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I'm with you; the only thing that makes me keep my MP3s is the fact that the cloud isn't absolutely everywhere. When I run I want a $40 MP3 player and these aren't cloud capable.

Otherwise, where ever I am I have high-speed Internet and I don't bother with my MP3s anymore. I do a lot of Pandora. To play music on the big stereo I just use Google Music and the Nexus 7, which connects to the receiver by Bluetooth.

I used to curate the music, organize the files, connect to machines via ssh to play them back on different speakers, etc etc. Cheap tablets, cheap phones, Internet everywhere, and music services have killed all that for me. I used to have a Linux PC hooked up to the stereo and I would ssh to it to control playback. Those were the days. Now the Nexus 7 is a far superior device in every way.
We didn't find any pre-made solutions which fit with our requirements, which were: reasonable results in the general case and speed.

We used GraphicsMagick and the pgmagick package to integrate into our code base and because GraphicsMagick is crazy fast.
I think it would be fair to argue that Asians (girls especially) look much younger to Europeans than they actually are. In Vietnam, we had a guide that I judged to be 16-19 years old. and it turned out she was 23. So anime, even though they look like kids, do not represent depictions of children.
(Error code: ssl_error_weak_server_ephemeral_dh_key)
Anyone explain what it does to chrome?

I'm using chrome on android, and it doesn't crash and the lock icon info doesn't show anything that jumps out as wrong.. ?
A float only has to cover volatility in the rate of deposits and withdrawals, because if ins == outs you can simply turn around the BTC from Peter to pay Paul. So the amount needed may be smaller than you think.
It would be interesting to see teaser of the technology stack you guys are using to achieve this.
I have sometimes done this with Linux VM's that I use for local development.

Usually, the VM disk images are some where between the need to backup Applications and configuration files, and not as important my work and data files.

The problem with VM's is not just the quantity of data that needs to be backed up, but the overall size of the data that needs to be evaluated. I think that CrashPlan does a pretty good job of just coping the changed data of the disk image, but it has to do a HUGE amount of processing with every backup. Therefore VM's are hard to fit in with the remote versioned backups of CrashPlan and Arq.

I do backup these up via Carbon Copy Clone when I mirror the entire drive.
Well... nobody can say the title is misleading.
What I couldn't find is whether Arq encrypts the data client side before uploading it. This has prevented me from using several other backup tools. Does anybody know?
I'm curious what you mean by this, could you elaborate
It didn't crash Chrome for me, but that's because I was using an out of date version.
Yes, on the client. See "Redaction" at scalyr.com/agent.
Both links and wget don't complain though.
You didn't NEED to go to the Falklands at all, it was a
splendid little war for you though.

Did I say I agreed with it? Um, no I didn't.

Did I say I think we should have a huge military budget? No.

I purposefully avoided stating my opinion.

What I was said was that the UK it it's current state is unable to respond militarily in this conflict. David Cameron decided that Britain would be focusing on "unconventional threats". I.e. terrorism and not "big bad" Russia.

I was simply drawing parallels between the Tory government in 1981 and the current Tory government in 2014.
The driveway requirement is an interesting problem. I live ~7 miles from the center of London. Driveways are very, very scarce, and I can't guarantee being able to park in front of my house due to the number of cars on my road. I also don't know how legal/practical trailing a cable from my house is.

I basically can't own a Tesla (even though I would like to!) as I would never be able to charge it.
McDonalds appears to have a policy of allowing non-customers to use their bathrooms too. Starbucks or McDonalds are my go-to toilets in NYC.
Usually automated image processing is tough without a priori info about the image, or some human input.

Adding to these methods, a 'holes' fill algorithm can be very helpful. This would proably be used in place of your Alpha Mask.

The process can be run multiple times with different parameters for better results. For example, doing edge detect->threshold->edge detect (with different parameters) can help remove some of the smaller artifacts you see in the images.

If you're able to have some manual input, simply clicking the object of interest or doing a rough outline can be a great addition to an algorithm, especially in avoiding the problem seen in Global Threshold with Complex Background.
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I didn't try it in Chrome, but in Firefox I get the following. Is that right?

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to demo.cmrg.net. SSL received a weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key in Server Key Exchange handshake message. (Error code: ssl_error_weak_server_ephemeral_dh_key)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.
And as that Guardian article concludes:

"But I'm with the Mail on this. On the basis of the paper's evidence, I think Harman, Dromey and Hewitt do need to address this matter seriously.

