skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could this be a form of concept car for Apple to test hardware/software on without any real intention of making their own car?

Maybe it's a demonstration platform to show partners what a well integrated system could feel like. Perhaps Apple wants to make the guts of the car control/infotainment system instead of just projecting an image over the OEM system.

Early reports on CarPlay from various vendors said that they varied widely in hardware speed/quality (I believe Ferrari's was said to be pretty bad). Apple doesn't like relying on third parties for their user experience (see: Moto ROKR).
>That's like saying I can't copyright an image I made entirely within GIMP because it has no human artist. //

Not if you created an algorithm that uses GIMP and runs independent of you. Copyright protects artistic works by natural persons.

Cope is the creator of the algorithm and has copyright protection of any artistic elements of that algorithm. Copyright does not protect technical effort no matter how skilled.

In the same way my camera's firmware writer, though skilled, has technical input in to all images created with that camera. But as they don't have artistic input in to any specific image they don't share the copyright - they may have made the image vastly superior with their technical ability (white-balance, focus, filters) but it was technical input and not "artistic".

Edit: a reference for the general principle under the USC, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Compendium_of_US_Copyrigh....
You had me until "Quora" as a suggested alternative. If any site approaches the annoyance level of LinkedIn for me, it's Quora. Both have a habit of spamming me; their unsubscribe stuff is kinda dark pattern-y, in that it's easy to end up still getting mail from them even after clicking through to unsubscribe.

That said, I haven't used LinkedIn in years. Have no interest in it, for anything. If I needed work, I might consider going back, but I doubt it. I certainly wouldn't hire someone based on a LinkedIn profile, and I probably wouldn't want to work for someone who did.
Another pretty good article on this topic: https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/probabilisti...
It was designed by the Shumway team as a SWF that uses many of the Flash features. It's full of easter eggs.
Yup, saw that. I do hope you guys are able to figure it out and get things merged.
Most people don't decide which product to buy based on who was first. If a competitor produces a quality alternative, they will compare the two and buy the one they like more (Where the product they like more is subjective and base on many factors).
>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Where is distribution mentioned? Or, do you mean that nobody would have the chance to sue unless it were distributed, because they wouldn't find out?
Why not just run a development web server?
Look at the history of protocols and software patterns. The ones that survived are never by design - they happen by accident. It's worth throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. I'm sorry to hear you're disappointed with web intents. Your marketing might be wrong. The Wikipedia says a "experimental framework". Firstly:

Why experimental? You are either running with your own ideas or not.

Secondly:
Why is it called a framework? It seems more like a software pattern, or UX pattern than a framework. It could even be pushing the protocol level, but I don't think it has reached 'protocol' status yet.
I think you are deluding yourself, if you believe that an average person would choose their car based on the entertainment system.
Agreed, it's incredible, and utterly dumbfounding, that people would simply turn over access to their email like that. The only explanation I can imagine is that other (younger?) people just don't take email as seriously.
Most tools have a multitude of configuration options which everyone wants to set differently.

go fmt comes with the official distribution, is zero configuration, and everyone who uses go uses it.
Definitely good for working on a few weird CSS oddities and helped me get better acquainted with GitHub and Bower. I figured being able to work with individual elements within the icon might be a plus over icon fonts, but definitely not as reliable. Otherwise, I also couldn't come up with much over SVG either. Thanks for the feedback!
OK: An implementation of the K5 programming language
Ask HN: How to check if there is market for my product idea?
I could create a website/landing page and send some traffic: google ads/facebook ads coupons from fiverr and capture email addresses if they are interested.

Other rideas?
Apple has more than enough money to try 50 experiments like this.
My solution to this was to use both. I use Chrome only for Gmail and Docs (drive, whatever...) and disabled the auto-updater. I use Firefox with DDG for everything else. Couldn't be happier.
I think this is the first "PR PR" I've ever seen :)
The only domain expertise they had on phones was the itunes phone with motorola. And then they launched the iphone.

Same goes for the ipod.

Only thing they had expertise in was computers. And with computers becoming extremely important for cars, they might just have a chance. Just as much as google, and they don't have any particular domain knowledge either (ie. they have never sold a car before).
Btw, to build what I have in mind right now, I would need about 3-5 months (not full time, at most 2h/day).
Of course at one point they had no domain expertise with phones...
The Journal is traditionally Apple's outlet of choice when they want to leak something, but they've been a little bit hit-and-miss lately. Maybe something's changed since Katie Cotton left.
That makes sense, especially for getting started.
Have you considered ways to guide people to narrowing down their location?

