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Ask HN: How to contact with Google Podcasts Developers?
I develop a podcast hosting platform and all my users are reporting that the podcasts hosted on my service are not able to play on the new Google Podcasts App. There is no specific error message, just a generic "Something went wrong. This episode coldn't be played. Please try again later." I tried to use the feedback tool on the app but got no answer and now I'm a little desperate because there is no contact/forum/page with a contact I could speak to. I'm almost certain that my feeds are not the problem because EVERY podcast player available can reproduce all the podcasts but google's.
I also tried searching on LinkedIn and other social media for people working on the app but it seems like it just showed up from nowhere.

Do you know anyone working at google that might be able to help? Have you ever had this kind of problem? if so, how were you able to fix it?

Thanks!
On some Android devices they have the OS report it separately which is one reason they hate the ability for you to root your own device.
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Yeah, my point is that the law makes no distinction between something like google news that has news snippets as its main business, and something like a personal blog or forum that contains advertising or collects donations to cover server expenses. Both would be classified as "commercial use" in Germany and would fall under this law. This means that forum operators now have to police their users to make sure nobody posts a news snippet.
Don't get me wrong, from a user point of view it is. Nonetheless, it impacts the business, no-doubt. A movie theatre may want to embed adverts for other films down the side of its listings, it may have other reasons for wanting people to actually visit its site.

Google isn't doing harm from a user perspective, but it palpably is doing harm from a content provider's point of view by screen-scraping the content and repackaging it as its own.
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“On the other hand, if you want to penetrate servers, you need creativity to turn "suspicious looking design decisions/oversights" into working exploits.”
- imagine you at 30 trying to beat your 10 year older self for eternity.

The coder oversights wont be there because that seasoned expert once exploited someone else like that and knows where to defend. There is such a thing as 100% secure code. Although instances of it are very small. My point is, you get to be so good at building defenses because youve seen so many offenses and know what to expect and how to counter.
Not an expert in German legislation, but is this even legal? Seems like those people weren't convicted nor even suspected of crimes.

I hope the victims fight back and get adequate compensation.
This is just another shitshow driven by publishers, unions and music labels lobbying politicians in the attempt to make money given they have no clue how to innovate and make money anymore.

I wish people in the news would call this bs out for what it is but I doubt they ever will considered news publishers are among the ones lobbying. They'll be happy for us to be forced through their bs paywalls.

This is a very different matter from the GDPR, don't get fooled.
Check out GoodOrBad - Simple Meal Logging on the stores, it’s fully React Native with some little native code (push notifications, etc.)
I guess the publishers need a minimum page count to sell the book and that has some influence on it.

I too feel like that with a lot of books.
Zwiebelfreunde means "Onion Friends" btw
CCC reported this on their own website earlier today. https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-ve... (in english)
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Of course it is.

Raids can also be at witnesses' places if it is necessary to get the evidence.

Otherwise I'd simply stow the bodies in my friends' cellars.
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It was done right the first time. Why not just use Perl.
Catch-22 situation. Which is also the title of a book.
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Ask HN: Where do you buy books on the web?
What is your favorite online bookstore and why? Currently, I struggle to find some stores with reasonable prices and reviews.
https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/filesystem
Very nicely said.

How about "balanced speech"? People that want to listen both/all sides of an argument and form their own opinion on then. Free speech yes, but presenting a different perspective to this as well. People can be changed by being subjected for a long period to just one perspective, but are able to resist foreign ideas for a while.
Note the addition to the end of the post,
UPDATE (7/4): Looks like valve is rounding numbers on the API now so this method no longer works.

I am not the author of the Gamasutra blog, but I have worked on the estimating method. It used Steam's public API [1] and within the last few hours, the effective precision was reduced to 1 decimal.

Potentially related, Steam's stated problems with Steamspy [2]
1. GDPR
2. Broad variance of accuracy

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API#GetPl...
[2] https://twitter.com/GamesCodeDogs/status/1012265304771252224
You are not alone my friend.

I used to also have a 42U cabinet in my garage for several years. It housed a bunch of servers, mostly Dell poweredge but also some no-name boxes, plus some switches and other miscellaneous gear.

The power draw was too strong for my poorly garage circuit and after any power outage I had to power up the rack one device at a time - it was a massive pain. I also spent WAY too much time tinkering with it all, instead of actually using it in anger. Sure, it help me immensely doing PoCs for work or for my own learning, but it was always overkill. Funnily enough though, every other tech-head that saw it was envious, until I started detailing the horror stories of keeping it all running.

