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Ask HN: Ideas for digitizing historic significant computer magazine collection?
(Australian context, but input from anyone on this topic would be valued).

I'm starting work on a project to get a historically important computer magazine collection professionally digitized for preservation and release to the public.

There are at least ten years worth of monthly magazines there and we want to get every page including all the advertisements digitized. Doing it well would be an epic task.

Any ideas, thoughts or input on how to get that done to a high quality, with great respect for ensuring the source magazines are preserved?
Liability.

If the NSA was actually forced to be liable for the damage of their hoarded 0-day's should they leak, that might have a bigger effect than any 'guidance' I would imagine politicians might pass in a law. I hate to suggest something that involves yet more lawyers, but its amazing how effective that can be to make people in charge do some serious risk-assessment analysis about what they hoard and for how long.
WD files for arbitration over Toshiba chip unit
i have eeebox from asus, it has a dual core atom inside. i run docker on it. so it has my nexcloud, plex ,etc on it.
If Google/Waymo wants to be running the whole business end-to-end, they'll buy up Lyft for its established network. If not, then Lyft will just be the pilot customer, and will probably end up competing with later customers.
I was specifically making a point about what 'misconstrued' means, particularly given the OP wanted to flag everything. I realise you don't read every comment, but I go into more detail in the first paragraph only two comments down. It wasn't meant to be insulting, but using the (now edited) comment's own requirements against itself.
> entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine

By default only. You can easily disable that. It always made me worried that anything in wine got access to my system, even though I normally wanted something closer to an isolated instance, so I always disabled that.
Ohh, do you mean Youtube? They seem to be doing pretty good!
in all these things the pedants win, because every one else says whatever...and goes outside in the sun
Lyft actually has higher rates (for the driver) than Uber.
I actually bought this as a result of seeing it here. I can totally see how this would work. I'm excited to try it out.
Wondering if someone will reciprocate JASTA [1] against the U.S. in respect of these attacks. Given this involves the American government indirectly distributing exploits against an American company, the chain of liability seems tight.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/204...
How sweet. When are they going to stop fucking over their employees? Oh right, never until they unionize.
I don't always tip, but sometimes you meet a driver who deserves a tip or seems like they might need it and it's good to have the option to do that without using cash. The tip is entirely optional and $0 by default so there is really no downside to offering this option, even for people who will never use it.
Ransomware cyber-attack a wake-up call, Microsoft warns
Hey cyber techbros, smugly yelling 'patch and back-up' won't fix ransomware
The CockroachDB team did put up a blog post that talks about the tradeoffs.

The pertinent part was: "Spanner always waits on writes for a short interval, whereas CockroachDB sometimes waits on reads for a longer interval. How long is that interval? Well it depends on how clocks on CockroachDB nodes are being synchronized. Using NTP, it’s likely to be up to 250ms. Not great, but the kind of transaction that would restart for the full interval would have to read constantly updated values across many nodes. In practice, these kinds of use cases exist but are the exception."

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...
Ask HN: Crowdfunding for software projects?
Let's say I am building a bookmarking site and want to crowdfund it's development. $20k for 5 months of development. Backers get N dollars in credits. Do you think it's possible to use Indiegogo or Kickstarter to fund the development? Any examples of simple software projects that have done this?
Jesus, do some research, you don't get to criticize Alan Kay
Why would you need a recipe tester for recipes from an award winning restaurant? The audience likely isn't regular home cooks, rather professionals and serious 'foodies'.
> I don't understand how people can believe that that is the intent behind the actions taken.

Because knowledgeable policymakers can be presumed to intend the rationally foreseeable consequences of the policies they champion.

> Do people really believe that the outgroup is comprised of inhuman monsters?

No, the monsters are human, which is far worse but something that history shows really happens, and not at all infrequently.

> The people in the outgroup are people, individuals each with their own beliefs, preferences, tastes, values, experiences, relationships, etc.

Yes, and people with their own beliefs, preferences, etc., can have vile beliefs, preferences, etc., and there are plenty of historical examples of political movements where at least the leaders did so, and either spread those to their followers are used propaganda to get backing from followers with different beliefs for actions that served the leaders' beliefs.

Believing that it can't happen, or can't happen here, is indefensible and contrary to all evidence.
Using the word "hacking" in this scenario is just like saying someone "broke in" by using an old key. The correct word in that case would, of course, be "trespassing".

Instead of "hacking", we need to use specific and correct terms.
probably because both have the goals of being encyclopedic sources of knowledge, and successfully complete this goal following reductionist policies, and its a hell of a lot easier to follow a strict philosophy than a lenient one (because the latter invites heavy legal discussion by armchair lawyers, while the former minimizes it).

