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TL;DR; USB-C cable had GND tied to Vbus and Vbus tied to GND (opposite as it should be)

Honestly, I'm surprised that this isn't something that thelaptop and other such USB adapters aren't equipped to deal with. This is only slightly worse in my book than a USB adapter being fried from shorting the Vbus and GND pins together
No, but the bank notes can lose value and become worthless.
And MS&Intel choked the life out of them because they threatened to undermine those expensive ultraportables.
Bush did this in 2008, sending rebate checks of $600 to individuals, and $1200 to joint filers.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/13/bush.stimulus/

Results were mixed - The dollars amounts weren't really a windfall to most people, so some additional spending went on. But most people realized they would need to repay that money at tax time, and held onto it.
Those would be great additions, I'll try to get to them soon!
I wont share any specifics on any of our customers but happy to share high level stats if you want to email me in a few months. It might be interesting to poll 20-50 apps 3 months after launch and turn it into some sort of visualization.

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Is anyone else catching some old school Nokia vibe from this branding?
Reverse polarity protection is often not done with diodes for the reasons explained. It is more common to use a p-channel MOSFET (or ideal diode controllers when there are multiple power sources) when more than a trivial amount of power is used by the design. They are not cheap when properly sized, but are not ruinously expensive either and are not too large for most designs.
Thanks, we added the year.
It seems to me that most of the people complaining have been from the web old-guard (e.g., PPK[1][2]), but maybe I've missed the "kids" who are complaining.

[1]: "Stop pushing the web forward" http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing...

[2]: "Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE the problem" http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/tools_dont_s...
Dustin Curtis tweeted (https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/694607605436588032) that it is "meant to look like a plug, connecting the digital and physical worlds."

It is kind of missing the transport aspect imho.
When you say that any certification process (for a non-trivial field) necessarily becomes a sampling process, it is implied that this is already happening, i.e., there must be already a sampling process going on in the current universities. Decoupling may not solve this "problem" (if you consider this a problem), but it also does not create another one. It simply makes it more flexible so people who could not afford the education process for any reason, but were able to educate themselves by alternatives means, can also try to get certified in the level they wish. Also, the possibility of being certified by top tier certification emitters works as another motivator for people to strain and study harder (as going to top universities is not even remotely possible for most people, at least being certified by top certificate emitting institutes is probably less expensive (given the educational process is the more expensive one), and thus possible).

In other words, I believe you are right when you point that the educational institutes would narrow their focus to cover only the necessary bits to get certified, but I don't see this getting much far from what we have already; and from the point of view of the certificate emitting institute, it is desirable for the top ones to not emit certificates to anyone (in order to build a valuable brand name), having them to focus on elaborating challenging tests. Of course there may be "certificate mills", but again, this already happens, just with less flexibility.

What really picks me is that, at the end, it is all about the value people give to these certificates. Nothing would prevent society (including employers) to value more the educational process than the testing one; nothing would prevent the educational institutes to also emit certificates, thus coming back to where we are; but employers should not rely purely on certificates anyway, then I believe there is hope for the overall proposed model.
I wanted to do something like this for years. Is a classic problem in cetology.
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HN has previously had a story on the author, a Google engineer who tests USB-C cables on Amazon to make sure they're spec-compliant. He does some amazing work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508494

I don't have any devices right now that use USB-C, but whenever I see a deal pop up for one, I usually check the Amazon listing to see if this guy has reviewed/certified the cable yet.

I recommend others do the same. It's not worth damaging your $800+ laptop because you wanted to save $10 on a cable.
Wasn't there a similar issue in another browser here on HN recently? How does this actually happen - two different security companies both push out "secure" browsers that are fundamentally insecure. I'm not even in the security business and I know it would be fatal to publish a Chrome build without cors. What I can't understand is why would they ever disable it? Seems almost like an act of malice.
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I am assuming that we hold M2 velocity of money constant for the purpose of this analysis; which is to say that I assume richer people and poorer people hold on to money for the same amount of time before re-allocating it (to stocks, bonds, consumables, durable goods, etc.). If this assumption is true, both will create the same total 'demand', but for different goods. Richer people tend to spend much less (as a proportion of their income) on consumables and personal items than poorer people; the rich also tend to invest the vast majority of their money, and that money often goes to capital investments.

