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Downshifting more environmentally friendly?

Because burning more gas is better than heating up break pads?

Reference?
Very interesting. My Mrs asked me if most in the US drive manual after watching Gilmore Girls. Now we know!

In the UK, it's quite different. Most I know drive manual. Only 1 swears by auto. I've only ever driven a manual so it's hard to judge. At this point, manual is second nature so it's hard to imagine not doing it.

In fact, learning to drive in an auto is considered a fool's game. You are not allowed to drive a manual if so and since everyone pretty much drives manual, your options get limited, especially if buying a used car or driving someone elses.
Let me elaborate on that:

For a German it is common to have a "check account". The underlying system is called "girocard". It contains a module for paying in stores (electronic cash) and another one for withdrawing money from cash dispensers ("Deutsches Geldautomaten-System"). In addition to that most banks offer their customers access to "maestro" (some debit card service from Master Card) and V-Pay (same as maestro but from Visa). Credit cards are only popular among the younger population as they need them to buy things online (iTunes, Google Play, etc...).
However the "check accounts" come with a different kind of insurance. You can read quite a lot about that online, my personal experience is the following: If somebody steals (no matter how) 200€ from your credit card the bank will cancel the transaction immediately, if the same happens with your "check account" you need to go to court to get it back.

Having this system you might imagine why our online-banking is overly complex:
You have to login with a username and a password[=PIN] (for some banks you have a fixed username, at others you can choose one). Afterwards you are allowed to send someone money. Therefore you require another one-time-password[=TAN]. This TAN can be obtained in multiple ways: 1. Snake Mail (Just a printed TAN list asking you for a random free TAN), 2. Snake Mail (A printed TAN list asking you for a specific TAN at a given index), 3. Snake Mail (A printed TAN list asking you for a specific TAN at a given index and returning a verification code, that is also printed on the list), 4. Mobile TAN (TAN via SMS), 5. Push TAN (TAN via Banking App), 6. Photo TAN / QR TAN (Optical System which works with pub/priv key to verify your transaction), 7. Chip TAN (Special device that uses the chip in your card to verify your transaction).

After you verified your transaction it takes up to three days before the recievers bank notifies the reciever that he got the money. The real joke is, that everything regarding payments can be transmitted in real time. However some banks make use of these days to generate more interest.

End of the story: If you want to pay something online and you want to recieve it quick you need to either use a Credit Card or some proprietary system that your bank might support (see paydirekt, giropay). As both might not be available for some users they either have to wait for 3 days for their money to arrive at the reciever or use a untrustworthy service like sofortüberweisung (which scans all your transactions and predicts your accountability [Disclaimer: If I remember correctly, German Ref. http://www.pcwelt.de/news/Datenschuetzer-alarmiert-Sofortueb...).
Driving manual in heavy traffic is a pain in the ass. RIP your calves.

I've driven manual in Bolivia since I learned how to drive, but when I moved back to the States I picked automatic because I would kill myself having to press the clutch every 40cm during heavy traffic.

People have this romanticized view of manual driving, going through empty hills, warm sun beating on your raybans. In reality you'll be stuck in traffic for 30-50 minutes per day for your commute.

It's a shame though, because manual transmissions are much easier to repair than automatics - according to my mechanic "Come Gato", back in Santa Cruz.
Lots of folks outside the cities in America too. I've heard estimates between 10-30 million.
This is a combustion engine issue. Electric cars don't have gears.

Did you see the new jaguar EV:
http://www.jaguarusa.com/all-models/i-pace-concept-car/index...

Or the new Audi EV:
http://www.businessinsider.com/audis-electric-vs-tesla-2016-...
Does it ask for a password to enable it? If not the device and also emulate a keyboard to press enter to confirm the dialog.

Any idea where is the list of approved devices is. I'd like to clear my list and then plugin some devices and see if it asks.
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Manual transmission, no matter how old, is only annoying if the driver doesn't know how to drive it. It's less likely in the US, but with European taxi drivers, it's much less noticeable than an automatic transmission.
Much like breathing, it is fun when racing but quite annoying, when you have to do it under load, you did not want to be in in the first place.
I would like to see the stats for UK and Ireland, I imagine only about 3% are automatic...
The majority of cars are manual transmission here!
And we drive on the left hand side of the road.
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And that's completely missing a point of a CVT where you can keep the engine at a its most efficient speed and vary the transmission ratio to accelerate or decelerate in response to throttle input.
>There is no need whatsoever for these theatrics over a simple disagreement, for crying out loud.

Oh I dunno, it might have something to do with you implying that I support the idea of any person telling any other person to kill themselves.

