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I am a Google Cloud Platform PM.

Googlers are very active in many forums, including HN, Stack Overflow, mailing lists, and other forums, not just via paid support.

If a customer is having trouble reaching someone at Google regarding Google Cloud Platform issue, I'm sorry to hear that, and would love to hear what was tried and did not work so we can improve the process, but we are listening and paying attention, and happy to hear constructive criticism.

It's definitely NOT the intent that you must personally know someone at Google to resolve an issue with your Google Cloud Platform account.
Has anyone come acoss a list of infected devices for this one, or the ones infected with the adups spyware?

And more importantly, are there any kits/apps to detect or remove these?
Code Hotel distinguishes "I have a pilot on board" from Hotel meaning "I am conducting rotary-wing flying operations".
Will check that, thanks
Parallel conversation on /r/android: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/5dzw2h/stockdroids...
voice controlled command line? audio text book? maybe just accept you're not going to get much done when you're on the road. do you want a programming course for when you're sleeping too? give it a rest guy
Over the last few years there have been many open projects trying to displace the big names in social media, but none of them seem to have even taken baby steps into fulfilling their goals in becoming a widespread open standard. On the other hand siloed services, such as Slack, pop up out of nowhere and take the tech world by storm.

What is the solution here, because it just seems to be getting worse? I don't want all my data to be controlled by a single company, on the other hand I don't want to like like a hermit in a cave.
Researchers registered the other two domains

I don't even know where to start....
Here are the two things I do during my commute:

1. listen to programmers podcasts (e.g. Full Stack Radio)
2. listen to entertaining/news podcasts and audio-books.

Everything else just doesn't work.
Audiobooks.
Tree Style Tabs should continue to work. It's a very popular extension. Mozilla should probably include a disclaimer about Tree Style Tabs still working with any blog post about WebExtensions. :)

Mozilla is now beta testing a prototype of native Firefox vertical tabs, though it is not as advanced as Tree Style Tabs:

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center
When economies of scale have allowed Walmart to drive all the other shops out of business in your town, and you need to earn money to live, you don't exactly have a fair bargaining position as an employee.

Do you seriously believe that any of the floor staff at Walmart have been able to negotiate a separate wage for themselves?
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The same ACM that didn't care about a well-known security hole at a contractor's site - affecting thousands of scientists - for several years [1]?

The same ACM that calls verbatim plagiarism "sloppy scholarship" [2]?

The same ACM that doesn't seem to have an official position on excessive state surveillance [3]?

I am no longer a member.

[1] https://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/sheridan-secu...

[2] https://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/acm-ethics-pl...

[3] http://www.acm.org/public-policy/public-policy-statements
(in contrast, the German Chapter of the ACM / Gesellschaft for Informatik has condemned excessive surveillance multiple times in the past)
Thanks for the feedback!

I'm PM for another Google Cloud database (not Cloud SQL), but will share this with the team.
It's never been attempted before!
Oh wait... (app.net; Path; identi.ca; Ello...)[1]
[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/twitter/
This is a fundamental difference in view point on the concept of "Freedom".

That's also why it's important to call taxation for what it truly is. Until people can be born free without automatic obligation to the state to provide for "your freedom", then they're not really free. That is the only freedom that matters and is definable outside of feel-good politics. So lets be honest: I'm losing the "Freedom" to spend all my money how I choose, so you can be free of the worry that certain "bad" things may happen to you.
Currently setting up rclone+duplicity -> rsync.net

rsync.net partly because I want a solution whereby if an attacker ever gains access to our credentials, they could not wipe all of our backups, a la http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608076/data-center/murder-... . Most other backup stories do not survive that type of threat.

rclone because it allows consolidation of various cloud data (sending that to rsync.net in case they ever get damanaged/wiped).

work+personal separate of course.
Were I a slave and then given an opportunity to be a indentured servant, sure I'd agree. That doesn't mean I live in good conditions. Yea, I could terminate the agreement and move on to being a slave again, but why would I?

It's an agreement made under duress, we can do better for these people. Don't you agree?
About five years ago I bumped into an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen since around 2005. Despite not keeping in contact physically, we both knew everything about each other's lives. It was great to reconnect, but we didn't have the typical reward that comes with the rediscovery. I knew what he was doing for work, the projects he had going on the side, etc.

Tracking my friends stripped a lot of the romance, joy. and mystery out of reconnecting.

Around the same time I got into a new group of friends that were all about their 'personal brand.' Every occasion was started with a good ten minutes of silence while they checked-in to Yelp, Foursquare, snapped photos of the venue / table / food, and tweeted bullshit along the lines of 'having the time of my life!' -- I spent the time looking for typos and leading errors on the menus. It was exhausting. Everybody was there, but nobody was present. Even the meal itself was dull because of the endless obsession with creating something it wasn't.

