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What about this would back your claim that he isn't a fall guy? Whether he exclusively decided to cheat or not, there are still people that could have stopped him.
This is for media attention. It might be VW or it might be someone else that is making this "scandal" go on. Besides, VW itself is a fall guy; other companies are also doing some odd stuff: http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a29293/v...
"One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens"

He's proposing a Reductio Ad Absurdum argument, implying strict adherence to the "fall on the sword" principle causes prosecution of salespeople.

Because there's an implication, if you accept his argument, then you either reject strict adherence to the principle(modus tollens) or accept prosecution of the salespeople(modus ponens).

You interpreted his comment as accepting prosecution of the salespeople, but I believe he intended you to conclude rejection of strict adherence to the principle.
Put simply: It matters because taste is not the only criteria used to select which seafood to buy.

One might make a choice based on mercury content, environmental friendliness, dietary restrictions (medical or philosophical), to support (or abstain from supporting) a particular industry, or something else entirely.

To allow fraud which can't be detected on the palate is to deny buyers their freedom to choose based on any criteria other than taste.

It is not up to the producer what criteria buyers use when choosing their purchases.

Also, if the consumer shouldn't care, the producer shouldn't either. If the producer thinks it shouldn't matter what it says on the label, well then... no harm in putting the right thing on the label, right? No? I guess it matters then.
this is fine, but with PYTHONHASHSEED no longer impacting dictionary ordering, we need a new way to test our applications to ensure they aren't relying on dictionary ordering, without having to replace all dict / {} instances with "myapplication.utils.patchable_dict". What solution has been arrived at for this use case? (there IS a solution, right?)
If a game ran like our phones, it would get terrible reviews and people wouldn't buy it.

If a phone ran like our games, people wouldn't buy it because it has no apps.
I think if you had left off "I'm immediately worried" you might not have got the downvotes. It comes off as kneejerk criticism, event though you didn't mean it that way.
uTorrent has implemented BEP44 (storing data in the DHT) for years, as has libtorrent. Those two clients combined make up a large majority of the bittorrent DHT so BEP44 support is quite reliable now.
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I haven't played it yet, but I really enjoyed the original Doom, and I am encouraged by how much of the original design philosphy stayed intact in the new installment (medkits+glory kills encourage you to stay on the on the offensive and on the move, minimal hitscan weaponry and smart enemy design discourage just staying in cover, keys and secret powerups encourage exploration, and there's still Carmack's story mentality ("story in a game is like story in a porn movie - it's expected to be there, but it's not that important"))

OTOH, given that I already have the original doom, is the new one really worth it? I mean, it's good, but it's not exactly going to beat the original at it's own game...
None of this is going to get any easier until widespread recognition of the next objective of humanity as permanently ending human killing and torture gains universal or universally-implementable acceptance.
> Corporations don't have a mind of their own

Of course not, as you mentioned they are composed of human beings who make the decisions about how a company operates.

I am sure you will agree that a significant number of humans will disregard ethics when it comes to personal enrichment. Let me provide one example who comes immediately to mind: Pablo Escobar (thanks, Netflix). US prisons do contain a large number of white collar criminals.

> nor do they [companies] pursue profit regardless of ethics.

This does not follow. Companies are composed of people, and people do disregard ethics.
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Oh so I only get my bank account drained for 10 days if I use my debit.

Please tell me why I would use Debit again? Remember I also lose the 2% cashback I get on my credit, on top of my bank account being drained for 10 days and perhaps my mortgage payment bouncing if I didn't catch it in time.
As you know, the fuller your battery gets, the less current it draws.

If your neighbor was already at the end of their charge cycle, then they will be drawing relatively little, and you'll get the full current.
Well if you're going to drive an expensive bus, you're gonna want to insure it.
The adaptor comes in the box (if it didn't, it would seem to me an underhanded way of increasing the cost of the phone)
Granted, I'm still not convinced it was the right time to phase out the port.
> make it non-deterministic

In Python v3.1 - v3.5 the order is deterministic within an execution, but non-deterministic across executions. This was implemented to avoid the possibility that a hacker could slow down dict key lookup/insertion by creating a large number of hash table collisions.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2012-...

IMHO, that doesn't seem to be a big vulnerability.
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Is using human common sense out of the question? Too many images? Too hard? Who would decide?
Why would you need a credit history if you don't use credit?
In most states you can freely run a business under your own name, and if you'd like a business name to be simply an alias for yourself (not a separate legal person) a Doing Business As arrangement is trivial, fast, and cheap.

