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Absolutely, it can happen to anyone, whether you're a "good citizen" or not.

Without more details of his situation I can't say if I think he was being irresponsible or not, but irresponsibility (which is common) should not cause homelessness (which is bad).
Thanks! We plan on building for Firefox and safari soon! It will be free, with maybe some premium features.
This reminded me of the excellent Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines: http://www.15kop.ru/en/

Here is a blog about a visit to the location:

http://35summers.org/2010/01/05/the-museum-of-soviet-video-g...

There is also a Museum of Soviet Synthesizers (quite a number):

http://www.ruskeys.net/eng/synths.php

The Electronica Stylophone is (I think) a copy of the 1967 Stylophone, modern copies of which are still available.
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As a non american looking at this from the outside this whole rental/tenant control looks like legislated communism.
Could not agree more that there is way too much hype around panel speakers and such. Especially in smaller, not well-known events where they couldn't get an actual qualified speaker.

I experienced this in the college town where I started my company. They would take whoever the most qualified person is and give them a panel role or a speaking role. For example, you'd have a partner at a law firm giving startups product advice, just because he happened to be the only regarded person they could get.

Kudos to the poster. Only critique I have is that I misread the title to mean "If your VC firm doesn't lead rounds, you aren't a VC". Might be better to clarify.
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As soon as I got the same feature set and easiness/productivity as in Django, I switch! Maybe with coffeescript and some mature web framework later.
Of course its sane. I also have over a hundred. But if your system requires that I manually build and maintain hundreds of filters I still think something is broken. Its just an awful user experience.
Chrome only, it seems. Disappointing. https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/524987137892954112
This is the main reason me and my friends use Telegram. It has a web client.
tokenadult has a lot of nice links; the individual study that sticks in my mind as a great exemplar was an asthma study which involved a subjective measurement ("how do you feel?") and an objective measurement of lung function (eg, blowing into a tube). Subjects receiving the real treatment would report feeling better and show significantly improved lung function. Subjects receiving the placebo treatment would also report feeling better, but show no improvement in their lung function.

I'm not sure the placebo effect is really interesting so much as it has a great PR guy. It's like the Kardashians of science.
As a premium subscriber, this is great. I had to weaken my github password 3 months ago because I started rolling VMs every other day and I had set random characters as my password. This means I can restrengthen it this weekend
Organs don't regenerate like blood does. Blood is very valuable and blood is paid for all the time. The only restriction is on paying the original creator. Once the blood is extracted, it is sold and re-sold for high prices.
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When online ad networks know your age, they show you 'age-appropriate' advertising (that can be quite depressing). So be sure to tell advertisers and online sites only the age you want subconsciously-reinforced!
It appears that he struggles at times but never reverts to English.

Funny enough that all the questions during the Q&A session were in English, but he managed to answer them all in Mandarin.
"I don't think you would ever hear those words coming from a millennial."

Probably because Millennials grew up knowing there were wolves just outside the gates, and that your employer might throw you to them at any time. We're the first generation of Americans, in quite some time, to have experienced one significant crash or stagnation after the next. There is no "normal" in the job market, the stock market, the housing market, or just about any market for us. There never has been. We don't know normal, so accordingly, we're not clinging to it.

I don't blame older generations for slipping hard when the rug gets pulled out from under them. They are products of a very different era. I wouldn't blame a polar bear for not knowing his way around a tropical rain forest. I wouldn't blame a jaguar for not knowing his way around an arctic tundra. By the same token, I don't entirely blame a person from the "good old days" for not knowing his way around the chaos that characterizes our economy today. And to whatever degree I do blame him, I don't blame him entirely.

"I don't want to say it implies entitlement, exactly..."

That's because it doesn't. Perhaps it's just my cushy, liberal upbringing saying this, but emotionally speaking, I have a very hard time calling Todd "entitled." He works his ass off, struggles to get by, and nearly kills himself trying to make life seem semi-normal for his young daughter. All of this on $30 a day. That's odd behavior for an entitled person.

Maybe he lacked a degree of flexibility, or training, or resiliency in his career that led him to this point. That's a fair critique. He says he saved money, but we don't know how much, and we don't know what his spending habits were. Again, fair. We have plenty of things to analyze when picking apart Todd's story. But one thing he doesn't appear to be is entitled.
> learning a second language [...] is super impressive.

Perhaps as an adult. But if you do it as a kid in school, then almost everyone can pick up a language or two.
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This is great!

I actually developed a very similar project called LightRaft that also lets you comment on any website. However, the difference here is that I'm serving public and open discussion, rather than private conversations.

