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A great find. And some of this argument is very simple even if you don't do a lot of assembly programming; for instance:

* that C-code interpreters force the compiler to do register allocation across the slow paths of all instructions, even though the interpreter dev can in this case definitely predict which things need to be in registers;

* and, the optimizer in the compiler makes it hard to tune the code for the 20% that does 80% of the work, where an assembly program can hoist the slow path code out of the I-cache entirely.
Please, share your best sources. Russian is my native language. I lived in USSR (Central Russia and Far East, Ukraine, Georgia). My children were born in Russia. Don't mind if I take your literature with a grain of salt though.

PS: And I know for a fact that it was not possible to "get high-quality milk and cheese into peoples' stomachs without American notions of "profit"" in USSR for any reasonable period of time.
Nathan, we'd love to hear your postmortem on BackType's experience with Neo4J, and how Sphinx is turning out.
Facebook is an alternative social network to email. Real competition to Facebook won't be 'the Pepsi to Facebook's coke.' Instead, it will probably be something totally different that makes Facebook irrelevant, or at least different enough that comparisons to Facebook are not relevant.
The founder's blog post says the name will be changed. I agree that it's unwise to define yourself relative to a competitor.
Watson? Is that the right link?
The thing that strikes me the most is how the author seems to consider C and C++ to be a single language called "C/C++".
Income Tax Colony?

Lot of companies in India both public and private, including the govt. have subsidized housing adjacent to the office buildings. They're often called colonies. A lot of the times, these subsidized housing options are open to the public as well, maybe at higher rates. This might be one instance relating to the IT (Income Tax) Dept.
What actually happened was that they placed a new upper limit on the electric dipole moment of electrons. This has implications for physics beyond the standard model. You can't be a "sphere" unless you have a finite and well defined radius, which electrons don't.
How accurate is the OCR?
go to http://www.designmoo.com and http://www.365psd.com and also a freebies section on http://creattica.com
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Definitely. Thanks for posting this, I wish HN still regularly had more hard tech content like this.
I scan them but I do keep the files is paper form that I'm required to. However, I only have very few files like that, and they're easy to store and manage.
Two of the best collections of UI / UX patterns I know of:

Chris Messina (factoryjoe on Flickr): http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/72157600...

Zach Klein on Evernote: http://www.evernote.com/pub/zachklein/generaluiux
starving in 1989

1) Some privatization and other social experiments were already underway
2) Some Americans (and hell, someone in just about every country in the world) are starving now.

have you spoken to your father? Has he told you about the public hangings? The hush hush neighbour informer, the gota go to the party rally.

I recommend reading about life in the real-life, post-Stalin USSR, as opposed to the Hollywood dystopia you are describing. You are in for some major surprises.

Have you spoken to your father? Did he tell you about midnight War on Drugs arrests, of stoolies and plea bargains, and of prisons where HIV-positive anal rape is an expected part of a sentence? What, he never mentioned those things? Are they not "as American as apple pie"?

Who is to say what the USA will be remembered for? The dead (empires or people) cannot speak, cannot defend themselves.

Have you seen the great civilisations? They all were centres of trade.

Who said anything about dispensing with trade as a whole?
exactly, plus map-reduce can be combined with indexing - see CouchDB
Do you really see Apple creating a deals program?

They might integrate payments with iTunes account somehow, but unless they buy Square, I'm not sure they'll make a big push.

And if the iPhone 5 does have NFC, I'm sure there'll be an app for Google Wallet.
that's my point. If something can't be specified unambiguously in code, it shouldn't be in a law. Whether the verdict is innocent or guilty shouldn't rest on who happens to be sitting on the bench that day.
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The extremely important stuff (tax returns, car title, etc) I scan and keep the originals in a fireproof safe. That way I have the originals if I really need them, but I can still use Spotlight to just look up something quickly.

Everything else (pay stubs, utility bills, receipts, etc) I shred.
This. Most of the time I run into an issue with a change I wasn't aware of, a quick search through the 3.X docs just points me in the right direction.
The Doxie needs to be connected to a computer via USB.

JotNot would work over wifi, and I think it supports Evernote. But the scans aren't as nice as a real scanner.
taxes related stuff.
Nope, it was hardly a weekend app, took me quite a long time, partly because I tend to keep getting distracted by trivial stuff.

This app taught me what a MVP really means, there's a whole lot of stuff like a user and project management system, that I have coded for it which I kinda had to semi-disable so that I could just put something out there.

