skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the number of nonregular workers took off after an easing of labor laws in 1999" .. "To receive unemployment insurance, for instance, workers must have held the same job for at least a year, effectively excluding most temporary workers" .. "Today, 34.5 percent of Japan’s 55.3 million workers are nonregular employees"

Sounds like a third of the workforce is at risk of homelessness any time their temp runs out and this has been developing for ~ 15 years.
I too wanted to dismiss it outright, there are some big differences and the first is that simply not that many people really work on Linux.

As I ponder it though, I think it becomes more challenging. Linux' emergence has changed the psychology of the software industry and other industries. You really have to ponder before Linux and after Linux to start to capture the magnitude. Before linux, when you bought a computer you paid a company to make it boot and make it usable. If you wanted to seriously program your PC, you had a relatively small set of options: C, Pascal, Assembly, maybe BASIC and then some like databasey type programming platforms of sorts. You had to pay money to get those tools, not a small amount. You want to look under the hood? Go to a university and maybe that'll scratch that itch. Programmers were the nerdiest of the nerds, now they have a degree of coolness in society (a small one but still some and they make movies about Hackers and stuff.) Things were just very different, Linux and GNU and others have had and made a gigantic and revolutionary impact that really has changed the way software dudes think. Maybe GNU would have done this if Linux didn't show up. Maybe something else would have come along, seems like there is a social component and people were ready for it to happen.

That being said, they barely had computers and landed some dudes on the moon, that was some real fucking cowboy shit. Strapping dudes on to a bomb, controllably blowing it up and launching them to the moon and then bringing them back? Alive, with relatively low casualties. That's really big, a whole lot of people making careers out of that work and a whole lot of luck. The luck makes me think of it as bigger, if we did it 100 more times, I know we would have killed a lot more people in the process and it would have maybe looked a bit more reckless in retrospect.
I would love to see someone experiment with headshots of different people with varying degrees of attractiveness.
sponsored by the us taxi association. little do they know that it will be more profitable to have self driving taxis.
Thanks for the comment! Will add more (and different photos in the future). This was just the first batch.
Good idea. Thanks for the "tip."
Expire shortly, yes.

Lose immediately? That's what I understood him to be saying, and it is a red flag.
Traffic jams are caused by volume. If fewer cars pass per minute, due to driverless cars obeying the speed limit traffic will be worse. What are you citing?
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Indeed. It doesn't surprise me that the actual freedom available to users wouldn't be important to them, but it surprises me that the Bug#1 would have spoken so clearly about it if they didn't understand the issue.
I don't believe the report[1] actually said that the risk of a malfunction is higher than the risk of human error. In fact, it's quite optimistic about the ability of automated systems to save lives, for precisely the reasons you described. They do, however, correctly point out that such systems can malfunction, and will malfunction, and that safety impacts of such malfunctions should be minimized. Because malfunctions in automated transportation can lead to, say, June 2009 on the DC Metrorail.[2] Such incidents are rare, and through hard work and foresight will be rare in the future, but that doesn't happen by itself. You have to make a concerted effort to ensure such systems fail gracefully.

[1] http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/Automated_Ve...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_tra...
> In this case, most of these issues can be avoided by allowing a free text field instead of dedicated fields for street name, number, apartment, floor, state, county, district, and whatever.

The problem is that free form text fields are the opposite of over-engineering, because you're exchanging complexity at input time for the impossible task of parsing what the user typed in later on. Garbage in, garbage out.

An optimal way to tackle complex addresses is allowing the user to fill a free-form address, but annotate with meaningful metadata so you have useful data. Something like this:

[Number ] [24]
[Street ] [Westover Lane]
[City ] [Palm Coast]
[State ] [Florida]
[Zipcode] [32164]

[+ Add another field]
I very nearly chose Adzerk for our advert display platform at work, but in the end went with installing OpenX and doing it all in-house.

It's nice that we have more control over things, but boy is OpenX a hassle to deal with. I sometimes wish I'd chosen Adzerk instead.
Throw it in a microwave. That is the way i sanitize my bamboo cutting boards when there are tiny traces of meat inside after tenderizing. If that bacteria have water molecules in them they will be dead. And if they don't - you may be sick but you will get nobel prize in biology anyway.
I was a test developer on the UI for Win8 for the first half of development, and tried a couple times to get the PMs to think about mouse/keyboard navigation in Metro, but never got anywhere. The bar was accessibility for blind people, not usability for people who preferred mouse/keyboard.
I just run an OpenVPN server on a VPS that I use for other stuff as well. It works well, but I really only use it to secure public wifi and to keep my ISP out of my traffic since they started ridiculous policies like 6strikes.

