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Cap'n Proto is relatively new, so yes, the tooling is less mature than for more established protocols. We've been making steady progress, though, and things are definitely usable right now. E.g. CloudFlare is reportedly using the Lua and Go implementations in production.

Perhaps you're interested in helping? We love new contributors, and I can personally attest that writing an implementation of Cap'n Proto is a great way to really get to know a language. I've been waiting for someone to jump on Swift...
3P Android apps will not have access to the "other 4" cameras.

As for the battery life, there have been some amazing initiatives and innovations to squeeze every ounce of juice from it. I wouldn't be surprised if the stats claimed on Amazon.com were indeed right.

Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but I do not represent them, or speak on their behalf.
Enormous potential.

I would use this in a heartbeat if it were available here.

They could probably get away with twice the rake - the experience of personally buying/selling a used car is that bad and dealers/Carmax lowball that low.

Personally, I'd like a service which caters the intersecting possibility of evaluating and buying cars which need work packaged with bids to complete said work. Then perhaps I could get my hands on the e39 wagon I've always wanted.
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We'll it's usually advised that if bitten by a spider you should kill/capture it or take a picture so it can be identified and the correct anti-venom administered.

So yes, do call 911, but taking a picture could be potentially life saving.
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Fair point — but doesn't this assume price per mile remains constant over time?
That isn't even remotely true.

Many venoms have large delays, days even sometimes.
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Although focused on design, it is every bit as applicable when coding.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Thats where I got my data.

Minimum wage in SF is $8/hr. Minimum wage in Sydney is $16.87 so more than twice that.

I use to live in Sydney and it was very expensive. But not much more expensive than comparable cities.
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Yeah it happens, who cares.
It's not like sheltering them in and hiding all the sexuality in this world would do any good anyways.
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"It would be smart if it included OBD-II functionality to see if the test-drive customers are beating on the car, but I don't see any reference to that kind of feature."

The only metric you'd want from the OBD port is the tach; you can get speed from GPS, acceleration from your own accelerometer sensor ("flooring it", stopping hard), etc.
I could argue in the same manner about things that Amazon's phone has but the iPhone doesn't --- I just think that the people that are considering an iPhone vs. something else will consider Amazon's phone (along with the high-end expensive android phones). The price differential is a huge factor in determining what products actually compete with one another. Along the same lines, I think this also competes with the expensive android phones --- but (smart) people on the cheaper prepaid plans aren't going to consider the Amazon phone very heavily with the Nexus and Moto phones available. It's clearly not worth it for the huge markup.
Then the question is whether team productivity has gone up, even though your own personal productivity may have gone down? You probably accomplished a lot being helpful, though I know that doesn't help how you feel. And if your performance is tied to personal productivity, then that is a real bummer.
Identifying (or capturing!) the venomous spider or snake that bit you can mean the difference between them identifying the right antivenom or not. So, yes, surviving the trip to the ER is unaffected, but it might mean the difference between losing a life, a limb, or not.
> most proponents of reclassification haven't thought through all the implications of that proposal

Sure, but that assumes that all those implications are actually relevant.

> but how does he explain the fact that VOIP services are required to contribute to USF? Isn't VOIP just content too?

Not quite. If that VoIP service an actual phone number (i.e. one that could be called from within a traditional "copper" phone network), then (from what I understand) it acts as a provider of a phone network. Both Skype and Google Voice offer that functionality, so they're subject to USF fees.

IANAL, so that should be taken with a grain of salt; that's just my understanding of that particular corner case.
Best argument would be that SpaceX et. al. are specifically looking for people with experience at engineering competitions, so it seems there is something special about these kinds of projects.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/05/06/can-i-get-a-job...
>1. Opposing critical thinking

>6. Crossing Biblical boundaries of behavior (versus sexual purity and personal ownership)

>7. Separation from the Church

These have nothing to do with cults what so ever.
Can you not do all of that with one hand already? Reading while eating is actually harder if you need to tilt the device rather than swipe your finger. You could always place the phone on the table and just use your finger, or move the phone while you eat to keep it in your view without any of the tilting being interpreted as other things by the phone.
Wonder how large the cross-section is of people that could use that feature versus people that could remember / figure-out how to initiate that feature.
What proof do you have that religion is the template, and not just suffering from a problem that affects to all large hierarchies?
I noticed it most glaringly in playing Samurai vs Zombies. You tap to the right or left of your character to move them, and that means that my finger is directly in the way of seeing whether there are enemies to interact with.
...A more mundane reason might be that everyone knows about Kickstarter and how it works, but not everyone has experience of getting sponsorships from large beverage companies, or knows an insider to get a TV show deal.
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Heh. In my last job we used Gentoo as the build system for an embedded system. It was a joy to use. In my current job we use naked Makefiles chained together. I waste somewhere near 50% of the day building things I don't need to build, rebuilding things because the last time they were built it was with the wrong options, fixing build bugs where modifications didn't make it into the final binary etc etc etc. Makes me weep.

