skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other sources I've seen specifically said ANY time a vehicle was tested, this did not show up.

Tests are typically done on a dynomometer. One easy solution would be trigger the clean mode when the front (driven) wheels are spinning but the rears are not.
I'm curious as to why you didn't simply go with the free hosted gitlab.com option, instead of bitbucket. Both are hosted, and I feel that gitlab has more features (ci, free, and a few small niceties).
I realize now that mousing over the top shows the drop down. The maze is still there compared to the single page presentation of before. I tried to bring up an example on the wayback machine, but it seems that the early versions no longer render properly. The magic of the early version was that you could see the taxonomy of the videos laid out in front of you, and hence, in a sense, the taxonomy of the subject. Now it's the search model. I believe strongly in the power of search, but the problem with it is that you can't get a sense of the structure of the topic.
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Sun was just spinning up - but remember that first Mac (3/4M pixel WIMP interface) had become available the year before for $2400 (and I was making a living in '84/85 porting Unix to 68ks as fast as we could, every man and their dog had built a workstation in their garage)
Great, another anxiety disorder being labeled with a sensationalist name.

It's amazing that some think this might be genetics or chemical imbalances. It's not. I'm not an expert or accredited something or other so what do I know.

It's just another example of double standards and unreasonable expectations being forced on people.
It's actually not so obvious. I run an droplet with email, xmpp, web, several django apps (+postgres), and a few other small things, and don't even come close to pushing the limit on the cheapest DO droplet.

GitLab has actually a pretty large overhead, and for a single user, it requires quite a bit of CPU/RAM. I assume that the requirement is not lineal though.
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There was an absolutely fascinating and emotionally grueling episode of RadioLab last week that is kind of related to this topic:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/
I read the paper, and I also have some reservations. The procedure they used to extract and randomize their data seems biased towards large homogenous areas.

In short, in their procedure, it seems possible to rope off a large contiguous area of Mojave desert, ground-truth it using their GUI system as "barren", and have that area be carved up into 28x28 pixel chips and spread equally into the training and test sets.

In such a case, the training and test sets are not really independent. And their 6 classes, as you point out, are amenable to color features.

Having done classification of remote sensing data...the above is not a good test of accuracy at any useful task. You have to test accuracy on representative data.

That means training within a few areas, and testing on geographically distant but ecologically similar areas. (I.e., same class, but statistically independent.). And, varying things like time of day, observing geometry, and seasonality. Color features will be quite fragile in such tests.

And, testing on a more diverse sample, to see if "none of the above" can be detected, because their class decomposition is nothing like exhaustive.
> My 81 year old father figured out years ago how to connect is Kindle to his local public library.

I am a full time professional software developer and I do a lot of technology things on the side and have a technology side business. It took me forever to connect a kindle to my library, and when I did, most of the books I wanted weren't available.
Yup! I don't use Twitter, because I'm tired of abbreviating. I've heard all the made-up motives from people both inside and outside of the company but for many years already nobody has been using Twitter via SMS! Also, for years, phones have been splitting long messages into multiple short ones if necessary and composing them back as well. Remove the limit and save Twitter, please!
What about source-based distributions makes them so power hungry?
Not sure why you are equivocating in this instance. It's clearly an intentional breach of regulations, which the CEO has fessed up to. NOx emissions are a serious concern, whether they 'are' 40x too high, or 'up to' 40x too high is not a valid point of contention. Anything over the mandated limit is a health risk, and equivocating over how much is like asking whether you'd want 3 years, or 10 years shaved off your life expectancy.
Most of those are not part of the ECU code.
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I pay for Kindle Unlimited and can say first-hand that it has a terrible selection of mostly self-published and second rate books. Kindle itself of course has the best selection, but that's on a pay-per-book model.

The brilliant thing about Oyster was that they have so much first rate material in their "unlimited" model. There are plenty of arguments to be made about how many books you can read a month etc., but those arguments miss the point. Oyster opened a whole new browsing mindset where you could see a book cover, open it immediately and essentially flip through the book reading bits here and there and re-visit it later if it piqued your interest enough. It's unlike the library where, even in digital libraries, there are queues and "holds" and checkout limits. It's unlike Kindle where you have to commit by actually buying every book which becomes prohibitively expensive if you're just browsing, or Kindle Unlimited where the selection is, as I previously mentioned, dismal. It's hard to imagine until you've used it, but having been an Oyster subscriber for a couple years, I can say it's a shift in the way I think about books.
I'm a motorcyclist too, and straight piped Harleys make me stabby. I don't believe they're louder on the highway. I believe they're louder whenever they're within earshot of any place where people congregate without earplugs (cafes, restaurants, pedestrian areas), whereupon the scumbag on the seat finds it necessary to go wide-open throttle to show off how terrible their bike sounds. It never fails.
From what I understand its not for lack of commitment that these extensions arent porting, its because XUL had basically the ability to run native code and modify everything.
That is the new web extension api does not replicate all the features of XUL (by design).

