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I was just about to come here and lament this very fact.

Because I work on DocumentCloud I very much do touch on both OCRing software and frontend JS libraries.

It will only make things confusing to have these two projects fighting over namespace. And the Tesseract OCR engine is not going away. It's the defacto standard for FOSS OCRing.

Edit: Having played around with the examples for this lib, it's awesome! I will have to find a project to work this into. Looks like fun.
I think the appropriate translation would be:

Python - take your __init__+1 method class and just make it a function

Ruby - take your initalize+1 method class and just make it a static method (and maybe make that class a module instead)
Available, maybe, but the East Bay is definitely a bit sparse.

Nice looking site, though!
> Instead, one fucking dumb joke?

It's actually two dumb jokes.

http://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/vehicles/prius-c/features-ben...
Are you suggesting there is no upper limit amount of cash that Apple could accumulate that it wouldn't make sense to distribute some of it?

No that sounds silly. But I don't know how much is enough and how much is too little. How do we know Apple has too much?
I worked on a project[0] very similar to this just recently. It's definitely not as nice as this, but it's got the added advantage of being able to use javascript events to-spec, and the only lines in your game code are these:

iPhone = new Controller();
iPhone.on('touchstart', function(event) { /*...*/ }

That's the entire API ;)

I'm in two minds over the use of QR codes here. I had two solutions to the problem of pairing browsers: as I do it now, I ask for a pairing code. Another, more hacky (but possibly nicer) solution is to assume that if a controller and a parent browser have the same external IP, you can assume that they want to pair up.

Anyway, kudos to the developers - it's a really cool idea, I think. If my code can help out at all, please go right ahead :)
(also sorry for hijacking your thread)

[0] https://github.com/CarlQLange/Controller.js
I've never really had a big issue with this. I have no issue keeping my thumb on the spacebar while holding left shift, and in addition I've grown to rather like the syntax.

In the long run I'd say multiple assignment probably saves you more time writing declarations than an extra key-stroke would cost you.
If I can save page caches like Diigo.com, I might switch.

If I can export page cache, which Diigo can't, I would switch 100%.
I work in land development and as much as I despise much politically based zoning, zoning is decidedly NOT the source of a developer's profit. Zoning issues may increase the final price of a home, but that difference is not going to the developer, but to me as a civil engineer, and to the planners and to the banks who the developers are borrowing money from and paying interest every month the project sits in planning mode.
However, if you're looking for a key derivation function for a new project, bcrypt is probably not the best one you can pick.

I'm confused. Why would I pick bcrypt as a key derivation function when there are nice key derivation functions out there that are widely documented?
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Ah, thanks. I deleted the app as soon as it asked to me to give a Facebook login or email address.
I like this article. But this sentence is odd.

> […] with an academic pedigree from RSA Labs, you know, the guys who invented much of the cryptographic ecosystem we use today.

Appeal to authority fails a little bit when RSA opens random Excel attachments from unknown untrusted sources - attached to an email that have to be retrieved from the junk mail folder.

(http://blogs.rsa.com/rivner/anatomy-of-an-attack/)

EDIT: As other commentators point out, I am wrong to suggest that anything coming from RSA Labs is somehow "weak" because someone at RSA fell for a phishing attack. I do find it odd that a security article suggests "These people are good; they did 'this thing' which everyone uses". That's not a great way to approach choosing crypto components. Even experts make mistakes.
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The discs appear to serve only as a temporary platter for holding the graphite oxide film. Once scribed by a laser, the graphite oxide is converted to graphene and peeled from the disc for further processing. The discs aren't used in the capacitors. The article says that blank discs are used, but doesn't mention if they are reused or even if they must be blank, but I get the impression that a viable method of production probably won't depend on wasting disposable discs.
you put it better than I did. :)
I've trained several people to used Git across a number of projects and technologies.

This is, by far, the biggest head scratcher of git. People can get incredibly caught up in the fact that this is the default behavior. +1
tl;dr

PBKDF2 and scrypt each have supposed upsides to bcrypt and all the benefits.

PBKDF2: RSA tested and widely used.
scrypt: memory hard as well.
Long story short, if a bcrypt exploit is found, you'll be sorry. So use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 or http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html instead. They're apparently better tested.

I'm no expert opinion, but seems a bit unnecessary and that bcrypt is still a perfectly good choice for most password stores.
At those rates, income tax would also be higher than in the U.S., at least for most people
It will be interesting to know how much the dividend is. Owners of Apple shares can of course take the money and use it to buy Apple products. It's as if one benefit of being an owner is, you get company a discount.
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You're missing the point.

