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No. The air quality of paris for example is notoriously terrible, with many instances of worse air quality than Beijing. For a environmentally conscious and highly regulated nation that is an absolute disaster.

Diesel has been linked to producing more byproducts that are responsible for smog than gasoline. If anything this has all been a long well funded war by european car manufactures to push locally produced diesel vehicles which appear to have better efficiency than gasoline. France was swept by the trend and now is regretting the fact that >60% of their cars are diesel powered.

Simply put this was all a tragedy of choosing wrong metrics. Europe chose CO2 levels as the important metric to try to reduce. By optimizing for CO2 they allowed vehicles that produced 4 times more NO2 and up to 22 times more other fine particulates which are significantly worse for human health. Gasoline or Diesel, we still are damaging our environment. It's just with Diesel we see more of that damage done on ourselves.

Edit:

And just as a final point, the US alone has spent $51 million for "green diesel" VW cars. Now we know.
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Get over cabs? I like uber, but when I'm traveling on business there are some things Uber cannot provide me, things I want.

(1) When I get off a plane in a strange city my phone doesn't always work, and if it does I probably don't get data. The taxi stand outside an airport is convenient, identifiable, and works reliably no matter the state of my phone.

(2) I don't want a ride from someone in their personal car. I want an easily-recognizable vehicle driven by a person licensed by some sort of local authority. I want a visible number or other identifier on the outside of the vehicle.

(3) Professional detachment. Uber rides often take an overly-friendly tone. I like chatting with drivers, but I often don't want to chat. Maybe I'm on the phone with a client, maybe I have a client traveling with me. I don't want to feel bad or be down-rated if I don't act friendly.

(4) Local knowledge. A professional cabbie will, within a few weeks, develop some serious local knowledge about streets, hotels and restaurants. With Uber drivers it is hit and miss.

When it comes to business travel, especially international travel, cabs still provide value uber cannot match.
That's a clickbait article by the "chief content officer" of the publication. It's almost content-free.

Most factories have had networks for decades. 100baseT works well in a factory environment - twisted pair differential signaling is relatively noise-immune. Most machines with a CPU in them have a network connection now. (And way too many of them still run Windows XP.)
Right. This man who has risked his freedom and even his life to inform us of the illegal actions of our government wants to live in a repressive autocracy.

Did you miss the part where US officials forced a flight out of Moscow to land prematurely because they thought he might be on it? [0] He applied for asylum to 21 countries [1].

No, you're quite mistaken. He's in Russia for one reason only: the US Government won't let him go anywhere else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Asylum_applicat...
They do contact imports from phone and email. That usually sends the signals FB uses for those internet friend type recommendations
I agree, this is why I'm commenting.
It's a non-article that doesn't even deliver what the title promises.
Just an article to fill writing obligations and farm clicks.
No, point 2 is not a strawman. Your argument implied that Uber would be affected by automation, but taxis would not.

If you're willing to admit that both services are affected by automation, then your point about Uber welcoming automation is a red herring.

Moreover, the article is a rebuttal to an argument that says "Uber = bad, because it treats the drivers unfairly". As such, evidence to the contrary invalidates that argument, even if one doesn't particularly care about driver pay.
Yes, once we have more intelligent diffs. Line by line isn't enough anymore.
How can we attempt to pull patterns out of the song?

What if the songs actually contain the whale equivalent of GPS coordinates? How would we detect it?

I'm sure a few people have spent many hours trying to do so, but I wonder if machine learning could help. It would be a challenge: we'd need factors to correlate to, like the whale's position or information about their environment (location of boats, pollution, or prey).

Perhaps a start would be triangulating the whale's position during each song, and looking for elements that somehow vary with location. I imagine someone has looked for this. Location might not actually be a good thing to look for - whales can presumably determine each other's location from the sound source and distance alone, like a human could hear the direction and distance of a shouting human. What else might they be communicating?
"Unless you've set up your truck to belch pillars of soot and smoke"

Those people make no goddamned sense, to me. The folks who make their vehicles noisier also make no sense. Anyway, my truck has had no modifications and it passes emissions testing.
Well WW2 did drove allot of Europe's population out of the country and into the big cities but we can take this chicken and egg game for a long ride.

But considering that even countries like Iceland that do culturally were having big families, and living in big houses including split houses where the parents and grand-parents live in connected houses also is suffering from a similar fate I might not be as simple as that.

I would say it's a "natural" development of of current life styles, the US managed to delay it maybe because for a long long time and especially after the war the concept of the American dream, a big house, a hot housewife, and 3 kids was in full gear.

