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You do realise that B&H designed the original OS X system font, Lucida Grande, right?
This is a common method of payment in Finland as well, but, the store always asks you to choose your bank, then redirects you to the online bank where you then authenticate and authorize the transfer on the bank's website. It then redirects you back to the merchant's website.

Basically, banks provide an API (similar to OAuth? I guess) where the merchant only asks the bank for a specific amount of money, and the authentication and authorization of the payment happens only directly between the customer and the bank.

Why would this be so hard to so in other countries?
As a Brit I was surprised when I received a reply on Twitter to a blog post I wrote [0] that said:

...in Germany nearly 80% of transactions are still cash - lots of places that simply don't take cards

Reading this thread that now makes more sense. We have it pretty good in the UK with contactless and chip & PIN (although I hear the Dutch have it better). I always feel the US is so backwards when I visit and they do the stripe & sign thing.

However, I still think there are many reasons cash should always be accepted. I won't repeat them here as they're covered in the post.

[0]: https://unop.uk/do-you-accept-cash/
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Can you clarify what this means:

"Flexible tamper-proof data retention policies with unlimited archiving space" - from the pricing page.

I am considering to switch to Fastmail, seems nice!
Overusing clutch is not such a big problem, but that it leads the driver to keep low rpm. Especially diesel engine is sensitive to that and can be damaged.
My view is a SV only wake up call is not enough but a worldly one is needed. Look at how Europe is getting dismantled... Lack of thoughtful technology is not too blame only but failed political systems with their failed politicians who only think about serving themselves as opposed to serve others especially the next generations.
> People who claim it's a negative are usually upset that they can't attack, belittle, or harass other people for their own amusement, I've found.

You say, as you attack and belittle people you disagree with...

(...not only people who behave that way, but everyone who thinks censorship is a negative.)
Some new cars (and likely some older ones) offer paddle shifters and other ways to kinda pretend to be a manual. Eg most Subarus have this now.

As someone who preferred cars with a manual transmission until recently, the paddle shifters are useless when accelerating (they just don't work well, and rarely feel "smooth"), but I really appreciate them for engine braking in the snow.

I wonder if you could get similar brake-saving results if you got accustomed to switching to manual mode when braking and then switching back to drive regularly.
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Incidentally this very often comes about by writing code. Or installing new systems. There's a strange broken circularity to that blogpost.
I don't think having the clutch down destroys the clutch, how would it do that? It is having the clutch partially engaged for a very long time that would destroy the clutch.

A clutch is destroyed by friction - slippage between the two plates that comprise it. This is a useful characteristic when pausing on a hill for a few seconds but I suppose there must be some people that keep the clutch partially engaged for a very long time.

But if you are sitting at a junction with the clutch entirely depressed for a long time the plates are disengaged and no damage is done. That's a bad habit for other reasons, such as if you get rear ended your car is still in gear and could then cause a further accident.
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If you have a Yubikey NEO and a phone with NFC, you can store the TOTP secret on the Yubikey instead of the phone, and use the phone purely as a screen with a time source by opening Yubico Authenticator app and touching the Yubikey to it to generate codes.
Hm, this sounds like a software-based solution right? But if you have software only letting certain data pass, couldn't the same software just be run by the main device instead of an intermediate one?
Plan 9 uses Lucida Sans Unicode, which was the OS X system font (as Lucida Grande) until recently. There is a resemblance between this font and Lucida Sans Unicode, they come from the same foundry, after all, but they are significantly different.

> Ironically, the Plan9 folk seem to shun TrueType in favor of bitmap fonts.

It's true Plan 9 uses bitmap fonts, but that's just how the technology was implemented (so you could use BitBlt, etc), there is no shunning of trye type fonts.
It definitely doesn't have any knowledge of similar drawings.
Still at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, I suppose?
It's not just professional outlets that create fake news. 4chan regularly does false-flagging to create a more heated discussion. And so does the other side, see mattress girl for example or the gas station thing mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

Lies are cheap on the internet.

And since those stories are a claim that something happened and there is noone to argue the other side my position is that the burden of proof that anything happened at all is on the poster. Otherwise they might be crying wolf.
> Now, this is a contrived example, and would better be written with `if let` in today's Rust, but this is the _kind_ of situation in which unwrap is totally, 100% cool, but the compiler can't know.

