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What would be the effect of the US dictating how it's citizens can use the Euro? The US would be sued in international court and would lose. The only difference is that the international court chooses not to recognize the currency.

No legal recognition is the legal excuse used by imperialists a century and a half ago and is the same excuse used in this case.

Not recognizing legitimacy is no excuse (especially when the primary intention is greed and control).
I don't care about the money, but it's annoying that he wasted my time and some of my credibility (because I recommended the app to some of my friends).
In Africa, Bitpesa is doing a great job of commerce over sms[1]. A third of Kenya's GDP flows through Bitpesa[2]. With people more people having access to a cell phone than proper sanitation[3]; commerce over text will increase faster in the developing world than in the west. It is definitely a trend to keep an eye on.

1. https://www.bitpesa.co/

2. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/31-kenya-gdp-spent-mobile-1759...

3. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/11/18/on-un-...
Unless they're staying the whole month or the period is bracketed by major discontinuities, it isn't clear how that preference is relevant. A round trip is at least two flights. Why should the order of them matter?
Wayback has it http://web.archive.org/web/20020223144052/http://www.hardocp... along with a link to a German site that points out some of the quality loss in the ATI driver. http://alt.3dcenter.org/artikel/2001/10-24_a.php
The NYT is being disingenuous in presenting this as VW detecting the EPA test cycle and doing something to cheat. I think they've confused open loop and closed loop engine operation.

VW's 4-cylinder engines which failed the EPA tests are all turbo engines. Turbo engines run hotter than naturally aspirated engines and so, they produce more NOx, since it's one of the high temperature byproducts. In fact, EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) systems inject exhaust into the intake to lower combustion temperatures and NOx output. All engines do this, turbo or not.

Whatever NOx makes it out of the engine can be catalyzed in the catalytic converter if there is enough O2 for the catalyst. All the engine's intake air and temperature sensors, and pre-cat and post-cat O2 sensors exist to balance the gases coming into the catalytic converter to optimize the catalytic reaction.

When the engine is using all of these sensors to fine tune the amount of air, fuel and EGR to maximize catalyst efficiency, it's running in something called "closed loop" mode. The sensors and inputs work in a closed loop to balance the system. This is what happens when you're cruising on the highway or driving around at relatively fixed throttle.

Give the car a lot of gas, and something else happens. All of a sudden, a LOT more air enters the engine. The sensors can't change reading fast enough (mass air flow sensor, for example) or their readings are now out of the sensor's useful sensitivity band (for O2). The engine code knows that sensor capabilities have been exceeded, and it goes into "open loop" mode. In this mode, rather than using sensor readings, the engine reverts to pre-programmed maps, usually indexed by RPM, throttle position, engine load, and boost level. These maps are designed for relatively clean combustion and engine safety, but they will not generate optimal catalyst input gases, and so, the catalyst efficiency drops off tremendously. Furthermore, performance cars will often burn rich (too much gas for amount of air) in order to prevent engine destroying pre-detonation.

Most of the EPA test cycle will happen in closed loop mode. Most high throttle acceleration or "fun" driving will happen in open loop mode. There's the source of the discrepancy between EPA test cycle and real world driving. VW got caught, but every car does this, as we don't have wide-band, high-rate sensors yet at a price point even close to where it would need to be for consumer cars.

(Next time you see someone racing off from a stop light, in pretty much any car, watch the exhaust pipe, you'll see dark smoke. I guarantee you they're running rich in open loop mode).
> This is not a bad thing.

Which is why cancer is not a good metaphor.
Of course!!

Our Lord and Savior Marco wouldn't do such a thing, How dare he be skeptic of His intentions and motives?

Blessed His name Marco
Some more background (article is in German, use Google Translate):

- The whistleblower sent 50GB emails and screenshots to c't that so-called 'promotors' lured customers into upgrades

- c't / heise.de is Germany's most reputable tech publication / publisher

- After c't reported the fraud Lovoo denies and tries to damage c't's / heise's reputation by writing other major publications (see end of article, update 1) that heise doesn't work properly

- This is really heavy because Lovoo and his CEO Benjamin Bak were partied for many years, they haven't taken any VC money and make 8 digit revs
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Because no one will ever buy a VW again, and so other carmakers will take note.
More feasible might be gait analysis, since they've already got cameras all over every inch of the place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis#Biometric_identi...
I take SSRIs (Lexapro). I find them helpful. But I think they may be safer in a mature, experienced, rational person which, unfortunately, doesn't reflect the reality of a lot of depressed people. I understand what the drug does and react and modify my behavior accordingly.
If it does pronounce that way in your language, it was just coincidence. By the way, NESticle was a great emulator back then. Wroted in assembly and used to run flawless on my 486!
I wouldn't be surprised if they talked about this before he pulled the application, and that none of what you said would happen.
I take it as a point that these probably impact behavior just as much as traditional ads. Let me raise a counter-point though.

