came out with when they announced their long-rumored phone, but now I feel great about it. None of the much touted features here are really things I care about, though I get that my perspective is not universal (eg. Mayday might be great for my mom(1), but not useful for me. Ditto unlimited cloud storage, I already need a long term solution for the images I take with my Canon 70D and Sony A7 cameras, having something that is unlimited only for the small set of cellphone camera photos I take isn't useful for me; YMMV if all you use to take photos is your cellphone, but even in that case I would be reluctant to tie myself to Amazon in that way since it becomes a friction point to upgrading to a different kind of phone in the future).

The glass back doesn't help things either; I learned that lesson with the Nexus 4 -- never again. And lastly the price isn't very attractive in the recent world of inexpensive but powerful Android phones, especially when you're tied to AT&T.

(1) [except for the fact that the most likely big problem someone like her would run into is not being able to connect to the network in the first place, which is obviously not a problem Mayday is well equipped to help with]
It is unthinkably strange that this "call to action" does not include a link to the full text of the ammendment. Why do the organizers think that it would not be useful for people to read the ammendment that they are urging support of? Is it too complex for my feeble mind to comprehend? Or am I assumed to be so sheeplike that I will blindly support something merely because the page casts the ammendment as "anti-NSA"?

From what I can tell the page is urging support for: http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/LOFGRE_05551914...

Ms. Lofgren also has ammendment regarding mandated backdoors in chips, firmware and tech standards: http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/LOFGRE_05651914...
Or the texting capabilities are in fact sub-par. Both Apple and Google have had to double down on messaging UX/functionality because they are used so much, plus Facebook, Whatsapp, and Snapchat.

Messaging is really important.
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none of the kindle fires have a youtube app either. you browse the youtube mobile site and the videos play in the default media player.
I hope I'll be able to watch videos of it afterwards. Thanks YC for organising!
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/sigh

I really wish Amazon would just make all of their obviously Android devices into actual, Google-approved Android devices. Google Apps and all. I get that they want their own market for apps, etc. But yuck.

Also, I wish things like Amazon Movies would just stinkin work on Android devices, like a normal app. I mean, come on... I have like 6 Android devices, 1 Kindle Fire, 1 TiVo, and 1 Roku. Why are the 6 Android devices left behind? Ug.

/whine
Glad to hear it. I'll look forward to reading your roadmap.
You're missing Saraid's point.
Google has broken me.

I won't pay that much for a phone — especially when I know Amazon is making money from my use of it with their app store and their content streams.

This does have some fancy features (why hasn't every phone in the past 5 years had a Firefly option?!) but several don't seem at modern standards. And as I say, they're not worth the cash (or the A&T service).
It's not clear to me if the author is endorsing the use of browser crypto in any particular scenario. Regardless, probably the most common reason for wanting browser crypto is to protect the data before it hits the server, thus protecting against a malicious or compromised server.

For example, consider a web-based mail client. You want to send an encrypted message, say via PGP, and you don't want the server to be able to read it, even if the server is evil. You'd like to be able to do the PGP encryption 100% in-browser, with no browser plugins or extensions necessary.

I think that's the most common category of use-case for browser crypto. Unfortunately, it's one where browser crypto plainly doesn't work. The whole point here is to defend against an evil server, but if the server is evil, it will send you evil crypto JS. TLS doesn't help you. Nobody's impersonating the server or altering the JS file in transit. You're getting an authentic copy of the JS file from the real server. It just happens to be an authentic copy of an evil JS file.

Given that, what can you do with browser crypto, practically speaking?
Or you can uncheck the "Accelerate page loading" checkbox.
They also need to know (z-axis) how far the face is away from the phone. So gyroscopes are not sufficient.
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There's a lot of info, but I can't find what the phone is made of. Using nice metal phones has convinced me never to buy a cheap plastic piece of junk again.
I'm not entirely sure this is true. Anecdotally, things seemed to be more expensive in Sydney. I wish I had better data, but I find this comment difficult to accept blindly. Actually, a quick Google shows some data supporting my experience, but I can't vouch for the data quality so I am not linking. If anyone else has anything worth adding, I'd welcome more information.
The backers fund something they think is interesting, and they're certainly aware of that. Most big inventions started as seemingly useless projects that required lots of money. Sure, this is as far away as the Wright brothers from a transatlantic passenger jet, but with foundational research, you never know where you end up. If it runs this fast with a human, imagine hooking a small motor to it. How far could you travel with one liter? How about a pedelec version to get a semi-long-distance consumer bike? Could you maybe put the thing on rails and have human-powered trains or trams?
See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=154543&ts.... For some bizarre reason the new SSD types are not supported with Autoscaling groups.
What is the power usage of running 4 different cameras to do this?

I can't imagine it's small, so they must be not "always-on", which means there is some tradeoff here.
"The Quakers, for example hold that 'there is that of god in everyone'"

All that groks is god.
Absolutely, the Grandma/Grandpa demographic has been clamoring for a headache inducing 3d, gestures requiring learnability, Dolby Digital Plus, app carousel, etc.. etc.. mobile phone.
That is there too, sorry forgot to document it, just use /teams
"If it gets stolen, your insurance company pays you for the car, so...mission accomplished?"

Except your rates go up, and they may give you less than you could have sold it for.
You can create your own server, but I am looking into adding CORS support this evening or accepting a pull request that does.
iPhone has the build quality though. This is rubber and glass, not metal.

There's also a degree of app quality that iOS still has over Android - I'm an Android user: 'Secret', for example, only just came out, and it's very unstable.

This is a mid-range smartphone at a premium price.
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