skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also works with your car’s controls — knobs, buttons, or touchscreen

It'll work with the knobs/buttons in the cars that have them and integrate them with whatever functionality they have (I have an old boss who had a Porsche Cayenne with a large screen controlled entirely with side buttons and a small scroll thingy, which was super awkward as the device's interface seemed designed with a touch screen in mind), but it seems that the car industry is largely moving towards touch screens in cars, with brands like Tesla leading the movement. I wouldn't be surprised if innovations like these encourage an even faster move towards touch screens in cars- Apple sure loves its touch screens.
While I do opt for better performance, this change particularly was a bit shocking to me, as in reality it broke the compatibility promise. Sure your stuff will compile fine, but it also meant things that worked fine before now died. I'm not ultimately against the change, but just feel other changes that were more deserving were rejected on grounds this one indirectly violated...
Did you even read the article linked to?
I think you're imagining that 4chan would stop with my internet presence. That's not historically true.
Carplay seems to be just Apple reinventing the wheel.

To be fair, that's basically Apple's business models. Just add some proprietary standards and some software patents and you are good to go.
Trying to make it look like they're being nice instead of admitting 'we have zero way to tax this'.
is a bit like games selling DLCs?
Do you run into any issues with having to maintain the additional lines of code?
Actually it would be MtGox 4.0 now that I think about it, since it used to be for trading Magic cards.
You could tell whether it is evenly distributed (with some probability, as you can only inspect a range and not all the numbers it will output), but you cannot test whether or not a sequence is random.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
> So picking one platform is basically guaranteed to piss off a sizable part of one's customers.

Not really, as just like with all Google Apps (maps, gmail, now), Google will release an app on iOS so it integrates well. Apple will probably not release something to integrate Carplay with Android phones though so picking Carplay would piss off mostly Android users but picking the openautoalliance shouldn't piss off anyone.
Are you arguing that spending more effort educating yourself on a particular subject never becomes suboptimal? Are you just talking past the parent? Or do you actually believe in storing information in brains for storing-information-in-brains' sake, even if it's ten years of study of pokémon glitches?
The steering-wheel to be precise :)
Going to go out on a limb here and say that Samsung will not be one of Apple's partners on this project.

I'm over in the States, but are you sure that's really true about Samsung Motors, by the way? After about ten minutes of searching just now, the story looks very different -- Samsung may be a marquee brand in most other markets, but it looks like they're a complete disaster as an auto company. Renault took majority ownership of Samsung Motors in 2000. And their sales have been plummeting since 2010; they're behind both Hyundai and Kia in South Korea, and slashed a rather staggering 80% of their workforce in 2012. One report from that time period said that Samsung wanted to take their name off "Renault Samsung Motors" but Renault wouldn't let them.
>Would you consider Python and Ruby strongly typed?

Did you mean statically typed? There are two dichotomies: static vs. dynamic, and weak vs. strong. Ruby and Python have strong dynamic typing. PHP has weak(-ish) dynamic typing.
Not that it's any surprise, but it's nice to see an emphasis on Siri. Voice control is very well suited to car interfaces: the car is a relatively-quiet, private space where you can be heard by the interface but not bother a stranger, and voice is as hands-and-eyes-free as it gets (not that this is the only challenge with car interfaces – divided attention from the road will only be solved with full autopilot).

What I would love to see going forward is real consideration for the optimal mix of buttons, touch-gestures, and voice control. A promising design [1,2] is the combination of mode-selection buttons and a thumb touch pad on the steering wheel. Left thumb holds down one of several modes, right thumb makes a simple gesture (no visual attention needed) and boom, you've got a lot of options for controlling things without taking your eyes of the road.

[1] graphic representation: http://i.imgur.com/sHhDLKZ.jpg

[2] pilot study: http://pro.sagepub.com/content/57/1/1643.short
I don't have time to address everything you've laid out here, but I must say that you seem to almost willfully misinterpret my statements. Moreover, many of your rebuttals are simply incorrect on matters of fact.

Please, in the future, try to remember the principle of charity. Also, you might foster more productive discussions by sprinkling a little tact onto your comments.
It's an example of "aim low". Because of the context, the interviewer's subjects make the mistake of overthinking the solution, which is simpler than they guess.

It's sort of like the sequence OTTFFSSE, which appears on many brain twister quizzes -- what do the letters mean? Don't overthink it -- they're the first letters of One, Two Three, etc. up to Eight.
I drive an '06 Audi, so I'd probably just wait until they eventually support it.
I am :) For me it looks a little like brainfuck. Don't be mad at me, it's just the way it looks for me :)

I'm using a little CoffeeScript, and the syntax is not so bad, yet I don't like it much. Maybe it's matter of preferences.
There will always be edge cases. Someone using an end user read-only device to create content and do real work is like a dancing animal - everyone is interested for the fact that it can do it at all, not for the quality of what it does compared to a human. Using Windows 8 or any tablet/phone for something serious is the same way.
Pardon my naïveté - why would floating point arithmetic be a red flag in transactional code?
Making special ink only controls is actually pretty easy, I've seen AWESOME demos all the way back to the original Windows XP Tablet PC Edition days.

