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I just bought a 2016 Volkswagen that has laser cruise control and lane assist. I ordered the fully loaded package because the incremental cost was not large, and I figured I might as well have all the toys if I was going to the expense of buying a brand-new car.

I consider myself an enthusiast; I have a fair bit of time on the racetrack in lapping days and amateur races, sometimes I volunteer at car control clinics and teen instruction days. All of my cars have manual transmissions and I ride a motorcycle. I definitely did not expect to become dependent on any driving nannies.

What I've found is that it's absolutely astounding how fast you come to trust the automated systems. In my car, the laser cruise control will drive the car for you at virtually any speed. It does a great job of keeping up in traffic, has no issues with hills or going around bends, it's always able to track the car in front of me perfectly. It uses the brakes to slow the car. I've got the manual transmission so it only slows the car down to about 15mph and then prompts me to take over and press the brake; if I had the automatic, it would come to a full stop in traffic and only require a tap of the accelerator to resume once traffic ahead started moving.

Even though I only have 700 miles on the car and have only used the laser cruise for perhaps 20 or 30 miles in total (mostly just playing with it), I find I still expect the system to brake the car once disengaged. For example, I'll be coming up to a red light, lift off the throttle, start braking, and then think to myself "huh, I wonder why the car didn't start slowing down for me."

The lane assist feature will correct the steering once or twice if you start to come too close to the lane marker (within maybe 2 feet) but it's very subtle and you barely feel it while your hands are on the wheel. After a correction or two (and maybe 10 seconds, I'm not sure exactly how it decides), the system tells you "hey, idiot, you're supposed to be steering". I have, on multiple occasions, been surprised that it "allowed" me to get as close as I was to adjacent cars, before realizing that it only is meant to keep me within my lane, it knows nothing about the vehicles around me. But something about the fact that it has lane assist (and, incidentally, ultrasonic parking sensors) fools me into thinking it knows more than it does. I'm not saying I was letting the car drive for me, I was fully in control, I was simply surprised that it didn't override my judgement of how close is too close.

It's a brave new world out there. It's surprising how quickly you cede mental control, if not physical control, even to systems that have clearly defined limits and features that you don't even intend on using, let alone relying on. I imagine things will get worse before they'll get better. That said, humans are bad enough drivers that it might not get MUCH worse!
You have the causal chain backwards. It is the initiator of an action who must plan their decisions to reach an optimal end. It is not the fault of a consumer for refusing to engage in a given exchange with a producer. It is the producer who must make their offers palatable. In the same way, the government, being the one levying the tax, is the entity which ultimately bears the burden of structuring its tax policy to achieve the highest return.
anyone work on artificial intelligence technologies here? i have some lay questions - is anyone testing driverless cars in an environment where most cars are driverless? does that make a difference?

are there any weird effects / properties that can emerge?

does it have the potential to solve the persistent traffic jam issue?
Easier said than done. Even if the cars originate from within the United States, they pass through so many brokers and middle men that it will be quite a challenge to track their final destination. I would even argue that ISIS doesn't source their cars from the US. Instead they look to the United Arab Emirates, who remain the number one importer of used US car (in containers) by quite a margin. [1]

[1] http://www.wcshipping.com/hubfs/D_OfferPDFs/PDF/2015_Q3_Fina...
On the face of it, why do they do more than that? Just use the warranty to recommend certain bulbs and let the hobbyists run riot knowing the company doesn't back them up for this stuff. But at least it still can work.
Wow, they used to list hipaa certification. Sorry, I'm wrong.
No, please don't sugar coat it.

HR people do actually see current income as 'social proof' of your actual worth. This is not necessarily out of a desire to take advantage of employees, but they find it hard to justify to their bosses why they did no negociate a better deal.

I learned it the hard way, by trying to work part time (like 10hrs per week) while studying and then having employers unable to grasp that I was demanding a much higher salary because I was offering my undivided attention in a full time position. This was explained to me by a simpathetic (though probably naive) recruiter, who literally coached me to lie on my application so she could process me as a viable candidate.

I did not get that job anyways, but at least I learned to avoid mentioning the fact that I had been "working for peanuts" in the recent past.
My experience has been similar.

The first time I ever even heard of Venmo was when my roommates were collecting the rent checks but were out of town - they are in their early 20s and, well, I'm not that young :)
The standard says too little about the preprocessor. I don't think you can implement a preprocessor that can read system header files only with the standard.
But it's not idiomatic Ruby. It's most basic issue is using camelCase method names. Definitely cool stuff though.
interestingly, a lot of our sales woes went away when we started asking for some money up front. we're all first-time sales people at my outfit.

people who are willing to pay a small fee up front are the only people you can work with as a services startup, the rest are worthless.
I'm going to second this and say that besides micro-transactions and apps, pricing at $1 is essentially signaling to the user that the product is near worthless. Its hard to imagine a product I would actively go out of the way to pay for that would cost $1 per month.