>You will note that I said Twitter has no issues with those with leftist political leanings telling others to kill themselves. That statement is still true, but misleading in the light of what you linked here. Twitter apparently has no issue with anyone telling others to kill themselves.

That was an awfully artful way of saying you were full of shit without having to actually admit you were wrong. Nice.

Ironically, I was actually remarking, just hours ago, about Twitter's horrible moderation and response to abuse before even seeing this thread. I would have readily agreed that they suck at handling abuse, but instead you went with "a liberal conspiracy to allow threats towards conservatives" despite the incredible ease of finding counter examples.
It's a combination of bandwidth and latency.
Latency in particular feels slow; you need to copy the new binary on every node, then issue commands over ssh to scrub any previous leftover files, initialize a cluster, run the tests, stop the cluster, retrieve the log files. Doing all this over the network is just taking a few more seconds which makes running hundreds of tests much longer than they would locally.
I got my driver's license in Sweden, and the official driving handbook completely worships manual transmissions, and makes several untrue claims about how much better they are than automatics.

You can choose to do your road test in an automatic, but that'll earn you a restriction on your license, barring you from driving a manual. It's probably fair, but almost everyone (myself included) chooses to practice in manuals, and do the test in a manual to not have that restriction, which further skews the stats in favor of manuals.

An obligatory part of the road test is so called "eco-driving", where you have to demonstrate your ability to drive efficiently, and one way of doing that is to skip a gear when shifting in certain situtations. It's absolutely insane to force people to learn this, when automatic transmissions are consistently outperforming humans at fuel efficiency. If the traffic authorities really cared about fuel efficiency, they should instead sing the praises of automatic transmissions, but they don't, because they have an irrational love of manuals.

And the final kicker: Road tests are done in official traffic authority cars with double controls, and I did mine in a nice, modern, manual VW Golf, that had a gear-shift indicator in the dash. And since the car is most often better than you at knowing when you should shift gears, why have the manual transmission in the first place? It's a complete farce.

The silver lining is that electric cars will just decide this issue once and for all.
Automatics are the same. Sporty cars usually have flappy paddles to control the automatic. So you can pick your gear for the next corner if you want. All the while enjoying better acceleration, faster shifts, and better mpg.

Can't push start the car when the battery dies though.
Wooop, I totally missed that, thanks very much.

So now we know exactly how Monorail does it, that's really neat.
1. Why is everyone here condoning the act of these people to make _extra_ money?

2. If you are doing such shady stuff create a new Gmail account and do it
Yes. They are going for a very different model compared to "traditional" comsats. Instead of launching very heavy, very expensive birds that need to last for 10-20 years (to justify the huge development and launch costs), they want to launch cheap and light satellites that can be replaced much more quickly.

As someone stated above, this all hinges on first stage reuse proving to be viable. If a customer buys a flight and they recover and reuse the booster, it's almost a "free" flight for them.
Questions: how did you get lightning assuming you're talking about the browser for Android which does indeed not require Google integration, on a Nokia 106?

And is this link by Google not an easy enough of a solution for backing up your Google stuffs?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
Going on a tangent, there should probably be a set of universal backup formats that can be advertised as being somewhat portable. So that, if you need to can take your mail and other online business stuff elsewhere if need be. Beyond this article a user might start working for some place that does not allow external app use, but they can bring their data with, to be loaded onto the service. I guess like github and git. but with mail and calendar stuff.

my 2c.
Apple is going down!
Trac 1.2 released
As someone who has done this, including project fi, I maintain my own backups on a personal server at home and another one on a VPS.

Owncloud / nextcloud provide automatic syncing of photos if need be. I sync up all my important documents but as of now I don't see the point of backing up my emails. The last missing piece is syncing my contacts which is also possible in my current setup.

With that said, I am still going to use Google services because of their convenience. I just like knowing that the data I care about is safe.
Vulnerabilities induced by migrating to 64-bit platforms
Well, there was the Lotus Evora electric, in 2013.[1] This was a high-performance electric sports car with a fake manual shift and fake engine noises. This feature could be disabled, and was not seen again in later models.

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081736_fake-shifting-fo...
some feedback from a happy fastmail customer: please add 2 factor authentication via sms! I neither have a smartphone or yubikey.
Putting an easter egg is imho more something for a computer game, not for a $134.000 car.
paddle driven cars may not be an automatic transmission in the classic sense. Nor is it a manual transmission in the classic sense. Maybe clutchless is a better term
Pamela Anderson met him twice since October 4th, most recently this week. As did a Swedish prosecutor, who just might have had something to say and not gone back the following day if she'd been interviewing a mannequin. His legal team issued a statement over the interview saying that he was "very happy" and had "prepared himself very carefully". His website issued a statement in his name about the elections on November 8th. Another press release in his name issued November 14th complained that only his Ecuadorean counsel and not his Swedish counsel were there but said he was cooperating with prosecutors anyway.

