skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Astronomers use the pulsar timing to detect the slowing of orbital motion due to gravitational wave emission.

Correct, at least that's the theory

But that's not evidence of gravitational waves per se, rather an evidence that a spinning binary system will have a velocity decay (and gravitational waves fit the description of what might be happening)

So maybe there's an issue with how we measure it, how it actually affects matter or "it's complicated"/"it doesn't exist"
Thanks, didn't know. So unless he has a few sock accounts, is HUD common knowledge among Unity users and that's why I'm being downvoted, or is it just downvote frenzy?
The other thing is privacy. I don't want to give every service a "full access" into my phone. At least I have a feeling, that my privacy is in better hands, if I access services using up-to-date mobile browser (or Tinfoil for Facebook) instead of a native app running on my phone.

Looking at the ridiculous number of permissions different apps would require to run on my (Android) phone, using mobile site of the most of the services seems safer choice. Android 6.0 may change this with switchable permissions, tho.
It is possible to recognise the creativity his opportunity to focus on doing his own thing has allowed him to express without intending it to downplay the challenges of his mental illness.
> Many of your top executives will go to jail.

So naiive. I would be very very surprised if anyone goes to jail over this. VW is going to take a huge hit but doomed? Puhleeze... companies have survived worse.
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This racist loser is in the depths of madness. Funny how some think this clown implementing basic CS curriculum into a horrid joke of an operating system is impressive, because he became a hermit for 10 years. The entire situation is abhorrent.
Yes, this. Processing fraudulent cards can result in a costly sum of chargebacks for the seller, and a fake email address is a very strong indicator that the person is a fraudster. Other services like Maxmind minFraud consider the email address and many other attributes when ranking the likelihood that the order is coming from a fraudster. It doesn't mean that you have to disallow the order from being saved (or whatever), just that you might want to flag it for manual review before processing the CC to capture payment.
Correction. There is nothing special in "if". IE9 is just different, as you explained.
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But this company is not the one doing the drilling or running the software. They sell hardware and software to the oil industry
There are plenty of services that offer interview prep advice and numerous independent consulting services in feedback. These don't scale and not what I want to do.

I'm doing more research and think there is something to "collective intelligence" or wisdom of the crowd. I'm not going to argue if a crowd is wise or not, but data show that the crowd gets it right within a fraction of the right answer. What I'm proposing is a type of feedback, but one that can scale globally. The crowd should be able to predict closely what a person is like to work with, or so I think. This addresses the extreme cases we've discussed on the thread here. I'm still researching this - can crowds predict with the same accuracy as it is at arriving at an already known answer like how many jelly beans are in a jar etc.

Here is some examples of what I'm talking about:
http://youtu.be/iOucwX7Z1HU
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1406/1406.7563.pdf
http://m.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686.abstract?view=a...
If you read his blog regularly, you'll realize he is an advocate of a variety controversial ideas: open borders, natalism, the educational signalling theory, the idea that how you raise your children (within normal non-abusive bounds) is irrelevant.
The link to the table of contents is broken, here is the proper link:
http://www.nixthetricks.com/Contents.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)#Reaction
So the solution is to hire software engineers, abandon the motor car and build autonomous vehicles.

I may be wrong but I just don't see self driving vehicles being the norm in the next 30 years. If I were VW I wouldn't abandon the traditional motorcar just yet.
The importance of non-conformity is basically zero.

If you enjoy something, does it matter how many or how few feel the same?

Sure, it's nice when you have shared interests with others, but it's doesn't matter if they're not. Your interests do not have to define who you are, do not have to define how you interact with others. Preconceived notions of worth based on popularity will only cloud your view of what's enjoyable to you.
The chance is zero.

Treaties work in a situation where states are happy to stop doing something if they can be reassured that other states will do so too. But this isn't even really about state vs state, it's primarily about state vs non-state actors. The interests of all states are aligned here in not signing any such treaty.
Mavi are pretty good if you're looking for something thicker that won't bust the crotch after a few months of near continuous wear.

Remember: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lag1bXylX00

"You gotta take em off"
But it doesn't mean / 100, it means "per 100"

as described here in "The history of the percent sign"

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2015/03/percent-sign/
american propaganda.
But less of a mess today than it was 17 days ago.
what a bunch of american Fud.
This case could drag the entire automobile industry except Tesla down. It's been widely suspected (but, likely due to corruption, ignored) that emissions and fuel consumption tests are outright manipulated.

