skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to the current (Tier 4) standards, the Tier 3 standards had already reduced NOx and particulate emissions to the the point that it's misleading to characterize those engines as "filling the air with pollution". Now that CO2 has been declared as pollution, the improved thermal efficiency of diesels over gasoline engines probably means that they were already "better" than gas under some operating conditions. Even ignoring their superior thermal efficiency, Tier 3 diesels achieved similar results to gasoline engines when both were operated at high load (Say, running down the highway at 80mph). This was accomplished with technologies that, while they added complexity and cost to the engine (such as direct injection, EGR, DOC, VVT, advanced FIE, improved combustion chamber design, increased compression ratio, advances in turbochargers), did not compromise the utility and safety of the device using the engine.

As you have suggested, many manufacturers will probably move back to gasoline engines in some of the smaller applications ... but they will moved to air-cooled V-Twins for many of these, which fall into the same power range as the diesels they replace (~20-40HP). Air-cooled gasoline engines are not clean beasts, and this move will probably actually end up being a net environmental loss.

Have a look at the chart on page 2 of this: http://www.mtu-online.com/uploads/tx_templavoila/WhitePaper_...

The additional NOx reductions achieved by tier 4 are extremely small compared to the cost & trouble caused by the technologies used to achieve them ... the previous tech (up to Tier 3) was fairly reliable & had already achieved most of that was had in the overall journey from unregulated -> Tier 4.

Also, almost none of the garden tractors sold are diesel, because in that application it doesn't make sense - those engines aren't run at high load for long periods of time. However, for a compact tractor that may well be run all day long in high heat with a demanding attachment, a diesel actually does make a lot of sense - there is a large environmental cost to dumping a machine with 5-600 hours on it because the engine gave out prematurely (which happens to entirely too many of the garbage lawn & garden tractors sold at box stores, despite their relatively easy lives).

FWIW, I let my lawn die in the summer and probably mow it fewer times in an entire season than many folks do in a month ... living in the sticks with nobody to judge me has its benefits :) You did get reasonably close on the size, though. My dad and I live close enough together to share a tractor, and we have 26 acres, a goat, five horses, and sundry other critters between the two of us (and our wives, of course).
Which is how they have to authority to regulate things.
The response can be found here:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/03200.html

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 10:30:41 EST

On Wed, Oct 28 2015, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Linus,
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 10:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
>
> I don't want to give up on that this easily:
>
> In future I would like to see an interface like this. It is often hard
> to do correct overflow/wrap-around tests and it would be great if there
> are helper functions which could easily and without a lot of thinking be
> used by people to remove those problems from the kernel.

I agree - proper overflow checking can be really hard. Quick, assuming a
and b have the same unsigned integer type, is 'a+b<a' sufficient to
check overflow? Of course not (hint: promotion rules). And as you say,
it gets even more complicated for signed types.

A few months ago I tried posting a complete set of fallbacks for older
compilers (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/19/358), but nothing really
happened. Now I know where Linus stands, so I guess I can just delete
that branch.

Rasmus
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Activision Blizzard Buys Candy Crush Maker King for $5.9B
Ahhhh. Got it. Thanks!
Or md5...
Activision Buys Candy Crush Saga Publisher King for $5.9B
maybe a camera drone would see the one in front as an obstacle and constantly try to turn away from it :)
Maybe because they expected more, based on their parents' experience.
if i could sum things up, basically the author views the actual research/prototyping as the largest value the students can provide as opposed to becoming skilled systems programmers, i think it makes a lot of sense. a lot of counter-arguments seem to be in favor of putting those students through their paces in a bootcamp style of fashion where they struggle and learn about the intricacies and nuances of command line tools and development environments before they actually start writing programs, also a fair argument. however, i see the two arguments as orthogonal, his goal is to produce research scientists that discover new algorithms and new areas of research, not software engineers that work necessarily at twitter or facebook, etc. for the author, i suggest using some tools for building reproducible development environments like vagrant (mac os x). for things like command line option permutations and drudgery, perhaps creating some wrappers, scripts, or tools to automate some of these steps would be worth the investment and potentially a one time effort, it seems that copy/pasting scripts seemed to help. often times things are created out of necessity, frameworks or higher order tools evolve out of these things. at the end of the day, developing software should evolve, just like languages, where you have higher order languages that start to remove the lower level details and complexities so that you can focus on the bigger picture (e.g. java, springsource, jquery, cloud foundry, etc).

for the record, i went through all the bullshittery at one point in my career, and don't regret any of the countless, mind-numbing hours spent trying to figure things out, but i don't work in the field of direct research.
Data Mining Reveals the Extent of China’s Ghost Cities
> people willingly participate in much more dangerous activities than breathing excessive NOX fumes

What does that have to do with anything? If Alice chooses to wrestle sharks in her spare time, that's completely irrelevant to Bob being forced to breathe toxic fumes.
Thanks! I was a big Subspace/Continuum player up until about 5 years ago. Mostly played on Trench Wars in the continuum days. The skills are surprisingly transferrable to TagPro.
That is _why_ we are "fighting" there, really. It is mostly about handouts to military contractors. Not just tanks, but also logistics (charging the Army $80 for a load of laundry), side projects like gas stations, power stations etc.

