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Google's "other revenues" (mostly Cloud and Play) was $14B as of their last 10-K, growing at 40% YoY. That pales in comparison to their advertising revenues, but if you just had an isolated business (not part of Alphabet) with $14B in revenue growing 40%/year, that would be a pretty attractive stock.

(For comparison, HP Enterprise has about $28B in revenue with negative growth and is worth $23B. At current growth rates, Alphabet's Cloud segment will surpass HP in revenue in 2-3 years.)
Play Store sales != Google Revenue. Google gets a 30% cut, the rest goes to the app developer.
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Thanks for the update. Did this affect all of your public resolvers or only 1.1.1.1?
I never said the U.S. deals with economic strata better than every other nation on Earth. In fact, I explicitly said that there are countries who handle it better. So what's your point?
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Was concerned it was another hijack, but a hijack would probably try to act like a dns...
Yea I just updated my Google Wifi settings to 1.1.1.1 primary and 8.8.8.8 secondary.
The easiest way would be to visit a website like "whatsmyip" and check that your IP address stays the same.
It's not clear from the article if this cost figure includes software engineering cost which would be significant in Tesla's case.
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I tried to use GAE back in the day, and it suffered from cold-start issues. Same story as if you tried to develop lambda-backed website with Java on AWS, and your lambda may take 20 seconds to start from cold.
> Ubuntu is the red-headed stepchild of Linux which wants to be Windows.

Eh. It wants to be Mac:

- broken alt-tab? Check

- menu bar on top? Check

- dock? Check

- window controls moved to the left? Check

> I use it at work. I hate it.

So do I. But now after they moved to Gnome I can fix the worst usabilty issues.

It still crashes hard once a day despite me trying everything I can think of wrt swap, reserved memory etc. Might just be my RAM sticks though.

> I'd rather use Fedora.
Developing nations benefit from the US dramatically more than the US benefits from developing nations. They get a massive, free technology transfer.

Or, see: China's several trillion dollar trade surplus with the US over the last 20 years.

25% of Vietnam's entire economy is currently made up of US imports from their nation, and it's almost all trade deficit for the US. Their economy is being constructed by US capital and US consumers, enabling them to dramatically lift their standard of living, exactly as China has.

Then we get to the free technology transfer, which enabled countries like China to rapidly leap forward without having to invent much of anything new. They get to focus on implementing things that are already known to work. The US invented nearly all the modern tech infrastructure, the list is hilariously long, here's the short version:

Internet, transistor, router, microprocessor, computer graphics, fiber optics, ram, most operating system tech, Unix, computer networking, the mobile phone, the smart phone, the hard drive, SSDs, the LCD, the LED, the laser, tcp/ip, hypertext, C/C++/Java/JavaScript/Basic/etc., the digital camera, qwerty keyboard, cable modem, the spreadsheet, the relational database, the fax machine, the GPU, 3D graphics cards, ethernet, hypertext, the mouse, streaming media, email, GPS, ecommerce.

Then we can go further back in time to all the older industrial technology invented by the US and Western Europe, which developing nations have been able to free ride over the last 50+ years.

And that's before we get to vaccines, medtech, biotech, pharma, genetech, aerospace, vast free research & data, process knowledge, and on and on.

Oh the exploitation, make it stop.
The biggest cost of any car is R&D.

So this article doesn't tell us much.
True, I should have expanded my line of thought : I don't think that consumers are majorly hurt when a game console can only install apps/games under its manufacturer's approval.

Sure, it is not a black and white situation and indies are certainly hurt by this. Also you can install general purpose apps on consoles nowadays; so the line is blurring.

When we are talking about a general purpose device like a phone or a desktop computer though; it really irks me that you need an approval to distribute your app.

We have already seen OS creators forbid an app before sherlocking it, or refusing to validate a satirical app.

Recently both Valve and Telegram have been unable to get their apps approved. I have worked in the music industry and this is sadly really common .. if you work on a music streaming service, it is a huge PITA to get your app approved. It is almost if the people in charge of the OS do not want the competition..

I make this distinction because I think it is way more hurtful when communication or news apps are impacted by this kind of practices and these are pretty vital.

Entertainment apps being hit by this also hurt the consumers by artificially distorting the competition.

Ads Blocker are an edge case. They interfere with other apps, which I feel is ok to forbid. I think that all apps should be obligated to provide a tracking + ads free version but I don't think they should be mandated to make that version free. Especially when ads blockers are often a racket to get your ads networks whitelisted as long as you pay.
funny that no one links to the cloudflare status page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
> You are arguing that people shouldn't be exposed to something if they can't understand all of it

Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as that extreme. You don't have to understand all of it, but I - and I suspect, so did many of my peers - understood so little of it that the time was effectively wasted. There is other literature available that would likely have served us much better.

