skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OCR Software for Mac, Mac OCR software
OmniPage Pro X For Macintosh is an advanced OCR software for Mac - designed for Mac users to convert scanned documents to digital files and enables you to edit, sort, search, modify etc.. You can use this Mac OCR software to save time and money by OCR converting on Mac.
Very cool video. Can't wait to see what topics they cover in the future.
Gecko used to be used directly by a number of consumers for implementing native applications, but Camino on OS X is the only one left. All others are long-dead or switching to Webkit.

Mozilla threw all of their weight behind XULRunner years ago. It probably wasn't that bad of a decision, given how much of a headache it is to use Gecko directly.
There are all sorts of different singularities, in my opinion. Cold fusion would be a singularity. Biological immortality/gene modification in the living is another. Self-improving AI is the singularity that encompasses all of the possible singularities.
That's the point: we don't want consistent UI

If we want native UI, it's obviously going to have major inconsistencies between platforms!
The article concludes by saying California should adopt Texas's "more welcoming attitude toward Mexico", even while admitting that there is "a “lost generation” of mostly Hispanic Texans with insufficient skills for the demands of the knowledge economy" and "Latinos [in Texas] may justly demand a bigger, more “Californian” state to educate them and provide them with decent health care." I really don't understand why right-libertarians turn their brains off when it comes to race and culture.
I won't repeat what I said above, but I stand by it. We're not children; we're not so incompetent about ethics.

"It's the fundamentalists who get into this "lake of fire" bit and such."

Indeed. Nevertheless, it is in the Bible you know: Matthew 25:41, Mark 9:43, Luke 16:22-24, Revelation 14:9-11, probably others: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:41,...;

"I also think that you're arguing with what some bunch of folks "think" some other (probably imaginary) being will do, and that seems really, really silly to me."

My great hope is that they will come to see that their concept of God is contradictory.

"Better to determine what you think about the idea of God in general"

What I think is that P(God), while low, is much, much higher than P(God and Hell).
Wish we could figure out how to do that. Beyond all the political issues and body bags, big armies are expensive.
"There is simply not enough data to confirm or deny this."

Are you kidding? This is one of the most studied topics in all of science. There have been literally thousands of studies on this.
Firefox 3.5 was in beta for months. Why didn't you fix it then?

Oh yeah, it's somebody else's problem. There you go.
Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting to hear how you could conceivably brute force the password from that graph (and only that graph) if it had a random per-user salt.
Are you kidding? Live streaming is MASSIVELY more expensive than HTTP/1.1 because of the infrastructure needed to support the hard latency and QoS requirements.
Even though it's fashionable to make fun of C++, I have to admit that next to Python, it's my favorite language ;)
My preferred explanation of heaven and hell works for the religious and non-religious. Heaven is eternal union with God. Hell is eternal disconnect from God.
Do Safari's developer tools allow you to change CSS and HTML on the fly like Firebug?
Patents limit distribution of the 'machine', and are intended to make the 'plans' describing how to build it a matter of public record.

Distributing the source code does not infringe the patent.
Preserving the corporate web design
This showcase is a great example how an international company is applying its corporate design on the web. Orange is present on two continents and eleven countries, yet all the websites follow a unique corporate design, which creates an outstanding powerful brand.
"it's impossible to overdose or cause brain damage of any sort."

I really don't think that's true. Excitotoxicity is a distinct possibility. 5-HT2A and 2C agonists enhance glutamatergic currents. Glutamatergia involves calcium cation influx into neurons. Calcium cations promote the release of proteolytic enzymes - and other catabolic enzymes - which damage the cytoskeleton and destroy mitochondria releasing reactive oxygen species into the cytosol.
Christian Videos Network - TU ERES MI RESPIRAR MARINELLA ARRUE
Yeah. And that article is fairly old... I'm pretty new to the RP game myself, but I know that all of these technologies are advancing pretty rapidly.
Whilst that sounds reasonable on my VM Safari loads faster than Firefox on Windows.
"I won't repeat what I said above, but I stand by it. We're not children; we're not so incompetent about ethics."

