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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:24AM (#13204482)
anyone know how to sign up for participation in the pilot and/or the eventual wider rollout?
Re:Sending mail with AWS SES and Route53 on Sunday December 04, 2016 @10:45PM (#13103244)
whats the Google Cloud (first-party) managed mail service for personal domains?
Re:Ask HN: Whats the Equivalent GCP Service to AWS SES? on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:47PM (#13093007)
I'd also prefer not to have to transfer my domain over to Google.
Is there a preliminary Table of Contents available?
Re:Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:10PM (#13027999)
have they not seen 2001? https://youtu.be/1s-PiIbzbhw
Re:Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:13AM (#13011798)
how does this compare to Google's Coldline storage?
Re:A Dinosaur with a Beak and Feathers Unearthed in China on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:32PM (#12964554)
I wonder how this resurrection project is coming along http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1113874-the-frightening-disc...

Also, would anyone have any good theories as to why dinosaurs evolved feathers? and from what did it evolve from? was it hair?

Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Master Password?

https://ssl.masterpasswordapp.com/Looking into password managers, what do you think of Master Password? Are there any downsides you can see with their implementation?It doesn't use a vault and has an iOS app.Considering KeePassX as well, but as far as I can tell there's no mobile support

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Provided they really do require authorization to perform any actions on the phone.

That would prevent anyone from modifying your phone without your permission. Such as flash the BIOS or something more malicious. Again provided authorization is required to perform those actions.

Re:Amazon drivers “work illegal hours” on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:49AM (#12928546)
Engineers are not immune to such wage-fixing practices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

even family-oriented companies like Pixar worked against their employees

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/animation-wage-fixi...

just to confirm, you completed BOTH MIT algorithm courses and BOTH algorithm books, in the span of 2-months, including completing all the exercises/algorithms?

that seems like an incredibly short amount of time given the content. But if true, congrats! and please let me know your secret!

Why don't foreign (non-US) tech firms have a larger share of the global market?

The largest tech companies appear to be localized in the US, specifically the Bay Area and Washington.Why haven't foreign tech companies achieved the same global market penetration and saturation as US-based firms?Examples like Samsung, Spotify, HTC, Sony, Baidu don't seem to have the same market cap nor breadth or global reach of a Google, Apple, Amazon or Microsoft.But those countries do have...

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street view in google maps has a timeline, in some places almost up to a decade.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/go-back-in-time-with...

Ask HN: Computer Science/Engineering Museums?

Any museums, exhibits or tours related to computer science/engineering?Computer History Museum @ Mountain View http://www.computerhistory.org/Intel Museum @ Santa Clara https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.htmlLiving Computer Museum @ Seattle http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/

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Re:New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:32PM (#12755361)
Arq sounds almost ideal, except its still intended more for "backup" than "storage". Its more like an Apple Time Machine.

From what I read, you can still offload data from your local machine by choosing to "archive" a directory.

But thats an extra step and I haven't read how it handles conflicting directory that are created in the future after archiving the original.

Re:New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:47AM (#12750910)
Google is making their cloud offering very attractive compared to AWS.

The issue with Glacier is the convoluted retrieval pricing. I understand they want to dissuade people from using it as a primary storage, but the potential for a surprise bill is hard to swallow.

Interesting how they still offer unlimited storage through their consumer Amazon Drive service.

Re:The surprising benefits of a mid-career break on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:21AM (#12722833)
which (US) city did you resettle and find employment in? San Francisco?
Re:Programming books you might want to consider reading on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:03PM (#12720337)
created a thread asking just this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12718444

Ask HN: How many hours (on average) does it take you to finish a technical book?

Given all the recent book threads.How many hours (on average) does it take you to complete a technical or mathematical book?(I feel that "days" would be too coarse a measurement)Does that include completing all the exercises/programming assignments?If not, do you feel that your understanding is lessened?And if you were to do the exercises, how much more time would that add?Could you state any...

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Re:Programming books you might want to consider reading on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:59AM (#12718407)
I often here comments about finishing a mathematical/technical book over the course of a "few" weekends.

But I don't see how thats possible if it includes completing all (or even most of) the given exercises. Especially when you have a full-time job.

Re:Open Guide to Amazon Web Services on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:29PM (#12689050)
Someone want to start one for Google Cloud?

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