There definitely seems to be a ton of potential for this to be a great tool for collaboration. I look forward to seeing where this goes. Keep it up!
pass is great! I use it every day, only problem is that I haven't found an android client. Do you know if there exists one?
Add snazz in layers...Angular or React or whatever gets a lot of air time, but I'd say most day-to-day web development doesn't use it yet.

At the very least, learn some basic VanillaJS, jQuery, and lo-dash. You can get fancier later.
I'm downloading the trial. Very intrigued. Thanks!
So what happens when the company that owns the property goes bankrupt because, say, it can't raise rents? Does the state step in and buy the property so everyone can live there?

If the company goes bankrupt then the building is probably put up for sale, and could get sold to a developer rather than another landlord right?

Seems like a fairly straightforward end-run around the law. You go bankrupt in your building and I'll buy it at auction for some price, and the reverse.

Unintended consequences are everywhere as a result of laws like this.
I'm a grown adult who is perfectly capable of maintaining a savings account and investing in a network of peers who I could ask for help with acquiring another job. Why should that be my employer's responsibility?
Absolutely everything with an FTDI logo on it in the wild is now suspect.

They didn't preserve their brand with this action, they just destroyed it.
Is there a version with English subtitles?
This is an understandable but extremely ahistorical perspective. The reality is that the belief that wolves weren't outside the gates was a historical blip from the middle of the 20th century.
That and multi-dwelling units (i.e. apartments and condos) where property owners won't spring to run fiber everywhere.
The first video on the page is useless. Full of images of people on their computer and phones, running on the beach, etc. After watching the video, I still have no idea what Inbox really is besides "an improvement to email" (supposedly).
Is Facebook blocked in China these days? It used to be. Must be weird to be there representing a blocked company.
That's one DSL problem. In urban areas the lack of speed is also a problem; I am constantly being invited to sign up with AT&T but we stay with cable for the sake of network speed (work VPN, among other things). It'd be nice to have proper competition. a 50 meter distance to the repeater takes in a lot of cities and even some suburban areas.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150534/Facebook-bri...
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So more small businesses can be coerced into selling their products at 25% of retail value in the name of "getting their name out there". Plus more clutter in organic search results along with yelp, yellowpages, and thumbtack.
As opposed to what other sort of communism?

Also, note that "Prop G" is more or less the opposite of legislative, it's a ballot initiative, direct democracy.
Oh damn; the link from the OP I didn't see it but it's very clear on this page. Thanks!
Thanks Jesse! The concept of discussion around content is really interesting - both public and private.
I don't know how the homeless travel, but they do. After all, they get to SF somehow.
Probably all brands from Gone Girl
As mentioned elsewhere, it's almost impossible to make sure parts like these aren't counterfeit. And the parts aren't "junk", they're just unlicensed.
Would someone please translate the jokes?
It's still blocked.

http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=facebo...
It is better when the programmer can be a user of the software. But it is not always necessary, and may also be counter productive.

One pitfall can be when the programmer is motivated to "improve" the software indiscriminately. Being a user, he's of course in the best place to debug and add the features he uses and wants. But from the corporation and marketting point of view, it's not always the best: the product owner may want to prioritize the work done on the software on other criteria than a user/programmer might have. In those situation it may be better if the programmer is less of a user of the software and just implements the requirements, from a technical point of view.

The software development requires knowledge and skills that may be quite different from the knowledge and skills required of the user of a program, and when the application domain is quite exotic (from the point of view of the programmer), it may be understood that while the programmer can write the code implementing the specifications, he may not have the ability to run (effectively) the program. Again, it may be unrealistic to require extensive domain knowledge from everybody from the team. This is something that the product owner and functional analyst provide. The programmers will provide the computer science and engineering knowledge.

As a program developer, I don't know anything about farming, but the most general notion. I made a bean seed germinate as a pupil, and a dug a garden plot once, and that's about all I know about this business. But I know about databases, client/server applications, and user interface development. As long as you can give me some specifications for a "marketplace system for farmers", I can write the software.

Of course, I'd agree that at least the person interested should try out the software if it's possible. But when I do that, I realize that:

0- I mostly use it blindly, without understanding much of what's happening,

1- I can only provide suggestions about superficial elements,

2- moreover, my suggestions are strongly influenced by my biases, as a programmer (eg. I tend to have a preference for textual CLI, emacs-like user interfaces and programmable systems).

You definitely want a real user, a domain expert, to use your software, rather than programmers.

Of course, unless the software is a developer tool (but even then, some prefer IDE, some prefer unix environments, some prefer emacs).
Your use of the word "blame" implies that you think
there's some wrongdoing on the part of someone other than
FTDI.

