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This is not the same software. This ring is https://ring.cx/ But well, before the video you also get a ring sound just like before the voice. To me the only problem is that it is too generic: two words would be better.
The medical device doesn't need to run Windows Update. The medical device might still be bricked if the computer accessing the device runs Windows Update.

Yes, exactly.

I used to work at a sub-contractor for a large manufacturer of medical equipment, and all the systems we dealt with were like that. The device would run a very small embedded OS but would have a serial port for talking to a PC for firmware development, firmware updates, logging, diagnostics, etc. Their older stuff used real hardware serial ports, but their newer systems (~6-7 years ago now) were moving to virtual USB/FTDI serial ports, with an FTDI chip included in the embedded system.

These tricky FTDI drivers would absolutely have the potential to brick and/or alter the operation of such a device; it's not far-fetched or a flight of fancy at all.

I have a special interest in this thread/issue because I have recently been contacted by that manufacturer regarding one of these FTDI-using systems which has recently begun to exhibit new problems. I haven't started looking into that yet, and I don't know where it will lead, but I'll have to bear in mind the possibility of deliberate driver-based monkey-business now.
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Or a sporran. I'd like to see them make a leather strap that size that can be tightened but not break, and still not fall off.
I am not making an ageism argument, it's a request based on my direct experience in my life. Retraining people in that age bracket I find extremely difficult and I cannot find good resources about teaching and helping them in the most effective ways.

The fact that it is difficult to keep up is the problem I want people to look at.
oddly enough the GT degree is probably more respected outside of Atlanta/Georgia than in it.
Have you thought about adding time-delays between zaps?
Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? (2014)
Chat is by its nature not supposed to be the hub of an open source project, because it's a real time thing in a distributed group of people who may not be able to do real time.

From this, it sounds like the only substantive difference you're hung up on is message persistence. If that's being provided by a stable third party (i.e. a log bot, the technical details of which are irrelevant), what else are you missing?
There might be better sources, but here are two that I know of:

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-...

http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-...
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I mention this in the article, first heading. Includes source.
As a (small) network owner, this is not yet ready to use on the network web site, because it does not support WEBIRC and so all web clients appear to come from the same IP. There's an issue open on GitHub about it.
> Already a lot of counterfeit users of FTDI (i.e. knockoff Arduinos and cheap "VAG-COM KKL" auto diagnostic cables) are switching to CH340 instead of buying real FTDI.

The driver situation for CH340 seems a bit sketchy. Whenever I've considered buying cheap Arduino Uno R3 clones via aliexpress.com, but then first went searching for CH340 OS X drivers, all I've found have been drivers on random sites whose provenance seems to be "I found this somewhere". Often these are unsigned drivers so I'd have to disable driver signing to use them, although last time I looked there was a set of signed drivers floating around.

For Arduino knockoffs, I prefer something that uses the same hardware that a genuine Arduino would use, or something that works with the CDC driver that comes with the OS. For Uno R3, this is the clone I'm using for development [1]. It uses an ATmega16u2 to handle the USB, which is what a genuine Uno R3 uses.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P2FX9WY?psc=1&redirect=t...
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I think this reinforces the benefits of having a personal website for your bio, portfolio, resume, etc. I imagine we'll see a trend where more and more people outside of software will have a personal page for this reason. Here's to the revolution of hiring!
Only if you're the only one that's not in the club. Else, it's just that: A club. And it works for some.
What are you basing that on though? The article looked at "7,300 college graduates 10 years after graduation" and found that:

> For STEM-related majors, average earnings don’t vary much among the college categories. For example, we find no statistically significant differences in average earnings for science majors between selective schools and either midtier or less-selective schools. Likewise, there’s no significant earnings difference between engineering graduates from selective and less-selective colleges, and only a marginally significant difference between selective and midtier colleges.
They're going to kill Yahoo because some rich assholes don't want to pay their taxes.
I had a FreeBSD VMDK, but I couldn't figure out how to get Veertu to open it, so if Veertu does support it, it's not obvious how.
The change log message that introduced the new constant is interesting, too. "Socat did not work in FIPS mode because 1024 instead of 512 bit DH prime is required. Thanks to XXX for reporting and sending a patch."

