skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that bus fares should at the least be cheaper than the average gas price it would take you to drive the same distance yourself. One could argue that using the bus also might save you from having to buy and maintain your own car, saving more money than just gas. But I would say that for many people, although they could take the bus more often, having their own car is just too convenient to give up on totally.
I would argue that prices don't really keep them off the bus.

Originally from Chicago with a pay-per-ride system and moved here to San Francisco to a (weak)proof-of-payment system, sure it's faster but far more people take the risk of not paying in the proof-of-payment system (even those who can afford it).

Pay-per-ride keeps them off the bus, but as the article pointed out, the latency of the bus stopping until the bus moving is much higher and unacceptable in larger suburban areas.

Proof-of-payment does not keep anyone off the bus. Especially the "foul-smelling derelicts". 1) they game it by getting on and then getting off before the proof needs to be presented and 2) if they're caught, the fines are too steep for them to afford anyways. A night in jail may cost the city as much as the fine that would've been issued.

Free public transportation has a lot of benefits, but the elephant in the room is "Who is going to pay for it?". In cities that have a lot of tourists, the residents may complain and prices at businesses may be higher due to passed down costs to consumers. On the other hand, I pay for a monthly pass on a recurring schedule, it might as well be the same as tax, as it would make no difference coming out of my wallet anyways.
This smells like an attempt to get the story out before it became public via a leak. From here on out politicians can treat it as old news.
I take it back. The key is to line up three master blocks with x's free move. Then the game is perfectly won by x.
This kind of argument is being made all across this thread so let me address it here.

The Economist is advocating free public transportation ceteris paribus. They are not arguing that public transportation should be made free AND that the social welfare state be completely revolutionized. I (and others) are pointing out the problems that will arise if this change is made without making any other changes.
No, Microsoft releases vulnerability information to the government along with private companies in the antivirus and intrusion prevention space. They do this because they have a coordinated patch schedule that creates windows of known vulnerability.

Microsoft does not have the in-house expertise to feed exploits to anyone.
The best career path is to start your own, successful company.
If you want to release your vulnerabilities publicly, Microsoft isn't stopping you.
Mobile First? Not So Fast! You're Designing Wrong
So it's come to this: A company spends tens of milions of dollars financing great shows that wouldn't exist otherwise, including one that was cancelled and left for dead, then makes it incredibly easy and cheap to get at this content, disrupting greedy inefficient incumbents -- only to be derided within the hacker community as a "troll... charging people through the nose for what they want."

You don't have any entitlement to the things you want simply because you want them. When someone spends loads of money creating that thing you want, they can charge what they please. You are free to call them dumb of criticize their terms, but when you're reduced to calling an innovative and very low cost, low margin company like Netflix a "fat troll" you become the sort of caricature the worst, dumbest old line content companies love: A free rider who will never pay, no matter how good the terms, who has no respect for the efforts or rights of others.
Yes, TOC makes this question more complicated. However, my argument wasn't against subsidizing public transport, just that we shouldn't have a 100% subsidy.
> “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

If this worked, we would have neither the word 'antibiotic' nor the drugs we classify under that name, because we didn't have the word until after we invented the substances.

The Sapir-Worf Hypothesis is interesting but Newspeak takes it too far and turns it into self-parody; the fact languages can develop new words, and new meanings for old words, gives the lie to the whole idea of taking it that far.
I find longreads.com quite useful for getting good magazine articles
I agree with you above statement. However, in regards to your example. I often wonder how much of the increase is due to Google overcoming ad blindness and how much is because of the ads are truly more engaging.
You should consider graduating from VIM and using IntelliJ. This is a cross platform tool, and there is a typescript plugin. I have not tried it, but IntelliJ is a great tool IMO, and well worth a good look.
AngularJS - Basic example using ngRepeat and forEach
Yeah, but the title contains "Never Before Seen."
I just hope everyone learns their lesson, starts being careful about the digital trace they leave behind, and that years ahead the current Big Brother has been reduced to civil servants still miserably analyzing the bulk of data from the 2002-2013 era.
When I was in high school my teacher made us read this portion of the novel. I appreciated it after and took away many of the same points you made here. At this time there was no issues with NSA to relate to though so thank you for this comparison.
1984 and other works of science fiction were always used to represent these psdeu-truths to me growing up. It would range from why socialism was bad, to why America was good, to why reading was important, etc. etc. But it's just a book, it's just a series of thoughts put into a really compelling story, but that doesn't mean it's true, probable, or even possible.

