skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
author here. There was no requirement for ICY (nor had heard about it) - My guess is that the correct port/proxy/method combination will allow it.
Another step from FB, Google etc. to dominate the ISP market and monitor all politicall and business communications for their governments.
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I wanted a diesel vechicle, but heard a long time ago, probally a myth, that small diesel engines don't last very long. It never made sence though because we all know large diesel engines last a long time.

They are not marketed here.

It's hit or miss on finding a gas station that has diesel, but that has definetly changed over the years.

Actually, if I could put 300,000 to 500,000 miles on a small diesel engine, I would buy one. Twenty years ago I would be happy if a vechicle lasted 100,000 miles. I had a Toyota with a 22r engine that spoiled me; I now expect all vechicles to easily last over 250,000 with nothing but oil changes, and new brakes.
It is so obvious what is happening at the moment. One vendor gets "busted" for "optimizing" for a benchmark and everyone goes hysteric. Nothing really new happened here. Especially for those of us working in IT. Yes it is not honorable what they did and it is cheating but I bet that every vendor optimizes for benchmarks no matter which industry is affected. VW is probably only the first company in automotive that got busted. Others will follow soon..
He may be well-compensated for not enforcing the law in some cases.
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Even though it doesn't make much sense, I enjoyed the unintentional pun in the story of the bathroom picture. "The toilet flush with the toilet s surface caused him to sink deeper into the murky water."
> I also find it interesting how relatively little attention is given to the advantage of tactile buttons

If I remember correctly, while in programming mode, almost all TI-BASIC keywords could be input by pressing a menu button followed by a number. You could be very efficient once you learned the combinations. By the time I started high school, I had learned the menus well enough that I was writing games in class while concealing the calculator under the desk. (Of course, as I found out later, my teachers weren't fooled for a second.)
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That's nice!
Maybe we'll see a paradigm shift to functional programming, to take advantage of all those cores. Or maybe we'll see the adoption of auto-parallellizing languages and frameworks. A paradigm shift can happen in software as well as hardware. We could also gain a few orders of magnitude in real world performance of many use cases by having bulk storage with the performance characteristics of RAM.
Who cares about long-term issues anymore?
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They didn't "optimize" for the benchmark. They detected that the benchmark was running, and then deliberately ran the car in a different, unrealistic mode.
On cellular networks, my experience is that everything on port 53 is hijacked and shipped off to a telco DNS server though.
In UK diesel was always more expensive. Not long ago I was paying £1.30/litre when Petrol was £1.10/litre(£1.30/litre is $7.5/US gallon for US readers). It's only very recently that the two fuels are nearly at the same price everywhere.
That is only an issue if we throw out the current system altogether.

What do you think of embedding IPFS links within html? Secure content can be directly loaded from the central server, content that only needs to be checked for integrity or hidden from the local network can be loaded from the distnet.

It'd be like mushing torrents and the web together.
That's quite a leap from the three examples you gave to "believing some humans are worth less than others".
That's the very reason we should get really, really angry and hysteric. In fact, it wouldn't hurt to seriously damage the entire company. Yes, maybe others do that shit too. But there needs to be a message that this is what you get for cheating.
Probably the old fashioned way - by looking at employment history (salary, length of employment, etc.), savings and whatever assets you have (which you can potentially sell to give them their money back in case something happens).

Basically, everything besides a history of paying back loans :-).

Those lacking (some of) these things get smaller loans/bigger interest rates or don't get a loan at all...
What I'm wondering about, however, as a European who never actually sees his own medical bills, how this will affect me or the country I live in. Will the powers that are in charge of buying medicine just suck it up and pay the bill? Will they use the power of the collective to get a better deal? How does this work?
Wouldn't work directly here, as "ip fou add" reserves a local port, while in OP's case it's a reserved remote port. And reserving local port 53 in case of 53<->53 packets would kill dns resolution.

With an extra iptables rule should work though:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s my.server -p udp --sport 53 -d DNAT --to 127.0.0.1:5555
ip fou add port 5555 ipproto 4
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Do they block domains with the keywords "privacy" "private" in them?
What happened is car companies weaseled around the law and lied to the public, causing death and damage. This is more than idle "cheating", as if it were a game. This is poisoning the air.
If those are failings of state not being strict enough, then let's state the corollary - that free market / competition are not saviours, but savage beasts that need to be controlled in order to put their power to good use.

