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I recently encountered the Duhem-Quine thesis on wikipedia which I think presents a really interesting perspective on testability, something I never really questioned before in the philosophy of science.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis
from the OP link

"the 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the world’s 760 million cars"
Yes. There is a new story, Volkswagen has issued new statements: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/12/10/volkswag...
My first thought was that the OP is a troll.
It got renamed to WebOS, and nowadays it runs in LG SmartTVs.

There is also ChromeOS and its similar to WebOS and FirefoxOS and runs on low spec notebooks just fine.

There is little performance difference between Android and FirefoxOS, for both you need at least 512MB RAM (memory), so that it works without lags.
I am not fully convinced by the compliance argument.

People from other industries, for example the financial, have written very candidly on how easy it is to side step and circumvent the rules leaving their compliance departments in the wishful dark.
This is already in effect as the top comment on HN usually ends up being the tldr, and the creator gets the karma.
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It may be nitpicking, but the phrase you used ('Why do you think X?') is very common for making passive-aggressive contradictions. ("I have a smart cat." "Why do you think cats are smart?") If you've been hanging around the internet for a while you tend to start seeing an unspoken 'you idiot' on the end of it, even when it's not there. You could well have been downvoted more or less on reflex because of that.
> They aren't going to go out of their way to determine if you're cheating unless they've been mandated to due to prior internal or industry incidents.

This is about limiting the liability the company is exposed to. The number of products sold * the maximum fine per product when found not to be compliant is such that it could be an existential threat even for an entity as large as VW so normally speaking a manufacturer will do everything they can to make sure they are (well) within the law. It's not uncommon at all for a large company to have the compliance department nix a product or send engineers back to the drawing board to fix any issues detected.

In a serious automobile manufacturer to have a 40 fold increase in the gas output specifically regulated and subject of serious penalties in the case of a mishap the compliance department should have raised several red flags on this or at a minimum require an internal test more stringent than the external one to create a margin of error.

> they're only going to audit what they're required to.

Yes, they are required to audit that the company products are legal to sell as advertised.
Then perhaps just as valid is to say that you seriously need to work on how you express yourself. It's true that the OP writes in a way that is more closely matched to the way people speak, rather than the way people are usually expected to write, but the way you are saying it is simply rude, non-constructive, and unhelpful.
Here's one thing: a vehicle's wear-and-tear on the road is an exponential function of its mass. A vehicle that's twice as big does around 4 times as much damage to the road, leading to cracks, potholes and asphalt crumbling. That, in turn, reduces the lifespan of the roadway and requires an expensive resurfacing sooner than if more people were driving smaller cars.
What changed?

Many years ago, ads were very bad. Then Google got into the business and enforced clean, tasteful ads and things were good for quite some time. But then they started deteriorating again, worse every year until I finally installed adblock early this year.

Did something cause the power balance to swing back away from Google or something? If so, what?
Why is US money different? Why are US plugs and voltage standards different?

Sovereign countries have the right to set their own regulations and bureaucrats don't have a strong track record of international collaboration.
I ended up using monte carlo, but it seems like something that should be known.
US standards are more stringent with respect to NOx emissions. NOx are harmful to health, and their products are also. In addition they form smog which is a blight on many urban areas. Perhaps the problem is worse in USA than in Europe, or perhaps Americans just care more about it.
Actually yes, Chris Stucchio's posts on the subject are pretty in depth starting with https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

You could also look at the book, Flash Boy's Not So Fast, which takes apart, page by page, all the arguments in the book, Flash Boys

http://www.amazon.in/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-Fr...
What is your specific goal? What are you trying to achieve with math? I would start there first. If your goal is to get a math major level of understanding of math, then I would look at what the standard curriculum is in universities.
> ...but the higher level code would be VW

Wasn't it Bosch that recommended to VW that this is a bad idea. So Bosch is not all together innocent.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637

Bosch was being investigated as well.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/20/us-probes-bosch-in-vw-cheatin...
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Related: http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf

I used to think that, however vulnerable this kind of installation might be, at least it'd be limited in scope to the IFE and climate control stuff, because no one would be stupid enough to make it possible for the IFE and climate control stuff to talk to the actual driving controls, if for no other reason than because there's no sensible excuse for doing so.

