skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I research for the auto industry and this was very well known by the authorities. Fixed test cycles like the New European Driving Cycle https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Ne... were easy to detect, and easy to optimize against. That's why coming regulations introduce more realistic cycles like WLTC https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/WL... and real road tests, where particle emissions will be trapped and compared against the lab test, and only a certain % of deviation will be allowed (last time I looked they didn't decided this % yet).
If I sat down at one of our database consoles and fired off a few queries and saw that hundreds of thousands of dollars had appeared out of nowhere, I'd tell my boss that the database was corrupt.

However, for the purposes of Aphyr's original article, it's a moot point specifically because Aphyr replaced the symbol with the substance[0]. He specifically states the conclusion, and in detail explains why it happened and what the ramifications are. Any quibbling about the word corruption is a distraction, because the underlying fault of the system is still present. The system claims to support snapshot isolation, but does not, and the result of that fact is that data will not be correct for users expecting snapshot isolation.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_subst...
One other tip: Block all TOR exit node IP's. You'll find mostly fraud and spam coming from them.

Deep down, I would love to support TOR in principle. I know there are people living in oppressive regimes that need access to information. I want to support that side of TOR. In reality it's still the transport tunnel of choice for scammers and criminals. The costs just don't outweigh the benefits. Considering the CDNs that block TOR (Akamai, Cloudflare, Incapsula, etc), you wouldn't be the only one blocking TOR. I'd also throw in EC2, GCE, Azure, and Rackspace IP's too.
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I remember being on it too. But i'm not sure if my problems in school were related to this drug, or the many other drugs I was put on in the course of trying to discover a "cure" for being a lonely sad teenager. (They never ended up finding a 'fix' for me, and by 18 I was an adult and could finally refuse the medication)
Do you think that this sentence: “Haha, yea. I’ll say, ‘all I had to do was find a bunch of fucking nerds to build it.’” has anything to do with Billy's attitude towards engineers?
Grasping that it took New Horizon about one year since launch to reach Jupiter, then about 9 years extra to reach Pluto is also a nice demonstration.
My guess is it uses some part that would need to be replaced (or replaced more often) if left in full use all the time ?
why don't they add something like master slaves to make that happen? i mean 1000s machines for a single master is way more than most software will handle anyway, still kubernetes makes it easy to manage it, however even 50 machines are working really fine on kubernetes and that even with a slower master server.
currently we run with 20s at production with a master at 4 gigs which works really really well.
The 2nd and 3rd there are not economically unreasonable, and the 3rd isn't metric-violating.

The 2nd would make sense if the net demand to go one way is greater than the other (think about moving trucks going from Detroit to San Francisco and vice versa).

The 3rd is the charge to go from outside the platform to inside it, not to stay in the same place. Whatever criticism you might make of the practice, the two A's are not the same.

Edit: And, FWIW, in case anyone hasn't heard the explanation, the "hidden city ticketing" in the first case exists when a provider with A-B routes and B-C routes wants to compete with a direct A-C provider and has to make the sum of the two legs (which takes more time) cost less than the direct, since it's necessarily less convenient, requiring them to vigorously scout for people who get off at B.
It helps if you read it in an Australian accent?
A fool and his code are soon parted. Sad but true.
To pass the test with lower emissions. This means lower taxes in some countries, and good PR in every one. Edit: to expand this, consider that in order to reduce emissions like NOx, you often must sacrifice performance, so the customer will complain. When standarised tests were introduced, a crude counter strategy was to trade performance for lower emissions for X amount of minutes (the duration of the test). So customers noticed "hey, my engine works much better after 15 min!" :P
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"the government is given final rights"

Well not according to the US' citizenship test which states that the constitution is the top law whilst defining the rule of law as no entity, including the government, being above the law.

That's the theory anyways. In reality, might makes right now more than ever (there's a very interesting article from MIT about if technology fosters democracy. They conclude no)
You're NOT being fair at all in saying, "It was [just] 2-3 days of work."

Why disregard the full scope of opportunity costs the author mentions?

He's not banking on a lucrative outcome. He's sacrificing time with the family AND rest on the weekend. Now, multiply that by the size of the team.

Taking what the author says at face value, he got stuck with a duplicitous character who single-handedly dragged a team into violation of the hackathon's terms. The event explicitly asked for relevant disclosures.

As others mention too, his documentation's a valuable urge to caution.
The last time that I saw somebody from Google give a presentation about k8 it didn't seem like "larger cluster sizes" was a real priority at this point, and they were more focused on features. Good to hear this is getting some attention, since it was the major issue that made our team dismiss it as useful in production.
The pinnacle of engineering for separation kernels. Well, in development and compilation assurance. The work on other EAL6-7 requirements is ongoing at NICTA. Should handle them easily. The best part is that, unlike most verified kernels, this one was open-sourced and allowed to be used freely. We had hoped for that with NRL's TCX kernel but it never showed up. NICTA and OK Labs delivered.