I don't think anyone, not even ancaps, disagrees that market participants can be fraudulent or destructive. The disagreement is about what to do about it.
What would an equivalent penalty have been for Oracle?
Wasn't your fault. Vent your anger against VW and other copmanies and people who deceive others. But please, above all, don't stop caring. We can have our better world, but only if there's enough people who still care.
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Maybe TI should upgrade the processor in it a bit? Put a better screen? Maybe one based on e-ink? Imagine a LISP machine with dedicated calculator buttons, the size of a small kindle.

An iPad with an app is not the solution, but how come graphing calculators haven't advanced at all.
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The EPA has the same problems as almost every US government department, lack of funding.
Basically... yeah, if you do not take any additional security measures, anybody can just "dump" files on your server.

You could opt for the S3 storage provider, which will dump the files to Amazon AWS instead.

The YouTransfer project does not implement access control or SSL, so it is highly recommended that you look at the hosting options on the Wiki (https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer/wiki/hosting).

I'm afraid there is not much the project can do concerning upload speeds of individual connections at home :)
Our experience is with unfiltered, sooty heavy vehicles emitting large visible clouds, due largely to trucking industry lobbying.

Every week while going to work, I'll see at least one truck belching black smoke while accelerating, due to poor maintenance. I look forward to the day when all the trucks have to have periodic emissions testing like the cars do now.
You might be interested in this great New York Times aricle (PR piece) for the VW/Audi "TDI" engine that they were marketing heavily a few years ago, long before the current mileage/emissions scandal: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/automobiles/efficiency-imp...

It goes into the public's views on diesel over time. The article actually was discussed on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6079973
Excellent article and fabulous news that some people are trying to fix the broken venture environment of Japan.
As an IoT and automotive cybersecurity start-up, this is very encouraging development.
Wrong motives (trying to be a cool company) plus wrong incentives (billion dollar evaluation and lots of cash to burn) leads to wrong focus and feelings of invincibility.
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/B/855.PDF This is a surprisingly approachable analysis (albeit already almost 5 years old, it seems fairly accurate (n.b. not in industrial battery production)). 20 pages on what it takes in energy to produce the precursors (primarily lithium carbonate), then what it takes to manufacture the actual cells, followed by an analysis of what we can recycle from cells which no longer hold a charge. I'm not saying fossil fuels are the way to go, but if you're driving around a Tesla in Nashville, odds are you're burning a boatload of coal in the process to get your charge from the regional power plant (blowing off the tops of mountains in the process to get that goal).
Are you referring to the generated GitHub pages on http://youtransfer.io or to the demo instance (http://demo.youtransfer.io) which is the actual application?
We all know the future is in hydrid and electric, but new cars sold today under requirements of 120g/km CO2 emissions will probably be mostly diesel. I'm getting a new car and there is just no way I can get anything other than a diesel with current regulations and taxes.
It's not that they 'can' be, but they will be (and are). A lot of people are in denial about it.
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But the hysteria might have an effect. Hopefully other companies are now probably scrambling to get rid of their benchmark detection code as quickly as possible.

I remember that a few years back, there was a big scandal in Germany over a supermarket chain that had installed hidden security cameras to watch their employees. The press went around and asked other supermarkets if they had hidden surveillance cameras, and they all denied. Meanwhile, store managers where driving to the supermarkets in the night and removing the illegal cameras...

If Volkswagen takes a big hit it will have an effect. Even if we can't catch every cheater, we might be able to scare them into playing by the rules.
I can't remember if I knew the word "googol" before I knew this story or not. I think I may have encountered it in World of Mathematics in high school. Or I may be misremembering and making up a pretty story to make myself sound smarter than I am.

Human memory is so weird sometimes.
Makes you wonder about the contents of dogfood ;).
It seems to me that this credit score system--if real--would ultimately be self-defeating, for two reasons.

First, among a cynical and rebellious youth population, a low score would become a prestigious thing, proof of your courage and gutsy attitude, a kind of street cred.

Second, it would limit economic activity. If you cut off millions of people from car loans on the basis of their questionable postings or online affiliations, the ones really hurt will be the banks and car companies. Idiotic, and would lead to many companies disregarding the "credit" scores.

I don't see this as workable, though it does sound like something the government would like to have.
We have pretty good numbers for costs of diesel vs petrol.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-...

Diesel has always been more expensive, but there have been a few times (2007) where the prices got close.

