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Exactly. Those are two different, though related, issues.
1. Cheating on the NEDC tests.
2. Emission limits are not coupled to real driving scenarios.
Edit: This is important to distinguish. 1 is illegal, 2 is the law but maybe changed.
Our private xmpp server logs everything into static HTML pages. This is useful for compliance with legal things, but also for turning q&a sessions into wiki documents -- cut, paste, a little editing and you're done.

It's also, you know, private.
https://xkcd.com/1200/
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I read an interesting study a while back about architecture in London, taken with a sample of professional architects and a sample of general population, all based in London.
All the architects in the study hated the old Edwardian terraces, and pitied people who lived in them.
All the non-architects loved the old Edwardian terraces, and hated the majority of the buildings the architects loved.

You could easily make an argument from the point of view of the architects in that study that a row of Edwardian terraces are dull and boring, but most Londoners would love to live in them.

With that in mind, I'm a bit wary of this - there are certainly plenty of horrible buildings around - 60's brutalist concrete would be an example of a style I particularly dislike - but how do we decide what's bland and what's attractive?
I think judging someone based on the tools they use to structure their tax focuses on the wrong thing, though it can help point us in the right direction on the worst offenders. The final end result (effective total rate paid [1]) is what matters, and for GMG it's about the same as you or I.

[1] globally and across a long period of time, ofc
AFAIK, it's more about the amount of complete REM cycles. The sleep gets more and more "shallow" in a continuous session. Six-hour night sleep session and a nap at noon may be more efficient than an eight-hour night sleep.
What the software actually did was stop the mixing of DEF[0] into the exhaust gases. DEF is a consumable catalyst that reduces NOx emissions[1]. If they had mixed it in properly as they did when the car was under test, then fuel consumption or performance would not change, but the resovwair of DEF inside the car would be depleted more quickly.

My theory is that they reduced the consumption rate of DEF so that it could be filled up during regular services without being depleted before one was due. They could instead just provide a larger reservoir of DEF, or schedule more frequent maintenance. Either solution would not impact fuel consumption or performance but would fix the issue. Remember DEF is injected into the exhaust gases and does not interact with the engine at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/670488/
The problem is that we're meant to believe everyone's opinions are equally valid. Empirically, it seems to me, some people are just manifestly stupid and/or incompetent.
> You think the four departed executives haven't already texted senior engineers saying, "let's talk in the next couple weeks"?

Maybe they have and I'm sure there are some very attractive offers on the table there.. But I don't think that BMW treats its engineers badly either.

For a german (bavarian) engineer, working at BMW is a badge of honor, while the Chinese "Future Mobility Corp" is still a wild shot in the air.

So while some will try the greener pastures at the new startup, most will probably not be swayed.

Again, wild speculation from a non-german non-engineer, please correct me if I got it wrong.
Same rules as British airspace - as it is British airspace. 1000ft ceiling in fpv, spotter with line of sight, observe no-fly-zones around airports/structures.

Even without a drone I've had (occasionally gunpoint) dealings with all sorts of bemused security forces around the world, so not too worried.
It will still pass, they were just pushing the emissions tests lower so that the car could fit in a lower tax bracket. I don't know about every country, but in the UK you get taxed on how polluting your car is.

I believe that various governments have made a promise not to increase the taxes on existing cars, as the consumers were unaware at the time of purchase.
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Mathematician's career not always by the numbers
I've been to Iceland and tried the pool, and it was one of my favorite experiences (well, pretty much the whole trip was a favorite experience, Iceland is amazing). It was very invigorating to stand up from the 35 C water into the 2 C air and back.

If you haven't tried it, you need to.
Also in Copenhagen. They usually pile up around charger stations in the city.

Teslas are also very common on the streets. If you drive through the city you're bound to meet at least 3-6 Teslas.

In Amsterdam almost all airport cabs are Teslas.
I used reflog for the first time a few days ago. I rebased a branch, and somewhere i messed up the conflict resolution, so I wanted to undo the rebase. It was surprisingly easy!
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For example, http://meetu.ps/e/BwlPx/nLH2C/d
Here too. It's using a boring building and adding make-up. Very kitschy make-up. That's not architecture, it's just decoration.
> That's 5+ years for a new model. It's say that is pretty damn slow for car manufacturers that tend to release a model upgrade per year.

The automotive industry has notoriously long lead times. The second sentence does not contradict the first: they release yearly model upgrades, but each upgrade takes 5 years (more or less) to develop. In other words, 2018 models are pretty much finalized today
> That's 5+ years for a new model. It's say that is pretty damn slow for car manufacturers that tend to release a model upgrade per year.