Boy, was I optimistic. Now I'm not, but I'm gladder than ever that my car was made in 1997.
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I also believe that in some [limited] cases, compliance departments are intentionally neutered but not eliminated. Then, if it hits the fan, the company can show an appearance of trying to be compliant, and it was a simple mistake, thus seeking to avoid stiffer penalties for intentionality.

Even in the best of cases, compliance departments can't be omniscient.
Complete agreement - grad students have a few jobs they need to do and need to do quickly:

1) Large (within reason) easy matrix manipulations. MATLAB is fantastic at this. Matrices as first-class objects is so important, I don't know why more languages don't include them (though I am pleasantly unaware of the complications inherent to this).

2) Simple, decently pretty visualizations of data.

3) Trivial syntax. If you've programmed at all, it's easy to read MATLAB syntax.

IMO, the only threat to MATLAB on the horizon for academic work is Python + the associated SciPy tools (sckikit-learn, etc); especially as bundled in SPYDER, which I have had a blast with. But since cost is typically not an issue at a university (MATLAB is paid for by someone else), and everyone already speaks MATLAB, there's not a real impetus to change. (Julia may be int he running, too, but SPYDER seems more user friendly at this point)

Also, as someone who's been through this a dozen times before - as soon as a professor says "make me this visualization, the command in MATLAB is this" and the grad student says "SciPy (or whatever) doesn't have that", that student is converting his data to a text file, reading it into MATLAB, and making that damn plot :)
I beg to differ. It may not be enjoyable for OP to hear my criticism, but I insist that it is productive. You can't expect to go far in the professional world writing like that.

Again, I suspect OP is a bright guy (especially since he's trying to learn on his own!), but the way he writes does him a huge disservice.
Could you try again? It has been updated to a new version that should work better.
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Saying the compliance department exists to make sure the company adheres to the law is like saying the HR department is there for employees. That is what they say, but in reality it's the other way around: Compliance acts to protect the company against the law. This has clearly failed at WV.

Also the post assumes a big organisation operates as a whole. My experience is that management high up are either competent and evil, or ambitious and ignorant. That mix lends itself to all kinds of random organisational behaviour. I know nothing about WV, but I assume many people knew this but did not think too much of it (everyone cheats), thought it would help their career (hit that target), or wanted their company become the largest car manufacturer in the world.
>i dont know nothing in math

So he knows a lot of math then!
Lots of people have searched for this stat. It isn't kept by DoJ, which one presumes is why WaPo is attempting to do so itself.
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Math that can help me to be a good programmer.
Cardinals+clinch+playoff+berth+with+victory+more+than+Vikings
Would be better if we were allowed to add text and a url when submitting.
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and not working for other companies
Maybe re-package the Firefox OS Mail Client? ;) It's "low resource" ;) -> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/email
what are the best methods? (for someone who doesn't want to register to read the economist)
Unless a breakthrough in battery design happens we're far from the end of the combustion engine era. And with oil prices tanking the price difference between a conventional and an electric car still looks unreasonable for most people.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the issue with Gentrification, and what is gentrification and what isn't.

I live in a pretty nice neighbourhood of Amsterdam. 15 years ago, when I moved here, my uncle (who is a cop) warned me not to live here because of all the crime (though the neighbourhood where he lives has a worse reputation). The population at the time was a decent mix. Lots of ethnic minorities, but also students and probably middle class families along the edges.

During the past 15 years, loads of new restaurants have opened here, there's a small movie theatre, the dodgy-looking call shops and phone shops have disappeared, the snack bar that changed ownership every year has now turned into a fancy wine bar. Some old buildings have been turn down and replaced, others have been renovated. Generally, this seems to me like a great example of gentrification.

And I'm sure housing prices are rising, and I don't doubt the new and renovated buildings are more expensive than the older ones. But the population doesn't seem to have changed all that much. Maybe there are more affluent white people now, but I still see kids from a variety of ethnic backgrounds play in the streets (though I don't see groups of adolescents and young adults hang around the square where that dodgy snack bar used to be), and there are still plenty of Turkish shops (though some have closed, sometimes to be replaced by a new Turkish shop, sometimes not).

I don't know how many people have been forced out due to the gentrification. They include my brother-in-law, who had lived there for ages until his house was to be renovated. But for the most part, the population doesn't seem to have changed much, and the neighbourhood seems to be more vibrant, more stuff to do, less need to go to the center of the city if you want to go out.