Thankfully Virtualisation became a usable and affordable platform for tinkerers, and I migrated everything (via a streamlined custom P2V process) to ESX, then later on migrated/rebuilt the VMs over to Hyper-V.

I now just run 2x Tower servers (HP 8xxx series workstations - dual Xeon based) and run 20+ VMs on each. Plus a single NAS for file storage. Life is so much easier... and the Garage is so much quieter.
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It's funny, sometimes DeepL translates the term, and sometimes leaves it as Zwiebelfreunde.
The question applies to this field, not limited to this specific paper. It's already clear from the abstract that this is paper is doing it's own thing. But it is still based on the phenomenon of adversarial examples.
It's unsurprising this was patched out shortly after being made public. Despite the truncated rounding, the technique could probably still be valuable. Sampling multiple points in time, then analyzing the common multiples each time point yields to give a likely range.

This requires that the achievement percentages vary with time (which could be a flawed assumption).
Newer vodafone contracts have contentcontrol enabled by default (because the UK is now a nanny state), you have to call them up to get it turned off.
This is exciting. Concorde's withdrawal from active service back in 2003 dragged the aviation industry back by at least a couple decades imo, though I concede that its critics are right in pointing to the fact that the aircraft was an absolute disaster when it came to its carbon footprint and overall eco-efficiency. [0]

This project, if successful, could be a 'Wright brothers' moment for supersonic travel and would dramatically cut down inter-continental travel time, thereby propelling the aviation industry into stratosphere and increasing the global financial throughput as a result of decreased flying duration -- in the next decade or so.

[0] https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/concordesst/concorde-s-envir...
Know your source:

HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust, as well as additional funding from the Brinson Foundation and the Dian Graves Owen Foundation.

https://humanprogress.org/about

I suspected as much.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Templeton_Foundat...

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Searle_Freedom_Trust

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_P._Brinson

DGOF are dark money with virtually no footprint:

http://dian-graves-owen-foundation.idilogic.aidpage.com
The author is being disingenuous by saying that these are different. The form of the “art” is different, but the motivations behind it are the same; lust for youth. It’s the motivations that people have problems with, not the form that the art takes!
The last paragraph is missing in your translation.
Well, as of 11:42 on 4th July BST, 234 other HNs would disagree with you.
Sure, because handling div soup and CSS across browsers is so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVnUDTtOLE0
You weren't rude, and not knowing something shouldn't be justification for a downvote. So you got an upvote from me.
tl;dr: Need to contact someone at Google? File a copyright complaint.

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I was in the same situation, having the correct logon credentials for my account, but the system refused to believe it's me and asked for proof, but I forgot the security answer.

Ended up filing a bogus copyright complaint, knowing they can't handle that automatically.

I told them there was a copyright violation and proof was in my locked account (a picture of a seven-legged spider...).

They unlocked the account long enough for me to move my accounts elsewhere.

Fuck Google.
Expressing freedom is getting more easy tho. Imagine rapping or punk'in priest in medieval times lol. Let's hope seen we will see some DJs and Electronic music.
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Audi unveils e-tron quattro electric SUV’s interior – Electrek
Ask the wife whether she'd prefer to know, then decide whether the alternative is preferable. And besides that, other alternatives exist too. Marriage counseling is a thing.
Criticism to the response below notwithstanding, do you have a source or sources?
You can take a look at Open Source Kaggle solutions.

- https://github.com/davidgasquez/kaggle-airbnb (I'm the author)

- https://github.com/benanne/kaggle-galaxies

- https://github.com/rafacarrascosa/samr
What's the point of using a permissive license then? Why not just use a (situation appropriate -- i.e. LGPL, GPL, or AGPL depending on what precisely the software is) copyleft license?
As was stated by others before, I find the name very misleading. I know "Higher Order Tensors Toolbox" sounds way cooler than "ndarray toolbox", but wouldn't the second one be closer to the truth?

Furthermore, if 1-D Arrays are called vectors, and 2-D Arrays are called Matrices and 3-D (or higher) Arrays are called Tensors, does that not automatically mean that every Tensor is higher order? ...
Wow, great translation! I could only find one meaning-distorting error:

Translation: “This is obviously the only reason why the German investigators took such massive action against the association.” (which reads very nearly like an editorial stance, not like dry newsprint, which is much more the actual tone of the German article)

The actual meaning is more along the lines of: “This seems to be the only reason why the German investigators took such massive action against the association.” (but “seems” might be to weak, however, “obvious” is definitely too strong).