The real problem is making inking work with any arbitrary control! That is what the current input panel is for. Remember it has to work anyplace anyone could ever enter text, wherever a cursor appears. So that includes Bob's Janky Control Factory DLL version 1.32a last updated on October 3rd of 2008.

If you search MSDN, there are plenty of examples of some really awesome ink enabled controls! Designing a system for ink first would be a lot of fun! I remember controls published for web pages that supporting inking, forums you could just draw right into the reply box on. Really cool stuff.

There is also usability concerns, not everyone has hand writing small enough to fit inside of a single line input box! Increasing the area to outside the box only works until the tip has been picked up, if you make the user always start the inking inside the box maybe something could be worked out, but that'd be a very unnatural way of writing.
Ellen Degeneras' tweet is The most retweeted tweet
I agree it's a bad idea to have touch devices within an arms length of a drivers seat, even if the device can be interacted with also via voice and physical buttons.

It would would be simple to not allow touch interaction while driving.
So before you start and if you pull over you can text/call/setup navigation which is easy to do on the touch screen and hard to do with a few buttons.

Once moving the touch screen should dumb down to stupid mode with only one valid interaction: hitting the screen hard a few times should silence the navigation voice (a feature I have found missing in most current models).
we're in deep debt to cats and dogs who was a major player in the successful development of human civilization. These days we forgot it, kill them by tens of millions per year, and many people grow up and live without meaningful contact with the animals.
This is why I have had to stop using a number of services which requested a photocopy of official government documentation. I am specifically thinking of how I had to dump my Dwolla account.
Yeah, I'm absolutely aware of this; it just seems to be so wasteful from engineering point of view.
Was that version ever operational?
I've listed 25 start-up maps that I know about here. I'm sure there are many others.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/03/25-start-up-maps...
Using cellphone map while driving OK'd by California court
That is by choice. I live in the UK. Personally, I don't see the point in driving manual, but most drivers in the UK enjoy using stick shift. In the context of a self-driving car, that doesn't matter.

The self-driving car technology is also very viable to use right now. I have seen Google self-driving cars on the freeways driving next to me. It would not surprise me if they were being sold within the next 5 years, commonplace within 20-30 years.
This is to get into the next LTS version of Ubuntu, 1.3 is not far away either.
AngularJS adoption, a few comparisons
Comparing adoption of AngularJS vs. other technologies, thanks to google trends.
Rapid diagnosis technology: Detecting infection with light
Based on microfluidics (the precise control and manipulation of fluids on the sub-mm length scale) the device has been designed to test for infections or diseases using a tiny droplet of the patient’s blood or urine. Not only is this process less invasive – there is no need to extract a large vial of the patient’s blood – it also has the potential to produce results in less than 30 minutes.
He's not complaining, he's asking. I also do not understand what on earth this tradition has to do with hacking. Or news.
I think this is a very great idea. I have a feeling as well that it will be copied soon in different states. The only question I have is what if citizens in Iceland claims their aurcoin? But apart from that this is a again a genius way to bring people into cryptocurrencies
Why would using SSL makes a difference, if all we're doing is just reading an article? I don't understand.
> I could have Excel and a browser window open at the same time.

My developer coworkers — whether on Linux or Windows — multitask by ALT-TAB'ing between maximized windows (so, basically fullscreen). If they have multiple monitors, they use each one with a full-screen app. They never use Aero snap, they never have floating windows. The first thing they do when opening a program is double-click on the titlebar (possibly putting it on the monitor of their choosing before).

Conversely I can't work without Mission Control, and use Moom liberally (~ Aero snap on steroids)
No need to inform us that you are not a lawyer. That was made quite clear when you gave us your take on the decision after reading the brief, never even mentioned first amendment concerns (good or bad) and failed to limit the scope of the precedent variable to the Ninth Circuit.
It is possible to effective write code using vim/emacs on many different languages from assembler and C to perl and Go. But there is at least one exception - it is very hard to write Java code without IDE (like Eclipse or IDEA).
Ebay took measures to prevent people shifting the cost of tems from the item to the post and packing. If the seller pays £1.99 for p&p they can charge £10 and reduce the cost of their item by £8.

Your point about overnight delivery is reasonable. Some games are playable without IAPs. But some games have a degraded experience without IAPs - timers that the player need to wait for is one example - and some games are going to be unfun without IAPs.
"Instead, the insolvency process tries to treat everyone equally, so that they would pay out everybody 60% of their share, instead of some people getting all their money and some losing everything."