Look at the sorry state that is Tree Style Tabs clone in chrome - which is because Chrome's extension api is just not powerful enough.
There were lots of interesting extensions doing crazy stuff with the UI at the beginning. Then they got split into some specific types, like: icon/action, content processing, extra information (typically as a side/top/bottom bar). To the point that I can't even think of one that doesn't fit in those scenarios. The extension authors were invited to comment on what's needed from the extension API to support their use case.

So are you one of the extension authors, or users? What exactly do you want to change in the UI and did you raise an issue with google or mozilla?
That "highway mode" sounds like exactly what VW did here.
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He did not imply anything else.
More complicated these days, since you can do more overall, but in shorter time, if you do it on more cores.
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For those interested the relevant previous HN discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097630
I seem to be getting a 503, is there a mirror anywhere?
You would have to assume that by 'automatically failing', the test would involve checking the software version, and if it's not updated, the car instantly fails the test.

I can't imagine a test centre knowingly passing a car which has been shown to cheat on tests.
from the article:
>>> [...] I think it’s time to add a build script. I hear that the go-to build tool these days is gulp, so I’ll wait here while you go install that, and c’mon back when you’re done. (I needed to install Node, and then gulp twice. I’m not sure why.)

what should have been:

I hear that the go-to build tool these days is gulp, but fuck gulp and use make.
503 :(
Previously, Martin Shkreli shorted drug companies and tried to convince regulators to blocked their pending drugs. I wonder if he is shorting the drug stocks again but this time he is using a new technique to destabilize the market.
So the steps would be:

1. Short stocks in a vital niche market

2. Buy an inexpensive producer of an important product, jack up prices to cause outrage and a strong government response

3. Wait for the market to sell off stocks in the niche market

4. Collect the profits from 1.

5. Dump the producer purchased in step 2.
You could argue that the rise of Trump is not really anything new; Italy has had Berlusconi in politics since the early 90ies, and there are a lot of similarities:

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/watch-a-conversa...
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You're not wrong, but tailpipe tests were quite common in many states. In CA, like other states, they're being phased out.

Nevermind the fact that California has no safety inspection, unlike many Eastern states in particular. It's fairly silly to call CA the "gestapo" although they are more aggressive about emissions than anyone else, as you mentioned.

I am a driving and motorcyclist enthusiast, and have modified cars and regularly participate in track days. Somehow I've never had a problem with CA emissions, nor have most of my like-minded friends. It's just not that bad, and it does a lot of good.
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Sure, here you go [1].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20150921054800id_/http://fair.org...
Symbolics LISP machines were not really all that great to use. I used the refrigerator-sized one briefly, but it was more trouble than it was worth. We at Ford Aerospace switched over to Franz LISP on Sun 2 machines for real work.

Symbolics, the company, made unreliable hardware. Too much wire wrap. 1983 was late to be introducing a wire-wrapped CPU. The Sun 2 and the Symbolics 3600 both came out in 1983, but the Sun 2 was a 680x0 machine with a printed circuit backplane and far less hand wiring, fixable by swapping boards. Symbolics machines had to be fixed by on-site Symbolics repair people, and the service was both poor and arrogant. This was at the height of the false AI boom ("expert systems") of the 1980s, and some people (I could name names on the Stanford faculty) were saying that strong AI was right around the corner. For a while, Symbolics machines were corporate status symbols. When that bubble popped, so did Symbolics.

Symbolics' original networking concept was that all machines would share some huge memory address space, with shared memory over Ethernet. That never really happened. They also really did have multi-hour garbage collections at first, until they got the garbage collector and the virtual memory to understand each other.

Most of those fancy buttons on the keyboard didn't do much of anything. SHIFT, CTL, TOP, META, SUPER, and HYPER were all shift keys, so there were 64 possible shifts for each key, any of which could be bound in EMACS. This was cool, but not useful.

