skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you subtract gravity from an orbit and end up with a circle?

If you have no gravity the particle will simply move in a straight line, and that's not a motion I would call an orbit.
If this wasn't a commercial product I'd ask why it's a separate thing instead of a PR to karma.
So, what about LibreOffice/OpenOffice when it was open-sourced from StarOffice?

Or Blender?

Are they worthless because you can't see how it originally got developed?
Okay.

Time does not equate to quality. Credentials do not equate to mastery. If shit's not working out for you, you're either ahead of your time or it's a shitty idea. Either way, the only person in control of your life is yourself.
A guy who puts out something for free is a jerk.

Why?

Because there can be another guy who has tried to make a living from selling a product in the same niche - a high quality product for a reasonable price.

And the 'altruistic jerk' has just ruined the business of the good guy turning the niche into a monopoly of the free crap.
Nah, he knows that this is problematic. See link posted by evacchi, he gives out additional licenses to companies that ask. It's highly annoying for all open-source projects of course, since they have to keep an extra license on just these few files. So they can't combine it with GPL, ...
> In fact, the 17 to 1 figure is so low that I question whether they aren't missing something ???

In a specific region at a specific time yes, I'm sure you can maintain a higher ratio, but the statistics we're talking about are global. We're presumably not talking about a single multi-continental mega-spartan society, but many regional societies that happened to be shaped by the same economic and cultural forces.

Within those societies they may have had very high slave ownership ratios, but there would always be some regions not under such strict control, or border areas between them where things get messy. For a start, if this stratification of society was based on agriculture, you'd only get it in regions that were agriculturaly productive.
...it's sad that we have to force people to vote.

Depending on the political system it's hard to realize i think.

Personally i would prefer to lower the quotes to found a party and lower the quotes for a parliament entry of these parties, too.

I think most people don't vote because they've lost confidence.
Today's equipment has a lot more embedded devices such as FPGAs and microcontrollers - so it's going to be a lot more difficult to rework these parts and get firmware updates. Some parts might not be programmable in the field (i.e. they need updated before they get soldered onto the board).

So I think the romantic days are gone for a reason.
repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207999
How can saying "Yes, I know" get you into bigger trouble than a speeding ticket? At best you can try to lie and state a legal speed if you were going in a borderline speed.

Anyway, it could be different in the US (I'm from Israel, where police is brutal only if you're Palestinian or holding a political rally. Otherwise they're mostly useless). I only got pulled once, for not coming to a complete stop on a stop sign (I slowed down to almost a complete stop). I just politely said "yeah officer, I did slow down, but it's my bad, sorry". The reaction was "oh well, I see you don't have any prior traffic violations, I'm going to let this one slide, have a nice day".
Isn't it a good thing to spread awareness of what can be a misleading topic? Public arguments help to enlighten people who might be misled by the confusingly overloaded word "freedom".

I appreciate the concept of GPL raising the bar too high for commercial software to compete and it's been a great success in some areas. But that isn't quite the same as freedom. It might be more accurately be called "forced free" software.
I am not exactly sure in what way his discourse seems as though it were addressed to an audience of men only.
My political correctness meter is tingling.
Show HN: MindMup Storyboards
How much out of interest? I see prices of 180 USD a year on Google search. It's not expensive but for say an open source project which might not be bringing in income it's an annoying cost.
I'm planning to support exactly that workflow.

Drop a bunch of PDFs on the program, queue them up for (later) processing, (auto)-tag, categorize and fulltext index them. I'd be so happy when that's done
Use http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/new-javascript-techniques-f...
Google hurting page rank for 'small font size'
Every couple of days at the moment I receive a message like this from the Google Webmaster Tools Team:

===

Fix mobile usability issues found on http://www.example.com/

To: webmaster of http://www.example.com/

Google systems have tested 5 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 5 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.

===

I imagine others here are seeing these messages too. For me, they all refer to simple sites that look just fine on a mobile (e.g. http://mackerron.com). In every case, the 'critical mobile usability errors' detected are: Touch elements too close; Viewport not configured; Small font size.

I find these messages pretty obnoxious.

* As a web user, I want Google to find me the best hits for my search terms — not the hits that have big fonts and big buttons.

* Also as a web user, I generally hate it when websites serve a stupid big-text mobile version to me, usually missing important functionality (see also http://xkcd.com/869/). My iPhone is just great at displaying the real web, and has been since 2007. Even my £100 Moto G is pretty good at that.

So Google appears to be arm-twisting me as a web developer into crippling my sites, and at the same time downplaying other people's useful content for me because their developers haven't (or haven't yet) played ball.