I always assumed that a VPN would significantly degrade connection speeds, but it's turned out to only be a change of 20ms or less.
Funny you mention. Our first idea for the domain was hipsterphotos.com
Thanks, glad you like it. A ton of thought went into a lot of the little choices like that. We plan to dig more into how and why those choices were made as we move forward.
Is it easily reinstallable/transferable on another system without using the Steam client as well? If yes, then it can be really DRM free.

It's a bit ironical though, that the list of DRM free Steam games appears on GOG, while Steam doesn't mark in any way whether the game is DRMed or not :)
Very cool--the last I remember reading was that they were going to see about using his Solar City canopies. Anyone know what the risks are of the solar canopies not keeping up with demand?
That depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries hotels will actually insist on keeping your passport until checkout, and in others some have genuinely considered turning me away when all I had was a photocopy of a lost passport and a police report.
Certification? Hah.

My friend got a G1 "learner's license" in Ontario (which requires only a multiple-choice test). When he moved to New York, he "traded in" the G1 for a full license. I guess that's the exchange rate.
Can you put your photo on the results without a Google Plus profile?
It's more common advice to never name the first price.

I'm no expert negotiator but personally I think this depends on the situation. In more than one case I've underestimated my worth and received more than I would have though I could get away with asking for. Once they name their price, I know it's their lower bound, so I'm comfortable asking for even more.

I think negotiating a salary has different dynamics than negotiating a sale. For a sale, I would probably agree with the anchoring tactic.
Not only that, it also tells you if there is an "island" in the middle of the road where you should step over. The arrow has a bar through it (looks a bit like a cross sign)
Everyone around you would rather you didn't. Where should your liberty end when it puts others at risk?
I don't think apple will be upset in this case though...
Diversity value is inversely proportional to how well you understand the problem at hand. If you're building a rocket to mars, you probably need fewer psychologists than mechanical engineers. If you're an advertising agency, the situation is likely reversed.
The problem with snow and ice isn't what your already driving on, it is dealing with what is coming. I would really like to see how it deals with the lower visibility and constant motion around it. How does it deal with the ice coming up (and black ice).

If Google (or anyone else) starts testing in the northland, I will be convinced, but I don't think it is a very easy problem to solve.
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Anyone else surprised at the fact that this poor UX is happening at a company and founding team that pride themselves in their design roots? Wtf.
Finding great stock photos is HARD and if there's a place that can show a few that are free and beautiful looking, that's value add. Have you seen google images? anything free out there with regards to images is totally useless minus 2.
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I initially thought it was a service to embed your app's screenshot onto any device.

Which, btw, would be awesome.
I found this quite a lot. For the first few days of using Windows 8 I often found myself suddenly coming to, staring at the start screen. Wait... what's going on? Why am I here? What am I doing? (etc.) I'd have been concentrating on what I was doing, just working through it, then decided I'd needed something from the start menu - and the sudden obvious visual mode switch had snapped me out of my trance and broken my train of thought.

Then I'd go back to the desktop and straight away remember what it was I was thinking of. Very strange.

Fortunately, most of the time I just wanted another command prompt or explorer window, so I've just got into the habit of middle-clicking one of my existing ones. (This is still slower than the way I used to operate the now-vanished "classic" start menu with the keyboard, so for all the general improvements I'm still feeling like the latest versions of Windows have been something of a backwards step.)
It looks like their superchargers output 120 kW, which is 12 times the output of the "high voltage outlet" they cite. If you're just talking about the high power output of these chargers, then I doubt it's particularly dangerous.
Quality + Scarcity = You get what you pay for.

If you don't want to pay the big bucks and don't use a lot of media, hire a photographer. In any large city a LF photographer post on craiglists will net you more emails then you know what to do with. If you only need a handful of shots just use one of the many "Fiver" type sites.

I don't know why this post is upvoted so high, unless your website sells macbooks, watches, or glasses of water, the premise is ridiculous.
Interesting. I fear I'm mostly a back-end type of guy (ie not much experience with XMLHttpRequest). Sounds like the browser may be at issue to some extent. I certainly find the behavior you describe to be surprising. Is there something we can change to better facilitate this?
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You can't blame your location on the planet on the Americans.
+1. I did not appreciate these concepts until I watched Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API http://youtu.be/5WXYw4J4QOU
The downvote caused me to think, and I wanted to apologize if my post sounded arrogant. What I meant is that, while I understand what you're saying and it's very good that you've been able to win against your pain, there are pains that are on god-mode and impossible to beat or ignore, or even to cope with.

