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Ask HN: Google disabled my daughter's email account
My daughter, born in 2008, has been using Gmail for the past couple of years with no issues. We created her email account together and I think I entered her correct birth date on account creation.

Today when she tried to access her email she was presented with the notice below and her account is disabled; the note says it will be deleted in 28days.

Reading on Google forums I understand that Google allows Gmail accounts for children under 13 years of age, on the condition of having enabled "parent supervision". Yet on my daughter's account it appears there is no way to set up "parent supervision" at this point because the account is disabled.

So in the situation where Google discovers that an under-age child has a Google account, instead of offering the option of setting up "supervision" on the account, Google disables the account pending deletion in 28 days. How does this make sense?

The "learn more" link in the text points to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1333913 and does not offer a way to set up "parent supervision".

Account disabled
email.redacted@gmail.com
It looks like you're not old enough to have a Google Account without parental supervision. Learn more
If you entered the wrong birthday, update it now. Otherwise, your Google Account will be deleted in 28 days.
If this Google Account is for a business or organisation, use the birth date of the owner or the person who manages the account.
Your data is ready for download.
very nice!

but does anyone has an idea if there is a way to customise file sorting?
Microsoft first got onto my shitlist radar by putting a series of application vendors out of business by making bad knockoffs and leveraging bulk sales. EE&E has its roots in those stories.

With a leopard this old, it’s hard to tell if it has changed its spots or it’s just covered with old dirt. What I do know is if you get bit I don’t want to hear about it. I’ll just laugh and laugh in your face.
DolphinScheduler ranks among top 10 most valuable projects in OSChina GVP(Gitee Most Valuable Project)
About 7 years ago I moved to one of the most affluent parts of the UK (outside of London) and had my mind blown when every item on the shelf in the tastefully decorated Morissons supermarket had e-ink displays for every item.

As an engineer my immediate thought was whether they update these on-the-fly with different prices depending on who walks in the door (they don't).
I love the aesthetics of this project. Does anyone think it’s more of an art project than a serious engineering attempt?
A few hours ago, Firefox interrupted me in the middle of a busy browsing session and urged me to update. That was unusual. Most of the time Firefox updates quietly when I restart the browser, but people these days don't restart their browsers as often as they did before. I often go several days without restarting. I guess the vulnerability was urgent enough to warrant a mid-day interruption this time.
The map being physically connected to the odometer, albeit by a long cable, seems like a good idea but this feels like an early example of how hardware engineering and software engineering (in this case, UX) are quite separate skill sets!

It’s a cute idea but an unnecessary (and literal) coupling of the measurement function with the route information.

There’s a reason that numerical odometers with dual absolute / trip delta readings caught on — far more flexible.
Have you looked at Pijul? I understand it has resolved the major shortcomings of Darcs.
du -d 1 -h | sort -h
Well, yes. What kind of society do you want to live in where sexual harassment is OK?

Actually don't answer that, I don't want to know your fantasies.
"Nuclear waste is stored in highly stable geological layers"

That is just factually wrong. "Despite advanced schemes in Finland, not a single country worldwide has an operational underground repository." [1]

That was 2014 and plans have stalled or have been abandoned altogether due to local opposition and technical problems. The reality is that in nearly all cases storage is onsite or in other above ground locations.

France still has a plan to build and operate an underground storage facility in Bure [2], but costs have exploded due to not just very rose colored estimates at the start, but also due to running into problems such as water seepage and not being able to handle certain failure scenarios such as a transport catching fire.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26425674

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cig%C3%A9o
It could be argued that wikipedia has better reviews cause it has a much wider audience of reviewers
Can someone make this work like fzf so we can embed it in vim for ctrl-p style plugins? That would be amazing.
You gave up your privacy when you gave all that data to google, not when the state requested it from google.
as far as I can tell the only time firefox urges you to update is security updates and if you are more than a version behind stable
This is from Fight Club; which is notable because the author was trying to convey that having no responsibilities or possessions was the path to true enlightenment.

This is of course a fallacy as "Joe" the protagonist winds up shooting himself and ends up in a mental hospital. We aren't supposed to sympathise with that notion.
The account's data is ridiculously toxic (in a liability sense) and illegal to hold per COPPA probably.

Did you do this _IN ADVANCE_? Otherwise there's not much they can do...

> Existing methods to obtain verifiable parental consent that satisfy the requirements of this paragraph include:

> (i) Providing a consent form to be signed by the parent and returned to the operator by postal mail, facsimile, or electronic scan;

> (ii) Requiring a parent, in connection with a monetary transaction, to use a credit card, debit card, or other online payment system that provides notification of each discrete transaction to the primary account holder;

> (iii) Having a parent call a toll-free telephone number staffed by trained personnel;

> (iv) Having a parent connect to trained personnel via video-conference;

> (v) Verifying a parent's identity by checking a form of government-issued identification against databases of such information, where the parent's identification is deleted by the operator from its records promptly after such verification is complete; or

Twitter did a nearly identical thing to me when I signed up pre-13, complete account destruction for the same reason.
Yep, the market has spoken.
> idk what to do about all this; it's pretty easy for me to pass on rereading Asimov or MZB anyhow.

