skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you as a user were well served in your searches. That's the bit that google cares about most I would assume. Whether or not you went to 'bible design blog', 'design bible blog', 'bible typography.info' and whoever else they compete with (I just made those up) is of secondary importance.

The problem sits there where you would not find good content to serve your needs. And if you feel that this update impacts that goal in a negative way then I think there is a good case to be made for this being a net negative. I see no evidence of that for now though.
Those should just be expected to work.
This is what struck me about the decision. The article claims that "[t]rademarks that belittle other groups are not permitted under federal law."

Yet it seems problematic that the office gets to decide then thi is the case.

If something is legally protected speech, however offensive it may be, it should be eligible for trademark protection.
Can someone explain why a physical ruler is necessary? Why not just use software to make a straight line with a Stylus?
The question is very important because it's claiming Android app compatibility. What API level it's running is therefore critical information to any developer.

Fire OS tends to be more a "skin" than a fork anyway, it's similar to TouchWiz or Sense. The core framework, services, and runtime are all Android.
$10 Million: largest investment ever made to grow meat and leather in the lab
Horizons Ventures, the Hong Kong-based firm of billionaire investor Li Ka-shing, led a $10 million Series A investment in Modern Meadow Inc., a startup that can grow meat and leather in the lab, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.
Amazon developer page crahed just now...
What does it say about their UX, that Amazon need to have human assistants one click away? The iPad is so intuitive that toddlers, grandparents, and everyone in between can figure it out in minutes.
Kinda unfortunate for Firefox OS guys. Amazon's Fire Phone OS is called Fire OS... definitely gonna confuse some folks...
Came here to say the same thing. Total disaster. The alerting / notification almost completely broke. We stopped getting SMSs. Can't configure contacts. Have some ghost contacts appearing in one place, but not another. The pingdom support won't help at all, or won't answer for days...

Really sad. It was a great simple service that just worked. Straightforward to manage. Did one thing and did it well. Now it's a bunch of shiny screens that end up adding confusion and it's not even working.
Technical solutions to people problems.
Or do they do striaghtforward police work, provide a detail of officers at protests and counterprotests just in case anything gets out of hand, and generally behave reasonably?

According to the documents Naomi Wolf (your link!) cites, this is pretty much what happened. Try reading them for yourself instead of ignorantly complaining about "propaganda".
Phones do that now?
Interesting, I would never use Uber over a taxi, at least here in Europe. I really agree with the taxi drivers, Uber needs to follow the same rules they do, the rules are there for a reason. I don't know how it works in the US, nor do I really care, I want a taxi and not depend on having to buy a smartphone to get it.
Home != People otherwise I would have said People.

Anyway, Solar is actually great for home heating and hot water needs and solar hot water is generally more cost effective to install than rooftop eletric solar. Oddly enough installing solar pool heaters are cheap and fairly common even though they cover a fairly small window over the course of a year.

PS: Rooftop solar ~20% efficient rooftop home heating ~90% efficient.
So hang on....are you telling me that $199 is the cheapest price WITH A CONTRACT??

Obviously things are different in the US,but in UK it's almost unfathomable to be paying anything for the phone if you are getting a contract. Sometimes the latest iphone will have an upfront cost of 29 pounds, but it's rare.
The SDKs are exciting, but being an ATT exclusive really limits the ecosystem.
That would mean your workers had too much disposable income and free time. You should reduce both as a precaution.
The Amazon Phone seems to capitalize on content consumption of text, audio, video, and the abstract (through purchases). In my mind, this is what the smart phone should be all about.
It was overturned the first time because of laches, i.e. that the plaintiff had waited too long to bring the case. This time the plaintiff is someone who only recently turned 18, which negates the laches issue.
I just started using Celery this week for the first time, to handle parallel processing of thousands of tasks in a data pipeline.

Three days in, I can tell you that it does work, but it does take a lot of searching through the docs to optimize. It's very hard to run with class objects too, so we just created long-scripted functions for the worker.

Even now I'm trying to figure out why the worker is unable to refresh access tokens after 60 minutes, and tempted to just have it run as root.
Adobe Creative SDK
So, they're going to use everyone's mobile phone to 3D map the entire world? Privacy advocates are going to scream, but roboticists are going to rejoice.
Indeed. Here's something somewhat related, from PyCon 2012. It deals with using computer vision to fire a squirt gun at squirrels. The principle is basically the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
Truly remarkable.

I take it you saw the recent New York Times article about belief formation. It stated exactly what you say here, that direct attacks just strengthen a person's ideologies.

It sounds like you must have worked very hard to avoid self-knowledge. That's so sad. I'm really really happy for where you are now though. I've had countless conversations with religious fundamentalists that end in them asking me if I'd come along to their next meeting or if I'd like a leaflet and I always laugh (not in a bad way) at them and ask them did they not realize that I was trying to save _them_?