Currying isn't a big deal for python programmers. The article fails precisely because it makes currying into a big deal.

This is yet another example of how haskell got it wrong. Currying isn't something that one should do all the time or think about, so basing a language on it is dumb. (And that's true even if we ignore the complications that it adds to polymorphism.)
WSJ has him for it via a "source": http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/21/does-bill-gates-suppo...

He's strongly and unambiguously in favor of the estate tax: http://www.trustsestateslaw.com/2009/05/warren-buffett-and-b...
Actually, I have an alpha social bookmarking product that is something like this. The home page is crap and I am in the midst of something else so I can get to it for a week. but it has the features you mention. I have been keeping it under wraps but if you want to crawl around in it for fun its located at www.markmyplace.com. feedback appreciated.
Here is some examples of Merryl lynch lobbying for such things: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientbills.php?id=D0000001... 401(k) started in 1986 so it takes some digging to find who actually lobby'd for it, but you can look at recent examples on who is trying to kill SS to see who benefits from such things.

On 401k fees: (GAO) http://www.gao.gov/htext/d10153t.html (more readable blog post) http://moremoney.blogs.money.cnn.com/2010/01/19/finally-your... Note: 401k's should last well into retirement so over 60 years fees can really eat into that savings.

Bill gates connection to IBM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates / http://prospectingprofessor.blogs.com/prospecting_professor/... / Original DOS author Tim Paterson http://inventors.about.com/od/computersoftware/a/Putting-Mic...

As for developer bribing local politicization's, umm just read the news... http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2011/05/... etc etc.
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We are looking for names right now, so I'm looking forward to giving this a test run. (We are using trello at the moment for that purpose).

So here are my impressions/some suggestions:

- I don't mind registering an account myself, but I want my team to be able to contribute without creating an account. A "magic" sharing URL would be great (or maybe Google auth, since that's what we use on trello). We like trello because we can have almost everything in one tool.

- It would be helpful if the tool could check if the twitter account, facebook page and G+ page are also available.

- Since we are in the EU we like checking a bunch of other endings as well (.de, .at, .co.uk,...). I see your tool checks those as well, but it would save time if I can enter one name and it checks all my specified tlds.

- there's a bug somewhere that makes the whole list disappear for a couple of seconds and the re-appear again.
In some places its lower, some places higher, I presume, but I've never heard as high as 23%, I think people here wouldn't stand for that, I presume there are much better social services in Ireland, which would be the benefit of higher taxation
The song in question - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQb_mtkEEE
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I just want to point out that the amount of cash it takes to take a public company private is not equal to Shares * Market Price.

It's actually Float Shares * Market Price.

This doesn't make much of a difference in Apple's case, because most of their market share is floating on the public market. Quick calculations:

932.37M Shares Outstanding x ~$600/share = $559.4B Mkt Cap

931.79M Float Shares x ~$600/share = $559.0B Price to go Private

$400mm, in this case, doesn't make much of a difference, but if you talk about this for other companies in the future, keep it in mind.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL+Key+Statistics
As stated in the article, a popular stance on Hacker News and Stack Overflow is "USE BCRYPT". It's chanted to crypto-noobs and webdevs as a simple-to-use library for password storage that is more secure than MD5/SHA/Whatever hashing, and with built-in salts.

The whole point of this article is to say that, in fact, there are other options.
Thats the discussion. In reality, you care about both. Power density to move the energy into and out of the cell quickly to shorten charge times and supply thirsty loads. Energy density to run lower loads for longer.
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With 2 billion drawings, Omgpop possesses a valuable source of information. It would be interesting to see how different people illustrate equal words differently or equally in their illustrations. This could contribute to e.g. best practices when communicating with graphics or the like.
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I think F# is largely based on OCaml. I'm not sure what'd make a language official; MS does the development work on it, so I guess that'd be a yes on officialdom?
Because if we can have a world where that growth is more equitably distributed, you can avoid wage stagnation among the median worker? The marginal utility of a dollar is much greater for those making $50,000 a year than the person making $50,000,000 a year.

It's not a sickness itself, but it's a symptom of the sickness. And pointing out that inequality has radically increased in the past decades is just pointing out we have a fever of 105F going on, here.