Then you probably can't read any great books, look at any great art, watch any great movie, listen to any great music, laugh with any great comedian, admire any great leader/politician, etc.

I hate to break this to you but there really aren't any saints in this world. And if you do find a saint, it just means he was just better at hiding his true self from the world.

Can you study physics after learning that Einstein was a racist bigot just like hitler?

"It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/06/13/albert-einste...

Einstein worried about the "chinese" ( and by chinese he most likely meant asians ) taking over the world like hitler worried about jews taking over the world. Granted Einstein never did anything about it, though he indirectly helped in the nuking of the "automaton spiritless and obtuse 'chinese' children" in hiroshima and nagasaki.

If you were wondering, Newton wasn't any better.

Can you enjoy the Christmas Carol knowing that Dickens was a racist bigot?

Or maybe you should do what we are all taught in philosophy and the arts and learn to separate the art from the artist. They are not one and the same. You can appreciate the art and despise the artist.
Python: Teaching kids and biting bits don't mix
Your comment is anecdotal. If that is the case, then that's great, keep up the good work, be an example to others. But if it's anecdotal, it doesn't deny the issues elsewhere.
I right now use Google sheets for the same usecase, what advantages does this have over a spreadsheet?
Then you can compile the compiler for that platform, no?

That being said you would need to implement the basics of OS routines, but it should not be too hard
One point(though I will admit this is the cynical part of my brain speaking) immediately jumps to mind.

If the server goes down, you can blame Microsoft. Even the least technical person can’t blame you for that. If you create your own data center however, if it goes down, you may potentially be on the chopping block if service is interrupted.

Self preservation is a strong motivator, perhaps the strongest in a business environment.
As someone who sometimes steps out of the comfort of writing scheme, I agree with you. I spent a lot more time writing python than I did ruby, but with ruby I can just jump right in and things work like I expect them to. With python there is always small semantic things that moves the whole experience into slightly uncomfortable territory.

But whatever floats people's boats. If I had to do numeric computation I would chose python as well, but personally I would become a grumpy fart that would complain way too much
Farmers Are Buying 40-Year-Old Tractors Because They're Repairable
Names are important. For what it's worth, the name 'beef' is peculiar to me. At first I thought it was a joke language like Brainfuck or ArnoldC. Java, fish, snort and cartoon devils are not nearly as culturally charged on many levels as dead cow flesh and all it invokes both good and bad. Where do you draw the line? A programming language called 'Christ'? 'Penis'? 'Dogmeat'? I'm sure you can think of some less obviously taboo. The only people who will be offended are those who seek to be, but that doesn't mean the name doesn't matter.
When I share a board with a link, the shared board is read-only even if the shared user can interact on board.

Good product anyway, I'll use it later I think
I think the reason why US has two parties is that most States apply FPTP at a district level, but then also have a winner-takes-all at State level based on the districts result. So one district selects one party, and then the State gives all its N votes to the majority party among districts, selecting N people of the same party.
UK only has FPTP at constituency (district) level. So one constituency selects one person (one MP belonging to one party).

In UK when voting you have to chose among the top two parties in your own constituency in order to have a chance to get the MP you want rather than throwing your vote away. Votes distribution at national level doesn't really count from the voter point of view.

In US when voting you have to chose among the top two parties in your own State because if your district picks a third party and no other district does, your whole district vote is thrown away. Votes distribution at State level really counts from the voter point of view.
Upvoted you, because why not throw around internet points!

It's easy to forget that things that are basic to some are extremely advanced to others. As HN grows, it draws in more diverse backgrounds; many of which don't have much statistics exposure.

I know data scientists who work at FAANGs, for whom this would be almost entirely new information (the causality stuff).

Thank you for taking the time to add more essential points. Do you think it's possible to make better decisions with partial causation, versus a more correlational approach? That is, do we really need true causation to improve our decision making? Or can we make better, albeit imperfect, decisions with imperfect causality? Is that better than what most statisticians do with correlation?
Ex-MS employee, Azure consultant here. I don't have any experience with AWS or GCP other than some very trivial, getting started stuff. But I really don't think what you say is true. While most of the stuff in Azure has a very familiar feel and intuitive interface (either on the UI or the API level) if you are coming from a MS background, there are still glaring exceptions and you certainly need experienced/certified people to build something that's ready for serious production usage. I agree though that Azure has a very nice and happy path for most enterprise cloud migration and hybrid cloud stories.
This website's favicon is 7.3kb. What kind of weird edge case are you working for?
They do. His female characters might as well have been written by an adolescent.

