skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't seem to want a right to decompile/disassemble (which you could do in the same form for WASM than for most other languages) but a right to directly view the original source code. Such a right does not exist in general. The owners of the source code (the intellectual property) may give you the possibility to view it, but they could also decide that they don't give it to you. The only exceptions I know of are if the creator incorporates other software parts which mandate releasing the source code, e.g. GPL libraries.
David Schaff’s Quest to Predict Earthquakes Using Ambient Noise
First car crash caused by person playing 'Pokémon Go'
Dude, they fucked up. You don't have to send Judge Dredd over for this.
I guess these machines are not connected to the Internet, and have a very limited user interface surface.

Flaws are less important.
*fewer
Where is the blog post explaining how and why they did it?

I am really interested in the reasoning behind the change, the insights, I bet they are really interesting.
Tax evasion seems to be like speeding - so many drivers do it, and rationalize away the fact that it kills people, that you're the "weird one" if you try to abide by the traffic rules.

And before someone starts telling me how traffic rules make no sense (a common rationalization), let me remind everyone that rules are there to be followed even if one disagrees with them and works towards their change, and moreover, in traffic law, just like in many other aspects of society, it's more important to have everyone follow the same set of rules than for those rules to make sense.
Can someone explain in few sentences (or point me to the place where I can get the answer) what is the benefit of using R over some functional language like Haskel, OCaml or F#?

Which use-cases does R shine in over those languages?

Is the popularity driven by R the language or its libraries?
There is no rent control in London, rents have been going up and up.

Only 10 year graph I could find is this:

http://leftfootforward.org/images/2015/02/London-rents-and-w...

At the same time, lots of property is being built and left empty -

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/21/tens-thousan...
Renter friendly laws also make it much less attractive to build new units, since they reduce the ROI in doing so.
Adobe's new subscription model for Photoshop, makes it expensive for non-professionals. GIMP looks more attractive now for occasional photo editing.

For Inkscape and GIMP to be a good alternative for Adobe's apps, I think they need to improve on UI a lot. I wonder if there is any umbrella organization which can look after FOSS Design apps like GIMP, Inkscape, Krita etc.
It’s a big day for security camerss
BitTorrent's live TV news network to launch on July 18 at Republican Convention
Does 2,9 (or the forthcoming 2,10) have non-destructive editing yet?

It not, they can make all the other improvements they want, but Gimp will still be lagging a decade behind Photoshop.
I think such a big revamp of the app would have been an ideal moment to finally change the name to something less disabled hostile.
I'm pretty sure there will be libs in various languages that allow to talk to the DOM directly (e.g. in C/C++ #include "dom.h"), under the hood they would still call out into JS but the library user wouldn't have to touch Javascript. This is how most of the C API wrappers in emscripten work (e.g. OpenGL wrapper which talks to WebGL). Calling out into JS sounds like a perf hit, but overall it works very well... as long as the JS code doesn't produce too much pressure on the garbage collector, I think this is the main problem with the current JS wrappers. But since DOM operations are slow anyway that shouldn't be a problem (it's fast enough for WebGL, so...).
The "Red Dragon" mission will indeed involve a Falcon Heavy and a modified Crew Dragon, craft which are mostly complete and will be tested in the near future.

The September announcement at the International Astronautical Congress will be their full proposal for sending humans to Mars, including BFR, MCT, ISRU, the whole works.

For more info, check out the SpaceX forum on Reddit. I know Reddit has a reputation, but the SpaceX fans run a top-notch community there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex
You disagree wit what regarding ESL and RMS?

>Ultimately I feel like you have to get the math right or you'll never acquire the intuition that helps you design your own approaches.

But what do you mean by that? Do I really need it if my applications are not as demanding as Netflix? I feel like many people consider anything less than phd-level understanding lol worthy, which is simply not true. Majority of analysts out there are doing just fine with canned procedures. Are there something like canned procedures for Bayesian Nets?
That is not what the author of A Single Div is doing! In CSS you cannot add arbitrary vector drawings to a single div without linking to an image resource as background (SVG in that case).

What the author is doing is using the single div and its two pseudo elements before and after (so effectively the author has three elements to work with) and style the borders, border-radius, background, shadow, text-content, etc. The use of linear-gradient declarations on the background in particular is a big part of a lot of these drawings, because you can add an arbitrary number of them on any element. Look at the Tardis sample in your element inspector and toggle the background of the div; you will see that most of the door panelling and windows disappear. These are drawn with linear gradients where the colours don't blend into each other, but stop abruptly. By layering these 'gradients', you can create patterns, such as cross hatching or a grid of lines.

Some of these are actually really clever.
That's a weak argument why bitcoins and anonymous trade are a bad idea.

(A stronger one will be raised after the first nuclear or bacteriological incident traced back to anonymous black-market purchases.)