Supply and demand works the same for industrial buildings, robots, software, and trains as it does for homes, couches, and cars. The primary (economic) difference between these goods is their impact on long-term productivity.
So the U.S. Department of Commerce is to oversee and control compliance to a directive that would hurt commerce in the U.S.?

Nothing to see here, walk on...
love this random walk..dance?.. video:

neutral dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6Dihkrvus
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Perhaps, but I think even untainted econ undergrads talk about everything in terms of rates instead of quantities.
Executives.
> And that's going to be significantly more expensive than locally grown food

Depends on the food and the transportation method. Is growing tomatoes in a green house during winter months in a northern country more or less efficient than shipping them from the southern hemisphere?
> It's not like a rise in the price of electricity will send people with 100% electric cars running to the gas pump.

And, with the cost of renewables continuing to drop, along with government incentives, I don't ever see the cost of electricity going back up. Ever.
I'm not sure where you're going with this. Are you just ignoring all of the important reasons the proposed calendar gap couldn't possibly exist, and proposing some way you think it could have happened?
Get them appraised by an expert. Donate them to a museum. Take a huge write off on your taxes.

Otherwise, wait another 45 years when the copyright runs out and sell them then.
Don't the costs of some products include transportation costs, which should follow oil prices? Assuming gouging is under control of course.
I don't think there's any law against giving bad legal advice to the public. I think the NFL is saying that mostly to try to get the owner to lower his price, and doesn't really care about any legal basis for it.

EDIT: It's a recording of a live TV broadcast, which is probably different than if he was in a seat himself.
Thanks for putting in the effort to produce this. I'm excited to learn Rust and to port a few projects over to it, but I haven't gotten traction to get past the first few steps. Your packaging-up of the examples is a great way to start.
I work at the New York Times and sit very close to the main developer of this project.

The NYT brand is one of the most valuable - if not the most - in investigative journalism and so the pedigree of the institution is important in maintaining both culture and a tradition of higher standards. This project was worked on by a very small, dedicated team and the reason why it is championed is because it showcases some of the best facets of the NYT's image: using new tech to illumine the past and bring new insights. I find Times Machine incredibly useful for research and recommend it to a lot of my friends who work in academia.

I don't understand how you can say that the Times is 'living in the past'. Their tech adoption is insane - developers are given a lot of leeway in what technologies they choose, new options are constantly being evaluated, and the Times is continually experimenting with novel approaches to displaying informative content.

The Times is a profitable endeavor and in fact is growing quite a bit - we reached one million online subscribers and still going. Your worries are unfounded and honestly a bit myopic. The form of journalism is forever changing and adapting with the era in which it reports. The Times is a hotbed of innovation and new ideas about how news should be produced and consumed (the R&D lab - http://nytlabs.com/ - is awesome) and I would hate to see that change in order to honor the so-called 'bottom line'.
> The value of the tapes is 0.

There are at least two ways to extract monetary value. One is to wait until copyright expires in the US, which I think won't be for another 45 years.

The second is to take the tapes outside of the US and sell them in a country which has a lower copyright. If I understand the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_l... correctly, those include Australia ("50 years after making (television broadcasts and sound broadcasts)") and South Africa ("50 years from publication (sound recordings; broadcasts; programme-carrying signals; and published editions)").
Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss you'll end among the cold, dead vacuum of space.
*BSD (especially OpenBSD) is hard to get right in general, but configuring firewall there is a pure joy for some reason.
WTF!. Why doesn't the Fed just send money to consumers? You can't budge CPI by making Ray Dalio and Jamie Dimon richer (which is the main effect of ZIRP). There's only so much eggs and butter they can consume.
So it looks like this needs (from EU perspective) another round of lawsuits to get this overthrown again - since the oversight by the US DoC is laughable.
Yep, not sure what he does these days but on some of his old reviews he noted that he's a software engineer on the ChromeOS/Pixel team: http://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2DQ7OH7PQG24F
The specific truth is that the Fed has fewer constraints on its policy decisions than the Dept. of Education does.

