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1. Whats good design is very differend thing for hard geek power users vs regular people. Complain as you want, there is thousands of ones like you and milions of the regular users. Products are made for the mass.
2. Good interface is not about amout of clicks or even time spend. Its about how easy it is to use. Its about pace and how much you have to think about it.
3. There are so many bad designers out there. Its same for programming, but you wont necessary see the bad code. The percentages will be similar. The pitfall is that self educated designers dont seem to see the depths of the problems. When you have good educated designer they almost forsee the future and are extremely aware of the big picture. Self educated programmers tend to be much more modest and aware of their capabilities because the skill is more visible. The design gets reduced to skin part of design which is marginal.
4. Design is what made all the ios android jobs. The startup boom is driven by design. Design is going to stay.
What do you think is the problem with deeper nester closures? Do you really think that a little extra lambda or something inside your helper function would suddenly make it unreadable?
https://xkcd.com/799/
this is the most condescending and hypocritical post i think I may have ever read in my life. dear lord.

> Marcos understanding of this situation is extremely telling for a fundamental problem with many americans relationship with politics. Most only get involved around election. After that their political interest is non existing.

Translation: he disagrees with me therefore he must not follow or understand politics. Do I have any proof of this? No.

Reality: Those that actually follow politics and keep informed are the ones who are really disgusted by Trump.

>It's easy to get lured into the idea that politics is a simple choice between the moral good and the moral bad, that the choice is simple and that there is a one to one relationship between what you vote for and what you get.

Translation: I'm assuming people who disagree with me have this simplistic view of politics without any proof.

Reality: Trump is a unique and scary fascist beast. McCain and Romney and every other candidate for decades has been a great, upstanding, person morally. They had the fitness to lead and I simply disagreed with them on some policy points. This is a different beast entirely. The fact that you don't see this actually tells me you don't follow politics at all and are assuming that this election is the same as others.

>If you don't want dissent, fine just admit it. That way at least you are being honest. Don't wrap your lack of political understanding into some claim of decency.

Translation: If you disagree with me or rebuke racism and sexism you must not want dissent.

Reality: dissent is fine and encouraged. We'd have loved Rubio or Jeb but that isn't what we got.
I know people who worked at places where taking a phone into work with a camera in was verboten.

And for high security places why on earth would they allow people to work on laptops that are taken home every night an obvious security risk.
(To the OP)

Maybe change "ads" to "posts" globally in the frontend?

Adblockers are are always going to block anything called "ads", even if it's a legit component of your site
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Let me play the devil's advocate here as well :)

What exactly is the problem with punishing people for risky driving? Or rather, let them pay a corresponding premium to cover for the (statistically expected) higher damages they will cause? Keep in mind that driving behaviour is something the user has full control of, in contrast to e.g. disabilities, for which of course no insurance premium should be paid.

I actually think this is a good idea, and would like to hear opposing opinions.
> But what I find hilarious about it is that in the 90s, there was a meme that software engineers cannot do usability very well, and you need specialized designers.

I think what's changed is that engineers do not work in a vacuum anymore. You can follow Apple's or Google's UI well-known guidelines with a little branding and your app will be fine. Of course, that requires humility as well.
Thanks a lot for the detailed response. I didn't know that Staff at Google is such a big deal. EIR aslo sounds like an interesting idea.
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Doesn't Stephen Hawking use word prediction technology from SwiftKey to adaptively finish his sentences for him?
Either you're confused or I'm confused as to what you're talking about. Tesla has never used LIDAR and they actually leaned more heavily on CV until recently when they started using radar more extensively.
I don't think there are huge numbers of extremely bad drivers. People who are extremely bad drivers tend to have their license taken away, and thus are no longer drivers at all. In fact, I would wager that, when considering average as the mean (not the median), most people are probably below-average. As previously mentioned, there's a minimum bar for driving ability, and I would also wager that most people are pretty close to the average to begin with. But there are fair number of exceptional drivers (e.g. anyone who drives for a living is likely to be a much better driver than the average person, as are any of the numerous people who do a lot of recreational driving).

All that said, even if your premise was correct, it would allow for a simple majority to be better than average, but it wouldn't allow for 80% of people to be better than average.
>If Free Software "fights for the users", then it needs to go to where the users are, and that's the web.

To what extent?

Just because a mass of users are somewhere, doesn't make that environment the right place for free software. But I'm not saying it's a wrong place. But it's not the only possible place. A popular environment might be by its nature unsuitable for free software, and free software developers would be mistaken to compromise their development by wholeheartedly embedding themselves on that platform.

