skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be able to get the same treatment as Manning, Snowden would first have to get to the US, go through a trial, get convicted, serve a couple of years in prison, and then get his sentence commuted.

Snowden thinks (and I personally agree) that the second step (of him going through a trial) would not work, because he wouldn't get a fair trial, and I agree with him.

And, as was pointed out to you, Manning hasn't been cleared of claims that she made. She still made a crime according the court and was still convicted of that crime. It's just that her punishment got reduced and she is now free.

It's nowhere even near the similar situation. Snowden's case is basically in the same stage where Manning's case was when she leaked the documents, so somewhere around 2011. Manning pleaded guilty to the charges in court in early 2013. Snowden still didn't go through that process.
The definition of gender is not universally agreed upon. And it's pretty obvious that that definition is not the one the person you are replying to uses.

Definitions are also not fact, by definition.

There are plenty of valid arguments for calling trans people the gender they want to be. This isn't one since it isn't going to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you.

Edit: The why do you care part is a valid argument, was addressing the rest of your comment
> Some people care because gender identity is eroding sex based protections.

What do your greater political fears have to do with treating others with respect?

> I should think women care a lot that men are now allowed in their spaces based on an internal sense of "gender".

Are you talking about that bathroom debacle? I've got a simple solution: http://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2017/03/trans-bathroom-righ...
In machine learning circles, this is called "overfitting".
Perhaps https://qz.com/972118/simple-math-is-why-elon-musks-companie...
I should think women care a lot that men are now allowed in their spaces based on an internal sense of "gender".

No. We don't. Transwomen are welcome in our bathrooms, locker rooms, and spas.
I'd think the court would rule that the company should cover your costs incurred as a result of breaking the contract - i.e. they'd either be required to provide the plan for life or cover a plan elsewhere.
Try ProtonMail instead. At least it offers end-to-end encryption.
>Put away the persecution fantasies, he's being downvoted because he's wrong

Wrong about what, exactly?

I simply stated that instances exist in which an American or Chinese hackers may do wrong without having any connection to the government. If you disagree..you're quite obviously wrong.
Next time start with vesting (which a lot of people are mentioning) so that the other founders continue to earn shares and dilute the departed co-founder's stake over time. Ideally, founder ownership in the company is compensation in lieu of (or in addition to a meager) salary.

The founders who stay on board might try to dilute the departed co-founder's stake to nothing. Mark Zuckerberg did this to Eduardo Saverin. As a minority shareholder, you have to pay attention to the evolving cap table.
That's the point. I know the guy who posted this question on stackoverflow, a case was opened with Firebase support on August 15, 2016. They're STILL exchanging emails with no resolution as far as I know.
Interview with Element AI Experience Designer, Masha Krol
https://cloud.google.com/support/
And the radical liberal neo-nazi OKC bomber...
The Witcher Saga on Netflix
Sorry to hear about this. I work for our cloud platform support team ( we don't cover firebsse) and this is not the impression we want our customers to get.

We don't want to be calling customers in the middle of their night while they are sleeping. Its not an effective way to resolve issues. We need help identifying when we fall short so we can fix the issues.

Ways to let us know:
1) fill out the survey when your case is closed. We review every survey but less then 1% of cases get the survey filled out.
2) tweet your case id at us and it also goes through our review process
3) email me (tsg@Google.com) and I can correct the problems.
4) GCP slack community has a whole bunch of active Googlers (and the community will flag one us down) if you are having problems with the support team.
> out of sight and won't fall on your head

Tunnels are known for quite the opposite: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11cnd-boston.html
Especially now that some pumps accept NFC (Apple Pay etc), I have no idea how it could be faster to go inside.
Gender Dysphoria is not classified as a mental illness by the DSM. Dysphoria means distress, and Gender Dysphoria is a label for the distress that transgender people may experience, not for any supposed mental illness. You could experience dysphoria from a stressful work environment. It wouldn't mean you have a mental illness.

https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Prac...

It is important
to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria
is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.
Characters and Worldbuilding: Analyzing the Strength of Japanese Games
I understand the convenience of not having to manage such product, but more often than not is way more cost effective to rent some dedicated servers and run infrastructure for fraction of the cost. It is fairly easy to create resilient infrastructure nowadays and hw failures are very rare anyways. People are being fooled by fancy menus to overpay a mile for mediocre service.
>You can engineer wiring to be the right size for the 99% use case. You can't do that with savings.

This is not remotely correct.
> All right, is wikileaks also doing that for political reasons?

