skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive that this is pure JS, however trying an image cut from the page itself gave this result

> Dropan Enghsh Wage on (Ms page to OCR m

Should be

> Drop an English image on this page to OCR it!
Is Vimeo failing? I don't know much about it, but doesn't it have its own niche?
Supreme Court may reel in Apple v. Samsung damage award
When your property taxes (or your landlord's property taxes that you pay in rent) are used to pay for expensive public services that could be done much cheaper elsewhere, homelessness is most certainly an infringement of private property.

If a homeless person is robbed, your taxes pay for their police investigation. If a homeless person is stabbed, your taxes pay for their medical treatment.

As far as this "very basic freedom" for people to "go and stay where ever they want" goes - can you point out where this is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution?
When you need to translate English into Italian
Apple iOS 10 now supports HL7 compliant health records
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944 and 20+ others without/with moved comments
Why not translate the PDP-11 or VAX binaries to x86-64 and emulate the memory-mapped device interfaces? Seems like less work, and more likely to produce a cheap solution for legacy installations worrying about how to run an ancient critical application on old gear.
I don't disagree that a lab isn't necessary if all you want is a cursory overview of the various topics but I'm assuming that the person wanting to learn physics wants a deeper understanding of the concepts. Really know what those equations mean. That takes practical experiences in my opinion.
Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out
Maybe you just use it for prioritization. For example, if they are logged into Reddit and Twitter: show buttons for Reddit and Twitter, then just have a more button that opens a dialog with other supported services.
People like us that used to care just got fatigued out on these issues. We're never given the full story. The right doesn't cover these topics, and the left exaggerates and manipulates them. Leaving a large gap of information about causes and effects both long term and short term. My relatives came to America with little to nothing, they were dirt poor back home, and dirt poor when they moved here. Lived in a poor neighborhood and the first thing they did was get the hell out of there. Reason: the lack of civility of the people living there. Not all poor people are "uncivilized" but not all poor people are "just unfortunately people trying their best" either. Too many of them are where they are for a reason, defective characteristics. And it seems no one wants to be honest about that.
Will This Big Law Firm’s ‘Innovation’ Strategy Have Legs?
Has anyone successfully got this to work? I was excited to try it so I did:

$ rm -rf ./node_modules
$ npm install yarnpkg
$ ./node_modules/yarnpkg/bin/yarn

and it just freezes up and never finishes:

[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[1/3] ⠈ node-sass
[2/3] ⠈ radium
[3/3] ⠈ phantomjs-prebuilt
[-/3] ⠈ waiting...
[-/3] ⠈ waiting...

This is not a particularly complex app, the dependencies:

http://paste.openstack.org/show/585495/
VidAngel has had what I've looked for.
> The promise of early yet clunky smartphone/PDA revolution has also been fulfilled.

Hardly. The "personal" in assistant should relate to the owner of the thing, not to the people pushing it. In that sense there are few enough "personal computers", but 99.999% of all smartphones in use out there are no more personal than the posters a prisoner might put up on their cell wall. Yes, there is none configured exactly as yours, but it's still not yours personally.
If this is sarcasm, I can completely empathize with you; if it isn't, then the stub manual page is as good as non-existant, because no matter what, I am not going to waste my time struggling to navigate through a GNU texinfo page; I will just go to a real UNIX operating system which has high quality manual pages[1], and get my work done there, and that will be the end of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927525
I think John has it on the nose here. Any Twitter employees care to let us in on where this capital has gone to? Are you updating your resume?
> Because housing projects do have higher crime rates, right?

I'd be surprised if they did. Landlords opt-in to the Sec 8 program, and the ones that do generally do so because it's a profitable course for a "problematic" property. As a non-Sec 8 recipient I will always shy away from Sec 8 friendly housing because it tells me a lot about the landlord, the neighborhood, and the condition of the building.
Instead of spending huge amounts of money on inner-city school districts, we should build public housing in good school districts in the suburbs. Integration is the answer to inter-generational poverty, not the highly refined "separate but equal" of our current policies.
MuckRock has written about this and has published their public records requests: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/may/18/followed/

I don't know what offended me more, that Geofeedias work was so laughably amateur, or that they got paid so much for it. Good for the social media companies to shut them out, even if just to save face.
Is there any talk within Facebook on amending this clause or moving React to a standard license? I believe it's stopping a lot of large companies (whom the patent clause could actually affect) from using React, and all other like-licensed Facebook software.
I have been wanting this course for years! Thanks!
Interview with Hootsuite CEO, Ryan Holmes about Tools and Growth
I don't get the vibe that the studios are in very good shape. For context, see Scorcese's "Personal Journey."
You would have liked Snakebite. (http://web.archive.org/web/20121031190851/http://www.snakebi...)
You mean breach of contract which could be a tort, but not a "crime". Unless a given state has local laws which have provisions against that... Where advertisers would also fall under... Unless they lobbied for a provision exempting them... To make FB et al viable as an advertising platform.

