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Truck driving is a devastating profession. My dad drove trucks for the better part of 2 decades. It hurt his physical health (immobility for hours on end punctuated by the occasional food/rest break)and did ridiculous damage to his psychological and emotional health. In the end, if you account for the number of hours he had to drive to rack up those mile-dollars, he probably made just north of minimum wage.

There are lots of professions I would be saddened to see made obsolete by automation. Long haul truck driving would not be anywhere on that list.
I'm all for the safety arguments being made by the author but he does paint the trucking industry as this huge money making business when that really isn't the case.

Trucking is a very low margin business. These guys live and die based on controlling costs. It's an industry where innovation is very hard because you really need to justify every dollar spent on R&D.

Quoting $700B total industry revenue and saying there's room to spend on safety is meaningless... Would love to see a more in depth analysis on the issue from a financial perspective.
I think if this happened in my office I would try to get the cheerleaders to do progressively technical work. "Can you help me with this? Oh, since you were so helpful with that other thing, could you figure this thing out?" Then hire the ones that do it well and like it.
Trucks offer vertical integration. You get to a certain size, you own your own trucks. Can't do that with rail, you're always under the thumb of the rail companies.
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How can you grab land, when it takes very little effort for drivers and consumers to go to an alternative...
In case anyone might find it helpful to have another example: I wrote a similar post a couple years ago: https://kuomarc.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/12-steps-to-build-a...
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Well, it /is/ "security" in their sense of the word. It isn't very /good/ security or very /effective/ but it's goal is indeed what it is claiming. They don't desire totalitarianism or anything.

Remember that a controlling government is a byproduct of giving governments control, not the actual goal of any individual or group within government (who merely want control to do a different thing). Nobody wants to be a bad guy, they genuinely think this is helpful. The road to hell and all that.
Do perpetrators of mass atrocities share the trauma of their victims?
As far as I know, we didn't have many touchscreens at the time TNG was shot; while the interface was indeed believable, it was also inspiring. I'm very happy to see touchscreens on the newest Dragon, and I would really love it if they were running LCARS :).

I wholeheartedly agree with your evaluation of LCARS. That's why I still keep sketching out LCARS-equivalents of UIs for existing devices (it's actually quite hard to do right; you can't go there half-way - LCARS mixed with non-LCARS elements looks like crap) and want all my home automation to be run by one :).

Another thing Okuda was a master at was logos and insignia. They set a quality standard that is very rarely met in the real world.
Consider also though that truck drivers are the most thoroughly and professionally trained and strictly licensed drivers on the roads.
I second this. The working hours and toll sitting in a tractor like that all day are bad, but if you do things like cut hours for drivers, especially the drivers that aren't owner-operators, and continue them at the same pay, you unfortunately will push a huge contingent of people further out into the margins. I am all for increased safety, and very much think the drivers are on the road way too much, but I fear additional safety or hours cuts will be disproportionately borne by the drivers, who really usually can't afford it anyways. Apparently truck driving is a very common job to work too[1].

[1] - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...
"Industry" is both ambiguous and nebulous. It would seem to help the stakeholders whom depend on trucking, perhaps the fleets of trucks and most definitely not the drivers. There are far too many truckers' jobs at risk to retrain and place in nonexistent "freeing" jobs that just don't exist. Loads of unemployed people with no job prospects to feed their families would be an idiotic situation rife with discontent bordering on insurrection.
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I can't think of many worse jobs than truck driving. Long hours, low pay, threat to lose your job from self-driving cars, high risk... These guys deserve a higher salary and they should start looking for something else to do IMHO.
My daily working keyboard is an Alphagrip.(Just tested at 69wpm vs 120wpm qwerty on plain English.)

http://alphagrips.com/
Here's one that's been under development for a long time. I have two of these on preorder -- I hope I like them :-)

http://shop.keyboard.io/
What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous conflict that has nothing to do with this. Your argument is ISIS equipment being American. What? That's because equipment given to Iraqis being captured, a very well documented problem. Your implication is the most ridiculous thing I have read in this thread so far.
Then we should write which images were improved from original site and our own images put with CC license?
I don't remember ever hitting 0.
When Mozilla will decide, apple/google style, what is and what is not acceptable as an extension for their browser, people will maybe realize that this is just the tipping point.

But maybe that won't be necessary anyway. By adopting a very limiting standard for extension development and dropping xul (which might be a good idea for other reasons though), there won't be any significant difference between firefox and (say) chrome. A few tweaks in the browser frame won't attract masses of people. Switching from Chrome to Firefox on Android require a pretty big incentive.

