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VW deserves this. Hopefully this penalty will discourage other automakers from cheating in this way. It would also be nice if Mr. Winterkorn and the executives who were complicit in this were prosecuted. I wonder how well they have covered their tracks.

I am glad to see there will be some money going to the owners of the affected diesels. A lot of these people bought the cars because they were marketed as more environmentally friendly. Then, they were left with an embarrassing car with near-zero resale value once the revelations came out.

I feel like the US has a bizarrely inconsistent attitude towards air pollution. The standards for NOx emissions for diesel construction equipment and ships are almost non-existent. If VW's actions are reprehensible, surely the lawmakers who created such a bizarrely fragmented regulatory regime are also to blame. http://www.greenhoustontx.gov/reports/closingdieseldivide.pd...
At least that would be honest.
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There are many ways a big corporation could be killed. If some EU regulatory body decided that after this has happened in the US, all EU consumers are entitled to the same thing - VW would be dead instantly.

Same if they e.g. issued a ban on VW selling cars in the EU for say 5 years.
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I tried Strang, but I prefer books to lectures. I took an introductory course, but was left with "So what?" I plan to self-study over the summer for machine learning course in the fall.
> If it had been a deliberate attack

Nonono, don't compare anything to terrorism please: We have a far to belligerous action on terrorism, while we don't do much against other causes of death. Smoking still causes an order or magnitude more deaths of innocents than terrorism (non-smokers) and the people still defend it's ok to smoke on the sidewalk (and defend it's ok to kill Muslims without trial as long as it's a military action). Responses to terrorism are disproportionate.
Strang has a great book.

If you want something different, Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" or maybe Shilov's Linear Algebra book are good.
Starship had solved this ages ago building them on rock and rooooool
Quora was definitely not the first startup to do 10 year exercise period, not by some margin. My Lime Wire stock options from 2000 had a 10 year exercise with a 6 year vesting schedule, no cliff and vesting every 3 months. Here's the proof: http://imgur.com/6eTUyui

Adam's on the right track though. I just had to write a 6 figure check today to exercise my vested options at my current employer because of the 90 day clause. It makes me angry because the company's official stance is that the board wants to use stock options as an employee retention tool. I was fortunate enough to have had the cash but a lot of other people are not and there is no secondary market. So if you get fired or have to quit during a bad market you are basically screwed.
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Economic war: US vs. Germany. Nothing else.

Nature would benefit if gasoline prices were 10 US per liter and people would stop to drive around senselessly. (I know the geographic circumstances make this impossible, but nevertheless...).
Agreed. That's how to do sensible searching.

I didn't know how exit would happen via "Article 50", so I couldn't search for that term.

This election cycle has demonstrated that Google is acting politically, not a neutral repository with great search tools.
Can someone explain what is this and what it does?

Non native English speaker here who found the introductory lines on the website very confusing.
Flipkart ?
I would argue that Airbnb is doing the opposite. Using residential housing for tourists, reducing the supply, when perfectly good hotels are available.
That would be functionally the same as confiscating it.
I just downloaded the source for ntfs-3g[1], and it doesn't appear to have any binary blobs in it. In addition, it's under the GPLv2 so integrating proprietary components is unlikely to be legal. The answer you linked quite clearly says that the company offers a proprietary version of ntfs-3g. The answer does not say that ntfs-3g is proprietary.

Also, Trisquel (an FSF-approved GNU/Linux distribtion, meaning that it doesn't have any proprietary software within 100km of the distro) has packages for ntfs-3g[2]. So it's _definitely_ entirely free software.

So again, you're wrong on this point. In addition, I strongly believe that you were never correct on this point. Maybe you confused ntfs-3g with the proprietary version that company sells?

[1]: http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/
[2]: http://packages.trisquel.info/search?keywords=ntfs&searchon=...
This is an amazing fusion of robotics, AR, compositing and 3D tools... I wonder if any team on the project could elaborate on the technologies used and what it took to go from zero to 60 in 2 years? That seems like a punishing development schedule for an idea like this.
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It can still be painful to use open source projects internally because of the monorepo's structure. There was/is a rule to have a maximum of one version of any given OSS package at a time (more or less).

In general, the rule was good, as it kept most teams up to date with the latest security patches, etc. It did, however, incur a fair bit of pain, as you frequently had to bump a myriad of dependents whenever bumping some package.

And npm packages were/are a real nightmare to manage due to that rule. Particularly when you have some popular npm packages that end up (transitively) depending on 3+ versions of a particular package.
The Sun affects the range? How and why, that doesn't make sense at all?
I don't agree with the fact you are being downvoted.

Toyota and Honda have paid the largest safety-related fines in history:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-toyota-billion-doll...

http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/honda-will-pay-largest-auto-...