These things have already been done for a while. Is there any evidence that banner ads were preventing this sort of advertising from being even more prevalent than it already is? I am skeptical that advertisers are holding back on these avenues -- in fact its pretty obvious that they're heavily into this space already.
Contracts have to be agreed upon by both parties. If you want to have users agree to a ToS and protect your content, you should 401 their requests for your content until that happens. Otherwise fuck off, it's a public request.
If that were true, then we will start a company together and become rich!

1. Create a website with a TOS that states "all webpages are for your personal consumption only, any permanent copies which are used for business purposes (including indexing!) constitute grave harm to us, worth $100 per instance"

2. Make many, many pages on that website which all link to one another, let's have at least say 1000s of them

3. Ensure that they rank well for very obscure terms, terms which have a very short results list

4. Do not avail ourselves of robots.txt

5. Get our website linked to through means which do not make it obvious that we're trying to get it linked to

6. Wait for google to index the website

7. Gather the evidence of the indexing activity via search results

8. File a lawsuit against google for breach of contract re: TOS and collect millions

If what you're saying is true, then this is a literally foolproof plan to become millionaires (or more!).
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Minor nitpick:

"Genes typically persist if they provide some benefit."

Or genes persist if they don't provide some detriment. Evolution is a value maximising process, so it minimises costs of reproduction.
95% of the websites I visit, I've never seen the terms of service. Is it still binding on me?
Right, duplicating every method that allocates also isn't very elegant.

But could Box and containers be polymorphic on an OOM handling trait?

Alternatively, one could imagine an OOM-safe container that returns results, and a convenience wrapper class that unwraps them. That might harm efficient code generation though.
That's not a good analogy. Viewing a web ad is more akin to inviting a traveling salesman into your living room, where he has the opportunity to paw through your unmentionables, steal your valuables, and even burn your house down if not closely monitored and restricted in his activities.
AT&T says malware secretly unlocked hundreds of thousands of phones
> seeing the prices in Germany was my first small culture shock.

It's like being in a third world country. Hey Germans, my babcia in Poland has better mobile internet than you!

> How is that not scandalous to people here is beyond me.

And yet they love to brag how important the privacy is and how they do protect it.
I guess you're right. I prefer single-player games, so I'm mostly unaffected.

But there's less of an incentive to mine data and go whale-hunting when you are paid up a flat fee (whether up front, or regular subscription) by your customers.

Of course, it's all software and can change at any moment.
Can you qualify that with some kind of reasoning?
If it's just published you can't be sure it's the same code that runs in the car. You should be able to compile the code and inject your locally compiled firmware to the ECU if you want to verify that the car engine is doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Harder problem is to find a sequence of turns, where white always wins, from starting position.

Anyway this turn is not legal in chess I learned.
I just started using Blur by Abine, which allows something similar. (Basically, you can fund prepaid cards to use on sites rather than giving out your real card) not an outright endorsement. I haven't used them for long enough to give a definitive answer on if they're good, but it costs $40/year plus $2 for each "masked card".

So far it's worked for me.

I definitely agree no Dev should write their own gateway. There are great ones out there who are developed by people who are paid to do nothing but that.
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Lessons from the ad blocker trenches
Nice writing.

"When you’re young, you want things: work, love, children. When you reach middle age, you want to want things."
Links to discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239987
You can get a refund for your purchase at the link he provided. No harm, no foul.
definitely agree that the developing world is much faster in adopting commerce over text products. I think it's partly due to the high rates of data in India & Africa
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Congressional consent is not required for the National Popular Vote compact under prevailing U.S. Supreme Court rulings. However, because there would undoubtedly be time-consuming litigation about this aspect of the compact, National Popular Vote is working to introduce a bill in Congress for congressional consent.

The U.S. Constitution provides:
"No state shall, without the consent of Congress,… enter into any agreement or compact with another state…."

Although this language may seem straight forward, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, in 1893 and again in 1978, that the Compacts Clause can "not be read literally." In deciding the 1978 case of U.S. Steel Corporation v. Multistate Tax Commission, the Court wrote:
"Read literally, the Compact Clause would require the States to obtain congressional approval before entering into any agreement among themselves, irrespective of form, subject, duration, or interest to the United States.

"The difficulties with such an interpretation were identified by Mr. Justice Field in his opinion for the Court in [the 1893 case] Virginia v. Tennessee. His conclusion [was] that the Clause could not be read literally [and this 1893 conclusion has been] approved in subsequent dicta."

