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Google deleted all my company's data
We accediently created a personal google account using G Suite's main account, and without any warning Google just removed all of our access to a very sensitive data for our organization.

next we opened a ticket with G Suite support team, and we got the below response.

Thank you for contacting G Suite support. I understand that by mistake you deleted the G Suite account.

It was a pleasure talking to you today. Unfortunately, we are not able to recover the information you had in the account. My recommendation will be to use G Suite Business to prevent you to lose information. Remember that with G Suite Business you have Google Vault that will help you recovering lost information. I will leave you this related Help Center article where you can find more information about the benefits https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en.

I will keep the case open for two more days and as I was telling you, please if you have any feedback you can reply back to this email so I pass the information to the engineering team. I hope you have a wonderful day.
Regards,
Karla
Google Cloud Support

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I am not sure how a large corporation reply with a very stupid response as the above on a critical situation.

I will need your help guys to push this. This hurt us badly, we basically lost every document we have, access to google console, google analytics, and even or google play publish account.
>... then reward them with blinky lights, sound effects, and the imagined praise of their peers. They'll do that shit all day long.

Upvoted.
Yes great idea. Build a new rule into a nation-wide law just to solve a problem that needs no solving as "red light with static green right arrow" is a typical sight over here in Germany and drivers DO understand it.

It would be much better to change traffic la nation-wide so we can get rid of this ONE traffic light in Germany. Isn't it?
Personally, I find Keras better than tflearn.

But you need to know the fundamentals on TF and NNs (RNNs,LSTMs, etc...). Keras makes it easier to build on those concepts with less programming. I've found TFLearn to be slightly complicated. Both Keras and tflearn make it simpler to deal with TF.

Creating a good train-test dataset is general ML problem. Keras doesn't solve that and isn't meant to do that.

However, Keras (and tflearn too) makes it easy to throw a statistically bad dataset to an NN, add multiple layers and then let TF take over and derive a inefficient model in a few hours. The amazing part is that the inefficient NN (driven by TF) might still return a slightly acceptable accuracy. This is awesome because you may be an amateur and yet have some okay results to start with. Later you can improvise the dataset to improve the accuracy.

In general, throwing NNs at everything isn't good. They result in hard-to-decompile blackbox models. If NNs give you good classification, you could also try the same with other classifiers. You could also start looking into scikit-learn algos and see if those could be used in your case.
Agreed. Honestly, when I first saw it I got excited because I thought it converted Sketch files to RN files (what it is is pretty cool but the name totally threw me for a loop)
Dresden is not allowed to bypass the StVO, so they had to put up this crazy light, yes.

But the Rechtsabbieger "Grünpfeil" is also in the StVO § 37 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 Satz 8 bis 10
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnpfeil

History:
The old DDR came up with this Grünpfeil (turn on red) law. During the Wiedervereinigung it was "agreed on", that this law can persist for max. one more year, 1991. But based on huge civil protests on silly law reforms (same for abortion and women rights which where more advances in the east), Germany kept this exception, and even some old ex-BRD towns introduced it since.

I believe Dresden had most of the existing 2.500 Grünpfeil signs in Germany, but in the meantime the west has caught up, and there are now 5.000 such signs.
Even the real poor ( < $2 per day) generally have access to charging simple electronic devices.

I'd guess those who don't are not likely going to be able to read braille or have access to many books, let alone books in their language in braille.

I don't see electricity access as being the issue.
> I have trouble recalling the details of things I worked on even say a week ago sometimes.

No problem here, it probably wasn't very exciting but have you never encountered something which stuck in your mind? Or that you could at least recall some part of a project if someone asked "So, you've written here that you've worked on project xy and did this and that, can you tell us a bit more about it"?
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Hiring is full of so many biases, in this industry in particular. Maybe your employer is using that to their advantage by hiring good candidates other people turn away for no good reason.
In the UK a solid green light means proceed if safe to do so but you may not have right of way and there may be intersecting traffic.

But a Green arrow means you can proceed in the direction of the arrow and you have right of way with no other intersecting traffic.
When I was about 15 years old, a friend tried to convince me a traffic light in front of his house was always green. I never believed him. Fast forward 15 years later. I moved to an apartment, cycling past my friends house to go to work. After a few weeks, I started to notice a traffic light which is always green! It was the same light my friend told me about. I remembered.

