skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even assuming we have easy access

Then I would assume this discussion could take place. Here and now. And we could possibly come to a quick and painless basic common-ground agreement. But alas...

I would assume whatever law, rule or judicial decree required them also described their purpose. I would really need the entire set of such descriptions, preferably in neighboring places also, to even begin that discussion.

> Would this mean that a wheelchair user should ...

These are domain-specific policy questions that really can't be answered yet, by me. (By most people, within reason.) A general plan that's been put forward is that, after the law becomes machine-readable and widely accessible, regulatory compliance like this will become increasingly automated.
I think the ideas presented appear somewhat contradictory. I may be missing something here because the following 2 ideas seem contradictory to me.

1) Apple's secrecy
2) Apple's pivot

If they're pivoting, why be secret about it? One of the reasons provided was that being public about new products could hurt current product sales.

If it's an entirely new product line (ie. car), I have a hard time believing someone will think twice about buying an iPhone because Apple is coming out with an electric car.

Instead being secret seems it may hurt more than help. If I'm in the market for a new car, and there's a real release of an affordable Tesla that has already happened, while at the same time I have no idea what Apple is doing or if they're even going to do it or what kind of timeline the project is on, I'm probably going to buy the Tesla.

Otherwise if I'm somewhat certain that Apple may be coming out with a new car within a year or two, I may decide to hold off with my purchase of the Tesla for the time being in order to consider buying the Apple iCar when it comes out.
You can

x = malloc(sizeof(x) + <variable_length>);

x->ptr = x + sizeof(x);
This would be a valid point if not for the fact that Google forces you into using the same login across its sites in the same browser session. It's not really practical (without going to greater lengths than just using 2FA to begin with) to use a different/no login on youtube than the rest of the Googleverse.
No, because a pointer points to some location in memory, not whatever follows the memory after the location of the pointer.

See [0] for a picture.

[0] http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr2.html
This just happened to me this morning! They've added a "lock screen override" with ads.

Proper interruptive & misleading model tricks you into turning it on ("you just plugged in your phone, enable rapid charger?")

Honestly I knew the very second AFTER I clicked a rapid OK that I'd probably done something wrong.

Wasn't too hard to fix, but man, is that ever scammy.

Wasn't hard to find out it was coming from ES file explorer.
To me this is an example of how transparency through information services is winning. Eventually this will pervade every aspect of government. We are going to be in a much better place when we can see what our government is doing in fine detail; spending, enforcement, funding(think campaigns), voting history, etc. The technology is there now but we haven't quite reached the point where it's all on the table and expected/demanded.
In other words, move fast and break things doesn't apply to shit that can kill people when it does break. Many of SpaceX's problems seem to stem from the same mentality. I'm a fan of both, fwiw.
The funny thing is that, for decades, there've been jokes back and forth about "if automotive engineering was like software development".

Now we're seeing what it's really like when automotive engineering and software development come together. And it's sometimes really similar to the jokes. :P
Didn't ticket enough. I say, ticket all the cars just for being on the street. We need more public transit.
Wireless charging startup uBeam accused of being the next Theranos
ARM on the server, finally. Good news for people hoping to move beyond the stranglehold of intel/x86 in computing. Thank you, US foreign policy, for the unintended side effects.
It's notable that appcache is now deprecated [0]

It's been replaced by Service Workers, but those can get reallly hard to deal with if they start caching themselves (!)

Chrome's devtools has ways to delete old service workers and such, but I've found that on Firefox it's next to impossible to debug.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_...
Everybody loves to bring up MP3s as an argument in favor of the notion that, if someone stands up to DRM, the entire industry will shift to no longer require DRM. And that's complete bullshit. You're extrapolating a very extreme position from a single instance, one that is arguably unique.

Not only that, but it's also wrong. Music DRM did not die. DRM on purchased music went away, but streaming music still has DRM. So the music industry didn't even completely ditch DRM like you claim it did.
Because electrical engineering and math. It's like a spectrum:

Math [Uhm...math] <-> Computer Science [algorithms] <-> Computer Engineering [robotics] <-> Electrical Engineering [electronics]

It's even fun to think about if you involve communications. It becomes a three-way.

(Between CS and CE) -> Communications Engineering [radios] -> Network Engineering [protocols, wifi] -> IT/DBA/Web [closer to web]
The programmer and the program have never been further away from each other as it is today.

Yet at the same time there hasn't ever been so much working software produced, or so many working programmers, so something is working. The barrier to entry to writing code has been lowered. That's a good thing. We have more people trying out their ideas now because it's easy to get something working. You can't reasonably ignore that with a hand-wavy "it could be so much better" lament.