I don't see it as particularly controversial to say that, when someone selling an item claims it's a certain brand, I expect that to be the truth.

For example, if I buy an apple iphone I expect to get an apple iphone and if the supplier instead sends me a fake I regard that as wrongdoing on the part of the supplier.

Likewise, if a designer has specified an FTDI part and someone in the supply chain has substituted a fake, I'd regard that as wrongdoing.
years in the making of solving a problem that doesn't exist. another google "wave".
Thanks! Yeah, the major motivation behind this was to fill in some missing gaps in the documentation. There unfortunately is a bunch of incomplete and/or inaccurate info that's out there (maybe because the spec is still in flux).
his tones are off, but he has a pretty impressive vocabulary
Oh come now. Surely you don't doubt the words of someone who has written and spread the article under her own name, ready to be indexed by search engines and read by people who have to look at ads at the same time?

Surely she wrote it to spread a warning to other poor souls and not as something to brag about and with which to get herself some click money and perhaps a job offer or two? Right right?
The first question they ask is why he studied Mandarin, and (as the first of three reasons) Mark replies that his wife is Chinese.
As a millennial, your attitude doesn't help you one bit. You're still unemployed, or slaving away at short term jobs with no upward mobility--you've just never known any better. Maybe his attitude smacks of "entitlement" (what a dirty word!) but at least he had the opportunity to work in an America where companies had to care at least a little about their employees (because outsourcing and automation had yet to destroy opportunities for ordinary people). So who exactly is the sucker?
Well, that didn't take long! Arduino Nano's on Ebay are already starting to ship with the CH340G instead of the FTDI clone. Way to go FTDI - pissed off your end users and caused manufacturers to move to a completely different chipset. That worked out well for you didn't it?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nano-V3-0-ATmega328-16M-Micro-cont...
Seems like a terrible service that can be better accomplished by available open source programs. Why would you entrust all your passwords to a single service that you don't control?
You might not hear those words from a millenial, but I’ve heard many millenials complaining that their philosophy degree didn’t get them a well-paying job, or that it’s unfair for employers to expect them to already know how to do a job before hiring them. It feels like a similar mentality, just under different circumstances. (I don’t really buy into the whole “if only they’d worked harder/been smarter/prepared themselves better, they wouldn’t be in this situation” story line, but I also believe that thinking of yourself as a victim is counterproductive.)
Did you have to turn this on in the Google Apps control panel? I'm unable to get it to work (Google Apps free edition, grandfathered).
I'm not sure if that's the same for me. Just feeling good about it yourself says more about how you wish to view yourself as a good or moral person. Telling others about your charitable acts reflects more on how important we find showing that we are good and moral people to others.

Of course I don't intend to bring the character of the parent to question, I think it's great when anyone engages in charitable acts.

It's just interesting to me to think about the fact that compensating someone for what was once charity could dissuade them from donating. If compensation causes you to avoid giving blood, which is saving lives, because you no longer get the warm fuzzies were you ever acting altruistically to begin with?

I don't know.
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Building fails on Mavericks with the 10.10 sdk

awk 'BEGIN {printf "#define CERTIFICATE_THAWTE \""} {printf "%s\\n", $0} END {printf "\"\n"}' thawte.pem > certificate.h || rm -f certificate.h
awk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
>>> BEGIN <<< {printf "#define CERTIFICATE_THAWTE \""} {printf "%s\\n", $0} END {printf "\"\n"}
awk: bailing out at source line 1
cc -O3 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -std=gnu99 -D_GNU_SOURCE -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wno-language-extension-token -MMD -Wno-deprecated-declarations -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk -I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents /Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/libxml2 -c -o http.o http.c

http.c:10:10: fatal error: 'certificate.h' file not found
#include "certificate.h"
Note that for people without American layout on their keyboard the shift + 2 will not work. I had to set my keyboard layout to American for it to work - you should probably fix that.

Edit: Came off a little hostile, I like the idea otherwise and may try to convince my friends to use it.
Pretty typical HN over-reaction. Why not wait to hear from FTDI before joining the lynching mob? If the driver broke clones without the express intention to cause damage, well, tough for the clones. If, on the other hand, they set out to actually cause damage they are out of business or will suffer greatly.

There's another angle here. I'll use a hypothetical. Say your chips are being used on MRI machines, cars, planes, glucose meters, ATM machines and a whole host of other mission critical systems. And you know clones are dangerous because they are unreliable, failure prone and nondeterministic in some way. What do you do? What should you do? Bricking these devices without warning would be a bit extreme, agreed. What if you figure out a way to ensure that legitimate chips work and others fail in whatever way based on the nature of the cloning design. Is that OK. What if people could die? Not trying to be dramatic at all. Just saying that sometimes you need to be in someone else's shoes in order to understand their ecosystem and have context from which to understand their decisions.