Right now, I'm on firefox only for the extensions. I have really no other compelling reasons.
Considered, however that makes no difference when they've been up 12-36 hours driving. At that point, someone slightly drunk is a better driver.
Yeah, he's a dead ringer for American Psycho, but with the added twist of his wife being an antagonist.
It's my understanding that to remap Caps Lock to Control (nicely that is) on Apple's keyboards that you need to use Seil (closely related to Karabiner, and from the same dev).

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066650
I'm a former over the road truck driver who hauled truckload freight.

I disagree profoundly that self driving trucks are the future, the future is multimodal transport, even now a significant proportion of long haul (greater than 3-600 miles) is already on the rail, either in the form of a container or piggyback.

The issue that keeps the remaining long haul (greater than 600 miles) on the road (vs rail) is timing, when you put something on the rail, you loose a day or so at one end in loading/classifying and another in classifying/unloading. That time loss is something that in all but a few situations can be accommodated for by extra planning - but it requires the planning and consent of the shipper and consignee to do so - the trucking and rail companies are already on board as shipping by rail is much cheaper/easier.

For LTL companies, most of their drivers only run from terminal to terminal, and the distance driven and time spent is much much lower, but even with them, a crossdock transload facility where one side is a truck dock, and the other is a railcar could for example cut down on some logistics pain - but it still would incur additional delay due to the machinations required by the railroad to switch and deliver cars in their network.

Another complicating factor is reefers, right now each refer either has a generator attached (for containers) to it powered by diesel fuel, or has a diesel powered refrigeration unit on the trailer - this for the rail could be replaced by freight trains with HEP (head end power) to power the refrigeration units - but to do so requires a sizable investment by everyone involved (rail cars that support such a system, cans and trailers that support such a system, and transit yards that can supply the power to keep everything cold)

Even with the challenges, in 20-30 years, I'd expect only 10% of truckload miles to be actually hauled end to end by a truck, the rest of it should go on the rail, then be carried the proverbial last mile (in reality couple hundred miles) by a truck.

As a former driver, in my opinion the issue is not the HOS (hours of service) rules, its the way companies, especially many smaller ones dispatch their drivers - you can be expected to go from working days, to working nights instantly, and it can really fuck hardcore with your sleep schedule.
Stil waiting for a full stack -- still I think this is great news. Having a look at their github page, it's also nice to see Free software working across "competing" companies, their html-editor si Squire, originally by Fastmail.

I'm a little concerned with this comment on the post, though, in response to open sourcing the back-end:

"The security risks of open sourcing the back-end code is too high. It would let an attacker know how our infrastructure is set up or let spammers get insight into how to circumvent our anti-spam measures."

Right. Which is why exim, postfix, spam assasin, AVG, ssh etc is insecure? Snark aside, more open, free code is always good!
Just as an FYI, the designer of the Minority Report UI/UX created a company (http://www.oblong.com) and actually built the system. Boeing (my former company) actually has a patent using the system to control a swarm of UAVs.

I'd checkout John Underkoffler's Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_wit...
As someone who's worked inside the industry, the economics of being a trucker push drivers to bend or break the rules to make ends meet. Wages have been depressed over the last three decades and have seen a drop in real wages in many segments of the trucking industry. I saw many drivers keeping multiple log books, skipping or cutting-short rest breaks.

Professional drivers can and do operate safely. But with some carriers paying as little as 20 cents per mile, you can do the math and figure out what a typical work-week looks like if you want to eek out a very meager living as a trucker today.
Rio Tinto is replacing some of its engineers with ATC.
If you haven't yet watch the first half hour of the lecture I linked to - this makes the point way more clear than I ever could in a few comments. And it essentially settles the question. Besides the fact that there are so many people claiming that fields are real but at least for the moment I will assume that they are just wrong or until I hear a convincing argument that this point of view is wrong. There are some hints in some of the comments here that fields are really necessary in some circumstances but they are not specific and I am not knowledgeable enough to judge them. Will have to do some research on that.

And by the way I am in no way suggesting any classical particle model, even without fields you still have the entire quantum mechanical machinery and there are certainly non-classical things going on. The question is whether you really need fields to describe some aspects of nature or if good old quantum mechanics is good enough and quantum field theory just makes things mathematical more accessible.
> That said, I don't think we need the government to do anything.

I'm not sure how you come to this conclusion looking at this data.

> Drivers can unionize and demand better hours. Insurance companies can require collision avoidance tech be installed. Etc.

