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No, you don't get to pick your adversaries, but you do get to pick the strongest one you wish to be secure against. Or for that matter, can be secure against. I briefly mentioned Diffie-Hellman key exchanges to provide an example of another common primitive that's only secure against passive adversaries. (DHKEs are typically used in peer-to-peer applications.)

Also, if you keep reading, I mention several uses for in-browser crypto.
Perhaps it says that "we're so confident that the UI is easy to use that we're going to put our money where our mouth is and give you incredibly easy to use live support".

It doesn't take very many minutes in support calls to completely eat any profit Amazon has on a phone.
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You think 25% more expensive is a "comparable price"? I think we'll have to disagree on that. ;)

Similarly, the "hefty markup" at my local grocery store is....drum roll please...the same price I pay at the store.

Similarly, I can get similar same-day service from other shops in the general area if I buy sufficient quantities of goods. Admittedly, it requires a phone call and slightly more effort but they are frequently willing to split the bill for the courier to make the sale.
The compelling feature on this phone everyone's missing:

Let's say you have to browse through a bunch of stuff on your phone. The very moment you start doing this, you have a problem: There's a #%&! finger covering up the screen now!

The idea behind this phone is simple: All browsing of information is done by tilting the screen, leaving the display completely unobstructed... sure, other phones have tried to do this before. However, they were shit, because they didn't involve 4 years of AI research to develop the world's most sophisticated head positioning system ever, like Amazon apparently did. This is probably the only way to make the tilting accurate enough to not be annoying.

Only a company run by a fantically focused guy could put that much R&D towards such a specific and non-obvious feature.

That said, until I can hold the device in my hand and verify that this "tilt to browse information" is 100.00% perfectly implemented, this phone can still end up being a failure, like all similar devices that came before it.
What's amazon angle here? Why are they doing this?
That's normal in the US. The difference here is that there is no specific price point you have to get on - I've been moving up and down with how much I pay each month on my contract, which I couldn't do in Australia. The contract termination fees are also much lower, and if you're on family plans the month to month costs can go down drastically.
> Our human-engine will produce only 1 horsepower

I thought an Olympic athlete at full-tilt with arms and legs could only put out 0.75 horsepower?
I am looking for funding mostly to be compatible with the startup visa requirements. For instance, for the US visa I would need $1 million in investing, and for Canada $200k.

If it was not for that I would certainly bootstrap all the way, even because we have some capital to fund the early stages of development.
Google has a pretty popular homepage too, but I bet having the phones available in stores led to more sales.

(Well, OK, and they were also really cheap or sometimes free with a new plan.)
How does the Mayday on-device tech support work?

Amazon expert will appear to help you via live video

Will it be a Siri/Cortana like AI agent or a human from a Amazon call center?
Sounds like a trademark case waiting to happen but looking it seems neither "firefox os" nor "fire os" is trademarked in EU or US.
Interesting. I haven't used pchar before. How does it compare to mtr (which is my current go-to)?
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Multiple cameras are interesting. It would be neat if the phone could use eye-tracking to auto-scroll content as your eyes reach the bottom of the screen (books would be good use-case - perhaps they are already doing this)
You make a great point and one I suspect Amazon is betting on. the iPad is so intuitive that some toddlers, grandparents etc can use it. But I also get the sense that the main reason many people aren't using smartphones and tablets is because they find them hard/intimidating. Maybe that's the only vertical left that's greenfields. So it might be a smart idea to hold their hand.
Take a look at https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/v3.0.23/celery/utils/l... - it's an older version that I once checked but it seems to be patching loggers unconditionally (i.e. outside any signal handler).
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I think it's half that amount ($500k) for investors in the USA.
Oh, believe me, I know. That was my first and foremost complaint. When I was ranting about this back then, I decided to put my money where my mouth was by recreating a Roland/Boss drum machine in the browser - http://www.bitrotten.com/dr110 - I was also a bit rusty on my CSS & Javascript, and it was a good excuse to brush up there. There were a few annoyances I ran into along the way, but what leaves the concept dead in the water was the completely unstable clock. The only browser at the time that came even close to stable was Firefox, on a fairly speedy machine.
Having proved my point (to myself) that Javascript wasn't ready, I've basically abandoned that project as something to revisit later as audio capabilities of web browsers become more robust. It's still easily a decade and a half behind Flash on that front.
No it's totally different. Apple ran ads against Microsoft. They didn't prevent people from finding Microsoft's site on a search engine.
It seems like most of their Firefly feature is also available through Amazon's 'Flow' iOS app
> Functionally, laws don’t matter here. Their existence, and their content, are not predictive of the NSA’s behavior.

