skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realize that these projects often take up to a decade. $730 million is a lot of wasted money and probably how much an entire line costs in some countries.
Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?
So Coinbase's disastrous customer service has come up on HN before [1]. But my issue is rather more extreme than a wire transfer that takes a few weeks to go through - I've been waiting for over five months for Coinbase to unlock my account and allow me to access my funds. Since August 20 of 2017 to be exact.

I've never experienced or even heard of such a long wait time for action to be taken on an open customer support ticket and I honestly have no idea how to proceed. Should I start contacting the CFPB or BBB, writing registered letters, etc?

To be clear, I have had contact with various Coinbase customer service reps since August. I also have tried emailing and tweeting at the CEO and Coinbase executives. The refrain is always the same: "We're expanding fast and adding to our customer service team. Your case has been escalated for further review. Please bear with us." I've been patient for months now and am thinking that maybe I'm not following the right strategy - any advice?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106793
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Looks like it pretty much works for "* personal injury attorney".

Slightly embarrassing.
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Yugoslavia under Tito is a great example of a cauldron of economic and sectarian violence being temporarily held in check by a violent warlord.

Given none of those issues actually got solved during his time, the complete disintegration of his country which followed his death is a great example of actual conflict not being accurately tracked by violence figures.

Feel free to check out the development figures for the bloc countries and read up on the history. Should be instructive.

>Your second paragraph is pure logical fallacy and fully uncompelling.

Well, I haven't seen your argument demonstrating that that's the case, but from the tone of this reply, I'll have to stop responding to your points as I don't think there's very much effort towards understanding and discussion.
You do not understand how said "bridge" works...

It just wraps the app, but underneath still calls those same win32 APIs. If you remove the APIs, "bridged" apps won't work. Hence why TFA mentions that not all win32 API can be removed and it isn't clear which will be.

So "bridging" your win32 app will not somehow make it immune to win32 api going away.
Refactoring is never the answer either. Just keeping the legacy system standing until capital becomes free to replace it is what usually happens in my experience.
I didn't mean to imply that C has enough features, it definitely should have a few more. But that should be it, don't keep adding stuff just because it's 'nice' to have. The added cost of maintaining big codebases of a language that has many features compounds a lot.
Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s still safer than smoking
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My point was more so targeted as UI designers who co-opt the UX role.
If there's a dedicated UX person, then they're less likely as they'll be actively thinking about the UX.

Whoever owns the UX should be putting the thinking effort into how that behaves.
Things like this happen due to
a) inexperience with whatever UI construct is being presented
and/or
b) not enough thought being put in to the usability of that component.

A developer is generally going to be more hands on with the resulting UI (checking/testing etc..)
Whereas, a designer has more than likely mocked it up in InVision/whatever and then done surface level checks

And product managers will be hands on with the product but, well, they shouldn't be trusted with UI/UX/anything but the description of the problem they want solved :-)
Tech evolves at least a magnitude faster than our thinking and even faster than our institutions.

Institutions tend to optimize so they run close to the redline, busy with a lot of stuff as it is. Adding more tasks, making them important, making everyone get educated and compliant is a huge undertaking.

Noticing and discerning what needs to be prioritized, in areas presenting such volatility and new possibilities as smartphones, apps, and data security could be daunting to do selectively.

They could ban cell phones / bt devices altogether but that will likely not go well.

As for our relationship with security, I find Richard Feynman’s experiences delightfully relevant:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos.h...

Edit: typo
Some manufacturers do sensible things like limit the power on volume if it was last turned off above a threshold deemed to be too loud.
Did the reinstall fix the issue? Since the reinstall preserves user data, is there any chance of malware re-inserting itself after the OS has been reinstalled?
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Too bad they wont sell it.
To answer your question, probably Gamergate.

In an article about maintaining an open source project, it seems to me like covering contribution guidelines (which I would consider a CoC to be part of) is pretty important.

In my experience, many projects maintain codes of conduct not because they've had frequent problems, but as a statement that the maintainers welcome contributors from all backgrounds, skill/experience levels, etc., and that they won't tolerate behavior that alienates others.

Regardless, every project has some sort of CoC, even if it is never explicitly stated. Putting it in writing makes it clear to everyone (including the maintainers), and that seems like a good thing to me.
"These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16260892
100+ comments and nobody missed what's really going on: The old units don't have the resources for the new maps.