See papers (below) for how to apply a separation kernel to solve various problems while minimizing TCB of trusted components. Secure comms can be built on top of a Mikro-SINA-style VPN. Nizza via seL4 can also protect Tor protocol or GPG in purpose-built appliances. The tech is also being integrated into GenodeOS. Helps to Google what commercial vendors did with similar tech, previously and currently, for inspiration: XTS-400 STOP OS, GEMSOS, LOCK, Boeing SNS Server, INTEGRITY-178B, LynxSecure, VxWorks MILS. Lots of schemes composed on these to leverage their security in a variety of applications.

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

http://genode-labs.com/publications/mikro-sina-2005.pdf
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It's because people were flooding transactions and sabotaging bitcoin to prove it doesn't work well by it's current design. [1]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/great-job-everyone-bitcoine...
Well the "why are they are entitled to it" is because they have a monopoly on power. Why they regulate is to finance themselves.
> If your p-value is less than 0.01, then there's less than a 1% chance that the pattern you're seeing is due to random fluctuations of the variable itself that you cannot predict.

This is a dangerous misinterpretation of p values, which cannot provide that kind of information. A p value assumes the pattern is due to random fluctuations, and asks how common this kind of fluctuation is.

Typically the chance the result is a random fluctuation is much higher; for examples, see http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/p-value.html
It probably ruins performance -- that's the usual tradeoff with emissions systems.
He did:

> Then I took off my survival suit. Wearing nothing but my underwear, and shaking violently in the wind, I tipped as much water as I could out of the suit. Then I put it back on, squelchy wet and freezing cold. I did it up, lifting the ridiculous built-in hat over my head.
>If people foresee the bubble, why do they participate in it? Why aren't the on the "short" side?

From John Maynard Keynes himself, "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
Good for Volkswagen.
Your comment makes me think that startup weekend runners should be more aggressive about preventing people like Billy from participating - those who think they already have a company, or an idea, or ownership of something.
Unless you signed anything, you have full ownership of the code. Demand the destruction of any working code to Billy or sue him
Well it is a windless "perfect" lab environment. A strong gust or anything going wrong would still quickly ruin their day.

Still the best thing i've seen today though!
Hopefully nobody is living in a regime so strict they can't order candy delivery without fearing for their life.
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The ways robots deceive us
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Once you understand that, you can see why Venmo doesn’t want users to make merchant transactions, by which it really means payments outside their networks of close acquaintances. (“Merchant transactions,” Vaughan tells me, “is sort of the catchall for the things that we can’t predefine.”) The analogous real world example is that you wouldn't leave a pair of tickets in a mailbox just because someone sent you a note promising to drop off an envelope of cash at a later date.

Isn't that why you're using a PAYMENTS platform, and not a PROMISE NOTE platform? When you receive or send a payment on a PAYMENTS platform, that's not, and shouldn't be, equivalent to a note promising cash. It should be the cash.

Since it's not, is it not fraudulent to say that it is and pass it off as that?
Careful, increasingly the governments expect you to agree they have a right to whatever they claim.
We've been using CoreOS in production with etcd and fleet for over 1 year now on 500+ machines. They're have been some growth pains, specifically with etcd - but now they are mostly gone (with the new raft implementation in 2.x). I really appreciate the CoreOS team and all related contributors.

First persistent storage tackled, then networking and now resource-aware orchestration.
What an outstandingly good comment, thank you.

To add, my opinion is that true suicidal ideation can be misinterpreted as manipulation in teens by it being more common at that age. Taken together with less life experience and impulse control at that age the teen is less likely to cope effectively otherwise. But this is simply a personal observation, I hope research gets to real crux of the matter.
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I would bet that if Billy actually took this code to the "customers" he has lined up, they wouldn't use it. They'd have a bunch of other functionality they'd need implemented first before they even considered it. Then he'd take it to an outsourcing firm, who would collect a fee, throw out the original code (because they can't understand it), and then deliver another pile of code that doesn't work. Nerds can scam back, particularly when they live on other continents. Maybe he'll try another outsourcing firm, or maybe he'll try a naive college student, but I think the chance of him actually delivering a product that people will pay for and that stays at the forefront of the market is about zero.

This method of founding a tech startup doesn't really work. Either learn to code yourself, or build a trusted long-term relationship with someone who can.
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It's possible that the engine power / automatic transmission shift profile / maximum RPM / etc. is being manipulated to output less emissions at the cost of acceleration, top speed, ride comfort, etc.