It isn't good enough to say the world was different then (as some have been suggesting in relation to the recent crop of historic sex abuse court cases) because there has never been a time when it has been all right to advocate sex with a child."
My main experience from working with nagios for somewhere around 10 years now is that when people complain about it, they are either too lazy to read, or too inept to understand, the documentation or the architecture. (1)

That being said, there _are_ limitations (but scaling is not one of them) to nagios, and the configuration is definitively not something you do in cute widdle config.yml.

Combined with the recent negative developments with the corporation behind the Nagios trademark and the enterprise version - which the author fails to mention, and should be even more alarming - one should at least consider using and contributing to bareos, the (hopefully) true OSS fork of nagios (I will for future deployments).

Oh hey, look at that, it would even pose the possibility to _improve_ the software. (I really don't see why an almost-complete rewrite of nagios should be necessary. Even after reading these slides(2)).

(1) That includes the author.

(2) Or rather especially after reading them.
Crashes Chrome 33.0.1750.146 on OSX 10.9.1
If you're in NYC, you might want to check out http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2014/02/soon-....

At http://www.clnli.com we're a big fan of the subscription idea. But we source our bathrooms differently.
Notice how all these sites use PHP?
Site down - anyone got a mirror?
If I lived that close to central London, I don't think I'd bother owning a car and would rely on TFL.
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Thanks for the reply... as an OPs guy there are a ton of layered problems with running a highy elastic infra on something like AWS:

1. Dynamic registration of ephemeral systems with a monitoring platform.

2. Security monitoring of same

3. Meaningful graphing

When we are optimizing the purchase of hundreds upon hundreds of spot instances daily, where we are looking at grabbin hosts for just a couple cents an hour, the model of per host fees for things like StackDriver, CloudPassage and your service makes per-host pricing completely a no-go.

I don't have a good idea how these should be priced; but I think its important for people to understand all the other costs associated with having a solid management platform for your environment that covers all the bases and doesn't require another round of funding! :)
That's a really great question. I know it's her coach saying this, ‘Coach, I don’t know how much time I have left, so I want to run fast — don’t hold back,’, but hoping it's the latter. Either way, made me feel fairly lazy about not getting out of bed and running this morning
Frameworks are not as important as they once were with the widespread use of composer and componentized architecture
Other than this article seems to proclaim, running success is not predicated on ones resistance to pain, but is rather very strongly correlated with maximal oxygen uptake or VO2max (and in cross country, possibly the genetically predetermined makeup of your muscle fibers).

So instead of taking the othering approach of suggesting her success is the result of her M.S., let's take the rational route and suggest it is a combination of good genetic potential and, most importantly, effective training.
Labour ex-ministers support paedophile pressure group? http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/20/dail...
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Spying on communications of foreigners, especially highly placed officials, is actually the intelligence agencies' only reason for being.
Different distros require different metadata for their packages. But in general amongst the top 10 distros, almost all metadata in a package is optional. You don't have to specify the URL where it came from or who the author was in order to get a package accepted. Some distros do require a URL, mainly because they build from source to install on a system. But other distros merely accept a source-package which bundles the source code and that's built on their build servers and released after being peer-reviewed. But the peer-review is a manual process, so it's human-fallible.

As an example, let's compare the way two distros (Fedora and Debian) package an old piece of software: aumix.

Taking a look at this spec file [1] for fedora, we see two pieces of metadata: a URL to a homepage, and a URL to the software. The URL is not used for packaging at all; it's merely a reference. The URL to the file can be used to download the software, but if the file is found locally, it is not downloaded. And guess what? That source file is provided locally along with the other source files and patches in a source package. So whatever source file we have is what we're building. This file doesn't contain a reference to any hashes of the source code, but the sources file [2] in Fedora's repo does.

With Debian we have a control file [3] that defines most of the metadata for the package. Here you'll find a homepage link, which again isn't used for builds. The path to a download is contained in a 'watch' file [4], which is again not referenced if source is provided, and generally only used to find updated versions of the software. There are no checksums anywhere of the source used.

The source to aumix actually provides its own packaging file [5], provided by the authors. Apparently the URL used here is an FTP mirror, not the HTTP mirror provided by the earlier packagers. Could that be intentional or a mistake? And could they possibly be providing different source code, especially considering the hosts themselves are different?