Specifically, the Court's 1893 ruling in Virginia v. Tennessee stated:
"Looking at the clause in which the terms 'compact' or 'agreement' appear, it is evident that the prohibition is directed to the formation of any combination tending to the increase of political power in the states, which may encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States."

The state power involved in the National Popular Vote compact is specified in Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 the U.S. Constitution:
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…."

In the 1892 case of McPherson v. Blacker (146 U.S. 1), the Court wrote:
"The appointment and mode of appointment of electors belong exclusively to the states under the constitution of the United States"

The National Popular Vote compact would not "encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States" because there is simply no federal power -- much less federal supremacy -- in the area of awarding of electoral votes in the first place.
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Dear Apple: I may rob your store
So why wasn't that at least documented?
This is pretty cool. There are some features that it would be great to see. Like auto complete on subreddit names, the "shell" knowing which subreddit you are currently on, so list will actually list the current subreddit's posts. Also the ability to view text threads in the shell
Well the idea would be to get an average or something a "baseline" to filter leaning/talking animatedly/etc. Obviously it's probably not how it's done I'm just speculating. Obviously the coin difference would be something but that is something that can be within the margin of error. You give it a ~4lb window or something and all of that's covered. 10 quarters in a pocket is .12lbs.

Besides all of that, we're talking about within a few hours here not day to day. I just mean to give the person that beginners luck then drive them to keep playing. Obviously the accuracy wouldn't be all that vital but it could save the casino a lot of money if they're keeping track of that kind of stuff even if they only have a 50% accuracy.
For example, this one looks far more interesting.

http://imgur.com/C4pU18l
tl;dr Hume could have been influenced by Buddhism but we don't know, and the search to find out inspired this person to be passionate about something and in the process learned to enjoy life again
list | less should exist.
I think the reason for the downvotes is that there are positive/neutral things that grow without the negative connotations of "cancer."
Should probably get a better title. Sure, it's the name of the blog post, but that's a really ambiguous name.

I suggest "Making an ad blocker myself just doesn't feel good".
I over simplified the Verge story. They said that everybody that currently depends on web ad revenue would either move to Facebook and/or a native app running iAds.

Either way, it's a pretty pessimistic view of the future of the web.
Just because you're okay with the exploitation of information by making access artificially scarce doesn't mean that those who aren't are "entitled".

Since the arrival of the internet, that business model stopped working in the interest of society in general.

We're no longer funding the wider dissemination of information, we're either funding artificially limiting access or being asked to surrender our privacy instead of just money.

This may make perfect business sense, but in my view, societies interests go before business interests.

And yes, I also fear that without an alternative model we're going to have a hard time encouraging the production of that information within the framework of the free market.

But I rather face that challenge than to accept a society where information disappears behind paywalls and our privacy is being demolished by commercial surveillance.

Just because what the public wants is selfish and generally short sighted doesn't mean they're wrong to want it.
"I hate this supposition that everyone should bend over backwards to allow people who make money in a certain way continue making money in that way. Am I the only one thinks that the user's experience should be more important than everything else?"

What's the user experience of an app that dies because it doesn't have the revenue to continue?
>This document is a very early draft. It is inkorrekt, incompleat, and pÂµÃ¸oorly formatted.

It's the little things in life that make it so great.
I'm not sure what point you're making here. I don't see how those two things are connected.
One thing you can do is make the account creation process more difficult, maybe require phone verification, or social auth. It would tie a fixed value to each bad attempt for the fraudster.
I personally don't find Hacker News particularly special. A lot of the conversations on HN are the same one we would have had on Slashdot in the early 2000s, with largely the same audience.
Then come up with something better.
California has a new emissions check system for vehicles 2000 and newer. No tail pipe probe or dyno regardless of the vehicle. Just visual inspection and plug in the OBDII reader. The OBDII reader checks the sensors for proper functioning and checks the ECU to make sure it hasn't been tampered with. Smog tech only really has to do the visual chek. Diesel trucks also get a snap test (step on the accelerator quickly and diesel smoke must dissipate within several seconds).

Vehicles 1999 and older still get the tail pipe probe and dyno portion as well as the OBDII (if they have OBDII).

[0] http://www.bar.ca.gov/Consumer/New_Smog_Check_Test.html

[1] http://www.smogtips.com/new-smog-law-ab-2289.cfm
Confusing it's and its is a minor grammatical error. Generally, making this mistake does nothing to change an expression's meaning.

