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Couldn't self driving cars even cause congestion to get worse, by making long commutes more convenient, and making driving more convenient than public transit?

Currently long commutes are a strong incentive to live closer to where you work. Reducing the inconvenience of commuting in a car means that more people will live further from the city center or public transit. Additionally, living further from the city center means housing or rent is cheaper. That means that more people will commute longer distances. This applies to other situations as well, like getting downtown on Friday night or to the beach on Saturday. Maybe self driving cars will be so convenient that people don't mind spending time in them, such that people spend far more time in cars than they do now.
The Orange Pi PC is competing fairly directly with the Pi 2, for $15. (Though it does apparently have some thermal throttling issues and isn't yet supported by the upstream Linux kernel without patches.) Annoyingly so in some ways; they haven't bothered to pin out many SoC features that the Pi lacks, like line-in support.

Oh, and that Olimex article smells of FUD. As they themselves point out, the price they were quoted for the SoC in the C.H.I.P. wouldn't be competitive - it's the same as a modern quad core SoC for a outdated single core. It's not a new die either, just another (possibly repackaged) version of the old and cheap Allwinner A13, so there's little in the way of R&D costs to recoup.
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Funny, that's exactly how I moved from Basic to Pascal... And eventually to C since I realized that my awful self-implemented 2d graphics library would never have the performance nor the set of features of for example the Allegro game programming library.

I also tinkered a lot in Delphi after that and I'd really like to give Lazarus a try now that I'm an adult who actually knows how to program.
I've heard this same concept before and it comes across to me as a bit of a fallacy. I may have misunderstood the idea but to me the argument misses the point. In order to have 1000 true fans, how many "regular" fans must one have?

The article even says, "ONLY" 1,000 true fans which seems to be a way of making the idea within reach of the everyday layman/procastinating wantrepreuner.

I would argue that to get 1,000 true fans your work has to be brilliant to a point of gaining a kind of religious zeal within a small number of a much larger audience.

This is just my opinion though.
Reminds of me the series Connections, where, no one man invented/created/discovered something all by himself. It was more of like, the thing of one man lead to this other thing of this other man, while this third man over here is also doing this other thing, and then bam! Something new and revolutionary that changed mankind for ever. Pete and repeats.
Well yeah, that was partially my point, Android Chrome already has at least partial support for service workers along with the Push and Notification APIs. On my Android I've been receiving Facebook's push notifications through Chrome and works well.

Firefox is my default on Android, but I do hope to see some progress on these, as I personally prefer web apps to native ones - more portable, not subject to a walled garden, plus the browser is the ultimate sandbox.
The visitor pattern essentially gives you pattern matching for your example. It can even give you destructuring pattern matching, if you wish. With a fixed hierarchy, each visit method handles one concrete case, and its signature can destructure fields and pass them individually. It's a hoop to jump through but not so bad.
Well if you just get 122 random bits from a CSPRNG you get an UUIDv4.
Probably that parasite that cats transmit: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneak...
You should check cat fancier forums posts about cats destroying household. It's like people in abusive relationships rationalazing "I was beaten, but it's my fault, I shouldn't talk so loud" or sth like this.
Unfolding the City: Challenges in urban data visualisation [video]
> Start with that and remove 1-person-1-car model [0], add ride-sharing software, ban human drivers [1] and done

... you've got a train

(particularly on the Intermediate Capacity Transit System / Copenhagen-like models, automatically run small and light cars for very frequent service)
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As you might guess, I don't agree that Firefox breaks intents.

If you're outside the browser, intent resolution proceeds normally. What changes is that if you're in Firefox you need to take an affirmative step to raise the intent instead of going to the web page. To me, that's the sensible default.

Otherwise you end up with nonsense like the following:

1. Clicking on an intent-matching link (e.g. Play Store, Google+, Twitter)

2. Being kicked to the intent-handling app

3. The app deciding not to handle the link (it's some sort of corner case)

4. Being kicked to whatever browser the app picks (often not the one you started with)

Back when devices were sold on the Play Store (not the Google Store), I lost track of the number of times I did this dance when I just wanted to look up something about a Nexus device. The problem was the Play Store app, unsurprisingly, didn't know anything about devices even though it matched Play Store device URLs.
Mosh: An Interactive Remote Shell for Mobile Clients (2012)
I second that. https://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hh... First time I felt really happy with a keyboard! I love that I don't have to reach far for my mouse when I need one, plus Control is in the right place.
The author is also wrong when he states, "We used the entire sequence, not just the number of heads", but the the calculation only uses the number of heads and tails, and not the sequence.

The calcuation used:

> sum[p^12*(1 - p)^8 | p <- [0,0.1..1]] / 11

Does not have anything marking position.

