Attention Googlers on HN. Please help this great channel re-gain control of their YouTube account. This probably the most useful educational account about crypto on the Internet and it's a shame what's happening to them.
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On mobile, it has a killer feature. For the feeds that only give a short snippet and then require you to go to the site (i.e. ArsTechnica), you can just pull the page down and release. Inoreader will load the full article without requiring you to go to the website.
I also use it to subscribe to all the newsletters to keep my mailbox clean and Twitter users that I want to monitor but not follow on Twitter itself.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets-...
Machine Learning is being embedded into most of their products to make those products increasingly capable and useful that is not easy for other companies to replicate.
Those products are becoming personal and learn about you to the point that they will know more about you than you... I realize that this can lead to a scary future, but lots of useful things do.
These capabilities might look underwhelming but they are simply mind blowing given type of problems being solved.
More importantly, this technology and infrastructure are being put in the hands of developers outside of Google, so more fascinating things are yet to come.
This is as close of a demo of technology passing the Turing test as I have ever seen. Sure, it's not a fully free form conversation on any subject, but incredibly impressive nevertheless.
Oh yes, and the voice synthesis is just simply amazing. I don't think I'd be able to tell that I was talking to a bot either.
So far, it's been the most impressive Google I/O keynote that I've ever seen and it's not over yet.
Would it make sense to create a legal entity whose only goal would be to "sell" enterprise subscriptions to open source products and then channel all the funds to those projects, after taking a reasonable cut for administrative expenses - such as invoicing, collection, production of physical media when required and etc?
That would make support of open source projects fit much easier into standard enterprise procurement process.
Each project would define different levels of subscription with different price tags. Token licenses would be generated and physical media created and mailed out.
Pretty sure something like this was already discussed on HN?
Then read all of the docs in 15 minutes and realized that I might like this.
Then I used it and I know that I'll keep using it, unless there are any showstoppers.
Great job, Devon!
Also, I wish they were lighter on the word "magic"...
Thank you!
Who knows what would happen to WhatsApp if Google bought it? Could it become one of Google's current chat apps that no one uses?
Mississauga is no better or worse than any other suburb. The fact that you have to drive to get food, forces you to plan better and actually bring food into the office instead of eating take out all the time. In a way, that's a plus :-)
This perception probably depends on what life stage you are in: if you are single or married no children then "no after work fun" and "suburb hell" are minuses. Once you are "married with children" ;-) then those things stop being important as you have other priorities to rush to.
Maybe decision makes sense from economic perspective. But they really have to consider who their audience is. These are the people who still complain that Google Reader was killed and loss of good will and PR consequences of this decision will come to haunt them for years, regardless of the current financial reality.
Reading this, I couldn't shake the feeling that I heard all of this somewhere before in a work of fiction.
Then I remembered - here's the relevant clip from "Ex Machina":
Sure, it could be mitigated, but all the workarounds added unnecessary overhead and breaking points.
Want to thank you and your team for working on this. Firebase is a great product and this will make it just fantastic.
One thing if I have your ear - I'd love to give Firebase team some money by purchasing paid support - ideally as a part of the new Google Cloud support options announced yesterday. I hope this is on your roadmap as well :-)
Now waiting for official Firebase support offerings
I have a dead tree version of the book, purchased from Canadian Amazon. Not sure which printing (if you had multiple), it's at home now and I'm in the office.
Thank you for the offer - will email you in a moment.
Also, the progression of topics felt very comfortable to me, almost like my school experience back in the Soviet days (and I mean it in a very positive way).
What I'd love and would gladly pay for is an additional exercise book with answers to accompany your book, just like in the spirit of the old textbooks.
The Cornell ones recorded by BBC and mentioned here exist in video form.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richar...
One interesting angle to this is arguably better security for the corporation as there are no USB ports on employee machines.
This prevents employees from making copies of corporate data or bringing malware on their USB flash drives.
I know that there's software that disables USB ports, but there are always exceptions or workarounds that are enough to cause an incident.
This also eliminates potential of data loss in case of hard drive failure/damage or theft of employee's computer as everything is on corporate servers where enforcement of backups is much easier than on actual computers.