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Would love to hear if someone actually has had a positive support experience with Google.

My company has faced a bug in their location dashboard for over a year. We support local businesses and often get asked to update their Google business details. We're unable to delegate location dashboard access inside our Apps domain. My partner can send the invite to any gmail account, but can't send access to me inside the company. I can't even access my own company's panel through my paid Apps account.

We've had calls, emails, sent tweets. Repeatedly asked for supervisors or for the issue to be forwarded to an engineer. The typical response is to get blamed or deal with support confusion in India over what we're trying to achieve.

The end result of 'partner' support? They gave a 2 hour notice over a major rebrand to GSuite. The only way they could do it better is send us a postcard simply saying 'FUCK YOU!', and in smallprint 'but thanks for your money and information'. As said in other threads on this topic, Comcast offers better support. That's telling.
This really resonated. I wish I knew a term for "everything is just fine (objectively great, even), but I couldn't care less."
PyTables
Sure, when you do orders, they execute in the order that you click them.

So if you very quickly press, square 1 to square 2 to square 3 to square 4, the army starting in square 1 will go to 2, then 3, then 4, picking up all extra units along the way.
I have the same issue in terms of needing to split my attention. I always have multiple computers or at least screens up doing multiple things and then at least listening to a few things in the background. It's very frustrating when I can't do that.
I don't think this would be a really successful model.

For one, once this scales, it's either gonna cost a ton to moderate unless you have it do people voluntarily, in which case you'll get moderators that don't care or alternatively you won't scale.

On second, I'm having serious doubts if such a community could grow a honest and public forum wherein opinions and statements are calmly discussed and properly evaluated.

Especially the second one is a huge problem, it makes any discussion platform essentially worthless, no matter how hard you try to be nice.
The politics ban ended early. This has been explained now in countless threads.
Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
nitpick: The actual title of the article is "How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running" and that's like the best summary it can get. Neurogenesis (a word not even in the article) being linked to exercise is only one of the mechanisms involved (another commenter mentions endorphines as well, which strangely isn't in the article)
I agree, but I wouldn't characterize polish as "marketing". Polish includes design cohesion, build quality, choice of materials, a philosophy of engineering in service of the user experience (consider the comment elsewhere in this thread about how Apple has bespoke handling for Thunderbolt to allow it to power down at idle), and software/hardware integration. It's arguable that Apple has slipped in some of these areas, but none of them are "marketing", and all of them contribute to the sense of quality (and to cost).
So they impersonate a state agency to collect a real fee but then overcharge for it like they're doing you a favor? How is this crap legal?
If it forms a binary tree, the leaves itself will be 50% of the population. (much worse in case of 3-nary tree?)
> I would imagine a software engineer at [popular internet company] is earning a lot more than £7.35 an hour

Not necessarily. Depends on the location and the experience.

There are places where the pay would be in this range and the rent would be half of that.

1/10th costs of living of the valley is nothing extraordinary.
I know some subreddits have "be kind and respectful" built into their rules, but this is often gamed by some redditors who will make carefully worded passive aggressive statements at ideological opponents and then quickly call for banning them when they react. There are also moderation issues with volunteer moderators sometimes using different standards of "kind and gentle" based on whether they agreed with the views of given posters. It seems hard to maintain standards like "kind and gentle" in any objective manner.
This is the opposite of why people are leaving reddit. Neat idea, but misguided.
In case the website does not work, you can try this link:

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If you enjoyed this article it's hard to imagine there exist other things on the subject you wouldn't enjoy much more. Read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which is mentioned in the article, for instance.
foobar2000 and Amarok both did their first public releases roughly at the same time (foobar2000 end of 2002, Amarok June 2003).
Yes, it is insanely frustrating. I think I did fairly well in law school in part because I wrote a program to auto-format my cites, which saved me hours of mindless, awful, pedantic, irrelevant blue booking.

>The firm charges their clients on an hourly basis, so they don't really have an incentive to be more efficient.

While I agree that the billable hours system reduces the incentive to be more efficient, I don't think it removes it entirely. Otherwise lawyers would still be using typewriters to draft memos. In my experience, removing some of the inefficiencies frees up time and mental bandwidth to focus on activities which actually benefit the client. More time reading cases, researching, evaluating issues. And you can bill for that.
A nice summary would be: Hope changes spending habits.
I've always had similarly positive experiences with Google hardware support. I dropped a Nexus 5 a year (and a few days) after I'd bought it - only time I've ever shattered a screen. They sent me a refurb replacement immediately, no charge.
Rewarding, can be a little draining, easy to fall of the wagon. I did a processing sketch a day for 30 days. I time boxed it at 20 minutes, which always went over, but that was the target. It was invigorating to have a creative _task_ to do everyday. If I didn't do it in the morning, I'd think about it all day.
Meh, downvoted you by accident and this stupid iPad interface won't let me undo. Making a comment to undo when on a computer.
I don't think that's true - at least not in every country / society.
This is one of those web sites / initiatives I don't see the next administration continuing. Not that the current administration seemed particularly influenced by it, but still.
This is the same tired justification of injustice that "states rights" advocates trot out.
Law enforcement generally didn't treat places like Glens Falls, NY or Syracuse as the border zone. Now they do.