Many things can happen, but they aren't happening, so...
1) If you expect a certain refund quota, lets say 20 % within 6 months, then you should already account for it: only account 80 % of the actual revenue and adjust this number after 6 months when you now the actual refund quota. This makes it more complicated but it would be the right thing to do and will help you get a somewhat decent financial plan.

2.) If your growth curve flattens out than this approach obviously does not really give you a good representation of how well you are currently doing.
History is what it is when it comes to changes in technology. However there have been moments in history which were R3voltionary, where a great deal of people were no longer necessary and that change came with periods of upheaval
I think defending Hitler (millions massacred, world order turned upside down, massive economic damage) is much more utilitarian that defending MAD as a peace-keeping force.
I wonder if websites dependent on ads will start blocking access from iOS 9 and OS X because of this.
The article is interesting, but it's very difficult to read with that background. Also, my slow netbook becomes very slow rendering it.
Firefox fell down at 8% of global usage according to caniuse.com

And what's the alternative, a nice open company like Google?!
None of those points support censoring media that do follow the European regulations. The current "Right to be forgotten" is just an ambiguous law's backdoor that lets you hide information without having to pass through the courts.
Actually, I'm pretty sure a lot of security professionals don't use Kali Linux because 1) they only need a subset of the pentest tools, 2) many companies' internal monitoring systems trigger alerts if they detect someone is using Kali Linux/BT (via OS fingerprinting).

This is only my anecdotal experience though - thoughts?
That's great. If I can make Fn work as Ctrl or Alt, then this keyboard would seem to have everything I need. Its design (particularly the split spacebar with extra modifier) nicely solves some of my keyboard annoyances.

I'll keep an eye on its development and availability. Thanks.
You can RDP into a machine and use the browser there.
wired.com, being as irrelevant as possible for pseudo intellectual sub 100 IQ macbook hipsters.
Are there any extensions/add ons that exist for multiple browsers that allow you to actually measure browser performance on an arbitrary site? If you had such a thing, you could easily and quantitatively test the websites you visit most often, and figure out which browser best suited your specific use case.
I very much doubt that Smalltalk-80 was fun to use on a lowly PC-AT ;-)

This was -- USD 199.95 Smalltalk/V286 March 7, 1988.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=P...
The article bothered me because of the presumption that the author made about hours of service, and as a former driver, in my opinion the issue is not the HOS (hours of service) rules, its the way companies, especially many smaller ones dispatch their drivers - you can be expected to go from working days, to working nights instantly, and it can really fuck hardcore with your sleep schedule - so while you can be compliant with the HOS, you've still not slept any - because you just spent 4 days working days, and now you're expected to pick up a shipment at 11pm and run with it until out of hours for the day.. not practical or safe.

The other thing that irritated me was the presumption that trucks have no safety hardware - I personally wouldn't want to drive a truck with collision avoidance stuff, not unless I had a ton of time to spend with it to understand what it does in an activated situation - that said, most trucks do have ABS, airbags are meaningless in a truck, you're so much larger than the other vehicles that a driver doesn't need airbags to stay safe, and airbags do nothing to enhance the other drivers safety, they just add cost for no real benefit.
Have you actually talked with any truck drivers? Are you sure they want it?

Most deaths are not truck drivers, but drivers of cars who enter in collisions with trucks. And truck drivers would like to make more money in shorter periods of time and not spend this time resting someplace away from home.

I hope autopilots will replace truck drivers soon.
Driving while tired can be as dangerous as driving drunk.

Absolutely true. [1] The problem is cultural: While we've successfully established shaming around DUI, I think there's a certain kind of deeper, Protestant-work-ethic-derived rationalization we seem to make for drowsy driving. "You're working hard, so it's all right."

Perhaps the same ethical framework that was used to make DUI popularly unacceptable can be used for drowsy driving: To drive in this condition is to indulge one's self at others' peril.

[1] http://phys.org/news/2011-01-drivers-bad-drunk.html
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Uh, there is money to spend on safety. It is the money that the customers of the trucking companies pay. When every company's costs increase, they will all pass those costs on to their customers.

Of course, the truck manufacturers would be the ones who would have to spend beforehand on research to satisfy the various requirement. Moreover, the article mentions that much of the technology already exists.

Edit: As the other poster notes, reducing hours while maintain the same ultra-low-pay is a recipe for disaster too. It seems reason to demand that increased safety would involve more driver professionalization, which would require higher pay, which again would have to be pushed to the customers.
They are trying self-regulation, right now, and the article is arguing that it's not working well enough. They've been self-regulating as long as we've had trucks.
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>Before we push for more automation and job losses, we need to revamp the whole political/economic/social system to ensure a more egalitarian income distribution since the vast majority of the Earth's population are proletariat who exchange their labor in return for capital to make a living.