Rate this comment irrelevant.

Not new and definitely not a reason for inaction.
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You aren't seriously suggesting that all secret funding be cancelled, or made public? What about the huge number of legitimately secret projects that must be funded covertly to prevent adversaries discovering and exploiting defence and national security capabilities.

I think this debate has caused a lot of people to wrongly equate 'secret' with 'evil' or 'immoral' and 'unethical, which is not the case. Look at the specifics, don't make unjustified sweeping generalisations...
My two cents: First, I'm actually surprised as to how much they are selling the dynamic perspective, and I think I'm actually more interested in how well firefly works. Dynamic perspective may be very "cool", but I'm not convinced it's not just another fad --- will it change the way I work with my device? Will it empower people? I don't see it as a transformative technology, and it's almost as gimmicky as (if not as gimmicky as) some of the extra "features" you get when you buy a galaxy S phone.

Firefly has a chance though. I've spent some time with google goggles before, and I wasn't super impressed (have they updated it much recently?) --- on the other hand, I've had some success with Amazon's Flow app, in which you point your camera towards a product (in a store, for example), and it tells you the Amazon price for it. Will Firefly work well enough for people to rely on it on the host of use-cases that Amazon gave in its presentation?

Other quick thoughts: Amazon claims some great battery life on the page, but didn't mention it at all in their presentation today. Also, it's kind of weird to think I would have 6 cameras on me at any point in time. Are those cameras accessible to developers, beyond their dynamic display apk? Lastly, how will this compare with google's "Project Tango" efforts?
Well of course it's all useless companies, but then how could we suck Graham's and stupid fuck Andreesen's dicks?
Also check out this extension for Chrome that turns amazon.com -> smile.amazon.com

http://www.smilealways.io/
In addition, we have repeatedly hit problems with our "mock" build system which uses a different kernel from what userland software is normally tested with. eg: [1] [2]. This stuff is going to hit Docker users sooner or later. It is also infuriatingly hard to debug.

[1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1062533

[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/563103#c8
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This phone will find a market amongst amazon addicts. While not bleeding edge, specs are somewhat solid[0].

However what set Kindle Fire apart from competition and allowed it to gain foothold in the market was competitive pricing, I see none of that here. Amazon is obviously making a bet that software they are shipping with the phone will be a killer feature that will overcome the shortcomings, I do not think broader market will agree.

[0] Until you look at the price and AT&T only lock in, considering that, specs are mediocre at best.
Sounds like this phone does a good job of solving Amazon's problem of getting customers to buy more from them. I don't see how it makes my life any easier though.

3D? Ok, that is really cool. 2D hasn't really been a limiting factor for me though.

One-handed navigation and autoscrolling? Wow, that just sounds terrible. I'm trying to read and my kid bumps my arm. Now where am I on the page? And how do I quickly get back to where I was?

Mayday seems nice but then if the phone is that intuitive I can't see needing it much. Loss leader for them I guess.

Tangle-free premium headset. Finally, a feature I would pay money for. Seriously. Do they sell these separately? Because I want.
I don't think it is. Except for people who buy on-contract and don't know better about the pricing and features compared to other phones. Heck, you're even stuck with Amazon's Silk browser... there's no Firefox or Chrome in the Amazon App Store... so most users can forget about syncing this with anything.
Lots of people pay the $27/month. It's often more convenient and slightly cheaper. Doing the math :

$0 up front + $27/month (phone) + $0 activation (free on AT&T Next) + $65/month (service, 2GB data) * 18 months = $1656 total cost (without taxes)

$199 up front + $40 (one time activation fee, required) + $80/month (phone subsidy + identical 2GB plan) * 18 months = $1679 total cost (without taxes).

If you paid the $199 upfront, then after 18 months, your still on contract and can't upgrade for another four months and you paid $20 extra.

If you paid $0 down and $27 a month, you saved (an admittedly tiny amount) of money, and you can also upgrade six months earlier at no extra cost.
So… that part about 10 minutes. Is it already working?
Classic price discrimination.
I wonder how the hardware (esp. camera) compares to the other high-end androids and whether you can run stock android on it.
If it's just an occasional problem, I'd suggest getting one of those USB battery packs. You can get something that will recharge your phone 3 or 4 times for $40.

Buyer's guide: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-usb-battery-pack-trave...
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> 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.

I'd go one step further and I'd say: stop making sites that only exist by the grace of search engines. Not that anybody will listen to that because after all it is easy money but it is very unwise from a business perspective. Do you see Apple spend time on checking their 'link profile' (new term I learned today)?

> 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.