I never bought into those bullshit games of 'put your phone in the middle of the table' or whatever. If you're a typical human being, my expectation is that you can silence your phone and have the slightest bit of restraint to avoid looking at it every few minutes. I understand if there's an emergency or whatever, but otherwise, keep it on vibrate and be done.

Around this time I completely disabled all notifications and the phone never made a peep.

A few years after that I starting tracking how many images and tweets I was reading vs enjoying. It was about one in twenty or so.

Examining my own tweets and other contributions to social media had me realizing that I was as social as a guy at a party shouting opinions over the music to a room full of people doing the same. It wasn't social, and it was barely media.

I decided to purge the accounts and start from scratch -- and will be doing so every year or so. Starting fresh is nice, but I find that I rarely have anything of actual value to contribute.

I've avoided facebook for years and only use it for events. Instagram is all kids. Twitter is all business and 'I'm speaking at x conference --- here's a link to an instagram post of a photo of a slide in my presentation taken from the back row'. I've avoided the graphic design sites like dribbble where most 'portfolios' aren't filled with client work or art, just 99designs level work that is good, but irrelevant... and the list goes on.

Social media isn't completely dead, but for me, I checked out a long time ago.

I'm hoping that the next wave will be a hybrid of twitter, meetup, foursquare, and tinder --- an app where you check into a location to say 'I'm here, who wants to hang out?' and you can hang out with some strangers for a time.
I wonder what kind of effect today's technology has.

I mean, my son is 3, and already has hours of videos stored. And he likes watching those videos of himself and family even now.

How is this going to affect memory formation later in life? Should we hide those videos from him to avoid some kind of a feedback-loop that can somehow mess with his memory?
What are some of your favorite more technical podcasts?
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It should be clarified that this fact refers to a ball of volume 1 in N dimensions. Since the volume is held constant, as the dimension goes to infinity, so does the radius.
How can you have more memories than you can remember? Isn't that a contradiction?
You mean /best instead of /beat?
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Well, I just got tired of hipster bullshit and memes.

There is the only one way to prove something - it is to show that there are logical truth of all the statements and implication all the way back to the starting assumptions. Students learn this in an undergrads AI class, leave alone the basics of mathematical logic.

This shit is full of gaps in logic, just a pile of memes upon memes (dark energy, my ass!) and bullshit all the way down. Just a single flaw in logic anywhere in the chain of statements is enough to throw away all the crap. A single failed assertion.

Things which are not confirmed by independently replicated experiments are beliefs not facts. Socially constructed memes. The people who speculate about unproven sets of beliefs are sectarians, not scientists.

This and similar bullshit is no different from the cosmology on the walls of Egyptian pyramids or the stories about angels pushing the planets to keep them moving on its orbits.
> you don't exactly have a fair bargaining position as an employee.

Sure you do. You can choose exactly what you want out of the deal. That's also the problem.

> Do you seriously believe that any of the floor staff at Walmart have been able to negotiate a separate wage for themselves?

No, which is why we advocate removing the fairness. Fair does not equal good. Fair is what leads to this situation.
I'm strongly considering this. I've got about 30-40GB of music stored locally (relatively small, I know), and I'm not sure why anymore. I tend to prefer mainstream music, so it's easy to find this stuff, and I've not listened to anything local in many years.

My biggest concern with deleting them would be forgetting about music that I previously liked. Seems like running `find` on my music directory would solve that.

Then again, with 30-40GB, I could just stick it all on a couple SD cards (for redundancy) and ignore them in a drawer.
When you put it that way, it sounds like Walmart is doing them a great service. Keeping them off the street. And saving the taxpayers welfare dollars at the same time.
>A teacher of mine told us, "Don't try to imagine 4D space. You can't. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere, you're wrong. It's just not possible."

Your brain is a computer. If a computer can manipulate 4D hypersphere, so can you.

You can't visualize it, but that's a different thing. You can't visualize a 3D sphere either, only 2D projection.
Why did gnu social fail? What happened to diaspora?

I think what blogs were missing where the social network. They had the blogroll, but it wasn't enough. Tumblr almost got it right, but somewhere along the way they seem to have messed up.
Probably off topic, but this reminded me of the only other retailer (that I'm aware of) that could challenge Walmart for the title of "most vehemently anti-union employer in America": Menards[0][1]

[0] http://gawker.com/menards-the-gold-standard-of-union-hating-...

