skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the TLD authority on the Island is offering a good/service to an EU person, even if they are outside the EU, they will need to protect that data in the way that the GDPR specifies. So they can either decide to not publicize that info for EU persons (based on address?), or not publish any natural person's data.

But let's say they didn't want to. No consequences, right? Not quite... the .im authority allows EU businesses (domain registrars) to register domain names (for example, I can go to transip.nl and register a .im domain name). TransIP has to comply with the GDPR. If TransIP collects my information to pass it outside the EU, they need to be certain that the organization they provide it to is also GDPR compliant. If they don't have those assurances, they can't give them the info. So not being GDPR compliant is not great for the .im revenue stream.

Finally, I have no clue about the legal regime on the Isle of Man. If I were them, I would probably try to sync up a lot of my laws with the UK (and thus EU, for now) laws. So my guess is they have some sort of data protection act, and that it's in line with the GDPR (or will be very soon).
A pedestrian dies every 1.6 hours in traffic accidents in the United States. 129,000 go to the ER every year (note that the bicycle number is all injuries, not just those requiring ER treatment). Walking is more dangerous on a per-trip basis than driving.

If we did a study that compared helmeted pedestrians to unhelmeted pedestrians, I'm sure the latter would fare better in terms of head injuries.

Yet no one wears a helmet while walking and no one thinks Nike is irresponsible to sell you shoes that don't include a helmet.
>Need a little Pragmatism on this list.

Quite so. Except Rorty later admitted that he was not really a Pragmatist. I would say he was more of a liberally-oriented Existentialist.
I always figured the real reason, the dark truth, for why we have all these reliable queuing services was to feed these old battle axe batch systems, throttled to a rate they can handle.
You don't need to go that far. Problems already start on the local level, where you have cities and city people ruling over rural people and their interests, totally different lifestyles. There needs to be a way to shrink to homogenous units, and then use technology to organize everything.

The bureaucracy of centralized governments was practical, but it didn't kept up with the diversification of society. The self driving car stuff could effect housing too, think about self driving mobile homes, that cluster and arrange based on your preferences, basically going back to a nomadic way of living, but in a techy way.

This could be a solution to many problems of the static nature of cities, and problems that start perpetuating upwards from there.
Ask HN: Can I be “put on a list” for contacting foreign researchers?
I may or may not be a scientist doing frontier research in the areas of information theory, NLP or deep learning.

Some of the research I am doing may have very important applications. One project may be to create novel data ex-filtration strategies involving deep learning and linguistics that allow the concealment of important messages in plain text. Another project may involve the creation of a way of profiling computers users using special measures of their interactions with standard human computer interfaces.

Both of these applications have pro-social uses, such in the first case supporting whistle blowers who are restricted to locked down systems, or in the second case helping to filter out state-sponsored bad actors on social media in a way that fundamentally cannot be concealed. These can also be used in negative ways, that I'll leave to the imagination.

In the full academic spirit, I want to be able to communicate with the best researchers in my fields, which may include Chinese scholars. Separately, everyone here should know that if I'm in a Five Eyes country, which I am a citizen of, my emails to anyone in these countries will be picked up and read.

My question is: Should I be worried about contacting or building relationships with Chinese scholars for the purposes of furthering my research?

I'm worried I'll basically be put on a list that affects my future travel or employment. This is despite no bad actions or intentions on my part and the various nominal freedoms and rights I have. Is there any precedent for what I'm saying and does this interact with my profile in my field?
Coinbase's exchange, gdax, is already partially owned by NYSE.
It's not publicly searchable, but third parties can just buy a copy. https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/electoral-register/
I was one of the first people on Facebook.I shouldn't have trusted M. Zuckerberg
If you haven't watched an Aubrey de Grey talk, you owe it to yourself to give the man a listen. Beyond the admittedly interesting topic, he's genuinely entertaining.
Source connecting the two? I think most here would argue the the decline in magical thinking (at least as it influences policy and society on the whole) is a good thing
The hledger implementation [0] has Windows binaries available, and it's mostly compatible with the original.

[0]: http://hledger.org/download.html
I find that I’m much more open to teaching myself just about anything now. Years of learning every new thing under the sun in the software world will do that.

Doesn’t surprise me at all to hear this.
There are definitely way too many people (men and women) who are just after money. One of the downsides of being rich is that those kind of people tend to sniff you out and come after whatever they can leech off of you.

Being poor, I don't have that problem. If someone likes me, I can be pretty sure they're not after my money.. because I don't have any.

That said, with or without money, relationships can start out good and turn sour for many reasons completely unrelated to money. When relationships start, we're often putting on our best face, and the people we're dating only see the positive side of us (and we of them). After a while, unless we have outstanding acting ability (and usually some kind of pathology which keeps us from being genuine with our loved ones), we start to show our true selves to each other.. and we (or they) might not like what we see.

