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Did you even read the comment you're responding to?

> Also, if you have this enabled, your purchase doesn't go through until you approve the charge

That's the problem. You already drank the drinks. How's the bar going to get paid? Even in a retail situation, the amount of time it takes for the SMS exchange to go through, or for you to argue with the person at the register about it not working, makes bottlenecks even worse and makes more hassle and more loss for merchants. Since merchants are the ones driving adoption of security features, they'll never sign onto something that doesn't help them.

> As for wireless reception... 4G & 3G solves that as it justs a text message going through.

How does that solve the problem? Lots of places have poor mobile reception.

> Further, further as noted by another here, the user has the ability to enable this or not. If you know you are a irresponsible drinker then this would not be a solution for you.

That's not the problem. The problem is that merchants can't control which cardholders have this feature turned on, nor can other customers. So as a bartender (not that I am one, but for sake of argument), let's say you forgot to charge your phone and it died and as a result I can't close your tab at the end of the night. What am I supposed to do? There are 20 people trying to close their tab at the same time. That's why merchants will never allow this kind of thing to be implemented.

> Also, if your passed out drunk how are you going to pay your bill anyway?

I'm not talking about "passed out drunk", I'm talking about "leaving the bar at closing time but still capable of closing the tab" drunk. Although if you are pass out drunk, the bar will kick you out and hold onto your credit card to make sure they still get paid. Otherwise, drunk people are perfectly good at signing receipts or remembering their PIN for their chip and PIN, or else bars wouldn't accept credit cards already.

> This is something I want after being hacked and a solution that would suit my needs and many others who choose it.

As I said, just because a solution solves your use case doesn't mean it's a good idea.

> Anyone have any other solutions?

Yeah: file a damn chargeback. Problem solved.

Failing that, chip and PIN for in-person purchases and 2FA for online purchases only.
Um, if it wasn't known to be flawed, why wouldn't they do it?
Better yet, spend a day or two on learning how to interactively debug python.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk would be something that can be utilized for this
Slow news day on HN?
> Am I the only one never bored when left alone somewhere?

Ah, boasting disguised as a response.

> I don't even want to work with you.

And a really cruel, personal insult to finish off with.

This sort of attitude needs to end. It absolutely infests tech sites.
They do have a cost capped formula intended for Privateers called LMP2. its cost capped where the manufacturer can only sell the car for a certain price.
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They are both great languages, but how do we benefit by smushing them together?
They would come up with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010

Adrian Newey (needs no introduction if you are an F1 fan, look up his accomplishments if you are not) did exactly what you are talking about with the RB X2010 and the car is incredible to say the least.

Much like my sibling comment says, a no-regulations formula league would be financially un-viable for all but a few teams. As it is, F1 is struggling considerably to balance development and testing costs with keeping the smaller teams in business. And those back-half teams are still driving very uncompetitive cars compared to the big 3 or 4 teams - we're talking 2+ seconds off the pace per lap.
I've mentioned this issue here https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/48
"Forget the complete absence of the evidence I asked for, this seemed like it was written by someone in the throes of full-blown psychosis or mania or schizophrenia with meaningless plans to somehow revolutionize the world."

Realizing that this actually is a distinct possibility is important for anybody interested in talking with random people on the internet. Mental illness is prevalent, and there is little keeping the mentally ill off of the internet.
The article talks about mixing services. Destroy those and what little anonymity that can be had in virtual currency ceases. As for getting money out, why bother, if you take the (perhaps not that) long view that BTC itself will be generally useful.
>All Windows and Unix operating systems (referred to as “Winix” hereafter) utterly disregard the concept of POLA [Principle of Least Authority]

What a load of nonsense. SELinux? AppArmor? etc?
Not as long as religious fanatics, anti gay (shame on you, Uganda), anti abortion and other zealots, dumbasses who have 10 kids and nothing to feed them with and other kinds of people still exist.

Then again, I'm all for it if we can colonize space sooner...
You lost me at latte and then killed me at Latte art. Coffee bombed with milk isn't coffee.
Why the hell would the NSA offer MONEY for you to adopt their encryption proposal if it was actually legitimately good?

It doesn't matter if you have any other information on the security of the algorithm; the fact that they're offering you money should speak for itself.
Awhile back I started working on some Project Euler problems and found that some of my passion for programming returned. Also, pursuing some projects of great personal interest to me helped, but the repetitive annoyances (rabbit hole/yak shaving issues, horrible API documentation and frustrating APIs, etc.) still got to me eventually. Ultimately, I began to realize that what made me happy with my work in the past was having good people around me, regardless of whatever death-march project I was on.

