skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their drivers prior to the bricking drivers (everything after 2.08.14) caused the fake devices to fail, where previously they hadn't.

Whether or not that behavior was intentional, there is clearly an exploitable property of the fake devices which can determine that they are fake without bricking the device.

FTDI should use it rather than playing these games. Their reaction to the discovery of the bricking issue on Twitter and elsewhere yesterday strongly suggests that it was anything but an "oh shit, our driver bricks some of those crappy fakes" moment.
> The person who created this could, theoretically, add a little slider to let you adjust the visual quality to meet your PC's performance characteristics.

If they wanted to, they could even auto-scale the quality based on frame-rate to ensure that everybody had a good experience.
Maybe Mario is a bloody idiot and should be fired instead.
I think you misunderstand the mechanics going on with surge pricing.

In SF on new year's eve, getting a yellow cab can take up to an hour (or more). One year it took me nearly two hours to get a cab to go home. There is way more demand than supply so there is a huge queue.

With Uber's surge pricing, the price simply goes up to help supply meet demand. You can book an uber at 2x or 5x surge pricing and count on it showing up a few minutes later, and count on getting home at a reasonable time.

The best part, however, is that it's in Uber's best interest to have surge pricing happen rarely. Nonetheless, it's a great way to attract new drivers. Want to make $500 on New Year's eve, sign up to be an uber driver and drive from 12:30 to 3am and benefit from surge pricing.

This opens up a larger pool of drivers, which in turn increases supply and reduces the price.

There are certainly price fluctuations with AirBnB too, however increased supply makes the spike less pronounced.
So you've been working since 20? That sounds like 8 years experience to me. Maybe you just need to sell it differently.
TypeScript compiles out all the overhead, AtScript will need to leave at least some overhead so that it can support RTTI. The AtScript design acknowledges and borrows from TypeScript, ideally I would prefer it to be a superset so we don't end up with a lot of divergent dialects.
I like the parts before DI. TypeScript-ish syntax, pluggable runtime checks—I really like that. But DI and annotations speak more of Angular's complexity than anything.
The last 2 B of the boot sector must have the value 0xAA55; this value is known as the boot signature.

Shouldn't this be 0x55AA because of little endian? Otherwise nice writeup, but unreadable code.
The Inevitable Bundling of Home Automation
The reverse-engineered reimplementations / clones would have to have been programmed with an FTDI VID (or included modified FTDI drivers) in order for the FTDI drivers to claim them, so I'm not so sure about the "not marked as being from FTDI" bit.
I'm getting 500s on the query page. Getting too much traffic maybe?
You could apply your observation to any industry, not just software engineering (e.g., you don't see any 50 year old baseball players in MLB).

As one random data point: David Cutler (now 72) is still quite active at Microsoft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler.
Looks like their boards have been HN-ed.
Yep, too much traffic. Fixing now, let me know if it works!
I threw together a little util for correcting the PID you still have to fix the driver yourself, but I put info in the readme.. Since most of the issues are on Windows systems, its a little WPF app.

https://github.com/jbagel2/FIX_BROKEN_FTDI_PID
Looks like you haven't set your project up correctly for Drive auth

The redirect URI in the request: https://nimbusfoundry.github.io/Chat/
did not match a registered redirect URI.
Well, I do charge a good rate when I work on site. Also, sometimes people pay more than what I advertise if they want a lot of time and instant availability. In general, customers who are willing to work around my life style get a low rate. This seems fair.
We've been working on Inbox for years, and RoboVM didn't exist when we started. I'm sure if it was as polished as it is now, we might have considered it.
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> It is recommended to perform the update overnight as it requires several hours

It requires several hours if you have a lot of files in /usr/local. If you move all your files from there to someplace under your home directory first, the upgrade takes under an hour. Yosemite doesn't put anything in /usr/local, so you can move the files back afterwards with no fear of stomping on anything.
This page has a photo of a sprocket from the machine:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/you-can-now-3d-print-with-m...

