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My startup went through Atlas a couple years ago when it was in beta, and it was amazing. It let us focus on actually building the business rather than screwing around with generic corporate structure and banking, and the team seemed to be fully invested in removing as much legal noise from starting companies as they possibly could. Any problems we had they were there with us to make them disappear.

John Collison apparently said the goal of Atlas was to have an impact on access to entrepreneurship that would be visible in macroeconomic indicators, and the team seemed to really be putting in the work to reduce barriers to entrepreneurship and make that happen.

And all of it for $500, and they gave us like $5k in AWS credits. It was such a good deal that it didn't even make sense, which I assumed was because it was in beta, but it doesn't even look like it has changed.
> I don't believe in the government obliging businesses to do things.

Should government oblige Boeing to make safe airplanes? Google and others not to violate user privacy? All businesses not to sell dangerous munitions to terrorist and enemy states?

> it looks like this whole thing is Google specific

Nothing has been done or even proposed yet; what is that based on?

In the U.S. at least, generally the government can't make laws for individual companies or businesses; Congress couldn't pass a law that bilbo0s can't sell laptops in China, for example. They would have to make a law about every business doing things in China. However, I don't know the specifics of that legal principle and how it is applied here.

> Once government gets involved and starts playing favorites, everything gets messed up.

Things already seem messed up. I don't see private enterprise as more reliable than the voters and their representatives, and the latter seems like a more fair way to resolve public affairs. I guess I have faith and confidence in democracy. It is flawed, of course, just like every other human institution from Google to religious institutions to everyone here on HN.
which can be considered open source

How can it be considered open source? None of the reports (from several publications) involving the passport applications have identified the source.
Facebook would have leveraged its user base and clout to smother them in the crib.

This is why they ought to be one of the first targets for anti-trust regulation. Any company that can leverage its market size to kill competition, irrespective of the quality of their product, needs to be taken down a peg.

Google and Amazon should be close behind. And Apple needs to be put on notice.

It's not even that those 3 companies are bad actors in themselves (thought they are and aren't in various respects). It's that their investors need to know that lock-in and megalomania as business strategies aren't acceptable.
I believe Ubiquity has an option to force clients off of individual APs when their signal falls too low.

Bad for WiFi at distance but good for roaming within an office.
It's surprising that the Apple Watch still doesn't include an ANT+ radio receiver to gather data from dedicated heart rate monitors and other devices. Of course it's possible to use Bluetooth (BLE), but it's less efficient, less reliable, and not as well supported by third-party devices. I wonder why Apple left that feature out considering that most of their competitors have it and it doesn't cost much or really impact battery life?
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More specifically, the political pundits latched onto a thing that has been around for over a decade. Tor has been around since 2006, and mixmaster is even older than that.

The anti-adtech privacy movement is not new, but the interest coming from mainstream political talking heads is.
That’s an interesting idea! I’ll look in to that
IANAL, but I believe at least in California, emmployers have no right to IP that is unrelated to work IP and developed on your personal time on a personal laptop. If it is in a contract it should be unenforcable.

The key here is having a clear demarcation between work and personal projects.
There are a bunch of niche media sites that are seeing huge chunks of revenue coming from podcasts. E.g. the Ringer and Vox are both ramping up production significantly, doubling in the case of Vox, because the CPMs are so high. We'll see what happens when the venture capital streams propping up mattress, toothbrush, and meal kit startups dries up, but business model seems to be the least pressing issue at the moment.
Radio is actually more accessible on the commute than podcasts; in fact, it's the only place many people even have a radio!

I think the commute may be the last bastion of radio.
Metaphorically. I wouldn’t really choose somewhere so famous for seclusion.
Ok, "dad".

Way to cherry pick the obvious counter-argument to make.

I'll take that as a tacit agreement with the rest of what was said.
Or maybe it's just bellingcat constructing parallel evidence for already known fact.
You're assuming that people will make zero compromises to use VR- I think this is wrong, given the utility of a VR system. I could have just as easily have said when the original iPhone came out "It will look too nerdy to be staring at a smartphone- Regular people won't adopt smartphones until they can build them into a contact lens."
> Obviously very few will read that tiny caption.

Sounds like the point.

It's like having a police PSA to prevent robbery that describes in detail how to effectively commit robbery and get away with it. Afterwards, in tiny letters it says, "don't do this."
>"Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?"