Quite possibly. After all, they're against leaks when they're aimed at Trump: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408

> And we're supposed to trust that the family actually knows what really happened?

The supposed bombshell yesterday fell apart, as conspiracy theories tend to do.
Having your artistic creation 'scarlet lettered' like this is something we condemn when applied to other forms of media. Think of the outrage surrounding Facebook and Google implementing labels for news they deem fake or unreliable. Though such companies are within their rights to do such a thing, many consumers recognize the chilling effect this can have on distributing information and also adds a layer of needless obscurity to the process of reading the news.

The music industry does not employ a 'rating system' like the film, TV, and video game industries. Rather, it's a catch-all for any and all content that arbitrarily may be viewed as offensive to a broad demographic of potential customers. This takes the label from a mere rating system to more of a form of soft censorship.

I've seen albums that are largely instrumental labeled with the parental advisory sticker, because the sounds are intense and experimental. I've seen the sticker on albums whose only crime was being critical towards a religious institution. The label does a lot of harm, while I am not so sure how helpful it truly is for parents.
>Are people entitled to have the fruits of their work stolen from them?

Who is stealing what?
I think it's shitty. But it's also avoidable.

But to avoid it, you generally do research ahead of time. And/or be willing to actually walk away from your 'investment' on their platform and start again somewhere else.

In the OP case, they didn't sign up with google in the first place. It's doubly shitty for them, because they didn't ask for this, and could not have known in advance that google would end up being the support provider. Similar to when I refinanced a house, and 6 month later, my 'servicer' sold my loan to someone else with much crappier service (charge me $3/month to take an electronic payment from me? I wouldn't have chosen this as a service option).

Yes, paying customers should go elsewhere. Complaining about it to google directly and indirectly for a decade has not noticeable improved their support for their cloud offerings.

Suck it up or go elsewhere. You can keep registering complaints with them, or organize digital protests, or whatever, but to get better service, you will likely have to go somewhere else.

"I think customers should shout from the rooftops till they're blue if they want to, even if it seems to lead nowhere". Of course they can. They just need to realize it will not change the quality of support. Someone earlier (you?) said to 'vote with your wallet'. Shouting from the digital rooftops about how crappy service X is, but continuing to pay them, is a waste of time at best, and enabling at worst. Leaving for another service is voting with your wallet/budget, and it needs to happen.
In Sweden we have at least one bank that has e-cards where you can set up a new card for each transaction. You decide how long it is valid in months and for how much total and recieve a unique card number and ccv. I have been using this at least 15 years for payments online. You set it up, make the payment and then immediately close the card again if you want to be extra safe.
Reminded of this from "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs":

"Just fuck 'em" became one of Steve's favorite lines.

When he had taken over, he had inherited a program
called SOS Apple, which let people sign a contract
for unlimited customer support over the telephone
for a lifetime. It was a bad financial move for
Apple. Steve said to shut it down.

What about the customers who have a contractual
obligation? Jeff asked.

"Just fuck 'em," Steve said.

The Federal Trade Commission sued Apple over the issue.
Apple lost.
As the submitter, I agree with all this.

Sure from, FastMail's point of view my father is a bad customer. Not that he's even aware who FastMail are though ...

But FastMail freely chose to make the poor business decision to offer that lifetime service for a one-time payment, and I freely chose to purchase that service for my father.

We had an agreement.

Now I would like them to honour that agreement.
How does wannacry spread? From what I find it's primarily via an SMB exploit, but who on earth can possible receive SMB traffic on the internet today?

Is it automatically opened via UPNP or something? (seems doubtful)
Well...that's the flip side of serverless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am wondering if with the upcoming generation this is as true, given that Internet video streaming and picture sharing is so much more prevalent compared to times past. Some of the most recent very popular memes have revolved around animals. The fact that Toys R Us sponsored the recent April the Giraffe phenomenon indicated to me that (beyond the logo idea) at least someone thought there was a significant audience of children watching.

What's nice about new technology is it allows for opportunities to capture animal activity in remote natural environments, with minimal impact. For instance, the Katmai National Park "bear cam" in Brooks Falls, Alaska (where in season people watch grizzlies feed on salmon) is a rather popular webcam. Not only does the webcam reduce human impact, it equalizes: Brooks Falls is very remote, and thus it is very expensive to get there. The webcam brings a side of nature to everyone, that previously only the well-off would see.

