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I feel sorry for the 80 year old manual workers. I would expect it's harder for them...
See ? People complaining before reading TFM. Thank you !
Honestly, I feel the opposite -- I feel like this project acts as a far better rebuttal to some common misconceptions about systemd than Lennart's blog post about systemd myths. Why isn't systemd portable? You could read Lennart's explanation, or you could just look at all the things these guys had to rip out in order to get systemd to compile (and then not work) on non-Linux kernels.
They really should. Class actions are an inferior mechanism for both parties anyhow. The lawyers sitting in the middle will make it so it's radically more expensive for the company, and the odds of the supposed "winners" of the class action suit will probably get uselessly small vouchers for service rather than actual replacement.
Contactless payment card with fingerprint sensor by MasterCard and Zwipe
Seems a lot of the posts on that thread are from HN visitors, many may not even have the equipment/chip in discussion.

While it's great FTI reversed their decision (I'd hate to see this sort of thing become wide-spread), it's a little off-putting that so many non-users of the chip could force a company into something.
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Ask HN: Best authentication method for mobile devices to internal network
We are currently using Microsoft products to authenticate mobile devices outside of our network so they may access internal applications, but this has been discontinued. Wondering what other authentication methods or middleware hardware/software people are using to authenticate mobile phones so they can access websites that are connecting back to internal data while keeping it secure, appreciate any alternatives to Microsoft VPN products.
Texture, glossy-plastic feel, size, two or three bulky protruding buttons in between your keyboard and the pad, and being very distinctly sub par in regard to multi touch functions or detection (though OS integration seems to be the main factor). Size and an offet layout (some are unfriendly to lefties) relative to the rest of the case is a factor on most of their line as well.
I disagree with the consensus.

It's their driver, it operates in a specific way, perhaps responding to possible device output. Using it with non-compatible parts advertising themselves as compatible and any resulting behaviour, including unwanted, is the responsibility of the user. To play it safe, don't use any drivers with incompatible hardware.
Your metabolic rate increases during a workout and remains elevated for some time after you stop. The baseline increase from additional muscle mass is indeed almost negligible. But a daily 15-minute strength training workout intended to build and maintain that muscle may actually translate to 3 or 4 hours per day of additional calorie expenditure that might not be obvious to you.

Here's the hypothesis. The post-workout effect on metabolic rate burns more calories than the exercise itself.

Here's the experiment.

Begin with hydration. Drink excess water until urine has little color. Every day thereafter, after your first urination of the day, measure and record your body weight. Make no attempt to control food intake, but if you wish, record what you eat and attempt to subjectively rate your appetite before and after meals. Continue to drink excess water for the duration of the experiment.

First elimination. Do not exercise for one week. Do not repeat this phase if you choose to do additional iterations.

Control. Perform 60 consecutive minutes of cardiovascular exercise on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for two weeks.

Elimination. Do not exercise for one week.

Experiment. Exercise enough to elevate your heart rate for 5 minutes at a time, at 4-hour intervals, 5 times a day. Do this for 2 weeks.

Elimination. Do not exercise for one week.

Repeat this cycle several times. Compare weight measurements for the 3-week control intervals with the 3-week experimental intervals. If they are significantly different, you have evidence for a post-exercise effect. This may help you devise a weight-loss plan compatible with your lifestyle.
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True. But then an easy way to clarify my point would be ... when you make a connection with a server, can you verifiably prove your packets haven't been intercepted at any point and recorded by a foreign entity (for sake of this point, China/Russia) or undisclosed corp, given everything known about certain TLA security agencies? And that's kinda what makes things interesting ... that conflict drives innovation on both ends of the spectrum. The next decade is going to be interesting, that's for sure, heh.
Yeah that is what I immediately thought, that you would want to do some processing on the changes before presenting it to the users, and not make it live, just asking them to make a change and asking others to rate the change.

That would be a system that you would need a large number of users to manipulate.

The downside of this idea is that their website is clearly about an interactive experience where you move things around and get the feel of others doing the same thing, I dont know if that kind of thing would be compatible with y/our idea without a lot of tricks.
The first time I met him, he was in the middle of writing a
script to scrape Craigslist of all its free furniture
listings (which is illegal, btw).