Which is the verdict on the Symbolics machines - cool, but not useful.
Here's a mirror for you [1].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20150921054800id_/http://fair.org...
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Good tip. As someone with quite a small main HDD I'll do this ASAP.
28k is the delta needed. 53k/patient is break-even.
My ancestral home is Mangalore, so I've been there qutie often. The jackrfuit is my favorite fruit! Once you rip it open, removing the compartments is relatively easy. The seed is easier to remove. It's one of those fruits that is incredibly sweet, tasty, and you can eat A LOT of it. It can be a meal by itself and you won't feel sick of eating it.
It seems crazy that the way to test emissions was the test what the car computer said... and not what actually came out of the car
And on google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9SNeGBO...
There seems to be a sizable number of people who do not feel represented by the narrow range of options that the political establishment has deigned to offer them, and who are tired of having to accept what the powers that be have declared inevitable.

Because of the way the American political system works, this dissatisfaction seldom finds expression ("what, are you going to waste your vote?"), but when an outsider with deep pockets appears, suddenly it can coalesce around him.

Therefore, I suspect that the question of Trump's competence is moot for many voters. If you just want to break the way the system works, four years with an ineffective president may not seem like a high price to pay.

OTOH, I find it curious that the article found no room for a very obvious real-world parallel amidst all the fictional characters Trump was likened to. Twenty years ago, another first-world country saw a political void filled by a boisterous tycoon who paid for his own campaign. It didn't turn out well, nor was it over quickly.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/diesel-dominance-...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/14/nine-out-...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34257424
http://www.hybridcars.com/will-america-avoid-europes-clean-d...
It's a lot worse than that:

"Only then did VW admit it had designed and installed a defeat device" that purposely lowered emissions while a vehicle was being inspected, the agency said. During regular driving, emissions would return to as much as 40 times the level of pollutants allowed under clean air rules.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/usa-volkswagen-idI...
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Especially since, as far as I'm aware, when my car gets smogged they measure the pipe itself.

Was isn't this already in place (at least in CA)?
First of all, that's not how it works.
Secondly, being in neutral and revving the engine seems like a pretty obvious red flag for "hey, maybe I'm being tested for emissions" in the scenario you mention.
I think it's fair to see each of those two as new in his context.

The article makes a case for Trump as new: a pop culture character coming to life in real politics. The fictional antecedents he brings up are fascinating. It's a good article—so good it's too bad he didn't go the whole hog and resist any usual partisan swipes, but that's probably too much to ask of Frank Rich. I'd say it easily passes the HN bar for on-topicness in a political story, though we'll still penalize the thread if it goes flamewar.
Is there an upside? You pay if you don't accomplish your goal, but what if you do?
Capitalism does not oblige anyone to invest their capital immediately and whenever possible. If the majority of the market chooses to withhold its capital, then withholding capital is likely a rational response to market conditions.

> Hutt goes for the heart of Keynes’s prescription for recovery, which was to get idle resources moving, whether that is money, capital, or labor. If something isn’t being employed right now, it is being wasted.

> Hutt responded at length that there is nothing uneconomic or necessarily inefficient about an idle resource. It is the decision of the owner to hold back when faced with a long-term plan, a judgment call concerning risk, a high reservation wage, or a demand for larger cash balances.

https://mises.org/library/theory-idle-resources-0
Alternate is also up at common dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/21/down-memory-hol...
> If any solution prevented some large percent of poaching incidents, would it not be a net improvement?

Perhaps for the Rhino, a single species, but this isn't just about them. Tigers, bears, lions, elephants ... nearly everything bigger and more powerful than humans gets chopped up for "traditional medicine". We cannot start farming each and every critter some group thinks is magic.

Market-based approaches are also an acknowledgment of the underlying mythology. I'm generally opposed to all quack medicine. Most of us are annoyed but not screaming mad when we see homeopathic junk for sale a drugstores. We laugh, try to educate our friends, and perhaps sign a petition to ban such practices. But if I see baby rhino horns for sale at WholeFoods expect blood.
And its friends:

* Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en

* Postal Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

* Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

There were some HN links that showed up in my searches, but I didn't bother to include them; left as an exercise to thea reader. Similarly, I didn't try to put them in "who got to which first" order; they're alphabetical and all delightful.
For those who need a flexible data model for representing human names the HL7 V3 RIM works pretty well and allows for handling the vast majority of cases covered in this blog post.

http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?pro...

Basically every person can have zero or more names, each of which is tagged with zero or more types indicating its purpose. Each name can contain zero or more parts (prefix, suffix, family, given) in any order. And any name or name part can also be NULL (distinct from blank) with a specific qualifier to indicate why it is NULL.
Do you have a link for that? I'd like to see it...