No, anti-trust is about anti-competitive behaviour by a monopolist (or a de-facto monopolist), it is not about forcing companies to act in the public interest. They probably should but that's a totally different problem.

So anti-trust would be google squashing duckduckgo.com through some trick using their de-facto monopoly to get rid of a nasty little upstart.

> 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.

Yes, and that's exactly the sort of thing that google is finally addressing. I loathe demand media and all the sites operating on that principle.

> 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.

We agree on that they are dodging the question of negative SEO, and it is bad they do that but I can see that Google's image will take a nosedive if they admit that the issue is beyond their technical capabilities. They're essentially lying about this, but what else is new in corporate country?

I wished someone would find a way to make a search engine that uses a completely different aspect to rank pages than the link graph (maybe back to on-page?) and that that search engine would take away 50% of googles' share. That way the SEO dudes would be in for a much harder time.

>
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Dear USA,

Welcome to 1948 where busses run on electricity generated by falling water (the cheapest in North America) rather than coal... the busses even charge while they drive...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Vancouver

Your technology is soooo amazing.
... because a dedicated button to scan QR codes is what I wanted all along. At least CueCat was free. http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
I'll wait for the B&N Nook Phone
Does anyone know what actual mail and calendaring system this thing even uses? What about maps? All the other stuff aside, texting, mail, calendar, and maps cover about 80% of most people's phone use; if those pieces stink, it's going to be a problem, and I see absolutely no mention of where they're getting map data in particular.
That's not my logic at all. The GP asked what this has to do with Google. I'm saying there are clearly scenarios where Google has a responsibility to limit access to content, even content they don't provide. In my opinion, it is not tenable to say "let the courts go after the child pornographers, but Google shouldn't be asked to block access to their content".

And notably, I'm not even arguing that Google should ever be ordered to block sites worldwide. The GP's argument has NOTHING to do with the worldwide nature, on the contrary, that it is worldwide was only parenthetical in the comment. The same argument would stand even if the decision only affected Canada. It argues against involving Google at all, and that's what I'm debating.
Your psychiatrist might be uninformed or maybe what he means is not to indulge in drugs as a way to escape reality (which I agree with).

Psychedelics, when taken in a safe setting and with the right goals (eg. as a therapy aid, not recreationally) can be extremely efficient for treating depression and all sorts of emotional issues.

There's a lot of literature and articles on the subject, for instance: http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/03/12/using-psilocybin-mag...

As as a side note, consider that psychiatrists are not gods and they know what they learned.
In fact, I bet it would be detrimental for the whole industry if you could treat your mental issues in one or two settings and not use expensive psychiatric drugs for years.
A friend of mine has flat earbud cables (has had them for a year or two) and they do indeed not tangle. I don't quite know the physics behind it, but it seems to work.
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AT&T made significant changes to their plans earlier this year, so buying a 2-year contract from them is now a terrible idea. You're much better using their installment plan or just paying full price for the phone.
"If there are 10 competitors in your niche (and many will have more like 100), you can do this to five of them at random and google would have no way of determining who the perpetrator was."

For a pure blackhat operation, it would simply be the newest competitor. Blackhatters rarely play the long game, they are used to burn-and-churn operations. They wouldn't have the patience to keep an unprofitable site running.

It's harder when it's a white-hat SEOer who is also comfortable wearing a blackhat-persona, they may have the patience and guile not to make it too evident. Because they know the long term payoff.

"When you report them for paid-links, you wouldn't use your real e-mail address, that doesn't make any sense."

And yet, using an email address that has zero previous visibility / fake-name generated looks suspicious too. Any thing where the sender is mostly anonymous is suspicious, particularly in answering the motive question. (Particularly silly would be using a free email provider, for example)

Again, Blackhatters aren't eager to put themselves on Google's radar, or any public spotlight. Only the naive ones use GMail / Analytics / Webmaster dashboard. They prefer operating behind the scenes and not drawing attention to themselves, because they have lots to hide.

It takes a bit of pre-planning, some good organisation, and a lot of patience to pull off a convincing online profile. Not really the hallmarks of the typical blackhatter.

Of course, if you're into identity theft, are you really willing to risk it ratting out a competitor. And you'll be in organised online crime territory

Plus the downside if the rest of the Blackhat community find out you've been snitching to Google. They may have loose morals and ethics when it comes to SEO, but they have some semblance of respect-earning.

None of this appeals to the blackhatter, seems an awfully contorted process to go through each time just to gain one ranking place (per competitor). Because it's a process that requires contacting a human at Google, it's also not something that's easily automatable or scriptable. Doesn't entirely fit the quick rinse and repeat / burn-n-churn of the typical Blackhatter.

