skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you just make the argument that the government enforcing the laws is immoral?

When most of the laws are immoral, then I would say that it is. And an immoral law is - IMO - any time the State is doing anything other than acting, as Bastiat[1] put it, "as the collective extension to our individual right to self defense".

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G004
Another good use for BIN information is justifying tax decisions. A little while back the VAT rules in the EU changed for online merchants. Before, you collected VAT based on your location. After, you collected VAT based on the buyer's location.

Each country implemented a thing called VAT MOSS, and you can register with a country's tax authority to use their VAT MOSS system. You only have to do this in one country. Once a quarter you submit a VAT MOSS form that lists your sales in each EU country and how much VAT you collected. You pay that to the tax authority of the country whose VAT MOSS system you use, and they distribute the appropriate amount to each country.

They don't want it to be trivial for online buyers in high VAT counties to claim they are in some low VAT country, so merchants are not allowed to simply collect the VAT for whatever country the customer picks on the "country" drop down during check out. The merchant is required to have two pieces of non-contradictory evidence to justify their choice of which country's VAT to collect. One can be the country selected by the customer.

What we normally use where I work is the customer's selected country and the country that MaxMind's ip to country database says they are ordering from. If those two agree that's two pieces of non-contradictory evidence and we're done.

That's good enough most of the time but sometimes it fails. In that case I'll lookup the bank that issued their credit card from the BIN. Almost every time that bank turns out to be a bank from the country that the customer claimed to be from, giving two pieces of non-contradictory evidence for that country. Maybe once or twice the bank from the BIN did not match the claimed country but did match the IP country, so I went with that instead.

There have only been a handful of times when that was not good enough, and I had to dive into their past orders, support tickets, and logs of their software contacting our update servers to play detective and try to get enough evidence to justify picking a country.
The sooner the EU dissolves, the better.
It is true that populist parties are on the rise. However, both in France and in Germany, favorites for this year election are on the center-left (Emmanuel Macron and Martin Schultz, respectively) and very firmly in favor of more EU integration. The rise of nationalist parties doesn't necessarily mean that people are becoming more nationalist overall.
It's a mixed bag. I live in Germany as an expat and found giants like Dell (incl. Alienware) offered QWERTY options for their laptops, and so did the smaller Clevo resellers who pride themselves on custom builds. But in between, with the mid-size players like MSI and ASUS, there's no such luck.

I ended up getting an MSI when I stopped over in Taipei on a trip, after hearing about the Razer reliability issues last year. Mind you, I am not considering MSI to be any better, given my experience so far.
I find most people have no problem acknowledging that the gap between the rich and poor is increasing, unless the topic is populist politics, then minds seem to change on the topic.
You're absolutely right! Induced demand is a real concern that merits careful consideration and study.

Fortunately for us, the relevant professionals are keenly aware of this real and important concern! It's been studied quite explicitly in San Francisco. One of the results was that in a fairly representative new residential tower, in excess of 80% of households moving in were doing so from San Francisco.

Induced demand is a real and important phenomenon we should all consider carefully in our urban planning. Yet, we should also consider that demand for housing in attractive regions like San Francisco is perhaps somewhere short of infinite.
We had that in the UK for a while too. It seemed that the big corps ended up absorbing the fee and then most others had to too. There's still the occasional merchant that has a minimum but I see less and less as time goes on.

In theory, our interchange fees were reduced, but from what I saw it just resulted in most decent cashback schemes disappearing. This seems to have resulted in issuers making the same margin as they no longer pay out a part of it to the customer.
> Meanwhile the only course I know of at Stanford that teaches Arduino is at CCRMA.stanford.edu

I don't understand why this is an issue. Why would you want that when Stanford and almost every other school offers Intro to Electrical Engineering? It will contain everything you need to know to hack away at Arduino and a lot more.It's EE40 as I recall and after the first two weeks of that class you should be able to play around with Arduino. Why would you want to waste thousands of dollars in tuition for knowledge you can pick up in a weekend at your local hobbyist Meetup for $20 or less

Do you also bemoan the fact that Stanford doesn't offer a class in how to use Google or an Intro to Typing?
This is not nationalistic. One of the standard things that happens with Visa costs is reciprocity. If you charge my citizens a fee for a visa, then I'll charge your citizens.

What is different here is that the EU is involved, and the EU is many countries which generally act like a bloc.

So the US grants Free Visa Access to 23 of the 28 members of the EU countries and likewise those 23 countries grant Free Visa Access to US citizens traveling to the EU. But what about those other five countries?

To make it even worse a US citizen can travel to say Germany, not pay for a visa and then travel to one of the five other countries and since a Germany Visa is actually a Schengen Visa and is good for any of the Schengen area you don't need another visa.