No but it would be nice if they at least upheld the same values of the country that they themselves are a product of. Or are values just things you can draw arbitrary borders around when it's convenient?
And hundreds of millions of reasons why government-led heavy-handed internet oversight is worse. I also included other options such as education. But I'll take any option, including the status quo, over what I consider the nuclear option that often has unintended consequences regardless of original intent.
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On the other hand, I want the most realistic graphics, no noticeable lag, superb quality first. Convenience second, after vr immersion feels real. Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
The setting is a mbps setting. If the negotiated rate falls below X, disconnect.
I found it surprising RT aired that interview. The suspects acted extremely evasive and had a very weak cover story. The host also seemed dubious. There was one part where she said, "you all are sweating, let me turn on the AC," and another part where she said, "people won't believe you if you don't provide more information about your background." If their goal was to convince viewers that the suspects were innocent, they failed miserably.
> There's no way we'd let a chinese company take over search in the US.

Why not? Korea and China dominate the manufacturing part, why should search be any different?
For what it's worth, it's still work in progress (not really profitable, but getting there). I've been working on it for more than 5 years now for about 2 hours a day on average, steady. Basically, I spend my "hobby time" working on it. Evenings, weekends, late nights, wherever I can squeeze some spare time in. Sometimes it gets hard and frustrating as you would like to push more but don't have the luxury of going full time on it just yet.

It gets easier to balance with time as you learn how and when to squeeze in some time to work on it while still maintaining a normal life with job, family and friends.
>micron-sized calcium silicate spheres

Wonder what these will do when the concrete eventually degrades. How do these spheres act in the environment? what happens when they end up in the water system and are ingested by animals (including humans)?
Honor Magic 2 might just feature a Graphene-based battery
You need quite a powerful GPU to do VR on a PC. But mobile phones (Gear VR, Google Cardboard) can do VR with much less graphics horsepower because the entire hardware stack can be controlled. The path from the motion sensors to rendering the VR scene on a phone is very fast.

You still need a powerful mobile GPU to do good 3D graphics but actually rendering but the VR part doesn't require as much.
Well, the fact that Russia arranged "we're just two guys (wink, wink) observing church spires" TV conference for them, shows that they're not just low-level thugs.
Sure, I was an admin on Wikipedia in 2008-2012, and we were doing completely fine. The Foundation was tenth of its current size at the time, and wasn't doing much except keeping the lights running, which is all the community needed. Bear in mind that Wikipedia is run by community, and if the Foundation has anything to say in Wikipedia's internal affairs, it is through employees who also happen to be community members. If the Foundation is overworked and not efficient, it literally doesn't matter, as they don't actually do much on Wikipedia itself.
Curious who you're referring to as "this particular commenter"? The quote in question was from a Cupertino resident at a recent city council meeting, and he's a 60 year old white man.

As a side note - my wife grew up in Cupertino, and I'm there every day to drop off my kid at his grandparents. Race & class is complicated here. When my wife was in elementary school, it was about 50/50 White/East-Asian. It's now roughly 80% Indian within the school system, and the only whites around are senior citizens.

I tend to think that Silicon Valley is intensely classist and not all that racist - low-income whites get judged a lot more harshly than high-income Indians. So on that level, it's entirely possible that the commenter meant exactly what he said, with no dog-whistles involved. Another way of looking at it, perhaps, is that Chinese, Japanese, and Indians have become "white", at least within Silicon Valley, even though the latter actually have brown skin. But doesn't that dilute the meaning of "white" so much that it basically becomes meaningless, and that we should just call it classism rather than racism?
I run a non-profit outside of my day job. Whilst not a startup in the sense you are probably asking about, there are many parallels. Even though we are non profit we still require well into 6 figures per year to operate and deliver on our charitable purpose. This requires us to pitch for funding at large corporates and investors. We have a big team of enthusiastic people working on the charity, without any scope for renumeration, so the vision has to be compelling. We have to manage regulation, risk, and financial standards. It takes a lot of time. But it's well worth it. You could always consider a 'non profit startup' if you are interested in making an impact other than financial. Best of luck.
Having a self-contained single JAR that doesn't even depend on the host's ABI or OS and requires exactly one system dep - a JVM - is even nicer. And if you do want a statically linked self-contained ABI-OS specific binary Java give you that too now.
In addition to NTSC artifacts each frame shows a very distinct kind of distortion consistent with storage on an analog videotape medium. D-2 doesn't introduce this kind of distortion.
Sorry I meant gave up after burning bridges. Their plan was always to bail before monetization kicked in and be able to say they had nothing to do with it. But you don't get a $19B valuation from Facebook for a text messaging arbitrage app without being fully aware of where that money will come from. That's why they didn't forbid it, only required accelerated vesting.
It's not just telemetry.

It's also social media.

Online surveys.

Everybody and your servers needs to keep mum about it or otherwise you'll get a call.

You think I'm making this up? I've worked at two places where we were in contact with Oracle police because they thought we used (more of) their software.
You're looking at the question from a really nihilistic-libertarian perspective.

