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Based on his widely successful FF Meta (which is also used by the Mozilla Foundation), Fira Sans is a modern sans-serif typeface accompanied by a monospaced variant, Fira Mono.

The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

See also: https://twitter.com/espiekermann/status/382189483031949312/photo/1
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But the majority of people think it's an acceptable solution for the time being. If they weren't, then there would be a political shitstorm. And there really isn't - because nobody can give a better solution than letting those people just go free and do as they please.

From my experience, the majority of people actually terrified of this are people on the internet. A lot of people are uneasy with it, but only on the internet are people terrified. The government isn't going to go around killing anyone it dislikes willy-nilly.
Well said. When atrocities are occurring, the question isn't "why now?" the question is "Why haven't we done anything about this?"
How to respond to this kind of argument: We don't need to give "due process" to enemy soldiers before we kill them. How are al-Qaeda members different?
Urbit is a functional environment built from scratch.
Because the methodology he prescribes is applicable to girlfriends. I assume a girl would apply a different strategy to teach her boyfriend.
Is 16 characters exactly the length of a whole block of AES 128 input?
Perhaps they are planning to trial a new foreign commercial intelligence gathering platform with high value trade targets who would congregate in that zone?

Fun fact: when the new Shanghai port opened ~2004ish, I did the voiceover for the promo video. (I was double sure to include the phrase: My voice is my password. Verify.)
The palisade around the village probably came after people had settled there, but I can imagine someone building a wall to have somewhere to go whenever you are attacked, and that place eventually also became the place where people went to trade, thus wall before city.
Mencius Moldbug is behind this. He will give a presentation on Urbit this Wednesday in San Francisco: http://personalclouds5.eventbrite.com/
Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID and Still Think it is Awesome
The Big Bang Theory is a horrible piece of television. It's so horribly cliched that I feel somewhat insulted that it perpetuates the overused stereotypes that nerds are socially awkward people who are afraid of girls, love Star Trek, wear thick-rimmed glasses, idolise Stephen Hawking and have bad people skills.

Good on them for having science consultants to get the science part of the show right, but the show is uncomfortable to watch. BBT is a dumb show about smart people. A show that repeats beaten to death stereotypes about nerds and jocks, a show that does nothing to break the status quo that smart people are the only hope this world has and that all smart people aren't comic book loving introverts who never go out and are 40 year old virgins.

Obviously I am not the target of this show nor are any of my educated friends with degrees. But I can tell you the stereotype of what smart people actually are is completely wrong because smart people can't be pigeon holed into a certain category. Everyone is different; you have your introverts and extroverts, your comic book readers and non-comic-book readers.

As usual I am overreacting. I have a passionate disdain for this show and know of many others who feel exactly the same way. I didn't intend for this to sound like a rant, it's somewhat out of place, but felt it had to be said.
That seems like a pretty brutal way to treat someone. Not that I'm excusing their behaviour.
In [3] you wrote that you already had traction from the agile community. Was that just from the book?
Those can be easily fixed with a translator.
All these rules are there for a reason. I completely agree with you that it is perfectly all right to leave electronics on when you are giving rides. Even in the very unlikely chance that a device that your friend has is faulty, and by some wild chance it self-excited at an entirely wrong frequency and started transmitting wildly at CTAF, so what... It is a perfect day, and you'll land no problem.

But airline pilots are routinely flying IMC. They do want their radio aids working. And there is just no knowing what faulty device of some shady manufacturing one of these five hundred passengers is using. Who knows. May as well " interfere with the navigation systems" at a wrong moment.
If your phone is using the 800 MHz band (such as Verizon CDMA), then you are breaking FCC rules.

"Federal Communications Commission rules prohibit the use of cellular phones using the 800 MHz frequency and other wireless devices on airborne aircraft. The ban was put in place because of potential interference to wireless networks on the ground."

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-devices-airplanes
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Very clever. Sternpowered.com
http://store.steaRnpowered.com/app/246720/

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Except for that the Chinese menu wasn't written in Chinese but in English. Moreover it contained an access card to the staff lounge where the customer records were open on the table.
US civilian courts have no jurisdiction outside of US borders, and again, why would such a requirement need to be met for US citizens but not foreigners? Everyone is afforded the same rights (equality under the law).

In a war, there is no legal need to justify killings in front of a judge.

This is all just legally speaking, however. Practically, I think that Obama would be very wise to seek approval from a panel of judges for all authorizations, regardless of whom is targeted. Unlike in traditional wars, the US government is very specifically going after certain individuals. It would seem prudent for the actors involved to seek the legitimacy granted by a panel of judges. But I would still say that the law does not require it.
I think that mainframes are the solution to the problem that some applications run well only on a single machine. Most software has been cluster-fied, but there's one big one that is left: databases.