Now with the American Dream being less relevant, and much less attainable to many Americans we see a switch to less children, less marriages, and more adults living alone.
Snowden is already living with the consequences of having broken the law. I don't see how putting him in jail improves anything, and Sanders' answer is one of appealing to moderation in a reflexive and thoughtless "everything is a compromise" stance.
I've done a bit of Blender Python scripting, and it's a bloody pain. The API is very much an afterthought, and it can't be much used by anyone. As an example, function calls in your script do different things based on which part of the UI has mouse focus. It's very easy to make loops eat all your RAM, hang everything for a few minutes and then segfault. I've even had it crash my X session. And the built-in IDE is crap. /rant
Oh gosh. I remember the transition for 2.49 to 2.5. It was like learning a completely new piece of software. The only thing that motivated me to switch was the awesome new smoke simulator.
Please point to where it implies that?
Big money is involved, but in the other direction: it seems that diesel was promoted on the basis of overstated environmental benefits.
I don't think you have a good idea of what most boarding schools are like.

At least in my experience, we were afforded an enormous amount of freedom. Certainly there are not enough staff to provide each student with anything like the amount of helicoptering that many students receive at home. It's much more like college than normal high school, with nobody checking monitoring your every moment.

Remember, helicopter parenting and privilege are not the same thing (though they are related). You can have very wealthy and disengaged parents and you can have overly involved poor parents.

How do you think it would even be possible for staff to constantly helicopter children at the level that parents typically do?
> Many times, between the name of the function and type of arguments, one can figure out exactly what they need to pass in to achieve the desired output.

Yes of course because the parameters are usually designed with currying in mind, so the order is from most general on the left to the most specific on the right. In the case of elem, both orders are reasonable, but often times only one makes sense and then it is easy to remember.
That god awful UI was something to deal with for sure.
It was tough to learn, so I had to rely on shortcuts instead.

Now having to work with Maya is the exact opposite. Everything is a mouse click, menu selection, popup window, menus repeated over and over and over again. 5 ways in Maya to do the same action.

In Blender, you can extrude and instantly have access to scale and transform, in Maya you must select a tool to do it right after. Extra clicks extra time.

Insert Edge Loop in Blender requires one click, roll mouse to select how many you would like to add, T or F6 to bring up a menu should you need to do something special.
Maya, you have to keep changing the menu settings to do equivalents.

A simple inset action is easier in Blender. In Maya it takes two more clicks and tool changes to get the same, or you have to constantly be working in the "Modeling toolbox" which clashes with other menus should you use them.

SHIFT-R to repeat last action (not just last tool) which is not available in Maya, and only repeats the last tool.

Viewport Navigation in BLender: No clicking on boxes, hit 7 to go to Top orthographic view... then you can roll out of it immediately back to perspective. Maya won't allow this... you must Space->Select a window to return to a view.

Extra clicks extra time.

Plenty more examples of how Blender accelerates your workflow by removing unnecessary menus and elements gobbling up real estate.

Blender is for shortcut masters wanting to get stuff done, Maya is for menu and button clickers.
(1) has never happened to me in a US city, and very rarely in non-US cities. (2) has never bothered me because Uber keeps a log of every ride I take, the rating system gives me a much more confidence in the driver than a random government licensing scheme, and the app tells me the license plate number so the vehicle is easily-recognizable. (3) has never happened to me -- you may be thinking of one of the other ridesharing services where driver and customer are considered peers. (4) presupposes the taxi driver speaks English well enough to communicate their "serious local knowledge" which IME is indeed "hit and miss."
Genuinely interesting people are unlikely to tick all the (arbitrary) boxes expected by the universities. They might even have an unapologetic C in a class or two.
Yes, letting the media decide was a problem. But is letting the ultra-wealthy decide any less of a problem?
The difference is one is a private transaction that directly insinuates an act of treason and further a clear allegiance (or at least sympathy) to the state one is dealing with. A leak is public, and by definition accessible to everyone. It is thus a misnomer to frame it in terms of benefiting any particular nation states, as it's now public information. It's spoilt, a sunk cost. Moreover, the intent of the aggregate leak (which is important in making a final decision) is that of raising awareness of government misconduct, and not of directly enriching an adversary's intelligence. The consequences then differ, as we could make a case of the positives outweighing the drawbacks and collateral. Moreover, I personally disagree that any party in the Huawei incident is a "good guy" (where you seem to consider the NSA to be unequivocally in the right).

Of course you have a right to be angry with Snowden if you deem the consequences of the actions to have had sufficient negative blowback.

You're a guest in this country; perhaps you could try acting like one?

Free speech until it hurts my feelings. What an American sentiment to advocate, throwaway. I salute you.
It's true that the U.S. has a lot more arbitrary criteria, but purely having great exam scores is also a valid strategy. It's just extremely difficult.

