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Feel free to refrain from driving, in that case; just don't get in the way (in a legal sense) of those who still want to.

Smoking is a much greater nuisance than driving, because a nearby smoker will foul the air for a fairly large radius through no choice of the people around them. Driving only affects other people who choose to be on the road.
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In theory, yes. Motion sickness depends on the type of motion. A very bouncy or aggressive ride will result in more sickness, whereas a very smooth ride (such as a train) results in less. It's all about how much confusion there is between what you're seeing and your sense of balance.

As it happens, the same types of driving that are more fuel efficient cause less motion sickness. Still, driving anywhere with stop lights and other traffic probably necessitates enough stopping and starting that even maximally efficient driving software would cause motion sickness in many people.
I think he's going to be sorely disappointed - Google doesn't have to pay anyone, they're one of the easy categories tech blogs ride for easy traffic and this case has provided especially good fodder for them to convert into ad impressions.
functionality wise much more better than prevailing wikipedia. But still seems like a lot of clutter is there. And sister sites could use different icon (logo) scheme. Using a letter as an icon (or logo) can be confusing sometimes.
Most everybody I know (in the field) is in disbelief concerning the length of time the Knight disaster unfolded over. I've had systems "loop" in BAD ways, but never for more than 1-3 seconds.

Safeties are paramount in the field. There's many layers of protections to avoid *ing yourself. Most of these are deployed in ways that are not terribly expensive on the 'critical path' -- that said, there are a LOT of people doing REALLY stupid things in the field. (As there are in any field, it's just more 'scandalous' when an error in a financial application occurs)

Algorithm implementation is largely trivial, and the high pricetags paid developers in the industry are usually for specific engineering skills along with the semi-requirement that developers be 'all-hands-on-deck' when the situation calls for it. (There's a bug in the new strategy...well you need to fix it before tomorrow's open etc) At least, that's how I see it.
Does anyone else find the font used on that page really distracting? What's with the I looking like a J?
I agree. Websites that do this are awful, Google Plus is guilty of this.

Re combo-boxing the language list: Wikipedia is the most successful multi-language website by far. Highlighting this to new and old users is a great thing. Its not like the search box takes up any more than one line anyway.

For Wikipedia, this redesign blows. I do like the visual style though. This is really just showcasing the webdesign company's talent, right?
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Overall, I think it's gorgeous, especially the page layout stuff. I don't like the logos especially, but having a "branded house" approach makes a lot of sense for uniting the disparate sites.
> and we only need one criminal/virus live in the population to do an inordinate amount of damage.

Those already exist. This is why you get sick and die. Welcome to the exciting career of medicine.
You have to know about the world in order to change it.

I don't want to sound like an idiot spouting zen koans but you really have to be aware of major trends to be able to navigate around them or even perhaps change them. The clash between technology and authority is a very interesting one.

The individual, the mob and the government are all empowered differently by each new advance.
Yes, a Google autonomous car drove down Lombard Street: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at....
This would be awesome. (Time to bust out your DBNs)
If stars, then with the lowest grade as zero.

A-E seems appropriate to me, as an English speaker. For others perhaps not.
I'm not sure Wikipedia needs a rebranding, and tell me if I'm the only one, but I use Google to get to specific Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia's actual search and search results need to be re-implemented, but I don't agree about redesign beyond that.

That leaves the actual articles. I like the way they are designed here, except for the monolithic nav bar.

If anything, this is a nice theme for articles - and theming is a feature that has existed on Wikipedia for a number of years now.
i worked in electronic trading for a few years. we weren't high frequency, though - it took us a few milliseconds to respond to price movements, which is why i left for the startup scene in 2010.

exception-handling is something we took very seriously, because the consequeneces of a fuckup are so bad. in late 2008, our firm lost around 300k in ~2 seconds. one of the exchanges sent a signal that the interest rate was now 0, which, according to their spec, meant that something wasn't right. our system didnt' handle that properly, so the algos went nuts because hey money is free! the fuse system caught it a few seconds later, but not before we shot orders at everything in sight.

i wrote a system that handled federation and service location, and as part of the design, i constructed four state machines which were used to handle the four possible cases in the formal model we developed. i went over the state machines many times by hand, and coded unit tests for each possible (State, Input) transition, followed by a battery of stress tests.

these guys are good - but nobody's good enough to never make mistakes.
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If they made a mediawiki theme that could easily be applied or made an option, they might actually have a chance. << I don't think they did that though.
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The twitter bootstrap default styles need to go or at least be tweaked into something more personalized.

