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I'm not entirely clear on the difference between the regular Echo and the Echo Dot. It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot. Is this simply an extension that proxies all of the requests back to the original Echo?

Everyone already sees a different front page, depending on which subreddits they are subscribed to. People generally mean making it to the front page of the default list of subreddits or the front page of /r/all.

They certainly seem to love their Social Security.

Reading it back, my comment was harsher than I intended, especially with the reference to Amazon, but most of my aversion to working at a place like Google is just the shear size as well as where most of the offices are located.

I grew up in a tiny midwest town and I love it here. I would not enjoy living on either one of the coasts.

Many of my classmates in college couldn't wait to get out of the midwest. I have friends at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other large names in the tech industry, but more often than not, when I hear them talk about their jobs, even when they are talking about them positively, I am glad I stayed in the midwest because that is what fits me the best.

"NTP isn't accurate enough so we use a hardware clock assist that uses GPS and atomic clocks" - Google

I think it is crazy that something as simple as keeping time can have such a complicated solution at that sort of scale.

Every review I hear about working at Google makes me want to stay away, just like the recent conversations about working at Amazon, but crazy stuff like this always piques my interest.

I don't think it is an issue of shipping, but an issue of any one person having a need for most of the companies that come through YC.

> Even in less temperate locales I wonder if we really need to define our environment to within single degree Fahrenheit. I am not so controlling, but I do want to take back the rooftops from those horrible HVAC units.

I understand that the temperature is usually pretty nice in LA, but here in Iowa temperature control isn't an issue of defining our environment to within a single degree Fahrenheit, it is an issue of defining out environment into a livable temperature. Heck, most people I know have up to a ten degree delta between what they keep their home at in summer vs. winter.

However, without temperature control at all in Iowa, people would die. Sub-zero temperatures in the winter and above 100 degree heat in the summer are not mild inconveniences.

It isn't just the people on minimum wage that would get a raise. Anyone making between the current minimum wage and the new minimum wage would receive a pay bump.

I don't have the numbers, but I would guess that there are more people within a dollar or so of the current minimum wage than there are actually at the minimum wage. The trend in the US is for people to at least get nominal raises that would technically raise them above minimum wage, but well below the proposed new minimum wage.

I'm not seeing prices anywhere. Are the prices available yet?

One of the biggest differences for us was the option for a self hosted solution with HipChat. Both companies are fairly open about accessing user communications without any sort of permission or audit trail. Being able to self host it ensures that Atlassian or Slack employees aren't dropping into our chats.

If the authentication database is being breached, presumably the 2FA shared secret is going to be in the same database. Constructing the 2FA code would be trivial. After all, the server needs a way to check that a given 2FA code is correct for an authenticating user, so there has to be some way to generate those as well.

It would help protect against any other sites that you use the same password on, with a different 2FA shared secret.

Not necessarily. Many of the higher end and business models come without spyware of any kind, not just this particular piece of software.

Why would you not name it Goul?

A proper KDF is more important if you are trying to break a specific user's password. It will simply take too long to try any reasonable number of attempts. However, in the event that you have a large database leak individual salts become just as important. When looking thousands of users, unsalted hashes allow attackers to start with the most common passwords used and compare them to the entire leaked database in one try.

AQ vs KK is no different than A10 or AJ vs KK. Even middling Aces like A7 or A8 aren't much worse off because of the lost straight possibilities due to two K's being taken.

I haven't looked at the numbers but I would bet that A2-A5 are better off against KK than AQ.

72 offsuit is the worst hand against a table of opponents because it is the lowest hand that has no straight or flush opportunities (using both hole cards)

23 offsuit is the worst hand against a single opponent because the likelihood of needing a straight or flush to win the hand decreases and the penalty for having a lower highcard is higher.

Fraudulent tax refunds are a huge issues that the IRS has not kept up with. The IRS itself estimates it paid $5.2 billion to identity theives[1]. Protecting taxpayers without creating too much of a hurdle to tax paying is a very hard problem to solve.

[1] http://time.com/money/3419136/identity-theft-social-security...

The criticisms of the Uber driver in the article seems to reflect that of the traditional taxi driver when Uber came onto the scene.

Is it just me, or do a number of these comments seem... manufactured? Almost all of the positive comments come from accounts with < 10 karma.

Just from reading the comments, I was expecting a nice looking app. However, when I actually saw the screenshots I was greatly disappointed. Nonexistent margins, line height issues, and more make for a client that is worse than the original HN.

Then, to learn that it isn't even feature complete (no comment voting) and the author is charging $5?

You really think Reuters should ignore the fact that their comment sections are essentially worthless just to create busy work for maybe one person?

"worth"

Is there any benefit to using the Datastore, as opposed to CloudSQL?

Will they allow a PO box?

Would it be enough to simply only allow connections from Cloudflare IP addresses?

By building something bigger, are you referring to larger BGP routing tables?

I have been unsuccessful in finding a demo of the new default theme. Is that available anywhere?

Direct link to the filing if you are interested: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001288776140...

Spotlight seems an awful lot like Alfred now. http://www.alfredapp.com/

My computer seems to be unable to contact the airgif servers. :(

This would effectively break email verification, which would be pretty bad.