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Ask HN: Apple unable to send an SMS with 2FA code. Options?
I apologize if this is not a relevant 'Ask HN' post, but I'm running out of options. I'll remove it straight away, if told to do so.

3 days ago I have installed High Sierra on my MacBook Pro and enabled 2 factors authentication for my Apple ID. As I don't have any other Apple device, I requested that the security code would be sent to my Swiss mobile number.

All went well. Immediately after, I had to reinstall High Sierra because I made a mistake in naming the home folder (which would break my backup and renaming a home folder doesn't basically work on OSX) and my nightmare started. Basically, Apple ID is no longer sending the security code to my Swiss mobile number, therefore I'm logged out of iCloud: can't access my docs, can't install any paid app on my 2.500 Euro computer.

Contacted Apple in the US and all they could tell me was to wait 24 hours because maybe "it will work tomorrow". 24 hours later the problem persisted, called Apple in Ireland and they told me that they would "escalate to an engineer" and that would take 3 more days.

This is completely unacceptable from a 800 Billions US$ capitalization company. They are unable to send a SMS (a technology that has been around since 1992) or even to call me. They can't disable TFA from their end. All they can do is to tell me to wait for an unknown amount of time.

What are my options at this point? I can download the applications that I need for work from any pirate web site, but this is so crazy that I thought that maybe some Apple engineer who stumbled on HN may take mercy on my case.

Thanks!
/Rant

Oh come off it! I hate this kind of elitist bull crap. Don't like editor putting something into buffer, do you? Do you have set ai in your vimrc? 3 guesses to what that does. How about set et? 'consent' you say? How is explicitly installing a plugin not expression of consent?

And as for your dismissive jibe about 'just imap' - auto-pairs is a bit more nuanced than that. For example it handles pairing quotes as well. Let's see your quick dismissive solution for that which handles closing quotes as well.

Why am I so angry? Well, because there are so many of these 'gurus' who go around being dismissive of other peoples preferences as tho their's is the only one true way. The comment could easily just have been, "I like to be explicit about entering my parentheses and even if I wasn't here's how I'd do it without a plugin ", instead of all that consent nonsense.

/End rant
This is lying to the user about a security-critical setting. Plain and simple. It's a dishonest user interface and Apple should be ashamed.
If you've ever shared a photo via Facebook, the app has that permission, I'm sure. Recheck your permissions settings.
Most big companies have similarly lofty mottos and mission statements.
>They may be working with an incredible tunnel vision

underrated...
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the price seams 20% + the hardware price.
It’s a bit passe now, but “artisanal”
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but SoftBank is not a startup
Same here with code and producing music...

Yes knowing the speakers and the room is a very important aspect. Everyone I have worked with that uses NS10s is because they say they are very forward in the lower mids, not that they are good speakers, but I believe that they just get used to them.

The NS1000, which I used, on the other hand - amazing.

Personally, I can find better monitors that are even more revealing.
Sadly yes, it is just because they want to and can. I have come to this realization in recent times.
But then again this is true for most of the things in life (if you want it and are able, you do it), so it doesn't provide a detailed insight into where does this particular will come from. I can understand for people to have it when the world was small, but the more knowledge man acquired and sought to control things, the more it exposed the things still to know.So I think there is some willful ignorance involved which discounts this uncertainty or fog of war and generates the will to influence humanity centuries hence.
> They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

Statements like that, while powerful are dangerous as they turn into baseball bats for people to hit each other with.

And they become an excuse for ignoring things and becoming an absolutist religious zealot.

There are legitimate cases where rewriting the code from scratch can be the single BEST strategic decision.

(And of course, vice versa)

If I have strong rational reasons to believe that a rewrite is warranted quoting Joel Spolsky or anyone else is not going to change my mind.
"Royal Milk Tea" is easy to make (although it's hard to clean the pan afterwards). Boil a cupful of milk with a teabag in it. Once it's boiled, take out the teabag and add sugar. In fact I think I might have one right now ...
Also auto-pairs.vim doesn't seem to break the dot command, contrary to the mapping they provided.
Yep, just like taxi drivers, no one has any sympathy whatsoever for these logistics companies.

My gripe is that every package I receive, is from abroad. Every single time, fedex (ups, dhl, ...) ask me for the exact same information (address, eori number, ...) even if I have an account with them, they don't know this information about me, even though I told them last week. I thought a logistics company might have a better handle on their processes. But none of them do!
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If the looters politely just took some groceries they needed but couldn't pay for because the local economy was in disarray then I'm sure they wouldn't complain. It's batshit people hoarding TV's and shit though.
A manually trusted cert overrides pinning, it's only protecting against certs signed by another of the default installed certs (otherwise Google and others simply wouldn't work in many corporate environments).
For the first time I tried to install the Uber app last weekend when I needed a taxi in a country where Uber is present.

