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Amazon tried to take Android and made it their own.Now it looks that it's not even worth the trouble. I have to say they did a great job regarding their developer support, but it doesn't help that they have a very small market and are still using check for international payment.
The easier way to achieve that goal is to overload the net rails with a few thousand volts after the main breaker.

Box with a flywheel that spins up to very high RPM using a motor/generator, then change it from motor to generator using a higher number of windings and then dumping all the energy accumulated in a couple of minutes back into the local grid in a few milliseconds. Probably better to use 2 flywheels so the forces cancel out otherwise the whole thing might come apart.

You could connect this to any wall socket in the company and it wouldn't be much bigger than a suitcase or even fit in one.

If the pulse is short enough it will probably even be re-usable, unlike the power supplies in everything connected to that particular bit of the supply rail. The question is how long you can sustain the pulse, longer = more damage but also more chance of damaging the device itself.
Very cool. Kind of funny if you open it in something old, like IE9, just to see. Some of them are close, but none of them work 100%. Kind of like failing the old Acid test.
It's not very surprising it's not selling well, but it's a bit surprising that the number is that low. Given how big Amazon's brand is and all the ads I see on TV you'd think they could sucker more people in than that.

I wouldn't expect the 10m numbers that an iPhone pulls in an opening weekend, but they couldn't even break 50k let alone 100k.
What an interesting and unique approach to online discourse! In general terms (not asking to reveal the secret sauce), how do you define the opinion groups? Latent Semantic Analysis?
>This to me, is the key of the problem. Yes, the taxi medallion system was broken in many cities and Uber is forcing to at least acknowledge that regulation in it's current form it's not longer useful.

The medallion system was never "useful". It was simply a feudalistic setup designed with the help of regulatory capture to allow private investors to impose a private tax on riders and drivers.

Uber is simply modifying the feudal system, placing themselves at the top instead of the medallion owners.

Given the range of big investors and political support for the company (that stretches all the way up to Obama), I would guess that it's not even a change in who owns the taxi system - Goldman sachs are probably simply buying up uber stock and dumping medallions on easily duped investors - pension funds and the like, while lobbying their ass off to give Uber a free pass on all this lyft sabotage bullshit.
Is it already obvious that they have squandered the money spent trying to establish their own device ecosystem?
My first app purchase was iBonsai. Beautiful app "grows" a painted bonsai tree. Wish it were kept up to date.
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Read the Uber playbook carefully.

The cancellations happened because recruiters were getting matched with Lyft drivers who had already been pitched by Uber (sometimes even by the same recruiter), so they tended to call it off before the Lyft arrived.

It's unclear how much this policy impacted the Lyft drivers, but their time is definitely being wasted to some degree.
This is a really good link to share. Thanks, I also ordered Thinking, Fast and Slow the book because of this posting and the comments. This thread has been pretty interesting to me even from an "at speed of thought" perspective.

Certainly in lower levels of education, "fast" thinking against known problems and problemsets is the norm (at least in the United States). I worked with a few "fast" thinkers that fell into a strange, at the time to me, category of people that I could recognize as intelligent and could solve a certain class of issue or problem easily, but when it came to a more difficult problem space or perhaps one that requires delayed gratification (or no real external recognition/validation/praise) they would give up. The "deep" thinkers seemed to give equal or near equal weight to the validity of options in many cases. There's a time, place, and type of problem that can benefit from each mode of thinking.
I'm always amazed at how low our businesses will stoop in a specious claim of free market and competition. Our business are monopolistic, corrupt and corrupting, and like Über is revealing itself....grotesquely, rapaciously, and insatiably greedy. Our companies cannot simply compete, they have to corrupt and sabotage and cheat and steal. It's pathetic, but unfortunately our society rewards it because at some point Über will morph from it's current state of cheating and stealing to corrupt our government and legislature and implement regulatory capture that locks into place their ill gotten, undeserved gains and advantages.

It's disgusting.
>I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have.

They now have a guy from the Obama campaign (David Plouffe) working on their PR.
Definitely agree with you on this one, Meteor has made code easier to deploy. Haven't used it in a while but was able to get my project off the ground in less than 20 minutes. Have recommended it to non 'full stack' friends and they have had great success too. Hopefully this project continues to improve on the road to 1.0!
When the app store first launched I would go searching for weird things, as time went on the amount of weirdness I would come across has gone way down. That's part of why I started the blog, to get some of that back.
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> Even if the source code is publicly available, and outside contributions may be accepted, Mozilla is still going to act as a gatekeeper, which inherently limits which contributions will or will not make it into Firefox OS.

Even the Linux kernel has submodule maintainers, and Linus himself, who will need to approve your changes.

