skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a huge fan of the 3-finger zoom, but it's not exaclty the same as browser-provided zooming. The screen zooming provided by the 3-finger tap will not add resolution to downscaled images.

If I'm looking at a site that presents a massive image scaled to my display, the browser zoom will add more information as you zoom in. The 3-finger zoom will make the existing pixels larger.

Most of the time this difference isn't an issue, but it is a difference.
That's already been release since the previous version via the traffic aware cruise control and emergency braking.

Specifically, the Model S locks onto the car in front of you and matches its speed, maintaining a certain number of car lengths behind it (which you can set). When the car changes lanes, your Model S speeds up a bit to fill the gap, and when a car cuts into the lane, the Model S slows down (although this one is a bit scary). If the car in front comes to a complete stop, the Model S also smoothly slows down into a complete stop.
The Model S observes double-lane markers but it's up to the driver to initiate a lane change.
Well square started after Twitter was successful right? So Jack probably had enough personal money to finance a lot of Square. Was Aaaron Levie rich before starting box? I'm on mobile so I don't know the ans Ed to that, but it sounds logical at the moment to me.
Hopefully the intersection of "knows/cares about things like the 350ms tap delay" and "cares about whether the site is too small to read" will be large.
The point of a driver's license is to have something to hold over your head so you'll pay your tickets. Oh, you thought it was about safety and competence? My 50 year old wife got her "time to renew" letter in the mail: "check this box if your eyes are still 20/40". Cataracts so bad you can barely see the dashboard? Been putting off that eye exam because you know you need glasses? No problem, just check a box and you can still drive! I guess the token eye check at the DMV was too onerous for WA drivers. Small wonder why WA drivers suck so much.
It did mention "traffic aware cruise control, which sounds to me like front collision avoidance.
why would they not follow what browsers already do and solely rely on:

<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport">

this is basically a solved problem with pretty much all other vendors having already converged.

instead, they're giving fastclick [1] a reason to live on to polyfill a single, non-conforming vendor :(

[1] https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
This is correct. My Model S will fully come to a complete stop on the highway and will alert me if I'm approaching a vehicle too quickly and it senses a risk of collision. I've had the car save me from an accident at least once by applying the brake for me.
And perhaps security. I wouldn't be surprised if Google avoided standard C++/JIT browser engines in favor of something custom entirely written in a safe language - but if they don't, it wouldn't be that hard to get code execution on (a sandboxed portion of) Googlebot. Same goes for competitors - I don't think the state of public safe-language browsers is that good, though I'm not sure.
lol. It's a great geek thing to do. These completely random acts of technology is how great things are born, believe it or not.
Okay. $60, being out two days of driving... how many cabbies can afford to do that on a regular basis? $60 might not sound like much to me or you, but it's probably a third of a cabbie's daily take.
> even then it was a stroke of genius to "port" real life object interaction into the software realm

This is my first encounter with someone who thinks that "doing X on a computer" is a stroke of genius. If X is not patentable, "porting" it into the software realm shouldn't either.
If you're building your website to behave well on mobile devices, you're likely implementing your own touch handlers and are not using click events to begin with.
Note two words absent from the OP: "Speed limit".

This machine will keep pace with traffic. OK. Does that mean it will break speed limits? Unless it is scanning for each and every potential road sign, it simply cannot be respond to arbitrary/temporary limits. The determination of the legal limit on a piece of road is a complex task. Road construction, local conditions, sunrise/set, time of year (school zones) and even weather can be a factor. And let us not forget "Speed limit X when children on road". You need some serious cpu time to work out whether that person walking along the road is a schoolgirl or a construction worker.

Imho any system not capable of determining the speed limit accurately is a legal liability. Have fun with the tickets.

>eliminating the need for drivers to worry about complex and difficult parking maneuvers.

No. Parallel parking is not a complex nor difficult maneuver. It is total beginner territory. No lives are at risk. With a decent bumper, even risk of property damage is minimal. Anyone not capable of learning to parallel park probably shouldn't be behind the wheel of much anything. Anyone buying this car to avoid such mundane tasks isn't someone with whom I want to share the road.
Come on..

Jack already gave 15 million shares which represented 20% of his own equity back to the option pool and to a foundation to help underserved communities, and he's committed to giving an additional 40 million shares to the foundation..

He's going to give away ~75% of his ownership in the company he founded to employees and entrepreneurs in underserved communities. Whatever the price is on IPO day, this will surely amount to him giving away at least a billion dollars.

I can't fathom why people are so cynical, this is amazing.
As I recall, it's waiting for a double-tap.
Sure, but it doesn't say anything about it not working while being plugged in. That seems more of a "wired mouse when it's plugged in, wireless mouse when it's not" kinda thing.

