skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it too much to expect that every device should be capable of rendering every unicode point (latest version at release) in at least one font? With the option to fall back to that font if it tries to render something in a font that doesn't have that character?

Obviously there are issues with unicode phishing of domain names and other cases where you might want to signal that a character is "strange", but surely the memory and processing requirements for this are low enough now. It doesn't have to be a good font!
Basically, if you have enough points, you apply for a green card and you get it.

That's it :)
Two Sister Startup Recycles Military Fabric for Vet Jobs
Last line 'There are a lot of sites out there to choose from these days'
Well after seeing this [0] and this post [1] from the other guy, I think that while he might have done nothing wrong, he did get a lot of attention, just the wrong kind [2].

[0]http://i.imgur.com/Na2Xkh0.png

[1]https://twitter.com/manveerheir/status/320064992080691200

[2]theVerge http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/5/4185938/adam-orth-speaks-on..., Neowin etc,

EDIT: removed wrong info about Sony's CEO responding to the original tweet, thanks @maximilianburke
This is a really interesting analysis of the risk of Bitcoin exchange failure, for what it's worth: http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-2.pdf
I'm missing why this is news to anyone. Almost any large company will have language like this in their ethics guidelines. Take this random company, for example [1]:

> Never give the impression you are speaking on behalf of Biogen Idec in any personal communication, including blogs, social networking sites, chat rooms
or bulletin boards.

Others are similar [2][3][4] (search for "behalf of" in the pdfs). This google search will show you dozens of similar documents [5]

This is completely normal. What Orth did was something that no employee should ever do, and particularly not someone in his fairly high position.

[1]: http://www.biogenidec.com/Files/Filer/USA/pdfs/Request-Web-C...

[2]: http://www.demasterblenders1753.com/Global/Attachments_Gover...

[3]: http://www.babcock.com/about/ethics/pdf/codeofconduct.pdf

[4]: http://www.k2m.com/en_us/conduct

[5]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Unless+authorized%2C+do+not+...
Very classy post, especially given that communicating this thoroughly and honestly is (sadly) still not the standard among tech companies.
Hey, thanks for the feedback, had a couple of other mention this me as well, saying they kept trying to drag it. I've added a line of directions as you suggested.

Maybe version 2 will be touch enabled and let you control the wheel to turn to any degree, not just the cardinal directions :)
What is the non-Asian minority percentage of the area where you live and raise your family?

If you live in a city with a high non-Asian minority population (ie., lots of blacks and Hispanics), then I respect your opinion (though I disagree). You aren't asking anyone to put up with anything that you won't accept yourself.
Yup :) I'm involved with the docs.

While it's true that everything can be done in the browser, "saving = committing" there so I prefer to use the terminal and emacs.
Thank you for your answer...the thing is I want to publish just a simple 2 use free tool that maybe would help others, I am constantly thinking of small tools to develop to improve development workflow and tools that developers need so any feedback is welcomed.
Jeans or not, if you ride enough, often enough, hard enough, and long enough, you will

* Bonk.

* Get lost.

* Get soaked/frozen because the weather took a turn for the worse.

* Get roasted/bathed in sweat because it got a lot warmer than you planned on.

I have hours of anecdotes for all of the above, despite dressing in the best possible gear I had/could afford at the time, and riding the best possible bicycle I could afford at the time (gears, brakes, etc...).
There is a flip-side to your argument you have failed to realize the existence of.

The US is indisputably the most powerful nation on earth, with an elite workforce that combats any other's. Don't you think smart people in India are more needed by India itself, to take care of serious problems in India, than to optimize ad-serving algorithms in America?
My guess is they have really narrow elitist concerns about bringing high skilled foreigners into Silicon Valley, but they figured out they can't pursue that goal stand-alone. So they're hitching up with the broader suite of treason-lobby mass immigration and amnesty interests.
Facebook acquires stealth startup Osmeta
I've been meaning to do this with Firefox but haven't been able to get around to it :(
Unfortunately, the article you cite is similar to OP's article.

In this paper we intentionally and explicitly skirt the question
of a “threat model.” Instead, we focus primarily on what an attacker
could do to a car if she was able to maliciously communicate on the
car’s internal network. That said, this does beg the question of how
she might be able to gain such access.

While we leave a full analysis of the modern automobile’s attack
surface to future research, we briefly describe here the two “kinds”
of vectors by which one might gain access to a car’s internal networks.

So, no, they didn't ACTUALLY dial a car's 3G modem. That is merely a theorized attack vector. There is no proof of concept here.
Yes, but how do you gain points?
It's fairly commonly used amongst core devs and on the python-dev mailing list. It's rarer in the wider ecosystem because... most python developers don't really refer to dunder methods often enough to need a shortcut for it.
Not the proper fix.
"... tends to lock people into one job and reduce their negotiating power."