Take out the scare-mongering of negative SEO, and examine what's left. Not much. In the wider picture, it won't even register a blip.

Now, the legal ramifications of someone being caught doing this. Motive and intent, destruction of business value, clear intent to deceive for financial gain. How many more elements are needed for this to be fraud?

Blackhatters may have loose morals or ethics, but they also know how to stay on the right side of the law. And also, not to drift too close towards the organised crime based operations.

Negative SEO won't be a regular tool for blackhat SEOers; too much risk, too much effort to pull off more than a handful of times without being spotted. Organised crime though, for extortion, most likely.
They've already got this on the Fire tablets. It's a real person.
That doesn't really seem compelling to me. I've never felt the problem of having my finger in the way while scrolling, and I'm pretty dubious of tilt scrolling. I'll reserve final judgement until I've had my hands on the phone or seen other people's hands on reviews, but right now this really seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Based on some of their other commercials it'll actually be a human in a call center.
I hope it doesn't end up like playing balance a bubble to keep things from constantly sliding around. You think people's motion sickness from iOS7's parallax lock screen was something?

But I would love to see solid, intuitive improvements in UI like this.
"Do you see Apple spend time on checking their 'link profile' (new term I learned today)?"

Honestly, I'd be a little surprised if they didn't.
1) The person above never claimed above that losing their faith directly caused their suicidal depression. As such your anecdote does not balance out any judgment about religion I have.

2) I am already ideologically committed to being ill-disposed towards the concept of religion and, honestly, your single datum won't change that.

3) Are you claiming that your friend found God (they had no faith faith before) and this was directly instrumental to their suicidal depression lifting? Or was your friend always religious?

4) If God exists why should belief in that existence have an effect on suicidal ideation and major depressive episodes? What I'm saying is, how do you imagine these two things are connected?

5) Is it not possible that the two events occurred at around about the same time? That is to say, and I swear I've never used this before: correlation does not equal causation.
Depends on the sector. If I am not wrong tech requires $1 million, but yeah could be $500k, I am not sure.
Well, this is one way to solve the problem of database version-control... just store your data as flat text files. I can't help but think there's got to be a better solution.
It seems like Checkout (if it still existed) would have been a better fit than the current incarnation of Wallet.
Of course it's going to be an enclosed area. But my point is that it's not what most people think it is. To respond, I just pulled the math on the averages from 'certified organic' farms I've worked with over the years, just to spell it out a little more.

Egg Chickens Per Coop: 2.48 Square feet of space per bird. 45 Hens, 2 roosters, 72 square feet, 10 laying boxes, outside run of 45 square feet fenced on three sides and overhead.

Meat Chickens Per Coop: 1.8 Square feet of space per bird. 55 Hens, 70 square feet, outside run of 30 square feet fenced on three sides and overhead.

Dairy Cattle: Access to .3 acres per head in pen, average of 14 acres/45 cattle per pen/parlor. *Every single notation I've made about the dairy organics I've encountered states: "Many do not leave parlor, reason is apparent- feed in the parlor is easier to access and of a higher quality than forage available."

Now, I'm not sure of the space requirements for a chicken, but I can honestly tell you that 30-45 outdoor square feet is not enough to support that number of birds and to honor the spirit of "providing access to the outdoors so that animals can exercise their natural behaviors." It obeys the word - - outdoor access, but definitely not the idea behind it.

Cattle do have space requirements to avoid overcrowding and overgrazing, you can even find that on-line based on your area of the country. Most of my personal experience is with beef cattle, mind you. In my area, you can plan on 4-5 acres of good pasture per 2 adult cattle or 3 juveniles. 1/3 acre, again, honors the word, but not the spirit.

Anyway, we don't need them roaming around, or with the wide open prairies to explore. My point was that the law-abiding definition of organic, and the steps you have to take to get certified organic status aren't really the happy-go-lucky, love every animal, everyone deserves an awesome life kind of regulations most people think they are.
If you pay for a road which is advertised as allowing you to go 100 miles per hour, complaining that it's full of traffic is quite legitimate.

But even that is not addressing the point. The point is that if two people are paying for the same connection and using the same amount of bandwidth, the fact that one is using it for BT Sync and the other is using it for Netflix should be of no concern to the ISP and the ISP should be making no distinction between the two.
As someone who spent a couple of weeks with a Kindle Fire tablet, I want to mention that the Amazon ecosystem is frustratingly closed. There are many apps that I use and prefer on my nexus phone that I just can't get in the Amazon appstore, and ultimately that's enough to keep me away.
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