Compare Toyota's fine for it's failure to report safety defects to GM's in the GM ignition scandal. I think reasonable minds can conclude that they are both serious, but it is possible to make an argument GM's was more serious, and they paid a lesser fine. Also compare timelines, and the fact that US regulators were pressured by public discourse in the GM case. It's not crazy to come to the conclusion regulators show bias towards US automakers.

It's actually no conspiracy at all that the US government has bias and favors US auto makers in public policy. Afterall, it was not long ago we gave GM a huge welfare check / bail out package. Ford to a lesser extent.
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It doesn't matter what you've done here "dang"... She is the one that needs help. I hope she reads my "vitriolic" post.
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It's entirely possible that you were taught by a pseud. That's unfortunate if so.

I did a degree in English lit. The poetry classes I took looked something like this:

- Old and Middle English Poetry (Beowulf, Chaucer, etc.)

- Elizabethan Poetry

- Paradise Lost

- The Shakespearean Sonnet

- 18th Century Classicism (Alexander Pope, etc.)

- Victorian Poetry (Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, etc.)

- 20th Century Irish Poetry (Yeats, that kind of thing)

- 20th Century American Modernism

Only in the last class was there was anything like you described, and even then it only made up a fraction of the material covered.

Here is one of the most critically acclaimed poems of the last 40 years. It's perfectly easy to understand. http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-martian-sends-a-post...
"Hungry" could also be understood literally ;) we have free lunch at eFounders
You mean Grunt?
There is a good talk from a Facebook engineer about this for JavaScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pOgY8__JM

It usually goes like this:

- You make your API backward compatible.

- You use grep to try and find all the ways people are using it.

- You write and run a codemod to convert 70-90% of the call sites mechanically.

- You manually fix the remaining ones. This is usually a good opportunity to throw a hackathon-style event where a bunch of people sit in a room for few hours and drive it down.

- You remove support for the previous version.
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Pretty much everything builds against head, and very little is in versioned archives.

There's a ton of fantastic artifact caching (that gets invalidated whenever source changes; which is frequently), distributing building, and some really nifty source code juggling
Are you claiming that compile time defects are a flaw in the programming experience? Because running buggy code is a feature?
Apple’s stylus has a pretty effective and reliable pairing method: just briefly plug it into the tablet.

Too bad this method can’t be more generally used.
This is not true at all. Your life-long interest in karate apparently includes 0 practical knowledge. I doubt you have even watched a youtube video from a karate tournament.

The modus operandi in karate is "Immoblize your enemy as fast as possible". Immobilize in this context means kill or knock out and ASAP means instantly. There is nothing more vicious out there than Kyokushin.
> Presumably if you tried to copy all of the files, you'd first be rate-limited, then get an access denied, and lastly a visit from corporate security. I wouldn't want to try.

And there's no way it'd fit on a single hard drive.
Haven't facebook forked Mercurial to use it for their own mega mono repository?
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See below for the calculation. The relative environmental costs are debatable but NOx being 34 times worse is a stretch. Protectionism may be a factor -- domestic automakers have little incentive to push back on NOx.

The response is punitive because VW acted deliberately but otherwise far out of proportion to the harm. The article mentions that buybacks cannot be resold unless EPA approves a fix. I hope they do, because their embodied energy will dwarf by a significant margin everything else being considered here and scrapping them would be a disaster.

Fortunately internal combustion engines are nearly obsolete for light automobiles and this will all be moot in a decade.

VW light vehicle sales: 50M worldwide since 2009 [1]
Affected cars: 500,000 US, 11M worldwide [2]
VLKAY price: 70% pre-scandal level [1]

For the United States...

Annual average miles traveled per car: 11,000 [3]
NOx emissions allowed: 0.06 g/mi [1]
Actual TDI emissions: 1.6 g/mi [1]

11,000 mi * 500,000 * 1.5g/mi = 8,200 tonne NOx per year

CO2 from gasoline combustion: 8.9 kg/gal [4][5]
CO2 from diesel combustion: 10.2 kg/gal [4]
Jetta fuel efficiency: 27 mpg [6]
Jetta TDI fuel efficiency: 36 mpg [6]
Jetta carbon efficiency: 330 g/mi
Jetta TDI carbon efficiency: 280 g/mi

11,000 mi * 500,000 * -50 g/mi = -275,000 tonne CO2 per year
"If your product's core value prop is UI/UX/ease of use" then you're obviously not entering/creating a new market, nor you are attempting to find a product/market fit, are you?

It pretty much implies that you're attempting to overtake existing competitors who have found product/market fit, where people have options to fill their need but do so grudgingly because of their UX quality. Doing that can be a solid business plan, but it's very, very different from the type of new-product-discovery startups that Reif Hoffman was talking about.