The most fuel-efficient / eco ride is rather "boring" by the standards of car enthusiasts and reviewers and I guess the cars wouldn't be configured for that mode by default.

(Just a guess though.)
He did say that he took it off to get the water out of it, although I guess it will still be wet.
My guess would be he kept it on to protect himself from the wind.
Not really. I've read some fiction ebooks that were self-published by authors and some were good. None had advertising (at least I haven't noticed), some had a suggestion to donate, but that's another story.

Also, if we can say the comparison with software is valid, there is a lot of software (of various quality from a total trash to exceptionally good stuff) that comes gratis and doesn't try to sell you anything.
Side note: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad, do not use it. Among other things it will crash your 64 bit app if 32 bit lib matches by name (or vice versa). Bad, bad, bad. Use ld and ldconfig.
Yeah, even on the Apple watch it's pretty inconsistent. Things that should have a force touch option don't, and things that do, don't tell you.

Apple's slipping way behind on this.
> The software was designed to conceal the cars’ emissions of the pollutant nitrogen oxide, which contributes to the creation of ozone and smog.

Is this an error in the article or is creating ozone a bad thing?
From what I've read in research, the reason is four-fold-ish.

1: Using the site as a credit card validator. Only the real ones will get through.

2: By making donations to places with a stolen credit card little bits at a time, it establishes a wider pattern of use for that card. Fast forward a couple steps ahead, the purchases are getting a little weirder each time, and before you know it, you're at whatever level people use stolen cards to buy.

3: Tiny non-profits generally do not have a great deal of extra man-power to deal with such things, and there's a better chance that this sort of behavior goes unnoticed.

4: When people see weird charges on their card, some people are more likely to feel bad enough taking away money from a non-profit organization that they won't report the abuse, or they may not question it if the card is joint-used.

I'm sorry that I don't have sources on these, the research was from a couple of months ago. It's pretty frustrating and there seems to be little retribution for things. You have to just change your charge flow and move on. :/
Sure! Here is a somewhat recent study on the topic: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811911...

Some of these studies are difficult to interpret without the appropriate background, though, because it's easy to see phrases like "antidepressants decrease resting-state functional connectivity" and assume that decreasing functional connectivity in your brain is necessarily a bad thing. In reality, some types of depression might stem from detrimental alterations in functional connectivity in certain areas that are reversed by anti-depressants.

The most exciting aspect of these types of studies is that researchers are just starting to scratch the surface of being able to tailor antidepressant treatment to different types of depression.

This study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21205435 for example, found that resting state connectivity in certain areas was correlated with treatment outcome, suggesting that it might be possible to actually measure some of these things and prescribe medications that have a higher chance of working in a given patient.

Very exciting stuff!
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This is what I use to get my point across.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
Please read what I wrote again. I specifically mentioned a large data set.
"unhackable"? After reading "How to Write Unmaintainable Code" [1] earlier, I expected to find some kernel code implementing all those valuable principles, not an article about a kernel proven secure against any attack :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237636
Or how about the drawbacks of being Jewish? According to the FBI (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/topic-...
"Of the 1,223 victims of anti-religious hate crimes:
60.3 percent were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders’ anti-Jewish bias."

Perhaps Jews do so well because Judaism teaches critical thinking and education as a philosophy, whereas Christianity teaches obedience and the power of wishful thinking. Only one of these schools of thoughts helps you in the real world.
I think the point GP is trying to make is that durable goods can easily trounce recyclables in terms of utility/resources, no matter how efficient your recycling is.
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If the moon were only one pixel: a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system ~ http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h... [Edit: Best viewed on a PC, I think. I don't know if this will work on a phone/tablet.]
You can ask your payment processor and they will say their prices will stay the same.

Check this response from paypal: PayPal told us that the “European Union’s regulation of Multilateral Interchange Fees (MIF) does not apply to PayPal as we are not an inter-bank card scheme and the fees PayPal charges businesses are not interchange fees”.
http://tamebay.com/2015/03/new-eu-caps-on-credit-and-debit-c...
The NY Judge defined it as a currency so they could adequately prosecute someone using bitcoin in a ponzi scheme.

If the law redefined ponzi scheme to use something other than a currency, it might be defined differently.
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Maybe be need a way of tells apps / devices / applications that I am trying do something exceptional so please show me the advanced menu. Perhaps a special "expert" icon is always visible or a convention like clicking in the bottom-left corner.
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It is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone#Health_effects
More like a Rogue CEO and Board. Decisions of this magnitude going over so many years likely were made by the people at the top.

Recall that VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech resigned earlier this year http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/25/uk-volkswagen-ceo-c...