The original wording from the FCC about DD-WRT was pretty awful, and I don't see how their intent can be interpreted otherwise (although they may be backpedalling now):

"2. What prevents third parties from loading non US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected from "flashing" and the installation of third party firmware such as DD-WRT."

As seen on this thread and the document linked within:
http://lists.prplfoundation.org/pipermail/openwrt/2015-July/...
What terrible advice.

Exactly what upside is there to an individual to do so? I'm sure management was quite clear about their intent, so it's not like anybody in the company is going to back you up. And, if they're doing this, what else are they doing?

Much better to just start looking for a better job and leave ASAP.
I've found they mix pretty well. Like milk, and it's filling too.
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Wouldn't you define gas() and whatever class-specific methods in the class itself, instead of in extensions on the protocol?

class SunnyRobot : Robot {
func gas() { ... }
func findSun() { ... }
}
On a similar note: http://imgur.com/gallery/qpNZ7
While NYMag seems to be more about Trump revealing the ridiculousness of our political system in general, the imgur guy focuses on how he's attracting republicans by showing off specifically how useless their own leadership has been for the last several years.

Both seem like valid points, which need to be understood by everyone who hates the idea of Trump as president and hopes to find a way to defeat him (myself included).
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The key to this is what you think about the morality of one's own countries soldiers ignoring and so tacitly approving the rape of children.

Structurally what do you think of the idea that soldiers were ordered to do so.

Rape of children is outside the limits of what I will tolerate from any culture.

First things first, the idea that those of my own culture and country condone the rape of children for political ends in a foreign country is something for which they should be facing charges and entitled to proper legal defence in my culture and my country.
Which country are you referring to?
The "emissions cheat" in question altered the output of the car when it was being tested. So, they were testing the emissions that came out of the car.

"EPA regulators said that Volkswagen adopted a 'sophisticated' algorithm that turned on vehicles' full emissions controls when it detected they were being tested for emissions performance." - http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/09/18/epa-accu...
How can you get better mileage but produce more emissions? I would assume that emissions are proportional to the amount of gas used. If you're using less gas, wouldn't you produce less emissions?
As was my German-built Corrado in the 90s.
Of course, is that stopping me from buying another one this year? Nope, it just took me 15 years ago to get over it.
Content costs money. It seems reasonable that most of that money went towards buying the rights to all the books they were renting.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-ef..., which stopped responding. Thanks.
God forbid America will be ruled by Trump and Russia by Zhirinovsky, this is a recipe for a nuclear extinction event
Isn't income tax included in the gross salary?
The testing was in place, but the software was designed to detect the testing process. A simple hack would be something like: (Hood open)or(doors open)+(Throttle>0)=I'm being tested. That would be enough to hide from standard testing procedures.

Systems designed to defeat specific test are nothing new. The biggest example I can think of are the Buell (Harley) bikes that use an exhaust bypass designed to keep the bike quite at RPMs used during the CA test.
Hiring people who've proven they have the guts and conviction to blow the whistle elsewhere should be one of the stronger signals that you're not doing (what they might view as) wrong. I wonder if there's a good way we could surface that information.
That sounds like an infinite amount of fun to try and format for output :-)
Compiling is cpu, and therefore power, intensive. The joke being that Gentoo users spend all their time compiling packages.
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It's a good call. I thought about posting it yesterday but was uncertain about the political content. I think it's interesting to hackers insofar as it identifies some meta-trends in politics that are characteristic of systems disruption. Other organs such as the Economist have also observed that Something is Amiss when the three leading candidates are all non-politicians and easily outpoll candidates with experience in governance (even if you dislike their policies).

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21665014-party-f...

I've said for some time that the world is drifting back towards a place of deep political instability, and this election has the unpleasant air of looming disaster about it. Whoever is elected president is almost certainly going to be regarded as illegitimate or intolerable by a large segment of the population, due to a mix of the internet and demographic sorting a la http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php

I feel we underestimate the influence of the internet on social dynamics. It's much easier to get near-immediate social validation for any given identity group, and something about the combination of anonymity and depersonalization in discussion forums provides psychosocial rewards for antagonistic/oppositional behavior when viewpoints collide.
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The "I want to cancel the order" option is only available in the EU and a few other countries (like Taiwan) for up to 14 days after your purchase, but not in the US.
If I remember the story correctly, the F-22 was never meant to do the cobra/kulbit. But when they saw the russians doing it at shows they had to come up with something.

Anyone interested in maneuverability or russian planes generally needs to see this: (the SU-47)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2MW8DoJJXg
An example of "beginner's luck," which is often the tendency of experts to overthink things when just trying the most basic thing often works. :)