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There was a TED talk[1] product design, or designing for manufacturing and distribution. I think the points were that:

1) These concept designs don't work that well in real conditions, are hard to manufacture or don't have a support network

2) People actually expect and want "regular" looking cars. The speaker made a example of hospital equipment which has to look fancy and complicated, because otherwise people won't trust it (and therefore, buy it).

I guess Tesla can work around the first point since, they're a new maker and don't have any previous investments, which allows them to try new ways of doing things.

They're pretty good at the second point as well, since don't make or sell "regular cars" anyway. Tesla Roadster is not an average car, it's a high-end sports car for techfreaks and I think the prospects for the sedan is also pretty much in early adopter audience.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/timothy_prestero_design_for_people_...
I can't speak for esolyt, but he added value for ME as an avid Linux user who's never compiled from source and is eager to get his hands dirty. After I'm done writing this comment I'm going to visit those threads and comb the comments of those threads for information. No need to be hostile about a link list.
Here's a more accessible article from the Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19489385
This is great comment - the "automation systems are not cost effective for high product mix mfgrs" seems like the crux of the matter to me. Can we create more flexible/universal systems?

3D Printing claims to do this, but as mentioned it's limited in what you can do - so that's going to take quite some time to get right (20years).

It'll be interesting to see the ReThink Robotics launch coming up to see if their system can help alleviate some of these problems.
When I was looking for my last job I rejected a company based on the simplicity of it's code task. A company's code task should interest and challenge. View helpers satisfy neither requirement (for me).
Really? Why do you suppose? In 50-100 years, I can easily see us having a permanent presence on another planet, fully automated vehicles and a Terminator like military comprised completely of robots. That world (if true), technologically, would look amazingly different than how we live today.
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Going to be tough with fiverr in the marketplace already.
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Really? I think it will mean more than it does now. The pace at which technology advances seems to be increasing exponentially, at least that's my perception.

I can't imagine what will change even in the next 10 years, let alone the next 50-100 years.
I'm not familiar enough with Russia specifically, but isn't smiling in photographs viewed as a weakness in some cultures?
>Because the water is constantly moving, capturing the filtered images repeatedly won't work -- you end up capturing different images for RGB.

You're right, of course. But don't forget that the shutter speed was very low on these images. It would have harmed if the shutter speed was high : short exposure time of quickly moving water would have given very different water images for RGB. When exposing longer, motion blur makes the water seem to flow, becoming soft and blurry.
Validate it on craigslist via an ad :)
Okay, maybe a better word choice would have been "certain" technologies. Seeing photographs of the 50s in 2050 won't seem all that amazing.
cat data.json | json_reformat

Seeing as lots of systems have yajl.
UX designers are web designers with no sense of style.
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These photos were first posted online about ten years ago.
Here's some speculation, http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/nextbigfuture-reader-tony-r...
Does your team work the same hours? ..I have read some successful remote teams have everyone working the same 9-5
"stick around ... to conduct usability tests, user research, and user feedback" is exactly the pitfall that UX falls into when it fails. We've seen it happen so many times, and en masse. This process-driven design fails, because it tries to put the designer in the middle of development, while taking away the responsibility for good design. It is attractive, because the UX designer can blame the users' "unexpected" behavior. It is attractive, because it exchanges the experience, with experiment. If the design is incomplete, it is incomplete, period. If the users have to be observed, let it be done, the development can wait. There is nothing worse than a designer who makes blind guesses about the design hoping that some miracle during the "usability test" will reveal a beautiful solution.
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Damn it, I thought of Charlie Rose. Who is this Kevin blow-hard?
> If no one wants to buy (the right to listen to) a song then it 's price is too high.

Wait. The music industry made some 2 digit billions of dollars last year. No one wants to pay for music entertainment?

> Given a lot of arts are heavily inspired by the culture around them, who gives the artist the 'right' to own all 'rights' to music they create

Substitute your profession above for artists. Do you feel the same? Everyone is inspired from things which came before them, and yes you can profit off of your new creation which has been influenced from culture which has come before you.

> Poetry is an art that doesn't make money (compared to music), has poetry died?

It doesn't? Here is a list of the top selling books on Amazon labeled poetry: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Poetry/zgbs/books/1...

Top 3: Shakespeare, Beowulf, The Odyssey. The publishing companies who printed these books and spent the time typesetting, translating them etc aren't making money?

> Just because we monetized something doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.