If you're a brown person or have an accent, and traveling via Amtrak from NYC to Buffalo, you may be hassled or pulled off the train by Customs or Border Patrol. That didn't happen until a few years ago.
What I don't understand about ransomware in general is how the AES key is stored on the machine. I'm assuming that it's grabbed from the server, used only during encryption, and then scrubbed from RAM/filesystem. Otherwise, it would be possible to recover the key post-encryption. Or am I missing something?
The Thyssen-Krupp walkway at the Toronto airport is only 7.2 KPH (4.5MPH) in the middle, fast section.[1] Wikipedia claims it's usually broken. The Paris Montparnesse 9 KPH moving sidewalk had too many falls, was slowed down, and later removed. The "10 MPH moving sidewalk" is a discussion item in a paper, not a working system. This is a tough mechanical problem, with no really good solutions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4UF6LQKMps
nihilism, apathy, depression, aloofness, stoicism, detachment, listlessness.

Take your pick. Stoicism is what I use to describe that, and to personally for finding peace
Novel and innovative. This guy is disrupting the ransomware industry. ;)
Is it right for you to have drinking water delivered through modern technologies and systems? Is that your moral right?

Should we discuss whether you have the moral right to water, or should we discuss the formal plans to erect an infrastructure of water?

The latter doesn't require you to do any serious moral labor (deliberation and consensus work). You need only want. Do we both want something? Then we already have a basis for discussion. The question of whether you want workers to be paid more is far easier to answer than the question of whether moral consensus on workers wages can be achieved in your lifespan.

Also, how many moral frameworks for achieving moral consensus are you aware of? There are certainly frameworks for achieving empirical consensus on policy effectiveness.
Fwiw though little guys are just as happy to screw you over. I've had both the best service and worst service from mom and pop stores. Big guys can afford to provide service - sometimes the little guys are petty or vindictive or just can't afford to make things right. There's no solution.
It's worth noting that the meanings of a number of very important words have changed over the last 500 years -- sometimes enlarged, sometimes really changing, including: true/false, fact, theory, explanation, believe, logic, etc.

And "thinking". Consider the difference between using logic in traditional mathematics to how thinking needs to be done in the sciences. In the former, we are deriving something, in the latter we are -negotiating- between phenomena and our representations. In science, we don't get to nail our premises/definitions, and we don't get to enumerate the extent cases. We only get inductions. And so on. A "perfectly reasoned conclusion" still needs to be checked out with nature.

In life in the large we have to be even more careful about logic, because it plays into several dozens of biases we have -- ultimately from genetics, but many have been honed by our cultures. In order to do modern thinking in almost every arena, we have to add a lot of context to normal logic, and often have to paradoxically weaken it in order to think better.

In talks, I try to get audiences to understand that logic is not nearly as good a way to think about thinking and do thinking as (say) science is. And science is not the only powerful context we can use to help us calibrate our mental compasses.

With regard to "thinking", logic is one of the servants of the Art, not the Master.
High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs
double nitpick: 'neurogenesis' is in the article, it is in the third sentence of the third paragraph.

But yes, it is not the focus of the article, because the article has almost no focus. There is an irony in the idea that a runner writing an article about using running to get focus and calm would be so unfocused, disjoint, frenetic and confused, but only a minor irony.
That's interesting how they use the sob story. Anyone wanting to pay is going to feel conflicted, so they give the user an out by letting them feel like they're helping poor people in Syria. They've chosen Syria because it's well-known and in the news.

I wonder if their English is poor, or if they're trying to be endearing to help their conversion rates. You could confirm the former by correlating it with what common errors people in different countries make.

It doesn't look like they expect people to infect their friends, but offering the false choice is a pretty common way of making people feel slightly more in control. It probably helps their conversion rates, even if nobody picks the blue option.
This should be part of Jack Handy's book club! http://www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/category/deepthought...

Joking aside, it is excellent to start the day with mindfulness and purpose.
> You see in India, a general rule of the thumb defined by the society is that you complete your college, get a job in some “renowned” company, and get your life set. Though this mentality is changing in the current generation, it is still prevalent in the older ones.

