skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> JBIG2, the image format used in the affected PDFs, usually has lossless and lossy operation modes. Pattern Matching & Substitution“ (PM&S) is usually the standard operation mode for lossy JBIG2, and “Soft Pattern Matching” (SPM) for lossless JBIG2

> Both operation modes have the basics in common: Images are cut into small segments, which are grouped by similarity. For every group only a representative segment is is saved that gets reused instead of other group members, which may cause character substitution. Different to PM&S, SPM corrects such errors by additionally saving difference images containing the differences of the reused symbols in comparison to the original image. At Xerox, by error the PM&S mode seems to have been used not only in the “normal” compression mode but also in the “higher” and “high” modes.
From http://abc7news.com/news/nonprofit-group-hoping-to-save-buen...

The City of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County each has
pledged $8 million toward purchasing the park from a
private owner.

Although $16 million was offered, it's well below the expected $30 million that the owners will probably net.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/02/20/palo-alto-pled...

Since this has been going on for more than 2 years, it would have probably been better to use that $16 million to develop a separate property where they could relocate to as the trailer park is in a very expensive neighborhood where median sales price is about $2.65 million.

To avoid more incidents like this, Palo Alto needs to make a more concerted effort to develop housing in order to bring down prices.
> You can do that with Akka as well, I've done that, I don't see the problem there.

The problem is that your (JAX-RS) endpoint will then not scale as much as your business logic.

> People should write asynchronous code throughout the entire call-stack

Ah, but why? Forget for a second about Quasar and its current implementation. Why on god's green earth should people ever consider writing asynchronous code? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only answer to that is "to avoid blocking threads, which is expensive". If you had a way to make blocking threads inexpensive and therefore not have to write asynchronous code, wouldn't that be better (even if you think async code is not hard)?
Cultivating change
Art and Code Example by Joe Hewitt
No injustice is being done. People today really surprise me. Just a few decades ago, if something bad happened to you, well it just sucked -- but that was it. Today if anything happens to you (you get offended, shocked, left out, fired, evicted, etc.) it is a social injustice that needs the keyboard-typing might of twitter, facebook, and tumblr to "rage against the machine".
Art and Code, Part 1 - https://medium.com/@joehewitt/art-and-code-part-1-2f785dd007...

Art and Code, Part 2 - https://medium.com/@joehewitt/art-and-code-part-2-e0cba298a0...
Do you have a specific weakness in the implementation you've found and would like to share? Vaguely pointing out that something is imperfect isn't very useful, indeed, it would be amazing if you told us something was perfect!
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Mind if I interrupt you?
Automated. Cron job on the ownCloud box, shipping PGP-encrypted backup nuggets to S3 via Duplicity. Gentle reminder for everyone here - TEST YOUR RESTORES! Nobody gives a rats about backups, they only care about restores.

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Elliot Wave Principle
Roman scrolls as old as these being extremely rare, this could alter significantly our understanding of ancient texts and their transmission across centuries.
Goodness: https://github.com/vmdanilov/TextFlow/blob/master/Transform%...

XML wrapped around AppleScript, Perl, and some good old shell-scripting. What a labour of love!
> it doesn't really support the light IO solutions (like novm's file, rather than block access)

That is incorrect. novm just implements the virtio-9p device that QEMU has supported for years.

Clear Linux does add something new: a pmem (NVDIMM) device that bypasses the guest kernel's page cache. This involves host kernel, guest kernel, and kvmtool changes.

The advantage of pmem is that short-lived VMs can directly access data from the host instead of copying in. But this feature needs to be added to QEMU/KVM anyway to support new persistent memory hardware (see http://pmem.io/) so it won't be unique for long.
Ah, that is one thing I forgot to mention. I have some Arduino experience from a tech project I had senior year of high school. Of course, I did it with my very very rudimentary (at the time) C++ knowledge, but I still have all the boards and wires and stuff. I'll try to come up with something to do with that also.
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The world is full of people who have unmet needs. Why should this property owner have to give up his rights simply because you and others feel bad about the victims of the sale?

Feel bad every time you overpay for your own pretentious northern California rent.
I am all for multi-tasking, but you would really think that Africa would have bigger fish to fry right now, without worrying about censoring the Internet.
Your incessant racism is tiring.

In any case, if Greeks are so hard working, then you are actually agreeing with my point about Greece not investing the huge subsidies that they have recieved wisely into "improved prductivity". As the WaPo article you quote says: "Caveat: Long hours at the office don’t always equate to high productivity".
I really like Pebble & Eric. I basically equate the Pebble Time with the Apple II (think slots and colors). That said, they really need to change their image and branding. Most people see this watch as a "geek toy". For example, take their website with the silly pixelated art. Sure it's "cute", but it makes the company look like they're selling Legos and not a stylish high tech watch.

