skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is not facilitating the "purchase" of goods either digital or physical with one button on the iPhone. Bezos did outline the phone's specs, but the goal was to show the audience how the phone can "see" the world around itself. The phone is the first consumer product to be aware of its surroundings. It uses the data to ease purchases for the user. MY Nexus 5 makes search easy with google now, voice commands, and chrome. But this phone will make buying easy, in theory. Like I mentioned above, I am not looking at this from the perspective of the smartphone market. As in will it do well or will tech bloggers like it. But, as in will the end user find it easier to purchase goods using the physical world as intent triggers.
> We've had taxis and black cars for decades, it's nothing new.

People drank coffee before starbucks.
You... wouldn't use a taxi, but you'd use Uber?

Why?

Cars aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Any kind of subscription business won't work in the 'burbs and beyond, which is the majority of the country.

SF reality distortion field in full effect. Yo.
Exactly! Which is the exact scenario the recent update attempted to address: getting rid of the no harm aspect.
Ugh, Solarwinds. The most inflexible, Windows-only software I've ever used. Goodbye Pingdom.
Otherwise known as "How to data-harvest a very interesting selection of JSON records from users all over the world."

No thanks, with my data - its offline and safe, or not at all.
Well at least that preview video makes sense now with the dynamic perspective. Curious how functional that really is. I cannot think of an immediate use of why I would want that on a communication/media device but would love to be wrong.
I prefer open spaces.

I like to talk to my team about all things tech and all things not (we have the World Cup on all day on one of our large HDTVs while we work). I also like to know who around me is available to help if I have any issues with "Blame" code. I love paired programming and reflecting my ideas off others to get a good sense of what the correct course of action should be.

When I feel like I know what to do and just need time and focus to complete something important without interruptions, I telecommute.

In other words, the best way to work is to have the ability to have it both ways.
They've always been uniquely talented at creating indecipherable URLs for important pages like this one.
Flickr offers 1TB for free
Anyone wonders why on earth they (Amazon) don't live stream it? I see only benefits in doing it...
I have mixed feelings about using Amazon as our model of success.

On the one hand, Amazon monopolizes some product categories. It has had almost no net margin for two decades. In those 20 years it has failed to pay a single penny in dividends to stockholders. All of this is not to mention kindle and Amazon's relationship with literary world.

On the other hand, people are generally happy with Amazon. Customers like everything funneled into one interface and they eat prime shipping up like candy. I do too. Yum.

Its execs and white collar employees generally seem well fed and happy. There are some questions about the conditions of its fulfillment center workers but honestly I think they will all be replaced by robots in the next 10-20 years as robot prices come down.

Amazon is a giant corporation governed by an non-democratically elected board operating in very opaque ways.

But, Amazon is also essentially a not-for-profit organization that agrees not to get nonprofit tax protection in return for being allowed to operate with less oversight.

EDIT: Oh. I just looked it up, it turns out Amazon doesnt pay much tax...
Amazon Releases New Smartphone (Specs, Pricing, etc.)
Try http://smile.amazon.com/firephone
There are more ways of generating value then just creating new customers.

For example, if the number of customers can be the same but if they are served better or cheaper than the competition then value is created
Any company that acts like a phone company (e.g. providing real phone numbers) is regulated and taxed like a phone company. The fact that some of them run part of the call over the Internet isn't why they're being regulated, but it doesn't magically exempt them from regulation either.

The same thinking applies to all companies. If you're doing something regulated, then doing it over the Internet will still be regulated. If you're doing something unregulated then doing it over the Internet will still be unregulated. Title II shouldn't make any difference.
my first thought was "@shit_hn_says is gonna love this..."
Does anyone know what version of Android this is based on?
Big media might be dying, but hyperlocal news is healthy.
I limited this to three websites, first being myself. There are a number of vendors who offer to promote your website but in such a horrific way that it blows your site up. That's is what I did with a site I was marketing I did it to myself, totally negative seo'd myself bad. It was awful and dumb too. So bad that Google didn't stop with just a notification they sent a special one saying "your site is harming the Internet" and they removed me totally couldn't find me by even searching a url.

I realized something powerful. I had the power to remove any website from Google. I could be a more evil Matt Cutt's. He can remove sites from Google and so can I.

It is a pretty awe inspiring power. It is like a terrible super power. I can "poof" a website gone from the source of around in my estimation about 90% of web traffic (Google's estimations are too low).