He's hardly unique in that. MZB's Mists of Avalon has similar issues from a different gender perspective.

Asimov looks especially crude now, with the distance of a few decades. I wouldn't be surprised if more recent fiction suffers a similar reassessment in time.

SF is rarely character-led and it may be optimistic to expect depth or nuance from it. Character design is more likely to be an aspect of fan service - give the readers a fantasy they can identify with, maybe add some flaws for spice - and not so much an opportunity for self-reflection.
I'm not surprised.

The coup at AWS was programmable infrastructure. It's building blocks that fit together in the way that software engineers know and love: APIs. Sure there's a sales bro for the pointy haired boss and a console for the IT technician, but the thing is the API. It's going to be used primarily at engineering-driven companies, where "holy shit this is cool" is actually a factor in the decision. Most of those will be startups that flare out, but some will grow up to be tech companies that run very large, very locked-in, very expensive workloads. But an IT manager's only real interest in AWS is trend-following.

Microsoft thrives in a different world. IT managers are dealing with lots of different vendors (MS, VMWare, Dell, local HVAC and security contractors) to run their Windows Server workloads. It's pretty attractive to instead just pay Microsoft. But the nature of the workloads will not change, at least in the short term. It's still about technicians clicking in GUI consoles. I'd wager that usage of the Azure APIs is almost zero. Every business with a traditional IT department will end up with an Azure account, and the Fortune 500 is no exception. But the size of those workloads will scale with the number of enterprise apps they're running (each one its own VM). That won't necessarily grow with those businesses. It may even decline, as shrink-wrapped software for Windows Server is displaced by SaaS companies running on AWS.
this is why many companies have no record of their own internal emails/conversations over a year or two. This is to cover their own tracks in case they get sued. I wonder if there are any email services where you can actually delete your data if it's older than some period?
You will get it in a few years when you buy it cheap used from Americans and Europeans?
While a zero day is interesting news, I think a more interesting point is that the bug was reported by Qihoo 360. The company has a bit of a storied history when it comes to security: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360
Literally how my options are written.
Location: London, UK

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Full-Stack, C, C++, PHP, Python (2/3), Java, Hardware Design, JavaScript, Amazon Web Services, MYSQL, Linux, MicroPython, Java Spring Boot, JavaScript Backbone, JavaScript Marionette, REST APIs, HTML(5), CSS(3), responsive design, jQuery, Underscore, LESS, SASS, WordPress, WooCommerce, STOMP, WebSockets.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneevanstone/

Email: shanee@ifnotequal.com

Hi. I've recently moved to London, so looking for a new role. I'm currently MakerClub's Chief Technology Officer and a Full-Stack Developer. I provide guidance and expertise as we bring making and programming to children across the UK. I also built the online platform, website and hardware.

I think I'd fit a medium-sized IoT startup pretty well, but definitely open to other things too.
eBay's tsv-utils author here. A fair bit of performance benchmarking was done on the tools with the goal of exploring this type of use (data crunching). D did really well (tsv-utils are fast!). There's more info on the benchmarks page in the github repo. Perhaps the best summary is the slides from a talk I did at 2018 DConf. Links:

- tsv-utils repo: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils

- Performance studies: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils/blob/master/docs/Performan...

- Talk slides: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils/blob/master/docs/dconf2018...
> opposed to bigger government

not sure if it is libertarian or not but I think big corporations are a worse threat to freedom than big government.

EDIT: the reason being that big corporate can buy laws and regulations that favour them over individuals
I shudder to think what datascience code would look like if a language with a culture of monkeypatching/metaclassing had won. Clear code is nice, but not when the price is sweeping all of the details too deeply under the carpet.
They are something in person. Very cool old tech.

The one I worked on had a tape drive, paper tape read / punch for CNC machines, and an analog joystick.

It had a very powerful Basic that included a ton of graphics primitives, capable of many of the images shown. There was a demo tape similar to that video.

Storage tube CRT.

Editing text was done a screen at a time, overwrites done right over existing characters.

When it all got a bit messy, just refresh and carry on after it rendered current text to the screen. Sometimes, and this was often true for the files we were creating, multiple columns could be used to get a lot on the screen to work with, depending on widths.

The higher end ones did something like 4k pixels x 3k pixels.

If you wanted hard copy, you sent it to a pen plotter, or took a photo of the screen.

For text I/O, tape or paper tape.

I was 19 at the time. Had a chance to get one and didn't do it. Still regret it.

Now that we have these nice 4k displays, I am tempted to go find or write an emulation.

