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"Unlike other parts of the world, European nations incentivised the use of diesel vehicles over the last 20 years because they emit less carbon dioxide per mile than petrol cars. Governments thought stricter regulation would sharply reduce NOx emissions, but carmakers found ways around the rules and governments failed to clamp down on the practices."

How typical in so many ways (I particularly like the claim that governments "failed" without either suggesting to strip the governments of those powers which they failed to use so consistently throughout all of Europe, or charging government officials with criminal incompetence or fraud.)
But "accessibility issues" could completely change the way people learn. What if each student could access the kind of instruction one gets at Philips Exeter or Princeton University?

Or what if the tailored aspect of private instruction could be scaled up? For example, if you give a tough math problem to 1,000,000 students, and want to have a tutor walk them through the problem, you'd need to have 1,000,000 tutors. But there are probably only 20 types of mistake one can make on a given math problem. So if you had a "choose your own adventure" solution, one math teacher could, in a month, record lessons that reach a hundred million students at a personalized level.

Or, one could make a cost-effective way to learn from the absolute top practitioners in a field. Most people cannot afford private basketball lessons with an NBA basketball coach, for example. But let's say such a coach watched 10,000 people play basketball for five minutes each, and recorded five minutes of feedback for each person (about one year of full-time work). Then, you could upload a video of you playing, you could algorithmically analyze the user's playing style, and match them to the person in the set of 10,000 that matches them best. The five minutes of feedback might be really useful to that person, and can be delivered at scale.
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Apple could be seen as the brand name NeXT decided to keep after acquiring Apple 1.0.

I'd say there's two unicorns in there, one died from accelerated aging and had its corpse eaten. Remember even Ford and GM were unicorns once upon of time.
Yes, you can start the server with any number of slave processors. As long as you're not writing data to global namespace (i.e, if you can keep your code purely functional), then as pointed out above, one can use the "peach" (parallel each) operator [1] to parallelize execution. Further you also get the "distributed each" to distribute load amongst multiple processes instead of threads [2]

[1] http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/peach

[2] http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/peach#Peach_using_multiple...
I removed subscriptions from a few services that way and none gave me any problems. Even reactivated some of the accounts later on when I decided to go back. Most of those used paypal, so I think they got cancel notifications straight away.

I can't remember the names of most of the companies though. One was definitely Match, because they expect you to call them to cancel (or did at the time)
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I would be most interested, especially to compare how your experience differs from ours (we also have a B2C app that needs to overcome the ghost town syndrome in order to be successful).

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They send to collections. Personally I find a certified letter to their registered agent is the best method when I think a company might be shady and I don't wanna wait on the phone.
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I don't recognise it by number, but I knew exactly which one it would be.

The thing I find slightly annoying about those that use xkcd #927 as a response is that it ignores how new standards can push things forward, it's mostly/always used in a dismissive way. Also, if the new standard is enough of an improvement on the old standards, it can largely cause development using the old standards to stop, causing a consolidation in the market rather than splintering the market further.

Hopefully one day more people will realise xkcd #927 isn't that insightful, it's just a simplification of the issue to make it a better joke.
Agree. They are running a business so can charge if/what they want. I just think they were a little clumsy how they made the transition. It was particularly annoying for people mid-way through a specialization to find out that the rest of the courses in the specialization would be crippled.
This is a great answer. It's amazing how VCs seem just as prone to social proof as the rest of us.
This article is about the Silicate-Carbonate cycle, a geologic process, not politics.
Intentional or not, I'm really annoyed by a similar thing in the NYT iPad app: the ads are exactly where you naturally put your fingers to scroll. Coincidence?
I thought it was more a case of "some car manufacturers cheated" and not "almost all diesel cars emit several times more than they should". How is this possible?
It doesn't help that one of the founders committed suicide, I believe there was a rumor stating the reason was because their product didn't work.
I'm kinda surprised that https://xkcd.com/1172/ didn't make the list..
> as a practical matter, its use of Clojure is simply not a hurdle most SRE types are going to overcome to use it

And yet, it's the most widely used option in this role. Crazy days.
WOT (Web of Trust) would be a good candidate for this. It's crowdsourced rep for websites.