Show me a passionate, mature software developer and I'll show you someone with a good social work environment.

Oh, and never underestimate the power of a real vacation. I'm talking two weeks swimming and reading (non-tech stuff) on a beach somewhere, never fretting about your real-life and tech problems. Really, how many of us ever experience such relief?
Fancy words..
Find my iPhone in Android. Find iDevices. check it out.
The point I was trying to make is that you could hardly assemble worse 'data' if you tried. It's blatantly absurd from the coffee he used to test, and if you have ever had both Nespresso and decent coffee (e.g. just about any coffee shop in Portland) your tastebuds would need to be blind to consider Nespresso as on a par.

My own informal testing (which would seem to have at least equal scientific validity to the article) is based on friends and family A/B-ing my own decent home machine, some excellent local coffee shops, Starbucks, and a Nespresso machine I bought for a relative so that I could bear to drink their coffee when I visited.

Not trying to grandstand here but the article has misleading info (and may well be astroturf), that's all.
No. Group C was done in by Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone because it was threatening Formula One. The costs became prohibitive not because of competition between teams, but because of new rules that favoured the manufacturers by making F1 engines (which were very expensive) all but required if you wanted to stay competitive. And after the privateer teams were gone, there was no real reason for the bigger teams to compete with each other in Group C when they could do so in F1 with the same engines: an outcome which very nicely lined Bernie's pockets.
Well I loved it. I thought it covered a lot of interesting ground using the Agile == Union analogy.

There's some points I disagree with (UCD designers are not managers, so allowing them to design a system is not reverting to management control, and it seems to me the easiest solution to the proposed quandary is to consider UCD as part of the engineering process and the designers as part of the engineering team). But on the whole it says interesting things about the function of Agile in our workplaces.
Ask HN: Jobs in Zürich
Hi all!

Very interested in the possibility of working in Zürich. I have some exceptional skills as a full-stack engineer (Python, JavaScript, AngularJS, pgSQL, Redis, AWS, and some more technologies) and have worked with some top people in California. I would very much like to improve my skills in German and experience living abroad for a few years. I am turning to HN to try to see if anyone might have any good ideas for jobs in Zürich for a developer such as myself. So far, I have applied to Google, but am interested in any suggestions anyone may have. Or perhaps you have a lead for me? : )

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Absurd. Go try an actual, recent, AOSP android phone.

I swear, half the iPhone users I talk to are completely, completely ignorant of what Android does or is these days and it chaps my hide.

That whole math equation is an exercise in self delusion. The things you listed out in that list are 90% of what I use my phone for.
Only problem is that I don't know of anyone that examines that list of permissions, and will reject an app if those permissions seem to much. How is a regular user to know if it is bad for an app to access your phone book, or internet connection? Depending on the app, this may be necessary for the app to function. Or for it to serve ads.

What is needed, is for trusted third parties to verify if a given list of permissions is needed, and give (via a security software add-on) a popup with an assessment of how safe it is to install that app -- green, yellow, or red, for example. That is about the only thing that most end users (and even busy geeks) can really comprehend.
Well, they're clearly claiming that the "secret contract" as reported did not exist.

If you're going to call them out on being liars about that (go for it!), might want to make it less ambiguous.

For all its worth, I think RSA probably did help out the NSA with Dual EC DRBG, but:

a) Until I see some source documents from Snowden's stash, it's going to be all very annoying because until you see the terms of the contract (and no, you can't just go by some journalist's summary), you have no idea what RSA/NSA are dancing around

b) Whatever deal there was was probably set up in some fun way to make it all nicely deniable and even plausible sounding.
And for some of us, they are. So, people have different priorities, who knew?
I like the developer options in android. Just go to about phone and click the build number a large number of times. You basically have to know this exists to seek out the how online and then do it. Almost no one is going to enable this by accident.
This is a silly comment. The same would apply to any individual going up against even a modest patent troll, let alone one of the big tech companies.

Individuals are always at a disadvantage compared to any organized group.
Management (especially managing people) isn't for everyone. I tried it for several years, burned out on it, and went back to being a developer.
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iPhone 5s's bought in Hong Kong (model A1530) work on the LTE network. The iPhone 5s's previously sold in the mainland, however, will not, as they lack the right chipset for receiving a TD-LTE signal. I'm guessing China Mobile will just be selling the A1530s.
The problem with race-level fuel restriction is you get drivers managing their pace over the course of the race, which can lead to strategies that people find boring. Or worse, the fastest driver running out of fuel just before the end. It was one of the complaints about Group C prototype racing, although that turned out alright over all, with some help from the comparatively long race format.

