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Regulatory capture is when regulators later join the people they were regulating This compromises their ability to regulate because they anticipate working that industry later. David Stein used to regulate the financial industry. Now he works in it. That's exactly what regulatory capture is.
The sell-out that wrote that letter btw is this guy:

I don't think it's a good idea to post someone's personal information in such a flippant way. He's not a public official and the whole point here is to witch hunt him. It comes up with his name, phone number and email address.
> we are not saying we want everybody to have equal wealth. The concern is about rising inequality

How can rising inequality be a bad thing, unless (wealth) inequality in itself is also a bad thing?
GP's lottery example was meant to show that even if equal opportunity is achieved, it's entirely possible to decouple compensation from work.

One example of a proposed solution is a limit on the difference between the lowest and highest salaries in a company.
How would this be enforced?
Here's a link to the best quick and elementary (yet detailed) explanation of what ABC conjecture is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYisYYhKKYA.
I think that sort of competition still very much exists. It's just that - in the Anglosphere, at any rate - the baseline for literacy is far higher. You need only look at the snobbery involved in choice of newspaper to see it.
Am I understanding correctly that the instant answers (actual content) is not on GitHub, and is only available on a web page semi-locked down from scraping attempts by JavaScript paging?

If this is not correct, anyone have a link to the exact repo I should be looking at? The link in TFA only goes to the main account page, not any specific repo, and the repo names are not clear enough to tell if they have what I'm looking for.
One way to look at this is that displacement causes a loss of value, i.e. culture, kinship, etc, to the extent that capitalism is an attempt to maximise value this isn't crazy.

But I think housing is definitely a thing capitalism struggles with because it is a good everyone needs and there is a finite amount of it, so much of it is zero-sum allocation.

Obviously I think we need to invest more in the non-zero-sum parts of it, but it's also a difficult political problem with lots of common goods and externalities.
> The entry of autism and Asperger syndrome (AS) into the history of psychopathology was marked by extraordinary coincidences. Both disorders were first described by Kanner (1943) and Asperger (1944), respectively. Both were Austrian-born physicians and, though unaware of each other’s writings, both used the term “autistic” to describe a unique group of children who shared features of impaired social interaction and restricted, repetitive behaviors and interests.

"Unaware" my ass. Georg Frankl - Asperger’s chief diagnostician - emigrated from Vienna to the US in 1937. One year later, he met and started working with Kanner in Baltimore. Kanner was a fellow Austrian Jew emigrant, like Frankl, but with an earlier start - he left Berlin (where he worked as a cardiologist) in 1924 for America where he switched to paediatrics and psychiatry.

What's more, the first diagnoses of "infantile autism" in Baltimore came from Frankl. Kanner took Asperger's theories through his chief diagnostician, made a mess of them with some silly psychoanalysis-inspired "refrigerator mother" explanation, and published them before Asperger had a chance.

This silly conflict prevented psychiatric progress for decades. Only recently Asperger's take on the pathology became accepted by the scientific community. His "continuum" is our "spectrum" and his name has been purged from the nomenclature, but he has been - nonetheless - vindicated.

More details: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/autism-hi...

P.S.: there's also Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva - the Ukrainian/Soviet scientist whose 1926 work on autism has been thoroughly ignored: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25826582
True, but having all the data on the government's site may (may) make it more secure from being leaked to sources other than the government. This isn't a statement of the government's software quality, but one of incentives: large private companies have not, historically, suffered much (legally or in terms of growth/revenue) from data breaches. The government losing data that it has independent reasons to keep safe is probably a larger perceptual risks, since government departments/funding can be suddenly cut in the wake of disasters of this nature, and elections can be lost. TL;DR the feedback loop for bad security might be more direct if the government is the one doing the securing. That's a troublesome prospect in several regards, but is plausible, I think.
Nice idea and execution.

But at £ 15 for the least expensive plan, and no free starter plan for say, just single domain owners, I think this might be prohibitively expensive for most...
That's a good point. Lets throw "instantaneous" out, having the ability to store and perfectly recall data is a critical advantage for any thinking entity.
That's just basic supply and demand and it's not unfair. Jobs where demand exceeds supply are paid more and more until people decide to train/retrain for that job.

The unfair part is that the 250k income of the software engineer is increasing demand for housing until it's too expensive for the cleaner although the demand and therefore price are high enough to warrant more housing it's not getting build because of zoning laws.
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How can one join the Duckduckhack community. And what's the selection criteria?
I'll chime in here (Disclaimer, also dev for the Azure Notebooks team, etc etc)

If you want to alter/play around with the demo, you can "clone" the sample library, which will prompt you to create an account if you have not. This process is free/noncommittal/just requires an email address, but lets us create an env + storage for you to run and persist it in. Post-cloning, you can run any library you own like you would expect.
can we change the title back to the original?

