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Ask HN: I’m scared of losing GMail access. Do email protection laws exist?
Hi, HN. The older I get, the more frightened I am of losing access to my GMail account. My trust in Google to do the right thing has diminished over time.

In the event Google decides to arbitrarily terminate my Google account, are there any email protections for me as a citizen of any country?

So much of the developed world digital life revolves around email usage. I don’t believe citizens of any nation have, in any government jurisdictions, any protection from businesses cutting off access to their email accounts. Am I wrong about this?

If not, how can I protect myself from suddenly being cut off from such a highly critical aspect of communication? The many institutions of the world intermingle government, financial, educational, utility, and other service access with the concept of an email address.

Once upon a time, GMail was a revolutionary product. I now find some of Google’s practices anti-consumer and a few business decisions of theirs a liability.
Perhaps \bar{z} instead of \overline{z}?
The complete paragraph is in https://www.reddit.com/r/carlsagan/comments/5q2hub/is_this_a...

I think he is not asking a "serious study" because he think it's real, but because at some point we must make the experiments to verify or falsify the theories. (I think that the problem is that there is finite time and finite money for the experiments, so we must select only some of them.)
>Most US cities are large sprawling villages around a small downtown where all buildings are offices and commerce, and nobody actually lives.

You just described San Jose, which brings us back into the Bay Area.
Your school didn't teach slavery? What state?
Anytime I think of a great DSL I think of Erlang.
Do you not know there are other e-mail providers that will take your money in exchange for services?
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Used to work in Kent. Loved my job, hated that awful town.
as a vim user, I'd have to say no... don't recommend it to vim users. There have been, for me, too many edge cases where I just end up in that helm(?) display thing at the bottom when I was trying to do some simple thing. For ages :edit and :write and :quit didn't work. As the parent poster mentioned the installation doesn't work. You really have to be willing to work for it. I've commented about the incorrect docs and the need to tweak things to make it use insecure downloads and they seem content with the idea that there's a known workaround, that isn't mentioned in the docs.

i really _want_ to use it. I love vim's modal editing, but extending vim is a pain in the butt, and I'd love to use lisp to tweak my editor.

But, I absolutely can not recommend spacemacs right now.

Installation process is broken crap (at least on the mac) and you end up having to deal with meta-this-that-the-other way too often for simple (non-advanced) vim commands.
This is terrifying... most people do not hard reset their phones ever (even when upgrading). What are the odds that these payloads are floating around despite the exploits being patched?
That friend was already a deadbeat, with or without the weed. The weed didn’t make them that way. Deadbeats are often attracted to weed, as are many others who want to self-medicate.

The deadbeat examples are just more readily available, because the upstanding successful folks are aware of this misconception and the stigma. They tend to keep quiet about it, except among their own.

As I get older, I keep discovering “addicts” in my social circle that I’ve known for years, or in some cases decades, who I’d have never guessed have a habit. I don’t have any deadbeats in my social circle. These people all range from moderately successful to wildly successful. A lot of the daily users I can think of are far more productive than I am. At least two of them have founded and sold companies and no longer need to work. But they loathe feeling unproductive, so they still do, and they’re the first ones in the office every morning.

Personally, I have tried working under the influence, but it doesn’t work that way for me. It’s not addictive though, so I simply stopped using it.

Just like owning a bed doesn’t make you lazy and tired, and it doesn’t cause you to develop an excessive sleeping habit. Just because some people choose to remain in bed to avoid responsibility, doesn’t mean there is a causal relationship.
Google owns everything by default but you can file a request with info about what you'd like to work on outside of work. If it's granted, you get to keep the rights. It doesn't matter whether you're planning on making money from it or not.

They're usually very reasonable about it, despite what you would expect from a company that covers so much ground.
Right. People near the center line are all guaranteed to get hit, and should prepare appropriately
The same as when I get bad marks due to a flawed human and rubric.
I used to have pretty much the same reaction as most of the comments here on gojek engineering posts. Coming from a telco background the RPS figures were quite low while the complexity of architecture seemed completely over the top.

However, I now know more about the company. They have one of the most lean engineering teams of comparable companies here. Their CTO & VP Eng are incredibly practical guys whose advice would resonate with pretty much everyone here (Eg interview here[0] where they repeat the dangers of scaling too fast). They have small multifunctional product teams and the microservices architecture fits to this (as opposed to building it for fanciness / resumes sake). And they did it. Theres dozens of "features" in the app which are entire giant businesses in their own right.

So Id imagine the shortest path to getting this up and running this was definitely considered, would have been nice to go into more detail as to why simpler / outsourced solutions would work but id guess theres a good reason.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He0XBBfCEVk
But they're not actually in Detroit. It's like how anyone from the general area of southeast Michigan says they're from Detroit.

