skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She could easily morph into a VC or professional board director, and make plenty of money without the headaches of being a public company CEO. She doesn't need the money at all.

The irony is despite the company sinking, Yahoo is still a great place to have on a resume, and boasts a loyal alumni network.
For reference, it looks like this on Safari v9.0.2 on OS X v10.11.2 'El Capitan':

http://f.cl.ly/items/0E182U1p3r430M073w2i/braille.png

Seems like the font that OS X’s text rendering system substitutes for the braille characters (U+28E3, etc.) is Apple Braille Regular over the other fonts installed that also have glyphs for those codepoints (Apple Symbols, Everson Mono (font I installed myself), and Symbola (font I installed myself)).

As an aside (and yes, I’m copying part of a post I made more than a year ago¹; I’m still interested in knowing the answer to this!) I’m pretty interested on how OS X and Windows decide on which font to use when there are multiple fonts installed containing the required glyph. For example, I have two other fonts on my OS X system that have a glyph for U+2705 (Everson Mono and Symbola), but OS X always seems to consistently pick Apple Color Emoji’s glyph. Maybe OS X’s text rendering system goes through the fonts in alphabetical order and uses the first one it finds containing the required glyph? It would be great if end users could have a bit more control over the font substitution process. I know it’s possible to do in some text editors like Emacs², but I believe that programs like that use their own text rendering systems instead of that supplied by the OS (could be wrong though).

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¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8865067

² — http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6491202/overriding-emacs-...
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This is sort of my attempt to get Elon to make a public JSON API with upcoming-mission-data. Preferably something more up to date and specific than the spacex.com webpage that talked about the Jason mission as "Upcoming" long after it was launched.
Any move China takes that blocks foreign competition can be seen as an extreme version of an import tariff. Instead of protecting low level industries like corn producers either subsidizing domestic production or taxing foreign imports, China focuses on higher level industries like technology companies, culture companies, etc.

While China doesn't have the benefit of Google in the short term, by blocking them it gives it a chance for local companies to develop the technology and catch up.

Also take the example of TOMs shoes giving away free shoes replacing local markets and producers. These poor countries of weak governments, and even a small foreign company can impact the local the economy in uncertain ways. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/economic...

If you can understand this you can understand the viewpoint of Chinese officials. We come in with the viewpoint of "how can I have my fair and equal opportunity to extract wealth from China" while the capitalists in China are thinking "how can I extract wealth from China and prevent the foreigners from doing so." In reality the playing field isn't level. Our counterparts in China don't have the same education, quality of life, and financial status. Therefore a foreign company with foreign talent would already enter the market with an upper hand. By the time local companies are ready, they'd be fighting an uphill battle against foreign incumbents, or worse yet, not develop at all.

If you're familiar with Star Trek, there's the concept of the Prime Directive. It's principle is that the developed races must never contact or interfere with an undeveloped race because doing so would alter their natural development.

Foreign companies don't have an inherent right to the Chinese market. If they feel they do, or want to enter, it's because they feel there is profit in it. The profit comes from exploiting the opportunity in the local market, and in an underdeveloped market such opportunities are ripe. This isn't exactly fair if mature companies are allowed unfettered access.
no, these are spikes in hidden services.
Virgin Galactic unveils its new SpaceShipTwo
For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins
The "owner" in that paragraph seems to be local San Beradino government
My Dad told me once, every good idea has already been thought of by someone else.
Python 2 is supposed to be dead but it's very much alive. What should have been a simple version upgrade became a fork.
>"Silicon Valley" is a spectacular, world historical squandering of brain power and it needs to stop.

Are you implying that there are less-frivolous actors offering competitive salaries and getting ignored, or that SV is inflating the price of programming labor? Because if the latter, and you're hoping for a correction of programming salaries down to lower-middle-class clerical work that humanitarians can afford, won't those with brain power just "squander" it in some other better-paying field?
Google Open Sources Earl Grey
I'm being linked to the article "Virtual reality could be a solution to sexism in tech", is this the intended article?
Well, yeah. Foucault's Pendulum is to me what Finnegan's Wake is apparently to many others - certainly not a casual read; more something to pick apart slowly and ponder the subtle mysteries of. But even underneath all the digressions and metaphysics, I still find the core story enjoyable as well.

Plus it's as brilliant a takedown of conspiracy-theory-thinking as ever the world will see.
> I specifically said it shouldn't be used to stop hackers.