I thought this was the case, too, but is this a false belief?
That is not exactly how it works in Australia. You get enough points, then you qualify for the visa, then some office worker arbitrarily decides if he feels like giving it to you.
abd-s works on 1080Mhz which should further improve range.

Rough back of the envelope calculations give a range of about 300nm for an aircraft at 37000ft
Thats surprisingly accurate. Blair seems (to me) a more manipulative person, but nice summary.
Let them build their own new Jerusalem.
We have a launcher-based approach in the works too. IMHO it's not going to sweep the world, and neither is FB Home.

Strategically, the big problem all such approaches face remains, and it may even get worse as Android matures. Google owns that OS and controls its APIs and rules for extensions.

Anyway, Android 4 doesn't even fit on 256M phones single-core phones, where Firefox OS is entering the market. It is priced out of the launch countries.

So taking a high-end-focused Android-only approach of "[do an FB-Home-like launcher] instead" does not make sense tactically or strategically.

"Also" rather than "instead" can help, we're exploring in the context of Firefox for Android and the Web Runtime based on it -- but it's not exclusively & clearly winning such that we would bet Mozilla on it.

/be
From fwd.us: "program must also include an increase in the number of H-1B visas"

There's no debate about this, like some theory of quantum mechanics. These are a bunch of people, many billionaires, who have banded together to push forward their class interests - to enrich their billions even further, at our expense - at a time when the unemployment rate is above what it was, from 1984 to 2009 (aside from two months in 1992). They are very well organized. This message is being typed on a web site of a wealthy person whose face is plastered on fwd.us.

It talks of the "tech community" and shows that little weasel Mark Pincus as a supporter. Pincus who robbed employees of their options once the startup lottery was won. I guess we the people who actually work the long hours, Ron Conman, Pincus, Rabois and all the people featured all all together in one big "community" where we all want more H1-B visas.

It's not a topic of debate, your statements on it just reflect which side your bread is buttered on. There are those of us who code and maintain servers and databases and routers, those of us who create all of the wealth. There are those - the VCs, the incubators, the angels, and especially the old aristocracy of money these middlemen get their money from, who are parasites on those of us who create wealth.

There is no debate like whether BSD or Linux, or vi or emacs is better. People have a class interest, and their feelings about this are just another way to affirm that fact.
I can't tell if this is actual news or an Onion-like parody.
It's OSX. From Lion onwards apple added a fullscreen API in the core OS, it's garbage (especially when using multiple monitors) and yet many softs which had previously implemented their own correctly-working fullscreen mode switched to it.
You get points if you are skilled in a job the country needs, you have X years in your field, you have a bachelor's degree, you have a master's degree, you fit into certain age brackets, you have an Australian spouse, you have other family in Australia, you have a job offer, etc.

http://www.isa.com.au/points-test
Let me tell you about my worst first day.

I got to work half an hour before my manager and sat in an empty office by myself. When the manager finally showed up, he gave me a box that had a new computer and said "Here you go, set it up." I didn't have a keyboard, mouse, or ethernet cable and I had to go scrounge them second hand.

I spent the next week pretty much doing nothing but reading through manuals and talking to nobody but the cafeteria workers.
U.S. House panel focuses on SEC's crowdfunding delay
I second the above - get it on GitHub tonight - you will get feedback - esp if you do a show HN and it is always better to code knowing someone is going to read it - you put more care in naturally.

Edit: release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it,
release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it,
release it, release it, release it, release it, release it, release it,release it, release it, release it
I don't think the belief is false, else I wouldn't believe it, but I like to think I'm open to evidence that it is false.
> Mt. Gox is at $120 right now

Actually, Mt. Gox has no active market now so the last quoted prices there are irrelevant.
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Author here. I've pointed people to his book for a while, but they tend to come back with questions. I'm hoping this'll help.
He's an adult, and an experienced professional, and had been working in the job for a while.

Compare his situation with that of Paris Brown. She's 17, employed as a Youth Consultant. Tweets she had written before she got that job, when she was just 14 (maybe 15) were found, and thus there was a pile on calling for her to lose her job.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22070354)

Some people supported her. Others didn't.

She left her job.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22085693)

Her tweets were really offensive; but kids are stupid and it's a shame we can't let children make mistakes (and then learn from them).

I guess people are going to be more careful with their interview process from now on.

