skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steam and itunes are wildly successful because they are easier and cheaper than bestbuy and samgoodie.

People who want to pirate can download MP3's and PC games with ease. Some of the most pirated games are on steam. Headphones (sickbeard for music) makes pirating music even easier than iTunes.

>Why do you think the RIAA/MPAA/etc. try so hard to shut them down?

Because piracy costs them sales. It's still not competition when you take the product without paying for it.
You probably got ripped, what did the VBA guy get?

Carpel tunnel, ocular cancer, and brain damage.
This takes the concept of a "value added" investor to a whole new level! There's a reason so many start-ups, even those that don't need the investment want into YC.
Despite the title this has nothing to do with the product from Amazon called Echo.

So I call it clickbait.

Maybe call it Amazon's Echo Chamber instead.
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> You have enumerated a list of the worst services available to today's consumer.

Are you being sarcastic or trolling, can't tell.

What are the worst services? Water? You need better water? You need competition for water and would like 5 companies to lay water pipes through the neighborhoods? You know strawberry flavored water, some with extra calcium ions, maybe one with beer flavor.

> Roads are often subsidized for truckers, which causes everyone else to pay higher gas taxes than they should, and suffer damaged road surfaces

Maybe we should tax truckers more. Wait, we do that. The easiest way to do it is to tax diesel fuel at the moment. Not ideal but we something is already in place.

> Police departments are poorly regulated,

Well go vote against it then.

I don't remember having even the ability to vote on how good or crappy I want my Verizon FIOS experience to be.
So you only used this title to piggy-back off the announcement of the actual Amazon Echo?

And you don't even mention it in the blog post. Nice.

Edit: It appears the title has been changed. Sorry for the asshole tone above, but I don't like clickbait.
One thing you should be aware of is that ISBNs can be reused. In theory they shouldn't, but mistakes happen as well as temporary shortages of ISBNs allocated to publishers.

If you want a free and unencumbered source of ISBN data then try the British National Bibliography dataset from the British Library. See http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/download.html or browse online http://bnb.data.bl.uk/doc/resource/012877800
He wants to keep some things really simple. Good.

I'm reminded of the description of the order
during WWII for the US landing at Leyte Gulf:
"Land and establish a base" or some such.
Just that short. For some hundreds of thousands
of soldiers.

So, for, say, the CTO, maybe "Implement the
server farm."

In other ways he liked some things to be complicated,
e.g., the story of the three page memo
on how the receptionist should answer the phone.
you just need to browse and download all the things you need
Mark Zuckerberg is probably the worst possible example to use about anything startup related other than how to use one's wealthy parents' money and connections (and the connections' money) to start a company.

Edit for further explanation: Zuckerberg's initial capital for Facebook came from his father and his father's friends. He had been tutored privately from a young age, much like Bill Gates was, and he'd already had extensive experience working in founder-like roles by the time he made Facebook. His life is best used an example to demonstrate the immense advantage being born into a life of wealth and privilege confers, not as an example for what (or what not) to do when starting up a company for the typical person. His life is so removed from that that using it as an example is tantamount to uttering gibberish.
today the weather is so cold ,and i meet some problems on my work.
I'm sorry but I don't get your point.
i don't know how to find enough email adress.
I titled it that on purpose, to allude to the new product. I hate clickbait.

I changed the title anyway.
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Github Pages has always been good enough for me.
The early Stoics knew propositional logic, and their successors didn't until the mid-19th century. (Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6380918-stoic-logic) Then the likes of Boole and Frege made it possible to see what they were getting at again from what survived -- which was, mainly, hostile reviews. Until then, anyone would've told you the current theory of logic was as advanced as it'd ever been, and the Stoics were guilty of arid pettifogging.

One thing Mates does in the book I mentioned is find translators' misunderstandings and prejudices, like the hair-sewing bit in the OP. That also comes up in Lucio Russo's The Forgotten Revolution about the sources on Hellenistic science -- classicists generally aren't scientists either.