That isn't to suggest for a second that things couldn't be even better. I just think it's important to understand that getting lots of people involved in development, even if what they produce is awful, has benefits for society. That might be more important than good code.
> Isn't this what the internet is for? What's new?

Take a step back and remember the internet was an invention too. How can we make a better internet or radicalize communication in another form? What is a browser anyway? Are screens the ideal medium? Also, it's a bit silly to ask "what's new?" out of a research center's vision statement.

> This is so vague I have no idea how you can attach any meaning to it.

Think about VR. Let's say they research how to make it super addicting to play in your own little fantasy. This ends up leading to "VR abuse" and kids stop talking to one another, etc... It is very important for them to understand how potential inventions will affect humanity if their goal is to improve humanity.

> So you're gathering a group of smart people together to do non-profit research in a few select fields with the goal of improving humanity?

Yes you summarized his aims. Those select fields are seen as having the most efficacy upon human improvement.

Since you admit to having no idea what any of it means, I would suggest you try to look beyond the words and not be so eager to extract tangible simple facts. This is a vision statement and it's abstract because forward-looking mental vision is abstract in nature.
That's an uncharitable reading.

I do a lot of sales now, and I've watched a lot of enterprise salespeople do their work.

As in any other human endeavor, some of them are phenomenal. I routinely sat in on one friend's sales meetings and calls. After being raised watching Gil, the hapless salesman from the Simpsons, this was like watching Billy Joel play the piano or Roger Federer play tennis. It was obvious he was a master craftsman. He was so expert at getting people to act in their own best interest, while making it look pleasant and effortless, it was - seriously - beautiful to watch.

Other salespeople... not so much. I've seen them too. They don't have the intellectual horsepower, they don't prepare, they... I mean, frankly there are a million reasons they're mediocre. Their mediocrity is overdetermined.

I think that's all the author meant by coin-operated salesperson or "script kiddie" salesperson: a mediocre one.
Don't forget cities like New York, with China Town, Crown Heights, etc. etc. etc. It's going to be a challenge to manage all those national borders in such a small area.
One difference that immediately jumped out at me is with bee you can send a paper check. My landlord for instance will only take a paper check or money order and with simple it isn't possible to easily pay my rent without a fairly significant inconvenience. I'm sure many poor people are in similar situations.
Sad to see that a majority of these bad tickets are in poorer neighborhoods. It seems most of Manhattan (below the Bronx) is relatively ok.
Apple may be developing automatic driving technology, but actually making cars seems unlikely. They mostly outsource manufacturing, after all.

Apple might be working on something to take a bite out of Facebook or Google Search or Amazon's Echo. The next big thing is likely to be "you just talk to it and it does the right thing". Siri with common sense.
The Baked Possum
Note that the Internet Archive Wayback Machine has a pretty good archive of these "personal website" preprints. We're working on making it more easily available, matched up with article DOIs.
Wasn't clear from the page. What can I use it for? Why does it exist?
It was a neat tool for sure, but apparently did not work in multi-process Firefox. Guess it wasn't used enough to merit a rewrite.
Apple doesn't pre-announce things or do concept videos (the only exception I can think of in recent memory was announcing the Mac Pro at WWDC). Things get announced when it's a product ready to be sold. It's tough to say this is the wrong strategy considering the success they've gotten because of it. And there are plenty of counter examples from their Silicon Valley rivals who like to generate PR for blue sky research or things that will never come to market for years (if ever).
> ...all the time when they shouldn't...

Yup, so maybe some harm reduction (returning money) and negative reinforcement (hassle of returning) can help incentivize an improvement in the quality of parking enforcement service. Individual employees would likely have the same level of interest that you've expressed, but department heads would have a lot more incentive to act (especially if there is any departmental rivalry).

> ...many people get off with parking violations...

Is your point that these people would have deserved a ticket in the past or future - so whatever, or are you talking about some sort of municipal level karma balance where individuals are irrelevant?
> I am afraid it would cost $2M to try to pay back $1.7M

How much did it cost them to issue tickets and collect that $1.7 million? Do they use the same logic while issuing tickets and collecting fines?
"Bringing the reliability of the internet to time-tested automotive engineering."
Right. From the recordings, they thought they were overspeeding and climbing when they were stalled and losing altitude.
I use cal almost every day. Way faster than phone or web page calendars.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672786
> What's new?

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ is probably a good starting point for what is yet to be done regarding seeing further and understanding more deeply.