Responding to criticism by inventing hyperbolic scenarios and punctuating them with questions marks is not a minor grammatical error. It is a rhetorical technique that usually, if not always, signals bad faith.

marincounty may not be a troll, but he sure writes like one. If he wants to be taken more seriously, he'd be well advised to find a style of engagement that hasn't become synonymous with dubious intent.
This is the perfect evening activity. I could have watched it for 5.5 hours.
Actually it would probably be easier to just track your cell phone, and have a profile for each individual phone they've seen. Lots of stores already do that. I strongly suspect casinos do as well, since they have more to gain by doing so.
It's only the diesel models, which are still only a small fraction of the cars being sold today.
The documentation for genode OS framework is a full free book (creative commons)
http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/15.05#Comprehe...
Why go through the trouble of emulating the shell environment instead of just writing this in a shell environment? An actual shell environment for this would actually be somewhat useful, whereas a terminal emulator in the web doing this isn't really that useful.
Could you share what languages you use now, and whether youre happy with the code that you turn out in these languages?
I think SW's stance on contracts is hugely short-sighted.

SW should require that teams sign a (written) contract laying out who owns what at the end of the weekend, and offer several templates to keep the process painless.

You could even just put something into the FAQ saying "if no contract is signed, then all team members acknowledge that each member owns all IP he or she produces, following United States copyright law."

But "don't think about equity and contracts, just code" is exactly the attitude that leads to lawsuits, hurt feelings, and people taking advantage of each other.

Contracts are not a red flag, they are a way to avoid assumptions and assure that everyone gets a fair deal. Avoidance of contracts on the other hand is a massive indicator of either ignorance or bad intentions.
If you're still learning c++, how do you know they're a poor solution?
Some deadlines are unavoidable, but you shouldn't create artificial deadlines and you definitely shouldn't create an artificial deadline for every single micro-task that someone is working on.

Totally. I agree with that 100%.
This feels very authentic. I'm impressed, that's a tough decision to make, especially given there were others involved in the dev.

Reminds me of what happened with Flappy Bird
As cheesy as it sounds... I think its simply the people that hang out here. (Of course the software helps maintain the culture too im sure)
For me, it's the quality of the submissions and comments (which are often better than the articles themselves).

Funny, I remember reading this sentiment exactly in a Slashdot comment, circa 2003.

HN is great because the site (for whatever reason) has been picked up as the place to go for intelligent and knowledgeable individuals to discuss the latest news in tech with each other.

It's also much better than /., though, since HN isn't just about filling in the gaps left by mainstream tech reporting, but also about sharing cool software and ideas.
No, that is a cop out and a rationalization for why you feel you're entitled to stuff for free.
No, the relevant copyright law does not accept a 'handshake deal' to transfer copyright ownership as work for hire. Quoting from http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf :

> A work created by an independent contractor can be a work made for hire only if (a) it falls within one of the nine categories of works listed in part 2 above and (b) there is a written agreement between parties specifying that the work is a work made for hire.
That's not a good idea. If you ban a large auto maker, you might create a shortage of vehicles, driving prices up for consumers. Also, the affected auto maker would surely try to mitigate the damage by cutting costs, closing down factories, firing workers. Dealerships would have to close as well.

In other words, you would cause a lot of collateral damage instead of taking it directly from shareholders via a large fine.
> If the EPA makes them reflash my ECU and as a result my fuel consumption goes up noticeably I'm going to expect them to buy the car back.

Good luck with that.
I almost always see "agile" and "scrum" used interchangeably out in the wild, including my workplace. Because I kept complaining about that many people at work seem to be saying "agile scrum" now but it makes me feel like RMS insisting on GNU/Linux.
I don't see any flaw in the analogy.
>"Because nobody can tell which idea is a good one.

Maybe because none of them are?

Again, you're assuming that these are all "great ideas", that just can't be discovered. I'm claiming the opposite. Go grab an app at random. I'll bet you it's an attractive, functional app that's utterly pointless. Thousands of people have executed their terrible ideas.

>you have to convince Engineers your idea is good

Exactly. The idea is important. As is the execution.

>That leaves the ideas, which are a dime a dozen. Clear?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. So are technical people. Good ideas are not, just as good technical people are not.

If I were starting a business, I'd take a great idea and random technical people over great technical people and a completely random idea.
So you have a service you're offering, I sign up and pay your small fee, and then share my login details with thousands of others, making you lose money.

In the same sense as all the arguments against ads. You're not stealing anything. No you're not. But you're wasting resources that the owner has to pay for.
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Marginal cost is irrelevant. Someone had to create the original thing in the first place.
> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack.

The solution is simple: Wait for everyone to replace MySQL with its non-Oracle clone, MariaDB. See? Easy!

Or maybe they'll go the NoSQL route and use MongoDB.
As much as we might want him to be, Donald Trump is not an astronomical object.