Edit: Looking at the pics on the Apple site for it, it plugs in on the bottom. You wouldn't be able to use it even if you wanted to.
The delay allows webkit to detect a double tap. Otherwise, any element with a click handler would immediately fire, effectively disabling double tapping for their region.
> No. Parallel parking is not a complex nor difficult maneuver. It is total beginner territory.

You seem to be implying that most drivers are past the beginner level of skill in driving. I have not found this to be the case.
Nah, there's a line that takes care of that;

> The new rule excludes from these calculations people who obtained equity under the company's equity compensation plans and investors who purchased securities pursuant to the crowdfunding exemption discussed in this alert.
Also worth mentioning: Chrome for Android did this last year. GP was asking about iOS, but it's not an iOS-specific thing.
Actually, my dad has a Model S and one of the coolest features is that it actually does scan for speed limit signs and tell you the current speed limit on the dashboard (you can configure a limit over the speed limit for when this should show up).

Now, I have no idea whether or not this feature is utilized for autopilot (though I would kind of assume it would be), but it is there :)
The most awesome part is they put the data, and some of the Freedom of Information correspondence that led to them getting this data on github:

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/uber-tlc-foil-response
The phase space for getting out of a parking spot is substantially larger than that for getting into one...
The primary function of an IPO is to raise money.
Apps also support a lot more in the way of accessibility features, e.g. Dynamically resizable text.
Add custom Slack notifications to RSpec
Who or what prevented speaking your mind on the Internet while in Russia. I'd really like to know.

It's not like they have a great firewall there where every foreign service is blocked.

And yes, based on the sheer number of Russian comments found on the Internet you would have to be insane to honestly propose that these are only coming from emigrants
Dow Jones and Company Latest Financial Firm Hit with Data Breach – MailShark
Not sure about US law but pretty much all driving laws I've seen mandate that you have to keep both hands on the wheel unless you are operating another system in the car in which case you still have to keep 1 hand on the wheel.
See my parallel comment: my wife could be blind and still hold a WA state driver's license if she were willing to lie when filling out a form. In which case I'll ask: what's the argument for licensing if we don't even bother to check?
Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault and Nissan, comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn
Yup... Looks like you're right. I can't imagine why they wouldn't have it plug in at the top. That does seem like a silly oversight.
Reading all the answers here and to me it seems that the problem is not the metatag nor the fastclick, but just poorly designed responsive websites.
There's an old joke about how the new planes have a pilot, for the sake of safety, and a dog, to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls.

It sounds like it's time to introduce the dog?
Probably false. It has been reported that gross margins on Square transaction processing are around 30% which is believable at its 2.75% fee.
This might explain why the only time I used Uber the driver did not understand where to find me. I was outside near a fence opposite the expressway. He was told by the app to stop on the expressway and pick me up. This despite my entering the street address when booking. It wasted one person hour of time. The driver told me he can't make more than minimum wage with Uber, he just does it as a hobby.
Plenty of people learn parking well enough to pass the test and then struggle with it in real life.
Incredible news for hybrid app devs. This has been a longstanding annoyance on iDevices that has only been superficially fixed with polyfills on iOS and dumping your app into Crosswalk on Android.
I fear the havoc widespread use of constexpr meta-programming could wreak on compile speed. A few such declarations have no noticeable impact on compile times, but as the project grows and such declarations start to proliferate, you can easily imagine productivity suffering due to slow compiles.

In my opinion, techniques like these fall under the category of "interesting but probably best avoided in production". Kind of like ray-tracers written with template meta-programming.
If you know how to create value by investing money, you should do that. If you've run out of ideas or expertise, by all means, profit.
What about sitting on the floor, cross legged or legs extended. Would that be better than sitting on the chair. Any study on that matter would be good too.
Engineering a Modern Genetics Company
99% invisible did a pretty good episode on that:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent...
Show HN: An app for urbanite parents with small children
Because of the 1-year publication bar, you basically have to prepare a patent application concurrently with publication. So in practice publishing and patenting are simultaneous.

You also have to consider the prospective impact of the rule. Would smart ambitious people go into the PhD/academia track if they couldn't parlay research into a business opportunity? Many wouldn't.

Of course patents aren't a necessary condition for turning research into a business. But for hard R&D type businesses, they're a pretty important criteria to getting investment.
The problem is that there's no other car to be had - nothing comparable, anyway.

There is no fundamental reason that a car like Tesla's must be encumbered with monitoring and complex automation. The same drivetrain and the same body could be sold as a perfectly reasonable, normal car without all the crap: but they have chosen not to offer such a vehicle, and they have no competition who can make up for that gap in the market.