It's a reference to our collective consciousness and contains some potentially key insights, but whenever something REMINDS us of 1984 we're all still like "HOLY SHIT IT'S LIKE 1984 THAT MEANS BIG BROTHER IS TOTALLY GONNA HAPPEN!"

It doesn't mean that at all. This Snowden business is massively disturbing, but our ability to collectively disseminate and digest information about it is encouraging, something that wasn't remotely possible in 1984. People make jokes about their tweets being censored by PRISM, and they're funny because it's not happening.

Freedom of speech is so important.

Edit: not saying a 1984esque future is impossible, just that the book being written doesn't make it any more or less possible.
Live in downtown Seattle here. Although I enjoyed not paying for bus rides while it was free, I'm much happier with the service now that payment is required.

As a side note, the wait time for paying was reduced drastically once the Orca Card system (rfid based bus pass) went into use. From my experience, with the Orca Card the wait times for paying aren't that much longer compared to the free bus method. It's only when a group of tourists get on the bus and pay with coins is it noticeable.
>Busses became makeshift homeless shelters

In the context of NYC: as it is there is little stopping a homeless person from jumping a turnstile and spending all day or night on the 24 hour subway system. But it's fairly rare to see this (I believe it used to be much more common). I imagine on a bus, where there is always a city employee monitoring things, it would be even more rare.
Learn PHP and write software for Wordpress, like useful plugin or theme.
Distriubute free version to wordpress.org repository and then develop and sell premium version of the same thing on your own.

I personally made $100K+ with this approach and it works like a charm.
Assuming that's legal. I know bugs are sold, sometime openly, but it depends on how FBI wants to see it.
> The free market doesn't, at least theoretically, work very well for transit.

We actually have some historical record to examine in this area, though you have to look pretty far back in US history to find a time when the government wasn't directly involved in the transit business.

James J. Hill built the Great Northern railroad in the late 1800's without taking any subsidies. He competed directly with subsidized railroads in the mid- and far west, consistently delivering lower prices and superior service to his customers.

As for highways, thousands of miles were created by private for-profit companies during the first half of the 19th century before highways and railways began to be taken over by government beginning with the Lincoln administration.
Show HN: Panolapse - timelapse motion tool
If you manage 100,000+ installations of a product, you, too, can get advance warning of what flaws have been reported to the vendor.

(I made that number up.)
The part where you can send arbitrary data to them is the part of the platform that is "open".
The reason homeless people sleep on buses instead of in hotels is that hotels cost money, while buses are cheap. There are far fewer homeless people clogging the buses now that they cost money again.

You can wax on about how what we really need to solve is homelessness itself, but I am not hearing any solutions to that. We need solutions, not platitudes. Dissolving the free-zone was a solution.
Do CDNs back up customer data?
Great to hear. I'm all in favor of letting the market decide. :)
My point was to translate the lost opportunity costs of the data storage into more concrete terms. Im not trying to make any legal commentary.
I don't think the issues are as cut and dry as you make them seem.
I'd be willing to bet many of the prostitutes who are providing their services illegally would never be able to do so legally - as much more desirable people would begin to offer competing services.
Believe it or not, many people also choose to be homeless; whether or not this is a result of another issue like drugs or mental illness is irrelevant. Many mentally ill people would rather deal with the disease than the treatment.

No doubt we could do more to aid societies issues, but it's unlikely that we'll ever fully resolve many of them.
Why metadata should be private too [pdf]
It's probably not legal to knowingly sell an exploit to someone that a reasonable person would believe was going to use it to commit a crime.
China's dark side: On Yellow River, corpses mean cash (2010)
I don't really see how BNW maps better. 1984 was about surveillance, oppression, and central control of narrative of life. BNW is about the choice to surrender to comfort - certainly applicable in this day and age, but not onto current events, I'd say.
See also (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11813990)
I never said NYU is all rich kids. That's obviously not the case given so many are going into debt to attend. What I'm trying to say is it's "intended for rich kids." People who have to borrow $200k just for tuition and books to attend should NOT GO. Period! Go to the best public school in your state. NYU is not superior to UCLA, UT, Berkeley, etc for undergrad.
This looks nice, but the quantity of data is limited compared to the overall data the Census collects.

