skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works if the issue can be resolved via ECU. The problem isn't just that the cars are reporting wrong data when being tested, but that the cars are producing more gasses than they are supposed to. If the update only fixes the software to report correctly, then the car will fail the emissions test. I rather doubt it's only a software fix that will solve the problem. Chances are there will need to be a hardware alteration to resolve the underlying issue. In that case, an update to the ECU wouldn't resolve the problem. You will need to bring your car to a dealer (Likely a VW-certified dealer) to have the solution applied as well as the software patch to make sure it is reporting correct data while undergoing emissions testing.
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As someone who pays with credit card I get pretty upset with people who pay with cash. People fumbling around for exact change. The person working the register has to deal with bill or coin shortages: "oops we're out of quarters hey can someone bring some to my register?" Not to mention the overhead incurred by having to deal with all the cash at the end of the day and dealing with shortages.
We have a worker consuming S3 events and updating the index. On a related note, we have experimented with Lambda to do something similar; AWS has done a fantastic job integrating their products :)
The best way to get better cops:
Putting multiple cameras on every cop & car, and prosecutors who make it clear they side with the people over the police. Seriously punish any amount of power tripping or harassment of citizens.

It may take a few years, but the people who sign up for police academy will be different. Being a police officer will no longer be attractive to those who want to wield power.
How much time do you anticipate going into sorting through applications versus the actual sessions?
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Apple Pay is just a nice frontend for Visa, AmEx, etc., with better security - disposable credit card numbers to defeat merchant tracking and leaks.
After the preferred money is paid out, the preferred stock converts to common stock at some multiplier. The multiplier is usually 1x, though it varies. At that point, whatever money is left is generally split between all common shareholders (investors and employees).
I recently went through a large portion of my old blog. It's astounding how many excellent resources from just a few years ago have completely vanished due to link rot; in a few cases I was unable to find archives even on archive.org.

It's really sad, and more than a little disheartening.
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Is the incident with GM's ignition switches that killed 100 people the kind of learning from failure we should shoot for?
Would love to learn more about this...
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Actually median also a not good metric when power laws are involved. For example, if half of the country is living below poverty line then you being above median still doesn't mean you have comfortable lifestyle. Tech people are often told that they have top 10% of salaries in the country but when you look at most of their lifestyles (i.e. below 1%), they are living in cramped apartments, doing 2+ hour commutes, reluctantly sending kids to schools they don't like etc etc. When most of the people in country have minimum wage below $10, even median would be pulled too low and that is one reason poverty line is defined such a way that these people don't come under it.
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What determines which founders you meet with? Since you had 650 founders apply the first time around and met with 50 teams there must be some filter and I assume its not random.
Could HN be considered an online-only newspaper? It covers a lot of stuff.
Iceland just started requiring PINs earlier this year.
> I guess it can sort of "hurt" on the management side, when employees leave.

I agree on the "hurt" part, but it is a well known fact that employees do change jobs in this industry. If a manager is not aware of that, and has not already made contingency plans for when that difficult time comes, then he is not very good at his job.

I would go as far as to say that he could do worse than to look at what other parts of his job he might been ignoring (hopefully) without noticing. Maybe that would explain why the employees leave in the first place.
I didn't say serial SHOULD give equal time. I just disagreed with an opinion that they DID give equal time.
> Why does it need to be actionable?

Because that's kind of the point of collecting them. I mean yes, making cool-looking stuff can also be the goal, but one should be explicit about the fact that those are two different goals. Currently, the Quantified Self / fitness toys (aka. wearables) talks a lot about actionable data, while really providing just nice looking toys, often dumbed down to make data not actionable.

I think most people figure it out after spending some time fascinated with pretty charts. At some point you finally realize that all you have are pretty pictures, and you're not really optimizing anything by just looking at them. After this realization, one is finally ready to search for significant improvements. And then comes the enlightenment - tools like dashboards and charts are crutches; the less you need them the better, because the ultimate goal is to have smart decisions, not data, and to minimize the separation between your mind and those decisions.

> Are metrics and stats in games actionable? No, but they are interesting nevertheless.

Usually. Games are good example actually. You can clearly identify the two things a game interface contains - visual clutter, and directly actionable information. Fast-paced, competitive games usually reduce the former and focus on the latter.
> ...it's not as horrible as all these dramatic replies make it sound.

I do sincerely hope that you're one of the few who can happily give up half of 5/7ths of his leisure time for his family. I've never personally known anyone -family man or no- who can endure such a lengthy daily commute for more than a few years.