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This turns out to be much simpler than expected, on paper at least.

First, this is a tracing JIT and so it basically inlines everything. There is no argument passing convention at all within a block of JIT code because subroutines bodies are completely inline. So - passing tagged values as arguments is actually a fairly infrequent operation.

Then in cases where tagged values really do need to be passed around they will always be passed by pointer reference. The JIT will write them to memory - the Lua stack or the heap - and pass a pointer reference in a register.

The really happy circumstance is that the whole C runtime system is already written to reference tagged values using pointers, and there is already a port that supports 64-bit Lua values using 32-bit machine words.
Some people prefer this some people dont. I honestly detest interfering like this.
Businesses don't really survive when they give things for free.
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Why can't we have an intermediary search service that grabs search results from Google and posts them on a search website anonymously?
My experience with ionic has not been very pleasant. I don't know if I did anything wrong, but basically adding something more complex than buttons and text boxes resulted in very bad performance.

We ended up dropping the framework after struggling to include an interactive map into our app, anything web based didn't perform decently even on high-end devices.

Another minor annoyance was not being able to quickly reload the app on the device. However, the browser integration made the dev experience more than decent.

This was some time ago, so I'm curious to hear other people's experience on the matter. Maybe things have gotten better performance-wise!
No,the problem is not that they reveal anything about what they were thinking. That's pretty much public knowledge, and doesn't need protection.

It's that they modify their thinking and their actions while in the regulatory agency in ways that benefit the business interests, in exchange for a cushy job after their time in office.

Or the reverse, that they originate from the businesses and go to the agency to implement the business policies.
Fully agree. But person probably got flagged for commenting that what is important to hn may not be what's important to mathematicians.
We are very far from the point where that is feasible for many new results in math.
What kind of value you think is being lost during a displacement? I’m genuinely interested
I'd say that that's a mechanism of regulatory capture, but not the phenomenon, itself. As Wikipedia puts it:

"Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating."

There are many ways this happens without a revolving door.
I don't know, the whole post reads like a "So long, and thanks for all the fish" to me. They don't need a community anymore because they got bigger and at this point it's just easier to close it rather than having employees taking care of the user contributions.

Reddit has just pulled the plug to all their open source repositories. This will make it harder to develop and keep third party clients updated, like the ones without ads for example.
In my opinion, capitalism in its purest form must thrive on misery (as it must exploit essential needs). This is what a truly free market implies.

What I find interesting (though I don't think this is the point you're making), is that there are still people defending this obvious flaw and marketing it as a feature. But once essential needs are met (i.e. housing, food and security), what's even left? Luxuries, I guess. But even that can vary drastically between periods and societies (is gas a luxury? is higher education a luxury?).

And yet here we are.
Google later confirmed that the update went live in Jan:

http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-rolling-mobile-i...

I actually just added a full-screen video popup to a site a few days ago, and I made it so that it won't appear to googlebot. This wasn't for deceptive purposes, just because it wasn't relevant. I only show the video once to users, and it doesn't appear when they go back to the site...it's just a walkthrough of our products, which many people seem to need. I suspect many sites will check for googlebot and not show their popups to avoid this penalty.
Even in OO languages, I'm almost exclusively in an FP style because that style focuses on minimizing redundant code (e.g., don't write loops write loop transformer functions), minimizing redundant top level functions (segmentations, hand-tuned stateful getter/setters, etc), and maximizing the opportunity for correctness.

The last part is pretty important because properly testing software that talks to an external service is essentially impossible. Either you test in an integration setting where repeatable results are difficult to maintain, or you mock out your services and then you're testing your opinions against other opinions.

Here's an example of how I push this style to typescript, heavily redacted to remove company-specific marks, names and strutures: (this code is simple by intention; we may have a jr dev on the team soon and an excessive number of generator abstractions could help with this process but would cause readability issues).