Script kiddies get their name because they only make use of easy-to-use tools written by knowledgable "hackers" that perform tasks that are vastly beyond the understanding of the kiddie. If your "secure communications" software doesn't stop a sophisticated passive adversary, it doesn't stop anyone, because a sophisticated adversary will inevitably release a point and drool tool that anyone can use to unscramble your data. [0]

> They completed the meeting without the NSA getting shit. ... Comms remained private until an NSA analyst discovered both the intercepted data and Decryptocat.

So, then the NSA did "get shit". They may not have gotten it in a timely manner, but they did get the plaintext of the conversation.

> Now, what app do you recommend for a future Greenwald...

TextSecure/Signal has been around since 2010. It walks you through the setup process, so no need for flashcards. Unlike Cryptocat, its crypto has stood up to scrutiny. It doesn't currently meet your "on a desktop" search criteria but:

1) It seems reasonable to expect that most journalists possess either an iOS or Android smartphone.

2) There is a Signal desktop client in development that's currently in population-limited beta testing. From what people tell me about how WhatsApp handles the interaction between its mobile clients and desktop client, Signal's desktop client is every bit as easy to use as WhatsApp's.

[0] Granted, Decryptocat likely has to be used by someone running code in the Cryptocat datacenters, but this does not invalidate my objection to your assertion.
Well, it's not as if "1.0.0" is meant to offer any logical and universal guarantees for code quality, completeness, etc. compared to, say, 0.7.x -- apart from what semver asks for.

So, as long as it is relatively stable when bumped to 1.0.0, and later releases follow to major/minor rules of semver, it doesn't matter much.
LXDE has something of a quiet revolution in the last year or so. Thanks to various issues surrounding GTK3, they shifted their focus to Qt and merged their efforts with Razor-Qt to form LXQt.

Also, while XFCE has made some moves to stay free of the systemd gravity well (forking the depreciated Consolekit and making it compatible with Logind's dbus protocol for example), LXQt seems to have embraced it.

This may well have turned some away that don't want to deal with systemd.
I like where you're going with this. By using a base 256 representation you shrink hex's 32 charachters down to 16, almost the same as IPv4's decimal dot representation of 15 characters: 255.255.255.255.
But obviously you don't address the typeability issue.

Without using the shift key it's easy to type base 32 numbers. That comes out to an average of 26 characters per IPV6 address.

So Hex

deadbeef000000000000000000000001
2607f2f8a36800000000000000000002
fe8000000000000003ceecdfffe30c27
fe800000000000000000000000000001
2607f8b040078090000000000000200e

Becomes base 32:

6ULMVEU0000000000000000001
160VPFH8R80000000000000002
7UG000000000007JNCRVVU6317
7UG00000000000000000000001
160VSB0G07G28000000000080E

If we are willing to use the shift key we could move up to Base 64 and get it down to an average of 21 characters. (Anyone know why the standard base 64 alphabet starts at A instead of 0?):

3q2+7wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ
Jgfy+KNoAAAAAAAAAAAAAg
/oAAAAAAAAADzuzf/+MMJw
/oAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ
Jgf4sEAHgJAAAAAAAAAgDg

Now if we are willing to use unicode characters, why stop at base 256? Unicode has 95,000 characters so we could use a base 65,536	number and cut it down to 8 characters, now we're talking! Unfortunately to get it down to 4 characters would require 4,294,967,296 different characters. Even the extended unicode set won't get us there.

But maybe an alphabet with emoji could be practical. You could have smiley or sad faces in your IP address. All kinds of possibilities with that. Though software such as this HN website would have to be fixed to be able to display it. But you know, a long term project.
That very much depends on where you live. It wasn't that bad in the Bay Area because there wasn't a building boom, but in places that there was a boom the prices climbed very quickly and indeed collapsed even more quickly. Las Vegas, Phoenix, Miami and other markets were all hit very hard (60% or so).
Heh. This self-promoting blog managed to come up with all the reasons I chosen to be "minimalist" (with lower case m). Whether this is a generation wide trend, probably not. So many have lots and lots of things. Probably more than we would have if we lived as my ancestors.
Consider the possibility that the government is using this all as a means to convince the public phones can be secure, and that apple's cooperation actually matters.
That's a great question. There's always going to be more money in causing suffering than fixing it, so maybe all of this is just inevitable.
I don't understand. Isn't the court's right to access useful proofs? To me all this seems paranoia.
> If you view their website as a physical store / private establishment, then I assume that they have every right to establish who has access to what and under what conditions.

Not true. There are very specific laws about not being able to discriminate against protected classes of people.

