skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emissions standards are already a dangerous compromise; we should have been making hard decisions about emissions 20, even 30, years ago...they've gotten stricter because they were disastrously lenient in the past, and we see the results of it.

The reasons someone lying about emissions tests are really as bad is it sounds:

- If one manufacturer lies, other manufacturers are forced to either lie, or lose customers in the market to the liar. Thus, dangerous cars become more common, car makers that try to do the right thing make lower profits and sell fewer cars.

- In this case, "clean diesel" lies likely led other manufacturers to waste resources on trying to make clean diesel of their own. Again, competitive advantage goes to the liar who doesn't actually have to make clean diesel; they just say they did, and sell boatloads of it.

- Emissions standards are already too lenient. Our planet's steadily rising temperature shows us this. No one here at HN (I would hope) would be arguing that climate change isn't happening or that humans aren't causing a significant portion of it, so the only sensible thing is to look at what causes it, and regulate it (somehow; I am not an expert on the subject of how emissions are regulated or should be regulated, but I know it's not really working, thus far...as autos are a significant portion of emissions).

So, if the requirements are "way over the line", how does one explain other auto makers complying with them? Are they all lying? There's been increased scrutiny, so it's likely to come out, if they have been. Wouldn't that be an interesting situation?
Human in A.I. loop
that's just it, ask 100 people what "advancement" and "Moving Humanity forward" and you'd likely get 100 different definitions. Same goes for hapiness.
Exactly. The canonical reference to how a git log should look is the Linux kernel, since git was written for it: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master Bisect and blame are amazing in that repo.
Can anyone more familiar with batteries please describe the issue to us?
Seeing my stuff running and running well.
Slightly OT, but countries tend to dislike this brave new world where they cannot obviously and clearly collect taxes on business owners that reside in their country. It is going to be a tough day if the other shoe drops on this. No idea what it will look like if it happens though.
Why would someone want to do that?
Well you can always try the India model which is Chip and Pin for cardholder present transactions and mandatory two factor authentication for online. One result of this strict policy though is automatic subscription card billing is essentially illegal.
But strange for this developer whom I wouldn't consider to be naive in regards to business.
You can charge for the distribution of the software any way you want. You just need to provide the code.

They don't even need to offer a compiled version for free (hint: it is currently, you can type in "0" in the custom field) and it would still be legal.
As one of a small handful of JIRA/other atlassian app admins at my company, yeah, this.

The problem with pretty much anything Atlassian makes is that it's too easy to setup, in that you can have a working, but non-performant, awful to use system without much hassle.

Best advice I can give here is talk to your users. Find out what they think sucks about your setup, and then actually work on those things.

Do you really need 20 custom fields filled in by hand, or could that be automated?

Do your PMs have any idea how the query syntax works? (Send them to class for this - seriously!)

Does your workflow really need 19 disparate steps each with their own triggers and conditions? Beyond a certain point, you can't even reason about the system anymore. Someone, somewhere is going to have to compromise.
> Most very young children play nude for many hours a day.

Not in 'Muricia. Nude baby at beach = lifeguard called.
(Hello! This is my first comment on HN!)

I knew something was odd with DropBox because I never saw any other application provide the level of integration they did. After the DropBox hacks, I reevaluated my security needs and the value I got from DropBox and decided to switch to OneDrive.

OneDrive's shell integration on the Mac isn't as good as DropBox's. Microsoft is aware of this and says they're trying to address it.

Now I know why it's so hard to do! If you want to play by the rules, you can't get the seamless integration you need.

Even with the restrictions though, OneDrive works pretty well on the Mac.
Sweet. It'd be like factory dormitories in Chinese factories.
Inception: Swift Type Erasure Explained
> it introduced me to the unthinkable notion that regular old geeks like me could run software companies. I thought it was illegal, ... my background therefore suggested it was either forbidden, risky, or risked being forbidden.

I encounter this so much in the states. Everything self directed is "sketchy", "is that legal?". It is really sad, because those same people would fall for scams that actually are sketchy and illegal.
The problem I always here with Mesos is that it doesn't scale down well. I.E., that it is not developer friendly or, to put it another way, you can't run it on your laptop.
Thanks! This looks really cool.

