skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer testimonials is a great idea! Will add those to our site when we get a minute to do so.

As you said, they would probably go along way towards providing some additional comfort to any one who has some interest but is cautious about moving forward.

The questions you raise regarding our business model are good ones. As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, a fund is something that would be interesting but that we just don't have the capital for at the moment. Furthermore, our initial motivation for creating Lofty was to address the pain point of people wanting to buy a home but being cautious about the risk. As such a pivot to a fund, while similar in nature (and perhaps simpler in some ways), would be a pivot from addressing a real pain point we see in the market to just becoming another real estate fund and is in part why we are hesitant to do so, on top of the higher capital requirements.

Appreciate the feedback!
Except for the micro plastics that you end up drinking.

EDIT for the down voters: aluminum cans have been identified as the main source of BPA in the human population.
"This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.

Our house is on fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone."

https://globalclimatestrike.net/
You know, this is probably one of the best comments I've ever received that consists of counterpoints to my own. Kudos for your well reasoned points with links. I really wish the rest of hacker news was as gracious and thoughtful as you. And this is high praise coming from me!

I disagree with your interpretations about Rawls or Mills, but I very much appreciate your views.
Perhaps. I'm curious how you might envision a future definition of "employee" that would cause YouTube creators to be considered employees of YouTube.
My counterargument to that is that businesses do not need protection to function, certainly not as much as they are given. In fact, the amount of "protection" given to large businesses today is nothing more but the result of a runaway process of allowing businesses to acquire too much power, which they can use to rig the system in order to acquire even more.

Businesses are a good and necessary concept, but that does not mean they are above the people. Businesses are servants of the people and of society.

To get back on the topic at hand, businesses should definitely not get special allowance to use some technology that "ordinary" people are outlawed from using. That is a path to disaster.
Sears (and possibly Payless too) were mortgaged past the point of sustainability.

That's fundamentally different from firms that accrued a lot of cheap debt, but have an ability to service it even under conservative revenue models.

If I have 10%+ profit margins and could increase my revenue with additional capital, why wouldn't I sell as many bonds as the market will eat, at current prices?

Provided I'm not expanding in financially risky ways (e.g. opening new stores or other delayed-revenue choices), there's not much consequence even if the music stops playing.

Which is why you saw Ford and GM announce they're hording enough cash for multiple years of downturn.
Funny how the only comment expressing lack of dissatisfaction is down voted
Another short, controversial news article with plenty of possibly good points but no actual data. For instance, home ownership is down? Okay, tell me how much and in what areas. Is it mostly densely populated areas that are running out of space? Or is it everywhere? Are there other explanations (like older first-age of childbirth?
Pinterest founders are business+design. Therefore the company is not engineering first, it's product and design first.

This is why it's not particularly loved on HN, and this is also why the tech stack is nothing special (it's not bad, it's just not special).

What is special is the unbelievable product market fit. Engaged Pinterest users 1) spend a shitton of time on the app (hours a day) and 2) interact very positively with ads (this is VERY purposeful and part of the product first company style).

I think their recipe makes for a great company, but it's not the most fun for engineers to work on (those things don't always if ever correlate).
hmm...just trying to build some self awareness in this community around how easy it is to hate on MBA's as a group. We're soooo allergic to that type of rhetoric when it's anyone else, but not at all when it comes to the "business" or "MBA" side of the house.

Imagine the phrase "Fuck Your Engineering Bullshit" was used instead - I'm pretty sure there'd be a lynching.
I didn't even realise it was going to be about Edinburgh or Fringe when I read the title, but the first thing that came to mind was the hostel there charging up to 25£ per night to sleep in a shipping container. I just arrived here but don't think I could've handled it when the weather wasn't perfect, especially at 45AUD per night.
There is a free tier now; we'll be building out the features of a premium tier ($7.99 / month) for other features. Since data is meant to be private and never shared, we're following a subscription model.
Just how long have you been with A&A? Usage policies aren't so hidden these days. You can easily find the link to the 1-2 page PDF on traffic management. If an ISP advertises unlimited, the usually mean it. I mean, of course, Virgin might have 29 unplanned maintenance events and "faults" over the course of a month, which might interrupt unlimited downloading
I noticed something was odd... I've been trying to sign into their app the past couple of days and keep receiving "Invalid credentials" errors. The website worked fine for me.
Let's not pretend that Law Enforcement (aka The Government) is asking for these powers in a vacuum. Every time a terrorist event happens, or pedophile ring is broken up the public asks why it was not prevented or stopped sooner.

The argument of data security vs physical security needs to take place with your neighbors and not just your Senators.