But seriously, Gentoo was the bomb. Your package doesn't impact anyone else until it's .ebuild is updated. You can precompile most units of the system once a day and download them as binaries. For 4 years of my life I didn't have to worry how things were being built, except for my own very small part that I had mastered. Bliss.
Agreed that a quad-copter wouldn't be able to handle the recoil, and that weight is a factor - bullets are (relatively) heavy. I was just saying that something the size of a Predator drone isn't necessary for close combat. I'm sure that there is some engineering magic that could be done to manage both of these issues in a relatively small package.
While you might be formally correct, your criticism still seems about as sensible as criticising someone who said "a tank made of paper sheets is not secure" because they failed to specify a threat model. After all, such a tank would be secure against a paralyzed attacker without weapons.

Yes, it is important to be aware that security is always relative to a threat model, and at times it can lead to confusion when threat models are not made explicit. That does not mean, though, that it's necessarily wrong to imply a sensible threat model in a given context, and to just call something "insecure" without any further explicit qualifications if it does not protect against a reasonable minimal threat model that essentially everyone essentially always has to face.

Also, it's questionable whether you can call the NSA's mass surveillance a passive attack, given that QUANTUM INSERT exists and was used, in order to attack foreign communications infrastructure.
false, they buy through vendors so they don't make 100% of the profit.
Shouldn't be expensive. Plenty of "1st admin job" webhosts in town. Although I don't know why anyone would leave them for a job at Solarwinds.
With HomeKit and the Honeywell Lyric, Apple buying Nest would have been foolish
> My feeling is "Don't hamper technological progress but provide a robust safety net to take care of those left behind" is itself a straw man.

> No one is hampering technological progress.

I'm sorry, but this could not be more wrong. This is what the entire conversation is _about_. Protecting jobs that do things less efficiently (higher cost, lower output, worse quality by some other metric, whatever) is a HUGE topic of discussion and something that a lot of the country still thinks makes sense[1], despite the fact that it transfers wealth from arbitrary consumers (even the poor) to arbitrary workers (regardless of income), and destroys wealth overall. I've yet to hear a single credible argument for why this is not infinitely worse than maximizing the total amount of wealth (by using the best tool for each job, be it robots or workers) and then explicitly redistributing it the way we want (so transfers will come from e.g. the rich and go to those who need it, like the poor and the sick). The arbitrary, untargeted welfare system that protecting inefficient jobs entails is obviously going to give you a lot more people receiving transfers who don't need it (i.e. middle-to-high income) and a lot more people losing wealth who do need it (consumers who have low incomes).

It is a very important point (and one that I've given a lot of thought to) that obsoleting people's jobs _requires_ the robust safety net for them (which we simply don't have in the US), and going full-speed ahead with technology while failing to implement the safety net can be dangerous. That's just an argument for pushing that much harder for a robust safety net (which is something any reasonable person in the US has been doing for decades, at least). Even this distinction is irrelevant when we're talking about someone's view of what the optimal solution would be: you start from an optimal solution (don't intentionally gimp productivity, use the gains from higher productivity to provide a safety net for those who get left behind) and then try to push it through the layers of politics etc that's required to get it actually working. Shouting it down at the ideas phase is just gonna end up with a system where

[1] c.f. all the complaints about replacing workers with robots in factories etc
Right, the best ten tired old js libraries that we have all moved on from.
Honest, certainly. Not much brutality in evidence, though. More like 'tough love'.
Side note: I'm always a little bothered when people attribute something from "Africa". Africa has 54 countries, c'mon people
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Well, maybe. If someone destroyed bible design blog's ranking, then I wouldn't have known I missed a superior option. I would have found stuff, but no competitors were as good.

The main incentive for negative SEO would be to let inferior content win, no?

I do agree in general that google works extraordinarily well for the user in most cases. Your point is clearer now.
Still seems gimmicky because I can easy flick and scroll on my phone using one hand.