This argument only seems to come up in context to books/music/movies. IE: Entertainment which you can easily get for free and think people should be compensated zero dollars for it now because of the internet. Ridiculous. Why are the people who create entertainment the only ones who should work for charity? Note: it isn't some noble cause, it is because you don't rely on that industry to put food on the table, are cheap, and can get your entertainment online for free instead.
"he’s trying to keep his money-makers from defecting to a competitor."

This makes no sense. It was a private email to existing YC companies. YC has already make their investment, there's no "defecting" to be done.
It's funny, I got the exact same impression. Normally when you think of the past, you think of black & white, or faded color. But if you took a ride in a time machine, of course the past would look as vibrant as anything you currently see.
As a side note, I've noticed that when TV programs show a film clip from 30 years ago (say the early 80's), such as old sporting event clips, they add a false color fade to make the clip look old -- even though most of the film clips (and any non-film based storage) from that time would not have suffered such degradation.
I'd just like to note, because nobody else seems to actually be saying it out loud, that this is potentially the most important thing for world poverty that we've heard about in the last 10 years.

If this model works, and more countries see it working and adopt it, it's an incremental path to trustworthy courts and healthy entrepreneurial environments for dozens of poor countries around the world. That's what it takes to end extreme poverty, and now there's a new contending path to it. If this model works, Paul Romer and Patri Friedman could be the new Norman Borlaugs.

I seriously think that anyone currently sending money to Africa for insecticide-treated mosquito nets (previously Givewell's top recommendation for efficient philanthropy) should consider switching to sending money to this instead, from a utilitarian perspective.
Would you like to share the question with HN?
Thank you for your input. I think your right, it's a crowded space for sure.

I love fiverr and I still see a lot of things they could do differently. It's visually pretty raw and it's too out of control. I'm looking for something that's more human moderated and smaller, more "wealthy" projects. I've got a few people ready to use the product who wouldn't use fiverr, because it diminishes their image too much.

I see an opening for the higher-up tier of community. I really think there is something to be said for a heavy inspiration on the curated list of Sponsors (like the Svbtle blogs).
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but I couldn't help but notice (and comment on) the noticeably slow-loading picture of Alex at the top, only to realize it's a 378KB 500x500 image[1] resized at render-time to 68x68.

I'm just surprised that a tech company like Stripe w/ such a polished site and attention to UX would not find a way to optimize this.

[1] https://stripe.com/img/about/team/alex.png
Why not? The web is supposed to be open and letting all countries have whatever TLD(s) they want makes sense.

The fact that some browsers may have font problems, etc. makes me think that countries might want to also have a secondary TLD in latin text. Perhaps they could be mapped to the same domain? I would think that a lot of countries might want this as a local pride issue.
Google Andre Chaperon spend 20 mins and read his stuff and you will be on your way...they key is finding the audience before you build
Yea, CAM is its own kind of hell - with it's pre/post-processors - crazy array of options, machine-specific GCode and bugs, etc.

A big issue manufacturing faces is that none of the people starting companies are software guys - all of them are MechE's or something who think hardware first, so the CAM ends up far worse the controller (probably a FANUC...), which is far worse than the physical machine - you do what you know.

Certainly, trying to go from CAD --> finished consumer product ain't happening next year, but we're seeing signs that we'll see that with more simple processes pretty soon.
You say "only 44,100 times per second" as if it were somehow deficient. It's not, assuming the purpose of the sampling is to be heard by a human ear.

In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to make a legitimate, evidence-based argument justifying a significantly higher rate, for consumer music distribution purposes.

http://drewdaniels.com/audible.pdf
If the domain is just for the occupied territories, than Gaza (and Hamas) will get a different domain.
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Unfortunately even if you are willing to debate evolution intelligently, almost nobody else describing themselves as a creationist is. This leads to a general feeling of, how shall I say, beating our heads against the wall when talking to these people, because they refuse to accept any evidence we offer.

As always, people holding the most extreme views color the perception of the whole community - even if most people who believe in creationism are perfectly willing to have an intelligent conversation and have no problem with their kids learning science, the vocal few that campaign ferociously against science in education make everyone on that side look bad.

Unfortunately nobody in the "sane" segment of the religious community seems to be speaking up against them or reining them in, which is why it is so frustrating.

I am sorry you had to deal with outbursts against your religion however - it can't have been too pleasant.
I think you are missing my point. Apple got the biggest market cap in the world by making products that are a joy to USE. A reviewers who writes about measurements from his caliper isn't describing UX at all. In fact, those measurements seem to distract the reviewer from describing the whole experience of using the product.