The Dept. of Education's policy decisions are tightly constrained by Congress. If there's a law on the books giving the DoE freedom to determine student loan interest rates, then they can. I don't think such a law exists, though, so the Congress would need to pass one.

The Fed was created by Congress, and has a multi-part mission that it must meet, which has been set by Congress. But beyond that, it has great freedom to determine how to meet that mission on a day-to-day basis.

The Fed is part of the federal government, though. It even has its own federal police force.
> But in the "developed" countries, this makes literally everything else cheaper

Not necessarily. Take a look at Canada. With the Canadian dollar tanking, the price of everything imported is going up (because it's imported from the US and the USD-CAD exchange rate is lopsided).

Maybe what you really mean by "developed" countries is "just for people in the US."
By "interesting" I mean a number that arises out of something else that one might be interested in.

For instance, consider pi. If you are interested in geometry, pi will turn up. If you are interesting in number theory, pi will turn up (e.g., it is connected to zeta functions). If you are interested in probability and statistics, pi will turn up. If you are interested in differential equations, pi will come to the party.

If you somehow have never encountered pi, I can convey it to you by telling you about one of those things. For instance, I could tell you that it is the period of the non-zero solutions of the differential equation y'' + y = 0.

An uninteresting number would be one that has no known connection to other things. If I have a particular uninteresting number, and I want to convey it to you, I'll have to just tell you the number.

A random number would almost certainly be uninteresting, such as this hex fraction, which came from /dev/urandom on my computer: 0.bfdab557104bf2d8952fb1ea0adfd732794a353d5b35d95cda927f4ad8f6dd11f11b2e968298. It is extremely unlikely that anyone has ever seen that number before. The only known thing interesting about it is that it was made specifically as an example of a number that is not otherwise interesting.
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Pretty much this. I stopped using Comodo when the built in Firewall was "good enough" I did miss (briefly) the yay/nay for every connection that Comodo offered.
Ask HN: Any web developers who have transitioned tomore traditional programming?
I have been doing web development for around 6 years professionally, I dropped out of a CS degree prematurely to pursue it, it has worked out well both in terms of my career and monetarily.

In the past 3 years I switched full time to front-end, and have since become very cynical about the whole thing. I feel fraudulent when people ask me what I do and I say “I make web apps”, “Oh, programming?” “… Yes”. My day to day is generally arguing about frameworks, build tools and this weeks new hot button topic/package/framework. There’s a huge disparity between what I envisioned I would be doing by this time in my life, and essentially the motivation that wanted me to become a programmer in the first place.

What’s holding me back is:

1. The amount of money I can make from front-end while doing relatively easy work

2. The fact I place my skills as a [web] programmer in the ‘solidly-average’ range (I don’t know anything about hash tables, or matrices, binary searches etc).

At a cost of having a complete lack of work fulfilment.

I am curious to hear from anyone that has been in a similar position or can add some perspective in regards to my ability, income and expectations from ‘real’ programming.
I recommend Glasswire, it's a gui for the Windows firewall with a beautiful interface. It could be better, but is quite useful.
How efficient would that be though?
> But he cannot even stop and search someone on Times Square.

Yes, he can: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-b...

And in the past, if you weren't white: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/stop-and-frisk-viol...
Doh, missed another one. Added!
Calcium and magnesium may work together, but they also compete for being absorbed in our bowels, so it's better not to take them at the same time. I'm sure that many people don't know this, but they know that "calcium is good" and "magnesium is good", so they eat a lot of both, not experiencing the positive effects they hope for. Btw. the same is true for zinc and calcium.
I'm sold on it, but with it being OS X I cannot use it for a good while, until they port it. Hoping they do.
Something that's been concerning me about the current approach to web development in particular is the accumulation of unacknowledged -- and increasingly unmeasurable -- technical debt.

I'm not sure that's precisely the right phrase, but here's what I mean: we all (should) know about technical debt in our own projects, but we also know that every project accumulates technical debt. When we build our projects on top of other projects, our work now has the potential to be affected by the technical debt -- bugs, poor optimizations, whatever -- in the underlying projects.

