skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, the law that protects reviewers does not protect people who publish benchmarks in software.

I'm not convinced that's generally true. The form contracts language [1] clearly talks about individuals, but at least one of the DB vendor license agreements allows for individuals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15888236

If an individual were to decide to do such a benchmark, I don't immediately see how the DeWitt clause would be still valid. Not many people are going to risk that obviously.

> hese DeWitt clauses should be illegal in the United States on First Amendment ground

I agree that they shouldn't be allowed, I however fail to see how 1A applies. You willingly enter into a contract with a private entity. That contract has rules, and there are some consequences for breaking them.

I think the government has an important, and imo somewhat neglected, role in providing rules around valid contracts, but that's not 1A.
What country are you guys from that the phrase “outdoor cat” is a thing? Where I live, the uk, that’s just a cat; “indoor cat” would be the notable, unusual state.
> The instruction encoding is quite regular -- it follows the 2-3-3 pattern that came from the 8008 (if not earlier)

While it is true (and I am aware of it) that the Z80 instructions follow the 2-3-3 pattern, it is nevertheless not that regular. Best look at the "purest example" for this that is referred in the literature all the time and acted as a model for the criterion that in RISC the instruction format is very regular: the instruction format(s) used by MIPS. Here there only exist 3 different types of instruction (R-type, I-type and J-type) and all have a very regular pattern. One can find very suggestive pictures at

> http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~ghosh/1-24-06.pdf
NIPS 2017: Geometric Deep Learning on Graphs and Manifolds
Many years ago, in New Zealand, the flatmate of a friend of mine told me much the same: if you're questioned by the police, you can't just stop talking and claim your right to silence. You gave that up by answering questions.
They're not a charity, but they can easily be wrong. Companies go out of business all the time.
I should have clarified, I personally believe consciousness to be real and possibly even an inherent property of the universe.

However there is a school of thought that believes consciousness to be an illusion.
> rebellion against this idea to them is treated as sacrosanct, at least by the average (aka dumb) officer

Stereotyping or do you have some evidence is a large population supporting this assertion?
If you want to be safe buy 4 $SPY you'll have to go a little over a grand as they are at $265. Historically very few assets beat it over a given 25 year period. For some fun buy Litecoin or 10 NVDA Jan 12 2018 217.5 calls.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; engineers, is there really no other company with the same interesting problems to work on but Uber? I can understand staying with a company past a big scandal and shake up in management, who knows, maybe you’ll be remembered as one of the people who made the company better now that the only way is up. But when scandal after scandal after scandal rolls by, and the common denominator of them is the very people who works there, is this really the company you want to support?

Why did you become an engineer? I can understand if your answer is money, respect or ”doing math and coding is fun” really, that’s enough for me, you don’t need to do it to save the world, and Uber does offer money, respect, and opportunities to do math and code. But, wouldn’t you rather sleep knowing you don’t support a company that screws over people like this poor woman? There are plenty of companies screaming after good engineers, why do you support such a rotten, morally bankrupt management by writing their code for them? Can you honestly talk about the stuff you knew your company did, and all the opportunities out there you passed on, to your children with a straight face?

Because I would like to see the snakes in Uber’s management write their own code and explain away responsibility the next time a scandal hits them.
This.

Godel's thereom frees the mind.
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++
How much is spent on your elections and how are voting districts created and votes counted?
so does this mean smart phones and IOTs can run on BSD?
What does "wait until he gives up hope" mean? Do they cancel the ride?

Btw, have you tried contacting Uber regarding those drivers? Not that I'd be surprised if they ignored you, just curious.
If only we could use it to travel around the world instantaneously.
No what he is saying is if you have passionate people then they will rise to the occasion.

The evidence is to find companies with a lot of people who hate the company but work for the paycheck and see if the company is successful or heading to the dumpster. Then find companies built by HR who puts only the employees with the best fit into positions and see if they are heading to the dumpster (because HR weeds out the passionate people who have weak or poorly written resumes) I would say yes to both.
From what I gathered by reading the whitepaper mass censorship is extremely hard to accomplish.

>Could ISPs throttle or block IPFS content, for instance?

They wouldn't know what was IPFS and what was regular encrypted TCP, the only way I can tell IPFS traffic apart in wireshark is the port number. Once ISPs start blockings random encrypted connections people will get mad when their games or other applications stop working.