[1] http://gawker.com/documents-how-a-major-company-bombards-emp...
I don't believe for one second that xenophobia against Muslims, or protecting your country from illegal immigrants, is in any way unethical. Perhaps you have nothing to lose, but the rest of us have a country to defend.
"I don't want all my data to be controlled by a single company, on the other hand I don't want to like like a hermit in a cave."

Follow Dave Winer and absorb the lessons he has/is solving ~ http://scripting.com/2016/11/19/fasterScriptingcomHomePage.h...
The market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent. :)
1. US/CIA did not support a coup, no coup was attempted or has taken place in Syria, this is not even a point of controversy. Instead the US provided support to factions after a civil war had started. Revolution does not imply coup.

2. As another poster noted, ISIS started in Iraq not Syria.

3. The Syrian factions which the US supported are opposed to ISIS and fought several early battles against them. Some US allies in the region sent aid to ISIS, but the US worked to limit and stop that aid.

4. The Pentagon is not backing Assad and still provides aid to anti-Assad groups.
Better idea: Let's turn it off and not replace it.
commute by bike. 3 hours in the car every day is brutal.
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For starters we could do without total lack of responsibility.

Real engineers can be sued and loose if they signed off on something

In software? Almost every EULA comes with "We assume no responsbility for anything, anywhere, ever"
Why is the author allow to pedal truth-identifying services by I am not. If I make my own HN post would that be better lol
Relax and clear your head. Listen to some music, audio books.
The next time you're forced to do something illegal, simply report it to everyone in the world, preferably as anonymously as possible and with as much evidence as possible. If you don't fight it, who will?
I do that too, but I wonder if it really matters. Does China care about what I as a citizen of Germany say about their five year Plan? Maybe. Enough for them to take Action? Doubtful.
I have a side project and usually in the morning I have a pile of emails waiting in my inbox, so I reply to as many of them as I can on my bus ride to work. Basically doing support.
"Lots of middle-aged folks now will have grown up with their only idea of the union as being the lazy teamster who does nothing all day except file grievances, or the fabled electrician who won't plug in your power cord at a trade show because it's someone else's job."

Or have had the actual experience of not being allowed to plug in your own electrical cord at a trade show and blaming in on the union - which is probably right.
I'm not saying unions are all bad but in the US ones don't have a good track record.

When the AFL-CIO asks for an exemption to the $15 minimum wage it doesn't help their image.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/los-angeles-...
That's an argument for saving for a rainy day.
That the Earth's average temperature has been rising is also not untrue and can also be observed and measured. Yet it is often denied in political context, e.g. Sen. Jim Inhofe brought a snowball into the Senate as evidence to the contrary.

"The sky is blue" is a non-political statement only because no one stands to make money convincing people otherwise.
Seriously, do you think that's how it happens? Is that bluster, naivety, or what?

Why not assume they're genuinely curious to learn rather than attack them? It gives better conversation.
All the more reason to not make predictions one can't back, then, isn't it? :P
If Trump goes up against Walmart and actually makes life better for those blue-collar whites, I'll literally buy a hat and eat it.

I doubt Trump will want a second term - he's made it now, and thumbed his nose at everyone. He'll find out that he can't just do what he wants as president and his days are ridiculously packed, and won't go for a second term.
This. But keep awareness of your surroundings while you do :)
The OP is right to consider professional development during their commute, but it's not the only thing they could do. Instead driving time being professional development time, it could be hobby time. Listening to the news or audio books could free up time spent doing that at home for other things. This assumes, of course, that the OP has hobbies that they pursue at home that could be shifted to car time.
Harder to set up. With centralized systems, all you need is the URL and you can get the magic social-stuffy box on any device you have.

(TBH a centralized service actually feels better, too, because you know it's the service and not some random collection of pieces held together by agreement and duct tape. Partitioning problems are pain enough with centralized services at scale, but they're worse with decentralized ones.)
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I have an Audible subscription, so I listen to audiobooks on my way back and forth to work (43 miles one way). The only IT related stuff I listen to is podcasts and that's mostly news. I'm not sure its a good idea to listen to anything super, technical that might require more attention than just listening to songs on the radio. You are driving after all.

I guess the trick for me is that the audio substitutes for other entertainment time so I can watch a training video when I am not occupied by driving.
The art of not giving a fuck link was actually pretty good read
Ah, okay an issue specific to Java.
if you answer why there are american companies milking till the last drop of our natural resources I can answer why we get your jobs.
Price is based on the value. If you are unsure of the value, ask. Or 3x cost and find the metrics for your break even point then charge that. (# users * $$ * Months) = B/E
You can also have milk from plants.
You can't. I tried. It is impossible to concentrate enough to absorb anything in rush hour traffic.

