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Hello!

This might is bit off topic on this thread.

Seems like there is some confusion going on about the Free tier on a post[1]. Can you please comment there on whether the 'Always free' is free only during the first 12 months or forever?

Also, if I have been using Google Cloud since before today (when free trial was $300 over 60 days), am I still eligible for the 'Always free' tier?

From the page linked and the FAQ, it looks like it but many people on the thread I've linked are thinking otherwise.

Can you please clear that up for us? Thank you!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13832519
You can get a real phone instead, say, something like Samsung Galaxy J5, lowish end but strong enough, bit more expensive but not a lot. Especially if you find a used one. That will set you back $150 or so. You can go lower still with J3 and it is also good enough, $90 - in fact better than not that old S5 most of the time.

That is without considering carrier subsidies or used market. (So compares to $700 iPhone price.)
Does it need 100% CPU?
As a general reply to a variety of the complaints in this thread: don't underestimate the task that triplebyte has in selling you to companies, especially since they have focused on candidates who might not even get an onsite interview at companies on their own. Their process also involves helping candidates skip a lot of the interview pipeline at several companies at a time, so that you can get better offers. This means that companies have to place a lot of trust in their assessment, and my personal experience (having gone through the process and gotten a job through them) is that they have to be very very rigorous to sell companies on their model.

My interviews with triplebyte were definitely some of the hardest ones I had during my search, but they also focused on things I consider important in developing software in a way that no other interview pipeline I've been through has. It may be that my overwhelmingly positive experience with them is not reflective of most, but I think that's unlikely given the amount of work they put into standardizing their process.

Being on the side of engineers in the hiring process does not mean they can take it easy on interviews, and my experience would suggest that whatever personal intensity you may feel in an interview with them is very likely to be outclassed by any decent sized sample of interviews at a big company.

I'm definitely bullish on their model, and while the process isn't perfect I'm really excited to see them moving the needle on interview quality in the industry. I sincerely wish them the best with the expansion.
Both law enforcement and correctional officers are trained in similar facilities with similar skills emphasized, and both physical and verbal techniques are part of that.

Emphasis is key. Grappling, weaponry, and mediation are each taught, but it's individuals that decide on application.
We need world government to stop technology threat, says Hawking
It is still pretty high though. Maybe not the highest, but high enough that a lot of people will take into account when deciding for or against Amsterdam.
Great Company!
4k gaming seems more possible than ever.
I wouldn't call being worried about "feminine" over sensitive. I would argue it is misguided.

You may not think confidence is a masculine quality. Just google "confidence gender" and see that it is a well established thing that men are more confident than women.

Still, if you were insulted by my implying you are a more feminine man. My apologies. Insult was not intended. I do urge you to move beyond those views, though. Feminine men should be no more an insult than masculine women. Descriptions that offer no value judgement.
In the first video he stats that every language have a compiler.

A interpreted language does not need to be compiled into bytecode. Some languages are compiled to bytecode some are interpreted as is.
> You are also out of luck if you ever used a trail with your account before.
>
> Got this message: "Sorry, you aren't eligible for a free trial at this time. The free trial is for new customers only."

That's just for the $300 free credit though, right? You can still use all the "Always Free" services.
Can't reply to child, so posting here..

jimmaswell: are you joking? http://www.samsung.com/us/note7recall/

Edit: Apparently I should've refreshed first.
Or normalize the ranges between min/avg/max of the ratings given by each individual user to min/middle/max of the scale before merging the number into the total.

If you do it secretly like shadowbanning and introduce it softly by slowly blending between conventional score and normalized, it would drive a whole generation of SEO/social/share-economy experts delightfully mad. Think of all the free publicity!

Jokes aside, it might help to regard low ratings as what they are: a way to flag bad behavior, dead serious stuff. We should stop pretending that it is a game, then maybe solutions will be more likely to appear.
Mattermost is open source as well.