We store shapefiles (I'm doing GeoJSON in RethinkDB but same difference) for every census tract that we cover with the speed and technology offered (because that's what the FCC requires). Since we have the data we're redoing our service availability mapping so prospective clients can drag the placemark icon on gMaps to their house (because geocoding is horrid in our area and you need to compensate for long driveways) and then show them what's available.

It's interesting when service location is abstracted out. We have a rural residential POP where the immediate neighborhood has fiber, the surrounding mile or two has 10-25Mbps fixed-wireless, and then out to 6 miles has 1M-384k fixed wireless. It's all in the same zip code, and actually, because it's so rural, mostly the same census block.
The consumer impact of this: we get people calling us after looking at online broadband maps excited to sign up for fiber and living in the 4 mile range only to get their hopes crushed. Then they realize they can chose between 1Mbps with no cap or 15Mbps LTE with high overages.
Possible downside: Apple could end up bidding against Tesla for employees, factories, and rare materials; increasing the price of electric cars and slowing Tesla's production and growth, while not producing many cars itself for some time.
This doesn't square with the report that says they are looking at manufacturing processes and materials. I agree with you though that this is the most likely explanation.
The future of protein is in bugs. Lots and lots of bugs.
Every platform that receives any attention is like that.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript will deliver on Java's broken promise
I'd love to see a JSPM version of that to easily bring in dependencies

* http://jspm.io/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukBMY4apvI
Blockchain Private Information Retrieval: Thoughts on a Newer Protocol
From WSJ: "A self-driving car is not part of Apple’s current plan, one of the people familiar with the project said."
> rayiner 17 minutes ago

> The stripping clause only comes into place when you distribute the code, just as the GPL's copy-left requirement only comes into play when you distribute the code.

I absolutely wish this was the case: copying internally within an organization such as a school, a church, or a business should be legal for any purposes regardless of the license something comes with... However, I'd not be very certain of support of companies like Microsoft which would argue that their copyright licenses dictate usage within the organization and not just on distribution. And no, for these purposes there is no difference between Microsoft EULA and MIT license.

I'd imagine you can argue that you can argue that you are in compliance if you distributed a git (or hg etc) repository with an older version that does include the copyright notice though.

My point is just that at what point does distribution begin? The entertainment industry wants us to believe that if I buy a CD, I am violating copyright by the audio CD to an iPod (doubly so if to a friend's iPod).
Most of what you complain about can be reduced by appropriately costing-out the externalities of meat production.

Of course, the problem always comes when big corporate AG can essentially shut down public debate by buying all the seats of any discussion (i.e., corruption).
I tried searching Google for "has facebook ever asked for email account logins and passwords?" and couldn't find any proof. Does anyone have a source for this?
Computers aren't that important for cars.

I'll gladly believe that Apple will produce a car with a completely amazing user experience for its center console.

But I'll take a car with a less amazing user experience for its center console if it drives better, gets better mileage, has lower maintenance, costs tens of thousands of dollars less, and looks good on the outside. Apple has no expertise there, and it's a complicated business.

We like to sort of claim Tesla as our own, but it's not a computer company, it's a car company. Maybe Apple can create a car company ex nihilo, but that's a lot less in their wheelhouse than producing a rectangle with a touchscreen on it.
If you want to try multiple Chrome Users see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

You can change users by clicking the top right of a chrome window.

They may not be obvious to set up, but they are worth learning about if you are going to use stick with Chrome and use multiple Google accounts, or multiple accounts on any service - Twitter, FB, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 part deux! :)
I find it more believable that these Apple car rumors are actually test mules for their CarPlay system and future extensions.
Clinicloud – Digital Stethoscope + Non-Contact Thermometer
If anything comes out of this, maybe electric cars will be seen as cool now that Apple is in on the market. Although I am not a fan of Apple itself and likely wont get an iCar, I hope this isn't a rumor.
Might explain Musk weird press conference earlier this week.

Said he would need massive amounts of cash soon. Maybe he knew what's going on with Apple.

Or just that he needs money for the battery factory.
I think eventually minivans will be a quite popular format for autonomous vehicles. Full size buses are inconvenient for suburban streets, while vehicles for single occupants may be priced out in on-demand situations for many trips.

Already, minivans are very popular in unofficial public transport systems in many less-developed countries. In Morocco, grand taxis are old Mercedes sedans that leave when full - they're cramped and reckless, and I bet minivans would be preferred if they were more readily available.

I think we'll see many people commuting in the near future by shared transport decided by efficiency algorithms and based on demand and prediction. Minivans could get 5-10 people into the CBD quite effectively in peak hour rather than the 1-2 people/car we see now, and without waiting for a bus or walking 3-5 blocks to the stop.