> But a modern audience is going to require explanation regardless of accent.

Exactly - and without some explanation, it's very much like reading something in a foreign language.
>Can we please figure out how we can have renewable copyright law which cost over $1,000 a year per copyright item.

No fuck Disney and their reshaping of America's copyright law. For one stupid animated mouse they changed how the entire Public Domain worked. It's not really possible to boycott Disney at this point, but if I could I would because of this issue alone.
I sometimes think people are overly keen to look for a Reason why something did or didn't take off, when attributing it to the whims of fate would be closer to the mark.
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You'd think, but no, not really. He mostly just wanted to sell a book.
https://reviewmeta.com/ is very useful to detect fake reviews on Amazon.
Ok, but the rate of change since the 18th century has been slower than in France especially in Paris.
I’m no expert, but I doubt attorneys generally do a lot of research when answering phone calls. It wouldn’t surprise me if the attorney answering the call didn’t check with anyone involved in making the show before opening their mouth.

Besides, we have the estate’s claim that Disney’s attorney said “fair use,” but no information on whether that’s all the attorney said.
I agree, I think the networking aspect is central. Extroverted people are going to be drawn to sports that serve a networking purpose like golf, tennis, skiing, hunting quail, etc.
In the video its a bit more messy and it looked like a few drones were stuck or malfunctioning. I wonder if they eventually got them in order or if they had to fix those few in edit.

Either way its still a really creative and cool shot!
> used that wacky 3D file browser

FSN [1] on a SGI running IRIX.

Didn't they use that one in Hackers as well?

[1] http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool...
it comes to a point where Piracy isn't just about caring, but from old habits. What are they going to do if I don't pay their piracy fines? Find me and put me in jail for something they cannot prove even happened?
Then we should take their full body scanners and give them spoons.
Michael Jackson Estate owns everything he has done. They use to own the Beatles catalog in entirety and just sold what was left for $750,000,000. I think Disney Lawyers have their hands full.
Being able to sit down and read a hundred pages is the more useful thing anyone can get from school.

I strongly disagree. A solid base in mathematics, critical thinking, and the ability to say "I'm not getting anything out of this, I should switch to something else" are far more important.
I'm on board with everything you said except about Jimmy Carter closing mental institutions; that's quite the opposite of what happened. It was his successor, Ronald Reagan, who was instrumental in closing many mental health services.

As far as California, specifically the bay area: it's a hell of a mess. Beyond people living on the streets, there is a growing group of people living in RVs. I took these pics near my office in Palo Alto a couple of weeks ago:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tJKzrSZmaU8HW1NaA
How to check if you're having trouble from your specific location:

-- Windows --

Cloudflare DNS:

nslookup www.google.com 1.1.1.1

Google DNS:

nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8

-- Linux --

Cloudflare DNS:

dig @1.1.1.1 www.google.com

Google DNS:

dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com
I visited the Met a number of times as a broke college student from Ohio, and a number of times after graduating when I lived in the SF Bay Area but was still broke. The fact that I could go up to the ticket counter, pay a nominal $1 donation, and get the same metal tab button to get in as everyone else was a godsend.

I love New York City, but every time I go back to visit it feels more like a playground for the wealthy.
Thanks for posting,
I had checked originally, but didn't see that update, probably too early.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a blanket license. There is for public performance (like playing music over the speakers in a restaurant) but a sync license needs to be negotiated.

I’m not an expert on the legal/business side but I used to write music for tv shows when they couldn’t secure licenses and needed replacements.
Fair enough. Still, "I don't like microlibraries" is not an argument against client-side frameworks.
> CreateFile() is not deprecated. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3....

"OpenFile() has been deprecated and replaced by CreateFile(), which was superseded by CreateFile2()."

I never said CreateFile() was deprecated. Superseded is not the same thing.

> OpenFile() could be considered deprecated but the official documentation doesn't mark it as deprecated.

"Note This function has limited capabilities and is not recommended. For new application development, use the CreateFile function."

Looks pretty much an euphemism for deprecated.

> You missed the point that these API have been stable for decades and software will continue to work without any change.

Not when Windows puts a container around what they can see.
That statement makes sense in the context of the article. People on the project objected to it's being used in a weapon platform. If I build a self driving car and you attach an auto-targeting turret to it you've forced my work into a weapon platform even if I didn't turn the wrench attaching the turret.
>...However, if a small company is tackling a hard problem that does require tons of math, computer science, or pure ingenuity. Hell ya, brainteasers can be of great help. They don't even need brainteasers, they can just directly ask math problems.