I was going to make a service offering my terrible super-power but decided not to. I relaunched the website I was working on and now never do anything dumb to myself. Now I pretty much only do social marketing because that is where Google is moving to. The days of lots of backlinks are pretty much over, I don't even bother except for making sure local profiles are all set up.
I can't find any either - it looks like mrq is a front-end dashboard for python-rq: http://python-rq.org/
I believe we are experiencing a Startup Valuation Bubble, evidenced by extreme purchases such as WhatsApp for $16 Billion (and instant messaging company), Oculus for $2 Billion (a research company with no product), SoundCloud, etc, etc etc.

While other companies like Satellite companies are selling in the hundreds of millions, not billions.

I don't think these gross over-valuations are sustainable.

These are all companies that a few years back, would have, at best, sold for a few hundred million.
I think a little bit of bragging is good, it can create a bit of social pressure for others to act. More people should publicly share what they've done

So, your awesome, if I was a US citizen I would be calling right now.
i hope you know that bitlocker is not available to all windows users[1]. These TrueCrypt developers seem to not be aware of this apparently and hence their reason for stopping development is flawed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker
Tell that to HR and bonuses can be taken away a lot easier than pay.

And reducing the pay increase quanta by 1% is a lot in a large company.
Ok, let me be less vague:

If business X is 5% cheaper than business Y then value for the customer is created if they go to business X rather than Y.

In your example, no value is created at all if the product never sells no matter how good it might be in theory
From what I understand, the value of Uber is in 1) user experience, and 2) logistics technology.

Regarding 1), this isn't much of a barrier to entry. Competitors could easily copy their UX, curation, app etc. I suspect that this will happen, forcing Uber and future competitors to lower their prices.

Regarding 2), I don't know much about their technology, but something makes me question whether Uber will really have that much of an advantage in logistics technology 10-20 years from now.

Finally, I've always thought that cars are an extremely inefficient way to get around, especially in cities. I suspect that there will be innovations in transportation, and that there won't be too big a market for traditional taxis 20 years from now.
There are plenty of other use cases. Tech is a bit unusual in that:

* People stay in it permanently
* People link to others freely
* People have many non-commercial posts

Many other niches are temporary. For example, I work in LSAT prep. The LSAT is an exam north Americans have to take before entering law school. For 3-6 months, people are extremely interested in the LSAT, then they forget about it. There is a constant stream of entrants searching for information. Informational articles and search traffic is essential.

Similar cases:

* Making a will
* Selling a house
* Writing a resume

I'll give one personal example. Recently, I wanted to read a King James Version of the Bible, for literary reasons. But it's hard to find a readable bible.

So I searched, and quickly found many articles by a site called Bible Design Blog. It's an incredible resource for bible printing and typography. I learned what I needed and got a bible.

And now I don't care about bible design, so I don't go to the site. I imagine he gets many similar visitors from organic traffic.
> You're being facetious because you're not that dense that you can't see a difference between a web application and a fiber connection

Of course they are different in many ways. But they do have commonalities too. Its clear that fiber provides a means of communication. But I think if you asked the average person or lawmaker if Gmail provides a means of communication, they would also say yes. Is that even an unreasonable conclusion?
Here's a few: http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/05/more-on-clapper/
This seems compelling if you're already sold on the Amazon ecosystem, but not terribly so if you're not -- especially at that price.
Probably Gingerbread. lol
Bezos did not talk about the basic phone functionality of call/text.
It's like saying "I pay for a car that can go 100 miles per hour, and I expect to go 100 miles per hour regardless of whether the rest of the people in my neighborhood are on the road." Over-provisioning shared infrastructure so everyone can always go at full speed is extremely impractical.
I'll check this out. I recently started looking around for an alternative to celery. I literally just got over a celery-related bug that took way too long to diagnose and one that took even longer on my previous project.

I'm not very happy with the community either. What with the dispersed, incomplete documentation, multiple discussion forums, and snide responses, I'm really getting ready to wash my hands of it.
Speaking of which, I've never understood what the "dp" in product links means. Digital Product?
Most of the features are really new. However, they are one little step ahead, well designed and fit into a nice looking ecosystem. I like it. I really do.
Ask HN: Comprehensive JavaScript Game Tutorial
Hello,

I started writing a comprehensive game tutorial about writing a pong-like game using JavaScript and EaselJS (CreateJS). I intend to write out the complete set of features, including two-player gaming, competitive additions such as power ups and the ability to shoot holes in the opponents paddle.

So far, I've written out 3 chapters, and I intend to make the whole tutorial 8 chapters long, where the last chapters will add features like sound and sprites. The whole game is written in a clean fashion, using Grunt as a build tool, and keeping the games source code structured into clear classes that will make the code approachable and readable.

At this point I am after feedback on the style and on the content that's already written. The end result will be fully open sources and it will contain screencasts as well.