If we are talking about bad actors in the IPFS network, I reccommend you read their whitepaper. They layout a clever karma based system for incentivizing nodes to help others and punishing nodes that misbehave.
I have anecdotal experience with this. I used to have dense native plants in my yard. My local municipality made me cut them all down. The mosquitoes, specifically the invasive Aedes species seemed way worse without the lattice of tall native plants that provided both platforms for jumping spiders and infrastructure web based spiders. My tiny yard created so much spider-space for arachnid and other predators. Too bad I was punished by my local municipality for being so arrogant to want grow native plants. I have massive photographic evidence to this effect. See here: http://opilionesman.blogspot.ca/2017/05/i-wanted-to-share-so...
I agree, bitcoin is not good for micropayments. But that's not the only use case that matters.
Couldn’t have said better.
I've been reading interviews with Lanier since the 90s and i have come to the conclusion that one of us is really dumb, but i'm still not sure which of us it is.
In most Lisps, objects are an option, as opposed to languages like Java.
Heh, yeah. But will it be James Lovelock's nature or H.P. Lovecraft's nature?
"I'm just asking to see if you tell the truth. If you don't answer I know you're guilty". And end up arrested.
Your reply is a strawman argument, nothing more.
Check out Bitcoin Cash if you want a scalable on chain crypto currency. Bitcoin Cash has the same history as Bitcoin up until August 1st, 2017 when they forked off the majority chain. Bitcoin Cash allows you to send any amount of money to anyone in the world for about 1 penny per transaction.
This could prove harmful. If people analyze the patch they might get more information
Not mine. If you're not happy with your pension fund's investment strategy, maybe you should take that up with them.
And stop buying purebreds, especially trendy or short-snouted ones:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/02/w...
Please read section 5 of the whitepaper on bitcoin network. You are not a node in bitcoin if you cannot perform proof-of-work. A non-mining node has no say in bitcoin.
I did it for the money. Uber pays well.

Either that or finance to exploit arbitrage opportunities.
What country do you live in that what you say to police can't be used against you?
EFF claims that caching is not a integral part for ISPs. They use Sonic as an example, but why no mention of other ISPs? Doesn't this link say otherwise?

"For unanticipated traffic spikes, Comcast absorbs the excess traffic by automatically spreading traffic to multiple CDN caches in the same metro. Comcast has over 100 separate caching locations in the U.S., and spreads its CDN traffic to multiple proximate physical locations in each major metro without a tradeoff in performance. These CDN locations are strategically deployed across the U.S., which (1) enables delivery in large metro areas and (2) more evenly spreads demand to prevent congestion that commonly impacts high throughput HD video and large file downloads. In addition, the Comcast network is well interconnected with many other networks. This enables high-quality content distribution, and allows content to be localized for distribution just as effectively."

https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/blog/how-comcasts...
I don't think Astronomy is easier than biology. It just happened that we were successful to calculate some stuff, but where we successful in say: Flying a rocket to Alpha Centauri. Curing common cold is not a calculation.

Apples and Oranges.

That being said, there is no limit to scientific understanding if we accept mathematical models (and maybe probabilistic ones). The trouble with the world is that we try to understand everything with our simple senses: feel of gravity, size, picture, touch, etc...

Case in point, I was trying to explain to a friend that he should ditch the idea of a physical atom. An atom has no shape. It has volume and mass but that's it. It makes no sense to think that the nuclei is spheric or rectangular. At these scales, the geometrical reality is not a reality.

But he still insisted that he wants to see what one "looks like". That's how we make sense of the world.
Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin.

And it can scale up to 320GB blocks.

Bitcoin Core is no longer following the Bitcoin protocol , and is therefore not p2p electronic cash. It is Segwit coin
If energy prices increase, indicating an energy shortage, mining does not increase, and Bitcoin can't scale past that point. I was not worried about Bitcoin eating all the world's energy.
US forces could potentially lose next war to Russia or China
times have changed since...
If non-mining nodes don't accept it then they just fall off the network like a loud angry spectator at a football game.
Restoring furniture, old cars and motorcycles, growing food, tools for any kind of trade work, buying and reselling almost anything of value.

One might just sit on the cash and wait for a bust in the stock market and then jump in.
If it's not harmful to you I would suggest picking one up. I was in your camp and picked up a harmless spider, better now.

This is simplistic but a quick anecdote to hopefully push you like I needed pushing to get over my irrational fear.
I'm just going to put it out there: neck injuries.
You can run a web server on iOS, and you don’t need special entitlements to do so. Depending on how you implement it, you may have problems keeping it alive while the app is in the background, however.
Stores of value tend to have high liquidity. I hate the analogy, but a single exchange (or a series of exchanges) going down doesn't prevent you from selling your gold. Your preferred method of selling gold may be temporarily unavailable, but it'll be back.

Meanwhile, keeping with that analogy, actually selling gold takes quite a long time when you hold the physical asset yourself, and the fees are not small there either, as validation needs to be performed to confirm the gold you're supplying is authentic.

