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Google Cloud threatens to delete my project because they couldn't charge me
I just got an email from Google Cloud saying my projects will be deleted because of an unpaid bill that they're unable to charge my Indian credit cards for.

- It's only 1 paisa (1/60th of a cent), but that's apparently enough to delete my projects.

- Google, as usual, tried to pass the buck to my bank, saying they're at fault.

- I spoke to the bank, who said that Google is reversing the transactions as soon as they're made, not the bank, so the bank can't do anything about it.

- I have never had issues using the card at point of sale machines, online on Indian sites, or foreign currency (dollar) transactions like Twitter ads.

- Other Google departments like GSuite and AdWords never have trouble charging the same card. Google Cloud says that their systems are different from those of other departments at the same company.

- I tried a credit card issued by a different bank, and that didn't work either, so I'm 100% sure the problem is not on my side or the bank's, but on Google's side.

- Since Google is unable to automatically charge my card, I tried to pay manually, multiple times, with each of my two cards, but that didn't work either. "We couldn't process your payment."

- I offered to use a debit card, net banking or Paytm, but Google Cloud doesn't accept any of them, the agent told me.

- I suggested a $100 credit so that I don't face these issues again any time soon, but that suggestion wasn't accepted.

- The agent told me she's working on a credit of 1 paisa (1/60th of a cent), but before that could be processed, I was threatened with termination.

- They don't offer me phone support despite me paying for Google Cloud. That will cost me an additional $150 a month, and I refuse to pay that much money just for the privilege of having Google charge my card.

- The email support person wasn't helpful, in effect blaming me for the whole mess, though being very polite about it.

- I sent many screenshots, showing the support agent errors from their own console (why should I have to forward them?), forwarded emails and SMSs from my bank.

- The support agent ignored information I gave her, making me having to tell her the same thing again and again.

- I asked for this to be escalated to an engineer, but that suggestion wasn't accepted.

- I asked a friend at Google for help, who told me that he doesn't work in support, but will still try to help, but before that could happen, I was threatened with termination.

Thankfully, it's only Firebase analytics I use, so losing Google Cloud isn't the end of the world. At worse, I'll lose analytics, not user data or suffer downtime because of my backends going down.

Don't count on Google Cloud to run your business.
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> Really? How do you put multiple "import" statements on a single line in Haskell?

With semicolons and curly braces; Haskell's newline/indent syntax is merely an aesthetic substitute for those.
On top of that SBC makers are competing with smartphones for parts.

And while possibly a bad example in this regard, Apple has a history of reserving whole yearly factory outputs to ensure they have the parts available.
Makes a guy lament the loss of removable batteries because marketing is all about thin phones...
In the UK, back in the 70's we had a deposit scheme for glass bottles. And if you couldn't be bothered taking your bottles back to the store for a few pennies each you could be sure some local kid would be more than happy to do it for you.
Do Apple Stores work differently in China? In the United States I have been able to call about a week out and get devices serviced in the past.
These are only secrets in the most tendentious sense. Half the people at Facebook worked at Google before anyway, and there are maybe a half dozen companies that could plausibly get the benefits of going Google-scale for source control. And they already have all their internal systems: if they lack all the same capabilities as Google, it's not because Google's systems are secret but because of other challenges.
I'm the one who understands why all of the forks you support fail mate.
Coincidences happen all the time ;-)
That's still not even close to Google's repository:

"The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Google's entire 18-year existence. The repository contains 86TBa of data, including approximately two billion lines of code in nine million unique source files."

Source: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
It's nice to see Kuhn get a shout out; just occasionally I wish that the HN community at large was as well-informed on philosophy (and history) of science as we apparently are on all manner of technical topics. In fact one of the things that annoyed me about the original article was its complete lack of acknowledgment* that there are, you know, actual philosophers of science who might have thought about this issue before.