IBM was following the law when it sold the nazis tools for tracking 'undesirable' people. Google's search engine will be used to track the Uyghur, and the Uyghurs are being sent to reeducation camps at this very moment.

We're talking about an apples to apples comparison here. It's controversial _as hell_ to sell tools used to do genocide! In a democracy the government should be able to restrain businesses that perform abhorrent practices.
But it's relative, he already cashed out $3B by this pont?

The way I see it he evaluated harm to his health and well-being from doing something he didn't want vs vesting tail of his grant and chose a sane option, because he already vested enough. Similar stories on smaller scale happen all the time with VPs and directors after re-orgs.
"Four floors and corner stores" on every block of the Sunset would make a significant dent in San Francisco's housing crisis.
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Your point is valid for most, but Google has the power to shape opinion and deserves special scrutiny. The government is not just "coming in" on this issue, Google is under a consent decree due to their prior demonstrated bad practices.

On this issue, nothing will be done (I hope) because it's irrelevant to US citizens. But it is a good thing to publicly call them to task for violating their own internal guidelines and mandated policies. It's not acceptable.
“Personal time” isn't a clearcut concept for non-hourly employees, and I'm pretty sure the “unrelated” but applies to job duties (which can be quite expansive) not just existing work IP.
I'm not sure that Facebook using Instagram as a way to funnel people back to Facebook is a great strategy. Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them.

I don't know if Zuck had the foresight at the time, but Instagram has obviously been an amazing hedge against apps like Snapchat. People like Instagram and Snapchat partly because they are less formal than Facebook, most users don't even know that Facebook owns Instagram, my girlfriend is always shocked (and a bit annoyed) when I tell her.

I think it'd be smart to simply enhance Instagram's ad platform and be willing to cede Facebook MAU over to Instagram, at the end of the day the dollars all go to the same account.

If people start to become dissatisfied w/ Instagram because of "Facebook-ification" that may open up a market for a new competitor.
The ads currently narrated by the podcasters are gold.

If I was an advertiser I would want that more than anything.

The ads are generally very well suited/targeted to the audience, and they are strongly legitimized by the podcaster.

When Joe Rogan hustles 'monthly razors' he makes it very personal, talks about his own use, emotionally slams the 'dumb alternatives'. It's 10x better than a pre-recorded spot.

It's much closer to sponsorship than ads, and it's worth it.

The issue is really one of scale ... but given the advertiser doesn't have to do anything but write a few sentences of copy and then pick some podcasts and negotiate a price ... I think the scale issue is not so bad.
Isn't this the guy that switched genders and ticked off his community? What an interesting group of folks these speedrunners are!
Again, you've been asked to show the examples that support your point, and you have failed. Either you actually link the examples, or I have to conclude that you don't actually have any, or you know that none of the people you're talking about were banned for "mainstream conservative views".

Put up or shut up. Show what you were referring to, or admit that you don't have anything to complain about.
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> Is it more or less messed up than that a private corporation can and is willing to perform surveillance on foreign citizens on behalf of those citizens' government that would be unacceptable anywhere else?

It actually happens a lot more places than just China. The only reason its getting headlines now is because its Google.

There are a TON of information security companies who deal with sketchy foreign governments to develop tools to spy on their own citizens.

- Israeli company NSO helping the UAE spy on pro-democracy activist Ahmed Mansoor

- BAE Systems actively shopping surveillance tools to countries like Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE during the Arab Spring.

- Procera Networks who sold deep packet inspection tools to Turkey to spy on its citizens

- Hacking Team's surveillance software was sold to the Ethiopian government (among others) to spy on journalists and other activists in their country.

You also have Mitnick who threw his hat in the ring and said he has a team of hackers uncovering zero-day exploits that he hopes to sell to the highest bidder - even if the bidder is a repressive regime.
If you look at the non-solarpowered website, it turns out that TypeKit is serving a 830,8 KiB fullcolour PNG file. AAARGH. No wonder that they think they need to use dithering and such if that is their baseline.

I tried testing some variants and made a static HTML gallery on neocieties[1]. TL;DR:

- cleaning up the photo before filtering it makes a huge difference in image quality and compression.

- quality 80 JPG is 86,6KiB in color, 70,9Kib in grayscale.

- quality 40 (which is ugly but still has readable text) uses 44,8KiB and 37,8Kib respectively. The latter looks a lot better than the dithered image IMO.

- similarly, the grayscale PNG with pushed shadows and positioned dithering has readable text and contains significantly more detail at 4 colors and 38,7KiB than the 16-color 42,4KiB image on their server.

[0] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtec...

[1] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/low-tech-image-tests/ga...
"Social science". The term science has been appropriated by so many pseudosciences that it has lost any meaning. Because real science has such a good reputation, all the academic frauds have decided to link their field to science to enhance their own reputation. There is political "science", legal "science", economics, etc.