Word for word this translation of “obvious” is correct, but the meaning this turn of phrase takes in journalistic writing in German is slightly different: It’s more along the lines of “this is so far we know now the only obvious explanation for this, we couldn’t find out about any other reason”.

It works as a sort of disclaimer, cautioning the reader that there could be as of yet unknown other factors involved, but at least those other factors aren’t anything obvious.

(Slight meaning distorting error, but interpretable with context “A call to the prosecution” should be “A call of the prosecution”. The difficulty is here that the German text could be interpreted both ways and in German it’s the context that determines the meaning.)

Also, the last paragraph is missing:

In a very short time it became clear what the detainees had already explained on the spot, according to their own statements: The chemicals were standard accessories for 3D printing and etching of circuit boards. Also, an object from the 3D printer, in the form of a bomb, landed in a bag of evidence. The corresponding inscription lists the offence "causing an explosive explosion". The item can be seen in action here on YouTube.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
My comment was more general in the sense that such a grand performance statement needs some serious backing, and new products claiming to be several orders of magnitude faster than established products are usually unable to deliver anything at all.

Would you mind sharing some of the differences to, say, Postgres, and what to expect if moving from Postgres to Exasol? Porting my applications to Exasol to benchmark would be time consuming (synthetic benchmarks are very uninteresting), and without any information about what to expect, it simply wouldn't be sensible.

I tried to look at the website, but I am not interested in accepting a privacy policy just to get a white-paper, which frankly leaves me with no usable information at all. The rest of the website is basically empty, short of graphs without data and marketing "You want to do X? We can do that too! <no additional info>". The only real thing I could extract was "in-memory database".

To me, "in-memory database" would appear to be the catch that makes it an entirely different product than Postgres, catering to an entirely different payload with different pros and cons, rather than an faster all-round product. None of my tables fit in RAM anyway.
Re: grammar changes:
I assumed each language was associated with its grammar and it was not more fine grained than that. This makes sense though in the context where you're simply trying to replicate the keyboard-window-mouse based tool design with a speech-window-eye-tracking one. I guess this makes it easy for a user on the former UI to switch over.

You will note my comments were not about your software, but hands-free programming interfaces in general. They continue to be this way, you will note. I am addressing the subject of this topic at a high level. I also have a fairly good idea on where your software stands within that context. Don't need to do any research for that.
Used to play and love WoT, untill I started suspecting particular teammates to cheat. I then started looking for cheats, found a Russian who rents out "tools" that work and give you the exact advantage over normal players I was expecting my teammates to have (aimbots, laserlines, wallhacks, enemy reload info, etc).

Deleted the game a week later.

This is just an example of one game that I had to let go of, there are dozens who I abandoned in my 20 years of online computer gaming.

Currently I play WoW :( Super boring, super slow, super not sensitive to hacks that effect me.
I already knew. (-: Tell mpweiher.
Agreed. Until extensions as itself get some guidelines - it needs to be inspected closely.
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Well in the US the colours used to be reversed as well, but then they switched in the beginning of the 20th century.
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DeepL's translator works super well from DE to EN (for the original article) -- https://www.deepl.com/translator
The gist of it:

Someone did something probably illegal and put a @riseup mail in as the contact info. Police looked at riseup (Not-in-Germany) and found some people (In-Germany) forwarding donation money to riseup. Police and state prosecutor somehow conclude that these donations might be relevant and seizes them (and the usual bycatch).

--

Now my commentary: On the face of it this seems overblown and rather out of proportion. To me it looks like some AG was looking for an excuse to raid these left-wing organizations. It doesn't have to be that way, but I have a hard time imagining how some leftist hateblog I've never heard of before justifies such a large scale raid of (presumably) at best tangentially related entities. It's a somewhat different story of course if it turns out that the backers of the blog have actually been raided as well as part of these raids.
Do you really believe JS is less wart-y than Python?
Increased health care costs doesn't mean that compensation has gone up, many workers don't have health coverage provided by their employer. For people without employer-provided health care there are huge gaps in government-provided health care (often gaps created on purpose). Combine that with the minimum wage literally being unchanged in many states for decades... Not to mention employer plans' deductibles, coverage and copays can change as costs go up.
wow they had chemicals (for 3d printing) and they were building a bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HDoyKE2W8 /s
For me, the "Back it up in a place you trust" is coming back to square 1 of the parent poster's problem. I actually do have my photos on (a few) disks and computers, not on Google, and I still have the problem that I want to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money..."