That's when relationships can easily fall apart -- especially if both people aren't mature enough to recognize that most relationships require hard work to keep them going in the long run, and aren't committed to doing that work. Communication is especially important at this stage.

What am I doing wrong? How can I do better? What do I want out of this relationship? At a fundamental level, are we really compatible?

These are questions we have to ask ourselves and each other, but most people are really bad at communicating -- especially with people close to themselves, with people who they feel vulnerable to and who they don't want to hurt.... until they can't take it anymore and things blow up.. but by then it's usually too late to make amends.

So, yeah, if things are going wrong for you over and over, and if you or the people you're dating are falling in to recognizable patterns, you might want to start by asking yourself some tough questions.. perhaps with the help of a good therapist. Negative relationship patterns are one of the things a good therapist could really help you to break out of -- in more constructive ways than just giving up.
Let me know if there's a show you're a superfan of and would like to contribute to! Right now, I only have a few shows up, but I take requests if you email me at david@spoiled.tv

For example, my sister is re-watching Battlestar Galactica with her boyfriend and she wants to contribute to it.
Thanks! Out of curiosity — if I built an application with truffleruby, could I distribute it as a JAR (provided that it was run under JDK 9)? Are there ways to call out to Java like JRuby? Having some difficulty finding documentation around this.
That doesn't even scratch the surface of illegal trading activities that are probably taking place.
If you’re unable to afford the filing fee, I’d assume you’re not submitting a very complicated form, so while taxes are due today, why should the deadline be extended? It’s not as if today was also the first day available for file. Your poor planning does not constitute an emergency on the IRS’s part, right?
> all the cryptocurrency in and out transactions are irrevocably documented on a public legder

The blockchain doesn't (consistently) tell you who owns which wallets, nor if they're a terrorist financier or money launderer. This is besides the point that "exchange" has a specific legal meaning under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
The odds of happening to her (if she ever gets on a plane again) are the same as if it had never happened to her in the first place.
> This brings me to a question I have had for a while, why do we even have so many language specific libraries for common tasks instead of more "universal" libraries with bindings for each.

A lot of language specific libraries incorporate foreign language (often C) libraries and add additional functionality thst fits the ergonomics of the target language, rather than being a thin wrapper around a language neutral library. This is more than aesthetic when the target language has, for example, differences in type system or fundamental guarantees from the underlying library's language.

OTOH, sometimes there aren't C (etc.) libraries, and it's more straightforward to implement a library in (say) Python. But once you have a Python library, calling into it from Rust, C, Erlang, or even a broadly similar language like Ruby is, to put it mildly, non-trivial.
I filed early, this is the first time I've ever done it electronically. It took my forms and send me a success update within 15 minutes (did about a week ago since I owed a small Kia). The even nicer part was scheduling my payment to auto debit today (17th). Instead of worrying about an enormous check floating out there in the Postal Mail realm.

I filed my state the old school way since they don't allow free electronic submissions. To my surprise they cashed the check in 2 days. Although, it's Oklahoma so they're more broke than I am :-)
It just steadily became more common. Turns out replacing real in person socializing with digital distraction is just not a good idea/
There are fundamental semantic differences between the languages. An immutable language will always have a serious impedance mismatch with a mutable library. A library that uses GC won't work in a language without them, a specific example of the general principle that memory management strategies vary widely. A library that uses dynamic types will have a huge conversion boundary with a statically-typed language, and vice versa. A library that uses threads, or expects threads, will have a hard time working in an event-based environment that depends on code voluntarily yielding to maintain its responsiveness. A language that wants to provide guarantees about correctness or whathaveyou is forced to give all those up to talk to a lowest-common-denominator library.

And that's just the top-level differences. It gets worse as you get into the details of API style and the costs of the indirection layers to convert into the local style, assuming conversion is even technically possible.

Even if you write with the lowest possible common denominator of C or Rust with no runtime, you'll still encounter a significant subset of those issues. And of course we still will use such things; all serious languages can communicate in some manner with a C implementation of a library. (Not for any theoretical reasons, really, C has more opinions than people often realize, but because it's still the baseline current systems are built on.) But it can't be as good as a native implementation.
Because if you have no relevant experience, you shouldn't be making assertions about 'being too calm' since you have no clue what you're talking about. The commenter then digs in further with irrelevant opinions about why he/she thinks the pilot was too calm.

It's like a non-programmer opening up some source code, then leaving a comment that the letter X is used too much because it's not used that much in articles on the NY Times.
You seem to be confused between short selling and puts.
Baboons Work Together to Escape from Biomedical Testing Facility
Their marketing claim of "Full Self-Driving Hardware" is evil-genius - it's very similar to the Halting problem[0] - Turing proofed that we can not develop an algorithm that can predict whether any program will eventually halt.