In short, likely because its efficient and apparently sufficient
Thanks for the response. I should have been more explicit, but when I said BTC n/w I meant a consensus sort of thing from users/miners.
Thanks for your explanation regarding the need of a fork to achieve this even with consensus.
teslas don't have lidar, so it's hard to say how useful their data will be in the long term
Are you the owner of the spreadsheet? If so it is missing many x86 options like Udoo, JaguarBoard, UP board and others.
Parent wasn't saying it was based on technical limitations - they were talking about the market leverage that broadband providers have in monopoly markets. By that view, 5G is important for how it changes the market rather than how it changes the technology.
Not the poster you're responding to, but in my experience the black car service is head and shoulders above uberx or normal lyft - drivers actually _know_ the cities they're driving in, there's no bs about tipping or wanting you to go to some odd pickup location that's more convenient for them, or canceling sketchily because your destination is out of their way. It's just press a button, get a reliable professional ride, no hassle, which was uber's original value proposition, but which you can't get with their standard service anymore.
They may not be sending data back home via the mobile network, but you can bet your boots they make exhaustive logs of Autopilot disengagements and store them locally to be siphoned off at the next service.

I wonder if they have WiFi base stations collecting data at Supercharger points? That's what I'd do.
Seattle and Silicon Valley are converging
A cursory analysis of the bitcoin addresses for this malware suggests that sending US$300 in BTC can be difficult. I see sends of US$178, US$189, US$332, US$280, US$362, US$220, etc.

Possibly the amount is negotiable, or the amount to pay is different across different geographies. (edit: Looks like this exists, based on the Economist's Big Mac Index: https://www.recordedfuture.com/fatboy-ransomware-analysis/ )
Thanks for the comment.
I'm not sure if it was a typo, but anyway the link was to my google drive, which is definitely no dropbox...
I hope google doesn't have maximum views on their content...
Let the Matriarchy decide who is deserving of a hot cooked meal and who is "homeless enough".

I puked a little, reading Amazon's announcement.
My problem is that it feels like they could have been much more useful.

Annoyingly often it is also the most useful questions that are closed while things I consider trivia style/karma-farming operations like: "what is the reason for x" seems to be totally OK.

I too find those trivia questions and their answers interesting but IMO they are a distraction.
Except it's just a fact that your company punishes its employees for getting sick or pregnant.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2291301-aclu-ad.html

Other workplace abuses - especially at warehouses - are very well-documented at this point.

Please, please, please spare us the PR.
Similar to the deletionists on Wikipedia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_i...
> The people in the outgroup are people, individuals each with their own beliefs, preferences, tastes, values, experiences, relationships, etc.

Um, duh?

It's just ironic considering the Republican hysteria about Obama's "death panels", rationally known as end-of-life planning. I guess in/out-group demonization isn't an issue as when Democrats were the out-group?

Now the Republicans are proposing changes that will lead to higher mortality rates (read the CBO report), and suddenly death isn't an issue.

I do understand the fiscal conservatives argument for these changes, the price of human life versus death... that does little to dull the irony, and nothing to gain my support.
I enjoy math books like:

- e; The story of a number (Eli Moar)
- An imaginary tale; The story of -1 (Paul Nahin)
- The Poincare Conjecture (Daniel O'Shea)
- The man who loved only numbers (Paul Hoffman)
- Prime Obsession (John Derbyshire)

They're part biography, part history, and give a little colour to the subject that isn't available from your typical college textbook.
It can power 2.5 inches usb HDD with no issues. All you have to do is get an official power adaptor and set max_usb_current to true.
They specifically complained about single men or men disconnected from their families not being served, so they probably did read that bit.
Care to explain? I pretty much exclusively buy Dell laptops. Their linux support is pretty good these days.
How to prevent an attack from internet is really a big problem. More open the system is, more dangerous the system maybe. like this attack, the macOS and Linux is safe. Maybe just because the system is not that open and malicious program cannot get some access to do something bad. And usually the update to prevent some kind of attack is later than the attack itself.
That's changing, because 4.9 kernel is being worked on. Although it is currently buggy, that won't be the case for long.
Do many people think that bombing the patients is the acceptable answer?
One page reference of all things #WannaCry
Compiling to categories [pdf]
FWIW, ffi is just a third-party node module, which makes it pretty similar to Neon. Both are solutions that require you to write a bit of glue code and both have their caveats/pitfalls/landmines. Which one is the "right answer" is situational and neither is universally correct. For instance, if you needed to call into both Rust and C/C++, ffi might be a cleaner solution since your JavaScript could basically be the same for both. Using ffi can also be more dynamic than Neon, so if you wanted to do something akin to Java's URLClassLoader that downloads and runs native code at runtime, using Neon would make that a bit harder. The main difference between the two is where you write your glue code...with Neon, you write your glue in Rust and with ffi you write in JavaScript.