That's not necessarily a bad thing IMO. My father grew up in Bombay and he too resisted this 'mentality' and pursued his arts passion - documentary photography. Despite winning awards for his war photography (Indo-Pak War and the Indo-China War) he was struggling to make ends meet.

Eventually he put himself through engineering college studying nights and weekends and made it to US into a Masters Program and that's when he had me. He used to tell me this story in my 'coming of age' years, but he never forced me to take up Engineering or Medicine. Eventually, I ended up becoming a Computer Science major rather than pursue my Sports career ambition (more on that some other day). I am still thankful to my dad for instilling that thing you call 'Indian Mentality'. I know my father would've supported me if I had gone the Arts or Sports route, but I am so glad he showed me how the real world is. :)
Guardian Long Read: Welcome to the Age of Anger
> 1) Private entities must pay for speech they disagree with on their private platforms and in their private conferences even if that opposing speech causes them to lose the funding that allows for them to pay for it in the first place.

Just thinking about your point (1), I'm not sure it is impossible, depending on the industry. Isn't it just the straightforward position for most companies that are considered common carriers - they can't discriminate?
I also get those from Arvixe even though all my domains are set to auto-renew. eyeroll
Anecdotal of course, but my one and only interaction with Google support was a positive experience. This was on the retail hardware side rather than in software/services (IDK if there are different support depts., I would assume so). I bought one of the v2 Chromecasts direct from Google Store when they came out. FedEx delivered it to the wrong address. Called support (which was, to my surprise, easy to find an actual phone number for, and I was speaking to an actual human being. Probably because this was 'retail' related), and after 1 phone conversation and 2 email exchanges he filed a case with FedEx - which required no involvement from me - and i was sent a replacement free of charge. About a week later my across-the-street neighbor knocks on my door and gives me a FedEx package with my name and address on it, it was the Chromecast. Turns out the FedEx delivery driver mistakenly delivered it to his house, which has only a 1-digit difference in Address. Honest mistake, it happens. I e-mail the support guy I talked with before -- to my surprise again, this was a direct e-mail address of his, not a randomly generated 'post only' email, so he actually responded. I explained the situation, and asked where I should ship the replacement one they sent back to. They tell me to just keep it and do whatever I want with it (the guy even specifically said "give it away, sell it on eBay, do whatever"). Granted, it's only a $35 device, and it likely costs Google far less than that, but still - I did appreciate it, and my sister does as well because she got a free Chromecast.
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Generally they generate a private / public keypair, transmit them to a server, store both somewhere while the encryption process is in progress, then they scrub the local private key.
> (This is getting close to politics, a really tiresome subject which happily is banned right now on HN.)

Nope that ban is gone[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
This is so much fun, great work!
The encryption uses a public/private keys to encrypt the files using the public key, while keeping the private key stored on the remote servers. The clients PC never has access to the decryption key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
I visited Coral Castle a few years ago. It's a truly strange sight (it reminded me of Opus 40 in NY [0]), and definitely worth checking out if you're in Miami-Dade area.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_40
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I don't see how you could be down voted for this on a forum that specializes in exactly that: supply and demand.

Amazon needs the work done, people are willing to do that work for that wage under such conditions - supply and demand. At least people have that option; impose restrictions, and many go from having that option to not having it (while the employer finds cheaper options).
We sometimes detach threads that users have already flagkilled when they don't bring new information to a discussion, since we're all here to learn and memes and clichés can get in the way of that. "Obligatory xkcd", especially the standards one, is as predictable as anything here.
I think this is an inherent problem with dynamically typed languages. There are no reliable refactoring tools so even the slightest non compatible change can be lurking anywhere for years. And with things like meta programming, monkey patching and relying on private members, even changes that are supposed to be backwards compatible might end up to not be.
I've got a T450s. The T460 is in many ways a downgrade from the T450s--no magnesium case, etc. It's also a major downgrade from the MBP. Dual-core rather than quad core, 14" rather than 15", no high-DPI display, SATA rather than NVMe. I think the touchpad and screen are similar to the T450s, and both those are very mediocre. The battery life is great, though, with the 6-cell.
Decompiling isn't the hard part, it's providing all of the infrastructure the code depends on.
What about a situation when you develop something in a company, then company doesn't show interest in it and effectively shelve it, and then you leave the company and want to come back to developing it? Be it in another company, which is yours or not?

