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Air pollution kills people. Especially poor people who can't afford health care and can't afford to move to places where four thousand cars an hour pass under their window, day in, day out.
> 1. Only affects stock Android 5.x <= 5.1.1
Probably because the observation is accurate but it's mixed in with snark like "conspicuously consuming smartphones." Component systems were certainly modular although I honestly don't know if I were starting over today I'd go with a big multi-speaker stereo system over something like a Sonos.
A better apology would be one where he also promised that all of VW's vehicles will be fully electric within 10 years, just like BMW did (well, with gas-powered range extenders but close enough, I guess).
Honestly it looks like all they have to do is enable full emission-control all the time, so a quick software update should have all the cars back on the road right? Clearly the cars can pass EPA emissions requirements.
Theorem: "X is sometimes the right tool for the job" is true for all X.

Now could we maybe explain what jobs we're talking about and why it's the right tool for them?
probably. always remember, on internet, the product is you.

this is but another social experiment/AB test/growth hacking thing (and I'm giving them already valuable data just by posting here).
David Cameron pig scandal was predicted in Black Mirror
Just select your brand based on their ability to update phones for a couple of years past purchase. Nexus phones are kept up to date. Motorolla too. LG seems to be on that track, but History will tell. Samsung also pledged to update for two years.
He's apologising for being caught.
Show HN: A totally legit website
It's only a tool in this case, yes.
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If it perceived unfairness I'd imagine that VW would lobby the German government.

And it turns out, amazingly often, that the EU discovers that what's in Germany's interest is in its interest too!

We could end up with the EU crying foul and threatening retaliation against American companies here.
The trouble with this... is that the functionality behind ad service (iframes, remote content, etc) is very functionally useful... as is/was being able to open a window. It's simply abused.

If iframes were limited to 1 layer deep in the browsers that would change a lot, as ad networks wouldn't be able to cross-bounce for 10+ layers if iframes each with their tracking and behavior scripts (poorly written) running in the browser, and throwing up errors all over my console output.

For that matter, It's not unreasonable to serve ads from the origin domain... it is very easy to do, and can cover some interesting models with advertising... integration can come in other ways, as could server-side integration methods. There are better ways to serve ads... the "liquidity" mentioned in another post is generally of poor and dubious quality.
The notion that the US protects its car industry is totally uncontroversial, for one.

The notion it may increase the fine to help do so, slightly above and beyond what they're fully justified to fine, is not a stretch of imagination.

It's controversial and not to be assumed that they would hike the fine out of protectionism, but it's a possibility that is way more likely and a much less far fetched than someone claiming last month that VW may be scamming the emissions system in the US to improve their sales, which would be met with tinfoil comments, and guess what just happened.

Not saying it's true but it's far from tinfoil.
What use is air supremacy if you don't use it to provide ground support?
It's interesting how most Nexus devices only have a LMY48M image https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en but the razorg skipped that and has LMY48P (which I flashed yesterday, phew!). Also, the 2012 Nexus 7 is still stuck at LMY47V.
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Looking at past scandals like this it's usually the result of someone promising results that they can't deliver until they are faced with the career-ending choice of admitting their mistakes or committing fraud.
The main historical reason for using sans-serif fonts on displays was the displays' lousy resolution. With modern display technology that reason has mostly disappeared.
I don't read annual reports, but it would be interesting to see next year's paragraph on "good will."
I can say so much: many VW employees in my "vicinity" are baffled, too.
That's an amusing interpretation.
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We also have a worldwide shortage of opiate painkillers for use in surgery, it could have been a lot better to just buy the opium from the growers.
The US system is motivated to overdiagnose cancer.

-----

"We need to be careful when comparing US and UK cancer care"

http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2009/08/17/we-need-t...
Smart money says Avid Life Media has their greasy fingerprints all over it.
There must be more to it than just themes. Sites like Svbtle and Medium rose to prominence pretty quickly and attracted significant numbers of contributors, despite very much trying to build their own brands as a blogging platform with a recognisable style in each case.

Themes definitely help with the target audience WP is going for, particularly now that it's trying to be a CMS and not just a blogging platform. However, it seems likely that being PHP-based, and therefore easy to install on almost any cheap hosting even from many years ago, helps; plenty of hosting services would even provide ready-made WP installations. Being the de facto standard option also helps a lot in terms of building your community and ecosystem, and WP was the dominant blogging platform for almost an eternity in Internet time.
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"I have a great but perhaps hare brained new idea for a drug/treatment. I'm willing to throw my tens of millions (heh) at it."

