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I have a fond memory of Mike, with his cheery wicked smile, on a sunny afternoon riding in an open convertible, charging through traffic-clogged streets in Boston, heading over to the Bitstream offices, blasting powerful classical music (unfamiliar to me, who only knew blues and rock) on a crystal-clear sound system, which reverberated off the office buildings downtown, while Mike punctuated the music with sharp wit, deftly negotiating near-collisions at high speed.

For a poignant account of his later years, and his struggle with Alzheimers, see the blog written by his ex-wife and steady friend, Sybil Masquelier. The entry "The Farewell Tour" describes their final trip to New York in 2011 to receive the Type Designers Club lifetime achievement award.

http://mikeparkerfontgod.blogspot.com/
yeah I figured I contacted a few sales guys on linkedin but they weren't interested.

I have some stuff built and I have very good knowledge in this area I'm pursuing. There are some existing enterprise guys like kapowsoftware.com that I'm trying to emulate.
But it's trigonometry, not anometry.

Really, the unit circle is important because it's the unit circle, not because it's the unit circle. A circle is 2π angles. A triangle is composed of the same kind of angles, which means that, because the diameter of the circle doesn't matter (because it's a unit circle), then it's less important what the lengths are than it is how the lengths relate to one another. I.e., what factor of a unit vector as compared to what other factor of a unit vector.
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I'm no designer, but I got 14/20. I guess my years of using Macs rubbed off on my subconscious.
It can't. Because of index sizes it would mean incompatibility.

But it's not really all that much of an issue - just use the mb4 character encoding.

The hard part is knowing you need to :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7316606
I like pointing out to students of classical mechanics that the first year is all about pointing out ramifications of one assumption, one mindlessly simple, underwhelming equation: constant acceleration. If you know a bit of calculus. It goes from being a terrifyingly large amount of memorization and calculation to... "Oh."
Interesting, pretty much every system has insane things in it. Is postgresql an exception?
Sounds like the OP should read "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" over at: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Worse, on my desktop, it pushes the system load to 50% CPU (that is, 100% of a core) while scrolling with the mouse wheel. That's unacceptable.
If the above reports of not Apple not pinning their certificate, then this isn't secure enough against any adversary that can compel or hack a CA to issue you a certificate in Apple's name.
The latter appears to be not as hard as you might imagine.

And the recent fail in their SSL/TLS library means you don't even need the help of a CA to create a certificate Apple software would consider valid.
Apple cannot prove they aren't reading your iMessages.

Sure they could. They could change the protocol and UI so that the users could verify and pin keys, and they could publish the iMessage source[1] to allow people to check it and compile it themselves.

Whether they should be expected to do these things is a different issue, but they could.

[1] not necessarily under a liberal license - for example, PGP was proprietary but allowed people to download its sources
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This problem is trivially solved -- force new SEC hires to buy one or more market index funds and put them in a blind trust for the duration of their employment.

Historically, market index funds do as well as active portfolios (on average), unless brokerage commissions and tax implications are included in the assessment, in which case they do better (a fact proven by the now-famous WSJ dartboard contest). So SEC employees would have a more profitable portfolio than usual for the duration of their employment, and they would avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

How is it that this obvious solution hasn't been put in practice?
I'd absolutely concede that the sine function is more about a circle than it is about a triangle. If you could really say that the sine function is about a geometry at all.
The srcset attribute by itself can't do what you ask; it only lets you specify multiple resolutions of an image, all (intended to be) the same size.

But wait for implementation to finish, and you'll be able to use the sizes='' attribute on the <img>, or the full <picture> deal, and that'll give you more control, letting you load a smaller image if the image would take up less space.
Does anyone else just see squares instead of whatever unicode symbol it is supposed to be? I'm using Chrome 33.0.1750.117 m
Reading this paper makes me want to see an album of the illustrations!
The impact of Helvetica is quite significant, there even is a documentary about it, called Helvetica! check it out its really great. (It includes an interview with Mike Parker)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/reference
>It's not pretending to be the opposite sex for one game that's the problem. It's pretending to be the opposite sex for almost EVERY game. It's pretty fucking wearying.

Sorry, that seems like a personal hang-up to me.

For most games I don't pretend to be the character, I play the game. The character is usually too discordant with my own self-image for identification or is just a mute pawn (eg Gordon Freeman/Chell).

For games like decent RPGs where I can actually make the character I want I regularly play female characters.