Boston Globe is all green though. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.bostonglobe.com
This describes issues I have to a tee. I know a few basic words in multiple languages, mostly I use English, but I have noticed I tend to get worse after a long coding session - it's like my English cart gets taken out and replaced with something else.

What is quite scary is that my colleagues now understand from tone and context exactly which "thingy" I am referring to...
Surely if you want unpredictable and unrepeatable content, 4chan is the place to go?
> What does matter is making a decision that friendships and relationships are important to you, and seeking out other people who have also made that decision.

That is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

I have plenty of time to make friends, but wouldn't be able to make any. Especially as you get older, it gets nearly impossible to approach people. At this point I'm down to a single nearby friend.
A bit/lot of it may be "optimize for the test", not cheat. They know at what temperature the test is done, so they optimize the chemistry for that case. They know it will be done with new cars, so they do not optimize "emission over the car's lifetime".

They also have drivers who are above average. That will help with manually shifted cars.

And of course, they pick the best car they can produce, and prepare it optimally. Tyre pressure will be optimized, the car will be perfectly polished, if that helps, etc.

Cheating starts when they tape shut doors to decrease air resistance, or when they explicitly detect "test is being run" and act upon it.

IMO, the real problem is twofold: firstly, the existing tests were designed in such a way that their results do not reflect what happens in the real world, and secondly, some manufacturers went criminally far in optimizing for it.
There's a lot of noise above you, too. E.g. YouTube gets all of its videos conflated, ycombinator links should arguably be ignored; really, you're about 30th :-)
Terribly naive view. "Shoot the messenger" is the norm not the exception in a bureaucracy.
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Why is Google.com mentioned twice?
Ryan, this is not a good strategy. Especially given this bit: "I also watched Kinnard vehemently explain to others that he never planned on selling BitBox, and that the money component doesn’t matter to him at all (he wasn’t kidding, either)."

YC funds businesses that have the potential to make a lot of money. A founder who doesn't care about the financial side of things does not bode well.
The Chinese censors seem to be doing just fine. If anything they're tightening the firewall and blocking VPNs more tightly.
Is this really true? I know that in the UK, course content and difficulty varies wildly between universities.
Exactly. I'd say it closest comparable is CEP.
> I'm finding meaningful connection into my 30s, which I'm thankful for because it's really important to me.

How? I'm genuinely interested. I have basically no idea how people make friends outside of forced closeness, something which is regretfully lacking in the adult world.
Hey some people just want to watch youtube in their underwear and read hacker news. Not everyone is wired to be Mark Zuckerberg, although if they were the world would be totally hilarious.
You don't need to use a root solver. If you represent numbers as "a + b sqrt(5)" you can do algebra directly in that space.
You're not reading the same history books, obviously.

Because again and again, humans are well-documented to NOT dance on each other's graves. We consistently pull back from the brink of destroying the "other" and not only let them live, but help them rebuild.
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This is the road that IBM and HP went down, isn't it?

Stop making things and start providing services around the things you used to make.
It used to be a real problem in virtual environments. That's why they all have special drivers for randomness now.
The direct counterpart is programming on the Common Lisp Object System meta-object level: different meta-classes, funcallable objects, etc.
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A thread I was following (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559612) has disappeared from 'Ask HN'.

Currently there are several stories on the first and second pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/ask that are both older and have fewer points than that thread.

I was only able to find it from my 'saved stories' page.

How does this happen?
> I've met organic chemists who have spent upwards of 30 years developing drugs and haven't put a single drug on the market.

You've met some bad chemists. Which is not unusual, as medicinal chemistry is basically a lost discipline at this point.
Governments 'failing' in this scenario seems to be referring to not acting quickly enough.

If you're going to strip governments of power for this, there would be no more governments left in the world.
> It's actually reasonable to have a platform that e.g. gives you 2's complement arithmetic or defines the result of shifts, or allows unaligned access, because mainstream computer hardware does provide those guarantee.

