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Bloomberg profiled Brin's family office last year[0]:

> Running Sergey Brin’s family affairs is a full-time job—and it takes dozens of people. The Google co-founder, who’s worth about $30 billion, has ex-bankers and philanthropy experts working at his family office, Bayshore Global Management. Brin also has employed a former Navy SEAL for security, a yacht captain, a fitness coordinator, a photographer, and an archivist, according to profiles on LinkedIn.

Forbes had a similar exposé on one of Zuckerberg's financial advisers, Divesh Makan[1]:

> Makan shuns the title of wealth manager, according to those who have worked with him. He sees himself instead as part do-it-all financial consigliere, part deal broker/venture capitalist and part human Rolodex. Makan’s currency is access and relevance. While Silicon Valley stalwarts like Sequoia and Benchmark can point to a long list of successful IPOs and a deep bench of management experts, he hawks the “Zuck & Friends” brand to piece together deals between young startup entrepreneurs and billionaire sugar daddies, as well as between the billionaires themselves.

0: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-16/google-ser...

1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/12/01/the-spid...
> But in most societies around the world, the poor tend to have more kids.

That might be true for women but not for men. And the author is talking about men.
If you don't need it right now -- and I mean really really need it in the sense that it will make you money yesterday -- don't buy it.
SRBs weren't reusable in any real sense, what was left after splashdown had to be completely disassembled, separately refurbished, and then reassembled. Using the SRBs also made operations much more expensive, since any prep work done after they were mated to the Shuttle was extremely hazardous.
Yeah, that tumbling didn't look like it was intended.
I am not trying to inject my opinion. I am looking for genuine discussion. The idea of privacy has always been kind of vague to me. Where do we draw the line of acceptable information sharing and not? If a company is collecting data on our behavior and changing their practices accordingly to maximize their profits, is that immoral? Isn't that essentially A/B testing? The practice of using that data in a potentially manipulative way might be immoral, but is the best way to prevent that really to completely not share anything?
OP, did you really think when you posted this that Brin only held about 25 million dollars in Google?
Lightroom Mobile is my current weapon of choice for this, also provides a basic processing interface + sync with Adobe CC so you can grab them from your desktop. There's plenty of others out there, but since I already have a CC subscription I just went with it (as it does require you have at minimum Lightroom CC).
Hosting your own mail, calendar, cloud storage, and even a mapping application is quite doable right now. There are open-source projects for that, and you can have your own physically secured machine in a co-location facility for a reasonably small sum.

It's just not easy to do, both in setup and maintenance effort. Most people would not care about their privacy nearly enough to justify that.
exactly, please change the title or the article
I started off using Emacs a lot (like tons and tons of Emacs with tons and tons of custom modes, functions, and craziness - network pong anybody?). For almost a summer, my xinitrc at the school labs literally opeed up a full screen Emacs; it was my window manager too.

The simplicity of vim (and pretty colors) drew me in. Plus as I learned more sed/ed, I understood vi more. That, and a slow connection from off campus really sucks. I learned that too pretty well. Well enough to hack together some vim scripts, but nothing near my Emacs level. I feel like vim mode hacking is a beast you need to be specially equipped to handle (and I can write APL in any language so it isn't the syntax).

Then Eclipse and IntelliJ came around and I only really used vim for quick one off stuff (if I didn't use printf, echo, or cat). The only time I used vim was for C/C++ or something esoteric, like KDB+/Q/K, that didn't have their own dev environment (unlike say VHDL or Matlab where I could sit in their ugly cocoons).

Now I'm growing tired of the very buggy, slow Java environments that seem to require a gaming rig to compile HelloWorld.java (or sorry, HelloWorld.xml with SpringBoot). And I see all these poor Emacs clones playing catchup with 2000. You have editors written in JavaScript inside a web browser with modules transpiled to JavaScript (for some reason JavaScript is too low-level to write text editing packages in now -- God help us all). That, and they don't support a tenth (I'm being generous) of the functionality that Emacs does and they probably never will.

What is so hard about an extensible text editor? Just getting the basic hooks down for self-insert and movement without having to go to swap?

I remember when Emacs was called "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping". I now see Atom routinely take up over 800 MB. And it still can't play Pong.

Now with Rust and other languages, I'm back home in Emacs, but the keystrokes do tend to bother me a little. I liked the HJKL movement keys in vim - I just hated the modality and think I spent more time trying to figure out "my cursor is here, but I need move it over there - so first I need to jump on that log, shoot the rocket to knock down flowerpot then run quickly while the line is falling to catch it and K it to the next line" -- like some sort of weird text editing puzzle (I wonder if you could make a vim code golf puzzle set).