The real point of TFA, though, is that GM employs the least unionized labor of the Detroit three, which really should have been the headline.
> Especially in the hyper-critical social media age when everyone is looking to kick anything popular down a peg or two, for their own personal satisfaction of being smart

Hmmmm
Your fear is rational. It's happened to other people. I would suggest going to a paid provider like Fastmail and checking their terms of service. I don't know of any protections that exist by law at the moment.

My horror story:

I have a mentally ill relative who only logged in every 6 months. He got treatment and wanted to resume using his email account. Guess what? Google thought his activity was "suspicious" and permanently locked him out. We went through an infuriating loop of proving his identity, then getting a message saying a human was reviewing it. Then we'd go back to proving his identity. This went on for 15-20 cycles over the course of 8 months.

The only way to get out of it was to contact my friend who works for Google. Otherwise my relative had lost gigabytes of irreplaceable data. We would've gladly paid $1,000+ for the privilege of talking to a real human about it, but that's impossible.
Theoretically, free colleges would eliminate 90% of the colleges. Only the high end, Ivy League, and exclusive colleges would be able to survive as private paid colleges. There wouldn't be much of a point to cost saving or tuition sharing colleges if state run colleges were free.
Do you hate gays?
Because they prefer an essay you can buy from a college applications consultant.
I'm reminded of something in academia. When one or two people fail a test, they probably messed up. When 50% or more fail a test, the teacher messed up.

I say to to say I hate when it is phrased as a "turnover crisis". No, working there is so bad that people either quit or find something better!
> They don’t have to maintain it

Yes they do. Rarely used, unmaintained code is a great way to accrue security vulnerabilities and other bugs.
This is a good example of why everyone should have their own domain. Using @gmail.com or any other "mass" email domain is just not a great practice. IMHO, of course.
Gmail was revolutionary because it was, for most of its history, better than even paid email services.

OP might know that paid services exist, but many of them have a reputation for having worse search and fewer access options than Gmail.
If Firefox's engine were more portable like Chromium, I suppose browser makes would at least have a choice.
Why not? The school contracts with the testing agency that does the grading. Seems like a contractor relationship?
a) Make frequent backups via google Takeouta
b) forward all your mail to a secondary account
c) don't use a consumer account (@gmail.com)
but pay for your domain and use email@yourorg.com

d) use your gmail account only for gmail and do YT, adwords etc from another google account so that if you run afoul of Terms of service on one product your gmail is not terminated also.

Only c) allows you to keep your email address after losing access to gmail. a) and b) just protect your data.

But based on anecdata, Google is unlikely to kick out users unless there's some bad behaviour (which may seem innocent to you)
My concern is primarily that I already have this email address attached to a plethora of services, many of which I've even forgotten. I parted with an older email address many years ago when I was much younger, but now I'm faced with an account I've had for much longer, which is attached to many more important websites and software.
I agree with you! But the estimated time to complete just one of the extensions is running into the late 20s or even 30s!
Transcendental numbers are usually characterized by a limiting iterative process. We don't say that a sunflower has exactly the Golden Ratio's worth of seeds, either; instead, we say that the Golden Ratio is inherent in the pattern of sunflower seeds. [0]

e is most famously in compound interest, or other continuous processes. An example in nature might be the radioactive decay of certain isotopes, often indicated by half-life. In particle physics, e manifests as the limiting process of septillions of particles operating independently with each other.

pi is more abstract. It might well only show up in idealized conic sections, which mean that all the natural conic sections we see, such as shadows cast by light sources, are imprecise. (This is because, extremely technically speaking, shadows are not physical!) There are still limiting processes for pi, like taking a large chunk of matter and chilling it into a constantly-curved smooth ball, which will generate an approximate sphere, but they are much harder to perform because gravity is fickle and atom boundaries are fuzzy. (That said, we can still make such artifacts when we want to, at great cost. [1])

In both cases, our understanding of the the number's construction is good enough that we no longer need any physical props to approximate their value, but instead can compute the values abstractly and then use them to refine our physical measurements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral#In_nature

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKCBeDeVxkg
Whatever we decide to measure, it needs to scale to millions of essay responses each year in a way such that scores are consistent across entire states or countries. With that in mind I'd imagine it's difficult to do much more than grade on grammar and basic semantics.
If GM were grateful for their bailout, how many employees would they have in detroit?
Brave was started after Eich was pressured out of the Mozilla foundation for financially supporting anti-gay initiatives. He called his company 'Brave' because he felt he was being brave for using his money to attack a minority group.
In production problems that I work on, we don’t even really use things from within the past year. These problems are just incredibly well-solved with fairly vanilla LSTM networks from 2-3 years ago. Enough so that while it’s probably premature for fully automated essay grading, it’s not _crazy_ to make a product from models trained to solve this problem.
Anyone know what kinds of sites were hacked to target iOS visitors to the sites, and who might have been targeted by these attacks? The blog post hints at the targeting of dissidents, but I'm not sure whether that is a general concern or actually there in these hacks.
Generally folks living closer to the poles eat more meat.
No, I wouldn't. Perl 5 is much more powerful.