Something just wears away at you until -one day- you realize that you're deeply dissatisfied about something... and eventually come to realize that it's your long-ass commute.
...what? What makes you think that getting a replacement for iPhone hardware will be cheaper than buying a new wallet? Because I don't see it.

Plus, I'm now going to trust all of my sensitive data to Apple's cloud storage? No thanks.
It's not all about algorithms. Unless current simulations are running on Asics or even GPU's there are probably 10-1,000+x speedups possible.
I agree with you. I'm not easily impacted, or offended and can easily give as good as I get.

That said, we don't do that here, and there is value to be had. Happy to comply. There are lots of places to have that kind of dialog. I enjoy them, as I enjoy it here.

One thing I have noticed is rules about civility do tend to elevate and favor people with highly toxic views. Rebutting them without violating the rules is difficult.

But, it is possible to do. There is value in that skill as well.

My objection centers on the violation and valid, compliant responses to a hidden comment. We lose something there I would rather not lose.
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> Do you feel the same way about paramedics and firefighters?

No, because I don't think they do the same thing. A police officers job often isn't to save the subject, it's to save third parties and apprehend the subject. It's also to have power over us, a measure of control which firefighter/paramedics don't. We surrender power to them so to speak.

On the other hand, firefighters and paramedics are more often concerned with directly helping the subject and don't have this power over us.

There are complex situations with various crossovers (particularly in firefighting where extinguishing a fire might save third parties for instance) but in general the above holds.

I think this is an important distinction because we expect the preservation of life. A firefighter can let a building burn (die) and save some third parties and they aren't (necessarily) penalised for it. A firefighter/paramedic is also only concerned with the preservation of life, that's their sole motive. Police officers motive are necessarily more complex, so if a firefighter can't get through a fire to save a subject we forgive them because their intentions could only have been noble - all they would be trying to do is save life.

A police officer on the other hand must be seen to save the subject and third parties lives. We seem to demand of police officers that if the subject is trying to kill third parties for example, the officer should step in and take the 'hit' and get killed. He/She must be restrained enough to not kill the subject and brave enough to sacrafice themselves for the good of the third parties.

I don't think this is demanded of firefighters and paramedics.

I think this extra demand is placed on police officers because of their position of superior power. If they are to be afforded superiority over us citizens, over our liberty and with the power to ruin our lives - we demand of them that they have a noble streak and are prepared to sacrafice themselves for us if the shit hits the fan.
Our chip & pin does signature authorisation but the bank charges about 5 times the normal transaction rate.
These are machine learning experts making the claim?

Machine learning is usually embarrassingly parallel.
Except we already give them that power - see the all-too-common offenses of driving while black, contempt of cop, and the tried-and-true 'I'm pretty sure I smelled weed in the car'.

On top of that, we also give prosecutors the power to judiciate selective enforcement.
"I think all us sheep on HN will rue the day the good guys are selected for low-testosterone personality."

Certainly.

That is, if you can give us a way to separate the good guys from the bad guys.
I wasn't saying it shouldn't be called "open source". I was saying it shouldn't be called open source "hardware design".
> Just because parent said optimal strategy is to lay them off doesn't mean you have to act like that's _never_ going to be the case.

I thought it went without saying that you cannot force someone into an agreement. Agreements sometimes don't happen and then you pay the additional costs out of necessity.

> For the given hypothetical, the 'ol "get them to unknowningly train their replacement by pretending like you're rewarding them with more compensation and a direct report" could be the "optimal" strategy.

That might be someone's interesting play, but I think it is a poor strategy because it shows your employees and anyone else you are going to make agreements with that you are of the duplicitous sort and cannot be trusted. This will affect your long term prospects in a negative way. Never mind its a pretty poor way to go through life.

Strategy should be thought of as long term.
IIRC, it depends on the item. Some clothes have anti-theft tags that spill ink all over the garment if you don't remove them correctly. Other items (video games come to mind) seem to have a mass-produced chip sticker that is about the size of a rice grain.
According to the article they were. They are implementing a fix for European cars because European standards are a bit more lax than the US ones but they still were violating European standards as well.

That said why does it make a difference? If anything, any manufacturer should be doing their best to reduce emissions as much as possible for the sake of the whole world. Just look at the situation currently happening in China. Would you like for your country to be having the same issue, be it France, Germany or the US?
If it were still up and running, I'd link you to regretsy.com for a primer on most people's level of creativity. But it's gone so now all I can say is that it showed the worst "user-generated stuff" people posted to Etsy.

