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Sure, I suppose that's possible. Bit more complicated, though, since the steps from "new visitor" to "satisfied caller" are a tiny bit complicated, and there's a vast array of voicemail systems out there and there's only a loosely-followed convention as to what buttons mean what.

In any case, this went from idea to shipped in 22 hours, including sleeping. Maybe version 2 :)
Saying whether one country's drivers are better or worse is baseless and pointless. But the rules and customs of driving do tend to be more strict in some of the countries you mentioned.

i.e. in China, if you're 60 years or older, you need to pass yearly medical exam to show that you're fit to drive.
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I'm curious as to why the responses to this topic don't mention electronic communication more often. Tapping someone on the shoulder when they're in flow leads not only to immediate destruction of mental state, but usually someone nearly falling out of their chair.

Headphones being the universal symbol for "otherwise occupied, please DND", why don't people use these electronic communication systems we spent the last two decades developing?

You get an IM along the lines of "Got a sec?" and you can gracefully swap that mental state out to disk and address the question.

Really, it's a no brainer.
I went to a University in Virginia and ours, and other surrounding VA universities were equally insecure.

We each had a 9 digit code that looked like 10XXXXXXX. These numbers were incremented from one student or faculty to the next.

The only track that mattered was track 2. It had your 9 digit code, followed by a the school code (3 digits), followed by a "lost card digit" that was incremented each time a card was lost (obviously mod 10 here).

So if my ID was 100000001, I went to school 002, had lost my card two times, my current card's Track 2 would say: 1000000010022

Needless to say there are tons of things that can be done here. From getting access to rooms does not, to getting free lunches.

Pretty interesting things. I told my school and they didn't really care at all (as expected). The potential loss from this is so low that it they didn't bother since abusing these issues would get you arrested and expelled pretty quick.

In reality, it is probably pretty serious. This student id is used somewhat as a School social security number. You can take tests as other students or impersonate other students in a lot of different situations.
There's a lot of ranting, but very little substance. Save yourself the trouble from reading it.

It reminds me a bit of an anti-Atlas Shrugged
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>19 is not too old

19 is young.
"Snowden", "NSA", and similar keywords are auto-flagging triggers. The HN team has algorithms in place to minimize discussion and awareness of these topics.

See: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

"It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4".
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For anyone else thinking, "Uh, wasn't Baader-Meinhof a pretty decent German film from a few years back?", this might help you: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon...
We loved their implementation of SMS and so did a lot of other people. We aren't saying "here's how to build a better version" as own main point but rather, if you want to add this type of service to your own business, you can easily. You can definitely use our service to clone the functionality of Magic as well.

Opportunistic? Maybe. But we love SMS and we love Magic so why not show other companies how to apply that awesomeness to their own business?
There are 69 papers that cite that one, but I don't see any attempts to reproduce. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1565984354572506461...

Also, do you have some explanation for violations of Bell's inequality that don't rely on spooky action?
What do you think you're accomplishing here? You are overly defensive. You're putting words in my mouth, attacking straw men, and just generally doing everything you can to try and protest the very simple claim that the word "gun" is unnecessary violent imagery in this context. I hope you aren't expecting to convince me that you're in the right with your behavior, especially when you aren't even addressing the core point I've repeated (that violent imagery is not appropriate in this context).

If you want to engage in bad rhetoric and repeatedly attack me over my comment, that's your choice. But to then claim I'm being overly defensive because I respond to your attacks, that's just nonsense. But you do make a good point, which is that I'm not required to respond to you. If you wish to have a reasoned discussion about names and violent imagery and what contexts it is and is not appropriate, I will be happy to talk. But if you continue to respond in the same vein as you have so far, then do not expect a response from me.
I hear that from you and others, and then I read debacles like the Sievers/Torvalds thing on the mailing list (and some other instances of buffoonery linked to there), and immediately conclude that the "welcoming"-ness must only apply as long as you are following the current groupthink and not disagreeing with the BFDLs.

