I guess that checking the signature is a US thing, in the UK, Switzerland and Spain if you don't pay with a chip & pin card they ask for ID, and that works pretty fine security wise.
I had said awhile back that I would shoot for a Python version since the code tries to be as Ruby-idiom-free as possible...but I think I need to first focus on moving it to a more painless deploying process, such as github+jekyll...and hopefully make it easy for anyone to port over the lessons/examples in other (high-level) languages
Correlation in time and space could be exploited. There's a phenomenon called "superresolution" where you can combine a number of slightly displaced images together, estimate the displacements, and use subpixel techniques to resample the image at higher resolution.
Superresolution might work well in the "bad video" situation where somebody is handholding a camcorder.
Wider than that there's the general possibility of modelling the environment -- for instance you can scale up graphics for old video games by having a model for high resoluton details that people find plausible. If an object is seen in close-up, details could be transfered to the same object further away.
I am in no way an expert in this area. All I know is that the TOSes of ad networks are usually vague but very strict in this area, because of fears of abuse. You should probably talk to your account manager to get an exception / clearance prior to releasing code that dynamically refreshes ads via javascript.
I'm always surprised that a discussion about the nature of the self can occur without any reference to Buddhist understanding of non-self, which seems to have sussed this out over 2000 years ago.
Thanks for who posted this, I'm ashamed to say that it is in need of an update/typo-fixing that hasn't been done yet (as you can tell by the winter seasonal photo).
The main complaint I've heard from people who go through Codecademy/Khan any of the other "easy-to-interactively-learn" options out there is that they don't know what to do with their knowledge of loops/conditionals/variables beyond passing the tests. I wanted something focused on applied tasks, whether it be web scraping/API-fetching or even something as simple as batch concatenating/editing text files.
That's how I myself learned, anyway, so just wanted to point out to other authors the value of simple real-world-data projects as a way to keep readers interested.
The author should visit the busy streets of north India - specifically the NCR region and see what happens when the red lights are not functioning. I have faced such situations and have been stuck for up to an hour for the jam to clear up. Per my own personal experience, traffic lights are a must.
How many concurrent users will this support? I have a "school" database which could potentially benefit, but might have upwards of 500+ users adding and manipulating data at the same time.
If she is on a student visa, try to find out if she has the option to go on Optional Practical Training (OPT), the monetary commitment for an employee is minimal so I think many companies think this would be a good way to try out an employee before investing in their H1B process.
If the OPT option is not available to her for some reason, ask her to apply to a large company (Goog, FB, etc). Those guys have the resources to do an H1B without worrying too much aS long as the employee has crossed the interviews...
Even more interesting: it does not buffer the video all the way, on my machine it reliably buffers 10 seconds of video then stops until I hit "play". At which point it loads all the rest of the video (so it's not that it only has a 10s buffer, they explicitly selected to preload only that amount of data)
Advertising for local businesses is huge business (the yellow pages -- a list of phone numbers on dead tree passed out for free -- are worth billions of dollars a year, to say nothing of newspapers, radio, and their online would-be replacements like Groupon). The vast majority of it is unmetered and ineffectual.
Anyone who successfully solves this problem will end up with a business which is, roughly, Google-scale. (As they always say about contents: many will enter, few will win. Many have entered, like every broken husk of a group-buying company before Groupon.)
Maybe for his litigation skills? I'm sure there's a large legal team behind the scenes that includes IP experts, but "litigation" is its own field - most lawyers never see the inside of a courtroom. There's rhetoric, witness examination, making motions and objections, and so much more than expertise in an area of law.
(IANAL but I helped AOL sue Sanford Wallace, and it was a sight to behold.)
One question I always have adding these chrome plugins though: when it says "[plugin] can access all your browsing activity", how do I know whether it is (or isn't) sending all of my browsing activity to someone without my knowledge/permission? I wish chrome plugins provided more information on this.
Not at all. Imagine you're a full-time professional journalist working for a paper or a TV station, and I tell you, because I've written a blog post, I'm a journalist too now, and by the way, it isn't that hard, anyone can do it. You might feel that I didn't quite get it. You might also feel that publishing articles without proper fact-checking is irresponsible. And so on.
certain product-websites tend to converge ... not because noone is creative but they work. there's absolutely no sense for them to create a totally different page that may not work as good just because they want to be different.
No, he fucks with innocent reader's knowledge of history and with his students' moral values.
But maybe you are right. I am about to start writing erroneous and deeply misleading programming manuals to teach you schmucks not to believe what you read. Wheee, I am on my way to become a great teacher with a bloody big white hat!
Fair enough. I'm happy Electron is gaining ground. Not too many years ago, an Electron basically limited you to withdraw cash (for a fee) from other bank's ATMs and pay in a few places - not including most supermarkets.
Red Hat is funding the free plan right now. One of the reasons we started the service this way was so that we would really understand cost control in the public cloud from the point of view of customers. That lead us down the multi-tenancy path (lots of workloads on a single VM). SELinux and Linux Control Groups (as well as a lot of other tech) have been key for us in keeping costs under control.
A really, really good book. My only wish is that there was a Bastards book of PHP. There is no such practical, useful equivalent in the PHP world that I've found—and I've looked.