ARM, PPC, and x86 all define the results of some shifts differently (for shift amounts >32UL) and behave differently with unaligned pointers (only x86 tends to accept them). Which mainstream hardware are you using?

Adding magical nice semantics to your language is another way to hide bugs in your program. Try building with ubsan and doing runtime testing instead.
I suspect T-Mobile is just deeply and embarrassingly incompetent, rather than actively user hostile. Everything, including spending more money with them, often takes a phone call. Changing plans online is impossible about half the time (depending on what you're trying to do, and it doesn't fail more often for downgrading service than upgrading). They are a phone company that barely knows how to do business as a phone company; they definitely aren't a technology or internet company, as they fail remarkably on those fronts.
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I could have written this comment above. One of the problems lies in the fact that "smart" means different things to different people. Firstly, it usually seems to take on the meaning of hard-science smart and, with that, one often finds specialists. I live in a city where every other person I meet literaly has a PhD (or two) but what am I going to talk about with them regarding particle physics or string theory?

If I were to call myself smart, I'd say I'm humanities smart, ie a generalist, ie utterly and insatiably curious. How many others in life have I met like me? Maybe one. That's it, and he's a DN so I don't get to see him much.

We also have to factor in lifestyle. I'm a VA and thus I've moved many times in my life so this doesn't help with the situation. For the last decade, I've accepted way less pay and less hours so that I can have the free time necessary to learn all the things I want to learn - long-term goals, if you will. As a trade-off (and I gladly do it), I live abroad because that's when quality of life goes way up and cost of living goes way down (most of the non-native English speaking world already lives this way, IMO).

In the end, I'm curious enough to take up my own free time, but since I'm also not a shut-in, I seek out ways to socialize with interesting people. The kicker is that most of them are travelers/expats, so they move too.

Recently I met a guy who is both nice and available (even though he moved away the other day), so we'd hang out quite a lot. He didn't have to share my interests or be a generalist or anything. He just had to be agreeable and available, and this surprised me a bit, though I'm not sure why. Not be an a-hole and say "I'm free, let's do something" can be a powerful motivator.
I'm surprised with the sentiment on HN about this.

Chat bots promises the power of the command line without the learning curve.

That is something to be exited about!

I'm not impressed by the Pizza example either. In my experience ordering via Justeats app or website is ~30min longer than just calling the shop. In fact, I will sometimes use JustEat to look at the menu and then call the shop to save time.

Chat is obviously slower at typing than talking, but the tap-speed when typing simply cannot be compared with tapping through menus.

And there is no wait for a chat bot.
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They can change plans anytime they like. Even prepaid data plans are cheaper. It's plain silly to overpay like that.

Most likely they are paying for their handset in the monthly fee and that has nothing to do with the real price of the data plans.
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I don't think you have anything to do with it, but why would you ever style a quote exactly like the streamers? I almost skipped it...
That would have been considered disrespectful in my company, and to me personally

Me, I quickly realized it was about picking my battles. I could fight every day I lived in England to get people to pronounce it correctly or I could accept a reasonable best effort approximation and move on with my life. I found that most expats/immigrants with strange names took the same approach. These days when I'm in England or North America I've even started to pronounce my own name slightly wrong to speed up the whole process. Hell some people I know even preemptively changed their names to something easier to save everybody the effort.

Mispronunciations where (almost) never due to malice and my friends converged on a good pronunciation fairly quickly, and that was good enough for me. Spending a few years of your youth with most people getting you name wrong quickly desensitizes you to such minor details.
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They are already quite separated. It would be good if they were separated even further from my point of view (because the value of HN for me outweighs the value of YC tremendously), but since HN does not have a monetization strategy it currently needs support in the form of employees generously paid for by YC.