If that's the main thing the Amazon Fire has to offer I'm really not impressed.
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Different markets. The Moto G (and Moto E, cheaper at $130) have much lower specs, and there are phones that have the same specs as a Moto G or Moto E for half the price (like the AT&T Radiant) because they don't carry the "Moto" brand.
I can't tell if you're joking or not - personally, I cringed and felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley for much of that video.
I just added some corrections to this post (commit link at top of post). Sorry for the errors. Please let me know if you spot others.
It's likely subsidized by the AT&T exclusive. I believe it's $200/month plus some contract. Which means they may be getting kickbacks totaling more than $200/device which would improve their margins. Or more interestingly, mean the device can be higher end and impress people more while at least not being a loss for Amazon. It's basically a store interface, leading to increased sales. Firefly is like Shazam for products, people will likely buy way more from Amazon.
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Good point, made the edit to clarify that I meant that I do not think that software alone as a killer feature would be enough, considering the price of the phone.
I have been asked many questions and here are more details
1- FB Api did not return anything when I asked for the email
2- I am not sure but I think that during the verification process of your account, Facebook automatically change your primary email address. All the users that had a phone number instead of their email had their old college email address that did not work anymore and Facebook deleted it from their account
3- A way to monitor the number of errors is to log all the FB Login error in your code or with Mix Panel
The OP was indicating taking a picture of the spider then having the Amazon phone tell you if its a dangerous spider, then deciding on whether to rush to the ER or not. Sure take a picture of it and get it checked out, but this use case for this feature is a bit over the top.
Google sells the technology so that they can sell advertising for third party products.

I see this a lot of HN, and I wonder if people are just assuming? To put it into context, I see far more ads on my iPad and iPad Touch than I ever have on my Nexus 5.

Outside of the money Google makes from their book, video, and apps stores, they sell the technology to ensure that their services remain viable, and cannot be cut out of the market. They make the platform so Google has less concern about being cut out of the ecosystem.

I mean we see the paradox on here constantly where people will gloat about how much more valuable iOS users are to advertisers, but then that Android is a platform for ads.
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Nice! I wonder if it will make it into vim distros like http://vim.spf13.com/.
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I agree with you that Amazon will probably feed back on the data they receive from Mayday, and I would also assume that Apple considers that data when it designs products and considers improvements. I hope that this means that the customer service will continue to increase in quality, but I think we are looking years in the future.
Back problems lead me to a recumbent like your talking about. Love my Aero. Doesn't have the fancy gearing but I'm ~20-30% faster and with no pain (except for hills). Still expensive but comparable to traditional carbon bikes similarly equipped (about $3-4k). Cruises comfortably at 25-30mph; good downhill speeds get into 50-60mph.

http://www.bacchettabikes.com/bikes/performance/carbon-aero-...
> it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying

When I saw the tilt features, I was very confused. Tilt the phone's screen away from you in order to read Yelp reviews? What? So in order to get more details, I need to make the device harder to read. Maybe it is a good feature, but the examples just make it seem like a gimmick that will get in the way.
Use Amazon Prime to ship you anti-venom in 2 days.
Great response.

"..., or ideally don't grant root access to the application."

+1
Nice phone :)
iPhone has the build quality though. This is rubber and glass, not metal.

"Build quality" is such a meaningless term in common usage of smartphones, and speaks to personal subjective aesthetics, not some utility of purpose.

And this is all particularly interesting given that there's a good chance a significant part of the new iPhones will be made with plastic. But I'm sure it'll be a "better" plastic.
> 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.

My observation is that the telcos will often offer the more expensive phones on higher tariffs, and that it's cheaper over 12/24 months to buy a phone off-contract, and then get the cheapest SIM-only plan for your needs.
We are also wired for racism and magical thinking but we tend to just avoid it with the use of education, not debating how we are left with racistm-shaped hole.
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Strict mode is better than nothing, but it doesn't come close to solving all the problems he mentioned.
Who is the genius whom devised such an horrible way to mark up hyperlinks?
The Dojo toolkit is 10 years old
It might be a flagship device to attract attention (gimmicky new features for differentiation) and pave the way for lower cost phones. Mayday is a great strategy too, I've always wondered why so few companies go after the tech-illiterate market.
What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (2007)
Agreed, this is asking for a Redbull sponsorship, and 30k is a drop in the bucket for them. Toss a Redbull sticker on the side, and put a few Redbull signs or flags along the route, and call it a day.
The trojan feature for Amazon is the eye-tracking. Tracking a user's gaze while they are shopping is the ultimate way to increase sales, and this extends to eye-tracking while a user is browsing. I imagine that even Google would want the information that Amazon is going to generate.
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> I expected Amazon not to approach the market with an expensive phone packed with new features, but to approach the market from the bottom, with a good phone that is free or nearly free.