And seeking role models in games seems just bizarre to me. Lots of game characters are "bad ass" but exceedingly few are decent role models (Lara Croft is an awful person for damaging archaeological evidence and stealing other cultures relics).
A blind person using a screen reader cannot see your ads. Is he committing piracy?
You would basically already do that with mobiles. When people use for talking they keep them <1cm from their head. And while 70mph is indeed great speed people sometimes take high speed trains (200mph) or don't turn off their mobile on an airplane (~300mph in vicinity of ground)
HAV could deliver tonnes of supplies to remote areas by air
I'm pretty sure that's intented
On Windows and with Chrome, yes.

On iOS 7.0.1 it's a colorful thumbs down.

Internet Explorer 11 shows a black/white thingie which might be a thumbs down with a lot of imagination. Firefox shows the same bitmap.
Oracle does seems to make limit queries much harder than they need to be. I wrote an article about limit and paging queries in oracle ages ago that may interest you, but you probably have it all figured out now.

http://betteratoracle.com/posts/18-limiting-query-results-to...
Certainly not! However, its WTFs per minute count is far lower than MySQL.

I started off my career as a PHP/MySQL developer. PostgreSQL is definitely years ahead of MySQL. It used to be that MySQL had far superior read performance for simple queries, but that hasn't been true since around 2006. Also Postgres' SQL optimiser is really good.
In my experience, it has fewer "insane things in it" than MySQL.
Is there any reason this same technology wouldn't work with light? Wouldn't that be a phased light array?
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Good one Apple. perhaps design a website that can actually play videos on a system that's not your shitty OS?
You should be able to do LIMIT in Oracle using http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2006/06-sep/... . If you want a standards-compliant way to do it, you can use the ROW_NUMBER() window function. This might not be as fast, but will work on virtually every DB except MySQL...
It's an emoji thumbs-down. You should be able to see it using Safari or Firefox on OS X. There is an outstanding Chrome issue related to this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435
The new "Security through trust in big corp" model.
It's a Unicode thumbs down sign. You must not have any fonts with that glyph. It works fine for me in both Firefox 27 and IE 11 on Windows 8.1
If you have access to the private keys, which I'm assuming as I'm not talking about users trusting the system but rather researches identifying malicious use, then it's trivially easy to verify that the public keys being used are those, and only those, that correspond to the correct devices.

It's not a good system, but it's also not one that is impervious to detection of malicious activity.
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If you can test everything manually with confidence that every incremental change breaks nothing you've ever thought about prior to the present, I suggest you work on more complicated things. Otherwise, you're mistaken.

The irony is that AngelList allegedly generates funding for real engineering teams.
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When the purpose of your software is simply to record data, saying you support a particular encoding when you only support _some_ of it is pretty irresponsible.
> Science confirms: Internet trolls are terrible people

Wait, what? "Science confirms"? Mainstream psychology isn't scientific, and this is social psychology, which doesn't even make good fiction.

As usual in psychology articles, even the title contradicts itself -- science doesn't confirm (prove) anything, it can only support theories with evidence, while disproving a few theories along the way.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/building_science
It seems to me that you're the one confusing concepts. MySQL originally didn't support characters outside the BMP, fine. But since the encoding is completely different from that, a real UTF-8 would have automatically supported astral characters as soon as MySQL supported them.

The fact that MySQL itself gained support for all of unicode, but did not use this support in the 'utf8' encoding, shows that it is not actually UTF-8.
Inexpensively replicating key-value databases for suitable problems is the "flavor-of-the-generation."
https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount

"Playback settings" > uncheck "Play next episode automatically"
Ask:HN If x.com is $1.5M then how much x.net should be?
I contacted owner of a particular x.com domain for which he/she asked for $1.5 million. It is beyond my reach. I see a domain registrar company is sitting on it's x.net version and asking for around $5k. How much should be the offer price?
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Here's a harder question: is it ever possible to deduce causation based on data alone? We all know that correlation does not imply causation, but is there anything that does?

If not: prove it. And if yes, under what conditions exactly?
Actually looking at the results isn't "changing the criteria", it's looking at the results in a more nuanced way than null hypothesis testing.

I would have said that looking at chronic health outcomes after just a few years was probably a losing proposition, and asked to see some power calculations, or a longer term analysis plan.

I've done so for other studies. Was actually grousing about one in a meeting...two weeks ago?
I always thought of `autocomplete=off` to guard shared computers. I've turned it off for CC fields but the intention is that if you're on a shared computer the security outweighs the browser remembering something such as a credit card number.

