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> Yes, but in this case compliance is quite difficult.

Agreed. It's highly unlikely that the Compliance department could have detected what the engineers had done, short of having someone audit the code, line by line, or inventing a test to check the emissions while the car was moving. Based on my experience in the financial sector, Compliance departments don't work like that - if someone really wants to cheat or circumvent the rules, there's a good chance they'll be able to conceal it from Compliance, at least for a while.

People are responsible for their own actions, even when their job title is "engineer".
And the different measurement procedures and conditions are exactly how the "discrepancy" was found.

It seems there was, up to that point, no interest in doing the tests "under the real driving conditions." And then there is a "shock" that the engine during the test runs optimized for the given test.
Cloudapp deleted the image from too much traffic. Sorry.
I haven't been there but I've heard Hong Kong is a bit like this. In a YouTube video, some people were championing that it's been 3 weeks since the touched the ground.
It seems a modicum of regulatory creativity would result in a marvelous new invention: a bike lane that is open to parking on Sunday mornings. This would inconvenience approximately zero cyclists, since Sunday morning is a time of low traffic.
Man, the layout bails out of side-by-side columns at 1056px wide, and the on-screen-nav only makes it down to 990px.

Good use of Open Sans, though.
That show you're referring to is still going, currently going through some filler episodes but it should be back to canon in the new year. The next generation has just started as well.
Kowloon Dog City.
There are a few buildings like that. Near the barbican there's a massive building that is built over the road. There are a few more dotted around.
Thunderbird is / was probably the last comprehensive desktop mail client that enabled ordinary users to decouple themselves from e-mail providers.

Unfortunately Mozilla [ com | org ] have shackled themselves to Googlemail internally, so seem to have abandoned any aspirations to fight for openness in the domain of e-mail.
Someone is going to write a book about how backwards and stupid person to person communications were from the year 1990 to the year 2020 at the earliest.

We have all these proprietary awful protocols meant to lock you into an app or a platform, and threw away standards years ago. We "trust" proprietary services with security while ignoring the existence of decades old proven open secure communications like OTR, mainly because the proprietary vendors want to shove their crap down everyones throat to be able to read all their communications, or in telegrams case profit off buzzword security rather than real security. And the joke is it is working fantastically. Someone wrote a non-fiction novel on doublethink and were the setting.
I've got bad news about the engineers as well...
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As of 2012, their salary cap was 127k for all employees--even the CEO: Karp: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Palantir-attract-talent-if-it... http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/killer-app/

As of 2014, their salary cap was 137k & 15k bonus: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/unlocking-secrets...

Perhaps those numbers are average or even below average for the Bay Area. Furthermore remember those are global caps, so unless you are in the top pay grade in the company, you'd likely make less, I assume.
I'd like to see physical, programmable knobs and sliders that resemble the traditional car dashboard of yore.

If your preference is top-left knob turns on radio and controls volume, for example, why should you have to relearn it? Just jack your phone into the charging cradle and "poof!" all your preferences are synchronized and the knobs do the right thing.

Seat adjustments, rear view mirrors, and steering wheel height could also be automatically synched, along with your preferred radio and music presets. You and your spouse or whoever else drives the car won't have to keep readjusting these things, as my wife and I have to do twice a day.
Seems like you are saying the same thing, if the law is to be considered a liability.
> wishes there were still cows in land immediately adjacent to the nation's capital city.

Considering how important and influential the beef industry is that's not a terrible idea.
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Ask HN: Bought manufacturing biz – how to bring into modern age?
I'm in process of completing an acquisition of a 30 year old manufacturing business. 9 employees. Machine tools, some of which are CNC, some aren't. A bit over $1M in revenue. (Single product type, but each product is customized for the end user. Sorry for anonymity but not done with purchase yet.)

This business has not been brought into modern age. Manual hand drawn designs for the products (which again, are done differently for each customer). Old school hand recording of timesheets. No HR system. Accounting on quickbooks. CRM is a paper file system. No sales staff to speak of (just answer phones.) 7 step manufacturing process is done by moving hand written order forms along the production line for each step.

What would your priorities be as you took this over to apply all the best of breed productivity tools, SAAS tools, hacks, etc to bring this business into the modern age?
You should take a look at King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park, which is maybe 10 miles away from St Pauls cathedral, but with a protected view.

You can clearly see the dome through carefully designed passages of trees and lack of building obstructions all the way to central London.

Pretty cool to see.
> But the idea that saving everything you can instead of buying some things you value has never made sense to me. It only really makes a difference if you expect that you will one day need all of that money in order to pay for the essentials, and short of catastrophic bad luck it seems unlikely that anyone with the ability to set aside significant savings in the first place will ever be in that position.