As it stands it makes the site look very backwater, regardless of features.
This. Since when was an I a slightly smaller J?
Better: robot authorities. Who can be bought off with a few bitcoins :)
The device on top is a laser scanner creating a cloud point map for spatial awareness.
Value: accurate pricing, reduction of bid-ask spreads, transaction automation causing reduction of commissions.
This is from the department of “I don’t understand/like this, so I’m going to use the coercive force of the State to stop it from happening”.

People like you are the reason cryptographic algorithms still get banned in countries around the world.
> This is such a cooler solution, one that doesn't depend on a parallel development of infrastructure, one that would presumably take lots of bureaucratic steps that are naturally associated with usage decisions on publicly owned land (which makes sense).

And taxes. Google isn't being funded by our dollars, except through a series of indirections.
They probably have to assume the human co-pilot may still need to assume control and avert disaster, and give them enough extra time to do that (beyond the time they'd need after starting out in control). With no need for failover, the robot should reliably react faster, though it's probably only reacting to immediate events rather than predicting drivers' (mis)behavior.
Craigslist down.
The "culture fit" is definitely an aspect that I consider intimidating, and yes, I live in the Bay Area. I know it shouldn't be intimidating in my case because I think I'm good at accommodating myself to an environment pretty well.
I accept your criticisms of SMS for authentication (I recently switched from SMS to the Android app), but I like two factor better than the approach you describe. If I log on to GMail from a public computer at a library with a keylogger installed, they will obtain my password but not enough to log in as me after I have signed out. Under the scenario you describe, I'd also type the answer to a challenge question, and they'd have both the password and the answer to the challenge question. That would leave me in a significantly worse position.
I'm a big fan of the reimagining of how people interact with the site.. I think that's a major step forward, but I was very displeased with the redesign. I definitely agree a redesign is in order, but I wasn't a fan of nearly any of the design work presented here. So the take away from this is: these guys rock at interaction design and UX, but still have a lot of work to do in the actual design dept. Keep in mind that this is just my opinion, however, and is entirely subjective.
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That's what I thought too. Not to mention oddly requiring a Facebook or Twitter log-in when so many people here complain about it (and all the stories about being hacked lately).
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copying my comment from reddit:

If a user doesn't recognise the word "English" then they are not going to have any idea what language select. The reason the languages are all listed on the page without any interaction needed is so someone can look at the webpage and recognise their language and select it without having to understand anything else. How do I access the main page of a wiki?

This isn't redefined, it's just a redesign with some bad, some good, aesthetic changes.
a bid-ask spread is a measure of uncertainty.

by reducing the bid-ask spread, hft shops are adding more "certainty" to the market - but that certainty could be (and is) sometimes wrong.

in other words, we're making financial decisions faster, at a cost of adding more more false certainty.

if the economy is a computer, HFT is overclocking the shit out of the processor.
Most people stay way too close to the car in front, though. You're doing well as long as nothing unexpected happens. But if someone for some reason has to hit the brake really fast, you'll get a completely unnecessary pileup.

The Google cars probably also have additional margins of safety to allow for the driver to react to unexpected computer behavior _and_ actually step in and perform the maneuver himself.
I was going to say the same thing. The font is FF Schulbuch Süd Web Pro, and it looks like this: http://imgur.com/Uvft4. I can't fathom why it's designed like that. (Link to FontShop: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/fontfont/ff_schulbuch_...)
Exactly, equal share[1] and then dilute (again, equally) as other non-founder shareholders come on board.

[1] and equal equity share means everyone needs to bring an equal amount of value to the company. If they want me to build the entire thing and they sit back and watch the money roll in, then they are not adding equal value, so why would this be worth equal (or, god forbid, less than equal) equity to me?
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> How is Apple the weakest link in this?
Because for privacy, card processors and POS systems only expose the last four digits of a credit card. Using last-4 as a secret is a security hole. Apple processes cards too. They should have known better.
I've been driving for over 10 years and I still enjoy almost every journey - I think autonomous cars are a fantastic idea but I would miss driving if I couldn't ever do it.
>Google warns that “there’s still a long road ahead.” The cars >still need to learn how to handle snow-covered roads, ...

What if the car was smart enough to identify situations where it was unable to auto-navigate safely? It could pull-over and ask the human to take-over for awhile. I would rather see a mostly capable self-driving car come to market sooner than wait around for near perfection.

On this note, it seems that the trucking industry could adopt a self-driving truck even if it was only good enough to travel along long stretches of highway. The first/last miles would be manually driven just like today. Could the trucking companies use remote navigation (much like military drones) to handle first/last mile and perhaps problem spots along the way?

What's the minimum viable product?
I recently dismissed the problems of people printing firearms in a 3d printer as not really being much of a threat as currently firearms are already ubiquitous.