You take a lot more comfort than I do. If we went back 400 years and had this conversation, you would be just as sure of our moral understandings. So I'm not convinced in the least that if we went forward 400 years that our understanding of morality and ethics will remain the same. Perhaps you are. But I take too much faith in human progress to think we're anywhere near being done.

Yes, instead of allegorical and spiritual stories, the definition of fundamentalists is that they take holy writings just the same as we would a newspaper, or encyclopedia. Lots of stuff in the Bible (even more in the Koran, but I digress) I don't think it does justice to the word "religion" to pick some one stance and attack it -- there are as many micro-versions of religion as there are people probably. Most modern atheists take some form of fundamentalism to use as their straw man. If that makes your boat float, fine. But Christianity has always evolved -- much more than the other religions. It's not a static target, and I bet (based on history) it will continue to evolve for many centuries to come.
If you could convincingly demonstrate that you were the tooth fairy, for example by flying into the locked rooms of every little boy and girl in the world overnight looking for teeth, or just by displaying any supernatural ability whatsoever, then of course I'd admit I was wrong all this time. And I wouldn't mind being wrong, either, since I'd be getting the fricking Nobel Prize for turning all scientific knowledge to date upside down in an instant by discovering you.

I have no idea what you mean by "cherry-picking" - I am going straight for the heart of the matter. Religion - all religion really, but Abrahamic in particular - is practically made of supernatural phenomenon. It's all impossible according to everything we know about the universe. No further discussion is required.

I hate to repeat memes but when it comes to religion it's basically "pics or it didn't happen". Until you have some evidence - any evidence - you may as well be arguing that Harry Potter is real.
From my reading this seems to be the preferred usage by more modern Christians as well.

It certainly is a much more defensible position.
Some background: on Unix, Firefox obtains seed entropy from /dev/urandom, while on Windows it calls RtlGenRandom() for some reason instead of CryptGenRandom(). This seeding material is then fed to the random number generator, a NIST SP800-90 Hash_DRBG.

However they do obtain additional (optional) entropy (if you're familiar with the NIST DRBG's, then I'm talking about the 'Additional Input' parameter) by reading system time while periodically reading a bunch of system dirs to advance time in a non-deterministic manner. And that's where this bug creeps up.
I wouldn't have said they're forcing their ideology onto the web; it's more that they're forcing the web's ideology onto their users.
I agree with your sentiment, and I prefer the mathematical definition of Big-O to hand-wavey descriptions, but the plain English descriptions do have a place in presenting the material, in my opinion. Once you understand the idea of what Big-O is and isn't used to measure or explain, the actual definition makes sense as a translation of those ideas into math. It's like an example that goes with a theorem in a math textbook. Yes, all of the information is technically in the theorem, but that doesn't mean the example doesn't help a student understand.
The default for "big" is population, not area, when one talks about countrys. That's the convention.
"If you could convincingly demonstrate that you were the tooth fairy, for example by flying into the locked rooms of every little boy and girl in the world overnight looking for teeth, or just by displaying any supernatural ability whatsoever, then of course I'd admit I was wrong all this time."

But you see you are proving my point. You are providing some definition of the tooth fairy that you then expect me to demonstrate. That's crazy. What if my definition of the tooth fairy is simply a kind father who slips a couple bucks under his kid's pillow on certain occasions?

Do you see what I'm getting at? You're taking some attributes, that some people believe, about some possible entity beyond our understanding. Then you're trying to use logic and science with it. That doesn't seem so smart to me. There is a fine line between stories I make up to tell you and stories I tell you that you have no ability to verify. You might want to read that preceding sentence again. From the outside they look the same. There's no way for you to tell the difference.
I like the authentication system where you are guaranteed a nonce-bearing cookie identifying the user, but still forcing them to type their password. You know, just to be sure.