No, there are a number of parties that get their money first, like the liquidator, the tax man, privileged creditors, etc. Which usually means that the concurrent creditors should be happy to get a few percent of their claims (the average here in the Netherlands is 3%).

Not disagreeing with your point, in fact reinforcing it - the proposal of the GP is preposterous under the law, and a flagrant violation of bankruptcy law across the world.
I think his point was that is should also be an option in large, proven and socially important markets.
If you look at "the actual brief" you are not looking at "the court's decision" in the instant case.
Imagine you hate Islam and you want to portray it in an obnoxious, demeaning, and depraved manner, with all the production quality of a middle school film project. You've just envisioned Innocence of Muslims.
First thing to do when working with the former is to write some code that will allow you to write the latter.
Along those lines, here's an interesting video of a drummer playing various looping samples of dialogue from movies or TV and finding a bizarre time signature that is a "close enough" fit. http://youtu.be/MHft4OR7Rus
It's on HN because somebody submitted it, and it's on the front page because enough people up-voted it to get it there.

That really is about as good an explanation as you're going to get :)
"Awesome companies are facing a talent crunch, and finding the most awesome software people out there is hard." - that is the biggest misconception: looking to buy cheap something that simply is expensive.
Granted, the things that touchscreens replace in avionics are the stuff that you need your eyes on to operate in any case (navigation computer etc). And they often replace input systems that were far, far worse (read http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/garmin-gps for a funny review of the old Garmin avionics).

And in the air, you have a little more time to look at the instruments without risking crashing into a meeting car or driving off the road. I suspect (hope) that the current trend with touchscreens in cars will be a fad, and that manufacturers will realize that some features (climate control etc) are best implemented with traditional controls.

It's sad when my 10 year old car has a UI on that part that allows me to use it without taking the eyes off the road.
Obviously, it's a straight 4/4 ("Common Time")[0], with some swing and played tempo rubato ("robbed time")[1]. This is where the time allocated for the various beats is pushed around a bit by the performer to add character or emotional qualities. Very often, when the phrase "..with feeling!" is really speaking about rubato (or conversely, any "mechanical" quality a performance may have). "Stop playing it like a robot; now stat again, with feeling this time!"

So many people have a hard time picking out the meter, because they are still using an incorrect assumption: that time (meter/tempo/beats/etc) in music is regular/consistent - or even well-defined in the first place.

The important part to remember, when speaking of time-signatures, meter, and music theory in general, is that what's written (or even what was intended by a composer) is only a guide. They've drawn a model on the page, that is intended to help express how you go about playing a song, but just as "the map is not the territory", a quarter-note is not necessarily 1/4 of a measure in time[2].

This used to be more explicit in the Baroque era: you would see very simple notation on the page, and the performer was supposed to infer (and ad-lib their own) "embellishments" or "ornaments"[3] as they played.

This doesn't apply to all music, and some songs would not work without their strict, mechanical interpretation of meter. Of particular note is "martial music"[4], which is often quite regular/low-rubato, and the Terminator theme has some march-like qualities such as its iconic sharp-beats. Martial music could be appropriate for Terminator's subject matter, too. Instead, we get a really-modern[5] song that was likely performed directly, skipping the sheet music step entirely. That's the thing about music; you can't really shove it all in to nice, neat pidgen-holes, and if you could, some artist would just go and write a song that broke everything, for the lulz.

As the article mentions a Prophet-10, you also have to take into the considerations of the hardware involved, and how that influences everything, in large and/or subtle ways. If you're interested in the topic of how hardware and creativity are intertwined, LFT (Linus Akesson) gave a very interesting talk on the subject: "Poems for bugs"[6].

[0] There are other acceptable interpretations, of course, but that makes no difference.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo_rubato

[2] Also measures/bars don't necessarily have the same time either, and the frequency of a note (on instruments that allow it) can vary as well.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_%28music%29#Western_cl...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_music

[5] "Is it modern?" ~Emperor Joseph II, in Amadeus

[6] http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/poems-for-bugs/index...
Unsinkable Sam => Was on 3 ships that sunk.
What's with the query string?
> This is why the earliest social experiments in what we would now call “open source” – at SHARE and DECUS – were restricted to individual vendors’ product lines and (often) to individual machine types.

Yes, because BASIC and Creative Computing magazine never happened.

Conflating the idea of sharing code, with the idea of sharing system level code doesn't really help this essay IMNHO.

As for the "creation myth" -- I guess that refers to stuff like: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

I'm not sure how this is supposed to be a "myth". As far as I can tell we went from relatively open systems (if not free) to much more closed systems. And now, after the rise of various standard platforms (x86, sparc, arm) we're in a strange (and a little scary) in-between place where we have oodles of great hardware, half of which we have no real idea how works, except for binary driver blobs.