I ended up quitting and taking a job to which I can take public transportation.
My general expectation is to the contrary. I think people underestimate how psychologically ingrained the dollar is into the american people. Money will still be worth something, maybe not as much as I like, but something. People have so much faith in the system, that everybody will be hedging against "when things get better".

Even then "failure of banking" does not have to be universal. Maybe my assets are frozen or other similar, localized issues.

In the grand scheme of things, gold is also likely to be difficult to liquidate. It does not really have any intrinsic value at this point.

As to where: On a hill, by a lake, surrounded by paranoid gulf war vets with lots of guns.
For me personally how do you get list of best books. We have just too much books but finding out good ones is difficult process.
The costs involved are higher (though or course of the same magnitude), but money seems ever present e.g the concept of malpractice insurance.

Foreign doctors can certainly help lower salaries for doctors but they need to be a large fraction, if they are a small fraction they'll just enjoy the high salaries of their US educated peers.
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I remember reading some articles that justified DLR as CIL not having enough semantics that allowed to properly implement optimization algorithms commonly used in dynamic languages, like method lookup and call site caches.

Then again, maybe I understood it wrongly back then and I surely don't have the knowledge of your team.
The algae produce it.
"Invites here to register...this is a bunch of personally identifying information..."

Yes. Of course. Isn't that the definition of "register"? It means to input your identifying information.

Cf. First definition under intransitive verb (the sense used here): http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/register
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why the hate for imported stuff? Do you want everything you buy to be made in USA? I don't understand you people. Trade is good for all of us. No country can build everything.
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If the difference between Twitter's speech limits and Gab's is that the latter allows Nazis and harassment, I think you'll find most prefer "less" free speech.
Try listening to some 'non technical' podcasts. That is what I do on my 1 hour walks in the morning. It is strangely refreshing not to have to focus on technical talks all the time, but I find creative talks tend to inspire me and get me thinking in different ways about my work.

Added bonus is that you don't have to be 100% focused on what you are hearing, you can kind of drift in and out as something interesting catches your attention and still not lose the thread of the topic.

Two of my favourite podcasts are "99% Invisible" (creativity, architecture) and "The Tim Ferris Show" (biohacking, inspiration, interesting people etc.)
You seem to enjoy pretending that Hillary lost because of fake news and "clearly everyone else is just plain stupid" and not because she's the most corrupt politician possibly in our country's history, so why not pretend about more stuff?
Thanks, can you suggest me one or more particular podcast or a site to download podcasts from?
It sounds a lot like "I assume FB has good data practices based on nothing, and I assume this app has bad data practices based on nothing, thus this app is probably bad".

Yeah, the app has an option to fill in your store ID, but Facebook has at least as valuable data on you (like many private conversations), and has the tooling to extract all kinds of markers from this rich data (i.e. for advertising and running facial recognition on all your pictures). Fraud opportunities are everywhere in the centralized social media (/ web services) sphere.
No! That is not really how most people calculate how much to charge for a SaaS product. Usually, it comes down to two things.

First, what's the total per-user cost? That includes, servers, storage and even the user acquisition cost. i.e. ads. Second, what is the product worth to the user in terms of it solving their problems. For example, if the product costs $10 and it saves them between $100 to $500 per month. It's something they will likely be fine with. Simply put, it's about the cost-to-value for the customer. How much are they willing to pay to solve their problem. It can be a $1 or even $1000 per-month.

I would advise you to research your potential customers and find out these things for yourself.

Good luck!
My life changed when I started to listen to audiobooks while driving to/from work. However, the audiobooks are usually not pure technical, but always topics that can help me become better in many aspects in life in general, including professionally.
You can get nightlies on cyanogenmod.
Going over the same basic points over and over again might be a better conversation, but it's always the same comversation, which gets tiresome.
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It is a fascinating idea. Let's explore it:

The app would let users signal need from a buyer so that workers in their social network could agree on the price to give them.

If buyers managed to find the service somewhere else, users could snap a picture of the person/company who won the business and "review" them so that their network knew not to help the winner out, like if their brakes were about to fail or their house caught fire or whatever.

Signup would be free but users would pay like %5+ of their paycheck, which they will be fine with because of the increased benefits they get, and we would use the money for expansion and blocking competitors. Uber failed at getting political support because they were greedy capitalists who create injustice, so campaign contributions will be one of our big cost centers, but the returns will be well worth it.

Instead of an auction for services and market making like the apps we have today, it's a way to collude to fix prices. If they act now, YC can get %5 for a mere $50m.

Imagining the utility elevator pitch, "...no, no, like Grindr but for comrades!" An app for creating labor cartels.

What will I call it? "Koloodr."