I don't believe people type values into a form realizing at the moment that the browser is saving it for future uses.
> PostgreSQL is definitely years ahead of MySQL

I guess this does not apply to replication, upserts, etc.
Well, I think I will just grab some popcorn and wait. It will be fun to watch how those who never bothered to learn MySQL (and by this I don't only mean its peculiarities) will get bitten for not bothering to learn PostgreSQL.
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Yes I'm deep beyond correctness and now want to make it fast...

Oracle is like COBOL; the only techies who like it are those whose job security depends upon it ;)
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Steve Perlman always comes across as a snake oil salesman, but I didn't think he could do OnLive either, and that technology works fantastically. As a result, I'm pretty excited about pCell, even though it's being preceded by a wave of marketing hype.
> That an encoding can encode a particular value does not mean all applications using that encoding will support that value.

And yet you have to change the encoding of a column to support storage of non-BMP characters, even though the UTF-8 encoding supports them just fine. Where's the sense in that?
You need a font which supports emoji. Android, iOS and Mac OS X should support it out of the box, on Linux I had to install a font. I'm not sure what the situation is on Windows.
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I basically chose MySQL because of familiarity for the most part, but I think I'll definitely consider an alternative for my next project...
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Presumably after the Crimean War, otherwise Dr James Barry (http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-A-Bu-and-O...) could never have succeeded in her subterfuge.
For anyone thinking of using utf8_general_ci, it's also seriously broken if you care about sameness of characters at all.

For example, utf8_general_ci treats u and Ü as the same character. They are very much not the same. Your sort orders for international texts will be all over the place if you use utf8_general_ci.

Use utf8_unicode_ci instead.
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Sorry to rain on your parade, but don't you like idea that computing device is independent from others and does not require network connectivity 100% of time when you want something done?
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http://lesswrong.com/lw/qr/timeless_causality/
The elderly don't suffer from "being old". They are simply more likely to suffer from various events, and have more complications, then younger people.

Being old is just a series of increasingly severe health events till one of them kills you.

Even people with dementia don't typically last longer then 10 years (which is the sort of time frame you're looking at for people who recover from cancer to stop racking up bills).
I didn't know HN was about success.
Then I think we agree on everything, my ignorance of the details of x86 assembly language included! :)
That's the entrepreneur's dilemma. How do you posses enough passion and confidence to make it through the tough times but known when to call it quits.

It's the single most difficult part of entrepreneurship. It actually gets harder the further you are along the path.

If you give up too early on all your ideas the decision has marginal difficulty. The more you're invested the more difficult it is to decide to throw in the towel.

So the more you progress as an entrepreneur the more difficult it becomes.
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I disagree that worse policy outcomes are strictly necessary to propose a need to fix the system.

There are already demonstrable and massive distortions between what Congress debates and invests effort in vs. what the populace is preoccupied with vs. what these interests are preoccupied with. That means we've derailed the original intent of democracy/the Constitution.

Either you ratify a change to the constitution to make that okay, or you make whatever changes are needed to prevent this from continuing. You don't leave something this central to law & order in this country to be bypassed just for the fun of it.

> It all comes down to policy, even for Larry Lessig. His turn toward reforming the entire system only happened after the system produced an outcome (on copyright extension) that he strongly disagreed with.

You should watch the video. You are implying post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning here, and that's not really how it went down. He was working on what he thought was his part of the problem until his definition of "his part of the problem" was changed, and it wasn't changed by his failure to get the outcome he wanted.
That's smart. I typically hit Ctrl+R then use keywords from the path. Not flawless, but only a few keystrokes when it works.
TV has usually about 5-6s delay for live events, add a second or two for HD content. 1 minute delay might be in case of legal issues (where broadcasters are bound by law to add a delay) or some very convoluted video signal distribution.

Delay matters most in case of live betting and live score. There is whole industry around this, I am sure you've heard about bwin.com or bet365.com.
Every child certainly doesn't learn the term "monoid" though. The issue here isn't the concept; it's the terminology.

Possibly, C++ should adopt the name anyway, but it's by no means a commonly used or understood term by most users of C++. As has been mentioned, C++ is above all a language whose design is driven by pragmatism, so if another more common term can be found for the idea of a monoid you can bet it'll be preferred (even at the expense of some literary accuracy).
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I'd break it into two categories. There's software that expects you to be an expert.

Then there's software that's designed to allow lay-people to get stuff done with the promise that it will hide the nasty things of the world from them.