But yeah, I'm sure none of these people really interacted with him in any way because he hasn't reactivated his dead mans switch since October 4th. Your evidential standards and blind faith in Assange's desire to quell rumours about conspiracies against him are totally reasonable here.
Does that have anything to do with the release we are looking at?
Paddle shifting is in no way equivalent to the level of torque and engine control a manual transmission provides. I drive a car with paddle shifters, coming from a manual, and it's just night and day different. The connection is entirely missing without the feedback provided by the physical linkage of the clutch pedal.
If Apple does this they'll throw away so much good will from the developer community. Kind of makes me wonder if laying off the macOS automation guy is related.
Looks neat. Small UI comment on the landing page: the header of the columns looks exactly like the links so I initially clicked on Flock OS wondering what it was before realising it wasn't a link.

What's the stack behind it (frontend/backend)?

PS: tried to open the FlockOS blog to see what it was and all I see is an empty Medium page?
I wonder how long it will take to get to this point with self-driving cars (Automatic-automatic?) vs. manual-automatic vs. manual-manual.
Well, of course. You need the other hand to hold the cell phone.
What I did mean was that at least from my understanding of it, you get systemd, and then you have all of systemd, unable to replace one part of systemd with some other package to handle that specific task.

One of the features I would like to see for example is less binary logging and this journalctl madness. Binary logging makes it harder for me to plug in other programs to parse the logs or whatever I want to do.

So what I would like to see is modularity in the sense where I can choose to run systemd as an init system, and something not-systemd for logging, or for scheduling or whatever.
The sender pays the fee. But if I had to pay the fee I wouldn't care.

Because seriously, 15 bucks?
Proudly built in India - http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/flock-the...

Good going @chaitanya - can you talk about the technology stack choices ? Clojure ?

Quick question - how does one migrate ? can you pull all data out of hipchat/slack ?
This is quite biased that you hijack a thread.
I'm talking about Lightning as in the Mozilla calendar. I don't use a smartphone any more.

Google takeout isn't or at least wasn't comprehensive at the time. There are other lock in items. Also it takes time and effort moving it somewhere else still, isn't instantly useable etc unless you can read vCards and iCal feeds..
Agreed, it's sad that in chasing more market share subaru is making multiple decisions based on marketing and not on engineering.

Forcing a CVT from the ideal RPM to entertain drivers seems impressively silly.

Kind of like the Golf R, which installed a vibrating/unbalanced motor under the winshield to make a more pleasing vibration. Or the Mustang EcoBoost, various BMWs, and other cars that are using speakers to make more vroom noises to hide the less appealing note of their smaller turbo engines.

Maybe the automatic folks should install a manual looking stick between the seats and whenever you move it it kills power for 0.5 seconds.
I am going to be harsh here. It's not malice. It's the lack of an education. No, I am not talking about college.

I am talking about manners, caring, being considerate, respectful and not insolent, petulant and completely oblivious to what human decency and respect entail.

Places like Facebook are almost entirely populated by a generation of young people who are intellectually smart yet socially vacuous to an unbelievable extent. It is an insolent, immature generation where 27 year olds can actually behave like my 9 year old's do, or worst. And, in many ways, it's like Vulcans with shitty attitudes. No human part at all. An empty logic machine operating with a flawed and fucked-up version of logic they have created.

That's what's going on. They now rule the world and have very little in the way of human decency within them as a guide. And, of course, through intense age discrimination there are no adults to teach them how to behave in the face of real human beings, with real lives, kids, businesses, problems, bills to pay, concerns and needs.

This is the only context within which a person could possibly decide it is OK to utterly destroy someone's income without as much as a conversation.

And, since they don't seem very interested in correcting their behavior (or don't even understand why they should) it might be time to throw the only possible correcting factor people on the outside can reach for: Government goons.

It sure feels like it's about time. Too many of these stories out there.
> What's the difference between Slack and Flock?

We get asked that a lot, so much that we made made a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDapdpgCd8 :-)

Here's a summary:

1) Flock is faster and slicker
2) Routine tasks (searching contacts, looking at the most recent messages across conversations, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) are much easier
3) Our API platform, FlockOS, is much more powerful compared to Slack's (see https://docs.flock.co)
The OP should have advised people in the forums, do not use your original userID with google to mess. Create burner account.
The assumptions behind "unlimited full free speech" is that 1) speech is just speech and has no consequences, and 2) it is all or nothing, either anyone can say anything they want, anywhere, or there's no free speech.