It's a violation of the Craigslist TOS, a contract between two citizens, so it would be covered under civil law, not criminal. A creative prosecutors could try to spin it as a crime under the CFAA, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act) and there in fact have been CFAA prosecutions for scraping Craigslist listings, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_v._3Taps) but I doubt there's much a case here.
makes sense and perhaps it's just an artifact of release schedules, but nonetheless interesting that privacy badger got the nod for AMO while HTTPSEverywhere did not
VC: "I am going to buy these goods at $1,000 because that is what they will be worth in the future."

You: "Great, how much will you sell them for when they are worth that $1000"

VC: "$2000"

You: "And who will buy it at that price when they worth only half"

VC: "Let Wall Street worry about that"
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I'm getting baby halloween costumes, women's jewelry, and women's fall dresses. I'm a male without kids who doesn't crossdress. Huge waste to fill that space with things I don't want and never have wanted.
No, this isn't "responding to customer feedback". The code they published was pretty much illegal - imagine your garage destroying your car because it's the wrong brand! Their reasoning should be (and probably was) "by fixing this fuck-up ASAP, we'll only get a class-action lawsuit by 10K customers, instead of by 100K".
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Were we to wait for the real users to notice, it would have been too late.
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Bluntly? Fuck 'em. The only reason they "responded" apparently is because Microsoft tapped them on the shoulder, by way of yanking their updates until it gets fixed, and then only because someone publicly connected the dots as to what was going on.

There is an untold amount of bricked gear out there. Those people are entitled to replacements and compensation for their time spent dealing with this malfeasance.
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I've heard that in a couple of places, it's difficult to track down a specific source. It looks like that particular fact isn't on Wikipedia anymore, although it does say he learned English from a young age.

Source for being raised bilingual "he was not even aware that English and Spanish were separate languages until later in his childhood" (cache) http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=borges+first+language&d=498...

Source for English as first langue: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jlborges.htm

"English practically as a first language" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/24/borges-had-...

Looks like the truth may be somewhat less strict than what I had remembered. Nonetheless, not only was he an Anglophone, he was also an Anglophile, something most of those sources reinforce.
Ask HN: My startup has multiple VCs pitching us. How do we choose?
My first instinct is to pick two and have them split the round, but they all want to lead.
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Class actions are less about compensation and more about forming big enough sticks to beat misbehaving corporations about the head with.
Reposting it here as a test :)

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Our revolution had much better chances because, in spite of the seemingly overwhelming odds, we still had quite a bit going for us, unlike the North Koreans.

I never suggested that we were battling an oppressive regime. Literally the entire point of my comment was to highlight the difference between us and North Korea; I didn't suggest the things you seem to think I did.
No equipment was destroyed by the old driver: the old driver set a word in the firmware of counterfeit devices to zero. All that needs to happen to reverse what some comment-writers are calling "bricking" is to set the word back to its original value. The new version of the driver could probably do that.
Agreed. However, no one is going to compete with Airbnb anytime soon. To compete, you can't just be a little better, you need to be a lot better. Reason being, people have accounts on Airbnb, they have feedback, and they're familiar with the experience. If a slightly improved HN is released by someone tomorrow, we don't all jump ship, because we're invested in the current community. For us to leave, it would need to profoundly improve on the experience or offer incredible content. Likewise, to compete with Airbnb you would need a completely different approach or business model, or have a selection of apartments that are far beyond Airbnb in quality and affordability.

Airbnb pushes out updates frequently, their site offers a great experience to the user, and they have a solid team of developers that stay ahead of the game. They're going to be here for a while.
If my body responds like yours, I still have a good three decades of activity. I can live with that. But yeah, as long as you keep a strong mind I suppose you can get over the limitations, that's until your body collapses.
What specific piece of equipment was affected? (not doubting - just curious, as I've not come across specific examples of people being affected by this driver)
Comments from anyone at Goldman or Blackstone would be especially welcome.
I didn't believe it at first... Waaaow. On my side its 159 requests. Still a frickin huge number.

It's not like it's the only site that increases complexity with time. Is this really the future of the web? I was under the impression it will get lighter as it develops but no, everyone thinks it's better to stuff as much as they can into their web page. Sad.
AirBnB also does something that I'm not sure how to generalize in a term. It allows operating at a different scale. Replacing 5 500 person businesses with 2500 1 person businesses can unlock all sorts of efficiencies (the same is true of the reverse).

AirBnB can allow individuals to do the work of providing accommodation part time, after work, as students, working mothers, retired people. We often mention disruptive businesses making new markets displacing non-consumption rather than substituting competition. AirBnB does something similar on the supply side.

