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Maybe a little off the topic, but I was thinking just the other day that Alexa/Google Home/Siri could be made significantly better if it accepted instructions the way ChatGPT does.

Your statement made me wonder if someone else had done this, and sure enough I found something -- https://www.cloudcomparisontool.com/

Look for "Object Storange" for instance and in the row will be links to all the competing services, so you could pretty easily do this to learn about competitors through the one you know... At least for the big players.

"Scalable" no idea what it means.

Generally refers to the idea that a microservice should be designed to scale horizontally (with more instances) vs. vertically (more compute power). If you can scale horizontally you're more likely to be able to meet changes demand at a lower price.

In firefox, if I put something in the search box, press enter, it will search. If I press enter a second time (taking no other action) it will display json.

Kind of a tangent, but I was traveling in Portugal last year, and one day as I was headed to a train station I felt my phone buzz. I picked it up and it had a failed Bluetooth file transfer. In the settings, the device name had changed from the default to what looked like a base64 string, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I didn't think to screenshot anything.

The phone was literally only a couple weeks old. Nothing new had been paired. I changed the name back and figured I would look it up later. The failed file transfer was automatically cleared (just a phone thing) and I wasn't able to find information about it.

For what it's worth, my banks have these features other than Daily Cash. That feature is something I don't think I've seen before.

It just looks like an Apple branded version of what I've already had for years.

It is an Apple branded Mastercard, with some level of iPhone integration. It is something you've had for years.

Well, for what it's worth, they rent their own scooters as well as license out their platform. Perhaps some of the value comes from that.

https://www.bird.co/platform/

It seems that everybody knows everything.

I think about this from time to time -- how people build up this sense of personality related to a forum or site. I think what tends to happen for an individual is that when you're talking to millions of people you don't have the perspective on who says what anymore, it becomes "twitter thinks" or "reddit says" instead of "these 10 people."

I think the reason everybody knows everything is that because we don't look at the individuals when we talk in a forum like this. There are always going to be some 'famous' people whose names pop up over and over, but as general responses you don't really know what a person thinks about something. We internalize a consensus of opinions and then it becomes just "well, HN said this."

This is most apparent when the forum contradicts itself. If there isn't another way to denote the opinions (like a sub-forum) then you start seeing comments like "everyone was against it yesterday and now everyone is in favor?" when in reality it's unlikely to be the same people responding anyway.

Wouldn't this be true for any open source application you don't compile from the source?

I agree and was curious why they picked it. I guess their reasoning is as good as any.

Steem is a form of esteem, which means to prize or value. Steem is also a homophone for steam, which is frequently associated with power, and a step further, steam powered trains gave influence to English idioms, such as ‘this conversation is picking up steam.’ The associations with prizing, language and empowerment only felt right.

https://steem.io/#faq

I don't, sorry. I'm seem to recall that he worked with a state government.

Not that this is really any help, but an acquaintance of mine works for HPE and notified he was being laid off yesterday, and his last day is today. He was with HP (now HPE) for maybe 4-6 years.

It's interesting to say that $8B of new value was created, since no one could supply that money if anyone asked for it.

How did the cryptocurrency markets handle that, anyway?

Is there any reason why people were (seemingly) expecting this, or was it just an idea that gained momentum that AMD never actually suggested or considered?

They also appear to have plagiarized the terms of use from other sites.

Well, if so, they have a lot of company: https://goo.gl/zfz0pp

The entire document is all over the web. If it gets off the ground I would expect it to be updated.

This might be the original: http://secureglobalpay.net/site/support-resources/sample-ter...

It seems it's more nuanced. Try the following searches:

  how long does it take to caramelize onions
  how long does it take to caramelise onions (note the typo)
  how long to caramelize an onion (not a typo but still wrong)
  how long to caramelize onions

There was a very good documentary on the NatGeo channel here in the US just this week that did an excellent job of explaining all of it to me.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/gender-revolution-a-jo...

One thing I found especially interesting is toward the end, where Katie Couric sits down with Renée Richards and Hari Nef. It was interesting seeing Hari talk with Renée and realize they disagree on the binary topic.

Nothing in my department yet, but we actually have a guy actively looking for a reason to implement some kind of ML so we can say our product "has it" I guess.

Oof... like, 9/12 of those describe my team.

I don't kid myself into thinking I'm doing anything meaningful here, but to have so much of process put so bluntly is eye opening. I suppose it's comforting to know that it's so common it could be put into a list like this.

Just for fun, have a look at the comments about the iPod announcement: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50...

There's always people with something to say.

I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help in terms of gaining traction, but I can say that here at Big Corp this is a regular problem I have as a team lead. I don't know if the size of the company has anything to do with it, but I doubt it.

I think stand ups are not replaceable by this or much of anything since the face time and active communication are what is most important to me there. But, my memory isn't great and 30 minutes later I probably couldn't recap the meeting for you. Having something like this would help solve that, but I also know that I probably wouldn't keep my own up to date.

I could see something like this having really nice Jira integration, for whatever that's worth.

https://www.justwatch.com

(not my site, just a handy tool)

I believe they've previously discussed Hangouts becoming business focused. Allo, I think, has the potential to replace the default SMS app (similar to iMessage).

I wonder if the WhatsApp "problem" Brazil has been having somehow influenced the change of stance of encryption?

Indeed. This one has proven popular as well.

https://unity3d.com/showcase/case-stories/hearthstone

Does it matter?

Well, yes because that's the accusation, but no because you're correct in the sense is that you have to assume the worst if they aren't making it clear. Once the catch-all is in place they can do what they want and there doesn't have to be a clear indication that anything has changed.

I attempted to find something that would indicate they had to suddenly include that clause, but the closest I found was the introduction of Google Voice to the iPhone[1] a month before the SMS[2] was first mentioned. Apple's site makes no mention of metadata collection so I assume this has nothing to do with it.

The more I try to defend it the less convinced I am.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice#Rejection_from_th... Mentions Sept. 2010 and Nov. 2010 as being important dates around the iPhone release.

[2] https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/archive/20101... First mention of SMS in Privacy Policy.

For what it's worth, I have my doubts that this applies to a generic call/sms on any old Android device. I would think it's more likely to apply to services such as the Hangouts calling or Google Voice, and probably Google Fi, all of which make sense to collect that data, but the privacy policy doesn't absolve itself of that.

When this Privacy Policy applies

Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by Google Inc. and its affiliates, including YouTube, services Google provides on Android devices, and services offered on other sites (such as our advertising services), but excludes services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.

You can get service from a 're-shipper' to mask your address and use gift cards or other prepaid cards to hide the credit card info.

I think you're correct. The quotes in the article make more sense in the light of stolen cards being "concealed" in other magnetic strips which aren't credit cards.

  Many times, criminals illegally clone valid payment cards
  on to non-descript pieces of plastic like hotel room keys 
  and subway cards, making detection and interrogation 
  nearly impossible. Since virtually any plastic card with 
  a magnetic stripe can re-purposed as a credit, debit or 
  prepaid payment card, being able to determine the 
  identity of the card is critical to your investigation.

You seem to be right -- other articles mention that the Time 2 has steel casing. I'm surprised they don't mention on the kickstarter page, it was a major selling point for me.

Edit: Also interesting, the new Time 2 has an MSRP $50 cheaper than the Time Steel.