Look at the problems discussed at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-fire-usability.html

They mention dimensions in the context of how it feels to use the product... rather than the more common review which places dimensions ahead of the experience.
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Ask any working professional photographer and they'll tell you we passed the practical resolution of film (35mm vs 35mm) years ago, and with the insanely low noise levels, we passed the dynamic range potential years ago too.

With the latest cameras in hand, you can capture sharper and cleaner photographs than the best 35mm film could ever manage, and you can do it with a tiny fraction of the light (1/16th the amount, or 4 stops, or 100 ISO film < 1600 ISO digital).

What you're seeing with the latest crop of pro cameras are 35mm sensors that are competitive with the best medium format film.
Oh, snap! You really showed him who's boss.

But seriously, gloating is not considered good form. Showing off how effectively you gloated is even worse form.
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Not my startup. Just found it online, found it awesome and noticed that it has never been posted on HN before.
Looking at their faces, no one seems happy. Not a single smile in any photo including those of kids. Kinda depressing.
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Unfortunately (particularly for those of us with 30" monitors) they don't have a full screen option like the amazing Mars Gigapan: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/113071

Edit: Found it - Awesome on a big monitor http://gigapan.com/gigapans/73573
Ugh the same freaking questions for Elon.

Jeez can't someone ask him something new and different.

One I want to know is why he created Zip2 when he has always wanted to make an impact on the world? What was his thought process at the time? Did he think he'd make some quick money and move on or did he really think zip2 would change the world?
He founded Digg.
Here's the link to the source as far as I can see: https://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go
I had no idea there was "drama" to turn down. I saw a headline, I read some comments, I moved on. Did I forget to come back after more comments had been posted? I seriously don't get it.
Well, they have to maintain their pose and expression for 3 consecutive shots.

If you look at old daguerreotypes people have really weird expressions in them as well, because they had to be still for long time.
>Everyone on the team is responsible for good user experience.

True

>The existence of a person who does nothing more than "UX" is a process smell.

Depends on what you call UX. My definition of the noun "UX designer":

1. Participates in Observational Research (Watches customers use your software) right along side the product owner and developers. Any one who makes software design decision should be apart of the regular feedback loop. This can even include sales people if they are making design and feature decisions. If this doesn't happen you build the wrong software wich is a really bad ROI. (Note if you are building software where you accurately represent the user, such as github.com, Then this research can be skipped.

1.b Mentors new hires (dev, po, qa, etc) on how to get the most out of most out of observation research. Answers questions with reasons based on facts and proven knowledge. It is the UX designers job to help everyone take his or her job. UX is the whole teams job.

2. Participate in research debriefing with the rest of the team.

2.b Mentor new hires, and all I said above. UX is the whole teams job.

3. Use the "scenarios", "personas" and "activities" distilled from the debriefing to create a story map with the whole team (Dev, Po, QA, etc). From this story map "User Stories" and tasks are created.

3.b Mentor... and so on as said above.

4. Guide developers and mentor developers interested in making wire proto types to usability test.

5. Participate in Usability testing of said wireframes workflows.

5.b you know the drill, same as above.

6. Debrief on the results of usability testing.

6.b same as above...

7. Iterate on wireframes if necessary.

7.b same as above... (whole team involved, UX designer is mentoring, her job is to teach the team to make her job unnecessary.

8. By now hopefully we have spent very little man hours in finding a great solution to our goal. So we can code. Developers code and UX designer pair designs with them.

9. Team usability tests the product they just created.

9.b Same as above, mentors, etc

10. Debrief on usability test

10.b ...

11. Iterate on design, pair design with devs. Getting small details like padding and animation speeds right. With the goal of teaching the devs to the point that they can take the UX designers job.

12. Usability test again

12.b ...

13. debrief
13.b ...

14. Team releases product if its working for users.

15. Surveys and observational research to find out how effective is the "out put" (what we built) at creating "outcome" & "impact" (user time savings, user delight, increase in sales, brand loyalty, etc).

17. Debriefing on the Observational research, surveys, and quantitative data. Looking for things we could have done better. What worked well, what didn't, etc.

17.b ...

Note: the teams goal is not to maximize "out put". Many teams don't realize this. The teams goal is to _Minimize_ "out put" and maximize "outcome" & "Impact".
SSL/TLS is at a lower level than HTTP. The whole connection is secure as all the encryption is set up before the HTTP request is even sent. This is why SSL used to always require a dedicated IP address - The server didn't even know what domain you were going to while the connection was being set up (as the host name is in the HTTP headers) so you could only have one SSL certificate per IP address.