I wonder what prompted the review a year later.
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Supposedly respected names like Jeff Atwood and Scott Hanselman say the same thing (not the brand necessarily, but the idea that you should buy a good keyboard ... I say this as I type on a $170 Das Keyboard ....)

Atwood cares so much about this that he even has his own keyboard: codekeyboards.com (edit: corrected domain) (which I have at office)
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I love how transparent/well documented 18f is with the hiring process. The golden standard from an applicants perspective.
Personally i find rm too accepting, and rm -i too restrictive.

Using rm on its own will happily perform the command without further verification.

On the other hand, rm -i will request a yes/no on every last file involved.

Personally i have taken to using mc for any "complex" file system manipulations.
great one mate.
Well, yes. Or at least until they shape up and no longer introduce an unknown failure mode to all products using those chips.

The cost for a company to use those chips are too great now. And that result is purely FTDI's response.

They could have taken other avenues: Windows Syslog, GUI messages, warnings. Instead they chose to do a path that we plebes would have been arrested and charged with the CFAA for doing (vandalizing hardware over a network).
I'm biased on this one:
http://www.pointsource.com/sites/microsites/index.html#/insu...

... so it would also be interesting to have some feedback :-)
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> probably more since no one wants to be turning 500-year old graves into farmland.

In Manhattan, the place that is now Washington Square Park was once the location of mass graves for people who died of yellow fever during an epidemic. Before that, it was used as farmland.

That said, this is far from the norm in the US - New York is one of the few places where this could happen, due to the scarcity of space, and it's also unclear whether people remembered the locations of the graves at the time the park was constructed.
Hi, I am the creator of this visualization. I didn't know that it was posted last night, but I can answer any questions you have now. I've added a "Tips/things to try" modal to it. I don't know how many of you tried the audio portion of the visualization, but it's a cool and more unique part of the demo!

The github link is here: https://github.com/bgrawi/Fourier-Visualizations
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Open source is a form of software licensing that lots of people develop and use for lots of different reasons. That's it.

Everything else is politics and philosophy. Some people really get into the very specific politics and the very specific philosophies of the FSF. What they don't seem to get is that the FSF merely has one out of infinitely many perspectives on why open source is important and what people should do about it.

It's fine if someone wants to run an ideologically pure (per FSF criteria) FOSS project, or not contribute to projects that don't meet their criteria for ideological purity. Where it gets counterproductive is asserting that one group's philosophy has some sort of primacy over the entirety of the FOSS world. It gets especially dicey when that group claims moral superiority over everyone else.

Instead of complaining about this or that FOSS project not being "true FOSS", the FSF should define a set of standards and practices that go beyond mere software licensing that DO meet their standards for ideological purity. Then a project that wants to comply with the FSF have an easy way to state up front that they are politically aligned with the FSF in every respect. Those who care about such things can use that information to set their expectations about how the project is run outside of the software licensing aspect. Maybe it draws them to the project, maybe it drives them away, but at least no one gets surprised and no mailing lists devolve into pointless political flamewars.

That way no one gets disappointed (for example) when a project wants to use Slack for communication, assuming that that project has not stated up front that FSF-compliant ideological purity is a goal. Alternatively, if a contributor to a self-declared FSF-compliant ideologically pure project wants to use Slack, the other contributors to that project have grounds for denying that on a purely philosophical basis. They can focus on maintaining their standards for ideological purity rather than continually arguing over whether or not FSF-compliant ideological purity itself is valid goal.
> Alibaba's market cap is $174B. Yahoo owns 24% of their stock. That's $41B of wealth right there.

That last trade price times number of outstanding shares -- market cap -- is the only common basis for overall valuation of publicly traded firms (that is, the only basis that is guaranteed, by definition, to be available for every publicly traded firms) does not mean it is a particularly accurate and meaningful measure of the overall value in any useful sense.
Notoriously bad deal(great for Mr Cuban though). Yahoo paid something along the lines of $10k per user of broadcast.com
If you're connecting something that speaks your non-USB protocol without giving it a way to tell drivers that it's not USB then you can't really complain if th drivers think it's usb and act accordingly.
Wait until you see some of the logic diagrams (this is the one for intake air temperature sensing):

http://imgur.com/KWob8Xf
So Freenode is centralized... kinda — I certainly wouldn't argue that it isn't, at least.