Now the regulators have to act in face of the public outrage, and I'm going all in that we're going to have some pretty nasty surprises being uncovered.
Daemonizing processes in OS X
and I thought hacking the diesel engine is coal, I mean, cool:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos...
I don't think it's a totally unique perspective, but perhaps the average smart phone user would use different terms. If you look at apps as always having new updates, and always using up precious phone storage space you begin to feel like these apps are cumbersome. It might not be what they call trust, but it is a negative experience regardless.
Are you saying that there's been clear industrial fraud on this scale before and a company survived this? Care to cite some examples?
Volkswagen will certainly take a hit, but it is not going to collapse - the German government will bail it any time it's necessary. An ordinary German loves and cares about the national car-making industry, and quite rightfully so.
So it's an absolutely inflexible tiling window manager with an on-screen keyboard.
FYI, the common core mathematics standards are largely a backlash to the sorts of tricks this book is complaining about. And a member of the group that coauthored the book (MTBoS) has also published a book that speak favorably about common core.
2008 financial crisis - collateralized debt obligations. Incomparably bigger.
This point is orthogonal to the OP's.
Non conformity is not something you choose as a tool (if you're a thinking adult of course). It's a consequence of your beliefs and reasoning, which you will not give up no matter the benefits.
> export IFS

Be careful exporting a changed IFS. That will inherit into child commands, which can cause unexpected breakage. A better model is to simply set IFS in the bash script (without export) or even better, as a one-off prefix to a command

# leaves IFS set for following commands
IFS=$'\n'
$COMMAND

# only sets IFS for one command
IFS=$'\n' $COMMAND

It is common to see saving/restoring IFS to protect against bugs elsewhere from a non-standard IFS:

oldIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'
# ...stuff...
IFS="$oldIFS"

If you do this, a trap is a better idea to guarantee the restore happens. Better yet, let bash handle that for you automagically by using a local variable.

cmd_with_nonstandard_ifs() {
local IFS='\n'
$COMMAND
}

cmd_with_nonstandard_ifs
# IFS is back to normal here

Also, unless you're using a really ancient version of bash, you shouldn't use backticks for command substitution. Use $() instead.

# backticks need to be escaped when nested
FOO="`basename "\`command_that_outputs_a_path\`"`"

# much easier to read in the modern form
FOO="$(basename "$(command_that_outputs_a_path)")"

The thing is, you probably don't even need mess with IFS - shell globbing handles a lot of these things for you

$ ls -1
a bc
a b c d e
ddd eee
$ for file in * ; do echo "[$file]" ; done
[a bc]
[a b c d e]
[ddd eee]

and arguments be expanded correctly with "$@"

show_args() {
for arg in "$@" ; do
echo "arg that supports spaces: [$arg]"
done
}
show_args "foo bar"

> find | xargs

Of course, this is always a nice option that bypasses the need for bash.

Minor suggestion: "find ." and "find ./" are identical.
Sure, but Smushman's comment isn't doing that. It's naive and ignorant feel-good bullshit.
Sure, I don't think there is one variable that explains everything. There are a multitude of reasons that lead people to decide to use or not to use apps.
This article is really thin and potentially misleading. The pictures only somewhat line up with the text, which leads to the some of the confusion in these comments. I think this article tries to lump everything together, making the issues more murky than they need to be.

What's really going on here:

1. We have aging infrastructure. Old pipes and old plants. This has a fairly straightforward solution. The municipalities and companies that own this infrastructure will need to take on financing to fix and upgrade systems. This is something they can and will do as these things become more of a problem. But it is pretty classic investment, they own and benefit from this investment. Some people will complain, but life will go on.

2. We take clean water for granted and have a number of conflicting economics that have resulted in water quality degradation, largely in the midwest. Farmers want to improve yields, so they fertilize more (and till crops which have higher runoff). This gets into the water, where people with little economic stake in the crop production and municipalities have to pay for dealing with the lower quality water. (Note: NY City, as an example, has taken a very proactive approach to dealing with this by super actively managing the lake watersheds from where they get their water, they own something like 30% of the land in some of their key watersheds). This issue isn't as much population growth as runoff and the modern economics of agriculture.

3. Arid and dry areas like the southwest have a host of completely different challenges. There, a lot of cities have undergone rapid population growth, demanding more water. There is only so much water to go around in those regions and, on top of it all, they are in one of the worst long-term droughts on record (there was one worse drought in the middle ages). They are struggling to keep up with demand. Strong price signals and most importantly, a re-assessment of the volume of water that goes to agriculture in very dry areas (at crazy inexpensive rates) could go a long way to improve this situation. Also, luck of the draw may help if we leave this long-term drought.
You are using a logical fallacy in your argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Should we work towards ending world wide poverty? Yes.