Heck, even that wouldn't be a thing if the people involved had the ability to publicly say "I was wrong on that" - but not even that happens that I've seen.
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Relay looks like it will partially replace Flux if you're using it to manage the client<->server state, but Flux still seems necessary if you have a lot of intra-client state to manage (such as in a document-editing SPA).
> The typical FOSS coterie always reminding us that Apple and MS are the devil has performed a disservice here

I agree, but I would also say that subculture has the least support for Google of any of them. I'm sure there are plenty of people out of touch enough to still rant about MS but the actual discussions are mostly about Google (Apple is an unstoppable opportunistic juggernaut, Google is an ideological enemy).
What was your previous profession ?
A different interpretation would be that Africa and Eastern EU was fucked up because of the current notion of country: essentially group of people should group together if they have the same identity and agree to the same code, with the corollary being that they can leave and join any group that they share the identity/ code without much obstacles. In other words, countries should exist, but border and restriction on movement shouldn't be.
> Some even only make their website available from 9-5, a cardinal sin if there ever was one

Not for the US so could you give me some examples?
The only metric I've found personally useful is cycle time / complexity. How long does it take to go from a request to deployed, working software?

Yes, it can be gamed, but if you're incentivizing developers to game your system, then you're probably using it wrong.
I've repeatedly said its interesting he keeps finding and reverse engineering all these US state nation exploits and malware, but can never seem to help with some of these major Russian hacking exploits doing major damage to the US and its Allies.

Russian hackers’ ‘Trojan Horse’ malware inside U.S. critical infrastructure since 2011

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/6/russian-hacke...

Sneaky Russian hackers slurped $15 MILLION from banks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/22/russian_cyber_heist_...

Russian Hackers Attack NATO, Lithuania Girds for Unconventional War

http://www.tol.org/client/article/24515-russian-hackers-atta...
Exactly our purpose. We want to show other businesses how to do what Magic did (at least the texting piece).

Execution is everything though.
I have generally found that being "one issue fundamentalist" is always counter productive but people often write pieces that "hey this works great always".

I too work at a place which has open desk not by design but that is how we rented the office. But I am personally more productive when no on is around so I either prefer to go to a conf. room and work or simple work at odd hours when no one is around. I am far more comfortable when I can talk to myself, sing to myself and do some weird things which I wont dare do in public. I am pretty sure there are many more people like me out there.
phkahler said "spooky action at a distance is BS" despite tons of evidence.
You mean the same plan that will give the government total control of the Internet as we know it?

Net Neutrality is just the marketing campaign to sell it to the masses.
A number of years ago when I had my first large corporate job (systems admin type work), they had most of my team (4 people) in a bullpen area with desks pointing to the corners (and some dividers in place). But everyone could lean out to the aisle and have a quick pow-wow session. Meanwhile, I was stuck in an old directors-sized office that had been converted to cubicles, which is where some periodic contractors would normally sit. But it was empty most of the time, except for me. In that case, I felt really out of place and left out of the loop most of the time.

Now I'm in an open office with 4-ft high dividers (tall enough that you can almost see over them when sitting down), and I hate that too.
Their central claim is that they found a specific instance of quantum behavior where they can represent the whole model with only classical mechanics rather than falling back on quantum explanations like wavefunction collapse, etc. We think that describing quantum systems requires quantum explanations, so finding a counterexample could be interesting.
You may like the article, "Clearing Up Mysteries - The Original Goal" by E.T. Jaynes:

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/cmystery.pdf

>While it is easy to understand and agree with this on the epistemological level, the answer that I and many others would give is that we expect a physical theory to do more than merely predict experimental results in the manner of an empirical equation; we want to come down to Einstein's
ontological level and understand what is happening when an atom emits light, when a spin enters a Stern-Gerlach magnet, etc. The Copenhagen theory, having no answer to any question of the form: What is really happening when - - - ?", forbids us to ask such questions and tries to persuade us that it is philosophically naive to want to know what is happening. But I do want to know, and I do not think this is naive; and so for me QM is not a physical theory at all, only an empty mathematical shell in which a future theory may, perhaps, be built.

...and maybe chapter 10 of his book, "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science".

>We are fortunate that the principles of Newtonian mechanics could be developed and verified to great accuracy by studying astronomical phenomena, where friction and turbulence do not complicate what we see. But suppose the Earth were, like Venus, enclosed perpetually in thick clouds. The very existence of an external universe would be unknown for a long time, and to develop the laws of mechanics we would be dependent on the observations we could make locally.

>Since tossing of small objects is nearly the first activity of every child, it would be observed very early that they do not always fall with the same side up, and that all one’s efforts to control the outcome are in vain. The natural hypothesis would be that it is the volition of the object tossed, not the volition of the tosser, that determines the outcome; indeed, that is the hypothesis that small children make when questioned about this. Then it would be a major discovery, once coins had been fabricated, that they tend to show both sides about equally often; and the equality appears to get better as the number of tosses increases. The equality of heads and tails would be seen as a fundamental law of physics; symmetric objects have a symmetric volition in falling.