I certainly agree that we're going to need to rework our concepts of work and income to fit a more automated world, but I think that the automation will have to come first, to get people to realize that something needs to be done to make our society more balanced. Artificially limiting the rollout of self driving trucks for the sake of preserving jobs will just cost in lives lost to accidents, and delay what seems to be an inevitable outcome (that trucks will drive themselves and truck driving jobs will start to disappear).
You don't drink lake water without further processing... Or at least you shouldn't if you want your insides to remain that way. Well water has an enormous range of taste, wholly dependent on a number of factors, including the soil/rock type that the well is sourced from.
I don't think so... I think a lot of people screw it up though.
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> After a group of scientists complained to Chu Foxlin, the Cambridge architect, about distracting office noise, for example, she proposed installing isolation cones—made of felt and large enough to work inside—that would hang from the ceiling to about three feet from the floor.

The Cone of Silence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence
I agree most especially in the city as a cyclist and a pedestrian. The more I've thought about it ", the more absurd cars, at least as currently configured, are as a means for transportation in high density zones.

As a stepping stone towards automated vehicles, I wish there were a way to electronically put a car into "city mode" when traveling within city limits. This "city mode" would give motor vehicles the speed, power and acceleration profile of basically a golf cart. 15mph/25kph max speed - which I think is the effective travel speed anyway given how cars tend to race up to the next red light. It would force cars into a more equal footing with other modes of transportation on the public travel ways. And this could be done with existing technology. Granted, it will never happen but the city would be s much more relaxed place.
Ah, but road transport isn't really shared between commercial and personal transportation. Road maintenance is in large part funded by fuel tax. Fuel use is roughly proportional to vehicle weight at low speed, or frontal area at high speed. While wear to the road is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight.

So trucking is heavily subsidised by smaller cars. If the costs created by trucking were internalized, the market share in the shipping industry would likely shift considerably toward rail transport.
Since you quoted that super villain Friedman, it's a futile exercise to discuss this issue with you but touching on the silly analogy cited by Dr. Evil:

Abandoning spoons to shovels ==> 1000X efficiency gain and net positive mass-scale job opportunities

Abandoning shovels to heavy equipment ===> 100X efficiency gain and net positive of mass-scale specialized job opportunities.

Abandoning manual trucks to fully auto ===> ~1X efficiency (disputed) and net negative of job opportunities for the masses save for highly specialized super white collar jobs such as for engineers and developers like us.

Do you really think that it's OK from an economic point of view and not politically as this is almost settled to destroy the livelihoods of these poor & lower middle class people just to get an estimated albeit unrealistic 100% efficiency boost?

Are you ready to pay the price in terms of increasing crime rates and lower median quality of life and seeing decrepit hoods everywhere except inside your gated community where you plan to hide from all those poor people and truckers-turned-criminals on the street?
can you give some examples of the poor writing?
> 1968: The designer Robert Propst invents the precursor to the cubicle. Three decades later, he will denounce the cubicle’s overuse as “monolithic insanity.”

Moral: be mindful of what you create.
ext4 is usually fine, but it has really bad corner case behavior with respect to large directories (> 10k dentries). Iterating through them becomes increasingly slow as they grow larger -- worse than O(n), which is the expected case.

What's worse is that even if you then delete all the files in the directory, performance does not return to normal; iterating becomes just as slow at that point with 10 files. The only solution is to remove the directory and recreate it.

We've been running XFS on our 1000+ hosts for 4 years without issue. There are old stories of XFS issues, but it's been rock solid for quite some time, at least since RHEL 5.
It won't happen all at once because there would be massive pushback.

Even so, the handwriting is on the wall: the meat-guided truck-driving era is almost over and will gradually shrink to niches as automated truck driving systems are deployed across fleets.

Perhaps a private person will be able to invest in a private automated truck as investment, trick it out with chrome and send it out in the world to make money while that owner sleeps in?
Doesn't that default to on in most environments?
This seems like such a massively important feature that I have to ask you, as a keyboard developer, is there any particular obstacle to making a keyboard fully reprogrammed? I feel my productivity on my laptop would be massively improved by a few select changes such as Fn+hjkl as PgUp/PgDn/Home/End, and such, yet virtually no laptop I've seen allows this, so I have to rely on workarounds to fix the sometimes braindead layouts. Is there a hardware-level obstacle to doing this or is it just that the mainstream manufacturers just can't be arsed?

PS: I'm not your target audience (I use my laptop keyboard almost exclusively) but great job so far!