A minivan with swappable internal components could easy convert to sleep four people (a family on a roadtrip), or have bench seats facing a card table (like a train), or have four reclining seats (like a plane, watching movies on VR headseats).
They're really good at rectangular screens!
The degree to which agribusiness in CA has been able to block any and all rational water regulation in the legislature is simultaneously awful and encouraging. Awful, because oh my god just look; the way they're handling this resource is demonstrably terrible. Encouraging because we are so amazingly far away from running an efficient enterprise. I suspect the Israelis could farm for a century using the same amount of water squandered by the Central Valley in a single season.

Okay, that's an slight exaggeration. But only slight.
Interview with Bill Nguyen, Co-Founder of Color (2011)
I would probably guess a lot of reasons. I'm not sure that there has been "that" many large agro studies on many of the techniques. Also, I think something as simple as planting large crop on swale (not in a straight line) drastically changes how the farm would run (what equipment to use, industry-wide crop measurements, etc). That's just the first thing that comes to mind.
> PS: Per acre corn yields are up something like 10x over the last 100years that's crazy vs a ~3x population increase.

I agree. The increases in yield are just incredible.

You're right, ethanol production has just exploded in the past several years. Along with that, corn prices have increased along with ag. land prices.

As a result, farmers have done quite well for themselves over the past decade. It will be interesting to see what would happen if ethanol production were to decline substantially. I would argue that as we shift toward an electric powered auto fleet, this is inevitable. I think the only question is will it happen in 10, 20 or 30 years?
Hardy's comment about math being a "young man's game" has bothered me since I read his "Course of Pure Mathematics" about 10 years ago.

I'm sure there's at least a bit of truth to the statement that mathematical discovery is, in general, easier for younger minds, but it seems to be an unnecessary and harmful trope to propagate.

Either you still have it, or you don't. Why does the Fields Medal care about age? If a 60 year old proves the Riemann Hypothesis, why is he or she ineligible? This happened notably with Andrew Wiles. He (indirectly) proved Fermat's Last Theorem and was rewarded a "special plaque" instead of the Fields Medal for the crime of waiting until after his 40th trip around the sun to work on it.

There's also the issue of economic pressure. We expect our young minds to solve "real problems" and to want to make a lot of money doing it. Pure mathematicians get to "hide" in academia when times are good and are often on the street when they aren't so good. In the absence of a focus on supporting the arts (including math) through patronage etc it is just hard for young people to get in the field. Older people have more time. Let them create without lowered expectations.

For a deeply beautiful subject with a lot of very smart people, this whole age thing is just scratch-your-head puzzling.
Why not all three? If you'e not fully employed, you have the freedom to pick an choose.

I'd try to land an internship first. The benefits of actually having a 9-5 job will help you "level up" to future employers. Sometimes there is stigma with being just a contractor/freelancer, and you'll never learn how to work in a team. When you're doing all the work, you'd never know what it'd like to work with designers, product managers, project managers, etc. These are all invaluable skills and skills/experience that you don't have and will never be able to learn until you get a "real" job. The other benefit is, you will be able to learn on the job. You'll be getting paid to learn, so what's not to like?

If you need extra money, do some local freelancing. I wouldn't try to tackle anything too big because most freelancing jobs suck due to unreasonable client expectations. You'll need to be a unicorn. (Not to be confused with consultation).

And always find time to work on your own project. This is not negotiable. Invest in yourself.
I've got a use case. ACI support would let me use containers without being coupled to Docker's registry. I really don't want to run that software, and I really, really don't want to rely on Docker Hub. ACI's use of existing standards for their "registry" implementation is a major draw for me.
In Firefox you can just put them into groups, so they stop being tabs. Later, you can open a whole group when you need it. It's much more organized...
I just released an extension that "suspends" tabs to the file system instead:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabattack/ginflokh...

It's able to save tabs and windows to the file system as Markdown and restore them from these files, too.