> This is so vague I have no idea how you can attach any meaning to it.

Are you concerned that this isn't externally measurable? I don't think it's meant to be.

> So you're gathering a group of smart people together to do non-profit research in a few select fields with the goal of improving humanity?

Well, as a layperson it seems like you figured out exactly what all of this meant...
Why would tesla refute this? It's a bug. They can accept it and fix it and not be pricks about it.
From looking at the numbers, they would need to be spending 10x more to achieve less per release. It seems much more likely that they're putting their resources into something else, like a car or some other new category. This would also partially explain why some of their more mature products aren't getting anything too interesting, though no one else seems to be moving into the space either. So it could also be that they're is only so much you can do with mobile phones right now.
Keeping the City Safe? Most NYPD Arrests Made Over $2.75 Crime
I imagine they'll keep polishing the existing stuff as they have for a while. It's just they seem to be working on a car too. I'm not sure launching a new product is really a pivot - that term is usually used when junking the old business plan.
I'm pretty much a libertarian, so I don't have a strong opinion on what the laws should be. (At least for now.)

But I note that there are consequences.

Some people justify environmental laws because of their consequences on the future of a nation. I can easily see the same logic used to prevent the "degradation" of a population.
You're never too old for airplane
Except it requires sizeof a pointer more memory and an extra assignment after the malloc, which is why people use the zero-sized array instead (note this comment was to explain for the grandparent why you would normally prefer a zero-sized array instead).
There are worlds between Java 8 and Scala and the gap is widening with every release.

Of course you can write Java in Scala and then the benefits over Java aren't that high (but are still there), but Scala is so far ahead in terms of language compared to Java that most current Scala libraries just _can't exist_ in Java.

Adoption these days seems to be great and accelerating, and given the growth of the library ecosystem there are more and more reasons to leverage the benefits of libraries written in Scala especially compared to legacy stuff written in Java.
The author reads like they have a pretty high sense of self worth, which rubbed me the wrong way. Your comments which I noticed myself, and the other post they linked to about moving off of Gmail and onto a postfix/dovecot self-hosted stack and the drivel about Gmail and Facebook having a long history of unfederated services and then at the very last paragraph almost casually mentioning that Outlook.com, Gmail and Yahoo seem to consistently flag mail coming from their server as spam.

I've run my own postfix/dovecot stack since 2004 and have never had the same problems, but a sample size of two is a poor pool to derive results out of. I wouldn't be surprised if their email server might have been configured as an open relay accidentally at one point, or even a neighbor on the same or near the same subnet been a flagrant source of spam. Coming from nothing, mail servers are somewhat hard to get running correctly and securely. Much more so than standing up Apache.

I would also like a follow up, as there seems to be a very skewed story, or some kind of information is missing about both of these situations.
I thought from the title that this was a plea for Mozilla to rewrite Firefox from scratch since it such a bloated mess
Every time a new device or browser logs in I get an email
Air Force Pilots, Maintainers on F-35 Pros and Cons
Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple. There's also tons of competition there already and it's outside of the skillset of Apple.

Apple is making a car not self-driving technology. They may develop self-driving technology, but the business will be making a finished product that they sell to customers, not licensing technology to others (which is what Google is doing).
Any languages besides English?
The WSJ article:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-executive-sunny-balwani...
If you need a month in the current year, or the entire current year, that's easy:

$ cal may
May 2016
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

$ cal -y
2016

January February March
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 27 28 29 30 31
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11677760
In Spanish these are called "muletillas" and are far from a recent phenomenon. Rather than just being "filler" words, they have a purpose in speech. A speech is not a mere collection of words. Timing and delivery is just as important as eloquence. It is often better to use a filler word than an empty pause.
I guess it's the magnitude of the effort that is not widely appreciated. DF reported on May 4 (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/05/04/manjoo-moonshots) that:

"I know The New York Times can’t say that it’s certain that Apple is working on a car, but I can. They are. Of course they’re working on a pay TV service. It would be astonishing if they didn’t have teams hard at work on VR and AR. The difference between Apple and other companies is that Apple will spend tens (or in the case of the car, hundreds) of millions of dollars on a new product and never ship it. They don’t just say no to ideas — they say no to long-in-development projects."

Note, "hundreds" of millions of dollars. Whatever you say about DF spin (and you'd be right!), the facts he leaks are generally accurate.