The bombing, killing and propaganda surrounding it is just there as an excuse to transfer many hundreds of billions of dollars from tax payers to a select group of companies.
"The share prices I'm being given are stated as a fact based on this valuation"

If the company multiplies in value, and VC funds' liquidation preferences are 'non-participating preferred', then the liquidation preferences won't have any effect, and each of your shares will be worth the same as each of theirs. (Oh, and this assumes they don't have any anti-dilution protection.)

But, the company's value going up by a multiple isn't a sure thing, so your shares are probably worth less.

"Should I ask about liquidation preferences? % of company that the # of RSUs I'm being offered represents?"

If you want to know how much your shares are worth, then yes.
Indeed. Microsoft paid it's first dividend only in 2003, a good 17 years after it IPO'ed. http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft/dividend-history

There's this too:
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/goog/dividend-history
Linux kernel patch proposed to enable builtin overflow checkers
Or, just click the link that says "web" for the story, then click the top link.
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this made me think of different ways of how a chat based travel concierge service can be of great value. It also made me think of how many different interesting business models can be put in place based on this simple, yet innovative idea. If you manage to solve the scaling problem, you might have something very useful and interesting
Now I've got no idea where the $1,700 comes from - I was assuming it was ~$100 worth of typical rc flying wing, with $1500+ worth of cameras and computers on board...
When you have a problem, and software exists that can solve it, the general case is that the software fixes a class of problems, and your specific problem lies within that class. The "bullshittery" here follows inevitably, simply because:

(A) you need to tell the software what specific problem you want solved

(B) nobody has invented a One True Way of doing (A) that's perfect enough to make everyone abandon all the other ways of doing it.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything more complex than that going on here.
The right angles and hard edges seem to make it easier for my eyes to get the right focus setting.

I agree; when I first used an LCD, the best part of the experience was how sharp everything looked. On a CRT the pixels were somewhat blurry no matter what, but the LCD made the pixels actually look like little squares and it felt like my eyes were in focus. I can stand antialiasing on large fonts but small text looks better to me without AA, and subpixel AA just makes me feel dizzy since my eyes seem to be continually trying to focus to get those sharp edges.

Misc-Fixed is my favourite font too, although I've modified mine with a slashed zero to make 0 and O more distinctive.
Snapdeal is an indian e-commerce site. Competitor to Flipkart. Not ad-funded.
I have a few guesses.

I think video DACs used to ship with lookup tables, so they'd be 10-bit internally, but you could only feed them 8-bit data. SGI could always throw more money at things, they had expensive hardware.

The DVI standard only deals with 8-bit samples. HDMI and DisplayPort support 10-bit samples, but they're newer. Most desktops used DVI for digital video until not that long ago.

Software support would be a lot of work back in the day when applications drew to a single framebuffer. These days, you usually have the applications draw to dedicated buffers, and the compositor draws the screen. This makes it easier to mix 8-bit buffers with buffers of other depths.

Typically, you'll want to do 10-bit with hardware support, because it's just so much faster. Software is more geared towards 8-bit or 16-bit, but GPUs will support 10-10-10-2 in a single 32-bit word. They'll also be much better at working with 16-16-16-16 or 8-8-8-8, and mixing all of them together.

Then there's all the software support.

(Note: I've remember editing 16-bit files in Photoshop ages ago, but they'd be displayed at 8-bit, and the main difference was reduced banding after extended processing.)
What a rubbish article.. It doesn't fly for a second under copyright law. Google is entirely within their rights doing what they're doing. The onus isn't on Google to detect the infringing content.

For anyone interested in copyright and legal issues, I'd recommend checking out techdirt.com. They have a great starter section at https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=techdirt+feature, and they cover legal, copyright, patent, surveillance and all sorts of related topics. High quality journalism.
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You can't teach someone to read or write without learning the alphabet.