If the author knows it's safe, they should be able to express how they know in a way that the compiler can understand. Certainly I think there's a large space of use cases where the extra guarantee provided by forbidding unwrap would be well worth the cost of outlawing some "legitimate" cases, especially if we're just talking about doing so on a project level. (Though maybe they're not the rust target audience).
The gas station story is this one, I think. The victim claimed that charges had been filed, the police claimed not to even have received any report of such a crime: http://www.phillyvoice.com/police-no-official-report-ugly-ra... Also, it's impossible to tell exactly what proportion of stories are fake because as you say not all of them have witnesses or are reported to the police, or even have enough details that they could ever be disproved, but the fakes seem to rather outnumber the confirmed incidents right now.
After Brexit and Trump, I realize how much of an echo chamber my Facebook account is.
Yeah, Plan 9 used Lucida Sans Unicode, of which Lucida Grande is a derivatives with very minor modifications.

Personally I use Lucida Grande for all my programming.
Depends really. A surprisingly large number of organisations don't seem to be equipped to handle business input from the development staff or any kind of "productivity multiplier" contributions. E.g: making the team more efficient, reducing signup friction, fixing UX annoyances, inventing a new feature or product, improving security practices, reducing defect rates by introducing CI/static analysis/whatever.

In this case the job of the developer will be to write code and it doesn't make sense to pay high salaries because the ROI is not there.

This leads to the situation where very good developers aren't paid good salaries because in such a company they are literally not worth the money.
this is called a three-on-the-tree car. as opposed to a four-on-the-floor.
I hope now people see the rationale for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403730

The first comment nailed it.
Not sure I agree with the terminology of the article (fast rather than quickest accelerating), but I thought this quote was special:

> Speeds like this offer more Gs than Earth, so the rate of acceleration is faster than falling. It can feel difficult to support your head and shoulders if you don’t lean back on the headrest.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973223
But the people who use social media for self-promotion are not like you. They literally feed off it, i guess psychologists can explain that better. Think of politicians who use facebook/twitter for personal gain. They develop an emotional attachment to the medium i guess.
He definitely was earlier this week.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/julian-assange-lawyers-...
In the UK at least, CBT is not geared vs automatic specific. If you do your basic training on a scooter, you can still ride a geared 125 unaccompanied on the road. The full test is specific though.

The bigger issue with scooters vs geared bikes isn't the extra effort of using the gears, it's the much higher centre of gravity and (usually) wider turning circle of geared bikes that complicates manoeuvres. More forward planning is required to avoid tight turns that require high bank angle at low speed, turns that are easy on a scooter. The higher centre of gravity means it's trivial to drop the bike if braking while turning at slow speed. It's easy to hold up a scooter in the same situation.
What if the login credentials are stolen with a keylogger, will the hackers be able to transfer the money the same way? It looks totally insecure.

And as I understand the customer cannot charge back the payment later.

> IMHO we urgently need a law that makes wire transferees instant,

Why not just use card processing systems like Visa? Are the fees too high or are there privacy concerns with sending personal data to USA?
There are actually social frameworks in place to compensate for both of these, but what passes for modern internet culture has largely rejected them.

Um. By which I mean to say:

Dear grzm,

Thank you for your recent post on HackerNews with regard to the limitations of empathy in a text based medium. I largely agree with your points.

However, I would like to draw your attention to an existing practice, specifically intended to compensate for the drawbacks you mention; this is the traditional letter-writing style. A fixed communication structure provides social cues which compensate for the lack of emotional side channels, as well as providing continual reassurance to the reader the communication is, in fact, desired.

Of course, this is not a panacea (indeed, it can be abused to great effect: I highly recommend reading some of the correspondence of Mark Twain!), but I am of the opinion that it can be effective in facilitating communication between people of differing opinions.

Thanking you for your attention and in anticipation of your reply, I remain,

Your sincerely,

david.given

PS. It's a been long time since I had an excuse to use the word 'facilitating'. Also, I had to look up the closing salutation. I also suspect that one of the main reasons this worked is because it's substantially more work. Tossing off a dismissive note in a couple of minutes is one thing; sitting down with a pen and composing a proper letter means you have to think about what you're saying.
If I'm expecting to stop more than few seconds, I put my car in neutral. Every time. For last, let's see, 28 years since I have my driving license.
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The price is around the same if you convert to US$ or Euros. It's high but worth it. If you look at it, this enables programmers to completely work on an iPad with pretty much no drawbacks.

I guess with this price it's not for the casual user. You can compile it yourself (see their Github page) or ask on Twitter to be added to the testers list, so that you receive the raw builds without having to compile them yourself.
Would anyone happen to know what the accident rate is for drivers who drive manual vs. automatic as a whole?

What about among the same drivers who drive both? (This one is to control for distractions that might be present when driving automatic but not manual.)
Huh, out on the West Coast I've only encountered a minor amount of this coddling "it's all white racists fault" BS on college campuses. I've expected more, but the worst I've seen is pronoun related (aka "What's your pronoun?"), which I respond to with schlee, cause fuck tracking someone else's pronoun, that is not my job. Use what you want, don't try to force me to remember your shit (name, pronoun, etc)!
Sure, 4chan does that. I find it hard to believe that all those reports come from 4chan.