Your other option is to fork, apply your changes, and then use your custom-baked FirefoxOS on your phone.

> Likewise, the claim that Firefox OS "doesn't limit your freedom" is suspect, too.

It respects your freedom (see: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) which means that you're free to add support for programming additional languages, if you like. Your additions may never make it into FirefoxOS core, but that doesn't mean your phone can't have those additions.

> And the "HTML5 is a first-class citizen" distinction seems quite irrelevant in practice, as well.

No it doesn't. Think about your argument in terms of natural languages. There are countries where English, French, Spanish are the official languages. There are also countries, where these languages may be spoken, but they're not official.
>>> The crime, the marginalization from society, the lack of access to health care or rehabilitation clinics

Where do you live?

There's a myriad of state and federally funded programs here in the US that help people get treatment for a nominal fee or in many cases for free. Not sure how much more compassionate you can be when you're giving people a free alternative to get clean.

Also, if you've never had an addict for a friend or a relative, then you'll never know it doesn't matter how compassionate you are to them, if they want to use and continue to throw their life away - they will. They have to be willing to help themselves first. No amount of free clinics, health care or compassion will combat that.
Apple phones push iTunes and iBooks (soon Beats), and you can't buy Amazon digital content in the Amazon apps because they don't want to pay Apple the 30% tax. Either way Apple will always encourage you to buy from Apple's storefronts.

Google pushes Google Play for music and books. Similarly it's in Google's interest to push people to the Google storefronts.

Apple and Google make up basically 100% of the smartphone/tablet market. If Amazon doesn't get in there they may slowly get pushed out. They don't lead in music (iTunes?) or video (iTunes/Netflix?) or apps (Apple's store), and they certainly don't want to lose their position in books.
It's amazing how powerful css is. I recently worked with changing the checkboxes on a form of mine to look like the iOS7 toggle. Check it out: http://designcouch.com/home/why/2013/09/19/ios7-style-pure-c...
Someday in the future we'll post a blog entry on all the math :)
> Upper middle class families are more likely to value, encourage and afford personal computers for their kids.

Afford, sure. Value and encourage? I'd say they're more likely to demonize personal computers than to encourage them. My mom recently bought laptops for my little brother and sister, but she can't stand that they want to use them.

Among the middle class, computers for children have become yet another parenting moral panic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
1/ I don't trust extremists like him. It seems to me they are usually the ones who moves from cause to cause way too easily leaving everyone behind, or fight their "daemons" by putting the blame and the burden on the whole society.

2/ "Zero is still the amount of times I've killed someone, robbed someone, raped someone, taken illicit drugs, or even had alcohol or other substances,"

So that what being virtuous is for him, not society as a whole.

3/ "He thinks most of us would live more ethically too."

That paragraph is scary. He needs people to watch him to behave better ? While telling us that becoming a non-believer felt liberating regarding his sexuality ?

4/ Reducing privacy to a power tool for the elite is ludicrous. He confuses transparency with no privacy. He also ignores lots of things about human psychology and sociology.

5/ I was disappointed that the reporter didn't checked his Google search history.

6/ You don't need $300,000 and a crew. You only need webcams, Gopro and Google Glasses.
Statistics is taught wrong from the get go. Who cares about z-tables and chi values? It distracts from the important underlying laws of probability. Statistics has never been more important, and yet the vocabulary is badly outdated leaving students with a huge mountain of knowledge to climb before reaching anything of real utility.
50% of the traffic they send in Australia terminates in Telstra-controlled networks and Telstra don't offer peering.
I think there is some legitimacy to the shake-up of the "taxi cartel".

Where I live in the midwest traditional taxi cabs are unreliable with their pickup times, they often advertise they accept credit cards when they do not, and they have a history of intentionally diverting through long routes.

Uber brings accountability and transparency to every step in the process of getting a taxi cab.

I'm not rooting for the good guy, I'm rooting for the more convenient and efficient customer experience.
http://get.lyft.com/plus/ ?
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This might be why you end up getting colleges within colleges within colleges. They are like a kind of social power fractal, that becomes crystallized in brick over time.
But you do carry a balance to receive funds, until you cash out. With Square you receive funds directly into your bank account via your debit card.
European countries are largely far less fraud based economies and thus do not allow so many practices that are permitted in the USA.
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One nitpick: IE6 does not generally treat text-indent as moving the background image. The fact that that technique worked in all the major browsers of the IE6 era was one of the reasons it became the most popular image replacement mechanism in the first place. Are buttons an exception to this case?
Australian figures and American figures aren't comparable. Australia is one of the most urbanised populations in the world; in the USA cost-of-living figures are dragged down because an enormous bulk of the population is scattered across cheap locations.
At least everywhere the taxi market is large enough to make it worth it for taxi companies to influence government to make sure the taxi regulations favor them by increasing the barrier to entry for would-be competitors.
$73 billion was the LNP's figure, by the way, which involved some extremely questionable assumptions (such as despite the actual FTTP cost per premises dropping over time as the rollout was progressing, exactly like it did in other rollouts around the world, the LNP's strategic review claims it would have doubled in the future for reasons which were redacted). I think even Fletcher admitted eventually that it would have been much more like the other sceneario, $56 billion, in reality. Still a bit more than Labor's $44.1bn estimates, but nowhere near the LNP's past ludicrous claims (they were saying up to $96bn).