Server Name Indication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) works around this by sending the host name during the TLS handshake, so that multiple domains can use SSL on the same IP address. In this case, only the host name is sent in the clear. The whole HTTP request and response are still encrypted.
Special status isn't the point. They're simply cohorts and it would be interesting to see what the conversation would be like when segmented as such.
MB?! I saw about 300KB.
so awesome, loved the design and execution of this thing. maybe this concept could be expanded to other beautiful hot countries.
One change has been an influx of people who propose improvements. Another is an influx of people who care about karma.

Who, exactly, isn't going to post something because doing so will cost them karma points? (Hmm - maybe discouraging karma-whores is a good thing,)

Or, are you thinking that folks with too little karma wouldn't be allowed to post? Since karma can be earned by clicking arrows, that's not much of a cost.
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"if we had the technology to recover data after it's been overwritten, we'd be using that technology to double hard disk capacities."

If we have the technology, then like an electron microscope, it might not be feasible to implement at a size and a cost that would be viable in a storage product, but would be viable as a forensic analysis tool.
I built LFS about a year ago. The good thing about it, is that it tells you what specific versions of things you should use, so you know that you won't have a version compatibility issue. The bad thing is, a slightly wrong command at one point in the process leads to a cryptic error down the line.
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Yep, there seems to be a theme in tech world at the moment. Semi-fashionable bloggers jumping on hot topics and taking the high-road. I won't name names, but there are a few name brand VC's who are just writing columns for the sake of getting their name out there, adding no value what so ever and then doubling down on Twitter.

Tiresome at best, misleading at worst.

To note, I'm not talking about Arrington here.
So, how do you defend it?
And lots of Chinese mass production.
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378mb sounds high. Thats half a cdr.
Maybe privacy controls should offer privacy, instead of tricky-dick shenanigans.
As interesting as this may seem - take it with a grain of salt. One very effective way of biasing these surveys are to run them a number of times - if there is any significant variance in the results - you can always ignore the studies that didn't work out well, and publicize the one that does.

Far better for a third-party to commission these studies and do them once, and see what the results are.
I think the explanation is actually pretty simple: because of the combination of how they had to break the tiles up into smaller tiles and the dragoon's relatively large size. The AI imagines it can get through spaces it can't, or a gap turns out to be filled with other units, or similar.

(disclaimer: I'm just guessing, no inside knowledge. certainly feels right though)
If film captures details at a molecular level, why are my old 400 ASA APS snaps so much grainier and lower-detailed than my cell phone snaps?
He was really asking if you were "hip" and "with-it."
When I read "Mike Arrington" and "turning down the drama", I thought this must certainly be The Onion.
Anybody know an easy place to download the entire batch? The LoC page makes getting them in bulk a bit of a pain.
Even without auditing it or with just a cursory audit, mirroring third-party code makes a difference. If you copy the code then you have a complete history of code changes in your own source control, which should make shenanigans unlikely since it's easily proven. That's quite a bit different than using a live third-party URL, since the third party (or an attacker) could selectively replace it for some targets and you'd never know.

So yes, it's a good idea to always check any third-party code you use into your own source control system. I would hope everyone does that.
The good old days of Westinghouse. I left there two years ago and all Westinghouse consists of now is the Nuclear division :)

A whole lot of subgroups within that though of course.
Unless we figure out how to create realistic full-color 3D holograms, or at least highly-improved glasses-free stereographic displays. In that case, anything pre-stereography will look very "flat", and the relatively few stereographic photos taken today could have the same impact as these color photos from the article
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> I'm advocating a mindset

This is a good point. Living on $500/mo in a lush tropical paradise sounds fantastic.

Until you realize there are no like minded people around - you'll have no one to bounce ideas off of. This is one thing that interests me about dubai over generic-cheap-tropical-place, it's very much a driven environment.

Thailand is great for a vacation, or retirement. But I wouldn't want to hire technical talent there.

It very much a pick and choose your tradeoffs sort of situation. Can you find low living costs with a good, cosmopolitan urban core nearby? If so I think you've found shangri-la.

I suspect Buenos Aires might be on that list.
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Yeah, what chad_oliver said, this is a bit childish. What do you win by this?
The amount of smiling varies a lot between cultures, you can't correlate smiling with levels of happiness. Russians are known for not being big on smiling http://blog.properrussian.com/2011/05/why-russians-are-not-s.... From that article:

>> There is a popular Russian saying, “A laughter without a reason is a sign of stupidity”
I don't know why you are assuming an impact on poverty. This will be little more than a gated community for wealthy libertarians.