I am not after a harsh critique about grammar and spelling, as this will get fixed in due time.

The first 3 chapters of the tutorial is available from: http://codicious.com/courses/courses_easeljs
They are out of service in the British forces though. That should make reactivating them a bit more difficult.
The phone mostly.....

The one mobile game which I have poured a lot of time into is Real Racing 3. Tilting the phone like a steering wheel for analogue driving input is awesome.

Combine that with head tracking to allow analogue acceleration and breaking control by tilting the phone forwards and backwards would be excellent.

On the other axis I can image controlling the view point slightly to allow looking to your left and right, even just checking wing mirrors.

And those thoughts are just about a game which already exists. I can also start to dream about game mechanics which haven't been possible until head tracking......
But of course there are false positives. It's a classifier, no classifier that is automated on something as fluid as relevancy for a particular user will be 100% spot on all the time.

Precision and recall can't be 100% accurate given a large enough set of inputs. That would be magic. You can try to do better, of course. But it will never be perfect and you'll never make everybody happy. False positives are a given. Matt was wrong when he said that, he pretty much had to be wrong due to the nature of the problem.

That he stuck to his guns is imo a mistake, that google can be manipulated into dropping sites from their rankings at the behest of others is a serious problem. Such unscrupulous behaviour should be punished, but then you get yet another layer of complexity in the arms race.

Basically you can read this whole saga as Google having to come to terms with the fact that even though they were a cut above altavista they too will have problems that no algorithm will solve.

Admitting that is probably above Matt's paygrade.
Aside from anything else, moving to heavily populated urban areas costs money that farmers don't necessarily have.
It's taken directly off the top, so it will be from their highest bracket. And that money is used to directly work against the interests of said waiter, funding NSA datamining, drug persecution, worldwide war and mayhem, etc. So in a sense, it should be counted twice.
2 years of Tindie: Zero to the White House
According to the TechCrunch article here:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/carlypso-could-change-every...

the device is used to track potential buyers while they're on test drives. So it's at least got a GPS and some kind of data functionality. 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.

If you watch the video, there's also a license-plate lockbox for the key so that you never have to deal with a buyer personally.
The $27/month via AT&T Next doesn't lock you into a 2-year service contract.

Actually, the current AT&T Next offering isn't bad, they simply take the full price of the phone and divide by 20 or 24 months.

If you cancel service before the end of the period, you owe the balance of the price of the phone. It's essentially a 0% loan for the phone.

(BTW, the $27/month installment price means the Fire Phone's real price is ~$650)
That's an uphill battle in a system of laws that still regularly refers to "wiretaps" and "pen registers".
The iPhone is very cleverly designed to facilitate purchases in the iTunes and iOS App stores. You need to register the device with an account and credit card just to use it. If that's not a seamless consumer experience, I don't know what is.
Starbucks accused of handing over customers first names to the NSA
This sounds a lot like http://state.com.
So Google Voice and Skype should be taxed? Beyond that, isn't "real phone numbers" a totally arbitrary distinction when everything is running on the internet? Just a different sort of endpoint identifier. What you're really trying to tax is "real time voice communications." So shouldn't Facetime be taxed too?
Ukraine election narrowly avoided 'wanton destruction' from hackers
One problem with the "passive adversary" attack is that even if the nonce+HMAC protocol defeats the passive adversary, you as a user have no way of verifying whether or not your adversary is passive. Or whether they exist, or, indeed, anything about them, as in the real world, you don't get to pick your adversaries. The user needs a way to determine whether the connection is secure before they can trust it, because they can't (correctly) assume that only passive adversaries exist.

So, if that is the best in-browser crypto can do, then it is still basically useless, unless you get to choose your adversary. And "active adversary" software is off-the-shelf tech, not some sort of bizarre thing only the NSA has access to. Active adversary is the lowest baseline of attack worth talking about.
Detail Page (page of product details).
Are you serious? What part of integrating computer vision as central to user experience is cloned from the iPhone?
>How many times can this weapon be used before it leaves a nice juicy fingerprint, or sources of negative links become over saturated.

How many times can spamming and link boosting be uses before it leaves a finger-print, or the spam just gets over-saturated? Apparently infinite. If they haven't fixed positive SEO (and with these new updates spamming is still as effective as ever), I don't think they can add an entire new world of negative SEO and expect it to just work smoothly over time.

It hasn't stopped SEO from being a thing. We don't have a problem and solution now. We just have two problems. This one is definitely worse, because Google has now given other websites the ability to destroy your rankings. That just doesn't make sense.
There are a lot of people who live paycheck to paycheck.
err no - not in some cultures its like the civil service used to be in the 50's where her where rules about who could have a chair with arms.