Technically it's a property of the previous company. However if you later enhanced and expanded it further, you ought to have a share. And in practice, don't we have some good examples of startups which were built on ideas initially rejected?
I was interested in reading more about your Burpee habit, but the email signup form was getting a bit obnoxious. When I scrolled down, the sticky header for the subscription box had the "X" offset under the scrollbar, making it tough to hide (Nexus 6P), and successive pages repeated the experience.
Thanks for bringing up Fortran 77. Lots of F77 code is in use today through R and SciPy bindings etc. -- millions of users every day, thousands of compilations every day. Just because new code is not written in it, it is very much in use, nobody wants to rewrite solid code that has stood the test of time.

The word you are looking for is "deprecated", not obsolete.
> Initiating a chargeback is tantamount to terminating your Google Account at a random time in the future when they find in your favor.

Purchase protection isn't the same thing as a chargeback.
How could I meet these gifted, socially-isolated people? I'd be interested in Skype or Google Hangouts. Email me.
Using PK crypto would be horrendously slow, especially if there are a large number of files. Besides, the article notes that this ransomware uses AES-256.

Perhaps the AES key is encrypted with RSA after encryption is complete and kept on the infected machine.
Let's just note that this article is at least nominally about Thiel's philosophical background, rather than his politics per se -- and hence, not quite flaggable for the remaining 36 hours or so.
Great commentary on the human tendency of blaming externalities as to avoid serious self reflection!
I think Apple's phone support has been overhauled recently to make it way better. I called about an issue on my new touchbar macbook pro and the person I talked to stayed on the line for about 45 minutes with me, including waiting while I reinstalled macos over the top of itself. After the problem seemed to be resolved he gave me his email address so I could talk to him directly if it happens again. He promised they'd sort it out one way or another.

I believe him - I have no doubt they'll send me out a replacement if the issue keeps showing up.

Its a super expensive laptop so I'm definitely paying for it. But it sure is nice to get a personal, premium experience like that from customer support.
This reminds me so much of several people I've heard complaining that Linux doesn't have nodepad++.
I suspect this is a case of a submitter finding one specific aspect of the submission interesting, not caring about the rest, and using the title to draw attention to it, rather than misrepresenting the article.
Do you trust PyPy? It's not official either.
lol got me there, I thought I read it indeed but then afterwards did a page search which didn't find any matches and I was like 'meh, computer's probably right'. It was, because it was case sensitive and I copied 'Neurogenesis' from the title here :]
Why does it not register my clicks most of the time? And when it does it's delayed by a whole second. Makes me do things I didn't intend.
Whatever happened to walking?
A treatment for PTSD, called EMDR, involves trying to enhance the right/left communication in the brain. This is done by eye tracking back and forth from left to right. I personally know two people that this was effective on, but there is a lack of hard data on whether this works or not in general.

However, the PTSD specialist that worked with these two individuals suggested that running (and walking) long distances can create the same effect since the person is continually scanning the environment. This would alleviate PTSD symptoms plus anxiety and depression in her patients.
I don't think that really compares.
It is strictly impossible to achieve.

Whatever the wages are, the prices of everything (starting with accommodation and food) will adjust to burn most of it.

That is very effective in major cities and that's why they are so hard on everyone.
The behaviour is there in CPython, yes. But the language documentation doesn't, deliberately.
Not at all. The bottom line of the article is 'your employer owns everything you do during the employment period, quit if you don't agree'.
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Someone can also compel me to use my own password to log into my bank account and transfer all my money to them. Every new technology that has ever been invented has always had people like you who can think up highly statistically insignificant scenarios where the technology can be misused.
> I can now access or count code points in O(1) (neither of which is in any way useful)

Oh, yeah, I agree that Python's unicode model isn't great. I like Ruby's, and Swift has it's own cool thing going where it's very explicit about the uselessness of code points.

However, I think that Python 3 having some form of default unicode support is way better than what Python 2 had. It could be improved (backwards-compatibly too!), but it passes my minimum bar for a "modern" language's text story.
> Second it's not just with their new phone the pixel they support poorly. Try having problems with google fiber. The stories of them taking a year and a half or over two years to deploy fiber 400 feet or to a house next to a house with it or an apartment already wired for it is insane.

Deploying fiber where you think it would be easy to deploy fiber is not customer support...
Warning, I might not be as smart as I think I am and this may be irrelevant. I am a college student who has coasted his entire life. My father is a professor and probably the only reason I am not socially isolated. From my experience(which may or may not be relevant) being this gifted is a lot like living an RPG.

.The person you are when interacting is nothing but a character. You have to fake engagement, interest, and ability in order to have friends or you can be alone.

.You need to give your life some long term goal otherwise no work has meaning because it serves no use. However, say your goal is to cure cancer you know you have to do well in school and social to later gain access to the resources necessary for your goal. An RPG without a quest is no fun.