The "best" system would be to use a fuel flow restriction — X g/s of fuel, with the usual restrictions on fuel composition. The designer's job is then to extract the max usable power from the chemical energy in the fuel. This would make for really exciting development and diversity, and make F1 development a true laboratory for other transportation and power production contexts.

It would also be prohibitively expensive and probably result in one manufacturer in a walkover for a while, until others could switch architectures. Experimenting with different architectures is a huge money pit, and is why the prescriptions for 10 and 8 cylinders were in the last couple sets of regulations. Just working out the competitiveness of V12 vs V10 vs V8 was getting unreasonable, let alone dealing with different hybrid setups on top of that.

It is also my understanding that the accuracy of fuel flow meters has not been considered good enough to provide adequate parity in a racing environment, when fractions of a percent can mean the difference between winning and losing.

The new F1 rules do include fuel flow metering, although it is based on kg/h and I don't know what kind of spiking is permissible. The regulations are as detailed as they are, with specifications for power transfer among components, etc. to spare teams the expense of experimenting there and to give them targets to optimize for. See jdietrich's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6952583

It is pretty discouraging with respect to the purity of the formula, but it's kind of a fact of life. And I think the development of turbocompounding and pre-spooling turbos with electrically stored energy to avoid lag is really exciting, and the future of combustion power on the road.
They're not entitled to the contents of the email because the service can operate without the contents. The service can not operate without the origin and destination details however.

That's what pen register metadata is - it's not email contents.
The poor writing and apparent lack of editing (riddled with typos) really detracted from the article, which was essentially a puff piece.
That's Python running inside Ruby, while the OP was (ostensibly) Ruby inside Python.

Rython [1] purports to run Ruby inside Python, although it hasn't been updated since 2009. Unlike RubyPython it doesn't actually embed a VM. Instead, it looks like it starts up an XML-RPC server on the Ruby side and the Python side acts as a client.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rython/
I'm familiar with those guidelines, and I did send an email to info@ycombinator.com. Sorry I forgot to mention that in the post.

The purpose of this post was not to notify the HN team about the problem, but to give HN readers a quick and easy way to work around the problem temporarily with the userstyle.
>I have some pretty significant overheads to meet each month.

Do whatever you can to reduce your overheads. A few years of sacrificing to cut your overheads can be hugely beneficial to your overall happiness. I know this is easier said than done but, if you have any debts, get rid of them as soon as you are able to.

>I dream one day of running my own successful tech business.

Have you considered starting something in your spare time? Do some freelancing, build some gizmo and release it online or whatever takes your fancy. You don't need to spend any money to step out of the employee box and to start developing a side income or outside projects. If anything it helps with saving money as you find yourself spending more time tinkering instead of being out spending money.

I don't know what you do exactly but I had great fun doing onegameamonth.com I did this free course https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython then started making crappy little games and had great fun doing it.

Go check out coursera.org, edx.org and udacity.com. Take some free courses in whatever amuses you. Either something technical to broaden your skills or something totally unrelated just because you want to.
That's non-standard functionality so I doubt there is a plugin that does that; but it would be pretty trivial to write.
FLOP and Susskind's Theoretical Minimum are similar in that they both aim to teach an intuition of theoretical physics, rather than training one to do calculate the solutions of particular physics problems. So, they are similar in that respect.

The key difference that I noticed is that Feynman's intention is to explain nature, and he tends to avoid relying too heavily on the mathematics as part of that explanation.

Susskind's focus is on raw abstractions themselves, often independent of the physical phenomena that are being abstracted. His intent is to exaplain the mathematics, and to give you an intuition and appreciation for the beauty of those abstractions.

For example, Feynman shows you the Lorenz Transformations and says "this is the stuff that is needed to make Maxwell's Equations work out the same to a moving observer." On the other hand, Susskind starts with the notion that light has the same velocity in all reference frames, and uses this to derive the Lorenz Transformations algebraically.

I haven't read Penrose, so I can't comment on that.
A smart phone or tablet is increasingly the only access many people have to the net. The implications of control here are in a completely different category from a disposable game console.
Indeed. Most of the other commenters here seemed to have missed that.
Because while the NSA would love to backdoor your application, they also want to be the only ones who backdoor your application. The NSA would still want to promote security to prevent other malicious attackers from being able to exploit a domestic corporation bad security.

It's in the best interests of national security for the NSA to promote both good and/or backdoored algorithms for all allied nations and their corporations.
As a tree, XML syntax is largely isomorphic with that of Lisp's exposed AST.
> Even without exotic engineering highly-boosted turbocharged 2.0L street-car I4s can put out upwards of 500 horsepower at 7-8000 RPM.

