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Ask HN: Advise on drafting a “GPL for contract law”
I understand that GPL was recently upheld as an enforceable contract (correct if needed please). That is not what I am asking about.

I am seeking advise from the HN community on questions and talking points I am gathering before engaging a practicing attorney specializing in contract law.

My goal in hiring a lawyer will be to draft the first versions of terms, definitions and modular contracts. The goal of this project will be to clarify and solidify the terms of contracts as a way to combat what I might coin "the I Agree epidemic".

For the contracts, I am initially targeting sales of goods, sales of services, rent and loans.

For the terms, I will initially target current "hot-topic" issues such as data collection, anonymization and handling as well as pricing and liability.

For the definitions, I will initially target the definition of the major factors in the chosen terms.

All first-draft documents will be drafted without concern for local laws and regulation, but will be built with a mind towards allowing the terms, definitions and contracts to be changed and shared.

These contracts will be released under the GNU GPL version 3 or greater.

The reason I am pursuing this course of action is that I believe that instead of seeking new laws and regulation, we should first define what it is that is desired in the marketplace and then facilitate an informed economic solution.

In other words, if we can state what it is that we want then we can find someone who is willing to charge us for it, but we will never convince everyone to want the same thing.

I am very interested in any feedback you could leave. Thank you.
Main difference is all Dota heroes are viable in competitive. Also, there's no mirror match
OT: Is backdooring prevented by the game engine yet? Annoyed me that a useful tactic was "against the rules"
What is problematic about gossip as a feedback mechanism is that there is no backstop as far as keeping things factual. Gossip can simply be a lot of completely false and targeted information, driven not by concern for the greater good but by one or two canny people's interests, as anyone familiar with the corporate variety can attest.
> 50% of men, by definition, would have stronger interests in engineering than the average man

By definition, they would have stronger interests in engineering than the median man
Lol, that reminds me of the plane scene from Almost Famous: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WHOE4UfoimY
The whole Waymo thing seems like quite a big crisis as well.
IIRC the macro engine is backed by lisp... tinylisp?
As my ex-journalist friend so eloquently put it, journalists have to pump out stories no matter what because they have to sell you stories or their editor will fire them. So most of the stories are clickbait busybody rubbish.

It's no different than youtube vloggers or bloggers or anyone other content creator who has to pump out content to make money.

That's why the media loves trump, kim jong il and drama. It gives them something to write/talk about.
I found it interesting to see that building floors in Australia are zero indexed. The first floor there is what Americans would call the second. Not sure why they chose to do it that way but it works fine in the real world.
"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” - Biz Stone
Jerk has been synonymous with "rude person" as long as I've been alive. If there was a shift, it wasn't all that recent.
It's always been prevented in Dota 2. Buildings have backdoor protection, which makes them regenerate lost HP from recent attacks unless there are creeps nearby.
Do you believe your own comments on the matter are "pointing out the holes"? I think "misrepresenting" and "spreading vitriol" is more accurate.
In their defense, they said, "...something like this..."

Of all the things my tax dollars get spent on, promotion and preservation of the arts is an area where I really wish we'd spend more. It's not like we have a shortage of bombers.
This particular thread isn't about favicons at all. It's about Safari's side-scrolling (once you have enough) tab bar.
The U.K. does the same. Starts with ground floor, then first
Pretty interesting how fake sugar and carbs are worse then fake sugar alone.

I'm interested in keto diets and they use a lot of fake sugar in their dessert fat bombs which apparently may be better than fake sugar and carbs.
Honestly I think you're playing a language game.

I'm sure you're familiar with the line of reasoning that if you asked someone 50 years ago to describe tasks that require intelligence, they'd for sure say recognizing objects in images is one of them. Now that computers can do that, it's no longer 'intelligence' and the goalposts get moved.

In what sense is no software 'as adept in "general problem solving" as insects'?
Interesting. That means it accumulates the equivalent of 24 * 14 * 300 = 100,800 hours of experience. That's about double the amount of practice one gets for playing 10 hours a day for 14 years.
What's to stop an adversary from broadcasting the same tone on the same frequency and overpowering the signal in certain areas? It strikes me that if the conjecture (of it being a reserved frequency for war time command signals) is correct, it would be relatively easy to break. Perhaps the weekly random words are some kind of authentication mechanism, but that seems like a long time to have to wait to authenticate the signal.
"No-OS is also possible, besides Trisquel. Mention "no OS" in the textbox on checkout, and we will ship it with Libreboot but without an OS installed."

Source: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/

Been waiting a long time for some PC/laptop vendor to finally have enough faith in their own pre-installed OS^1 or hardware to sell computers with the option of no pre-installed OS.

