skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is my understanding that engine codes are not public and car manufacturers consider them copyrighted information, requiring a license. I wonder if Automatic reverse engineered the codes or licensed them from the manufacturers.

The check engine light is only used to indicate problems with the car's emission system. It is unlikely to provide anything actionable unless you're planning to get your car smogged soon.
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Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit:

http://imgur.com/3u1M2IG
This is super awesome! Any plans on releasing this on github?
Any car with a OBD II port should work with the device... just Google your car. As noted, it's basically anything after 96 save for Hondas and a few other models.
Judges have quite a lot of power and independence when it comes to investigating misconduct in their own court-rooms that they don't have in normal cases.
I wonder, could a malware on my phone issue a command such as "ENGAGE BRAKE FRONT-LEFT" while I'm going 130mph on the autobahn?
Too bad they're US only.
Speaking from experience, developing apps with webview on mobile is a minefield. Combining that with jQuery-mobile is akin to throwing a sheep into that minefield.
Very cool!

If you could combine it with historical data, you could make a fortune selling data to pro-gamblers ;-)

http://www.football-data.co.uk/downloadm.php

Betegy.com are a site already doing statistical analysis for predictive purposes across 5 major European leagues.
Feeling "more like yourself" is one of the more common descriptions of what it feels like to be on a medication that's working. I'm glad you found something that worked and you're feeling better.
In my experience, they rarely mess up with that. I usually use SO, Google, and quora (very good for "is this better than that?" or compare and contrast different db's").

That said, try posting examples if you want more feedback?
Aha, but not the European (International) street signs!
I would think that fleet cars / rental cars / company cars might be more of a market than consumers for this kind of thing in some ways.
I was kinda meaning user-experience stuff, rather than the quality of the backend. What do the OSX or Windows desktops do with the 3D capability, in terms of improved experience or workflow, that Linux doesn't?

I'm not really a gamer any more so I don't often run into any issues with full-screen gaming.

I'm pretty sure that the video driver on linux can be updated without a reboot, but you'd probably need to log out of X, yes.
This is a bit tangent to your question, but, I think you can still run with ng-click if you deploy Content Security Policy, whereas onclicks will be banned.
When you have a large wealth gap it simply becomes less profitable to produce goods that are of high utility to those with less money.

So you may get more bang for your buck by investing in companies that give labour saving benefits to the already wealthy, thus net increasing unemployment. With less income disparity the best goods to invest in may be ones which provide quality of living improvements across the spectrum.
Too bad natural gas is trading about what it was in 1980 (largely from lot of new supply from fracking), and about 60% below its peak in 2009 - at least in the US [1]. Although prices in Japan are about 5X higher [2]

1 - http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9190us3a.htm

2 - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-natural-gas-prices-resha...
The Automatic Link includes a built-in accelerometer that can detect many types of crashes. Automatic uses your phone's data connection to immediately report the crash to 911 with your name, location, and vehicle description.

Now this fascinates me. I wonder what parameters are required to trigger the automatic emergency notification.
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They seem to want happy employees who are playing ping-pong more than either of those.
I have to agree -- I was wanting Sacha to expand on not being ideal for e-commerce sites as well.
I would label this as "Mint.com for your Car". And along with that, I'm sure your data will be collected, analyzed, and sold. I imagine they'll eventually partner with insurance companies too and these stats will influence your rates. Companies like Progressive are already doing this.

Don't get me wrong though. I'm not saying any of this is wrong or bad. I'm just trying to imagine what the bigger picture here is for them.

(Edit) From their Privacy Policy:

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve our users, we often conduct research on our customer demographics, interests, and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe Automatic to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets; in this event, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Data. We may also share your information with our subsidiaries and affiliates, if any.
I'm sure I paid more than this for BMW Assist in my car (I think like $100-$300, can't remember). I was in an accident a couple years ago; it wasn't a terrible accident, but if it had been, the service it provided would have been well worth the price tag (notifying all the right people, making sure I'm okay, tracking my location for me, etc). If the functionality is similar, this is easily worth the $65 price tag on that alone. If I'm a parent with a first-time driver, you can bet I'd pick one up for my kid.
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How does the engine trouble codes feature compare to something like VAG-COM?
First of all these are soccer stats, not football at all. So I call B.S.