I guess I just don't understand the motivation for tying together the fact that we've come a long way in terms of system and language design, and that because of that we've been able to get some pretty solid open systems -- and that closed systems aren't (and never was) a bad thing, because, you know *bsd and linux and stuff?

And there's of course stuff like: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

While later than C, in some ways arguably more open than unix (as it was actually published and distributed).
It's less about the transactions but the money.

>> 3 * 1005.01
=> 3015.0299999999997

This might get truncated to 3015.02 and might

>> 3 * 1005.01 * 10000
=> 30150299.999999996

turn into a real loss.
Unfortunately I don't know enough about the bitcoin innards to give you an informative answer, and the answer isn't clear from a plain reading of the code.

The leaked code seems to just be an internal API for twiddling wallets. There doesn't seem to be any logic here for either the txid conflict retry bits or the hot/cold transfer bits.
9 out of 10 linux devices that accessed wikipedia were Android!
That isn't how you do it?
Floating point values are inaccurate and a complete mess if you want to get accurate results.

This is a good article about the subject: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/06/numbers-are-a-leaky...
1-800-947-6570 seems to be the toll-free number used for this scam - something to note down.

Also, check out the hilarious "Foreign IP Tracer" output IP addresses:

192.168.10.1 Serbia

281.179.1.23 Russia
What? You're not going to take my ad hominem argument lying down? Fine, I'll just go back to youtube comments...
> I am almost 100% certain that we won't see that kind of thing [self-driving cars] even within the next few decades, if ever.

Come on -- self-driving cars are already legal in California --

"Self-driving cars now legal in California" : http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/tech/innovation/self-driving-c...

-- and the military are testing self-driving trucks to prevent IUD casualties in hostile areas --

"Army tests self-driving trucks for the next big war: " http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/army-tests-self-drivi...

-- so your doubts are anachronistic to say the least.

> Self-driving cars have way too many hurdles to overcome before they reach that point. I mean, Europe hasn't even moved over to automatic transmission yet.

Hey -- wake up and smell the Cappuccino. :)
I'd like to see this available in a double-DIN sized unit that could be fitted in any car. Instead of it only being available in 2014+ cars.
Don Ellis had a Bulgarian pianist (Milcho Leviev) in his Orchestra for a while and this was one of the glorious outcomes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYtWvavvYg

Here's a great blog that used to have regular posts on matters regarding peculiar meters: http://oddtimeobsessed.blogspot.co.uk/
13 subdivisions still isn't quite perfect, but it's closer than 14 (i.e. 7/8). It's somewhere in between, which makes sense considering the composer just manually looped a sample that wasn't an exact measure of any standard time signature.
All that can be said about AppleTV which as been out for years and has gathered quite a large userbase lately.
If she didn't want to be associated with the film, she didn't have to act in it. The problem is she doesn't want death threats, which should be the real story. (Some) Muslims, yet again, issuing death threats because their view of their religion on being insulted by non-believers.
Maybe it was a "private beta" launch before they "pivoted".

In all seriousness, no one really knows, but likely not.
That's a bit of a stretch (pun intended). This is clearly electronic music, or at least a consistently looping sound of some sort. Robbed time implies a live performance, and each measure definitely wouldn't be tempo shifted in exactly the same way.
The problem is that there is a central authority that gets to decide "relative importance". Even granting that, isn't it perverse that this authority, having presumably decided what is and isn't of "relative importance", lacks the foresight to prevent the agents of these relatively important institutions to bring entire economies to the edge of the precipice?
Over the past few years, pretty much everything critical has been built with standard SnPb solder under various RoHS exemptions. Most of those exemptions have recently expired or are expiring soon. It is far too soon to pat yourself on the back over the apparent absence of adverse consequences.
I don't think anyone believes that 750,000 bitcoins were involved in malleability, nor that somehow they lost 2+billion yen to "hackers" at the same time.
Looking at that code makes me yearn for Cobol.
It's probably just a HN hack to get a new post out of an existing URL.
How history explains Bitcoin, Mt. Gox bankruptcy
And the word "app" seems to have taken over the world.
It's definitely not straight 7/8.
>>Evolution is not a plan with a goal, it is a blind algorithm that chooses survivors, regardless of the survivors' traits, with the single requirement that they are the fittest for the environment in which they find themselves.

Well that does sound like a goal driven algorithm to me. Except that you can't actually say if a move made by the algorithm will actually produce a acceptable outcome to the algorithm itself. Due to the sheer number of variables, the only option the algorithm has is to do a kind of A/B testing. To make changes to a smaller subset of subjects and see if they survive, if they do they do. If they don't, well then you can kill that test and move on more modifications.

Evolution is an optimization algorithm, which makes changes, tests and makes more changes/corrects based on feed back.