If I hadn't gotten so frustrated with the app seemingly never getting finished, I would have probably added a lot more features.
Gates shaped the PC industry, made a ton of money and left at pretty much the top of his game. Why would he abandon his much more important (and I'm sure, far more rewarding) current work to go and have another go at MS?
Turkey has been much more successful in maintaining multiparty democracy internally and peaceful cooperation externally with EU countries than Russia has been

Translation: Turkey has been an obedient muppet state.
Who is this scanner aimed at? Light, portable, does OCR. Got to be business people right?

Except it has hearts on the front. Pink hearts. And a great big pink heart button on the top.

http://www.getdoxie.com/images/features-header-scanner.png
You're welcome. The thanks should go to haberman, though, who not only linked to the email but apparently also asked the questions that led to such a great explanation.

Reading it really made me want to do some assembly programming.
I don't know of any impact on academic philosophy from that essay in particular. But in general, the Quinean school is much more friendly to empirical considerations than historical philosophy. For example, Daniel Dennett has said "AI makes philosophy honest," and people like the GAI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky do some damned good philosophy.
Title and timing are everything - I submitted this story yesterday and got no upvates, and no comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584908

Don't mistake me - this isn't a complaint. It's an observation that although technically savvy people pride themselves on assessing data purely on its merits, we are persuaded by words and images in ways we don't fully understand.

This is then really important in web design, marketing, sales, presentations, etc. You can't rely on your technical superiority.

Timing and presentation matter almost more than content. More than you'd hope. More than you'd want. More than is reasonable.

But it's not about reason.
It's not 100% perfect, but it gets the vast majority of text which is plenty for my needs.

It seems to have a bit of trouble with serif text, but since most of the stuff I'm scanning is in a sans-serif font (the only exception I can think of was an Amazon invoice) it's not really a problem in practice.
As I said in the article, I use PDF OCR X for the OCR because Doxie doesn't do it.
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Im still waiting for a shareable paper scanner that doesnt need to be connected to computer or can be connected to a headless server such as WHS.
Im using a Fujitsu ScanSnap with my laptop but its a far from perfect solution. If i am able to print wirelessly, I should be able to scan wirelessly too :(
One reason the author chose Doxie was because "Its software has a great, polished UI." How do you like the Fujitsu software?
And the downvote brigade arrives, consisting entirely of programmers who don't read the assembly outputted by their compiler.

Part of the problem is simply that compilers typically cannot know the same information the programmer knows: assumptions about alignment and aliasing, for example, that the programmer knows, but the compiler doesn't.

But even if they did, there are plenty of cases where "producing good assembly code for a given algorithm" is infeasible with a brute-force approach, requiring the imprecise-but-effective pattern-matching of a human brain -- or something similarly powerful.
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Aspheric electrons help explain the imbalance between matter and antimatter under many current models.

I don't know the full implications if electrons were spherical. But two I can think of are that either our models are wrong or there is something wrong with the way we are measuring the amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe.
The spirit of the law is protecting the privacy of site visitors from being leaked to third parties, intentionally or otherwise, and gaining their informed consent before doing things with cookies that violate that privacy.

So the particular focus on third party cookies (be it 3rd party analytics tools and/or third party advert networks and/or 3rd party AB testing frameworks). These 3rd parties amass browsing habits and habits of visitors across multiple sites and topics. They use that information to build personalised profiles of an individual. This is done without the individual's consent. So the individual believes they've visited a set of independent websites, and they don't realise that some third party is watching over their shoulder. If they realise that is happening, and the implications of that, they would probably decline to participate, if they knew how.

So consider the use of cookies with that as a guide (but I am not a lawyer, if you are not absolutely certain, consult a lawyer).

I, for one, would be very surprised if a business got successfully sued for having a first-party cookie that clearly wasn't shared with any other site that was used to present a "Welcome back" message. Unless there was a third party script on the page watching for the appearance or non-appearance of that message.
The issue with your second version is

In [1]: def init(shapename=None, **kwargs):
...: pass
...:

In [2]: init(shapename='circle', **{'shapename': 'circle'})
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/teh/Desktop/<ipython console> in <module>()

TypeError: init() got multiple values for keyword argument 'shapename'
JSON is extremely powerful and very light for well structured matrix /array like data objects. This is particularly useful for financial time series objects (asset prices, economics, etc).

For example, in financial time series/ trading applications, see the following two charts, a data table and a visualization chart completely generated on the fly using JSON data inputs through ajax calls.

Makes the application very light and all rendering is done on the client side.

Market Returns Dashboard: http://bit.ly/iVxYoP

Daily Market Commentary: http://bit.ly/my5A3c
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> According to an IRS spokesman, there are a number of ways that a taxpayer can meet the recordkeeping requirements to prove a deduction or other expense. Documentation can include hard copy or electronic records such as direct receipts, acknowledgment letters, credit-card receipts, and credit-card statements, that show the payment date, amount, recipient, and any other information required for the particular type of deduction (such as business purpose for a business deduction).
I don't know, I thought that is what Russia did. I take it you have not spoken to your father then? He has lived through it. You have not. This is not Hollywood, this is not glitters and crazy drugged house flying with birds. This is real life.