The EU has tried to work with the US to fix this but the US has so far refused or ignored the request.
Strongbox
Isn't it a reskin of Android?
For many years gay sex was illegal in many states. Likewise many states had laws against inter-racial marriages.

Enforcing those "laws" was totally immoral.
Would you care to share the source code, if it is hosted publicly? I've been building a programing language as a side project and I'd like to draw some lessons from others.
You'd think they would mention that the law was bad if that was their justification here.
"Idea: implied bounds" sounds like a very interesting idea. It is a pain copying the bounds as author mentions. I also have worked with library code that does not consistently use trait bounds and it can lead to very confusing errors.

The thing that keeps getting me now is there are so many types moving around with generics and traits. It would be nice if it were easier for something to be object safe and/or Any was more powerful. My solution as with many things is to route around it but it is frustrating at times.
Ask HN: Should site navs be part of the browser's UI?
Does anyone else find it frustrating that there's no consistent nav structure on all the websites they visit?
> Have you forgotten the Arab Spring? That wasn't really from free speech laws per se, but it was fueled by social media which acts the same.

No, it was fuelled by decades of oppression by leaders propped up by Western powers, most especially the oppression of Islamic elements that had nevertheless enjoyed widespread public support.

To ascribe that failure to "freedom of speech" is, it seems, a gross violation of reality.
What made you doubt my seriousness? Of course I am serious. I am not aware of how bad refugee crisis. Sure, people are complaining but we are not talking about millions of refugees that change the social fabric altogether. Globalization has been going on for decades now and things do seem to have improved for many. Why now?
For a while, I had thought that the modern world had finally transcended the grip of medieval-minded ignorance. But the medievals didn't go away, and they eventually organized and voted and, in the U.S., got lucky with a system that disproportionately allocates presidential voting power, allowing the GOP to win 3 out of the past 7 elections despite having won the vote only once.
Huh, looks like they're still using the netfront browser (and it's webkit internals).

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/oss/

Yay for exploits!
You do not solve the housing problem by equating it to some simple economic principles.

If you build, you also have an effect on the area around it. People that do not already live in skyscrapers do not want to live next to skyscrapers.

Gentrification is a real effect.

Apart from that you are probably even reducing supply:
High income housing usually means way too big apartments. It is also often actually an unused investment object and not used for housing.

Case in point: Manhattan has a lower inhabitants/km² than Eixample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eixample
> - Mount $HOME as noexec

/usr/bin/env $your_binary
ATM skimmers are not always easy to spot and sometimes aren't even viable from the outside, for example, Bluetooth skimmers.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
But wouldn't it bother those same people to think they're working for a Megacorp instead? Maybe I have a dim view of law enforcement, but wouldn't I also not want to work for Ares Macrotechnology?
they're simply EU nationalists instead
> I traded down to a modest house, drive old cars, etc.

That's a key element right there.

Way too many people that I know live well above their actual means without realizing it. They somehow seem to think that as long as the bank is willing to finance it they should take the lifestyle as belonging to their status. It's an easy trap to fall in to, especially because all their other colleagues and siblings do the exact same thing.

Little do they realize that they are effectively taking a mortgage on their future and that when the final bill is presented it won't be pretty.

The only situation in which that has a 'happy ending' is when you die young and leave a pile of debt behind which can't be collected on.

But if you have any dependents or a significant other then this is a surefire way to leave them to clean up your mess.

If you don't absolutely have to borrow then don't, you don't need the fancy house and you don't need the fancy car. They'll end up becoming millstones around your neck if you are not careful.
It seems that if you try to ascribe the type you wrote to twice you do get (a -> (a & b)) -> a -> b. I suspect this is a direct result of the "extensional" principles used to design the subtyping relation (so that it forms a lattice with nice properties) and I'm not sure whether it would be at all easy to get around. But I could be wrong, I'm still digesting the paper.

(Actually, I think it conceivably might just be a bug in the current typechecker; ascription isn't working for records AFAICT which makes me think they might not be fully baked).
Well they actually weren't able to do this so accurately without disrupting service it seems.

At least I think in my case, and it's part of the reason why I don't use Uber today: I had an Uber account for a couple months prior to this incident but never used it. One night, it was about 3a.m. and I had a bit to drink.
A friend gave me a promo code to use, so I could get a discount on my ride home. I put in the code a couple times, but it kept getting rejected. I think I tried this about 3 times, and finally got a message saying my account was blocked or disabled. I gave up and called a cab. I tried to get my account re-instated the next morning, by sending an email from the address I used to create the account in the first place, but got a response from an Uber rep. asking for a copy of my ID! I didn't feel comfortable sending over my ID, especially since it was not required to create the account in the first place and informed the rep as such. The response was: "I completely understand why you are concerned about providing this information. To reactivate your account I do need to verify your identity. If you can cover all but your name, the last four digits and expiration date on your new card, as well as any sensitive information on your ID, that should minimize any security issues".