EDIT: in general I tend to see anything that someone writes as their personal opinion, separate from their employer's position, unless it's a statement from the company on headed paper (or an official account); or unless the person has said "this is what the company says". It's weird to me to link someone's views to their company.
If you are wondering if this is real news or not, just look at previous posts:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/
Curated content > Social content.

I have been in the SF bay area, NYC, Europe and looked up TripAdvisor all the time. I tried to see if Foursquare provided any more useful information. Unfortunately, none.
Yeah, we'd like to get Wordpress out first. Perhaps Drupal and MediaWiki after that. Let me know if there's something else you were thinking of.

By email, do you mean like a weekly summary?
It looks like he's using my drone ground control software mavelous as a front-end to control the simulated target aircraft: https://github.com/wiseman/mavelous
This piece is satire, for anyone who was confused.
It's not serious. See tags: humor.
It is a joke. The Borowitz Report features current events satire pieces, such as Kim Jong-Un moving his Transformers collection to the border[1]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04...
Is Your Startup Really a Startup?
Mt. Gox is not at $120- trading has been suspended per TFA. That price was what it was at when trading was suspended, and because of the suspension it has caused the price to crash at other exchanges.
Problem is that these walking dead keep engineering talent locked, and it's extremely hard to hire for smaller but viable start-ups...
The "Keyword: HUMOR" at the end of the article should be a hint as well.
In response to RailsCasts ep.413 - "Faster Tests"
Whoever thinks this will open the floodgates to cheap labor has got it backwards: the current situation is creating a class of employees who are one step above indentured servitude.

Not all H1Bs are created equal either. Some don't allow multiple reentry (or reentry beyond a 6-24 month period) due to some arcane reciprocity issue. So once here it can be a risk for many to even visit other countries and in the very least it's a hassle.

Many come to the US with the intent of moving here permanently if they're able to. Frankly, considering some of the countries they come from, I can't really blame them. They simply want a better life for themselves and their families. In doing so they may end up separating themselves from their families for a significant period of time.

The current process of getting a temporary wrok visa (specifically, an H1B) just creates artificial hoops to jump through of "proving" you can't find someone locally. This system is already completely compromised and has been thoroughly gamed. Now it simply enrichens lawyers who specialize in it.

But the payoff for many temporary workers is immigration and here is where the indentured servitude comes in. For high-demand countries (China, India, Mexico and the Phillipines IIRC) the delay between making an application and getting approved is years. 6+ on EB3, 4+ years on EB2.

The problem is that employers know this and can (and do) hold people hostage with artificially low wages (because the "prevailing wage" is far removed from reality) and those workers simply have to put up with it.

I suspect most of these employers aren't startups but are corporate bodyshops who don't really care about the quality of their employees. They simply want someone to fill a seat because, hey, charging a huge markup on their labor to some contractor further up the line anyway. Large corporate outsourcing and particularly outsourcing from the government seems to be the main cause for this particularly racket.

If someone is willing to employ them, then that largely should be the barrier that has to be met. It isn't quite that simple however as this could be used to bring people over with true indentured servitude much like what happens with illegal immigrants. People smugglers bring in people who then have to pay back the debt with much of their take home pay for years (this is how people smuggling into Australia works).

So you have to somehow verify that the employment is legitimate and the worker isn't being exploited. The simplest way to do this is:

1. Make work authorization easily transferable;

2. Make such transfers not reset the immigration process (the current system does this; the new employer has to start again); and

3. Make immigration automatic after some period of time, say 3-6 years so people can't be held hostage with it.

All this talk of "they're stealing our jobs" is horribly misguided and ill-informed about the reality of the incentives created by the current system.
It's fixed now. Thanks.
Depending on your geographic location, this could be a lot of fun and really open your perspective. I've considered moonlighting as something similar to this (minus all the American Beauty connotations).
Pretty much, if they want a flood of worker in a certain industry, then they give you points if you have exp in that industry.
Having employees be free of any consequences of what they say on the web (or otherwise) is a bad idea. Do you want your employees telling your customers or competitors what your next product feature is?

Uncontrolled PR is an all around bad idea, and it's why many companies explicitly forbid saying anything about the company.
Not really, javascript provides very little core behavioral hooks for instance: no creation hook (new/__new__, yeah you can return your own instance in the constructor but it'll still build an instance regardless), no general attribute-access until proxies (method_missing/__getattr__), no operators override (save through toString/valueOf hacks and that won't work for []), no conversion hooks (again, aside from toString/valueOf), etc...

Compare and contrast: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#special-me...