If I were the Google Webmaster Tools Team, I might instead think of firing these sorts of messages at the smartphone OS developers down the hall, and smartphone manufacturers across the world, and tell them their damn smartphones have 'critical mobile usability errors'.

</rant>

Is anyone with me on this?
How to build React apps that load quickly using server side rendering
Author here. This video shows a feature we've been experimenting with lately, aimed at people who write articles and blog posts and like to plan the structure of their writing using mind maps. I'd love to hear your feedback.
This shows that being lazy can actually make you faster. I wish more languages had good support for laziness.
Anyone have any similar advise for Brits?
If you consider the purpose of industry as being to make sellers rich, then yes. But if the purpose is to make consumers better off overall, then no, he's not being a jerk at all. The guy who produces software too inefficiently to compete with the free one shouldn't be subsidized by all the users. I am that guy, I do worry about open source software encroaching on my niche. But I don't blame the authors for stealing my customers!
Or the "right" colour and class: viz Christopher Jeffries, a (white) landlord and retired teacher, somewhat eccentric but otherwise respectable, who was arrested for the murder of his tenant (and vilified in the national press) after volunteering what he thought might be relevant information about the night of her disappearance.

(He was later released without charge and won substantial libel damages from a number of newspapers.)
I love Yerba Mate, but I very much dislike the hot metal straw feel on my lips, so I use tea bags! There are loads of types of tea bags you can get, but I buy mine online via the urushop site.

I've also brewed them loose in a pot and strained with a mesh. The main thing when brewing loose, or in bags is to wait for a minute after the water brews. The tea doesnt like boiling water.
PREDICTION: This yield chart is amazing and the stories it conveys are too
Impressed by the writer's dedication to putting spaces both before and after punctuation.

Also nice to start to read from Linux natives being confused with Windows. Oh how the worm has turned!

I've a foot in both camps, but any serious computing happens on Linux. With the exceptions of Excel and some niche Win-only software I work with.
I believe this is how radio works too; my friend had some records of his played on the radio and got together a list of when they were, date time and all and approached the BBC about getting payments; based on the same reasoning/calculations as above he got a big fat £0.00.
Adam Phillips: Against self-criticism. (audio and essay)
Bitcoin Nodes and Why They Are Important
Are you familiar with the concept of predatory pricing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing)?

Do you think it is an okay thing, applied to either brick and mortar or software?
How to Get Noticed by the Press and Drive 150,000 Page Views in 24 Hours
A top Product Hunter talks about his startup, getting the attention of Business Insider and getting 150,000 page views in 24 hours
If a bunch of 'altruistic jerks' can drive you out of business in their spare time, maybe you didn't deserve that business in the first place.
> Personally i would prefer to lower the quotes to found a party and lower the quotes for a parliament entry of these parties, too.

Which country is this? I didn't know there were places where people had to pay to start a party.
Google's 2FA is safe for the moment, if the commenters are anything to go by.
Mailcheck reduces user-misspelled email addresses in forms
No one actually ever checked whether it even has the slightest chance to hold up in court.

Neither "free" nor "open source" are strict terms in a legal sense, the rest is a non-exhaustive set of examples.

It's probably never of any practical issue for the developer, as they don't care enough, but for people that actually have to audit their code bases for legal issues, this thing is a no-go.
IANAL, but I would imagine it's a bit trickier, as our right not to incriminate ourselves is more restricted than that of our American cousins (at least in England & Wales -- Scotland and Northern Ireland may be different): the warning given by police is, "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
Having used both, I personally prefer Strava. I've found it far better at motivating me to run. You can compare your performance against other runners along pre-defined segments (e.g. some hill you regularly run). The two people I've recommended Strava to are now hooked.

Their engineers make cool side projects [1] and release interesting new features regularly.

[1] http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/
Meerkat Gets Smarter with Machine Learning and PredictionIO with iOS Swift Code
"we understand there’s no substitute for having OS source available" Ho ho ho.
Your email address isn't listed in your profile (you might have entered it in the "email" box, but that's not visible to other people)
> unwinnable lawsuit

To put it bluntly, this is just very naive.

The financial and the resource costs of pursuing a licensing violation in court are prohibitive. Especially when it's all based on he-said evidence from a pissed off employee. When BSA/Microsoft do this, it's a publicity stunt with long-term effects, and because of that they have a budget for that. For smaller companies (read - everyone else), the only practical option is to shame violators into compliance.
That looks really cool - I haven't seen it before, thanks!

The "offending system" I mentioned, however, is our old PHP application that I don't really work on. (I mainly develop much more modern Rails stuff!)