In the meantime, just like Canada added iodine to salt to prevent a whole host of diseases at the turn of the 20th century, so to can we add things like vitamins to very basic foodstuffs for the third world.

> Why not just give these people carrots?

Because that is extremely costly, difficult, and destroys local agriculture and has a host of other negative externalities. Furthermore many people are too proud to take a handout, but selling their farmers better grains is achievable.
I think the better question is: is population growth desirable?

It appears to be one of those things which benefits those who own things for a living at the expense of those who work for a living.

Population growth can't continue forever (not while we're stuck on one planet anyway) so we need to stabilise somewhere. Why not here?
This looks interesting enough that I feel like everyone else must already know all about it. This is the first I've heard of it though.
No mention of getting ivory from Siberian bogs from Mammoths a grey area since it's not from a living animal but it's a terrible loss in an archaeological sense.
> Second, you haven't just duped millions of people into buying a product they would never have bought had they known the truth

This one made me laugh the most. All the potential buyers couldnt care less.
> https://soundation.com/

> https://www.wevideo.com/

They are built with flash, which is NOT what I would call using web techs. The fact that you couldn't tell the difference is interesting. Despite all the flash hate, there are valid use cases for it.
<rant> One year. One friggin year is all those shitty Levi's pants will take before breaking apart. I swear that it's all branding. </rant>

Sorry, but I have given that brand too many a opportunity.
While I share your loathing of racial slurs in general, what do you think of someone with Tourette's Syndrome? They also are unable to control their ticks and outbursts, should they also be condemned for it? Because either way it's out of their control, and condemning them for it (especially publicly like you just did) only exacerbates the situation for them.
If americans cared about their car emissions america would be a different country by now. People trust VW cars for their safety mainly, and this is not a safety issue. Watch for VW sales in the next months. Autonomous cars may be good for countries with good infrastructure, but they would be dangerous for many european cities. In any case, now is a good time to buy VW stocks.
I agree that distribution is a large part of the problem, but there are other problems as well, like perverse incentives (destroying local farm economies by flooding in free food).

Rice is an extremely durable foodstuff and even if it wouldn't be free, it would be much cheaper than the alternatives and it would easily integrate into already existing markets and logistics chains.
where did you see the public outrage?
In fact, there are now 1979 disposable e-mail providers
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Because of the script that destroys email addresses by signing them up for 5000 mailing lists.
I own a TDI myself and this article seems a bit hasty in its logic. I have mixed feelings at present, but the author's feelings don't seem to be well thought out:

> As someone who just recently bought at VW diesel - my first VW ever, and almost certainly my last - I can of course only speak for myself. But everyone I've talked to feels pretty much exactly as I do. And if after some more independent analysis, the numbers come back and they are even close to what we currently read in the press (10-40x more pollutants than advertised), I will sell the car immediately even if it is at an almost total loss.

I agree not to reward Volkswagen's fraudulent behavior, but if everyone is made whole as a result of this saga I am not sure that I have an issue with Volkswagen moving forward. I certainly would not sell my car. The only actions that make sense through the author's lens of wanting to be environmentally conscious would be to fix the emissions or crush it. Selling it appears to just move the problem to someone else.

>There is one, and only one reason why I would consider buying a VW in the future: massively beat Tesla at their game. Abandon all fuel-powered development today and invest every single cent into long-range electric cars, and build the electric charging infrastructure throughout Europe and the US (and the rest of the world). In addition, the development of the self-driving car has to be your top priority. The car of the future has no human driver in it, and of course you know this (anyone at VW who doesn't, let go of them immediately).

The author believes that an entity engaged in a scandal for shady software cheats should engage in making software that once again has the ability to impact people other than their owners in order to make amends for their current software cheat?

I can't say as I agree. I believe the amends that they need to make are:
1) fix the emissions issues in all current and future cars,
2) make the environment whole to the fullest extent possible. I'm not sure what options are available for this, but fines and funding third party research would fit the bill if nothing else,
3) make the owners of the cars whole: If the emissions fix alters the car's attributes negatively I want to be compensated for the delta from the car I actually bought.

> The new CEO, Matthias Müller from Porsche, thinks autonomous vehicles are an unjustifiable hype. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not: the VW board thought that the best person to replace the guy who oversaw the cheating software scandal (or was unaware of it) is a guy who seems to have even less appreciation of the ongoing software revolution.

Finally at the end of the article we get to some actual meat!! That is unfortunate, and would be worth putting at the top of the article and expanding on.
>At a certain scale, it's often a lot easier to build one system that solves all the problems.