It's clear that there's a lack of any defined standard of securely downloading the source used in packages, much less a way of determining if the original author's source checksum is the same as the packager's source checksum. There are several points where the source could be modified and nobody would know about it, before the distro signs it as 'official'.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/aumix.git/tree/aumix.spec... [2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/aumix.git/tree/sources?h=... [3] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-maint/deb-maint/aumi... [4] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-maint/deb-maint/aumi... [5] http://sources.debian.net/src/aumix/2.9.1-2/packaging/aumix....
Clearly you have not used the restrooms in Penn Station yet.
This is definitely an interesting idea, but if it catches on, I can't imagine Airbnb wouldn't get a little upset about the name-steal.
We're releasing a new design in a few days, precisely because of past feedback like yours. It gets more to the point and has more UI screenshots. Thanks for the comment and examples!
I had this issue for a site a few months ago and did the flood fill approach, also making available a simpler mode. This algorithm could use a few tweaks, but it worked quite well for images with only white backgrounds, but can easily be tweaked to deduce background colors.

https://github.com/PCaponetti/image-background-removal
Exactly. "Hey use Zabbix" is something only people who have never used Zabbix would recommend.

Nagios, and a host of other popular software that's difficult to use, exist because the alternatives are so poor.
We already know how to make transportation exponentially safer; simply don't drive. It's the No. 1 thing you can do to lower your risk of near-term mortality.

I'm not joking around here either. I firmly believe we need safer cars, and self-driving cars would be a great step towards that, but the real issue here is how car-dependent our society is. If more trips could be done on foot or via public transportation, the U.S. would be a much safer place.

Our reliance on car driving makes other forms of transportation unsafe too. The risk of riding a bike is not that you'll fall or hit another bicyclist, but rather that a car will hit you (and probably not even be cited). The biggest risk to walking is that a car will hit you in a cross walk or on a sidewalk (will trying to avoid hitting another car), just because. And we're so cavalier about killing people with cars.

We don't need have to wait (or hope) for technology to save us. We can build better places to live today. Places that are safer and healthier. And that largely starts by making towns and cities more walkable.

When I walk and take the train to work, I can send texts, read news stories, listen to podcasts and check Twitter, all without endangering people's lives. And no futuristic technology is needed to accomplish this.

If society we're a game, I'd be putting my resources to building walking neighborhoods and better public transportation. Even if you have self driving cars, cars are still bad for your health from the lack of exercise and the pollution.
According to Fefe [1] (in German) it is the TLS Handshake.

[1] http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=adeb1bd6
IE11 gives a page can't be displayed. Investigating console reveals "code on this page disabled back and forward caching".
Seems to be a recurring theme recently. Evidently too many developers inexperienced in proper security are building these things. You would have thought after everything that has happened so far that people would take a long hard look at their security measures.
Flagged. That's pretty annoying reirob; I assumed that would be a link to an article about the URL, since just crashing my browser was obviously a bad thing to do.

Question to downvoters: You don't ever click down the list of Hacker News submissions without thinking too hard first, or you don't think crashing my browser (and losing any state I had in them) is annoying?
What? How often does that actually happen?

I don't think I've ever heard of new PHP devs "launching with the built in web server".
Django has shipped with a built-in insecure web server for years and no ones crying to fix it.

There's things to fix in PHP, but this is not one.
Ah you are correct, FDIC/CDIC/etc do not in fact provide theft insurance, but you help with the point I was making though - Banks have been robbed for years, and individuals don't lose money when that happens (how could they? your deposit doesn't sit as cash somewhere waiting for you to claim it)

According to the FDIC, for most banks theft is covered by the banks insurance policy (they refer to it as a "banker's blanket bond") which also covers loss (of money) by fire, flood, and even things like embezzlement etc.

So until BTC exchanges/etc actually have insurance policies (literal policies, not figurative "insurance policies") the risk seems higher.

Also worth considering - I remember reading about a bit coin site that uses a Safe Deposit Box to store the majority of its holding "offline", but safe deposit boxes aren't insured by either FDIC (even in the event of bank failure) or by the bank, so if their safe deposit box is breached (either as a theft or just damage) there is no safety net.
This also works in a html file with an img tag:

<img src="https://demo.cmrg.net/">
I'm not entirely sure what I expected when I clicked this.
With an investment of at least $100,000, you could get an E2 visa, but that doesn't come with the possibility of getting a green card. If you have $500,000 to $1 million to invest in a business that will create at least 10 jobs, you can get an EB-5 visa that would put you on track to get a green card.
Why is Amarok something you would dismiss it on?

Sure, they butchered it up in version 2.0 and above, but I've always felt version 1.4 was probably the best library manager I've used.
^ This. I really don't understand how people claim that nagios can't scale.
There is quite a lot to say about 'common factoring.'

For example, nobody knows whether there is an efficient algorithm to factor integers (where efficient depends on the number of digits in the integer). However, there is an efficient algorithm to factor polynomials, and you can write all irreducible polynomials of a certain degree as factors of one mother polynomial.