Still would have been worth it at double the price to get rid of Telstra. I can't believe how much the politicians have ruined it.
>I'm so tired of people who don't know what "free market" means making up their own definition and then saying it's a bad thing.

"Free market" has multiple, ill defined and often conflicting meanings, which is partly what makes it so useful for propaganda purposes.

Yours is just one of those meanings, and a particularly pernicious one at that, because a marketplace free from anti-competitive forces has NEVER existed and never will exist.

The neoclassical school economics actually uses the term 'perfect competition' to describe your particular meaning, and while it's a very common assumption, it's one that always breaks their models (making them a poor fit to reality).
Australia didn't start with a free market in telecommunications and the aftermath of a botched privatisation means that we're left with a distinctly dysfunctional market as a consequence.
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> In that case, immigration is the only choice.

That would be the "exit" from [0].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
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I don't quite agree, as the standard normal and Chi squared distribution are obviously important to understand. I think what you mean is that teaching stats based on hypothesis testing on simple experiments with small samples is not the best way to introduce students to this world. But the history of statistics was heavily influenced by designed experiments, while most of the data that is out there is observational. That is hard for older generations of statisticians to swallow.
My understanding, imperfect as it is, of human nature.
Be nice to hear about large clusters using Rethink DB in production. Are there any startups using it for large cross-data-centre databases?
I think the blame for this botched strategy might largely lie with this person - Maiken Møller-Hansen:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/maikenmoellerhansen

By the way, this isn't the first time I've noticed Amazon appointing an MBA with a non-technical background (albeit from a top-notch business school) in a senior product management role for its consumer products. I thought tech companies go for MBAs only when they have an engineering background at the very least.
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He must be really good considering he hasn't even started yet.

"David Plouffe, the former campaign manager and White House adviser to President Barack Obama, is taking his political secret sauce to Uber late next month as senior vice president of policy and strategy"

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/david-plouffe-uber-cam...
>"You said you cannot take seriously any VC that values a company above $10B implying that no company can go above $10B or that they are somehow insane to think that could happen."

I said nothing of the sort. I said that Snapchat is not worth $10 billion and likely never will be. For reference, my exact words were:

"I just can't take seriously any VC valuing this company at $10 billion"
It's a bad law, but as people point out downthread, breaking a bad law is not in itself a good deed, it is simply a neutral one.
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does that include the poorly paid peons working themselves to death in the warehouses that you're not allowed to even bring a smartphone into?
>You've seen the Hubble Deep Field image, right?

This naming convention they are using doesn't seem scalable.

Hubble Deep Field

Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

Hubble Extreme Deep Field
They don't. They invest with liquidation preferences and hidden dividends payable at liquidity. It's the press that assumes that preferred stock == common stock.
maybe this will actually work in more browsers than svgs do. I tried about 15 inkscape-made svgs the other days, really simple clipart, and out of 3 (current!) browsers most of them rendered differently :-( One svg was different in all 3 :-(
We (sandstorm.io) have work to do on getting the self-hosted install easier. Currently it's easy if you already have a Linux machine:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm#installing-the-eas...

But eventually we should have an installation process or guide that covers setting up a VM as well, for those who don't already run Linux.

All that said, we also plan to offer managed Sandstorm hosting for $5/mo starting early next year. This is what you see if you try demo.sandstorm.io. In this case you don't have to do any setup.
We did an analysis of AWS's entire pricing history– it's surprisingly rational
Hmm, is that like saying Apple has XXX,000 employees because of their retail stores? (Technically true, which is actually not the best kind of true?)
I keep reading "pol.is" in DCI Matt Burke's voice, from Taggart.
Presumably you could use the phone's OCR capabilities to detect and transpose photos of text and other objects into information utilized by apps that do more than just tell you where to buy things.
Seriously? I'll put a content warning on my blog next time: "warning, may offend women's delicate sensitivities."
I don't understand why Amazon hasn't tried to buy Netflix. It seems like a natural fit for their business model.
That answer contains no information. Why did you give it?
I do think the local municipalities have a responsibility to revisit the regulations in light of a changing market, and frankly I believe a lot of the "universal coverage" motivations of the original regulations are misguided and never should have been in place to begin with.