I've got a Garmin and can see where they are coming from: A few updates ago my unit demanded that a SD card be installed before it would load an update because the internal memory wasn't enough.
definitely did a quick look on whats going on, all redirects to one URL, here's there request:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:12:45 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie:
__cfduid=d16c7107d2f0d7f82b98a8549260931421517263965;
expires=Tue, 29-Jan-19 22:12:45 GMT; path=/;
domain=.qpersonallawyer.com; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private
Location: http://google.com/?serverkw=Bellevue+Personal+Injury+Attorne...
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 3e4f88e5e2925534-ORD
Hacker news is turning into an Angry place. Why did this get down voted?
Cool, I did not know that was there.

The UI in my car categorizes points of interest then shows me a list sorted by range. It's a lot easier to parse while driving but the Google Maps functionality is good. Over a long distance I could see it being a bit hard to decipher. I believe my car also allows filtering by top-tier stations only.

I did not notice this functionality because I have learned to be very afraid of touching the screen while navigating with Google Maps for fear that the navigation will be cancelled and I will have to start my search over again.
Passive keyless entry is not remotely hackable, it's locally hackable, that's not scalable and besides which cars sold today (with very few exceptions) can not self drive, so even if you could remotely unlock it you'd still need someone local to drive away with it.
If you're gonna be all "Nuh uh you're wrong." bring a better argument than "Nuh uh you're wrong."

I agree with the parent.

Justice is expensive, like healthcare.

Wages are down.

Debt for the proles is up.

Social mobility is down.

Incarceration rates are up

Suicide among the proles is up.

Authoritarian control of resources and economic output is up.

Addiction is up.

And by "up" I mean the ratio of people suffering from one or more relative to the rest. Not just a raw count.

These are easily found data points and they contradict all your "nuh uhs" readily.

It's very much a myth among the neoliberal crowd that things are better for the proles, while they kick it eating avocado toast and massaging each others egos over losing followers on Twitter

The HN crowd is just as stuck in its own filter-bubble when it comes to progress.

Go to the shanty towns and bum camps that are popping up all over and growing. Tell me things are better.
I agree that context matters. I felt that your original description was too context-free to agree that your conclusion was "pretty obvious". Instead, it seemed more like a blanket dislike of politicians.
I disagree. Users, in reality, don't care about all the crap that stakeholders and some developers care about. They don't care about Material design, fancy animations, beautiful buttons, "elegant" code,a ton of niche features, mobile apps(no I'm not kidding), your annoying push notifications, your fancy menu bars that you also fix to the top of the screen for whatever reason, your autoplay videos, your little "delightful" asides that interrupt the content, etc. They want something that works without much effort or worry that the software will fail, and that doesn't necessarily have to do with how fancy or feature rich an app is.

Craigslist and the Quartz app are just a few examples of what I'm talking about. Nobody except maybe some stakeholders ever asked for those things to be more fancy than they are. They are simple and they work. The end.

Unfortunately, we are in an era where everyone wants to be like Google, or at least thinks they need to. I do not believe that the rest of the world would be worse off if they stopped spending time making "production ready" software that visually competes with the Big 5.

Software becomes complex because we allow it to become complex. Just because you can add another feature doesn't mean that you now have more value for a finite amount of pay for X developer time. Companies seem often blind to continual costs for support that go up every time each time the solution is to add a new feature or software package for a small segment of the customer base or the company itself.

Whomever is in charge should acquiesce less often. But everyone wants to be a wizard.
You get an outcome appropriate for the risk assumed. The capitalist business world values speed of development over reduction of risk.

That's why at many companies, whatever tools and languages allow you to get an MVP out the door before a competitor are not merely accepted but are often celebrated and lauded.

When risk really matters, such as the commercial flight industry, the pace moves much slower. It takes comparatively forever for new features to reach the market because the cost of mistakes is so significant (human life). If business behaved the way regulated commercial flight behaved, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Pointing to open source or expressive languages as a source of complexity is, obviously to me, a red herring. The failure is our lack of rigorous engineering practices - those practices we gave up in the interest of beating our competitors to market.

You don't even have to look very far back in time to recall when software was expected to be correct upon delivery. Nowadays, particularly with online patching, we are totally accustomed to bugs and frequent fixes. Only a decade ago this was unheard of. The cost of reprinting manuals, burning new CDs (or gasp stacks of floppies) and shipping those out to all customers was so prohibitive that it was worth delaying release until all important features were in place and a full series of tests had been performed.

