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For the opposing view see Street Fighting Mathematics which encourages not only using tricks but using them well and often.

The problem is if you only learn the trick without the reasoning behind it. The solution isn't to not learn the trick, it's to learn why it works.

I think it's a disservice to kids who will go into science and engineering if they've never been allowed to use heuristics before. Too often you learn a long-form solution method and then the "trick" to solve it quickly and you need to be able to do both.

https://www.edx.org/course/street-fighting-math-mitx-6-sfmx
No, I'm saying that it is just speculation that they will be fined for the 11 million vehicles.
What's wrong with the suggestion of Ada or ATS-Lang? Lisp was used on space missions. Relatively new to the whole karma, upvote and downvote on HN. I would like a rational reason on why this was downvoted to better understand what was off about my reply.
I just learned (thanks to James Arlen who commented directly under the blogpost), that Flow B was really useful when ATMs first showed up in the mid-80s, because people mostly made more than one transaction. They quite often made deposits and a withdrawal within one process and for each action the machine had to read the card. Therefore, it made sense that the machine kept the card till the moment when every single action was finished.
But this isn’t a common pattern any longer and the flow should change in a way that makes more sense nowadays.
Totally depends but in the majority of cases I see no issues. Why do you assume they are up to cause trouble? I used throw-away mails hundreds of times and the only thing I usually did was inflate their user table with another single time visitor.
Right, but "plain text" is just a one dimensional stream of symbols. A mathematical formula is a two dimensional arrangement of symbols - there's a degree of additional complexity there which moves it from 'text' closer to 'diagram'.

A scatter plot is just abstract symbols creating meaning, too - but it's clearly not just text.
That was not willful deception, along the lines of "we have the best ignition system in the world!" and people bought those cars because of specific features that were fraudulently and willfully marketed as such.
How many more people will now get cancer due to the carcinogens released by a 40x increase in pollution from VW cars? It's out there to affect all of us now, thanks VW!
I'm busy with other projects, so I won't do it. But that's trivial. It would be a good practical learning opportunity if you're trying to learn about IP protocol and packet handling. Just use raw sockets on Linux, get data, and send responses.

Alternatively you could use multiple IP addresses on same host, then you don't need to fake packets and can traditionally listen on ping on every IP. But that takes it to bit higher level and it isn't so fun anymore.

Or you can set your computer to listen in on routed traffic, if you got router which will route subnet to your 'software' router. There are multiple ways to do it.

Of course using two hardware routers is also ok, if you want to learn about configuring those. Different goal, different means.

All of these means still require you to be able to control that subnet and set required reverse DNS information or run your own AS and rDNS.
They definitely did it with the Garmin Connect team. Used to be Motion Based, then acquired, then told to move, then quit. Garmin Connect stagnated for about three or four years after that, with no new features, Strava took off, and now Garmin has to integrate Strava.
What startups have won Nobel Prizes for their innovation? Or contributed materially to our fundamental knowledge of science? I can't think of any but Bell Labs, IBM Research and similar have. If there are some out there it would be great to read about them.
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Good call, this is an excelent community with some hearthbreaking stories. There is also a whole network of subreddits on the topic, some very active (lower right sidebar).
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I was under the impression the opposite was the controversial idea.
Sounds interesting. Maybe, just maybe, we could connect our projects in a distant future? I haven't planned to go into sound alteration too much and focus on the simplicity of the tools and mapping.

Thanks! If you have any further feedback, I'd really like to hear it: me@akrasia.me :)
For my part I tend to be much more offended by comments that are deliberate and still manage to be vicious than I am about someone making rants that are easy to realise are not made with sound mind.

If what you had written was a brief warning about his rants, then that would have been fair enough. But what you wrote was not a warning.
By saying CDOs I meant their ratings. And while, as always, nothing can be proven on Wall Street, you won't tell me that giving mortgages to unemployed people and then selling it as CDOs (or even CDOs squared!) is good.
Yeah, wasting a /27 like this obviously accelerated the depletion by years.
Well you're responding to a different person, and my font rendering is fine (and I would fix it if it weren't). I'm just pointing out that if a lot of people are having problems reading a site for whatever reason, the site should probably be doing more testing on different configurations, and not be doing such fancy things with font weights. Another common complaint I have is sites using gray text on darker gray backgrounds, which can turn into an unreadable mess on lower contrast or lower brightness displays (like a mobile phone with the screen brightness set lower to save battery).