I've seen catastrophic bad luck happen to enough people who thought it couldn't happen to them and then destroy their marriages/careers/etc pretty thoroughly that I just have no faith that is correct.

> That is an entirely subjective personal preference. If your goal is to be able to retire early and live off your savings, go ahead. However, if your goal is to also live before you retire and you understand that the only value of money is in the things you value that you can obtain with it, you might make entirely different financial choices.

The US savings rate is consistently in the 4-6% range with few outliers. You may want to consider I was assuming people would interpret my statement reasonably and that I was implying spending money instead of saving it when you were saving at an average rate was a bad idea.

And yes, 4-6% is too small if you want to sustain your standard of living in retirement as a middle income member of society.

"Toys" implies frivolity that doesn't involve something people feel are truly necessary to make themselves happy.

Given on HN we know most mid-level devs make ~$70-100k [adjusted for cost of living], saving 20% isn't some extreme world view [which is what it'd take to save 5 figures/year].
The enemy here, then, is capital, not these poor workers who fill necessary capitalist roles.

I'm not sure how factors of production (including durable capital goods) can possibly be an "enemy" of anything.

That said, your idea that capitalists act as crude profit maximizers is an oversimplification. In fact, most firms don't do any calculation of prices based on marginal revenues and marginal costs. Instead, they usually administer a markup price based more on internal accounting practices and then do not strongly deviate from the markup, choosing to downsize production when profits are low instead of upsetting the stable price signal they've chosen even if it would be more profitable to do otherwise.
It's just you.

Looking at Amazon's m4 instances vs Google's standard instances.

n1-standard-2=$0.1930 db.m4.large=$0.175
n1-standard-4=$0.3860 db.m4.xlarge=$0.35
n1-standard-8=$0.7720 db.m4.2xlarge=$0.70
n1-standard-16=$1.5445 db.m4.4xlarge=$1.401

That's without Google's sustained use discount, so it comes out as cheaper most of the time.
But are they really chasing a limited resource? If investors think you're product is going to be profitable, you're virtually guaranteed to get funding. The only reason chasing capital is difficult is because that's frequently a hard sell. Lots of capital doesn't mean investors are going to throw money at losing propositions.
I primarily use Debian, I use Windows for gaming.

And Ubuntu actually lets you shut it off relatively easily fyi.
We can post a list of 100 tools but, but what works for you depends a bit on what part you exactly find hard. Can you elaborate on the challenges you face?
Private nuclear power plants are heavily regulated. At the moment, a nuclear ship would only be in the hands of the largest shippers in the world, so I can't see why an international agreement couldn't be reached to monitor and allow docking between several seaports.
The State is not the only alternative to capital. Another is individuals.

Corporations (and the State) are mostly useless now that we have software. We're just in transition while we finish building AIs that usefully model the means of production and the body of available contracts.

An individual with a powerful AI partner that can do those two things is no more powerful inside a corporation than out. The AI makes the collaborative structures of public space just as reliable as the collaborative structures within a corporation, so the entire value of the corporation to the worker disappears.
> Firefox on Android uses Gecko.

Which has < 1% marketshare, and is largely ignored by web developers. I didn't say it didn't exist, I said it wasn't relevant. :)

> The question is, how often are these directly used? Isn't the common pattern to target modern features without universal support through polyfills and solutions like Babel nowadays?

Plenty often enough that users refused to use browsers without support for webkit prefixed properties. People who have a clue may well use polyfills and Babel and autoprefixer, but plenty just do copy/paste coding.
1. Members' questions probably forced a statement like that.

2. I'm certain he consulted with the mothership before testimony, and the message was "be a brand champion."
Show HN: SilentKeys
For those wondering:

IND refers to "indistinguishability"; it is the property of not being able to pick a matching plaintext/ciphertext pair out of a lineup of ciphertexts.

CCA stands for Chosen Ciphertext Attacks, and refers to the class of attacks where the cryptanalyst alters ("chooses") the ciphertext before it's decrypted by the victim, and is then able to learn things from the victim's behavior. (There's also CCA2, in which the attacker gets feedback from the victim on a single piece of ciphertext, over and over again.)

TLS's Mac-then-encrypt CBC was known not to be IND-CCA secure, and a few years later Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo turned that property into BEAST. Then there was CRIME, then Lucky13, and finally TLS MtE CBC had to be put to sleep.

The easiest way to lose IND-CCA security is to fail to MAC your ciphertext. This is such a common flaw that Moxie Marlinspike, a co-author of TextSecure/Signal, which you should use in preference to Telegram, named it "the cryptographic doom principle".