If you use gitlab (CE or EE), you can easily setup Mattermost with LDAP as well: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost
And a salary that's a tiny fraction of SV (or anywhere in the US for that matter.) I recently had someone offering $35/hour for a "Lead Ruby Engineer" contract role in Vancouver. Salaries are ridiculously low there which even with cheaper housing, results in far less disposable income.
Feature request – protection during border crossings
Will apple/google implement a mode to protect from unreasonable search by border agents? I personally would love a mode that:

- automatically wipes phone prior to powering off
- wipes phone after X minutes elapsed unless the request is cancelled prior to the timer expiring.

The idea behind the feature is that you turn it on before going through a border crossing -- if you aren't submitted to an unreasonable search, then you can cancel the wipe request after crossing the border. If you are detained, your phone will wipe before it can be hacked or before you can be pressured to provide access.
Keep in mind that the Bizur is being used for services internal to the file system. So the use case is more like etcd or ZooKeeper's, for example in one role it is a cluster configuration database (with high availablity, fault tolerance, consistency, etc.)
Hey guys! The CIA hacked Hawking's speach synthesizer!
Force fed: how recommendation algorithms tried to make me a Nazi
Welp, first step shouldn't be to accuse of something we have no evidence of?
And just as I completed a WebExtension based integration. Awesome! /s

Seriously though: I was considering using Gmail contextual gadgets, but it seems google has just dumped those, left the tooling and admin panels not to work and the documentation to rot at least 3 revisions earlier.

Looking into it was a complete waste of time, and seeing this now, I'm going to guess soon to be deprecated.

I wonder how long until Google repeats the history with this one. I'm honestly not sure I'd dare jump on another Google tech like this.
So same conclusion, but Obama made you feel better about it so it's ok. I understand now, my bad.
You don't need working demos or even abide to physical laws to attract investors. Thanks to the power of social media you just have to choose a good cause, make it look cool and create a fake demo video. Most people just repeat what they read, critical thinking is a thing of the past.

See WaterSeer [0], SolarRoadways [1], Fontus self-filling waterbottle [2], ...

[0] https://www.waterseer.org/

[1] http://www.solarroadways.com/

[2] http://www.fontus.at/
Interesting talk. Go folks also probably want cgo similarly difficult to use. Though for them I guess it will work, as they have already written compiler/GC/runtime/ssl etc in Go plus some asm.
Not OP, but: an open standard for apps-in-email could also be used by Thunderbird/rainloop/roundcube/etc. And not just by GMail.
Ever tried to get a visa as an American for Europe or the U.K.? Good luck with that.
Apparently the CIA Pays for Sublime Text?
Azure doesn't offer Postgres instances. SQL Server and MySQL, but not Postgres.
Azure is good but if you want managed PSQL it's not an option.
Been hearing this since late nineties about how inability to get visas is going to be the death of US tech industry. Absolutely nothing has changed since h1b visa was initially implemented, its almost exactly the same when as it was conceived. And yet U.S tech industry is not dead.
Are you saying that it is morally repugnant to pay money to attend private school?
I meant an open standard for apps-in-email, but then again, interoperability between apps is something that probably should be handled more generically at the OS level.

Coming back to my remark, email is one of the great federated protocols of the web, and I would really hate it if a big company would ruin it by adding proprietary extensions.
>> No, but (at least from my perspective) the razor appears to be leaning heavily in one direction.

Why do you say that?
I had relatively quick (1 week time turnaround) onsites with "big companies" thorough triplebyte. Startups were relatively quick to 'weed me out' as someone with less experience. One of my frustrations was that I was not sure if triplebyte was effectively communicating my junior engineer status to the big companies; one of the companies was pitched to me as a company that had a history of being ok with taking on someone and indoctrinating them in their way of doing things and then turned me down with a reply that they were looking for a senior engineer.