Kimpel has written an emulator for the Burroughs 205, and has been able to execute two versions of Knuth's Algol 58 compiler on the emulator.
We software developers are practically knowledge trash cans. The knowledge we acquire decays faster than unrefrigerated meat. If wish I paid attention on my math classes, I would have been doing something cool like Deep learning rather than pull my hair, debug unknown codes and plug apis. The only intellectual stimulation I get is when I am preparing for technical interviews.
How do you avoid accidentally committing tax evasion with this?
We updated our FAQ. Why it may be more important than you think
Volkswagen engineer pleads guilty in U.S. in emissions scandal
This is what you get out from centralizing your communications medium. Sure, we all can easily talk to each other but now you have to assume the host will find something you do or say a liability thus remove it as quickly as you post it. To say that Facebook shouldn't do this comes into conflict in protecting share holder value (which means also avoiding illegal content per local laws). So, you can't have it both ways. Either you have a corporate defend it's share holder value or you have it all nationalized and get NPR. I just wish people would realize that corporations aren't our friends, they're here to make a profit. And profit isn't always what's ethical. I think the better solution to the problem as it stands is to force people to start hosting their own content (which is why I support net neutrality and anti-metering laws). That way, you're in charge of your content and responsible for getting people to view it. We shouldn't have to return to the days of AOL (which we have largely done) to get eye balls. People still go to websites, so why depend on Facebook to distribute your content?
You've managed to ignore the sentence in the post that I did reply to. You know, the other one.

You've also apparently not payed much attention to Sure, we don't know a whole lot more about it, so it is quite likely to not be a nice destination for humans, but it seems to be at least remotely Earth like. that I said above (surely my making that statement implies some use of my imagination prior to your suggesting it).
Interesting to see the 2014 software update to try and hide the defeat software.
In the post you replied to I pointed out gorilla (with three subspecies, two of which are Gorilla gorilla gorilla and Gorilla gorilla beringei) and orang-utans (with Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus and Pongo pygmaeus abelii) as two species with recognized subspecies. I also earlier mentioned chimpanzees as a species with multiple subspecies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_chimpanzee#Taxonomy says there are four.

This uses the taxonomic definition of race, which http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1455.html says "Although 'race' and subspecies are usually treated as equivalent, some zoological taxonomists reserve the word 'race' for local breeding populations, with subspecies being geographical collections of populations that are similar or the same in the defining traits."

That same article is careful to point out that the taxonomical definition is different from the sociopolitical, "socially constructed" definitions used by humans when talking about themselves.

Concerning dogs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog#Taxonomy points out that it's unresolved if domesticated animals should be list as a subspecies, so that dogs are "Canis lupus familiaris", or if they are their own species, as in "Canis familiaris".

In either case, dog breeds are "artificial variants created by ... selective breeding", from http://vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswCFApp/msw/taxon_browser.cfm... . The term "variety" has no formal definition in mammalian taxonomy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(botany)#Other_nomencl... .
>I've met plenty. There are those who relish the opportunity for free market alternatives to public police forces.

You've met them for police forces. But have you met any that are against all taxpayer supported services?

The big one being: No military?

Other than that: No transportation services (road maintenance, etc). I've met people who quickly say they want that privatized and voluntarily paid for, but when I really make them think about it, they change their mind quickly. There are always places they want to drive to that they do not want to pay for.

And even if you have met such a person, they really are a minority of people in the group who are against wealth redistribution.
I agree that the syntax is nonintuitive.
Ben, do you have two HN accounts? This one and that one too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464730 ?
Fortunately you don't have to come up with your very own made-up example: We have a very concrete case that is the subject of this entire story submission.
That office integration is a PITA, is there anyway to disable it?
Automating startup of a company online is a bad, bad, bad idea folks.

Like, Gibson dystopia bad.

EDIT: Okay hivemind.

Seriously, can none of you think of any ill use that automatic provisioning of a economic entity--able to own property, intervene in politics, and interact with the legal system, enter into contracts, and so forth--could be put to?

Like, really?
Off-Cluster Kubernetes Logging with Sumo Logic and Logentries
Syncthing does all of these, but doesn't have the "always available" feature where the service provider keeps a copy of everything for you. If that's not crucial, maybe Syncthing is a viable alternative.
You might not be aware of this yet, so read up a bit on sistema de castas [0].

Both Americans and Mexicans have the strength to change what can be changed, and the resolve to endure what cannot. But being American myself, I think that only the Mexicans also have the wisdom to know the difference.

Are you really going to cure racism with an essay written into the comments section of an article? Really? No. But we Americans are generally ashamed and embarrassed by those aspects of actual historical events that tend to contradict our beliefs in American ideals. One of those ideals being "all men are created equal", the natural conclusion is that America cannot be racist. But it is. It is so very racist. And so the idealists have to plug their ears and loudly sing "lalalalalala" whenever the actual evidence of it appears.