Obviously, this has always been true to varying degrees. But we've reached a point where modern web applications are pulling in dozens of dependencies in both production and development toolchains, and increasingly those dependencies are themselves built on top of other dependencies.

I don't want to suggest we should be writing everything from scratch and constantly re-inventing wheels, but when even modest applications end up with hundreds of subdirectories in their local "node_modules" directory, it's hard not to wonder whether we're making things a little...fragile, even taking into account that many of those modules are related and form part of the same pseudo-modular project. Is this a completely ridiculous concern? (The answer may well be "yes," but I'd like to see a good argument why.)
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You guys should watch this repo https://github.com/niftylettuce/seuss.md (nothing yet, but just watch it ;)
The question isn't what was wrong with the cable, but whether it was just this one specific cable, or whether it's all of the cables in from this production run.
This sounds like a comment from somebody in their IT Department.
Another user has compiled Benson's reviews into a Google spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQa...
Dependency hell is caused by the inability to sanely identify and (if necessary) support multiple versions of a dependency.

The primary cause of dependency hell comes from installing and using global dependencies because there's no way to predetermine all of the dependencies that every module and/or application on a system will use.

Thr Javascript ecosystem actively discourages using global dependencies except for CLI tooling.

This is talking specifically about an optimization problem. How to minimize source size by only inporting code that is used directly in the appplication.

AFAIK, no other platforms don't attempt to solve this problem because it's a non-issue except where you're sending code over a network to be executed remotely.

For example, imagine if you had to send the entire Java Runtime Environment over the wire every time you loaded a website.
https://www.glasswire.com/ is pretty good, not 100% sure how expensive it is but I believe there is a free version.
Metropolis has quite an interesting history:

The original cut was lost and only fragments survived.
Since the 80s the most popular version was one made by Giorgio Moroder (the same guy that worked with Daft Punk on the Album Random Access Memories). Over the years different versions and scenes were found all over the world and since 2010 there is version that is considered close to the original.

Popular culture is full of references to this movie, from "The Fifth Element" to Queen's "Radio Ga Ga".

I can also highly recommend "M"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%281931_film%29
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> Wasn't there a similar issue in another browser here on HN recently?

This one?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563
My background's in application security assessments. I've seen this hundreds (or more) times, from developers that should really know better.

"Hey, there's SQLi in this input form! Better make sure ' OR 1=1;-- is blacklisted," but don't properly parameterize their queries or sanitize input.
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Comodo, TrendMicro, AVG... A lot of security suites made it into headlines the past couple of months, because of their incredible questionable practices. What's the reason for this?
I think you have an extra "not" in there; it's hard to parse anyway.
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Creating something is difficult and criticizing is easy. Such that showing oneself to be capable by creating is MUCH harder then showing oneself to be capable by criticism.
Good point Jacques. I guess that's another aspect of this--it sure as heck felt like a responsibility towards the end. And that was a large contributor to why I deleted it. If a game feels like a responsibility, it is no longer a game in my mind.

It is also why I never understood why my friend enjoyed being an MMO guild leader when I was young. It seemed like real work. Once a game crosses the "work" threshold, I tend to lose interest pretty rapidly. The fact that it took this long for it to get bad enough where I could kick this game to the curb is perhaps testament to the efficacy of the game systems they have in place to drive DAU/MAU.
I'm coming from a "end-result"-driven opinion about making something that works. It was a huge hurdle just to do pretty much anything beyond display text documents, so that was my problem when building web apps.

As to you your last point - yes true, but I think it's much worse with non-web technology and native apps!
Can he perhaps sell it to someone in another country without the NFL knowing? How does that work? Perhaps he can give the tape away "for free" but sell the experience of "Meeting the guy whose father taped the first game".
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Curious, why was he banned? I looked at his posting history and I don't see anything ban-worthy... (only two posts).
Why would you design in reverse polarity protection? It adds cost, and the mechanical connector already makes it impossible for VDD to short to GND in USB type C because of its rotational symmetry.