In retrospect I kind of realize that Triplebyte is really more targetting as a service for more senior positions (at least for now) but I think this is a great move for Triplebyte to get a bigger marketshare and wish them luck.
Honestly, I found the books (eg; Cracking the Coding Interview) to be decent at giving a quick overview.

At the end of the day, doing a bunch of medium difficulty and some hard difficulty questions on leetcode proved to be the best preparation. By the time you get to your interviews, you've probably seen a variation on what they're asking. I didn't find doing more interviews to be much more helpful than just doing a bunch of practice questions (if you're already good at interviewing in general).

Still, I think this garbage is annoying for senior developer positions or once you're at least a few years out of school. Having to practice implementing a topo-sort in 10 minutes or doing some tedious combinatorial problem gives zero insight into good software engineering practices. System design questions, on the other hand, are actually useful.
Google is turning Hangouts into a Slack competitor
These places do exist, I worked on friend's car at an awesome place called Lifted in Fremont. They had all the tools you could want and a knowledge crew to get you out of sticky situations. It looks like there are a few other places throughout the Bay Area too. I think the challenge was inexperienced people coming in and underestimating the task they were taking on or screwing things up and having to leave their cars at the shop for what was originally a day job.
Wish I could up vote you more.

I was distraught reading that whole thing until the last sentence. You're right- in many ways it is better than our current system. And that's really scary.
Except Google Fi, where you can't use Google Voice. FFS Google.
> The current largest codepoint? Why that would be a cheese wedge at U+1F9C0. How did we ever communicate before this?

Sounds cute, but inaccurate.

If we count the last two planes that are reserved for private use (aka, applications/users can use them for whatever domain problems they like), that would be U+10FFFD.

If we count the variation selector codepoints (used for things like changing skin tone, or the look of certain other characters), U+E01EF.

If we count the last honestly-for-real-written-language character assigned, it would be 𪘀 U+2FA1D CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA.

But I suppose none of that sounds as fun as an emoji (which are really a very small part of the Unicode standard).
I'm confused by how they're presenting the "Always Free" tier of Google App Engine. I've used the free tier of that for years and "instance hours" have never been a thing that I'm aware of. I'm also wondering if the GAE free quota will require a billing-enabled account now, as these other offers seem to require, which would be disappointing.
Not sure, I have a credit card there and 0€ balance, can't find the knob for the free tier, when I create a f1-micro I'm billed. Maybe I have to put up money?
There are multiple ways to encode colors in OpenType fonts: not only SVG (which is probably the least common way), but also the Microsoft COLR table and PNG raster glyphs (used by Apple).
Yeah, I remember when Parse offered these cloud functions back in 2012... It was a game-changer for "Backend-as-a-Service."
Companies always have the option of giving dividends to common stock shareholders, buying out shareholders, simply giving bonuses or any number of things if they didn't continue to reinvest all capital and pursue losses.

Private companies even issue bonds on public bond markets, these can be as large or larger than equivalent equity offerings on the stock markets.

Don't let the mechanisms pursued by a handful of VC firms in Silicon Valley distort your understanding of capital formation.
No, it's not, it's "mostly good enough for some scripts". This attitude just ends up making software that sucks for a subset of scripts.

Twitter is not a "basic case", it's a case where the length limit is arbitrary and the specifics don't matter much anymore. Usually when you want to segment text that is not the case.

Edit: basically, my problem with your original comment is that it helps spread the misinformation that a lot of these things are "just" emoji problems, so some folks tend to ignore them since they don't care about emoji that much, and real human languages suffer.
Hangouts, Voice, and Allo are all meant to be SMS replacements — so they are directly competing with their SMS app.
> Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though

In the same way that secession allowed the Confederacy to do that.

The US has no equivalent of the EU's Article 50, and until it does, "Calexit" means a war that California is in no position to win.
You can do that today with iOS apps theoretically too & just use command line xcodebuild. You'll be missing all of the IDE things that swift is struggling with although.
> Not if you have to render them, or store them in a font.