Also, since AirBnB basically unlocks the productive potential of real estate, there's an interesting financing angle. Individuals have the ability to finance the purchase of a house or apartment with mortgages on pretty good terms. There is no other financing product available to the common man en masse comparable to home mortgages, certainly not business loans. AirBnB can help turn that into a business.

Owner-operator setups have all sorts of other little efficiencies over more hierarchical monolithic setups. Hotels have huge overheads. A lot of those are like airline or airport overheads in the sense that they're inherited from a world where hotels were originally designed for the rich (the gentry in the case of hotels) and then redesigned for the "discerning business traveler".
Interesting, I only heard of 1 of out of those companies previously.
I'm astounded by the stories of misery I hear from computer people trying to install Linux in the past 5 years. I agree that an appliance like Apple or Google produces might be more useful for them: in the worst case, they can just send it back to the company, and since it's going to be replaced every 1.5-2 years anyway, all problems are going to seem more ephemeral at that rate of consumerism.

I'm shocked at hearing those complaints from people that want to be hired to use computers, though. If I (as a developer) couldn't handle installing a post-2010 Linux system within a few hours, I'd be ashamed, not indignant.
From http://mono-ue.github.io/about.html

> To redistribute code written with Mono for Unreal Engine, you must have a commercial license to the Mono runtime. These licenses are available from Xamarin for Mac, Android and iOS online, and you can request Windows licenses through support.

So, if I want to use this commercially on Windows I will have to buy a license for the Mono runtime ?

Judging by the price for the Mac license it should be around $300 per year, while the Unreal license itself is about $240 per year.

Now, if I want to use the same code on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac I will pay to Xamarin about $1200 per year.
You'd be right if this weren't just a chip buried in a device. To properly implement that, we'd need to be able to safely scan and verify devices on the chip-level. That's not really an option. The end user is only ever going to be informed by the driver telling them it's invalid; in this case the notification is the silent crippling of the gizmo, with no feed back or diagnostics.

As many have noted, all that's needed is an alert for the user that the driver's incompatible. That way the user can take rectification measures, be it getting new compatible chips/devices, or using unofficial drivers.
What would stop someone from putting their property up on multiple websites?
That's reasonable, until they start deliberately destroying my property. Then its a civil case. Do we have any evidence either way, deliberate or accidental?
Can you explain why the 2014 X1 Carbon is a disaster?
Easy fix: Do it yourself via a web app. Web apps run great on all mobile devices, PCs, etc.

Then you can monetize as you see fit. Blaming Apple is ridiculous; you haven't lost anything at all.
Agree RoboVM is awesome. I literally just opened my app up on a Mac, right click, run on simulator and it worked. Amazing!
Internal os project management tool now on GitHub: Taiga.io
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What I don't understand is why they don't make the messaging more clear. In their pre-bricking drivers, FDTI caused the counterfeits to fail in confusing and counterintuitive ways, rather than just telling the user that the chip is fake.

As a user, if my device stops working randomly, my first thought is certainly not "there was a counterfeit chip in the supply chain for this hardware and the drivers must be rejecting it!"

A little bit more user notification around "you have a counterfeit FTDI" or, even better, a tool to find out if your FTDI is fake would be a lot better than "oh, you can tell if the chip is fake because it will only work properly with drivers before 2.08.14, otherwise it will randomly crash!"

Prolific do the same thing, but their drivers at least fail to start with a common error code which is easy to Google.
Yup. I personally patched an air traffic control system that would invariably crash because of Y2K - in other words without the patch, there was no ATC... Some people miss this - the only thing we were doing with that date was showing it onscreen. But someone had written code into a fixed length buffer, expecting the year to only be two digits long, and that year was calculated as (current-year - 1900), so when 2000 ticked around, boom! Buffer overflow, system crashes and you're screwed. It went from being a minor bug to being a system destroyer.

The problem was real, and even if the patch to fix it wasn't rocket science, it still took time to track down the problems. Much of the affected code was more than 20 years old, and no-one had looked at it or even compiled it in years. Bringing that code back to life to be able to insert a fix was no small issue that could be corrected in the middle of a crisis. Multiply that by all of the other potentially critical systems, such as power transmission, medical equipment, factory plant, and you're staring down the barrel of a potential disaster. I don't understand why some people today want to pretend that there wasn't ever a real problem for Y2K - I saw failing systems with my own eyes.
For those who are curious, Amazon uses a backend service to control what you see. They randomly hash your customer ID (which you can never see) and then assign you to a bucket. It's a sophisticated A/B testing framework that then allows them to measure and compare pretty much everything about the two buckets of people. They can allocate people between A/B pretty dynamically. Most rollouts start with 5% of people and move up from there. Since it's tied to your customer ID, they can retroactively go look at any other variables they didn't think to look at initially just by knowing whether you were an A or a B and the times when you were in which.