But the next point you make — "but you're still logging into someone else's server" — is not necessarily true. IRC is not a federated system, but a good way to think of it is as a federated protocol that has a central point of control at the federation level. Kind of like geopolitical federation: individual states in the US (theoretically) have sovereignty within their borders, but when it comes to interacting with their peers, the other states, they are controlled by a centralized power known as the US Federal Government. In the same way, a single IRC server can act independently so long as all the recipients of all of the messages that all of the clients are sending are also connected to this server. Once a recipient of a message is connected to a different server, then the irc network (the federal government, if you will) takes control.

Now, this all is mostly of theoretical interest, because in reality if you objected to the centralization of an IRC network, you'd be much better off just running your own network than applying to run a server for an existing network.

The reason to prefer Freenode's brand of centralization over Slack's is the same as the reason to prefer Debian to Apple. Debian and Freenode are community-run organizations, staffed by volunteers, which push to advance the values of free software. Apple and Slack are for-profit corporate organizations which are driven by the wills of their investors, not their users.

Yes, a proper federated IM network would be better than Freenode. But there isn't one, and just because Freenode isn't the best solution, doesn't mean it isn't better than Slack.
Yes, but lets distinguish between providing the option and having it as part of the design requirements.

And iirc, containers are crap sandboxes.
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Right, that's what I was getting at with the capital gains treatment. I also am not sure off the top of my head, but at the very least any gain from here on out is going to taxed at the capital gains rate (20%), assuming he waits a year or two.

I just feel there's more to it than some tax savings given the massive amount of capital it requires ($50M!), which could be more productively invested. I'm guessing those options are expiring and/or it's a PR boost.
Why is a hearse needed to transport (presumably an urn of) ashes?
You are right, I dont have a lot of experience freelancing. And I agree that the differential between rents in different places in the US large enough that one can decrease or increase it significantly by moving. I do however think that "the best insurance policy is to take care of yourself" is not really something you can bank on. Unexpected things happen. You have to set something up to prevent that as much as you can.

In summary, I am not as opposed to your equation after this reply from you, but I still maintain its hard to do. As a challenge, I am going to see if I can accomplish it. Thanks for the kick in the back! :)
I always wonder if when things like this get found, there's someone in the NSA going "Wow they finally found it, only took them x years"
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In the overall scheme of things, someone from SJ State who gets hired at Google is still doing better than most of the people out there regardless of school or major. Who cares if you're not in the Stanford/CMU/etc clique.
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I've been using free software for a couple decades. I get why it's valuable but having watched what is and is not adopted really underscores if we want people to use OSS we need to offer a competitive experience. Years of cajoling people did not get them to use Linux because the desktop experience sucked. Years of advocacy did not get them to adopt Mozilla in great numbers but people did respond when Phoenix/Firefox focused on UX and was actively improving during Internet Explorer's great stagnation.

Anyone who wants to avoid the possibility of lock-in using Slack should be laser-focused on making IRC competitive rather than trying to convince people that poor UX is just the price of freedom.
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But if there is a minimum of 1GB RAM per server, and the plan allows for up to 2GB total, then you can literally only create two 1GB servers. I'm not sure how a limit of two equates to unlimited. I was really confused by that on the pricing page.
>Slashdot was/is a community of open source nerds.

> less FUD on HN

So it's FUD only if it's not anti-MS FUD?

There was plenty of anti-MS FUD on Slashdot.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-dr...

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/windows-7-me...

Do you think the above stories and comments are FUD or not?

Eventually the biased story selection by editors, circlejerk, echo chamber and biased moderation got so bad that the site pretty much died. Do we want that to happen on here as well?

>I visit HN for startup news and occasionally open source news

Then perhaps just move past the other posts you're not interested in, like the HoloLens or Open Sourcing of .NET and other libraries announcements which are definitely 'Hacker News' material.

Or spend more time on other places like /r/linux etc.

>Who in the right mind would use vendor lock-in mediocre expensive licensed software for a startup

That's totally your opinion, it works for some companies like StackOverflow.

>less FUD on HN

Can you link me to some of this FUD you're talking about?
The solution is called "responsive design." From your perspective, my zoomed browser just has different proportions. If your site renders well on a phone due to responsive CSS, then it should be okay in a zoomed browser too.

(I'm browsing Hacker News at 200% right now. It works great since their latest responsive fix.)