What concerns me about the web:

- the trend has been a move toward centralisation, content silos

- DRM in the spec now (EME)

- bloated by necessity (as browsers need backward-compatibility)

- it's hacky, as a document-retrieval system retrofitted into an application platform

- people think it's beyond criticism, probably because of the notion that it's The One Open alternative to iOS/Android ...

(cf. https://www.christianheilmann.com/2016/10/05/can-we-stop-bad...)

Despite all that, I still like the Web and want it to continue existing. And if I want a better system, I need to put my money where my mouth is and work on helping something else become a real practical alternative...
Once the cost goes down, multiple LIDAR units can be mounted behind the windshield. Cars designed for automatic driving should reserve the top inch or so of the windshield for sensors, with the optical sensor suite mounted at the front edge of the roof and covered with padding matched to the headliner. (Yes, auto glass today is often infrared-opaque to reduce heat input, but the IR-opaque layer could be omitted for the top inch.) Putting cameras behind the rear view mirror is already done, but more space may be needed.

The rotating Velodyne thing Google uses is an interim research tool. In production, expect to see better design.

With enough LIDAR units, full-circle coverage can be achieved. This is already being done with cameras. The rear and side units need less power and range than the front-facing units, so they can have a smaller collecting aperture, making them easier to place. For the front-facing units, the emitter can be spread out, allowing higher power. The rules on eye safety are concerned with the maximum power coming through a 1/4" hole (human eye pupil). If the laser emitters are spread out over the width of the windshield, the maximum power per unit area is reduced.

The CMU/Cadillac demo a few years ago managed to conceal all the sensors. It can be done. It just costs too much until one of the three companies claiming to be building low-cost automotive LIDARs Real Soon Now manages to deliver.
TGO status is confirmed and is ready for science.
I do not expect privacy in a public place. But I do expect that not everything I do is recorded and then associated with my name on the Internet. But this is exactly the direction smartphones have taken us.

I don't know if you have the same feeling but I do notice a chilling effect in how I behave when I see that someone has their phone out and its camera is pointed approximately in my direction (although they might be checking messages).
I don't understand which text you're quoting. The article doesn't even contain the word "calendar".
Other countries see that differently. The right to one own's picture exists in various jurisdictions, requiring others to either acquire your consent or obscure faces.

Also, you can still have reasonable expectations of privacy in public locations, such as your words not being recorded without your consent.
These kind of whining articles are always written by coddled, rich people.
Oh really, you are so terribly lonely and sad while dating 5 different women a week?
Man how that must suck, I can only imagine how horrible your life has been. You were married, you live in a house, you have enough to eat, are healthy and you write columns for newspapers but damn, if only you werent so lonely. If only people around you wouldnt die just like they die every day around the world for all of human history.
I'm angry that people like him are constantly getting a platform to complain about about how terrible their great lives are.
If you need some perspective, I'm happy to provide it. Right now children of young ages are being blown to bits in various wars and terror acts. They will never have a life and you come here and normalize RICHNESS.
No it is not okay to complain about being rich while people around you die.
> But unlike traditional early adopters, who take a trade-off (on price, or features, or polish) for being first

Actually, in regards to Tesla, they always stated (and were very open about it) that early-adopters pay premium to support research/growth/etc. First with Roadster, now with S (not sure about X). It can be expected that the same extra features (same hardware) on model will cost less. So the trade-off here is just that, being "first".
All miles are not created equals though. Sure Tesla will gather a lot of data quickly but most of this data will be from people who use their car for their daily commute, everyday at roughly the same hour. This doesn't have the same value as data from different areas/road conditions/time of day
It's not like we have a shortage of people though.
New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage
Also, privacy.
Many people mistake the Gb/s numbers for these modem protocols as Gb/s per subscriber, when in reality it's more so the total throughput of a tower modem shared among subscribers.

Outrage of course, ensues.
Even in this extremely professional environment that is an airplane cabin, where people are trained to keep watch over the autopilot, people still don't follow procedure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24296544

Over half of pilots admit to sleeping while on autopilot.
These are people who had to take months and years of training to fly.

Meanwhile,to be a driver you need to drive for 15 minutes and do some basic manouvers. In some places of the world, not even that. And we hope that those people will "keep an eye on the road" while the autopilot feature is running? It sounds great in theory, but it's not going to happen. We need a system that can operate completely without human supervision - but that ain't happening any time soon either.
You're right. I was thinking of EULA as just covering the license terms that end users have to accept before using software, which are not a negotiation, as opposed to special licensing terms that are negotiated (which I previously would have considered to just be "a contract"). But after perusing the wikipedia page on EULA, it does appear that specially-negotiated license terms are still a EULA, as EULA really just means a software license agreement.
there are systems with LIDARs mounted next to the headlights.
Shit opsec then ;-)
LibreSSL is part of the OpenBSD base system, and that is their primary target AIUI. They also maintain a portable version with support for a wider range of operating systems.