I'm sorry that your family relations are strained. It took me years to accept my father's strong faith for what it was and in the end I used to have really fun times debating him. (Though he never budged an iota.) Don't you think that the idea of the sacred and profane is deeply human? Seems like belief formation is hard-wired in so we need to collectively learn about how our brains work so we can fix our species.

Thanks for sharing. If you wrote your life's story I'd read it, I like your writing style a lot.
See krishy's comment above. It looks like they do not use Ruby/Rails for the CMS for editors, but use Java instead.
my vote for No 2

and also no. 3, the offline market is huge and mostly unattended.

Will you still look for going out of brasil if it doesn't get funded?
my advice: Don't look for funding, bootstrap it.

i.e.: http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
Cant wait for day when you get to use all the new fancy press conference smartphone features and not recharge your phone multiple times in 24 hours.
Code Spaces : Is Down
And the second important thing is that if you are on a 10 GB or higher Mobile Share Value plan, an off-contract smart phone costs you $15 instead of $40.

https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html

So, on Next, you pay $27 per month for the phone, but $25 less for the plan, so $2 more a month or a total of $48. And you need to pay sales tax on the phone, so that's another $50 or so. But the contract plan had to pay $199 up front. So you come out about $100 ahead over the life of the contract.
Eating well is far cheaper than the medical bills I am supposed to have. My health problems are the root cause of my poverty. Resolving my health problems is my only hope of escaping poverty. Your snark is not appreciated.
I really enjoyed reading this. Certainly put the browser security model in a new perspective for me.
I will buy LG G3 or Galaxy S5 for a cheaper price and MUCH better specs.

This phone is a joke.
I am always a little skeptical about gestures that involve physically moving or tilting or swivelling the phone.

Maybe it works well for others but I find it getting very much in the way when I use my phone in bed, or lying around on the couch, or walking even.
On my iPhone 5, I have the screen rotation locked for about 99% of the time.
Ok, Let me be more explicit:

Typically marketing is used to put more expensive inferior products in the hands of more people rather than cheaper, higher quality products in the hands of more people.

So in that example value is destroyed, which is a ton easier (and much more likely) as a result of marketing than creating value (even if it is possible it likely is not going to happen, those that engage in marketing are rarely philanthropists).
While this seems to be a really cool research project, it mostly made me curious if something like this could ever be available as a consumer product -- i.e. an aerodynamic, safe recumbent. I'm guessing the "catch" is that ultralight materials are expensive and the design doesn't really help much on a hill. It seems like it might work well alongside something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuVinci_Continuously_Variable_T...
" And there it is! Includes a year of prime with the price of the phone (as revealed at the end)"

- That seems different though to your initial point that the phone itself would be cheap hardware as long as you're tied to a service subscription (Prime) This is the other way around.
No more than I'm worried about the front-facing camera on all of my devices.
"Great phone for reading?" If they really cared about the reading experience, they would have put an AMOLED screen on it. AMOLED screens are far superior for night-time reading, which is when most people do their reading.
Because they aren't telecommunications common carriers. Telecommunication, AFAIK, is commonly meant to refer to, as Wikipedia puts it, communications "through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves". Using a transitive argument to call the named services as such rests on the argument at hand about differentiation between content and medium.
"you'll find that your information gets drowned out by content that has been SEO'd to the hilt. But even if that were the case I'd blame the SEO guys, not the search engine."

Maybe, but the part that bothers me is that if you listen to Matt Cutt's he basically says that you should make good content, make a good user experience, build a relationship with your audience, and not think about SEO explicitly. This isn't true for large swathes of content types.

"The fact that google is a monopoly is our collective problem, not google's, it's only a monopoly because we let them"

This is like saying that we don't need antitrust laws because it's our own fault if we allow them to become a monopoly or get into some other situation where fair competition isn't possible.

"The thing that could happen in your use-case is that someone would end up finding their information somewhere else or that they would engage with someone else. The only case where there would be a loss to them (your hypothetical visitor) is if they would not engage with anybody at all"

No, there is a loss if the only content they find at the top of google is demand media style content with no good information but that is SEO'd to the hilt, and people with good and real content can't outrank them.

"Demanding they do better is tantamount to dictating that an advance in technology be made, maybe the problem is harder than it seems?"