You would get the same results with the sequence

HHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT
as
TTHHTHTTHHTHTTTTHTTH

To say "In other words, we’ve shown it’s fine to forget the particular sequence and only count the number of heads after all. What is not fine is doing so without justification." is a confused conclusion from his statements, he hasn't actually justified it, he's just used a calculation that doesn't use position (but he claimed it did) then when it got to the same answer ignoring position then said "so position doesn't matter!".

But you would have a hard time believing sequence 1 above was random.
Those are specially compiled with different compiler options. Ordinary Debian is compiled for armv7 and will not run on RPi Zero or RPi 1 (note that RPi 2 is armv7).
Being destroyed while you use it does not preclude a premium market. See for example Hagomoro chalk:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
Agreed, but I don't think going back to theories that don't explain all current observations is a fruitful path there.
It is the recognition that almost all secrets are only valuable for an amount of time, and that you generate keys on the basis that within that time, it will be much more expensive to attack the keys than to attack something else.
Hi kgs42,

the already mentioned ESP8266 is definitely the way to go. Have a look at [1]. for some example circuits. [2] shows how to connect multiple sensors.

[1] https://www.aisler.net/projects?query=esp8266&src=hn_1
[2] https://www.aisler.net/projects/7890
How Fractals Can Explain What's Wrong with Wall Street (1999)
As a Londoner, today I learned what all those big Ms I've seen in foreign cities mean.
It's also my first Pi, more of an impulse buy. Have to find out what to do with it.
The only other part needed to get this running is a programming cable. The ESP8266 does not have a USB port but a serial one, so you need an adapter to connect and programm it.
e.g.:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12977

Just be careful not to connect the 5V VCC to the ESP8266, it will probably kill it.
Can the HDMI port be abused for some kind of networking?

There are a whole bunch of extra features tucked away inside HDMI. I know the Pi doesn't support Ethernet-over-HDMI, because it's missing the necessary PHY, but apparently it does support I2C-over-HDMI. I2C isn't very fast (tops out at 3.4Mbit, if you're lucky); is there anything else which could be used hidden inside somewhere?

One interesting thing about I2C, though, is that it would be cheap and easy to build a chassis with a whole bunch of these $5 modules wired together via I2C. It's almost certainly not cost effective in any way, but would be interesting, particularly if you could get useful work out of it...
My favorite feature is the reader view (does not always work but if it does it shows a little book in the URL bar), that removes all clutter and interstitials and just shows the main text body of the page in large enough automatically wrapped text.
“Catching” Panic Attacks
> And of course the one that started it all, the London Underground.

It's never called the Metro here. The Metro is a free newspaper.
Software-Defined Networking at the Crossroads (2013) [video]
Why significant variables aren’t automatically good predictors
Einstein's most genius insight was probably not to make any initial assumptions and simply to follow his thought experiments regardless of the outcome (even if they contradicted contemporary dogma). The idea that time is not constant and space can be bend was certainly genius and as far as I know rejected by others who thought the maths must be wrong. He certainly relied on others for the mathematical foundation but he always mentioned that. Science even today is strongly ego-driven and he surely had the personality to take on the other scientists of his time.
Self-driving cars are the necessary but not sufficient condition to solve traffic problems. Start with that and remove 1-person-1-car model [0]

There's no need to have self-driving cars to stop 1p1c. We've already got mass transit… Switch to semi-fullly seated buses and you've reduced the number of vehicles by a factor of 40.

Besides, since everyone starts work at the same time self-driving cars will have minimal effect on the number of cars on the roads at rush hour as long as there's only one occupant per car.

Much cheaper solutions than developing and constructing an entire new vehicle fleet would be to force multiple occupants per vehicle, and to have people start work over a wider time span.
To the dating site? No. My user account is created via email.
> (Although it lacks WiFi AC that the new chromecast has, and probably way weaker graphics, but a cheap WiFi adapter or ethernet and having most stuff streamed should be workable.)

This irks me a bit with the new "$5" RPi. Yes, it's $5… For a device without a power cord, without networking, and where you need adapters (and/or solder on a UART) to plug anything into it.
Smartphones may have role in rise of U.S. traffic deaths
Thanks! You can track HTTPS support here: https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt/issues/3
Maybe this won't be a popular response, but what we do know is that Facebook couldn't give a single fuck about your privacy or protecting your private information. (Insofar as they "care" it is to protect their own interests.) It is prudent to assume and expect that they will exploit you in any way possible. So if you are so concerned, why are you even on Facebook?
Chrome can do client side encryption of your data, which isn't something you can say about the new Firefox Sync.
Here are some articles in this subject: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/tag/developing-world/

Not saying it proves or disproves anything. I'm also interested in this aspect of cheap-o-computing
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Good times.