I think you misunderstood the comment to which you replied. What it was saying is that emoji fitzpatrick scale and color fonts are orthogonal concerns, you can do skin tones in grayscale.
I have a 5 year old who is a pretty good reader and seems to be naturally interested in math and computers/tablets. He'll get really interested in one thing for a while then float to something else.

I set him up on a super old laptop to run the desktop version of Scratch. I picked up a set of books by this publisher at Costco. He made it through 3 of the game tutorials and thought it was fun. The hardest thing for him was clicking/using the mouse and touchpad. https://www.amazon.com/DK-Workbooks-Coding-Scratch-Workbook/... We passed the books to some friends after he found something else to explore.

Currently, he's avidly playing a game called "Box Island" on iPad. It's a coding game with several free levels. I was pleasantly surprised when he finished the free levels after a few weeks (we limit iPad time) and requested I buy the remaining levels. Before this game, he was playing Kodable, which was free but had terrible graphics, imho.

We were gifted Robot Turtles but that didn't take.
In a lot of ways, yes. On the other hand, it seems like a hard problem to solve - how do you get honest feedback in situations like this, where you want to use it to both improve things overall and judge your employees/contractors? Maybe you can't.

I guess, at least a small step would be to make it so values less than the highest rating don't count against you so negatively - it should be ok to be a 3/5 or 7/10.
Also don't fly through US airspace, don't do stopovers in Canada either (because the larger Canadian airports have US officers).
That sounds ideal when you say it like that. The reality is often far removed in my experience, with services calling back and forth hither and thither, which is to say that all you've done is taken the spaghetti that often characterises enterprise software and stretched it out a bit in places. And in so doing what you've done is add a bunch of latency.

The one virtue of the former, non-microservice, situation is that at least you don't have the latency overhead because all that spaghetti is contained in one, or a small number of, processes, rather than spread around all over the place between a large number of processes and instances.

I'm not saying it's ideal but people who write crap software in monolithic form are only going to do a worse job when faced with the additional complexity of having it all chopped up into little pieces.

Just my two cents, and obviously not a trendy point of view.

I'd be quite interested to see how Martin Fowler's view changes over the next 11 years, assuming he doesn't retire.
Any estimation when, if at all, European individuals can use the paid version of Firebase (Functions)?
It's not a criminal offense. Not everything that is unlawful is criminal.
There was a few offerings around this idea in the past few years. Kithensurfing being another one of them. They've all burned out due to lack of demand.

http://www.eater.com/2015/12/7/9852106/kitchensurfing-privat...

Pretty much explains it.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. The self-service activation manager sounds like a step up from Ableton. Still not as great as FL Studio's free-wheelin' attitude, but better.
Unfortunate and awful.

Maybe we do need gender segregation in the military.
You are relying on HTTPS for the initial "install", but with subresource integrity you could check that the hash of the initial script matches a known hash that you verify out-of-band (and then of course the browser verifies that the SRI hash matches what is executed)

It does take some knowhow, and it's not a good ux, but it's possible.

That's where my point of browsers making this easier comes into play. It's possible, and could actually have a pretty good UX, but they would need to build it into the platform.
I can't agree. Speed is usually units/time, and everyone knows that 100 mph is 2x as fast as 50 mph, or 100% faster.
You do get very weird behavior and UI decisions from some apps to compensate for those deficiencies.

Some things Android does way better, some it does way worse. As far as ergonomics go, Apple went way too far recently with hiding functionality under gestures or pressure sensitivity, making them not discoverable and sometimes finicky to activate. I'm talking basics, like app switching.