Emacs has these bindings that feel like finger yoga, even when I've remapped Caps, control, half my F-keys, etc. What I really need to do is remap my toes to my hands, I think.

It would have been really nice to see C-[hjkl] style movement (with maybe CS-[HJKL] be the distance mods or something). It's too late now. You of course you can remap those keys, but too much of that behavior is baked in to people).

Maybe one day when I'm old and gray I'll do the Knuth thing and start a new text editor, but before that I'll probably need to redo the monitor, mouse, and keyboard and that is just too much right now.
> The Star Trek dream emerged before computing technology was very far advanced, and well before the idea of constantly mobile wireless communication. We thought our AIs would be small and physical, easy for a single person to entirely own and unable to remember more details than a human; instead we got unfamiliar algorithms run on machines far away.

Which is kind of funny, because even if it might be accessed by personal mobile devices, the Star Trek "library computer" AI was never "small and physical, easy for a single person to entirely own and unable to remember more details than a human", it was an aspect of a large server (or networked cluster, the actual architecture is somewhat vague) that was part of a capital ship or base, had access in the server/cluster to a library of very nearly all generally available knowledge and extensive personal information about both its users and about people with little direct connection (and could reach out across a galactic network to access additional remote information sources to handle requests).

"Unfamiliar algorithms run on machines far away" is much more like the source of the "Star Trek dream" than "small and physical, easy for a single person to entirely own and unable to remember more details than a human".
Men strive for resources because women used to rely heavily on men for those resources. It's really kind of weird how this ends up being an epiphany for many people, though I find it painfully obvious. Men and women are not difficult to understand if you don't look through the "blank slate" prism.
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I was prompted to install the Messenger app and Hangouts' SMS support was promptly disabled, I thought they removed the feature entirely.

I will be switching back to Hangouts and uninstalling the Messenger app, thank you.
Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5030164/whats-the-differe...
Like a Netflix for News?
I still remember the load times for Last Ninja - I'd prefer an ssd any day.
So what are you saying?
Would you elaborate for me, maybe toss out an example?
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Wait, you're saying you are okay with the US government doing it but not other governments?

How does that work?
zombo.com was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. I was like, is this related somehow?
Late to the party.. heh, they agreed to remove RSA Key Transport back in April 2014, implemented in draft 02

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg12266.h...

> The consensus in the room at IETF-89 was to remove RSA key transport from TLS 1.3. If you have concerns about this decision please respond on the TLS list by April 11, 2014.

https://threatpost.com/tls-1-3-working-group-has-consensus-t...

https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/commit/5d861d58b8a5ef2e8...
Chivalry is Dead and so is testing
Just off the cuff...

Pregnant women have sex because rewiring women to NOT want sex while pregnant would be evolutionarily pointless, not to mention sex is used to bond male partners.

Likewise, sex after menopause. Women still seek shelter from males post-menopause and also want males around for their children and grandchildren's sake.

Men's instincts do not have the abstract concept of "infertile" if a woman appears otherwise sexually appealing.

I'm skeptical of the idea that 50% of young people identifying as bisexual, but if there is truth to this, I imagine that it is largely females who identify this way. And bonding between females is likely to strengthen the 'herd'.

Men's instincts do not have the abstract concept of sperm banks. Even if they did, men are also selective in where they deposit their sperm, and in any case are largely motivated to reproduce through sexual desire. If sperm banks were the only way we reproduced, then we'd have evolved a desire for that.

The idea that there are any humans on Earth that aren't closely genetically related is absurd...

As for monogamy, it's a rational response on the part of males who want to be sure they are the father of their mate's children and who want a better mating opportunities than they might have if it was winner-take-all.

Obviously, I'm not sure of the veracity of any of these, but I think it's fairly simple to explain most of these from an evolutionary point of view. I think it is a mistake to assume that because the rational part of our brain can grasp more efficient ways to spread our genes (e.g. sperm banks), that we must therefore do that if we are wired to spread our genes. The parts of our brains wired that way aren't quite that literal and probably haven't had time to catch up with those concepts.
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Alternatively there's http://wevebeenacquired.tumblr.com/, although OIJ is much more frequently updated.
Not an ignorant question, but a reasonable one. I think the skeptics believe that society overall does not yet understand the tradeoff. And I agree with them there. I think on a deeper level, people are creeped out that data paints such a deterministic picture of our lives. Sure, I leave home the same time every day, and I leave work about the same time every day. That Google knows where I live and work without me ever explicitly saying shouldn't be a surprise, but not everyone enjoys seeing how their daily lives are so easily circumscribed, even with just passively-collected data.
Isn't it the case that Apple's attempts at similar AI assistance store much of the data on the user's iPhone?
More money coming from advertising than products?