IMHO, this shows respect for the user, e.g., one who uses an OS that no manufacturer will ever pre-install (c'est moi).

And IMHO it shows that the product being purchased is in fact hardware, nothing more; the OS I use is free so this makes perfect sense.

To whomever decided to offer this option: great job!

^1. "faith in their own pre-installed OS" because IMHO a no-OS option means there is always the risk a user will choose it over a pre-installed OS. Assuming the pre-installed OS comes with pre-installed crapware, collects user data, tracks user location, serves ads, restricts software that can run to an "app store", or some other tactic to generate ongoing revenue, then any user opting out is a lost opportunity for the seller. Of course if the pre-installed OS is truly superior to any free alternative that the user could herself install, then there should be no risk in offering a no-OS option. No user would ever choose it.
> doesn't provide a clear benefit to the future children.

> edit out genes in your gametes linked to aggressive and addictive traits

sounds like a pretty clear benefit to me! I'd do that even if I was trying to conceive naturally. Why would I want my children to have a genetic predisposition towards undesirable behaviour?
This reminds me of the odd property that bends in a river are separated by about 6 times the width of a river. And this seems to happen pretty often in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_river#Meander_wavelen...

Way back in school they'd issue this in the form of a question to undergrads just to see how they'd model it / try and answer. I'm not sure if it's understood why the number is '6'
> Read the link cited with that sentence and you might understand it
better. It is saying that gender issues which affect men are not taken
seriously and are discarded.

I wonder what gender issue Damore found himself facing. Homelessness? Murder? And when he raised those issues he was labeled a misogynist? That doesn't seem to fit.

It's hard to accept that there is nuance in the memo, because it's only found in broad sentences like this one:

> Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part
explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and
leadership.

There's nothing wrong with this sentence. The trouble is that he never concretely addresses reasons for the gender gap other than innate traits. There is some nuance in his memo, but there isn't enough.

What about all these documented biases? Surely these are affecting womens' careers too:

* Men get better assignments. https://hbr.org/2013/09/women-in-the-workplace-a-research-ro...

* People assume mothers to be inherently less competent and less committed than fathers. https://hbr.org/2013/09/women-in-the-workplace-a-research-ro...

* Women negotiate as often as men, but face pushback when they do. https://womenintheworkplace.com/

* Women get less access to senior leaders. https://womenintheworkplace.com/

* Women ask for feedback as often as men, but are less likely to receive it. https://womenintheworkplace.com/

* Women get less useful feedback than men. https://hbr.org/2016/04/research-vague-feedback-is-holding-w...

* Women get criticized more than men. http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias...

* Women are more frequently characterized as “too agressive”. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gender-bias-at-work-turns-up-in...

* Women leaders face higher standards and lower rewards than men leaders. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/double-bind

* Women leaders are perceived as competent or liked, but rarely both. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/double-bind

* Women’s code is accepted more often than men’s, but only if gender is hidden. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35559439

Sure, he says that innate traits are only part of the cause. But the rest of his essay implies they are the primary cause.
It's all good. It just seemed a bit odd as we're usually pretty good about not assuming gender at HN. I'm not sure why someone would vote me down, but what good is karma if you don't spend it? ;-)
I can. I think a lot of people can, probably you just have to have enough karma.

My question, which I can't ask as an "Ask HN" is that there seems to be some flag on my account that prevents me from doing an "Ask HN"...
Jordan B. Peterson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTogKE25aQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfVXV2IjYQ
> No it isn't, it's just the same argument. Did you really misunderstand that?

It's not the same fucking argument by any means. Please, compare and contrast slavery and Jim Crow to some guy not being able to try to pull a "leftists are stupid and authoritarian" narratives and going scott free?

> because the sarcastic tone you chose to take makes me wonder otherwise.

No, my sarcastic tone is the only thing I can assume when I can't dress you down in person. Maybe shaming you by reducing your argument to the stupid bullshit it is might make you see just how out of line you are.

> What do you mean "you people"?

You know exactly what I mean.

> Really?

Yes, really, you have no fucking shame. If you had any, you would've have deleted this account already and maybe go reflect a bit on your life.

> Because if anything, I see leftist arguments purposefully conflate race and sex, and compare racism with sexism

The difference being that both black and females were for the longest time taken as granted property of white males. Women couldn't vote until a hundred years ago, and they couldn't work until WW2. Black people couldn't vote in the South until the Civil Rights Act was enforced. Trying to compare yourself to those situations is ridiculous and makes you a massive whiner.