To me $1 per month signals that I should be looking for a free alternative or that it is an introductory rate that will increase later on. Gaming companies go out of their way to implement micro-transactions that are priced that low in another currency for a reason: it signals higher value to the user to spend "more". I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but this is a topic that has been covered time and time again on HN, and if you search you can find plenty of discussions around charging higher SaaS prices being more effective on almost all fronts.
Did to taper off or stop cold-turkey? I imagine taking several years to decrease dosage could be significantly more manageable than going off them right away.
Sometimes the right defaults depend on context unavailable to the low level library author. But irrespective of who provides the higher level API, the bottom line is that there needs to be an API that's most flexible when the flexibility is warranted. This is really in reference to Colin's "nothing more to add" remark.
Thanks @theWold - that makes sense. Having a CLA in place is they way to make sure the rights are assigned to the open source projects for further use.

I wonder if the people who initially started the open source project had to go through some sort of approval process by management and whether that was facilitated by a tool? Also if the company somehow keeps track of the open source projects activities. Outbound basically meaning = from company to open source world.
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its harder to find ones that are Windows-but-not-10

But they're still readily available. I just checked a Dell Precision tower workstation and it comes by default with Win 7. The Dell Optiplex Mini Tower comes by default with Win 8.1, but Win 7 is an easily selected choice.

Still, I've been buying OS X machines exclusively for over a decade. There's not a lot that Windows offers me, except their nice Freecell game. But I'm not a FPS gamer, so that probably makes a big difference.
I have LIFX bulbs and do not experience this issue at all. In fact, if I've turned the bulb off via software, I can flick the physical switch off, then on and the bulb comes on. Their app is amazing and they are constantly adding new features and have a great api to boot.
We wrote an interpreter in the sophomore level CS class at USC called SIMP. It was great fun and you realize that once you figure out how to write a function interpreter you're pretty much done. (everything else is pretty straightforward). I strongly recommend anyone looking for a deeper understanding of computers write an interpreter of their own design.
Reporting an increase of a percentage of risk is horribly misleading.
I had read somewhere long time back that mobile devices were explicitly excluded from this in the license.
3 years of math at Caltech, and I'm dead in the water on what that means - I don't even know the words, except that I know what second order partial differential equations are.
> "Proof of previous income" was required at one place I applied years back

It's best to immediately walk away from a situation like this.
I don't disagree with you, but alot of important people were asking the question "Who can stop these things from flying over my back yard?".

The FAA had the jurisdiction.
Google certainly should penalize spammy, unnatural links ... and any attempt to get them. On the other hand, I hope it’s not against the rules to encourage relevant and earnest links. I should take the page down if there’s any doubt. Meanwhile, I’ve added a very strong warning that links should be editorially relevant and sincere.

In any case, the “donate by linking” page is quite new. The domain move disaster was months old by the time I first published it.
Its really interesting how the tapering works. I went from like 200mg to 100mg without a problem and then from 100mg to 50mg with no problem then going down to 0 I got terrible headaches. I ended up doing the slow tapering like you're supposed going to 25mg and waiting for a while then 0 but I still got negative side effects. Anyway, things slowly seemed to build up and eventually I was just as bad as before the medication so I had to go back up to 300mg over time.

(Just realized that different SSRIs have different treatment sizes so maybe it doesn't compare)
I've gotten "I need a number for us to continue" multiple times.
>I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions. I can't see any upside to this and I can't imagine what the discussion looked like when implementing this decision.

Can't see any upside? How about more control and money for Philips, and few people would even care?
I like the language and we actually have been using it in production a couple of years ago. It was really easy to write extensions (like plain old C functions). Later we've moved to Lua because of the performance and because the code in LIL quickly became unreadable.

But the language is really nice, very similar to TCL. I wish it got more attention.
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I agree, asking for links in that context was unwise: I was focussed on the wrong thing. I’ve now removed that. (Note that I also nofollow most links between my sites. I do not use one domain to promote another.)

I don’t know if Google should be blamed or not.
I use the LIFX bulbs myself (such better greens and blues!); their iOS app has a notification widget. And a watch UI as well.