If your motivation is to make the world a better place, you just publish your idea and if it will indeed be as good as you think it is, things will roll (in the supposed system) by themselves from there on. If your motivation is to get (much) more money than you pour in it when there are lives at stake, then this rises a red flag and should be treated as a public threat.
It's an MVP right now. Yep, will introduce those fixes this week!
Thanks for kind words.
Regulations ARE in place, but until someone goes to jail, these things will keep happening. The cost of fines will be passed on to the shareholders (and ultimately, the customers). Even if the executives get fired, you can be sure they get golden parachutes.

Rinse and repeat.
The same comment appeared regarding Stagefright as well. It has no place on a site like HN, and is just people repeating cheap comments.

http://www.androidcentral.com/list-devices-stagefright-patch...

The vendors and carriers are getting pretty good about this, and the bulk of popular devices get patches surprisingly quickly.
I think it's important to understand this, as when you are interacting with other modules that return promises, you need to know that you can await those, as well as that async functions return promises that can be used as them without being inside another async function.
On screens it tends to be the other way around - serifs for headlines and sans-serif for body text.

Although it'd be great to see some decent research into readability of different fonts.
Did VW have to do this in Europe as well or are their air standards more lax?
I've considered going back to candles, honestly. This stuff is SO out of control.
I really, really doubt it. Take me for example. Mortal Kombat Fatalities were my past time activity, now I feel a bit guilty if I eat beef.
> The basic Linode is $10 per month, and presents a VPS with vastly more capabilities than your basic Bluehost plan.

Which works great if you have an in-house sysadmin to keep those servers in working order. Otherwise, going with managed hosting is much better for a client.
It's great idea! I'll think about it. You want use each sheet as a separate table (like in DB), right?
I have over 50 clients (small business owners) who run WordPress. Many came to us complaining about their old CMS, sometimes even WordPress.

After building their site for ongoing management ...correctly, and tutoring them many were/are thrilled with WP and the content editing process.

The key is implementation and tutoring. Asking a client to manage raw markup, or handing the keys over with no tutoring are recipes for dissatisfaction.
> Most of the 150 objects in the exhibition have never left Russia

The article mentions "the exhibition" but doesn't link to it (at least not currently). Here's more information for anyone interested:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/...
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The US Government had serious trouble reproducing FOGBANK ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK ), and one cause was that even the original chemical engineers didn't fully understand the role of a certain impurity in a material. Is it possible to produce blueprints for a chemical plant that doesn't omit some inherent but important knowledge?
I thought that for the US destroying enemy air defence is the job of cruise missiles?
Just use http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
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I wonder how many people along the chain of command knew about this. It's evident that those at the top knew about it, and obviously those at the very bottom knew about it (as they were the ones fudging the numbers) but how many of the people in between were unaware of what was happening?
But this was not done by one person. How can't someone who was developing that software report such an important issue to Wolfsburg?
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the likes of Martin Shkreli to use their profits to fund new drug R&D. Call me a cynic, but I just don't see that happening.
Hm, so testing for membership in a DAWG is like testing for one in a trie, which involves a lot of pointer chasing?

Couldn't you get the small space requirements with a more cache-friendly structure? What about this solution:

1) Train a huffman code on the dictionary
2) Compress all words with this code
3) Store them concatenated and sorted.
4) On lookup, compress the key and do a binary search

Well I guess he says that a 36 MB dictionary goes down to 1.5 MB. That's pretty good. I'd guess that with a good huffman encoder you could probably get it down to 3.6 MB (10%), so maybe they are still doing better in terms of size.

I guess for some applications like games you don't really care too much about lookup speed.
The US government currently spends more per capita on healthcare costs than Britain, France, or Canada.
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I agree that it's strange that someone would feel unsafe over something that's obviously a joke, but there's a decent chance said person could go to the media about that and turn it into yet another culturally insensitive tech industry thing. Better to be safe and leave a few college kids pissed off.
this is literally in the story. Dividends coming within a year or two.
What's the last thing you bought that was manufactured by government. If you think prices are high now, then go look at prices of non subsidized government manufactured products. I think you will change your mind.
> every computer thing that has ever been invented is trivially interoperable with every other computer thing that has ever been invented

Isn't this what Perl is for? To my eyes it fits the incantations part of the description as well.
I had issues with newsbeuter retrieving your feed with Tor.