Secondly, in all seriousness... While pretty, they are quite hard to make any actual use of. Things that should be compared are far from each other and oriented differently making them difficult to compare. Trends are hard to notice because everything is so widely spaced. The losing team score is too faint so it fades from the vision.

But yes, it is pretty.
This reminds me of the 3D0. It was the first 32 bit video game console on the market and was well ahead of its time in multiple ways (Internet multiplayer). However they entered a saturated market at a very steep cost and never fully took off.
This won't take off at a 1000 dollars. Who has that kind of money to spend on something that doesn't provide more value than alternatives?
You're joking, but it's distracting. The real guy is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe

"On May 24, 2003 The Lancet published a letter from Wickramasinghe,[16] jointly signed by Milton Wainwright and Jayant Narlikar, in which they hypothesized that the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) could be extraterrestrial in origin and not originated from chickens. The Lancet subsequently published three responses to this letter, showing that the hypothesis was not evidence-based, and casting doubts on the quality of the experiments referenced by Wickramasinghe in his letter.[17][18][19]"
Pretty sure IE has always had a single process per browser window. At least since IE6
Wait, so this 69$ little contraption can read the code behind a check engine light? That's $100 in savings that would otherwise go to the Car Mechanic Mafia.

Pre-ordered.
"personal" != "biased"
Can't the dongle just kill its own connection to the OBDII port? i.e. appear inert to the car's hardware as if nothing is plugged in?
A powerful unused feature of Python: function annotations.
As I understand it, no. ODBII is a read-only data port that surfaces information about the state of your car. I don't believe it lets you enter commands.

That being said, there have been man vulnerabilities in car software which is all proprietary and hasn't undergone any public review, so I guess it is possible.
I can't tell if you're joking? XCode is not exclusive to mobile development.

File -> New -> Project

See all that fun stuff under listed under OS X?
Yes. I will probably add the core wordtree layout as a plugin to https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins

The whole application ties together text processing, data retrieval, the wordtree and longscroll.js for fast rendering of the text view on the right-hand side: https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins/tree/master/longscroll
Well, the Linux community has been needlessly caustic in their attacks on Ubuntu for years now. I have to believe the community's resistance to any change or consensus is partly to blame for Ubuntu becoming more insular. If change needs to get done, it's not coming from the outside. All that's coming from outside is hate.
Technically "correct" you mean; if there was an unicode character that filled all the screen with the color black it would not matter if it were technically "correct", usability correct is more important.
Well, I guess you should clarify it then on the website? Does not really help your credibility ;)
The //news.ycombinator.com comments links in the RSS feed aren't working from Pulse for Android. Can we put the https scheme in the RSS feed permanently?
Copper v0.0.3 - Data analysis tools for python.
Ugh, instead of dealing with all the edge cases and learning THEIR api, just learn OBJ-C and Cocoa instead.

"So wait, you are telling me, I can build native mobile apps with just css and js"

-"Yes, all you need to do is learn these 1000 quirks and edge cases for performance, and learn/memorise our API"
I use the iptables reject trick all the time. It's particularly useful when you have a bunch of servers in a DNS round robin. When one of them adds the reject rule, clients start failing over to the next server in the DNS round robin essentially immediately.
Ask HN: Questions Before Joining a Startup
I have a lunch meeting today with a start-up founder I know, to see if there's any possibility of me joining the company. It's a project I believe in, and the company has already seen some traction. However they are still very young, and I would be one of the first non-founding employees. Other than that I don't know much about the company itself, and this will be the first conversation we've had about this.

Can anyone suggest questions I should ask, or things to be aware of to help make sure that this will be a good fit? Are there things I should look out for? Anything else you can think to say?

I'm very interested, but also very nervous about doing this.

Thanks for the help.
Sorry, this site is only viewable in Chrome or Safari.
Been using Torque on my Android phone (~$5) along with a $12 OBD-II bluetooth dongle from Amazon for over a year now, to do much the same thing.
> It doesn't seem easy to me to steal a ring from someone's finger

There are alternatives:
1. Point gun and say give me the ring with your entire identity on it.
2. Chop finger off and take the ring.

Becoming the bearer bond of my identity seems like a very bad idea.
Oh gawd, there are dirt all over my screen now..
Ask HN: TV rating company gave $5 to fill the survey for them.
Does this also connect to the CAN Bus, if so will you offer a simple high level API to it. I would buy one now if it did.