Don't get too mad when Law Enforcement does what your neighbors ask.
Economic discrimination, for purposes of animosity, is the opposite of reciprocal altruism.
What's behind the name?
I would argue that wealth in the last thirty years was driven by two primary methods:

1.) Automating basic and well known tasks using computers.

2.) Outsourcing not easily automatable tasks to foreign counties and importing cheap labor. Manufacturing, software engineering etc.

Things like getting wealthy in real estate and investments were off shoots of the above.

I would argue that the two above have reached their capacity to be of benefit to average Americans. Further development of the two will continue to destroy the middle class and the cultural fabric of America. People are increasingly aware of this, hence the tense political climate in this country
Learning to get along with teammates can happen in many different environments. I learned those things from sports, working construction, military experience, and a few other places.
Maybe closer to 35-45 years ago? Put another way, sometime in the late 1970s through mid 80s? Or did you mean specifically the late 1980s? I vaguely recall the adults mentioning something about a 'recession' in the early 90s, but I don't think it was anything near as bad as the last roughly 10 years.
Thanks for the note! Curious to hear more about Socialfly if you have any more info -- there have been a lot of attempts at a Personal CRM and always interested in learning from past examples.
In all the developed countries I have visited, plastic waste is omnipresent on the side of streets or beaches.
It's not a crazy idea, there are indeed logic types that implement some gate types with a single transistor. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor–transistor_logic

These were more commonly used back when transistors were expensive.
Onli Announces Believe a Micro-Commodity Trading Platform
Not China, unless you're Chinese. Right now you want to go to less developed economies.
Plant food, if it's anything, is sunlight.

But almost all of what you see when you look at a tree is made of water and CO2.
While you believe this to be strange, it is just another metric.

If you've not used Git or GitHub or any of the cloud providers for Git, it's a signal. To me it signals that someone uses open-source software or has some passing familiarity with it.

As a person that conducts interviews, the things that people leave public on a GitHub profile have been a pretty invaluable signal of attention to detail or code quality. If I see someone with a dotfiles repository, it likely means that they care about their craft a bit, and it factors into a part of the whole evaluation pie.
In principle low rates increase economic activity, production, labor demand, wages and prices (but it’s true that the theory is not working well lately).
Digging into those other costs is informative as well, the numbers for 2018:

Pre-opening location expenses $350MM
Growth and new market development expenses $475MM
Sales and marketing expenses $370MM

One could make some sort of argument that the first two categories are long-term investments, but the last one really stands out to me: they spent $37 on sales and marketing for every $25 they "earned".
> Speaking of GPS, I've always wondered what their explanation is for how GPS works if there's no globe to speak of.

The common explanation seems to be that GPS is in reality some ground-based system (think some kind of a modernized LORAN):

Sources:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-flat-Earth-theory-believers...

According to the first link, there also exists a minority opinion among Flat Earthers that satellites might exist: "being swept along by whatever “cosmological current” it is that moves the sun and moon around in the complicated spirals needed to precisely reproduce the effect that’s so simple if the Earth is round. They won’t be able to explain why those currents do what they do - or why they move some satellites in one way and some in another…but that rather weak argument seems to suffice for their own benefit.".
Combine two tables – by time series – without coding
“In relation to that cycle we are around 1936.”

Let’s hope we don’t need a big war to get the country back on track ....
You have multiple businesses, and sell assets between them... then bankrupt the lame ones.

Example: Business 1 buys a $1M piece of equipment with 30% down and 70% credit. After a couple years, and knowing that Business 1 is not that profitable anyway, the machine is sold to Business 2 for $150k, even though it's probably worth $700k still.

Business 2 makes $550k profit on the books. Business 1 files bankruptcy. The creditor loses their $250k outstanding loan. If the same owners own both businesses, they come out massively ahead.

Rinse / repeat with dozens (or hundreds) of businesses, some automated workflows and depreciation tables, credit line hacking, etc.
Am I the only person to search if "What It Takes" was the name of a new startup?
Scion of construction behemoth Bechtel launches $100M construction tech fund
I stopped reading at the date ranges. It’s comparing the decade 1983-93 (start at recovery from long recession, measure across famous economic boom with only short 1990 downturn) versus 2003-2013. (Oldish data anyway and measures across the famously deep 2008 recession which had an unusually slow recovery.) and you want to make a point about economic mobility and inequality in 2019 with this? We may have problems with economic mobility but this is a very bad version of that argument.
Most people create an account to post a comment
What is fluentd and its support in PerfIt
My parents (who live in Texas) get a rebate like this from their electricity company, which surprised me by even having an option to do it manually without a Nest-style internet-connected thermostat. If it's a day that the company wants reduced peak usage, they text+email you that you can get a rebate if you reduce usage during a certain set of hours. They judge whether you did or not by measuring your usage during those hours against your historical usage on similar-temperature days, so you can get the credit just by turning up your thermostat manually for a few hours. (This does require a new-style meter that reports hourly usage.)
I believe the primary source was named as coatings from vehicles, boats, etc. This might be a "sure, reuse bags, but the garbage patch is mostly fishing gear" situation.
I agree with both your reasoning and your sentiment, but I just want to point out, that it's not quite that obvious...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739...

