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This is the streetview of London Road, Bath. https://goo.gl/maps/BF8dHyqetow Local cycling groups campaigned for a 2 way protected track along here, but were over-ruled by a council officer who chose a design, where you can be cycling along with your child on a bike, be overtaken by a bus, that then pulls in forcing you to pull out into 30mph traffic. They chose a design where dead space in the middle of the road was more important than providing a design that encouraged modal shift.

This road also breaks the EU legal limits on pollution. They knew this when they put in this design.

I wrote about it here http://cyclebath.org.uk/2015/05/23/london-road-an-example-of... however the real issue is that a lot of Highways officers still consider cycling a joke.

"Why should we cater for the 2%" is a line I hear a lot. However, you do not build a bridge because of the number of people swimming the river.
I run a side project called http://moodpanda.com , people rate their mood an a simple scale and other members give feedback, I think the feeback is what keeps people coming back to our app, not the rating part but the feedback they get from others.
"The greater the code size the greater the probability of bugs."

Right. I think we are done here.

Microsoft Windows is larger than any OS I know of, and only keeps growing.

To answer your question, I am using a text only browser that's based on the links project, with my own minor modifications.

I still have no idea why you and the other commenter are asking. It seems quite clear neither of you have any legitimate interest in such programs. Otherwise you would not be challenging my statement of such a simple fact as the quoted sentence above, as it applies to Microsoft.

I strongly disagree that "small" programs are not useful. As I have previously stated, I use them every day. I use programs such as sed and netcat to interact with the www even more than I use a browser.
What's the alternative to light rail?

To substantially reduce road traffic, you need to offer people an alternative that is cheaper and/or faster and/or more convenient.

Since most of the cost of a car is sunk costs (you have to pay your insurance & depreciation on your car whether you use it to commute or not), if there's free parking at work the car is going to be the cheapest option for most people.

So either you have to substantially increase the cost of driving (aka tolls), or you have to give them an option that's faster and/or more convenient. A bus using the same roads as cars can never be faster or more convenient.

Bus rapid transit (buses on dedicated roadways) may be an option, but a good BRT (aka one without traffic lights) isn't substantially cheaper than LRT.
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PSDoom[1], anyone?

[1] http://psdoom.sourceforge.net
http://htmltowordpress.io is a simple drag & drop web app to convert any website into a wordpress theme in seconds.

Two main use cases it’s been developed for:
1)Convert current website into wordpress without the hassle it entails (paying for the service or the time sucking DIY option). Usually to get access to plugins, DIY maintenance and all that good stuff.

2)Workflow tool for developers & designers. It’s been an internal dev tool at a wordpress agency to save time in delivering projects. It’s just quicker and simpler to develop a static website than integrate WP into the workflow from the beginning.

P.S. Also a ton easier and cheaper to hire people with good front-end dev/design skills than also requiring sufficient WP expertise.

So if you have a website that you’d like to convert into a wordpress theme - Now it’s stupid simple to do it. Looking forward to some brutal feedback (don’t worry about offending us, we’re grown up nerds heheh). Here’s the url again: http://htmltowordpress.io
This isn't reddit.
The print colume is 2.7 liters, I believe it's cylindrical (125mm diameter).

Compared to the Ultimaker which has a pretty big printing volume of about 21x21x20.5cm (9 liters).
The direct drive extruder would allow the use of flexible filament as well.

While they're similar weights, the metal printer will be much more dimensionally stable than wood.
M-Pesa was on 60 minutes last night:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/future-of-money-kenya-m-pesa-60-...

HN thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614816
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You can save some money by printing replacement parts to repair stuff instead of throwing it away. Other than that.. it depends on what you do :-) for some hobbies 3d printing is invaluable, for others it isn't.
> For some odd reason politicians and many people are hung up on light rail and it has the worst cost structure of all mass transit options.

For many people, Light Rail (or trains / subways) are the only decent mass transit they have ever experienced in the US.

Every single major and minor city has a bus system. Most of them are nearly useless, often intentionally so by design. It's natural for people to demand something useful, and light rail is nearly universally more useful than busing (including BRT) in any given market.

> It isn't flexible and its cost per mile is staggering let alone the cost of maintenance.

Those are benefits of light rail, not drawbacks. The higher costs and inflexibility of light rail represents an authentic long-term commitment to good useful transit in that area.