As an aside, I do think it's worth mentioning that the propositions:

> it's simply not the case, however robust the scientific results, that you have direct access to the 'pure nature of the world in itself'.

and

> There is no thought independent of the language we use to represent the world

are really completely separate. I heartily disagree with the second (Wittgenstein?), and heartily agree with the first (any philosopher who's not a naive realist?) :)

---

* Martin Rees is a well informed guy, and I'm sure he knows what philosophy of science is and has maybe even read some of it, but apparently he didn't choose to mention it. Sure, maybe that would be getting a bit too heavy for The Atlantic, but still... grrrrr...
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I went to the Apple store, they will only replace battery for me after I book a slot on the Internet. But I can never successfully do that.
I'm not sure of the original intent, but you could approach this as the Cartesian product of [1..5] * [1..10] * [1..10] which is then filtered such that the 2nd value is not smaller than the first, and the 3rd value is inclusively between the two
These days i would have thought that a LCD or OLED screen would have been able to handle directly addressing each pixel.

the reason for the CRT requiring the data "serially" was the electron beam that refreshed the phosphor.
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So you don't have internet or their website doesn't work? Maybe there are no times available?
The following works too!

(24*60*60*1000)=*/(!6)^!6

so does

(24*60*60*1000)=1{x*y^y}/!6

but now you have two hideous parameters!
I know some neighbors use them. Trouble with goats is they don't discriminate much about what they eat, and we do have some things in the garden we'd like to keep :)
I'm guessing this is far as you're going to acknowledge 'Tolstoy never said a thing Tolstoy would have never said but I claimed he did and thought was a decisive forum killshot'. :)
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There's nothing wrong with saying "you're holding it wrong" if they're holding it in a way clearly contrary to the solution design. I don't fit in a toddler's car seat and if I tried, it's clearly my fault and not the seat engineer's. I doubt they'd want to accept my changes that would make it work worse for toddlers either.
For what purpose exactly? Surely you don't have multiple developers writing code with one cursor.
But why didn’t you give her the ice cream in the first place? Perhaps, because of a rule? Perhaps that rule was not so bad after all?
Of course, surveillance infrastructure remains heavily funded:
"Today, the NSF provides nearly 90% of all federal funding for university-based computer-science research."
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
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No, because he says he's supposed to avoid using it. It would be absurd to prevent a Microsoft engineer from using a Microsoft product "to avoid the appearance of impropriety"
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As someone who builds battery systems (yes, I'm "that battery guy" that shows up in HN battery threads) wtallis is correct: full discharges harm modern batteries, although every battery protection circuit has a cut-off voltage set to prevent discharging them too far (at which point your phone will turn off.)

The practical applications of those two facts, however, are much more nuanced. Ultimately, the biggest killer of batteries is heat. Charging your phone and using it battery-intensively (max brightness/lots of processing stuff) are the biggest heat-causing things that come to mind. Another thing that can happen is heat buildup: you might not be using it very intensively, but if you use it for hours on end the heat can eventually build up and the phone will get hotter over time.

It's entirely possible that your method of using your phone actually does cause less stress on the battery. However, this is 100% dependent on what you and your friends do with your phones, before and while they charge, as well as the kind of phone, its charging circuitry and a million other factors.

At the end of the day, all I can say is "batteries are basically magic, use less power, and don't let your phone get too hot." The only universal recommendation that will guarantee better battery lifetime - with every battery chemistry - is to draw less current from the battery (on a phone: turn down your brightness, turn off things you're not using, etc etc.)
At what point is drawing a gun on an unarmed person justified?
You're underestimating the amount of pollution other countries produced during industrialization. There used to be rivers in the US that were flammable because manufacturers discharges so many volatile effluents into them.

London's "killer fog" is quite famous, and Russia's Lake Karachay still holds the distinction as the most polluted spot on earth.

Sure, China affects its neighbors. China is a big country compared to Sweden.
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iOS 11 was the same way on my 6s+. Then I swapped the device for a new one. It doesn’t feel nearly as sluggish. My battery works like it did on iOS 10. My old device had a battery that was barely in the acceptable range. Obviously, my experience is anecdotal.
Sounds like opec
Probably because even children know about the declaration of independence...