>With this beginning, we could develop the mathematical theory of object tossing, discovering the binomial distribution, the absence of time correlations, the limit theorems, the combinatorial frequency laws for tossing of several coins at once, the extension to more complicated symmetric objects like dice, etc. All the experimental confirmations of the theory would consist of more and more tossing experiments, measuring the frequencies in more and more elaborate scenarios. From such experiments, nothing would ever be found that called into question the existence of that volition of the object tossed; they only enable one to confirm that volition and measure it more and more accurately...

http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...
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So they claim that up until now pilot wave theory hasn't been able to explain entanglement while remaining consistent with Maxwell's equations.

They are not saying they came up with pilot wave theory, only that they've removed a sticking point.
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It was well written and had simple to follow examples. Plus it was interesting to see such a blatant security hole... Any follow up from the university on it?
I'm curious, you say you want a service that performs this for you. Yet you don't accept "hire a lawyer" as valid advice. What do you think an immigration lawyer does? What is putting you off using one?
When I was looking at the Ruby/RoR path, I started with Rails, took a step back to learn Ruby, then went back to Rails. At that point I decided to play with Sinatra a bit because I was getting overwhelmed with the Rails learning curve.

Sinatra was cool to get something out quickly for sure. I'm definitely glad I ventured out of the Rails sandbox a bit. That said, the quantity and quality of Rails resources on the web far exceeds that of Sinatra. For a beginner that is likely to encounter a ton of errors and bugs, there are simply more answers online for Rails than Sinatra. That can make the difference between giving up and keeping the excitement going which is crucial for a beginner.

If you find, like I did, that certain concepts are interesting, you will start to naturally peel back the layers of Rails magic on your own to learn what is going on under the hood.

Beyond that, Mike Hartl's Rails Tutorial is something I'd recommend to anyone learning to program as it seems to give solid coverage on ideas that are framework agnostic. Things like version control/Git/Github, writing unit tests and TDD, DRY, REST architecture, proper handling of authentication, etc.

There are so many different rabbit holes to go down, but I'm glad I did, because while I'm not deep on any of these areas yet, it has definitely given me a more complete picture of my projects, how to approach them, things to watch out for, etc.
I'm kind of curious - since this was for a class it was kind of allowed but was there any fine lines that you weren't allowed to cross when doing research for the exploit? I assume as long as you didn't hurt the university's reputation (such as getting bad press) or caused massive amounts of monetary damage you would probably not get into trouble.
How are they teaching someone to make a BETTER clone? All they're teaching is how to communicate via text message through a web interface. The method of communication isn't what makes Magic magic.
You can almost see people running in opposite directions and closing their doors behind them sitting at their keyboards coding away in silence. Lots of duplication of code. Writing lame tests after the code is "done", over-compartmentalizing everything, features that aren't specified in any requirements, factories creating factories creating factories. Lots of "Design Patterns", etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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Well, there are two aspects to Magic... one is that it's versatile, the other is that it's low (close to zero) friction. Sonar seems to take care of the low friction part, I guess the versatility/usefulness is up to the business implementing it.
Depends on pay. For 75k - yeah, hard.
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Ah, but macro-level systems can amplify quantum effects. For instance, the human eye -- under the right conditions -- is sensitive to individual photons.
I think this will be pretty useful when your battery dies or you forget your phone.
Which is why they should be upvoted again and again.
For every claim in the article, you must remember to prefix it with "If this asserted principle is true, then..." But as far as I can see, no proof of the principle is given (that's why it's called a principle, not a theorem).
Yes, about emails you are right. I'm pretty open to find another solution. We can also brainstorm a bit about the solution if you like :)

I think poetic.io has a much better UI, user experience (comparing it with SendSpace).
The real differences will be deployed in two/three weeks:
- previews on pictures (gallery), pdf and media
- background customisation for the transfer (for example with your brand)
The pro version will be completely different, I'll keep you updated on that ;)
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The fact that you acknowledge the opportunistic part of my comment proves my point. Yes, when you love something so damn much, you don't go out there and tell people how to build the same thing in a better way, using their name.

It's hilarious that I'm being downvoted for being exactly right.
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Definitely. Targeted tells you if it's ended up in spam and probable reasons why it did.

With outgoing generated email, we are only a testing client at the moment until we get enough requests to do sending too.
Same bug for Utah...