Another point is that both politics and consumerism is about swaying people to make them do what is profitable for the candidate or the seller, so all in all it's better to have a very malleable population. Strong individualism, a mark of many Western societies, significantly contributes to the general lack of empathy and solidarity; as a consequence, the "losers" of the individualistic competition are just ignored ("they must be stupid, or lazy"), and this makes them all the more prone to being manipulated.

When you are in the business of selling little stories to people, you don't want to face a well-educated community with strong ties.
Agree entirely. I considered forming a startup that did this after the fact.
The best "tool" available is the No Agenda Podcast.

Hosts Adam and John present national and global issues as portrayed by mass media, and systematically DECONSTRUCT the stories. They not only highlight biases, but explore propagandistic elements and discuss how the media intentionally affects the consumers.

Most importantly, they work to identify the MOTIVATIONS for medias' biases in the first place, and demonstrate for their listeners how to be much more critical, skeptical, and analytical in the way they consume the news.

Listen to a few episodes and you might rethink the need for building a tool at all.
Yeah, unless you've tried them both extensively, you can't compare them that way.

The feedback provided by the clutch pedal is integral to the process of driving a manual car - it's not just 'engage' or 'disengage', it's a fully analog feedback mechanism about the state of the drivetrain linkage.

Especially the paddle shifters are like trying to tie a fly fishing lure while wearing welding gloves. No connection to the machine or feedback from the engine, no ability to change the engine state independent of the state of the drivetrain.

I miss manual transmissions every time I drive, and I drive a car with a really, really good paddle shift dual clutch transmission.
Unless you look at the driver changing gears, how would you even know that a car has a manual transmission?
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Know of any USB condoms that can filter for device types? Given BAD USB type of exploits there really no easy way for me to know that when I stuck my USB stick in the printer at the library it wasn't reprogrammed to be a keyboard or something else and when I then go plug it into my computer it now powns my computer
yes, but only when forced to do so, Musk hasn't yet had to do that. It's a one time trick when you have a funding crisis.
3dsecure works with Visa too. I don't know about AmEx, although I do know that for Point Of Sale payments we have to have a special bank contract (one for Visa / Mastercard and one for AmEx).

I suppose the merchant decides wether to use this or not by trying to find a balance between user experience and fraud risk.

In our case I think the limit is set right above the usual purchase amount (we sell movie tickets). It's low enough that a fraud wouldn't hurt us too badly and there's not much incentive for it either. Also, most of the clients don't have to fiddle with 3dsecure (in my case I would have to cary a fob around, which I never do), so it's a better experience for them.

If someone tries to buy a lot of tickets at once, they are more likely to be doing something fishy so we use 3dsecure.
In France they do not have a non SMS option. Also if you change your number you have to wait days while your bank mails a new activation code to your postal address. Actually snail mail. (At least with BNP.)

An incredible pain. I hate it. ApplePay for the web is far superior.
The very first line is "Candy Japan ships candy to subscribers twice a month." I read that and had to pause. Wow. I don't think if I tried for months that I could have done a better job describing _any_ business in such a small number of words. And that line and the last line are the only "marketing" this article does. It's subtle too, because the first line is completely necessary to introduce why the author wanted to algorithmically fit candy. It's just ... beautifully done. I'm not being sarcastic when I say any of that. Candy Japan has written a number of content-marketing articles and they're always informative and interesting. Obviously others agree because they bubble to the top of HN frequently.

Candy Japan's articles should probably be mandatory reading for anybody wanting to start a small, online business, because this type of marketing is gold.
Uses engine compression to bleed off kinetic energy (no additional fuel use). Not more environmentally friendly, but saves on brake wear.

Semis utilize this mode of braking heavily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
I can't emphasise how true this is. I've written tonnes of temporary scripts that parse some files or rename some directories, and then later discovered that I could have done it with a single UNIX command.

I'm not employed as a professional software developer, so I still don't actually use the helpful UNIX commands. Takes all the fun out of it. :P
Though this requirement is moot even in Germany, as it is impossible for you to verify such a deletion.
Two things:

1. You have "https:/" (<-- one "/") in the hyper.io link

2. "server can't find hyper.io: SERVFAIL"

I'm interested in terminals, but this has an impossible-to-Google name (for obvious reasons).

The themes look really cool though!
They, being the computer, not the driver.
Ask 100 people what is evil and I'm sure you will get similar number of different answers. Is abortion evil? Is religion evil? Is being proud of your history and heritage evil? Is being gay evil? Not everything in life is black and white. In fact, most of things are grey, so it's important to allow both (or even more) sides to express their views, even if somebody else might find it evil. If it goes down to threatening with violence, outright racist slurs etc. we have laws to deal with it.
Only systemd opponents think it is cultural.

Systemd is just fixing things that have been broken for a very long time.