Also the whole thing about thing being an opinion sounds as dumb as when someone says gravity is just a theory...
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Producing a Twitter clone and dealing with toxic materials are two entirely different skill sets.
Their website always says no times available.
What existing “normal” systems?
More ridiculous is the idea that a nation deserves extra credit for being ridiculously overpopulated. In China's case, it's doubly absurd given that the CCP strong-armed an already too large populace into having more children for decades before wisely but again brutally reversing course with its famous one child policy.

> "The 1950s census showed that China had 557 million people, and some professionally-trained demographers began urging that policies be put in place to limit population growth. Mao Zedong condemned such views on the grounds that under socialism a large population was a great resource, not a threat. Consequently, some of the most prominent proponents of birth control were labelled rightists and removed from power… by the time Mao died in 1976, China’s population exceeded 900 million."

-Ebrey, Patricia Buckley (2010). The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, p. 327.

In the future, we will likely see an even larger devastation of the environment from India and other countries with large and growing populations.
With the caveat that Jenkins is not the main form of CI at Google -- that spot goes to TAP.
I don't understand why there's so little education in America about what is recyclable and what isn't. When I lived in Japan, every district in most cities had detailed documentation about what goes where on what day, how to clean it, etc. When you go to restaurants, there's images of the items that are recyclable on their respective recycle bins and images of what goes in the trash on the trash bins. There's also drains to pour out pet bottles, etc.

Is it that hard to spread some basic documentation about recycling?
I had a really really nice manager. He's technical but he admits he isn't catching up with the current technology landscape quickly, especially in his role he didn't have to be hands-on at all. From time to time he'd said to me "I don't see myself adding any values" because he felt "he didn't know what he should be doing".

However, he was a very nice people manager. He listens well, and he treats his team well. He would protect me even when I disrespected and frustrated the whole chain of commands (well they all respected my history of great contributions but they just weren't happy with the way I was acting - probably due to my mental illness).

But my manager kept me under his arms, and would rely on the engineers to run the technical show as he sat in the backseat listening during meetings (he would step in if needed to keep "politics" out).

Often you don't get both "very technical + very good people manager" type of manager, so if it were up to me I'd pick a people manager who is great at communication and have respects for his/her engineers to do their jobs without tight oversight. If the team isn't able to resolve a technical decision, then it is the manager's time to become an arbitrator: let people cool down, break down the problem and then discuss options.

SJ's advice on not micromanaging is probably the only thing I can agree on. Don't micromanage, but make sure everyone knows you are the manager, and everyone on the team deserves to be kept informed by one another. There shouldn't be a "I am working on a ticket but I will update you when I am done in a week."

That was me. Don't be the old me. It was toxic, no matter how successful I was technically.
Amazon did this for Amazon Fresh grocery delivery back when it was just in Seattle (and then in LA). Unattended deliveries, meaning left on your front porch, came in reusable bags and hard-sided plastic containers.

Ever since they ruined Fresh by just lumping it in with Prime Now deliveries, most items come in disposable paper bags with disposable insulation inserts for frozen stuff.
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With regard to your last statement, here's a (very) vaguely related post from Penelope Trunk who also writes about aspberger's and life. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/12/01/living-up-to-your-p...
Seems unGoogley.
>In the US, various bulk stores have tried to introduce the packaging reuse notion, but all have gone out of business because we take convenience over reuse.

It's not just that. Stores in the US don't trust their customers enough to move away from bulky packaging that takes forever to open.
As far as I understand, ISPs can recognize that you're using a VPN and then slow all of your traffic, instead of affecting your connection to an individual site.
It's not like people get out of college uniquely qualified for writing a Twitter clone. The same people that use machine learning for ads could also use it for sorting trash. And manipulating it would be a hard problem for robotics.
I was thinking of things like the BSD implementation of the TCP stack, and the MPICH implementation of the MPI message passing standard.
For LithIon, there are really 3 things that are bad (That I've heard of):

1) Fully charging them
2) Fully discharging them
3) Heat

These are all monitored by the battery support software/hardware but all will affect performance.

The phone will not let charge or discharge to 100% even though it says so. Min/Max values are stored on the phone and adjust as your battery ages. 100%/0% per you phone's display is really just the max/min allowed values.
It's incredibly helpful to launch a service and ensure it's running, and allow a dev to see it running in action as well. You can also have a one on one situation where a dev might want to show you how to debug a running app or something like that vs explaining where it logs error messages after they occur.
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>...That's why Libertaristan isn't on any maps.