I then found out that the Uber iOS app is larger than 150MB (!).

I couldn't come up with a reason why the App would need to be that ridiculously huge except for spying frameworks so I did not download it. There were taxis waiting less than 30m away anyway.

I'm glad I have not sold my soul to Uber ;-)
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So bad hardware and bad Linux support at your work? Doesn't seem like an opposite experience at all.
In reality, it rarely happens. The government makes the process so onerous that you have to be suffering horribly before they will even deign to think about it.
Uber also say they protect your privacy, even when they violate it instead.
So the plans of the British government are radical religious plans?
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> The #1 deciding factor in the investment of films over $10M is not the script, not the director, not anything else - it's the actors that are involved.

so you're saying actors are not commodities?

> What matters in film is 'the recognizability of the face/personae'.

yes. yes you are.
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Neat. I have / used to have a pair of 'hand warmers', plastic bags with a fluid of sorts and a copper (?) coin you can 'flip over', the click / shock causing the fluid to crystallise and generate heat. Those can be reused too by putting the (crystallised) bag into hot water for a bit.
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What's your take in the Democratic Party?
I am actually quite surprised by this and to me it looks like people are just overcomplicating things. You get on a plane, you turn on Airplane Mode. Simple. It would never ever occur to me in a million years to turn on Airplane Mode on my phone, but then go ahead and just turn off the wifi on my iPad. Also, isn't Bluetooth also supposed to be off, which Airplane Mode would take care of?

EDIT: This is what Airplane Mode looks like https://i.imgur.com/mEMYdL6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4L3uZmm.jpg
Why would he bring classified malware anywhere near an anti-virus? Isn't it the job of AV software to detect and report new cases of malware?
I learned Vim by taping cheat sheets on the wall next to my desk. Whenever I wanted to reach for the arrow keys or do something new, I would look over to the cheat sheets and find the right command. Avoiding the use of arrow keys helps speed up the learning.
Hehe, I got found out :-)

Close to where we used to live, by the bus stop in Hiratsuka, when I used to come back at night, the vending machine was brighter than the public lights.
Huh? Pilot Super Sports (standard on MY2014 Vettes) are some of the best street tires that you can buy. They’re basically the standard for high-performance street cars. The Ferrari 458 comes with them. They’re stock on the BMW M3, M5, and M6. You can get optional Sport Cup 2s on some Corvette models, but they wear out a lot faster.

Src: http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/corvette-stingray-sport...

“””
Standard Brembo® brakes provide ample stopping power at a variety of speeds. Standard 19" front and 20" wheels come wrapped in Michelin® Pilot® Super Sport ZP summer-only tires† for incredible grip and precision control.
“””

The C5s had not-the-best tires, but they were still developed for the car: https://www.thoughtco.com/best-replacement-tires-for-c6-corv...
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This is really really cool man. I'm actually working on something similar for curating learning guides and how to resources (it'll replace the splashpage at www.learnsearch.xyz by the end of the day :) )
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I believe GP's claim is factually accurate. The USA has the 4th highest homicide rate in the OECD, after Mexico, Turkey, and Estonia [1]. Roughly 2/3 of US homicides are using firearms [2]. After reducing the US homicide rate by a factor of 3, the US would still be 13th (out of 34) on the OECD list, between Portugal and France.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-homicide-rates-chart-201...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...
>* I'm not sure there's any evidence that there's a problem with vegetable oils either.*

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Social Cohesiveness is not also known as xenophobia.
Where foreigners tend to be so rare as to be exotic there tends not to be xenophobia. It's when the host community perceive themselves to be overrun that the xenophobia comes out.
Tell me which one is acceptable?
That's not evil. Let's keep a sense of perspective.
Wants me to create an account on their service. Why would that be necessary for a MUA?
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On dirt paths I have not seen yet. I am thinking about countryside roads with fields on both sides.
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HN doesn't support polls, you insensitive clod.
The cool thing about ligatures is that they are a property of the font, not of the text, so I can have a font with ligatures and you can have one without.
Ask HN: How did you specialise on a domain without prior experience?
I'm a freelance java/scala backend dev with 10+ experience. I'm tired of being a generalist but so far never managed to get into a niche.

I'm especially interested in supply chain and logistics but having a hard time getting a foot in the door. I have no previous experience in that area, and as a complete outsider, I have to go far outside my comfort zone when trying to make contacts.

So far I tried cold emailing people in that industry and asking them to help me understand their business. It hasn't been very fruitful yet.

Did anyone try to move into a domain without any prior experience? How did you do this?