I mostly agree, but I think this is a bit too simplistic. I worked on search engines for years and fully understand how hard this problem is. I don't know the answer to this problem, but I see a clear problem or problems. One of which is Google's PR which says "hey, just make a good site with good content and the rest will take care of itself". They aren't really being honest here. For years they dodged the question of negative SEO.
That's been my experience with Redis + Celery as well vs. the other brokers.
Can't get the videos to load, guess their site is overloaded...pretty rare for amazon
> As for VOIP: the concerning thing there is the FCC's taxing of a content service that runs on the internet. I don't think that's a precedent most supporters of net neutrality want to embrace, but that's exactly the path you're going down with Title II.

I would just challenge the premise. The question from the article is:

> How do you distinguish [AT&T's] telephony from Skype or Google Voice?

But the answer is easy. You don't. The only sensible reading of a conflict is if both AT&T and Skype are offering over the top VoIP service. If AT&T is offering PSTN service and Skype is offering VoIP then distinguishing them is trivial, and if AT&T starts offering VoIP then distinguishing them is unnecessary. You just don't put any VoIP services (or any other over the top services) under Title II, because Title II is for the physical network.

That makes perfect sense because what all of that stuff (e.g. USF) is intended to do is only necessary for the physical network. There is no reason for Skype not to offer VoIP service to everyone with internet access. It would occur even in the absence of regulation, as long as those people have a local physical network over which to run such services, which is the clear dividing line between what belongs under Title II and what doesn't.
Today, I discovered smile.amazon.com. Thanks!
From my post in another thread: It's $199 with a 2 year contract with AT&T, meaning it's a $649 phone (now confirmed). It's priced with other 'premium' phones like the iPhone 5S and the Galaxy S5 (both $199 with a 2 year contract, $649 off contract at AT&T). Unfortunately, Amazon's other products like the Kindle Fire are anything but premium hardware and software-wise. On the software side this is partially due to the Amazon-first mentality for all media and partially due to the extremely clunky Amazon UI and app store. Then again, I wouldn't consider Samsung a 'premium' phone software-wise either due to my poor experience with the Galaxy S4's clunky setup after coming form 'pure' Android. It's still far better than the Kindle Fire, though.
> Only in the last paragraph did he mention that Uber may be looked at as a "logistics" company and not a taxi service.

You don't buy a company for $17 Billion in hopes of transforming it into something completely different and maybe making money.