I do wonder why people go out of their way to misrepresent libertarianism. This shouldn't have to be pointed out, but libertarianism != anarchism. To have any kind of working market, you need a functioning government that can protect property rights, provide for compensation if a contract is broken, etc, etc.
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> Also AFAIK many things such as "social intelligence" are not tested at all.

As far as I've read about it (not an expert; I've just seen this debate more than once before and tried to educate myself on the basics), that's because every time someone proposes an actual objective test for one of the "other intelligences", it turns out to either be primarily dependent on training (i.e. measuring conditioned behaviors) or to correlate so strongly with IQ that the test is effectively an IQ test.
That just means that no one makes big breaking changes even if they night be necessary.
No, it's not like OPEC -- most of their wells don't require new investment to keep going. It IS like fracking.
GraphQL backwards compatibility has nothing to with cross-repo constraints. It’s because there are millions of clients running old native code.
What share price?
When I was a kid there was a Pop Shoppe store by my house that sold different flavors of soda pop in thick little glass bottles. You'd grab a crate, fill it up with whatever mix of flavors struck your fancy, and pay a deposit for the bottles. When you'd drank them all you brought your crate of empty bottles back for a refill.

Seemed like a pretty good idea to me. It went out of business, though, I think because people wanted Pepsi and Coke brands.
The dependencies are still downloaded only on need though.
> Coupled with no touch ID and only face ID on iphones im a little lost.

You do realize that Apple released 2 iPhones with the same performance and capacities as the iPhone X that do have touchID, right?

That said, faceID is marvelous, and I would want to go back...
Just because someone is subscribed to a public forum doesn’t necessarily mean they’re holding or investing in bitcoin, just as easy to observe.
everything which helps you to communicate with your colleagues:

* skype, google hangouts, webex, zoom for 1:1 and conference style video-calls

* github/zenhub and/or atlassian jira/confluence for scm/bugtracking/codereview/backlog/agile boards etc.

especially: write comments to tickets and PRs (!) even if it often seems trivial. it helps documenting work-progess and keeps decisions for later reference. don't forget any kind of wiki for documentation

* screensharing via ... screen/tmux or vnc, teamviewer or even some videochat - not skype because of its poor image quality - to do pair-programming

* irc/slack/skype-chat/... - any kind of im for synchronous text-based chat

* good old email for everything else :)
If congress REALLY wanted to be useful, they could declare Internet access to be a first amendment right and providers of last mile access to be natural monopolies (to be regulated as such).
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I work in a large company and I have used a central repository for six years and a distributed for six years. I think a central repository is better. The benefits are:

1) Transparency. I can see what everybody else is doing and if somebody has an interesting project I can find it quickly. You can also learn a lot from looking at other peoples changes.

2) Faster. To check out the source code for the project I now work on takes an hour in the distributed system, while it only took 5 minutes in the centralized system.

3) Always backed up. All code that is checked into the central repository is backed up. It has happened twice that employees have left and code was lost because they only checked it in locally.

Many have only used CVS or SVN, which are horrible. I rather use Git or Mercurial, but Perforce is really good.
This is just the Windows codebase and is relatively small compared to almost the entirety of Google.
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The two 'true' statements show that 12345678910111211 == 12345678910111212 transitively, which is obviously not possible.
Is this Simpson's Paradox, or something else?
Probably not much at all. SNPs and small indels tend to be have many neighbors with which they're highly correlated. If a variant caller missed a single SNP it's likely that it still called a bunch of others that nearly always co-occur. In most cases downstream association studies would be unaffected.

It's actually possible that DeepVariant is implicitly learning some of these correlations (1). This would make it really really bad for picking out the rare persons that don't fit a trend (and tend to be very important for identifying disease loci). GATK definitely does not know about correlated SNPs.

(1) The paper implies this is not the case, saying that DeepVariant works for other genomes without retraining, but they don't show the relevant results.
Look closely. Or, equivalently

> n=12345678910111210
> n+1 === n+2
true
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