skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By default, sure, for people who don't know about these settings, they are setting themselves up for failure when a few numbers get transposed. They should ship the device with highest quality settings so your customers are impressed out of the box, instead of being disappointed that they have to tune the device to get a high quality copy. If you must save a few bytes in this age, then you can turn on these crazy settings as you like.

I can just see a legal loophole now for anyone using these devices, for example "the electronic document was modified by a Xerox and we don't have the original, those numbers were not what we signed, contract void".

No matter the case of an optional setting or the size of the font involved, this can have major consequences for people who trust the device to be an accurate representation in all cases, of what they put into it.
http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNPointerCats.htm
This is precisely this type of reasoning that I fear:

* Starches from corn or potatoes is pretty cheap (money, heavily affected by federal subsidies).

* Synthetic meat can use it more efficiently (the engineer in me wants to say "energy", but depending on the context it may mean higher utility margins, or lower labor costs, or what not).

* Same kind of biotech [as] cellulosic ethanol. I am not familiar with the state of the art on this field, but (corn) ethanol companies just engages in arbitrage tricks to make a bundle on yuppie's eco-guilt and government's largesse. Both the economy and the environment would be better of if people just shut up and directly burnt the diesel used in machinery used to rise and transport the corn used as raw inputs to make the ethanol.

Not that this particular argument is wrong, just that I do not have the facts and would like to see them discussed without all the hype!
I work in automotive software, and PowerPC CPUs (albeit from Freescale and STMicroelectronics, not IBM) are more popular than ever. It's a very common choice for powertrain ECUs.
It depends on whether people would talk more, and more inquisitively, about "disappear" as compared with talking about a "car crash" one. It also depends on the relative practical difficulties in orchestrating the two kinds of hits. Making a paranoid journalist vanish might be tricky, since they'd presumably be pretty cautious about meeting shady characters in out-of-the-way locations.

I suspect an orchestrated car crash, which provides lots of possible counter-conspiracy narrative bits to grab on to, and for which the practicalities might have been thoroughly worked out ahead of time, could be an attractive approach for eliminating a domestic "threat to national security".
Designing a Real Time Control System based on Django, ZMQ and WebSockets
He's already solar powered.

http://joey.hess.usesthis.com/
Pixel Qi's products page links to some SOL products, including a ruggedized netbook:

http://pixelqi.com/devices

http://www.solcomputer.com/pixel-qi-display-2/rugged-netbook...

But for now, the max size for Pixel Qi is 10.1 inches, and the price is kinda high.
My comment was specific to this benchmark, which has 4 byte messages that cannot be buffered due to the ping (wait for pong) ping ... repetition in each client. Of course buffering matters for full-pipeline throughput.
It seems a bit too coincidental that images to which human beings assign semantic value are being transformed into images to which human beings assign different semantic value.

I don't expect the scanner to have any semantic awareness of the document content, so when I hear "lossy compression", my expectation is "image may become illegible", and not "image may remain legible, but become inaccurate".
It is essentially OCR where the alphabet is constructed on the fly from the document itself.

A major and highly pertinent difference is that if this OCR-ish procedure incorrectly classifies two identical letters as being different, accuracy is not affected, and the only consequence is a larger file. With normal OCR, seeing two As and saying they're different would be an error, but in this case, it's fine.

What this means is that, while regular OCR is inherently error-prone, this compression procedure can be fully tuned anywhere between no errors and nothing but errors, with file size being the tradeoff.

The ability to run this algorithm in a way that produces no errors may be enough to disqualify it as "OCR", depending on your point of view. In any case, it certainly changes things from "that's just how it is" to "this is a royal cock-up on Xerox's part".
Hardware has been a loss-leader for IBM consulting services for a long time. Looking at the straight P & L for hardware alone doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

The real story is that IBM has been moving to 100% offshore & H1B labor for a while, and this is just one more nail in the coffin. In a decade or so I'd be surprised if they have any US engineers outside of their research division.
I've never stated that it was as good as nginx?

The answer to "why" is answered in these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6168052
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6168541
Of course it still exists. They're doing this now because they don't want to be steamrolled by the raging success that is the OpenSPARC project.
Not sure about #3. There are a lot of reasons why one would choose to live farther from work. It's not just "wanting a bigger house." Quality of life, better schools, proximity to outdoor activities, etc. could all compensate for the pain of a long commute. Not to mention housing costs. Wonder where the author lives... If you work in Manhattan or on the SF Bay peninsula, it is unlikely that you can afford to live there.
This looks like a cool service, is there pricing information somewhere? I couldn't find any on the website.
Threat model is simple: people look at your passwords and type them in somewhere else.

What's technically possible for serious malware, or what someone can do with unlimited access to your computer for hours is not the point.