This paper is a building block for a much more significant attack, which is the author's masters thesis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713064
Looks like the filing system is unchanged from when John Oliver hugged it to death.
Unless you use ammonia (from heated urea solution) in a catalyzed reaction, to react with the NOx to produce N2 and H2O. In that case, the trade-off is that you need to add a separate urea tank to your vehicle, and distribution infrastructure at all diesel fueling stations.
VW modeled specifications and tested them for other components.

Why wouldn't these components be written to specification?
Unity, a gamedev shop, uses Mercurial with the largefiles extension:

http://natoshabard.com/post/122632480712/mercurial-at-unity
Uber is paving the way for another company to make a ton of money in their space.
http://github.myshopify.com/products/die-cut-github-stickers
My personal suspicion goes way beyond VW in this case. Look at it this way. If someone in your domain of expertise would put out a feat, that according to your experience is just so far beyond the state of the art that it seems to realy violate the rules of what you think possible, and you work in a highly competitive field, then your competitive intelligence will be all over it. Every diesel engine R&D center at any auto maker would have inspected, measured, tested and dismantled these engines to the very last detail. And they would all have discovered the simple truth they suspected all along (benchmark cheating through test cycle detection and software manipulation is nothing new in the industry. Automakers have been caught en fined for this at least since 1998). Yet, none of these competitors spoke up about it. Why?
I think 3D-nand can be considered a practical use of such structures.
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You get a few articles free, or go to the homepage and open in incognito mode.
Article is from 2009.
We're not talking 1.1 vs 1.2, we're talking a 40 fold increase. If the compliance department is not able to detect such a massive fraud then they should all be out of jobs. And if they don't audit the code then they should be out of jobs anyway. There is a big difference between process compliance (the kind that the financial world is burdened with) and product compliance. Independent laboratories would have been able - and in fact did - to find these discrepancies with comparable ease, further down there is a link to a magazine article where 9 cars were tested by an outside lab just to write an article.
I'm sure that if they rename a few more things that have "bro" in their title, everything will change for the better.

Aaaaany day now.
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9.21 people, actually.
>p.s. It has been shown that the psychological profile of top-criminals and CEO's are remarkably alike.

For very liberal definitions of "has been shown". It's been shown that CEOs score more highly on a diagnostic of psychopathology than the general public but those diagnostics were designed for use on people with presumed diagnoses of psychopathic disorders, scoring highly on them without a prior probability of having such a disorder is dubious way of finding people who are psychopaths.
Gas turbines are better suited for small ships like frigates, because the engines can be started and stopped more easily. You can't start a nuclear power plant quickly. The reactor for the sub I was on was rarely shutdown and would remain hot during port calls in a standby state. Nuclear is really ideal for large ships that need a huge amount of energy to run, like carriers, ice breakers and someday cargo ships - the article that radiorental shared [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28439159] holds out hope for cargo ships. Chinese developers have plans for another canal through Nicaragua, because the ships they want to build won't fit through The Panama Canal. I'd bet the Chinese builders are considering the nuclear option.
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If I can summarize, the main distinction between feminist philosophy and normal epistemology is that feminists don't seem to believe in objective reality.

Most standard epistemologies believe there is an objective reality X, and we humans can make observations o(X) and then infer facts about X. E.g., a Bayesian will then use Bayes rule to compute P(X | o(X) ) = P( o(X) | X) P(X) / P(o(X)).

From what I can tell, feminists epistemologists reject this idea. They are generally insufficiently formal for me to figure out what they replace it with. For the most part, they don't seem to actually include objective reality (X in my notation) as a variable at all. They discuss whether certain views are gendered, but the correctness of those views plays a minimal role in the theory.

This of course sounds pretty crazy if you apply it to chemistry or physics, so for the most part these theories are simply not applied in those cases.
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You could very well be on to something there, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10717216

9 Vehicles tested under driving conditions for NOx emissions.
Yahoo's fun to talk about, but Dow is what matters
This is a very important point. His cult can wreck your thinking. I think it should only be read by people with enough contextual information to call his bullshit. He definitely is a smart guy in a way, and you can't easily attack his writings in a way that would be easy to understand for a newcomer.

So I won't attempt that here. Instead, I'll tell my (random internet guy's) feelings and vague ideas: You know when you meet a stranger and you feel something is off, but you don't really know what, but something's funny? Martial art and personal defense coaches usually recommend that you listen to this feeling and act accordingly.

Singulitarianism is basically an apocalyptic doom-religion. It follows the same scheme. For example, I just read a reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/3vsoe7/chri...) the other day and the post reminded me of Singulitarianism a lot. There is an apocalypse, some external information that you should rely on instead of you intuitive faculties because they are biased and unreliable, but if you follow the path of the leader you'll be saved.