> Making that kind of threats to any of the plumbers

Threats? Refusing to be complicit in a crime is a threat now? I hope society never goes that bonkers.
How could they not be?
I haven't used any of these heavily, but they come up often. Over the past few years I've heard a lot of good things about Krita[1] as an alternative to Gimp. I've found both Pixelmator[2] and Acorn[3] to have enough of the features to replace Photoshop for basic needs.

[1] https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/
[2] http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/
[3] http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Use the bloom filter, Luke
There's some fraction of people who put up a listing and then temporarily stay elsewhere when it gets booked. This tends to happen in cities with plenty of rental inventory, as otherwise they just get booked all the time.

The "frequent business traveler" type is probably more likely to let out their space when gone than the "going on vacation for one week" type too.
Two 'Pokémon Go' players in Fullerton help catch attempted-murder suspect
Lynn's talk at CSS Day is well worth 30 minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_QKNCn_m_g
Ah so the traffic between piratebay and CloudFlare gets routed through Airtel. Thanks for pointing that out.
You might want to use something other than a code block for quotes. That second paragraph is a bit hard to read crammed all on one line.
All I'm hearing is that Cloudflare allows their customers to configure client facing TLS without enforcing it upstream over the internet, providing a false sense of security. Thanks Cloudflare!

... and I'm pretty sure that their response will be "We are just a proxy, we are not responsible for anything".
On mobile, the layout is vertical. And for some reason, only the first as actually loaded. The rest were blank placeholders. Bonus ;)
Then it wasn't deduplication. I swear it was a NetApp file server, two files, one modified by a program that logged the change, the other getting the same bits as the first, the time stamps were completely identical. Dedup was just a guess.
If tenants are disturbing neighbours the owner should be held liable, whether the tenant is a short term renter or a long term renter. Airbnb has an effective mechanism to ensure good guest behavior: ratings. There is no justification for discriminating against all short term renters to prevent neighbours from being disturbed.

The affected parties city governments are pandering to are those looking to rent long-term, and they have no legal or moral claim to renting someone else's asset, let alone dictating the rate at which it is rented out.
(he -> she)
DigitalOcean introduces flexible block storage “Volumes”
How about Spotify or Dailymotion? There are some.
> I wonder what the costs are though - the quotes are hidden from their site.

You can easy try PVS-Studio. Explanation about the PVS-Studio demo-version limitations: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0395/

> You cannot simply spend a year fixing bugs no-one actually cares about (because software was working well enough before).

Yes. You can analysis only newly written code. Best Practices of using PVS-Studio. Now with C# support: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0364/
I've thought long and hard about this for many years. Punitive damages - eg jail time or financial punishment should be removed from our system except in cases where people are unfit to be in society (like murders' etc).

What should happen - all of the management at Citgroup should have to attend a 5 day training provided by the SEC showing how they can fix the reporting problems they have. How it causes problems to society. How it is dishonest - and how it wastes taxpayers dollars.

I'm betting having that happen to Citigroup 2 or 3 times a year would really make them think about following the rules.

Plus - its positive reinforcement instead of negative (punative) damage.
Ask HN: Is Microsoft sabotaging older versions of Windows?
This is a genuine question, not a clickbait title.

I am a Windows dev and I use a desktop with Windows 8.1 Ent + Stardock menu and also a laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate. Both are fully patched.

I have got to the point where I need to ask if anyone else is experiencing the same things as me and the tinfoil-hat-wearer in me then makes me ask if Microsoft are doing something deliberately to annoy me just enough to "upgrade" to Windows 10.

Now, I am well aware of their "upgrade to Windows 10" tactics with the popups and whatnot but I have a batch file I run after every Windows update to get rid of the spyware stuff so that isn't an issue.

What is an issue is that over the last several months, OneDrive has failed to sync more and more frequently and file copy dialogs end up in the background as soon as you copy/paste. This copy/paste thing never used to happen... I know it didn't!

The OneDrive thing is really annoying as I can be programming something in Visual Studio on my desktop and then an hour later I decide to use my laptop and it hasn't syncd so I have to go to my desktop to force a sync (even though it says everything is up to date)... it never used to be like that.

Also, I have had to reset OneDrive on Windows 8.1 twice and once on my Windows 7 machine in the last 2 weeks alone.

Am I imagining this?

I haven't looked into whether this is a setting or something but I haven't changed anything over the years and it used to work perfectly well. Same with the file copy dialogs: I haven't changed anything.

Should I be buying thicker foil for my new hat?
2.9 and 2.10 is about moving completely over to GEGL, the new image processing engine that allows for things like high bit depth images, better color management, OpenCL image filters and Non-destructive editing. Unfortunately actually exposing the non-destructive editing parts in the application has been pushed back to 3.2 on the current road map.
> I could say most white collar crime is victimless too. Should we just let all the stock brokers who embezzle money go since the only people they harm are billion dollar companies who can afford the losses?