It's our behavior and expectations that got us where we are, not the tools. And probably there's no going back. This is the age of instant, so we'll do our best to adapt. Ironically, the human who used to have to BE the integration between his/her software tools is now the monitor making sure that the automated integrations are managed properly when an unexpected situation arises. And now we've built new layers of logging tools to help us spot these situations. But we're still stuck managing the processes...
That's not entirely correct. In Quebec, medicine and law are first degrees. The bulk of law and medicine graduates from French language universities do not have an undergraduate degree but rather enter with what is roughly equivalent to the first year of an undergraduate degree. Also, many English language universities accept applications from students who have completed the second or third year of their undergraduate degree.
Honestly, most of the content seems to be from HN these days.
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Anybody know how to upload large data files into these environments? Possibly from google drive? I spent some time at it and the example loading techniques all run into download limits or IO fails. Anybody successful at loading large data files?
> They are the foundation of modern civilisation

This sounds like sentimentality. We've found better ways that costs less and have fewer externalized costs. Consistent electricity at the point of use is indifferentiable as to its source. It matters little if coal got us to this point if other technologies can provide cheaper energy in less environmentally harmful ways going forward.

> and we all get non-economic benefits from the era of unprecedented peace and prosperity that we live in

Prosperity is not at risk with the implementation of renewables and storage. The removal of the health costs of coal-generated air pollution will increase quality of life.

> unprecedented peace

What exactly does coal uniquely offer in terms of supporting peace vs other sources? Also, you are conflating coal with all other fossil fuels when it suits your argument. They are not all the same. Natural gas will continue to have use as a heating fuel for a long time, but the same can't be said of coal. It doesn't have a significant use today beyond producing electricity.

What is at risk are jobs in the already long-declining coal extraction, transport, and combustion industries, and the people in the regions that are dependent on those industries should be helped transition in the near term.
Yeah, that's the reasoning someone needs to use as to why something like this exists. It only works at all if you everything exactly correct.
After having worked with a few really really good developers, who had both amazing productivity and almost zero defects, simplicity is now my goal.
> Called the Cocoon, this simple invention protects seedlings from harsh arid climates and reduces the amount of water they need to thrive–and boosts their survival rate by as much as 80%.
Great idea but I don't think the government really cares about fixing this issue.
The author's terms are not really well-defined. From the text of the article (which, admittedly, I only skimmed), it appears that he is talking about complexity for its own sake, in the form of trying to force a project to use microservices or all sorts of mumbo-jumbo that is not actually needed to solve the problem at hand. In essence, the argument is against over-engineering, and that is a problem that causes us a lot of grief.
We also have a mode that rewrites all commands' sources given so it can be compiled into one binary. It ahem needs some improvements, though :)
huh, I had remembered unicode as being broken in javascript, python and mysql in the same way. I hadn't remembered three-byte utf8. mysql also is the only platform that I can think of that supports three byte integers.
Yes, a reinstall fixed it. And yes, persistent malware should be possible (unless you format your disk).
Dresden only stands out due to relatively short time in which all the destruction was done - it was just a few nights of heavy bombing.

If you compare overall damage then Dresden had less than 50% of its building destroyed, while Warsaw had been destroyed in 80%-90%.
I would argue that because healthcare is so regulated its more of a public sector thing. Also, an enormous amount of money going into the healthcare sector comes from public sources (medicare, medicaid, obamacare, etc.)

Note: I'm not saying regulation is bad. Just making the point that healthcare is really not a free-market in this country and never has been.
Is it really Apple's doing, or Google's, in this case? Google Authenticator is the one specifying that the hardware must match in order to decrypt, after all...
"It was also when I discovered you can reinstall macOS without losing any data."

I discovered this as well - nice surprise!

I've switched to (almost) all Win10 boxes at my residence, except for one 2014 15' rMBP. The Windows machines have the freeware 'Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows' connected to an internal 3.5' 1TB drive (or 2.5 500GB drive for the two laptops that had optical drives and were removed and replaced with a 2.5 HDD caddy), that isn't running the OS. The OSS/C:\ is on an SSD.

Finally, the Windows machines are backed up via CloudBerry Labs Desktop Edition to Backblaze B2, in case the house burns down.