This is a nice first step and all, but there are a number of challenges here. The irregular sparking and popping noises imply that the metal laid down will also be irregular. This uses a regular MIG welder as the print head, and MIG welding only allows you to lay so fine of a bead. Large welds tend to be brittle due to internal stresses, voids, and the like.

The more successful commercial metal 3D printers build parts a thin layer at a time. A fine metal powder is sintered on each layer using a laser. This technique is called Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS).
What about a common owner then?
You learn about complete dedication to craft. And some of the trade offs people make to pursue it.
If it's just for fun/curiosity, I'd say Swift. If you want to be a working iOS dev, you need to know Obj-C for now.
An existing alternative to systemd is called upstart. Three of the most popular VCSs are called git, mercurial, and subversion. A major open-source image manipulation program is known as The GIMP. A popular email client among a certain crowd is mutt. less is more, we snort our networks, and manage our VMs with a vagrant. We compile our mission-critical code with a gnat, use browsers written by organizations named after radioactive lizards and an infant noise, write menu-driven applications with curses, and Uglify our JavaScript.

And you're worried about somebody calling their own project "uselessd"?
Emscripten's good for games, but I don't think it's good for an app like Inbox.
You are correct that AirBnB increases the value (and thus the price) of housing units. However this does not refute his argument.

Since AirBnB allows the rental of full units, individual rooms, and even shared rooms, it makes housing more affordable. Now, someone can afford a 2BR and plan on renting out one of the rooms a few nights a month to help afford the rent.

If there were massive competition, the price of renting a room on AirBnB for one night would approach 1 30th of the monthly rent price. Right now people typically rent a flat for one year. Why is that? Why not rent an AirBnB for 3 months and then try living in a different neighborhood? All these options are enabled by AirBnB and all of this extracts more value from existing infrastructure.
The Unreal license is only that much if you keep your subscription going. You can subscribe and then cancel your subscription whenever you want, while still being allowed to publish using the latest version of UE4 that was available while you were subscribed.

From the EULA:

After cancellation of your Subscription by either you or Epic, you will not be entitled to access or use future Versions of the Engine Code or Assets that Epic makes available under the License. However, cancellation of your Subscription will not affect your rights under the License with respect to any Licensed Technology you have already downloaded under the License.
As I understand it, there is a 'production mode' that disables the runtime type checking. This way developers can gain the development-time benefits of type safety without sacrificing performance where it counts.

As for the benefits of duck typing, also as I understand it, the key point of runtime vs static checking is that it eases interoperation with non-annotated and non-typed code. So duck-type if and when you want; reap the benefits of types when you want.

For a much better explanation, watch Misko Hevery's keynote about Angular 2 and AtScript from NgEurope yesterday: http://youtu.be/S8fE-w2DL8U?t=21m5s
Bitcasa nixes unlimited storage plan as it upgrades its infrastructure
Sounds like a possible Dan Gilbert project.

Context: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2014/09/29/gilbertvi...
I'd rather see this used as an robot-welder than a "3D printer". At least enclose this in an argon chamber dammit!
Inbox is a huge app and very very few cycles need to be broken. J2ObjC provides an automated tool for finding them (https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/wiki/CycleFinderTool)

It's really no different than programming in ObjC itself where you can run into cycles.
Oh hey, that's awesome, I was under the impression there wasn't any free data sources available. This would make FinTech way more accessible for startups. Which ones do you use?
Optimizing Your psql
Cool but had to close the window 'cause CPU fans were creating turbulence in the room.
Stop right there. I'm a Catholic. That doesn't mean I give the Vatican a free pass when it makes a boneheaded announcement like this. Keep your ad-hominem attacks to yourself.
Pretty easy to see how this'll turn out: Some moderatley rich person with access to a 10% down payment of 3.2M is taking a gamble and is in way over their head...