I think the CPU was a 6800 running at maybe a few Mhz, or maybe just 1Mhz.

The old "xterm" program has "Tektronix mode" as a command line option. One could send the graphics data and get a scaled bitmap output. I used to do it on SGI computers.
Agree. Why giving it all away to google then? I don’t get people who complain about privacy though insist on using a gmail email, chrome and make all their search on google, not clearing cookies regularly and using adblockers.
The main thing isn't really about it being preferable, feature-wise - it's that it's the future of cross platform apps. If I could have apps like Photoshop or Ableton on Windows, Linux, Mac, ChromeOS, Android, etc - and they all work the same, that's a huge win all around.
Interesting how Robot/Foundation novels from the 1980s are more sexual than earlier ones, like with Dune novels from the 1980s.
Forgive me for my ignorance, but doesn’t Azure provide the same APIs as AWS?

PS: I have onoy used AWS
This is a great perspective and resonates a lot for me.

Curious though, to hear your thoughts on the incoming off-payroll legislation and how you feel it will effect the UK contracting market.
I don’t think this is true at all. I see a couple of very obvious reason that large organisations go with Azure.

1) Most large orgs already have Exchange/AD/SharePoint infrastructure. Move that into the cloud and boom, you’re already an Azure customer whether you noticed it or not. Want to take some more IaaS services on? Want a cloud SCM?... Don’t worry about procurement, you’re already a customer.

2) Procurement decisions in large organisations have to satisfy a lot of different stakeholders. A big, reputable vendor, that can solve a huge number of your problems all at once is remarkably attractive to such an organisation. Azure doesn’t have the same features as AWS, but that doesn’t matter. Most of the decision makers don’t care, and the technical teams aren’t likely to use the fancy AWS services anyhow. Forklifting their infrastructure into the cloud was a enough effort to begin with.

This model is very common in enterprise software/services. Symantec and Cisco are other examples of a companies exploiting the same dynamics. Their products are mostly garbage, they go around acquiring other products, and then poorly incorporating them into their portfolio. But they have a large market share to sell new things into, and when they’re talking to their customers they can pitch “just buy all of our products, and that’s like 80% of your compliance worries solved. No need to deal with 10 vendors”.
One imagines wise boomers carefully examining the intricately arranged series of "Media Matrices" and sagely nodding at the subtle points illuminated in each. "Yes, I've heard of this 'Onion'; really not a very useful source of news!" "I wonder why they didn't draw the firm who employ my favorite news personalities here in this 'North Star' area?"

Do we really think the main problem in USA is that not enough people consume median journalism? This veers dangerously close to an assumption that our only real problem is that the "Fairness Doctrine" no longer protects us from Badthink. I'd propose a different idea. If there are actual problems of long standing, e.g. myriad interminable wars or shocking incarceration rates, they might owe their durability to the fact that few people really oppose them as hard as some other aspects of modern life are opposed. What sort of coverage would we predict of these problems from "the North Star"? Might that segment of the "matrix" elide such coverage altogether? When we do hear opposition to or even coverage of morewaralwaysmorewar or similar issues, and it comes from kooks like TheNation or ZeroHedge, does that reinforce the marginal importance of these issues, or perhaps does it call into question this matrix picture altogether? What was the point of the internet, if we all ought to watch the same news?
This was posted one day ago. My comment there starts "Utter crap essay." See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990573 for my more complete commentary.
The newer Onyx models seem to have a monitor function as well: https://onyxboox.com/boox_max3

If I am reading reviews correctly it has micro(?) HDMI and a usb-C port. However, the usb port seems to only be for charging/keyboards/data etc., not for display port (next model maybe?).
will use AWS data and information against those companies.

Aren't there laws to prevent this? Say I am a big retailer - target, aldi or some company at that scale using AWS. Are you saying Amazon can look into my database/code etc and learn from it and use that knowledge to compete with me? Shouldn't such a thing be illegal, though it would super hard to prove?
Remove the "-d 1" and that command gets even more useful. This is my preferred version of that trick:

du -h | sort -hr | less
Two ingredients needed : massive market access and patient capital.

The USA has both. The British empire had both. The UK and Canada have neither.
I guess they asked because there are more of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographies_of_Isaac_Asimo...
I use NCDU: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
What does that even leave? The baseline interpreter?
Active Directory, Domain Services, Exchange Server and SharePoint Servers (which can use integrated Windows auth).

Also many internal Enterprise apps are integrated with AD for auth and permissions.
How is this different from a warrant that lets prosecutors read your snail mail?

I mean this passed the proper checks and balances of the law, and the only reason this is on HN is that's about electronic instead of paper mail, and it involves a big Corp.
Is there any real reason why parent is being downvoted?
I'm "stuck" on an iMac Pro. :D

It's an amazing machine in every way.