Background: I showed Lockitron to my dad a while back, and he wanted it for his car. ie unlock/lock from his phone, or even by just walking up, like keyless-go on the mercs.

I did a bit of googleling, and it seemed like it should be pretty simple. Connect a dongle to the diagnostic port (inc CAN bus wires), and then fire the correct CAN messages down. On most modern cars you can pretty much control anything, from the locks, cruise control, windows, seats, radio, lights, wipers etc. The problem is the CAN message format isn't documented anywhere, and it varies from car to car. You would have to sniff bus, with lots of trial & error.

If there was a high level API, ie openDriverSideWindow(), I could image the community creating a whole host of automation possibilities. ie Open windows when the temp is above 30C, or turn radio down when I'm close to home.
I received a packet from a well known TV rating agency. The packet has $5 and few forms for survey. The company is bribing me for filling the survey forms.

Want to know what are your thoughts on this. I am planning to send this money back to company.
I don't believe it lets you enter commands.

They can but they are usually pre-programmed commands set by the manufacturer. Most electronic elements to a vehicle can be controlled with the correct manufacturer equipment and software that most branded dealerships have.
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I was under the impression that it was mandated by the government for all US cars in the 90's. Is that not the case?
Are Video Games Art?
amazing, i think it could also be used as a learning tool

imagine you feed a book to it and you can explore ideas from there
Compare the code yourself (should be an easy comparison)
bootstrap alert widget

angular UI version
https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/src/aler...

strap version
https://github.com/mgcrea/angular-strap/blob/master/src/dire...
Real-world lifecycle marketing campaigns that will blow you away
Fragmentation can be very different. The sickest type of it is hardware fragmentation caused by incompatible drivers. The most obvious example is Android. Their choice of bionic libc makes running normal glibc Linux with Android drivers impossible (unless you attempt to translate glibc into bionic, like libhybris does). So this fragmentation creates a very strong barrier for using hardware and everyone would agree such kind of rifts are not a pleasant thing. Luckily in Mir's case Canonical seems to be interested in avoiding drivers fragmentation with Wayland.
CSV merger in Java
Why does my HN "more" button never work?
I'm new to this site but not computers. Nearly always, when I click the "More" button on the bottom of the home page, it takes me to "Unknown or expired link."

Do I need to clear a cache or something? I can't imagine a site like this would be broken for everyone for so long.
I don't think it's a good idea for a company-wide policy of no working from home. Lower level managers should be responsible for the decisions they make in that regard. On the other hand, sometimes a leader has to take strong and controversial stances in order to save a sinking ship.

Jobs was a dick as an executive, but since Apple became the golden child after he returned, nobody said anything. If she turns things around, she won't be called a bitch.
Please don’t use fallacies in that way. They are not automatic game overs and can be part of reasonable arguments.

Yes, a warning light should go on in your head when someone uses a fallacy – but they can be very useful shortcuts – and if not presented in isolation, i.e. without any further argument, they are usually not so problematic (and discussions shouldn’t then be derailed by only focusing only on fallacies).

When scientists decide how to filter which information to take in they usually always rely – as a first step – on arguments from authority or (if you reverse it) ad-hominems. There is no time to check everything based on its merits. Journals exist to increase efficiency, as a first-defense shit filter.

Considering the repute of a journal and the editors involved as a first step makes total sense. Phil Plait is not a biologist. If he wouldn’t write for Slate about stuff like this, he probably would have seen the name of the journal, recognized it as extremely problematic and dismissed the research as most likely bullshit. And that’s that. It’s a perfectly valid approach.

So much crap is published every day, there just isn’t enough time to consider everything based on its merits.

Even though there really isn’t much of a need in this case, Phil Plait doesn’t stop there and pushes further, presenting some very solid arguments for why this research is bullshit, going even so far as to directly consulting experts in the field. If that’s not thorough (for a non-scientific publication, you know, a blog post) I don’t know what is.

Yeah, Phil Plait has a writing style that isn’t for everyone (I’m personally not a huge fan, but I still like him), but really, you are putting style over substance there.

All the while you drone on about ad-hominems, only to launch a huge one yourself. You completely ignore his arguments in favor of the writing style.

Conclusion: This research is bullshit. Plus, if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out (says Tim Minchin). And Phil Plait has an axe to grind. With bad science. And that it’s bad is something he quite elegantly demonstrates. There is no need to stay perfectly neutral in tone when you discuss obviously bad science.
Netflix reveals the speeds of top ISPs around the world
Looks similar to this: http://moj.io/ except your's doesn't require a monthly fee (which was a big turn off for moj.io for me). I almost preordered one, but I saw android wasn't supported yet - I'll probably come back and check in the future.