Yes, if the job requires tons of math, it makes sense to ask math questions, it doesn't necessarily mean that people who are good at brain teasers will be good at the job. According to the article, what google found in regards to asking brain teasers:

>...“We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time,” Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, told the New York Times. “They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”
you neglect to mention -- the ability to implement a technology in systems and in the field. Government "by definition" has the ability to use resources to deploy, to a degree that is not easily understood by an individual.
You know, there are a lot of cool things I've learned that I wouldn't have learned if reposts were strictly controlled.

I would even hypothesis that an ideal web community in the vein of reddit or HN is not completely void of reposts. There must be some ideal percentage that makes the site most useful/successful.

Don't know where on the number line those figures land, but sharing something that crosses my mind when I see a repost. HN seems to have a decently low number, IMO.
You might want to put a link to your system status page on your home page:

https://1.1.1.1/

I googled "1.1.1.1 service status" and that was the top result and there was no link to your actual status page.

So then I did what I always do and hit https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Thanks for the correction @Diederich, it was before I was alive and you are absolutely right- blame Reagan.
Uh, corporate gmail? They have to be making non-ad money off corporate Gsuite products (gmail, calendar, drive:docs/sheets/slides).

I've been at companies that have used other forms of internal corporate email, and all of them are worse. Open source/roll-your-own, On-prem Exchange, Cloud-based Office365, what have you... all of them suck.
so where are these "interview brain teaser questions from Google" coming from?
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I am very excited AWS Aurora will 'soon' be available as 'serverless': a full sql database that comes up almost instantly (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/)
The ribbon menu introduces problematic issues in newer versions of Office for add-ins. Add-ins can't effectively update controls for non-active windows via the COM interface. For instance, if you have a text-box within an add-in Ribbon menu, a non-active window will not display the appropriate text for that window.

Well, to be honest - it's not exactly a Ribbon issue. It's an issue with Ribbon moving to an SDI interface with Office 2010. Office 2007 worked fine, 2010 and later bomb with the aforementioned issue (at least as far as Office 2013 - last I worked on Office Add-ins).
Good suggestion! Without the fsmonitor enabled at all that looks more like 400ms on my iMac Pro.
Thanks for this. I do blame them. And we elected them so I blame us. And also it's still wrong to make it easier, cheaper or faster to kill people.
I think the main difference between the two is, IAP aims to replace VPN requirements for Enterprises. It only integrates with Google accounts and it seems to go hand in hand with GSuite. So they are more B2B oriented. We hide our staging servers behind IAP for instance.

Amazon's solution seems to integrate with a few other identity providers and gives the developers the tools to do authorization after authentication is done. It seems to position this more like a B2B2C. Although it feels like it already subsumes Google's IAP by doing so.

This is my understanding by reading the article on Amazon, I haven't actually used it.
Second, how sad is that for the people who don't get to read it because they don't have a "great" teacher

It's not sad at all. You don't regret what you don't know you missed. Let them discover it on their own, from a better source, at a later date.

Shakespeare study was one of the worst periods in my education. It's boring, irrelevant, and to this day I don't understand the obsession. I'd rather that any child read the full works of Steinbeck than anything by Shakespeare.

It reminds me of the way we learned geometric proofs in 8th grade. When I finally got into proper algebraic proofs in college it was an indescribable joy.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is free (except special exhibits). I'm a paying member, but it's great that it's free, both for those who can't pay, but also because it means you don't have to spend a huge amount of time there to feel like it justifies the ticket price. I used to live nearby and would sometimes walk over to look at one piece for 5 minutes.
I don't think that he cares much about steel mills and auto factories. His motives are unclear.
You can't define operator precedence though!! (That's a good thing). There was once a Julia talk about a really old programming language which disallowed any operator groupings without parens except for the basic seven or eight.

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/6512f3b4fd02b9a9cc292cf0f88...

also string macros are cheating!
I actually find the new policy more honest in some ways. Because of the way admission was set up (you had to go up to the cashier and get a little clip-on thingie), it always felt like the donation was optional but not really. And the museum certainly didn't go out of its way to advertise that you didn't have to pay the printed amount.

London museums are also a bit guilty of trumpeting "Free" and then expecting a donation. But the suggested amount is more modest and the collection is just a box/globe so it's very low-key.
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I still remember the absolute shock GAE was to me.

Back in 2006, for a lot of people when you wanted to run a service, you configured your own LAMP server.
Once everything was running, you didn't touch it and hoped there was not going to be a power failure.