I asked if you remember about the lines of bread? I have not heard of any American's starving, but this is not about a comparison. That can become distracting. Let us first learn about what Russia was.

Now, two things by Googling can be confirmed. There were bread lines. It went bankrupt.

When you have no food you sell your assets. So how did he steal? How is he the thief and not, say Stalin? Or indeed your Mr Putin.
A front page that tells me nothing, followed by a required sign-in? No thanks.

I have no idea what this site is, although "LaTeX on Web" sounds promising. I suggest changing the site to be more visitor-friendly.
He won't. It makes no sense to. But he does need to find a new CEO. I nominate Tim Cook. It would be a great chance for him to step out of Jobs' shadow. If Cook stays at Apple its always Jobs' company, far after Jobs' death. If he can turnaround MS, he becomes one of the giants in the history of the tech industry, next to Jobs and Gates.

And note, Tim doesn't need the money. He'd be doing this to create his story.
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Storm is a unified system. The key difference with other CEP systems is that Storm executes your topologies across a cluster of machines and is horizontally scalable. Running a topology on Storm looks like this:

storm jar mycode.jar backtype.storm.my_topology

In this example, the "backtype.storm.my_topology" defines the realtime computation as a processing graph. The "storm jar" command causes the code to be distributed across the cluster and executes it using many processes across the cluster. Storm makes sure the topology runs forever (or at least until you stop the topology).

(I can't say I'm intimately familiar with every CEP system out there, so feel free to correct me if there are distributed CEP systems. Those products tend to have webpages which make it hard to decipher what they actually are / do)
I leave out visual design because lots of startups that meet every goal you can eventually imagine (ginzametrics, bingocardcreator) don't even go close at having a decent visual design (no offence intended).

I believe visuals are also a very subjective matter, and belong much more to the "talent" side of things, than to the "knowledge" one.
How is this different / better than Yahoo S4 [1], which does have code on github? [2]? Why did you choose to build this, or did you start before S4 became public?

[1] http://docs.s4.io/
[2] https://github.com/s4/core
While we are at fb alternatives, here is one more that attempts at protecting user privacy: Privachi. Privachi is a privacy-centric social network which attempts at putting users back in control of their social data with a combination of scattering user's data online so no one service provider knows everything about the user, and "locking" user data in such a way that only the user and her friends can "unlock" the data. Even Privachi will not be able to "unlock" the data.
I downvoted you because your post has nothing to do with the parent's original assertion (that privatization is viewed by many people as unfair - what does privatization in the UK have to do with communism?), and your constant use of the word "seriously." It's seriously annoying.
>She's not afraid - She doesn't "share her profits with the police and people from the tax authorities"

to say what you don't know what you're talking about would be underestimation. You don't _want_ to know, and as result you don't know. Like ostrich you like to keep your head in the sand and afraid to look around.

Several weeks ago you was claiming till foam in your mouth that your employer - Yandex - doesn't share personal email and other users' information with FSB. You called it "conspirology". Moron. A few days after that Yandex officially reported doing it so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13274443

You're brainwashed by current Putin's regime, and as result your credibility about Russia is below 0, as i already told you so.
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Without a single entity, a powerful government, breathing down their neck, your multiple corporations would merge or form a cartel, because they can make more money that way.
The article answers your question "lest we all forget, the Foundation's endowment is tied directly to Microsoft's long-term success. It may just happen that Bill can help the Foundation more by securing Microsoft's future."
And yet you don't have a link to it in your profile, or link to it from your comment. This doesn't inspire confidence.
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Is this only available for larger publishers or can indie developers get in on the game?
I guess it depends on your definition of "large," but I would say that large is where XML is at its very worst. When data can't fit in main memory, then the XML overhead provides no benefit and incurs a great cost.

I would argue that data in general does not fit well to XML. Documents do fit well as it's absolutely fantastic at markup, i.e. where there isn't repeated structure. As soon as you have repeated structure (i.e. data as opposed to datum) then XML becomes a terrible format. CSV, tab-delimited, gzipped and separated by pipe characters, RDF triples, N3, give me almost •anything* other than XML and I'll be much happier.

In fact, XML is the reason that RDF is dead in the water. RDF could have been a useful concept, but it's so encumbered by a terrible formats and tools that it will almost never be useful; it can not escape the existing body of XML-RDF. And such a waste in the name cargo-cult mimicking of HTML.
You forgot:

* Your credit card, for businesses that don't have RFID smart card readers

* Cash, for businesses that don't even take credit cards

* Public transit pass, at least until those start to be supported by phone NFC software, and/or

* Driver's license or ID
I think you're misunderstanding.