Regardless, CloudFlare shows such disregard and contempt for privacy and anonymity that I'm not comfortable using services that use CloudFlare (Hacker News excepted!).
That is what I meant. I wanted to point out that sqrt is more expensive compared to squared and you could just square the whole thing without affecting the results too much.

cos(theta) and cos^2(theta) are pretty close and monotonous between 0 and pi/2:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cos%28theta%29+vs+cos%2...
Cool. I used https://github.com/jlord/sheetsee for a little thing. These things can be very handy.
Really? I've heard those rumors (that many car makers build cars that try to detect whether they are tested) years ago. The reasoning back then was that hybrid cars could cheat the results, by completely emptying their batteries during the 20 minute test...

[Edit: Clarifications after reading the replies]
When I started to play around with Node and learning about NoSQL, this was the first thing I thought of. I knew this was going to happen.
Yeah, I was gonna say. In addition to making it hard to detect it also makes the channel robust to some kinds of noise and fading. See Chirp Spread Spectrum for example http://nanotron.com/EN/CO_techn-css.php
Anything going that route will lack FDA approval/indications/contraindications, a Medicare baseline price, and insurance companies willing to pay for it. This makes the average hospital less willing to lean in the direction of self-importation.

Granted, this is import restrictions notwithstanding. Some substances can't even be brought across the border except under penalty of imprisonment for smuggling in a controlled substance. There are often no permits that one can acquire, which means that the drugs must be manufactured in the US.
"""[...] but insufficient evidence exists about whether the link extends to criminal violence or delinquency [...]"""
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>The error in your thinking is that curing a patient results in less money than just chronically treating one. Not so!

Come again? Please explain how that works.
Keep in mind: the APA is also the professional psychological organization that signed-off on torture, and gave it a veneer of medical legitimacy.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/07/te...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-ps...
That's the loophole though, the quantities are so small that realistically, no pharmaceutical company has the incentive to make their version of the drug, even at $750 per dose. There are still costs to making a drug that's off-patent, and sometimes the number of patients being treated is only in the double digits. Additionally, a competing drug released at say, $500 per dose would still be considered predatory anyway. This is really the backwater of pharma.

The case of KV Pharmaceuticals that I cited was a little different since compounding labs had already been making the drug Makena. In that case, the FDA actually sent these labs a letter essentially saying, "Go ahead and keep making the drug even though KV now has a patent for it. We are choosing to not enforce their patent because their price increase was bs."

Maybe the government can prove its worth and get off its ass and quickly figure out how to close this loophole, then go after Martin and others like him.
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Ah, I did not know that. Thanks!
I'm not so sure about your solution, but I agree that this seems like the inevitable result of make "any profit" every quarter.
I despise the "wrong side of internet" argument. It feels pretty childish and I quit reading after your TL;DR.
Neat. Instantly converted my BTC price tracking spreadsheet [1] into an API [2]

1) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUVXmC04KIU5K1Osb_4H...

2) http://sheetsu.com/apis/2aab25c7
Diesel exhaust is known to cause cancer. I have one of these cars in my driveway that they lied about.
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You define it as better healthcare outcomes (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.) at 50% of the cost (UK).

Or, in one extreme case - the same healthcare outcomes at 1/10th of the cost (Cuba).

>In any nationalized system with controlled prices, you will have shortages.

In any system where there is scarcity you will have shortages. Period.
Right, we saw some of bypasses like this lately.

And I believe we'll see more, because we add more and more features to the lock-screens.
So this guy goes on to repeat the cycle on his new employee.

Me personally, I am a fan of the golden handcuffs approach to a limited pool of talent. It allows a company to focus more on critical business efforts and less on internal profits via penny pinching, wasting business cycles on needless spends of time and energy. Optimizing every last dollar, over chasing revenue, is best left to companies that are stagnant or in decline.

The problem is, with that employee that would never ask for a raise, is that once he decides he wants more money, mentally he will already be out of your company. Those are the kind that don't look back. When he looks he will be serious about leaving.
The EU is already going after US Tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Uber etc.
This blog post describes 5 ways to optimize your website or app for social sharing by dynamically manipulating the images you share on Facebook to better match your content and heighten engagement. Sample image manipulation URLs are included, as well as web development code samples.
Sure, this looks like a cool project, but good luck getting a bunch of non tech people to install node on some server. PHP is just too dead easy. What might be a good first step is to create a plugin for wordpress which creates these same rest endpoints and then replacing the frontend entirely (has been done before). Then, allow the backend to be swapped out with wordpress, this, ghost, whatever.
For that, you need careful and assiduous regulation.