It's also important to be a "random" hash because you have hundreds or thousands of these experiments going on at the same time, and you want to rule out spurious relationships (e.g. other experiments being a confounding factor).

What metric do they use to evaluate the success of an A/B test? Generally straight revenue, though sometimes average order size or category spend will enter into the mix, too.
The more we talk about this and chat it over, and the more experienced I get, the more convinced I become that this is all an accident of the fact that in order to be a 30-year software developer you have to have started 30 years ago, and 30 years ago the industry was simply much smaller than it is today.

I'm not saying we've necessarily got age-ism licked and there will certainly be residual prejudice that outlasts the original stimulus for it in the first place, but I think this is problem that will naturally fade over time, as the profession literally grows up.

Part of what makes me say this is that at 35, while I am no more capable of knowing all the Javascript frameworks as anybody else, there's no longer much about them that surprises me. You haven't lived as a developer until you talk to a young developer just starting with, say, Angular, telling them you've never used it, asking them about some problem that such binding frameworks tend to have, getting a blank stare, and then two weeks later getting an email about how they weren't noticing the problem up to that point but by golly it's there. I won't say there's nothing new under the sun, but the frantic churn of the programming world is really just the same set of ideas being endlessly recombined and refined... actually new ideas are much rarer. Keeping up is much easier than it looks when you've only got two or three years of experience.
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Spanish market is really tough these days, but it is possible to get a job.
- there are many possibilities in Madrid and Barcelona. Consider relocation.
- knowing Java or PHP can help further increasing possible job opportunities. I hardly hear that someone is looking for MongoDB developer.
- person with such experience is probably considered by HR to be demanding in terms of salary. I would not advise asking for more than 35k€.
- Also there might be a question: why still developer. I suppose there is a convincing explanation for that! (I also know many >40 years old people beeing developers).
- have a look at banks. santander & bbva usualy have some job offers. either directly or through some consulting company.

I hope your dad will finaly get some nice job!

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So the OP used Google to get a job at well, Google.
Bricking is exactly what you describe - the device is not usable after the driver sabotages it. Bricking is a common description of a device made non-functional by interrupting a firmware upgrade process. It's not destroyed, and can be restored to functionality by special tools. But as far as the user is concerned, the device is broke.
Optimize for the long-term relationship, not the short-term transaction.
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Zalgo makes an appearance once every few weeks around here, it seems.

Here's a bunch of sources on it:

KYM: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo

Zalgo text generator: http://www.marlborotech.com/Zalgo.html

And of course, should you use regex to parse html?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
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Mind shooting me an email with some info? chintan@capp.io. Might be a little slow because of the HN effect, but it seems to be working for me.
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As a user, if my device stops working randomly, my first thought is certainly not "there was a counterfeit chip in the supply chain for this hardware and the drivers must be rejecting it!"
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Yep. Believing the consumer cares about your product as much as you do is a line of thinking that's easy for engineers to fall into when their lives and livelihoods depend on the product. It's why smart companies employ someone with the capacity to sit in a more objective position to evaluate the market and public perception.
It's interesting watching this play out with reputable, legal companies.

Something similar happened earlier in the year with Nintendo 3DS flashcards, however the software was not just disabling the flashcard, but would brick the users 3DS.

Their response was essentially, "Yeah? What are you going to do about it?" and promising to replace the 3DS of anyone who could prove they were using a legitimate card.
Terms. Ceterus parabus, terms (valuation / dollars, etc) will dictate who wants to be in the deal the most. If you are fortunate enough to be in that situation, get the most out of it. I will caution you, do it carefully. You don't want to start off that type of relationship with your investors feeling screwed...they have long memories.
Well, those hotel brands you cite are all legal businesses. Airbnb is illegally operated in most of its large markets. The illegal risk is currently put on the backs of its hosts, but that could easily change (either way--there could be a legal breakthrough with upside for Airbnb, but it's a municipality by municipality grind).

That makes the value quite hard to pin down, a bad court case or two could severely harm Airbnb. It's not likely that there will be a court case that makes tax paying and code abiding hotels illegal, which makes hotel chains much easier to value.