Social networks are double edged swords by their nature.
The easy example: Because the memory allocator on some systems is slow, OpenSSL had its own malloc implementation (built on top of the system malloc). There was a configure flag to use the system malloc, but because it was seldom used, that didn't actually work. Which meant that because an OS that I don't use has a crappy malloc, I'm stuck with a bigger OpenSSL binary.

This came to be extra-important, because of Heartbleed. The custom malloc both increased the odds that the memory it was accessing but shouldn't be contained something sensitive, rather than just an unmapped page. But it also bypassed the vulnerability-mitigating strategy of OpenBSD malloc, which would have certainly caused a crash, rather than a vulnerability; which would have lead the the issue being fixed.
Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider
> Its used as a tactic because its effective.

So are armed mobs that murder political opponents. Might does not equal right.

People have a right to protest.

They don't have a right to destroy property that doesn't belong them.

They don't have the right to circumvent democracy and infringing upon the rights of everyone else by shutting down infrastructure that belongs to the all people.
ZipJail – wrapper for safe unpacking of malicious archives
> You'll find a way

The alternative is not paying for it at all. That may mean not watching it, but it doesn't have to because the owner doesn't have complete control of everything.

So the advantage to the creator is they can get some money instead of none. The have chosen to go the all or nothing route when giving nothing is really easy for people.
Pound slumps to 168-year low
Ask HN: Best place to host a static website with SSL and CDN?
Hi HN!

I'm building a static website in HTML/JS, and I'm wondering what's the best place to host it online. I'm especially concerned about getting a good SEO.

Here's what I'm looking for:

1. A custom domain with ssl, for an httpS url.

2. A CDN, for super fast loading.

3. Be able to create 301 redirects with something similar to an htaccess. So it seems GitHub page are not an option.

4. Something simple to use, because I don't want to lose time learning/configuring stuff. So the Amazon combo S3+route53+cloudfront won't be possible for me.

5. And not expensive, less than $10 per month.

Any idea? Thanks!
"Does the additional patent grant in the Facebook BSD+Patents license terminate if Facebook sues me for patent infringement first, and then I respond with a patent counterclaim against Facebook."

No, unless your patent counterclaim is related to Facebook's software licensed under the Facebook BSD+Patents license.

I think this sums up everything.
Mine sucks bad enough that since I've transferred all my TVs from HTPCs to chromecasts, I'm google play all the way for on-demand movies. I refuse to have both a chromecast and a firestick on a TV, when the firestick would only be used for amazon. The kids are ok using ipads for amazon content for now, and I still left one HTPC connected.

Also, fuck amazon for changing from digital credit to pantry credit for selecting slow shipping instead of 2-day. Google rewards money makes up for it.
There's 7 billion people on earth. I think we're pretty good at living here.
Hey Paul, why not get rid of all the legalese and make this bird free? "Do what you want, no warranty"
Usenet
protesting doesn't work very well unless there's some threat to the normal order of things
This paper http://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/geas_jun_12_carrying_ca... by a UN group surveyed studies of the "carrying capacity" of the Earth. The bad news is that the largest number of studies say we are near the bounds of capacity. Worse, many studies say we have overshot sustainable capacity.

But there many studies that claim carrying capacity is much higher than current population, and that the projected 16 billion simultaneous living humans is within capacity.

It seems like whether we have a soft landing at the end of the oil age could dominate any calculation. The ability of renewables to scale up is only just crept past the starting line of a long, but necessarily urgent race. I'm not very enthusiastic about the odds.
I've had interview candidates for frontend developer positions who only know how to build web pages using frameworks like Angular and React. They don't seem to understand how those frameworks work but essentially patch together a bunch of example online to get something going. It's truly unfortunate that many beginner web development tutorial introduce these technologies first in my view. Without giving new developers understanding basics of the web platform they get siloed into only knowing one way to do things and it results in using the wrong tools for the job as this example shows.
Just use Polymer, vue or something else without that problem :-)
What about Rogers? SFAIK, they are a peer to Bell with differences in region.
The collection of the data is illegal for the government, not the use of it. The laws need to be updated.
Oliver Darrigol's _Worlds of Flow_ is exactly this for fluid dynamics.
That's great, it's an opportunity for another company or startup to solve.
Big changes made since first shown to HN about a year ago in an early beta stage. Hopefully ready for some proper promotion (one of the biggest hurdles).

Features include browser-side resizing, which makes it fast to upload pics straight from phones, and a fully-responsive layout (as standard as that sounds in 2016). Trying to bridge the gap between desktop and mobile.

