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I was actually surprised as well - I bought a powerful machine like 16 months ago, when i7 became available exactly to get a lot of RAM. At that time, 300$ got you 12 Gb.

Also, SO-DIM became quite cheap: it is really affordable to get 8 Gb in a laptop (IMO, the difference between 4 and 8 is big because @ 4 Gb, running more than one vm on mac os x is not so practical, whereas at 8 it is a no brainer).
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I'm OCRing a bunch of TIFF files with tesseract, and while it works to some degree, it's nowhere near as accurate as I'd like it to be. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong and I could tune it to my liking, but I can't find too many resources on tesseract. Am I missing something?

Any other recommendations for OCRs? Ideally it would be free, but I'm willing to pay if it's not too pricey.

I've been trying out the trial version of FineReader, and it seems to work pretty well, so I may go with that.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 32GB of RAM in a workstation is perfectly ordinary.

I look around me and most of new systems have 4 GB of RAM. It's possible to have 32 GB of RAM, sure, but it is absolutely uncommon, and blatantly unnecessary (none of my own desktop machines have more than 2 GB).
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If I remember right, this was right before Firefox 3.6.4 introduced out-of-process plugins so Flash has its own process to crash instead of taking down the whole browser.

Of course, for some reason the Skype plugin is still capable of crashing it...
I never know what to think of CEOs, founders, and large institutional shareholders selling a proportion of their stock. Everyone seeks to cite a benign reason for selling, they wouldn't want to hurt their investment, but inherently isn't selling a sign of a lack of confidence?

The article cites the idea of diversification - which at face-value seems harmles - , but is this a lack of confidence in the stock? Diversification implies to minimize risk, and that is reasonable only if Eric Schmidt thinks that there is significant risk that Google will underperform market (or at least his expectation of return in a different investment). Unless he has a specific purpose in mind with his extra cash-flow, I would imagine this can only reflect poorly on Google's future expectations.

Here's to hoping that Eric Schmidt only wants to live extravagantly for next couple of years.
I for one welcome more group-deal sites, I think we all win, as long as they are reputable.

I wish however Google instead had taken on PayPal more directly and more intensely and even make an ebay competitor (google base will never be ebay or even craigslist).

PayPal/Ebay is rolling in profit, I am not sure why Google doesn't want some of that.
I like the quote from Macchiavelli about entrepreneurship. Gives you a clear heads-up about the level of drivel to follow.
I've never paid for domain privacy and rolled my own instead: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635193

Since writing that post I've switched to using a real, physical address and I list my company's phone number instead. As far as I can tell, none of the junk mail, phone calls and spam I get (which is hardly any at all) are due to my whois information.
i7 920, clock for clock, made a huge difference over my Core 2 Q6600 on the desktop. I estimate it was between 2 and 3 times faster, both overclocked to 3.4GHz, depending on whether I was doing a build of the source tree, or transcoding a video.

Definitely not "blah".
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Deployed on production already (http://cdn.mybucket.co/static/js/jquery-1.5b1.mini.js). I minify it using Crockford's jsmin script.

We happened to use http://www.infinite-scroll.com, which also bind to window scroll event as well. Let's see how it goes.

Thank you so much for all the hard work that goes into jQuery.
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It's about time they put to use all that information they've been hoarding. I'm excited.
What are the power usage / heat production implications of that much RAM in a system?
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I built Chromium from source the other day on my machine with 4GB of RAM. It hit swap while linking. Also, I'm running a 64-bit Linux distro. A 32-bit system I tried could not link Chromium at all.

All of this is documented in the Chromium wiki, of course. But the point is, 4GB memory is their minimum requirement, and insufficient for doing a lot of work on a project like Chromium.
We are doomed because big business is protected by politicians on both sides.

It's too late now and it will never be banned.

And why the heck does the USA continue to do welfare for the corn industry which is massively profitable.
Sorry, accidental downvote (big thumb, small screen).

I'd like to add that, partiality aside, the Monsanto's argument is fallatious and unconvincing (appeal to authority). Give me data from independent, properly designed studies, not the mere opinion of experts.
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Interesting timing, to say the least...
That's because it's an extension, not a plugin.
I mean what I said when I use the term Front-End Engineer. The people who have built the parts of YouTube that you touch on a daily basis fit very nicely within the traits I have outlined and I would most certainly call them engineers through-and-through. They sometimes have to design elements on a page. They sometimes have to code back-end services and infrastructure. They have to run the gamut between the disciplines of web design and computer science on a daily basis. I would NOT say that Google lacks respect for web design. I am saying that finding people who are hybrids of web design and computer science IS extremely challenging, even for Google.
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Am I the only one concerned that Google is acting more and more like Microsoft?

