skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718586
> It's just as likely that they aren't doing this because they bought into the gateway drug myth, but because they are waging a culture war.

Precisely.
How can you steal patents? Those are public info.

Infringing on patents?
@stirman -- see "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Which apparently was the original reason behind the war on drugs in the first place. Source [1]
[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/richard-nix...
Not that there's anything terrible about Segwit, it's just that we already have better solutions for everything it claims to do.

For instance we have a solution for the transaction malleability issue - Flexible Transactions - which causes a tiny fraction as much technical debt while offering big benefits in future-proofing. Why bother with Segwit when we have a better solution?

But that's neither here nor there because Segwit doesn't even solve the actual problem that everyone wants fixed right now - block size. The small, one off, slow to deploy solution offered by Segwit isn't a scaling solution at all. It's likely that take-up of Segwit wallets will be fairly gradual which means it'll probably never even prevent the blocks being full. Even if it does we'll be back in the same hole in a few months time anyway because of the small one off change. What's needed is a solution which actually fixes the problem.
Legible is subjective. I personally find the font and spacing quite difficult to read actually. Conceptually reminds me of an old writing platform I used to use called QuietWrite. Loved it while it lasted.
As it turns out - testosterone and alcohol are not adequate substitutes for pure intellect and vigor... Who could have guessed?
> No. The big difference is that regular filesystems try to do I/O to their backing device - heck that is their point, and what they do the vast majority of the time. tmpfs does not do any I/O. However I/O will happen when there is memory pressure by the swapper, but that is going to be rarer.

Yes and no - aren't they just two ways of looking at the same decision? Regular filesystems will buffer, and when the system is low on memory it will flush buffers, using similar criteria to deciding whether to swap.

> Swap can also be used for actual swap on the occasions it is helpful.

Swap enables actual swap, sure. My experience is that it usually hurts more than it helps though.
You didn't just build a strawman there, you bought the whole straw farm and built a colossus.
There was a bit of a mess around their messaging (I don't know exactly what) and Trump's immigration ban, that was one of the flare ups.

I was thinking something more like if Bill Cosby had said he takes uber all the time when the allegations came out about him or a 'Uber Serial Killer' was found. If they were associated through no fault of their own with something VERY unpopular.

I'm not sure if the Trump thing qualifies, but it was a bit of a mess and I'm not clear on exactly what went down, but my sense is it wasn't exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I enjoy reading in monospace. And I certainly prefer it over a sans-serif font with font-weight set to 0.01 and poor contrast!
The only issue is, not everyone cares about sexual harassment. So there could still be a competing company where sexual harassment claims are not taken as strongly and still be successful.

So the system works in both cases, right?
Understanding Developers
> searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop

That could mean he downloaded an SFTP client like Cyberduck. He could have searched the internet for a client and then installed it. It doesn't say he did not have auth.

Imagine a Google security engineer being deposed for this lawsuit.

Lawyer: "Show me on the MacBook how he downloaded the files"

Engineer: "Well, he used Cyberduck"

Lawyer: "Is that part of the Mac?"

Engineer: "No, he'd have to download it separately"

Lawyer: "So, he searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop?"

Engineer: "Um, sure"

Lawyer: "Thank you, that's all the questions I had"
There however could be custom-ordered parts on the BOM, documentation of which might be under NDA.
Isn't the current opioid problem caused by Drs over prescribing oxycotins due to the pharma company basically lying / manipulating the data on addition and redosing for greater profit?

i.e. nothing at all to do with cannabis
It was a typo.
compared to rails 2 -> 3 and 3 -> 4, not bad
Have you ever lost power and lost data from a document you were editing? Has a server ever crashed in a datacenter, it's data corrupted, and now your company has lost a few 100k to a ffew million? Have you ever had to wait for processes to start again for a long time after fixing the hardware failure?

These are all problems that have been solved on EROS based system. They used to do demos where they would setup a system and have someone start working on some code or a text document, they'd pull out the power plug of the system, plug it back in and the user would be right were they left off. No data loss, no corruption, just back to work.

None of that was handled in user space. That was all opaque and you didn't have to worry about it at all.
Please don't misconstrue what I said, the republicans have been engaged in litigation to repeal various portions of the voting rights act in numerous courts through America. This is quite separate from voter laws and it is a separate voting suppression tactic altogether.

To the voter id laws, I can provide studies showing that in person vote fraud is non existent in America - the majority of cases last election stemmed from trump voters who tried to defend their actions as 'testing the system.' I can also provide studies that show those voter is laws disproportionately impact minority voters, as well as court judgements where republicans were found to target said voter with these laws explicitly - as in that was their explicit goal, and acted with 'surgical orecision6', in the courts words. This is not to mention the circumstantial evidence, like republican operatives explaining their long term goal is disenfranchisement, or the actions of governors instructing dmv employees to deceive the public and closure of dmv's in minority areas.