It is here: https://goo.gl/maps/2cgcx1b92LL2. Streetview direct link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B000'00.9%22N+5%C2%B...
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They could solve this problem by turning it green every now and then, though.
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An aquantance of mine wrote a peice of software that looks at satelite pictures of Prague at night and tells the city which street lights are out, so they don't have to use a "regular replacement schedual" but only replace the bulbs that need it. Could the same thing not be done using red-light cameras and stop lights?
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My view is that you can't have competence at a certain level without confidence - unless you're just an easily outsourced code slinger. I'm often at a whiteboard explaining architecture, ideas, etc. How do you do that without confidence and some semblance of emotional intelligence.
I completely agree with you. Once you go past the 15 minute mark, the whiteboard is no longer a good way to do programming aptitude testing. It's a good smoke test, but doesn't really work beyond that.

Of the three examples you mention, I think only the phone number alphabetic representation is a reasonable one to do on a whiteboard.

All the 5 to 10 whiteboard interviews I've had over the years have been smoke tests. This is in Europe, and I got the impression from this thread that it's a common smoke test in Europe and Americans tend to have longer whiteboard interviews.
It is a practical problem for people who want to have a correspondence between source and binary. Some users would like to have to rely on as few opaque binaries as possible. There are efforts underway to build a minimal C compiler in a subset of Scheme that can be implemented on bare metal. The goal is to reduce the set of binaries that needs to be trusted or audited manually.
Check this library if you want to interact with BB: https://github.com/theoctal/octalbonescript
There are some 'buillshit' classes in C.S. which are highly theoretical which and has nearly zero real world applications for an average programmer but data structures is not one of them. The schools don't teach data structure just so a graduate can answer related interview questions.

I also don't think Software Engineering is as much of a "science" as it is a "trade" ... Most of the information that must be taught is experiance based and can be given in a trade-school enviroment

I disagree. Software Engineering is not just about experience. It is not something that a master can pass to his students. It is also about constantly improving yourself and learning new things.
That doesn't sound entirely true.

I've only seen one-bulb versions for flashing yellow lights (which are sometimes used on crossings to indicate "pedestrians are crossing" at difficult crossings, typically when more than two roads meet and the pedestrians could easily be overlooked).

I've only seen two-light versions for pedestrians (i.e. red and green).

I think I've seen other one and two bulb versions on non-public roads (e.g. industrial sites) but that's about it. I've never seen a version with four bulbs.

And you make them sound more modular than they are: while the part containing the bulb seems to be generally modular the case containing these modules is generally fixed for a certain size. So adding or removing modules after they are deployed is not as straightforward (except maybe for temporary traffic lights).

I've actually seen the auditory clue box (whatever it's called -- the ticking thing at crossings to help blind pedestrians cross safely) replace one of the bulbs (on three-bulb lights where there is a redundant second red bulb) instead of being added below the traffic light.
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Sounds great for ArduPilot.
He must be talking about the four way stop crossing, a thing that is entirely unheard of in Europe. Over here, if no road gets priority, it's either a roundabout or priority to the right. In case of a deadlock, all three solution become first in first out, but only the four way stop requires everybody to shed all inertia even when the resource is not contested.

Compared to the countries of Europe where I have driven, the American traffic I have experienced often seemed excessively polite, to the point where I think that (relative to Europe) it would be more socially acceptable to drive bad because of being dangerously distracted than to drive bad due to being in a hurry.

I have long suspected a causal relation between the politeness and the four way stop, I just can't figure out the direction of causation.
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This is history! Being able to write native apps from anywhere, from chromebooks, from any random computer, and shareable, etc.! This is extremely great!
Good point, I guess I do care how people on the internet react to my comments
Do we know if this something that happened and stopped, or something that could still be happening?
Is there any way to check if we are in this dump?
Presumably you could modify the way the road intersects to make it an inlet (which automatically has lower precedence regardless of lights) but that'd probably just be as confusing.
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I use my real name. My real name is distinct enough that when you search for it, you find results almost exclusively about the real me.

When you search for my real name, you find almost exclusively accounts on sites like github, and a couple others, where I get to control entirely what is being shown. That's pretty good internet real estate and branding. At that point, it doesn't matter that my name is somewhat rare. If my name was Brad Pitt, by some sad coincidence, I could never own the internet for that name. But for mine, I can easily. Makes me appear like a way bigger deal than I am. And I don't want the first search result for my name to be my facebook. I don't want to be my facebook. I'd rather be my github. Not exclusively for professional reasons.