It's very similar with this marketing claim. We can never show that the hardware is not capable of being self-driving. Maybe, someone, at some point in the future, could pull it off. Even if the rest of the industry uses Lidar, beefier chips etc., it is not proof that it can not be done with that hardware. Tesla can keep playing that game, until virtually no one owns the current generation of cars anymore.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
That the syntax of Scheme (from 1975) is more modern than the syntax of CL (from 1984) is a myth. It's more primitive. Later people added lots of features to Scheme, which were already in CL. Take keyword arguments... In essence Scheme is actually less elegant due to its too small design and the many bolted on features.

Chicken:

((lambda (x y #!optional z #!rest r #!key i (j 1))
(list x y z i: i j: j))
3 4 5 i: 6 i: 7)
=> (3 4 5 i: 6 j: 1)

CL:

((lambda (x y &optional z &rest r &key i (j 1))
(list x y z :i i :j j))
3 4 5 :i 6 :i 7)
=> (3 4 5 :I 6 :J 1)

Is the CL code more crufty compared to the almost equivalent Scheme code? Sure not. or is #!optional now more modern than &optional?

Guess where the Chicken feature originally came from ...

The difference: the CL code works in every CL implementation.

> and the ability to compile down to C.

There are many implementations which do that. SBCL has the ability to compile to optimized native code with a type-inferencing compiler...

Chicken is a great implementation with a nice ecosystem, but that it is more elegant than CL - while it copies lots of features from CL (like COOPS copies from CLOS) - is an illusion.

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/coops

> COOPS provides classes, generic functions and methods, similar in style and use to the classic Lisp object systems like Flavors, Loops or CLOS. For general information about object-oriented programming in the context of Lisp, consult one of the various books and guides available to the subject.

Example:

Chicken:

(define-method (pop (stack <stack>))
(let* ((c (slot-value stack 'content))
(x (car c)))
(set! (slot-value stack 'content) (cdr c))
x))

Let's see how it's in Common Lisp:

(defmethod pop ((s stack))
(let* ((c (slot-value s 'content))
(x (car c)))
(setf (slot-value s 'content) (cdr c))
x))

Which is more modern? To me it looks the same. The difference: the CLOS code runs in every CL implementation.
What was the name of the series?
> “recycling” is just shredding and using for things

if you read the bumped Wired piece from B.Joy yesterday, he touches on (his vision of) nanotech's future, and the sorts of molecular recycling options that will come online in the next 12 years.

until then, depolymerization is a hard problem ... so plastic shredding is what we get.
Thank you. Your post is dense with points that have been troubling me for some years.

These issues aren't limited to the USA, either. I've experienced them in several other countries.
> it's reasonable to suspect that the motivation is not consumer protection but subversion of technology which presents a challenge to the FIRE economy

No, it isn't. It's only reasonable within the tiny fantasy world of True Believers where the whole world is conspiring to keep the glory of cryptocurrency down. This is the exact same action that would be taken against any other unauthorized, unregistered securities trading. Not to mention an area which has become infamously rife with scams and fraud.

Schneiderman especially has a sterling reputation with regard to pushing against the great financial powers and investigating crimes in that area.
It is pointless. There are concentration camps in North Korea. What does peace mean for those poor souls?
Might this (today, tomorrow) become another way to get access to the wonderful Lucene from non-Java environments? A long, long time ago there was a GCJ-based solution, but it was never loved much (either the port or GCJ itself). SubstrateVM looks potentially delicious here

edit: lol: talk about a low blow!

> The community version does not support DWARF information. The enterprise version supports all native tools that rely on DWARF information, like debuggers (gdb) and profilers (VTune).
AWS Route 53 domains also provides "private" whois for free included in the cost.

.com are $12/year
.net are $11/year
.io are $39/year
Be Elon Musk or an early employee.
In the US’s case, we have a guns vs. armored vehicles and tanks. While better than being unarmed, unclear how much self defense Americans have against a militarized domestic police force [1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do-not-resist-and-t...
I would recommend The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottleib, and his followup, The Dream of Enlightenment. And if that gets you interested, then the 5 volumes on the history of Western philosophy by W.T.Jones. As for Copelston, which some below recommend, it is too detailed for a beginner. And Russell has a strong classical analytic bias.
Too often I see motorcycles being missed, because of their limited visibility and unpredictability. Due to that, and their higher vulnerability, they ask more attention of other road users. If I hit a car, well, it’s likely we both survive. If I hit a motorcycle I might well have a death on my consciousness.
I thought you misspelled Clojure initially (I guess it does also benefit from decent gc). I didn't know about Clozure but will investigate when I next use CL.
And yet we are having this conversation on a site dedicated to this "libertarian fantasy", with countless examples of startups disrupting large, existing companies.