Look, saying some reports may be fake, some may be exaggerated, some may be inaccurate is something entirely different than saying they're all bullshit.
Every now and then we'll see an HN thread that asks something like: what do you know now that you wish you would have known when you started programming?

This. This is the thing that took the longest to sink in and had the biggest impact. There were a lot of cool languages, tools, platforms, and systems along the way, and I was stoked picking up each one and coding -- but after decades of that, I realized I was focusing on the wrong thing.

I think the thing that convinced me was when I got to start watching lots of technology teams in the wild across multiple organizations. So many times I would see conversations and tons of problem-solving effort being spent on the tools to solve the problem instead of the problem itself.

A couple of years ago I was teaching tech practices to a team that was deploying on iOS, Droid, and the web. After we went over TDD, ATDD, and the CI/CD pipeline, I emphasized how crucial it was not to silo. When I finished, a young developer took me aside.

"You don't understand. We have coders here who just want to do Java. They want to be the best Java programmers they possibly can be."

I told him that he didn't understand. Nobody gave a rat's ass about people wanting to program Java. They cared about whether the team had both the people and technical skills to solve a problem they have. It would be as if a carpenter refused to work on a cabinet because it wouldn't involve using his favorite hammer. You're focusing on the wrong thing.

Sadly, once you get this, the industry is all too happy to punish you for it. That's because the resume/interview/recruitment world is interested in buzzwords and coolkids tech, not actually whether or not you can make things people want. This means sadly, in a way, if you continue growing, it's entirely possible to "grow out of" programming.
There is always a clash amongst cultures. But the alt-right's thesis is that it is related to immigrants.

Is that it includes immigrants; we certainly don't exclude the other obvious clashes (Syria is the current awful example), but it's the immigrants in the US and Europe that are among the most important right now.

As for your latter point, I'm only here to explain what I've gathered about what the Alt Right is about, not necessarily to explain it beyond that, and while I don't claim its views immigration are inconsistent, a high level of consistency is certainly a bit much to ask this early in the formation of its philosophy, that's very much a work in progress.
Thats his lawyers, Swedish "authorities", and media talking, not Assange.
Well, I come from a country where automatics are almost non-existent and very much frowned upon(Poland). I've only learned in a manual, and I haven't driven an automatic until after I already had 5 years of experience in a manual, and then drove a manual for another few years anyway. Had a selection of both sports and off-road vehicles, all in manual - yet I never had the reflex to press both clutch and brake in an emergency situation - it was always full brake first, clutch second.

In my experience, with all the autos I've driven, the transmission downshifts much quicker, smoother, and more intuitively than I ever could. Maybe I've only ever driven top-tier automatics, and a normal auto box is poor in that regard. No idea.
... as opposed to local internet that we have now?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/

Has not been seen since 16th October, DDoS happened, since then wikileaks doesnt sign their twitter messages, latest hashes mismatch.
Ask HN: Tools for creating reactive documents
I have little experience with JS / webdev. I'm a starting PhD student and I do my work mostly in Python / Matlab.

I wrote some documents with Tangle.js[1] to share with colleagues, and I liked it, but I got stuck every now and then and I missed more tutorials / documentation. I'm looking therefore for tools similar to Tangle, but that are actively maintained or have a healthy community of users.

Does anyone have suggestions on alternative tools for creating reactive documents?
Examples are very welcome.

[1] http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
Who says they didn't get more and just not release it? Also, the utility of Bill's emails, from an intelligence standpoint, isn't super useful these days as he hasn't been in office for roughly 16 years. Still might be some useful bits, but not a treasure trove

As for showing the world that Bill allegedly gets off to some freaky stuff or that Hillary is mean: Nobody cares. Hell, Supergirl (CW show), with their episode where Cat Grant gets hacked, summed it up pretty well with (paraphrased) "Oh whatever. I've said worse than that to her face"

Posting that would just get downplayed with genuine interviews with the wounded parties where they say "Okay. I am a professional adult. It hurts me that Hillary would accuse me of wetting the bed, but that doesn't really influence anything professionally"

Because once you become a "grown up", you kind of acknowledge that even your friends, let alone just your coworkers, might be jerks at times. It hurts, but you move on. Maybe you stop hanging out after work, but you don't let it impact work.

Whereas, stuff like the Podesta emails and the "anti-Sanders" campaign plays to a large portion of the Dem base as well as independents and lets them confirmation bias their way to the conclusion they made months ago. Sanders didn't lose because his appeal was very limited and even a lot of his supporters felt he was better as a senator than POTUS. He lost because of a conspiracy against him and bullying by people he thought were his friends.