When it comes to professionalism:

We internet people don't get weird looks when we show someone something we've done under a "nickname", but we also don't get attribution for it. If your github name is "randominternetguy69", you might show it to your interviewer, but you won't get it attributed to you. Not because they don't believe its you - simply because you don't feel confident enough about it to own it. If you don't have confidence in your own work, why should they.
As a Scala/Java dev, I'd be willing to explore Go not because it seems like a better language (I have no opinion), but because I'd hope there's less design pattern/enterprise-overengineering approach among devs. Even in Scala, which is super-flexible, people tend to structure code like they do in Java - everything is decomposed into tiny classes to the point of absurd. One of the reasons is that the mocking frameworks expect to mock classes, so every bit of functionality needs to be it's own separate class, just like in Java...
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> Around here (Norway), stop signs are only used at particularly risky intersections.

The same as in Bucharest, Romania. That's why when I see a stop sign I make double-sure when looking for cars who have right of way over me.
> But hours can not be the only cause for problems, and while we are there and there's a budget for replacement, we'll do it all together.

what does it matter if the green and yellow bulbs are broken? They'll never be turned on.
Funnily enough, there is precedent, that a red light can be ignored if it doesn't change for 5 minutes. And I really doubt that there isn't a way to regulate the crossing without a permanent red light.

http://www.stvo.de/info/faq/165-ampel-bleibt-rot (German)
So the company gives you a limited amount of time and no access to the internet and expect you not to hack something together?

If I have a problem to solve "under stress", usually it's just a one off to fix something in production until I have time to write it, refactor it, put a unit test around it, and a code review.
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That would be a great question for a tech lead.
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Grünpfeile were really new in West Germany after the reunification. My brother told an anecdote from when he once drove through Hamburg and saw a Grünpfeil there, which had a sign below it explaining how it worked (something like: "Grüner Pfeil = Stoppschild für Rechtsabbieger", "green arrow = stop sign for right-turning drivers"). He quipped that this was probably the only traffic sign ever to come with its own manual.
You could turn those people's comment pages into RSS feeds and subscribe to those in a feed reader.

Quick hacky solution to turn your comments into an RSS feed: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=https%3A%2...
Is this one ever used? http://radyzezivota.cz/wp-content/uploads/Dopl%C5%88kov%C3%A...
> satellite based, so only above 20,000ft

Wha?
If you don't know how to set up a dataset, it's probably too early for you to worry about performance and efficiency.

If you haven't, already, I'd suggest to learn some general machine learning, including how to use logistic regression, random forests and SVMs.

Keras is certainly capable of what you want to do, at least from your description.

One way is to interpret the colors as grayscale images, that would be the fastest option. If however the 16 colors are actually from a palette, it may be better to convert the image to three channels, r/g/b. And if the 16 colors are 16 entirely different things, like 0 - Water, 1 - sand, 2 - earth and so on, you could even turn one 16 color image into 16 images with two colors (1 bit), and get a better model.

Again, getting into machine learning or deep learning is not as easy as reading the Keras documentation. You need to understand the basics first.
Zizek has a good piece on this, linked at the bottom, which reflects in part my thoughts on the matter. When considering all of the "me's", the eternally misunderstood "me" the "me" that everyone else sees, the one that is "real" is fairly straightforward. When we think of something being real, or not real, we're often posing a question over whether it's perceptible. After all, in this empirical world, we can only be sure of the existence of things that can be observed. The 'real me', in this light, is unequivocally the person that others interact with. Internal debates between superego and id, between the best possible version of yourself and the slovenly inverse potential, are all rather ancillary.

This leads to the discomfiting but valuable realisation that all of the generous narratives you've developed behind your actions don't ameliorate them one bit. Simply believing one's self to be a good person with a terrific goodwill towards your fellow man means nothing at all compared to what we have actually wrought. Zizek notes that everyone believes that, deep down, they are a good person, taking the example of the Nazi that, when accused of atrocities he is complicit in, protests that "that was not the real me. If only you knew the life that has lead me here, then you'd understand".

Zizek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW253CUrm1A

Louis CK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grjMbV64q60
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7 years - projects still running but i moved on

Only planned on a year on the project as was to train a workforce too. But as often happens in this industry - you train people and they move on.