(This comment is turning out to sound really hard on classicists, and I certainly don't feel that way. I'm just an interested reader.)
Twenty years ago, I spent ten weeks in Antarctica and the experience changed my life. It's hard to describe (and I'm not the guy to do it) but the bleakness and immensity of the continent is overwhelming--but then you realize that, hey, here are some bipedal mammals that flew in giant metal machines down here to eat, sleep, learn, and run IT systems. No big whoop, humans can do anything.

Every year, I still wistfully scan the Antarctica job listings...
today i will continue to find these work.
not if your current number is way above market. it's also not at all like poker in that lying is not an advisable way to try to win. (never lie about salary, or anything else, to a prospective employer.)
It can still be breaking the law if they: a) exceed even the authority granted to them explicitly by the Patriot Act or b) the contents or interpretation of the Patriot Act violate the letter (and possibly the spirit/interpretation) of a higher law, namely the Constitution. IANAL so I don't know whether either of those are true, but is something that has been called into question (beyond the ethical or social-impact concerns over the laws and practices enabled by the act). I don't feel shutting down a black market is illegal (or unethical) unless the means to do so were illegal (or unethical). However, saying that US agencies violate the law more often after being given more powers within the law is not necessarily a self-contradictory or strange notion.
eventhough today is friday,i think i will continue my work as yesterday.
I'm going to get one, mod it into a Good Guy doll and change the "wake up" name to Chucky.
>That doesn't mean that people outside this community do (or should) care nearly as much as we do.

Part of the reason we care more is because we understand more.

But, in general, I think there is not nearly enough emphasis put on what's right vs. what people care about. That is, the former doesn't dictate the latter.
I though that the point of the article was that Amazon's hardware strategy isn't working, completely ignoring the echo. The title then invites us to draw our own conclusions about the echo, and enjoy the irony...
Office RT is included in Windows RT, which is now free.
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But then anyone who can gain access to the computer once can then perform an offline attack on the password at their leisure.
I'm having the opposite problem. I don't use a bicycle, but Google Fit thinks I do. I assume it's confusing my driving with biking, somehow.
I like the C++ ABI though it is in constant flux. The C API is stable but just too limited. Generating bitcode yourself is probably a pretty good strategy too, if your library is good.
Investors Grumbling, Twitter CEO Struggles to Define Vision
Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.
Scathing and harsh, but probably pretty accurate.

> No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore. That market is quickly and brutally dying. The media market is now so efficient that all profit is completely sucked out of the equation by the time you get to the consumption delivery system, to the point that it is barely possible to break even.

This part resonated with me a lot. The media market was always a race to the bottom. iTunes only proved there was a market, not that it could be profitable once there a multiple entrants with closed ecosystems competing for attention.

I think Amazon is full of smart people, but they need to focus on what they're good at to increase their profits. Their core businesses simply aren't profitable enough for them to try to compete with Apple and Google. They should fix that problem first and then turn to the more ambitious projects.
You still have to remember not to use YouTube while signed into Google as yourself.
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I mean their sentence on Echo's page. I totally got what you where saying.
I wish browsers had options to display memory and CPU usage per tab, right on the tab. That would end a lot of BS real quick... "Why does this website look so bland, yet uses 20 times the resources of this other, fast, and pretty site?"

If all websites that don't really need javascript for anything but bling that makes marketeers happy and users miserable got rid of it tomorrow, worldwide, I wonder how many coal power plants could be shut down?

There is one way to find out, and one step to get there is to not put up with this nonsense anymore. Driving a car with the handbrakes on to get a pack of cigarettes is not modern, not progress, not sophisticated, and not exactly dignified either.
Echo seems really smart to me - the reason Amazon is in hardware is because they are terrified of 'ok google, order me lighbulbs', or 'hey siri, i need a new pair of socks' becoming the way people shop for things online.

Amazon made Echo for 'alexa, order me wheat thins', and all the question answering and music playing is just window dressing.
Also, a push for more international teams. E.g. Startup School and office hours in Europe.
San Francisco, amend your unconstitutional short term rental regulation
I kind of understand why Amazon makes mobile hardware. They control the software experience and push Amazon storefronts over Google's. You get people into an ecosystem and they become comfortable in it, so they stick.

They author says "No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore". But surely a properly executed (key word: "properly") foray into mobile devices is better for Amazon than staying out of it? If they can create a good value proposition for the hardware and a good software ecosystem too, that would be better for them then missing out on mobile consumption of all that media they've put so much effort into.