So if this is gentrification, my impression of it is pretty positive, though I don't have any stats to back it up. Of course with those people who hung around on that square, I have no idea who they are or where they are now. It feels safer, but that might be subconscious racism talking.
"Modern crypto gets around all these problems by ensuring that messages are cryptographically authenticated before they're encrypted."

Dont you mean "authenticated before they're <decrypted>"?
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For those that are surprised that your phone is such a snitch: That can be shut off, even on app-level. There is Wifi privacy police for android, and probably something similar for ios.

I actually did just that at work. First of all I had a raspberry pi that got all the device names connected to my company wifi (the guy responsible for the network is actually just the janitor, so the wifi is basically the wild west). After a bit of puzzling I knew the MAC-addresses 90% of my closest colleague’s phones. From there it was easy to do the rest. Just set up your own wifi network and monitor SSID broadcasts.

This worked fine until iphones started randomizing their mac addresses, but since I know when a certain device appears on our work wifi, I could probably just compare when a scan was made to when a certain device was connected. I just can't be bothered.

The system is still up and running, and now even has a nice web interface that I can access from home.

I'll eventually release it as FLOSS, but I'll have to clean the code quite badly. It only requires guile and nmap, but can probably be ported to something fancier.
Can you watch a video for 15 minutes?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1BUCkgsr8
That in itself? No. However, a number of the complaints made in TFA seem to be of the "bad perms" or "pointing at the wrong directory" variety. IOW not the software's fault, simply user carelessness. Perhaps the documentation could be clearer or the software could do more to figure shit out for itself and those really might prevent some such problems, but even occasional developers are more likely to look for such causes before filing bugs. This user should take his noise to Stack Overflow.
Nicer that's debatable: it's better suited to 'high performance' implementation but that doesn't necessarily make it nicer for users..
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When reading the list of problems from each article in that page it reminded me of the famous phrase by Rob Malda (Slashdot's creator) when the iPod launched:

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame"
I'd recommend some of the courses MIT have available. I recently used it to remind myself of some of the stuff on vectors that I needed for work.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
Kei cars will never drive on roads where the cost of the road maintanance is high: highways. If you would start doing that the cost of dealing with all the dead and seriously insured people would be reason alone to ban them. That's what we did with most. Japan is not Europe.
I said man i dont know anything in math.
It's never late to learn maths, particularly if you are really interested in it. I am 31, and last year I started to study remotely for BSc in Mathematics at Open University (UK). I really enjoy it, but you have to allocate time for it and stay disciplined. The same for you: you can start with
https://www.khanacademy.org/math at your own pace. My advice for you is to set clear goals, scopes you want to cover during some time period, and allocate time for study in your schedule. These preparations can help you to stay on track. Don't torture yourself, make it fun. Good luck!
Speaking from experience as I taught myself math at the age of 25, it is not too late to start. I would recommend starting from set theory and combinatorics, which do not require any advanced math knowledge and will help improving your critical thinking.
Jesus, that is a cynical way to look at the people who work in an organization. Is any non engineer not evil or amoral in your worldview?
Open an account with any stockbroker and they will purchase the shares "on the market" and hold them for you until you want to sell. They charge for this service so you want one that caters to beginning investors and has low fees for the kind of purchase you want.

Personally, I use Charles Schwab, which is one of the largest US consumer brokerages and has a pretty good reputation. For beginners I usually recommend ShareBuilder (no, wait: recently renamed "Capital One Investing") as they have lots of features for beginners including purchase plans with little to no fees for small amounts and no maintainance fees. But (full disclosure) I may be a biased source: I work for Capital One.
My guess is that most of the general purpose programming languages are usually poorly suited in one way or another for domain specific programming.

Matlab has a large standard library and a reasonably well integrated development environment. Its language and library ecosystem is also adapted to the domain the authors are working in. Scientific libraries in other languages come close or maybe surpass them, but it is still the de facto standard in certain parts of scientific computing.

The only reasonable alternative I can think of is IPython / Anaconda with the right set of libraries or maybe Julia, which borrows heavily from Matlab, both however don't offer all of the IDE features that a typical Matlab user maybe takes for granted.