Motivation wasnt a problem as interesting project - plus I liked the stability of being able to give good estimates, meet the estimates and deliver
> one solution that they're proud of.

Pride is a very strong word, especially for those of us with impostor syndrome...
What happens when someone from somewhere else comes to this light? Do you see tourists stuck here?
So IOW it's not so much that Dresden is one of those cities with American laws but that they make more use of that German (originally East German) law that is these days commonly made use of throughout all parts of Germany even though Dresden still features them more prominently?

Sorry for nitpicking but your first post read like Dresden had special traffic laws and green arrows were rare outside a handful of cities (plus AIUI the green arrow has slightly stronger implications in the US).
When extra3 had a segment on these red lights in their "Der alltägliche Irrsinn" ("Everyday madness") series, they said that there were three such lights in Dresden. I only know the one at Wasaplatz heading into Oskarstraße. Let's see if it survives the upcoming redesign of Wasaplatz this year.
I think the point is the bulbs are cheaper than the (a) cost of developing, deploying and tracking a one-off maintenance protocol change and (b) risk the instructions are applied to the wrong intersection.
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Good perspective. Wordpress is excellent at what it does. It makes complete sense, to go for it to do some serious blogging.

This project is for the rest of us, lazy bloggers who've gotten used to using Google Docs as a personal scratchpad and would want to blog right from there!
Yes, that light is costing tax payers every year to operate it. The law should be changed so that there is no need to do this.
Ask HN: How do you give thoughtful reviews on code you've never seen before?
I am frequently tagged on code reviews for large (2000+ lines) changesets to portions of a large, complex codebase that I haven't even seen before, just because it's "frontend" and I am one of the frontend developers, and am supposedly therefore qualified by default to critique the code.

I find this very challenging, and sometimes spend long periods trying to figure out what the context is, what the existing code did, what the goals of the changes were, and how the author went about implementing those goals. This can easily take 3-4 hours or more depending on the code, if I'm saying anything more than "missed a semi-colon there." And often can result in a simple "looks good to me!," leaving me feeling like I wasted an afternoon.

How do you (or your company as a whole) deal with this problem?
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I would guess that it would be "Behinderung des Straßenverkehrs" (obstruction of traffic).
From a writing point of view, I found it an interesting choice to simply use "author" instead of "Tim Berners-Lee" when attributing the quote in the opening paragraph. Surely dropping TBL by name would give more immediate credibility and encourage the reader to continue.
There's even the International Space Station feed. Awesome!
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Step one: admit, and put it into a public consciousness, that Facebook is a monopoly.

I'm a right wing free market advocate, but even I'm not a fanatic - and believe that when a single company grows to control the whole industry, it should be regulated. "Facebook is monopoly" needs to become a meme - this will help people from all the political spectrum on board to regulate it.
But you don't need the gym, for losing weight or getting healthier. The only thing you need the gym for is getting big muscles, now you can reframe the question.
Is my goal to be more healthy or getting ripped?

If the goal is health then you can stop going to the gym. Start running, start swimming, try bicycle, outdoor gyms, join a hike group, join a martial art club. Start doing excersices at home with your body weight. If you are so weak or big that you can't do many bodyweight drills, then you don't need a gym anyway. Better served with a small 10$ dumbar package at home.

The only thing that can be good with a gym is a Personal Trainer that can give you a good plan. It will be hard to replace that service to the same level.

If your goal truly is to be more muscular, then and only then does it really become a question of motivation. Do i want this enough do go to the gym, even on the days that i don't feel for it?
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How do you like developing on Rails? You have the value of past experience with Flask - does the 'newer' approach of RoR work for you?

Can you try rewriting in RoR/Elixir/NewShiny to see if that feeling goes away? Would you lose clients because of the switch to RoR?

All good items to ponder - that would be my thought process.I hope it helped.
If you are not ashamed of your DoD connection, why do you feel obliged to state that you are not involved in weapon's development ?

If you are ashamed of your DoD connection, what have you done about getting alternate funding ?
Definitely not the end of the world. I was very happy though to understand why relational databases is still the right choice for the most web applications, to store their data.
-Then again, would that be cheaper or less confusing than simply keeping the light?
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Thanks for sharing, this seems like the new jsbin/jsfiddle/codepen for native apps.

There should definitely a list of those, so I started one: https://github.com/Dorian/sketch-reactive-native-apps
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