Or am I just completely wrong?
This was actually a major security issue on some gov't websites point out a while back. Something about obama's blog's admin page using 3rd party google analytics...

I can understand something like cloudflare or other major vendor like google's cdn being more trustworthy, but even then there would need to be some sort of signature to verify the content (like they do on mega) before it could truely be trusted as not being compromised. That removes the speed benefits of a CDN since the preexisting file will need to be loaded and checked everytime.
Awesome. This comment reminds me of the 80's movie Runaway (directed by Michael Crichton).

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/?ref_=nv_sr_4
Cool idea, but there seem to be a few duplicates for Java. When I search 'Java', I see 3-4 duplicate results, only the first one has any companies listed, and the rest seem to be empty?
I like the post and agree with dcurtis about the abysmal phone. However I like my Fire HDX. It works for what I want to use it for: reading books and watching stuff. It isn't the best tablet, but it is not bad. It's the best for buying books and videos from Amazon. Ecosystem is subpar, but that is ok.
Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords
I sincerely wonder about the effect of offloading so much of our "brainwork" to computers. No one remembers phone numbers or tries to navigate without GPS, and increasingly we depend on accesss to information so there's less practice with storage and recall.

What brain/neuron plasticity tells us is that our brains literally reallocate unused neurons for other tasks. So, on the one hand, a positive theory might have it that offloading more mundane tasks would free our brains for higher order thinking and creativity, etc.

But, it seems that we are instead finding more ways to distract ourselves with less meaningful "leisure" activity.

I don't know that we will literally start getting dumber, but it's hard to know whether we are headed in a good direction as the future gets closer to the now.
> (I am not familiar with how Siri or Cortana handle similar queries.)

Cortana can handle the first and the last one, and for certain queries she can "continue the conversation". For example, the following is possible:

Q: Show me Italian restaurants nearby. (list of 10)

Q: Which take reservations? (filtered list)

Q: Which ones have at least three stars? (filtered again)

Q: (with one result left) Is it open tomorrow?

Q: Call them.
So it's like a dedicated Google Now device? For $99 as prime member, I guess I can give it try.
Yeah, I still think that it takes resources and I'm interested in that complete economy.

As for hunting, in the UK as early as 1200AD, peasants couldn't hunt on much of the land, the largest game they could hunt was probably not enough to provide much in the way of skins. Of course, the UK isn't the whole world, so this doesn't apply universally, but it's still an issue that plays into it I think. It's also really hard to bring down animals like deer, even if you have a bow and arrow. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_hunting

This is the kind of stuff that fascinates me though, that loom looks simple, but could you just go out in the woods and get all the components with your every day, 1000 year ago equipment? Maybe, but still, that takes some time, resources and knowledge. Then once you have the darn thing, how do you even make clothes! I guess you just make a big square and cut holes in it? Either way, all of this really fascinates me.
Super super nice web page design.
I think it's a macro. A company that builds companies.
How Intel Plans to Get into Every Device That Comes After PCs, Phones and Tablet
you'll have to explain...
Yeah, this still is really interesting, who gives the kid their shirt? I guess their immediate family, but then again, how long can a shirt last? Now that person needs a new shirt. Piecing together rags makes sense, still, you need to have a collection of rags and some way to stitch pieces together, all of these are resources that seem like they readily available, but that's because I don't know what was readily available :)
Sure, no problem. Feel free to email me (jon at jonmsterling dot com) if you have any questions.
In yet another layer of brilliance in the incredibly creepy promo movie, the family name their Echo "Alexa", which just happens to be the name of an Amazon-owned tracking company and purveyor of toolbars.
I really don't think being terrified of competition is a good reason to create something, so I hope that's not why they are doing this.

I'm struggling to find a reason why ordering anything via Echo is a good idea. I wouldn't use Siri to order anything, so I'm not sure why I'd want to do this either. I like to research things before I buy them and so do most Amazon users (even if it's a quick glimpse at the overall rating). Do I have to have a long Q/A session with Echo to determine which specific type of socks I'd like it to order? It seems faster to just do this myself via my phone or laptop.