Bars have to serve minorities, bakeries have to cater to same sex marriages, etc.

Where you draw the line of legislated equality within private property rights is pretty intriguing. I have don't have any answers, but lean heavily towards the libertarian bent.
"The earlier of Global's two patents on arrows, numbered 8,449,413 and 8,932,159, has a filing date of 2011—well after German arrow-maker iDV, Gwyther's supplier, started manufacturing its product."
> senior debt

I don't know much about finance so for anyone else like me I'd like to point out that this is not a typo.

> In finance, senior debt, frequently issued in the form of senior notes or referred to as senior loans, is debt that takes priority over other unsecured or otherwise more "junior" debt owed by the issuer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_debt

> What is 'Senior Debt'

> Senior debt is borrowed money that a company must repay first if it goes out of business. Companies have a number of options for obtaining financing, including bank loans and the issuance of bonds and stocks. Each type of financing has a different priority level in being repaid if the company decides to liquidate. If the company goes under, the holders of each type of financing have different levels of rights to the company's assets.

> If a company goes bankrupt, senior debtholders, who are often bondholders or banks that have issued revolving credit lines, are most likely to be repaid, followed by junior debt holders, preferred stock holders and common stock holders. Senior debt is secured by collateral, and that collateral can be sold to repay the senior debt holders. As such, senior debt is considered lower risk and carries a relatively low interest rate. Even though senior debtholders are the first in line to be repaid, they will not necessarily receive the full amount they are owed in a worst-case scenario.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seniordebt.asp

I'm sure there is more to this topic than what I've pasted above. Off the top of my head, I can imagine it is unlikely that the courts would just accept that a company going bankrupt got a super senior loan from the chairman's wife if there is no book keeping that the money actually went into the company and was not a ploy to defraud the actual lenders. I think any lender can take the debtor to court if they suspect malice (This is just my hunch.)
Yes, though in San Francisco it isn't, because the cost of living is so insanely high.
Shorting is very risky, since the downside risk is unlimited if you guess wrong. (Imagine shorting Microsoft based on the low quality of their code, sometime around MS-DOS 1.0.) It's better to buy businesses that will go up when the market goes down, or ones that are recession-proof in general, while avoiding cyclically sensitive businesses and, especially, any sectors that are about to have bubbles burst in them.

If the near future is the unicorn version of the dot-com bubble, its aftermath would be a good time for tech stocks you're interested in.
Sprint.net has the IPv6 address 2600::, which responds to ping. It's super helpful for testing v6 connectivity, as well as being an awesome reference.
I have the feeling Evgeny Morozov could have included this in his "To save everything, click here" http://clickherethebook.com/
The problem with creating two values is that it becomes harder to communicate if you are talking about version x or build x.

I wish semver simply moved all digits up one place. The second digit can then mean 'api break', whereas we can easily use the first for marketing purposes.
GitHub lock-in?
If it catches on, I expect it to be built into every dns library so it does not even hit the network. The idea of grabbing the TLD and then redirecting to a middleman that inserts ads sounds quite profitable though...
>It's a statement about hindsight, not planning.

It's about what to do with your code as it is right now -- at every now.

>IE, if I'm wondering if can I make a 1.0.0 release even if I think the project won't have users until, 1.4.x but 1.0.0 represents a logical core, that scenario is not addressed by the "should probably already be 1.0.0" after the fact tests provided.

I don't think project authors should be worried about making an 1.0.0 in advance, that is, before they have written the code and releases several versions. At which point it comes down to the "hindsight" answer as a heuristic.

E.g. "if I'm wondering if can I make a 1.0.0 release even if I think the project won't have users until, 1.4.x" -- there's just no way to knowing whether the project will "have users" until it has.
Cryptocat was badly flawed and had at least one very serious undisclosed flaw before it was shut down. Do not try to build a secure messaging system from its code base.
You gotta admit, that's better than the other way 'round.
Bread is a luxury to some Yelp employees
‘WarGames’ and Cybersecurity’s Debt to a Hollywood Hack
2012 well known rant...
How will a bust all of a sudden make sure that all that brain talent starts working on something worthwhile? A bust just means that instead of improving their skills while working on something useless, they will instead be looking for work which will be equally useless and they won't be improving their skills.

Say what you will of all the bullshit we fund, every one of those represent projects where talent can improve their skills, and many of these will eventually stop working at a bullshit startup and get recruited by one of the companies actually building something valuable.
Mediamass is a parody site, similar to The Onion but not as funny. If you look on any of their articles, they contain a disclaimer, "UPDATE: This story appears to be false," which links to a page[1] explaining that everything is made up.