Reality contradicts your "dystopia".
Yep, I remember some people in my org having problems emailing a large company. Whois, call number, get tech, get mail guy, gets fixed.
>helping prove your point

Not necessarily! I thought the route you were going down was that, relatively speaking, this was near the "maximum decompression threshold" of the context - airplanes. As in, "it doesn't really get more 'violent' than this for airplanes, so violent is the right word."

Thanks for giving me more diving nightmares though lol
What's unhelpful is baseless speculation about conspiracies and corruption. You're the one making the accusations, you don't get to criticize others asking about them.
Companies can pick their own fiscal year, which helps spread out accountant “traffic” across the year.

But be careful what you wish for. The IRS could decide you have to pay your taxes by midnight on your birthday (because it’s easy for you to remember) and then where would you be?

That’s right. Drunk and filing your taxes.
Can someone who knows the technical details of bitcoin answer the following questions? Suppose initially A owns 1BTC and B owns 0BTC. Suppose A publishes a signed transaction that would give 1BTC to B, and simultaneously B publishes a signed transaction that would give 1BTC to C. If a miner includes both transactions in a block, is the block valid? Does it depend on the order of the transactions within the block (A's transfer to B preceding B's transfer to C)?
Thanks for the feedback. We will definitely improve the polyglot docs in the next weeks. There is lots more to show.

Are you calling from Java? Then there are more examples here:
http://www.graalvm.org/docs/graalvm-as-a-platform/embed/

Also some of the examples on the website use interop: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/examples/
>I don't think this kind of warm-take review of the pilot's radio manner would be made if it was a man.

Every aviation incident discussed in /r/aviation is full of armchair analysts and critics. People on the internet like to put out controversial opinions about what people have done to feel relevant. Much like you ended up doing ascribing this to a sexism issue despite it being based on pace of speech.
They would not have acquired much notoriety by believing these things in private. It's their actions which got them into the history books.

If I'm not mistaken, the Brahmins tick most of your boxes. Are they alright? Some would argue that they go in for a bit of dehumanization... but nobody is proposing a world war to stop them.

Actually I'm alright with people believing lots of crazy shit, in private. Because I think intellectual monoculture is pretty dangerous.
Until now, that 'risk' has closely approached 0. In the case of Mtgox, it may have actually turned out to be negative.
Starbucks to Close All U.S. Stores for Racial-Bias Education
Proof is obviously just another trick by the statist stooges conspiring to hold back cryptocurrencies.
> big New York banks that would love to help these exchanges smooth things over with Mr. Schneiderman

The New York Department of Financial Services and Attorney General's offices are some of the few state offices that relish going after banks. If you're a New Yorker, getting a dispute resolved with a large bank typically only involves Cc'ing one or both (if the facts are on your side).
Ultrasonic Signals Are the Wild West of Wireless Tech
I don't think it's a matter of killing JS - that would be rediculous. I don't think it's unreasonable that people should be able to choose the right tools for the job and it's not ok for JS fans to just say that JS is always the right tool
That requirement, if it exists, is either pretty new or must vary by airline and/or by country. I've flown multiple times with small children not in their own seat, within and to/from the US, on various US-based airlines, within the past ~5 years, and that was never a requirement.
And finance firms look at the crypto markets as both potential opportunities for themselves and ways to make the stock market look safe in comparison for their own customers
I have absolutely no proof but I swear this happens to me and my wife all the time. We just talk about things then end up seeing ads for them. I'm on android and she is on iOS.
> if I built an application with truffleruby, could I distribute it as a JAR

Yes there is a Java embedding API.

http://www.graalvm.org/docs/graalvm-as-a-platform/embed/

> (provided that it was run under JDK 9)

It can run on 8. It'll be fast on JDK 9 or 10 because these have the interface to use Graal.

> Are there ways to call out to Java like JRuby?

JRuby compatible interop:

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/blob/master/doc/user/j...

Our own interop:

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/blob/master/doc/user/p...

> Having some difficulty finding documentation around this.

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/tree/master/doc
I agree. If you are thinking explicitly about the broadest, most important issues, then you are doing philosophy. That said, I do think Western philosophy is best.
Did you know emacs has several vi implementations? Many people think they are the best versions of vi.
On the last section, is a better name for it "Proof-of-Time" or "Proof-of-Tick" (not that we can likely change the popular name, the cat's out of the bag)?
That still does not address the "I don't agree with how they are ran"-concern.

There sadly is no US version of the Fair Finance Guide yet, but in the countries where it does exist it is a pretty good guideline for finding banks that align with your moral interests:

https://fairfinanceguide.org/

The Dutch one is the first version, and as a result also the most elaborate:

https://eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/bankwijzer/themas/
#MeToo: New Yorker Accuses Rape Victim of Islamophobia
He has motivation to protect the legacy banking system and all unenumerated motivations as well.