90.4% revenue from advertising for Google

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven...

https://www.google.ca/search?q=google+total+revenue&ie=utf-8...

vs Apple:
http://marketingland.com/app-purchases-dominate-ads-app-stor...
Offline documentation via http://devdocs.io/. It stores the data in the browser's localstorage.
Portugal’s Antonio Guterres is poised to become U.N. secretary general
Still better than the alternative.
I think people also forget that the Star Trek AI was in a semi-militarized scenario where efficiency and information greatly outweighed individual privacy needs.
One tiny caveat being that, Google (and others as well, to be fair) will be able to indirectly collect data even on the privacy-aware part of the population who don't use Google much. The simplest example being, even if you don't use GMail, still some part of your emails inevitably end up in GMail inboxes. Now also consider this: just being a guest in a Google-stuffed house means you are under surveillance.

So no, it is not just my problem or your problem, it's everyone's.
Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style. He has several great talks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs
Binney's project, ThinThread, seems to have been an effort to achieve the NSA mission without the need for bulk data collection ... And he was right to push for that, to the extent that any mass surveillance is justified.

A whistleblower is not necessarily a crank. I also believe your characterization of Binney's project is unfair. If we are to discuss the individual in the manner of ad hominem, then the simple fact that Binney correctly assessed the NSA in the past is a good reason to suspect his current analysis is also correct.
Pretty sure APA format is required for APA journals, but either way, fortunately, the desire on the part of authors to get papers published and on the part of reviewers to have standards and clear presentation outweighs anyone's desire to game statcheck.

But you do make a great point in that statcheck could and should red-line papers that present no discernible stats, and provide links to the APA style guide!
True! I suppose I was thinking of earlier space-age fantasy more than TNG. It was rather odd how easily people could look up details on crewmembers aboard the Enterprise, but I suppose the situation's different on an organized ship.
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Im more worried about turn key totalitarian nation states having this info and then being able to walk the cat back.
I very much doubt that most of the extra children these women are having are all sired by rich fathers, as opposed to men in their own social group.
I'd be amused at the concept of a hacker who also likes to perform break and enters. Once I arrived home and discovered all of my privacy invading electronics stolen, I'd probably pull out my phone and say "Ok Google, call the cops."
Replying to myself:

- https://zealdocs.org/
- https://devdocs.io/offline
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Well the missing part is the dedication to ideals and to the greater good of all life that was supposed to be core to the federation. I realize Star Trek is fantasy, but the reason people are more at ease with the omnipresence of technology in Star Trek is because you see people living by these humanitarian and noble ideals. People fight and die to defend thems. The right to self and privacy and protection is held very high in the st universe, even if challenged.

When's the last time
Google risked itself or business or any tech ceo risked their livelihood for the sake of the greater good? The problem isn't necessarily the knowing everything part, it's who does what with it that's the problem. I can't really think of any company or person with influence in tech that'd be willing to dive onto that bombshell to protect us all.
Same here.

The constraint is going to kill Google and Apple because a future competitor is going to manage to offer service without requiring the data in raw form, an example of which would be Agent Based Computation in say 15 years time. Because of that it shall become the standard. Google and Apple will be stuck because their stakeholders include parties which require the raw form even if Google/Apple did not. That opens up a good line of attack on a previously impenetrable business model.

The legal implications of visiting somebody's house should be considered. Did I sign anything saying Google or Apple could use my data? No. This opens up the door for class action law suits in some US states at least. Unless they are smart enough to be able to dodge this somehow, perhaps with a contextual local filter for new voices and a permission request made of same, but I doubt it, they probably don't have the incentive to look at the ugly.
And according to Glassdoor, average Software Engineer salary in Atlanta is $72k:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/atlanta-software-engineer...

Neither is very scientific but I don't think it's such an obvious win.
How much hardware would it take to keep 80% or 99% of the data local?
Oh, and internal addons are only useful where the case can come off!

I have been on the lookout for addons. The only ones I've seen so far for most models have been quite ugly external stickers that plug in to the usb port.

I was hoping the MotoZ would have a 'mod' that provided it, but the only mod they sell that provides wireless charging is also a massive backup battery and adds significant weight and thickness.
Imagine how maddening it is to have a million random thoughts swirling through your brain and you can't execute on any of them unless you "feel" like it.

