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Law - what is put together by Congress and signed by the President. This can involve tasking Federal agencies to do a specific task, referred to as a mandate.

Regulation - How the Agency turns its mandate, which is often broadly stated and sometimes nebulous, into concrete actions and policies. An example - I worked at the DOJ as an intern. There was a law passed to provide benefits to the families of public safety officers who died in the line of duty. What those benefits are? Who qualifies as a public safety officer? If a fire fighter gets in a car crash on his was home from a shift, does that qualify? The answers to these questions are determined by lawyers and experts in equal measure - the experts to determine what should be done to solve the problem, the lawyers to make sure the agency actually has the power to enact the policies the experts recommend. To put it in OOP terms, regulations are instances of law.

The stuff you mentioned - who is allowed to sign form 22a, minimum size of cleaning closets - is still law. The agencies also have the power to determine penalties for breaking regulations, not all of which involve going to jail. This power is again derived from what powers Congress assigns them when it writes the law.
I'm almost 40 and have not had my wisdom teeth out. I can tell you they hurt from time to time; and they have caused other molars to crumble as a result.

It's not really a scam; the way the wisdom teeth roots grow in make it very hard to remove.
A startup is a corporation with angels and VCs (who raise money from LPs). Over time, the larger startups go on NASDAQ or the NYSE, and then after time issue dividends. They expropriate the surplus labor time from the people who work and create the wealth of their company.

A corporation is a tool by one class to exploit and expropriate from another class, so asking how a startup/corporation can help workers is contradictory. The way to help workers is to abolish corporations and capitalism.

With the rise of capitalism came into existence a new category - unemployment. The major US business magazines worry about unemployment - when it gets too low ( http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_44/b3653163.htm ). Too many people who want work having work is seen as the problem. Why? Because a reserve army of labor is needed as a cudgel against those who are employed.

People don't need to be convinced of this. We can see what is happening as China has taken the capitalist road, in Greece, in Spain. The fed funds rate went from next to nothing to 0.25% and the US stock market began tanking - after years and years of free money. As Marx said, capitalism is like every economic system before it - a self-destructive one. In some months, or some years, all the starry-eyed 20 somethings in San Francisco will be facing what the starry eyed 20 year olds of 2000-2001 went through - layoffs and no work. The lucky ones will land some shit job for less pay. I supposed if you have a doctorate in machine learning from MIT and are working at Google or Facebook you might not notice this happening, but everyone else will.

"The angel market is drying up because the stock market went down and people have less money". See and hear children. Learn.

We don't have to convince people of this. The people controlling the capital will botch it up, the economy will tank more, and everyone will be told to "tighten their belts" except the type of people Graham writes hosannas for in his odes to wealth inequality. Some fools will lick the boot kicking them, but not all will and we go from there. Feudalism lasted maybe 1000 years, capitalism has been around in a real sense for maybe half that time, but many think it is more unstable than feudalism and will keel over faster.
Power laws as a thinking tool
> Regardless of Google's move, there is no excuse for any site not to be served encrypted anymore.

Honest question: are you willing to indemnify your users when the next Heartbleed-like attack comes out for the underlying SSL library you are using in your product?

If you are willing to do that, and will offer me a no-cost wildcard domain certificate, I will switch to your product and start using HTTPS.
so it's not Windows that's bloated. It's the Manufacturers or your product is bloated. No one stops you from installing clean Windows OS without bloatware. Can you tell me one single product in Apple which is sold by other than Apple.

Seems like you are comparing Oranges n Apples.
Last visit to dentist ,he mentions his parents are both doctors. I asked , why didn't you go into medicine. He told me his parents urged him into dentistry. They felt their professions had changed ( negatively ) so much from their early careers. He said mostly due to pharma taking over and they no longer had any autonomy. They knew he would have more freedom and autonomy as a dentist.
Maybe "planetary system" is a system of planets, but a "planet system", like the "Jupiter system", would be the system for a single planet. That would make "stellar system" sensible too. Furthermore, a planetary system associated with a single star is a "star system".

One more option: "exosolar system".
The New Yorker consistently has in depth articles that are well researched and fact checked.
I've worked from home for years and its worked out well (in my opinion and my employer's). In my 3rd year WFH I just received an "exceeds expectations" in our standard corporate review and was told I carry all the values of the corporation (yikes), trust, respect and all that hand wavey stuff. One thing that has dramatically improved is my general morale and attitude, because I'm not involved with specific "office types".

People in the office that don't seem to really work, but seem to think their only job is trying to find things they can make you work on, so they look like they're managing someone. I already have a boss, tasks and get everything done with stalwart dedication and personal pride. That type of middle-manager intervention is much harder when you're not in a cube. Or just annoyances like spending time looking at your screen when walking by.

