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How did you end up getting access to Android Call_log permission?
Hi HN,
How were you successful in getting Android Call_log permission for your app? There is no human I can connect with at Google to explain. I've given reasons why my app should have that permission via the application process, but no feedback at all from that side. Any hints, suggestions?
Great comment.

> It's not that video footage is unreliable, but that it is unconvincing.

Why not both? It's a mixed bag.

Unreliability can be one problem. For example, "quoting one's words" is a common type of political videos on YouTube, they're mainly a few-second or few-minute of video segments that quote someone's words, and makes a point about it. Some of these videos are mostly reliable, but some other videos intentionally remove the relevant context and mislead the viewers to draw another conclusion. Because of the existence of misleading videos, my first response to any of them is distrust until it's proven reliable. The same principle applies to expressing a statement of something by a politician - is it true or is it misleading rhetoric?

This is why fact-checking becomes more and more popular. But the issue of reliability is greater than objective facts, you can fact-check data but you cannot fact-check the framing or context. As technology marches on, the issue of unreliability will become greater, e.g. DeepFake.

Unconvincing can be another issue. For example, some activists have been warned us about mass surveillance for a decade based on reliable evidence.

Both work together.
Going by your point, shouldn't Amazon be blocked since they are collecting the payment info and charging without any interference from Google? How are donation links being considered to be in violation? Just wondering!
I like Nim. I am learning it now. However, Nim is not Python and this post is about Python.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
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Your logic would also apply to the compiler back-end to the same measure. Should it emit optimized code then?
tmate is pretty similar but there are a few things about it architecturally that are different I think. The person connecting to you connects through a tmux server on the tunneling host rather than directly to your tmux session. This means that the tunneling server can see and modify everything sent over tmate. If the tunneling server is untrusted or compromised, an attacker would be able to run commands on your machine. Unfortunately, to make things worse, the ssh key fingerprint of the tunneling server is not bundled with tmate, so during the first connection to any tunnel an attacker performing a man-in-the-middle can spoof the server and use the fact that the server is trusted to run arbitrary commands on your machine. The attacker can either man-in-the-middle the person running tmate or the person connecting to the tmate user to perform this attack.

This more complex architecture is likely why tmate is using libssh even though libssh recently had a very serious authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933). These architectural choices may provide benefit in certain circumstances, but we thought were unnecessary just to share a shell.

Assist has a simpler architecture and is built on top of unmodified Screen and OpenSSH (we use the installed binaries on your machine). The tunneling servers are designed to be completely untrusted, and the command you paste to the assistant contains all the information necessary to prevent a man-in-the-middle attack from seeing or modifying the session. We hope to add more features in the future and felt that starting with a simpler architecture would help with that.
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That's South/Central Europe for you. Not everywhere is as evolved as Norway.
> A school network applied to all of New York state is hardly an anecdote

Maybe another thing your top performing students in their top performing school network can explain to you is the difference between evidence and irrelevancy; specifically, that, with California being the first state to mandate a later start time, its unusual for schools to start later (New York is experimenting with some later start times, but very few schools have them [0]), so, really, neither your sons’ status nor those of their network indicate (as evidence or even anecdote) anything contrary to the research at issue here (nor, to take the next step, necessarily would their school even if a sizable number of others did start significantly later unless it was similar to those later-starting schools in all other respects besides start time; for some reason you've posted an argument from a libertarian propaganda mill which does nothing relative to the discussion but make a case as to why you raising it in this discussion is the farthest thing possible from relevant for that reason.)

I get that you are proud of your sons and like their school network. I can't figure out why you think either are relevant to the matter at hand.
Time and Time again, we see how stupid the war on drugs had been for humanity. Look at all the negatives:

- Racist origins which disproportionately targeted minorities. It allowed police and prosecutorial discretion to arrest more minorities and give them longer sentences.

- Stopped medical progress. Finally a flood of studies are showing us mushrooms, marijuana, MDMA, acid, and more have positive medical uses.

- Gave law enforcement massive budgets which are further inflated with asset forfeiture. We see SWAT raids based on lies ruining lives and killing innocent people.

- Prevented people from relaxing with safer alternatives to alcohol.

The war on drugs needs to end.

No drug should be illegal. Drugs are a health concern, not criminal.

Replace public funding of law enforcement with public finding of rehab and other mental/physical healthcare services. It'll be cheaper and society would be healthier.
Because you can't add funds to your PayPal account through Google Play billing. It has its own billing platform.
“Totally broken implementation” is very close to BS, at least strongly exaggerated. They’re both highly successful distribution models. Of course, every system has downsides. You’re free not to participate
Very rare cases. And they still usually fall into male and female - XXY chromosomes are male for example.
Civil disobedience can be entirely peaceful, but disruptive and non-cooperative. Intending quite intentionally to steal time and value, but not safety from others.