Eric and his team are super talented and hard working. I really hope that if they're going through any kind of trouble, that they will pull through. They really have the potential to not just build something great but to also create a long lasting company.
I'd be interested in seeing this NN perform a lossless compression of Wikipedia at 1.57 bits per character.
Interesting! Please author, pull through all the types of pods, and give us a tasting-analysis and subjective rating! You did not like the one you tried, but each type do taste quite differently.
I backed up 24,280 photos to Google Drive. What happened next blew my mind
My feeling last time I saw one in person:

Convincing the public to install a coffee vending machine in their house at cost to themselves by marketing it as a coffee machine was an impressive feat.

They're very small, stylish, and low-priced.

Until you start to buy the pods for your vending machine.
How does resentment-fuelled classwar!-style rhetoric contribute to this discussion?
"Speciality coffee doesn’t offer anything to the consumer who wants to drink great espresso at home, but doesn’t want a new hobby."

This is an amazing take away, and I think many coffee roasters, gin distillers and beer Brewers ought remember it.
OCR generally does not work as you describe. The common case is for the OCR system to tag charactes in an image, so that text may be selected. More advanced systems will generate fonts from the images and replace the text with those. Either way, the text isn't reduced to a single byte.
Yes, but if there is a reason for Firefox to crash, it's due to the Flash Plugin.
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Is there any production-level C code which relies on (int+bool, and other semantically meaningless arithmetic) working?

Besides, C++ broke nevertheless broke C compatibility because ++bool will never increment the value past 1, and bool=int will coerce int to 0 or 1. C will preserve the original values.
On that basis, I and I alone should have the monopoly and should give as much to icann as I deem appropriate. It's as good as the current system for your argument.

If you want to make the argument of the necessity of a tax who gets it? Those who were on it early enough to capture the regulator. Interestingly on a philosophical level both republicans and democrats claim to hate regulatory capture.

Republicans would want to open ICANN and it's intermediaries up for competition, democrats would prefer to nationalise the lot, yes I know, that's just the ideology not the behaviour of elected official much of late.
Well, one can easily adopt a mixed style - everyone would work where they prefer - onsite/cafe/home/etc..

I personally work from home, but time to time I do 1-2 week onsite visits. I find it really frustrating how people live like that - they just plan all their life around weekends.
Thanks for clarification on that one, the dramatic opening paragraph seemed to suggest that the sky would fall if the freezer was not repaired immediately.

Edit to my original post: the project should be funded along with complementary approaches.
Yay, looks like the videos for cs224d are available on http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
I suggest you to know "Meteor" framework. It provides the complete stack for developing application quickly. The learning curve is also very less. I just evaluated Meteor for a day. I got a very high opinion on the framework. Now I am looking what the framework can offer in-order to develop application with high standards. One additional feature it offers is, you can covert the web application to Android and iOS application as well. Cool...
Eh if it means im replacing a $3-$4 cup of coffee with a 50 cent cup of coffee + convenience, sounds good to me.
Here you go: http://www.fusioncharts.com/javascript-charting-comparison/
The general idea, as it is applied to trading in the stock (and other) markets, it that this pattern can be applied to stock charts to call the top or the bottom of a stock move, signaling an investor when to get out or get in. The pattern when applied to a peak is 3 saw tooth up waves followed by 2 down waves, but it can also be applied to a trough (3 down followed by 2 up). What's interesting is that it is purported to be a FRACTAL pattern. That is, its proponents say it can be applied at any time scale: months, weeks, days, minutes, right down to the most granular unit of time on a market. See this image. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle#/media/F...

It's interesting, but rather hand-wavy in practice. It's too easy to squint and convince yourself. But it's still a very common "chart reading" technique in the financial world, despite being ~80 years old. (http://stocktwits.com/message/37186386)[stockTwits]
Adobe photoshop Touch will be unavailable from 28th May
RaphaelJS also supports IE6+
It might buy you enough time.

Note that almost every exercise in security is an exercise in buying time. Today's encryption will likely be broken tomorrow and by the time you've achieved your goal it no longer matters whether or not your communications are broken.

Of course if you plan to stay in business for a very long time you're gambling against really good odds of discovery and potentially not achieving your goal.

If you want to be a terrorist or miscreant you could extrapolate from that that fewer numbers is better and the first 'hit' should be your hardest and should not take too long to set up or require a lot of communication.

Fortunately for the rest of the world any plot that does real damage usually does not have those properties.

But beware of the lone wolf with access to technology.
It's a cool "Conspiracy theory" that won some guy a nobel prize for economics. They love them some conspiracy theories.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp

Can we be adults now. /me watches for the avalanche of downvotes that always happen when you point this kind of thing out around here.
A week in the life of a Tokyo salary man【字幕付き】[video]
Ehhh... that guy seems a bit off.