Reality is time-constrained, and UIs that slow people down are useful in this case.
PyHarmonySearch - a pure Python implementation of the harmony search
It is an absolute travesty that PA Child Care, the people paying the bribes, have had hardly a punishment at all.
My Next Adventure: Khan Academy CS (Pamela Fox joins KA)
I always laugh when these articles show up and every other tip is about finding a way to pack a little exercise or a little recreation into a jam-packed schedule. You too can do some pushups in between checking 200 emails at your standing desk and running to your 17th appointment of the day! (Maybe you would be happier if you had a more relaxed schedule?)

The flip side of that coin is that there is no such thing as a magic amount of free time where you will suddenly be able to exercise, meditate, cook your own meals, or whatever you want to do. It can either always be fit in or never be fit in in my experience.
Yeah, if the device is unencrypted, which it likely is, and the key isn't passphrase protected, which also seems unlikely, then it should be trivial to access the private key.
You can wrongfully send kids/people to jail as long as you don't make money off of it.
As one German football player famously stated: "this game is just like the game of chess but just without dices."
Well there is quantum tunneling but there is also dennard scaling, so it goes both ways. Transistors need to be small but also non-leaky, so that's why everyone's toying around with exotic materials and structures.
Haha, that's ok. I have days like that too.
Agree on rule #1.

> " or a way to contact their support line and confirm your identity"

That is one of the nice things about SMS 2-factor auth, the backup authentication method (lost phone) is on the wireless company instead of you. I suppose twitter can handle the extra responsibility though. They have ways of verifying accounts, so now it is just a question of scaling that for support.
Analysis of the Go runtime scheduler [pdf]
Are hybrid approaches worth it (exposing some details so that Go network server can get the right service from the OS)? I'm not sure how much language complexity Go-nuts will take, so they'll probably look for clever heuristic tweaks instead.
Looks cool but I'd like something like TOTP where anyone can implement the client side of it. Since everything is done with public/private key pairs it's possible to have a setup with a central party acting as an opaque forwarding service between the client and the server.

What I want is an open standard for this that allows users to change their forwarding service after the fact, preferably without changing anything on the servers they're using it to authenticate with.
Washington Post Co.’s Real Star Asset: A Massive Pension Fund
Wow. You know you screwed up when private info is indexed by Google.

Incidentally, this reminds me of one of my past employers who worked with government agencies. Turns out he forgot to set a default index on server when he took down his website. Thus, "secret" filenames became public and google indexed data dumps from government clients with a few thousand social security numbers, and basically all the information needed to very effectively steal someone's identity. (address, drivers license photocopy, family info).

I'm just glad that I wasn't responsible for such a glaring security hole (I was long gone before this happened and I reported it and it's been fixed now though)
It's no longer a 'copy machine' at this point, it's an 'approximation machine' and can't even be trusted for legal purposes.
[Disclaimer, the last time I stepped into a chip fab it was 1998]

There were (and may still be) several reasons that 3D was not a regular technology in use. The first was that connecting transistors "across" the chip was done using a metal layer (aluminium at first, later copper) and laying down a metal layer left forced a distance between it and the next silicon layer that you would end up bridging with poly-silicon (NP doped silicon so that it conducts electricity but not as well as metal does). So all of the cross layer connects that weren't metal were slow.

Heat dissipation was another issue for transistors between a 'top' and 'bottom' layer.

Varying feature height, so if transistors were 3 uM thick and resistors were 1uM thick then you put a transistor above a resistor its drain and source layers would be 1uM up from the plane in which the other transistor sits.

Process contamination, basically building a transistor on top of a surface of SIO2 was one thing, but building it on top of another transistor meant than your ion implanting step needed to have really accurate control of depth.

The MEMS revolution gave people a lot more tools that were accurate in depth (vs X & Y position) and regular feature patterns (as opposed to general purpose logic) lend themselves to better 3D planning.

One of Intel's big breakthroughs in 22nM chips was its tri-gate vertical transistor design [1] which allowed the gate area of the transistor to be vertical and thus have enough silicon to hold a reasonable number of electrons.

[1] http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2032
To add to this, SMS may seem like an unrealistic security hole but you have to consider that there are some very high profile twitter accounts. Intercepting SMS messages may not seem like something your pain in the ass neighbor is likely to do to you, but there are far more interesting targets with twitter accounts than you.
Reddit myth busters
The Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, and the PS3 all use Power PC chips.
I believe he is talking about prepaid credit cards which you can also buy here in the US at convenience stores. You can buy them in cash and load them up with funds and then just use it like a normal credit card. So throw $100 on one and use it to pay for a year or so of hosting all at once and then trash the card.
Are Uber, Hailo, and Other Taxi Apps Going After a Big Enough Market?
There was even a version of Windows NT 4.0 for that. It was great. Then Motorola decided they had no clue what they were doing with computers, IBM gave up and shut the whole thing down.
What are you on about? What does it produce if not computer-readable characters? Computer illegible characters? Are you saying it cannot read from the dictionary it creates? Or from the characters it is later optically recognizing off that dictionary?