But I have an improvement on your system. Instead of a 16 bit salt, use a FIVE HUNDRED TWELVE bit salt. That's 32 times the saltiness! But just to trip evil hackers up, why don't you call that salt "PHPSESSIONID". I think that scheme is so salty that you only have to have users type their password just once!
Popsci international redirect fail.

If you visit http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-07/mit-students-love-... from Australia it directs you to http://www.popsci.com.au/

Go to http://www.popsci.com.au/diy/article/2009-07/mit-students-lo... to get the full article.
Touching on the point about risk taking makes me think of a reward I would like to have: the privilege to take risks at work. I have some neat ideas about our product at Large Network Vendor Inc. I'm willing to work for free exploring these ideas if only I could get a few smattering resources and OK from my boss. It might fail but it might also be a big boon to the business. They probably don't let me because of missing business commitments costs more than a bonus. :(

Or they could reward me with some kind of training. I dunno. Maybe this is the same thing focusing around "this" and "that".
"The DNA Code" - New Research Shows Life Hardwired in the Universe
The web's ideology is to not give a shit -- no baseline content types were ever specified for <img> or <object> or <embed>
15 years? From 2001 all the way back to 1986.

What browser were you using in 2001 that was better than IE6? Netscape 6?
Well, hopefully now on his second attempt he gets better leverage on the deal.
Provided you are in an inertial reference frame.
I would amend "Don't hire friends and relatives" to say "don't hire people you can't fire" - I've had good luck with friends and relatives; but I've only hired friends that do jobs that I know how to do (and thus I know how to judge) and I seem to be able to say 'this isn't working out' without loosing a friend.

maybe "Don't hire people you are not willing and able to judge in an objective manner" would be better still.
Scope (keynote to reboot11)
Sintered parts are everywhere, especially gears. In your car. Perhaps not in the tranny but window motors, wipers etc. They are used when plastics are not strong or temp resistant enough.

Emachineshop is a giant step in the right direction and they have been around for a long time, so they get points for being early, but they are only a part of the picture.

Check out http://www.cnczone.com thousands of people making Automation and sharing manufacturing knowledge.
Ask HN: Twitter archives?
I am not having much luck finding a good source of total Twitter archives. Some luck finding people that archive the partial firehose API (spinn3r.com for example, but they are too expensive for me now anyhow).

I don't need it to be realtime which is why I thought I could find something workable. I need it to return all 'tweets' that contain any of about ~200 keywords. Missing the last 12-24 hours would not be an issue.
As a minor aside, I wonder how long it will be before certain counties in Cali start to talk about leaving the state.
agree with "news is available everywhere else", agree with "stupid".

But, what I like about NYTimes is the succinct quality of language used. "Everywhere" (mostly) else it's not quality. Everywhere else, You get the bits of news - the fast food of news. At NYTimes, you go for the 3 course lunch. "Everywhere" I tend to crap out my brains, when I read "your" used interchangeably with "you'r" in slangy english(even the famous tech brunch site) - my opinion.
It's fairly likely that our civilisation, should it survive, will make great ethical progress and regard many of our views today as absurd. It's extremely unlikely that this progress will include approval of eternal torture.
How does the code in new Illustrator versions compare with Vector Magic?
I'm not sure $100/year is right... think experiments and personal domains. Plus it's an awful lot of money for people in other countries.

It would be nice if ICANN or someone would shut down the big squatters though. Everyone knows what their pages look like, and who they are.
How banks screw consumers, or how your negative balance keeps them afloat
Nfs.net hit by openssh exploit?
This may be a big win for Chrome, actually. If everyone normally just uses google anyway, the address bar and google's search have the opportunity to merge.

