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Moscow citisen here.

You can make a reasonably well working mass transit that everyone will use.
People would still buy cars to stay in traffic for hours.

But the real long-scale problem is that cities discourage children. People living in a big city tend to have two to zero children and that makes country population unsustainable. On the upside, you can always find a good school for your few children if you care.

In recent times I don't see many children on the streets. It seems that children are being turned into indoors pets. This is sad. Adults feel obliged to drive children around to their activities. The pedophile hysteria being promoted by media doesn't help either.

In other word, it's sad.
Wow, "funny" how we heard nothing about this in NL.
Where does she live?

As a Melbournite living in London, I can imagine a sharp uptake in public transport use back home if we had half of the infrastructure London has. The problem is that cities like Melbourne are serviced so badly at the moment that as you indicated driving is the default option even when it's slower.

Also, let's not forget brilliant strategies like implementing a city bike-sharing system without a corresponding change in bicycle helmet laws.
Those aren't inherent downsides of public transportation, those are downsides of a non-functioning system of public transportation.

Of course it's a chicken and egg scenario: it's difficult to argue for buses every 10 minutes if the current buses aren't anywhere near being used to capacity. And no one is going to start using the buses as long as they're on such a useless schedule.
Are you honestly expecting the algorithm to magically know if it is you or your children watching the movie?

They advise against sharing accounts. I understand this is not really enforcable and no one really cares, but it's the only way the recommendation engine works well.
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> I do my groceries in small portions, in a shop that's very close by. What's your problem?

Last time I lived in a city, there were no reasonably priced grocery stores within walking distance, just tons of pizza shops and fast food. I live in the suburbs now. I buy more groceries per trip and eat healthier now -- I'm not tempted to eat out instead of revisit a grocery store when I'm out of food every few days.

I moved my 42" TV in my sedan because it was safer there than in the moving truck.
And also some peer-to-peer players that are gaining a lot of traction.

A good overview is available here :
http://futureofcarsharing.com/
> If we know something of your interests (based on G+ and/or search), isn't suggesting more relevant content to you on Youtube (as a purely hypothetical example) a good thing?

No, it's not. When I search for something, I want the most relevant results, not what you think are most relevant to me. I'm a liberal, and I tend to visit more liberal sites for political information - Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Huffington Post, etc. for general news. I'm also more likely to share links to those sites. But if I'm searching for information that could be considered related to a political issue, I don't want Google deciding that the most relevant results will only come from left leaning sites when a conservative site may have better information about a specific issue.

I believe someone even gave a TED talk about this issue.
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Looks like 'up' to me for M2: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/ M3 not being tracked.

That said, I'm not entirely sure about the definition of M2 and how that's related to 'money sitting in the bank'. M2 includes 'savings and time deposits' according to Wikipedia, but it doesn't seem to differentiate whether banks in turn lend out that deposited money or it just sits there.
Did he rape, kill or physically assault any American citizen? Was he selling drugs to children?

No? Well then we had no right to extradite him.

Law enforcement is created by society to protect PEOPLE not corporations.
When I used to live in LA I used to be so dependent on my car, not to mention the hassle of finding parking wherever I went. Since then, I got rid of my car and have lived in SF, NY. I haven't had a need to own a car in any of these places. Public transportation in SF and NY are really great and whenever you do need to make that trip out to the suburbs or have to make an IKEA run, there is always Zipcar. Zipcar works really well in SF.

I'm walking more, which is healthier, have no need to find parking, which is less stressful, and no need to pay loan-payments/gas, which saves me a ton of money every month.
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I think it's inherent once a system gets large enough. As the size of a transit system grows by a factor of n, there will be O(n2) different kinds of trips that people need to take.
Adelaide, which has nice wide roads, lots of bike paths, and the traffic is nowhere near as bad as Melbourne or Sydney. On top of that, most of the year the weather is great.
I can confirm this. I was part of a few groups back in the 90s and was there when Kimble first showed up. He shot up in notoriety rapidly, but we figured him out as not having any skills pretty quickly.

He would take 'hacks' from others and then claim them in the media for himself. The first time he did this with one of the groups was when he went to the media with the NASA hack. What happen was somebody on the channel had dumped shell accounts on a few jpl.nasa.gov boxes, and a day later the story was in the media that Kimble had done it.

I then watched him get kicked from other groups when he would do the same thing - either claiming hacks as his own or taking exploits, ripping out the attribution and putting his own name in.

He became a subject of derision with these groups so he then setup his own group and bought in some fans - claiming he was going to 'hack' all of us. Nothing ended up happening.