Just wait, within a year they will lose ownership of all these properties in bankruptcy and they'll be back in the hands of the city.
Excellent point. I too prefer staying in someone's comfortable home over a hotel room. Other than at very high end hotels, there are frequently little annoyances (air conditioning cranked up, noisy fans, noisy housekeeping in the morning, excessive use of insecticides, low quality mattresses, small or nonexistent refrigerator, no kitchen, etc.) that detract from the experience.
They might be able to reduce the oxidation on each layer by enclosing the whole thing in a box filled with an inert gas. (This is the recommended technique for welding titanium, for example.)

Argon is relatively cheap.
And that is exactly how I feel.

We don't actually know the extent of the Vatican's wealth. It keeps that as secret as it is able, even from Catholics. We can see what it reveals to the public, and make implications from what it buys and sells outside its own closed economy. From what I can actually see, the Vatican is at least as wealthy as the parent entity of a multinational corporation, and possibly as wealthy as some other monarchies in Europe. I cannot even guess at what might be in its sovereign investment funds since World War 2. By the standards of absolutely everyone I have ever met in my entire lifetime, the Vatican is rich--and not just "country club" rich, but "if they actually cared to open the books, Forbes would put them on a list" rich. I don't know how high they might be on that list, but they would definitely be on it.

And a rich man should not be passing the hat to get enough money to polish his own silver.
I believe the speed of communication, gratis internet, has exceeded the speed at which a population can agree on the meaning of terms.
A Net Promoter score for individuals is coming
As far as I know that's perfectly legal.. you are just not allowed to put the USB logo onto the device if you clone the VID from another vendor.

And you seemingly can buy FTDI clones that are not marked as FTDI on the casing.
The Plot Against Public Education
Check out chrome://gpu to see whether your specific driver is blacklisted - it sounds like you're hitting software rendering. GL becoming a mainstream feature has put pressure on vendors to ship fixes for known bugs – the Chrome team usually links to the actual bug reports so you can see why something is disabled.

Right now, this is still maturing – e.g. for me that demo runs great even on an old iPhone 4S, 2010 MacBook Air, etc. but on a lowest-bidder Dell laptop with the cheapest possible Intel integrated graphics, it struggles. One hardware generation refresh, however, and even the cheap equipment is adequate for many uses - after all, that 2010 MBA was only $1k 4 years ago.

The upshot is that the excitement is because this is finally reaching the point where support will have matured by the time most people will ship a serious app.
There are already some interesting WebGL-only applications like Polarr (https://www.polarr.co/editor) which suggest that the model is already plausible for many projects.
Land grab? Maybe. But at least someone is buying the property. The prices are very low for a reason, very little demand. I believe a renovation plan needs to be in place within 6 months of purchase. I very much doubt it'll happen for all 6000 homes, but will probably happen for at least some portion of them. I really hope the city doesn't twiddle its thumbs following up on these.
Just putting the data on german soil does not seem to help at all, as long as these data are accessible to Amazon personnel located in the US. See this case about data located on Irish servers for example:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2349550/microsoft-h...
OMG.
I wonder if her comment about the dude losing his job was true.
There is a huge market for international property speculation especially with American property.

The owner will likely sell each house for a tidy profit (to another investor), the new owner of only 1-5 houses will turn around and try to sell those back to Americans, realize s/he got had.

TL;DR international property scam

References

http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/waterfront-properties...

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/2013102/NEWS/310209983/

http://michiganradio.org/post/no-chinese-investors-arent-buy...

P.S.: If the parcels are located semi-close to the new arena complex it maybe a serious investment, but I doubt it.
I know about the Unreal license and I actually think it is a decent price for the engine. My comment was more about the Mono runtime licensing that ads up quickly and it is more than the initial cost of UE 4.
Where are you sourcing the data from?
Sorry to be pedantic, but it is possible to see your Amazon customerID.

Just view source on any Amazon page and search for customerID.

The A/B framework is pretty great and has a pretty amazing dashboard.
This is a false dichotomy. I'm a self-taught programmer and the software I develop has full test coverage as well as thorough documentation.