The board was quoted: "The members of the steering committee came to a consensus that, in the light of the past weeks, the mutual trust necessary for successful cooperation was no longer there"

What likely happened was that the EPA filed suit against VW in April, and in uncovering the evidence needed to support the suit, VW chair Ferdinand knew that he needed to go in order to let VW continue to be a company. Or, Ferdinand could have been the ethical one and blew the whistle.

Either way, let out the stink. Corporations aren't nearly the kind of flawless entities you think they are.
Ozone is a respiratory irritant when it's at low altitude, so pumping out ozone isn't a great way to help the ozone hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone#Ozone_air_pollution
Lesson: Microsoft is willing to improve their proprietary offerings using leveraging free software others built. This is the main reason for FOSS uptake everywhere and makes great business sense for them. They also make a killing in patent royalties on the Android ecosystem. If anything, Nadella is focusing Microsoft more on the dollar than prior politics.

It's the same Microsoft, though, far as I can tell with many of the same tricks. All the spyware and schemes in their recent products confirms that. They shouldn't be trusted. People need to move away from their tech wherever possible. Except maybe the stuff like this that's built on tech someone can inspect, fork and/or clone.
Phoenix web framework example applications
Inspired by sails101 (https://github.com/sails101), we decided to create a GitHub organization for example apps in Elixir based Phoenix framwork. Here is the link to that:

https://github.com/phoenix-examples

It would be great if we get more people to contribute to it. This will help newbies to understand and explore the framework more. Also, please let us know your thoughts on this.
Don't the emissions systems affect performance? I have a 2012 Golf TDI and really like it, one of the advantages over one of the hybrids is that I get pretty great fuel economy for the kind of driving I do, but it doesn't feel like I'm driving a weed eater.

This really pisses me off. It doesn't surprise me I guess but it never occurred to me that a car manufacturer could get away with something like this for, apparently, 6 model years.
"If you ask any website without a paywall, they will almost ALL tell you their content is free. "

Come on. No they don't, vlucas. They say "welcome, enjoy, support our sponsors." They do not say "it's free; do whatever you want with our content now that the packets have been transferred."
There is an open PR to this project to document an HA control plane. Basically, you add the kube-podmaster onto each master machine, which does a leader election for the API, controller manager, etc so that only one instance is mutating the cluster. If that does down, another leader election happens.
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Reducing emissions usually comes at the expense of worse power or fuel economy.

By only reducing emissions during testing, they can demonstrate better engine power and fuel efficiency while also claiming to meet the emissions requirements.
I can do the same, and I'm an extremely irregular coffee drinker. A lot of people in a lot of cultures regularly have coffee after dinner to aid digestion. I think whether you stay up or not after coffee drinking is largely a matter of expectation: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2010/7051.html "Coffee consumption unrelated to alertness" [2010]

sample size: 379

People just think that they're better reporters of their own conscious experience than they are.
NOx emissions are tricky. They're created by high temperatures (the reaction is endothermic).

Conversely, the hotter the engine runs the more efficient it is. To a first approximation NOx is inversely related to CO2 emissions and l/km.
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There's gotta be the beginnings of a trashy reality TV show in here somewhere.

The thing I recognized from this though is that hackathon based startups can feel awkward, you have 6 people in the team, all supposedly equal splits in case you take the product forward but completely unbalanced contributions.. can go sour quite easily.
The public attitude in Colombia towards credit cards is very similar.
There is too much crappy content (including this comment) on the web anyway. If the websites can't find another revenue stream .... too bad. I won't miss them.
No, you're right. Multi-node support is on the roadmap, but no ETA yet. Until that's implemented I can't seriously consider it for production.

I love the concept, though. One unified layered for all your services.
It isn't necessary to "own" a growth market to be successful but having said that, don't discount Office 365 which has already usurped Google's similar offering by all accounts.
Github sucks at code search. Have you heard of OpenGrok?
Is the name a deliberate attempt to sound like "penis"? I'm asking because it reminds me of the first NES emulator I ever used, which went by the name of NESticle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle
Who paid for the ship to sail for 30 hours?
Fastspring has a fraud protection system in place. Strip has not and does not prioritise it according to this quora comment by one of its co-founder. https://www.quora.com/How-will-Stripe-overcome-the-huge-loss...

Fraudulent chargebacks is bad, both economical and psychological. As an online seller it is part of life, but you want to keep it to a minimum, say < 1% of all transactions. I wholeheartedly support the sentiment of the OP, do not use Stripe nor do this in-house. Instead, use a payment provider with a proven fraud protection system, such as PayPal.
Exactly. It gets the modularity and some fault isolation without the vastly-reduced attack surface of kernel mode. ;)