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> Typically American

This sort of swipe never helps and national slurs are not allowed on HN, so please don't comment like this again.
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It depends how drastic. You are talking about people risking their careers. We all have our own moral standards to live by. Maybe they justified it by saying all the other car companies are doing the same thing (and by the way there are some indicators they did.)
Yeah i take back my words about how it's not that hard. I think I'm relatively good at google myself, sometimes I wonder how people who're not good at searching can live their lives. For example, most of the times "being a good programmer" means being able to come up with the right search query to search for your problem on stackoverflow. Most of the times you don't even know what to search for.

That said, I've been comparing the current status with how it used to be before the Internet, so I guess we're pretty much on the same page.
It's imho not so clear cut whether this code is unethical or not. There is a legitimate argument that increasing NOx to reduce CO2 is better in the long term. Remember that the two are inversely related: the hotter and leaner your engine runs, the more NOx you produce, but your fuel efficiency also goes up.
How do you know engineers were involved in writing the software?
If there were engineers involved they should have said something if it does endanger the public. After all, it is in their responsibility/regulation to uphold the safety of the public.
Recently, Bitcoin nearly hit $3000. I think a lot of people are curious about what this all means.
I think the Gallery in Google play is outdated, better check the one from the repository to see the current performance
What's the copyright? Would it be legal to unzip those and serve them directly, so archive.org or anyone else can make them more inviting for access?

I know you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth but there's not even an index or a rough idea what something like "Name Authorities" might mean. That's not what I call wide open doors, that more seems like doing some legally required minimum.
I genuinely think it is a lot more complicated than that. My blood sugar is more stable than it has ever been and I have gotten off digestive enzymes. I wasn't doing anything to specifically try to fix my blood sugar issues. I was doing things like trying to get inflammation and infection under control based on the success of therapies like daily ibuprofen. I read up on that, inferred that if you can reduce inflammation, you can be less symptomatic, and used a dietary and lifestyle approach to do that. I did take ibuprofen daily for something like 5 or 6 years, but was eventually able to successfully control symptoms such that I no longer needed it. Somewhere along the way, I happened to see articles about the link between diabetes and inflammation. Inflammation and infection go hand in hand, so I think very likely infection plays a role in the collapse of pancreatic function in pwcf.

The low weight is also from the gut being all kinds of out of whack and just not absorbing nutrients. There are things that can be done to improve gut function. The gut is about 70 percent of your immune system, so I think efforts to repair the gut lead to many different good things, including better nutritional status and a more functional immune system.

Though the degree to which you can correct these problems no doubt will be influenced by which specific alleles you have, I think there is a lot of room for improvement for most people with CF. Maybe it won't make much difference if you have one of the variations where the CFTR just basically doesn't work at all.

I used to jokingly talk about "Pale Skin Disorder" as a metaphor for special needs in my kids. It works well as a metaphor for what I mean here too. If you have pale skin (low melanin production) and are easily sun burned, there are things you can do to protect against sunburn. You aren't doomed to simply be sunburned to the point of peeling all the time. But if you are an albino and totally lack melanin, it is a whole different ball game.

So, if you have a form of CF that is the equivalent of albinism where the CFTR simply does nothing or is outright absent, instead of one of the many variations where it has one of a number of different types of impairments, my assumption is that would be less responsive to dietary and lifestyle changes. Though I don't actually know.

Anyway, my apologies if I have offended. I rarely engage pwcf in discussion anymore as it tends to go bad places. Thank you for commenting.
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The emergence of mainstream social networks like Twitter and Facebook makes it easier for misleading, false, and agenda driven information to quickly and seamlessly spread online, deceiving people or influencing their opinions.

There has always been misleading information. Local TV news promos always tell you to stay tuned to hear about x at 6pm only to find out x really meant y.

What we see now is the decentralization of media and it's influences.
To clarify: the ReactJS org is solely a community organization for some commonly used packages. It's not an official Facebook+React thing, even though both Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark, creators of Redux, are now actually on the React team.

(I'm one of the current maintainers of Redux.)
Well, if you can't decide, I would venture to say that you might want to stay within driving distance. Stanford is great, but you will not be able to visit home (or be visited by people from home) all that often. But you have great options within a, say, 6 hour driving radius.