I've been using FTDI chips since they came out. I have designed products that could kill people and burn down buildings if they were to fail in certain ways. We bought these chips through proper distribution channels. Had we not or in the case of our distributors being duped by clone makers I'd much rather our devices be bricked than risk someone getting hurt. So, yeah, this is very real for me.
Per hour, adults are more efficient at learning languages. But kids forced into another language typically get more hours of exposure than adults attempting to force themselves to learn a language.
I dont really see why this is posted or is popular. What about this screams hacker news? Uggh fucking reddit is leaking.

Edit: Really, what am I learning about technology? How is this even interesting? What is hacker news about some guy speaking a language most of people here can't understand with no subtitles. Is it really that amazing that a successful white businessman can speak a language most of the world speaks? Its novel for sure, but I don't think it really is going to give me a better indication on what is happening in the actual tech world.
BCC probably isn't the comparable you want if you're on the investment track.

There exist many companies which can get enough proof points for a sizable seed round or A round on $70k (chiefly spent on living expenses of founders as they build product and attempt to get some evidence that it is useful and salable). YC's history is chock full of examples.
That doesn't mean she can't speak Chinese.
“Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.”
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When composing in Inbox, how do we get the nice "Plain text mode" option available in Gmail? The most useful thing it brings is to automatically line-wrap the emails.
Chinese is considered a hard language to learn for Westerners. As a fellow founder I find this really impressive.
> Also, note that "Prop G" is more or less the opposite of legislative

Legislative = law making. Prop G is more or less exactly legislative.

> it's a ballot initiative, direct democracy.

Yes, its a ballot initiative, which is a direct form of citizen exercise of legislative power (expressly, along with the power of referendum, reserved by the people in the otherwise-general assignment of legislative power to the State Legislature in Art. 4, Sec. 1 of the California State Constitution.)
How does that apply to Wizards? They clearly didn't have any money to pay bonuses.
It's a USB-serial chip. The most common device I can think of that it shows up in is USB modems.
There's a chance the wife is having drinks with other men (just as friends) and she feels guilty so wants her husband to get drinks with other women as well.
I have not designed for FTDI and new in embedded desings but, for USB interfacing cypress PSoCs have served me well till now. They have dedicated USB chips as well.
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"...tech growth in cities like Seattle has been the same to San Francisco relative to its size, but the rise in the cost of living is less than a third of that experienced in San Francisco. This is largely attributed to the city building more housing to meet demand."

This seems to be the root of the problem. So much of the blame gets put on tech companies or the rich getting richer, but no one blames the elected officials for not doing the right thing and allowing new housing to be built.
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I took Chinese in high school and did ok. Didn't use it and have tried to pick it up twice as an adult and have yet to get the tones down in conversation.

Put a book in front of me, I can get it. Let me listen to someone speak it and I am lost.

Any ideas on how to conquer that fault?
Definitely. She's probably planing to get divorced. Come back to us in six months...
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Why would you trust groupon even less?
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I don't live in the US so my view is purely that of an outsider reading about this on HN over the last few years.

My problem is this: a lot of tech companies, based outside San Francisco go out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF and get to work outside of it. This is bad for the people who have lived there for a long time as they can't compete with the money the tech industry brings to the market. If your job is in SF I think it's perfectly fine to live there no matter what industry it's in. But taking space and driving up the price of space that could be used by someone who NEEDS to live there (e.g. a local butcher/hairdresser/convenience store owner) when you don't is unethical in my opinion. Not to mention that if those people can't live in the city and close down or move their businesses your life there won't be as good. It's not illegal and like all ethical questions the answer will differ from person to person but that's what I think about it.

Edit:

Of course the problem is the mindset of a lot of tech people (evident in this thread). They think logically and love 'the free market'. They're also predominantly young. They don't understand living in a place for 30/40 years and being forced out. They seem to ignore the emotions involved or feel they are irrelevant.
I'll believe that when I see it (not the technology - that actually has a higher chance of happening than DSL providers offering 1Gbps for a reasonable price).
As part of rebalancing they've buffed creatures and nerfed non-creature spells. It's simply not true that all cards have gotten more powerful, it's just that early creatures were garbage and early spells were too good.

Nothing we've gotten in the last few sets compare to the original Dual lands, Channel, the Moxen, Ancestral Recall, Counterspell, or even something as innocuous as Dark Ritual.