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As an xoogler, this tells me that the voice team is now staffed again. It also tells me that the executive team is thinking about reducing headcount and focus on hangouts, but still are uncertain.

Finally, it tells me that google still has no idea how to crack the messaging space, and has so no team internally that is taking charge but a bunch of teams with different approaches, all jockeying for executive support.

Google will lose this space because it lacks focus while Facebook is owning it through focus on the messenger platform and the acquisition of whatsapp.
Spending money collected from people with a higher income/net worth sensibly on people disadvantaged by a system that disadvantaged the lower income/net worth people by its very existence....that sounds a lot like Socialism.

Also yes I agree, safe potable water in the worlds richest country should not be an issue in 2017.

I also think that natural monopolies should be heavily state governed if not state owned.
> But on the other hand it is completely immune to collapse of governments

This reads like a parody of Bitcoin fanatics. You can't be serious.
> It should be notary publics (a business all about assurance of human identity) using a physical appliance.

As an attorney, and notary public, I cannot begin to explain to you how grossly misguided you are. The requirements to become a notary public are extraordinarily low. The notary public exam should be passable by someone with a tenth grade education. It substantially easier to become a notary public than to get a driver's license.

https://www.nationalnotary.org/new-york#NYRequirements

Not to mention that any attorney admitted to the NY BAR can automatically become a notary without any further testing or requirement. I think it is probably safe to say that a single digit percentage of attorneys in NY state can even articulate what an SSL cert is, much less be trusted to issue them. A very substantial portion of admitted NY attorneys are routinely bested by their own email programs for pete's sake.

This idea is wholly, entirely preposterous.
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That's haggling though which is what the parent doesn't want to do. My point was that if you disentangle the components and make a reasonable cash-on-the-barrel take-it-or-leave-it offer they'll probably take it with a minimum of pushback.

But, yeah, apparently stuff can still happen. Believe me. I'm not a fan of car shopping.
"God's own planet" - no one in his right mind would ever ...
Right this way, just step into this decontamination pod
The Internet of Things Is Coming for Us
Well I'm glad that I'm not wrong "in general" then.

I would never dispute that insomnia is a real problem for people. But "I simply can't come in at 9am, I'm a night owl!" is the attitude I took exception to.

I'm resisting the urge to put all the disagreement with my point down to crabbiness from lack of sleep.
TNope that would violate PCI as well since you are then subject to clickjacking attacks unless you configure the site to only allow framing in from a specific url.
Off topic kinda but I have to compliment you on the rig (the AK and watch are cool too). Mind providing some more details on it, what truck is it, how'd you find it, mods, etc.?

Btw, you should start a blog!
Silicon Valley speaks up against intolerance
Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project
I wasn't really under the impression we were strictly discussing the app anymore. But on that subject, I do think the cure may be worse than the disease in this case - this app helps alleviate a minor inconvenience in the short term by making it easier to avoid human contact, the lack of which is arguably the reason people aren't behaving well in the first place.
No, phd in physics
> the core challenge of programming is to write code that inexperienced people can understand quickly

This is a pipe dream. For anything significantly non-trivial, programming is inherently complex. Designing the language so that code is forced to be "simple" at the lowest scale just pushes that complexity up to larger scale code structures.

Trying to make programs easier to understand by limiting the expressivity of the language is like trying to make quantum physics easier by reformulating it without using complex numbers. Whilst it may well make each individual step of a calculation easier to understand, it doesn't make the whole any easier to comprehend.
I'm very curious to see if Project Fi gets some of these upgrades as well since it currently uses parts of the Google Voice integration, especially the integration into Hangouts.
Maybe there's a highly advanced predictor species that destroys other civilization before they reach that stage.
I sometimes wonder why we don't just skip the CA layer entirely and let the browsers be the CAs. Buy a "mozilla cert" and an "IE cert" and a "Chrome cert", and all the derivatives of them can hitch a ride based on that. It would fund browser development and eliminate the steaming pile of misplaced trust that is the PKI system.

Sometime last year I deleted my CA certificates because I finally realized I'm never going to actually audit all of the certs in there, and I know there are confirmed bad actors among them, so I shouldn't give myself a false sense of security.
I should mention that developer ergonomics is another key differentiator. NativeScript exists for Telerik's bottom line. For example, instead of providing a nice HMR facility, they invested thousands of hours into building a pay-for cloud offering (AppBuilder LiveSync). They are a company and I don't fault them for monetizing a significant investment they made in this platform, but when looking at the available options this is a negative.
Ah, ya got me! I just love that grain, but I haven't started printing yet. Unfortunately my darkroom (read: bathroom) isn't quite big enough for that -- a larger bathroom will be a must in my next apartment.
> without invoking all the formal channels to take to the guy remotely