Feedback from HN users, particularly on the UI, but also on the general direction, would be valuable, as would advice on effective (and cheap) promotion.

A few social shares would be excellent, and if we can gather a few more early users, even while there may still be a bug or two to work out, that'd be even better.

Thanks for taking a look.
I think the nuclear angle is a red herring, and that the real destabilizing aspect of hypersonic weapons is that they can take out carriers, at much lower cost.

The entire foundation of US force projection is built upon the carrier battle group. If putting your $5b carrier in the South China Sea makes it vulnerable to getting taken out by a $5m missile, then the balance of power has changed.

Obviously there's nuclear weapons as the ultimate backstop, but if your adversary is China or Russia then that's MAD.
He probably wouldn't have chosen to call himself a socialist if the American right hadn't watered down the term so much.
Part of the reason the suburban schools in good districts are so good is because they have relatively low population density and relatively high property tax revenue. So they can spend more money per student.

At some point there are probably diminishing returns to the amount of $$ spent per student in a school system. But you can imagine that most suburban parents would have a hard time reducing the $$ spent on their own kids for the benefit of the greater good.
Anecdotally speaking, this streamlines the process for your butterfly fairy manager to float in and unnecessarily disrupt everyone's work at once with random out of context comments during their daily bypass appropriate communication channels.
Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the Terminal
[Later.js] Call for Maintainers
What problem would you pay to have solved?
Curious to hear your most pressing business or personal problem that you would pay to have solved.

Or put another way, what's a problem you'd solve yourself if you had more time/resources?
I doubt they'll actually have a choice in limiting it, but I expect they'll pretend like it's not happening either by force or because, like you said, it's not in their best interest to make people aware of it. People just need to learn not to trust anyone. It's the only path to happy life.
Elon, a private individual, has made rockets, something most governments haven't achieved. His rockets fly to space. Then they land standing up. On a barge. In the ocean.

Not sure what it takes to impress you, but when something finally does, be sure to submit it right away.
What does your sentence mean? I am not from a finance background - thanks!
The major issue in this case that brings it to the Supreme Court gets to a thread of sentiment I've noticed occasionally here on HN and elsewhere: what do/should design patents cover for technology products? In legal parlance, what is the "article of manufacture", perhaps summed up in this quote from the article:

"The damages statute for design patents was written to protect products like rugs, where the design was essentially the entire thing being sold," said Matt Levy, patent counsel for the Computer and Communications Industry Association, in an e-mailed statement. "A smartphone is much more than just the outer casing. The logic just doesn't work—and neither does the math. We think the lower court misinterpreted the law."
I've always wanted to use Tesseract on .NET projects but it was always clumsy (wrappers). This looks like it'll make things easier.

Thanks for putting this out.
We've got 10-12 users connected to a SBS 2013 server with a couple of RAIDed HDDs and 8GB RAM, and - yes - the SQL Server service pegs out at the maximum allowed RAM (which I think is 1GB or so) pretty much the whole day. However the performance is deemed much more than acceptable, even though no doubt a lot of query results are getting booted out of RAM way too soon.

We've still got a trick up our sleeves in terms of performance boosting by moving the server to SSDs instead of magnetic drives.

FYI all my other clients running 'Express' consist of small companies with 10 or fewer users, and they are more than happy with performance (or at least aren't willing to pay the large MS fees for a 'proper' version of MS SQL Server).
Introducing an open-source semantic reasoner using a Pink Floyd album cover
Tip of the hat to Wendin, Inc. circa 1988.

$ show developer /user=steve_jones /source=linkedin /url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevejonesinwashington

edit: corrected url
maybe https://www.netlify.com?
Lazyness is a virtue for software engineers in my opinion.
The test setup for the 1080 also had half the RAM of the others, and used an older ubuntu.

Not a great test of GPUs in isolation.
I think harrow uses it for their builds
I'm really surprised that this model works for them. I simply get bored!

I love the Marco Polo series, but I've only once watched more than two episodes back to back. Likewise for Jennifer Jones. Guess I'm just not a binge watcher.

OTOH, I have no problem watching a 2:20 long movie or even two of them back to back. Movies simply draw me in more than episodic TV does.
This is something that everyone who studies physics has to work hard to get past.

Understanding the math as a description of the physics rather than just a bunch of symbols takes time and hard work.

Someplace to start: find a differential equation you are trying to understand and walk through what it means. Look at each term and try to suss out the physics that is going on by thinking about the differentials as descriptive. It takes time, but it is very powerful (even when thinking about non-physics related equations)
Much of it isn't voluntary.

People are sold a phone to which they provide some details including social media logins and install some apps.

They then carry their phone around with them not realizing that the phone is automatically uploading it's location to various services.