Not buying it - we have specialization and professionalization in part to maintain quality of work. Everyone cannot be, and should not be, an artist.

Anyways, if no one had to work, most people would just do drugs.
Yes, archive.org is an amazing resource. But I'm wondering about the coverage, especially for dynamic and deep content. Maybe those are mainly issues on older snapshots.

Also, copyright issues aside, the prospect of a recursively archived Web is a little mind boggling. But storage is always cheaper, so hey.
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They really don't see a difference between disruption like AirBnB/Uber (the 'law breaking and getting away' part I don't agree with; the 'eff rude taxi drivers' agree wholeheartedly) and similar law-breaking 'disruption' in healthcare. When you go in with the mindset that 'wrong' laws _deserve_ to be broken, it can be hard to know when to stop. My money's on them using the money to lobby the FDA to change the laws, just like other 'disrupters' are doing.
Sounds like yet another reason to use real files instead of giving all your data to Google (and thereby the NSA).
Make it work in realtime, add a camera feed and you would have realised the Colonial Marines mission screens from the APC in aliens.

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> He called her parents to make sure they were OK with her plan to drop out of school. Then he gave her $1 million.

Wow, that’s a heck of a narrative. I would never criticize Ms. Holmes for using her connections like this, but when stated as above, this investment sounds like a total freebie. And we all know that, thanks to investor herd mentality, one investment is a springboard to less skeptical follow-on investment. In this case, the first investors don't sound skeptical at all, because they viewed this as a family-friend favor more than an actual business decision. If Theranos were perceived a hell of an opportunity, do you think he’d give a rat’s ass if her parents would rather she finish her degree? Can you imagine an investor calling Zuck’s parents — hey is it OK if your son continues this facebook thing, or should I encourage him to go back to school?
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Funny, I don't see any articles in the papers about whale oil shortages...

Did you know it's virtually impossible to get whale oil these days? Do you care? Or do you just use a whale oil substitute?

The ironic thing is increasing price actually increases supply.
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While Scott Aaronson is highly respected, I think we are rushing in to put down D-Wave guys. They seem very conservative in their claims. We should celebrate that we have come even this far that we are actually constructing these machines that were just research fantasies few decades ago and are at a point where we can even think about doing comparison with best we have built. I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks D-Wave or other QC will replace classical machines in next 5-10 years period. It's the progress that we need to be positive about and build on each other's work.
I'm happy about this and hope there is some truth to this. It would signal to developers that maybe there is a viable third platform for apps.

As a user I've long been a tablet fan, I own several iPads and Surface tablets that are still actively used in our family. Until recently I used a Surface Pro 1 for work, I'm now getting a shiny new and fully loaded Surface Pro 4.

Using a Surface tablet as a PC (with monitor and keyboard and mouse attached) works very well, as many people have found. But Surface never really competed with iPad as a tablet, purely using touch. I know nobody who uses and likes Metro IE, Windows Mail, reads the newspaper using an app or plays games on it.

Except me: I've always felt that the only thing lacking on the Surface to compete as a tablet is good Apps and users willing to invest time learning to use it. People would find it actually is quite nice. Even the doomed Surface RT2 is superior to an iPad for many tasks, once you "get" Metro IE, the keyboard and multitasking gestures. I regularly write comments here on HN using Surface in tablet mode, which is much less fun when I try it on an iPad.

When Surface really succeeds in the market, my hope is that the App platform will finally start working. As a developer, the technology and tools feel vastly superior and more productive that those of Android and iOS so I'd be happy to start developing Windows-first again.
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I've just started using it this week (Monday, actually) but breakpoints have worked fine for me. Maybe you should give it another shot?
I think the distinction is in the ability to perceive the risk.

A burning building is a burning building (ok... there's actually a lot that going into assessing the risk posed by a fire in a building, but you get the idea...). A potential confrontation with someone selling cigarettes is an unknown. Odds are, it's not going to be a problem at all. However, there is a small (but non-trivial) chance that it will become a violent encounter (even with fantastic deescalation skills). Given that unpredictability, the safest course of action, it makes sense to have enough manpower on handle to safely deal with a violent encounter.

That being said, the cops in Eric Garner's case did not attempt any deescalation at all (quite the opposite, in fact). The resources on scene were not the issue, the rapid escalation was the issue.