You also don't buy a company based on future best case scenarios where the competition is projected to stay stagnant.

~~~

At least you didn't used to buy companies based on these criteria.

That used to be considered bad business.
A lot of cell phone purchasers can't front the $199 up front. The amount of money you need to plonk down on day one is a big factor for a lot of people (usually people with low incomes). Of course, generally these "0-down" types of pricing models are basically scams that prey on people who can't pay large sums up-front.

It's a shady business model that, unfortunately, works well for the businesses that use it.
Remember this is paired with Dynamic Perspective. So maybe we'll see it detects the orientation of your face before deciding on what to do.
My thoughts as well. I despise that every new phone can't last a whole day of heavy use without a charge. It is the pits when I'm at a music festival or some other event and my phone starts to die midday. I just need access to my favorite apps and an OK camera, I'd give up almost every feature other than those for stellar battery life. Other features are great but let's focus on battery life.
It is worth mentioning that they are including a year of prime which is worth $99 and a $10 credit on their store so the actual price compared to say an iPhone is $90.
I don't mean this in an Apple snarky way but maybe they'll pull an Apple and price it high for a short period of time and then drop the price after the early adopters. That way you can sort of have your cake and eat it too. Buyer's of the phone don't feel 'bad' carrying it around based on it being "of that's that cheap Amazon phone" Avoid the problem the 5C seemed to run into.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=codespaces#!/story/sort_by_date/0/...
The SDK docs say targetSdkVersion=17, so JellyBean-MR1 (Android 4.2)
My experience of EE this week was that they attempted to sting me with a £150 up front charge for a phone (HTC One m8) on a £35pm contract. So, this does happen.
"Battery size: 2400mAh. Talk time: up to 22 hours; standby time: up to 285 hours. Video playback: up to 11 hours; audio playback: up to 65 hours."

Those times are about the same as an iPhone 5S.
And the courier market is how big?
Yes, when you consider that its not "common carriers" such as FedEx which is being discussed, but "telecommunications common carriers", which inevitably relies on the definition of telecommunications. Which Wikipedia makes pretty clear is commonly understood to mean a physical medium based upon electrical signals or electromagnetic waves.
Macworld has a review (4 mice): http://www.macworld.com/article/2158120/adobe-brings-new-lif...

"Do you need Slide to accomplish amazing things in Adobe Line? Not really. But it feels so good to work with tangible tools that you may not care."

The author was skeptical, but said the tactile nature really won them over.

(ObDisclaimer: I work for Adobe, but probably on the opposite end of the org from the Ink and Slide people. And I have yet to see Ink and Slide in person.)
How the hell would you let the faith of your entire enterprise data in the hand of Amazon? Offsite/offline backup are mandatory especially when you deal with this kind of data.
The Amazon Phone seems to capitalize on content consumption ...

I'd much rather phones (and computational/communication devices in general) focus on content creation.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions yet. I image they will do whatever is customary on a per region basis to be competitive.
> . Writing something like http://www.audiotool.com/ to operate

Sorry but in terms of holding the tempo the browser is still not accurate.Audio Synthesis is only one part of the problem.Flash is bloody accurate in term of sequencing and playing sounds at the right time.The browser is just not.that's why Flash sequencers are possible,but WebAPI ones arent.
Compatible with Android 4.2.2, API level 17

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-p...
The disavow tool is a step in that direction. But frankly, I suspect the only people that are using it are the blackhat SEOs and their customers trying to undo the damage hey caused, the rest of the world does not even realize it exists.
Amazon 'Fire Phone'
You can also click the "Without a Service Plan" to see the price, $649.
It's a _really_ great idea - congrats on the publicity and launch guys.

I cannot count how many times friends have called me to ask "So, how do I sell my used car?" I never have a good answer (The trade-in-to-dealer process is the easiest but by far the worst financially) .

On the question (from the video) of 'What if it gets stolen?'

"At worst, you get paid for the car."

Heh. This brings up a number of thoughts -- I mean, in the end, your goal as a seller is to sell the car. If it gets stolen, your insurance company pays you for the car, so...mission accomplished?

If that becomes a regular occurrence, it creates a weird market condition -- thieves win because they get an easily-stolen car. The seller wins because he's sold his car quickly. So the insurance company loses -- and who gets left holding the bag?

(Not saying this is a real risk - I think these guys are going to do wonderfully - but a thought experiment...)
I thought this was a good point until I realized the traffic Amazon has to it's home page and how many of it's devices are Top 5 sellers in major categories. Still, you could be right that they wanted even more than just Amazon alone could do for the phone.
The problem is that it's the only differentiator. For many users, their favorite apps aren't available on Amazon's appstore. Being so late means getting user traction will be hard without some amazing features. I don't see that from Amazon.
This feels like an April Fool's joke. Wonder how well it will do.
We used Omaha at Rockmelt for both Mac and Windows, but of course we had to write our own backend since Google doesn't open source that part. I assume you guys had to do the same?

Which repo contains the update server? I found https://github.com/coreos/go-omaha but it's just the protocol.
New Swift training on Udemy
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Lectures will be added at least twice a month, and will extend to more complex tasks like using Cocoa and Cocoa Touch and building full apps for iOS and MacOS. The goal is to make the course a complete and exhaustive resource for whoever wants to develop apps using Swift.
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They're already building 3D virtual environments of roads/streets, which their self-driving cars use for navigation.

Sometimes, I wonder if Google is going to collectively vanish out of our universe once it has collected every piece of data that it can from this one.
How is this remotely competitive in a world full of $179 Moto G's? $219 Moto G LTE's? Or even a $350 Nexus?

This seems like a phone from two or three years ago where $650 for a non-premium brand would have been passable. I just bought a Moto G LTE for my wife and its a wonderful phone. I don't see what Amazon would bring to the table for an extra $420. That's almost 10 months of service right there.
As an iPhone user, I already have access to the important parts of the Amazon ecosystem (books, music, movies, TV shows).

But I have a superior app store.

The only big feature I think could prove important is their live-chat help.
I had typed this up before they announced the off-contract pricing in another thread and was quoting it here. The off-contract price was an assumption at that point.
like this? http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Thoughts-on-jail-privil...
Amazon Firefly SDK
USB Fuzzing Basics: From fuzzing to bug reporting
The author of this article seems to have an impressive background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswath_Damodaran

Given his experience, I'm struggling to understand why he's so quick to dismiss the possibility that Uber will successfully expand into tangential markets, or that it's at least reasonable for investors to bet on that possibility.

In the spreadsheet the author provides, the possibility of growth into additional markets seems complete ignored. Even if the chance of such growth was small, surely it should factor in to the valuation to some degree?
Well timed after prime music imports your itunes library.

no hairy workarounds to replace an iphone in your mac ecosystem, which is something google has not achieved.

(yes, other than apps, but that will follow)
National contributions to observed global warming
Amazingly ambitious move by Amazon, which I have to respect. Yes, it will be extremely hard to take market share from Samsung and Apple, but there also hasn't been much innovation in the smart phone market recently, so the opportunity exists if Amazon takes a novel approach. Or maybe they just compete on price, as they have so many times before.
Pretty good analysis of micro-fame and its perils, using Phil Fish as an example. Glad I watched it.