I'm glad that people of other nationalities find it amusing, but they don't have to live with those people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
One thing I like about the US is that there are so many different jurisdictions all in the business of having competitive incorporation services. So although LLC formation might cost $800 in California, it can be like $50 in a nearby state.

Both a feature and a bug, is that there is no federal incorporation statute for private persons in the United States.
Yes, pretty specialized; even then, as I was saying, not really viable. There are .50 cal rifles available for purchase which meet the range performance numbers I gave. These are about the longest range, most powerful, man-portable, unguided projectile weapons available for civilian (or indeed military) use. After that you're into missiles, artillery pieces, or naval guns which aren't really worth discussing.
> Events are stored in DynamoDB. We use mongo for "core" data like accounts, feature flags, etc, but none of the high throughput stuff touches MongoDB.

Curious, why the choice of MongoDB for anything? In my mind "core" data tends to be very structured and require true transactional updates, both of which are cornerstones of a relational database (cough Postgres). Sure it's possible to use MongoDB, but what was the driver for it?
> We use elevated access for where the built-in FS APIs come up short.

Can you please provide an example of such shortcomings?
Why do you want to converse with people in German, rather than English? If you don't have a satisfactory answer to that question, you probably won't be able to speak German. "Because I think I should" is not motivating.

People learn languages best by simply listening to others talk. Hang out with folks that are speaking German. Tell them you want to hear no English at all, all night. Do this for a few weeks, maybe months, and you'll be speaking German soon.

Edit: Maybe I should add that you should focus on comprehension before speaking. Try to simply understand what other people are saying, first. While at an intermediate level, you'll find that you can understand a friend well, but a stranger almost not at all. It'll take some time listening to a variety of people before you can understand many speaking patterns.
Good to see Django moving forward. I recently started a Django based project and I'm quite happy so far. Django + DRF.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464179
This appears to be impossible in Sierra, as the relevant db has been added to SIP. I have un-granted access, and the dropbox app has not been able to re-enable it, nor has it complained (and yes, I restarted).
How does micro housing disadvantage the working poor? Supply and demand would suggest more units = cheaper cost per unit.
This simply can't be legal in the EU, can it?
I could take 10% cut in my salary if they offer me my own office.
What? Is this for real? Is "Mexican" considered offensive?

I was called out on at two occasions for calling someone a "sexy texy mexi", both times by overweight white NY hipsters. So in SWPL circles it seems to be. The sexy texy mexi had no problem with it.

(Entertainingly, on another occasion one of the same hipsters criticized me because sexy texy mexi was lower caste - in the language of Moldbug she was a Vaisya while I should be with a Brahmin. https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/castes... )
It's still fairly expensive though, with Atlas costing $500/corporation. I think that's out of reach for most simple side projects.
Not in Sierra
> We use elevated access for where the built-in FS APIs come up short.

Can you please provide an example of such shortcomings and accessibility APIs that are better?
I know from personal experience the sub-title to this article is "How I'm justifying a bad decision".

Entrepreneurs know when they're making a bad decision, whether consciously or not.

[Edited for brevity. No disrespect, but hate to see a Developer give up on their independence]
You have spent way too much time on Hacker News.

That's probably the most truthful statement I've ever read on here.
To build systems that should exist in society, reduces people's frustrations, and generates revenue/cuts costs.

But really: To raise a child and see her grow and learn about the world: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-09-08
He talks about this here...
http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/27
If you just want to shoot stuff and ain't got time for nothin. Let me recommend Devil Daggers. It's 5 bucks on Steam and tremendously fun if you enjoy a harsh challenge. This guy [1] is the world record holder for surviving 14 minutes. My record is more like 3... After 20+ hours of 2 minutes sessions...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMXeRyIjYBo
you are right. you are using the output of the previous sparse solution as input into the new one, i.e. stacking sparse coders.

Your second question of why this is a good idea is the million dollar question. Its pretty much "lets try it and see", with some heuristic reasoning thrown into the mix (its mirrors the brain, it abstracts information, etc, etc).

btw, I don't think people use early stopping anymore. It's been replaced by more powerful forms of regularization, such as dropout. The deep learning world is getting more tame, and that makes me happy.
Wait till you realize that the highly paid "Quant Library Architect" at Bloomberg is just a java developer that makes shared components between different projects
“While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others."

You'd have to be really fucking stupid for this to be difficult for you. I guess FB finally realized even their users are not all stupid enough to believe such a ridiculous statement.
Think of how much faster this could be with systemd binary logging.
At the cost of an additional processing step to scramble the keys. The balance between safeguarding ignorant or overactive programmers against the performance of a critical builtin type is not going to tip in that direction.