> 1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says

i.e. about as much as voted for each of Trump/Clinton in the last election (which also taught us, amongst other things, that surveys are not to be trusted...)
Sorry. I will try to balance it a little - a bit of poaching can happen with each of your employees' departure.
The student loan thing is more of a big weight dragging on the middle class. It’s not like anything is going to implode — the debt isn’t dischargeable. Instead, it’s just going to drag on and on for decades, preventing the lower classes from building wealth or having kids. (In many ways, that’s a lot worse)
Oh my god I have had the same idea and have hacked on the first pass.

Yes. Keep going ! It's a good idea.

1. Tiny bit confused over whether I was signing up or logging in.

2. I can't read their names on my phone (portrait mode). Landscape is ok. Maybe reduce the font size or something

3. What's the algorithm for displaying the recommend "get in touch"? Some people are friends I have a beer with some Inhomestly can not recognise

My idea was to only recommend people whom I had replied to on
email - the presumption being I must have wanted something

So perhaps in the info field show me their last email or two so I can work out who they are

Keep up the good work !
Littered waste is distinct from 'inadequately disposed' waste in that it represents plastics that are dumped or disposed of without consent in an inappropriate location.

Whilst high-income countries tend to have effective waste management infrastructure and therefore very small quantities of inadequately disposed waste, they can contribute to plastics pollution by littering. Jambeck et al. (2015) assume a rate of littering of 2 percent of total plastic waste generation across all countries.
>Tumblr was a happy place and using it made people feel good about themselves.

Uh, what? Just off the top of my head I can think of people who've been bullied on Tumblr into attempted suicide.
Was I the only one who nodded in agreement thinking about Docker orchestration woes when reading the title? >:)
I'm sitting in a very similar situation.The company I work for provides relatively basic service, however the operational( we are brokers) model is challenging. We have tons of reports and dashboards measuring things from A to Z, sometimes it feels like we are some sort of analytics company. While some metrics are useful and help steer the ship either way,the rest simply becomes noise. Also a lot of data is not being interpreted correctly because of lack of statistics/math skills within the company.
I agree, I think we are reaching a tipping point where the economy so favors those with established wealth and corporations that UBI is going to become a necessity. It does not have to be a lot of money, just enough to provide people with a small cushion so they can take small risks to better themselves or afford the basics.

I think something overlooked by many is that without the small cushion of having family to fall back on if everything went bad or a nest egg, many of today's entrepreneurs would not exist. Risk for those whom failure means living on the street is generally avoided, especially for people with kids. A UBI would allow them to try and compete or at least live life without waking up terrified every day.
> As a jury consultant who's worked on a lot of securities and M&A-gone-wrong litigation

Plaintiff- or defense side?

> If I were a defendant accused of making misrepresentations, I'd most likely want the pitch deck kept out.

That's never gonna happen (keeping it out), so good defense counsel will grasp the nettle and get out in front of the issue.

Also (something I didn't mention before but should have):
There's a jury-psychology benefit to being able to say, in effect, we submitted all this to the SEC, and they approved the registration. It's analogous to why patent applicants are well-advised to tell the USPTO about all the prior art that they know of — so that at trial, the patent owner's trial counsel can respond to the infringer's counsel with, yeah, we know about that prior art, because WE TOLD THE EXAMINER about it, and s/he issued the patent, so who ya gonna believe — this infringer's BS argument, or the government expert who was tasked by law with issuing only valid patents? That helps fend off infringers' invalidity challenges.

> "Pitch deck stuff" is aspirational, to put it charitably.

I perused the S-1; at first glance, that pitch-deck stuff is exactly what I imagine WeWork's litigation counsel might affirmatively want the judge, the judge's law clerk, and/or the jury to see — and, at trial, for an expert witness to be able to use as a visual aid in explaining the value proposition to the jury. (I've never done securities litigation, but I used to do IP litigation for complex technologies, where similar principles apply.)

> A defendant could easily get it into evidence through a fact witness or PMQ.

