skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So she's a family office for single people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_office)

The Varian Rule, which is about how the future resembles how the rich live today, the middle and poorer classes will have tomorrow, may apply here. Multi-family offices for middle net worth individuals seem like a plausible future.

I can't seem to convince my lawyer and accountant friends that this is a viable service because (I think) they are basically not entrepreneurial, and big firms don't offer it because they are already fighting and maintaining position in the HNWI market.

A one-stop shop that handles everything from taxes, to parking tickets, legal advice, to investments, insurance, and even medical, could be worth it for a lot of people.

What makes it viable now is that families with the kind of money worth professional management are still actually working for it each day, that is, still making this kind of money on their labor instead of returns on capital, so they have the income (albeit less in assets), but not the time to manage it properly.

I would look forward to using such a service...one day. :)
If anyone has questions, happy to answer :)
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Speaking of pontification and making mountains out of molehills, your response currently has more text than all the other replies combined.

No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities.

People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.
Even if it wasn't sold directly on an exchange the recipient of the bitcoin could have transferred and dumped the coins on an exchange.

They could also have sold an existing position to net their new exposure to zero.
Of course a lot of our congested places are categorically not designed to accomodate cars. And this has the effect of dominating the public realm and obstructing other users. Its like building an open sewer that overflows twice a day.

A road network that destroys access for other users is not functional. And sometimes the only way to achieve that is to reduce the volume of cars in city centres, lower speed limits, and have traffic calming measures. This helps align demand with what the roads are actually designed for. Pedestrianisation and pedestrian priority are just one logical extension of this.
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The worlds simplest CMS uses a google spreadsheet and handlebars.js to display content in your HTML project.

It can work with simple content, for something like an About Us page. It can also loop through collections of content, like a group of posts.

The spreadsheet sheets can be used to create different content types.

Future plans: cache the google spreadsheet to speed up the load time.
Funny to see this on here. I believe Clemson and UGA actually started this trend.

In 1983 Clemson announced it was going to set the record with a release of 250,000 balloons. Georgia, being competitive announced that the next week it would release 300,000.

Both releases happened and after Georgia's attempt to steal the record, Clemson released official numbers that were about 360,000, allowing them to hold the balloon release record and making UGA's attempt to 1-up the release a wasted effort. Clemson and UGA was a big football rivalry at this point with both schools having won titles in 1981 and 1980 respectively, while being located only 90 miles apart.

Shortly afterward, Disney decided to take the record with a launch of 1 million balloons which I believe preceded this Cleveland event.

EDIT: Yep, Disney in 1985 release 1 million.

https://www.ocregister.com/2015/12/02/mr-anaheim-remembering...
I've been skimming but I don't think the data stingrays collect would count as "business records" since they are actually (AFAIK) intercepted communications.

Of course, I think they should be subject to the same restrictions and oversight. It's encouraging that the SCOTUS seems to be recognizing (to some degree) the relatively new and uniquely horrific potential of unchecked electronic surveillance.
I find your activity for this article highly suspect. You are picking apart some lay comments as if this is a doctoral dissertation. This is not the place for nuanced debate, especially around trite personal problems someone on the other side of the continent is having.
I didn’t see any dystopian or even mildly strange parts to it. Can you give more detail on which parts had some absurdity? All of the examples of how a customer could have creepily personal information about airline staff seemed like entirely realistic analogues of the type of personalization efforts companies make towards customers.
American here, I understand. Many people here think Trump is an excellent president because the economy is good; the only way to change their minds is a worse economy. I don't want to repeat that part of 1933 either, but better 1933 than 1943.
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You fuse two atoms.
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Corporations can take on a role as a monopolist but it's not inherent to their nature. I would hazard to say that most corporations are in a market where they can't affect the equilibrium market price of the good they're selling by very much, and thus don't resemble a union in that respect.
All the rewards and loyalty programs are keeping track of all your activity and is being made accessible to the staff that interacts with you. From a business perspective, an unknown person offers more risk than an known person so it makes financial sense to know who you're dealing with. In high margin, low volume businesses this was already in place, just with sales people keeping track. It just wasn't easily possible to do that for whole populations until recently such as retail, hotels, airlines, etc.