The whole reason we can even have this discussion is because a new algorithm was developed to give us the increased performance in the first place.
At this point you need to follow up with convincing technical details of why Dropbox needs the circumvention to counter the accusation and rebuild the damaged trust.

The reason for needing Accessibility API listed in your response is pretty vague, especially for those Mac users not having Microsoft products tainting their systems.

I've deleted Dropbox from my Mac for now. I'm not installing it back till there's reasonable explanation and remedies.
> It's not fun to know that your state at one point seceded so the wealthiest elites could practice slavery.

Civic pride is an interesting concept that can have positive and negative impacts on behavior and psychology. Your desire to feel proud of your state is impeded by its history of slavery, but I'd argue that you shouldn't feel ashamed of living someplace simply because of its history. I feel proud to be part of a culture and civilization that openly acknowledges the mistakes of the past. I also feel distraught that so many people continue to hold on to racist beliefs, but I don't let this make me ashamed of the state I live in.

First and foremost, we are humans. We should feel bonded by that before being bonded as Louisianians, Californians, or by any other political structure. And as you rightly point out, no US state can point to a clean history of love, peace, and harmony. So don't feel bad to be from the South. It sounds like you reject that ugly piece of its history anyway, so as long as you stand up for what's right today, then you can rightly feel proud of yourself and your fellow citizens.

My main point is that the 'feel-good' you get from blind flag-waving patriotism is not worth the price you pay: that price is ignorance or hand-waving about historical evils. Recognize the evils of the past, but don't let that make you feel ashamed about your citizenship.
I absolutely agree. DC/OS looks really interesting.

I am working on an open source project called "The Startup Stack" to essentially help startups bootstrap (and manage) a cluster in the cloud. link: http://docs.the-startup-stack.com/

Right now, it's working using mesos/marathon etc... 2 companies are using it in production.

In the last couple of months I've been thinking about making the move to Kube for this project. I might evaluate DC/OS as part of it.

Working on this project made me appreciate how hard it is to generalize and hit everyone's taste. There's a lot of customizing around cloud infrastructure now and I definitely feel there are more common grounds we can create.

I'll give DC/OS a shot before making my final decision.

Thank you for your suggestion and your awesome comments on this thread. I was always impressed with the mesosphere team in previous discussions here on HN.
While it's absolutely true that the Saudi's played a central role in 9/11, allowing law suits against a country might be to the US' detriment.

Imagine a retaliatory law suit (funded by the Sauds and others) against the US for all the causalities resulting directly or indirectly from U.S' war on terror or foreign policy.
> Comparing America, which since World War I has been the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth, with some backwater country in Asia or Africa which has oppressive, racially motivated policies is not really honest.

Who should we compare America to then?

France? France is hardly a model society with its outlawed burkas on beaches and the home of the LePen family. Moreover, apparently anti-semitism is such a pressing issue that it has been outlawed in France (along with Holocaust denial) since 1990.

Greece? The Golden Dawn Party (a Neo-Nazi party) holds 18 of the 300 seats (6%) in the Greek parliament.

South Africa? The end of apartheid is barely twenty years old and racism is apparently "alive and well"[0].

Norway? In 2011 a far-right extremist group (anti-Muslim) killed 77 people and members of the UN claim the government is doing too little too combat right-wing extremist violence against Muslims.[1]

Germany? In June a poll found that more than 40% of Germans support a ban on Muslim immigration.[2] Additionally, apprently 60% of Germans believe Islam has no place in their country, and last year attacks on refugee camps increased 500%.

The Balkans? In the '90s these countries were entirely reformed through a nearly 10-year period of war and ethnic cleansing.

Sure, maybe the ideal might be similar to Canada, Australia, or Great Britain, all of which are predominantly single-race societies. But where is that shining city on the hill out there that we should be comparing ourselves to? I can't find it. Our goal can't be to become "less racist" than any of those "Western" countries listed above. It just has to be to get better.

For clarity, I'm not claiming that the U.S. is any more or less racist than any of countries above. I'm just saying they all have their problems too.

[0] http://www.relativityonline.com/home/racism-alive-and-well-i...

[1] http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYe...

[2] http://aa.com.tr/en/europe/anti-muslim-sentiment-in-germany-...

[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisi...
Which company ?
50 Corporate Chatbots Across Industries
> They don't have a choice when sustainability is in the balance.

This is not solved by AMP, it's absolutely the choice of publishers.

> AMP is for the ad networks.

Not really, you can see their official roadmap. Many of the original principles have already changed and many of the intrusive ad formats are already back in (like autoplay outstream video units). The only real optimization is better async loading which could already be done with proper coding by publishers and ad networks.