I'll call bullshit on that. After whatever you've done to a stock 4-cylinder motor to make it output 500 horsepower, you've got a racing engine, with all that entails. It's not properly a "street car" part anymore. :)
Because he has three young kids. If people's lives depend on your ability to maintain a stable income, you can't afford to take the same kinds of risks as a single person can.
This seems like a good time to point out that the Swiss government really likes to vote on things, and they vote on all kinds of crazy things. Simply coming to a vote in the swiss parliament doesn't mean a whole lot. If it passes, then it becomes something interesting.
Including spare parts (engines, wings, whatever), expertise, manuals, design documents? Or just the car? I can't possibly see how this could work.
"prevalent"? Do you know more mentally-ill people than sane people?

Common, maybe. Probably underestimated in number, sure. Prevalent, I do hope not!
Great question. What are you passionate about? What is one thing that would improve the world that is within your reach? How could you make people's lives a little better? Answer that question, then figure out some way to use your coding talents towards making it a reality.

Example from my own life (don't steal it :P) - I'm passionate about nutrition and exercise. I'm currently making a website that vastly simplifies the process of getting in shape and eating healthily. I hope to launch within the next month or so. Thinking about how people's lives will be improved by being a healthy weight and being physically strong really motivates me to open up sublime and write code.

Second suggestion: How good are you with people? Look into project management, particularly a technical role. For example maybe you lead a team of devs and make decisions regarding backend scalability for a growing startup.

Good luck!
I would recommend against having dealings with the obviously mentally ill. I'm not sure in what sense you might be legally liable (for a civil suit) if they happened to commit suicide a week later and mentioned you in the note. Also, psychiatrists may be in many cases working off falsified doctrines just like any other doctor, but also like any other doctor, they really do know important things layfolk don't. Leave the clearly crazy to the professionals.

Though if this is your first real crazy caller I could understand where the fascination came from. About... 15 years ago...? I got that email from someone who insisted that all I really needed to know was the Periodic Table of the Elements in which all answers were contained. It took me a while to get that this was not someone I could save by argument.
I'd rather consider Berlin or maaaaybe Munich, Swiss German isn't exactly German german or Austrian german. Besides that, Berlin is known for its startup culture and scene.
I certainly wish you the best of luck and if you happen to get to race in the Indy 500 then I'll be there to see you (I live nearby and attend every year).

That said, this is spam and I've flagged it -- spamming HN will not make you any friends or fans.
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I just bought some hot pockets.
Works fine here too now that I disabled my browser's PDF plugin. :-)
Open a nightclub:

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Good to finally see signs of development again. I was worried for a few months that Sublime 3.0 was going be the new TextMate 2.0—completely AWOL.
They are limited to only a 100kg of fuel per race, and may only consume 100kg/h. Meaning that, as stated in the article, they may only consume 50kg of fuel in a two hour race. Which is a very small amount of fuel for such cars.

I find it outstanding that an owner of a Corvette is complaining about a lack of innovation in Formula 1. The LS-series engine in your Corvette shares the same bore-center measure as the original small block V8 Chevrolet (4.40 inches). It also places the camshaft inside the engine block. Which has made the development of Variable Valve Lift systems more complex (and more costly). Meaning that it has taken Chevrolet two more generations of Corvette after yours to introduce this technology. Something that was introduced into production vehicles by Honda in 1989, and later made its way into the U.S market in 1991 with the introduction of the NSX. The C5 still used the leaf-spring suspension, and balsa wood sandwiched between the floorboards as a cost cutting measure. Meaning that innovation in those areas was done as a way to cut costs down rather than to improve the efficiency or performance of the vehicle.

It might sound like I'm a Corvette hater. Not really. I do appreciate the raw and crude approach the engine provides. How the relatively light chassis with a perfect 50/50 balance allows for the vehicle to excel in high performance driving events. Even how the C5 matched the 0-60 times of the Porsche 911 Turbo (996 generation). But its a bit hard to read about how F1 is lacking in technology when you drive a vehicle that lacks it. This coming from the guy that corrects anyone that says that NASCAR is boring and does not feature any innovative technologies.
If I'm not the center of the universe, how do you watch me?

Radio says "Terry, take your meds, cause you're crazy." I say "fuck you".

I can prove God. I made His temple. It doesn't take a genius to figure-out hardware companies are going to comply and secureboot will be retracted.

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Oh yeah, routers and hard drives. Well, DDWRT runs fine and WDidle3 didn't brick any of my WD drives, so I guess I'm lucky! No TV in this home, either :-)