I get just as much done as I used to in the office, save the environment, less stressed (just as much over my work but less with those office lice), and now never really want to work another office job again.

Driving stress is real and avoiding that is a health benefit, not to mention my sweet standing desk with treadmill underneath where I've lost 40lbs using while working during the day. I'm less likely to get horribly sick and drain the company's insurance plan. I spent years on a 24/7 pager that went off all the time, and worked from 9AM-3:30AM in offices in downtown Chicago many days/nights. I've done some harm to my health sticking out bad jobs and situations to build a resume. I'm very thankful for my current situation.

While someday I'd like to land a Django gig, I hope when my wife and I have children I'm still working from home. I don't want to die having missed out on the things this author mentioned. And definitely not my wife, I'll go back into an office if it means a big enough pay raise so she can quit her job as a teacher not miss those moments.
What is the benefit of writing a bunch of different raytracers? Is it just an exercise to practice a new language and reenforce your understanding of raytracing fundamentals, or is there actually a notable difference?
First I've heard of unexec() -- while it sounds like a good thing to be rid of, I'd be quite interested to read about its design and perhaps past implementation challenges. Anyone aware of a good tech article on it?
Go look at a project like Rails where you can tell they need it.
Windows defender says - Malware Detected and Download failed. Ouch!!
Google is a large company, with multiple branches.

I can't remember what services it is now, but there was some Google service that was deranked because it broke some Google search ranking policy.

It shows some integrity for the company that they're (sort of) operating their search engine objectively.

I presume that google doesn't uprank sites that specifically use Adsense versus other competing ad services?
One way to fix that problem is make the experiment last the entire lifetime of the "test subjects". It would be more expensive, but much more informative. They aren't worrying about what they'll do after the money runs out. Randomly pick X people who begin to receive their basic income at 18 years old and let them do whatever they want with it. You'd probably want to provide full health care too. Of course it's not a perfect experiment because they're surrounded by people who aren't receiving a basic income, which could affect their attitudes and actions in many ways.

And if you wanted to extend the experiment a bit you could create stipulations like, any literature, art, music, etc. that they produce must go into the public domain. (They could still make money off it in other ways if they want).
I'm still curious why they haven't decided that the fact that cell site simulators are possible is a super-grave bug!

It's one thing to say "we think it might be legal to use a cell site simulator in some specific circumstances", but another thing to say "our cell phone infrastructure allows anyone to successfully pretend to be a tower and spy on people, and we're not going to try to fix that".
JavaScript didn't become compelling until XmlHttpRequest was invented. Then it became popular in spite of significant shortcomings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984346
...no, the marketing department's job is to market the company and keep it in the public eye. Perhaps you're thinking of an advertising agency. And I've observed they have the same problem.

If a web developer was large enough to have its own marketing department it could maintain its own site.

In any event, I'm busy developing apps for clients all day - I don't get paid to work on my own stuff so it has lower priority.
> Something to be said for Usonian

Yeah, that it's an ugly, ungainly bastardizaton of language. American as referring to someone from the US has been correct English usage since before the United States was a nation state.
Quite possibly. I'd amended my post prior to your reply, addressing this in part.
People often automate human interaction. Getting an email reminder a few days before a wedding anniversary or a friend's birthday is hardly dehumanizing. If a scheduling assistant means a daycare worker can care for 4 infants instead of just 3, that's a huge savings for many working families.

How about dippers that can wireless notify you when there wet? Or for something that exists, a baby monitor so a caretaker can keep up with a crying child while another sleeps.

PS: Don't forget it's not just daycare workers who can use assistance, actual parents are also run raggid while caring for infants.
I expected this OP to be way funnier than it actually was. OP, learn your references. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
>The argument that unexpected collaboration happens when people are forced to go to the office is a joke and certainly not worth protecting when you consider all the other negative effects of commuting and working in a central location:

You got it, the reason people are required to work from a central office is that current managers are simply not able to manage remote teams.

Here's an article explaining it : http://read.reddy.today/read/3/remote-teams-are-the-future-b...
“Linux Sucks” – 2016 edition
If I weren't busy doing Docker, I would be doing this. In fact given enough time and resources, I'm confident I will eventually find a way to leverage Docker to advance the goal of universal income somehow :)

Figuring out basic income is perhaps the most important thing we could do as a society, because it will unlock the energy and creativity we're lacking to solve every other important problem.