And I wrote a little app that lives in my Mac's menu bar and lets me pick from the scenes I set up in the official app, too, someday I should actually package it up properly. (https://github.com/egypturnash/weatherlight)
The latest update of soundcould for iOS unfortunately
LevelUp helps small businesses aggregate credit card transactions to decrease the fees (https://www.thelevelup.com/). I'm not affiliated with them. It's a nice service that seems to be most prevalent in Boston.
Are we counting the code my macros produce? As far as git is concerned I might be down a couple hundred to a couple thousand in a good week, but if we count macroexpansion, I'm rolling in the LoC.
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Yes, some types of data are highly valuable because it can be exploited by someone to make a lot of money.

Data related to a person's education/intelligence is valuable too.

If you could get a list of all emails of people in the world with IQ < 70, you could easily take advantage of those people by sending them scam emails (for example).

Also, someone's preference for particular adult content is highly valuable (for blackmail).

A person's location data might also be quite valuable (especially if that person is a politician/celebrity).
"we're lookin' for a leader / with the great spirit on his side / someone walks among us / and I hope he hears the call"

down votes for me, signals I should re-read the post again :)
With all due respect to your situation -- and not intended in the least to belittle either your suffering, or the thought you put into the decisions you made -- perhaps the bigger mistake was not going off SSRIs (at which point the die may have been more or less cast for you, in the short- to medium-term) -- but agreeing to go on them in the first place.

With all due respect to your situation, this is the shittiest comment I have read on this site in a very long time.

If you somehow think that belittling another's medical history is okay, you seriously need to grow a bit of compassion.
Rank losses were pretty much exactly proportionate to traffic losses. And much, much worse than 10-20%!
I think they knew exactly what they were doing. Shooting the civilian population behind the front line creates problems for the enemy who will now have to divert resources to hospitalize the wounded, deal with a lower agricultural production, a weaker public transportation, a drop in morale, etc.
Honestly? I'm all in favor of hyperbole where it counts, but come on, now.
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Everyone's depression is their own, and one experience does not necessarily relate to another's experience. Go ahead and read what you like, but listen to yourself and your doctor.

Counter to the "takes a long time" statements: I was suicidal, and down 24/7. I started taking an SSRI on an afternoon, and that night noticed a difference. It took me awhile to get used to it and get past the side effects, but the depression changed literally overnight.

But that's me, that's my personal depression. I got lucky. Resist changing your routine just because someone has a well told story, no matter how smart they are.
Is content marketing by definition designed for organic search?

This is a lesson for everyone: despite how someone gets to your website the first time, you are in charge of bringing them back.

For many people that means aggressive email capture.

Of your site is not providing any sustainable value to users, then don't be surprised.
I couldn't help thinking of Google Wave while reading this. There was one missing feature that made a handful of my friends and I stop using it: regular GMail in the same client.

If we didn't have to switch back and forth, Wave would have slowly grown to dominate most electronic conversations I had with friends and colleagues.

Sigh.
>I have a first-gen iPad, and it most certainly does not run "perfectly fine". Most apps aren't released for those old versions, some even seem to get removed automatically.

Well, 5 years time in the mobile/tablet space is like 20 years time in the PC space. Consider the changes in capabilities, cpu and gpu power, etc.

In that sense, it makes sense that most NEW apps are not released for the older versions -- how many apps are released for Windows 98 today?

Sure, it's "only been 5 years" but then again that's related to the technology space. E.g. most would accept that a 20 old year PC/OS wouldn't get much support, but that would sound too soon in other industries, where even a 50 year product can still be supported.

Besides, as you say, this is much better than the Android situation -- since most devices are sold with an OLDER than the latest version, and most vendors don't care to provide updates for older devices.
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I have a less-than-a-year old iPhone 6+ that runs like a legless alligator ever since I upgraded to iOS 9. Your first gen iPad isn't supported by iOS 9 and there are a lot of apps that don't support it either.

But backward compatibility does not preclude Apple from being an upgrade company. Apple may not have invented the hardware upgrade cycle, but they've mastered it. That's what their keynotes and media interactions are all focused on. Their employees go out of their way to check if you have an "upgrade" available. I've had a phone that has never been in contract and they even offer to use that line to give me a "free" upgrade to my main line. I could go on... But the point is, the upgrade cycle is what Apple is all about.
I'm not disagreeing.

My point was that their current rates are so low that the increase is huge, especially given the other costs involved in them being prisoners. It's not cheap labor at all.
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I hope it's done for good, but being 6'6" means that there is always risk of further injury. No point in a checkup - no pain = no problem.

I'm not deadlifting anymore, however.
In any case, the current research consensus is that generally antidepressants and talk therapy are complimentary. So talk therapy is better than nothing and antidepressants are better than nothing and combining both treatments is better than sticking to only one.
I've started to write this media player a few times, but get distracted.