I'm not sure why it was such a big deal to have that information, but I'm guessing that they wanted to ascertain if I was a hostile or not, but I had a car and wasn't dependent on Uber for survival so... no thanks.
Yeah, I was gonna say early Climate Change effects and Automation/AI's wealth concentration. Just wait until the Genetic Engineering really starts rolling now that we have CRISPR-CAS9.
This is what piss me off about this article. They don't mention that this has been done before and the commission never acted on it. Why? Because it does not fit with the story that there is a huge gulf opening up between the us and Europe as a result of the election of Donald Trump.

Disclaimer to protect my future employability in tech:
I don't support the DT I just am not a big fan of the media of late either.
Reduction of congestion, especially in airports. It'd probably be a nightmare if artificial scarcity wasn't enforced at a popular spot for hired rides.
You might like this analysis of the Auburn Upstream Cofferdam Failure. There's lots of interesting information about planned erosion and dam failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmwo5nsWfQ
"One could create empirical metrics based on research output, monetization, patents, keynote speeches, citation counts, etc. It doesn't have to be so fuzzy."

Would it really help the average student? I went to Berkley for a semester, and in some courses we watched the professor on video. He literally phoned it in.

I actually had a better learning experience at my local community college.

This is just my subjective experience.

I have known too many people who literally drank/hallucinated their way through an Ivy League school. They graduate, and don't tell anyone the truth about their fancy college learning experience. There's no test at the end to correlate into an empirical metric. It's just, "I graduated from this UC, or Whatever!".

I would like to see every school that accepts federal/state tax money give their students a standardized test, and future funding would be based on the collective students score. It would have to be a fair balanced test. Instead of I graduated from MIT; it would be I graduated with a 95%.

It might level out the playing field? It would prevent networking--maybe? It would prevent having to "kiss ass"? It would prevent me from throwing up in my mouth when a new Princeton graduate puts on the horned rimmed glasses shortly after graduation, and just expects respect.
What's driving it all it the fact that US completely destabilized the Middle East and started funding ISIS and affiliates. This has resulted in one of the greatest humanitarian crisis in history, and triggered a massive influx of refugees seeking shelter in Europe from the region.

This is what's knows at the refugee crisis, and what the right wing European parties have been using to go mainstream.
I'd do: fee = amount / 300

More generally: represent the percentage as a rational number, then multiply the amount by the numerator and then divide by the denominator.
In the country that elected Trump they are probably safe by virtue of their anti-establishment persona.
I don't see anybody saying that corporations shouldn't be held liable for doing things which cause specific, identifiable harm. Like, for example, dumping toxic chemicals in the water.

But who holds the State accountable when they do the same thing?
Reminds me of the penny shaving plot in Office Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pX3OcPAHR8
People were living there and now they can't afford to live there. Why would they be happy about economic forces that do nothing but push them to the margins? It's empathy, not """moral outrage""" which is just a politically correct phrase for "contentious political issues I want to dismiss".
I don't buy this theory 100% but I think Mark is on the right track:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/mark_blyth...

The top 1% have been extremely successful in funneling wealth to themselves. The middle and lower classes are getting pissed off. They perhaps don't know exactly how to fight back so they are just smashing shit at random.
It may be the year of taking "fit" interviews seriously.
No-one claimed it was! It's hardball negotiation. In this, the US meets the EU's demands or it doesn't get what it wants.
People do respond to incentives. Deterrence isn't just about the severity of punishments but also the probability of being caught. The US justice system (I'm not an American) seems to have the worst of both worlds were many people evade justice and others are hit with overly harsh sentences. Countries with effective police forces (e.g. Japan, Singapore) have very low crime rates.

Rehabilitation makes sense for petty criminals and economic criminals, and possibly "crimes of passion". Some individuals are simply beyond redemption, though. I'd say attempting to "rehabilitate" anyone at category 11 or above on the following scale [1] is an injustice to their victims. People like Charles Manson [2] are capable of retreating into a delusional fantasy world and never acknowledge what they've done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Evil#Scale_and_criminals (warning: no graphics, but extremely unpleasant content)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qWLlER1N0 (Manson starts one of his monologues at about 8:20)
JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer
Seems that the user data/behavioral patterns is really always the most important thing for this type of services huh? The aim was mostly to get acquired and it seems that the acquirer always has an eye on the vast amount of data etc.
Yeah? What makes you say that?
As its own name say, it's an authorisation relating to a Visa Waiver Program
> It is largely a reaction to globalization and the refugee crisis.