Check out workplace on stack exchange a lot of the questions are about friction between juniors and seniors.
This is a true and important point from the new investors' perspective. However, it is also the case that the insiders, taking the dilution and granting the preferences, believe a greater-than-$17B whole-enterprise valuation is attainable or even likely.

That is, they are committing to take an extra dilutive hit for any exit less than $17B, but they expect, especially with the new capital, that won't happen, and that instead, the investors will wind up converting to common at IPO/etc.

And, since the insiders know the business better than anyone, that revealed valuation should also have some weight.
Does anyone worry about the privacy implication of being constantly watched by your phone?
One thing I find annoying with my sony z1 compared to an iphone 5 is how the camera just dies half of the time whenever I try to take a picture from a locked phone. In iOS it's never a problem. Lets hope amazon doesn't screw it up with their phone. Another annoying thing is how it refocuses between each photo, decreasing burst speed.
For all developers who want specs, etc. Check out their site here: http://bit.ly/1yjPpkA
Uber might become the first $1T company in the world and it's not about processing taxi fees at all.

It's about that self-driving cars are already safer than humans. In 5 years potentially, nobody would drive their cars by themselves anymore, because self-driving cars are 5 times safer than humans driving them. For that reason, people would have to pay 5 times more for insurance if they want to drive the car themselves --> nobody would drive cars by themselves anymore.

Then, where do you order get these self-driving Google cars? You order them through Uber(http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/)and that's why they can raise at a valuation 100x of their $200M revenue (http://techcrunch.com/.../leaked-uber-numbers-which-weve.../).

Uber menttioned that the ground transportation market in San Francisco is around $22B and this is for 800,000 people (http://qz.com/218717/what-people-who-think-uber-is-worth-17-...). Now multiply this by 10,000 so that you are at 8B people and you have a market of 220 trillion dollars. Now that number is probably a bit too high, but that's why Uber is valued at $17 billion right now.
I could see it being interesting for games or for Augmented Reality type stuff.
Without an actual compelling use though, it does seem a bit gimmicky.
I'll definitely be interested to see what compelling applications people find for Dynamic Perspective. Currently most of the applications that they previewed look like they aren't very far off from what could be accomplished with accelerometer data. It's mostly people tilting the device and seeing a different perspective which isn't too hard to simulate with an accelerometer... Still excited to see a new player in the space that will hopefully help push innovation.
Specs and technical stuff are here: http://bit.ly/1yjPpkA
Has Professor Damodaran, the author, reviewed the same internal documents that Uber's professional investors have seen?
Dynamic Perspective thing... The shake to undo is possibly the most hated interaction on iPhones. I don't know if I would want to have to do physical stuff to the phone itself to reveal information that should be accessible via touch (or visible at all times).
While looking at the product page, I thought: "So, I'm tied to Amazon and AT&T, and I'm paying for the privilege. How is this any better than my cheaper Nexus 5?"

Also, isn't this going to be decimated by Google X's Project Tango?

https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/
How can it be an "iPhone clone", when its marquee feature is something the iPhone lacks (head tracking hardware)?
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.
Intel will offer a customizable chip to keep data center clients happy
Not for myself,but for my mother. She has a tiny tiny desk and she HATES cables, so I suggested an All-in-one would actually be a nice device for her, and she really likes the idea. I wouldn't buy one ever,but I am not the target demographic.
Any chance apps can use raw imagery from those cameras? can imagine some pretty nifty uses (say, true live 3d videophone: use cameras to construct 3d model from low res data, then map color image onto model, just have to transmit already-sent video feed plus modest model data).
Appeal to reason is probably not the best strategy, suicide being the result of a mind surrounded in a storm of negative emotions. Not a neurologist or mental health professional, but from first hand experience I can tell:

* You may not commit suicide here and now because it is a one-way ticket to Hell, and an insult to God. So you are trained form childhood to suppress those thoughts at all cost.

* You may not commit suicide here and now because you fear that a loved one will find your corpse.

* You may also not commit suicide here and now for fear that your attempt will fail and you will end up crippled and your life will suck even more (and you may loose your ability to commit suicide latter).

* You may not commit suicide here and now because some people that is supposed to help you out completely drops the ball, so you get so pissed off that you break out of your melancholy out of sheer anger (this happened to me once, when I reached out to a church-operated emergency hot-line and nobody picked the damned phone).

Of course, you may always opt to do it later. But the point is that it all revolves around emotions, so any counter has to have a strong emotional component (either direct, or through the underlying neurochemical substrate).
I agree. That was the key takeaway from me. How the sustain growth over such a long period of time is amazing.