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> Eventually, mass transit will fail and underground subways will be repurposed for AVs.

No matter how autonomous the vehicle, a tunnel of cars will never have the the same throughput capacity as a subway. For supporting the kind of dense cities that we need to in order to have a somewhat sustainable society in the long-term, that's crucial.

Unless you're talking about fully autonomous subway systems, in which case those already exist - like in NYC.
I've tried a bunch of different systems but have found that simplest is best: Google Docs.

Low-friction access is important.
I'm not familiar with licensing requirements in other countries, are they more rigorous?
Take the Sound Transit 550. It is the main (only direct?) busline between downtown Seattle and Bellevue. During rush hour it comes at an interval of 10 - 15 min. The bus it self is a double wagon (with an accordion connection), it fits maybe (beware I'm pulling this figure from thin air) 50 people. It is always crowded with people standing back to front. During these 10 - 15 minutes one can only imagine how many people cross on the motorway between these places in their private cars.

So it is accurate (although it sounds like a contradiction) to say that *"Nobody wants to take the bus because it is too crowded".
It's that expensive because of the population density and government meddling. There's no need for that in the US...are you saying we should artificially charge the pants off of everyone driving to work just to force them to use public transport? Why? I like my car. I like driving my car. I don't want to ride a train, or a bus. If I can work to the office, I will. I'll drive everywhere else.
Bengal famine is just one example. Read about the history of the Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD.
There are diagrams. I guess nobody thought about accessibility.

50%: California, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas

20%: Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Washington
Yes, I agree that the top-level SNARK will obviously have a high level of security wrt soundness, but suppose that I have a SNARK recursively computing 2^128 SNARKs, you’re claiming that the lowest level SNARK would have the same knowledge soundness guarantees? That seems incorrect given the constant size of the top-level SNARK
And the number one, not mentioned, is to actually mine CryptoNote. Article to be released in the years.
Not exactly what you wanted, but in Cube 2: Sauerbraten http://sauerbraten.org/ (open source) you can easily edit rooms in god view, and then use the map for a first-person shooter.
The reason that everything is so not integrated is because of the American culture of containment. You have very very different kinds of people living in close physical proximity who often want nothing to do with each other. Think East Palo Alto and Palo Alto for example, especially in the 90s when East Palo Alto had the highest murder rate per capita in the U.S.

Nowadays, physical proximity means less and less. Relationships are even becoming less integrated. Yes you can interact with other people, but only as coworkers and paid professionals. Don't cross any weird lines. Even asking someone to engage in friend activities is getting more rare as most people prefer online friends, since they have more in common with them. The throughly modern American asks "Why would you need to be in physical proximity to someone anyway unless it was necessary for work? That's so creepy!". Lately, Tinder and friends have really stripped the last actual need for non-work physical proximity with any indivuals who have not been pre-screened via the algorithm.
> Yes, and the recall effect is much stronger if you use handwriting vs typing[0]

That's a good thing, because I'd have to rely on my memory rather than trying to read my handwriting.
This is pretty awesome. Have you done load (pps) tests to see how efficient it is vs. other stuff?

(Oh, I guess linux is handling all the actual routing, of course. So really the question is performance of dhcp/dns/etc. at peak on the hardware, vs. alternatives.)
Here in the UK, employers offer things like interest free loans for season tickets or buying a folding commuter bike etc.

1+ hour away is fairly common in London, even on public transport. Not only is London itself pretty large, but it has a big catchment area for people coming in for work from elsewhere.

Buses can be made safer and cleaner and more comfortable with investment. Would I prefer to drive in my own car in my own space? You bet I would. But the difference in price is not a few dollars, it in the order of £60 a day which is £1,200 a month. Not worth it. That £1.2K would be better spent paying down a mortgage
Diabetis runs in my family. So i tend to keep a diary where i track the Fasting and Post Prandial blood sugars of my parents. Over time (almost 8 years) it has given me an understanding to seasonal influences on diabetis and also how they are responding to a particular medicine.
iOS network debugging, like a wizard 🧙‍️
Markdown files in a category of directories. Plain. Easy. Simple. I personally use sublimetext with Markdown Editing, MarkdownExtended (the syntax highlighting is better than markdown editing), Markdown Preview, MarkdownTOC, SearchInProject (uses ripgrep to search contents) and ImagePaste[0]. I sync my knowledge-base with box, but anything would work, including git if you want to commit/pull constantly. I use Mark Text sometimes for output/live editing. I find that the simple syntax highlighting is quite beneficial to organisation and far simpler to use and navigate than ORG mode (plus I wouldn't/didn't really use the org mode advanced features). I also use some firefox plugins to make copying the current title/url as a markdown link easy ('Copy as Markdown...') and a 'paste to markdown' (https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/) web tool—but I'd like to turn the latter into a FF plugin. I write all my documents with these tools initially as well, either transforming to word with pandoc, into html/pdf with MarkdownPreview+PrintPDF (I prefer the formatting to pandoc) or with 'BackSlide' to convert markdown to lecture slides.