Other languages like C++ are usually excluded by default because of their obvious very poor suitability for rapid exploratory programming.
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All areas of math are heavily inter-related, and skills you learn in one thing that seems irrelevant can often have a huge benefit where you don't expect it. Skills in simple algebra help in Graph Theory, which is used in understanding networks and databases, and skills in calculus are surprisingly useful in topology, which ends up being used in robotics and machine
learning.

Linear Algebra is the language of almost all machine learning, simple geometry and trigonometry are useful in graphics and other aspects of design.

Math, as I said elsewhere, is huge, and there is no single thing that will, by itself, help you to be a good programmer.

If you really have absolutely no math at all then you need to start with some basics, and Khan Academy is a good resource to explore first.
Given the lack of incentive or possible enforcement on these boats, one answer would be to simply approach the owners and either offer to pay for a new boat (assuming such a boat exists) or to retrofit the existing boat. If they are really that dangerous to the environment, it would seem like a no brainer for governments to band together to do this. The only question is if there are environmentally friendly alternatives.
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Cars != computers.

Cars are a means of transportation and much more of a requirement to live in urban environment than a computer.
Generally speaking regulators aren't actively testing that consumer products meet regulation. The way it works is that the government sets standards that should be met by industry, and then the industry takes care of meeting those standards. If they don't and they get found out they're in big legal & financial trouble, which is what's happening with VW now.
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That in itself is quite an interesting question - there are bits of (quite simple) maths that are useful in general programming (logic etc.), maths that can be used in particular domain areas (simulation, crypto etc.), maths that models computation itself and can underlie the design of languages (Turing Machines, Lambda Calculus etc.)...
When I worked at Microsoft (disclaimer: I used to work at Microsoft) as long as you weren't breaking backward compatibility, it was medium-easy to find the PM of a project you wanted to tweak and volunteer some free evening and weekend time. Never saw a ton of people besides me do it, though, but maybe that's just because you had to keep it under wraps, politically, back then.

> Oh, and reading and understanding licenses is HARD?!?!?

The official word on that, IIRC, is DO NOT ATTEMPT TO READ OR UNDERSTAND LICENSES. Send them to LCA, and LCA tends to err on the side of caution.
Thanks for the info! I take it there's no DIY approach here, and that for all intents and purposes, I must go through a broker?
> Saying the compliance department exists to make sure the company adheres to the law is like saying the HR department is there for employees.

No, it is explicitly meant to convey the message that the compliance department exists to protect the company from liability. I will update the post to make this more clear.
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As you mention, just a few apps have been ported. It seems quite experimental and it also seems that at Google the tide now flows the other way. Are we heading towards the inclusion of Chrome to Android?

My question is: what prevents including a full featured Chrome browser in Android devices with more than 2GB of RAM? If Google wants to position Android as a productivity OS, Android should at least support the full versions of Google's productivity tools, and today this means supporting the web versions.
They are probably comparing amount of pollution per km travelled, per tonne of vehicle.

I agree, the article is so imprecise as to be completely worthless in terms of information content.
I'm pretty sure that's an exaggeration. Can you count to ten? Do you know what 8 plus 5 is? Do you know what 3 times 5 is?

Seriously, start here:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math

If you get stuck there are on-line resources and people who will help. If you don't make time for it or put in the effort, nothing and no one can help.

Everyone starts from the beginning, some later than others. Take your chance now, it's never to late to start, but starting sooner gives you the best chances.
That is something else, really love this idea. Is there anything _exactly_ like that but for Computer Science?
> did you think it may be worth some time?

So how much would you pay for it, roughly?
I'm sure if we find enough people to chip in, it will happen.
Not was AMD doing something similar ?
Thanks for support man
And this is somehow surprising? My 2013 Honda crv has the most horrendous ux for ours navigation system. The rest of the software feels like it was built in 2003.

Car makers never invested in good in dash software and now they are paying the price as new choices emerge and users want them
Exciting! I will contribute :)
Ah, maybe that's the misunderstanding here.

I can't comment on "building operating systems", but it seems improbable that a GC should never be used in such endeavors.
Some insurance background:

The business model for conventional insurers is to take cash from the investment markets and hold it against their customers risk, gambling that their customers will on aggregate pay more than they claimed. There's presently more demand for this type of investment return than there is supply, so insurers are all scrabbling to find new types of product then try to drum up demand.

Assuming that's the force in play here expect to see a bit of PR trying to scare people as to the dangers of online abuse