In the remote shops I worked people discuss everything (and anything) on IRC, slack, hipchat etc. Even their pie in the sky ideas. Never had the problem you described. If anything, people are more open and engaged: they would even sign in after (or before) work to bounce ideas. Sometimes even from their vacations. Never seen that in "onsite-only" shops, BTW (open-space or not).
I just ran into the "this isn't a phone number" issue with Telegram this morning. It claims my Google Voice (well really Project Fi now) number is a VOIP number, so I can't use it :(.
Another paragraph that reeks of moderate-liberal propaganda:

"A young man said, “I think the concern is that because we’re a Hispanic community we’re not going to have the same help.” His parents had brought him to Michigan from Mexico, at the age of ten. More than a decade later, in 2012, he’d become a beneficiary of Obama’s program for undocumented immigrants who had come to the country as children; it protected him from deportation, if only temporarily. Now, he said, besides the hazardous water, he feared immigration raids. “They already have all my information,” he explained. “I don’t have any criminal record. . . . I don’t have any tickets, no drinking and driving.” But he was concerned about his children, who, after they saw Trump on TV talking about mass deportations, asked him, “What’s going to happen to us?”

Really, it protected him from deportation? How wonderful. I guess it didn't protect the other 2.5 million people who were deported which, by the way, is the largest number of deportations under any president. The other part of that paragraph is probably correct - things definitely aren't going to get any better under Trump, but you can blame that on the Democrats and their dishonest approach with governing. They'd rather invest in white-washing their legacy than make an honest attempt at fulfilling their "progressive" platform promises. And I suspect this is the reason behind much of this article as well.
That's about it. They also don't consider how many alien civilizations might be within communications range.

The other big question is how long technological civilizations last. Ours is less than 200 years old. (A useful starting date is 1830, when the Liverpool and Manchester Railway started carrying paid passengers. That's when powered technology got out of beta.) How long before we run out of cost-effective nonrenewable resources? Probably a few hundred years, tops.
Post apoc. things like bows and crossbows would be more valuable, but I can't see weapon tech falling much below the 1850s. Its much easier to make a lead ball than an arrow and making blackpower is less about infrastructure than knowledge.

I have a replica Remington Model 1858 black power revolver. It shoots lead balls which are easy to make, same with its percussion caps. The kicker is, once loaded, its tactically the same as any modern single action 6 shooter.

If things really got bad, I have a heard time imaging my .55 cal muzzle loading flint lock would be out of commission either. I'd save the cross bow for stealth actions and maybe hunting smaller game, for which it would rock.

There is also the fact it would take years to burn up all the ammo floating around out there, so this would be gradual.
Study linking Roundup to serious disease fuels debate
They are an a lot quieter. But don't be fooled. Even with shitty long guns (not even riffles since they weren't riffled), the American Indians swapped bows for guns. They still used bows, but took to guns due to their power.
Nothing is certain. There is competition among internal Google teams to get the attention of the top execs but there is zero clear vision.

Google is a mess. I can't trust it.
virtualenv resolves the interpreter when you run virtualenv, and if you specify a different interpreter with `-p` it will resolve the path to the interpreter and then run virtualenv again using it.
Meeting notes are a thing for a reason.

Here's a recipe for a successful meeting:

1. Start by setting the agenda, and critically, the desired outcome. "At the end of this meeting I want to have a decision on X, or a date for when we can make that decision."

2. Have your meeting. Minimize attendance. 3 is perfect. 5 is okay. 7 is pushing it. Have a very clear moderator/leader for the discussion.

2b. Moderator/leaders should be hard-asses about forcing tangential discussions offline/into a parking lot. This is probably their most important function.

3. At the end of the meeting, the leader summarizes the outcome to all participants. This is a critical step. "So, Joe, you will come back to me on Friday with a decision on X. Phil, you'll be working with Joe to pull that answer together."

4. Write the meeting notes down in a permanent place. Email is too ephemeral. A document management system of some kind with an email notification is ideal. Record actions for those who have them, with associated dates.

Stakeholders should also follow-up on actions with due dates to make sure they're closed out. This can feel like nagging/cat herding, but it's vital.

The reality is, many decisions/discussions are too complex to do over email, particularly if the number of stakeholders grows beyond 3. There's far too much room for confusion/ambiguity and a lack of ownership on follow-up actions. Mix in the ease with which emotional components can be lost or mis-interpreted over email, and my tendency is to push for a voice or in-person discussion the minute an email thread goes on for more than a day.
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18 months ago I didn’t know how to code, now making apps for the NBA, NHL. AMA
"One number for life" ... unless of course you want to use our other service, Google Fi, in which case you will be forced to relinquish it. No improvements on that small problem, it seems.
You're assuming that Maya and her team had the power to do so in the first place. And even if they did, they wouldn't be able to revert a situation that had already been happening for years and years.
There's a lot more complexity to the issue than you make it seem.
Her work is pretty fascinating tbh. I'd recommend a deeper look.
I don't think it is black and white. Also trust is not black and white, and trusted persons can turn bad and unrealiable persons can develop to be reliable and trustworthy.