You'd need to at least begin to solve that problem before you can ask for more separation than there already is. And from a community perspective I think Daniel and others are doing a pretty good job at keeping an even keel when it comes to not giving YC preferential treatment. The only bit left is the job postings, which is probably a fair way to pay back for what YC does for HN.
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> More intelligent individuals actually experienced higher life satisfaction with lower frequency of contact with friends

Does the article imply causation or just correlation? If the latter, I would assume the causation is the opposite - happier people need other people less, because they're happier even by themselves.
'Entropy doesn't get depleted' seems to be something that I have read in many places yet the Linux kernel dev doesn't seem to focus too much on that. Any reason for them missing the point?

It seems you would want to slowly change/update the entropy pool to protect against compromise. So can there be a worst-case situation (if you don't block - for the different reason) that your entropy pool is not updating fast enough to recover from compromise. Or the pool update requires so little entropy (compared to what linux is doing with kind of refilling it) that its almost impossible for that to matter?
Would never have expected that from the Boston Globe. Can't imagine how the step up in year two is even legal.
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When I last had to book a rental car and they did not show me the final price on the order now page I cancelled and choose a different company. Completely unacceptable.
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This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515941
Not acting quickly enough?.. VW's "defeat device" wasn't uncovered by the government, and it's been deployed for years. I'm not sure what would make governments do anything about this at any future point in time if the issue wasn't reported by a non-government entity. The article also elaborates the measures governments are taking to let perpetrators get away with this into the future (and another source reported how governments keep postponing random checks of cars on actual roads.) There are at least three reasons for governments to side with the perpetrators - campaign contributions or outright bribes to politicians, concerns about the economy/employment, and a revolving door between car makers and regulatory agencies, all this is true for any big business regulated by the government.

The belief that fraud is conducted on this scale but the regulator is not to blame is stunning to me (same with banking fraud etc.) I didn't say governments should necessarily be stripped of this power, just that if they all fail so miserably at something, you ought to either suggest that they cannot ever succeed (and if so of course you'll want to strip them of this power) or that people currently employed by governments to oversee this should be investigated, in the hope that eventually the governments can be trained to find competent people to fill these roles, and find some mechanism that prevents corrupting these people. Meeting extreme government incompetence with complete understanding ("they just didn't act quickly enough") and zero penalties, however, is IMO perpetuating the problem.
honestly I think 'dark pattern' is too mild a way to put it and 'deception' is more accurate. If the whole point of this 'pattern' is to get someone to do something they don't actually want to do, how is that not deception?
This kind of misleading pattern is illegal in Australia and from reading other comments, probably the Europe.

In Australia the full price for a product has to be displayed equally or more prominently than any other price. So that $6.93 has to be just as visible other pricing claims (like $0.99 for 4 weeks).

The same law also requires companies to include tax prominently in their pricing. More generally, a business cannot engage in misleading or deceptive conduct.

The rationale behind this is it makes things fair for consumers, and helps businesses compete fairly.

These laws probably don't exist in places like the US as businesses complain about compliance costs, and the governments have other priorities.
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"The rise of these two groups — the working poor and non-working rich – is relatively new." Is it? Sounds like classic feudalism to me.
Slightly off topic: I'll have to dig it out - they started making the casing (I think, or whatever the outer shell is called) of SS-20s into tourist tat which you could pick up in the 80s and 90s. I have a badge and some other stuff made of it I picked up somewhere.
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Ted T'so showed up here on HN in one of these discussions and derided any criticism as "ivory tower" and "academic".

OTOH, Kroah-Hartmann and Torvalds seemed to approve of my essay ("Myths about /dev/urandom"), so maybe not all hope is lost.

Still, let's not lose perspective here: the Linux random subsystem certainly has its flaws, but it is secure for all practical purposes. Just not convenient.
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You are welcome. Just do it in a secure way and don't store any information. Make submitting and voting completely anonymous. Don't require logins and don't log anything to protect your users. Use plain HTML and don't use JavaScript.

Even if the above makes the voting easy to rig, it's more important to ensure anonymity than perfectly accurate voting results. And even with biased voting data you can figure out what the users are interested in. If nothing else it will help you cull content, as lack of interest is also a good indicator.
Yes, and it was always the case for people in not-so-lucky countries. Still it's new for U.S. centric people, because USA had a good headstart.