Except those billion dollar companies will keep forwarding their losses until it hits some poor schmucks at the lowest end of the chain. Victimless crimes seem to be less about "lack of victims" and more about distributing and diluting the harm until a lot of unrelated people get hurt a little bit each. The problem is that humans are not like atoms hit by photons, when you need an individual "harm" packet to exceed some threshold for it to matter. They're more like pressure in tank - every little bit of distributed harm adds up.
And....these places are little hotbeds of airbnb rentals, yes? That's where your hypothetical Argentinian company would be sourcing their nice tourist friendly housing?
I think it was just that she didn't see it as relevant to the problem she was trying to solve at the time.
Converting coordinates between different coordinate systems could give these figures.

I should probably add a check for this in my work, I think it only checks for null in WGS84 at present...
>There's also the issue that "guests" have a higher tendency to break things.

So discriminate against guests based on statistics related to members of their group?

That sounds familiar......

If there is a problem behavior, that behavior should be punished. Entire classes of people shouldn't have their economic rights limited based on a blanket characterisation.
Life as an Anxious Scientist
In the article,testing the host header with different IP is done over http and not https.so i so it does not prove that Airtel is sniffing https traffic,isn't it ?

>curl -H "Host: thepiratebay.org" http://192.30.253.112/

May be I missed something. Technically it is possible block the traffic by looking at SNI[1] or simply block the ipaddress if it belongs to the blocked site.I always thought that every ISPs had to follow this because all ISPS are asked to block a list of such sites by the Supreme Court .

[]1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
> I think they need to improve on UI a lot.

This seems to apply to the majority of FOSS projects.
No, it's an effect.
I don't think that there are programs that generate CSS within this particular constraint of one div. This is more akin to code golf, where you attempt to push the boundaries of what is possible within a strict set of limits.

More information is available here:

https://github.com/lynnandtonic/a-single-div
Not hating on FiveThirtyEight for the interesting work they do--and I understand that covering this angle of things is their main purpose--but I can't help but feel that the intense focus on poll numbers by the media throughout the entire race is upside-down. The poll that matters is on November 8th and we'll all get the chance to participate in it. Until then, maybe we should focus on informing ourselves about the candidates and the issues, and less on who's winning the rat race each morning.
Discussions under articles about AirBnB, Uber, et al. start to make me wonder recently - why is it so that so many people living in apparently advanced XXI-century civilization need to be explained that following the law is a good thing in general[0]? Like, you know, paying your taxes and not dumping externalities on people around you? How is that not obvious?

I mean - should I interpret it as a good sign, of people questioning assumptions to check if they still hold true, or is the society really going so bonkers that the very idea of being a law-abiding citizen is seen in negative light?

EDIT - added "in general [0]" and a footnote to clarify.

[0] - I mean not "follow all regulations blindly", but "follow regulations by default unless there is a very good reason not to".
Verizon to shut down 2G CDMA 1X network by the end of 2019
I really like how some of these make you think about how she did it. The Mickey is so clever with the box-shadow and the border-radius on the ::after.
WebSockets in play framework
Where is the weirdest place you ended up while searching with Pokémon GO?
> as is the case with "rolling coal."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

"Targets of coal rolling often include owners of hybrid vehicles (hence the nickname "Prius duster") as well as bicyclists and pedestrians."

People really do shit like this out of spite?

I have no words.
One of the most interesting modern concatenative languages - Kitten (http://kittenlang.org/)
Adobe's subscription model certainly excluded a segment of their previous userbase. But some people are more interested in Affinity Designer and Photo than Inkscape and GIMP, despite them being closed source. Designer is available in beta for Windows now, and Photo should be released this fall.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/windows/
Does it need peak effectiveness to take down a substation? I don't know how sturdy the components are.

Alternatively, could an explosion of metallic powder be enough to short out equipment?
Right, I get it. I feel the same. But the thing is, the logic "A persons safety trumps any desire protect someones feelings against racism" is exactly the logic that racists use. Some of the people who want to build a wall feel genuine fear, never mind its basis in reality. In their reality it's real.

I'm not arguing that the logic is in itself wrong -- but whether that logic is being used in a reasonable way (as you seem to be doing) or being twisted into the service of something unfair and evil is, in the end, a matter of judgement and context.
Ha, good catch! Great to know that my UA-sniffing skills have rusted (as there's rarely a need for them).