The analysis in the OP (exhibit 3) would seem to indicate ~$5B on R&D on hitherto-unknown products since 2014. Which is astonishingly large. Because it's based on company reports, this must be common knowledge for serious tech industry analysts.
"Our product is our stock" - quote from HBO's "Silicon Valley"

Basically, this. Start-ups and their investors are looking to cash out. Imagine if Apple or Microsoft had been bought out by IBM in their early years, instead of them both disrupting the space drastically.

For the record, from a Microsoft stand-point, I think this makes perfect sense. They were acquiring talent and a user base it's foolish to have two competing products in your portfolio. From a user standpoint, it probably sucks (I've never used Sunrise, and actually already use Outlook's calendar.)
I don't think this can improve on the classic: https://youtu.be/rguQFPnPIYc?t=1m33s
> No amount of technical pressure will make an ounce of difference, because browser makers have literally no leverage on rights holders. I

That's completely false. What would rights holders do if no browser supported their DRM extension? Stop streaming altogether? Browser makers just didn't want this fight because most of them have online streaming ventures of their own.
> I think autopilot confidence-mood light should be placed on such vehicles. This way you could predict what is going to happen with the vehicle.

I think this is an excellent idea. Soft blue lighting (or whatever) while it's driving automatically, soft green for manual, angry pulsing red for "human I need an assistance now".
Mercurial loses a developer (2005)
Is the car before or after the TV they were definitely going to release a few years ago?
> OCaml seems to be adding type class support

Funnily enough, Scala's implicit-based type classes were the inspiration for the coming modular implicits type classes in OCaml (as opposed to the Haskell approach). It wouldn't be the first time that two languages have mutually inspired each other (The Rust and Swift teams have both acknowledged certain design decisions inspired by the counterpart).
> But there is just no way Apple is going to beat Google to market with that technology.

Why?

Apple is possibly the world's most effective company at synthesizing industrial design and software in premium devices sold to consumers. Google is a web/cloud services and advertising company.

The reason presumably is that you can't see what Apple is doing in public, while Google has a car that still can't drive itself in the rain that is occasionally seen wandering around Mountain View. I question the methodology of that analysis.
The runtime isn't what matters, the touch-first UI toolkit and OS integration story is. The web came to mobile with lots of desktop baggage: scrolling, hover, "px", CPU-driven animations, etc. That's what makes it awkward on mobile.
"Muletillas" is just the Spanish word for the general linguistic phenomenon of fillers. Both "muletillas" and "fillers" mean the sam thing and serve the same purpose, for example to inform your listener that you're still thinking and forming a sentence, that you are not done.

Now I want to read this book about fillers that I just stumbled upon:

https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.93/main
something about "prison" and "winning" used in the same sentence had me immediately peg this article as TLDR...
In Russian big cities commercial car evacuation for misparked often bribes policeman to cover their activity. But resistance is futile and there is helping app against that http://peapp.ru.
FBI's Comey expects more litigation over access to electronic devices
Economic and market predictions are practically impossible to get right in timing. We can only really see us trending towards something, but that trend could last long enough to lose some serious money. That's why Buffet ignores the noise, and invests long term. I threw that last sentence out there, because, while I think I am right...I've been wrong enough to lose enough money that it genuinely hurt; I don't want anyone reading my post and affirming a bias and losing money. Even if I see eye to eye with some market experts, in the end, a single event could make the opposite occur.
FTA: I’d be really excited to hear all the use cases for gcal one can come up with. Seems really suited for a TODO list manager or to never forget a birthday again.

$ man calendar
CALENDAR(1) General Commands Manual CALENDAR(1)

NAME
calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS
calendar [-abw] [-A num] [-B num] [-f calendarfile] [-t [[[cc]yy]mm]dd]

DESCRIPTION
The calendar utility checks the current directory or the directory
specified by the CALENDAR_DIR environment variable for a file named
calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or
tomorrow's. On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed.

[...]
...looking to improve your day-to-day communication...

Is there evidence that saying 'umm' and 'ahh' reduces your ability to communicate effectively? Why are they bad? In conversation phonemes tell the listener than you haven't finished speaking but you're thinking about the next thing to say. Without them people would constantly interrupt one another, which would be horrible.
Nonsense. You have the css and javascripts. You just aren't certain that they're the most recent version. So you go ahead and render the page using either the version you have, or requesting it from the server, still doing everything in order. Then you validate your assumptions in the background about the stale versions you used still being the most current. If your assumptions are right (and mostly they will be) nothing happens. If they're wrong, you re-render the page, again all in order.
I've got at least 30 enterprise applications that disagree with your "nonstarter" assertion. Dead code can only exist in real world code.