If you are sure that you bring the best value by working remotely, then just do it and explain the situation to potential employers. Some might be happy with that, some not. However to me it looks like the remote job market is about 100x more competitive than on-site. Employers seem to value being able to talk face-to-face etc, and in principle I don't think there is a lot wrong with that. If you don't like it, start a competing company which hires remote people - it is a free market. If remote working is truly more effective, remote work should get more common.
The cost of building a reactor alone puts the price in the same range as fission. But it's safer, and we have an abundance of fuel for it.

The 2nd sentence will eventually put it in a lower price range than fission.
I wish Google would make up their minds.

They kept pushing Hangouts, and right when it was actually somewhat usable and represented a unified interface to messaging, they started abandoning it and trying to fragment the functionality off into separate apps again.

I'll continue to use GV, but Google's track record of confusing moves in this space guarantees I will always keep it as a separate number. It's still very useful like that, since it allows me to text and call from any device or service.
Yeah, I'm really unclear what the relationship with Fi is since I use Hangouts for everything. I wish there was more clarity.
It's actually pretty tough to go from QA to dev.
> unless you're Scrooge McDuck, you're going to spend your discretionary income on something so why not a nice watch?

Nah, my emotions work differently, and for physical objects I prefer stuff that is easily replaceable.

Also I'm pretty much Scrooge McDuck.
> If you think the only reason that humans exist is because God created us then it doesn't matter how many stars are out there because the probability of life evolving on any of them is 0.

Well, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Right?
I grew up in a 3rd world small farm, raising pigs, chicken, setting traps and planting a bunch of stuff, not to mention a light version of WROL (without rule of law). Reading this article I feel that I'm more prepared for the apocalypse than all the "super-rich"...
The financial industry still has software running on mainframes. That some are still writing LOB software in VB6.
The US government does operate under the permission of the people. There have been candidates who are strongly opposed to the NSA's surveillance programs. They didn't win.

The election of Donald Trump should shatter any illusions that the political establishment has a stranglehold on power.
The stagnation of Li-ion batteries can be attributed to industry approaching the theoretical maximum energy density. So instead of optimizing the remaining 25%-30% capacity, focus shifted to Li-air or Li-S research. Li-S in particular can reach up to 2600 Wh/kg theoretical energy density, or 10x of current state of the art.

Maybe you can shine some light on this, why do the search trends [1] for lithium sulfur appear so cyclic? I'm not aware of any uses in industry, or any major conferences/press cycles around Li-S.

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=lithium%20s...
Google voice for iOS is garbage. I would never want to hire the engineer(s) who made the front-end for that app.
Can't find it. Here is something similar: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/645a/a7fdcccb1eb2287b7094a2...

There are several actual papers on google scholar though.
What’s next in growth?
Alexa and Google Assistant have a problem: People aren’t sticking with what thm
But... it is a VOIP number.
Fake it 'til you make it!

The problem becomes more pronounced the further we abstract away from Assembly and memory management.
Sorry for not being clear. I don't think it would necessarily shake people in their beliefs, just that the discovery of alien life would have a big impact on theology, in a way that the theoretical idea that it probably exists can't.
For instance right now people can debate about whether alien life would have original sin or not. Depending on your understanding of the Bible some people argue that original sin, and thus the tendency to sin and the necessity of Jesus is unique to Earth. If we meet aliens this wouldn't just be theoretical anymore, instead how the aliens acted could be used as evidence one way or the other.
SV mil/billionaires descended into self-parody a long time ago. The plans for floating libertarian utopias, the eschatological X-risk stuff, the "simulation hypothesis" (and, apparently, someone actually trying to "hack our program")... the list goes on. I really hope more developers wake up soon to the fact that we're being led by a cadre of lunatics.
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>Between 2004 and 2012, the Colorado-based company knew of fraudulent transactions but failed to take steps that would have resulted in disciplining of 2,000 agents, authorities said.

So there were 2,000 Western Union employees in on this scam? That sounds like a huge number.

Also, a $586m fine for a company that makes $14b a quarter? Is that stardard?
Group SMS and MMS messages weren't supported by the backing service. As group messages became more popular as more of my friends got smartphones, I'd miss more and more communications that my friends were having. Additionally, there were times when even regular SMS messages would be delivered minutes or hours late. The whole system felt unreliable. It felt like the only purpose was to send outbound messages from the computer.