I often wondered if there is an OSS project/example that just aims to run the same code on as may platforms as possible..

You know an example? Please share here. :)

My followup question would be if they test regressions for all the target platforms manually?
Doesn't have to be - they're relying on people not shopping around for the cables and accessories, much like big brick-and-mortar retailers such as Best Buy have done for a long time.
Glad you like it! You can track request/response modification feature here: https://github.com/kdzwinel/betwixt/issues/10
Let the User Have Pause or Cancel Subscription Option
I am saddened that growing number of small-medium sized start ups are making it difficult for a user to pause or cancel the subscription. Either this option is not readily available or hidden in the dust. Perhaps I am the only one, but I hate them, and consider them nothing less than a scam. I'd immediately cancel my subscription most of the time. Because no one likes being locked up. If they had offered pause option/cancel I perhaps had stayed longer...

I don't think such technique helps either, it only leaves bad taste in the mouth.
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I like how the article references twitter quotes:

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Not sure what you mean by "these type of devices", but you will be overjoyed that on Raspbian, updating the system is as easy as `apt-get udate && apt-get -y upgrade`, the kernel is currently v4.1.13 [1], and the rest of your comment is also FUD.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/ker...
Maybe Einstein's brain was normal and he just dedicated his life and worked really hard at solving a particular set of problems.

Naaah, it wasn't hard work it was the way the grooves on his brain had a funny zigzag shape.
I would guess she searched for you.
I believe he was mistaken.

His talent was to be able to get to the heart of a problem. To find the connection everyone else had missed, or that everyone else had missed the significance of: the constancy of c, mass-energy equivalence, the Equivalence principle.

That's a pretty rare skill and, in my opinion, qualifies as genius.

In terms of what I guess a lot of students see i.e. the field equations, then sure, he was a decent mathematician but no Gauss or Cauchy. He took time and needed help to get to the necessary machinery for GR. But that doesn't, in my eyes, in anyway diminish what was an astonishing intellectual feat.

So no, he wasn't a lone genius but he was a genius.
Sure, there are not much new development, but there is still a lot of people working in it every day. I am one of those people, maintaining and developing big business system.

You can find Pascal/Delphi projects everywhere: a lot of scientific instrumentation software has GUI written in Delphi, there are tons of business software, even big amount of machines has UI for their front panels written in this language.

I think Delphi/Lazarus is still best software for writing small to medium sized desktop apps available.
Do you have any sense of proportion? FB is worth hundreds of BILLIONs and somebody wasted $500K or whatever on diaspora...thats not a waste of resources its a single FTE for at one of these companies today....Or do you have something else in mind?
I feel like Mozilla ought to be banking / investing a large slice of their revenue and aiming to live off the profits. They need to turn themselves into a self funded foundation that truly needs money from no one. They definitely shouldn't get used to rivers of gold flowing in, especially as their market share keeps falling.
I've read this article before, it's anecdotal evidence and he's jumping to one-sided conclusions (like "'=' and '==', the only situation where it would have been useful"), not leaving any space for YMMV.

I'm not questioning he's a very experienced programmer, but I know this type of highly skilled programmers - they're awesome working on solo projects and you'll be amazed at their nuclear alarm clock with Klingon language recognition, but working with them as a team tends to be an ordeal. I'm >80% sure I'd have to put the guy in this category had I met him.
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Perhaps consider attaching the contents of your dist folder to your github releases.
Yeah, waiting for even a few minutes is frustrating when there's no "progress bar". But:

Real time GPS tracking of buses is getting very widespread, ever backwards cities are starting to get realtime "how far is my bus from the stop" apps at least here in Europe.

So a low cost technology solution is about to mitigate your #1 gripe, as you can stay inside until the bus is close.

Of course if your PT is as poorly run as yours, it's just poorly run PT. I suppose there are systemic reasons why it's not getting fixed in your town.
What are the cylindrical metal things on the wall panel in the "1940's teletypes" picture? Is it capacitors?

I see those often in similar old photos, but nothing in modern electronics looks like that afaik so I wonder :)
Streaming fusion exists, and can easily be implemented in C++, that's what authors of this library should have done. C++ ranges library (proposition for C++17) will make this kind of thing possible without any overhead. Realistically, STL interface for sequences is pretty bad and barely composable.

This is not a problem with "functional style", it's a problem with library design.

writing

map (+2) (map (+1) (map (+3) xs))

will be just a single pass over a list in Haskell, with 3 function applications (maybe 1 if that is optimized to (+6)).
I'm pretty sure the digital I/O on the ESP8266 is actually 5V tolerant according to the datasheet, though this isn't widely advertised and there's some inaccurate information drifting around from back when the specs weren't fully known. (The same isn't true of some official Arduino boards which should not be exposed to 5V on the I/O pins.) It's a very nice little chip.
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Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi Gets Smaller
Wi-Fi under threat from ‘100 times faster’, more secure Li-Fi
Previous discussion (with an horrible title): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605289 (113 points, 4 days ago, 20 comments)
If you did use Facebook Connect or authorize an FB app in anyway, that would probably be enough to generate a link somewhere.