(I wish there was a product to remotely store time machine files, but based on the linking structure, I don't think this is possible? Carbon Copy Cloner is nice, but I wish I had incremental images)
I think either you are not understanding me, or I'm completely misunderstanding you. What you're saying seems orthogonal to my arguments...
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well containers, self contained tiny vms, etc. have one single downside. shared libraries do not work well with them, which means updating the host os does not fix anything inside the container.
something that helps against that is actually running something like distroless, however that still won't make it, the best thing is probably update all the stuff every day automatically. (not a hard thing on something like k8s, etc..)
I prefer frozen snickers to room temperature. I think a lot of overweight people share this preference because it helps us slow down and enjoy the dessert over a longer period.
Couldn't agree more. The bandwagon effect is something also worth mentioning. Tech stacks and tools these days are branded almost as consumer products and the outcome is poorly designed systems.
Unpopular? Isn't this the take-away from the article?

I thought that the article taught me nothing new at all, but then realized it did: it taught me how little the issue is understood by the regulators.

I'd say that an attack like that is just a matter of time, if I didn't think that a mass-destruction scenario that leads to a legislative change wouldn't happen sooner due to a bug.
max_allowed_packet seems like it would limit the length of any internal string, so maybe it would bound the max length of any individual json field contents?
Anecdotal of course but here are some of the major issues with the X...

- The sound hardware really seems to have problems. I’ve seen the iPhone X make horrible static pops that no other device does.

- The new gestures were pretty well thought out but the ones that don’t work really don’t work well. Killing apps for instance is ridiculously inconvenient, and on top of it the old “flick” gesture still animates apps up in exactly the same way but doesn’t kill them!

- The Home Bar (?) has a distracting color, it takes too long to fade away, and comes back too easily. There is no apparent way for app developers to say “no, really, hide the Home Bar ALL the time; my users aren’t idiots and this thing gets in the way”. It is really easy to drag accidentally, especially in landscape mode.

- While they have found clever ways to use FaceID, it still doesn’t work around 20% of the time so the extra authentication points become annoying. (For instance, I used to just auto-fill passwords immediately; now I have to wait a fraction of a second for FaceID, and if it fails I end up taking much longer overall to get my password entered.)
> Did you restore a iOS backup to a different device then the backup was originally created on?

Yes, I had my phone replaced. And if it's intentional that it's supposed to work that way, then Apple shouldn't tell people that they have a full backup and are good to go when that isn't actually the case.

Especially since it makes zero sense for it to even work that way. If the backup is encrypted on your computer, then it should make zero difference whether the phone itself is different.

Regardless though, how it works and why it works the way it does is irrelevant. The issue is with Apple telling users that they have a backup when in fact they do not.
Maybe it seems longer than it is because I'm on mobile, but a lengthy post with such an opaque title could really benefit from an executive summary, or even a short subtitle such as:

"Guidelines for open source maintainers."
You could have a tiny initramfs that mounts the disk you want with your actual init and then switch_root to that. You'd have the kernel from flash, and init from disk.
Of course, but th We are all system components. The comment was referring to user installed applications and preventing no that if they are insecure. How is the system supposed to know that a user installed application uses clear text passwords?
I recommend RAM Mounts. Their hardware is extremely durable (hundreds of miles of offroad motorcycling with zero issues), the parts are modular and interchangeable (they offer mounts for everything from bicycles to airplanes), and they have a lifetime warranty.
There was a time when "normal people" had better access to justice - the fact that you even need to ask this question should cause...

...you to realize that your propositions are not accepted uncritically and you should support them with evidence.
>I can use GPT and finally partition as much as I want.

BIOS actually don't care what is on disk except for 512 bytes containing MBR, so it is possible to use GPT partitions with it.
Well, that's the point of the article: "connected" is a spectrum, not a binary option. Iranian centrifuges weren't "connected", and yet the virus destroyed them.

Specifically, look in the article:

>First allow me to address what I think won't work:

>Trying to air gap autonomous devices.
What you're describing there isn't a problem with designers doing the design, it's a problem with bad designers doing the design. And it goes double for programmers who are bad designers overriding the actual designers and domain experts on UI matters.
Violence has decreased because the systems of control have improved exponentially.
Basically, our transit system is welfare for employees made redundant in other sectors.
Zelle is built into most major bank apps. It has its own app, but most people will use it through their bank’s app.

The numbers are sane.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240947
I have! We had a log shipping daemon that wasn't always releasing its file handles properly and kept taking out applications due to out of spacing the box. That said, I drastically prefer the Unix behaviour.