I'd be open to hear alternative interpretations as to what is happening, but so far my experience has been that those in favor of said laws either approve of disenfranchisement, or have an emotional response as to the 'fairness' of the law, and assume i should adopt their viewpoint.
Uber acquired Otto around 08/2016. I don't think this explains it.
The 'Princeton Companion to Mathematics' has the best introduction I've seen to understanding what mathematics is, and what the most important, orientation-giving concepts are. I think your problem is missing implicit context; once you begin understanding what mathematicians value and how various branches interrelate, and how parts of it developed historically—it becomes much easier to follow all kinds of mathematical writing.

The intro is about 150 pages, and somewhat dense, but with work definitely accessible to someone with little knowledge of mathematics. I wish they would sell it separately from the rest of the book because it's that good, but unfortunately it comes attached to another thousand pages of material you probably won't have a use for unless you get into mathematics research.
Misappropriating trade secrets and infringing on patents, as per the Waymo blogpost:

https://medium.com/waymo/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-...
Cannot edit anymore, but that sould be "http://" instead of "https://".
I will tell you what you are missing. Look up the term 'witch hunt' and Uber is the target. Like you, I disagree how HN is reacting to this. All we have seen is a blog post making a claim and now everyone is a knight in shining armor.
It's getting slower and steadier. This tripling from $400 to ~$1200 took a good part of a year, but last time Bitcoin did $400 to $1200 it was done in 20 days (last 3 weeks of Nov 2013). That's a huge reduction of volatility.
Things couldn't be worse for Uber these days. Sexual harassment scandal, Didi Chuxing plans for global expansion, now this lawsuit.
Could SJWs be any more insufferably self-important?

Uber's mission is to eat away at the non-existant margins of cab companies.

I'll lose sleep over rape, breast cancer, FGM. That Uber isn't a fun place for girls to work - who cares?
I'm not referring to this specific Uber scenario, but just dating/sex between coworker in general.
In my experience, you're lucky if you can get space for your equipment at all.

One week, they're moving your growth cambers out into the hallway to work in the ceiling. The next, they had to cut power for 8 hours for maintenance, and by the way, it wasn't plugged into an outlet with emergency power. Oops.

Hell, they can't even keep the lab temperature steady. Solutions sitting on your bench will start to precipitate out.

So yeah, the issue is money. It's also planning; you never know what the needs of researchers are going to be in a few years.

In the end, nice facilities can certainly help with a lot, but they don't address the core issues of experimental variables and combinatoric complexity. The way you deal with this is skeptical peers that understand the methods, reliance on robust methods wherever possible, and independent methods to confirm results. Even with all this replication difficulty, it is quite possible to make compelling conclusions.
See also the Project Zero ticket https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11... and associated Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
This is not terribly surprising. For good or for ill, recreational marijuana use never ceased to be illegal under federal law. And despite the various states passing laws legalizing it, there was that pesky little Supremacy Clause in the US Constitution.

It's been kinda annoying that people seemed to forget or ignore that. Hoping that the fed won't enforce a law was always risky. As we've recently seen, the political climate can shift suddenly and severely. And now people who think a law is a Good Thing that should be enforced have the power to do so.
This has been tried before with outsourced developers which are much more intelligent than the best AI will come close to.

The end result is still that it takes more time to fix the errors than it would have to write it in the first place.
What does it matter since the prohibition of cannabis has never been about harm. You can have all the studies in the world and it won't matter a damn... and my proof of this? Why is industrial hemp illegal?
I think abortion / trans gender issues effects people who voted for trump.

I don't think the same can be said for cannabis smokers
I can think of one common situation for typical HN readers. If you make too much money to contribute to a Roth IRA, and your workplace offers a 401k (which means traditional IRA contributions will not be deductible), then you can still put money into a Roth IRA by contributing after-tax dollars to a traditional IRA and doing a backdoor Roth conversion[1].

The problem is that when you do one, you pay taxes pro rata on any pre-tax funds in your IRA. If your 401k is pre-tax dollars (most are), then if you convert a 401k to an IRA, you will start having to pay taxes every time you try to do a backdoor Roth.

[1]http://www.rothira.com/what-is-a-backdoor-roth-ira
I remember the incredibly elegant AST-based diffing in Eclipse (which I haven't used in about 10 years; I can only assume it's still fantastic), which showed you an outline of which classes, methods etc. have changed.

AST-based diff naturally requires a parser for every language, and for some languages like C and C++ you need to bake preprocessor stuff (macros, ifdefs, includes etc.) into the node tree. But it's doable.
Quoting current inflation is misleading--adopters know the eventual plan for bitcoin is capped, whereas ethereum is uncapped.