I think zoos and aquariums can still exist, but moving to an animal hospital / research / protection model versus the entertainment model of Sea World and the like makes sense. I hope the environmental movement recognizes that the former is still valuable.
But they seem to be able to delay debits for several days, perhaps a week? At least on WellsFargo. Isn't this a backdoor/loophole to get around the no overdraft issue?
Though the charts don't break it down by each journal specifically, here's a decent survey of the prices from a few years ago: http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...
Yes, it sucks that parts of the manufacturing economy are shrinking, but we're between a rock and a hard place. Our only hope is to create new jobs, which actually seems to be working pretty well. I would also support efforts to get creative to make up the inequality gap, such as universal healthcare, potentially a wealth tax or basic income.

I don't think many people are actually saying "there are literally no negative effects" of globalization, just that the alternative is clearly worse. It also doesn't help that the anti-globalization rhetoric (like every modern republican platform) is now often mixed in with a lot of anti-intellectualism and xenophobia, and that makes it hard to pick out any good points there might be in the argument.
The little things moreso. Brazil nut effect!
> The reason Google is so deeply unwilling to engage its customers to provide support is in the DNA of the company - they are all PhDs, and how many PhDs have the slightest idea of how to help and talk to a customer.

No they aren't lol. The majority of Google employees have B.S. degrees. The reason Amazon is so good at this stuff is because, at their core, they do everything they can to make the customer happy. Google doesn't really understand that. Not because they are PhD's (like, what the hell does that matter), but because customer service was never a thing they needed to do.
No agile!
> She was released from United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas around 3 a.m.

3am?! A parting kick to the head, or a ploy to avoid publicity?
True, but in this case you could type "tech {text of bullet point}" into google and in every single instance save one, the first link returned would've been a source of the info.

Asking for a source makes sense for controversial, or hard to find information. Not when it's so commonly reported that it's the first link on google on every single topic.
> Why are we even talking about this? Partisan politics isn't relevant.

He said, /after/ conveniently inserting partisan opinion and contradicting himself.
I have very mixed feelings about what Manning did. I also respect the moral courage it took to do them, and to face the consequences.
As pointed out elsewhere in thread, it is, and you can then incur the legal costs of recovering your $50 or whatever the "lifetime" fee was. If the company wasn't completely retarded about it, even a class action with attorney's fees is probably not going to be that costly. For the company doing this, it's essentially a promotional cost. Doing it in such a way that generates negative PR later seems to make the whole thing a waste of time, but that's the calculus that a company does.

Seems much smarter to me to make these things "free for x months/years" etc. and at least cap your costs if this approach is the best way to get signups.
After WannaCry, UIWIX Ransomware and Monero-Mining Malware Follow Suit
>Except both countries are well known for sponsoring such hackers.

And the US doesn't? Where have you been? Stuxnet blowing up Iranian nuclear plants? The pages upon pages of NSA documents?

The implication that the US is innocent of state-sponsored hacking is patently absurd.
https://www.facebook.com/KyleKittleson/videos/68113859873597...
Thank you for the feedback regarding commenting on merge requests. The diff view is indeed very important for collaboration. In the upcoming 9.2 release (slated for May 22nd), we are adding the ability to comment on older versions of the code and diff between versions.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10388

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10572
What exactly does this mean? Is this just gpg encryption?
G Suite support from Google improved a lot, but for good reasons it is not easy to recover access to an administrator account that was modified to prevent recovery. In a case like this, how support personel can tell a legitimate customer from someone trying to gain access through social engineering?

A local reseller can pay you a visit and verify the situation but hands are tied for the friendly Kumar sitting at a helpdesk facility in India.

Here in Brazil it is even harder, because most customers are unable to communicate well in English and support in Portuguese is not done by native speakers.
The database usage tab in the web console tells you how much bandwidth you have consumed including SSL.

Author's issue was with the commandline profiler.

(A Firebase dev)
I'm hoping she takes some time (at least a few months) to visit friends and family and unwind from her time in prison before the media ensnares her, even a little.
"Amended his requirements" aka "Oh shit, I didn't think you'd actually do it. I was only kidding!"
awesome, what's your blog?
Exactly. Psychology is not totally exact... think of the false positive rate (it's going to be big!) and the toll a false positive would take on a child's life. Think of a mentally ill parent doing exactly what you say. That is terrifying to me.
Yes and no. If an AWS customer ran up a bill like this, Amazon would absolutely cover them. They've done it hundreds of times. There's a very different culture between Google and Amazon when it comes to customer service.
I am rather for a ban on cetaceans in any tank too small to use their sonar, but as a Vancouverite I am extremely uncomfortable with who and how this ban was made.

Vision Vancouver, the political party, is very slick and spends an order of magnitude more on PR than anybody else in the city, in a town now with little news reporting.