It'd make sense to price the phone high at release, both to maximize revenues and establish the phone as expensive ('good' in consumer's minds), and then slowly mark the price down while your supply chain ramps up.
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It just means precalculate a small number of fixed screen sizes.

So portable devices, and maximized desktop browsers would benefit, as they have regular dimensions.

I imagine they would precalculate the constraint "solutions" in the variables used inside the solver. GSS would still be supplied, and would still need to translate the solver variable values to CSS style values.

This way, if the window resizes, or has an initial size that is not precalculated, it can still be accommodated.
True. But this article is apparently written from a Christian point of view, referring to other Christian groups. So it takes for granted that the brand of Christianity one practices is the norm from which evil, by definition, deviates.
I think you missed the part where any person that is performing 2nd phase work could steal all the money the entire pool generates.
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Order a long-sleeved shirt and jeans.
That doesn't get Amazon any market share, it just increases their profits - assuming that they can get anyone to buy it in the first place. And even if the money starts rolling in, that's not going to be able to overcome the legendary inertia of the Google Play and Apple app stores. Google and Apple already have the "dump billions on it until people buy it" angle covered.
Treat “disruption” as a learning tool and it’s way less annoying
Religions are just cults that survived deaths of their gurus.
Fuck that and fuck you assholes who are excited about this torture weapon, it's gonna be used against people! The first order was probably for a mining company in Amazon, to torture the locals who defend their land against fucking mining companies. And soon, it's gonna be used everywhere in the world against people protesting for rights.

Lots of people lost their lives, lots of people lost their eyes by pepper gas bullets this year, including this 15 years old kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Berkin_Elvan

See this documentary: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/multimedia-gallery/2014/witne...
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One way to make an immutable constant:

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return 600;
}
I would say the price differential between this and good android phones

The Galaxy S5 is a $600 device. The HTC One is a $600 device. The LG G3 is a $600 device. The iPhone is a $600 device.

I'm not seeing the price differential.

However, the notion that this competes with either Android or the iPhone is utter nonsense, and we saw exactly the same noise with the Kindle Fire. People seem to have some need to try to assuage their corporate leanings that it's "someone else's problem".

Only it's a smartphone. People buy smartphones, not brands, even if they have brand associations. This device, just like every device, is in the mix for people who are considering a smartphone and who don't attach their ego to a company.
> All solutions are technical.

What does this mean? When employees are on strike, one solution is to increase wages. How is this a technical solution?
Even more worrying is the trend toward mining centralization in regions of the globe where energy is inexpensive. Almost certainly, if the project continues as is, we'll end up with a few large mining conglomerates located in these locations with cheap energy available.
Anyone could share the list of speakers in order?
Instamotor's CEO bought a car using Carlypso and decided to copy the model. That's the Instamotor story.
I can discern two different approaches in the articles.

A) Hard Bitcoin Fork article's approach: You publish a zero-knowledge proof that you have a solution, but not the solution itself. See my summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7891243

B) Current article's approach: require that the solution be signed with the (primary?) recipient's private key.

A) prevents collaboration because a member who finds the solution can keep it for themselves, and its content is not revealed (only a ZKP is) so the pool doesn't even recognize it as "their" solution.

B) prevents collaboration because you'd have to give out the private key to any contributor, all of whom would send out competing spend messages as soon as the solution went out.

Can anyone who understands them confirm my summary?
Seems a fairly important milestone for the longest living JavaScript toolkit out there.
It seems fairly large changes are afoot for the next major version release too, killing off the legacy/quirks code they've had to support for so long
I’m writing exactly about that. GIT model is simple and operable, so UI should not hide it behind “wizards”, but incorporate more direct use of it.
Why do people use styles like these that push all the content uncomfortably to the sides? 40% of the screen is dedicated to what? The blog title and a link home.

Edit: http://i.imgur.com/62l4zCG.png 500% better
>They make the platform so Google has less concern about being cut out of the ecosystem.

True, but let's not ignore that their core business is selling advertising. Before Android came along that business was at the mercy of Apple (in the mobile space anyway).

>I mean we see the paradox on here constantly where people will gloat about how much more valuable iOS users are to advertisers, but then that Android is a platform for ads.

Android isn't specifically a platform for ads, but it was indeed built so that Google wouldn't lose the ability to serve ads on mobile hardware.