EricButler

Hi HN! I'm the developer of FareBot, a free/open-source app that reads balance and other information from contactless transit cards using NFC.

Supported cards include:

- ORCA - Seattle, WA, USA 🇺🇸

- Clipper - San Francisco, CA, USA 🇺🇸

- Suica, ICOCA, PASMO, Edy - Japan 🇯🇵

- Matkakortti, HSL - Finland 🇫🇮

- Octopus - Hong Kong 🇭🇰

- Opal - Sydney, NSW, Australia 🇦🇺

- Myki - Melbourne, VIC, Australia 🇦🇺

- NETS FlashPay - Singapore 🇸🇬

- EZ-Link - Singapore 🇸🇬

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codebutler...

Source code: https://github.com/codebutler/farebot

Happy to answer any questions!

There's an organization working to start a bike share program in Seattle too! http://pugetsoundbikeshare.org/

My thoughts on this: http://codebutler.com/2013/02/13/play-store-privacy/

Although there is a legitimate reason for sharing this information (sales taxes), it is not clearly explained to users or developers and goes against reasonable expectations.

It actually is possible to "mount" drives to a folder in unix fashion. http://www.computingverticals.com/136/map-usb-drive-to-desir...

If you're an Android user, also check out my app TapChat: http://tapchatapp.com/

Don't forget to enable GPU Acceleration too. I've posted about this here: http://codebutler.com/2012/10/10/configuring-a-usable-androi...

This looks similar to Qt Quick / QML, which is actually very cool. http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdeclarativeintroduction.html

Hey, I just replied to your email. Paid apps are not currently available in China, it seems. You should be able to purchase the app from the web through a VPN or proxy and have it pushed to your phone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapchatapp...

Hi again. We spoke about all this a few days ago. Sorry to hear you're disappointed with the app.

- The only way to stop receiving notifications is to uninstall the app, there is no disconnect/detach option.

This is a reasonable request and is on my list.

- It doesn't have support for identd (necessary for old ZNC bouncers, and for some bitlbee builds).

As I mentioned, you don't need "identd" for ZNC. TapChat supports password-protected servers and works just fine with ZNC.

- The UI is very young, not comfortable to use, no easy channel switchers, etc. - No buddy/friends list.

- Install fails in "supported' nodejs versions, almost works only on v.0.8.0

There was an issue with certain versions of nodejs, this has been fixed.

- Complete lack of settings, including what I said about the most basic thing, connecting/disconnecting.

You can connect/disconnect from IRC networks in Settings > Manage IRC Networks.

Hi! I'm the author of TapChat.

Scrolling and switching between windows is quite slow and unpleasant with Irssi+Screen+ConnectBot on a phone. TapChat has a native UI and is much more responsive regardless of your connection quality. It also sends push notifications to your phone when someone mentions or messages you.

Hi, I'm the author of TapChat.

There are very few things about the protocol that are IRC-specific, so this could likely be added in the future. In the meantime, I've had success using Jabber in TapChat via Bitlbee.

Hi, I'm the author of TapChat.

I recommend connecting the TapChat server to ZNC, this works quite well.

There's a mobile-ready web interface that's not quite finished, but if you'd like to try it just visit https://your.tapchat:8067/chat in your phone's browser.

Hey, thanks for checking this out! I wrote this because it's the app I've always wanted, and would love to hear your feedback.

You can switch a rooted phone into "tablet mode", but as far as I know nobody has come up with a way to do this automatically when you connect the MHL cable.

http://androidcommunity.com/trick-your-galaxy-nexus-into-usi...

I've been beta testing irccloud.com. It's very well done, but I'd also like something that can be self-hosted to access internal-only IRC servers.

I have a Nexus S running Blandroid. Apps:

  The usual google stuff (Talk, Voice, Gmail, Maps, Translate)
  Twitter, Facebook, G+

  Foursquare
  GroupMe (Can now be used for one-on-one messages too instead of SMS.)
  OneBusAway
  FareBot (My app. Check the balace of your Clipper/ORCA card. Requires NFC.)
  TripIt
  Shazam
  Chrome to Phone
  ROM Manager
  Catch Notes
  HotelTonight (awful awful app, but I got a good last-minute hotel deal with it)
  Uber

Ack, no, just using the wrong format string. Will fix it soon, thanks.

Neat!

I'm working on something similar but with business listings. Currently has some initial data for San Francisco and I'm working to add more.

http://ghostpag.es/

Does anyone know if this supports the the vmwgfx Gallium3D driver for accelerated opengl in linux guests?

UPDATE: VMware responded (within 6 minutes) on Twitter and the answer is no. https://twitter.com/#!/vmwarefusion/status/11402734522400768...

I haven't used this myself, but the Macbook Air has always been able to boot from a remote DVD drive straight from EFI.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329287-263.html?tag=m...

Perhaps this works in a similar way?

I'm excited to try Scala for Android development but haven't had the time to figure out a new build system, etc. I hope it'll eventually be integrated into Intellij IDEA.

An attacker could intercept that initial http:// url and provide their own destination for the browser to visit instead. HSTS prevents this from happening once the domain is in the cache (or pre-loaded).

It's difficult to keep track of all the various branches, is there a reason you haven't transferred the project to someone who can create a new proper release, update the website, etc?

Seattle, WA

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Yep this is correct. See the note about "exclusion" on http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/08/16/dnssectls.html

Dropbox's website was vulnerable to passive session hijacking until they took note of Firesheep and fixed it.

Both this and the mobile issues would have been identified on the first day of a security audit by even someone with little experience. Dropbox has continued to demonstrate that they do not take security seriously, which is confusing and unacceptable considering the entire company is built on the idea that people will trust them with their data.

Dropbox's claim that the lack of SSL is a speed issue sounds like total nonsense. I'll again reference Adam Langley's work at Google:

"In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. [...] In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead."

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...

One of Nokia's problems has been lack of focus. I am a huge fan of Qt so I hate to say it, but keeping Qt, MeeGo, and especially Symbian alive (even with reduced investment) makes it sound like this problem has only gotten worse now that WP7 is thrown in the mix.

For now, but support for Mifare Classic is a high priority.

Thank you! Although probably not as interesting, it would be great to add Mifare Classic support to FareBot, if you're looking for stuff to work on.