The trick is organisation. This is the hard part, but it's also the hard part if you keep paper notes. I have some catch alls, '_inbox.md', '_work.md', '_til.md' (where I keep track of things I've learned today, I try my best to go back and re-read the previous weeks every once in a while) to keep track of random/non-catagorisable notes; but other things exist in 'administation/' (ie. 'administration/linux', 'administration/windows'), 'intersting-articles/', 'programming/*', 'work/meetings/<project>_<date>_<topic>.md'.

If you use sublimetext and the above plugins, cmd/ctrl-r (navigate open doc by symbols) lets you move/search through headings quite easily. My '_work.md' file has a list of dates at the top for when things are due and uses '- [ ]' as checkboxes (which MarkdownPreview outputs as html checkboxes).

I find that as long as I write it down and watch what I'm writing (don't just copy without following your output) it helps to make it stick—or at least gives me a spatial memory of where it might be.

Flexibility is key. But what works for me, probably doesn't work for you. The important part is just to start doing it, write down all the things. Once you find something you'd like to be better about it, improve it. The nice thing about text files is that they are easy to parse and transform into something else.

[0]: To keep allow you to paste images into your markdown files. I've modified it so that it stores the files in a '.images' directory in the same location as the .md file. ImagePaste also has an image preview mode that lets you expand images directly inline in sublime-text.
As a side note, there is an online course called "Building a Second Brain" that shows how to create an effective personal knowledge base: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/

It's kinda pricey, and I'm taking the course right now. But I find it's pretty effective overall. It uses evernote as the default platform for your PKM.
Knowing the history and the current makeup of the south outside of large metropolitan areas like Atlanta, “states rights” should frighten anyone who is any type of minority.
"NTP scientists had exposed thousands of rats and mice (whose biological similarities to humans make them useful indicators of human health risks) to doses of radiation equivalent to an average mobile user’s lifetime exposure."

Assuming we're discussing RF "radiation", how did they do this? By cranking up the RF output power? I'm sure if someone exposed me to a few thousand watts of 1ghz RF pointed directly at me, the tissue heating effect alone would cause a huge range of issues. That is how a microwave heats food.

Seems a bit like saying that baths are deadly because scalding hot water will kill you.
> Out of the box, though, the system couldn’t keep up with typing.

Until the most recent iOS update, my 6+ couldn’t reliably keep up with typing on iOS 11, fwiw.
What are free alternatives to personal backup services like Backblaze?
You need to look at the bureaucracies. They are huge and growing. I've worked in University administration, I've seen the cost breakdowns. Personnel and administrative costs represent the bulk of University spending.
I'm not saying violent communication isn't allowed or is wrong. I'm saying a culture that protects its usage and normalizes it is unsustainable. I prefer to strive toward minimizing its usage and cultivating cultures oriented around everyone's physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and mental well-being. Establishing nonviolent communication as an explicit cultural norm is a step toward that. Same goes for community accountability practices and transformative justice practices, which aim to help individuals and the collective by analyzing systemic cultural components to see how sustainable they are.
Exactly. Furthermore, the US is a comparatively young country. A lot of cities with great public transport either already existed before cars were around, or had the necessary population density to support mass transit.

I recently came back from a visit to London, and did not once need a car (I did take an Uber because I wanted to see what it was like to drive from the left side!). It was fantastic being able to take the Underground anywhere I needed to be, but it was very clear that it was only possible because the city was already there and densely populated before the arrival of cars.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your pricing plans in your SaaS?
Specifically, the interaction between a customer's current pricing plan, and the features that you enable for them. I'm trying to validate an idea of a pricing plan service that would run alongside your application that would track pricing plans, which customers are on which plan, and the features each plan enables (including tracking usage levels, e.g. the silver plan allows up to 10 messages per day and customer X has used 2 messages of out 10 today).
> Famines are caused by environmental issues, a monsoon affects crops or bad policy like Mao in China or Kim in NK

Maybe — but at the same time tonnes of grains — which should have been sent to provide relief to the affected — were being sent to British troops fighting all over the world.
Society can't expect the value of labor to remain the same if you double the supply by adding women to it. Plus automation and globalization means no way Americans could continue consuming so much per capita more than the rest of the world. Unless via the use of force, usually military, which the US does but it's not as effective as before.
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "Guiltlessness As A Service" - from a google search I think it may be your own term?

Regardless, I like it. I think you're using it to describe businesses that do things like sell carbon credits or do humanitarian work?
I recently read How To Take Smart Notes and have been giving that approach a whirl. I'll re-evaluate after a month or so. The approach is pretty simple and didn't require an entire book to explain.