function splitOrders(orders: e.OrderResult[]): {[key:string]: e.OrderResult[]} {
return orders.reduce(
(accum, borders) => {
// I sure would love a better idiom for non-destructive map updates but
// this isn't my primary language. Suggestions welcome!
let next = {...accum};
next[borders.datatype] = (next[borders.datatype] || []).concat([borders])
return next
}, {})
}

export async function undoifyUserProcess(env: any,
tolkien: client.tolkien,
token: client.APIToken,
spotData: IThingData): Promise<any> {

const legendaryCustomer = await e.getCustomerById(env, spotData.customer_id);
const orderResults = await e.findThingContractDetails(env, +spotData.spot_id);
const workSchedule = splitOrders(orderResults);

let btasks = scheduler.undoifyCustomerFromOrders(
env,
token,
{ key: legendaryCustomer.userKey },
workSchedule['newstyle'].map((wi => wi.bigId)));

let ltasks = (workSchedule['legacy'] || []).map(async (workItem) => {
// .. process elided but...
const nodeKey, groupKey = ["things", "were", "removed"];
const customerEmail = legendaryCustomer.some_field + "removed work"
// Factoring this out would have introduced a function with a bunch of parameters
// or state that is only synthesized here, so we left it embedded & closed over.
try {
return await omg.undoifyUserWithTagGroup(env, tolkien, customerEmail, nodeKey, groupKey);
} catch(e) {
console.log(`... malformed database call your mom for help ...`);
throw e;
}
})

try {
const work: Promise<any>[] = [btasks, ...ltasks];
const result = await Promise.all(work);
return await e.recordUndoifyingThing(env, +spotData.spot_id);
} catch(e) {
console.log(`...`);
}
}

If a language can't express a decently abstract functional style, I do my best to avoid it. Still, I've had to write a bit of Golang at my current job despite its utter lack of descriptive capabilities. It's poignantly frustrating to deal with, but a good reminder of how bad life used to be for programmers.
> Certainly in 'water cooler conversations' the feeling that someone else has got a promotion or higher salary without (visible) extra work is deeply resented, even though it has no direct effect on the participants.

This indirectly affects the participants by decoupling the work they do from the compensation they receive.
Showing something different to GoogleBot than your users is against terms of service, all good until you get caught.
OP here. It’s funny that you mentioned Morimoto. I’ve been to two of his restaurants in NYC—Morimoto and the ramen one. They were both just OK in terms of food by Japanese standards, and the service was atrocious by Japanese standards. Our waiter at Morimoto complained to us that he had to leave so we should close out our bill. If something like this happened in any restaurant in Japan, it would be eye-popping, jaw-dropping embarrassing. It kind of proves my point that what New Yorkers fawn over as their best restaurants are, by Japanese standards, maybe a begrudging C+.

I’ve eaten in so many “Emperor has no clothes” michelin-starred restaurants at this point that I would pass for something truly brilliant but not hyped at all. For example, udon at Kendon in Fushimi Inari, or tanmen at New Tamaya in Nagoya, hanbagu from Tsumugi Kitchen in Nagoya, gyuniku from Kuroushi in Handa, or even Italian from Pepe Rosso in Sancha, Tokyo. These places will melt your brain and I doubt any of them rates above 4 on Tabelog.

In Japan, you have to go out of your way to eat bad food and get bad service. In New York, it’s an effort to find both good food and passing service, even in the Michelin ranks.

I’ll throw a bone to NYC: Marc Forgione has a damn good restaurant in Tribeca, and Sole di Capri (also Tribeca) is amazing and under the radar.
He's a lobbyist. Every interaction he has with the government is a matter of public record. If he felt he didn't want that information public then he shouldn't be a lobbyist.
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The compatibility requirement is the result of the historic lack of x86 platform support, though: x86 used not to support r-- permissions, so it put rodata in an r-x segment, so there are likely programs in the wild which accidentally rely on that, so the linker can't now tighten the rodata permissions without breaking some existing set of programs of unknown size. Whether you think that's a good tradeoff depends on your opinion on the size of that set of programs and how heavily you weight 'avoid breaking code that used to work' against 'tighten permissions for security reasons'.

It would be interesting to know if you can ask the linux linker to put rodata in its own r-- segment -- I scanned the docs but didn't see an option for it.
I'm not so sure about that. They change up things a lot. Search is only part of the equation however, people can still buy an add to show you anything they like. So these practices aren't going away, they're just pushed into an arbitrage situation.
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Doxxing is a toxic problem on the internet. However this is not really his "personal" information. It's his professional contact information, which he publishes freely, and uses to attempt to persuade government officials. Contacting him professionally and non-aggressively is a perfectly fine thing to do.
I would understand this type of affirmative action as an attempt to provide equal opportunity by correcting for the existing inequality of opportunity. The ratios graduating are disproportionate to the general population ratio, and may be a sign of a perceived lack of opportunity. There are advantages to a diverse workplace too, so opportunity aside there are good reasons to prefer diversity over the ratios coming out of school.
The article says the opposite.

