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Hi, I'm actually one of the people who wrote this. That's exactly correct.

I'm one of the people who made this. This was actually a hackathon project so we didn't use the analog input and instead faked the keyboard presses to the emulator.

This is actually my experience as well. I've stayed in Airbnb ~5 times and had 3 of them be awful. 2 of those 3 just didn't have apartments for us when we showed up and the last one had the power/water get cut for not paying bills. Airbnb's customer support is very slow and is radically different based on what agent you are talking to. In addition, Airbnb appears to have a problem keeping customer service records. I've called and had a discussion with customer service and then called back ten days later and they had no record of the first call and refused to believe it happened.

I've been a guest and a host for airbnb but I have been treated awfully by airbnb which is sad because I like the service and the past two years I have spent 80+ nights in hotels/airbnbs.

Thanks for the suggestions, I didn't think about flipping the text for that half of the chart but that's a good idea. I'm not sure about the blank label but I'll look into that.

Hi, I'm one of the people who worked on some of the data visualization for this story. The people behind this worked very hard and did an excellent job. I would also like to point out, this is why police transparency is very important in modern society.

This is very interesting. This is actually an area that I spent great deal of time doing academic research in and I even looked into building something very similar to this. While it's possible in some sense, I'm not sure the technology is there yet for a full product to be delivered to consumers. I remain skeptical but am excited to follow this. I would like to see more details about a couple different pieces of the hardware & software they are using. I would also be interested in the people behind this, as there are several researchers work in this area that I would be significantly more inclined to have faith in.

I would guess you are correct about how they make sure your hands are on the wheel. I've done some car hacking and one of the things that surprised me was how sensitive some cars steering wheels are to pressure. It was impossible to keep it in the same position according to the car's internal electronic systems with my hands on it. This is car is 4 years old, so it's probably only gotten more sensitive.

One of the hardest problems with this would be getting connections to customers. I wonder how effective wireless connections could be. I know of a couple companies that do it for whole apartment buildings but I've never heard of it for just one house.

Also, if you send a large amount of data to the echo server, the server crashes. This is due to how data is read off the wire into a buffer. A suggestion is to use a fixed size buffer. I did test this earlier and I'm sorry that I crashed it.