1. It's well known who killed 2 of belugas -- somebody who publicly presents themselves as caring for whales -- but there is no discussion of it in the reporting.

2. There has been zero effort to have a conversation with the people at the Aquarium. There is an intentional effort to get shock value, encourage a public squabble that rouses some of their base and that distracts from their overall performance.

Vision Vancouver is now feeling the heat for freezing upzoning of single family home neighbourhoods so that they can direct hundreds of millions annually in buildable land grants in one-off variances to the large developers who are their main donors (Wall, Westbank, Concord). The problem in Vancouver is a monopoly of new buildable land where a single marketer, Bob Rennie, can dictate pricing for a year by virtue of controlling over 80% of new units in any given year under Vision Vancouver.

The next municipal election is a year away, but they've been around at full speed hiring PR folks on the public dime, setting up astroturf groups, wining and dining the few remaining beat reporters, and sending moles to infiltrate the new Vancouver Renters' Union. They're picking fights that are fake and real, any news is good news now if they can be ahead of the story instead of chasing to catch up for once.

---

Disclosure: I volunteered for the last two Vision Vancouver campaigns, as a favor to a friend and when I believed they actually meant what they said. I had already given up on them when I was asked to join an astroturf group by Mike Magee last summer
The landing page does not address several of my important questions:

1. How exactly does money get from my clients to me?

2. What evidence do I have that the service is trustworthy with my data and more importantly my money and even more importantly my client's money?

Good luck.
The Real Frank Zappa Book is definitely a must read for everybody. He talks about this issue in the latter chapters and writes about stuff like a streaming music service where you don't need physical media anymore to deliver the music. And it is a VERY funny book.
> FastMail and you know it's not worth my time to take them to court for $15.

Now, I don't know the details of the contract, but generally, the value this is about is not $15. The value is the damage caused by them failing to fulfill their contracts, which would be the discounted value of the market price of all future payments needed to replace their failure to perform.

There is no general legal option for one party to a contract to simply pull out and give you back your money. They owe you what they promised in the contract, and if they don't deliver, they are liable for the damage that that causes for you.
> Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it's way too much.

It doesn't matter what they think. They're your shares.

If they think you shouldn't own 10%, then perhaps they should fork out whatever price it is that you deem to be sufficient for your 10%.

If they want to buy you out and they're raising 500k at a $2.5 million post-money valuation, I'd tell them to pay $625,000 for your post-raise 25% or $375,000 for the 15% you're prepared to sell. They should be grateful for your gift to them, if you were to sell your shares for less than a rate of $25,000/1%. Keeping 10% for your future, after having sunk 16 months into the company, is definitely not unreasonable.

The above is only my opinion and is not financial advice.
What a scam. 65k? Honestly, this will not be recognized in the market as the same as a "real degree", so why should people pay that kind of price?
"if this is how they treat paying customers."

It looks to me like it's how they treat non-paying customers. Paying customers are their revenue source. I've heard good things from all of them that show up here.
It was probably still worth it for Apple though to be able to dump the unlimited commitments ... ?

Facebook, LinkedIn etc. have the same playbook when they play fast and loose with the privacy rules with respect to spamming contact lists. Any penalty is tiny compared with the gain.

I'm sure that's FastMail's current management's thinking in my case.
This one is even better :-) https://stackshare.io/stackups/graphcool-vs-scaphold-io
There's not much point committing political murder unless people know about it.
"I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the "must" assertion and not think about all the other options..."

I live in San Francisco and I assert that: To solve the soul-destroying practice of driving from (north of golden gate bridge) to SFO, roads must go 3D (tunnel).

You may not be aware of this, but if you need to go to SFO from Marin (or anywhere north of the city) you need to drive through small residential neighborhoods, stopping at up to 12 stoplights. It's incredibly wasteful of time and gas and degrades the lives of everyone involved. You find yourself stopped in traffic on a four lane boulevard in front of a single family home with a yard. That's how you get to SFO.

San Francisco desperately needs a tunnel from the GGB to SFSU/ParkMerced.
I don't think this is obvious at all. At least it isn't for me. It's a bit ridiculous to get so defensive and compare it to asking for evidence the world is round.
You are missing the "raising for buy out". If the shares are realistically worth $20K, and the $27K guy offers $14.1K, then the $14k guy would raise $0.1K (possibly even with a 50% APR) and counter; instant 5.9k profit.
As there's a story like [1] on the front page of HN weekly if not daily, I've done my best to avoid building anything on their platform. To quote [2],
"They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409
https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-b...
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