In any event, men tend to be the pursuers on dating websites. It sounds a lot like bragplaining. Except normally females do it, and they're a lot likely to see you as creepy because numbers are lopsided in their favor.

Not saying you're creepy - but the reason dating websites are a time sink is everyone's ecstatic about telling their story - no one's interested in yours. Even if they were very humble, you'd be competing against 10's to 100's of pastes.
IMO, even simpler than that would be to stop subsidising parking: raise parking fees, eliminate free road parking, force companies to charge for parking (this part may not be feasible, special land taxes on parking lots?). Whether or not you'd need special exemptions for businesses (deliveries, plumbers, etc.), I'm not sure.

People can feel free to drive around to their hearts' content, they just won't be able to stop and get out of their cars! ;)
Distributed systems for fun and profit
That is Raspberry Pi 2 I think.
They're actually complimentary. If you think about it, having a toll system without good public transit isn't going to reduce congestion very much for inelastic demand (eg. trucks going to deliver goods, people going to work) and is essentially a tax. However, when there is both a good public transit and a toll system, people can then pick between paying the toll or taking public transit.

The theory for toll systems is that by having a congestion charge, people will avoid using roads when they're congested makes sense, although it disregards several factors. Most people have to go to work between certain hours (which is why during rush hour the trains in Tokyo are crammed with people while outside of them they're not crowded at all) and that people often cannot relocate closer to work for various reasons (eg. children, unavailability of housing, etc.).

Furthermore, specialized white collar work (eg. software developers, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, etc.) often is only done in city cores, not in suburbs, meaning that people not living in the city core either have the choice to pay the toll or be underemployed.

As you mention, earmarking tolls to go towards improving public transit is a great idea; it will make the ratio of people paying tolls and taking public transit tend towards its equilibrium, as the more people deem public transit unusable, the more funds will go towards improving it.
i'd say it's a good decision for everybody except perhaps hiring companies, and then i'm not sure about that either in the long run.
Assuming you're no longer in Germany, say hi to Vanessa and Tommy from me.
The Delphi app has been continuously "enriched" with features and special cases, based on direct feature requests for each client that requested one. This has lead to the case where there are several thousands switches which need to work together, in every combination possible. They don't always work, by the way. The new app has selected the more relevant use cases and could be better structured and implemented. Modern means primarily a cleaned up UI, but also the dynamic way of customizing the GUI (defined per JSON and capable of on the fly changes for individual users or groups of users, instead of hard-code and compiled or yet another flag stored in the DB).

The clients are usually pleased with the web app but the project managers are a bit hesitant, due to the different installation process. The Delphi app has been sold/installed for well over 10-15 years and people are used to copying .exe files on a server. Copying files and .dll-s and tinkering with IIS seams to be less appealing...

The need to go "online" has been the driving factor for the web app.
You can find zigbee, wifi or bt dongles for $8 or less these days. I suspect board development costs are the limiting factor for the Foundation here, it's easier to slap on USB and tell users to plug in what they need.
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I see all these nice C++ libraries like Facebook folly and then I see that they bring in boost and megabytes of include files for trivial stuff bringing in stuff I absolutely don't need (or ever will, in fact most of it is for dealing with legacy compilers and OSes I don't care about). Maybe it's just me but I don't like half an hour compile times. Am I missing something or has everyone else using it just accepted the compile times ?
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The HTML spec migrated from a Python-based cross-reference generator (https://bitbucket.org/ms2ger/anolis/) to a Pascal-based one (https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi) recently.
It seems you have the impression that the problem with congestion is that cars aren't driving fast enough.

But my impressions is that you can't reduce congestion by going faster. In fact, you can get more congestion by going faster. For instance, imagine a bottleneck of cars passing an accident, where they all drive 60km/h instead of 80km/h. If there's a lot of cars on the road you get a wave of congestion in front of accident. But if everyone had been going 60km/h anyway, there wouldn't have been a wave.

You also have related studies showing that if equally spaced cars drive around in a circle, and they try driving over a certain speed (related to spacing) you invariably get waves of congestion, despite the fact that it should theoretically be possible to drive without waves at any speed. Normal humans simply don't regulate speed fast enough.

It's kind of besides the point though, because driving slower wouldn't get more cars through per hour.

The point is just that speed on the highway isn't an important factor. Perhaps if you look at speed on off-ramps and through the following intersections you'd get to something interesting.. but then safety becomes more critical.