Here is richard feynmann's poignant take on the matter. BTW, it has gotten way worse since feynmann's interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo
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Large companies typically do payments in batches, not one-by-one, so the redundancy is not needed.

However, if they're trying to do per ride auths, then they might need redundancy there. Hard to imagine they do that.
competition implies taking different approaches. i don't think that the cap approach is inherently more confusing. the point is, there is more than one way to make a good UX on top of differing cryptographic primitives. you have one method, and that's fine, i think that capability security is a better approach so that's the path i'm taking.

i don't care about millions of people. mass adoption is fine, but i don't care about the people who already have internet, smartphones, and need convincing to drop their shitty spyware android device. i care about the billions of people who are coming online in the next 5-10 years. i'm developing[0] a stack that integrates hardware, software, and p2p/mesh protocols to compete directly with telcos and OEMs.

when you include hardware security, the user experience of per-device keys is much nicer. you need a passcode that is used to protect your device-entangled key and that's it. new devices pair like bluetooth, securely handshake, and publish `sameAs` depending on the type of device. users don't need to worry about anything beyond the device passcode. projects like dark crystal[1] make it easy to generate and distribute an emergency key that can be used to restore access to your devices if you forget your code.

[0]: https://heropunch.io/

[1]: https://darkcrystal.pw/
Ironically, the only companies who talk about how GDPR will help big companies and hurt small ones is... big companies. (It was uttered by a Googler in Congress today!) Of course, this makes no sense, why would all these big tech companies be campaigning against a law that would allegedly help them.

It's because it's a lie.
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>>"This just happens and we don’t know why.”

The person telling you doesn't know why, and there is no way for them to directly check, but there are a variety of reasons reservations get canceled, reasons they airline doesn't want to pass on to you. Top of the list is being pumped for an airline employee who needs to be somewhere. Then come premium customers such as government agencies/police/military. Then rich people (premium travelers/club members etc). When such people get a flight at the last minute, they are bumping someone else. That someone isn't told why.
I thought Inbox was reasonably safe. After all, it's part of their e-mail offering, right?
Not so much "easy" as "obvious".
From the point of view of Lua, Pallene works the same as C

If you want to produce a standalone executable, at the end of the day this executable will contain a copy of the Lua VM.

If you want to produce a library that can be "require"-ed from Lua, then you will produce a ".so" shared object file with just the Pallene functions in it.
If you're at all interested in a new industry, there is usually a podcast focused on that vertical where notable luminaries get interviewed. Listening to a few hours of shows, while doing chores or commuting, can get you up the learning curve fairly quickly.

And the tendency to prattle can be fairly helpful. It helps illuminate the thought process of the subject in ways you wouldn't get in more formal settings, or in the few sentences of quotations that appear in a press account.
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Putting 2.4 and 5 onthe same SSID is a recipe for sadness. OSX does very poorly at deciding which band it should be on, and 2.4 is largely useless in most of SF. OSX also tends to be pretty sticky. The worst is that it uses RSSI as its metric rather than SNR.
Zing and Zulu are not the same. Zing is a commercial JVM that has no open source equivalent, and has a completely bespoke design from my understanding -- calling Zing a "modified openjdk" is a stretch, from what I understand (especially considering OpenJDK is GPLv2.)

Zulu is Azul's build of open-source OpenJDK, and no different than any other OpenJDK such as one from jdk.net or AdoptOpenJDK -- it doesn't have a special JIT or special GC, but you can buy a support contract for Zulu (or use it at no cost). It's basically just another OpenJDK build, as far as most people are concerned.
> This "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making", also called permissionless innovation, is the reason why America has a culture of innovation.

I've seen that theory, but my understanding is that striking a proper balance is what fosters innovation; anarchy yields corruption and spoils for the powerful; it does not reward the most productive and innovative. Also, my impression is that other things may be much more important for innovation, especially opportunity for education, for capital, and for access to the market (e.g., rules that prevent vested interests from blocking newcomers from the marketplace).

> any solution that requires foregoing independent corporate decision making would be foolish

Should we abolish all laws and regulations about safety, fraud, and fairness? Personally, I don't see corporations as having such a great track record that I trust them so implicitly.
I find many common lisp users' attitude towards scheme condescending. It is as if we are completely oblivious to the CL ecosystem or outright stupid to prefer something else.

I assure you, we look in envy at CL and what a standardised module system, portable networking and CFFI achieves. However, we still prefer scheme. Some of us actually like a single namespace, and don't mind the difference between false and nil (I have never really met a case where that distinction mattered much).
Perhaps this could end beach and river bed theft?