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by carlyfan 3y ago
Is that protocol called the brake and signal lights? Up until Silicon Valley got their hairy hands into self driving tech, there was never a need for such data to be communicated to other *cars* (not drivers).
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by carlyfan 6y ago
> From the patents it looks like I can thank inventors Mr. Krause and Mr. Chernov for their freedom sucking, major appliance disabling, communist, 1984-esque idea. I know it’s just a figure of speech. But having DRM on a fucking fridge f
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by carlyfan 6y ago
Yes - you’ll need: - The latest iOS - A module that supports sending.
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by carlyfan 6y ago
> The only problem is that any messages that the iPhone received while the middleman was out of range won’t get to your PC That is not a problem. MAP is sort of like the IMAP protocol. You can ask the phone to give you older messages and
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by carlyfan 6y ago
Haha, I don’t know who else besides me who knew about this. I just happened to discover it the other day... night... month ;-) HN is the first platform that I shared this discovery with. I figured that the ideas are free, the important par
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by carlyfan 6y ago
MAP is a standard protocol [1]. I think that's pretty legit? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Mes...
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by carlyfan 6y ago
For anyone who is interested in making an iMessage proxy and has time to spend: There is a legitimate way to interact with the iMessage system with a standard protocol. It requires you to have a host iPhone (no jailbreaking needed). What yo
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by carlyfan 8y ago
>I believe many scholars in China didn’t say things directly because they were brainwashed or cowards. They know their priorities. What I meant was “many scholars in China didn’t say things directly not because they were brainwashed or c
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by carlyfan 8y ago
I came from Vietnam, in my views, Vietnam is China-lite or China-CC. The other day my American friend (who was my roommate) came with me to visit that country and we had a pretty interesting conversation on the taxi cab from the airport to
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by carlyfan 8y ago
That incident was in the middle of the Obama's 8-year term. I tend to think local-level management has more to do with it than the president. Of course, the current one doesn't help either. The amount of mismanagement in that scho
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by carlyfan 8y ago
>Join me. Quit your job, start a company. When you're an international student on the F1 visa, it's not that easy. The moment you're out of school, you have to get back to your home country. Basically, you can swallow it a
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by carlyfan 8y ago
I am an international grad student and a regular commentator on HN here, but as this topic is quite sensitive, I would like to remain anonymous. I just knew from a first-hand source, a very accomplished PI was suspended just a couple of wee