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The regulations require certain levels of emissions to be met under all conditions. The tests exist to verify compliance, but the regulations don't merely require passing the tests. When you optimize solely for the test and lie on your paperwork, you shouldn't be surprised when you get smacked down. I strongly doubt that if a US company did this and got smacked down by the EU that any "economical war" would ensue.
Lobbyist spending is generally just lumped into Other, I don't think I've ever seen it split out on an S-1.
Yep, his site is down.
If you pay for a new vessel, the owner will resell the old one and it'll get reused. What has happened in recent years is that (mainly) Europe and U.S. has employed stricter regulations. If you enforce this strictly, then it'll become more economical to do a retrofit. Note that lower SOx is quite difficult, retrofits are mainly done to save on bunker costs.
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This doesn't seem to make much sense. The article treats neighborhoods like islands, and doesn't analyze the inflow of residents.

Anyone familiar with living in an area with rapidly increasing rent should understand the results here: people move between neighborhoods at generally equal rates all things being equal. In a gentrifying situation, people of less means will try to stay longer because they know they won't be able to get back in later and enjoy the same safety, amenities, etc. Rent control helps with this.

But when they choose or are forced to move, the people coming in to replace them are higher-income, as opposed to people in the same income bracket, which this article doesn't address.

The way the article analyzes the situation, two working-class neighborhoods exchanging 50% of their low-income population are experiencing more "gentrification" than a neighborhood where 10% of low-income people are replaced by high-income people every year. I don't think anybody thinks of that result as a reasonable measure of gentrification.
Great video. Thanks
As much as I can see the need for disruption in the taxi industry, I can't help but feel like we're going to relearn some lesson from a hundred years ago as to why the regulations formed in the first place.
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If you assigned engineers to disassemble your competitor's product to figure out how it worked, you would put yourself at grave risk of patent suits if you let them use that knowledge in any way in developing your own products. There's a reason clean room design is used. With something mechanical like an engine, that means reverse engineering is probably not helpful enough to be worth doing.
Does anyone know if the probe lost five years of expected lifetime due to its five-year delay (original orbital insertion expected back in 2010) or whether it was able to effectively "hibernate" or otherwise conserve its fuel and energy since then?
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VW is actually stating there is an in-house conspiracy but the top level management didn't know about it.
What happens when a Somali pirate captures the ship between seaports?
> capitalism seems the best method for controlling innate human corruption

Capitalism seems better than past failures. But it is surely a local maximum. We have thousands of years of social evolution in front of us. Experiments have hardly been exhaustive, and material conditions seem to be changing faster than ever.
Just found out about it as well - and it seems way better than any of the others. It'll probably default to being my standard front-end framework. It abstracts just the right parts of things.
If you have the resources, do it!
Hard to want to do business with someone that's looking to screw me over at every opportunity. That's the problem with america today a handshake don't mean what it used to.
It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.
We're all working with partial information, but my guess, based on the reporting, is that the basic engine design didn't work out as expected, so they tried to "fix it in the mix" with the ECM.
I feel like this kind of fact-checking is one of the most important reasons for reading HN comments. Before I read this comment, I hadn't thought to question the age of the studies cited; my logic was that the author had cited something, and so had at least gone to that much effort. This gave me pause.
Isn't this just CGI, straight out of the 90s, but with a needless cycle through JSON?
Yeah if you think of it from the perspective of the federal IRS I bet they are getting nervous about so much of the economy going freelance.As an employee Im a sitting duck for the tax man, as a contractor with my own business my income is far less preductabke however the IRS inevitably and legally gets a much smaller piece of my pie.
Imagine the costs of maintaining and operating a nuclear ship, compared to the relative ease of making a big floaty box and dropping the cheapest "efficient" engine you can into it. You could push those things out the door pretty regularly, and get anyone to turn the key and push it around.

Just the regulations involved with manufacturing and fueling probably makes nuclear cargo ships an economic impossibility, forget about running them across the ocean.
No, the universe Newton described was falsified. In the Newtonian universe, information (including gravitation and electrical attraction) travelled instantly.