My polyneuropathy is one of things like this - I was able to put a strong facade for five years, until it worsened to the point where I couldn't anymore. And that was just the beginning, because it went downhill from there.

It's good to be "strong", but it's stupid to be stubborn and when the pain becomes too much taking medications is the right way. Even if you become a bit dumber because of them. At least that's what I did and having felt relief I can't imagine suffering once more like that. I have nightmares about that.
That's funny since I have a league 'hoops' game tonight. Exercise and other focus helps amazingly with my work. Weight lifting is another place where I come up with all sorts of solutions to work problems.

The whole paragraph from the lecture just struck me as a nerds revenge/jealously since here was a guy who was as smart as them and a jock. What could they possible lean on then to think themselves superior!?
This is basically the way it works in cities anyways. No one really cares in NY that taxis aren't their 'personal' space. In my eyes, autonomous cars would just allow a city-style car culture in suburbia, since it will finally be practical to not own (several) cars. You should really think of self-driving cars as providing scale to a lot of existing car-share economies.

For example, consider how many families today have 2 cars. Right now if the husband drives to work at 7AM and the wife at 9AM, this necessarily requires two cars. In an autonomous car world, the car would just drive back home to pick up the wife, instead of sitting in a parking lot for 9 hours. Now, extrapolate this to an apartment complex: What if part of the renters agreement is access to one of their 20 autonomous cars. Its very rare that at any given moment every single occupant of an apartment complex is using the car, so this would be totally feasible. In fact, it would be feasible today with normal cars except that when one person takes the car, they block access to that car for more time than they are actually using it. A 15 minute drive to the grocery store blocks usage of the car for up to 2 hours since it can't go back and service other members.
"Will be"? Probably. Right now? Probably not.

Ice and snow are real issues for, say, the Google car. Driving at night is pretty good because its sensors can still see things better than the human eye.
It's rare for all of the human drivers on a road to make the same mistake at the same time under the same conditions, but that's a likely failure condition for automated driving software if the software and sensors are standardized. This could lead to much worse accidents then you'd get with human drivers, because all of the cars will do the same thing.

An all-human example: driving too fast in foggy/whiteout conditions and not having time to stop when the road is blocked. When this happens today, you get 100 car pileups because everyone is doing the same thing: driving along until they suddenly come upon the pileup, and smashing into it because they don't have time to stop.

What if a software error causes this same kind of behavior in more common conditions? Google's testing wouldn't expose this kind of failure mode, because (afaik) they haven't done extensive tests driving fleets of automated cars together. All of their cars have been surrounded by human drivers, and for all we know the varied reactions of the human drivers have prevented them from hitting the Google car when it does something odd.
It's not any more powerful than all of the other power lines that run under, above or near your building. I wouldn't be concerned about it.
Exactly: I have some experience driving in snow and I've certainly made a few big mistakes that I'm pretty sure a computer (that would have a much better sense of available traction) could have avoided. I can also easily imagine sensors that can see through headlight-lit falling snow better than a human.
There are millions (billions?) of stock photos in the world, and your plan is to replace all of them with 10 pictures of a MacBook Air?

Even with more pictures it's unlikely you'll beat a Creative Commons search on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=cc&ss=0&ct=0&...
Awesome. We're looking for photos to add so when you're ready, you can submit them here: http://unsplash.com/submit
Shapeways stuff is much tighter, i think they're all actually watertight, you could likely make silverware out of the metal stuff.

Put it this way: quarters are filthy, but you don't eat off of them, so who cares?
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There is a backup feature so you can move a game between computers. I've used that but I guess there is no way to make a proper transferable backup w/o the Steam client.
The robot will be far, far better than humans at driving in such conditions. Modern cars already help out as best they can with monitoring slippage, temperature sensing, running in higher gears, monitoring road gradient and rate of change thereof, running wheels at different settings, and all the rest of it; if the meatbag would just sit in the back and let the robot drive everything would be much safer.

The indicator will say :"It's snowing meatbag, please wait until the road is warm and dry, or give me the wheel".
"Without spending a cent!"

At some point states are going to start taxing for electricity going into electric vehicles to make up for lost revenue for their road and highway funds. I wonder if Tesla will pay for that or start charging?