* Take notes throughout the day. I do this in a notebook.

* At the end of the day, collate those notes into long term storage with a link to the source material.

* When an idea or theme begins to arise, create a document to begin building on that idea, linking to the notes you've taken.

There's a little more regarding organization of notes and linking and so forth. I like the idea and in the short time that I've been practicing this approach I feel like I am getting a much deeper understanding of the texts that I read. Again, time will tell.
This is a fascinating idea which seems worth expanding into a longer piece of writing. Could you give some specific examples of what you mean by “community labor” and what they’ve been replaced with?

Also, what do you mean by “Guiltlessness as a service”?
> detect and repair damage to DNA finds the damage by looking for places along the DNA where there are unexpected changes in electrical conductivity such as due to broken bonds.

Could you link to the research because this makes very little sense to me. DNA doesn’t conduct electricity in any meaningful way (base resistance >= Teraohms).

Maybe charge distribution or something?
Ron Paul had it right. And I'll tell you now both capitalism are bad. But the good thing is you don't have to choose between them because the nation state is rapidly deteriorating into the abyss of the way things are and the way they should be: pure anarchy.
> I'm wondering what these "solid reasons" could be?

For the classic assumptions for regression, we know that a linear function exists, our data has additive errors that have mean zero, constant variance, and are Gaussian.

Then we can get an F ratio test on the regression, t-tests on the coefficients, and confidence intervals on the predicted values. This is just the standard stuff in the classic derivations in several of the books I listed.

And with some weaker assumptions, there are still some such results we can get.

This is just for regression.

There's a lot more in applied statistics, that is, where we make some assumptions that seem accurate enough in practice, get some theorems, and benefit from the conclusions of the theorems.

For an example, also in this tread I wrote about estimating how long some submarines would last. The assumptions were explicit and, on a nice day, somewhat credible. If swallow the assumptions, then have to take the conclusions seriously.

I've done other problems in applied statistics -- have a problem, collect some data, see what assumptions can make, from the assumptions, have some theorems, from the theorems have some conclusions powerful for the problem. If swallow the assumptions, trust the software, ..., then have to take the conclusions seriously. So, get to check the software and argue about the assumptions.

For machine learning as in the Bloomberg course, have some training data and some test, validation data. Fit to the training data. Check with the test data. Assume that the real world situation doesn't change, apply the model, and smile on the way to the bank.

I guess, okay when it works. But:

(A) how many valuable real applications are there? I.e., regression has been around with solid software for decades, and I've yet to see the yachts of the regression practitioners -- maybe there are some now but what is new might mostly be hype. Or the problem was that the SAS founders were not very good at sales? Same for SPSS (now pushed by IBM), Mathlab, R, etc.?

(B) Wouldn't we also want confidence intervals on the predictions? Okay, maybe there are some resampling/bootstrap ways to get those, maybe.

(C) There's more to applied statistics than empirical curve fitting, and commonly there we can have "solid reasons". For more on applied statistics, what I've done is only a drop in the bucket, ocean, but there research libraries are awash in examples.
I was fishing through the comments to see if someone else had mentioned PlatoHQ. I joined a few months ago, and it's been amazing for me.
Two Generals and Time Machines
Facebook fights fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isnt banned
Part of it is - England is so small compared to US, which means everything is close by. Here in US, we have so much land which makes things scattered away. Hard to cover each route via public transport on such a large area
Got it. I was wondering how the most popular phone was $75, but the mean selling price was $157, and owning a lowest-end $269 iPhone was unheard of.
Previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Hunting%20the%20Con%20Queen%20...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/personality.html

Although high general intelligence is common among hackers, it is not the sine qua non one might expect. Another trait is probably even more important: the ability to mentally absorb, retain, and reference large amounts of ‘meaningless’ detail, trusting to later experience to give it context and meaning. A person of merely average analytical intelligence who has this trait can become an effective hacker, but a creative genius who lacks it will swiftly find himself outdistanced by people who routinely upload the contents of thick reference manuals into their brains.

I'm a researcher. Absorbing data in a "blue sky" kind of way ("no idea if i'll need this, this doesn't serve any explicit purpose, but hey it seems interesting") is a survival trait.
10-15 mins is a loooong wait during rush hour. Subways come every 2 mins in Hong Kong at that time. There's no reason (besides Seattle not wanting to spend the money obviously) not to bring down those times to say 2-5 minutes and tripling to quadrupling the amount of buses on said route.
> Do you expect companies to immediately jump to full repair programs the minute the first few users complain?