A turing complete virtual machine is infinitely complicated--it can run anything. The implementation is "trivial" compared to the infinite surface area. The number of spec-pages is not a useful metric.

Social malleability is just as bad as technical malleability.
>To me setting up a server/installation and maintenance is in the chore category of work so 1hr setup and say 15/min/month maintenance ~= 3 hrs/yr. Good programmer contracts can command $500/hr and the work might actually be fulfilling. 4hrs$500 = $2000 pays for years of hosting.*

The vast majority of programmers in the world (and even in the US) will never see anything $500 for 4 hours of work () (and if they do it would be some one-off lucky gig), so that's a moot point.

() which amounts to 750K/year if sustained
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 24
Well written article which helped me grok something I'd put off for a bit. Thanks.

Though I'll still prefer an RDBMS if but to use windowing functions in SQL.
There's a huge difference between security of user data and security of company secrets. Having access to the latter is not unreasonable; access to the former should be heavily restricted and closely monitored.
Maybe I'm missing something, but after a quick look through the first two links I have no idea what microformats are.
Even the about pages appear to be nothing but buzzwords and acronyms.

Is it like schema.org microdata?
"know the form of your voice is out there forever."

I doubt this site will still exist in 5 years.
VULTR Adds Cloud Firewall Support
Wow apparently they never fuzzed their input and looked at the output. A malformed html input should be about the easiest possible thing to try... yeouch...
Both first I watch the videos the I read the book. For me it's better to see someone explaining how to do things and then if I need to go deeper I read the book. Something like going to college first I listen the instructor then I go home and read my book.
UBI doesn't criminalize people for no reason, does it?
Time for an experiment!

I think this wouldn't work for the same reason you can't walk on water.
Docs: https://www.vultr.com/news/Protect-Your-Cloud-with-Vultr-Fir...
Typically, Conservatives and Republicans care about states' rights issues when they believe states will tend to agree with and uphold their values. What matters to them is ideological purity and political power, not consistency.
Let's put it this way: it's not even clear that Lars Bak or Linus Torvalds made that much where they worked at.
There's a number of tradeoffs to be made between internal secrecy/silos and trust/openness in any company, and google tends to lean heavily towards trusting their employees when it comes to corp data + resources, designs, strategy etc.

User data is an entirely different matter, and is appropriately treated as such.
When one party in a 'relationship' behaves in an increasingly dysfunctional manner, healthy corrective behavior by the dysfunctional party's acquaintances becomes sharper and sharper until it resembles "throwing bricks through the window" to outsiders without historical context.

For example, parents can justifiably kick one of their kids out of their house if that kid is dealing drugs from the parent's house or something similarly extreme.

Thats the kind of situation investors are looking at with Uber. From the "benign" lawbreaking we consider disruption they've moved on to attempts to silence and intimidate journalists, and now a self destructive culture where the strong are preying on the vulnerable inside the company.

That can completely destroy an investment!
And oftentimes, make sure your have a good amount of followers.

Like the guy who got sold fake / cancelled tickets to an NBA Playoff game. 200K Twitter followers made sure that StubHub (I believe?) "reached out to the Golden State Warriors to get you good tickets to tonight's game!".

While their hands are tied (somewhat - I have pretty little sympathy for companies who profit off of ticket resale), they were promptly, and rightly barraged by people without big followings who said "How come when you canceled my tickets you only offered a refund and $20 in credit?"
> Really. Is THIS what the web is about? Just sharing text?

Text is communication. Anything else is an increase of human efficiency at a cost of data. I wouldn't say the web's about text...but I would say that it's about communication, and that services like this clear away the extra frills to get to the essence and remind us all.
Oh, interesting. Didn't know that. Thanks!
I'm hoping you're using "your" to refer to Uber employees and shareholders. I'm not either of those things. I can't really agree or disagree with you. You make some valid points, but I think it's also valid to note that employees--even ones who sign up with Uber going forward--generally haven't as much choice and that some of them, at least, are signing on for lack of alternatives.
Since the executive branch is democratically elected, and the executive branch appoints people to run the Fed, the same can be said for USD.
One-on-Ones with your team
Remember when cobol was going to make us obsolete because managers can just write their own reports?

The absolute worse case is that we'll be employed to goad the AI.
Of course they have to push back on recreational drug legalization. Cross-border drug trade fueled by prohibition is the primary justification for their signature issue.

"They're bringing drugs..."
Yes good point. That would be super obvious that they stole it then.. "yea, could I order the BA33525 part that you custom built for somebody else.. yea I know its undocumented, but I know you have it somehow...."
And lawsuits like this generally don't get filed unless it's near slam-dunk considering the burden of proof is high on stolen electronic documents.
Minor fix: Waymo is suing for stealing secrets, not patents. As far as I know, it's not actually possible to steal a patent.
You are making a philosophical choice that was heavily debated in the early 20th century, namely, you contend that a mathematical foundation is truly foundational (perhaps even unique), and that math is built on top of one. Another alternative (favored by Turing[1]) is that any mathematical foundation is just like any other calculus, only one that deals with the lower-levels of mathematics.