Again from the JBIG2 wiki[1]:

"Textual regions are compressed as follows: the foreground pixels in the regions are grouped into symbols. A dictionary of symbols is then created and encoded.."

It seems not only is JBIG2 being deployed as OCR by Xerox for whatever reason, its implementation in this case is an absolute failure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2
Server based lookups have their own problems. An attacker can guess a session ID and spoof that customer. Storing hundreds of thousands of session IDs on disk or in the database can lead to performance problems. You'd leak huge amounts of information if someone were to gain access to the database or filesystem where these cookies are stored.

You can argue about solutions to each of these. My point is that each solution has their own problems. IMO, play's solution has worked well so far, making it easy to scale horizontally. I've been using play for 3 years. One security issue in 3 years, with a quick patch applied, is acceptable. Before that we used PHP, and we had many problems dealing with the huge volume of sessions to be handled.
Does Deis implement zero downtime deploys and safeguards against failed deploys? I can't see anything on the site on how this is handled.
You might have noticed (from her screenshots) that she is using Mac OS X.

Simply gaining physical access to the machine should ABSOLUTELY NOT enable an attacker to extract practically all web passwords in something like 15 seconds, without any special tools.

Are you completely ignorant of how the OS X Keychain works and should be implemented application-side, or are you just willfully ignoring it?
Right, but the Xbox One and PS4 are x86. PowerPC isn't nearly as dominant in the console market as it once was.
>>The flip side of that coin is that there is no such thing as a magic amount of free time where you will suddenly be able to exercise, meditate, cook your own meals, or whatever you want to do. It can either always be fit in or never be fit in in my experience.

What do you mean?
The best thing about 401(k) is the employer-matching. Am I missing something? It is just an investment vehicle, right?
Interesting, but now I'm even more confused. How can we possibly explain that a (go client -> go server) (which are in separate go processes) performs far worse than (go -> scala server), given that the go server seems to be better when using the scala client?

The comments on the article page have a different report which doesn't suffer from this implausibility:

go server + go client 22.02125152

scala server + scala client 3.469

go server + scala client 3.562

scala server + go client 4.766823392
Xerox: You had one job.
All three of the PS3/XBox360/Wii generation consoles used POWER-derived chips: very different chips, of course, but POWER all the same. The Wii U uses a POWER chip too.

POWER stalled in the performance/watt category around the time of the Power Mac G5: unfortunate, since this was around the time that performance/watt was starting to be considered a real thing. That hurt the architecture's standing terribly. But it's still around.
3D Point-and-Shoot Handheld Scanner
Using XMLDecoder to execute server-side Java Code
Excellent. Going up on my classroom wall. I'll have to pencil in 'mixing up equality with assignment', a mistake I made fifty times a day when I was a beginner (I'm down to about ten now.)
What Is It Like When One of Your Parents Gets Alzheimer's?
> That is one of the nice things about SMS 2-factor auth, the backup authentication method (lost phone) is on the wireless company instead of you.

This is one of the terrible things about SMS 2-factor auth! In exchange for having them be able to replace your phone (so your 2FA works again) you're giving them the ability to spoof you at any given time. From a company's perspective it might be better (don't have to deal with "I lost my ...") but it's a terrible trade off for users.
"...The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs. There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

"There is no map" -from a proven visionary worth $25.2B, leaves a whole lot of successful innovations and failures open.
One big thing with this is to develop a web app consisting solely of static files.

The trick is that most of the dynamic stuff you get from REST services on OTHER servers.

For example, people maintain static blogs with Jekyll and can enable commenting with an HTML widget.

Or your app can use MongoLab for it's back end data which again is a separate server.

It turns out you can do almost anything just developing with your own static files.

This is one of the reasons hosting prototype web apps on DropBox is popular.
How Japan Is Making Twitter Stronger
Agree and I actually do the same thing. Follow up with an email summarizing the conversation and key points. Get a reply from the person acknowledging. Not bullet proof but definitely a leg to stand on.

As far as "legal test" things rarely make it to court (even with contracts). At the point that's happened you've already lost. They are normally settled before that for anything of a small nature. Anything larger (and it's hard to define small but I know it when I see it) needs a contract.
When will Github get 2-factor authentication? I emailed them about it a few months back and they acted surprised.
So true. I have been watching an excellent lecture series by Prof. Charles Bailyn (Yale U.) where he goes into some current work in astrophysics (2007) using calculus-free physics. (It's at http://oyc.yale.edu/astronomy/astr-160, and other places like iTunes U.)