The automotive industry has notoriously long lead times. The second sentence does not contradict the first: they release yearly model upgrades, but each upgrade takes 5 years to develop. In other words, 2018 models are pretty much finalized today
I find this very confusing because the software that caused "dieselgate" was written by Bosch and other companies and not by either VW or Audi.
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Sorry, but I fail to see the difference with downloading and installing without verifying the code. And since verifying the code is usually hard, I don't see the significance of this article.

Please enlighten me :)
There seems to be a spectrum between whether you consider your feelings mutable and the world absolute or whether your feelings are absolute and the world needs to change to accommodate them. The ever-expanding harm movement leans heavily towards the latter.

If something makes you feel bad, then it must inherently be bad and must be changed. There doesn't seem to be any consideration that maybe it's your feelings that need to change, or even any acknowledgement that you can change how you feel about something.

It's definitely not always one or other other, but to be constantly at the mercy of whatever circumstances happen to exist at the moment seems like a very difficult way to live one's life.
This is a fascinating article that I think should be submitted every six months or so. If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend that you do so.

The only substantial discussion on HN I could find is from 4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196

It would be interesting to know if anything has changed.

In case you're interested in checking for other comments on the topic (and there are a few here and there), here are some of the other submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20processing%20a%20sorted%...
Run it through emscripten, put it on the Archive for C64 games like they have for dos games?
Did a Coded Message Lead an American to a Lost Civilization in China?
The proper comparison is stock investments, not savings accounts.
The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy
My car is affected by this recall (as confirmed by a letter from the VW group to my registered address) and does not have a DEF / AdBlue system.
Getting owners to go in for the fix is part of the problem. Some states will most likely require it to be done before renewing the license plate, or before allowing resale, etc.
hand picked? hard work ;)
No True Scotsman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
This allows a malicious server to send you different content when you pipe to bash than it sends your browser (or even to a script), hiding the attack from people that give the script at least a cursory look.

It's fundamentally not much worse than curl > file.sh && sh ./file.sh, but even if the victim notices something odd, all the oddity is invisible.
I upvoted purely because you used the term "abstract", like an adult. Rare form around here.
very helpful! parse has been a nightmare being down all the time and we were forced to accelerate our migration away from it and couldn't find any resources on the heroku dashboard
Yes, Caterpillar.

http://jalopnik.com/how-the-epa-won-1-billion-from-diesel-ch...
You mean Watergategate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101863 (68 points, 65 days ago, 75 comments)
Exactly: automated investing is crowded, but our holistic analysis is different.

Besides LearnVest, there's PolicyGenius (https://www.policygenius.com) who does a good job evaluating your need for individual insurance products and then selling them. They don't do financial planning.

Investment managers such as Personal Capital and Vanguard offer access to advisors if you meet a minimum of assets under management, but the advice is mostly about investing.

SmartAsset and Nerdwallet are focused on content and calculators but have enough funding to move into planning in the future.

Any of the following companies could move into our space, although they all have channel conflicts:
Robo investors (e.g. Betterment),
Insurance (e.g. Prudential),
Banks (e.g. Wells Fargo),
Financial planners (e.g. Ameriprise),
Investment managers (e.g. Vanguard),
Advisor-facing software (e.g. eMoneyAdvisor)
The other day I suddenly remembered the door of my college room. Since I was at university pre-Internet, pre-mobile phones there was a piece of paper and a pencil on the door so that people who came round to find me could leave a message... by writing on the door.
Apples and oranges.

EPA test cycle is different than normal driving conditions. It has been a subject of complaints for a long time, that the paper mileage is divorced from reality (and is especially troubling for corporate owners, when your tax admitted expenses are only up to the paper mileage; everything above it gets taxed).
What is Magic Leap?
Maybe that's the case for engines that use DEF, but the cheating was done in engines with no DEF injection systems too.

In those engines at least I doubt very much "the fix will not affect the performance or fuel economy", unless they resort to extremely expensive changes that seem unlikely (like adding said system to cars that don't have it).
Intel sponsors the green card of their employees.

Just saying'.
There is very little value in comparing the iPhone to an electric vehicle. Cars have more regulations (safety, emissions), more moving parts, larger teams working on them and cost 2 orders of magnitude more. A poorly designed phone is less likely to kill people.
How NASA Is Trying to Grow a Potato on Mars
There's an upper bound to how efficiently say elementary school kids can learn unsupervised, and if you discard the outliers it's not very impressive. School teachers are not just doing busywork sent down by bureaucrats; much of it is still teaching in the class, checking student's progress, grading the homework and so on.