A digital music manager should be at least as good as a physical shelf of albums that you sort, browse, and select; otherwise what's the point? No digital music player has accomplished even that.

Some enhancements a digital album-centric manager would provide over physical items on shelves are: searching and sorting via metadata, putting albums in multiple "Shelves", and tracking listening statistics (not as an aggregate of track statistics, but at the album-level).

My would-be media manager also supports "Mixtapes" (like playlists, except in set order and ideally with a length limit) which can be placed on Shelves alongside released Albums. Similarly, long "Live Recordings" have first-class status like Albums and Mixtapes and can be put on Shelves (even though they may be a single "track"/file). Finally, dynamic playlists of tracks are replaced by "Dynamic Shelves" of Albums/Mixtapes/Recordings, so you can quickly get to your recent-most-played or highly-played-you-haven't-played-recently, but always as sets of songs that should be listened to together, in order.
There's very little difference between finding good stuff in automated discovery and finding it because a DJ chose it.
I believe so.

As driverless cars take over more and more, the weird (aka dangerous) behaviors should become less common. Many forms of distracted driving will simply vanish, not even considering the obvious issues like drunk driving.

Once you start automating dispatch, I think it simplifies and improves things further. For one, you're going to be less likely to be late.. which means less stress/anxiety and less distractions which should mean less accidents and near-accidents that cause traffic issues.

IF you can eliminate many - but unlikely all - of the little issues, problems, etc that compound to cause big problems, why would there be traffic jams?

(And that's not considering traffic updates to re-route around existing problems.)

My post on the topic: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today
This is either the second time this has happened, or this story is a rehash of something that happened a long time ago.
So is this a scenario where you can hope to actually settle in the US? Because it sounds incredible unstable and temporary.
That's right! Here in Washington we like to build cool bridges and then destroy them :)
people will also lease cars on good credit (soon to be terrible credit, or just straight up identity theft), and just ship them out of the country illegally, for a huge lump sum of cash.

when i lived in sf, i knew of (friend of a friend of a friend) foreigners who were here on visas that did this, somehow. maybe exaggerated.

either way, when i lease cars i need to sign a piece of paper that says i won't ever take it out of the country, so it must be a problem.
From these short examples I don't really get how its different from TCL.
+1. The majority of those requests on major websites don't matter. They are optional elements/scripts and prefetches for possible actions.

Now, if the point is that something will be delayed, that's true. And it's true that many people don't realize that. There's the classic example where if everyone tries to be five minutes early, your group is still going to be late.

The real lesson is to analyse your critical path to death and ensure it is as resilient as possible. And if possible, real data is buckets more meaningful than conventional load tests.

I also don't see anything in here about how to get meaningful metrics from real users. The W3C Navigation Timing API has really shed a ton of light into things commonly forgotten.
I don't think sanity will prevail over profit here. Making shitty unmaintainable flashy software that sells units and hijacks your house through exploits a year later optimally keeps customers buying new fridges, when the only thing wrong with them is awful outdated proprietary code running on it. Its the same reason I feel Ubuntu TV was a flop - as long as consumers make emotional, advertising driven, uninformed, instantaneous purchase decisions, the optimal route to profit is flashy over-the-top showoff crap on the store shelf that then breaks as soon as possible so they have to buy another. As long as people do not care about the software running on their "smart" tv, or fridge, or thermostat, they will continue to be given what they ask for - nothing but crap.
That is completely true, I have lived here my whole life and it has always been that way. It is weird, we can build airplanes, software and tons of other great things, but the whole transportation thing is just completely baffling to Seattle for some reason.
Fabulous work! Love your attention to detail. Kudos for not polluting my history with each slide. Here: have an Internet!
If people blamed Phillips for this, then there is quite easy solution. Allow people to activate the 3rd party access, but do it Android way. Hide the option from plain sight, force users to read quick warning message about 3rd party bulbs can affect or damage system. This way only people that did their homework will be able to reactivate it.
Are Lex and Yacc still the state of the art 20 years later?
Really recommend people think deeply about this topic. The author makes a great point which I totally resonate with (having had many of the same issues). It took too long for me to figure out that putting out alternative ideas for consideration was 'good' but actively campaigning against 'bad' ideas was a problem. (both for me and for the team).

The key for me was recognizing that when it wasn't my decision to make, there was no value in me being overly invested in the outcome. Instead I could positively surface the challenges as I saw them, and let go of the decision.
We're actually building an open-source alternative to services like Firebase and Parse. Ours is a fully peer-to-peer, real-time, graph database that doesn't require a lot of expertise or overhead, and is extensible.

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