Truly, I hate the analogy, because digital assets like this are supposed to be better, not just as bad, as their physical counterparts.
While I have no law enforcement, or "lawyer-like" experience, I've been spending a fair amount of time with my local PD lately. A good friend is an assistant chief and I sometimes sit on the applicant Oral Board (the in-person interview board for people applying to be Officers). I'd sum up my comments in a couple of items:

- Always be polite. Most officers aren't jerks; but some are, and those are will look for ways to get you in trouble just because you are acting like a jerk.

- Unless you've been doing something wrong, or give them a reason to be suspicious (not answering questions is a GIANT red flag) officers almost always have good intentions. 99% of the time have better things to do than try to get someone in trouble who isn't already acting suspicious.

- If you choose to answer questions (and you should answer basic stuff IMHO), always tell the truth. If you get caught in a lie it makes everything about your interaction 100-times more difficult.

- If you choose not to answer any questions, for whatever reason, you should get to know your local/state laws regarding the things you MUST provide to officers when asked. Usually Identification is on that list, and choosing not to provide it means they can detain you.

- "Policing" has been changing dramatically the last 10 years. Most agencies are trying to use community outreach to improve relations, and in some cases fix their bad reputations. Some aren't, it's valuable to know that going into a situation, if possible.
> I really dislike the common model of capitalism where the entrepreneur is viewed as a robot whose only goal is to maximize profit with the law being the only boundary.

It's something you can do if you want to. Nobody will stop you as long as it's legal, so there will be a non-trivial amount of companies doing just that. It doesn't matter that the guy on the cornerr is trying to be fair. At some point he'll be screwed by a kebab chain which pays the minimum wage and can use the economy of scale in deliveries.

And that's even before we talk about companies that go for risk*penalty<gain situations where they can ignore the law.
The crazy thing you think people are doing is not actually being done.

IQ is not intended to represent 'all that intelligence is'. It is simply one way to measure a cross section of particular capacities that are valuable in a modern society and are easy to test.

E.g It doesn't attempt to measure the ability to track an animal, or remember the face of a person you met once last year.

This test is of interest because it is strongly predictive of other things we do care about, like educational attainment, criminal behavior, economic outcomes, etc.
Who is annoying who? You are not required to answer any question. You might as well be non-polite too (I'm not suggesting it).
> Do you have any evidence of this at all?

Being young and poor and interacting with the police.

Their behavior changes when the other upstanding members of society aren’t in the room.

There’s a way to navigate that situation favorably, and it doesn’t involve refusing to speak to them and hoping you get a good public defender.

Speak without saying a lot, be careful what you say, sure. But refusing to speak entirely and pretending you have an attorney is likely to just anger them (if you’re poor), and they do have the power to subject you to our criminal justice system, and people do get treated unfairly and wrongfully imprisoned all the time.
I can see why Uber don't think the law applies to them. It's probably because the law in the UK, for instance, doesn't apply to them[0]. this group already showed at tribunal that Uber should be charging sales tax, and HMRC (IRS for the UK) is refusing to take action. The conclusion many are coming to is that there is a sweetheart deal between the UK and our colonial masters in the US to allow Big Tech tax free access to our backwater.

[0]https://goodlawproject.org/uber-case/
I think the person who you are responding to took objection at a philosophical level, namely, it's simply not the case, however robust the scientific results, that you have direct access to the 'pure nature of the world in itself'. That is a conceit of the correspondence theory of truth that hasn't been thought credible since the linguistic turn. There is no thought independent of the language we use to represent the world, and that language is rooted in and conditioned by history. Hence Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Of course, that doesn't practically undermine the value of scientific investigation.
The single biggest stereotype held against the PHP community is they are a bunch of shitty amateur programmers whose programming ability barely extends beyond copy-pasting stackoverflow. Very few of the language-centric criticisms are valid these days.

Granted a lot of these criticisms are often levied by trendy kids reinventing the wheel with Ruby, MongoDB, NodeJS, Go, Docker, etc (2008-2017 roughly), but unfortunately they tend the tone for tech as a whole, so PHP still has this very negative reputation even though we tend to get more shit done, make more money, and spend less time learning the latest new fad.

Adhering to PSRs goes a long way to combat that stereotype by having a consistent look and feel to open source packages. Attention to detail leads to code quality. Initiatives like phptherightway really help out the community by putting people on the right track from day #1.