It is stealing time and effort from the authorities that has achieved change across history. Sometimes with violence which is obviously no longer peaceful, sometimes not. Police time. Court time. Parliamentary discussion time. In the one year XR have existed, surprisingly the issue has surged in the UK opinion polls - ie more in the UK find the climate crisis an important issue than did before. There has been a much increased level of exposure in the media, and in parliament.

To me, inconvenient though it may be, that is simply democracy working as intended.

An entirely non-disruptive march or demo is, democratically, not a peaceful protest, it's an irrelevance. It's a nice day out and little else, and achieves a similar level of change.
Me too -- it happens when both one's home and school are on two separate hills.

School didn't start until 08:00 though, and it was definitely too early if you asked teenage me.
And it's a pretty useful word. It's somewhere between "acceptable" and "plausible". It can kind of just mean whatever you need with a slight air of "I don't really know what I'm talking about, but don't worry it'll be fine."
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Yes. And they are _really_ easy to find.
https://machinezone.github.io/research/networking-solutions-...
https://itnext.io/benchmark-results-of-kubernetes-network-pl...

Edit: added one more link
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Taxis are paid by distance, not time. So if they can cheat the rules and drop you off faster they get the same amount of money from the customer and can go look for the next customer.
Well it happens for the same reason all living things die, all life has an end, no point resisting that fact, unless of course you enjoy suffering..
Technically speaking, smoking also helps smokers kick the habit, albeit over a period of 40/50 years or so on average.

Good for that woman that this helped her, but, as the article said, it takes you a few months and a whole lot of money to do this, as well as a host of other factors. It's hardly a cure-all.
If you became fearful and got your act together, I'd say their approach worked.

Of course, apologizing afterwards is pretty weak. Either they were forced to do it or they're not in control of their emotions.
So, being a democracy, if we can't rationally persuade a person to abstain from breaking a law, we have no right to do anything disruptive to them?
Anything that can hold arbitrary text and can be seen by more than one user eventually becomes used as email.

About a decade ago, I discovered a featurephone-based BASIC programming environment (as in, you write code directly using the phone itself) where you can upload programs you've written and download programs by others. There had sprung up a cottage industry of programming kids whose sole access to technology were their phones; that was pretty amazing & amusing in itself, but I laughed out loud when one of the uploaded programs consisted entirely of comment lines, essentially using uploaded source code as a message to one of the users of the service.
People may think I'm depressed, but I'm the polar opposite.

I'm always discussing what it means to be depressed, only in an effort to find what is the will to live. I find it interesting.

"When driving on the interstate, each driver has the power, with the flick of a wrist, to end it all. But they don't. Why not? What prevents people from flicking? What's worth living for?"

My wife wants me to stop talking like that, because she fears I will be vacaracted.

I feel like you can always get a better perspective on things by swimming in the deep end. It's always good to stir your inner stew.
Reddit level of debate. Make a claim and expect the other person to do the fact finding to prove it.
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> life-drawing is a practice that is good training for a specific use of that tool - portraiture

> The question is, why did they continue for so long?

Well, as said in the original quote, it's apparently also good for internalizing a sense of weight for animation. So presumably they continued at least in part because it's good for things that aren't as obsolete as portraiture -- animation isn't the only way to make money in art these days, but it's not exactly in low demand.

I'd wonder why they dropped it, but at a guess, it's some combination of low demand (first they make it non-required, then students who don't realize the broader applicability stop taking it) and higher cost (you need to hire one or more models).
Most startup founders are rich, they are just gambling with some money they have. Akin to a salaried worker gambling a small amount of their salary in a night at the casino.
In this case he tried to blackmail people and it was easy to prove it in a court.

But bogus takedown and demonization notices are sent by "activists" to science channels on a daily basis. These are harder to prove as malicious acts and Google doesn't do a damn thing to help content creators.

(Activists = flat-earthers, anti-vaxers and so on. I assume political channels also attract their own group of "activists")
Might also be that Star Trek takes place in a universe where only AFTER massive wars and near extinction does humanity set aside its short-sightedness and cruelty to embrace egalitarianism. Within the Star Trek universe, there is no history of science outpacing human damage. They barely save themselves from the brink.
Yes! Exactly what happened with my Pixel phone. The cable would fall out after a minute. Took a toothpick and a few minutes to get the dirt out and now it's as good as new.
The writing has been on the wall for years. I use Yahoo Groups for several local community organizations and features would just randomly break for weeks at a time. There was zero support from Yahoo; it's obvious they no longer had any engineering resources assigned.