Kuhn talks about this concept quite a bit in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". Relativity was not merely an expansion of the Newtonian explanation of the universe. It was a complete change of our understanding of how the universe worked, even though relativity reduces to the same equations as Newtonian mechanics at low velocities and low masses.
This is exactly correct. I flagged the submission.
From the wiki[0]:

> This required placing the probe into "hibernation" or safe mode to prolong its life beyond the original 4.5-year design. JAXA expressed some confidence in keeping the probe operational, pointing to reduced battery wear, since the probe was then orbiting the Sun instead of its intended Venusian orbit

>At a press conference on 10 December, officials reported that Akatsuki's engines fired for less than three minutes, far short of what was required to enter into Venus orbit

>Three peri-Venus orbital maneuvers were executed on 1 November,[11] 10 and 21 November 2011 using the RCS thrusters. A total delta-V of 243.8 m/s was imparted to the spacecraft. Because the RCS thrusters' specific impulse is low compared to the specific impulse of the OME, the previously planned insertion into low Venusian orbit became impossible. Instead, the new plan was to place the probe in a highly elliptical orbit with an apoapsis of a hundred thousand kilometers and a periapsis of a few thousand kilometers from Venus.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_(spacecraft)#Orbit_in...
So you disagree with his style, not his substance, and even you admit he's getting things right.

I didn't know tone policing/tone trolling was such an important part of philosophical discourse.
I haven't yet read the last volume of Capital, so I am unprepared to take on the line of discussion in regards to the tendency for the rate of profit to fall.

Nonetheless, I fail to see how the simple arguments I initially made are affected by this diversion, and I fail to see how your analysis of price-setting mechanisms refutes the profit motive.
Exactly and then people wonder why the economy is not growing enough:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686732

I think two big contributing factors are the so called "active investors" and corporate taxes.

Active investors force companies to optimize for short term gain which of course hurts growth.

Corporate taxes are too low. The private sector is not generating enough growth and to fix that the government does the exact opposite of what it should do. It hands the private sector more capital instead of taking it away. The private sector is already at a loss with the capital it already has at its deposition. I bet most of it goes into speculative Wall Street financial vehicles and I do not think any of it ever gets to entities that are short on capital or it goes to the wrong entities that are short on capital because most academics would be more than happy to get 0.01% of the capital that goes to social media startups.
Not really.

Uber is behaving extremely anti-competitive, as far as directly calling Lyft rides and then cancelling as soon as the car arrives during important days (like Christmas) hundreds of times.

Uber has been fighting against other competitors, too, with predatory pricing, or by directly trying to use the regulations (that uber itself breaks) against competitors.

The barrier to entry for uber competitors is only going up since uber exists in several countries.
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I did something very similar with XML in Ruby. All the libraries are either event-based (SAX, which is awful for actual parsing code) or snarf the whole document into RAM.

I wrote a simple SAX wrapper [1] that applies a (so far, extremely simplified) subset of XPath to the stream, then parses each match into a DOM using Nokogiri. Works exceedingly well, though it's not faster than reading everything into RAM.

[1] https://github.com/t11e/nokogiri-simple-streaming
Thanks again!

Isn't it ironic that GW2Armory is actually an AngularJS app using Redux?
Jacques, the previous date is based on this document from 1998 ( http://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/media/T&E... ), which states: "Car manufacturers can use modem electronic equipment to adapt the engine to any type of test cycle. They can even tell the computer of the car how to recognise when the car is being driven according to a specific test-cycle and adjust the combustion accordingly. It was this kind of software that six truck manufacturers, including two European firms (Volvo and Renault), recently used in the United States to defeat the EPA's pollution control. As a result emissions of nitrogen oxides from highway driving increased by 300 per cent. "
Perhaps somebody knows better than I do, but I'm pretty sure Unity only make the tools, which is a very different proposition! They will have the large files, but not the iteration.

Storing large files somewhere outside the working copy is only part of the solution. Working with artists is going to be a bit painful unless you have centralized file locking, or some other self-managing means of preventing two people modifying the same file by accident. In theory, you could use merge tools for the binary files that artists manipulate, but in practice, these tools don't seem to exist.

(I can't speak for hg - but an issue with git is that you really have to have a good mental model of how it works to use it effectively. This is something programmers like - or, failing that, are at least practised at doing. But it's really not the sort of thing artists seem to generally enjoy. Certainly very few of those I've worked with...)
When it comes to support, Google isn't doing anything exceptional either.
It's an interesting idea. Is there more information about the app and it's development?
Indeed. And it is troubling to see only VW being targetted here, and with extremely high potential fines shown in the media.