Moreover, being able to factor integers efficiently would allow you to break a lot of encryption schemes.
In larger cities you can. There's a Bitcoin ATM even 2 blocks from my office.
In Chicago all taxi drivers must obtain a Chauffeur's License before driving.

The Chauffeur's license exam includes background checks, tests for common infectious diseases (tuberculosis), and a basic knowledge test of the city.

Uber does background checks, but they don't test for TB and I've had three UberX drivers that didn't know where Lake Michigan was when we were two blocks away from it.

Also, licensed taxi drivers have a number that you can report to 311 for safety purposes.

I think Uber could have avoided a portion of this backlash if it would have taken more steps to ensure safety-parity while side-stepping the medallion limitations.
First IBM, now Google.

Microsoft really is the world's greatest number two.
Wow, I was talking about something like this to coworkers a few months back at lunch and thought of the name Hallpass. The challenge we came up with was how to convince store owners there was enough of a revenue stream here to be worth their trouble. Are they paid a flat fee or on a per usage basis?
Its hard to search and categorize pages I've saved. Everynote might be closer to what you are looking for but I am unfamiliar with it
Nothing you mentioned had any relevance to the idea of "American Exceptionalism."
> what would it take for you to trust an external service to manage your logs?

An act of God. This implies, of course, certain further prerequisites that are themselves probably quite challenging to meet.

> economies of scale

Under your current plans, the money spent putting my entire infrastructure on Scalyr would pay 2-3+ developers (or some mix of developers and sysadmins) in Taiwan, where my employer is based. We are not a tiny company, but that would be a substantial and welcome manpower increase for the server team, and only a fraction of that manpower would need to be spent meeting even our "would be nices" for logging and monitoring.

This would only get worse as we grew. Realistically, I would expect us to be able to open an office in Silicon Valley and start hiring there at market rates for the amount of money we'd be giving you.
#Oops Twitter accidentally sent password reset emails
Can second this. Laravel is one of the nicest PHP frameworks out there. The whole thing is squeaky-clean and well-designed.
Crashed Chromium 33.0.1750.117 x86_64 built on Gentoo.
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I know those companies are big exceptions, but for comparison, interns in France are (as far as I'm aware, fairly uniformly) paid 436.05EU/month, or just under 600USD/month. That's 30% of France's national minimum wage.

It seems a shame that those big companies can skim off all the brightest talent by paying such lucrative wages, but at the same time, they've obviously worked hard to be in a position to be able to do so. A tricky one.
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Tesla lack the traditional ugliness and fuel inefficiency of US cars; the model S looks like a Jaguar but is cheap to run. Nor is it too large.
I get the "slippery slope" arguments etc, but I can't help feeling that the right to free speech shouldn't include the right to look at pictures of children being raped.
Hopefully Nagios is showing him some red metrics right about now.
Fell for it. I see what you did there...
ClippingMagic has been our go to: http://clippingmagic.com/

Can I call bullshit on their claim of "full incoming item traffic (750 items/s)?

I assume this is user generated content, not automated uploads from e-retailers? Regardless of where it comes from that would equal 2.7 million items uploaded per hour, 62 million per day. FFS Google has only indexed 2.2 million items from their site.
Uber already deemed illegal in Brussels, two (private) vehicles seized so far
The Brussels government really wants to make it impossible for Uber to operate in the city, even with a P2P ride-sharing service. Two private cars driven by UberPOP drivers were seized this morning, after the company's debut in Brussels last week.
I thought the process-per-tab thing was meant to stop this sort of thing from taking the whole browser down.
Ah but I have two small children...Besides, that's not the point...
As someone who's interested in Haskell and missed this the first time around, I'm glad it's back.
Unsupervised learning using deep neural networks, e.g. Google made a face detector using only unlabelled images that trained itself[1]. Seems like a similar approach could be applied to image segmentation, i.e. this problem.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
The question is what are you trying to develop in your students: factual knowledge or mathematical thinking skills? I think it's the latter, and if that's the case then proofs are by far the best way to do it.

And do you really think students would be any more motivated to learn about accounting than they are about current math? I mean, come on, nobody wants to do that stuff. It's a chore even for adults.
Revolution is thoroughly overrated. There is very little point in trying to force change upon an existing system. A system that will replace the current one has to be backwards compatible with the status quo while being forwards compatible with the ideal. The communists made one additional mistake: they wanted to breakdown the existing system and force people to change. That kind of change takes generations to accomplish while the cryptocurrency system is feasible within my lifetime.
Most often these days, distros ship with filesystem extended attributes enabled (though you might have to add the user_xattr flag to the mount options to be able to actually use them).