Is Google Groups the only practical alternative now? (Some people don't have Facebook accounts so that's not an option.)
In the meantime, they seem to be sneaking in charges for things. I saw a Yahoo Pro Mail the other week. I can’t imagine the circumstances that triggered that as I’ve barely glanced at my Yahoo Mail for years. Customer service claimed to have trouble dealing with it. Eventually had the credit card company deal with it.
There have been waves of high-conflict environmentalism in the past. For decades, in fact. In 1985 Greenpeace tried to stop the French government from polluting the entire atmosphere with above-ground nuclear bomb testing, so the DGSE sank their boat and murdered a photographer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

Anti-oil-pollution activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in Nigeria after a rigged trial; it later emerged that some of the witnesses had been bribed by Shell.
Very good point, addressed further down / [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269488)
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what could be the reason ?
Is this akin to or different from dissociation and/or depersonalization? Because I don't want that coping mechanism, feeling and experiencing things is better.
I was flying to Germany from Atlanta earlier this year. I enter the international terminal, start waiting in the security line. As I get to the front there is this little screen with a camera on top and a TSA logo on it. There's a sign on it that says something to the effect that it must register my biometric profile, to prevent terrorism, I guess.

I think there was an option not to consent and still make it through security, but the instructions seemed to be purposefully unclear. If they make it unclear, they know that 99.9% of people will not bother to ask questions. They know how stressful airport security is in the first place and how people just want to shut up and make it through the line and not miss their flight, and they use that as an advantage. I consider myself to be more informed and concerned about digital privacy issues than a vast majority of people, just like most of you who will be reading this comment.

Even so, in the moment I gave in and let the stupid thing scan my face. And now my face is somewhere in a server at the Pentagon probably. The social engineering around it made it very hard to figure out whether or not there was any real risk of resisting it or asking questions. I was with my wife and we didn't want to miss our flight.

I applaud the person who in the same situation would have turned around and walked out of the airport and skipped their expensive, non-refundable trip to Europe. But when my big moment came to be a heroic activist for digital privacy rights, I wasn't the same person I am when complaining about Facebook and Google on the internet. Oh well, I guess travel is how we learn about ourselves, right?

And that's exactly why facial recognition is going to become completely ubiquitous without much fuss at all. The risks are too abstract for most people to really care in the moment, even if they know the issue fairly well. Real social movements don't gain momentum until people's lives are directly impacted - and the issues are just too nuanced, and the whole infrastructure of surveillance too byzantine, for people to really want to take action.
I would say they are a terrible parent, they are a bully, and an awful human being.

But not violent.

Just the same as I wouldn't say pirating a movie was theft, but by saying that I'm not saying I think it's OK - these are just different concepts.
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I think it's a Western European view. Such services are often free or at least heavily subsidized here.
Those are absolutely not unrelated, in issues from Amazon logging to the Dakota pipeline to Nigerian oil.
This industry needs more players to drive the price down. 400$ for extruded plastic hull, cheap electronics, a fan, a filter (and a battery pack for a mobile device) is way to much. I build one for my flat for less than 50$...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268086
He was an arms dealer, and won his riches by selling destruction.
You'll likely have much better results if you:

(1) Target your pitch more by joining specific niche communities in your vertical, get to know people there, and ask one of them who is well-connected to get you an introduction, which will allow you to give them a verbal elevator pitch. If they like it then you can send them a pitch deck.

(2) If you still want to do a broadcast style pitch on here, put your elevator pitch in your post with some key details in bullets afterward, ending with a call to action and a link to your startup's website on a domain name you've gotten for your startup. I've no desire to download and open a PowerPoint deck off of Dropbox from someone I don't know, and I suspect I am not alone.

(3) And perhaps most important, build an MVP (or at least a proof of concept) before you start pitching. You may have already done this, but I'm assuming not because I didn't see a link to a website with your MVP or POC. If you have built this, and don't have it available, then you are missing out on one of the biggest values from it - customer feedback/validation, aka pivot instructions.

5 Helpful tools when creating a highly effective pitch deck:

[1] https://slidebean.com/blog/startups-pitch-deck-examples

[2] https://guykawasaki.com/the-only-10-slides-you-need-in-your-...