[1]: http://en.mediamass.net/blog/mediamass-project
I've been using the command line version of PlatformIO for the past 9 months or so, and compared to the garbage you usually have to deal with when developing for embedded, it's a night and day difference. A nice bonus is you can target several boards at the same time very easily.

Speaking of donations, folks, if you want donations, you have to hook up PayPal. I'm not going to provide my credit card information to a foreign entity just to donate.
If medicine was actually simple enough for a layperson to understand without training, I'd expect to hear more than a few medical students saying, "it's all just a hazing ritual, biology is actually trivial." That is a staggeringly large number of conspirators to have successfully kept a secret.
Your browser/OS should be using font substitution¹ though when it encounters a character that the current font doesn’t have a glyph for. Font substitution is pretty much necessary since it’s currently impossible for one font to hold Unicode’s repertoire of 110,000+ characters; even the OpenType format is limited to a maximum of 65,536 glyphs.

Assuming that it is using font substitution (as it should be whether or not you’ve chosen Sofia Pro as your browser’s default sans-serif font… unless you’ve also changed some other settings too), then the reason those characters show up as question marks is because you don’t have any fonts installed containing glyphs for those characters. (I’d recommend Everson Mono² or Symbola³).

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_substitution

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_Mono

³ — https://web.archive.org/web/20150625020428/http://users.teil...
The FIRST problem is that IPv6 wasn't designed to be backwards-compatible with IPv4.

That is the MAIN reason why its deployment and adoption rate has been a long clusterfuck.
Well, libraries have proper equipment and proper staff. Can you imagine the Vergilius Palatinus cut up for scanning? Turns out, with proper equipment you don't have to: http://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/bav/bav_pal_lat...

The digital plantation OTOH knows no limit to cheapness and shoddiness. The rights owner doesn't want to rent equiment for preservation, they don't want to acquire the material they have rights to, instead they ask someone else to do the work for them, including post-processing. For USD 50. Wizards of the Coast, go away and die.
Good guys DeskConnect: patrons of open source
Options, then. Buy a put option and your downside is limited to the cost of the option; you just get nothing if it's out of the money.

My point is that there are plenty of financial instruments that exist precisely so you can "put your money where your mouth is".
Doesn't contribute to discussion?
So you mean to say the mass production of corn and soy as animal feed is not an example of crop monoculture? Also, how do vegans "kill wild animals" - and are you so sure they do so in numbers of over 150 billion per year, as does modern animal agriculture? I think you are confused. Wildlife suffers mostly from the collateral damage of meat production - deforestation, drought, pollution, climate change, etc. Definitely check out documentaries such as Cowspiracy if you are not convinced, or just search around. Here's something I found about Amazon deforestation:

> A 2009 Greenpeace report found that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon, supported by the international beef and leather trades, was responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[3] or about 14% of the world’s total annual deforestation, making it the largest single driver of deforestation in the world.[4] According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, is used for livestock pasture.[5][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
More typically, the company has the "right of first refusal" -- when a stockholder has an outside offer, they are first required to let the company buy their stock back at the price that the outsider is offering before selling to an outsider.

This is both to maintain control and to avoid having more than 500 shareholders, which triggers all kinds of additional regulations.
New York Times Removes Passage on China from Story on Apple/FBI Encryption Fight
I assume that you had a TV before you upgraded, too? And the one you bought and used for a year is now one year closer to getting replaced. You lost more money then the 72$ depending on how often you replace your TV. In the end you can afford to replace more things more often when you don't have to pay interest on loans.
You could say that - but since the font is such a large "nuisance" it serves as a distraction vector.
I deal with IPv6 day in and day out and I don't share the same confusion and annoyances the author does. Sure, there's a learning hurdle, but once you're over it, it's fairly smooth.
[side note] My guess is that you and the GP share an IP address, so I vouched for this comment.

I can't figure out why follow the path of fixing cryptocat instead of joining with a more promising project (take your pick, they're a ton). Anyway, I was about to tell tptacek that he fell for a troll, and the real new project was Cryptolion...
That's got to be some sort of opportunity for arbitrage.
And one more car analogy. If someone comes up to your car, pulls the door (issues a request) and based on the fact that it opens (responds 200), drives away in it, that would be seen as grand theft auto.

Whether the lock was implemented poorly or you just didn't lock it — doesn't matter.