BTW...I'm a big fan of Neon and have even sent in a PR for an issue I found. I've used it to write Google Cloud Functions without having to write a single line of JavaScript and it's been pretty easy to work with. Rust is the perfect language for Cloud Functions/Lambda since those services are billed per CPU time/memory and Rust has very little overhead in those regards. Writing services that use the minimum allowed resources makes using these serverless platforms very price competitive with running your own servers, even when you reach a pretty considerable load. I do find the current direction Neon is headed (using macros to essentially write JavaScript code in Rust) to be not particularly useful (I'd rather my Rust code look like Rust), but the project is already at a point where I can build around it, so I'm not complaining.

Anyways, your comment seemed to imply that ffi was part of the Node platform and that it wasn't appropriate for production, and I disagree with both of those. Ffi is just a different approach that's suitable for different situations.
Norwegians are building the world’s first self-driving, electric container ship
I get that it changes the monopoly. But if the rules allow tired access, there's nothing guaranteeing that mobile providers won't do the same.
Recipes intended for home cooks from a restaurant are generally, as I understand, not the preparation methods actually used in the restaurant, because home and restaurant equipment is different, and restaurant cooking relied on par cooking and other techniques to optimize order to delivery time.
> Apparently the r&d costs in this space are higher then lawyer fees. Otherwise why wouldn't they dump some money into r&d and get some patents of their own to cross license with Qualcomm.

I'm sure there's plenty of cross-licensing already, but
Qualcomm gets close to 80% of its pre-tax profits from patent licensing, so they have asymmetric incentives and are in very different bargaining positions. (Source: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21715705-its-biggest-...)

I'm highly skeptical of patents as a whole, so I do find it hard to cry tears of sympathy for patent warmongers like Intel, Samsung and Apple, even if Qualcomm is a particularly bad actor.
> SE and Wikipedia are two of the most valuable reference resources human civilization has produced

Again, this a pull quote that couldn't even be asked to be written. Pure gold!

Wikipedia is entertaining, valuable ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_...
A good reminder to run wine as a different user...
This is what @twitter needs to do to make discovering worthwhile information better.

Hashtag spam makes #hashtags mostly useless as a method of discovery.
There's no taboo, there's just not enough evidence to rule out incompetence.
Why would you ever think that 5g would come without criminally low data caps?
I'm in the bay area, and I've chatted about this with many drivers. People USED TO drive for both, but now Lyft has enough network traffic that they're too busy to flip between networks.
There are very few free/open-source operating systems that get security patches for as long as Windows does.

Major versions of OpenBSD are only supported for 5-6 years. Most Linux distributions only get 3-5 years. Red Hat promises 10 years of support, the same as Windows 7/8/10. None comes close to the 13 years that Windows XP was supported for.

So you're gonna have to update anyway, at roughly the same interval if not more often, as if you had used an enterprise edition of Windows.
Imaging tech here. Remote logins from vendor service staff are very helpful when stuff breaks
as they can order parts or suggest fixes without coming in. They also track things like helium levels and water temperatures.
Problems in these areas can be very very expensive. Losing a hour can be a loss in thousands in revenue very easily, let alone a few weeks of scanner time and tens (or maybe even low hundreds) of thousands in helium and parts.

Other reasons for network connectivity include retrieving and sending image sequences and data files (basically the actual scans) which is done all day everyday.

The more alarming part is the retrieving of raw data which is the unreconstructed scan. This involves attaching a memory stick that is supposedly clean and uploading to that. Generally this stick is stuck into any old researcher PC and files are off loaded. Vendors don't particularly like this but getting 10-20 gig files off the scanner via command line is pretty clunky at the best of times.
Not so sure about "epic task," mostly just "labor-intensive" task, coming from someone who's built a few book scanners and preserved material in a few different ways.

Lots of established practices in this area, but it all depends on time, budget, and level of effort. Are you looking to do it yourself? Do you have a budget? Do you need to do it on-site or can you ship them somewhere? Are you expecting to preserve the physical magazines, or do you expect to destroy them in the process?
Ask HN: Anyone AWS, Google, Digital Ocean or Azure? Unikernel Support Please
How can we get millisecond boot and teardown time on your cloud computing platforms, along with suitable pricing?

What can be done to officially request such functionality?
Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science (Book)
> Software doesn't wear out

Software does wear out. New languages/frameworks are developed which makes it difficult to patch older stuff. New threats are developed, and it may be impossible to patch older stuff.
That's extremely doubtful. There are already programs in place for low income households to get broadband for almost free.
Probably when American consumers will be willing to pay 10% extra for every purchase.
Hoping to get government grant funding from the various history preservation programs.