What about socially? Are you looking forward to parties, joining a fraternity, anything like that? Sports? A school with a big sports culture (like Penn State)? Or is that not at all what you want?

In what type of environment do you think you would thrive? A large place with infinite options (academically, activities, people)? Or a smaller, more close-knit environment?

Those are good places to start thinking.

And, please, go visit more schools. You will start to see things that seem more comfortable or attractive to you.
> I'm not very well versed in the world of banking and finance. What would banks use a blockchain for?

Nothing, in my opinion. The value of a blockchain stems from the fact that, combined with proof-of-work, a single history of transactions can be agreed upon without a central party. This is the same feature that prevents alteration of history, because it would require recalculating the proof-of-work. This comes at a very high cost, however, since energy is literally burnt off just to reach this distributed consensus. Therefore, it only makes sense for the utmost valuable applications, like digital money.

I mean, right now Bitcoin miners are paid over a million USD per day in order for the network to reach distributed consensus. Please, anyone, let me know which kinds of applications can bear even a tiny fraction of this cost, except digital money. Even at 1% of this cost, a blockchain-based clearing protocol would be both more expensive and orders of magnitudes slower than using a central party -- and the purpose of clearing is to increase efficiency/reduce costs in the first place.

Banks are in the business of taking in deposits and lending them out, while taking a cut. Trustless lending makes no sense; you need to trust whoever you lend money to, or you'll be lending a lot of money to gambling addicts, with little chance of repayment.
I don't know for certain whether the concept of a bounty was considered, and if so why it was rejected. But I can think of a few possibly good reasons to not do this. For one thing, it could be thought of as rewarding the engineers who wrote the evil code, maybe even creating an incentive for engineers to add such code in the future. There are precedents for enforcement actions having the unintended consequence of causing more incidents. Another thing is that you may actually wish to prosecute the people who wrote the code, to serve as a disincentive to future engineers considering following management orders on a similar defeat device.
Very cool. Does anyone have more technical info on what exactly is embedded in these payment QR codes?
I was only thinking of the generalizations I've read, that Bayesianism is a "way of thinking," not about the math.
As far as I was aware it happened in the early-mid 90s:

http://savingusmanufacturing.com/blog/general/how-did-german...

"Germany surpassed the United States to become the world’s leading exporter in 1992, around the time that Germany joined the European Union as a founding member."
I usually use https://btc-e.com/ because it also offers the value of other coins...
In the long term, making their cars cause accidents that killed many people would reduce the environmental impact of humanity, so would also be arguably ethical by that logic.
The problem with this is that it localizes the consequences of defiance on the weakest part of the chain, all but guaranteeing failure. You can't even expect engineers to blow the whistle on their soon-to-be-former employer.

Ethics is about protecting the weak from the strong, not offering up the weak to get eaten by the strong. Only heroes put the good of the many over their own needs, and you can't expect everyone to be a hero.

Only within the safe, protecting bosom of a strong professional organization can we place moral obligations on workers. But it will never happen while the idea of a guild / union for software engineers is still anathema.
If I were an evil VP tasked with creating this loop hole, I'd tell my project manager we needed a configurable system that let us control emissions for our intneral testing environments or some other plausible and legal requirement. I'd keep the knowledge of the system obscure and communication between dev, testing and deployment sparse. I'd then have only one person change the configuration before deployment. I'm sure it could be arranged so that no single engineer would realize that evil configuration was released and if they did, it could be excused as a mistake.
I would be very surprised if such a thing exists. Are there any industries, safety critical or otherwise, where the default is open source? If not, why would anyone think to justify the decision to not open source code, and especially why would anyone think to make such a memo or piece of research public?
> would require so many people to agree

You don't always have to remove something, you just need to introduce doubt. It only took x% industry shills to make any evidence for climate change effectively disappear for a lot of people.
Are the tests that the hidden code is supposed to defeat performed only a few times on specific cars by regulators, or are they the regular smog checks that everyone has to pass each time they renew their registration [1]? If the latter, then all those smog check shops will have to get new mobile equipment (how much more does that cost?) and drive each car around town for a long time. [2]

This article [3] has a mention and photo of "A portable emissions measurement system at the Engine and Emissions Research Laboratory at West Virginia University."