To replicate that value with a Bus system requires you to build grade separated, dedicated right of way. Which is where 90% of Light Rail's cost comes from. So if your going to spend that money, you might as well put in real Light Rail and get all of the benefit.
I know, it wasn't a perfect comparison :-). My jaw, not my cranium. But--it really was basically cosmetic, as are most braces (though our orthodontist invented enough of a reason that my parents didn't feel like they were being extravagant and superficial, and I think insurance even covered it).
I believe it's still 10GB per repo: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/gitlab-dot-com-storage-l...
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The majority of museums in London have extra resources for children and they range from pretty poor 'trails'/paper-based games to interactive talks and workshops targeted at particular age groups. What you get highly depends on the people in charge at the particular institution. The goal of these resources is to facilitate alternative interpretations to allow people of all ages to appreciate the collection (and make maximum use of the funding). The idea that all people, even across the same age group, interpret art in the same way is wrong; the idea that one interpretation is better or more right than another is also wrong. Fortunately there are now numerous ways to enjoy museums and galleries and to 'drag' a child around is unlikely to be one of them. Surely that's obvious.
This is exactly what eminent domain is for. The state needs to build a railway, they give fair market for the property, and then take the property. This isn't a new problem and was solved 150 years ago. The Kelo case (wrongly I believe) cleared up some confusion on if the a government can take the land in order to give it to businesses who will use it in a way the government prefers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
DC actually did plan for growth when they build the metro. Everyday it transports a staggering number of people which would be intractable for ANY highway system if these same people drove.

What they failed to account for, however, is the growth of exburbs like Ashburn VA and other places even further out like Frederick MD.

These remote places are built by developers who literally put ZERO thought into infrastructure and what will happen to traffic and many other things when thousands of well-paid people move into their McMansions in the middle of nowhere.

They just buy up farmland from farmers who want to retire, sell a fake dream of idyllic rural living, plop down a bunch of cookie-cutter houses, then take the money and do all over again somewhere else. People have been finally getting wise to this anti-pattern (it was known in Maryland since the 90's) and the citylab article is an example.
"that this article is getting so many down votes."

You can't downvote stories.

The secret ranking formula automatically downgrades stories that reach certain thresholds of views and votes depending on the distribution of comment voting. Upvotes can actually make a story fall in the rankings. The exact details are considered a state secret, but you should not expect that upvotes will always promote a story.
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I work for a children's book company and wrote something similar for recording children reading aloud. Looking into the licensing on distributing an MP3 encoder to hundreds of thousands of machines it became unreasonable. I've started playing with conversation to Speex instead with conversion to MP3 server side, and that seems much more reasonable.
I use the keyboard that came embedded in the Lenovo ideaPad Z510.

I never got the obsession with keyboards, I've been coding for 5 years and I always just use the one that comes with the laptop.
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Now if this whole thing could be accomplished using pure redstone circuitry http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109385-Computer-Bu...
Could you expand on where it falls short? I'm interested, having not yet relied on it heavily.
Well first congestion isn't linear to vehicle miles. In traffic movement small things have a massive knock on effect. On my daily route to work I see the effect that adding just a few more cars to a road does. Adding 5% more cars doesn't increase congestion by 5% it actually brings traffic to a standstill where it was moving at an effective pace before.

Adding extra capacity can even make the problem worse because of what happens when increased capacity meets lower capacity. Human driver are terrible at going from two lanes down to two. You could say that this is bad design but in cities especially there are constraints that you can't really design around very easily without destroying massive parts of the city. This was done in the past to allow highways to penetrate right into cities but those highways just slowed to a crawl.

As for cost effectiveness bike lanes are a lot cheaper than extra road lanes and very much cheaper than elevated highways. Bus rapid transit is also extremely cheap. That's before you start looking at other cost benefits such as increased health for more exercise and less pollution.
It's at least partially due to the process being "unnatural" in a historical context. Women were historically pregnant much of their lives, so having a period would have been relatively uncommon. It's also been explicitly stigmatized in many different religious contexts, from the Old Testament to Native American cultures.

Is any of this right? Probably not. But for better or worse, we're driven as much by our history as our intellect.
We have a soft limit of 10GB for now.
I started my own company (to be a freelancer) at age 18 when I went to uni. I had a family friend who was a programmer who I teamed up with.

After uni I joined IBM as a graduate. I kept freelancing in my spare time and helped my brother build a successful e-commerce company over the past 11 years.

In 2012 I left full time employment and continued freelancing to two regular clients.

In 2013 I built an MVP to be notified of changes on a web page, and while at an E-commerce trade show, I asked the CEO of a company exhibiting the question about how they get client e-commerce products into their system without any technical integration.