Also, its followers react to criticism similarly to religious people.

And another problem is that nobody serious has ever rolled up their sleeves, went through and criticized the whole mess of their Bible (called Sequences), a massive collection of writings, interlinked thousand-fold in an intricate complex network. Simply because the people who could do this don't care much about some random guy posting stuff to his blog.

Fortunately since the Basilisk story came out and we could see Yudkowsky's reaction, it was an eye-opener for many people. Still his movement is quite well-spread and gets linked to often by CS people, mathematics students etc.

And I won't start to refute individual claims. I admit this. The thing is not about the individual claims but the way they are linked and the kind of narrative it builds. The untold assumptions lurking in the background etc. The way he tries to take credit for age-old ideas by renaming them and not caring about the origin of them, since the history of philosophy is irrelevant anyway, we should just read his blog posts and related stuff.

My advice for novices is to start with the mainstream. You can of course criticize the mainstream once you have sufficient knowledge. Read textbooks, classical works, go to universities, take interesting courses etc. Don't teach yourself this stuff from a random guy's blog who has no qualifications on anything he speaks about (which isn't a disproof but a red flag).

I've been vague and I stand by it. Yes I might have been irrational in my comment or led by feelings and emotions. I don't care. I just had to put this out here. I don't aim my paragraphs as ultimate refutation but as a warning. I felt I had to write this for the benefit of people who may be new to this man's world.
> They shuffle papers and cover themselves, asking questions such as "are you following rule A and B as stated above"? and all you need to do to get them of your back is answer "yes".

Yup, and this is how you end up with "rouge traders" and "cheating engineers" – the company just claims deniability because they asked nicely if you were cheating, then pin all the blame on individuals.
I for one, just found out about it, based on your link, so maybe this is related to marketing or to the fact that people are afraid to use 'non big names' libraries until they prove they are worth a try, because if you are a business and start development on a tiny library and after 5 months you see that it's no longer supported you have:
option a) support further the development with your team
option b) rewrite with an other framework

Both options are costly and that's maybe one of the reasons.
no s*.

Ships are loosely unregulated, flying flags of convenience, crewed by workers from all over the world making a pittance, risking the occasional front falling off.

Getting a cubic meter from China to the US for $65 or whatever the cost is doesn't allow a big budget for nuclear power plant engineers, fueling and decommissioning costs.

Until there's a safe, cheap and convenient Mr. Fusion, powering your ship owned by a Greek billionaire, registered in Liberia, and with a crew from the Philippines, y'all cannot be serious to put nukes on there.

If this is the quality of thinking in the startup community I recommend sticking to apps and virtual reality.
Lie. In my world, this is commonly referred to as an "option".

No lie, read the text again without reading between lines which arent't there anyway. He says you cannot just change the language used, he doesn't say one cannot add another one and use a switch to get it, which is what you are after. And which indeed is a good option.
That way you are losing 1 cent in profits.
It's also a shame you can't use their own firewall rules with CloudSQL, or even specify instance tags to allow traffic inbound to CloudSQL. You have to specify IP ranges (CIDR) for each of your hosts. Makes it near impossible to allow an auto-scaling group to access CloudSQL since you have no control over the public IP that will be assigned to a new host being spun up in the ASG.
one car per 9.21 people, not 921
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And yet there's a 50% tax break for capital gains in my country. What possible reason is there for such a massive subsidy for something that we don't need, other than corrupt influence on the political system by the wealthy to give themselves a tax break?
> Because the code is so old we don't want to have an intern figure out how to do it. (Adding a switch for a new PCRE, such as /P, is hard) Oh, and reading and understanding licenses is HARD?!?!? WTF?

The problem isn't reading and understanding the license: the problem is that you now have to provide security updates in a timely manner for code you don't know. (And relying on upstream alone here doesn't work: you might have a stability policy which means you only want to ship security fixes and not other changes, so you have to be able to separate them out and deal with the conflicts while not knowing the code.)
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If you feel saving $10k/year is "extreme and condescending" and saying that is what you should do with your life...

1) The retirement laws setup basically say that is what you should do which is why their limit is ~$23k/year.

2) Good luck retiring in the future saving less than $10k/year.

3) Literally every financial planner on the planet tells you to save 10-15% of your income which for a developer is going to work out to ~$10k.
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AI is a factor of production, therefore it is a capital good.

The rest is delusional science fiction. "Ethereum contracts will magically grant every individual land, labor and capital goods for self-sufficient production." No.
I appreciate that the app only seeks the minimum necessary permissions.
I guess what I want to do is help 100% of one person, rather than 0.001% of a thousand.