Initially it was courting Groupon, and no doubt got a chance to dive deep into the bowels of the beast - and got a no holds barred look into their business and books, and because they got rebuffed or the deal fell through, they now take that knowledge and build a competitor.

This not the first time either. If I am not mistaken, that's how Google Buzz came about. They wanted to buy Twitter, kinda went through the same process (if I remember correctly) and then when it fell through launched their own version.

I, for one, am no fan of copycats - but competition is good. It keeps Groupon honest.

Kinda concerns me, though, that Google has become more bare-faced with this type of action.

Still a google fan though, and won't be migrating my gmail and Google Apps accounts any time soon.

Just saying!
No, its not. I just installed Skype yesterday, and the installer doesn't even mention the plugin. It just installs it.

I immediately disabled it because it has caused problems for me in the past.

The installer does ask if you want to install the Chrome toolbar.
A bigger problem is newline handling, which no one can seem to agree on.
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Sweden ranks above the US on the most current list on that page. The other two lists are older data.

Also, size and population don't figure in to the comparison. You have to divide by population or the result is that the richest countries are countries like China and India, and the poorest are countries like Monaco and Luxembourg. And that's silly. If you can choose portions of countries, such as a state, it's too hard not to cherry-pick.

PPP seems like a good idea. It was devised to reflect that ten dollar buys a giant meal in Kiev but barely a BigMac in Zurich. But once you research it you'll find PPP seems specifically formulated to make Americans feel better about themselves. The basket of goods used to compose PPP is so American-centric that instead of de-skewing the results, it skews them further. The result is a joke.

But to be fair, it's easy to agree to disagree on this. Which country is richer is impossible to quantify in a meaningful way because it has to take into account quality of life, and being qualitative, will change per person.
Corn is an Iowa thing; Iowa has the first Presidential caucus in the nation: U.S. Presidents are beholden to corn.

Bear in mind, this is a gross over-simplification of the core problem (e.g. Archer-Daniels-Midland seems to have an amazingly powerful set of lobbyists), but it should still give you a sense of what's what.

Setting aside native sons (Tom Harkin 1992; plus, Clinton's 'bimbo eruptions' didn't help), you have to go all the way back to 1988 to find a Presidential candidate who won without carrying Iowa.
"The scientists concluded that orally administering one kilogram of the corn into the mice was fatal in 100% of cases"
Little known fact: Google's secret algorithm is not PigeonRank[1] but PeopleRank. Those 20,000 people are constantly counting <a> tags across the web.

1. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
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That just means we need to move to a three-dimensional process. Speaking of which, aren't memristors supposed to be layerable?
Most underrated executive of all time? Google's been incredible under his tenure, blown away the wildest projects, and yet Schmidt's press has been kind of neutral to bad... actually, that doubly sucks because it seems like people get upset when he says true-but-uncomfortable things instead of just giving politically correct non-answers.

I think as time passes, his reputation's going to grow even more... that was one of the greatest decades of any company ever.
i was thinking more or less the same. i'm running on a 40GB SSD now, with about 25GB to spare...
Buying an i7-950 right now is also a terrible idea, since the Sandy Bridge i5s are faster and cheaper:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=288
Diversification can be prudent and doesn't necessarily reflect lack of confidence.

Example: pick the stock in your portfolio that you are MOST bullish about. Why isn't every penny you own in that stock?
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Unfortunately, just like roads[0], all that memory will be filled up and used.

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I have to ask, did anything else change at the same time? Although the i7 920 is a fearsome chip, and a great upgrade over the older 65nm Core 2 Quads, anything approaching even 2x performance per clock I'd probably consider an edge case. Sounds like there was probably another variable in there.
Since most applications are still 32-bit, most users are still OK with 4GB. Case in point - games on PCs. I upgraded my video card at least 3 times in the last 3 years but the main memory of the PC has always been 4GB and i have no problem with any game.

Sure I am really glad that my work PC has more than that, so I can open several IDEs with large solutions and not worry about memory, but for home - I still don't see a need to upgrade.
I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.)

I have seven plugins listed and I only installed two of them.