"Mr. Carder and his team drew on their experience testing trucks when they got the contract to test cars in 2013. One challenge was to fit what amounts to a mobile laboratory in the car. At the time, the equipment available for such emissions testing had enough battery power only for short trips.

To make long hauls possible, the West Virginia University researchers bought portable gasoline generators at regular hardware stores and bolted them to the rear ends of the test cars. The generators made a terrible racket and frequently broke down because they were not designed to be bumped around."

[1] http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/smog-check.php

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZmCp7NocMA

[2] Researchers Who Exposed VW Gain Little Reward From Success:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/vw-wvu-diesel-vo...
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The condition you're referring to only occurs on one specific type of shuffler, called a CSM (continuous shuffler machine). These are the kind where the dealer feeds previously discarded cards back into the machine every hand or two, and there is never any pause in the game. CSM's are less common than traditional shuffler machines, where two decks/shoes are used, and one is being shuffled while the other is being played with. Traditional shuffler machines have no bearing on your ability to count cards, as the game is played out exactly as it would be if the dealer were shuffling.

Also, advantage players have found flaws that make certain models of shuffle machines vulnerable to attack. Here's a fascinating example of this from the world's best known advatange player, James Grosjean:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/how-advantage...
It seems to me that at some point Economy class will be miserable enough that passengers start comparing metrics of service (seat width, seat pitch, etc.) rather than just price and price alone. We just haven't gotten there yet.
Sure. The graphic is misleading, since it is not adjusted to GDP - thus it does not show the proportions of exports in relation to the size of the economy.
Haven't tou heard of civilization types? I think type 3 (or 5?) is one where they have harness the energy of their sun(s) in an optimal wag. They gather solar energy in space and beam it to their planet, moon(s$ and their space colonies.
Options != Assets. Don't do it.
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>Being developed by Google it means the chances of a project being discontinued are quite high

Do you also avoid Microsoft products and services because of the chances of a project being discontinued are quite high?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...

You can also add these to the list:

Wunderlist
Sunset
Games for Windows
Silverlight
Zune
Kin
XNA
PlaysForSure
Flight Sim
Expression Suite
SteadyState
Windows RT
Windows Phone 7
Forefront
Front Page
Money

Or how about Apple?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_discontinued_....
Thus, the "+". The article is fair in that regard - it's just an abstract curve, with no exact formula, let alone coefficients. In practice, though, when somebody brings up Laffer, they are going to claim constants that generate a curve that peaks with a low tax rate.

In one sense, you are likely right: there is probably no formal academic theory of "supply side economics. But we have been subject to hearing this interrelated line of argument over and over since Reagan.
This is the same thing I've been saying for years, "Paleoanthropology must move past the point where a mandibular fragment is accepted as sufficient evidence."
Absolutely; blockchain technology is just the shift of power from one group to another.
Google Compute Engine makes VPC networking so much easier
than AWS. They automatically create solid defaults with a /20 subnet per region (4096 addresses) which can all communicate with each other privately. No need to setup VPN's for cross region private communication or deal with NAT instances or internet gateways. Private traffic is always private. If you want to expose a VM just attach an IP address (static or ephemeral).

Also a cool trick is GCE instance names automatically get mapped in your VPC DNS. If you create an instance named web1, all other instances should be able to ping web1 out of the box with no additional configuration.

I can't stress enough how much better GCE is than AWS in terms of sane defaults, user experience, performance and cost.
"Without those reforms Germany would be part of the European crisis. It was called "the sick man of Europe" not long ago, not without a reason."

It would have been fine. Germany was labeled the sick man of Europe in the late 90s. It wasn't Hartz that gave it an economic boost, it was joining the Eurozone.

Plenty of other countries have had similar reforms and not experienced any beneficial stimulus (although that doesn't stop European elites trying to ram a pseudo-Hartz down everybody's throats).

"They did mostly mass production by hand while german factories are mostly automated and people there do a lot of higher-value work that requires much more knowledge than the chinese kind of manufacturing."

This is simply an artefact of the Chinese being poorer while they first enacted this policy. They moved up the value chain and are now close to the top - they're building commercial airliners and designing and building phones every bit as good as an iPhone.

In spite of that this education system is still pretty poor and China has not engaged in any reforms similar to Hartz.
Basically people shop based on price then have a miserable experience, but somehow not miserable enough to stop shopping based on price.