It is true that often residents demand something be done to force the average speed of traffic way below the design speed of the street, but generally it's not because some engineer slapped a major arterial into a cozy residential neighborhood. Rather, the common pattern is the residents moved in because they liked being conveniently on some minor artery that would get them to/from work quickly, but then decided after moving in that it had to change into a quiet residential street so their kids could go out and play in it.

The result, if the neighborhood can pull off enough local political clout, is usually that a street designed for good amounts of traffic doing 40+ mph starts getting its limit lowered to 35, then 30, then 25, then roundabouts and speed humps start showing up to enforce it, and you just get a mess.
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Seetha
OP, please!!!
This is addressed in the article, and the author limits the article to the technical feat of producing consistency in espresso production from a cold-start in 50 seconds.

To quote:

> What I haven’t really talked about here is how it tasted. I didn’t really like how the shots tasted, but I have a very different preference for many aspects of coffee and espresso compared to the typical (Nespresso) consumer. I’ve repeatedly tried to make the point that thinking we are somehow safe from the dominance of Nespresso, because we can make coffee taste better, is not a smart way to think.

Taste isn't the argument (and that argument has been had and is being had many times per day on countless other sites).
6. A lot more people available on the market with mysql familiarity

7. Wider support by libraries in virtually any language

8. Nearly guaranteed availability in any web facing environment (think about WordPress - if it required Postgres, would it be as popular?)

This isn't to argue superiority in any sort of meaningful technical way - sometimes your data store decision isn't all about the technical bits, unfortunately.
Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir – Free Online Courses – MOOCs
Look at this data:

http://www.zipatlas.com/us/zip-code-comparison/population-de...

LA has some of the densest zip codes in the country. If we look at the top zip code by metro, the ranking is NY, Boston, SF, Seattle (???), LA, Chicago, Washington.
This is exactly why I use a Nespresso machine. At $5 and ~10 minutes per cup of coffee from the coffee shop, with varying outcomes depending on the barista, vs 70¢ + milk per cup and almost perfectly identical every time, it just makes sense to use one.

Even at one cup per working day, that's a saving of over $20 per week for me. Even one of the top end machines would pay for itself in months.
Heh. And here I am trying to work out how I'll get the data off a stack of 5.4" floppies I just found in my own personal archives. Wish I had access to a particle accelerator and some scientists right now ..
You can get a decent superautomatic for $400, and a nice one for $700. This is quite a bit more than the nestle, but you probably end up breaking even after a year and getting better coffee at the same time.
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I don't think the pods are expensive. At 70-80 cents each, that's under a fourth the cost of having an espresso of comparable quality made for you outside of your home.
He said nothing of the kind. He said he was "an aspiring programmer". That type can find a good place in Europe as well.

It's not the place that makes you successful, it's your efforts. Getting into the US alone won't change your life. You have to bring something with you. If you've got nothing, then, well, you've got nothing.
Untangling the roles of parasites in food webs with generative network models
The business model is well-worn, just adapted to coffee. People are paying for the convenience. It's clear this isn't the cheapest way to make coffee at home, unless of course you value your time!
Sure, we have the same understanding of what's going on in each situation. But I can't see how anyone could call the Rust version as simple as C/C++. There are simply more concepts involved.

You can try to cover them up with magic code generators and version wrappers, but in my experience those are precisely the leaky abstractions that make people scared of FFI. They work 99% of the time, then bite you 1% of the time. The built-in Python FFI is somewhat ugly, but simple and debuggable.

I'm not saying you shouldn't use Rust for Python extensions -- just that there is an inherent awkwardness in doing so, given that Python is written in C, and the Python 2.x has no stable ABI. Of course Rust offers benefits, so if you want to pay the cost for those benefits, it might be worth it.
Depends entirely on your idea of "best". I value my privacy a lot more than most of googles "features"

I changed to DuckDuckGo in September-ish last year and I haven't looked back.
What are the advantages of SVG or Canvas in that use case? Which one (SVG, Canvas) is principle faster on current browser with thousands of data points?
It makes sense to have both event-based and non-event-based options for server side javascript development.

OS-level multitasking won't be able to achieve the same level of concurrency, but the simplicity and maintainability of the application will go up. The right choice depends on the needs of the application, of course.

Both evented and non-evented approaches have their place, and most server-side languages allow development with either approach: Ruby, Python, C, Java all have solid options for evented and non-evented solutions.
MM doesn't appear to protect you against attempted trademark-infringement claims.
I was thinking of making this but haven't gotten around to it. Thank you!!

https://twitter.com/andyjiang/status/587835685672849409
What online merchants should know about e-commerce fraud [infographic]
so the first person was shot or not?
I take the OA's point, however most of us (I assume) will be using a cafetiere or a paper filter based coffee maker at home rather than doing the full artisan roast and grind.