You can't make an argument for "sexism" affecting you, when our field - even in companies like Google were "repression of the poor male" is rampant - 80% of technical hires are male.
Honestly, you don't even have to make all the AI heroes separate. We automatically assume that each would be controlled by a separate virtual player, but one virtual player could very well control all controllable units on a team. That'd be interesting to watch.
Racing vehicles (let's include bikes with that) are not really comparable with a daily commute though? If you assume that most bikes and cars are just trying to get to work or the grocery store the stark contrast seems a bit more muted.
Gab founder has already offered him a job
It could, but once sold it might never again be accessible to the public.

I prefer the Scandinavian approach: Non built up land can be freely accessed by anyone regardless of owner in most cases, and the coast is by default protected against people building down to it in Norway at least. Dispensations do get given, but if you block access without applying for planning consent, it will be struck down.

The basis is simple: Restricting access to a scarce resource like the land is equivalent to taking away or liberty. This is a right we've had since time immemorial - in Sweden it's a constitutional right. In Norway it was not codified into law until the 60's as it used to be seen as so self-evident that it wasn't necessary.
I generally reach out to third party sellers before placing an order. Only if they respond, do I place my order. In general it's better to avoid them though. Another scam and actually more hurting to buyer is the sale of stolen goods (again camera items like in the article).
The HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) list two things about downvotes: don't complain about them, that rarely adds anything to a discussion. And don't bait others to downvote you. To quote one of your recent comments "Mod me down again, I suppose." I'd add a third: don't take them too seriously and sometimes people click a button by accident (happened to me on mobile once).

The downvote button starts appearing when a user has 500 karma points, the threshold changes over the years, it might be 200 or 1000 now.

Your account is 10 days old and I see one comment downvoted and another might have been in the past but somebody else upvoted in the meantime and I'd say you'll be fine. Good quality, adds value, welcome to Hackernews!.
I'd be so happy with this outcome if I was Benchmark. Even exiting with a 50% haircut (so what $4.5b) will return their funds a couple times over.
According to this video (possibly fake, as the source has been removed), Bitfinex often played cat-and-mouse games with regards to banking partnerships in the US:

https://youtu.be/62cvxPIDBGY

The spoofy and Tether thing does lead to some suspicious stuff as well
> In once case, the returned materials were clearly counterfeit (where I sold the originals)!

Do you use FBA? If so, do you allow inventory intermingling on your items?
It's not like this is really new. The problem is generally the online social services we use and how they allow others to be harassed online. I doubt they really care if the violence goes out onto the streets; as long as it's not on their lawn right?

This is the general problem; and over-reaction from social networks from either not doing enough or doing too much.

If you want to avoid online harassment avoid those sites that don't do anything to protect you.

Good moderators can go bad; so regardless if it's facebook or some small dinky online forum... they can be aggressive at moderating and also silence people for no good reason
I carry a couple days worth of groceries home regularly -- on a skateboard of all things. I can even get eggs back home without breaking them. And there's also a laptop in my bag since I'm picking these up on the way back from work.
Let me add one more mistake: Pichai was quoted as saying that the vast majority of emails he has received from Googlers have been in support of Damore's firing. How can he be so clueless to think this is a representative sample? After such a huge drama, he still doesn't realise that some people are afraid to say what they think.

(Despite all this I don't think these mistakes are enough to cost him his job, given excellent leadership of Android and Chrome)
this whole emphasis that openai and deepmind put on human/robot collaboration is a paper thin pr move in my opinion. the robots will be better than any human, humans will not be able to contribute a single thing soon. but they try to make us all feel safe by making it look like they benefit from our brains.
Since we're picking all the nits and talking about definitions like the natural numbers rather than common parlance, then may I observe that sequential lists are using ordinal numbers, and the set of ordinals derived from natural numbers definitely does start with zero, in this case it being the minimum element of the ordinals of non-zero cardinality.
The idea of "removing" a name seems technically unreasonable too. Lists may legitimately be pattern-based (like "ads.*.net" for instance, where ads.targetdomain.net technically matches too).
I think that's an issue that a lot of science-minded folks disagree with.

I happen to think there's a lot about the author's time/mental state/life circumstances that one can find in the words themselves.

A much more light-hearted example is Quentin Tarrantino's insistence that he hasn't watched the Truffaut film 'And the bride wore black' - even though Kill Bill is an eerily similar remake.

Should I believe the author's product or his rationalization?
As a longtime DotA player and someone who's following the pro scene, this is very impressive. Especially considering how it's beaten Sumail, widely regarded as one of the best 1v1 players in the world. Can't wait to see what OpenAI have in store a year from now for 5v5.
There's a YC company, Contraline[1][2], doing a similar thing.