Like I said, the primary concern of the company is simply to keep pen testers happy - and their criteria for a "secure" website is, in my opinion, often misleading or even downright wrong. But if I ever get the chance to genuinely improve the system, I'll definitely look into using this.
I believe every single EU country will have public lawyers that you can talk to while arrested. It might take a few hours to get one summoned,but you definitely can. Obviously this is not an option when you are being interviewed by the police on the street.
I think the intention was just to demo some aspects of material.
ipredator.se founders truly care about privacy. They are running a TOR exit node with the highest bandwidth capacity.

Your latency won't be great, but d/u speeds are fine.
I think the advice isn't "say nothing", it is "say nothing until your lawyer is there".

So, for someone arrested (or questioned) in England or Wales the advice is to politely say something like "I'm happy to answer your questions officer, but I am waiting for my lawyer to get here".
A picture says more than a 1000 words;
Dear Telecom CEOs: Innovate or Be a Bitpipe. Make Your Decision Now
You can annotate types within JSDoc, which can help somewhat. But granted, compared to statically typed languages it's still a clusterfuck. Currently writing documentation comment translation for a C#→Java/JS compiler and I'm injecting as much type-system metadata as I can, but IDE and editors still disagree to what extent they're actually using that.
Predatory pricing doesn't benefit consumers overall, so if I'm most interested in their wellbeing, I don't think it's an OK thing.
It's like pulling someone into a pile of crap at the expense of going into a pile of crap yourself.

With this kind of reasoning the person who is pulled into the pile of crap deserves it.

I see lots of free projects that could have made their authors rich, but didn't. Instead the authors keep enjoying their daytime jobs.

Actually, speaking of "deserving the business", the question should be why is the thing free? Why won't the 'altruistic jerk' set a fair price? It may be because in this case they would simply lose the competition, and the only way they can make it is by seducing the customers with free stuff. So who does actually deserve the business and who doesn't?
"arrest warrants on more than half of its citizens" -- that is clearly not true. Many of the warrants are on people who are not its citizens.

There sure are problems in places like Ferguson, but this comparison seems not entirely honest. Why do you compare arrest warrants of a single municipal court vs. number of residents in that small municipality, and then the arrest warrants of a much larger municipal court system and number of residents in that much larger municipal system? Of course these ratios are different, because by nature a single, small municipality issues many arrest warrants for people who are not residents, while a larger system mostly handles people living inside its constituency.

Compare St. Louis metropolitan area and Boston metropolitan area, then you see the scale of problems. It is there, so there should be no need to do flimsy tricks on apples and oranges. The war on drugs sure brings problems, and this is one symptom.
In the Netherlands, you don't 'get one phone call'. You have (since very recently, and only in some cases) the right to talk to 'a' lawyer before you are questioned. Hence, either the police provides you with one if you don't know who you'd like, or the questioning has to wait until your lawyer is present (bar some limits like withing x time, I don't know the procedural rules by heart - how things are actually applied also varies by area).

So if it takes 3 phone calls, so be it.
Maybe he honestly didn't think he was lying, since he never discussed the case on the phone call. Someone told him it was happening and he hung up the phone. Most people wouldn't necessarily consider that talking about something.
This article alone places 9 on my system, plus a small lorry loads worth from .youtube.com due to the embedded video.
I hope more people start to ask your questions. Law enforcement in the US has drifted far from what most people consider moral or right.
Yes, I got the same issue for one of my domains.
The smallest 3D-printed drill in the world is useless but beautiful
s/diameter/circumference/g
Can I ask what is the point of having tests that take that long to run? Being notified 3 weeks after I made a change that I broke something is pretty useless to me...

And what language/framework or other reason could possibly contribute to that long a test suite?
Assholes
Path MTU discovery in practice
It's daring to disclose what most companies would sweep under a rug.
Good thing we get header compression with HTTP/2, isn't it? /s
You can't patent something that someone else published.
Why does that make sense?
Why Overload Operators?
> I suspect that he hasn't so much shifted his position, as gained a better understanding of hardware and can now see the applicability. If only I had been able to give a better explanation at the time!

I suspect it has more to do with the improvements to fabrication technology since then; in particular the dramatically increased accessibility to your everyday hacker.
> To be precise, code caching has been in major browsers for a while, but it was in-memory cache. Chromium is the first to make it persistent with this update.

Does this mean developers will need to put in (additional) efforts to do cache invalidation when they've updated their code?
So what, two orders of magnitude more than the gear you'd need to hack an Apple ][?
Beauty Tips for Girls, from Lego
AskHN: how do I start development of a web app?  
My small company needs to develop a web application to better serve our customer. It is a simple portal with users accounts and a personalized dashboard. The idea is to develop it little by little and integrate more services into it in the near future. My two questions are:

- How do I go about finding the right person/team to work on it and be sure they will follow through?

- What language/platform should I request?