I'm kinda hoping for some open-source solution to emerge based on IPFS or the like, which would let me easily control replication of my photos & vids over a few local disks (probably via some local NAS machine[s]), and some online paid pinning service.

There are apparently some efforts towards something like that in the IPFS community [1][2], but no clear winner yet I think, or at least especially no good UI/UX for this yet.

[1]: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47

[2]: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/issues/157

edit: some random service/startup which I just googled up which apparently tries to fit into this area, linking here to hopefully match them with potentially interested users, and thus maybe help them reach critical mass: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/846e64/photo_backup_a...
Ask HN: What are some detailed accounts of the life at the Calafou colony?
What are some detailed accounts of the life at the Calafou "postcapitalist ecoindustrial colony", besides "The Dark Net" book?
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It is because of projects like these that I hope Slack won't disable API access the way other big social network companies are doing.
Good. Extremism can't be accepted.

Nobody would complain if this was targeted against right-wing extremists, so one would have to be a hypocrite to complain now.
Bringing our carbon footprint into the stratosphere as well (both via passenger miles, and via carbon per passenger mile).

And the chances for electrification are even more remote than for subsonic planes -- at least its conceivable that electric propeller planes could work, in 50 years or so.
We kinda have big weather fluctuations these days (Referring to global warming). How long till we have record wave fluctuations? You better get your surfboards ready.
Fun fact: the police found a "3d printed, bomb shaped object" and put it into an evidence bag with the label "offence: causing an explosive blast". The object can be seen in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HDoyKE2W8
Um, you didn't read where I was referring to the photo captions. Each of the captions teased the rationale of tax affect and it felt a little gratuitous. Maybe the HN crowd is more tolerant than I, but I bailed. I wanted a little more to go on to know that the read was going to be interesting.
On the other hand, I want to see affordable RAM before I'm 60, so I don't care.

Patent law is fucked up at the moment. 28 years is far too long. Should we fix it the right way, yeah, but that's not going to happen, so given the choice between not having any RAM for 30 years or letting China fight it for me, I'm definitely going to not care if China flouts patent law. The system obviously doesn't work well so who cares?

Reminder: America was literally founded on ripped-off British patents (let's start with the cotton mill, among others). Developing country steals patents from developed country, film at 11. Now we are the developed country.

Now you throw in the fact that you've got cartel behavior from 3 companies who have near-complete control over the supply... and I'm supposed to cry for Micron here? Trust me, they'll be fine. Maybe they should push their capex back up instead of collecting rents (which is definitionally what a patent does).
Yeah, sure, with the stories of Apple deleting songs from your local machine because they were deleted from your cloud account because DRM or whatever, and IIRC even deleting some random photos because some bug (but w.r.t. photos I'm not sure if I recall this correctly, or just spreading FUD here.) Or was this Amazon with Kindle and with ebooks? Apple was sure reported as deleting high quality mp3s from your disk because they have mp3s of the same songs in poorer quality as their deduplication reference files on their cloud.
Seems still better than my wives when I am back drunk.
I'm not sure what their approach is. My article links to another about fake ad blockers - flagging these usually yielded in no results, neither when flagging trademark infringements nor malicious functionality. The process took months even for the obvious cases, and Google did little to prevent these extensions from being resubmitted. Yet when my article on them got picked up on HN, all of them were suddenly taken down. So it doesn't look like they have any man power whatsoever - the scarce resources they have are busy fighting bad press and threats to Google's business interests.
There are infinitely more companies taking the slow and steady route versus the "Startup -> IPO/Buyout" strategy.

Don't let the hype/marketing make you think otherwise.
I'm a pro EU remain voter who respects the results of the referendum in the UK. If this law passes, I will be a former pro EU remain voter, and will flip to the leave camp (should my vote ever be required for a second referendum). This will be going too far.
A proposal for UUID version 6, that naturally sorts in time order
As much as I like apple, handing over all your data to another big company and praying for their good will is not a solution.
Why provide photos to illustrate your point and then not draw the relationship (between building features & tax policy) in the captions. To me, it was gratuitous. I know its a small point, but the subject matter is a bit light anyways. It could have been made more facile.
Actually, regarding racism, I don't think Europe is better, at least generally, that is one of the ways the U.S. is better, although it still has room to grow.

Of course, the U.S. has other issues (an increasingly violent police force as well as income inequality) which makes the effects that stem from racial discrimination worse than they would elsewhere, although that's just my take.
I guess the poster is proposing mobility only for the super rich?