This resulting in me creating a second MVP to scrape e-commerce data for retailers wanting to sell on marketplaces. The CEO spent the following 6 months convincing me to be their CTO, which I've been doing for the past 2.5 years now.

So yeah, my future changed very drastically based on me deciding to wait a few more minutes to see if the CEO was free to have a chat. I could easily have walked away instead. Still looking forward to that feeling of 'success' but I know I've moved a long way over the years. I've learnt that if you focus on building up a network of contacts and actually getting to know them, you give yourself many more opportunities than you would otherwise have.

However, except with my getting into IBM, my university education hasn't played a significant role. Owning my own company, doing real work and continually learning and building has been critical.
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Usually workplaces ban working on pet projects, or at the very least claim all IP rights on them.
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And like other "rhythm" based contraceptives, they are not great protection against pregnancy either.
> An Amazon CloudFront domain is dubious?

Yes.
I tested again and seems to be on every knob. It goes like this; i change a parameter, the "led ui" on the synth shows the param name and a value and it freezes for some 40-50secs. During that time ui is totally unresponsive. After the freeze time the ui might come back, maybe burst a note or two, or might hang like that forever.

My computer is an old core 2 quad, but i'm working on a webaudio project myself and by my estimation it should be able to handle your synth easy.

Also, in case it helps. I've found some hard to debug webaudio issues, like osc hanging in forever and 'cpu leaks', but your issues seems more related to how the ui is updating the audio graph.
I actually had a friend who went to school for this and uses it for almost everything. He prints silverware, plates, glasses and other things instead of going out and buying them.

He prints a lot of other things you probably wouldn't think of. One time the toilet paper roll holder in his bathroom broke so he just printed a new one. He also had a lamp in his study break and instead of going out and buying a new one, he printed a mold of a lamp, then took the wiring out of the old one, wired it up on the new one and boom! New lamp.

He really made me think there's a ton of uses people would never think of for 3D printing, the stuff he does really opened my eyes.
Yes, when you build useful things, people generally use them. Consider: "The parks are too crowded. But if we build parks, this mostly just lowers the density of park-goers in the short term. In the long term, people move to live near the parks and use the parks more, so that the density of park-goers rises again, and we loose most of the benefit!"

There's lots of constructive arguments to be had about the relative benefits of investment in roads vs. rail vs. whatever, and tons of good criticism to level against subsidies and un-taxed externalities (for all those options). But arguments complaining about the "endless cycle" of building useful things that subsequently get used are silly. This lowers the quality of the conversation about public transit, making it more difficult to convince others of the relative merits.
What's the solution, if not more trains or more frequent train service? Take a commute to the South Bay from my neighborhood: a little over 50 miles on three interstate highways (I-580, I-680, I-880), which takes 2+ hours during rush hours, due entirely to road congestion. How do you fix this? Bike lanes?
The point is that building more roads doesn't reduce congestion. This is because the number of car trips increases as well. As the supply of roads grow, the demand for car trips goes up as well, to the benefit of no one.

It is definitely an editorial decision of Citylab to evangelize this finding. But in this case, not in a mendacious way, more in an exasperating i told you once i told you a million times kind of way.

That NJs economy stalled due to not having enough roads is a conjecture.

You don't need physical room for economic growth (well, I'd say in the US you don't). The US is incredibly wasteful, to the point of it being obscene, with its physical space. The upside is dubious. But the negative results of car slavery are clear: it excludes children and seniors of being independently mobile, it creates a terribly unattractive environment, high speed roads - aka car sewers - are a killer on property values since nobody wants to live next to on, driving claims more than 30000 lives per year in this country alone.

Cars have benefits though!!! I have three, should that factoid help convince you. But they work best in a handful of use cases: longer trips, hauling stuff, recreational driving in the country, ... Basically, what the commercials show you. But when you're shackled to them to do daily errands that you could just as well do on your own two feet if only the built environment wasn't so hostile to humans, they are terrible.
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This is not just true of governments, but any large coordinated human activity like corporations.

I would imagine that the majority of salaries in the U.S. get determined by bureaucratic proxies.
I went to a french private school (Epitech) and just completed my Master's degree there. I spent three years in Rennes (west of France), one year in California and one year back in Paris. I interned for 2 startups and worked as a TA for 2 years while I was studying. I don't recall having failed a course in those five years.

The biggest low point was when I worked for an advertising startup with no vision and "buzzfeed projects". Thankfully I no longer have to experience that.