I imagine soon many will start cataloging how many times a customer causes damage or makes a scene or is rude to staff, and if it gets logged with enough frequency, they get banned system wide. It'll be interesting to see how long "the customer is always right" stays in place once we have no choice but to deal with home Depot or Lowe's, or Walmart vs target vs Amazon, or one of the 4 or 5 airlines and hotel companies.

Lenders and landlords have been doing it since forever, no reason for the other businesses to not get on board. All the troublemakers will be sifted through and left to deal with organizations outside of the mainstream.
Air gap stuff isn't all that cutting edge (as the article states) and is inherently a defensive technology.

Google is basically critical infrastructure (think power grid) at this point. Why would anyone in their right mind not want a company that's basically critical infrastructure developing technologies that it can deploy in order to make itself (and everyone who depends on it) more secure?

This is like the IT guy at a power plant quitting over being asked to integrate a bunch of systems to better track who is where and when on the property.
I think there’s a balance you can strike between things. But it’s not always a single variable. Learning those things was probably valuable to him in other ways though. If he eventually grows his service and has to hire someone to manage ops he’ll be much more capable of evaluating them.
I think that's the best way it can work: it has to replace those other tools, and have buy-in from the group to almost exclusively use Slack.
I would wonder if it was something more like:

having chores when young was the biggest factor (after we controlled for wealth, class, race, etc)
Here's a thought experiment. What if corporations hired a bunch of people whose job it was to be genuinely happy that it was your birthday. Maybe they divide their user group into days such that each day one of these employees would only be responsible for feeling happy about one or two users' birthdays. This employee would send you the email. And they would be happy about it and truly glad that it is your birthday.

Is this situation more or less dystopian?
What a luxury to be a pacifist. Definition of 1st world privilege.
I was thinking more about getting electron apps to work on my chromebook and ios tablets.
>That's the result of political contrivances, not any sort of deep connection between the U.S. military and scientific progress.

The DoD sure wants to have a major influence on fundamental research and scientific progress.
http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/FFRDC_UARC.html

The UARCs are DoD's attempts to have influence into fundamental research and engineering.

Those positive impacts probably are still likely due to political factors like you said, but it isn't for lack of the DoD trying.
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> You see someone you've never met before and they know your name, birthday, etc. while you know nothing about them

This made me think of what it must be like to be a celebrity. To have people fawn over you, whilst you can barely recall a fan's face for having seen so many.
Probably 3-4 years before meaningful production.
At least three.

Or other beverages, really!
You look Stalin in the eye and tell him he has to choose between Marxism-Leninism and having an atom bomb...
that's interesting, but one could assume that if some member of a gang points out the leader of the gang to the police, the court would allow them to employ surveillance techniques needed to acquire evidence. Wouldn't that kind of information be sufficient to pass the Probable Cause test?
> The trouble is the platform is almost a monopoly on user created video.

I agree entirely.
So the solution is to break up the monopoly. We can start by breaking up google:

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2018/06/break-...

We also need to promote interchangeability and open standards. Not sure how to do this - wonder if legislation is required.
Ah, so the Chrome OS UI, which is running directly on GBM/KMS, became a Wayland compositor just for the Android compatibility layer?

(Oh, and for the recently announced Linux desktop apps support maybe?)
I think people will start feeling the pain when Amazon isn’t printing money anymore and starts looking at winding down less popular/profitable services.
At Missive, we offer a hybrid approach that merges the silos of both external and internal communication back into one app.

https://missiveapp.com/slack-vs-missive (detailed post, with meat)

As foreign as chat is to email, mixing them unleashes unforeseen possibilities, like directly referencing customer emails in dev chat conversations discussing feature implementation.

Making collaboration between email heavy teams (sales, support) and chat heavy teams (dev) easier.

I personally think that using a threaded based UI is more efficient to use than the infinite channel Slack offers even for chat.

e.g. Having your Github notifications grouped into different threads based on branches and pull requests all labeled with a Github label.
Yes, this is both generally relevant, but specifically OT.