Mainframes are more expensive per-CPU-unit or per-IOPS. Google has shown that, with the right distributed software, a cluster of cheap machines can be more reliable because you avoid putting all your eggs in the mainframe basket. (The tradeoff is that your software is more complicated and likely introduces new failure scenarios).

So, although mainframes are indeed optimal for today's database, the NewSQL hypothesis is that different database software will be able to run on multiple machines, and so the mainframe will no longer be the optimal solution. This (hypothesized) database would run on a cluster of commodity machines, and should therefore be cheaper and hopefully more reliable. Moreover, just as Google's clusters beat Altavista's mainframe approach, a clustered database should scale to much bigger workloads than the biggest mainframe.

Of course, this relies on a new breed of database.
> Everyone is somewhere on the autism spectrum.

Just because it's a spectrum doesn't mean it's all-encompassing. At some point, it's clear that someone is not on the spectrum. I am willing to bet you're wrong, most of the autism cases are not fringe.
I apologize if that came of as rude. By no way do i think of her as Dumb. (heck she's becoming a doctor! She studies like 5 times as hard as me!) I just meant she isn't that tech-savy (she's too cute to use the words "tag" and "compress" :P) But that doesn't mean she CAN'T learn. Heck she's a VERY fast learner when she WANTS to learn something. And i was just stating my own case not a general rule :) I have taughts tons of people programming too on an academic basis and they turned out to be great developers later on
If you define technology as 'gunpowder', then of course not. But technology is far, far more than this. The idea of the 'dark ages' in this time period is generally scoffed at by historians.

Like, for example, the number 0. It rose to prominence right in the middle of this period. Or in agriculture, we have the birth of the three-field system, which was a massive step forward, along with horse collars and heavy ploughs. The beginnings of the modern musical notation system happened smack-bang in the middle of this period. Cast iron was invented in the middle ages. Naval technology was steadily on the improve, from the Vikings in the middle of the period who reached North America, to the end of the period when the Spanish 'discovered' America, and trading vessels were always getting bigger with longer ranges. Social 'technology' like the Magna Carta acted like keystones for formalising and limiting the power of monarchs. Other social technology sees the birth of federated republics, like the Holy Roman Empire. Windmills became common as a cheaper way to grind grain. Horseshoes came into vogue right in the middle of the period - a significant advance. Vaults and buttresses allowed the construction of ever-greater sizes of buildings - and the wheelbarrow to help build them, simple as it seems today, was a middle-ages invention of significance. And, surprisingly, soap was born in this period. The saddle and the stirrup were also widely implemented at this time, allowing cavalry to take a significantly different and powerful role in warfare.

The middle east in particular is generally considered to have had its golden period during this time, a flourishing place of learning and technological advancement. Admittedly I know much less of eastern technological development, but certainly in the middle east and europe, it wasn't stagnant.

So sure, if technology is "gunpowder", there wasn't much of it in that period (though the same could be said of your armoured cavalry and the period before it). Technology is not "gunpowder" though, and it was continuously undergoing change throughout 500-1500.
No, Weev did not "exploit" anything. He _requested_ information from a server. If the server owner had so desired, they could have made the data private by adding a password. They chose not to. In the end, the decision to offer Weev the data was made _by the server_ .

And if you're going to bring up the UserAgent spoofing, let me remind you that most browsers have done something like that for > 15 years.
government always prefers "shoot the messenger" to actual security. There should be literally be nothing illegal about what he did in that case. he didn't "hack" anything except HIS computer to pretend to be an iPad. And that would be the point of identifying it as a security concern. After all, if he had figured it out, surely the Russians and Chinese figured it out between when he did it and they prosecuted him... it doesn't make the hole go away!!!

What he did is like sticking a GM car key into a Toyota. Generally that doesn't work, it shouldn't work... but what if it does anyway? shouldn't the company that makes the cars fix that?
Every company makes bad decisions on occasion. Refusing to hit the undo button on their bad decisions is the real killer for Microsoft. Microsoft Bob was an optional component from day one. It was never shoved down their customers' throats on the grounds that it was strategically important to the company, as Metro has been.

I wouldn't be surprised if Metro is gone within the first two or three calendar quarters of the new CEO's tenure.
That makes sense with my very limited experience messing with the iMessage protocol. Stands to reason that passwords are being ferried back to them though, there's got to be some financial reason for going to all this trouble.