I agree there's a ton of utter shit out there on packagist and I avoid 99.9% of it like the plague for this very reason.
Surely any country with citizens having this conversation is close to collapse, no?
So then pretend he/she said "stop investing more" instead of what you read that he/she meant.
Which shows what most people prefer. None the less your concern is more than valid and a real problem.
My suggestion would be that the interpreters/compilers of white-space sensitive languages should implement the beautifying operation and call it before code is executed and editors should use this function. We can't expect to not adapt editors to different code styles.
That's why they call them fake news. They really need to tone down the emotions and improve their fact checking and concentrate the news on facts, otherwise the people will just classify them as biased, lying, conspiracy media instead of a legible news source.

Otherwise Trump is by default winning the "battle".
Is this a new thing?

If a group of people X did bad things in the past and they are no longer affiliated with Z. Why should learning more about those bad things in the past affect your current interactions with Z? It’s essentially a different group of people.

It’s similar to the issues people have with Europe over the crimes they committed in the colonial era. People are legitimately upset about it, but judge the current governments on their recent actions. Time scales are of course different, and it does not excuse future transgressions, but those our judged on their own merits.
It's helpful when there's stories about a king you are supposed to love though.
Didn't think. I believe it's reasonable to use past tense now. They really shook things up.

The question remains though if it's reasonable to continue to use uber. Is it a good idea to reward such awful behavior in the startup phase? IMHO, I think not. I'd prefer to use lyft and hopefully send a message (however minuscule) that startups shouldn't act this way at any point in their life.
The CDN is a service they sell to content providers, to do part of the hosting for them. It's not part of their internet service.
Nope, as far as I can tell. You have to enable it in settings though. This seems to be one of the best features that Pixel 2 came with.
I do like his stance of reading and understanding the code you run, before you run it.
>I just find that the short iteration isn't ideal because the short iteration, and lack of long-vision planning doesn't allow designers to develop in a "big-picture" way.

I don't think that kind of planning is particularly valuable. I've worked in many really unsuccessful companies that had a long term plan (which never really came to fruition) and some really successful companies which may have had a blurry long term vision about their general direction but mainly just reacted to customer input and market conditions as they saw fit.

The Linux kernel is developed in exactly this way too and it's hardly a model of an unsuccessful software project. It's not just me.

>Testing doesn't really fit anywhere in the equation as a differentiation. There was automated unit testing before Agile

Automated testing was barely used though. XP, the progenitor of agile, did emphasize it though.

It 'fits' because once you do enough of it (and you have automated releases), it just sort of stops making sense having release schedules. Every change to the code base that gets through code review and the test suite is releasable so why not release it?

>It also requires automated deployment which can be tricky

I think 2009 was the last time I worked on a system that didn't have automated deployment.

>I just think the short 2-3 week iterations don't fit every organization and if you can handle 1-2 month sprints, you'll have better designed software because you can see further into the future.

I've always aimed for iterations that are as short and tight as possible because the future - meaning how your software is really going to be used - is by far and away the least predictable thing you'll have to deal with. The most you can do is react to that quickly before veering too far down a dead end.

Hell, even when I develop software for myself I end up being surprised about how I actually end up using it.
mining pools only group hashpower for the purpose of reducing variance and distributing payment. The mining pool does not dictate what the individual miners in the pool can and cannot do. Individual miners can enter and leave mining pools at will. Mining pools change nothing. Non-mining nodes enforce nothing without proof-of-work.
I don’t have a problem with this cycle. I just don’t think everyone wins when someone wins this lottery. Some people receive far more reward than others even though they were all involved.

This doesn’t mean J.K. Rowling wrote a bad book or doesn’t deserve the money. That is a apparently very distracting example that misses the actual point.

I’m saying that when a person makes billions (read: lots) of dollars in a society that has people starving to death or otherwise unable to meet their basic needs then there is some exploitation happening somewhere. The economic rewards of that work are larger than the individuals contribution, someone is getting screwed.
I don't have any experience with IPFS so I just downloaded the client and ran `ipfs daemon`. It's been using 500-1500Kbps down and 200-500Kbps up for the last 15min or so. It also has 330+ open connections. Is that expected? It seems a bit aggressive for idling. No message on the console indicating what exactly it's doing either.
Well, in my philosophy, the guy with the gun and the legal authority to arrest is the one who gets to decide who's annoying, unfortunately.
Sure, someone could post a paper like this anonymously. But anonymous papers don't benefit from all the incentives of the standard academic publishing system.

As a fun aside, here's an example of one of the few fully anonymous papers I know of:

http://census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html
>> for all of them fairness and dignity have greater value than profit

the one I know too... until the definition of fairness comes from some else than them... My point is that IMHO it takes extraordinary capabilities to make money by selling someone elses's work and maintaining high moral standards when it comes to solidarity, helping others, sharing profits, etc.