Do you have any particular proposal to solve the problem? Saying "regulate!" doesn't help unless you can provide specifics.
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Many people comment that there are nicer string-distance measures.

However the real advantage of cosine distance is that you can perform dimensionality reduction (see e.g. page 38 of [1]).
This allows you to work with very large documents efficiently and fuzzy. It also allows you to create efficient data structures for finding similar strings and much more.

[1]: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs246/slides/04-lsh_theory.pdf
facepalm

The year is 2015. The basic security of basic devices remains more fucked than ever.
It's really shocking to such an anti-technological development comment on site about technological development.

If the federal government had locked down all IT development in the 1980s as you proposing they do for pharmaceuticals, we wouldn't have this forum to comment on, much less the industry it is built around.
I remember seeing a vintage studio recorder at one point; the manual it came with included all of the schematics of the electrics, so that you could make your own replacement parts. That's some future proofing right there - the device's creator (probably Philips) knew they wouldn't last forever, while their device probably would. It did cost a fortune back when though, I have to add.
Microsoft (specifically Power BI) is pretty keen on consuming OData so exposing a Google spreadsheet as OData might be interesting.
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That was seriously my first thought when I saw this news article this morning. I could not believe it. I thought I was reading a new parody site.
In fact there was a minor scandal that senior members of the APA in fact backed CIA rendition / "enhanced interrogation" methods... Hippocratic Oath not withstanding.
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There's a big difference between

"not having a manufacturing process up to standards" and "raising the price insurance companies have to pay".
Test tuning seems to have a long history at VW. The VW subsidiary Porsche tuned the 918 spyder with a battery just large enough to pass fuel consumption test at ~78mpg, or 3l/100km which is ridiculously far from reality.

I am very curious, as to who wrote that patch. Afaik, almost all German manufacturers buy their common rail Diesel motor control units from Bosch. Stuff like pressure adjustment, valve control, or silly 'sports mode' buttons are all designed at Bosch. They ship a modular firmware which the manufacturers customize. Maybe VW were not the only customers of this special 'feature'.
We have shortages in the US. Drugs nobody wants to produce because there's not enough money in it. Artificially produced shortages caused by DEA putzing around with supplies. And now, shortage of affordable Daraprim.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
I'm not a socialist for most things (like tech companies), but stories like this push me farther towards agreeing with nationalizing health care.
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I think this was mentioned a few days ago. had a big discussion around it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10233831
Old Opera 12.17 (last version that still allows specifying a different proxy than the system one, afaics) shows the same page as Firefox. Elinks does as well.
I watched a documentary on this the other night, which seemed to imply that the aggression was caused by the level of challenge, not by the onscreen violence. I think this was the study that was cited.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/study-games-link-to-ag...
When I worked at the now defunct Nortel, I was asked to implement a feature that would allow a large bank to spoof it's telephone numbers in long distance telephone calls. I was told that the feature was necessary to make a $60 million sale.

I looked at the spec and, of course, the change they were requesting was disallowed. Even worse, there was an actual law specifically forbidding running equipment with that ability in the country where the request was being made. I refused to implement it.

The B level manager came to my lowly cubicle (I was still pretty young back then, so didn't actually hobnob with people in that stratosphere often). I was told that it would cause a lot of people a lot of trouble if I didn't do the work. And besides, we weren't running the equipment, so we weren't breaking the law. I refused again.

They never asked me again and I never knew if they found someone else to patch the code without my knowledge. I'm pretty sure they did. But how do you whistle-blow that? They just cut cut everyone who doesn't play ball out of the loop.

I can well imagine something like that happening here. It's pretty easy to find someone with kids, or someone who needs their job for keeping their work visa, or someone who just doesn't care. You can patch it in the load build in most large companies and nobody would ever know the difference.
Puranjay, sorry for off-topic, but your startup idea intrigues me. Let me know if you have a website or something I can look at. Thanks.

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Seems nobody cares about this question: what's the target market?
I can certainly believe there's a link. It seems intuitive that a violent individual would be attracted to violent games. But to go from noticing a link to suggesting more stringent parental controls isn't particularly well thought out.

Owning a Porsche has been linked to improved cancer outcomes, let's give luxury sedans to people battling cancer...
Interestingly enough, trying to open this link from Thunderbird 38.2.0's feed reader does nothing and opening it in Opera 32.0.1948.25 crashes the browser. Hovering over the link in Opera crashes the tab, probably due to some prefetching...