It's amazing how deeply useful Doppler shift is; he returns to it thematically at least twice, talking about exoplanets as well as black holes. "We can't see them directly, but we can see them through the way they interact with other things."
That's it Schlage. Time for 2-factor authentication key-rings.

Schlage Master Security (SMS)
"Turn the key, type the text"
Which computer would you rather have, PC or Mac?
I would love to see a before/after of /r/politics during the NSA scandal. Within a span of a day they went from unconditional love of Obama to hate.
We follow the twelve factor build/release/run model (see Concepts in our docs), so most deploy issues are caught during the build stage which occurs in the foreground of a git push. The run stage is a simple Chef run which pulls from a databag.

We don't currently support zero downtime deploys, though we should soon by using a combination of Nginx no-downtime reload and stale container "garbage collection".
W3C defines local Web storage API
Does it produce ASCII? UTF? If no, it's not OCR.

edit: by the definition you seem to be going on, any facial recognition is also OCR, since you could consider a face a 'glyph' (edit: 'symbol'). The only 'text' thing here that I can see is that it is intended to be used on text, which lends some optimizations, nothing that it's actually text-based in any way.
If helping other folks happy make you happy, then you're probably not a jerk, even if it's your sole motivation for helping others.
But the alternative possibility, when running a retail business, is that you blow 90% of your time being extra-nice to existing customers and never get around to building the features that would have attracted new users. It depends what stage of growth your business is at; the bigger you get, the unpleasant reality is that the less important any individual customer becomes.
Oracle padding
>What this fails to address is that the cuts on your key are supposed to be a secret, and your behavior toward your keys should be the same as your behavior toward a password. You don't pass it around and you are very careful about who you trust it with.

Well, if we are treating it as passwords, then we need to give every individual with access to the building their own key, with a different secret.

I mean, we all know that shared 'role' accounts are a bad thing, right? you don't share passwords.

Now, taking the password situation further, many places have a mechanical "root access" lock, with an electronic lock for all the 'users' - which makes a lot of sense to me. (further, much like non-sudo root on a server, it'd make sense that actual use of this 'root level access' should generate a long or alert somewhere, as even the admins should normally use their account and sudo as needed.)
>>I like the way you pass judgement on people and at the same time try to get people to not help others because you view it as selfish.

Yeah, his post is so asinine it makes my head hurt.

At the end of the day, there is a selfish component to everything. There is no such thing as pure altruism: even acts that seem purely altruistic are performed ultimately because they make the person feel good.

The important thing is that this does not make the person a jerk. I mean, is Bill Gates a jerk? No, right? Helping other people makes him happier, and gives him satisfaction with the feeling of giving back to the world, but if we act like rational people and evaluate his actions on the effect they have on others, then he's definitely an awesome person.
I do not even believe Valve is immune to this, despite the hoopla.

I've worked on games on my own. I know that there are a 1000 different parts of a game that you simply do not want to touch. The tedious bugs and polish, that every video game has to have. The endless hours of play testing.

Even working for myself, where I have total stake in the product, I have to force things.

Startups are a special breed of crazy. Initially they emulate a dorm-like environment, where you go and hang out with your friends and make "killer" this-or-that. But in the end, it's just a sham. The founders are there to make money. And in Silicon Valley terms, that means urgent breakneck growth. No startup culture survives the onboarding of an HR department and the associated growing pains.
Relative values to the user base would be equally interesting, if not, even more interesting.
That is an astonishing response. Reminds me a bit of the first time EMC pointed out that while it was possible to have your data corrupted in their hash based storage system, it probably would never happen.

I was expecting "Here is new firmware and we apologize for using JBIG2, won't happen again."

One wonders if JBIG2 is used in the storing of checks by banks (my bank these days only sends me images of my checks, never the actual check any more) or DMV records, or any number of things.

So in the previous thread I suggested a JBIG2 test image, now I want to build one that if you copy it, it goes from one thing to something else entirely!
Attorneys File RICO Lawsuit Against SEO Company for Spammy SEO Practices
Have you seen http://www.art.com or http://www.art.co.uk?

They have a photography section, including "collections" from National Geographic
Cross-domain REST is the big win. MongoLab, APIs, Widgets, etc.
It won't as it's using a public/private key not the time based auth that Google Authenticator uses. If you don't want to use the Twitter app you can use SMS.
Last month IBM jettisoned entire STG teams and with this mandatory furlough one would assume others will decide to fly the coup. Couldn't blame them as I'm seeing a seller's market for those with hardware engineering skills.
5 Lessons from a Failed Startup
Chipzilla = Intel.
OK thanks for the welcome and explanation. I'll check my next submission is original before I post it next time. I've lurked here for quite a while and have enjoyed the content. Although it is harder to understand the rules compared to somewhere like Digg. Better content though.