As to the working in bursts I used to think of it as a manifestation of creativity and talent in heroic stunts. Years later I see it differently: if you do one hour of actual work in a week, you are procrastinating/slacking for the other 39 hours. Even, predictable pace of work is a hallmark of professionalism. At least now I try hard to keep my progress steady and predictable.
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency
We just had one in Tallinn, Estonia, and the outcomes are here
http://www.garage48.org/blog/the-16-seriously-hilarious-prot...
I was working on the winning team http://placebo.works
And we are actually going ahead with it :)
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The difference is in the article itself. Regardless or not of the fact that most people don't verify the scripts that they run (we should! But we don't), the curl | bash paradigm, as explained in the article, actually makes it possible for the attacker to provide two different types of scripts depending on the situation.

Are we dealing with a smarter-than-average user that is downloading the script and then running it (who knows, he might actually read it too!)? Let's serve a legit one. Are we dealing with somebody who's just mindlessly piping curl output into sh? We found our victim!
My teeth haha! I just listed it down as it is sort of a trigger to follow up with other things.
Volvo, Renault, Mercedes, Jeep, Hyundai, Citroen, BMW, Mazda, Fiat, Ford and Peugeot have not used fraud to pass the tests. You are citing studies using different test conditions than the official test.
I'm looking into wit.ai to parse natural language. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
I am not sure, I have no idea what they did in cars that didn't have the urea injection system.
Bosch is providing the hardware with a base software which is tuned/modified by the manufacturer.

Think of it like an Arduino with a bit of software to control the opening/closing of your house door. You get in the package the hardware + example/working software and then you are free to improve it to let say, open the door if your own custom made dog detector connected to the Arduino is detecting that your dog is in front of the door.
"Watergate" didn't apply to every guest of that hotel...
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Seconded.

There are these avant-gardes who wouldn't think twice about turning any public building project they could lay their hands into massive brutist absurdist sea of concrete gray from their dreams [1], if given a chance.

Add to that a couple of behemoth art pieces [2] strewn somewhere on the premises that will no doubt one day pulverize some poor souls.

Alas, the tyranny of the stroppy and vengeful minority.

[1]

https://lebbeuswoods.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/fic-2.jpg

http://www.artspace.com/filip_dujardin/untitled_2007_boxes

[2]

http://art-nerd.com/sanfrancisco/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/...

http://art-nerd.com/sanfrancisco/ballast-by-richard-serra/
Should be remembered too that cultural taboos have a big impact on whether suicides will actually be reported as such.
Which OS offers a calculator from the top menu bar? Definitely not OSX.

By the way, you can do this with spotlight: cmd+space, type and see result instantly, ESC to close
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Having build statuses posted in a channel for each commit is a great for forcing CI and CD.
It certainly wasn't the guy with a few million in equity or the guy who gets a bonus if he hits his sales targets. It must of been that hourly lab tech!
> As a different example, you could look at the issue of badger culls it fox hunting in the UK. The most outspoken people against both aren't from the countryside, have never kept cattle or been on hunts, don't understand (or want to think too much) about the issues involved, but know that badgers and foxes are cute.

So I'm guessing you are from the countryside and you think its ok to hunt foxes and badgers?

Just to balance things up, I'm from Suffolk which is as countryside as you can get and I don't know anyone who thinks its ok to hunt. I also don't know anyone who'd say they "kept cattle" rather than "kept cows", so I guess we're not from quite the same countryside? :)
To be honest it would really surprise me if Audi is the only one pulling these kind of tricks. A lot of car manufactures like to skew numbers.

Look at the fuel/distance range some are advertising with. I never once got the same fuel/range ratio or the difference is a lot bigger in practice.
Possibly by doing representative sampling of the user population and finding what works for them.

Architects are encouraged to be outrageous, individualistic, capricious, even dictatorial. A generic Edwardian terrace is the opposite of everything creative architecture is supposed to stand for. So a divergence of opinion is not a surprise.

But I think it's interesting that you can estimate the health of an environment by measuring the effects it has on people. That's not quite a new idea in architecture, but it's certainly not central to architectural teaching.

"Objective architecture", assessed by measurable effects instead of subjective whimsy, would revolutionise the profession.
If you're on NixOS, you just remove the package from your configuration file and run the "rebuild" command.
This explanation of little sun => suicides doesn't work, at least as directly as most would think:

Research on seasonal effects on suicide rates suggests that the prevalence of suicide is greatest during the late spring and early summer months, despite the common belief that suicide rates peak during the cold and dark months of the winter season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_effects_on_suicide_ra...
Always wanted to do this, but I was afraid reprocessing plastics would release toxic fumes or hard to detect dangers for the average guy. I can't stand throwing things anymore.
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This seems a bit off base to me.