I would love to get feedback on it.
I'm already running my own server hardware for personal stuffs, so I'm just hesitant to have another one (the proposition is very appealing, but I'm too lazy to maintain both at once).
Sure, but font icons can only be one color. Can you give an example of a compatibility issue?
Yes, that one. Thank you.
When I got my windows 8.1 convertible I was disappointment that Firefox's scrolling is terrible with touch. IE metro is actually pretty awesome but I hate being fullscreened in something and I don't like. And that you can't install adblock or disconnect or tree tabs. But Chrome keeps crashing, so I think I will have to use firefox and just suffer with a mouse.
Apple, I think, has seen the incoming wave of transformation for the transport industry and decided it would be worth getting prepared for it. The upcoming increase in automation on both passenger and commercial cars will open up new perspectives on what's valuable on a car. When you longer can appeal to a consumer about the pleasure or ease of driving, what else is there? Comfort, security, style and design. If Apple already has a good grasp on how many people create, manage and consume information and media, if they are making a move to shine new light on fitness and health, and on managing a smarter home, the missing link would be transportation.
A good point. They don't even mention connection reuse information leaks, for instance if any one URL sent to google analytics contains fingerprint information then all URLs sent over that same connection belong to you as well, as the network connection is kept open a long time and reused across all domains. I wonder if they are aware of the problem or just didn't mention it.

Now that Google has pushed HTTP/2 on everybody, connection reuse will be a major new fingerprinting and tracking technique because it keeps connections open a long time and essentially can't be proxied so one connection is always one browser.
Computers aren't important for cars, software is.

And sadly, much as I am invested in the Apple ecosystem, Apple's software QC has gone downhill.

Yosemite and iOS 8 both suffer many glaring, obvious bugs that have been present since the beta/DPs with no sign of fixes.

That leads to recalls and lawsuits with cars.
TheLadders is just a worse LinkedIn you have to pay for up front.
I'm sure many would.

In modern cars where nearly everything is computer-controlled and un-serviceable by the end user, safety is pretty much guaranteed, and fuel economy is average.. what other choices are there? It's just as plausible that someone would choose a car based on built-in entertainment options as that they'd do so based on color scheme.
I don't understand why that exists. Store brands are for making things cheaper at comparable quality. Even if we want to accept that TJ's sriracha is of the same quality, proper Sriracha is absurdly cheap. You can buy a 6 month supply for a couple bucks, even if you use it for everything
Shykes latest comment on that github thread has a point: https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/10776#issuecomment-743...

Interesting move by CoreOS here to create what will likely be a false dichotomy for docker in the public sphere (as an indicator of their openness). If you truly believe docker is fundamentally flawed you'd be doing your users a disservice writing this. If its transitionary, create your own docker fork/binary instead of a public scene to try to force dockers hand. Lots of fragmentation to come, which sucks because the ecosystem is so important.
If only they ported modern ie browsers to Unix like they did ie 4 and then this whole thread would be mute!
Nah. Since neural networks are called deep learning it became very fashionable.

There's some well-funded startup (SkyMind maybe?) who declares on their homepage that deep learning is sooo much better than machine learning (first wtf). Then they explain that neural nets with less than 3 hidden layers is machine learning, with more than 3 layers it's deep learning.(second)

I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.(Not that what they actually seem to be doing is bad, but this newly found hype is just wrong.)
It must be nice to be able to know what will be important in the future.
> Moreover, really old equipment is still in use and new equipment isn't likely to be 'designed for autoprotocol' for a while. How do you think managing instrument communication is going to work?

This is obviously a big issue; it's what we spend most of our time on at Transcriptic. (That, and building new hardware when it makes sense.) Only a few devices are designed for being controlled by 3rd party software and even fewer are designed for real automation like motorized lids for sample loading. Internally we have a layer that handles all of the device communication, but we haven't open sourced that and it wouldn't make sense without the rest of our infrastructure anyway: not something easy to just pick up on part of.

This is kind of outside the scope of Autoprotocol. I think that in reality there will be three big uses of it right now:

- generating eg a PDF to take into the lab
- using it for more semantic information about the methods being used in conjunction with analysis of data you get from running stuff in lab
- running experiments on Transcriptic

In terms of automating communication and data capture in your own lab, I think Riffyn's doing the most interesting work here and it will be interesting to see what they come out with.
One of the goals of Haiku is to be able to run BeOS software unaltered, and an unfortunate side effect of this is that the ABI for BeOS software is compatible with 1998 GCC, version 2.9 or thereabouts.
I like your point about in-car leisure. As autonomous driving unlocks it in a new way, I would expect our for forays into autonomous vehicles to attempt to highlight the luxury of this. It certainly seems more appealing than tightly gripping the arm rests while you observe how the robot is doing.

I would add that interchangeable parts are probably not going to be a focus. The auto industries are pretty efficient at managing large supply chains to service several different models. If convergence was economically important it would happen more often.
How do you see which tab is which? (I gave up on Chrome about 20 months ago for Firefox's superior tab handling, better stability, and being less of a resource hog. Oh, and for not spying on me.)
I would've worded it differently. Do approach people to confirm that you're on the right track, or to find out the (undocumented) motivation for a certain design, NOT to ask them to solve a problem for you.