Dumping someone in the snow won't fix it, but you also don't just ignore it and say that administering medicine would be violating a free market.
> While scrypt's cryptographic soundness, like bcrypt's, is poorly researched

I think we may have different notions of what "poorly researched" means.
Some people claim the situation of H.264 patents in Europe isn't that clear, though. VLC might be just benefiting from a lack of initiative from patent holders.
The first line of $.fn.wTooltip is

if(typeof option === 'object')

Does anyone know where option is declared and where its value is set?
Note that scrypt uses PBKDF2 before and after the memory-hard function.
On the one hand, I really respect the judge for being reasonable in this. Kudos to him.

On the other hand, there is a perverse part of me wishing it had gone the other way -- what a great way to highlight what is broken about copyright it would be to quote this case.
Apologies; I wasn't aware of the Tesseract OCR project until very recently, and then I hoped there would not be much harm given that the two projects are so unrelated. (The name "Tesseract" was the natural progression from "Square" and "Cube".) What's the saying? There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
No disagreement here. Religion inherently forces an idea on a person. However, when a person determines the course of their life, which happens to align to a particular religion, it must be accepted whether by intellectual or not.
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Calling it a "prominent open source project" is an understatement. Granted it's not perfect, it's the de facto standard in FOSS OCR software. When mentioning "tesseract" to just about anyone in the data mining/machine learning/artificial intelligence communities (which is pretty much the target user base), they will automatically think you're referring to the OCR software.
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My intuition doesn't feel good about this. Whatever Tim Cook says, if apple draw attention away from product innovation into optimizing for financial markets and pleasing shortsighted loyalty-less public market investors, it would no longer be the Apple that we have come to know over the past decade.
Yeh, that's the really cool bit-- would you be okay with your iPhone only getting an hour of battery life if you could fully charge it in a couple of seconds?

I mean, obviously not, but it's interesting to think about.
As pointed out by somebody in the comments, you can get this new behavior today by running

git config --global push.default upstream

See also http://stackoverflow.com/a/948397

EDIT: actually, the proposed change is to "upstream" and not "current", edited the command to reflect this.
I am interested, but you are going to have to show me something about it before I give you my email address.
Only as a cryptographic mixing/expansion function. There is no reason to think that scrypt's security would be any less if the PBKDF2 calls were replaced with xor.
That seems like a really terrible violation of Posterous' brand and trademarks. There is also a lot more to keeping a blogging service running for posterity than just charging. It is a huge responsibility for people to entrust you with their content, one not to be taken lightly.
If the one local area newspaper did more investigative reporting, I'd subscribe. Currently, it's 90% AP national news and advertisements with one a couple investigative articles every week or two.
Although it's not part of their core business, from the news that's leaked about Steve Jobs' discussions with a CBS exec who refused to license CBS content because he felt he would be cannibalizing their profits, perhaps Apple could purchase one of these stations to spur the adoption of a new model for TV watching. It might cost them a pretty penny at first, but if it forces the other broadcasters to fall in line, it would be worth it.

Another obvious "lateral" purchase would be a cellular company. It doesn't make sense to keep pandering to the desires of the likes of AT&T and Verizon (4 GB data limit on LTE iPad WTF?) when there's so much more potential that could be realized with a good data plan for iDevices.
Sagan would be the first to tell you not to raise him to the status of godhood.

As I said, take inspiration, as much as you like. But in the end you need to be your own person and stand on your own.
Here is a video from the author of the article on the process used

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/0315sp_capacitor.shtm...
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They sound like they should be, right? Mozy did storage, EMC did storage?

But as a Mozy employee during the time of the acquisition, I'd like to state for the record how emphatically and fantastically wrong this is. There is more of a "natural fit" between Sesame Street and Godzilla's wang than there was between Mozy and EMC. :)
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There's quite a few practical details that weren't addressed. Whats the self discharge of these caps? Sure, maybe they can hold a ton of energy in a small volume but who cares if it bleeds off in 2 hours? What's the performance over temperature? Does the capacity drop off at temperature? Does the available power drop off? A lot of conventional supercaps can even permanently age quite quickly at moderately high temperature.
I wonder why aren't they using something like ARC in ObjC instead of GC ?
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So of course the logical conclusion to the judge saying that "Copyright is thus intended to protect the original work of authors without granting monopolies over facts or ideas that would hinder further progress" will be for Mr. Erickson to apply for a patent for a "method or apparatus for transposing numbers into musical notes".

Then he could sue the other guy again on patent grounds.