The government represents the people as a whole.

If the people as a whole (i.e. the government) take something from one individual person, that could reasonably said to be theft. (It isn't necessarily theft, but it's not an unreasonable viewpoint.)

If the people as a whole (i.e. the government) sell something they own to one individual person, that cannot be theft. The nation cannot rob itself.

That's the distinction being drawn here.
Indies too.
We used Neo4j over a year ago, and it was pretty unstable when we used it. The database files were getting corrupted pretty frequently (a few times a week), so it just didn't work out for us. Ultimately it was for a small feature, so rather than continue to struggle with Neo4j we just reimplemented the feature using Sphinx. Like I said, that was a long time ago and Neo4j may have gotten a lot better since then.
That's entirely the caller's fault, not the function's. Compare:

>>> def init(**kwargs):
... pass
...
>>> init(shapename='circle', **{'shapename': 'circle'})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: init() got multiple values for keyword argument 'shapename'
It's not going to happen but the guy makes a pretty compelling case.

The bigger question is when Ballmer's dismal record begins to exceed Gate's loyalty to his friend. In the end the one who shows Ballmer the door will be Gates.
I think the problem they're approaching is having too many cards like loyalty cards and such. That's a real problem unlike swiping any card.
Hi, there are no Amazon Associate links: the only one Amazon Associate link I can think about is with Flanagan's book, and Mr. Flanagan is the associate, not me. I just thought removing it wouldn't have been polite.

When I could link the book's website, I did it.
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Land "ownership" is (like debt) an arbitrary system enforced by threat of violence. Hunter gatherers may have been territorial, but nowhere to the extent that agricultural societies are.
The UI isn't exceptionally pretty, but once it's configured you don't have to look at it much. There are a few changes I'd like to make (being able to scan another doc while the OCR is running, preventing the scan progress window from remaining on top, etc) but functionally, the software does it's job and does it well.
I couldn't agree more. The last time I went to the movies, it felt like such a rip off that I vowed never to return.
Questions:
1) How long are advertisements anymore? It felt like 15+ minutes.
2) Is there no cell phone etiquette at all?
PHP's DomDocument is pretty much the same as every other platform's DomDocument. Nearly the whole XML API universe is full of suck.
Yeah, I noticed you guys used a voting system like this - I think we might crib some of the ideas, but stick to the system we've had. It's worked pretty well, despite the amount of work and helps us "game" the system in such a way that we can ensure unheard of speakers or topics can be seen.
My parents never saw an execution, never sat in a prison camp, never quaked in fear of stoolies. Their complaints about everyday life were much the same as those of any American mired in corporate bureaucracy. All bureaucracies are largely alike.

There were bread lines. It went bankrupt.

Have you wondered why? And why it happened when it did?

At this point, you (and all the rest of us in the USA) will be educated the old-fashioned way: by watching the same thing happen in person. It is very sad but appears to be unavoidable. Soon you will not need to bother opening a book to learn how a country goes bankrupt and begins to be famous only for bread lines and a foggily remembered past full of assorted atrocities.
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Is this Rock Health? They stated in the original application, that the 20K was a grant and not for equity... if this is Rock Health, then it looks like they changed that term.
It's the right link, but the article is poorly written. See my corrections in the comments.
Design is a solution to a problem. It doesn't matter what the medium is. Sometimes you see these solutions on Dribbble but more often than not what you see are examples of style. They are two separate things.
Anyone could setup their own Mac Download Store. It's called a website.
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Of course, if you take two different pieces of software and implement one in assembly language, and the other in high level, you can't claim valid comparison.

But if you take one algorithm and implement it in both languages, assembly implementation will always be faster, thus the basis for their claim.
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I think the problem is that optimization is AI-complete. Without a lot of context about what your program is doing under what circumstances the problem is not solvable. You need to know when and how a specific code path is run.
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Does anybody know of a solution that will take an OCR receipt and enumerate the line items? NeatReceipts and other software does not seem to do this.
It will need to avoid the pitfalls of the previous technologies. (IR)

Audio, bluetooth, QR codes/camera as well.

All easily capable of data exchange between devices, all present on a vast number of phones, all hobbled by lack of implementation and standards.

Why wont NFC end up just like Bluetooth? "I don't have it switched on" "I don't have the same version" "we need to pair the devices? Mine says it cannot see any" "type in what code where?" "I can only support an NFC headset, not any data transfer protocols", etc.?
"ALWAYS the sysadmin who will actually be on-call to support it should have the final say"

Ah, if only that happened in the real world...