But the whole point of a company is limited liability, an entity which can own property, sue and be sued, etc. separately from its collection of owners.
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And you think you win the argument immediately just by labeling the poster "Randian". As if anyone saying anything remotely un-leftist is some uncaring, selfish nut job. Maybe pick up an Ayn Rand book some time and actually read it.
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I already have multiple accounts. But to give up 2% cash back I get on my credit card to use a debit card.. now you want me to make a shell game of bank accounts? Just so I can use debit? Makes no sense, Credit solves these and so many other problems without extra work.
I wonder if you'll say the same when Pinboard gets sued for copyright infringement by its archival feature. I hope it never happens, but saying "it's just a website" is a little cavalier.

(Yes, it merely takes an publicly available work that the users could download themselves, and makes it available to each individually. That's essentially what Aereo did, and look at them now.)
No, it isn't good. It is brittle and dogmatic, and these dogmas are often thinly-evidenced ("now we know stress is all about cortisol levels!"). It means vast categories of human knowledge are regularly discarded without understanding or examination because of epistemological prejudice. And the process is not by any means lacking in false positives; this presumes that our current modes of knowledge are actually better, less error-prone, etc., than the forms of knowledge they are refusing to countenance, which they often are not.
There is no hoarding. Banks create money out of thin air when they lend. Banks are not intermediaries of funds. Go keep your electronic tokens in their server, they can make more in the next row in the database.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

Central banks QE is stopping an implosion. Banks issued money that could not be paid back as one must pay back the original fee and interest. You have to keep issuing more money into the face of this or it collapses. You do this by reducing rates. Then you hit zero and people cannot borrow more. Then central banks have to step in to plug the yawning chasm which is borne of banks saying they were creating wealth whilst in fact they have been appropriating labour and when the apex is reached you get to see the truth.

And you can't get that back. We took fiat tokens and they drank real wine, used real gasoline etc and all in exchange for fiat created ex nihilo.

More fool us.

ps looking forward to a hacker news "your submitting too fast (on a topic about finance on a site where VCs lend you fiat and you return your labour)"
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That's good to hear. My information is based off a friend who worked in credit card defaults, but it's some couple of years ago when he elaborated on the differences between US/EU on this regard.
That's exactly right and what people complain about. That Dropbox betrayed the trust they(users) were giving to them(Dropbox).

I don't necessarily agree with them, but that's the sentiment here.

Edit: by the way, regarding open source projects, it doesn't matter if you don't look at the code personally. Somebody else does, and if there is problem with it, it becomes a huge public scandal sooner or later.
The IRS, according to FS-2008-25, requires the salary to be "reasonable", and they list factors that would be considered by the courts if a dispute arose. The IRS also has the authority to reassign dividends or distributions as compensation.
Yeah, but in practice, it almost never happens.
It's really not that they dont get it. It's that they dont have technical problems to solve that require a person of that tenure or experience. Many large corporations actively make an effort to avoid solving hard technical problems, they are business oriented, not technically oriented.
Once you type your password into the Apple dialog, you grant Dropbox root access. That's the purpose of this dialog in all cases.
My reading of the article is that they have to stop listening when everyone listed on the warrant leaves the call, not when there exists a non-warrant-listed person on the call.

That is, they can listen during OR of isOnWarrrant(), not just the AND.
Why would you even do that? What nefarious and yet undiscovered things did you think DropBox was likely to do specifically with the accessibility permission?

Permission systems in general seem like a solution without a problem to me. Nobody but a minority of people very concerned about theoretical security problems wanted them on platforms that didn't have them, almost nobody cares what permissions programs use on platforms that have them now, and people get along perfectly fine and with less inconvenience shoved in their face running programs without permissions systems aside from a simple admin rights/no admin rights today on Windows and Linux.
If you look at the provided Seafood Fraud map, most of the SF Bay Area 'mislabeling' incidents come from one report dated 2008 [1]. So yes, it's at least 8 years old at this time.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320708...
I'm writing a paper on government overreach right now. Do you have any good sources relating to that?
Possibly. As you've said it wasn't intended as a criticism. It was a feeling, hence why I posted to seek clarification.
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I think we're all on the same page here. Just because something is in a fortuitous orbit, there are still a thousand things that can make it miserable or uninhabitable. Even earth, aeons ago, we would have found uninhabitable. Its very likely we have evolved for exactly the earth we have. To find another anything like it is astronomically unlikely.
Only if they were smarter. Giraffe are reputed to be about the least intelligent animal on four feet. It's something to do with the braincase and the pressure differences due to that long neck.
I've only heard about it in the last few years. It seems like a very cheap, but very effective hack.

You've just described rasterized rendering. ;)
Considering how hard they push people on mobile to use the messenger app rather than the basic facebook app, they're unlikely to be happy.