If you have a 2400 on the SAT and a 4.0, but no extracurriculars or other redeeming qualities, you won't get in everywhere but you'll still get plenty of elite acceptances.
Ha I love that story! Very postmodern
Yes, once you get past the obscure UI and rely on shortcuts instead, and only using things when you actually need them -- unlike Maya, that throws EVERYTHING on screen all at once, and gobbling up keys for animation and other actions you may not need.. uggh.

S is scale default in BLender.. S is "Set Key" in Maya that will only use up that key for ONE aspect of model creation right out of the box.

Blender's shortcuts know what to do in context.
Wow, apropos! I was just thinking about this in the shower.

For most of my life, I equated types with sets of values, but after learning Haskell and working with higher-kinded types, type classes, and existential types, I realized I don't know anymore what a type _is_. I know that type systems provide proof that certain classes of operations are impossible (like comparing a number to a string, or dereferencing an invalid reference).

It's pretty mindbending to use existentials or GADTs and pull two values of a record and not know anything about those values except that, for example, they can be compared for equality.

data HasTwoEq = forall a. Eq a => HasTwoEq a a

equalOrNot :: HasTwoEq -> Bool
equalOrNot (HasTwoEq x y) = x == y

The example is contrived, but it illustrates the point that the types of x and y are not known, _except_ that they can be compared.

That's not the kind of thing you can express with, say, Java or Go interfaces, but it makes perfect sense once you start to break down the mental walls you've built in your head over the years.

I'm thrilled to see a growing body of accessible* PL and type theory literature, because these things are important to helping us develop software at increasingly large scales, and it's clear that very few people -- including myself! -- know enough about this topic.

* e.g. https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...

I tried to do my part here: http://chadaustin.me/2015/07/sum-types/ and http://chadaustin.me/2015/09/haskell-is-not-a-purely-functio...
Actually Tim O'Reilly is a proponent of Guaranteed Basic Income.
Diesel can run clean, it's just they'll be far more expensive and produce far less power than their gasoline alternatives. The entire european diesel wonder was that engines of similar power were able to offer better milage than those of gasoline. However this has been all due to substantially worse emissions. For VW to bring emissions down to regulation the engines will produce significantly less power and customers will no longer want to use them.

Simply put, this is the death of diesel for automobiles. It's just a dead end technology that has thrived by cheating. Europe was dead wrong in their automotive efficiency priorities and public health has suffered as a result.
You think the president should only pardon jaywalkers? What kind of message does that send?
I'd say a better comparison is that Blender is like to Nokia interface of Nxx phones 10 years ago before the iPhone. All the functionality's technically there, but it's often very convoluted to use it, and that doesn't necessarily make it powerful.

Some of the defaults are just downright stupid: why does rotate by default rotate in screen-space (so against the 2D camera plane, instead of world or object space). The reliance on the MMB so much (Maya does this a bit as well, but there's keyboard alternatives) means it's almost impossible to use on a laptop.
There's so many things like this that while minor in isolation are just so frustraiting as a whole when attempting to use it, and make me go "nope, I'll go back to Maya or Houdini thanks".
That's not true.

I just went through the college admissions process a few years ago and being a smart and geeky teenager without obsessive parents is still a valid strategy.
I know there's some sort of VW reputation issue with fuel economy these days ;) but something like the latest Golf as an example of a "normal" car (you need to expand the Fuel Consumption category to see the numbers: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/golf-vii/which-model/engines...
These guys are jokers. A security firm that gets pwned by Anonymous...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/28/anonymous-stratfor-hack-10...

Stratfor is flattering the sensibilities of the military industrial complex that pays its bills.

> The greatest threat to the United States is its own tendency to retreat from international events.

Stratfor would embroil the US in more foreign wars, because the best thing that happened to US foreign policy in the last 15 years was Iraq...

These are the same people pushing for a Syrian intervention now. Peace time doesn't make anyone money, doesn't get any one promoted...

Their reading of China is laughable. While has China has debt issues, it is not analogous to Japan. With 1.3 billion people, it is more than an order of magnitude larger, for one thing.

China is actively colonizing the waters off the coasts of Vietnam and the Philippines, as well as expanding its space program. It is a rising, regional power attempting to revise the international order, much like Germany in the late 19th century. The US will need to strike a new balance of power with them. That rarely happens without war, sadly.

The fetishism of Russia plays to the fears of the Kremlinologists in the old guard. But Russia has a declining population, a declining GDP, and a second-rate military. Hard to imagine them as a challenger on anything more than a regional basis. This is not the Cold War anymore.

Did you notice there is not one mention of climate-driven migrations and disasters, which will hit the US and others with increasing violence? The Arab Spring and Syria were at least partially prompted by a drought-caused disastrous wheat harvest. Stratfor's failure to make valuable predictions about the future has a lot to do with its poor analysis of the present (even in 2011 when this was written.)