Proper technique and best practices are definitely important. They can, however, be a part of the self-learning process, just like learning how to write the program itself.
What is the limit there, then? Would it be ok for the chip to, say, install spyware to look for my credit card data and steal money from me? That is also "unwanted behavior".

I would be ok if the driver simply refused to work. But making hardware unusable on purpose is too much.
This is not what CRC's are used for. CRC's are faster to compute, which really matters on Gbit network links. Also CRC's can allow you to not only detect errors but fix them within a certain threshold without retransmitting.
I would guess you aren't thinking in the language in question. You are translating your native language sentence into the appropriate english sentence on the fly. To use a programming analogy, it is like writing Haskell code as if it was C. Because you aren't thinking functionally, for every imperative step the C code in your head takes you have to translate it to some sort of functional analog.

You can get through it, but it is slower, and looks "funny" to a "native".
Different places right now. MorningStar, FinViz, etc. Transitioning onto paid data asap.
This reminds me of the movie "Forbidden Planet". An alien race develops a technological version of telekinesis and... well, this is what happens. "Monsters from the id!"
So, things like this always interest me, maybe it's long term living in a similar city or just idealism. Anyways, I've always wondered when these places will get so cheap, and so readily available that a single, long term interest, entity will buy a large portion of a major city. At some point, even with the tenants, tear downs, clean up, and taxes, land with that amount of infrastructure around it has to bottom out right? Back of the napkin stuff and some assumptions:

6000 parcels (so assuming separate pieces of land)

average of .25 acres a piece (sourced from no where except where the dots lie on the maps in relation to sizes I'm used to seeing and accounting for some larger properties)

Gives you 1500 acres, or ~2.3 sq miles. That's in a city that's total 138 sq miles.

Again, assuming the article figures are accurate it will cost ~27M total to buy and deal with those 6,000 properties. So for 27M dollars you can own about 1.7% of the entirety of a major metropolitan city. That's 1500 acres. It's not the most desirable, it's surely a pain, you may be able to recoup some cost on some properties or by selling scraps, it may cost $50M in total, who knows. I just think it's interesting you can by one very large house on the coast, or 1500 acres in a still major, and formerly powerhouse, city.
Security is definitely the likely candidate (it was for Microsoft as well): even on Yosemite, where they enabled WebGL by default, there's a per-site permissions interface similar to things like location services access.
Misread this and yet it seemed like a good idea for aeroplanes.

"Hostess, may I please have a top up?"

I couldn't possibly press the Hostess button because I'm British.
Please note that "cappio" means "loop" (as in, for hanging people) in Italian. Not sure if it's deliberate, but perhaps it's good for you to know :)
> If a person expects lots of medical care later in life, suggest them a portfolio heavy on medical stocks so that if their expenses go up, their investment does too.
How is what an individual spends in medical care correlated with medical stocks?
SanDisk will upgrade all your corporate hard drives to SSDs
Loans dont work that way in 2014. There is no bank in their right mind who would grant a loan to buy this, even at 90% down. The 2007/8 crash changed how banks and loans operate.

If anyone lent any money, it would be private investment- But those guys generally dont fuck around for sub 10mm deal size.

This is one dude using his own/biz's money/
hahah, I just did that today. Wanted to search for air mattresses. Tried to tab a couple times, that didn't work. I can't really think of what they are losing by putting the cursor in the search field by default. And, it seems like they gain a bunch from a usability perspective.
With the no name brands (at least the ones that aren't just using FTDI's drivers) you are more likely to have to install a driver.
Oh absolutely. To me, it's just choosing the lesser of two evils.

Like, I'd rather go to jail and be inconvenienced instead of shot on sight, but I feel both are overkill for a parking ticket.
RoboVM, an alternative to j2obc already mentioned in a sibling comment, DOES consume bytecode. You might wanna check that out :)

I'll personally vouch for it's capacity to handle non-java; I've even gone so far as to feed it weird bytecode crafted from a personal fork of Apache JavaFlow... and it handled it 100% correctly, first try.

http://www.robovm.com/
It's 2014. How are people still rolling their own, terrible, encryption schemes?
> "The fact that they are persisting the key just for the password hint functionality is compromising the security of that product completely."