On the other hand, for some apps, the limitations mean they have to hold to OS GUI guides more closely.
Nice. I built a trigger word driven one for mono not to long ago: https://github.com/tylerrichey/selfhosted-slackbot
Ask HN: Which country is entrepreneur-friendly?
I have been devastated by the recent immigration bans issued by the US government and the overall antagonistic sentiment towards the immigrants shown by this administration. I was wondering what you guys think is a better place to start a company in terms of talent pool, immigration policy, cost of living, etc.
Another Obama legacy, Trump will continue.
Right, Steve never existed, nor did the NeXT box ever ship.
Assuming that the average dev receives "cushy offices, offsite retreats, snacks, beer, endless perks, and $100k+ USD/yr salaries" is a distorted worldview unto itself.
Obama was actually very restrained in foreign policy - far moreso than Hillary Clinton would've been, for example, and also moreso than Bush Jr., Reagan, or even Bill Clinton. He's relied largely on drone strikes and covert assistance, while the other presidents mentioned actually invaded other countries. Obama's own national security staff criticized him heavily for this.

Anyway, I didn't mention political parties in my original post, and AFAIC trying to make this partisan is just projection. There are hawks on both sides of the aisle: the Democrats are milking Russophobia for all it's worth and seem to want to start a new Cold War, the Trumpists see the world as a clash of civilizations between the Judeochristian West and Islam, and old-line Republicans like McCain and Graham are very skeptical of Iran and China.
Yep, same problem trying to get the free tier here in Germany: I have to create a business account.
Well, no GCP for me. I hope they reconsider this unfortunate restriction.
Logically, I agree with you. In practice, I believe that this is in fact exactly what "always free" usually means.
very cool!!
Asking a police officer about their experiences with immigrants is extremely biased.

So I ask again (and I won't use students this time, since you didn't get the point the first time): If you asked police officers about their experiences with immigrants here on E1 visas, would you conclude that people here on E1 visas are a bunch of criminals? What does that tell you about people here on E1 visas?
Isn't this going against the recently approved International Entrepreneur Rule?

EDIT: It'll work pretty well for people coming from countries which have the Muslim ban.
Can we all stop going on about "grit" yet?
For those wishing to use Amazon Cloud Drive with their own Plex server https://amc.ovh/ has some great instructions. I've been doing this with very little issues for a few months now.

EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...
Cloud SQL is Google's counterpart to RDS. They support both Postgres and MySQL.

From what I've heard, Google is running a vanilla version of Postgres. They don't offer any features beyond what mainline Postgres provides (unlike AWS Aurora, which runs modified versions versions of MySQL and Postgres).
Luckily it's fairly easy to study the difference in chemical output between the different ingestion methods. Vaping vs Smoking is quite different.

>The new study used a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) to examine the gas components of the vapor. The analysis showed that the Volcano® vapor was remarkably clean, consisting 95% of THC with traces of cannabinol (CBN), another cannabinoid. The remaining 5% consisted of small amounts of three other components: one suspected cannabinoid relative, one suspected PAH, and caryophyllene, a fragrant oil in cannabis and other plants. In contrast over 111 different components appeared in the gas of the combusted smoke, including a half dozen known PAHs. Non-cannabinoids accounted for as much as 88% of the total gas content of the smoke.
As far as I know, a Service Worker can't protect itself from being replaced by a "newer" one?
It's worth pointing out that the new executive order explicitly exempts dual nationals from the ban. Not that I think that's practically any better.
While the first generation Mattermost mobile apps used web rendering, we have next generation apps in React Native releasing end of March that are rendering natively.

The next generation apps are much faster, and we're excited to release them soon.

Here's the source: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile

There's instructions on how to get early access as well.
What happens if you get accepted and still can't get a visa?
This can't happens fast enough.

I have been having a fantastic time with Go... Up until the point I have to add a new package to my projects and go through CI and deployment.

Glide works mostly OK, but it's not the final solution, that's for sure. Even big packages on github fail to produce releases, so you have to depend on master branches... One day your builds just decide to break. It's a nightmare.
A floating camera has to be one of the major hardware projects Snap is working on.
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