Trying to solve global warming, energy, crime or government without basic income is like running a marathon on one leg.
No, no- these are the users of our app, when they added these accounts they knew the accounts were associated with our company.
Mine all came in straight. I had them removed one by one when they developed cavities. Minus waiting for the Novocain to kick in each one took the oral surgeon about 30 seconds to get out including packing the gauze. Bonus I got a bottle of Vicodin that I didn't need out of the deal.

Also: General anesthesia? That's often an excuse for the dentist to be a rough on you as convenient for them. No thanks.
Had mine out via local as well in the UK I had one crack and one filled that wouldn't stay filled, exposed nerve etc.

20 minutes one side, came straight out, 45 the other fought ever step of the way, relief was immediate, couple of weeks and all mended.

Not sure why you'd need to go under or have nitrous.
I have a theory that making education free and universally accessible, meaning anyone who is willing to put in the time can get a bachelor's degree in any major they want, would remove the majority of the signaling effect that a 4 year degree has. There would still be some signaling from holders of elite college degrees, but I argue that it is a separate problem.

I do agree with you in principle about the HR director thing. College is treated too much like a white collar vocational school.
It's not too much work to script downloading the webstart file, and then launching that. We did that at work because it was too to get it to run from a browser anyway. (And we run javaws in a VM because it's too hard to run java in the native environment too.. sigh)
Yea, this is a case where different communities (astronomers vs. laymen) have different definitions. Astronomers use the restrictive definition of "solar" for just for "sol", but they also have a more expansive definition of "metal" to mean "anything but hydrogen and helium".
Rub it on the gums near an affected tooth...deadens the feeling almost immediately...go easy, it doesn't take much...and you might want to use a Q-tip to put it precisely where you want it...it tends to "run out" or "swarm" if you're not careful...
That makes a lot of sense!
Because this tool is to get rid of malware that installed toolbars or injects ads. That's pretty much a Windows exclusive 'feature' at the moment.
If major surgery is involved then they were almost certainly symptomatic.

I had mine out at 18 because "eh might be a good idea" and my mom had dental insurance. 45 minutes and I was eating nachos the next day. Took two of the pain killers the first night just in case and none again. Which on a scale of surgery puts it slightly above "ingrown toenail".
Probably because the tool contains definitions of the malware it's trying to get rid of.
i just knew that Medium supports custom domain now.
Not really.

This is already in effect in a de facto way. The specialty builders tend to grab cars from pre-1973(I think) since they are grandfathered in and don't have to pass safety, emission, crash, etc.

I suspect that many builders might be able to pass some of these regulations, but the need to be "grandfathered" stops a lot of the possibilities.

It will be interesting to see if some form of "standard" chassis emerges that actually can pass the regulations.
Interesting, I understood something completely different. I thought it would detect and remove malware installed on the user's computer that affect chrome behavior.
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Wikipedia doesn't mention a lawsuit, but they do mention a Senate bill drafted by Rick Santorum after some palm greasing by AccuWeather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...
Yeah I still see general anesthetic advertised as a point of differentiation. I don't know how common it is but I don't think it's near the default yet.
I remember reading a comment somewhere (HN? Slashdot?) years ago that talking about the mechanisms behind antioxidants. The gist was that antioxidants would help prevent cancer, up until the point where cancer manifests itself. After that, it would actually help cancer.

Note that the comment was speaking from a critical thinking perspective about the way cancer works and the way that the antioxidants work in the body (not from actual study results).

So this doesn't seem so surprising to me.
Pretty sure gaming is NOT where Facebook's revenue growth is coming from. Almost all the growth has been coming from mobile advertising for a couple years now.
Both in regards to decreasing the cost of living and also increasing prosperity for everyone, the clearest answer to me is to purposefully and meaningfully increase investment in areas outside of San Francisco.

The Valley, through a variety of circumstances, is now home to the highest concentration of technology companies, and is unsurprisingly one of the most expensive places to live in the world.

The are known economic forces [1] that cause clustering of similar firms in small areas, and there's no doubt that this is a net positive for both the city and the individual businesses, at least at first. The incredible concentration both of talent and wealth in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is a clear testament to the power of physical proximity.

However, I urge the technology community and specifically Y Combinator to seriously reconsider the notion that all of technology must happen on a peninsula in central California.

How this decreases the cost of living is obvious. I live in Memphis TN and I pay $500 a month on my mortgage. Further, the city of Memphis and many other cities in the US are in serious need of both talented young people and economic development. The "brain drain" is a real and devastating effect of compressing the technology ecosystem onto the West Coast. Reversing the brain drain would bring leadership, talent, and dollars to areas that need it.

I'd like to specifically call out YC for this section of their FAQ:

> Can we do it without moving to where you are?

> Sorry, no. We tried this once, and by Demo Day that startup was way behind the rest.