Ugh. How this gets through the hands of so many talented engineers boggles my mind. It's easy to just blame the project managers, but at some point don't we have a responsibility to say no, this is a terrible idea and completely compromises the premise of the product?
From my observations, a large contingent of the employees at Google are fairly progressive on the political spectrum, at the very least, even those on the economic right tend to be of the anti-interventionist libertarian stripe, and not in favor of building weapons to further a military empire.

My guess is, you'd have a hard time getting people to explicitly work on something whose purpose is to kill people. Now, something like a self-driving car could certainly turn into a self-driving unmanned combat vehicle, but I bet the Google X people would be pretty horrified if that's what it was used for, as they are trying to save lives, not take more.

Someone else asked if Google is different than Lockheed Martin or Boeing, and I'd say, the answer is yes. Those companies are steeped in the defense contractor business and make a huge chunk of money by selling weapons to the military.

People often accuse Google of being an "advertising company" and look at where we get our money to find our motivations. Well, if you consistently apply that logic, our interests would be in getting you to watch more cat videos, and Boeing/Lockheed's interests would be in the world needing more weapons.

You can't simultaneously accuse Google of being "only an ad company", while at the same time accusing it of being interested in the military industrial complex, where it receives almost no benefit or revenue.
The Digital Marketing Qualification Developed with Google
We somehow didn't find that out until we'd already built everything out. Considered a re-brand, but we figured we'd go with it :)
The Aquabats "Charge!!" 24/7
That is a bit of a bold statement given the circumstances. More than ever Facebook is trying to protect its data from three letter agencies. Intelligence agencies still have to comply with the law. If anything, Facebook is a gift to advertising agencies because they explicitly express this. Has Facebook ever been caught in the of letting intelligence agencies snoop? No. Trust them for a chance.
Verizon Wireless injects identifiers that link its users to Web requests
I think you're doing a good job, but keep in mind that good UX for an investor are metrics which helps me him make more profit. For instance if I come up with a metric which helps me make a better decision that is a good UX for me. But at the same time, a better way to interact and look at existing metrics also helps me better utilize them.

To put it simply, whether some guy thinks you have a product or not, you definitely do. Its not just stock market info porn, or a fancy web design over google finance, rather its as important as a new 'indicator', i.e. it does(could) have the right substance.
Have multiple offers.

Run interview processes with companies concurrently. It makes it easier to negotiate because you have all of the other opportunities
This was amazing:

> A single locust swarm was once [in 1875] estimated to weigh 27 million tons, including (drum roll, please) ... 12 trillion insects.

And then:

> Shockingly, 28 years after Albert saw that flock, Rocky Mountain locusts disappeared. Something wiped them out, totally. The last time humans saw a wild Rocky Mountain locust was in 1902.

Wikipedia[1] says:

> The cause of their extinction was probably the plowing and irrigation by settlers that disrupted the natural life cycle of the insects in the very small areas where they lived in between swarms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
Their app can also OCR the face of your credit card, for what it's worth.
App Specific Passwords – MacSparky
You can get used ones on eBay. They have a limited life span. BUt you might be able to save a lot of money if you get a not-completely-used-up one.
Officials Tracing New York Ebola Patient’s Movements, Reassuring a Wary City
I think he's referring to the customer id hashed value.
Pressing tab one time usually lands you either on another form field or the actual submit button, which hitting the spacebar would submit.

Autofocus is great on search engine homepages or search-oriented sites. Amazon isn't search-oriented when on the site. They assume their recommendations are usually spot on enough that you'll click through a percentage of the time, or that you googled straight into the product page (as most people do).
Well, I had a joy for the first 4-5 demos of WebGL, OK :)