2007 Microsoft Office system - Installed with Office 2007
Google Update - Installed with Google Chrome (??)
Java Deployment Toolkit - Installed with Java (on Firefox blocklist)
Java Platform - Installed with Java
Picasa - Installed with Google Picassa
Shockwave Flash - I installed this
Silverlight - I installed this

In the extension category only two are there that I didn't installed

FiddlerHook - Installed with Fiddler (not removed after uninstalling Fiddler, uninstall button greyed out in Firefox)
Java Console - Installed with Java
what about gocr? its opensource see http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
For contrast, I am working on an honours project proposal to develop a blogging system (yes, I know, but I have a novel twist) and I plan to target it at 64Mb VPSes -- partly because at that level it's price competitive with shared hosting.
Ho, hum. Of course they are selling. And will continue to sell. This is perfectly normal for the big insiders in any successful tech company. Because of portfolio diversification.

Back when Microsoft dominated the industry every year there would be similar stories about all of the Microsoft insiders who were selling shares. People who didn't understand would jump up and down. People who did, would know that it was entirely expected and a non-story.

In a few years you can expect to hear the same about Facebook.
I installed this stuff recently, after playing with Inferno for a while. I couldn't get Plan 9 to boot on real hardware or in qemu until a couple of years ago, but once I got up and running, the documentation was a little less than satisfactory (there are man pages and research papers, but not many "getting started with X" or "how to do Y"; maybe I've been spoiled by Linux, where howto's have been prolific for 15 years).

acme is really cool, even moreso now that there is Linux kernel support for 9P2000, so you can mount acme's filesystem and write programs in any language that does I/O to do arbitrary things to windows and text. rc is also the nicest shell I've ever used.

Plan 9 has always been a research OS (although I wonder if, had it been opened up at the right time instead of staying at Bell Labs, we might all be using it now). But the ideas in it are gradually making their way to the rest of us, which is what I'm really excited about. Things like the aforementioned 9P2000 support in Linux, libixp, wmii's use of 9P for scripting, and even Inferno are pretty nice. (Can you imagine if all of those horrid, monolithic GTK/Qt /Cocoa apps were as scriptable as acme is? Even the ones that give you a scriping language pale in comparison.)

Although I don't really use Plan 9, having the ports around has been great for showing to people what I get so excited about (although that's just a fraction), and the 9fans mailing list is possibly the best one I'm subscribed to. You hear more on that list about interesting software architecture and UI design than I thought possible. It's a great place to lurk.
For anyone that's interested, two related techniques are called "throttling" and "debouncing".
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What about things that are beyond the current technology, like Babbage's analytical engine? In general I agree with you, but should a numerical simulation or logical proof of feasibility be able to substitute for a demo?
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eBay is certainly an aging service. It has had very few significant feature changes since perhaps 1998 or so. However, it does have a fair amount of competition (amazon and craigslist being the best examples). Most of the competition for eBay comes in the form of catering better to particular segments of the market. Craigslist caters more to the yard-sale segment (timeliness, locality, and just-getting-rid-of items being more important than maximizing revenue or selling/buying niche items). Amazon caters to small, niche sellers (people selling lots of used books, or trans-shipping medical supplies, etc.) More competitors will come along targeting more and more segments of eBay's current market.

Paypal is a different story. It's a very much harder business on the fundamentals. One of the world's largest financial institutions which has grown up in the blink of an eye and faces problems on a scale that no other bank in the world faces. Criticism of paypal is often fair, but sometimes it's ungrounded from perspective (of the "garsh, why don't these piece of junk hover-shoes work right?" variety). The real criticism should be toward our archaic banking systems and regulation. The services that paypal offers should ideally be built into any old bank account, but they aren't because the system is so heavily regulated and still married to outmoded ideas.
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That's why I prefer "Buying RAM is for people who don't know how to write Algorithms." found in the comments :)
Just to clarify, the $20/month Linode I'm referring to has 512MB ram.

I'm just using compiling as an illustration of CPU performance. You'll have the same problem when running unit tests, for example. You can only spend so much time on forced coffee breaks before it gets old. Or you can have a very tiny test suite.
but what if you have a power cut?
The author said this in one of the comments: "Numbers were not reported for two states, one of them being Florida."
iPad ..
I've lately become very addicted to Objective-C, after a few months of hacking apps for iOS .. and I'm finding myself wishing I could use it at my day job (OS developer for safety-critical systems) .. its just such a sweet language, very friendly and easy to use.
To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care. There's just .. lots

As much more of a hardware guy myself, I've always been frustrated by this path of thinking. Sure, it's convenient for you as the programmer if you don't have to think about resources, but it always feels like the growth in hardware performance is mostly consumed by more and more needless resource usage.

Always reminds me of how cars are getting more and more efficient, powerful and clean-burning, and yet mpg is only barely creeping upwards.