After all, opening up their API would completely defeat their current business model.
Totally Speculating but I bet it was that software companies have enormously high false negative rates. Each company has it's own set of weird totally random interview biases. So Thomas kept on finding awesome recruits who were getting turned down for totally dumb reasons.

I imagine it's like the HomeBrew situation every day except 10 times worse because you recommended the candidate and the interviewer is your client. And unfortunately it's hard to make a business of telling your client they're doing it wrong.

This is all compounded by the fact that the devs who benefited most from their service were not Christopher Hemsworth looking Phd, ex-googlers who could get an interview with a phone call. Then come in with so much positive bias that as long as they didn't poo themselves during the interview they'd get hired. It was for people who were extremely skilled, but lacked the right pedigree or interviewing skills to be able to get the jobs they were very qualified for.

Curious to see what the real answer is.
> In the US, for instance, the Fed stopped QE in 2014

I don't know if I'd phrase it that way. The Fed stopped purchasing new bonds, true, but they are still holding all the bonds they did purchase. Those bonds are rolled forward until they attempt to unwind. The QE experiment is, at best, half done.
Also, for MP, take a look at Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball. It's a content-heavy instagib multiplayer arena shooter with an emphasis on score (in some modes), and some interesting takes on attack, defense, and movement.

If you're up for some traditional Arena FPS, take a look at Reflex, Xonotic, and UT4. Or just boot up Quake 3 (or Quake Live) again.

I almost forgot Half-Life Deathmatch. That's still an absolute blast to play.
The problem is the coupling of that testing a student's teamwork ability with testing their understanding of Extracted Quantum Datatypes or what have you.

And now you have a grade that accurately reflects nothing.
“The supply of people that have extensive blockchain experiences is pretty low,” Kenna explained. “And the demand is quickly increasing. Sometimes they get five job offers a day.”

No, they don't get five "job offers" a day. They get 5 or so emails with links to job ads.
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Textual 6 has been released, you can find a trial (30 days) on the homepage:

https://www.codeux.com/textual/

Edit: The update should be available in the Mac App Store now.

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What an odd thing to be pedantic about. I mean, that's what bothers you about this photograph?

Besides, burning does not require fire to be present. It only requires heat (or chemical reaction).
Add Mosul holds 2.5 million people on a floodplain. When the dam fails catastrophically, it will be a bloodbath. It'll happen in the next few years.
Let me flip that back at you: when men report being raped by women "at virtually the same rates as women reported rape", you would be wise to listen instead of dismissing it.
It matters because its the consumers responsibility to know what they are buying. Obviously for a consumer to do their due diligence a product must be what is claims to be.
Sure, if you ignore quality of work, timezone differences, language barriers, and any hiring regulations that might exist.
The budget figures surrounding these repeated, "whack-a-mole" efforts should be forcibly transparent to the public. And reported.

If the public could readily see how much of their tax dollars (and, as well, what percentage of public employees' schedules / work hours) were being poured into trying the same thing -- already just decided -- over and over again...

Well, it's the only thing I can think of. Make this self-serving, lobby-machine-service activity and expense as transparent as possible.

Preferably with criminal penalties for hiding it from public examination and accounting.
She is surely burning. A napalm bomb was dropped on her village. The photo documents people fleeing. Look at her arms; you can see the skin peeling away.

Here's a photo of her back: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KZZvVl11PvU/maxresdefault.jpg. This is the life-long damage: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2015/news/151109/napalm-gir....
Python should have a "grumpy mode" which causes dict-keyword order to be randomized, and other deliberate attempts to break code where people are doing the wrong thing :P
We've thought quite a bit about how to make this work as a service. The key to our architecture is that evaluating a feature flag for a user does not involve a remote call. We make that work by embedding a rule evaluation engine in our SDKs. When you request a flag, the user is compared against these rules (in memory) and served the appropriate variation.

We then use a streaming API to serve rule changes, so when you make a change to your dashboard, the new rules are streamed to all your backend servers within a few hundred milliseconds.

If you need even more resiliency, you can deploy a small service in your own infrastructure (https://github.com/launchdarkly/ld-relay) that allows you to persist these flag configurations in Redis.
Seems like there's a simple solution here: Don't tie parking to housing.

Those that have cars and want to park them on the street should pay for a parking permit, then the local council builds parking spaces in line with how many permits they've given out. You're only allowed to park with a permit in your area.