They designed a fix innovative enough to file a patent on, 22 months before they acknowledged the issue. That requires costly engineering time and organizational direction that is not used on a whim. They knew back then that this was a real issue.
The "Why" is pollution is really high, and the traffic is awful. Everyone loses.
Every time I hear this notion that autonomous vehicles will replace private car ownership in the U.S., it strikes me as a futurist pipe dream. I think truly autonomous vehicles are a long way away, if ever. The capital and construction required to totally rearrange the average American city to get to the scenarios you describe would be incredible. I also think we are underestimating the cultural aspect of car ownership in America, as another commenter above pointed out.
5G towers are going to be much closer to more people (every 300 meters or so, I believe) to deliver those 1+ Gbps speeds.
Outside of London, the majority of people in the UK drive to work.

Likewise, the majority of people commuting to (eg) Manhattan don't drive to work.

When someone in Houston says that they drive to work, the comparison isn't to someone working in Central London. It's to someone who lives who works in the outskirts of Birmingham.

I think the US is too car dependent. But from my experience, outside of London the UK is pretty terrible too.
I was thinking the same thing. The ability to handle partition failure comes from having more nodes. This proves this is not possible when haviing just two nodes. Kind of makes sense as it stops being a distributed system if you disconnect all nodes.
DNS-Over-TLS Built-In and Enforced – 1.1.1.1 and the GL.iNet GL-AR750S
I'm really struggling to understand the point your are making here.

What exactly is the core tenet of fascism that the academic left is promoting?
Yeah some idiots would just let their car drive around all the time without them. I remember reading an article that they wanted to make a law specifically against this before it happens, but I can't find the link. Now if people can share the autonomous cars, that's a different story.
Thanks! The router setup achieves the full Gigabit on my line, both on IPv4 and IPv6.

Regarding DHCP, DNS and router solicitations: don’t worry about it. In my network I get barely 1 request per minute (with 31 devices). With the 1 GHz quad-core in the apu2, many orders of magnitude more traffic should easily be in the cards ;)
Take a look at resin.io. You don't need to keep track if you build something novel and extremely useful then charge an arm and a leg to make it scale.
FFS they are utilitarian structures. They’re clearing the way for more important uses of the land.
Companies with an "eco" or "humanitarian" angle are rly just selling newfangled Catholic indulgences.
I'm well aware. I picked that one because it was literally happening at the same time as holocaust.
For some, the grass is always greener on the other side. It is stylish today to criticize every tradeoff the U.S. has made in order to credibly claim that every habitable square foot of every state is "inhabited", but a lot of it makes perfect sense.

There is one piece of public transit which makes a lot of sense in the U.S.: the bus (both local and coach buses), but it is unstylish and so gets no attention.

Imagine how much better it would be getting from city to city if the money that went into subsidizing AmTrak (which approximately nobody uses, least of which the lower classes) was available as a grant or credit for every passenger mile on the already-thriving network of American bus carriers (Greyhound, Megabus, and 24 others in the long-distance category alone).
mega.nz. shh, don't tell
> Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD.

Can you recommend any books?
I'm really not a fan of these studies, even this article points out why: copying verbatim doesn't work.

Hand writing forces you to rephrase in your own words because you can't write fast enough to keep up—but there's no reason you can't apply this same method to typing, AND get all the benefits of legible, searchable, organisable, easily expandable text documents.
Government meddling on government-build roads?
Software that can't pass automotive safety standards.

> Hotz has been teasing a $1,000 after-market kit called Comma One that would let customers transform their dumb cars into smart, self-driving ones. But after a sternly worded letter from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last year, Hotz abandoned those plans

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-selfdriving-safety-idUSKCN...

Sounds like you have a nice demo in a controlled known environment. It's a far way off the promise made previously about building a self driving car, a claim which is now being retracted. Best of luck turning it into a product. Watch out for those edge cases.
I find it valuable to stay in control of the information that shapes me. Personal curation and modification of the used technology is part of this. Furthermore a personal archive can remain private or even give control over how private certain information remains.

Inside is mostly documentation, to-dos, recommendations of friends, notes, poems etc...
Right on the money.

Before WW2, America was a culture desert. Europeans fleeing the war are the only reason NYC became an international culture hub.

Hip-hop is undoubtedly the most progressive Western art form. (Side note: hip-hop's genius appropriations of commercial symbolisms and it's will to collective empowerment directly underwrite and provide the language of the public engagement of today's millenials. It's influence is as deep as an ocean.) But while hip-hop is the only non-native wholly American cultural movement, it's American origins are a far cry from enlightment; more bound in shame. To say America created hip-hop would be an offense. Saying America stole it would be more accurate.
To your last point - individual radio power has declined but I’d suspect that the total exposure has gone up because 1)Device density is far greater and 2)Time spent transmitting is longer per device because we use more data now than in years past.

As to whether that causes cancer, I’m not an expert... I guess the ultimate measure will be actual cancer incidence rates but by that point, isn’t it arguably too late for many of us?