"Lenny simply plays a set of audio recordings one after another to interact with the caller. The same set of prompts is always used in the same order."
gloo is only one of the three currently supported backends. One can easily switch to MPI, and pick an implementation that comes with a license you want.
We own this document.
Some thought it was the best book ever written, and some thought it was the worst book ever written... and they were all correct!

Read the book through, I dare you.
I'd imagine it being more helpful to look at military spending and amounts of money big companies are hoarding (looking at you Apple) to see where the real issues lie.

As long as people are ok with their money going into a mystery box they have no control over, holding no one accountable, how can we have anything BUT inequality?

As long as companies are free to play tax games and suck money out of the economy and then hang on to it for as long as they feel like it - how can we have anything BUT a screwed up volatile economy?

People talk about redistributing money as if there's a million rich people wiping their butts with 100$ bills and if only we could teleport that money outta their toilets, into the hands of those in need, we'd solve something.

Real solutions to real problems come with infrastructure, accountability, transparency.

They start in the mind, then go out into the real world. As long as in your mind it's republican vs democrat, rich vs poor or some other childish false dichotomy, we'll be right where we are, heading for serious social unrest.
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Aftee some years, the spammers will all be robots too, leading to an amazing world of robots arguing with robots over the phone, both pretending to be human.
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Of course it is supply and demand, but they are creating these conglomerates that inefficiently aggregate wealth into a few. All of them are part of the problem. Why are only the top 1% ones the problem? Those are the ones who created the system of unfair enrichment, but share unfair gains to a few to keep the machine working.

I mean, why should someone jump into the 1% simply for being engineer #2? Those gains are unfair, and should be taxed 100% to pay for healthcare for all.
Aren’t drone batteries usually LiPo?
I agree with you but would like to add some remark about "fairness". This is a very broad term that encompasses many different issues. Principles of resource distribution are just one aspect of it.

I have never met anyone in my life who argued for a completely egalitarian society but for some people, a more egalitarian society is fairer than a less egalitarian society, other factors and reasonable bounds notwithstanding. In fact, the vast majority of people fall into this category, since almost no one would want to live in a society with Gini index 1.

If you ignore a few extremely radical die-hard libertarians whose positions are in my opinion not worth to be taken seriously (yes, I've read some Friedman, etc.; no, they are not more reasonable in their assumptions about human nature than communists), then the disagreements are more or less about:

- just amounts: the levels of resource distribution that one would consider just, e.g. the Gini index one considers acceptable (or other indicators - that's all part of the debate)

- just means: the mechanisms of resource distributions or other ways of obtaining a more egalitarian society that one considers just

- acceptable trade-offs: the trade-offs between methods of resource distribution and other moral, individual and moral principles like the Pareto principle, maximization of individual freedom, solidarity, democratic division of power, the right to a due process, etc.

The Pareto principle is economic and a right to individual freedom is perhaps best described as an ethical principle, but most of the other fundamental issues like Prioritarian or Egalitarian resource distribution principles, equal access to common goods, equality of opportunity, or democratic power division principles all concern different concepts of fairness. It's a fairly broad-reaching term and there are many trade-offs to make that define different political views.

My personal view is that nobody needs billions of dollars to lead a happy and fulfilled life and that various democratic mechanisms to generally decrease differences between income classes are desirable and ultimately lead to a better life for everyone, including the richest. But I understand that other political positions weigh some of the above ingredients differently.
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For that a parser without any intepretation would be sufficient.
I always thought of permanence as the differentiating factor between renting and owning. I actually feel less interested in owning, now that I know these "guaranteed right to rent at the same price for life" deals are out there.
Question. Can't we just let this company die? Do we really need a new law created by congress (EG HIPAA 2.0). Wont this just destroy the ability to create startups quickly? I understand it will help lawyers get fat and happy, but enforcing 'privacy' laws would be a trolling circus.
Perhaps the world would be a better place if Equifax went out of business. The other two members of the oligarchy could easily shoulder the load.
What is a "career level", exactly?
How's that going to help? Even assuming no deadlines beyond their control, they'd only fall further and further behind until you were waiting years to even meet your attorney. The system needs to be funded.
Good question, but although I'm too stupid to come up with an answer, I hope there is one, because the whole majority-exploiting-the-minority scenario sounds awful.
It's not like you have to give up a lot - the graphs are simple data structures and creating them is not the expensive part of the training. The computation has to be re-done at every step in a static framework too, and this is the part that matters.
I think it's good idea to link to public documents that companies put up on their public web page.

I think this 'dox' does not mean what you think it means.
Yes but iirc France has a system of tax credits that reduce the liability for large companies especially.
You can deduct 7% from those 33% from the payroll tax credit alone as long as you pay your workers more than the minimum wage.
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