In 2014 the Utah software industry gave jobs to 1 foreign software managers, Infinity times more than the year before. Most of them made between $NaN and $NaN per year. The best city for software managers was South Jordan with an average salary of $165,000.
I appreciate it. The University definitely took it seriously at the time (the project became a neat recruiting story for the InfoSec class), however outside of taking down the website to check for ID validity, I do not believe there was any other recourse. There was such a high overhead to change systems and reissue the ID's (some professors have decade old ID's), that I think it was viewed as "not worth fixing."
Meaningless paranoia? If you already have a popular app recording this data would be fairly simple.

And if this approach is practical then you've got personalized location data easily linked to identity. That's worth a lot of money to data brokers and their customers. Adding location information and especially long term movement patterns bumps up the price you can charge for a user profile. Selling everything you can get your hands on about your users to data brokers is a way to monetize a user base.

Obviously getting location permissions is way easier, but it's good to know that apps without those permissions could still be selling your location data.
I feel like as an art piece, "Magic" is sort of the distillation and abstraction of everything that has happened with the Internet over the last 20 years - especially lately.

"Send a blackbox a message and you get something - on demand!"

That's art. Or it's an incredibly sad state of affairs with what qualifies as "technology" and is a horrible commentary on modern societies values. Or a reflection of it - imitating it I suppose.

"Magic" & "Yo" - The future is bright.
Your comment about bugs reminds me of my first job. One day the senior guy sitting next to me starting cursing. The program manager emailed him and asked him, before he even started coding, to estimate how many bugs there will be in the software in one year.
These H1B engineers make more than me.. How do I become an H1B engineer? I was born in the USA and have the title "Senior Software Engineer".
The author is swimming upstream.

I fully expect there to be an "Dutch East India company" 2.0 by 2050.

Economic producers have always been political leaders, but they were always able to be restrained by the state. Now with a globalized economy there is nothing stopping a large enough company from hopping states - especially ones with less wealth than the company. There has not been a company as large as "Standard Oil" since true globalization has become the norm. Once there is, all bets are off.

Apple for example could easily purchase any number of defense contractors/arms manufacturers around the world and compete with basically any but the nuclear nation states in terms of defense - and probably handily beat all in the "cyber" domain.

Don't even get me started on when robotic ground forces become capable of holding territory (not speaking of AGI/AI).
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I agree with you completely. I was waiting for someone to reply with this. HTML emails convert better than almost any other marketing channel. You just can't beat it, as much as people complain about it.
But they tell us they just love the free market and that is the solution to all problems - why is it acceptable to lie to people with a straight face. I say it's totally unacceptable to lie and cheat corporations who are working maybe working to make a better deal for their citizens rather than OPEC and that you have accepted it is not really my point to argue against.
Many, many Indians come in on L1/B1/tourism visa and work completely illegally.Or may be politely asked to return a bit of money on coming back to India.
The big test is, if you had no work that needed to be done today, could you sit on reddit all day and not have to explain to your manager what you were doing or why you were doing it? Or not have your manager think less of you? Or give you more work to do?

I'm not saying this is the most ethical thing to do (because in the real world, there's likely always more work that can be done), but it's an interesting test to think about. As long as your work was getting done, if your manager wasn't watching over your shoulder, they would never know you weren't actively working. If your manager is really not interested in micromanaging, they could sit and watch you play Angry Birds on your phone all day, secure in the trust that you were getting done the work that needs to be done. If they're sitting in their office, they would never see you and thus there would be no problem. They wouldn't think to ask you what you were doing, or why, or give you more work. But if they're sitting in the cube behind you, what would they say?

I don't know how your manager would respond. But I think that's the test of seeing the intentions behind a manager choosing to sit with their team. If you were doing something that they would have no problem with if they were in an office (maybe even because they didn't know you were doing it), how would they react to the same thing if they were sitting beside you?
Can you give some insight in how a business would capture unique payment info related to a phone # in Stripe? Is there a payment link sent to users?
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Yep. Sorry didn't mean to come off as defensive, just trying to respond to everyone quickly:)
Hopefully they will fix the problem that no one has been able to buy one for a while. The SDK is great, but not that interesting if everyone you know bought a different smartwatch because they couldn't find the Band.
Love the down voting. Get used to the oppression HN. If I see any complaints about privacy, etc, I will be the first to laugh in your face.
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Good point. I hadn't considered that.