In every other aspect of their model, YC is open to all reasonable possibilities. They fund photo sharing apps and nuclear reactors, women and men, young and old, but NOT people who won't move to SF. This reasoning is apparently based on just a few examples. Thus, the idea that constant physical availability is a fundamentally important part funding is just conjecture.

This policy and the attitude behind it are essentially opposed to the ethos of the technologist. How does one change the world by adding incrementally to the wealth of the Bay Area? Also, it's an absurdity that I have to mention that the internet was invented so that we wouldn't have to do stuff like this anymore.

This also addresses the issue of diversity. If you want more diverse people, go to where they live. I find it an amusing contradiction that many of the people who cringe at the idea of moving to the repressive "Deep South" of Tennessee would find themselves working with people who aren't white dudes for the the first time if they ever did move.

So, I urge YC and the tech community at large to spread out from just the bay area. Reconsider the cities you came from. Be bold and try to find the opportunities that are waiting outside Silicon Valley.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cluster
Sometimes what happens is an old industry dies out or matures, say heavy manufacturing, the dumping happened long before there were strict anti-pollution regulations, but the area is otherwise nice and in an central or attractive location, so housing gets built.

Then people learn heavy metals and other chemicals which leached into the soil are unhealthy. Some times people know about it and a superfund gets declared, other times it was forgotten and people find out many years later.

New developments in Mountain View[1], for example, sit on top of superfund sites. Some of which cannot be alleviated but rather "managed".

Hunter's point in Sf is another example. That was a navy shipyard with lots of lead heavy metals and other things from WWII war effort --but people eventually built out housing there.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/19/google-...
Heh, when I read it, I took it to mean they are looking for malware exe's that are lodged on your system that affect Chrome. I guess you could go either way on it, but how is this different than just doing the "Reset All Settings" function available in the Chrome settings?

Text: "This application will scan and remove software that may cause problems with Chrome, such as crashes, unusual startup pages or toolbars, unexpected ads you can't get rid of, or otherwise changing your browsing experience."
Not to mention less secure (speaking of Flash)
Has anyone actually tried it (I haven't)? Sounds like another step against malware that targets Chrome. It's nice to know that Google cares about safety and all, but what do they gain financially?
Ask HN: What maths should I learn to have a solid basis for Machine Learning?
I'm very interested in Machine Learning, especially when related to Natural Language Processing, such as comprehending stories.

I'm a complete beginner following along with dive into machine learning (http://hangtwenty.github.io/dive-into-machine-learning/) and listening to machine learning podcasts etc.

It is clearly very maths-heavy. My question is, if I want to have a deep understanding of Machine Learning, with the goal of one day researching in that area, what should I learn (maths-wise and more)and are there any good resources you know of?
Building a Sustainable Data Platform on AWS
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That sounds like you sent random friend requests to strangers (please correct me if I'm wrong). I'd expect that there would be some correlation between users who would accept a friend request from a stranger and the likelihood that they would go inactive.
Why is the insurance industry tolerating this? Do the not have an incentive to avoid unnecessary procedures?
There is. Command line.
I never thought about the question of whether, in languages that require nouns to have grammatical gender, particular countries may have a different grammatical gender from others, but on reflection I already know examples where they do in Portuguese: o Brasil, o Canadá (amusing to me because of the national anthem), but a Argentina, a Alemanha.

I wonder if this also happens in German; the only examples I'm thinking of offhand are feminine (die Schweiz, die Türkei) but now I'm not at all sure that there isn't a masculine one too!
You can see an application here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw1_2b-I7A
One of my pet theories is that is has to do with the decline in cigarette smoking.
Really? This century like within the succeeding hundred years or that century like the 20th Century? I'd be curious to learn more.
While it's true that money supply's grown and GDP hasn't by nearly as much, that's not the correct response -- OP mis-defined GDP.
They gain confidence from their users that Chrome is a safe and secure browser. I don't understand why this should be confusing.
Like any other poorly understood interventions into vastly complex, self-balancing ecosystems.
* Alternatives to patient-present doctor-mediated health care to cover the 80% case in which doctors are expensive overkill; some combination of telemedicine and nurse-practitioners.

Doctor salary only makes up ~8.6% of overall Healthcare spending. Since, right or wrong, people want to see doctors rather than nurses when they bother to go into the hospital in person, I predict this tech will actually increase healthcare spending. The main change will just be that people seek nurse advice from home for minor issues they would have ignored previously. That may more may not be a net benefit.
True, but they won't get permissions that the user grants on a site-by-site basis, which also means the attack can't silently happen in the background.
Thank you for the most sane and objective post in this thread that's actually backed by industry knowledge and not just blind hatred.