For at at least some of the cases discussed in the article, there is nothing minority about it at all. For example, the social pressure to disallow children's independence is by far the majority position now, as far as I can see. The "free range kids" folks and similar represent a minority that gets a lot of social disapprobation for wanting their kids to have the same sort of freedoms that were common place 25 years ago. Vague and unsupported concerns about "safety" are usually hand waved about.

What you say may be in play for some of these issues, but I suspect it is far too blunt a tool to truly explain much of it.
Unless you have inside knowledge of the project, it is very difficult to determine who actually wrote the code.

In a typical modern car, there are probably more than 30 different companies providing software components into the car. Sometimes, in a single black box with complicated fucntions, there could be 5 software companies contributing.

So it is unsurprising of confusing story that Audi has been put foward as the source of the "dieselgate" software whereas before Bosch was the source.
The author appears to be referring to a previous piece: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise...
Its not about the amount of views but showing that something is going on. Basically i have to find a project you commented on randomly to know there is any review at all. I would expect some "Latest reviews" on the startsite or something.

About the design it is mostly the colors that create a strange look, but also the "purse" bootstrap elements. There is no uniqueness to that. The colors look a bit like choosen randomly, there is no general theme for them.
I would be cautious about getting into the habit of squashing lots of changes together into one commit before sending upstream. It makes git bisect harder. Squashing is fine, but I suggest preferring several commits of logical units of change over one commit for a whole feature.
This seems to be a commonly expressed concept, the idea that in large this phenomenon is strongly either caused or encouraged by a 'conspiracy' of the government.
That's applicable to engines featuring DEF, but for the rest my theory is that they will just increase EGR to lower combustion peak temperature and thus decrease NOx at the cost of engine efficiency. There's no magical software fix that can decrease NOx without affecting the combustion and thus either performance or efficiency. That would be the holy grail of thermal engine research!
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What other types of hackathons are out there?
I remember reading about TSSNON & Terrible Ideas Hackathon back in the day.

Now that I see it in the spotlight. I wonder what other kinds of niche hackathons do you guys know about?
Yes! postgrest + ng-admin for boring CRUD admin panels is perfect.
https://github.com/marmelab/ng-admin
And here a repo that has the http interceptor configured for postrest.
https://github.com/marmelab/ng-admin-postgrest
ngAdmin it's based on Angularjs, but marmelab has a version based on Reactjs too, that I did't have time to test yet.

[edit] Just to clarify, you said "its UI" but postgrest and ng-admin are independent pieces of software, that happened to work very nicely together.
I think you're right about most of this, especially the fact that news media coverage is "bite-sized" and incomprehensive.

But, I'd like to point out that the lack of women in STEM fields is about decision-making power and not necessarily equity. Women aren't fighting for equity in garbage collection jobs either.

If women are to have equal say on the goings-on's of society they need to partake in the upper echelons of power equally (Government, Corporate Leadership, STEM positions etc.).
Anything that is is written down tends to have less hand-waviness and bullshit than the random spew that comes out of people's mouths when they are making up their ideas as they go along.
It's likely that countries that experience the most depression have also developed and iterated through a range of cultural cures. We can all learn something from them.
They talk about the influence of academics, and yet we (as a people) seem to successfully ignore things like global warming... I don't know if that explains it.

We have, indeed, become a nation of wimps, with little common sense. We fear now, much more than we used to. When I was a kid, we feared the red menace (Communism), but that didn't stop us from moving forward, or adhering to our ideals. Our independent spirit as a people.

I don't understand what is happening to us, but I think what they are talking about in the article is a reaction to the shift in public attitudes, not the cause of it.
While I don't disagree with the general thrust of your argument, as an aside, the lack of men in nursing roles (and teaching, especially to younger children) is seen as a problem and when you spend time in the nursing or teaching community it comes up a lot. Campaigns to attract more men into these professions have been running for a long time.

While I'm here, speaking as a townie, I don't see any complexity in the fox hunting issue. If it's vermin that needs to be controlled, kill it. Fine. But to spend a day getting pleasure out of chasing it down with a pack of dogs? That's not the same question at all.
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EDIT: I also sent a message to GitHub’s student contact mail, warning them that they might be on the hook for promising free $100 DO credit for unlimited time, and they might want to ask DO to fix it, or change their advertisement.
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