Because, as we all know, patents are made precisely for granting monopolies "in order not to hinder further progress", to reuse the judges original wording.
I imagine both of these would have been seriously considered if it weren't for antitrust concerns.
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Comes with the territory.

Ask yourself if you trust your partners. If you trust them, then don't even worry about head-hunters and recruiters. If you do not, then you should not be in the business together anyway.
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The State and war. Then once we abolish those we will have reached communist nirvana.
Under linux (normal web browsing, coding, etc.) I get around 5 1/2 hours. With windows that goes up to around 7 hours. I think much of the windows battery saving comes from the very low power mode it switches into automatically when you unplug the laptop. This mode can be a little annoying though as it powers down the cpu and you can't do basic stuff like watching a high quality video smoothly, etc. As far as I can tell under Linux the power saving mode is much more conservative.
And... the expected Apple fan flames have begun. Pixar, iPod and iPad didn't have anything like the iPhone's level of profitability. I lump the latter in with the iPhone because the current implementations are one platform (no one calls it, ahem, "intellectually dishonest" to talk about "windows" profitability instead of "windows home" vs. "windows server" numbers).

But there's no need, so I'll simplify. If all Apple can do with that $100B is generate another Pixar, Macintosh, iPod or iPad, it is not enough and they should give the money back. To make it seem like a good bet, they need to produce another iPhone. And they can't, because no one can do that at will. We'll see another hit like that in 15 years or so if we're lucky.
I'm not saying adjust for taxes, I'm saying adjust for income _distributed_ to lower income people.

Person A income: $20K
Person B income: $100K

Person A after-tax income: $25K (via transfer programs)
Person B after-tax income: $65K

Obviously comparing the first two is not intellectually honest.
and the 'open' office design debate continues...... Noted there are no developers in any of these so-called office scenarios...maybe a mention or two of a 'type of work' that needed more concentration and 'noise cancelling headphones'. IMO the open office concept push that's been on and off for years is no good overall other than a perception that it's great and helps productivity.
Even if we ignore crossovers, potential configuration space for genotype is very very large, 2^46. Add crossovers and mutations and variations in genotype is practically infinite. Of course how that maps to variation in phenotype is a complex issue.
> There can be no limitations of any kind in terms of expressing to the machine, precisely how the machine should behave.

I hear what you're saying but you're overselling C here. Straight up ANSI C has a lot of limitations in telling the machine what to do. Even the various proprietary extensions have limitations right up until you stop writing anything that looks a little bit like C, e.g. you start using "asm" style intrinsics that let you do assembly inline.
This case shows one of the few things that's not broken about copyright: you can't copyright facts, or the idea of setting those facts to music.

For example, you can't copyright a list of the names of all of the presidents of the US, nor can you copyright the idea of putting all of those names to music, though you can copyright your specific musical arrangement.
Taking him in another country by force for what is essentially a civil matter is not ok. The process can take a long while, and all this time I assume he will be in custody - which most likely would not happen if he were to stand trial in his own country.

Plus yeah, we really don't like that he's being prosecuted for that. In all the talk about whether it's illegal or not it's too seldom that it's said "the law is just wrong". It protects too much the copyright holders, and the evidence that this is actually for the common good is getting sketchier and sketchier.
As does ad hominem...

Edit: realized I should probably explain. What an administrative assistant does in a social engineering attach has nothing to do with the quality of cryptographic research at RSA. Humans are ALWAYS the weak point in cryptography.
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I disagree. But it's interesting that you mention Alexander Fleming (it's one m in his name, btw). Fleming actually has some similarities to Apple's role in technology.

Fleming discovered penicillin and its effects, but he abandoned the discovery because he was unable to produce it in quantity, and also did not believe it would last long enough in the human body to cure infections.

It took the work of several others, and fifteen more years, to actually produce an effective drug.

Similarly, those who made various fundamental discoveries and inventions in computing are certainly significant and worthy of attention, but Apple also deserve much credit for making easy-to-use, refined products out of these discoveries, especially over the last ten years.

Giving people better tools makes them more productive in whatever endeavors they pursue. It would be short-sighted to not see Apple's value to society.
It's pretty simple when you think about it. Apple has a certain hurdle rate for their projects that is extremely high, when compared to other companies. The only projects that can make it are ones that can draw on their existing resources. For them to go into something completely new would aberrate from their investment philosophy that has made them the most valuable company. On the new product front, I have more confidence in Apple knowing that they plan to think things through rather than announce something just for the sake of spending their hard earned cash.