If the people are paying for an existing crappy product with poor UI/UX, then that illustrates a valid need and building an easier-to-use product can greatly increase the size of that market.

However, if currently people are not eager to pay for that need, then I'd wager that simply providing UI/UX/ease of use won't change that. If their need isn't sufficient to put up with the minor bother of sucky UX (at least for 10% of most needy part of the market), then that need isn't also sufficient to put up with the much larger bother of paying you adequately.
People always think aikidô is fake, until they try it.

I couldn´t believe it for myself until a girl, two heads smaller than me and probably a third of my weight, brought me to the floor. There´s nothing fake in it. There is just pain if you resist, so you don´t.

And besides that, the goal of aikidô is to prove the enemy that attacking you will not help him with anything. It´s not meant to overcome him with force, by pain or injuries. It´s very spiritual and different to other dôs.

(I did aikidô for five years during university.)
Again: What has trump said that's actually anti-Hispanic (not even just Mexican) or outright racist? I have looked up a lot of what Trump _exactly_ says. He's very careful with his words; people just project meaning into them to get the result they want.

All people have biases, even judges. The judge in question belongs to "La Raza Lawyers" ("The Race"). La Raza in general is very pro-immigration and doesn't like Trump's policies. Trump didn't say it was because he was Mexican heritage, he said it was because the judge kept ruling against him. But it's not crazy to think there may be some bias there, possibly.

I don't know why you think it's a pipe dream. Charging Mexico is trivial: Threaten the remittances. Tax them or just ban them (add more AML/KYC rules). Since there's 1-2M households depending on this income, even a 2 month interruption would devastate Mexico - they can't play around with it. As far as deporting people, the US deported 1M in a the 50s[1]. With social media and modern tech, it should be easy to surpass that number.

I'm not even supporting him here. I'm just annoyed that people that could take down Trump don't, and instead resort to baseless insults. We just saw this happen with Brexit. The Remain side, outside of debates, was a lot of "don't be racist" screaming. People are ignoring this kind of yelling, and it desensitizes people to actual racism.

This isn't really a good topic for HN, but please email me (see profile) so we can discuss more.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
This couldn't be further from the truth. Sorry I'm not pointing to "evidence" but what you are saying is like laser tag guns are far better than AK-47.
And if you're trying to Google or wiki the concept, it's called the moment of inertia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia

It's discussed in terms of inertia and momentum, but these quantities are the useful quantities when discussing rotation about an axis.

Speaking loosly, applying a force perpendicular to the radius of a rotating body changes its angular velocity, which is a factor of momentum. The moment of inertia determines in part how large the torque on the mass is for a given force about the center.
History as a guide, we will look back on this for the tire fire it is. monorepo and projects like Chrome and Android to me look like a company that is trying its best to hold itself together but bursting out at the seams the same way Microsoft did in the '90s with Windows NT and other projects. Googlers frequently use appeal to authority to paper over the fact that they are basically the new Microsoft.
I went for a bike fitting today and the guy that did the fitting was incredibly knowledgeable about all things bikes. He told me that due to the "physics" involved that wheels were 2 to 3 times heavier at speed. Turns out he was talking nonsense!

I wonder where this old wives tale about wheel weight comes from?
A Turing test is meant to be both the AI and the human trying to convince the tester that they're human. To do it properly your human testee should be a third party not related to the AI developer, and should be independently motivated to 'win' by convincing the tester that they're the human.

Having the human pretend to be a chatbot is just disingenuous.
I'd highly recommend getting a tiny mp3 player (say Clip Zip, though they are now discontinued...) and a short light headphone cable. Why send audio wirelessly when the tech to play it is as small as the receiver?

There are also headphones with built in players, I don't know how the quality of those is though.
My understanding was that a large part of what lifted the city up was also vibranium. So I don't feel the vibranium was so scarce he could only afford himself one master unit. But his goal was to control the mind gem in Vision's body, which would have been quite unique, and was his end goal.
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Inability to differentiate homonyms is one of the current weaknesses of word embeddings, isn't it?
Congrats on the release! You said Anime is equal or better than other JS libraries in terms of performance - were you including GSAP? In my tests, GSAP was significantly faster under stress: http://greensock.com/js/speed.html. Am I missing something? Do you have a test that shows otherwise? I don't mean that to detract from your hard work at all. Clearly you put a lot of effort into this, and I know how hard it is to pack in features and keep performance up and file size down. I applaud the file size achievement.
The EU free trade zone allowed free movement of workers.
> How and why, that doesn't make sense at all?