If it turns out that other competitors did the same, VW – and even other German companies, due to the hit the brand "Made in Germany" got from this – might be able to sue the US via ISDS for lost sales in hundreds of billions.
Dimensions in Physics are like indirections in C. One extra level of indirection fixes most problems in C. Same for Physics. The challenge is in explaining with less dimensions.
The roughest problems are those that emerge in interfaces between individual tribes within an organization. Information loss can be very easy and very pernicious in those cases.
Also interesting to know that someone can go through 104 MRI per year safely.
Of course, they could have fooled the compliance department using the same techniques used to fool regulators in the U.S., i.e. the exact same capability they'd built into the software. And they could probably have managed to trick engineering into creating that capability in the software by labeling it with a different and seemingly legitimate reason for existing. So I think you could plausibly get it down to just upper management, but I agree that there is no way engineers knocked this off by themselves.
I don't think it's fair even call singularity stuff a cult. I would agree with calling it religious though.

But cult-like at least to me implies more negative connotations. Isolating people from their friends & families. Abusive behavior towards its members. Stuff like that. Compounds where people live etc...

Has this singularity "cult" even hurt anyone?
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While I understand your point, this does still happen with competitors products.
That's overly pessimistic. In many heavily regulated industries, businesses run internal audits that are not officially mandated because they realize that changing things at your own pace for your own reasons is a lot easier and looks better to the public than being forced to change something in 3 months because you failed a required audit.
Another cheap rPi alternative that doesn't solve any new problems. What I'd like to see is one of these with a few SATA ports and ECC memory. Then you'd have a viable low-cost, low-power server, in a market that is sorely lacking those things considering the closest alternative is one of the newer Intel Atom boards that costs upwards of $250.
It's ridiculous, how they've tried to shift blame. But forget compliance departments and everything else, the situation is actually very simple: the company made money on the cars they sold, so the company is responsible for how the cars were built.
Perhaps the world is sufficiently different from a hundred years ago that we don't need the regulations anymore.
I follow @Damn_Jehu and I've been talking with him about it. What I find scary about the situation is the fact that if all that "dead money" ever gets into the wider economy you can kiss the current capital valuations goodbye. It could possibly result in the largest devaluation in history (larger than the Great Depression and the several panics/scares before then combined).

For me this is amusing in a way since I work in financial services as a developer. So if/when that shoe drops my job is first to go for sure. Oh joy!
No?

The ECJ (European Court of Justice) even referred to the "Standard practice of disassembling competitors cars and using the gained knowledge in your own cars" while making a landmark decision that declared the right for decompiling non-negotiable.
You could buy the old vessel and scrap it, but I hear you.
> the drivers are employees by any sort of logical duck test

I strongly disagree and think this is very open for debate. Drivers set their own hours and use their own equipment. They can even simultaneously use another app (ex. Lyft).

I really don't see how it constitutes an employment relationship. In fact, it seems to match all the typical characteristics of contractors.
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you should have said and that's just the shit I did...you should have seen the crazy shit the other people were doing...lol...
You're talking about positive feedback. Negative feedback is also a thing, and it doesn't lead to instability.
I don't disagree.
I grew up learning to program on a c128d. I'd love to buy my daughter a dedicated computer for learning to program, to make things and play on.

But give it its own LCD.
I believe shin splints is a form of compartment syndrome in the tough sinewy tissue between the tibia and fibula. I had to stop running every day after the last bout. Took 4 months to recover from and by that time all the good work had been undone. I try mix it up more these days with biking and when in better shape also soccer (though that can be terrible for the knees too).

The reason I quit training was because a guy in my track group had the same problem and he didn't quit. It resulted in a badly fractured ankle which took him out for a whole season. I hadn't met him before (I was new to the group) but he turned up to training one day to say hi and told me his story which was a bit of a wake up call. We were training very hard at the time, ~15 hour track time (including warm ups) and ~15 hours weights per week.
How do they legally get less of your money? Unless you are engaging in some type of tax fraud, this really isn't true.
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Why is this? The marginal cost of electronic components must be miniscule compared to the production costs of the automobile as a whole...
The article linked by thesimon states "UPU member postal services are obliged to exchange an IRC for postage, but are not obliged to sell them" so it looks like this would work. They cost 2€ here in Germany ($2.20) compared to $1.20 for a USPS First-Class Mail International Letter, so it's not that bad. Really cool!
> Uber is behaving extremely anti-competitive, as far as directly calling Lyft rides and then cancelling as soon as the car arrives during important days (like Christmas) hundreds of times.