Then GAE came and for the first time you got security updates, uptime, and automatic scaling without having a dedicated sysadmin.
Needless to say that I've been a customer and advocate of this service from the beginning.
My oldest service is still running. I just had to update a .yaml file twice... in a decade.

It's kind of sad the amount of people that are wasting their time administrating their own servers when it could be done automatically. I suspect the hype around k8s will waste millennia of man-power.
I'm still not getting this... did people get in touch and say "I don't want people to know I'm running a business at this address"? Or did they say "Please remove me from your business directory which you added me to without asking"?... and how does your mind jump to "must be criminals" - are there intermediate steps in your logic or is it just: doesn't want me to have their business address on my database = criminals?
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I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I can say I prefer teams to slack. The real-world use of both leads me to see little to no difference in my day to day use. But one has the advantage of being tied natively tied to my entire software suite.
I just checked the market and as of 2:30 PM EST Google is now worth more than Microsoft.
I used the word 'probably' on purpose.
I'm surprised that nobody is talking about how Telegram raised pre-ICO of billions of dollars even when it was obvious that this type of censorship will be possible.

Mobile apps should not do ICO, period. It's irresponsible for someone to try stealing uneducated people's money while promising something that's impossible to achieve.

Realistically speaking there are only two players in the market: Google and Apple, both of which will happily comply with governments and regulators since they have no business in allowing gray area businesses, and that's a good thing.

However when you raise ICO, you're basically promising the censorship resistant future while fully knowing that it's impossible to achieve what you promised because your app is built on top of these centralized platforms.

This is on a completely different level in terms of scam factor when compared to naive idiots promising things like "putting grass-fed cows on the blockchain", because literally it's impossible to build a censorship-resistant, decentralized mobile app and they are the ones who know this the best.

I point this out because it looks as though all the press coverage seem to be focused on how Russia and Apple is censoring Telegram and Telegram is the victim, when Russia and Apple did nothing different from what they used to do. Russia has always been this way, and Apple has always tried its best to fight for user privacy but did make compromises when they really had to. It's great that Apple is doing its best to fight for user privacy but to be frank, Apple shouldn't be the one to blame here.

It's Telegram who decided to promote itself as a "censorship resistant decentralized blockchain application" to raise billions of dollars, and they got to this position because of this stance they had to take in order to raise the money. The only losers in this case are the idiots who invested in Telegram's ICO.
Using dig on windows 7 it seems to be up.
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Once you have a shared AD tenet stood up, a new web app with SSO/company user and group rights provisioning is just a Visual Studio wizard away...

Microsoft's cloud is not everybody's cloud. They have distinct advantages and are using them.

The race is not for hosting VMs/Containers ...it's for user subscriptions and enterprise lockin. Google theoretically gives away G Suite because they get better ad metrics the younger they understand a user.
I miss the East German border. It was relaxed by comparison.
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That's why they say potential cost.
My wife is a long-time hospital nurse, and she will be the first to tell you that hiring a nurse today is a much more tedious and time-consuming task than it was back in the day. Entry-level educational requirements are higher now, for one, and the whole hiring process at her hospital (which used to be relatively quick and straightforward) is now both tedious and time-consuming. Not surprisingly, this leads to an on-going shortage of nurses, with significant job-hopping from one hospital floor to another, from one facility to another, or from one organization to another. And surprisingly (or maybe not) the "new and improved" hiring process hasn't necessarily led to an improvement in the overall candidate pool, and in at least some cases has caused a noticeable decline.

As to "you don't have to do it again every time you switch jobs", nurses are often required to go through continuing education just to keep their licenses current. But making the jump from one type of nursing specialization to another, or even upgrading from an RN to a BSN (often required today if you want to keep your job - probably the exact same job that you've already been doing for ages) can be quite grueling - almost like starting over. In one recent case, a well-respected fellow nurse upgraded her education only to be to told that even that was no longer considered sufficient. She was already doing management-level work but didn't yet have the official title or the pay, and was told that she needed to go up an additional level in education in order to get that, so she just bailed - decades of experience walked out the door for no good reason.
In my experience the impact from mandatory museum fees is that people will not make short museum visits. A single new exhibit is not worth $25, nor is a 1 hour visit after lunch or before dinner. When there's a large cost visiting the museum becomes an event, something that gets planned into the day's schedule for many hours. I'm curious to see if the fees have any impact on the number of out of town visitors.
Fair point. I think a game with specific rules is probably better suited to the self-learning process that AlphaGo uses, whereas real-world driving rules are much more complex and nuanced. But I think it's still something worth considering.
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The 22mm f/2 is awesome. Even people who know optics well dismiss it as a toy on sight, but the image quality is great. The M is at its best with the 22 f/2. Small, unobtrusive, and capable.