Also, by picking computation as the "true" foundation, you are being a bit arbitrary. On the one hand, you can get more grounded. Computability was justified on physical arguments, and Turing and others recognized that computability is only a rough approximation of feasibility, which was given a more precise treatment much later. So if you want to base the foundations of math on the physical -- which is what you're doing if you're basing them on Turing computability -- then you can go a lot further down towards "grounded". On the other hand, there is really no reason to limit math at the computable. Brouwer thought there was, but Turing didn't. If non-constructive math yields results that are useful, compatible with constructive math and is easier to work with in some cases, what justification is there to reject it other than by taking a view that is both fundamentalist (in the sense I described) and somewhat arbitrary? After all, constructive math is a very different math, and if classical math rests on shaky foundations, how is it so useful in practice, and how come it agrees with constructive math on everything that is physically observable?

[1]: https://mdetlefsen.nd.edu/assets/201037/jf.turing.pdf
A note on our law suit against Otto and Uber
In the article, she explicitly mentions sending screenshots along with thoroughly documenting the incident.
I was just going to ask if this would let someone delete their account... ;) [EDIT] No, it doesn't support deleting accounts.
21TB FreeNAS zRaid3 + Automated LTO3 Tape Backup + BackBlaze
This is true, but it doesn't negate the issue. If you need some sort of client to gain access to the design server, and he didn't already have it, it very likely means that he didn't work on those files normally, and hence, really probably shouldn't have had access to them.

He may not have installed "hacking tools" or anything like that, but he did specifically take action to access files he didn't normally use as part of his job. Which is, I think, all that this post is claiming.
Well, my day tomorrow is going to be busy. So's my evening tonight, I guess.
On the other hand, we know that public statements about lawsuits are always a pack of lies as everyone tries to look as wronged as possible: remember YC's bluster about the Cruise co-founder lawsuit, right before they had to settle for dozens/hundreds of millions? or remember the Oculus lawsuit where they alleged almost the exact same thing (Carmack stealing thousands of sooper-sekrit VR documents/files) and wound up only winning on some non-compete stuff and getting only a fixed award which was a fraction of what they thought they'd get?
The utility of bitcoin is damaged by the limited maximum transaction rate. It's no help to miners if bitcoin is replaced by another cryptocurrency, which is looking more plausible now than it ever has. In the end they could be collecting fees off a lot more transactions if the block size was larger anyway.
Who knows maybe they had somebody else from the Google self driving car project to steal self-driving car secrets earlier. Based on what this Levandowski guy did the industrial espionage may go unnoticed. I'm wondering if Waymo will require Uber to reveal schematics of their self-driving car project as part of the law suite.
"Patent application nonpublication request"
Because if you aren't diverse enough by some arbitrary standard then you've just painted a target on your back.
Here's an article that references the study they're likely referring to: https://www.rt.com/usa/359655-marijuana-laws-opioid-usage/

The jist is: measuring opioid usage in people after a fatal car crash, states with medical marijuana had much lower rates of opioid usage. I haven't read the study, and while that measurement may be a bit dubious (pun?) I think the conclusion is probably correct.

A lot of people don't do illegal drugs, but will gladly and happily do legal ones. Opioids are legally prescribed and incredibly addictive, making them ripe for abuse by people who wouldn't normally be "drug addicts." With marijuana being legal it provides a non-addictive means of pain relief that's a much more pleasant and safe alternative to opioids. Hell even acetaminophen is vastly more dangerous than marijuana (and a cause of liver failure).

I think what Spicer said in the article is insane. I can only hope states fight back tooth and nail if the federal government attempts to "crack down." Marijuana is one of the few drugs we can do that's nearly harmless... Well, relative to any other drug we can do (alcohol or tobacco).

Edit: updates for grammar and clarity (damn you autocorrect!).
Nofollow links seem to help with getting the target indexed. So, the spammers create their second and third tiers of actual content on sites that do not use nofollow. However, they'll use anything with any kind of links to get those tiers crawled and indexed.
dupont!
The thing is in the US we lack a mandatory national or even state id. We use a driver's license which is effectively mandatory in rural parts of the country because otherwise you can't get anywhere. However if you are poor and live in a city the odds that you don't have a driver's license go way up. It turns out that their is no ID the government forces you to have. Clever politicians realize that they don't need to prevent everyone who disagrees with them from voting just preventing 2-3% is likely enough in many races.

The idea of voter ID is effective because of what you just said it sounds so reasonable, until you look at the motivation that it disproportionately results in poor people not being able to vote.