My choice is: burn gas, or put up with a crappy car full of gadgets I don't want but can't disable.
When I teach an intro law course I use speed limits to explain why the law is so complex. It's much more than signs. The system you describe appears only informational, the car isn't the one picking the speed. It's a big step for a manufacturer to sell a product that will initiate a speed based on it's own determinations.
Yep, yep, yep.

You seem to be exactly right.
> This machine will keep pace with traffic. OK. Does that mean it will break speed limits?

IIRC, you set cruise control at the speed you'd like to go. It'll try and keep that speed where safe, but if traffic is moving slower it'll slow to match. It won't try and follow someone doing 90 if you put cruise to 65.
This is a side project the GF and I have been working on the last few months. We started testing an early web-only prototype this summer and have since put an app in the app store.

If this app is relevant to you we would love your feedback. It is a very niche product and probably won't pickup much interest here on HN. I have other projects for that :-)
What is "blocking of religious freedom" even supposed to mean? Do you mean the freedom to be a Sunni Jihadist or following some other school of extremist indoctrination?
Skarp shave demo [video]
I believe their response will be that the driver is still in control of the car, with the hands on the wheel and feet on the pedals. Any abnormal operating conditions will still be the responsibility of the driver.
You could look at it like crowd sourcing the speed limit... if I am following a good distance in my lane, and the person infront of me sees a cop/schoolgirl/construction worker and slows down, I should slow down too.
Well, that line of reasoning assumes that taxes on Uber's revenues would be commensurate with and used to offset losses in wages for drivers. So, in that sense, it's still a real concern that cannot simply be waved off.

That said, expecting Uber to continue to pay drivers after the advent of safer, cheaper autonomous cars is silly. Bring on the autonomous cars, I say. And, while it's someone's job to ensure an economic system with opportunity for all, it isn't Uber's job any more than it's yours or mine.
They don't show any medical information for new customers, but you can analyze it yourself with stuff like https://www.promethease.com/
But isn't that the whole point? That unless you are doing certain things to the extreme, they might be good or bad. That things as complex as health are rarely shaped by just one isolated variable.
This fits with the general trend in trading in fixed income markets versus equities markets.

Due to to the lower amount of liquidity (inventory available for someone who wants to buy/sell), fixed income (bond) markets tended to be traded traditionally - by negotiating with a number of firms individually (whether electronically or over the phone). These traders are extremely worried about someone hearing about their order and trading ahead of them (the actual "front-running" that Flash Boys accused HFTs of doing!) Therefore, they want to carefully release information about their interest in buying/selling to brokers they can trust.

These markets are stubbornly difficult to automate. Attempts at creating open markets where participants can trade anonymously with other participants have mostly failed except in the most liquid fixed income markets. Even though treasuries are some of the most liquid bonds "on the run" (recently issued), other maturities can be extremely illiquid.
Absolutely. Like I said, I'm only aware of that feature being informational; I have no information regarding its use in the autopilot mode :)
Yes! - <3 Roman Mars' voice.
Subaru has had that technology for years. It came to the USA models about two years ago. They call it "EyeSight" >> http://www.subaru.com/engineering/eyesight.html
How is this even possible though. Don't blacks comprise a disproportionate part of the prison population?
How many pages does the site have?
Interesting will have to reinvestigate this
Ahh yeah to prevent the guy from spinning it off and picking it up
I was thinking something like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEu2R1gYSs

Also some credit cards have warnings to not put near magnets, but maybe the magnet's not strong enough to do damage
Well to be fair, you can also ask a snake oil salesman for his snake oil, but there's a reason we regulate these things. The first users might be high information, but once something starts to get popular, people start making bad decisions. You can argue that people can ask for whatever they want (and they can) but whether you can sell anything you want has long precedent, especially in health related areas where misleading information leads to dramatic decisions being made.
You always learn the basics. I've not been USAF but you're always taught the "hard" way or "old" way before they teach you the "new" or "easy gizmo" way.

How long you spend on the topic and whether you have to prove proficiency is a different question.
Note that I am asking about the 'Who wants to be hired?' posts, not 'Who is hiring?' posts.
Strange placement on that Forbes cover of the "Viagra going up" headline while the CEO looks directly up at it:

http://thumbsnap.com/i/xIyNOKkl.jpg
The problem with that example is that there is no reason to assume that coat wearing and rain are independent (in fact, you have even modeled that wearing a coat is partially dependent on it raining).

Maybe I missed your point?
It's not even a matter of enforcement; even with a fully "alert" driver with both hands on the wheel, I suspect it'd take a considerable amount of time for a person to consciously make the switch and take control of the car, especially after Autosteer has been engaged for a while.

Personally, I'd never use something like Autosteer. As far as I'm concerned, either I'm driving the car (i.e., directing its movement, even if that movement is realized by computers/microcontrollers), or a computer is driving it - not something in between or both.
Scarfolk is amazing - the design is so well done. The 'Discovering Scarfolk' book is a thing of wonder [1].