That said, the narrative painted by the tech press has focused mostly on the efforts of cab companies to "stifle innovation" without acknowledging that they are defending legitimate rights. They paint Uber as a scrappy startup trying to compete with "fat" cab companies that have regulators in their pockets. The tech press narrative is simultaneously baseless and self-aggrandizing. The real narrative is less sexy: technology is enabling companies like Uber to eat up markets previous served, rather inefficiently, by modestly profitable small businesses. It's no different than what Wal-Mart did to mom and pop shops, or what Amazon did to small retailers, or what Starbucks did to local coffee shops. A national corporation can offer better service and lower prices, and can exercise quality control that obviates much of the need for regulation. This is both good and bad, but mostly, it's just the way the world works.

There's no reason, on top of all that, to demonize cab companies for trying to force municipalities to hold up their end of the bargain.
If only there were a way of transforming F[F[X]] to F[X]. Then we could avoid nested futures!
Open this on Internet Explorer LOL!
Try from IE6 until IE 11. You can watch the evolution of SingleDiv
"Cloud", sigh.

While this is a laudable product and price point, it is only a partial success. What people don't realize is that in these markets internet is prohibitively expensive for many people when accessed over cellular networks. This means people have to use wifi, which is typically sporadic, shared and unrealiable.

Cheap smartphones in the really developing parts of the world will be revolutionary precisely when they have real ad-hoc and mesh networking over wifi and code that is built to take advantage: thus making distribution of content and applications far more seemless for the sporadically poorly connected masses, censorship impossible, news distribution democratic and non state-issued digital currencies viable. Imagine if someone can close-enough hack the identity problem (eg. using a signup delay, public/private keys, time (proof of work), rough geolocation, and unique email address as a mix) then political polls can be made this way.

I don't think this is a pipe dream, because people in a lot of these areas do have shared, extremely pressing social concerns. Sexism (~50% of people), hatred for the corrupt local institutions (~95% of people), that sort of thing.

Think of the Chinese child being run over video effect... meets ad-hoc virtually unmonitorable wifi meets irrefutable evidence of official corruption. Look at for instance the status of women in parts of south India, it's extremely oppressive. I think we're going to see riots, political change, new social models emerge as a result of the true application of these devices... but not just yet, because the features are missing!

Apple and Google will probably never prioritize these features. Unfortunately, Firefox OS has not prioritized them either.* This is saddening. The door is open for motivated hacking!

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047
I thought I was going to coin a new word -- uberize. But then I thought to look it up. Lo and behold, there is an entry from 2007: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uberize. The meaning of the word? To destroy or defeat in a quick and effortless manner.
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Well said. Surprised this is the top comment!
The G2 was one of the best Android phones I ever used (and I used a lot - GS2, GS3, GS4, Note, Nexus One, Nexus 4, Nexus 5). The G2 has outstanding battery-life, great UI tweaks, great size, minimal bezels, great audio, etc.
Sounds like AT&T was the only carrier willing to give them the time of day. I doubt Amazon really wanted to go single source.
What I like about this is that it could be integrated into consensus-based decision making tools and processes. It would make it much much easier for a group to see what's happening overall and even in a hierarchical structure such as a corporation it would be handy to have.

It looks really nice too. Not the most exciting thing to be staring at but by god it's pretty. Like Game of Life.
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I just install Aviate or some other thing on top of TouchWiz on my Galaxy 5. Who cares what the default UI is like, you can replace it is enough on Android. I think you can get any kind of Android UI you like, you're not stuck with what you get from the manufacturer.
No they didn't.

They narrowly defined a word that has many definitions while demonstrating outrage at any other meaning.

While they are technically correct in a textbook sense, their idea of a "True" free market has never existed in the context of this conversation, and it can be argued that price collusion between suppliers for a market is the natural result of free markets.
Unrelated, but it's kinda sad to see that we are all locked into Google Play Services.
I wouldn't be surprised if they talked about it but if it's rebranded it could be seen as "Yet Another Tool That IT Provides". People talk about their favourite consumer apps, but only ever complain about the shit they're forced to use at work. In this case, the tool is working fine so there's no need to sing its praises. If it was a shitty search engine, they'd be telling everyone "we collect all this data and for the life of me, we can't even search it! what's the point of violating the constitution at all?!"
the libraries abstract over most fs warts see Practical Common Lisp for an example