Microsoft Word really is the perfect example of this. The main use-case it's built around is being a lovely place for a new user to write and print a small document. It captures users from this simple use-case, and then tries to upsell them to large document and multi-user scenarios with madness like mail-merge wizards and sharepoint.

The promise of Microsoft Word is to bring functionality to users while shielding them from the nasty realities of the world. It's reasonable to be vicious about it when it fails to protect the user from themselves.
I freelance full-time. Networking is important: I get most jobs from previous clients and referrals. LinkedIn is a good place to point prospective clients to, not necessarily a source of jobs.

I wrote an article a few years ago about successful freelancing: http://typicalprogrammer.com/tips-for-successful-freelancing...

I get jobs through an agency that takes a cut. They are worth it to me because I travel and work remotely, and finding jobs in the US is harder when you're in SE Asia.
> by listing the trusted devices which you're encrypting against

More precisely, on a user device: list the contact devices and key fingerprints. Adding a contact's device: on first exchange show fingerprint and ask for trust then pin the pubkey. Warn should the key change. What remains is for parties to exchange fingerprints in a peer to peer side channel (possibly even physically via bluetooth/qr-code).
That isn't why stuff doesn't turn out. It usually has some problem or another which is being assumed will be "solvable" by the time they release.

Never solve it? It's never released.

Alternatively, it does come out, but its gains are just evolutionary improvements not revolutionary.
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Wow, what a paradise. Total control made simple, that's what I see...
Except for the part where you need an huge array of transmitters with backbone bandwidth equal or greater the number of devices they may be serving simultaneously.

In which case those companies just start doing fiber installs to wireless stations, not houses, at roughly the same density.
A vague problem like this is really not cool. At the minimum your readers deserve that you update the article.

Say that there is a case insensitive version. If you want add that you had some problem but that you don't know if it had anything to do with it or not.

The problem you had was probably because of the difference between utf8mb4_general_ci and utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
This bit me pretty hard. I was trying to debug other Unicode issues an application had, and in my infinite and enduring wisdom decided to use one of those "turn text upside down" sites to generate sample data. Turns out they use a bunch of very high codepoints (Mormon text or something) and MySQL choked on them. Took me ages to figure out that was the issue.
The deal with the Koch Brothers is that, for example, they are (or at least were) to a large degree bankrolling Tea Party in a huge way, but most Tea Party supporters saw the movement as a purely grass roots org. The other thing is that the specific agenda they are advocating seems like it'd cause quite a massive transformation on the country, yet that change doesn't seem to have a lot of currency with the general public.
Please drop the font-size property on a elements to line up the columns.
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So in order to be convinced that Perl is a force to take seriously, we need to read two entire books?
Holy shit! How does this not have thousands of upvotes?

It's a masterful presentation -- the likes of which I haven't seen before. I reckon I got a similar feeling that so many did when they heard MLK speak. If you read about leadership, this is it folks. You tell very compelling stories that inspire you to action not because you want to follow the likes of Lawrence Lessig, but because you believe this cause is very important. For someone to kindle that passionate response is an art form.

And then there's the issue. It's a no-brainer: attack the root of countless legislative problems--campaign financing, the corruption.

I grew up the first part of my life in a country that is terribly corrupt and when I look at the US, the place I now call home, the only difference that I see, is that it's legal here. I was outraged at the Citizens United decision--in my mind, that was one of the worst decisions ever because it continues to legitimize a farce of democracy that we live under today.

tl;dw (ie, too long didn't watch): watch it for a lesson on leadership and get outraged at campaign financing!

edited: typos, toned down the hyperbole to avoid distracting from the message.
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Well, first and foremost: why is it possible for SEC employees to trade stocks at all?
I supposed some sort of ethic barrier was in place, at least for those exposed to sensible informations...
Ask HN: Founders, how should I spend my summers while in college?
I'm a sophomore studying Business (also developing technical knowledge through extra-curricular pursuits) and I'm currently applying for biz dev and sales internships for the upcoming summer. However, as an aspiring entrepreneur, I'm not sure that an internship is the best way I could spend my time. I think that there might be something that I should do instead that I would enjoy more (not that I wouldn't enjoy working at a company I like) and that would provide me with more valuable experience. Whether it's starting my own company, freelancing, studying through MOOCs, or participating in programs like Lightspeed VC's summer fellowship, I want to know your thoughts on the decision process that I am going through.

TL;DR: if you were still in college, how would you have spent your summers?
That's were magnetos helmet comes in. In all seriousness what material (or device) could stop this from working?
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