The command-line is the alphabet. You may have flowery notions of the wonderful poetry you're going to write, but if you can't spell a word the real bullshit is to think you're an awesome poet in the first place.
Dude. You opened with:

> nosh is, by far, the single most masterfully architected and carefully researched toolkit for init, process management, supervision (also with auxiliary utilities for user mode VTs and UCSPI) out there at present, trailing only with s6. The FreeBSD community will do itself a great favor by adopting it over the NextBSD experiment.

Isn't your statement cognitively devoid of meaning without giving a frame of reference, methodology, heuristic or other a priori anchor to give a reasonable comparison between multiple software architectures?
If it isn't, shouldn't basic human courtesy and common sense lead you to assume that 2trill2spill's question should be interpreted in whatever frame of reference etc. you were using when making your initial claim of nosh's superiority over all other options?

I can't believe people are not downvoting you. Everyone should be downvoting you for the uncharitable, rude, and hypocritical way you are approaching this discussion, regardless of any technical points.
"No problem, I'll revert it all." - direct quote from the so-called "prima donna".
There has already been some comments on that message. Unless you are saying Linus is always correct? Or should people be fearful and not want to say anything at all to him? Looks a bit that way.
The problem with CU isn't the 1st Amendment, it's corporate personhood and the press.

It's easy to argue that corporations and unions don't deserve free speech as their directors, employees and members are all entitled to free speech individually.

However the press is different. Nobody, rightly so, wants to limit the press to say and print whatever they like (so long as it's not slander/libel) and today's press is made up of corporations.

How do we keep a free press and silence other corporations?
1. We had office space in Oak Park, blocks from where we live, for a cheap 1-year lease, but we rarely used it; we might as well just work from home. But working from home hurt our productivity and quality of life.

2. The WW space we're in is in one of the best and most accessible locations in Chicago --- west loop --- this is a strategic thing with WW: they can buy space in bulk and for long-term commits and thus get reasonable prices in places where we can't.

3. Crucially: WW offers m-t-m leases. The 1-year lease for OP space wasn't a great use of our funds, and a 1-month lease de-risks it for us.

4. There are only two of us actually in Chicago. Matasano would never have used WW space; we had a series of offices in The Monadnock Building in south loop.

5. We have a private office in the building.

6. Office space in Chicago is extremely cheap. The WW space is nicer than any SFBA office space I've been in, includes utilities and Internet, and is price-competitive with the crappy space we leased in Oak Park.

Long story short: WW is much swanker than anything we could rent at the same price. That could change, especially if the space fills up.

The downside of WW is that it's incredibly douchey (ours seems to have a Kanye West theme). I can get over than in exchange for comfortable couches and fast Internet.
To elaborate on the nature of Call of Duty's microtransactions I mentioned above:

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has Supply Drops (http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Supply_Drop ). At the game's release, you get Supply Drops every few multiplayer games, which have chances of dropping cosmetic gear for your character, or weapons with statistical modifiers. (naturally, you mostly got cosmetic gear). While the weapons w/ modifiers were technically balance, some weapon modifiers synergize a little too well with a given weapon and they became the most-used weapons in the game.

Then Infinity Ward added the ability to buy as many Supply Drops as you want for $1.99 each.

(Later, they did implement daily challenges for a bonus Supply Drops along with Prestige challenges for the good weapons, in order to make things more fair.)
I prefer the initial communication to be coding test. That way I hold a good chance, as I am not that much confident in conversation.
LOLZ @ this comment, most amusing thing I have read all day :)
Yeah but the shell actually provides a mechanism that allows you to FORGET all the bullshit -- functions.

I look up commands on the Internet, and then put them into single line shell script functions with a name. And then I write a comment about how it works, and check it into a git repo.

Then I never have to remember the exact invocation. I just type my nice function name, which is consistently named, and describes in my own words what the command does.

It's odd to me to see my coworkers and others very slowly coming up with a long command line, getting it wrong, very slowly correcting it, etc. I don't have time for that. I just grep my shell scripts directory for something close, copy and paste, edit it in my editor, and then run it.

It's very quick and puts no strain on the mind. Actually I find enjoyable to put my own names on arcane command line syntax.
I've interacted with KVO for years before iOS ever came out and I can honestly say it's just the worst. It's stringly typed with zero compile-time validation so as soon as your model key paths change your app breaks in the least expected places. Then throw bindings in the mix and your key path constants are in your nibs too! God have mercy.

I'm not the least bit surprised they discarded bindings in iOS, then (effectively) discarded KVO in Swift.