ED: Their obfuscation isn't actually that severe once you get used to it.
I just got Don Wilsons "FB Ads Cracked" program. Have you seen this?
Having the same problem here...
The next Nixon will bring a reign of terror down on the US (regardless of which party he comes from), using the laws that Clinton, Bush and Obama and others have passed.
They're clearly referring to storing some kind of "hash"/mathematical representation of your fingerprint vs a plain photo/"digital image".
Is there any use to this knowledge? Does it tell us anything else other than for this specific problem? (Just curious)
Not long ago, there was a piece on the local news about a big lightning storm and how a plane was hit by lightning and they had a guy on from the FAA saying how it is nothing to worry about and that planes are designed such that a lightning strike would not harm it. So, if I am to understanding this correctly... A commercial airliner is in danger from my phone with a 3.7V battery but a million volt lightning strike will not harm anything? hmmmm, that does not add up, sorry. About time they drop this obviously ridiculous rule. Now please, the shoes off at the airport, come on.
IMO the real problem is America's Electoral system. Because there is no rank voting, the choices are the warmongering party, the slightly-less-warmongering party, or wasting your vote.

Even if the President had more power than it does now, it couldn't get away with these things if citizens had the ability to relevantly vote for another person/party. They would simply vote for whoever else was closest to their beliefs but not e.g. killing Americans without due process.
While I completely disagree with the (what I hope are troll) comments such as the one you're replying to, one nit-pick: you call him out for judging everything on a single case, then do the same with ADD/ADHD medication. The fact that it works for you doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't "almost always much worse than the condition itself", just as the fact that he thinks he was misdiagnosed doesn't necessarily mean all diagnoses are incorrect / not worth doing.
The parent wasn't apologizing for LinkedIn so much as advocating for an active recruiting strategy rather than a passive one. If I were a recruiter mercenary, I'd look use both.
Comparing the price of metro systems around the world
Not any frequency, the radios have physical limitations that only allow them to transmit on a small range of frequencies. They can certainly cause interference outside of the bands they were designed to operate on, though.
Autism diagnoses are up 78% in 10 years. We're dramatically overdiagnosing it*

Look at the funds being thrown at autism. If your child ain't autistic, no funds and job for all those special ed teachers, schools and psychologists.
This explained all the iMessage spam…
Any advice for someone who has completed just 1 year ?
Fairfax supposedly is working on a deal for 4.7b but they are worried they won't be able to acquire the necessary financing to make it happen.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fairfax-st...
Congrats on being a voice of reason. Like anything, this has upsides & downsides, and it doesn't help anyone to completely ignore one side.

Upsides: At least for the moment, they appear to be targeting people who are genuine threats to many other people.

Downsides: It can be a slippery slope, and how can people be sure such power isn't being abused?

Perhaps one way to mitigate the downsides might be for the agencies involved to be extremely transparent about each case, releasing everything that led them to the decision that they took.
A Dual estimator as a tool for solving regression problems
Steam as it stands is officially focused on Ubuntu but I can run it on Arch without problem thanks to the work done by the Arch package maintainers.

SteamOS obviously differs since it's (by the sound of it) a whole distribution.

But I don't see why I wouldn't be able to continue using the Steam client just as I do now to play Steam games, the SteamOS is from what I understand the equivalent of a streamlined distro for Steam gaming, likely with optimizations for Steambox hardware configurations.

As an end user the choice is mine, use this streamlined distro for Steam gaming, or continue to use the Steam client from my distro of choice. I don't see the problem?
someoen needs to make a conditional statement based on weather patterns to load this if it is raining in the users area.
Microsoft and their partners have been trying to sell to that niche PC-Tablet market since before the iPad was a thing. That market has been proven by multiple players to not exist, or at least not be big enough to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in capturing. Maybe they think its different now due to the iPad, but the market seems to indicate that it is not. People see the iPad as a big phone, not a small computer.
You can pull it off for Trademark infringement
I was more curious as to whether it might present licensing issues.
What can a non-US citizen do? What can a US citizen do?

I don't mean this in a sarcastic or confrontational manner at all, but it is a genuine enquiry - other than raising awareness of such issues to the voting public and donating to foundations such as the EFF - what more can an average Joe do to prevent / reel back these reaches and abuses of power?
> Having citizenship does not protect you if you are an enemy combatant.

Actually in that case you loose your citizenship:

Although a person's enlistment in the armed forces of a foreign country may not constitute a violation of U.S. law, it [may cause] loss of U.S. nationality if an American voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship enters or serves in foreign armed forces engaged in hostilities against the United States or serves in the armed forces of any foreign country as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer.

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_780.html
I agree with you. I also suspect Apple's iMessage system is not nearly as secure as they claim it is. So if someone can post the full crypto protocol, others will find bugs/ backdoors* in it and you will have one more reason not to trust closed source secure communication software.