In my case, I'm using pre-ground coffee in foil bags from the local supermarket at around £3 to £4 per 227g standard pack. I make myself a large diluted coffee each morning using a 3-cup mokapot. The 5 minute prep time isn't onerous and the economics are much better than buying a machine of the kind in the OA along with all the capsules.

Coffee hacking question: If I got a grinder capable of grinding beans to the fineness needed for a moka pot, would I notice a significant difference in taste?
Awesome, passionate presentation. I think the free software/open source movement shares a lot of the same problems and motivations as the indie game movement, and the thing he talks about of wanting his kids to be able to program computers as freely as he did growing up, that's something that really speaks to me as well.

We need open hardware as much as we need open software. Having only one or two giant companies producing processors is not a good situation to be in. I don't know what could be done about it, though :(
The Story of the Race to Develop the Pocket Electronic Calculator
My parents bought a Nespresso machine recently, and we have a Lavazza one at home now (which also uses pods). The coffee from both machines tastes good, and the process is ridiculously simple. We used to have a Gaggia machine too, but we ended up relocating it to the garage, in a cardboard box, because making coffee using it was really just too much effort - buying the appropriate coffee, storing it, tamping it, and so on, just didn't really seem like all that much fun to us, and often the results were quite unpredictable (sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker). The Nespresso and Lavazza machines seem to produce identical cups of coffee every time, which I generally view as a positive. (All three machines were roughly the same price, ~£100.)

Sometimes I drink expensive coffee in fancy coffee places in London, where it's £3+ for a cup. The coffee definitely has different flavours from the cups I have at home, but I can't honestly say I very often think it's much, much better.
You are getting downvotes for your baity tone. Other users pointed this out to you.

> Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you.
One of the best superautomatics I found on Amazon still has issues like cleaning, maintenance, and clogging that Nespresso just... doesn't:

http://smile.amazon.com/DeLonghi-ESAM3300-Magnifica-Super-Au...
People making the argument that the pods are expensive are comparing them to the price of coffee per kilo. This totally misses the point by overlooking why people use pods: convenience. As you note to get a similar convenience level you need to pay someone else much more for a cup.
If it was like a square map like this, it was trek :) It's the one I played in the olden days.

https://ttygames.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/trek73.png
pgAdmin is a disaster, and honestly all the tooling around PostgreSQL is not in the best shape. I am currently working on a new cross-platform database admin for PostgreSQL and MySQL - Datazenit[0]. It tries to solve a lot of problems other DB tools have and provides a nice UI on top of it. If you are interested, check it out.

[0] - https://datazenit.com
You could say the same thing with Gillette blades. Sure, one blade is a fraction of the cost of getting your beard shaved at a barber's shop.

But it is still much more expensive than the alternatives.

If you compare Nespresso pods to raw coffee you pay a lot of money for 500g of coffee.
Problem set: http://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/problems/icpc2015.pdf

Complete results:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/results

UC Berkeley placed highest in North America, beating MIT, CMU, Harvard and Stanford.
Yea, transferred one domain and it was $10. I haven't heard from them, so I'm assuming it went smooth. After being stalked by Godaddy over the years, I think I developed Stockholm Syndrome? Hay GoDaddy--I will date you again if you bring back coupons for renewals? We were together a lot of years, let's not breakup over money?

(If any Registrar reads this, could you explain the extra cost of providing free whois privacy? It seems like the cost associated would be minimal, and the payback would be huge? I heard the true cost to a company for a .com domain is around $7.00? Go ahead and add one or two dollars to the domain for profit. Just be consistent, honest, and no shenanigans. Oh, I looked into Gandi--and they are just to much money.)
AngularJS inter-module dependencies are a lie
On the Wrist: Android Wear vs. Apple Watch
Yes, freshly ground coffee tastes much, much better!
The Fascinating Math of How Wrinkles Form
Apache HBase for the Win, Part 1: All the Ways in Which It’s Bad
Touché: Touch and Gesture Sensing for the Real World
yep, sure, but a good programmer deserves such amount of money compared to other professions.

Way too many managers are to blame nowadays - I love when they say "No, no, no , I do not handle technical things , I manage people!". The IT industry is flooded with clueless(from technology perspective, I'm not talking about team tech leaders) managers who have no idea about the technology being used.

When one has no idea how to do a thing(in this case develop software) and has money, and needs it done, he's willing to pay way more to get it.

Update: even better - instead of "I manage people!" they say "I manage resources!".
Teaching kids how to code with Minecraft