More traffic to google, more ad dollars. I guess internet explorer is in the same position, but somehow I can't see Microsoft moving in that direction. Maybe I'm wrong.
What do Ali G, Borat, and Bruno have in common?
Not even for premium parts, but just for everyday items. Coat hangers, hooks, cups, stands, all those random little plastic connectors that are sold at huge margins. Heck, even plastic army men, or miniature figures for various board games. It will be really interesting how this plays out...
The bible, which if I understand it correctly is the basis of Christianity, makes claims which are unambiguously supernatural. Seas being parted, virgin birth, dead rising, pillars of salt, that kind of thing. All of these events are impossible and should be assumed to be fictional unless proven otherwise.

Since you like to play with definitions so much, why don't you define "God" and give me something to shoot at, then? If you define him as a kindly middle aged father who is nice to his kids, then fine, no argument from me, except it doesn't have much to do with the character in the book.

"There is a fine line between stories I make up to tell you and stories I tell you that you have no ability to verify."

No there's not. There is no line at all! If there is no evidence, it didn't happen.

"Then you're trying to use logic and science with it. That doesn't seem so smart to me."

I guess that's where we'll have to differ.
It also looks like misaligned incentives to me. If ICANN is getting $25k / year per TLD... do they really want to notice? Won't they decide that they're better off waiting until there's a lawsuit? (that way they won't have to refund the 25k)
I can for see a future when this question will actually be competent, perhaps when AI can write programs (sort of) in a commercial setting.
> I have yet to encounter a system where bash wasn't available, so yes I'd say it's quite portable.

Most systems (other than linux and OS X) do not include bash by default, and not everyone is able or willing to install it (and its dependencies) just to run a silly shell script. Sh one the other hand is almost as universal as ed(1), and implements the most sane subset of bash anyway.

Other systems (eg., Plan 9) don't have bash available at all (this is considered by some as a feature), while bourne is supported, if only for backwards compatibility.

> In my opinion all shells are quite horrible.

Most mainstream shells are indeed horrible (don't get me started on csh), but [there are some quite sane shells out there](http://rc.cat-v.org).

> The idea is to pick the lowest common denominator and bash just happens to be the most popular of the bunch.

lowest common denominator != most popular of the bunch.

> Your chances of finding a working /bin/bash on any given system are still orders of magnitude higher than finding a working capistrano/fabric along with the corresponding ruby/python toolchain.

And your chances of finding a working /bin/sh on any given system are still orders of magnitude higher than finding a working /bin/bash
Just to clarify, blasdel didn't make that up. That really is his usual style.
It's defensible because it's so vague.

But if it's fleshed out so that the afterlife of the damned is so unpleasant that they would end their existence if they could, it comes to much the same thing.

If it simply means annihilation, then fine. As I've noted, that's not how Jesus put it (according to the gospel authors, anyway). But OK.
I do use many OSes during the day, Plan 9 is the only one I actually enjoy using.
I'm gonna go with, "every time Microsoft releases a security patch of any severity in any product whatsoever".
From my experience with my families denomination, they see hell as the temporary disconnect from God followed by a lapse into non-existence. Which is an example of Daniel's point. There are different interpretations, so attacking a specific one, such as the hell fire interpretation, results in a weak argument.

I would sooner choose hell than follow a God that was holding damnation over my head, though I think I would be happier if I was so delusional.

Ah, well, the thread is dead.
People also acclimate quickly to whatever rewards are given and come to expect them. Bonuses eventually become an expected and assumed part of one's salary especially when there is no transparency as to how the bonus figures are arrived at.
Hey, absolutely. I'm just saying that it's much harder and thus much more rare.

(I have to admit it's sort of more impressive when someone whips out a debugger rather than reading through source.)
I'm in the same boat (liberal, but loathe the Dems).

I think the issue is the same issue both parties have. Some of them are true believers, but many are in it for the money and influence. They are there to cater to the interests that contribute to their campaigns and keep themselves elected. As such, they don't have a vision for accomplishing big things, they merely try to stay in office and get a piece of the pie.
Yeah, we're working on the USDA zone stuff. If you mouse over the temperature overlay icons, you'll see that they correspond to the USDA zone.