Can I also recommend the first series of 'Look Around You' [2], for more 70s British strangeness. Thanks ants. Thants.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Scarfolk-Richard-Littler...

[2] https://vimeo.com/62218296
Each browser tackles it in a different way (see https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick#when-it-isnt-needed):

* Chrome checks the viewport meta, as you mention

* IE looks for CSS (touch-action: manipulation) on elements

The change being made to WebKit will allow it to honor the viewport meta approach (e.g. when it disables scaling), just like Chrome does. So, if anything, IE is the odd one out now.
That is a 'Who is hiring?' post, not a 'Who wants to be hired?' post.
While the over-the-air update is novel, these features all exist on current luxury and even some middle class vehicles as part of driver assistance option packages.

They're typically called Lane Keeping Assistant, Adaptive Cruise Control, Blindspot Warning, Automated Parking, Traffic Sign Recognition, etc.

The emergency steering bit is interesting, though no further details are provided, as it requires the car to ensure that there is a safe space to steer into, which is dicey for a forward collision emergency braking system, so I'd conjecture it is connected to the side collision warning, and allows collision avoidance if there is enough space in the current lane.
OK well it loads the backends the same way.
Please raise by email or github.
They also tend to like little boy booty in those countries.. this is said in jest :]
Anecdotally, having worked at AMD and Intel, both companies have lots of internal knowledge about what it takes to produce a high-performance x86 processor. Some of it comes out as patents, but if you outlawed that, I guarantee you none of it would be known to the public.
Well, time to bring out my favorite dead horse to beat:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1815606/rscript-determine-path-of-the-executing-script
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3452086/getting-path-of-an-r-script

(where you already commented, so it's not like this is something new...)

I would say that any language that does not have a facility to get the path of the current file, is not 'excellent' under the criteria an experienced programmer would use for assessing it.

Now, I very well know that those criteria are different from what scientists use, but still...
Thanks for the feedback, which also matches my experience, but I was actually asking about the 'Who wants to be hired?' posts, not the 'Who is hiring?' posts.
What sensors does the Model S have? I'm surprised that Tesla sold a car with enough sensors for semi-autonomous operation without the actual software until now.

For those with more knowledge about cars, how does the sensor array in the Model S compare with similar models from companies such as BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz? I'm interested in knowing if it's software or the already installed hardware holding back recent luxury cars from similar capabilities.

Also, does anyone know anything about the (digital) security features of the Tesla? This announcement from Tesla makes it clear that the actual control of the vehicle can be modified by an over the air software update. With the recent Jeep hack[0] in mind, does any know if something similar is possible on a Tesla, or if there are some safeguards such as signed updates? As one of the most computerized cars on the market, I tend to think that the Tesla cars might also be some of the most (maliciously) hackable cars on the market.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-high...
Thanks for the reply.
> At my old social network site, they detected malware that must have come from ad/tracking networks because those pages had no UGC. This suggests they were using Windows virtual machines (among others) and very likely using browsers other than a heavily modified curl / wget and a headless Chrome.

I think you're making a number of wild assumptions there. You can scan and detect malware without running Windows; and there's a whole gulf of different technologies between running desktop browsers and running a modified version of curl.

With regards to your browser point, normally I'd probably suggest that Google would be running node and making use of their own V8 Javascript engine to headlessly render the pages. However Google have the resources to build something much more bespoke so I think it would be foolish of me to make blind assumptions given how little I actually know about their internal technology.
Here is the solution;

1) Uber comes in pays well - sources on the net for hip drivers - You get awesome English speaking nice drivers

2) Uber starts to drop rates

3) Good Uber drivers quit for lack of pay, existing cabbies start to drive for Uber

4) Alternate company, takes lower margin, pays drivers well and offer better customer experience.

5) Uber hold some inertia in via brand name while the majority of the market recognises new services is better and uploads new app on their phone over the course of a year or 2.

This is the beauty of the Uber model. Its relatively easy for new entrants to enter. There's no medallion system holding out innovation. The day Uber mucks around their customers/drivers significantly I'll delete their app. I already use an alternate one occasionally for comparison and cause I like to see competition in the market.
The Fermi paradox only requires that some alien species would have both the desire and capacity for stellar engineering.
I am asking about the 'Who wants to be hired?' posts, not the 'Who is hiring?' posts.
This is also available in a lot of pedestrians cars such as Accords and Chrysler 200.
You have to fill out an affidavit after making a complaint with the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection in Chicago.
Activists bomb Homeland - why we hacked an award winning series
> Doing some back of the envelope calculations I can't see any scale where they are profitable given their current fee structure.

“We lose money on every sale, but make it up on volume”
Building a feedback loop (Writing a programming book, episode 5)