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I have mixed feelings about this. While I do feel this maps closely with my own observations, this also generally describes the cognitive distortions of young people. I wonder if the hidden correlatio…

I don't disagree, per se, but it's interesting that we have no problem with leaders of corporations personalizing ads for individuals while we are bothered when the position is reversed.

What I learned from this HN post is that Douglas Adams wasn't the original source of the sofa problem. I always thought he invented it.

It more blows my mind that there is a generation out there that's never read a paper book....ever

> But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks. This is the most mind-blowing thing I've read on HN. It really makes me appreciate generat…

This thread conflates two problems: how identity is managed on the internet, and corporate responsibilities in the face of that. True age verification on the internet is a funny business. Unless we ge…

It sounds like my info is out of date, which makes me very happy considering how much I love Firebase.

If you have customer-managed keys like parts of Google Cloud, it keeps even Google from reading your data on disk.

Wow, sounds like my info is out of date! This was true when we last evaluated it. I really do appreciate how fast Google is on this stuff.

Having worked at a large company that cares a great deal about COPPA, I've seen how regulation really can work for consumer benefit. I'm not sure if people appreciate how much COPPA cleaned …

Cloud SQL itself is fine...it's just hosted SQL. That said, there is a lot of google-bespoke code for interfacing various parts of their cloud with it. Cloud SQL Proxy has a lot of gotchas and ha…

Firebase is great, but covered under a separate agreement with Google, and its terms aren't as friendly to corporate users. For example, they still aren't encrypting tenant data at REST. Not…

I've been running a production project in Google App Engine for three years with six figure active users and can mostly agree with this. A few comments: 1. Stackdriver gets a bad rap. Maybe there…

Came here to say this. Considering Tesla has already opened up their patent library, I think they're begging the industry to copy them.

Microservices aren't some magic bullet for scaling. If anything, they conform to Conway's Law [1]. I'd agree, though, if a single engineer is singularly responsible for 2+ microservices…

This is the best I can do right now. It isn't where I originally read it but google is failing me. https://creativestrategies.com/voice-assistant-anyone-yes-pl... What it comes t…

It blows my mind that problems like this exist, and yet platforms like Unity and Xamarin are capable of write-once-build-everywhere apps on every platform. Why hasn't web development abstracted a…

What does this have to do with this attack? Timehop does not store any passwords, just access tokens.

The best part of this story is no passwords were compromised. Because Timehop deals with access tokens only, they were able to invalidate those access tokens to eliminate the risk to its users. They b…

This is great for developers, but pointless for users. It doesn't change the user behavior, and the research shows people are using VA at home and nowhere else...a place better suited to Google H…

When I was a teenager, I listened to "Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)," which prompted me to read the essay "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young." Proba…

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The post hoc ergo propter hoc going on in this comment and its responses are wild. The O-ring failed because it was a bad O-ring, and no one in positions that matters appreciated it was a bad O-ring. …

I can't speak for the community, but I can speak for myself. I've always found the noise-to-value ratio way off. Blockchain is not a new idea, but it's gained popularity because of bitc…

Ah yes, I remember doing this for my own systems class. Good times. I never had to build another shell in my life, but the process I had to go through to learn the OS well enough to build one gave me …

Well done. The occlusion is far better than I would've ever thought possible with a single camera on current mobile hardware. Whenever they get the form factor right for AR, I think we'll ge…

I'm not surprised. My company seriously considered Watson when we were looking at AI platforms. Their sales team is pretentious, and when you scratch the surface their offering isn't all tha…

Interesting, I didn't see that. In that case, it makes the account lockout case even weaker. There really is no technical reason for it. However, that makes it Epic's issue, since they clear…

> For example Apple allows their users to bring kindle books purchased outside their platform even though they didn't get a 30% cut of sales They also don't allow you to purchase books wi…

Aesthetically, people love old buildings. However, people also love modern building code that keeps us safe in things like earthquakes. Also, preservation laws are wild [1]. If you own an old building…