On another note, I do hope we don't end up with every manufacture building their own recharging network.
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Personally, I think that generics, in whatever form, are never going to happen in Go. The designers are smart enough that if they were really interested in them, they would've studied different approaches and come up with a reasonable design. I just think that having maps, slices and channels be polymorphic is enough for the designers and they have no use for something more complex.
I don't think it's right or wrong (on the part of Airbnb, maybe wrong on the part of society as a whole -- there are federal laws for handicap/accessibility problems but not yet for self-identity not matching government issued identity)

The issue is that transgender people make up (I'm guessing and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) < 5% of the general population. I would then assume that < 1% of the Airbnb population is transgender. That's a low enough number that it is more efficient for Airbnb to solve for those issues on a case by case basis rather than in code / process changes. Simple case of optimizing for the 90% instead of the 100% -- if that's offensive then I apologize but in my opinion it's justified in the near-term (maybe not in the long-term)
It's interesting that none of the hobbyist printers I've seen have optical calibration like a servo does -- I've read about overshoot being a problem when doing faster prints, but if the head could measure where it was in XY then it shouldn't be such a problem. Some old Sun optical mice knew where they were on the trackpad (which was super annoying, you couldn't pick up the mouse and move it somewhere else for a long drag), so the technology shouldn't be expensive...
Yeah, vested interests like feeding their family.

I mean yeah yeah luddites retraining rising tide etc... but "I'd like to not starve" isn't exactly a sinister motivation.
Now that I think about it, the auto-driver would decide it is slippery and go excruciatingly slow. And the next problem is that you can't get up a hill because it doesn't know how to gather up excessive momentum to make it over the hill. The human would say: "I can do it", but the auto driver says: "it's too risky".
"that you denigrate an entire industry"

I'm no fan of stock photos but I have to say that the few images look pretty much like stock photos. Which is what I don't like about them. The fact that you don't have to pay is really not the issue it's that particular look (with the blur etc.) that bothers me.
Bloggers, regardless of what of laptop they have, have a platform to voice their legitimate gripes about an operating system, where consumers only have the power of their purse, and can choose to not buy - which is happening. It's not like their making up their grievances, and many are in alignment with my usage of Windows 8, despite my lack of status as a blogger.
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what does that even mean? it sounds like "golang got too mainstream, it sold out to the man."

but, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that there's an intelligent comment here
It's... just a bunch of photos of Apple products.

Not even close to a full stock photo replacement.
Well they did go to Stanford and UIUC. Arguably the best school for business and the birthplace of the browser, and one of the best comp sci schools in the country.

I think the point is that he hired people he knew.
But the value of stock images is to use them somewhere else.

Lets say I write an article negatively portraying the electronics manufacturing industry and use these images along with the article. I'm pretty sure Apple wouldn't like it if they found out...
If you read their pitch, Massive Chalice has a separate team from Broken Age. I think inXile are the ones using the team continuity argument. Obviously it's better for the company if fans keep shoveling in money regardless of (lack of) any results, but you have to admit this sets a risky precedent.
FWIW, inXile, the guys who ran a Kickstarter campain for "Torment: Tides of Numenera" to great success before delivering on the goal of their previous campaign for "Wasteland 2", explained that the company works most efficiently by rolling pre-production talent (concept artists, writers to a degree, etc.) onto a new project when the previous product goes into full-on production, instead of having them sit idle.

But after watching the Double Fine documentary vids I don't get the feeling the same explanation would apply here - employees there seem to specialize less and be more flexible in their roles.

That said, I'll be backing this because those documentary vids are incredibly entertaining. Even if "Broken Age" never makes it out the door or winds up mediocre, I'll easily have gotten enough for my buck to make the exchange feel worthwhile to me (at the same time I'll admit that seems worrying even to me, turning development into a sort of performance art ...).
Why are you so opposed to having your identify verified so that hosts know you're not a scammer? You couldn't give them even a library card with your photo on it or something? The ease-of-use of Airbnb is what makes everyone like it... I don't think that's super easy to replicate. I also don't think a quick ID check dramatically reduces the ease-of-use.
Are you a lawyer?
I hope this is not legal advice you're giving, because the general best practices I've always learned using pictures in marketing material: "Never show brands or products names"
So much of whats wrong with the US pops up in one persons experiences.
They also say, "as self-driving cars improve, they will reconsider."
Seems fair.

It would seem fair if they pointed to any actual data regarding the safety of such vehicles versus the safety of cars driven by humans but I see no such information provided. Or, it might seem fair if there was any company trying to actively sell self-driving cars to the general public right now.

I think this is a problem that would likely work itself out without legislation surrounding it. Companies, for the most part, would probably like to provide products that don't endanger the lives of their customers. Along with that, insurance companies I'm sure would love to reduce the risk of driving while maintaining the current cost of insurance. Therefore, I'm guessing they will be heavily involved in testing self-driving cars. If the findings aren't good I'm sure insurance costs would be extreme or not available at all.
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Different vendors' autonomous cars have encountered each other in the wild, there has been nothing tragic happening. They wave to each other.
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