And FWIW, I'm on a stock MBP, and I just revisited this site and disabled the font-weight: 300 rule on the body text, and everything became a lot more readable for me (if less "stylish"). I think the site might simply need a slight design tweak for readability.
I have little experience with hardware but I've often wondered about this. Chip manufacturers seem to be trying to fit more and more into an amount of space that continues to shrink. Why not stay at, say, 1x1" and fill that space out? I'm sure there's a good reason why not, heat or density of the connections or somesuch. I'd love a more thorough explanation however, if anyone knows.
We need some sort of advanced autocompletion where a dictionary is used when creating variable names, for example. This would be helpful if we ever want to be able to program on tablets. It'll probably never be as fast as with a keyboard but it might be useful when taking a bus or subway.
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Tourette's isn't the same as coprolalia.
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It's disappointing that a long article talking about economic class race and gifted children completely ignored Asian kids just days after another mathematical breakthrough from Terrence Tao was reported. (An Erdos problem people and more recently machines have been unsuccessfully attacking since the 1930s) http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whizz-solves-a-master-s-rid...

How many kids like he was simply have their curiosity crushed in today's schools? For that matter it's hard to say how much flexibility public schools would have shown him even a couple of decades ago if he'd been growing up in the US instead of Australia.
Because they want to fit as many dies as possible onto a wafer. The cost for lithography is largely per waver, so if they can cut more chips from a single waver, that is, if their chips are smaller, they can increase their profit per wafer.
Of course this is a user flow that happens as well. But I think way more often people are really focused on holding the money in their hands.
And how is it you know that? The comment on its own does not provide enough information to jump to that conclusion.
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> Most mathematicians will never even have heard of git.

Like teenagers who want to listen to their music for nothing, they would learn overnight.
The mainstream nature of diesel in EU makes the problem worse; dirty diesel kills many people each year (about 9,000 in London alone) so VW have killed (and contributed to the deaths of) many people over the years this fraud has happened. This has cost the various health services billions of Euro.
10 years? It has already happened. Consumer chips haven't gotten much better in a decade. Most gains have been applied to power efficiency for mobile use. An unfortunate side effect is the that chip makers are learning that they can milk money for smaller improvements. I doubt we will ever return to the old <2yr Moore's law.

On the upside we might get lucky and some new innovations will come along an give us a quick bump. Tech like optical interconnects, 3D chip manufacturing, memristors, etc.
Free speech is just that FREE even if others consider what a individual says distasteful.If it wasn't for FREE Speech there would have been no civil rights movement.

David Finkelhor, a sociologist who directs the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, sees the moral weight of the law , but not the empirical proof. “The evidence doesn’t yet tell us to what extent the experience of being a pornography victim aggravates the experience of the sexual abuse itself. How do you separate it out?”. What the law says is equivalent to aying voodoo is real. No one has to actually commit a crime they just have a look at an image or have a thought and they are guilty of the crime. A person that observes a digital image that has no form or life then through osmosis gives those images or objects a legal force, a power, is practicing voo-doo. To make things easy judges have allowed government prosecutors use of those unseen images in a computer file that have nor hold no power to communicate in the courtroom. Before long, the people are ensnared by the compulsion to give power to a thing of their own definition.
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The best bit is https://signed.bad.horse/ . Take a look at the certificate hierarchy...
>tl;dr: choose your battles; work hard; kiss ass. Doesn't feel very non-conformist to me.

It's the Horatio Alger school of non-conformism...
Indeed. Production grade WebDAW's are far away. Maybe the DRM-crap catches up (lets hope not) and they could protect their algorithms.
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> Sure, but that's only because the rest of us are being nice frequently enough that your statement is true.

No, playing cooperate bot and being nice to everybody all the time really is a losing strategy and many social games really are zero or negative sum. This has absolutely nothing to do with how often other people are nice. They are facts about the world not moral judgments.

> If everyone decided to start “gaming” social interactions, i'm not sure we'd be left with a society i would want to live in...

Probably not but it would at least have the virtue of honesty. Your preferences are a fact about you, not deep statements about reality. The universe does not care and your descendants 200 years hence will be as different from you as you are from your ancestors in 1815. If we're around that long, we'll all be monsters to some. Morality is mostly, perhaps entirely fashion and economics.

> Part of the social contract, i think, involves not emphasising what chumps everyone is for following it. For pragmatic reasons.

The social contract is a very, very misleading metaphor. The world of zero and negative sum social games is the one we actually live in. All human progress has come from expanding the domain of the positive sum games but the other kinds will never go away. The universe is limited and our desires are not.

If you want a treatment of what a world based on this very cynical truth would look like I recommend beginning here.

http://bactra.org/reviews/cassini-division/true-knowledge.ht...

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/05/19/ken-macleod-seminar-2/

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/05/15/rationalism-and-the-true...
Seconded. Fantastic piece.
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The word that comes to mind is "self-congratulatory".
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I got the 11 million number from the VW statement: "In its new statement, VW gave more details, admitting that "discrepancies" related to vehicles with Type EA 189 engines and involved some 11 million vehicles worldwide." (http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/volkswagen-11-million-...)