If that is indeed the real reason, it means we as a species have hilariously overblown reactions to perceived threats.
The behavior is attributed by the ACLU to locales mentioned in the NYT article such as MA and NV.

"Uber used these methods to evade the authorities in cities such as Boston, Paris and Las Vegas"
It might not, but what it does do is show poor decision-making skills by teams at Razer.
> I guess "hackers" don't like

Sorry for the Spocklike response, but this is a non sequitur. If the HN userbase ("hackers") really don't like something, it basically never happens here—or rather it does, but it gets flagged out quickly, so it rarely shows up. (I'm talking about stories on the front page; the phenomenon happens in comment threads too, but more slowly.) So when you see something on HN that you don't like, it usually means the community is divided about it.

Also, to put in a good word for those of us with emotional blockages, it usually isn't other people's feelings we're uncomfortable with, but our own—a difficult spot to be in.
You can dump the disks, ROM, or firmware updates and look for known strings.
We Know Who Likes Us, but Not Who Competes Against Us Among Work Colleagues
It's not even a visa, and neither is VWP (a program designed to allow individuals from certain countries to enter the U.S. without obtaining a visa) which ESTA determines your eligibility for.
But now is the first time in history with simultaneously our standard of living, access to information, and most relevantly access to distraction.

I'd wager (but don't have the chops to prove) that if you could plot displeasure with government on a graph, and and draw a line where overthrow historically results, the height of that line would roughly correlate with the increase in leisure time, access to entertainment, and decrease in GDP per worker.
I'm not sure of what my opinion of the morality is, but I (as a non-lawyer) don't see this as obstruction of justice.

If I am a prostitute working the streets, and a police officer approaches me to offer me money for sex. But I notice he has police officer boots on, and suspect he is a cop. I then tell him I am not looking to offer any services for money. Is that obstruction of justice?

Perhaps the credit card lookups (or other methods) violated privacy laws, but I don't see how refusing service should count as obstruction of justice.
Well, the final call for Uber in Taiwan is this, the government let anyone to report the driver and can receive reward in money if successfully doing so. Soon enough, Uber stopped operating.
This is a non story, a few paragraphs down:

"Implementing the parliament’s recommendation would require the agreement of all EU members, which would probably take years."

Many European countries rely heavily on US tourism, and anything to threaten that could damage their economies.
The sooner the United States dissolves the better.
It's not a floodgates vs nothing situation. You can certainly decide on an appropriate rate that you're comfortable with - enough to jumpstart the economy but not enough to completely drown out the host culture.
Article is just about Ethos/Pathos/logos, aka shit you learned in highschool english.
Gen-X: We’ll Win in the End
That's what Putin says.
> just look at women in their goddamn eyes, like a normal person

s/normal person/socially well-adjusted American/

A big fraction of the world's population is strongly conditioned against looking in someone's eyes outside e.g. intimate or family settings.
I'm not either, and I don't know! Total speculation: water partway down the spillway is considerably more violent than water just spilling over the top, so while bedrock may not resist the former, it can resist the latter.

Another wild guess: the main spillway hasn't eroded any bedrock, just concrete, dirt, loose rocks, etc.

If anyone actually knows versus my wild guesses, I'd be most interested.
Thanks, this is excellent feedback.
What about France?
I'm trying to understand all of this and especially the threats to privacy, control of my computing hardware, and data security.

I read about some new hard/software for secure boot, etc., but don't recall all the details now.

So, for a shorter approach,
suppose I just buy a processor from AMD, a motherboard from ASUS, hard disk drives from Western Digital, etc., and plug it all together for myself. So, then I'm the manufacturer or OEM of my computer.

Q. 1. For what the OP is talking about,
where do I have threats to privacy, control of my machine and its data, and security?

Q. 2. To use the machine I plugged together, do I have to get some keys from Microsoft?

Q. 3. Suppose I install operating systems from Microsoft, e.g., Windows 7 64 bit Professional, Windows 10, Windows Server or the database SQL Server. Then do I have to get keys from Microsoft?

Q. 4. Will the support processor and its software, whatever they are called, on their own without my knowledge or approval use the Internet to send/receive data from/to my computer, modify the data on my hard disks, etc.?

Thanks.
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
"A picture (or a video I guess :)) is worth a thousand words"
Given #deleteuber, it clearly matters to some consumers. I suspect that it matters enough to give competitors another few % of the market per major fiasco, but not enough to alter the overall trajectory of the market.
There is no "EU nation", and therefore, no EU nationalists. Moreover, most of European federalists are internationalists.
For me to go on vacation to the US, as a European citizen (outside of the 6 countries that are the reason for this action), I just need to get an ESTA for $15 or so. I guess the EU visa will cost something similar. It's not going to change anything.
That's the fake nose part