All of which hurts the dems a lot, plays well to the news media, and motivates the trump-base by showing "she stole one election, don't let her steal ours"
>never use your main Google, or Facebook, account for anything, not even buying a Google made phone, or buying Facebook ads for your own company, just never ever do that, so that at the very least, the pain is spread.

Be easy :) . I have 6 facebook accs for 5 of which I forgot passwords, 4 google accs out of which 3 got permalocked because sms confirmations simply never go through to half of Russian numbers, and I think 5 Paypal accounts all of which got blocked because "hey, you are the guy whom we blocked last year! you dared to register again? unforgivable!"

Yes, don't keep things online, you will be better off
I never understood how to use automatic transmission in snowy/icy conditions. To me it's basically a lottery. With manual transmission and clutch I can actually recover from a slide almost immediately (the moment you start sliding you disengage transmission right away with clutch and do initial correcting maneuver which you cut short the moment you feel any kind of traction in order not to oversteer; it takes some practice on each car but you can try it on empty parking lots during winter nights). This is not possible with automatic transmission, the neutral gear still drags wheels, driving them to slide. Of course, if you have a 300+hp engine and are a race driver, you might try to correct it using full throttle, but don't try that with a normal car unless you want to massively increase your chance of hitting traffic.
That's a remarkably incomplete list!
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It seems that Software Engineer (or Analyst Programmer, etc.) are being lost as professions, and becoming 'careers'.

You just do everything you're asked to, in order that the business makes money - code ? Meh, anyone can do that.

How many other professions suffer the need to be 'cross-functional' ?
It really depends on the controls used for moving. I am quite sensitive too, even slow movements in VR give me nausea when I am not moving. But games that use teleportation for moving like The Lab are absolutely not nausea-inducing for me. Walking arnoud in room scale is also not a problem at all. A Vive with room scale is probably the best option at the moment for someone sensible to motion sickness.

The funny thing about Google Earth is that even though you can "fly" over the map, it is coupled with a pulling motion with the hand controllers. My brain seems to interpret this hand motion coupled with the displacement as me pulling the landscape to me instead of me flying over the landscape. Because of this, I had absolutely no motion sickness at all in Google Earth.

It is a motion scheme that I have seen in no other VR app and for me it is a very interesting achievement of the software.
"Ignoring if you push the speeder all the way down, and accelerating the car at an efficient pace instead."

That has the potential to be really dangerous though, at least where I drive(a third world country). If a car doesn't do what you expect it to when you provide a certain input, that's a recipe for disaster.
The feedback loop is much tighter now. The more outrageous a story is, the more people click it, and the more money that story makes. You can immediately measure the effect (the Macedonian teenagers quickly zoomed in to the more gullible Trump supporters, because they made more money).

In the past news sources had a reputation to protect, so crazy stories were confined to tabloids and some radio shows. Now all these stories just pop up in peoples streams, without anything to distinguish them from stories from reliable sources.

Couple that with the fact that, even with trustworthy sources, you can paint an inaccurate picture just by editing which stories you present (which Facebook is incentivised to do and actually does), and I think the problem is much worse now.
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There are lots of J2ME in use, in spite of Android.
> we are losing sight of why freedom of speech is important which is insane to me.

I'm with you. Its very difficult to find people like you who think practically and consider side-effects, etc.

I'm curious as to whether this has changed over time. And how could the founding fathers have such foresight.

Where have all the thinkers gone?
In Germany more than 80% still buy cars with manual transmissions: https://presse.adac.de/meldungen/technik/maenner-fahren-auto...
I think it's inherently a part of HN, where 'Founders' make up the majority - it's more about business than technology.
Indeed. Part of the driving test in the UK (which the instructor may or may not choose to ask you to do) is to behave as if a little child just ran out into the road in front of you. You just mash the brake and clutch at the same time and sort it out afterwards. It's quite a natural action.
Good read. Reminded me of "Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer"

http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a...
That was my point, given the past history to changing language proposals.
> Even if you don't intend to go racing, a manual is just a bit more interesting and keeps you paying attention the whole trip

I'd rather pay attention to my surroundings than to the clutch. This goes for both day to day stuff (where it's better for safety), and pleasure road trips (where this lets you enjoy the scenery).

For the most part, the automatic is simply "good enough". And in US there's no peer pressure to drive the stick. Between those two things, it ends up being something reserved for people who really want that extra oomph - and they usually do it in cars specifically designed for it. Well, and immigrants.
Xenophobic shit head says xenophobic things. News at 11.