My favorite airline is awful. Uncomfortable, slow, frequent delays, etc. But it's also cheap enough that I would never fly anything else. So I am the problem, but there's no way I'm paying an extra $50/flight.
XScreenSaver's closest equivalent is "rocks"; you might try something like this (unfortunately, when you ask for one color it's not white)

rocks -no-move -no-rotate -colors 1
There's a great New Yorker article [1] which addresses this -- particularly that "pretty clear that this was not right" might not be that clear after all. Excerpt:

"...sociologist Diane Vaughan described a phenomenon inside engineering organizations that she called the “normalization of deviance.” In such cultures, she argued, there can be a tendency to slowly and progressively create rationales that justify ever-riskier behaviors... If the same pattern proves to have played out at Volkswagen, then the scandal may well have begun with a few lines of engine-tuning software. Perhaps it started with tweaks that optimized some aspect of diesel performance and then evolved over time: detect this, change that, optimize something else. At every step, the software changes might have seemed to be a slight “improvement” on what came before, but at no one step would it necessarily have felt like a vast, emissions-fixing conspiracy by Volkswagen engineers, or been identified by Volkswagen executives. Instead, it would have slowly and insidiously led to the development of the defeat device and its inclusion in cars that were sold to consumers."

"But assuming all of this is true, how could it have persisted for so long, and without more people stepping forward and speaking out?... Volkswagen was heavily invested, both financially and culturally, in producing a clean-diesel engine. That the company was failing to meet the standard required by American emissions tests would have been embarrassing and frustrating to its German engineers. Some may have seen those tests as arbitrary, and felt justified in “tuning” the engine software to perform differently during them—even as it now looks, to the outside world, like an obvious scandal."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/an-engineering-th...
You have built an amazing game. There are many similar games on this concept, a lot you can see in Android Marketplace, but the idea behind this one is unique.

There are still some bugs in this game, like sometimes it skips sound, or does not show results.

Overall, its an excellent one.
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_Selling_ weapons to nations not threatening you is a great business. You get to do some R&D, you employ quite a few people (often including manufacturing) and the buyer can't use the thing you sell them to advance their economy.

_Buying_ more weapons than you need to defend yourself on the other hand is a terrible investment. If they just sit around and aren't used against someone (or at least the threat of you using them gets you something) is a colossal waste of money.

Considering the German society is overall very pacifist, I don't see how buying more weapons (if even they build them within Germany) gets them much of anything.
The missile launchers they brought there (okay, just to "scare them," but still?) should have given it away that the police is out of control when it comes to dealing with protests in the U.S., and specifically the NoDAPL protest.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/17/national-gu...

People think it's Trump that's making America go crazy. America was already crazy. Trump is just the symptom now surfacing out.
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The difference is Linus won't take your arbitrary data and persist it in the kernel's history and Bitcoin will for a small amount of money. This makes some interesting schemes possible to implement: timestamping, proof-of-existence and similar services. For example Keybase.io uses Bitcoin like that to prove that are not messing with people's data [0]. Another interesting use is creating virtual tokens via Counter Party [1].

If you don't want to pay you also "abuse" Certificate Transparency logs to do basically the same job, just like Mozilla with their Binary Transparency [2].

[0]: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco...

[1]: https://counterparty.io/

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
You are arguing a red herring. I never posited that update frequency is the only useful metric, or that you shouldn't consider how well the library itself works. You should consider all the aspects that are relevant to your use cases...and often this should include the community strength, along with the intrinsic library design, funding, documentation, etc. Certainly you shouldn't stop at the library design and code itself, that is just one of many considerations to weigh when adopting a dependency.
Driving style has a profound effect on emissions. As does ambient temperature, uphill vs downhill, time at stoplight. Short trip vs longer (catalytic converters don't work till they are hot).

I'm sure they can find some way to address the cheating, but it's likely not the case that they are just missing some obvious simple solution.
For all I know the difficulty and bitterness of divorce could make it harder for separated couples to co-parent, leading to more single parenting in families that start as married.

I'm not sure about that, I'm open to persuasion. But I'm not persuade by people saying {it's obvious}.
Doing a sanity check helps but the best thing that can be done to avoid a repeat of this is to make sure there are sufficiently heavy fines and hopefully also jail time from this case. If the penalty is heavy enough the detection probability doesn't need to be as high.