$5k fine/devaluation per car is potentially an underestimation as well, we simply don't know, I used that as a ceiling for the entire value of the company, which at a cursory pass, doesn't seem unreasonable.
Appreciate your thoughts. A few comments:

- I have thought about destroying / recycling the car. I am not sure this would be the most meaningful action. At this point, I simply want to go to the seller and return a product that is not as advertised.

- I certainly agree that there are some intermediary steps that need to be taken with the existing pipeline. I simply wanted to express that the future has to be about batteries & software, and radically so given the current scandal.

- Adding a TLDR to the article now.
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If this is using a pair of low-end Cisco routers (as previous implementations did), it really doesn't take too many people doing this at once to "overload" them. Generating the responses is handled by the CPU (not the ASICs) and the processor in these devices is extremely underpowered, relative to, well, pretty much anything else with a processor in it. The processor in a Cisco 1841, for example, is an m68k at 250 MHz, if memory serves.

Besides, I'm sure this was probably just something thrown together quickly for a good laugh and the responsible party likely didn't feel it was necessary to make this a highly available, fault-tolerant, geographically replicated service.
GM's deliberate cover up of of faulty ignition modules which resulted in dozens of deaths. (The mistake wasn't deliberate, but the systematic sweeping under the rug and ignoring the known issue definitely was)

That and banks get away with worse all the time, even ignoring 2008 which is hard to pin on a single actor. You have LIBOR scandals, HSBC violating sanctions with Iran - clear deliberate legal violations that result in fines and maybe some new regs but that's it. If you extend the criteria into gross negligence there are tons of horrible examples - BP spilling a gazillion barrels of crude into the gulf. Executives are forced to pull the golden ripcord a little early. The companies keep ticking.
Most popular used apps/platforms nowadays are not related to hardware (Facebook, Twitter, Medium). Chances are, your product isn’t too.

The only thing annoying me in mobile browser experience is the UI. For example, Safari on iOS. Let’s hide URL bar and get rid of back/forwards buttons in favour of using gestures 100%. Then, most of websites will be perceived as apps for majority of users anyway.

By moving to native we officially obey corporations to control our products and it’s surely not the way to go.
Original as in "yours", not as in "unique".

And it's important if you believe that living your life as a non-questioning-anything person that automatically follows what everybody else does and doesn't explore other avenues is not the optimal way to live it.

If you don't believe that, then it doesn't matter how original an idea is. Heck, in that case, as long as you're OK with it, then doesn't even matter if you're living in some religious sect, conditioned by some BS-artist leader to do whatever he wants.

Originallity is something for us people who believe that finding the "real you" etc is worth it to worry about. If this sounds circular it's because it is. Ultimately lifestyle choices come to a value judgement not dependent upon other things.
This is true, but please, please don't make the mistake of confusing 'text' with 'ascii'.

For example, yes, text is searchable - but remember that different human languages consider different symbols as 'equivalent' for search and so you need to take care matching the searched string to the text.

And while humans can readily encode information into text, extracting that meaning again unambiguously enough for a computer to use is hard. Parsing is one of the foundational techniques in computer science, and natural language processing is still on the frontiers of development. Meanwhile, we're still dealing with Excel spreadsheets that pop up a red flag and ask a human for help whenever they see what looks like a number stored as text.

So yes, bet on text, but don't assume that because text is fundamental that it is simple.
Non-conformists are conditioned and they go with the flow and buy pre-packaged lifestyle good. They just buy from different providers.
>Ironic that every author pic on that site seems to show at least a dress shirt, and commonly a suit. (I'm sure it looks nice, but such clothing undeniably is used to signal conformity, and these authors conform to a dress code.)

In this day and age you're actually a non-conformist in most situations if you wear a suit.

Especially as everyone else, even the President often, wears some casual clothes to look non-conformist.
(I am not living in the US and never heard Nashville.) When I read this title, I thought Lyft is moving customer support team to India. OK, now I know Nashville is the state capital of Tennessee. :-)
Wow, that sounds like a complete UX disaster!!!
In Germany we also have machines where you can’t get cash, but each machine usually has a sign that tells you what you can do with it and they also have different keyboards.
Exactly my thoughts. I wish VW had had the balls to use this to lead a discussion about lowering the cost of SCR on vehicles.