Lastly, because this is HN, I'll just say that these arm-chair analyses do not take into account the mutually reinforcing, exponential technological changes that will remake the world as we know it. The costs of solar energy are approaching zero; the capacities of narrow AI are increasingly superhuman; our ability to edit new life forms in to being, old diseases out of it, and generally augment ourselves, will make make these linear, ceteris paribus forecasts seem quaint.
A wonderful piece, almost read like a novel.

At the end, I couldn't help but try to derive some overall take-away. The best I could come up with was to cherish your friendships and always try to keep in touch. One concern I would have is whether or not today's internet-based culture could hinder this?
The way to write imperative style in OCaml is so painful that I'd expect people to just drop off on the way. I mean, it's nice that it's possible, but I don't think it's a reasonable migration path.
So I am clear, you are saying that it's not uncommon for an engineer at GOOG to be given $150-200k in stock every year on top of their salary?
Edit to add to the actual conversation: I guess this goes to show that even Europe suffers from regulatory capture.

Listen here boy, I'm from Texas [1] and them's fighten words!

/s?

1. Actually am from Texas.
Anyone accused of a crime has a fundamental right to confront the witnesses against. Even if the witness is a computer algorithm. In the United States this right should be protected by the Bill of Roghts. Protecting the financial feasibility of a company is no excuse to erode a fundamental right.
What do you use it for?
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He needs to watch more West Wing -- "If you don't like what they're asking you don't accept the premise of the question." In regards to his interview with Wolf.
Thanks for sharing. I've always just reflexively setup paid Google for Business accounts for my projects. Nice to know there are free options out there. Zoho Mail looks attractive for those side projects where you're paying out of pocket and you're not too sure how serious you're gonna take things :)
That 0.08 g/km figure is using the 'new european driving cycle' which features unrealistically low loads on the engine, engines are known to increase their NOx emissions quite a bit when under load.

Anyway, NOx is not the only gas that the EU is concerned about, C02 figured very large in the whole reduction program as well.
Slightly off-topic, but I wish media would stop using phrases like "scientists think" when reporting on a specific study without a general scientific consensus. "Scientists say global climate change is real" is completely fair though. It doesn't help science to give a false appearance of consensus, and likely leads to a public more willing to dismiss scientific evidence.

If this was a well-researched meta analysis that found a strong consensus, that would be different, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

This may not be the fault of the reporter, as often they don't get final say on the title. It would be marginally better to say "some scientists suggest". The conclusion of the article itself seems to suggest that the evidence is mixed.
Is this post 2.5? I thought (and I don't know the answer, hence why I'm asking) 2.5's interface was built on the Python API?

I tried doing some Python stuff with it in the 2.4 days and thought it was pretty poor as well, haven't tried since, but had (possibly incorrectly?) assumed 2.5 fixed this.
I find twice to be relatively outrageous, but both my mother and I having the same car (Toyota Yaris) from the same year with mine being a diesel and hers petrol the following is noticeable:

* I get about 1.25x the mpg in the diesel to her in the petrol. 1.5x compared to myself in the petrol (no mpg quotes because it depends on the type of driving)

* The torque is useful. I drive a 30 minute commute, mainly motorway. If I drive hers it is a noticably worse drive.

* For in town driving hers feels better every time. Easier to handle with no load (hauling something? Use the diesel), the diesel tricks me into speeding.

* Wet weather? Never had weather problems in either car.

So whilst I am definitely a less efficient driver than her I save a significant amount on fuel by having a diesel, and my calculation shows its several hundred a year better than if I had bought the petrol when I had the chance - more than covering the increased cost of the initial purchase.
Thank you, but I don't think it's impressive! It's still nearly an order of magnitude slower than memcpy(). But if we want simpler systems, I think doing experiments like this is a big part of how to get there.
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Hi i think bounceplan is just too expensive for what it does and you do not even have an apps for at least iOS & android.

I think in order for you to make it work make it as a service for travel agencies that can buy this and provide it to their clients as a bonus.

Or even lowering the price would help. I can't imagine somebody would pay 14$ for this kind of thing. 2$ per month is real but this ..

First of all you need to make people want to use your app. After that you can expect them to pay for it. But even stating 14$/m in pricing section can scare a lot of people.
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Please check crystal [0]. It has syntax inspired from ruby, types are automatically infered, and it supports method overloading and metaprogramming using compile time macros.

Simple Crystal programs are valid Ruby scripts. I recently implemented a protobuf library in Crystal[1], and while the code for benchmark[2] is 100% valid code (no explicit typing), it runs 10 times faster due to Crystal beeing compiled instead of interpreted.

[0] http://crystal-lang.org/

[1] https://github.com/teodor-pripoae/protokol

[2] https://gist.github.com/teodor-pripoae/da785e3985a69555040e