* By backdoor, I mean the protocol isn't actually end to end secure in the way Apple claims(i.e. safe from NSLs) and Apple does actually have access to messages. Not that the protocol looks secure and they picked backdoored primitives or some secrete key escrow scheme, though they may have done the latee at least in other cases[0]

[0]http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/D1_02_Alex_Ninjas_and_Harry_P...
It's not the use of the characters per se, it's the fact that this app came from a country with a history of state-sponsored hacking and censorship.
If I wanted a bland Windows Phone, I'd go in the bathroom and shit one out. This looks horrible. I'm glad Steve isn't here to see this.
> but it did sort of jump out at me

wtf? This is the kind of shit we're tired of in Sweden. There is a woman talking and why would anyone care when they're out looking to buy HR-software?
>If I was hiring, I'd be skeptical of any developer who would prefer five hours of whiteboarding to some sort of trial arrangement,

In theory I would prefer the trial arrangement, but in practice, if I'm employed, it's not an option unless I'm totally and absolutely convinced that you run the perfect company for me.

Which you probably do not.

If I'm unemployed and searching for a job (which sometimes happens: I like to take 6 month long holidays between leaving an old job and starting a new one), then I think it's a fantastic idea. Provided it is paid.
"It can be a slippery slope".

(A) Killing your own citizens with (B) secret laws / justifications using (C) zero / secret "evidence" and (D) No oversight by a group outside of those who are ordering the killings can be a slippery slope?

That is not the slippery slope, that is the ditch at the bottom once you have slid all the way down.
I appreciate you sharing the link, I missed it on the front page. How fitting! :)

And I also appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.
Very interesting points.

'Google has shown that, with the right distributed software, a cluster of cheap machines can be more reliable because you avoid putting all your eggs in the mainframe basket.'

'Moreover, just as Google's clusters beat Altavista's mainframe approach, a clustered database should scale to much bigger workloads than the biggest mainframe.'

My one comment on those points is that distributed computing solved Google's problem, and of course applies to what many software companies are trying to do (amazon, yahoo, etc.) But do they have an answer for the set of problems where 100% ACID compliance and high-availability is a requirement?
I don't "define technology as 'gunpowder'", it's the article that says the model uses military technology:

>The borders are seeded with military technology, starting with the use of horses. That technology then spreads as societies fight it out virtually.

There are periods in which military technology varied significantly. 500-1500 CE is not one of them.
> it would be prohibitively difficult to get a career in those fields without one.

Is that assertion based on more than emotion? If 20% of all jobs require high-level STEM knowledge as stated in the paper, the degree attainment rate is 30%[1], and less than 20% of the degrees awarded in 2010 were STEM-based[2], the numbers do not appear to add up.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...

[2] http://www.economicmodeling.com/2012/01/11/humanities-or-ste...
Can confirm that it works here.
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Emerging economies need to go green
I really like what you are doing, but after seeing what happened to RailsCasts I am a worried what will happen to this business model once it hits 400+ episodes. Hopefully your "other plans" have this part worked out?
That's dumb, just because someone isn't willing to go to an extreme measure to prevent something doesn't mean that more moderate measures are unreasonable. Banning all electronic devices on airplanes would be a major headache for everyone involved and would probably be overkill, but the risk is still non-zero and asking passengers to turn devices off for a few minutes during the two most dangerous times in a flight is perfectly reasonable.
The cooker that protects glaciers and saves forests
First question - do you like programming? If not get out. If you like programming, get better. Learn algos, lookup open source projects, dig through the code. That is how I learnt. Build something - it could be a website, an app. Try showcasing it, it may open opportunities.
Rich Maniac Still Wants To Build A Real Rapture
A week with the Nokia 1020
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Because if you connect to an iMessage client that also sends your packets to China, the MSS and the NSA get stuck trying to both look at your packets. We call it Two Stooges Syndrome. Your information is safe. No, it doesn't make you invincible
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Banning all electronic devices on airplanes would be a major headache for everyone involved

I think we've seen that this is not a problem for the Powers that Be. It's not as if the TSA chairman ever has to fly coach.

and would probably be overkill

I'm certain that we've seen that this is not an obstacle for implementation by the government.

but the risk is still non-zero

(Shrug) Zero accidents out of tens of millions of flights in which you can be pretty sure that at least one passenger has left their phone on. Close enough to zero risk for me.
First screenshot. Cancle.
Prof. Eben Moglen on Facebook, Google etc.
Nice somebody at least is doing something for NGO'S, Specially free of cost.
What a complete bullshit -

> * This report doesn't include national security requests.

What good is this "Transparency Report" if it excludes an unspecified number arbitrary wide secret information access requests? The one kind that actually ignited the fire under Dropbox ass.

How can they seriously think this could calm and reassure anyone who cares about privacy of their data held with Dropbox?
No, I'm running Windows x64, so it's possible that Linux drivers don't have the same problem. I was being somewhat facetious, but the fact is that I can't run any nVidia driver after 314.22 on my system for more than a few days without occasional temporary freezes and some that require a cold restart. This isn't an isolated complaint. They have a bug, somewhere, that's been there for a few months now.
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