True, but again, it's always nice to be able to point out to the judge/law clerk/jury that this is what was disclosed to the SEC, and that the SEC approved the registration. Sure, legally that fact has very little weight; psychologically, though, it can't hurt and it costs essentially nothing. (You do have to make sure it's factually unchallengeable, but top-flight securities counsel will do their best to achieve that anyway.)
I've been using Monica for a couple of years now and I'm very happy with it for my personal network. It's a great tool to remind me who is connected to whom and what to ask about before attending a party. The online version is here: https://app.monicahq.com/register
It's a nice touch that that image of the flat Earth seems to have been generated from satellite imagery of the continents.
Almost all the bootcamp grads I've met in the industry, in SF, make market rate.
Maybe the USA was historically "fertile" because the original inhabitants were exterminated, leaving behind a wealth of material resources available for the taking.

One could contend that the notion of "frontier" was the land until the 20th century, it was "the rest of the world" in the 20th century, and now there is none because the system is in temporary equilibrium without any huge wars or natural disasters.
I'd encourage you to read this book, it certainly made me think differently about China: Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
by Henry M. Paulson

https://www.amazon.com/Dealing-China-Insider-Economic-Superp...
Automation is definitely an area I've thought a lot about -- it's the most common feature request by far. If you actively use your calendar, Dex does a reasonable job of integrating your calendar events with your records. Email is on the roadmap.

We've built the Chrome extension as a temporary substitute, but full automation is definitely the eventual vision. Unfortunately the more interesting channels (Messenger / Facebook) don't have accessible APIs so integrating with them has been an ongoing challenge. Would appreciate any automation suggestions as you try it out!
> a dose of medicine for the consumer

seems like there's a risk of:

higher labor and materials costs leading to higher prices, leading to lower sales, leading to reduced revenue, leading to workforce reductions, leading to lower sales, leading to reduced revenue, leading to workforce reductions...

ie a basic recession spiral.
Except for the parts in SMM (often considered "ring -2", below virtualization) that are installed by UEFI to implement stuff like Authenticated Variables (the thing that makes UEFI Secure Boot work and requires a rather complete crypto library for it). See https://firmware.intel.com/sites/default/files/resources/A_T...
There is no such thing as "celebrate failure" culture in Europe. Not in France, not in Netherlands, not in Germany. Safety net is not free (it limits the top achievement), and is not available for everyone (e.g. as an immigrant, I am not allowed to use most of the social services; the same will apply for you).

US culture is much more preferable for the entrepreneurs.
>but GMOs haven't yielded only positive results.

Neither have vaccines, in 1999 the rotavirus vaccine was withdrawn because of reports of intussusception.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5334a3.htm .

However, on the whole, the safety and efficacy of vaccines and their life-saving nature has been shown in study after study and there is scientific consensus that the benefits outweigh the risks.

The same with GMO. Just like vaccines, there are risks and they will require regulation. However, study after study has shown that the benefits outweigh the risks, and there is scientific consensus on the issue. In addition, GMO opposition does actively harm people. An example is the opposition to Golden Rice which would significantly reduce Vitamin A deficiency worldwide.

From http://www.goldenrice.org/:

>For biofortification alone GMO technology can deliver high folate rice (mothers’ dietary deficiency causes birth defects), high zinc and high iron rice (dietary deficiency impedes mental development). Similarly, GMO Golden Rice provides a source of vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is an immune deficiency syndrome, so children die of common infections. It is also the main cause of irreversible childhood blindness. Golden Rice has been accepted as safe for consumption by the Governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and USA, and registrations have been applied for in Philippines and Bangladesh. Yet, significantly due to rejection of science by activists, Golden Rice is not yet available to farmers and their communities as an additional intervention for vitamin A deficiency. And neither high folate rice, nor high iron rice, nor high zinc rice, nor Golden Rice could be developed without the use of GMO-technology.

Based on the above, it is logical to group anti-GMO opposition in with anti-vaxxers as people that reject science and endanger the health of humans.
There are 15 countries according to this study: https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways...

Also see - https://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams...
Canada
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/has-the-american-dream-m...

Canada, Denmark, UK (2017)
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-of-social...
my guess is that they're buying put options on the shiller home-price index, at a strike price 20% below the spot price.

though, those indices are only granular at the city level, whereas during a recession all neighborhoods in a city don't drop in value by the same rate - eg for bay area in 2008, east bay got decimated, whereas palo alto/peninsula barely dropped 5%.
It's meant to evoke 'Rolodex' but not directly :)
Mommy Blogger Uses Facebook to Attack Drag Queen Story Hour. It Backfires
Now I just need to get my laser measure (the Leica here https://helpatmyhome.com/best-laser-measure/ ) to talk to me! Would be a big time saver.
Read it - they don't delete your data.
I think we should ban the use of plastic where there are viable alternatives. Kids toys are mostly made of plastic when they could easily be made of wood.