Not sure. I remember reading an article some time ago that stated the Sun's electromagnetic radiation could interfere with Bluetooth and it's always worked with my observations. I've used multiple Plantronics headsets, Motorola headphones and an off brand of headphones all with an iPhone 5S, iPhone 6+, Nexus 6P, Moto X and a Note 3 and in all of these devices they work great indoors and going outside on a sunny day it would break up (but cloudy always seemed to work better).

It's entirely possible this is some crazy bullshit but my observations are real. So if it ends up being that the Sun does NOT provide interfere then it must be SOMETHING. I just had this issue this past week when I was working outside and had to grab my wired headphones.
Flipkart is known not to use AWS (in production), because of being their primary competitor.
Can you quantify that? Honest question - Android does not seem like a small project to me, but perhaps it really is dwarfed by Google's web services.

What you wrote reminded me of a feeling I had: that these projects are these weird exceptions, only nominally part of Google. They have their own policies (style guide, code review, etc), have their own hardware, etc. The Android building even had their own desks (non-adjustable!)
Thank you for alerting me to that. Love a backwards compatible web!
Indeed, they made a mess of it twice - right around when BlueZ finally got good, they switched to a different stack on Android 4.2 and broke everything again.
Apple Magic Trackpad 2/Mouse/Keyboard do work this way.
How do you explain the Ohka, a piloted flying bomb custom built for suicide attacks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY7_Ohka
I haven't used one of these myself, but from my experience with regular video calls (and a mention in the article), a killer feature will be some way for the robot operator to maintain eye contact without having to fake it, i.e. looking at the camera instead of the screen. Googling brings up some rumors about devices with cameras hidden behind the screen, especially an Apple patent from 2009... but even if the tech doesn't pan out, I bet you could fake it pretty well in software if you have multiple cameras on different sides of the screen.
from what he's describing professor Donald Knuth had a channeling session when he wrote the theory of surreal numbers :)
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True !
Great article!
In a way, it's pretty intuitive. Beginners are looking down the rabbit hole and think "well I've got this far so it can't go that much deeper can it"? They've got a CRUD app up and running and doing stuff - I remember I felt pretty invincible at that point.

A prime example from experience: "oh I know development. I use PHP includes all the time".

The biggest humbling exercise I do is to think back 6 months, 1 year and so on. I remember how much I thought I knew and what I produced (some stuff I'm still maintaining too, which is humbling in of itself). Realising how much I've learned between those times and realising I've barely made a dent both shows me how little I know and lights the " I must learn more" fire.
Fifteen years ago, looking at the Bluetooth spec my impression was the best way to implement it would have been to send the designers to the Siberia and then start over.

The two issues I saw were Bluetooth is based on a frequency hopping radio using a dated low performance modulation scheme. The only nice thing you could say is potentially you can build really low power radio's using that design. However that brings up the second issues, a very complicated kitchen sink base band which requires a complex software stack and power hungry processor to support it. There goes your low power, out the window. (I think there were about 20 companies trying to design low power Bluetooth transceivers circa 2000-2003, most of them never could get the power low enough or a working stack)

Hardware design issues aside, frequency hoppers have insurmountable quality of service issues for most applications. Professionally I don't think this is fixable.

They would have been better off doing the following three things.

1. Define a low speed point to point oriented modulation scheme that can be supported by 802.11 radio front ends. Probably could have implemented this as a sub-band of some sort.

2. A direct sequence spread spectrum physical layer for USB. Advantage of that is the USB stack mostly works as USB had a 10 year head start and more resources than the Bluetooth alliance ever had, or will have. If one thinks a stack like USB is 'easy' consider Microsoft had to redesign theirs three or four times.

3. Dedicated DSSS wireless headphone spec. Seriously this was the original design goal and was totally achievable until the committee responsible for the spec lost their minds.
What I see discussed much less than inequality is social mobility. Why precisely is inequality bad? I'd argue that it is bad in large part because it implies lack of social mobility - when top 1% consists of the children of the top 1% of the previous generation while everybody else is stuck trying to make rent, something is wrong with the society.

In this light more equal access to knowledge and education is a step in the right direction. And elitism, impenetrable jargon, arbitrary barriers to entry etc. are not. But, you imply that who gets past the barriers is determined only by "cognitive ability". What if it is not the case and the structure of society is responsible too? When your "cognitive elite" consists mostly of white males with specific backgrounds who went to specific colleges that's suspicious.

Now when someone with a lot of money is out of investment opportunities with acceptable ROI and seeks for someone to create these opportunities for them, that kind of promotes social mobility but only up to a certain level.
How? I always have issues switching my trackpad from my laptop to my mac mini and back...

edit: nevermind, just noticed you said magic trackpad 2
But only rotational movement would be possible, no positional, like the DK1 / Gear VR...

Not the end of the world but not pleasant either.