[1]: http://contraline.com/

[2]: http://contraline.com/news/2016/05/13/contraline-is-accepted...
Plenty of women that take liberties also. I've always tried to be nothing than pleasant. Where does it get you?
Surely you jest? If not, I suggest you do some research on the Australian government, eugenics, and aboriginal populations.
Yes and self-inflicted as well. Hard to blame on Benchmark.

I worry that HN is being astroturfed by TK and his buddies. When there is a negative Uber story a throwaway account emerges to present an implausible pro-TK angle.
This cover has always freaked me out:

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-09
Additionally this stems really back to bullying; something that wasn't dealt with in my time in school. I was always told to just let it go and someone else will straighten them out.

The truth is; no the teachers enabled the bullies to bully me. When these bullies grew up they knew they could take advantage of people to get ahead.

If we can't talk about bullying and deal with it in a real way (saying kids are kids; isn't an answer. Kids can be cruel as hell and if you let them be cruel why would they act differently?) we sure as hell can't deal with the misogyny in this world. In the end it stems from the same place; we raise some children to be ones to be stepped on; and others to do the stepping on.
It would seem to me that this is an oversimplification. Doing screen based video processing is not simple and is not exact especially where camera movements are independent of game dynamics as well as the difficulties inherent in doing fast frame classification- there has been some good work in this direction recently but far from perfect(yolo, ssd). The route deep mind took in partnering with the game manufacturers to gain inputs directly while receiving global information about game state seems the simplest for their goal of training rl agents. We considered doing a project around this but figured it was a massive iceberg.
This practice has been stopped. (Edit)

Source: http://wkrn.com/2017/07/27/white-county-judge-stops-trading-...
One of the two parties is paying the market-making, the other the market taking fee. So for every transaction, there is always a 0% + 0.3% total commission for Gdax.

(note, large customers get a discount on the taker fee, so I went with 0.25% on average)
I really hope it's just a joke about overly opaque project naming, possibly riffing on the need for a napkin after a "Chocolatey" "Scoop" [of ice cream].
These types of MOBA games are a good precursor of military unit management. To be honest, I'm not totally sure whether to be happy or sad about this sort of thing. The strategic control of drone units on a combat field, without the loss of personel (on the countries with this technology, anyways) should make me happy, and does, to a point. BUT the potential for abuse (and, no, I haven't even begun to extrapolate towards the Terminator, nightmare scenarios) is rampant. Fewer people with a conscience on the battlefield or controlling the apparatuses of war may or may not be worth the cost of the lives of young men and women..... but I think wars should be fought by old men and women with swords, anyway. If you're old and can look i to the face of your enemy while you kill them, there's a better chance it's worth killing and dying for (by the numbers, anyways).... plus, the President, Congress and the Senate have to serve in combat positions, in my little fantasy scenerio =)
The developer interviewed claimed that there was no domain-specific knowledge and implied (though didn't explicitly state) there wasn't any training against non-OpenAI bots or players. (I'd love to know the reward function they used for whatever Q-learning variation they ran with.)

If this is accurate, one of the things I'm most impressed with is that the bot figured out creep-blocking. (I can't find a good GIF, but this is walking in a wiggly path in front of the first wave of neutrals on your side, delaying their progress and pushing the lane towards you, which is good for ~reasons.)

Creep blocking isn't all that hard in dexterity--I am a terrible dota player and I can more or less do it. And it's one of the most common pieces of dota knowledge; every pro player does it and since it's relatively easy compared to a lot of pro micro, everyone else rapidly learns they should.

But nevertheless--the bot had enough games that it could randomly jump in front of the wave enough times that it noticed a win rate improvement for that slight wave push, and begin to do it intentionally? (And then get good at it?) Damn.

One thing I don't really know about Q-learning and the typical nets used for it: I am guessing it is likely that internally to the bot's evaluation functions, there is some learned feature whose activation correlates well to the location of the wave equilibrium (since that's a feature that correlates well with winning!) At that point, is it likely that the bot can learn in smaller increments--that is, it knows that pushing equilibrium towards itself is good, and thus randomly creep blocking a little becomes reinforced (rather than having to notice the creep block's effect on game wins?)
An Average Guy Who Spent 6,000 Hours Trying to Be a Professional Golfer
The simple answer is that this blog post tells us nothing about her skill level aside from the clear resume brags. Google I/O presenter on Tensorflow said something along the lines of "why do we use RELU? Because it works better.. Why does it work better? We don't know for sure." Any field where the basic questions are still unanswered is going to make talented people think they are posers. In fact it's the only rational stance..