Alternatively, an anecdote from my father- he was once tasked with upgrading the capacity of a company NAS, which was a few hundred megabytes, that was closing in on max capacity. He arranged to bring on some 20x that capacity, thought "well, this should do the job for a while", and it was filled in a matter of weeks.
Strong upvote. I'm one of those, but not on the server market.

3 years ago, I purchased an Asus Republic of Gamers motherboard for 400 dollars. It was the most expensive component in my PC, and I hate it every minute of every day.

All my work is in bootloaders, but this motherboard has a terribly, terribly buggy BIOS. Restarting the PC is not a fun thing to do with this 400 dollar PoS.

Of course, the only reason BIOS upgrades failed to address this is because only a few thousand were ever sold... and mostly to gamers and not hard-core computer engineers.
Or better find WebObjects 4.5.2 (latest 4.5) - it's OpenStep/NeXT/Cocoa precursor for Windows. It has gcc, objective-c, debugger, sampler, etc.

Or Cocotron... wait - you can't compile with it on Windows... But if you want to use through Common Lisp, then ClozureCL started using it.
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Note to Googlers.

If there's one thing I learned from working in Yahoo during its crazy rise in the early 2000's, it's that you should sell when your founders / CEO sell!

Our stocks were almost doubling every 6 months, we thought we were invincible! Many of my colleagues joined when Yahoo stocks were at its highest, so they were holding off for more gain. I was lucky enough to have joined when it was close to its lowest at $9 a share, so I happily sold some. Boy am I glad I did.
+1 I use the same approach: repeatedly split the task into smaller tasks until you've got a list of tasks all the same size. I don't think I've estimated down to less than half a day, however: I've never been comfortable coming up with fixed hours-per-day number for the team. (As long as you can get enough work done in a 24-hour period, and I can get hold of you when I'm in the office, I don't care when you do it.)

However I'm not entirely comfortable with applying fudge factors like "multiply all estimates by four". I'd rather try to gauge the confidence that we have in our estimate: either by planning poker, or by coming up with separate worst case, best case and expected estimates.
Is that 12W continuous, or just 12W when the motors are moving the head? It seems to me that it should be possible to run an audio interface and two cameras on 2.5W (theoretical max USB 2.0 power). A DSP performing acoustic echo cancellation and depth calculation and a bright IR emitter could add another few watts, but I don't think that accounts for 12W.

I've got a Kinect at my desk, and the power supply is rated for 12V at up to 1.08A, or ~13W total. My Kill-a-watt shows it drawing ~3W at idle, ~4.4W running just depth, and 4.6W running depth and RGB. Running depth, RGB, and the motor only gets me up to 5W.

The Kinect power supply lists 100V-230V at 0.3A. Using the minimum voltage, that's a peak draw of 30VA. The power supply has a measured power factor of ~0.44, which if maintained to full load means it could draw .44*30=13.2W. Somehow I doubt the power supply is actually 98% efficient at its normal operating range, so in a laptop where a 12V supply is already available, the additional power draw of a complete depth sensing system could be under 4W.

To sum up, I think you could successfully integrate depth sensing into a laptop that already has a camera and microphone array, especially considering that the sensing field will be much smaller. Please correct my estimation if I've made any errors.
It's possible to register non-profile extensions in the registry, specifically so software installed on the system can be shared across user accounts, and be installed/uninstalled orthogonally to Firefox.

The downside, of course, is that Firefox doesn't know how to uninstall these extensions. You can of course still disable them, which has almost exactly the same effect.
Really, you just have to weight the cost of the upgrades against what that time is worth. A week of engineer time is cheap compared to upgrades if your code runs on hundreds of thousands of machines.
Went trhu the youtube hiring process a while ago.

recruiter told me the interview would be just like google's. And i should study classical algos and python/java/C++
Studied it for 4 weeks until the day they wanted to call me. first question was a javascript one where the interviewer wanted me to remember the getElementsByTagName(*) solution. Heck, 4 weeks watching MIT algo classes and reading TOC and doing the exercises in python or C, i couldn't even remember proper JS syntax on the spot!

Think that was one of the most awful interviews i had. got so nervous on that 1st question that i blanked out trhu all the rest :)

back on topic, i got 5/5 on this list :)
1. degree in design related area
2. learned FE before BE (could do a little desktop and embeded before the web tough)
3. Still prefer pure JS for my personal projects (at work it's YUI, and open source contributions are mostly jquery nowadays)
4. Who aren't? :)
5. first job was at a newspaper