Hope the mods split it off.

There is indeed a performative aspect to a broad discussion, but it offers the advantage of raising broad based issues that just might not occur to an individual in a limited closed session.

While HN is not immune to the cons of online communities, I feel a generally civil tone, free of political snark, or heavy biases can be maintained.
I agree with the customer's perspective of this. But there are businesses where personalization is key. For example, YouTube absolutely needs to know you in order to keep you watching addictive content. Without this, they would probably still not be profitable.
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Thanks for offering to take a look! What is your email? Next time it happens I'll be sure to send the logs along.
That’s a lot of effort for a drink that is relatively unimportant in the scheme of things, but sure you could probably raise a couple million while real problems go unanswered. I think that is my problem with all the efforts on personalization, we should be working on more meaningful problems with open data analysis on high impact social projects. It doesn’t pay well which is the most exquisite torture of capitalism.
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Why you seem to think Maven will target civilians is beyond me. If you build better recognition systems for drones they will be better able to mitigate collateral damage. Is this not exactly what you want?
Ask HN: What do you want out of social media?
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, etc are all garbage products from my POV for a host of reasons, and I know I'm not the only one that feels the same way.

If you're no longer into any of the existing social media platforms a) how are they failing you, and b) what do you actually want out of social media?

For me personally, I want a way to keep in touch with people/ people to keep in touch with me, but that doesn't sell my data to advertisers and is resistant to virality and toxic behavior.
Thanks, this is the first I had heard of LMDB.

I actually love the idea of a memory-mapped database, I've often thought memory mapping isn't taken advantage of enough.
Is your math really right?

> DRAM makers make $10k per platter. A single line pops out 40k a month, a single fab has 20+ lines, a fab complex has up to 8 fabs. Each DRAM maker has few fab complexes.

If I do this I get 10,000 * 40,000 * 20 * 8 which is $64 Billion.... per month.

Are you suggesting that the average DRAM maker should have revenue of $64 Billion a month or $768 Billion a year?

It sounds like you know the industry and I'm looking for some additional colour here.
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We build AI-powered checkout for retail. Shop as you normally would, and get checked out just by leaving the store. Key to this experience is our consumer-facing shopper app.

Imagine your inventory live updating on your phone the moment you take hold of an item or put it back, or knowing someone has left the store not by geo-fencing, but by AI. It's a pretty cool experience of digital technology fitting in to the physical world and we're building it in React Native.

We're looking for developers who have built and launched RN apps and understand not only React, but the larger ecosystem and the peculiarities of iOS and Android.

If this is interesting to you, please contact dave@standard.ai. We love seeing portfolios and github projects.
> and aren’t going anywhere

Yet... that you know of.

Nothing specific against Sift Science whatsoever in my comment, but many, many times this sentiment has been conveyed by companies and it rings hollow IMO. There are a lot of different ways a company can change or disappear at some unforeseen point in the future, and claims that "you can trust us to be here forever" do not carry much weight for the large group of experienced users, devs, management, etc who have been burned multiple times.
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The case that went to trial here had coordination with a prosecutor and the judiciary - they got a court order under the federal Stored Communications Act. So I don't really think this will have any of the effects you expect.

I'm completely on board with this ruling; the 3rd party doctrine is complete garbage in the digital age, but I think it will have a much narrower effect.

I also don't think this ruling will have any effect on mass surveillance that is justified on a completely different legal basis.
People outside of the US don't require a warrant at all. FISC warrants are for people physically located within the US and its territories or who have data or property stored within the US.

> It doesn't remotely apply to this case

You have to read comments within the context they were given. This is a broader discussion about warrants, and the specific comment I was replying to asked for data on claims of "rubber stamping" of warrants.
No it wasn't - it was around $425 as the other comment says
Militaries don't create good results, they only remove impediments to good results. You can't grow an economy by bombing infrastructure and killing people.

Where your analysis is incomplete is that military might is not the only reason that people will avoid fighting. A strong military is a negative incentive ("I might lose or die"), but there are plenty of positive incentives for nations to avoid warfare.