Your reasoning on guns was correct. Remember how almost every year we worry about what kind of influenza we'll get? We all worry about a repeat of the 1918 flu, which is quite likely on any given year.

Remember how antibiotic resistance keeps getting worse and worse (or better and better from the bacteria's perspective)?

HIV originated in nature, probably somewhere not too far from where Ebola is natural brewing now.

Our number one threat is mother nature. Her and other humans living close to domestic and wild animals around the world and air lines.

At any given time we might have to cope with an 1918 like flu.

Custom tailoring a virus to include one people but not other is going to be extremely hard. We are all very closely related. Human conflict tends to be between neighbors, and for example the people most genetically similar to the Israelis are the Palestinians. So the probability of a custom tailored virus is far, far, FAR lower than the probability of a natural don't-give-a-crap-who-it-kills virus.
> The big gene synthesis companies are all a part of the international gene synthesis consortium

Yes, they screen against one of the UK's lists of unauthorized individuals. At least, this was according to Howard Simon (dna20) when he mentioned it at the FBI/DIYbio workshop.

I was curious to see if anyone from DIYbio was on this list, so I did what any self-respecting hacker would do and wrote up some quick code to check... here's the details:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/diybio/zarj-c5I9bs/UJ3zAotVK...

The good news is that nobody from the amateur communities seem to be on that list of excluded individuals for synthetic DNA.

disclaimer: I like to pretend I am working on an open-source microfluidic DNA synthesizer, which negates all their efforts and warps my perspective.
My thoughts....

He's just a second year student and the only project I've seen is something that any competent student at my almma matter could produce.

Now look at the marketplace. For $40/hour you can currently get an experienced developer living anywhere that isn't San Francisco or NYC.

$100/hour is $4000 a week and $16,000 a month. Now certainly someone, somewhere can command this price but lets not pretend that it is the natural fit for a student.

If you're willing to pay $16,000 then your rate is comprable to what Google/Facebook pay their summer interns for 3 months whom I assure you have just as much skill and passion as you see here.
The front page of Wikipedia works remarkably well for discovery - go to en.wikipedia.org on any given day, and you are guaranteed to learn something new.

Deciding that users want to see your overbearing minimalism and your 'sound-great-in-concept-meetings-but-shit-on-paper' designs instead of you know, actual information on the front page of an encyclopaedia strikes me as an astonishing act of hubris.

The one piece of information given on the front page (the languages bar) is a nice curiosity, but utterly useless after about one visit. I'm sure the Swiss, the Swedes, the Danes, the Indonesians would also be delighted to find that their languages have been relegated to 'rollover' status.

As for the article pages, too much white-space, nowhere near enough information density. Did it not strike the authors, "Hey, hang on, the article is almost invisible on this page after all the crap we put in?" http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/img/27.png
Honestly, I don't know anybody who has done this. Zach, Carrie, and I moonlighted on LaunchGram before it was LaunchGram. We'd leave our day jobs / school and meet up to work because we were so excited about building this product. Selling the vision means selling potential co-founders on working on the thing at night with you for a bit. Thoughts?
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No, I mean that I can buy a PC that beats the top of line Mac products with double the RAM, a newer GPU with more video RAM, better processor, costing 1000€ less.

My Asus laptop costed 1000€ and beats the MacBook Pro 17" in the amount of juice I can extract from the hardware.
Comparing to smoking seems to be a huge stretch to me. One thing virtually guarantees cancer and an eventual unpleasant death while providing no measurable benefits at all, and the other allows you to easily travel all over the place cheaply with a relatively small chance of a major accident.
You could also delete it definitively after a certain time (say 5 days). You would get the best of both world.
Interesting suggestion. Could you give me an example use case?
That's very true. But it's true for many fields that most of the difficulty/challenge/complexity comes from a relatively small proportion of the cases.
I don't think normal people would even notice this. Doesn't mean personalization isn't something that should be done, just thinking you might be overblowing the problem.
Lots of great advice already given, the gist of it being to focus on what you can DO for your employer. On that note, please read _Ask The Headhunter_, or browse his web site.

Also ... think about what your 37 years of life and work experience might bring to a tech company beyond the ability to sit behind a monitor all day. For instance, if you've had some people-facing experience (and who hasn't), you might be much better qualified for a sales engineer or other customer-facing role than some 22-year-old would be. Many customers will prefer to deal with someone who looks and acts more "grown up."