There's a good summary of LibreSSL's track record over the past two years in comparison with OpenSSL on the LibreSSL Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL#Security_and_vulnerab...).

There was also news a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691733) that Alpine Linux is adopting LibreSSL Portable in place of OpenSSL.
> And what if Peter Thiel did say this? What gives you the right to set what you consider to be the line over what I choose as the line?

I'm pretty sure that comes along with those standard 'human rights' things.
The problem was bigger than that, basically no-one cares about their open source infrastructure and so it (including OpenSSL) is continually under-resourced.
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This not true (anymore). Telekom offers its unlimited "MagentaMobil XL Premium" for around 200€ a month.

Plans for more than 5GB have been available for quite some time and if one were calling the business hotline all networks could offer even larger non-public plans.
The fact that your unit tests did not catch that bug tells me you should spend less time linting and more time covering.
I'm wondering if it's feasible to use this cheap micro drones as a base to build an ardupilot.

Any experience about this ?
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> Because when you are in a public place, you cannot expect privacy.

Being in a public place does not necessarrily mean being public.
Bots and humans need to work together
That isn't the problem. The problem is that the young guys THINK that the old guy will do this.
Disclaimer : i work on one of these car manufacturers IT departement, in close link with the "connected car" team.

The reasons are multiple.
1) building and upgrading a car model take them at least 2 years... in the meantime, they have time to clock the kilometers anyway.

2) They have no idea how to build that type of data "massive" environment. They just don't know. Like all our "connected car" data came onto one single thread acceptor on one single machine. No load balancing, no scaling nothing, until August when the vacations congestion overflooded it. So now we have 4 threads in that single machine.
I could ramble on and on on this type of mistakes they do. They just don't know. And this year, they asked the team to reduce their budget. Because it is how the car industry works. After two years to kickoff the project, you have to cut your cost by 5% to 10% every year.
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Parachute deploy of lander confirmed, heat shield function confirmed. Parachute flight worked, but parachute release did not match expectations. Things went downhill from there.
Even if the plane started falling down like a rock, you still have more time to react than a driver of a car where a tyre burst at 80mph and now the car is heading towards the incoming lane/rock face on the other side. You literally might have less than few seconds to impact and I imagine that if you weren't holding the steering wheel at the time, you won't be able to do anything.
Funny. I had my start in freelancing after a software developer left to start farming. I inherited his old application (which was VB front-end & Access DB) and converted it to an internal web-app.

But he definitely seemed pretty happy. :)

I remember sitting at my desk writing code at a client's one day. It was pissing down with rain - and I could see someone mowing the lawns outside. And at that moment (I wasn't particularly enjoying the work) I wished we could swap places. He looked happy.

Good luck with your farming!
iTunes 12.0 was the worst update to the iTunes UI ever, and its only new feature was support for Family Sharing, which is mostly a backend/store feature. It was 100% a pointless UI overhaul.
If you own the rights to your own data you can prevent that data from being made public (or used in other ways). A nation state can very well require that social media sites honor this if they want to operate in that country. Search engines can also be forced to delete data etc.

Granted I doubt it's practically enforceable in all cases but it's at least theoretically possible.
It would be cool if such a button could be detected and people wearing it would get blurred by the photo-software of cell phones automatically.
No, he just does stuff. And he does stuff that just so happens to have made him money. Calling that success, defining success only in terms of building things or making money, is an opinion.

How does Thiel feel about his choice, who has questioned the legitimacy of the American electoral process and outcome, in advance of the election - ipso facto if Trump does not win, the election must be illegitimate and a Clinton presidency also illegitimate? Perhaps Thiel feels OK with his choice. Perhaps he can dismiss that every paper of record on the planet has just gone ape shit over this issue in the last couple of hours. Maybe the tax cut Thiel thinks he's going to get from Trump is still worth it - that sort of selfishness would at least be rational.

But rational alone does not inoculate someone from having their judgment of character questioned. And in fact a questioning of their political ideology - in light of what Trump has said, it's an open question if Thiel prefers autocracy over having a Republic. It's not crazy to have this question for any of Trump's supporters in light of what Trump has said.