There is truth to most of his claims - for eg. the 'military secrets' claim comes from a hack where some Indian and Iraqi military networks where hacked and documents leaked. Around 20 people on IRC had access to them, and Kimble claimed that one as well (one of the other guys ended up getting arrested for it because he tried to sell the documents to an undercover agent).

Funnily the media attention that Kimble bought to himself bought a lot of attention to Undernet and the groups that were on there at the time. It ended up driving us to private SIRC servers and renaming most of the groups as a large number of newbies (and probably federal agents) flooded onto the servers and tried to gain access to the group channels.

A couple of years later he re-appeared with his security company and then racing videos. We would be in conflict with him continuously - he would email us with taunts and we would return them. The website of his security company was defaced numerous times and his home directory dumped. He then tried to call a 'truce' and to hire a few of us, I was on a few conference calls that Kimble was on.

I then bumped into him again a little later on, after he started MegaUpload. I wasn't surprised at all that he was behind the site. What we did back then and with him was a bit childish and we grew out of it - but Kimble definitely isn't a hacker in that old regard. He does have skills in promoting himself and getting people to believe in his ideas.
Okay, I guess I was talking more about "viable" than "possible". Or maybe, it should be viable for 80% of all trips and at least possible for the remaining 20%. I guess you can't realise it for all of them, that's just a consequence of urban sprawl.
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github would be better for browsing. But the source is only 117k - I'm surprised how much of a barrier a few clicks and a few seconds was for me. (Partly, I expected it to be bigger.) The 21 files total 18832 lines; there's bison, lex, and a bunch of cuda files. Some is structured as doing similar things for similar cases, so not that long. It seems to include a reasonably complete implementation of SQL in the bison etc (and there are two example files of SQL query sequences). I'm impressed.

There are some line comments, but no overviews. :(
He was also a participant in, and won once, the Gumball Rally. He made plans to start his own rally ("Ultimate Rally") and got lots of people excited. He was looking for stewards to assist in the race, they were asked to pay quite a serious sum to get this non paying role in the event. It never happend and people may have lost money on it by entry tickets not getting refunded; I know because I communicated with him on this issue.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/30/kimble_rally/

Post 9/11 he also claimed to have the details of Bin Laden's bank accounts in Sudan without offering a shred of evidence

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/18/bin_laden_hackmeiste...
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"Skype and all these other companies are getting away without having to address the ethical and moral issues, which they like to brush under the carpet"

Imagine the opposite: a world where big companies dictated or messed with our morals. No thanks.
As an Israeli living abroad (Vienna in my case, have been here for 7 years), the lacking mass transport in Tel Aviv (you can kinda get by without a car, but it's not easy and as you say even if you live in a central location you still need a car sometimes) is my most major reason to not even consider Tel Aviv a real option right now (neither me nor my girlfriend have driving licenses or the will to ever have a car).

Even just dropping the silly no-transit-on-saturday rule would be a huge improvement (then you could actually get pretty much anywhere you need to, just not very quickly and you'd have to live in a farily central location inside Tel Aviv proper).

This really puzzles me - if significantly poorer cities such as Budapest and Prague can pull off decent mass-transit, how come Tel Aviv can't?

I rent a car for trips across the country if needed

How do you visit people outside Tel Aviv on the weekend? Probably my most common ailment in your situation would be that I couldn't easily visit family members and friends even if they live in greater Tel Aviv on weekends, since the buses/trains don't work on Saturdays and shared taxis don't go everywhere.
It will be interesting to see what happens when self-driving cars become viable.
The screenshots in the article support your statement. However, don't you think this is practice grossly misleading? It's common, especially on low-cost flights, to gradually ramp up the seat price as the tickets are sold. Sometimes (and this seems to be such an example), this means no single seat costs the same as the next one sold - but that doesn't mean there are huge price differences between buying seat n and n+1.

Don't you agree that the user's perception of this UI is that fake scarcity tactics are being employed?
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The title is not exactly misleading. ACTA is first signed by the executive branches (foreign ministers or ambassadors), and this is what happened today in Tokyo for most EU nations.

Then ACTA will be ratified by the EU Parliament (i.e. the legislative branch).

Then ACTA will be ratified by national Parliaments. (Where necessary - most likely in all EU countries. A little different story in U.S., where Obama can just put it into law by executive order, because treaties that don't change U.S. law don't need to be ratified by Congress.)

The ratification in EU Parliament is what really counts, because 80-90% of ACTA text applies to EU law, and only a fraction applies to national law. (The latter primarily with regards to criminal prosecutions, which obviously are strictly national jurisdiction.)
You are clearly not living in the city center of Amsterdam.