It's life changing to have (better) control of executive functioning. And it's sobering if you have a lifetime of being moralized at by lesser people for things that aren't too much under your control.
Google doesn't "spill their beans" to third parties-- what Google actually sells is the opportunity for third parties to be included in the advertisements Google is targeting to their users.

Google has a strong incentive to not allow their aggregated user data to leave Google-- the behavioral data Google collects is the reason why Google is valuable; if they start shipping that data off to third parties, suddenly the third parties don't need Google anymore.

(Same with Facebook-- they're not "selling" your data; they're selling the opportunity to target you based on your data, but the data itself is too valuable to Facebook to sell.)
Evolution is not an intelligent process, it's the result of random mutations. The more complex the adaptation the less likely it is to occur. A mechanism for "have sex whenever possible" is much more likely to occur than "have sex except for this long list of exceptions", or even less likely "evaluate this abstract function about genes". Complexity only evolves when there's a real fitness benefit. Evolving a mechanism to specifically avoid sex after menopause would have very little influence on your reproductive success, so there's no reason for it to be selected. The sperm banks example is interesting because that one actually does have a large reproductive fitness impact, but it's also too new and too rare for any sperm donation drive to have evolved. But maybe if the situation continues for long enough humans will evolve to want to donate sperm.
The actual application process helps, undoubtedly, and I also recommend everyone to fill it, so you know how to answer those questions.

But don't expect to get in if you're "not quite ready". The last time I applied, they didn't even look at the demo, although they did watch the video.
I think it's possible to create a hybrid whereby your personal AI - has access to those external systems to check public (maps, search) and cloud data (calendar, mail).

But it stores the private data about your location, your searches, your purchases. this could even be an encrypted private fire-walled bit of cloud rather than a robot in your house.

The point being your AI is serving you. And you can delete/edit this private data (or even the whole AI) if you wish.
You don't have to develop, setup and maintain all that by yourself. What we need is a user friendly (dead easy install/setup, no administration) way to use alternatives to these services. Some of these services exist, some not, but it's a very achievable goal.
It doesn't sound like you have a particularly open mind on this one, but I always address this question when it comes up on Hackner News because it's something I have strong feelings about.

I'm not going to defend Twitter being a utility (which the parent comment also doesn't mention) but I will say that in general, it's very clear to me we haven't worked out what kind of institutions can best deliver services in the digital age.

It's profoundly dubious that Twitter - a defacto 'town square' for public discussion - is owned by an institution that, at best, has few incentives to make it effective for the purpose which it is widely used.

This is significant in democracies, where the quality of national decision making will be directly linked to the design of the channels in which public debate happens.

The idea that we can take full and fair advantage of the opportunities the web offers exclusively through profit-motivated corporations is flatly wrong.

The fact that as Twitter users we agreed to some T&Cs doesn't mean we can't also wish for a more democratic digital public space - which I assume is what the parent comment is really getting at.
I fear you will be unable to recognize when that burger was your choice and when it was a reaction. You probably won't notice. And that is harmless.

I also fear you will be unable to notice in which areas of life and information the distinction between choice and reaction is harmless and which it isn't.

Of course, I'm not talking about "You" you, but just people. Me as well. I feel we are widening the field of unconscious decisions and I see that as inherently bad - in my fellow humans as well.

You could say that Plato wanted us to make easy things simple (link for distinction: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy).

I believe this to be a move in the opposite direction. We should have a care.
It's more like "one of the memcached contributors", rather than "all the memcached folks".

Couchbase was a merger between NorthScale and CouchOne. The CouchOne founding team were all CouchdDB project founders: Damien Katz, J Chris Anderson, and Jan Lehnardt. NorthScale was founded by Steve Yen, who was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel, and Dustin Sallings, who was a committer on the Memcached project.

The first product that NorthScale released was called Membase, and the point of it was to help companies run large memcached clusters without having to think very hard. Couchbase later evolved into a hybrid of Membase and CouchDB that can speak the memcached protocol but also has some of the JSON document database properties that CouchDB has.
Ask HN: Ideas for AWS IoT button?
I'm looking to help my younger brother build something with one of Amazons programmable IoT dash buttons.

Any ideas on something that can be built in steps that gets progressively more complex?
Looks like SpaceX will have some catching up to do. Bezos seems to be getting ahead of Musk.
There is no line saying how much is ok. "Privacy" as a concept is the embodiment of personal choice. And everyone may choose differently, in different situations. The only "line" there is, is about whether that choice is voluntary and informed.
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