I'm now interviewing with a few tech companies in Paris and I wish it existed a "badge" that says "yes, I know all the stuff from CS 101, spare me the bullshit and go straight to the interesting part" because that's really annoying.
I'd like to play minecraft in minecraft. I would totally install minecraft on that minecraft also and play minecraft on it.
Momentum, and it supports longer cable lengths (>3 meters) than DisplayPort.
I dont understand why people ignore Linux Mint when commenting as a consumer desktop OS. It works wonders and it's really easy to use.
Which is Canonical's problem, and no one else's. Again, this is a positive. Canonical get to experiment without tangling other parties in.

Why are you treating this as zero-sum?
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Puppet
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Are you really saying that given the choice between a train system that costs X and an identical one that costs 2X, the 2X one is better?
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I completed CS, but failed lots of courses the first time around. I think I did some exams 5 times before I passed (this might be easier in Dutch universities than in the US system). I put off my Master's thesis for a few years while I worked a full-time job, then switched subjects and managed to complete it anyway (9 years after I started). That first job was with a startup I co-founded, where my opportunities for growth sort of fizzled out after five years. After six, I quit, posted my resume online in a few places and got a nice new job through a recruiting agency. Started in the new job as a C++ engineer and was promoted to a management role in 6 months... Lots of challenges!
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Been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnO1QZJ--M

... sort of.
Here's an implementation of a toy compiler targeting LLVM (with very basic Erlang interop), which was created with the help of that book: https://github.com/pkaleta/kivi
Speex has been deprecated. You should consider Opus instead.
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I confirm this. My webaudio project was halted because I couldn't figure out why the cpu usage kept going up. After some chromium lists reading I decided to give them some time to polish the api. Some months later the same project was working as expected.
That's not the real problem. If it were, then there's a time-honored mechanism for clearing the way, eminent domain. To employ it, you need a politician with enormous political capital.

The problem is generating that capital. Most Americans simply don't care enough about transit for a politician running on the "Moar railways" platform to get elected.

Most of our passenger rail mass transit systems got built before reliable auto transportation became cheap. Now that cars are ubiquitous, the political will isn't there anymore.
The Straight Dope has more on this:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3063/why-is-the-let...
[1] suggests that this can be used for code signing, but not to MITM network requests, which makes it bad in a different way to superfish.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_ship...
What is a module, and how does it work?
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Yes, but a good public transportation system usually requires heavy government support and sponsorship. The subsidies to suburban, sprawling neighborhoods are much more difficult to see than the direct costs associated with building and maintaining public transportation. The perceived quality of public transportation also have a big impact. It's a very difficult thing to do politically, so I'm more surprised by the areas that have managed to create good transit than places that have failed to do so.
TL;DR: Everyone went blind. The end.
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I have a colleague from the "eastern bloc" with a similar set of stories: factories in which everyone had a side business with stolen material.

But it really, really shouldn't be seen as a binary choice between unfettered winner-takes-all capitalism and full zero-freedom communism. There are lots of possibilities in the middle which should be selected on a pragmatic basis.

After all, the point of the original article is that in capitalism people can also end up in unsatisfying useless makework positions. Most companies are centrally planned internally.
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Just a notification comment:

https://github.com/SilentCircle/contact-discovery
>Every time one of these articles comes up on here there are lots of Bay Area folks saying "but I like to drive my own car". That is fine, but don't make everyone else subsidize it.

That cuts both ways. There are very few subway systems in the world that are self-sustaining. You can't just say to not subsidize one way of life while demanding people subsidize another.
> their general refusal to integrate with software projects they depend on for survival.

Would you be able to elaborate on this a little bit? It seems like a contradiction to me but it's more likely that I'm not understanding properly.
Most practical uses for 3D printing parts are still inferior to CNC milling or wood carving. Rapid prototyping remains the most useful task for 3D printers.
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How well-advised was the UK govt when it drafted the Investigatory Powers Bill?
Yeah I see this a lot. The first "cycle superhighways" in London were along these lines. Thankfully they've started building properly segregated cycle lanes and are rebuilding quite a few junctions. I think it helps that now cyclists are the majority of traffic over quite a few bridges in London. It'll continue to be a very long fight but I think there is hope. That being said it does seem like other UK cities are lagging behind London which in itself is nowhere near where it needs to be.
I think the true sign that cycling has finally been acknowledged will be the implementation of green wave traffic signalling for commuter routes into the city.