The system works perfectly for people living there: those who want to keep their own car can get a relatively cheap parking permit, and most only use their car for exactly those rare scenarios you've described. It takes 10 minutes to get to the highway. Nobody is complaining, having a car is simply pointless 95% of the time.

It's a very simple solution and it works.
I completely agree. It's sad that we've let cars completely take over in detriment of quality of life.

I worked on this set of visualizations on traffic in the center of Madrid a few years ago: http://trsp.net/cow

I found the numbers stunning. Some avenues had an average of 100k vehicles driving through daily.

I've since moved to San Francisco, and find that traffic in US cities is less painful, the cities' grids and sidewalks are better prepared. But still, it's ridiculous how much freedom cars are given. A few months ago traffic in Valencia St, one of the nicest streets in the Mission, was cut off, and it was bliss to take a walk there, even though the street was super crowded. At least some streets should always be traffic free, I dont think it's that much effort to ask, and the benefits in quality of living are tremendous.
I live about 2 miles from the nearest grocery store, and still cook at home at least 70% of the time. One backpack and a bicycle buys enough food for 2 weeks.

Even when I lived in the suburbs, there were grocery stores at that distance. It just never occurred to me that one could bike to the store and buy stuff, I always drove until I tried using the bike. I think the problem is more psychological than reasoned.
Kimble was also a notorious quake 2 botter (cheater), back in the day. He ruined online quake play for many Germans and was as much of a selfish cunt as this article suggests.

A sad reminder that the "online persona" will often say more about you than one is willing to admit.
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I think website design resembles some website which I'm not sure of. Please let me know if you know it.
Nice meaningless images (wasted opportunity)
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Those are staggering numbers, glad i invested my time in reddit last year. We must be cautious of overheating though, signs of a bubble or a possible subreddit crisis.
" Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as Amazon, Samsung, Asus and others have been driving volumes."

The Kindle Fire really shouldn't be counted as an Android device. What's next, a press release stating Linux hits an all-time high market share, running on devices such as the Mac, iPhone, all Android phones and the Raspberry Pi?
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Car operators usually don't pay what it costs, either, both literally in the sense that's it's directly subsidised by public infrastructure and the free use of a huge amount of very valuable public property, as well as more indirectly through externalities such as air and noise pollution and the massive toll they take on public health and the quality of life in cities.
I think he explains it here:
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/11/02/9-ways-to-decrease-y...
and here
http://blog.asmartbear.com/virtual-assistant-startup.html
and here
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/07/14/one-of-the-most-comm...
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Morsch is right IMO.

I live in Vienna and there are few I can't reach within the city within about half an hour (buses/trams/subways often come in 3-5 minutes intervals too).

Within 45 minutes practically the whole city is covered.
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I think it's only true up to a certain value of n. Once the mass transit system has a subway system that has a train every 5 minutes and stops at most a block from any given location, it makes very little sense to drive. When I visited Hong Kong, it felt like this -- massively convenient and efficient. No time wasted looking for parking under $20/hr.
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Why not? Strip away the minor UI changes Amazon made and it's just a 2.3 tablet.
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National parliament ratification is also not a mere formality. The EU cannot afford to be divided at this moment, or have the mood in member states turned against it even more.

Ironically, rejection by the EU parliament would save the EU a lot of internal headaches. Which is why you could very well see members of parties that support ACTA on the national level reject it in the EU parliament.

Political games: they can tell the US and their copyright mafia friends they've signed it, and the rejection by EU parliament was out of their control...
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I didn't realize Android had 40% marketshare, quite amazing! Anything that creates competition is good for the customer.
> Of course, what I'm saying is science fiction, we don't have self-driving cars capable of driving 30mph to pick us up.

I suppose you're being sarcastic ? We already do have such cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_car It will not be long before they are provably safer than professional human drivers.

However, that doesn't get rid of all the problem : your car still have to drive in and out the city. But if you combine automation with sharing, then you can afford smaller, more specialised cars. You could have tiny delivery cars (they don't even need to transport a human). You could have truly individual commute cars that would take just 1 person. By using the car that fit the job and use less space, we may be able to help with congestion.

Example of a "commute car": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EN-V_Pride_%28Jiao%29.jpg
I sometimes suspect the same about 3d printing, but I think the comparison to VR is funny given recent rumors about the next Xbox being shipped with the next version of the Kinnect as standard. Sure, we're not wearing goggles, but otherwise...
Are you living in Amsterdam?