I heard about the recruitment tactics, but I've never heard about holiday cancellations.

Do you have any evidence of this?
What if I don't want to be an employee? What if I like setting my own hours? Seems like there's a lack of empathy on some accounts to force everyone into one category.
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apparently middleware (cgi) is just an additional feature here
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http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...

And there are many more sources, this is just the first one can find on Google.
This is an Internet age Ponzi scheme.
It's not cynicism: it's the reality of a Compliance group in a regulated organization.

I used to work in the FDA-regulated field of medical devices. Because of my job position, I had frequent interaction with our Regulatory Affairs people. They are extremely conservative. Their job, as he stated, is to protect the company's best interests by making sure the FDA doesn't shut us down.

That may seem cynical, but enlightened self-interest works in everyone's favor here. If there is a perceived problem with a device, the first concern is going to be "is there a Patient Hazard?" because nothing will cause the FDA to show up unannounced faster than that.

The engineers' job is to keep Regulatory Affairs happy; Regulatory Affairs's job is to keep the FDA happy; the FDA's job is to keep patients safe. If everyone does their assigned task, the end result is exactly as desired.
And this algorithm has required hundreds or thousands of previous attempts at machine learning (be these and other researchers) to get to the point where it could replicate that human feature.
Liverpool Street actually - I suppose my initial comment was inaccurate/exaggerated now I think about it. Either way, those buildings are my favourite part of the journey, as far as scenery.
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or loud parties/people for that matter.
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It's probably going to be difficult to get feedback from the Hacker News community for an application embedded in Facebook due to the side effects that Facebook activity has on a person's account.

This may indicate the drawbacks of taking a dependency on Facebook.

Good luck.
That's because his username doesn't imply that he is one.
It'll be more acceptable to do that once there's a majority of electric or hydrogen cars on the roads. Otherwise those enclosed roads are air handling nightmares.
It seems they approached the problem with a new solution: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sql-proxy

,,The Cloud SQL Proxy provides secure access to your Cloud SQL Second Generation instances. ... It is especially useful when connecting from clients with dynamic IP address, such as Managed VM and Google Container Engine applications."
> and even you admit he's getting things right.

I said that I occasionally agree with his conclusions. I mostly don't. But I'm not the ultimate judge of correctness, and I can't give the final ruling on them one way or another (that's not how philosophy works). However:

> I didn't know tone policing/tone trolling was such an important part of philosophical discourse.

Not tone but process. Yudkowsky may be correct in the same way that the pope may be correct (BTW, I find both to occasionally raise a though-provoking issue), or both may inspire (different) people, but that makes neither of them philosophers because what they do isn't philosophy. I'll put it another way: your grandmother may make you soup when you're sick and it may (or may not) actually help you, but that doesn't mean she's practicing medicine.

The mere discussion, however, of "tone policing/tone trolling" is very much in line with what Yudkowsky does, which may best be described as expressing a certain political ideology regarding science, philosophy, knowledge, public discourse etc.. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their opinions and their ideologies, but that alone is not enough to make them philosophers, even if they try to keep their arguments consistent.
That is a uncharitable caricature of pron's point. pron's main point was about methodology, not style. That is, pron is claiming that he is not rigorous. Since rigor is fundamental to practicing philosophy, it does cut to the substance of the work, not the style.
As observed above, they will face very little traffic, because most commuters are godless heathens who are snug in their beds on Sunday morning. There is nothing wrong with travelling by bicycle in the street in general, but certainly even less wrong with doing so near a church on Sunday morning. Bike lanes with no nearby churches wouldn't have this special rule.
Well, the first CEO, who resigned in April, admitted already to personally pushing the whole issue.

It was his personal project (he’s been involved with some engineering for quite some time) to use that specific type of engine, which provides mileage of up to 270mpg in real world usage, but produces NOx in amounts that Satan would be jealous of.

So, that’s it.
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Personally, I wouldn't be. Just adding a voice :) The web interface is good enough for me.
In terms of irritants, but not as greenhouse gases, which is what the title implies.
Right, so including how close in time were those generations happening(compared to the actual one), then that diet would be still valid?