And that's just the cost of the fuel from the pump - it doesn't take into account MPG of the car or duty benefits for diesel car ownership.
For example, why couldn't everything that the producer knows about the product (results of internal testing, how it was produced, what were the costs involved) be available to the customer?

How would you know that the public is getting everything that the producer knows about the product?
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Who is in denial? That sounds like a strawman.
There is usually a contract between the state and the company providing the drug.

An example there :
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/france-strikes-big-hep-c-t...

The thing is that is the state refuse to reimburse the drug it won't likely be prescribed/used, so the company has an incentive to sell at an acceptable price.

You can also read some of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab#Society_and_cultur... to see how new drugs are approved or not, taking into account their cost and effectiveness.
Here, instead of permanent records, we just have credit reports and Facebook to preserve everything we ever did for all time.
Integrating with the existing web is definitely one of the goals, see https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
I still believe credit card companies redline communities in America. I have gotten better cc offers in the better--strike better; richer postal codes. I can't prove it though.

One of my biggest mistake was using a credit card. I wish I threw out that first one I received upon graduation.
It's just my opinion, but every major car manufacturer produces cars which have very similar test results compared to cheating VW results (fuel efficiency and such).

I mean if VW got busted, with breaking NOx values by up to 20 times, for the purpose of better acceleration, fuel efficiency and other parameters. So does it mean that others somehow cheat, but do not get caught? Or VW, the biggest car company group in the world, were producing much worse engines, than any other car manufacturer (which sells cars in US) in the world. Somehow I think it's the first one...
In Germany near me, it's roughly 20 cents a liter cheaper.(euro cents)
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> I've never had a chance to escape

> No matter what happens to me, I am sure of it, and I am still here.

> Ahead of course, I did not see a sign that he was going to stop me from passing over the city. I avoided eye contact with the local police station, and once again I scanned the rooftops for signs of stopping. No matter how much damage I've done [snip] the main gate is still wide open. The signs grew louder and louder with each passing word.

It's either been exposed to lots of adventure stories involving great escapes and existential issues or that's just outright creepy.
I can't speak to the public as a whole. But in my circles, there was a lot of interest in the TDI's and similar. With the lower sulfur diesel widely available, there wasn't a perception of VW style diesels being worse than an ordinary car. And the gas mileage made them very attractive. Almost hybrid levels of MPG without the drawbacks of hybrids. And also considered an decent substitution until Tesla, or other electrics, finally become affordable.

I personally almost made a very bad decision. The Jetta TDI was on my shortlist when I was shopping for cars in late summer. Had my GF not disliked it, I probably would have ended up with one.
I am also curious, because this makes very little sense to me. Is the author worried that he'll get pwned when opening random Keepass files he found on the internet?
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Just curious, does anyone know if VW vehicles running biodiesel pollute just as badly as conventional diesel? If biodiesel is chemically identical to regular diesel, than I'd guess it would have identical NOx emissions, but I'm not sure if this is the case
They did both: they optimized for the benchmark AND they deactivated any emissions control when not in test mode.
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LPG or CNG probably?
From what I have heard in my country (Poland) most people prefer diesel because it's just cheaper. Naturally it's about the fuel, as the car itself is usually a bit more expensive.

Usually only people who care about performance choose petrol engines.
A proof that P=NP would go against our everyday experience and it seems so unlikely that it would take you to the Gödelian level of fame and prestige. Would guys in black suits trying to kill you? No. Would you get 100s of job offers? Yes. Go for it, it would be a huge advancement for humanity.

Personally, I have a strong feeling that no one will ever prove that P=NP. There's that story that out of 100 math professors 10 or so say that P equals NP, but many of them admitted that they just wanted to be controversial. My suspicion is that the existence of P and NP as different complexity groups is a direct consequence of the way Boolean algebra is built up and the way operations are defined, but I far from being an expert on this.
I can see how Namba Aruki might help you keep your kimono Clem on a muddy street.

But it's it more efficient? I really don't think so. Go read up on the biomechanics of walking, and you'll see it is already efficient. You are like a pendulum swinging back and forth, recovering some of the energy from each step.
Only speaking for myself. I owned both a 2010 Golf TDI and 2013 Beetle TDI. I had the Golf because at the time I needed something with four doors and carry capacity but didn't want a CUV/SUV and the diesel was a good deal. I had the Beetle as a TDI based on the Golf experience and wanted a convertible with good mileage.