I wonder how much approx it might cost to get professional digitization done of ~ 120 to 150 magazines.
I'm curious why would you enforce that from nginx itself, rather than put the app / nginx under a cgroup with appropriate limits.
On even board to flip a square, hit square and hit all other squares in the same row and all other squares in the same column.

To flip 4 squares in a 2 x 2 arrangement, hit all of those 4 squares.

What makes the bigger grids hard is the size of my little finger.
What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)
It didn't - I'm mostly curious what people's thoughts are on things.

For what its worth, the mirror selection software we're using [1] won't send you to a mirror that has a modified file. If a mirror is doing something malicious (and that doesn't catch it), builds are signed and can be verified [2]. Obviously there's some level of trust involved (build infrastructure isn't auditable, android builds aren't reproducible).

[1] https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits
[2] https://wiki.lineageos.org/verifying-builds
Tried http://www.taggernews.com/tags/aws/ and didn't find any results. Is it because it is listing only few tags for now?
The page constantly re-renders on mobile - worst "responsive design" coded in JS ever seen.

Firefox market share is in free fall for months. Sad, but no wonder. They don't care about users. Support the old API as long you call your browser "Firefox". Fire all your "designer" that mess around with the UI - they habe too many off them, they are bored and change the look way too often. I removed the update service, and use Firefox only for local development and reverted back to the old Firebug. I would be interested in Servo plus an HTML based UI from them - but I don't wait for them, it see,s it will take 2+ more years for a useable version. I would have assumed the support the current Firefox with XUL until then, but without old API support and without XUL support, there is no reason for Firefox anymore. Chrome and Safari are far ahead.
How do I check? I'm using stock ubuntu and VLC.

Edit: looks like it's not. Maybe I'll try to fix it later, but probably not. That should really work out of the box. The hardware definitely supports it, per vainfo.
I understand what you're saying, but they're still very magical to me. They are taking something that is a non-linear operation in R3 (like a translation) and making it linear by using a trick and giving it an extra dimension.

This is somehow very unsettling to me. (what is the set of operations that can be linearized like this?) I wish I "got it" better
The real question should be: Can Microsoft write an OS that does not have to be constantly patched, month after month?

We know they have written such things as part of research. But still they continue to release software that is unfinished.

They have trained their users that failure to update is fatal. No doubt, if they are using Windows.

They also like to conflate "update" with "upgrade". They use these security problems in Windows to scare people into upgrading.

Windows 10, whether they like it or not. As others have noted, by design the new versions are not safer than the old ones.

Retroactively fixing reported issues does not make a new version more secure by design. They could just as easily fix the issues in the older version.

Can this company get anything right the first time? Will they ever design a system that is secure?

Do they have any interest in doing so?

Are they incapable?

There is nothing wrong with releasing something simple, secure and finished.

Does MS believe Windows users are not worthy of a secure OS?

I think Microsoft Research have contributed to development of L4 systems that run on baseband.

Do these systems have the same vulnerabilities as Windows?

Fixing problems after they occur (past problems) is admirable but other free opens source OS written by volunteers accomplish the same thing. The question is whether the design of the system is such that future problems are avoided.

Does Microsoft believe Windows users deserve more security? Can Microsoft deliver it?

All indications suggest the answer to both questions is no.

With no viable alternatives, no one can blame Windows users for sticking with it despite red flag after red flag, but it makes no sense to defend the Microsoft approach to security for Windows users. The company has no respect for Windows users.

Being responsive to a constant stream of reported vulnerabilities is an improvement from 1995 but as we can see it is not enough. Their software is still full of mistakes.
They need to prove they can make something that is secure by design and that they are willing to do so for users.

(Truthfully, they probably do not need to do anything.

Quotes of 80% of Windows installations being tied to purchases of hardware are probably not far off the mark.

There is no selection of OS by most computer users.

A majority of users still get Windows pre-installed on the computers they purchase.

Microsoft could completely ignore users and it would not hurt their business, as long as they continue to maintain relationships with hardware manufacturers.)
> but then it would cease to be as fun and rewarding to really understand

Mathematics is fun to understand because it is [artificially] hard to understand?
Why do you assume that homeless women are homeless because of abuse and not drug addiction, while homeless men are homeless because of drugs or PTSD? These assumptions seem incredibly sexist, especially in light of the fact that the current opioid crisis is affecting women disproportionately.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/08/31/opiods-...
Yes, they really should. Some important facility should not use window anymore because it is too open to the public to hold an attack. Or the hospital's computer should not be connected to the internet. Most of the time the computers within a hospital are just doing local task.
i guess its safe to say those cars have hit a few million nyc potholes in their lifetime
Snapchat uses Wifi Direct to transfer HD recordings off their Spectacles.

Perhaps you mean you'd like to see other apps with source available that perform similar mesh networking?