Next time, try playing with creating an observer protocol:

@protocol MyThingObserver
@optional
- (void)myThing:(MyThing *)thing didChangeIntegerValue:(NSUInteger)newValue;
- (void)numberOfItemsDidChangeInThing:(MyThing *)thing;
@end

Then you have strong typing, compile-time validation, additional context, and plays much nicer with the land of tomorrow (Swift).

Coupled with immutable value types, you're going to make your own life way easier, I promise.
For what it's worth, I'd say that the true winner of the PHC is scrypt: Half the candidates were just minor tweaks to scrypt, and nobody achieved any substantive security increase over what scrypt provides.
Does it have support for local (or remote) Plex Media Servers? I presently use PlexConnect via a DNS override. Does this obviate all of the present shenanigans?
Seriously? I can understand if people do it a few times and ignore him, but on the first occasion someone makes an attempt at submitting some code they honestly believed would be helpful and he craps on them from a great height? Charming.
It occurs to me that this is an interesting outlet for all these US megacorps with tons of money overseas that they're unwilling to take back to the US for tax avoidance reasons -- can they purchase non-US companies with that money without repatriating it?
I disagree.

Even the ACLU supported the Citizen's United decision. [1]

[1] - https://www.aclu.org/aclu-and-citizens-united
I met Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO) as an Intern at Activision in 2008 and I asked him specifically if they were considering getting into "casual games" which were just starting to come into their own.

I'll never forget his answer: "No one has figured out how to really make money with casual games yet, but once someone does, we'll just buy them."
On the Value of Command-Line “Bullshittery”
Or, more likely, they can't get involved for legal reasons. If they took steps to block the easy stuff, an arms race would ensue, and the content providers would never be satisfied with the performance being provided for free by Google. The content providers would always demand stricter enforcement, and could threaten to sue for copyright infringement regardless of merit.
xterm actually does support ReGIS and Sixel graphics! However, it must be compiled with --enable-regis-graphics` (or `--enable-sixel-graphics`); and it's likely that your distro didn't compile it with those flags. If they did, you can get ReGIS support by running xterm in VT340 mode (`-ti vt340`).
Yeah, nothing at all personal about:

...anybody who thinks that the above is

(a) legible
(b) efficient (even with the magical compiler support)
(c) particularly safe

is just incompetent and out to lunch.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497381
This explains half the comments I see these days on HN. More concerned with defending their point and criticizing people who disagree, than a genuine attempt at finding something actually true.
Not sure how you tied capitalism into that
From the perspective of a person whose standard for an operating system is "zero invasion of privacy", there's nothing particularly inflammatory about the article.

It's fine if your expectations are less rigorous; you simply aren't part of the article's intended audience.
China takes on Boeing, Airbus with new passenger jet
Instagram star quits '2D life' to reveal another story behind images
Theoretically, yes — 10 bpp increases the number of distinct shades from 256 per channel to 1024. So with a 5K display at 10 bpp, each shade would be repeated for five physical pixels.

In reality, no — the differences in brightness between each shade are going to be too subtle to notice.

Most sources of egregious banding usually comes from 8 bit source material manipulated or "colour managed" to an 8 bit output product. If the source material was 10+ bits then banding would be far less noticeable, even if the final output is still 8 bits.
It doesn't separate political spending from political speech at all.
That Self Control app is good for me, thanks!
It looks great as!

The only suggestion I would have is spend a little bit more time on the design of the landing page. Space out the header, and center the blocks.

I know its usually the last thing to do, but it simply inspires more confidence for your potential users.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497381
The key paths are still stringly-typed so maintainability is a nightmare :(
It isn't a one-size-fits-all market, and lumping together "marketing" with the industrial sales funnel does a disservice to the numerous games that used other marketing techniques, on their own or accompanied by a traditional push.

That doesn't mean that marketing isn't important - if your goal is commercial then it really should be up in that 60% of developer time range - but the way in which you do it requires at least as much design thinking as making the game. The whole premise of the game needs built in sales value or else you're part of the crowd, fighting to break out.

Most of the tricks you can do with advertising and production values only reduce reasons for people to say "no" to a game. They don't make people say "yes", and if nobody says "yes" then all you can do is churn people through the sales funnel, because your game doesn't and never will solve anyone's hair-on-fire problem.
Funny, when i started reading this I was thinking that most of these dudes whom killed themselves had adverse relations with their partners. Then my boy called me about an argument he had with his wife, about her instigating him with, "why are you mad all the time".

funny.
And now she is on The Guardian's front page: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/03/instagram-star-...
It's not a stretch to say that Gore would not have filled his cabinet with Neoconservatives. He would not have.
Remember, we're talking about the diesels. The "Teutonic Porsche engineers" are working on the sports cars.