But I wouldn't choose either for a moderately large script.
That's only because Apple wants to be the one to install its parts so that it can verify that the repair is done correctly. You can absolutely buy a third-party battery and install it yourself and Apple will do nothing to stop you.
It is true for Detroit, but GM is still the largest auto employer in Michigan. Lots of jobs at three plants in the state capital of Lansing and a handful in Flint and Grand Rapids.
Ahh. "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".

Happy sigh...those were the days :-)
I’ve had text input on my 2016 Subaru Outback block for 5 minutes+ while trying to input an address. I’ve never had a RPi zero block for anything that long. I wonder what terrible hardware they use and if it’s performance is measured in kilohertz. It makes that expensive GPS system a slap in the face. I would love to be able to feed it a string containing my destination address that I input from the phone. For now, it never gets used.
> There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Let's say it's true. Why should we care? Why set the bar at 10x, downplaying smaller (1.5x, 2x, 3x, etc) improvements?

Person 1: Hey, check out this tool that makes creating small web sites 3 times faster.

Person 2: Hah only 3 times faster? Who cares?
An essay is to a math problem as a proof is to a grammar problem.
Not sure about other jurisdictions, but in Chicago, you can call 311 to report a taxi driver. Just need the cab number. I called a few times when cabs nearly struck me as a pedestrian in a crosswalk with a walk signal. Couple of them, I was close enough that I was able to smack a window. Don't know if anything ever happened from those complaints, you dont get feedback after a complaint.
My favorite bit: "If you dislike hearing other people use it, you may continue to be upset."
They are pushing production and engineering to anywhere not the USA, so this trend of having fewer workers isn't going to stop until all that's left of GM is the headquarters. I'm not Chicken-Littling either. This trend has been many decades in the making, and it only has one logical endpoint.

I was looking at their trucks, and left the showroom when I saw one that had 45% domestic content. I bought a truck that had the most USA content...a Honda Ridgeline.
You're scared of not being able to allow a multi-billion-dollar corporation that monetizes your data intimate access to everything you do?

Wake the fuck up.
That link talks about how black women are attending college in highest proportion due to extremely recent growth.
It also says that despite their recently high educational attainment, black women are still underrepresented by a factor of 2 in private sector jobs, as compared to their college graduation rates.
People can and will cherry-pick the stats.

A more meaningful stat would have been the percentage of ad code (JS, images, god forbid flash files, etc)
This may be as close to ELI5 as it can be. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
US, but the claim wasn't "selected portions of the most dense cities in the US". It was "Our population density (in the United States) is very high as it is in, most metropolitan regions."

I don't doubt Manhattan is very dense. It is far from representative when it comes to "most" metropolitan regions in the US.
I'm surprised people are surprised by it. I guess it just hasn't gotten talked about it a lot? When I took the GRE in 2011 the rule was that my essay would be graded by one human and one automated grader, and a second human would become involved if the computer and the human differed by one point or more iirc.

Maybe nobody really makes a big deal about it because it is pretty much irrelevant anywah. Applicants provide a letter of intent that the grad dept people can, y'know, actually read for themselves, so I think unless you totally bombed the writing section nobody cared.
Anyone can be hurt by bias, but minority groups are the obvious ones to be most likely statistically affected by it, making them the most obvious red flag for this kind of situation.
> Google is unlikely to kick out users unless there's some bad behaviour (which may seem innocent to you)

I don't believe I've ever violated any terms of service Google has ever outlined. In practice, I have nothing to worry about. This concern of mine primarily revolves around legal protections, and rights as a "digital citizen" of sorts.
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This morning I was searching github for carplay projects.

There was one that could spoof an iPad and allow it to be used as the CarPlay display and interface from the iPhone.
Smarmy replies like "just send in the patches" are at least as toxic and assuming bad faith as what op said, yet are completely unchecked.
> They are pushing production and engineering to anywhere not the USA...