Even at that, it was not the 'chokehold' that killed Eric Garner. It was being placed on his stomach, with his arms behind his back. It's difficult for anyone to breathe in that position, and _very_ difficult for someone of Eric Garner's size. The fight dramatically increased his body's need to get oxygen (and more importantly, get rid of carbon dioxide), and then he was placed in a position that made it all but impossible for his body to do that. We have known for years that this is a dangerous thing to do, yet it happened anyway. Even the EMTs on scene later ignored the risks of his position, and in my opinion, are just as culpable in his death.
Additionally, Amazon is generously offering $5,000 in AWS credit for all participating teams.

This seems really dangerous -- it creates a huge incentive for companies to waste YC's time. There aren't many things early startup founders can do which are worth more than $15000/hour. Sure, you can probably filter out many AWS-credit-seekers via the application process, but that adds more work for the people who read through all the applications.

Have you considered either (a) refusing the credits, or (b) taking a small number and handing them out to the most "deserving" startups at the end of the day?
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I am a frequentist by training and got a little confused by Bayesian and engineering terminology while flipping through the posts. Bear with me.

Did I understand well that kernel interpolation is what we'd call a kind of non-noisy kernel regression? If it's the case and dimension d of the regressors is large, multivariate non-parametric estimation will have very slow convergence, won't it?
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Prosecutors shouldn't side with "the people" over the police - the police are the people. They should side with the evidence and the rule of law.
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> i wouldnt really call that a take down/knock down in your terms.

It seems rather flawed to me. If your data includes the "top 100 online sellers" but not what is probably the THE top online seller of THE top product in category (at least before the SurfaceBook) then your data is flawed to draw your conclusion.

Now we could debate if the Surface Book is a tablet (it has a touch screen and can run without a keyboard) or isn't (it runs full windows and can't last long without the battery in the keyboard)... but I don't see how you could ever claim a report about tablet sales to be useful if you don't have at least a good estimate about Apple's sales numbers.
I tend to keep local PDFs of everything that seems crucial. But linking to them seems ethically questionable. But maybe as a last resort, with an explanatory comment.
We are looking for folks who are actively working on their startups. Having a technical co-founder is helpful, working full time is helpful, and trying to solve a large problem is helpful.
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Because a dead firefighter is useless?
Because he has a training that would help save many lives in the future for the many other fires to come.
Sure a "heroic/fool" firefighter could have saved one more life that particular day, but if instead he ends up dead, he might have sentenced to death future fire victims.

So in term of life saved these priorities seems perfectly good.

You assume "maximizing his safety" means going home without any bruise. You assume he is a coward.
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Please read this:

http://www.governing.com/columns/smart-mgmt/col-culture-open...

"Creating a culture of openness and candor is critical to organizational success. It takes a strong, concerted effort by leaders."

"How could this icon of U.S. industry allow the ignition-switch problem to fester for a decade without recalling the faulty vehicles and without notifying federal authorities (as required) and the public?

The answer seems to lie in the company's culture. For decades, GM was plagued with warring fiefdoms, so it wasn't in one's interest to surface problems in front of your colleagues. And even when problems were brought to senior managers' attention, action was often impeded by poor communications between GM units. As crisis-management expert Gerry Meyers puts it, "In any big organization, there's an effort by lower-level management to insulate upper-level management. And the more layers there are, the less [likely] that a very serious matter can get to the top."
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I'm guessing you're feeling depressed because you don't have a strong idea of why you're doing all this.

I'd say that what needs to change is your mentality.

There's a lot of things you can do to change how you're thinking. It all comes down to understanding the essence of why you're feeling this particular way.

What are you trying to achieve?
Are you just learning?

Use less-shiny stuff. Ditch the frameworks etc. Do the simplest thing.
The assembly was done by Polish engineers mainly. I bet they were doctors paid by university, but even if not, top world class engineer from Poland will not cost more than €30/hour. Add management overhead of another that much. This is not a lot.
Yeah I'm positive. Median in my area for police officers is 50k. While we're at it, teachers, firefighters, and (especially) EMT/Paramedics could use some love.
All of that is irrelevant. As far as I can tell (and it seems the same for others) there is nothing saying that this data includes Apple's 1st party sales to consumers.

That's like saying Walgreens products are bombing in the market because no one is selling them (and your data doesn't include Walgreens stores).
When it comes to diesel emissions in the US, I think that's unfair. How many other diesel vehicles are sold in the US that do not include urea injection? Even "3/4" and "1-ton" trucks required it starting 5 years ago. Every other manufacturer I can think of used it. Including VW in some models.

I think VW may be the only manufacturer that sold diesels in the US, after 2010, that didn't include it. (Again, I'm not 100% on that.)

In light of that, while this may be a game "everyone" plays, it seems like VW was playing on a whole other level.