Seems to be, indeed. That's why I'm unsure this has anything to do with Browser-Which-Is-Not-IE-Notatall-Noooosir.
Drones: The Future’s Normality
99% of asciinema users don't care about Go, Python, static binaries and other details like this. They're happy they can 'brew install asciinema' or 'sudo yum install asciinema' and just use the tool. You're beeing too religious about it.
>There’s less to fight about when polls show similar results. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll turn out to be more accurate. Instead, that consensus may reflect herding — pollsters suppressing results that they deem to be outliers, out of fear of embarrassment.

And there goes my entire faith in the process. Deciding which polls to release based on the results is absurd. If the media is going to focus so much on polls (and see my other comment for what I think about that) then they should only source them from pollsters that share all results, not just the ones the pollster deemed "correct" because it fit with their expectations.

Nate Silver's strategy for dealing with it isn't encouraging either:

>In fact, you should trust a pollster more if it’s willing to publish the occasional “outlier.” Clinton probably isn’t winning Colorado by 13 percentage points right now or losing Pennsylvania by 6 points. But the fact that Monmouth and Quinnipiac are willing to publish such results are a sign that they’re letting their data speak for itself.

It sounds like he's admitting he doesn't even know what the practices of each pollster are. For all we know, a pollster could be so sure in a Hillary or Trump lead that they don't publish the outliers in the other direction. How can Nate Silver aggregate these results with any certainty whatsoever?
> inheritance & mixin bad / composition good

This wisdom is at least as old as the classic GoF book [1] which was published in 1994. Many of their patterns can be summarized as: "Favor 'object composition' over 'class inheritance'."

They also give a pretty simple, compelling reason for that: It is just a direct consequence of the even more fundamental principle:

"Program to an interface, not an implementation."

[1] Gang of Four (Erich Gamma,
Richard Helm,
Ralph Johnson,
John Vlissides): "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
Edited. I usually omit he or she if I don't know the gender of the person referred to. I used he in that byline (I used the author in the main phrases) as the generic pronoun (i.e., any author of such a single-div experiment), but that may not have been clear from the context.
The Roofshot Manifesto
Link is to HN.
A little trick I've found for this is to listen to the same few(3-4) sets or plays of 30-40 minute each (i.e Bach cantatas). Your brain gets familiar to the progression so it tunes out so they're not distracting as new music(radio etc) and at 30% volume is enough to block out voices and not make your head dizzy. Also you can take little breaks after each one ends, so you're essentially doing Pomodoros[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
It's not victimization. He had no right to rent property at a lower price than the owner can get from short term renters.
I don't think it is just rent control. You should know if you have a degree in Economics that if you release rent-control apartments to the market, they will seek the highest price they can fetch, but after a spike, the introduction of these apartments would dilute the market a bit. How much, I can't say, but certainly better than with rent control. And if you are from NY, you should know the difference between rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments.

I have friends who had a rent-controlled loft in Tribeca for over 30 years way before Bobby DeNiro and company stepped in.

My friends were both better off than I with one friend's parent subsidizing her to the tune of $20K to $30K per year many years after grad school too, so I rented in Brooklyn where I was born and raised below the poverty line. My friends were paying $875 per month at the time of exit in 2015, and it was somewhere around $450 back in the 80s even. They were able to take long vacations and return to their loft in Tribeca two or three times a year. A nice life if you can get it.

I had lived in Manhattan a couple of times before, Hell's Kitchen, 4th floor walkup before all of the restaurants, and what were called 'yuppies' moved in in those days ;), but I then rented in Chelsea in a rent-controlled building, and became very good friends with about 6 of the elderly tenants. My apartment was rent-stabilized ($925/mo at first). I also befriended the landlord. He was running this and two other buildings, and he showed me the humongous boiler and the cost to trash the old one, and buy and install a new one. He knew if he fell behind, and if he didn't fix it, he could have the city come down on him and the public call him 'slumlord' for freezing elderly people in the winter. Most of the elderly were paying around $375 to $425 (1993 to 1997), and the boiler removal, new purchase and installation for one that size was going to be close to $150K. A large percentage of capital expenditure among other systems in a building this size, including two full-time maintenance men/tenants. I knew of two other couples in their thirties living illegally in their grandmother's apartments who they moved out to the burbs with their Mom & Dad.

I could see both sides of the argument: The owner (don't like landlord) never tried to evict poor, old Ann, a former garment worker and WWII holocaust survivor, or the others. He looked for increases where he could get them to offset the long-term tenants paying so little. He had compassion (which is not Economics), but at the same time, he was looking at losses in this building cutting into his income. How come he has to support others and not be able to take sufficient self-interest to support himself and his family in any manner he sees fit? He knew about the others 'working the system'.

Emotional arguments sway most people in purchases and social issues, and not intellect unfortunately. Elderly people wouldn't be helpless and poster children for rent control in their eighties and nineties, if they had to find more affordable housing in their forties or fifties. The problem gets extended and worsens when the root cause is ignored.