I'm not going to switch to Google Shopping because I can tell my phone to order things. I use Amazon because Amazon is the best place to buy things (for numerous reasons), and until that changes talking to my phone or a device in my house ins't going to effect this decision.

This just feels like a solution that no one was asking for, and that's generally the worst kind of product.

Edit: After multiple people pointed out that this WOULD be useful for re-ordering certain types of things (mainly food/kitchen stuff), I agree it would be useful for that purpose. That said, I think Amazon should be marketing this with that in mind, and the first place this should live is your kitchen, not your living room.
Was credit something extended to peasants though? It seems like that would mainly apply to people with some wealth or assets to back the credit up. I'm mostly interested in the complete bottom of the rung of society and how they managed in those environments.
It's actually the second python version. :)
I was surprised to learn that there's a Lisp Machine emulator. I googled a little bit but could not find good installation intructions. Can anyone explain how to install this emulator on a linux computer?
"No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore."

Is that really true? No one makes money selling music, apps, or books on iTunes? Netflix doesn't make money selling a media consumption service? HBO doesn't make money selling premium content?

Those are all examples of media. And they're all capable of making money for their creators and distributors.
Yes I know they are working on solving the issues I've mentioned, but I don't think they are there yet? I wasn't aware of MPS, it looks like a very interesting garbage collector. Do you know if it supports inline bump allocation (no function calls)? I skimmed the docs but couldn't find the answer. The language I'm contributing to (Factor) does that by keeping the nursery pointer in a register so you just ADD to it to allocate memory.

To bad about the restrictive license. Is that why there is the Open Dylan exception in it?
It used the launch of the Echo to talk about why Amazon hardware in general isn't compelling. I really don't see how that's "clickbait."
Zuckerberg's bio on Wikipedia says that he is the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist. I'm sure there are plenty of Americans with wealthier or more connected families, and none of them have succeeded with their startup the way he has.
I have no idea; IANAL. All I know is a "local" (not really) doc says I owe him money for some tests he ran on a sample, and nobody will pay him. I pay my bills, but I didn't take the sample, wouldn't have known who to send it to even if I had taken the sample, etc. I spent months faxing copies of bills to the doc who took the sample AND to my insurance, then finally the "claimant" had this debt warrant hand-delivered by the po-po to my home! I'm supposed to show up in court (albeit no time soon). I faxed copies to doc and insurance, and (though I wasn't going to, but I chickened out) I gave it to my lawyer.
International video game revenue is estimated to be $81.5B in 2014.[49] This is more than double the revenue of the international film industry in 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry#Economics
Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels blogs pretty regularly at http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
Nanoscale work yields big results
Good lord that looks rubbish, but also quite charming. I can't help but look at it and smile.
I think Google's voice search already does this (feeding into audio captchas), but obviously there is a smaller crowd from which to source free audio recognition assuming that people who are both sighted and hearing typically prefer visual captchas due to environmental constraints.
> I'm not going to switch to Google Shopping because I can tell my phone to order things.

Have you tried Google shopping with Voice integration? It's pretty amazing. You say "Ok google, buy me Triscuts" and four hours later, there's Triscuts at the door.

If my grandpa were still alive I would totally set him up with this.
> I titled it that on purpose

Not originally - it was titled Amazon Has No Taste, and was changed to Amazon Echo. Even the current title (Amazon's Echo Chamber) is link-baity IMHO.
The next two sentences are

> That market is quickly and brutally dying. The media market is now so efficient that all profit is completely sucked out of the equation by the time you get to the consumption delivery system, to the point that it is barely possible to break even.

I don't think he's claiming that copyright owners can't make money selling copyrighted material. It sounds like he's claiming that the delivery networks can't make money.
After reading it, I actually went looking for a date hoping it was written before the Echo announcement and was a wonderful coincidence.

On a side note, having to hover over the title to expose the date is a silly UX.
That's true in a practical sense of all encrypted messaging solutions, but the other ones have the added hazard of routinely being insecure even when you don't accidentally leak your key.
And Netflix is not a delivery network?
How are you planning to reliably serve all the video content? I am looking to have a similar static site with a bunch of videos and am debating between Youtube, Vimeo, mp4/webm over some cdn.