At the time that I switched, the Hangouts app was having some difficulties of its own. The biggest issue I had with it is that Hangouts would try to upgrade me from an SMS chat to a Hangouts chat with someone, when the recipient was an infrequent or Gmail-only Hangouts user. Google would recognize their number and send Hangouts messages, they wouldn't see the messages on their iOS device because they didn't have a Hangouts app, so to them it would seem like I had stopped responding.
> One of the most frustrating things about GV is that for certain SMS providers, it fails the "is this a USA number test" or "can we SMS to it" test (it's unclear which), thus making it not work with my USA bank accounts, and I can't register for Lyft, for example.

> I wish they'd fix this, but what I really wish is that they'd make it a real product, make it cost a few bucks a month, and have a team working on it.

I agree with this, especially the SMS part.

> I was actually quite annoyed by the cheeky little "tee hee it's been 5 years + plus emoji" talking about their total lack of updates (both software, and well, actual communication around the service). It just comes across as contempt for the customer.

Interesting. I did not read it that way. I read it more as them being a bit humble.
I've played pirates with real flint lock pistols that still sparked. They were old than the US.

Really, they should never had allowed college students to run around a refurb'ed castle without a supervisor.
I'm going to be snarky but I'll say it anyway: you know, stupid stuff like balanced binary trees and shit like that, when nothing's going to fall apart if the user's browser shows a spinning wait animation for 7 seconds (45 seconds at peak times but that happens for just a few hours per week at most) while you iterate through the data sequentially. honestly, who ever needed an algorithm or data structure. /s

(I'm sorry. I thought about using less snark but I can't.)
To be fair, Bitcoin technically doesn't need a true internet, just an ad-hoc mesh network. (Not that those will be easy to come by, either, but they would be somewhat more feasible to establish.)
Military refused Trump’s bid to parade missile launchers at inauguration
If they use encryption it would be very hard to detect a sinal

UPDATE
We have had computers for less than a 100 years, and with i2p we hav already created a technoligy that would hide us from other aliens
Scuba is a complete system of log collection, storage and retrieval, and UI/visualization.

Presto would only cover the storage/retrival part. Scuba has its own backend for that which is very optimized for the kind of queries the UI needs to support, while Presto is a generic SQL store for analytics.
Non-conformant? PEP-394 says that scripts should only use python in the shebang if it's compatible with both py2 and py3, and be updated to work with both, or to use python2 otherwise.
Why didn't they just improve Hangouts? I don't know anyone that uses Allo and as far as I know there's no desktop client. I linked Voice to Hangouts so I could get all of my messages in one app on both my phone and within gmail. Now it seems like they want me to split everything up between 3 apps (Voice for SMS, Allo for chat on mobile, and Hangouts for chat on my computer) that fewer and fewer people are using.

Why on earth didn't they just improve Hangouts?
> None of the most catastrophic hacks have been on the big public clouds.

Wasn't Apple's iCloud hacked last year? Or was that the work of social engineering?
I'm going to second the library idea. If you have a library released and get a few users, you'll start getting bug reports, feature requests, etc. You'll be able to show companies that you were able to manage work effectively (prioritization), write good code, write good tests, etc.
Yes, and DARPA also contributed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Histor...
Actually, it seems like a perfectly logical and totally reasonable idea, given empirical evidence back in the day (e.g. earth seems to be the center of some vast empty expanse of stars, humans seem to be the only intelligent creatures around, etc), and the prior that they already believed in a creator (which makes sense too -- about as much as believing things were there since forever).
I assume you're developing black and white, since doing color at home is impossible unless you basically have a dedicated lab for it, which even the most hardcore photographers have a hard time justifying.

As you get used to developing, you'll get faster at it; i can now do a few rolls in 30 minutes easily.

I'd also suggest that you look into doing your own printing. The chemical process is nothing different from scanning negatives; you do need an enlarger, which can be a pain to set up at home- check into any local photo clubs. (there is Harvey Milk Photo Center in SF that I recommend) The satisfaction you'll get from it will go even beyond developing just the film; and the results are much more creatively rewarding than negative scanning.
> I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time.

Revealing the location of your supplies cache is one of the biggest mistakes you can make, in such a scenario. Desperate people now know where to go to find such things.
Social engineering, IIRC.

Edit: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-hackers-get-into-your-app...
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.
> The first time we did this everyone, every single person, raved about how valuable the activity was.

The first time, yes. But I'd rather not do this every day (or even every week). Once a quarter or so seems just about right.
Takeaway #5 - CDN's take a bit to refresh content, so leaving a blank for the link the HN is less desirable than just adding it after the fact. It'll look more put together that way.
Interesting. What does "tough on culture fit" mean exactly?