How much is outside of Detroit vs outside of US?
From the article, a reboot will do it. You dont need a hard reset :

"The implant binary does not persist on the device; if the phone is rebooted then the implant will not run until the device is re-exploited when the user visits a compromised site again. "
> Bursts are way harder to process

They aren't though. There are very few use cases that aren't bursty, and a plethora of reliable queueing systems exist.
You have to be a verified publisher. There was a whole story about Tom Scott (English YouTuber) rightfully tweeting about it.

Brave changed themselves after to not collect donations for unverified publishers.
> 1) How do you know you wouldn't have done better had you not smoked starting in high school? You can't go back in time and A/B test yourself

It's just high school :) if GP passed and moved on, who cares? High school success becomes more and more of a boolean outcome as you get further away from it imo. And tbh even boolean is generous.

"I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea."
That's not what happened, though, and I have to assume that you know that if you've even taken a casual look at any of these situations. If you take those batteries and replace a few of their cells with an inferior third party product and package them up and sell them as "Apple batteries" with the logo and everything, you'd be lying and potentially harming Apple's brand.

Apple's entire case against PCKompaniet stems from the fact that the company was refurbishing Apple displays with third-party glass and digitizers (that did not meet the original specs of their OEM parts) but was not removing the Apple logo and was advertising as using genuine Apple parts. The only reason the case was dismissed by the court was that the shop agreed to remove that language from their website and advertising and the court decided that the logo was a non-issue because, if a repair was completed with the part, the logos were on the inside of the device and the consumer never sees them. There's nothing on the outside of the part that identifies it as a genuine Apple product so, if there's no advertising suggesting that, there's nothing that would give the consumer the impression that it was a genuine Apple part.

There's a huge difference between selling a part from a phone, batteries included, without modifying it. It's a whole different animal to make changes and then claim it's the same part.
These are fascinating. It would be very interesting to know what the character and subject matter of the infecting sites were.

Outside of the great tech writeup, what is particularly interesting about this, to me, from a geopolitical perspective is the level of restraint.

The malicious actors in this case leveraged zero-days for iOS for years and yet do not seem to have overextended themselves or risk exposure by overly widening their intended targets. What I mean by this is: they clearly could have chosen to gain a massive infection rate by combining this with hacking a well-known popular site, or even pulling more visits from (say) social media, but instead the malicious actor chose to limit their intended recipients to run the exploits for a smaller set of targets for much longer while remaining undetected.

This, to me, hints at a state-actor with specific intent.
They should spin off the old Edge as a reincarnation of Reader from Windows 8.

It was a great app and I hoped it would become as versatile as Preview on Mac.

It was annoying when I double clicked a EPUB (or PDF) it would open the browser and sometimes all my tabs from last session would open and in most cases just the EPUB would open and I lose the previous browsing session.

This needs to be a dedicated app separate from the browser. I hope they have something in the works.
It's staggering how systematically broken IOKit remains.
As someone in the market for a truck, why specifically USA and not somewhere else?

I’m looking at the Toyota Tacoma as my number one choice, but this is not a strongly held desire if there is something better.
Why do you say "much, much faster"? $600 to $3 billion is about the same as going 2^9 (512) to 2^32 (4.3B), which requires 23 doublings. Moore's law initially[1] specified a doubling every year (30 years would be 30 doublings), then was revised to every two years (15 doublings), but is often interpreted as doubling every 18 months (20 doublings). Seems pretty close to me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Time for widespread adoption of mobile EDR.
Completely off-topic here, my apologies. If I wanted to talk with someone about memory dysfunction, who would that be? It's something that I've begun to notice in myself and I'd love to know more about what you do, with the hopes of finding a professional to speak with about my concerns.
This is sort of like discovering the Excel spreadsheet at the heart of a system responsible for handling hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions for your bank.

Yeah, it's cool, but what about your savings account?
I hate when people frame doing drugs in terms of needing them to have a good time. It's just a thing you do that affects your mind, like anything else. It's potentially more intense and definitely different than most other things, but acting like it's a crutch is existentially dishonest I think.
Let's break down what the the rep from Brave said... I don't think I misinterpreted anything.

> Your beautiful drive through Colorado requires quite a bit of maintenance and financial support.

Roads cost money.

> Somebody has to pay for that.

Someone has to pay for the roads.

> With Brave, Advertisers can pay for it (without getting hold of your data) by way of users. ... Brave aims to sustain the roads that grant you access to that scenery.

Ad's (billboards) can pay for a great browser experience (the roads)...

So, therefore I said: Billboards don't pay for roads, taxes do. I get that the analogy isn't 1:1. However, stating that is an easy way to demonstrate that Brave doesn't have a market. Just like I don't need billboards to pay for my roads, I don't need ad's to pay for my browser experience. Firefox is open-source, and adblock exists. Come off it.