To be frank, I went with the diesels because the mileage was very good just looking at the EPA numbers which are when the emissions system is supposedly working. At first I was worried about smell but the only smell I encountered was the fuel itself.

I have no problem buying another diesel should it fit my needs at the time. Yet the advances in gasoline engines more than make up for the advantage diesels have. I know with my 4cyl turbo Z4 I am getting sufficient mileage (32 lifetime, 40 on pure highway) that I have no reason too go back.

Now for larger vehicles the mileage improvement is about the only way to go; that being pickups and SUVs. There really aren't any hybrid trucks about and the few SUVs that are do work but diesels seem to offer better highway.
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Modern small diesel engines will last a long time, provided you adjust your driving style and habits.

There's awfuly many things, that can go wrong, if you don't consider how the engine works - i.e. your turbocharger, DFP, double-mass flywheel - they are subject to physics and you must know, what you can do with the car and what you can't do, to maximize their lifetime.
Being gay is fine as far as the influencer class is concerned though. Imagine the brouhaha that would have resulted if instead he'd, say, been outed as being opposed to abortion.
All most all cars encouraged more and more. 48 US MPG is the norm for petrol cars but the diesel is 25% less costly than petrol
No, I think people just hate change. We're always scared of the unknown, hence why historically humans have preferred dictatorships vs. anarchy.
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And how does the free market solve this problem? By overproducing the shit out of everything, letting it rot on the shelves and then throwing it away. This is the cost associated with the abundance of products - especially short-lived ones - in the stores.

Yes, in recent years the market learned to optimize, to run on supply lines with very little buffering at endpoints. Still - the producers get information about how much to make from the sales at endpoints. Why the same scheme should not be available to central planners? Does centralization somehow preclude from measuring at the endpoints?

Hell, if you really look at it, isn't the optimizations market learned basically central planning, but in the hands of private planners and not state ones?
I don't know, but when we think about computer hardware manufacturers "cheating" benchmarks, those vendors virtually always have plausible deniability. They game the benchmarks, optimizing part of their featureset to improve scores in ways that don't carry over to real-world use.

That's not what happened here. VW has no plausible deniability in this case.
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You're right. In my experience the gas guzzlers always heat up faster.
I am not the author, so I don't speak for him, but I feel that I could write much more secure code in Rust than in Python mainly because in Python the onus of making sure everything is okay falls 100% on me. In Rust, the compiler with the type checker and the borrow checker can take a lot of load off my mind.
My guesses:

- ability to reliably erase memory that held passwords/keys with assurance it wasn't copied accidentally. AFAIK Python doesn't guarantee zeroing of freed memory.

- type safety, error handling enforced by the type system, and race-condition-free concurrency might be an extra assurance.
This is a promising approach. I believe what the author is suggesting is that we construct an unbroken chain of custody binding various real-world proofs of identity to an arbitrary address on the blockchain. For instance, If there is a secure and unforgeable way to take periodic photographs of ourselves, which doesn't sound infeasible given the existence of modern facial recognition systems, we could certify the evidence in a mutable fashion using the timestamping data. The general idea is to provide a way to document some uniquely identifiable set of details that only we could have access to at a given time.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a photograph. Doctored personal IDs, attestations from third parties, and biometric devices could serve a similar function. All we actually need to do to prove uniqueness is to be the person who maintains this continuously updating record of entries.

The main draw back has more to do with the fact that you could still create more than one identity by re-using the uniquely identifying information, in which case we would need some kind of pattern recognition system to analyze the number of times the information has been invoked to create multiple identities in some larger public dataset.
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Would vote for a tax on fossil fuel to make electric/hybrid a better choice?
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I posted this on the reddit post too, but briefly: this is a solved problem for decades now. The PKI exists to do exactly this: bind public keys to identities, both internet-based and physical/legal.

I have a public key bound to my legal identity in a USB stick. I use it to sign PDFs and things. This is not a problem that requires block chains or anything new. If you want to see people do it more often, the existing infrastructure is fine - it just needs polishing. The software works but is often clunky.

Of course that's a circular problem. The reason it's clunky is not that many people care about digitally signing things or encrypting messages. After the big initial investments in the 90's, companies realised these were niche features. So they stopped investing and the whole thing kind of fell by the wayside and got bitrotted. Now apparently we have people who don't even know about it at all!
They do have an Android app, but I must admit I haven't used it on an Android tablet, so maybe it is only for phones?
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Except for that whole spying thing...but other than that, it's peachy.