Any help very much appreciated.
I feel like this is more about teens not wanting their social circles to include their parents/teachers/etc... than it is about any business motivation.
What happens when that path is in conflict with someone else's idea of the right path ? What happens to that someone if he doesn't have the ability to counter your force and is at your whim ?

Also to suppose that one's sphere of influence extends to all of humanity for centuries to come, implies one believes himself to be something more than the rest of humanity.
And this pdf is from 7 years ago.
I kind of want to know why Apple granted them permission to do this. It seems like a horrible idea, regardless of the app vendor. What the hell were they thinking?
LOL, though I recently had the same experience of when a doctor's secretary rather imperiously informed me that my test results would be faxed to my GP.
Maybe fax is regarded as more secure than email?
The main big deal is that it managed to lower the price of those products. The TL;DR effect of that is that it removed people from the middle class and drove most of the jobs to the lower class (e.g. pizza delivery, production line pizza making), and a few to the upper class (a handful of companies owning the pizza market, instead of dozens if not hundreds of local pizza restaurants).

Same with Uber, it drives the price down and turns taxis into a fairly exclusive and respectable job (I'm mostly thinking about the London Black Cabs or the fancy Mercedes taxis I see here in NL) to a race to the bottom. The same happened to the postal service, turning it from a respectable middle class uniformed government or semi-governmental job to something stay-at-home moms do part-time. Mind you, the market changed and snail mail is nowhere near what it used to be. The markets for pizza and taxis haven't changed that much in comparison though.
Amazon USA recently started shipping all kinds of shit to Japan (where I live). We use Amazon Japan a lot, but there are all kinds of products that aren't sold here.

The shipping is pretty reasonable; a few dollars for 6-10 day delivery. I recently bought a PS4 Pro and had it delivered 2nd day for cheaper than I could buy that same thing here, which was pretty mind-blowing.

I've now used it dozens of times. Sometimes its UPS or one of the regular delivery firms, but a few times its been some dude in a muscle shirt and no uniform who just rings the bell and says, "Hello, this is Amazon".
Disagreeing with you makes someone part of a plague. Got it. Reasoned argument failed to convince everyone everywhere, so now let's impugn their humanity. I'm sure that will work!
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I think bitmap heap scans have had concurrent IO for quite a while now? There's the effective_io_concurrency setting for it.
> Map-reduce does not require associativity as long as you know the order of the operation execution.

Good luck knowing that order when using a magic map-reduce to parallelise things for you.

> You break the assumption any time you use floating point math.

You're just nitpicking here.

Either I care about the non-associativity, and I have to control the ordering of the reduce operation (the best one might be a parallel bottom-up merge), or I don't care, and I'll be using -ffast-math already.
You don't really want to verify the signature you've just generated, if you care about perf, because verification is twice as costly as signing.
Oh, definitely. I'm just intrigued by how my perception of that culture has altered over time, especially as I've become more involved with the world 'behind the curtain', and the true magnitude of the industry required to produce all our modern amenities.
Anyone have any idea how does this affect Olm[1] (and possible NaCl and libsodium)? I know it uses Ed25519 signatures for both the device fingerprint and the one time pre keys.

[1]: https://git.matrix.org/git/olm/about/docs/signing.rst
> Why not deliver it at 7pm when I'm home from work?

Maybe because most people would like to get deliveries outside of normal working hours, but you can't (and shouldn't) force all delivery people to work outside normal working hours?
On top of that the installed Facebook app spies on your usage of other apps. They bought On­avo for that specific function.
Nominative nondeterminism?
LOLWHUT? San Diego is horrible for this. San Diego has a massive number of overpriced, aggressively mediocre restaurants. Yes, you can dig your way through the Chinese and Mexican restaurants to find good, cheap ones, but it requires real persistence.

For people coming from Pittsburgh, Chicago, or Houston, the San Diego selection in cheap food is laughable.

Houston Chinese food used to be terrifyingly cheap--we would hit our favorite dumpling house with something like a dozen people and the bill would be less than $40 for an absolutely enormous quantity of great food. Once we all graduated and were earning money from jobs, we would go back and we would leave tips of double, triple or more of the bill just because we never wanted them to go out of business.
> You can't use 3D touch to turn off wifi. According to Apple you have go into settings to do so.

Indeed, the detailed block of controls does not present the three possible states to the user. In the same zoomed in block, the Airdrop toggle does. Conversely, going to Settings is binary and allows only for On/Off, not that very practical Disconnect state. The difference between Off and Disconnected is a light bar across the icon, which is inconsistently not the case for the Off state of Mobile Data and Airplane mode.