That and the complete lack of regulation of particulate emissions on the supposed alternative GDI engines really galls me as a 2014 Jetta TDI owner
Slack really doesn't cut it for team building and building camaraderie. Where I work we're fully remote and the difference between Slack and actually getting together in a beach house for a week and collaborating is not at all comparable for the boost of morale.
Are gallium based chips completely non-viable or something? I thought they were the next big thing in chip materials that would let us get past the Moore's law restrictions in silicon?
By 2045 we won't have figured out a way to have autonomous cars? If we can't solve the problem by then I'd guess that we'll make the problem easier to solve by adding smart roads.
I made no claims to good or bad, of course the crash wasn't good, but the chain of proof isn't there for the financial crisis in the same way. I'm simply talking about provable fraud that needed to take place up the chain at VW, which, when you're talking about an engineered machine with clear trails of who's done what and multiple decision points over iterations of industrial components, it's much easier to follow to the source and prosecute accordingly.
Here's how that might happen: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-b...
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By design, the LMP1 rules permit a diverse range of solutions. Porsche run a turbocharged V4 petrol engine, Audi use a turbocharged V6 diesel, Toyota a naturally aspirated petrol V8. Audi's hybrid system has half the energy capacity of Porsche's. Teams running a large hybrid system are penalised with a lower fuel rate limit and vice-versa.

The technical regulations are significant in any racing formula, but the LMP1 rules are carefully balanced to prevent the dominance of any one technological approach. Diesel engines have been significantly gimped in recent years to curtail the dominance of Audi.
I never claimed it was.
One of my pet peeves are the sites like LinkedIn and scribd that push you hard to install a c-rap. If at all possible I prefer to browse desktop sites on my tablet father than mobile sites that assume I have sold my firstborn son to Verizon in exchange for the right to breath through a straw in places where Verizon feels like providing service.
A reflash won't be the end of it - if they don't retrofit SCR (and modify the EGR system for increased usage) they are going to have every owner of a detuned car suing them.
It comes down to space. Cars occupy way more space per passenger than trains do. A fully loaded subway train can easily carry almost thousand people. The 7000 series in the DC Metro carries ~175 people per car maximum, and the trains are 8 cars long, for 1400 people per train. Normally, 26 trains per hour are scheduled during rush hour, allowing up to 36,000 people per hour if all trains were 8 cars long (they currently aren't due to power constraints). Other systems that have longer trains, better headways, and better seat configurations have way higher capacities. New York for instance could achieve much greater capacity given its longer trains and a modern signalling system.

By contrast, a road lane (which uses the same space) currently typically carries around 1000-2000 cars per hour. In ideal circumstances it can be almost 5000 cars per hour. Even assuming quadruple capacity from self driving cars (not realistic), 20,000 cars per hour in ideal circumstances would compete with trains at a far higher environmental cost.

But in more realistic scenarios with quadruple capacity, 4000-8000 cars per hour would fall way short of a train. Given that we have to account for pedestrians, cyclists, etc., I can easily see traffic lights continuing to exist, making self driving cars not achieve the miracles people expect.
I don't use my phone in social engagements except for rare circumstances, and it's liberating. There's so much joy and beauty that can come from engaging with other people, and it's ashame people remiss this.

Also, going on your phone disrupts the "flow" or the "way". It's like, trying to pause earth, send a text, and it still pick up right where you left off. You can't do it. And you miss all the experiences that just came and went, including those that could have helped other people. When you finally pickup your head again, you're suddenly on a different wavelength than the rest of the world.

It's also disrespectful looking at your phone in social engagements (I sound like an old person, but I'm not.) Looking at your phones usually means one of two things 1) What's on my phone is more important than talking with you, or 2) I'm bored; you're not entertaining enough. My reply to #2 YOU'RE not entertaining enough. Yet here I am, praying for you while you're on facebook.
I wonder if any hedge funds cashed in on last weeks 30% drop in VW stock as a result of this information being available for the last year and a half.
I think this would be more usable if the lists weren't hard-coded into the functions. Passing JSON as a parameter would be possible for any language worth using, no "templates" necessary. Requiring Node.js to rebuild an array inside a PHP function seems kind of weird.

Also, list.json doesn't appear to be a valid json file since it uses comments.

I'm not going to comment on whether or not I think it's useful.
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What should happen, is that the claimants should tally up the damages and if it is greater than cash on hand, Volkswagen should issue shares to make up the difference. If that does not make up the difference, then the claimants should get a pro-rata portion of the company stock and all original share holders should lose their shares.

The reason for this is simple: the idea of a corporation is to shield investors from personal liability - NOT - to shield them from loss due to fraud.

What will actually happen is that the German government will meet with their trading partners around the world and pressure them into limiting the damage in order to protect German interests / pension funds.
That and smaller geometries tend(ed) to get faster (the electrons have to travel smaller distances) and consume less power to boost. Win win win.

This is why Intel used to beat out much better processor architectures simply by having enough money to always be at least 1 fab generation ahead.
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