[3] https://revealjs.com/#/

[4] http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html

[5] https://blog.ycombinator.com/practical-design-pitching/
I have a bachelors, though this stuff is pretty basic biology.
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A small correction- it’s not the small mass of the neutrino that allows it to escape quickly, but the fact that they are electrically neutral, and also do not interact with the strong force and do not get caught by the nucleus of atoms. Photons have no mass, but they arrive after the neutrinos because they are slowed down by being constantly absorbed and remitted by the atoms of the star through the electromagnetic force.
Doesn't F-droid (and other stores) count as a '3rd party repository'?
Or like... you know, it may only mean that the lady wanted to go back to Harvard to study whatever she is studying there?

There may no need to grab the tinfoil.
>The D in SMD was actually awarded the nobel prize in economics.

Debreu's work on general equilibrium, which was the basis of the award, had to skirt around the SMD theorem:

>Prize motivation: "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium."[0]

In order for the Arrow-Debreu model[1] to give a unique equilibrium, which is usually desired, some strong (arguably, unrealistic) conditions must be assumed, otherwise there can be multiple equilibria, as guaranteed by the SMD theorem.[2]

In particular, the SMD theorem asserts that any polynomial function can be a market demand function, which fundamentally breaks the so-called "law" of demand in neoclassical economics. This is because most polynomial functions are not monotonically decreasing[3], as required by the "law" of demand, but give rise to demand curves that can curve up or down arbitrarily. As an example of such a function, just think of the curve generated by a generic cubic polynomial.[4]

This "anything goes" situation then leads to non-unique equilibria, since a supply curve can now intersect the market demand curve at more than one point. But since an equilibrium point is supposed to be where welfare is maximised in a society, the existence of non-unique equilibria means that there can be multiple economic arrangements under which social welfare is maximised. Then it's a matter of taste (i.e. "ideology") to decide which equilibrium point a society wants to be in.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1983/deb...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%E2%80%93Debreu_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%E2...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_function

[4] A graph of such a curve is shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monotonicity_example3.png
This is a bad analogy that makes it sound like you're defending flat-earthers.

It's like saying you use Hermeticism's Principle of Rhythm to build a pendulum-powered clock...

And unlike both Flat-Earth theory and Hermetics, Newton was actually demonstrably right. Flat-earthers and Hermeticists spin their theories out of whole cloth.
> but today's tech consumers seem to be even less confident of poking behind the surface than those of the yesteryears.

To be fair, I'm less confident poking around behind the surface because what used to be relatively straight forward has become --for various reasons, few of which are legitimate in my eyes-- absurdly complicated.
Does GDPR cover these kind of issues where accounts/apps are demonetized or taken down because of some automated process mistake?
May I refer you to the second definition of violence, per Merriam Webster?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence

Violence, by definition, is not always physical.
Afaik this goes back to the Toast Hawaii, which was invented by Clemens Wilmenrod, a TV cook in 1950ies Germany, and quite an interesting figure. He had no training as a cook at all, but presented his strange creations as an exotic culinary experience. Basically, when you put cooked ham, pineapple, cheap cheese and a cherry on toast in the 50ies and 60ies in Germany, you presented yourself as a cosmopolitan. He welcomed the audience at the beginning of each show as his "dear friends in Lucullus" and gave simple dishes grandiose names (according to Wikipedia, a trivial recipe for a simple Schnitzel was called "Venetian Christmas Feast").

Oh, and when someone claimed that Wilmenrod stole the "recipe" of putting an almond into a strawberry, he threatened to kill himself on live TV [0]. (He actually killed himself a few years later, though it is speculated that he was diagnosed as having stomach cancer shortly before).

[0] https://youtu.be/IAQhpI9euwg?t=130
Or just an email list Depending on your needs. Though SPAM has made that harder without a real commercial service.
You don't dismiss things in the world, you dismiss unhelpful patterns of thinking, and cultivate helpful patterns.
Misgendering isn't about your ability to name someone's gender; it's just having the basic decency to use the pronouns they prefer and core empathy to realize some people may experience the world differently than you.

Just the same as it would be extremely annoying to work with someone that refused to use your name (and not at all forced speech to demand that they get it right; for many trans folx the old name is literally not their legal name anymore). Pronouns are a form of self expression, gender identity is real, and you only need to look at the stats for violence against trans people to the see the active harm in pretending otherwise.

Rules enforcing some level of decency have a place on public forums (even if it's not as cut and dry as pedophilia or violent activity); that's why you're here being transphobic rather than /b/.
This is maybe a little dishonest. Obviously for every existing public opinion or movement there is a non-zero number of individual members who have engaged in something literally violent. It's not useful to extrapolate that into calling all public opinions and movements violent.
Next: The US Military wants super-drones to control super-soldiers that control drones with their minds.