We want to get some nice Google-maps integration with the USDA zones, perhaps a cool overlay, but the maps aren't encoded into a digital data format yet. The last map was made in the mid 90s, I believe, and they're just getting around to updating it. The new, fully data-driven one is due any day now.
Sorry if I come across as playing with definitions. Words matter, and if you have one meaning and I have another, we're just going to talk past each other.

A Christian, by definition, is one who follows Christ. The "Bible" as I guess you are using the term, is a collection of religious letters put together in the 3rd century out of dozens or hundreds of candidates. Fundamentalists think of the bible as a textbook. So do critics, except they think of it as a flawed textbook. More modern versions of Christianity view that Bible as largely allegorical.

You can certainly be a Christian and not believe in the bible. Good grief, you can be a Christian and not believe in God. You could even be an atheist.

But these are just simple facts that I would take as a starting point for discussion.

The best I can tell, there is a universal core definition of God across religions which is something like "that which we are not able to understand". I can grok this, as throughout history there have been things we do not understand. Perhaps God will be by ex-wife: never could figure her out. So if you asked me for a definition, that's the one I'd give. Not some myth-overloaded product of hundreds of years of religious dogma. God is a belief that we do not know everything. At least to me. I find such a belief a critical part of being a mature intellectual.

You're welcome to take shots at that definition. I'd like to hear your critique. I don't have any answers. The issue of God and all of the sub-issues has been debated for ages. Perhaps there is some new angle everybody else has missed. Who knows?
Well, we're just a marketplace, so I'm not sure where the seller (Becky) gets her cacti. I believe she has a stock that she propagates asexually, but I could be wrong about that. As she lives in Ohio, I doubt she makes midnight raids into the desert.

As for other plants, if you don't see it, we don't have it :( We're working on getting more sellers with more plants, so check back in a couple months.
"I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone -- employers and employees -- from the issues that really matter."

I think this is the takeaway.

In my workplace, we have "peer bonuses". They're small-ish rewards (post-tax, it'll get you a dinner at a decent place) that some co-worker nominates you for when you go beyond duty to help them. These bonuses are unexpected and small, so there's no competition or motivation-ruining.
Well this scratches LSD off the things for me to try. My dad was diagnosed with schizophrenia quite a few years ago, which would mean I'm predisposed to it? Not sure how much genetics play a role into getting schizophrenia.
Call me naive, but I didn't know there was any mystery surrounding filtering and sorting. I don't see any ambiguity there.
Apple’s WWDC – Is the iPhone “Enterprise Ready” debate really over? Not so fast
Book Review of Programming Clojure
Computer learns sign language by watching TV
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/152270

(sorry for presumed IP block to all those outside of the USA)
Well, catching it after a long beta and then three rounds of release candidates. Indeed, it was apparently caught by an end user, and not those 10K eyes of developers at all.
A search engine that can sort by, say, date and give me results in real time would be pretty useful. Why not, Google?
i don't think so.
i don't get that impression.
nope.
flattery.
Agreed about not needing to retire - I'm 40 now and can't comprehend when or why I'd retire as long as I can sit at a desk (or lay in a bed) and pound out markup or code. Maybe only to focus on my own projects or stop dealing with clients.
Before submitting my own comment re:the lack of line-height on this site I searched for "line-height" in the comments because I know Hacker News so damn well.

Forchrissakes people how does anyone think this is even approaching readable!? Someone needs a whack with the UI stick
"this bookworm can't remember"

bookworm seems like a vaguely perjorative term
Here's my 4 hr experiment into making a viral twitter app
"Once those shortcuts are hardwired to your brain, there is no going back."

Tried it?

It's easier than you think.

A fun experiment: Take two keys and switch them, like s and a. See how long it takes to adjust. In my experience, under an hour.
The New York Times Asks Readers If They’d Pay For Online Version
It certainly is brain dead simple to use, but the rapid increases in their pricing plans as more resources are needed coupled with the fact that their plans don't include storage space for assets like user uploaded images and such make the pricing potential pretty unappealing.
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