Tonight's and tomorrow's headlines are historic, shocking, alarming, but they're not really surprising because this sort of delegitimizing is a hallmark of Trump's modus operandi, having spent 7.5 years trying to delegitimize the current president with the blatant lie he was not a natural born citizen; now turning it into a pre-delegitimization of a would-be Clinton presidency by impugning the electoral process itself. This is a person who lays waste to everything he touches, and Peter Thiel is yet another person to get sucked into the Trump con vortex.

So at the very least, he's a sucker. It's just as likely that what you call success, was dumb blind luck by another name. He got lucky, despite being wholly deficient in evaluating Trump's character.

And I do not agree with the idea that it is antithetical to "diversity" to ask such questions, or challenge people who have more resources, and in effect more speech, on these issues.
1. I do not think that the precise distinction of tolerant and intolerant ideas was Popper's point. His point was that there _exists_ so intolerant ideas that a tolerant society must be ready to suppress them. Obviously where the precise limit for intolerance in practice is, is a question of ongoing and endless discussion and not a question with easy and clear-cut answer.

2. Brutal authoritarians have also used elections countless times as an excuse to exercise their power. I do not think that makes democracy and elections "idealist non-sense".

3. Does it not make more sense to address the real underlying issues than tolerate bigotry and racism? I would prefer those would be kept separate issues, but to my (obviously tolerant) eyes, it seems more like there are people who really think that intolerance, bigotry and racism are a _solution_ to the underlying problems.
True. They say producing movies is extremely expensive, but only because they force blockbusters upon us and because they use stars from an extremely reduced pool of actors. Example: There are thousands of muscular guys worldwide who beg to act in better movies, why always require the same few US actors? Example: The French movie industry makes money, although they focus on a romantic/comedy market with much lower production costs and much reduced (French) market. Movies don't necessarily have to be worldwide-reaching to be pleasant. I'm confident it's possible to build action movies or thrillers without 3D, with much fewer battle scenes, with a much better scenario (Jason Bourne I'm looking at you), with younger actors and in other countries than USA without harming the audience's pleasure too much. But that requires not having the existing marketing-pumped blockbusters as competitors.
Except when they aren't - see Air France 447 for what happens when a driver has to step in after the autopilot can't cope with the situation.

Then enhance the frequency of it happening by three orders of magnitude given that Tesla drivers are generally not professional drivers, let alone trained in the quirks of an autopilot in the beta release stage...
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Sure, but with the data connection in their cars, they could have attached sensors and started uploading.

However, this would mean adding sensors and 12 years ago, these would have cost much more along with the data requirements.
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> one could say the same about a pedophile or rapist or racist.

People who indulge in such activities are clearly breaking the law and should be reported. Pieter supporting Trump is legal!

> I don't want to associate with, or have someone benefit from my labor, or even profit from their insights if I have such moral disagreements.

So you don't want to associate with half the country? It's your choice, but do you see the importance of letting people have different opinions (as long as they are legally acceptable) and agree to disagree?
Any suggested resources for learning about these kind of interfaces?
DRM is more about who has the keys, than security itself.
well we don't even work onsite. I write my code on my company laptop. Test against a sanitized database on my companies network and whatnot. Then commit to my companies source control. Then I pickup my government issued locked down laptop, vpn in, remote desktop to the server across the US and svn-update.

I am not dealing with TS stuff here. There are files on the government network which are confidential and having access does require a clearance, but I don't actually work with confidential data directly.
They have a pretty interesting description of their radar images: "...because of how strange the world looks in radar. Photons of that wavelength travel easily through fog, dust, rain and snow, but anything metallic looks like a mirror. The radar can see people, but they appear partially translucent. Something made of wood or painted plastic, though opaque to a person, is almost as transparent as glass to radar".

So my question is, where can I find such images? Or can I buy such a radar and tinker with it myself? What wavelength are they speaking about?
Not quite half - 43.9% in 1933, and that election is not considered by historians to have been anything like free and fair. In the prior two elections, the Nazi share of the vote had decreased from 37.3% to 33.1%, indicating that Nazi popularity was on the decline. If it weren't for undemocratic backroom scheming that handed the chancellorship to Hitler, there might never have been a Third Reich.

So yeah, I think Zuckerberg's statement stands up well even in the face of 20th century history.
What I find astonishing is that these machines have working USB ports at all. And even if there are some external media connections like DVD burner or USB, wouldn't it make sense to at least hardwire them to some tamper-resistant logging device that protocols who used them at which time?
Yes, the OP used C++0x11 when he probably meant either C++11 or C++0x. By chance, C++0x11 happens to be the hex encoding of the next expected C++ revision. My admittedly content free joke was an attempt at pointing out the error.
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