The "dumbed down" UI concerns are valid, yet the intersection between security minded folks that will proactively act to disable WiFi/BT upon a security advisory and the ones who won’t know the difference between the two ways to toggle that is close to zero. To me it looks like people are up in arms without even defining the personas and threat models. Get real, this feature is downright awesome and the slight UI hiccup is certainly no ShellShock.
Agreed, why not let me choose though.
The Built-In Terminal in VSCode is something I would love to see in Sublime. For Ruby Coding this would be sufficient for me. For Go I currently prefer VSCode because of the debugging capabilities.
ATC are still my all-time favourite speaker/monitor brand from the many that I have heard.

Just brilliant.
More clarification, it's a plague of fanbois bringing down the tone of the neighbourhood. Engage in reasoned debate? Agree to disagree? Wonder if there's a point to their opinion at all? Nope, maybe we should drive them out of the neighbourhood into a ghetto somewhere else so Hackernews can be nice and pure instead.
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I work for Google. I am not going to be "ashamed of myself," but I am also not into drinking the Koolaid.

It's an oversimplification to demonize groups in this way. What is more troubling is the (non)reaction of society to the vast encroachment on privacy and rights from all sides, not the least of which are governments, telecommunication companies, and advertisers.
Hmm, I think I got peed on by naughty monkeys there. I should be grateful they weren't angry bears (or even angry birds!) I suppose...
Well they kinda invaded Korea for a long time for one. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-a-conflict-between-Korea-... explains that one.

European as in west-European? That part is relatively culturally and ethnically diverse; northern and eastern Europe are a lot less so, and tolerance towards foreigners is lower there. The English and French still really dislike one another for example, and they're much closer together than Japan and Korea.
I don't know why it's this hard for companies to make a laptop to appeal to technical people.

I get it that Apple, making a laptop model every couple of years, can't afford to because they need to target a broader market, but other laptop manufacturers make tens or hundreds of devices a year.

Also, why would you buy this thing at this price when 4C/8T ultra low voltage Intel CPUs are hitting the market?
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24bpp is not enough for shallow gradients which don't come from a photographic source (especially in dark images). I frequently dither 48bpp material for 24bpp displays.

I typically use Sierra Lite.

I've recently been experimenting with error diffusion along continuous space-filling curves (I forget where I saw this technique first), and using color difference functions (CIEDE2000) to gauge quantization error. These are overkill, but it sure beats doing it the same boring way forever.

Frankly, I would like it if the CRTCs attached to modern GPUs had some ability to apply dither (even just ordered dither) to buffers as they're scanned out, while exposing more precision to applications.
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Uber promises you that they're being real nice. That is really comforting to know that they are claiming to be acting morally here...
But ultimately, dogs and humans are innately different. I don't think diet is a good comparison IMO. Just take a look here, you can see that some human foods can be rather dangerous to dogs (https://www.thegoodypet.com/bad-toxic-foods-for-dogs)
> You look at what the cause of all the variation is, then sort it.

It would be nice to actually spend time improving the codebase but unfortunately customers, marketing, and management have different priorities.
Oh, definitely—I didn’t put enough emphasis on “and I liked it” as a factor.
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As I said, I'm not a Trump supporter. He's a demagogue. And worse, he's arguably the first "Reality TV" president, in that he honed his public persona for "The Apprentice". If Stephen Colbert wins in 202, he'll be the second. It's a strange world.

Anyway, it is refreshing to hear a US President reflect on the enormity of the power at their command, and on the risks of using that power. No matter how incoherent they may be.

I don't know whether Trump could escape bullshitting, if he wanted to. It could be entirely an act, designed for his target audience. But either way, what concerns me is that such a persona is so evidently popular.
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If you ever live in Japan, you will alternate between "wow, this country is so wonderful, why can everywhere be nice like this?" and "this is so dysfunctional, how has the whole thing not collapsed yet?" Both are true in different ways. Economically, Japan is not doing great though, and I worry about the future of the big companies.

Also all foreigners in Japan seem to hate each other for ruining the "purity".
Apple has really lost focus on quality under Tim Cook. It's subjective but if someone were to make some site you could submit all sorts of glitches, the Mac guys who used to poke fun at Windows 10 years ago would have been in for quite a treat.
1. Yes and I believe them (not). They will. Now. That they got busted. Red handed. Again.

2. They can't catch a break!! (but they try really hard to be on the news with news of sexual harassment, actively identifying and avoiding authorities, trying to cover up rapes, spying on drivers and clients)(that's a good rap sheet)
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Your understanding is sophomore. You haven't uncovered a secret - this is common knowledge.

What you don't understand is that actor recognition or brand isn't superficial, or unimportant, or a scam, but serves several important functions. Try to figure out what they are - not everyone but you are idiots.
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I'm not really a non-fiction reader, but I bought this, and started reading it, and so far it's excellent.