You have to wait years for a parking permit. And when you want to park your car you have to drive around minutes before you will find a place to park.
To be fair to Google, only 1 in 600 searches used the + operator correctly.
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And ofcourse there is a car-less suburb of Freiburg: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.htm...
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First of all - the world should acknowledge that Linux, the underdog, does power dozens of millions of Android devices.

Also, customers would probably not hold their Kindle Fires right now if it weren't for Android. Developing an OS is an awful lot of work. And while Amazon's intentions are to fork Android, I'm pretty sure they'll come to their senses and just treat their version as a branch.

They'll still insist on having their own curated app store and their own browser of course, but it will be an Android device nonetheless.
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This seems to be the heart of the article: But in most cases if you witness something on Skype [...] there will be no video evidence to back you up.

What is not at all clear to me is why adding the words "on Skype" to the middle of that sentence transforms an existing problem that society has lived with forever into an urgent issue that must be solved.
I moved my 42" TV in my sedan because it was safer there than in the moving truck.

That doesn't make much sense. The shop is responsible for whatever happens to the stuff they deliver. If they damaged it, they'd have to repair it at no extra cost. Using your own car, on the other hand, puts the liability on you.
One case not mentioned here is families with small children. With 3 little ones, public transportation becomes a real hassle, especially when there is walking to be done on either side. It is by far my top reason for owning a car in the city.
This seems like a problem that will be largely solved (or at least nominally effected) by autonomous vehicles.
There's at least one site I know that raises prices when you are re-visiting the specific flight (via cookie tracking).
I think the important aspect is having highly relevant keywords.

When clicks cost money you need to filter down to the most likely to convert users.

Google often tries to push 100's of keyword ideas on you in order to get your CTR up. That's when you're paying for empty clicks.

If you only get 10 clicks per day but 9 of those convert - that's way better than having 33 clicks that day but still having only those 9 convert.
The network doesn't need to be n-to-(n-1) - it can't be "ride to this single central hub and wait an ungodly time for a connection", either. Looking at my city's public transit, I see a dense interconnected network - denser the closer to the center you get - with branches and leaves off the edges; rapid, high-bandwidth transit (underground rail - with stops relatively far away, but still more or less walking distance, from each other; plus normal trains with stops every few klicks) and slower, smaller forms of transport with stops closer to each other (light rail and buses). It's fairly efficient - I can get within walking distance of almost anywhere with 2 transfers, and anywhere with 3 (with transfer times <5 minutes); it outperforms cars on many trips (what with congestion and whatnot). Alas, it gets about 70% of funding from city subsidies, so extension and maintenance is a huge pork-barrel issue.
Bahahaha, more and more I read into this story, the more I realize, this guy lived a more exciting life then more then 90% of us, even if he's going to jail.
They way ACTA was planned shuld not be possible for any democratic nation. This clearly shows that we have to evlolve you democratic systems.
> I'd argue that the various magic scripting language packaging systems exist to handle the OSes without sane package management, meaning OS X and Windows.

And you'd be wrong. For many languages, it is simply not feasible to rely on the OS maintainer to update repositories in a timely fashion.

EDIT: Also, in practice, many applications have a dependency on a specific older version of a library.
First post on HN, but definitely familiar with GoDaddy reputation (SOPA stance, some think GoDaddy sucks, etc). I've thought about this. May offer other registrar options for the GoDaddy haters.
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I was looking at this a number of weeks ago to see if it would be feasible to speed up any SQL queries. There is a paper about this for SQLite: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/bakkum_sqlite_gpg...
ahhahahaha, "it tries to inhibit"... It tries not; almost every EU country will have a number of subsidies for car ownership and a number of processes that, under the guise of promoting "environmental" and "safety" standards, really just force people to periodically upgrade their cars for the benefit of the car industry.

What it originally tried to inhibit was the depletion of oil; most EU members introduced it 30 or 40 years ago, during the oil-shock period. Nowadays gasoline taxation is just that, a tax, and a profitable one: it's grown to be one of the largest income items for most states.

(and if you think the various Middle-East wars were fought to keep oil prices under control, you're sorely mistaken; they were fought to maintain oil availability for corporations to exploit. Big difference.)
There's a problem, but not with the approval/disapproval axes. It's with the time axis.

Note that we're looking at days 0 - 1,000, that is, less than a 3-year range. This completely overlooks the second term of 2-term presidents. So, for example, we're seeing GWB's post-9/11 boom but not his later ignominy, and we're not seeing Reagan after he got the economy sorted.
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