In fact, international relations tend to be dominated by positive incentives, which is why "cheeseburger diplomacy" is such a reliable concept, and open warfare is historically rare, even before Pax Americana.

Google is a much smaller and younger entity than the U.S. military, so you might still be technically right on total quantitative impact. But that's not really a fair way to look at it.
This x 1000. I constantly remind my team to favor face to face communication where possible. We have peopl hipchat each other sometimes literally sitting across the desk from each other. It creates such a frustrating "i spend half my day in chat" culture i just cant imagine the productivity drain.
As did yesterday's decision overruling the 80s decision requiring physical presence in a state to collect sales tax.

Someone reneged on his promise to avoid 5-4 splits.
They had a $4m raise a year ago and 22 employees. They must have had a very high compensation scheme.
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>I dont think AS is the problem. Android SDK + Build System + Emulators are just not good enough

My AS Emulator starts in about 20 seconds from a cold start and in a couple seconds from a saved image state.

>If it works the first time you are lucky, if it breaks you are on your own.

The people that work on the AS Emulator are on the Androidev reddit quite regularly to answer any questions regarding new releases.
Conversely Patreon gives you a low signal:noise forum away from the din of the youtube comment section. This is something both users and creators enjoy. Many creators I'm subscribed to have reported that their patreon discussions are more fruitful and interesting because only serious people are taking part. They don't have to filter out, even visually, the rabble from the informed and passionate. Youtube can highlight member comments in some attempt to replicate this, but I think being off-site is part of the value here.

As for discoverability, you discover patreon accounts by viewing the videos of creators on youtube. Unless youtube starts banning links to Patreon (this would be evil, but I wouldn't put it past them), there isn't a discoverability problem.
> You might as well ask for a specification of a scientific experiment proving that dogs can't perform operas.

That shallow, low brow trolling. You seem to be incapable of providing an argument and have to resort to wild exaggerated analogies. Rather ironic given this a thread on whether Gorillas have or can acquire a language.

If it was so cut and dry as dog performing operas, there would not have been so much human interest in this topic.
easy , there is a garbage can . Invert that and sit on that.
Dozens of seconds? Have you ever even driven a car? lol
I think in technology circles people just love to complain. They think it makes themselves look smart for some reason.

Personally I'm a fan of MD and other minimalist styles.

But it doesn't matter what technies think. What matters are the users. Google did extensive usability testing on MD but just to be sure we did our own testing because we weren't sure how it would go over in Asia and Google is less focused on the Asian markets. Turns out the users fucking love it. We're talking about a hugely positive response across the board: men, women, children, poor, rich, artists and police officers. Three most common comments: (1) clean like Apple! (2) it's cute, not too serious (c) it's simple, easy.

Yes this is subjective. It's not even clear how a design language can be "easy" but that's what the users feel. Given that kind of feedback and considering all the hardwork Goog has already done it'd be crazy not to leverage it.
I don't have time for a long detailed reply but I will respond to a couple of things here.

> Do you think that CO2 is not a problem?

It's not so much that I think "that CO2 is not a problem", but rather that it's probably not THE problem when it comes to climate change issues - and certainly not the most pressing problem of our age, as it is often made out to be. And I think people who go too far down that path ("We're all doomed!") are maybe a little off-kilter mentally, to put it nicely, but there seems to be quite a few of them out there.

As to skepticalscience.com, some years back I spent many an hour reading through the stuff there, but eventually got to the point where I just no longer took it too seriously. The page you pointed me to "has issues"; the entire web site itself "has issues"; and even the guy who runs the site (John Cook) "has issues". I won't go into the details here because if you are as familiar with the situation as I am then I'm sure you're aware of at least some of those issues.
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more. It's manipulative because they want something out of you. They want you to _feel_ closer to them than you truly are, so that you _feel_ something such that you bring them more business.

Having your emotions manipulated such that you feel closer to your flight attendant means you may spend money on their airline like you're friends. But the truth will come out when the plane lands and you say "Hey, wanna go see a movie?" and they're horrified. The problem is that it's pretend w/ a cause. If it was just pretend and both were on board, it would be like children. If it was genuine, then all the better-- few things are better than genuine friendship.