If you were to poll people, "Does having Facebook installed imply your location will be broadcast to Facebook 24/7?", I think you might be surprised to find out that even despite that leading question that people in fact don't realize that.

To use an adroid phone requires a google account to which your location will be transmitted. You can ask google to stop this happening but then you're back to the issue that people need to be aware this is even happening.

In tech circles people are well educated about this particular issue. More widely this is less well known.
Some of those may be (poorly resolutioned ) on YouTube. Yes, I think TMC is the dominant player in that niche.
> chaotic world full of trolls

I wish the modern usage of the term troll had never caught on. It's constantly used as a catch-all dismissal of online groups the author doesn't understand.
I wish repo were the worst thing about building android
Switching between Hulu and Netflix on my TV is hardly like taking multiple cab rides. It's actually a far superior experience to cable TV.

Let's not forget that we need healthy competition in this space. We can't, and shouldn't, expect Netflix to just have everything, as good as their product is.
Whenever I've seen high-end Windows laptops with a build quality to rival Apple's, they cost the same or more and have poorer resale value.
Which brings us back to my original question ;)
As another commenter mentioned, Tesseract.js won't perform very well on 'natural' images (e.g. the very light text you tried).

It should work better if you feed it a screenshot of the black text at the top of the demo page though (Tesseract.js is a pure Javascript port etc...).
Logic Magazine. Disruption: A Manifesto
I would say that is what makes you truly a "JavaScript expert". Knowing when to use it and when not to but most importantly knowing how to implement alternative solutions when needed.

It would be cool to see the before (with AngularJS) & after (pure HTML) of this.
Daily survival is not a game theory problem. If I were homeless and expected sexual assault at shelters I would probably feel so insecure there that I would end up trying to live on the street instead, even at the risk of freezing.

It's not a rational choice but sexual assault does not often result in (or come from) rational decisions.
The most frustrating part of it for my wife is that she has great enunciation and I'm a mumbler.
CTRL+F "Minimum wage" yields no results in either the OP, or the comments.

That tells me that SF is going to have a homelessness problem for loooong time.

CA has told everyone that they CANNOT work if their time is not worth at least $21/hour. $15 for minimum wage, and ~$7 for taxes on the business to provide that employment. Of course you are going to have these problems.

Downvote me if you like. But you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. if you really cared about these people, you'd abolish the minimum wage yesterday.
Thanks Paul. None of those answers are addressing the main critique of the article though.
I could not agree with this more but I would argue that many parents buy homes in suburbs specifically because the school districts are good -- to put it succinctly, parents buy access to good schools, not good homes.
Thanks. I read the Ars article yesterday, but hadn't seen the response from Geofeedia.

I don't really buy that they have adequate safeguards against the police using this data inappropriately. Seems like a bold claim to me and requires further explanation. In the Ars story, they allege that as many as 500 different police departments across the country are using their data.
Hmm. This works in Firefox 49, but gets it quite wrong in Google Chrome 53. I'm on Linux Mint 17.2 64 bit.
How long did this take to build?
A license (such as Facebook's) that prevents me from redistributing a modified version could still qualify as "open source" so long as simple mirroring wasn't restricted.

> In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions. First, some open source licenses are too restrictive, so they do not qualify as free licenses. For example, “Open Watcom” is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately. Fortunately, few programs use such licenses.

> Second, and more important in practice, many products containing computers check signatures on their executable programs to block users from installing different executables; only one privileged company can make executables that can run in the device or can access its full capabilities. We call these devices “tyrants”, and the practice is called “tivoization” after the product (Tivo) where we first saw it. Even if the executable is made from free source code, the users cannot run modified versions of it, so the executable is nonfree.

> The criteria for open source do not recognize this issue; they are concerned solely with the licensing of the source code. Thus, these unmodifiable executables, when made from source code such as Linux that is open source and free, are open source but not free. Many Android products contain nonfree tivoized executables of Linux.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

(Pasted the most relevant portion in case you lack reading skills.)
Japan appears to contradict this. There might be a debt default, but that will mostly be contained within Japan.
Fuck the poor!
Another point is that it's good to encourage viewers to watch popular shows, so that caching at the edge works better. Having a rotating, small number of AAA movies at a time encourages this. Multiple browse categories based on current popularity encourage this. While Netflix offers tons of choices, the network is most efficient if everyone is watching the same thing, and and it's not at all surprising if Netflix guides people toward that behavior.
It doesn't exist at all there because they don't have everything. The only place that service exists is via piracy. What we need is a donation page for shows/movies/bands/teams/etc where people who want to pay them for their content, but don't want to pay most of that money to a middle man and don't want to be blocked by the arbitrary distribution of said middle man.