Then those that really want a car can get one and find parking, and those that want micro apartments and don't need a car can have them too. Everyone wins. The prices for parking and the prices for housing are separated and both dictated by the market and it's fair for everyone.
Thanks for the detailed writeup.
Anything I can do to excel here? I have spent 4 years with the company and am now in a senior architect role. Wouldn't want this to go to waste. Have never received bad rating, have good relationships with managers and people generally accept me as a doer and go-to guy.
Interesting. What will you do for education when your kids reaches school-age? There are lots of people living off the grid, on boats, all over the world. A common choice is to return to the US when the kids hit middle-school and would benefit from the facilities at secondary and higher schools.
These days we don't worry about it much. We pay all of our bills on time (including the mortgage that usually gets some extra to principal) and we do occasionally use credit cards, so I expect that there's some good history there. But I don't plan to ever need it again.

In my experience, I've had to cancel one credit card and one debit card due to fraudulent charges. With the debit card, you're right, some money did disappear for a few days, but the bank put it back as soon as we signed and notarized a form.

For the credit card, they dropped the charges right away without me ever paying for it, but the merchant (ebay) sent my info to a collections agency, so it ended up being more of a hassle then the stolen debit card.

They traced the debit card theft back to a string of thefts at a department store we had shopped at (presumably one particular employee), but we now use cash for essentially all shopping, so that isn't a risk anymore. (Although I do try to watch out for card skimmers on ATMs.)
I'm answering generic question. Regarding Facebook, their terms of service are questionable from this point, because they restrict protected freedom of speech.
I think the assumption is that "working poor" living alone tends to suggest couples or even families that this type of housing doesn't accommodate in a reasonable by US standards manner. It's oriented toward second housing unit for out of towners or twenty-somethings who just want a place to sleep.
I think they mean that of the $2 trillion they oversee, just $1.5 billion is managed by quants.
I'm not quite sure what you're worried about. Are you worried someone might accidentally change the interpreter when pushing to production? If so, I'd prefer to fix the testing policy to ensure that all production environments are used as test environments.

If you're worried about making sure your library/application is correct for older versions? If so, test it under Python v3.5 as well.

Or you could shuffle your test data to change the insertion order and run the test again.
It depends. Where I'm from we run on 97% hydro power and we never run out.
Escolar substitution is a definite cause for concern, due to its laxative effect.
Sorry, I assumed you were talking about rebuilding a local mirror repository that you use to provide software for your other hosts. That would just be one backup of the packages and meta data that you can restore. Is there a reason you can't mirror the packages and repositories you use?
I've been using this for a at least a month now and it's really great, and I'd almost rather browse HN from Materialistic than the site itself.

If there's anything I could change, it would be to add a setting that turns off swiping when I'm inside a story (to switch between comments/article/readability) along with swipe vote/reply for comments.
The article mentions that aluminum prices have fallen 50% since 2010. However, prices were double historical normal from 2005 to 2011. The price lowering was just a return to normal prices.
That page always sketches me out, to boot. Could they have made it look/behave more like a phishing scam?
Misanthropy is dangerous.
The law says corporations are some disparate entity, except when they want protections given only to people, in which case the law can be convinced corporations are made of people.
Ah. You are indeed correct. However, Wine is actively improving this (it doesn't crash immidiately now in the latest builds of wine, although it doesn't work either), and with any luck we'll get the game within the decade. Not exactly encouraging, but we ought to get a fix eventually.
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Where did I say anything contrary to what you just wrote?
It's doubly funny when Mexicans and other latin americans use the term North Americans to mean people from either the US and Canada and not so much Mexico, even if mexico is in the continent of North America, geographically.
Quay.io has been beta testing a new build system (based on Kubernetes under the hood) that should make builds a bit faster. If you're interested in testing it out, your organization can be whitelisted. Tweet at @quayio and we can get you set up.
If you ever find yourself in a codebase featuring a group of "full stack" enterprise developers, you'll find not a single component in an Angular codebase.
Didn't know that they had a development podcast. Ooo that intro is classy, much like Elementary.
The efficiency of modern commercial photovoltaic solar cells is about 10-20%.
>Many people didn't even realize it was possible. Everyone wanted and most people had clean environments

Except for every person living in a city. Cities were insufferable during the industrial boom.
This is an extremely risky proposition, because under no circumstances will the Fed ever permit long term deflation.

They will literally mail cash to individual households or have cash giveaways before that happens. Or, more simply, they ask Congress to pass a law stating that all cash reserves over a certain amount are heavily taxed or confiscated entirely.

My suggestion:

10% notional gold

10% physical gold & silver

10% Bitcoin

40% equities

30% cash
I had the same reservations as you, especially after DOOM 3. But DOOM 2016 feels like an updated version of 90ies DOOM I grew up with. It is indeed perfect (in single player mode) and evokes the same feelings I had as a kid.
Well keep the HN conversations and ESR snark coming. I for one am rooting for you, Erin, and Patrick!