I have been wondering, are you familiar with Project Xanadu and Ted Nelson's work in general? Project Xanadu took a "whole cow" approach to building a network centered around publishing documents and linking between them. The stated goals for Urbit and Xanadu seem to overlap [1] enough that Xanadu would be easier to implement on top of Urbit than on top of anything else. It could then be Urbit's superior alternative to the World Wide Web for publishing hypertext documents. Last year I emailed Nelson asking whether he knew about Urbit (secretly hoping he might already be working with or for you) but he replied he didn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rul...
Doomed? Like all other corporations that had been caught on false advertising and frauds?
OP's point as I understand it is "there is no circumstance where you need this, because you're either providing value or you're shit."

My point is that there are legitimate circumstances where you are providing value but in a way that people take advantage of for unrelated fraudulent purposes.
I hadn't heard of the turtle head method before so I searched and found this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcKERTnNi0

What an awful way to teach.
I don't see lots of activity, but interesting groups not found elsewhere with regular liveliness still make me peek at G+ from time to time. It's still a weird and non-successful experiment in the sense of the original goal. A kind of Java.
Fair, I may have got the wrong end of the stick. I often do.
That is indeed fascinating stuff. Hydraulic circuits. Crazy innovative.
Still listing domains I've transferred away (with no help from you).

Never mind, you still have a great name that describes your business to a tee.
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If Elsevier tries to kill arxiv, they'll lose a huge fraction of the academic publishing market.
>What? People don't upgrade to an older phone.

No, but new phones come out all the time that are STILL using older Android versions. I think it will take around 2-3 years for all new Android phones to come with the latest Android.
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Spammers who bother with email based registration sites at all, often take the time to routinely acquire one address from a major free provider and use it everywhere they can't use a throwaway as well as get naive people to send email to it.

For other people who kind of don't trust your site, its future, or its security, but are too lazy to create extra accounts, you are forcing them to do a full evaluation in a way that adds additional weight to the possibility the site is an actual data broker today instead of an existential spam threat.

Personally, if I decided a site was bellow the threshold for my real email on an initial encounter and then I saw it perform this kind of detection, I wouldn't touch the site again.
Government of Guyana hacking proprietary software to use in public office
It looks like it was just released on the 24th.
This is written from a US centric viewpoint by someone who sees VW as a niche brand for environmentally aware people. But we are talking about the largest car manufacturer in the world. In Europe VW is a mainstream car, people buy them because they are economical and well built. I think most people in EU see VW less as an especially "Green" brand so the reputation damage in their home markets might be less severe.

And WV reacted like Lance Armstrong caught with doping: like cycling I'm assuming all the other manufacturers are doing the same. Maybe they were less aggressive or maybe they were just were not as successful with it, therefore they were not caught, yet.
I've always wished for a language that would just let me describe my data logically as a SQL-esque relation, while specifying separately its physical layout (incl. AoS vs. SoA). Tying logical flow to physical storage layout always seemed kinda clunky to me.
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> It's been widely suspected (but, likely due to corruption, ignored) that emissions and fuel consumption tests are outright manipulated.

This is widely discussed here in Germany for some years now, but the government chose not to act. A form of corruption and a fear of loss of jobs -> voters.

When it comes to electric vehicles, I'm not so sure they make that much more sense environmentally: lot's of energy and materials used during production, new large scale infrastructure needed, electricity mostly produced by coal and nuclear power plants, exotic materials used for the battery, etc etc.

Here in Germany the number of electric cars is tiny. We are seeing lots of electric bicycles and public transport is starting to invest in electric busses on a larger scale.

What could have quicker some positive environmental impact and would be relatively simple, would be to have more cars use natural gas, since a lot of cars could be using it.
VW stock plunged 40%, they've set aside billions but that won't be enough for the lawsuits and massive fines that will get levied.
Let's do some math. VW has a $50B cap now. No one is going to buy VW cars for a while, so the bleeding will continue.
With 11 million cars affected and an average price of $20-30k, even a $5k reimbursement or fine or fixes per car that's involved, that's $55B that's gone up in smoke.
Do you think that I, as a VW owner, will be able to get a good car resale value, even after a fix that will likely leave my car less powerful or get worse fuel economy? Those are your only two options.
The amount of willful deception and fraud that needed to take place at all levels of this company's management will make a great study for what not to do for decades to come.
This company is done, the only option is for the German government to step in and bankroll a large bailout package.
In a negotiation like this where you know you're being lowballed, I think it's better to just state your case (including preferred figures) and then walk rather than go back and forth for days on end. If the market rate that people like you and with your level of experience are generally being hired at is higher than the offer, why not walk away and get one of those offers instead?
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