Right now, you need to focus on your self-confidence, and not "fear." The demand for competent developers - which has nothing to do with classes taken - is insatiable.
Not to mention the front page colour bar for languages with labels appearing after rolling over has some pretty serious discoverability and accessibility issues.
> I'm 31, don't have a driver's license, I live in Europe, I'm doing perfectly fine, thank you

I have a license but don't have a car (actually owning a car was too much of a hassle) and you're only telling half the story. Yes, day to day not having a car is fine, but every once in a while you want to buy something larger that is not delivered, or move some stuff, or go for a short vacation, or even just drive out of the city to pick some mushrooms and you're stuck. You either borrow/rent a car or skip on the activity.

A car does provide a kind of freedom that public transport simply can't. A car that drives itself, or, even better, a car that I can cheaply rent that will drive itself to my doorsteps, then drive me wherever I want to go, and then return itself would be absolutely perfect.
Exactly what we are thinking.

We realize that it's a difficult problem to create good markup but that doesn't mean we can't help. So we felt the best tradeoff was to give the CSS properties used so you can spend less time with the eyedropper tool.

There is an option to export the full page but we think it's best for quick prototypes.
This could definitely be true. That said, I mentioned in a below comment a minute ago about working on the product on the side for a bit while I had a job during the day and they were in school. At one point we were pulling 40-50 hours at work/school and another 20-30 after work / on weekends. None of us were getting paid, but we believed in the idea and were having fun working together.
I completely agree with this. I've only known my cofounders for ~five months (we formed during the previous local startup weekend; never met before that) but it sure feels like we've known each other a lot longer. People have even been telling us that from watching us interact, if they hadn't known different, they'd have assumed we'd known each other for many years.

This really makes a huge difference. It makes working together easy.

Interestingly enough, I'm the technical cofounder and they're the non-technical (using the usual definition, not the one in the article) cofounders, but they bring a lot of value to the table. Between them, they bring a massive network (both in the industry and in the startup scene in general), many years of experience in their areas and a track record. I've also (obviously) seen them work and its impressive. Before I teamed up with them, I was squarely in the only-technical-founders camp, but now I couldn't imagine starting a company without them.
Well ... i is a slightly smaller j.
We've been using Easel to quickly prototype new designs for Vayable, and we're pretty happy with it. It's way more convenient to send around easel links than mucking with Photoshop files.

Congrats to Easel! Keep going!
It's a native app built in XCode. Except for the navigation bar background and icons, it's all drawn manually in the app. I found it to result in a much faster experience.

One change I didn't mention in the post is that I finally moved from ASIHTTP to AFNetworking for my networking library. That's significantly faster as well
Why would they have to send the stuff to you?
Awesome question to ask. What are some of the best & worst responses you've gotten?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_style

(also ... the content is open .... ripe for anyone else to give this a go)
Wikipedia is probably the worst site for this redesign, which is probably why it's so eye catching - we're seeing all of these elements in a shape that's terrible for wiki but great for some other site. Since it's such a terrible fit for wiki, we can clearly see and identify elements we'd glaze over if we liked the changes.
If you are hoping for the new iPhone to be anything other than EXACTLY what we've seen to date, you're going to be severely let down.

This is Gizmodo with the iPhone 4 in their hands people, we may not have a working lost device in the wild but we have the next best thing. Parts that are clearly for the new iPhone.

It's over, the speculation should now rest on the internals. Those hoping for a virtual home button, wider screen, or a plastic back are SOL and we already know this. It may or may not have NFC though, that sort of stuff is still up in the air.

However it will be taller, it will still have a physical home button, and it will have the two-tone & all in one design we've seen floating around. I would bet my life on it.
Actually, 'J' is a swashed 'I': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
its still a huge pain in the a$$ , cancelling credit cards, changing any account associated with credit card, waiting for new one in mail, etc. Just the avoiding the potential headaches, is enough reason for me not to enter my credit card in sites. I really can't believe the sentiment of the avg user is that much different from mine
> Certainly the future of application design should be with tools that understand the medium and the process.

This. The reason why web-design is very hard to abstract out into a Photoshop-like app is that because non-trivial websites are at their core, a fundamentally different medium than anything that Photoshop-familiar-designers are trained to create.

To treat the transition from visual-sketch to working-website as just some tedious code-work that gets in the way of brilliance and implementation is missing the point...the brilliance IS typically in the code that implements the vision in such a way that the site is maintainable and graceful across different platforms and screensizes.
Several google tools don't have support for the standard 2-factor auth. Instead, you have to create a single use password for those devices. Watch the video on Cutts blog for info on how it works.
It has nothing at all to do with HN.
How often do you know these people prior to these offers?
Uh, Alsop has to issue order for both parties but the implicit target is Oracle and some would claim, Florian Mueller. http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/07/judge-hey-oracle-and-google...