Ruby provides roughly the same level of hooking (not sure it allows overriding instance or subclass checks, but it allow overriding things Python does not as well), but JS most definitely does not.
Ask HN: B2B vs B2C idea? which one to chose for first startup?
Hi All,
I work full time as an employee. But like most HN readers, I aspire to be a successful entrepreneur one day and hence me and my friend are working on
www.salesmoto.com and www.community.salesmoto.com
But this idea is in B2B space, we experience very slow growth and a lot of struggle to compete with big guys.
Obviously, a b2b idea doesnt catch up like an app or like other b2c ideas.

I need your suggestions. Do you think its better to start with a B2C idea for your first venture? What kind of ideas are relatively easier?

thanks!!
How are you doing the calendar feeds? Using a caldav server or just static ical files for download?
You seems surprised that the title was link bait, I assure you it was quite intentional.
The H1-B visa is granted to a company, not the individual.

Employing someone via H1-B means the individual faces deportation in addition to losing their "great job."

In my not so humble opinion, the H1-B program is a way for the industry to suppress wages for all potential hires.
It looks like the API doesn't give access to the whole shape of a ship - only its centroid position and the direction of the sharpest vertex. Do the other vertices not matter? In any case, we should probably be able to compute which edge we would be splitting and stuff like that.
Doesn't windows have a standard windows installer for python? Why are we still teaching beginners Python 2.7? What is wrong with python 3?
The comparison here oversimplifies. Avionics engineers are on this thread saying there's no physical/logical connectivity between RF and flight control systems. But that's not true of cars; we know cars do have at least some RF controls, and we're far less certain of the connectivity between CAN devices in a car than the avionics people are of the connectivity between ACARS and flight control.
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If you show the world you are an a*, you should expect that to effect you in real life...
I also have to disagree with quite a bit of this guide. Most windows systems are configured to simply do a `pip install numpy` since they often are missing the specific compiling tools to properly install these packages. For Windows vets, we've probably all seen the "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" at one point or another.

I've found the easiest way it to point to 3rd party installers that often already have the key c-based tools you'll most often use. PythonXY, WinPython, PortablePython or Continuum's Anaconda. But you have to take the "bloat" with many of these, although PythonXY and WinPython allow you to select what you want and don't want.
It weird that amazon would move in this direction to split up their customer base onto different forms of currency.

Microsoft is rumored to be tearing down their XBox points system so that there is less fragmentation in payment across their product lines.
Ask HN: What would happen if Bitcoin value went lower than the cost to mine
If mining bitcoins became unprofitable and people stopped doing it en mass, then who would verify transactions? Would the system cease functioning correctly?
Will numpy actually cleanly install with `pip` or `easy_install` on a system that doesn't have the proper version of Visual Studio? If so, that's news to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170855 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5174832
You are free to analyze existing recordings, if you like. So you could make entries and study their recordings. I don't intend to document them during the contest, though. As for sending info out during the battle, probably not. Although - you are free to do that with the sandbox, of course. It all runs in your browser.
"There are human beings..."

Please, what are we the biggest fools on the planet? This sounds like the people who'd get on the news and play some liberal middle class melodrama about why the U.S. needs to free the Iraqis.

This is a naked power grab by billionaires and VCs and such. It is about as bare a naked power grab as can be imagined. Please take your mawkish nonsense somewhere else. "Cruelty and selfishness beyond belief". Yes break out the violins, some IIT graduate not being able to get an H1-B is the cruelest fate imaginable in the world. I'm glad Rabois, fresh from (accusations of) sexually harassing his underlings at Square, and Pincus, fresh from robbing his employees of their options have become such humanitarians.

A bunch of billionaires make a power grab to fill their pockets with money, and you make a desperate, mawkish comment such as this. "Anyone who who dare question these billionaires humanitarian motives...are conspiracy theorists thinking its an 'evil plot'...'I can't over emphasize my absolute disgust'....barf.
They explain why at the end of the article. See: "A note on Python versions"
Is it correct to refer to this as a virtual currency? Isn't this just a sort of prepaid debit system like MS and others use in their own markets?
This is exactly right. Bitcoins are not a good idea for casual investors who can't/won't manage their own security, or can't bear the loss in case of a breach. If you want an unregulated, untraceable currency, that's the price you pay.
This move essentially splits Amazon off from the Play ecosystem. I mean they already had their own store which people would "invest" in, but adding a currency/gift cards/freebies will only increase the lockdown/isolation further.

I'll leave it up to the reader to decide if this is a good or bad thing but for me: I am skipping Amazon's ecosystem in the foreseeable future and sticking to a more open alternative (namely the Play store, which works on most Android devices - including Fire tablets).
Well. I can't go to tumblr.com now.

Deleting cookies worked :P
That's a function in one of the sample codes I wrote, so it should be in the same file you encountered it. It likely uses some of the lib functions defined on the documentation page.