- realistically, what kind of budget should I start with?
Would be nice to put what platforms are supported in the Readme.
These projects' focus is a bit different.

Karma was built to run all of your browsers tests in as many different browsers as possible.

Wallaby.js focuses on seamless integration with many code editors and on delivering instant feedback from your (both browser and node.js/io.js) tests.
SCGI: A Simple Common Gateway Interface Alternative (2008)
IANAL, but I believe that in this case the disclaimer is just a courtesy. That is, before one makes a life-altering decision, one should consult a real attorney, not just us morons on HN.
Picat – A new logic-based programming language
Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1
It is in our plans - http://wallabyjs.com/#plans
Hacker News for Nomads
Borland Delphi was capable of the same feat.
If you're a US citizen returning to the US, you actually are not obliged to answer their questions. That said, this is a pretty grey area and they certainly don't like it if you don't.

https://greyenigma.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/i-am-detained-by...
From Etsy to Sweatsy
Show HN: Introducing Spreaker Studio for iOS
We wrote this blog post about Meerkat to showcase some of the features you can build using PredictionIO (Open source Machine Learning server).
Which is funny, because modern humans live with a longer period of (artificial light) exposure

So it's not "more light" but "more intense light"

And don't forget the sunscreen
Self plug: we've developed cookie-checker.com. A way to check which cookies are placed with first time visitor.

ico.org.uk places 3 cookies (1 session, 2 other valid up to today and 2017):
http://www.cookie-checker.com/check-cookies.php?url=ico.org....
you can keep a whitelist of allowed permament/session/temporary cookies with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cslite-mod/
Wow. 3 minutes of advertising at the start of the podcast. After 30 seconds of fiddling with NoScript, that was disappointing. It's just like going to the cinema!

Spoiler alert: the chap in question isn't monetizing this yet. It's an MVP at this stage. Nice site though, to be sure. Solid implementation of Wordpress.

EDIT: Fair warning, there's another 5+ minutes of ads from 18:00 onwards.
Stanford to run its entrepreneurship course in London from this autumn
The irony is that without Stallman (GNU software), there probably wouldn't be facebook :)
Amazing app !
This doesn't though.
Well, sort of, but it's not that simple. Let's say they write the cached data to $somedir/jitcache, and they, say expose some other API that indirectly allows you to store data at $somedir/foobar. If they fumble checks in this other API so you can manage to write arbitrary data to $somedir/jitcache instead of $somedir/foobar, an attacker suddenly has a powerful tool to escape the JS sandbox even if the flaw didn't allow them to write outside of $somedir.

I'm not suggesting it's likely that this will be an issue, but it's a legitimate question to ask, as there's a long history of people managing to leverage a combination of flaws allowing them to write in a limited set of locations with different flaws allowing them trick some tool into executing what they manage to get written to disk.
There are also in-browser tools that prevent cookies from being sent to third parties.
We've been waiting for JSONB support quite some months now, great that it finally arrived in AWS. Dumb question now: Anyone knows how to upgrade 9.3 machines?
So my question is what can we, the hacker community, do to change this? Would pervasive sousveillance help?

Thinking deeper: we need to change the culture of LE in the US. What needs to change such that LEOs become part of the wider community, so they are held accountable etc..

Silly idea: a "trip-advisor" or "4-square" for police encounters. Any encounter with a LEO, you upload the location, their badge number, and give them a ranking. Did they show compassion/understanding? 5 stars.
Don't attribute opinions to "us", please. I don't agree at all. I think it's a beautiful page.
It seems a bit disingenuous to present numbers like that. For the lay person, it may sound scary that there as 44 cookies on a given page, but that's a completely arbitrary measure. I would think that the important thing isn't the number of cookies, but rather what which entities they are shared with and to some extend the information attached to them. First party cookie for example are not a privacy issue at all.
The whole "you get exactly one phone call" is largely a movie trope used for dramatic effect. The exact number of phone calls you get is very much dependent on where you got arrested, what you got arrested for and even the mood of the person in charge. But basically you'll generally be allowed to (eventually) make the number of calls necessary to either get a hold of your lawyer or get a hold of someone who can find and call a lawyer for you.
Nobody expected the spanish "En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, viva Mejico, cabrones"... :-)

Well, is a post about spanish language after all, should be ok to have some fun about the topics... You can trust me, such thing like a "spaniard accent" does not exist at all. A common mistake for non native speakers that mix lots and lots of accents and clichés. Spanish dialects and local variations are a big minefield.
Isn't releasing a free product also predatory pricing?

No "free" software is actually free. The developers have just used some resources from elsewhere to create the product (spare time while earning a living from a daytime job also counts), and then released it for free gaining an unfair advantage over those who try to make the product development self-sustained. This is purely cheating or predatory pricing.