There are some android apps in the marketplace for bluetooth OBD II devices that can be ordered for <$20 from China. I'd pay >$10 for an app with similar features to this if anyone's looking for an idea.
Or they run it that way, because "those other guys" did.
You can save as SVG from Adobe Illustrator.
I tend to agree with Wattenberg and Viégas that it's interesting to treat all words and punctuation equally, but it's certainly a matter of opinion and it would be simple enough to tokenise the input data differently.
So it's a $10 elm327 ?

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=elm327&_sacat=0

With a Torque clone?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
Either they bitch about downloading a separate runtime or about downloading a 16MB app to do something simple. There's no winning on this issue - your overall rating will suffer if you build atop a nonstandard runtime.
No one can screw up Linux. It's open source and there's a huge and disparate community behind many projects spanning thousands of use cases. Even if Ubuntu somehow managed to go closed source and charge a mandatory license fee, Linux would still be Linux. Ubuntu is not the only project, by far. And you wonder why Shuttleworth is getting pissed at you guys.
He's using a reductio ad absurdem arguement. He takes the principle of "a company valuing productivity over happiness" and extends it to an absurd degree to argue that company's shouldn't prohibit telecommuting in order to increase productivity. It's a pretty stupid argument that is equivalent to saying companies shouldn't do things that are in their own self-interest.
It could, but keep in mind many OBD-II ports are out of reach. The one shown in the marketing is real, but many are located on the passenger side or a lot deeper on the driver's side.

OBD-II might be a standard, but as I said it was designed to be used while the car is in a garage, never while it is being driven. So there is no "standard" for manufacturers to position it.
The West is also a great place for climbing (geographically speaking) - far better than many places I've lived... but I'll also vouch for climbing being a great activity. Ultimate Frisbee as well.
This is good! Parts of Microsoft continuing to embrace the future (and open source).

Because the situation I see now is that enthusiasts love the connect. They buy this great piece of Microsoft hardware and then run to Linux to us it.... So it's good Microsoft has realized this and is trying to fix this lacking of theirs.
It can read the code but that doesn't give you much to work with. You won't be able to clear the code and you will have to pay for the replacement parts and undertake the repairs yourself.

I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but here in the UK, if you took your car to a mechanic purely for the sake of reading the code then it would only cost about £50.
And how is it reported to 911? Does Automatic have someone manually call it in? I didn't think 911 had an api that you could report stuff through.
Serious question -- how are alternatives so much better?

You've always got to "waste your very precious time" on something -- putting together servers, dealing with hard drive crashes, etc. No matter what, you have to plan for things breaking, and a lot of the time, they'll break in ways you couldn't plan for.

It's not like there are other cloud platforms out there with zero failures and zero deficiencies. But how, for example, is SoftLayer better than AWS?
Google encourages companies to work together on patent licensing
You can take your car to nearly any auto parts store -- autozone, oreilly, napa, etc -- and they will read the code for you for free too.
> Beating something is finite and means that it can never happen again

Since when does beating an illness mean permanent immunity? You can beat cancer and have a recurrence. There's nothing in the definition of clinical depression saying that it's a permanent illness.
And more examples like this, unfortunately... Compare buttons for another striking example...
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I came here to say something similar - you do not "get over" clinical depression caused by a biochemical imbalance in your brain. It does not get fixed without making biochemical changes to your brain.

The advice the author gives is very sound advice (exercise, for example, does indeed induce biochemical changes in your brain), but without first becoming convinced of the advantages of getting treated, and taking the time to understand how those treatments effect you and how you need to actively participate in them, the rest of his suggestions are near impossible to follow through on.

The stigma around psychological and psychiatric care do not help the situation; however, the numerous stories on these issues here on HN I do hope shed some light on those that are still suffering without help to know that there always is a chance to get better, and it can be as easy as calling your doctor or telling your friend you need help. Or even talking to one of us here who have been suffering from depression and suicidal ideations for many years - I certainly would be more than happy to talk with anyone who is struggling with these issues.
Yeah, I don't get that ... d3 works perfectly with Firefox (and I guess, Opera), so why doing a -webkit-only thing ?