I've found the Data Access Tools provided by census.gov to be the best place to go for Census data[1].

[1] http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
For anyone in Seattle here -- I'm assuming you're all familiar with the infamous 358; godbless the Aurora corridor between Lynnwood and Downtown

But seriously -- I think the visibility of homelessness on mass transit is a great reminder personally that there is a massive need for policy shifts that continually aim to decrease homelessness, which is otherwise just a statistic to many.
To be drafted by the NBA you have to be "at least one year out of high school".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eligibility_for_the_NBA_Draft

The degree is not required, but this forces most into at least one year of indentured service to a college. You can sit out, but how will you be evaluated for the draft?
Bear in mind that drug dealers are not known to be the most civic minded people and likely commit other offenses. Drug dealing is just what they got busted for.

I've known areas of my town get dramatically safer after some big drug busts. The drug trade has significant externalities.
There's nothing you can do with the DNS at all, regardless of whether we use DNSSEC, DNSCurve, DNSCrypt, or 1995 BIND where the query IDs increase monotonically, that will deter any nation state actor. DNS security is marginally relevant to online crime, and to nothing else.
OpenWeatherMap - free weather data and forecast API
Kind of an aside, but still relevant to part of your post. Whining about the content and whining about the meta whining is part of any sufficiently old community. I can recall from communities I've managed, and from ones I've participated in there's /always/ metacommentary and metametacommentary. The best thing to do in these cases is not to engage it. But no, HN will never get past all the whiny meta and there's very little we can do about it except letting it slide :(

Quick Edit: This is one of the reasons why I love discourse, it encourages metadiscussion in a separate part, and while it doesn't keep it from contaminating, it seriously helps a lot to focus it and guide it.
Trendspotting: Commerce on Facebook
stinky people aren't caused by lack of access to sanitation and hygiene resources in America. It's much more likely to be a personality or mental disorder.
> But the looming risk for Joe Sixpack is a mysterious string all of the sudden being rejected from jobs, loans, schools, airline flights, credit scores, tax audits, passports, arbitrations, etc and there's no appeal process for any of that. Your record is has been red flagged, maybe it's an error, but too bad for you, terrorist!

Millenials know this will never happen. Ever. And that's why we don't give a shit.
True, and I admit to getting hot under the collar.

But I would argue that in a way that articles like this should get viewed and discussed by the HN crowd in the context of hacking civilization.

This particular subject absolutely defines the world in which we live in, and a it's not a pretty picture. It happens because we let it, and we let it because we collectively don't care. We collectively don't care because we remain (intentionally) ignorant of the situation.

It's turtles of despair all the way down....
Forget 3DTVs: MIT Group Working to Bring Holographs to Your Living Room
I've been riding and thinking and griping about buses lately. While this notion has seemed very appealing to me in the past, I'm less sure.

Even right now, I feel like a major problem with buses is that they really don't need or even want customers. Customers are a liability. Fares don't cover expenses. Political capital is useful, but indirect, and bus systems have lost most customers that might provide political capital.

My bus system isn't particularly bad. The drivers are okay, but mostly they just don't want any trouble. The bureaucracy has smoothed out certain edges. The buses are clean. But the crowded bus lines stay crowded, until they get further out then they become empty and useless. Lines don't evolve, they aren't adjusted, there's no attempt to maximize ridership. They can't experiment with pricing; really they can't do much of anything without approval from a political structure that doesn't much care about buses. Customers don't fit into any equation.

Oh, and did I mention they are slow? Buses are so terribly painfully incredible slow that only people who place very little value in their own time can justify being on a bus. Door-to-door times on a bus range from 2x a car to 6x, often walking speed, almost never faster than biking. But as time goes on the buses just get slower.

Making buses free maybe could help. It might draw customers who actually have a way of effecting positive operational change through the political process. It might diversify the ridership in a way that positively effects social standards of civility on buses. I certainly wouldn't fight it, but it's a long shot.
Even Microsoft has to pay for it
I think shorter video length makes Videopixie an exception to jianshen's concern. These editors aren't really engaging in exceptionally complex editing work, just the equivalent of TV spots.

Local news outlets often have a division of their marketing team commission freelance editors to make commercials for prospective advertisers.

Thanks for your service! I've got a film industry friend who could use the extra work.
The Kid VC
Brown cookie for the effort, but i have exactly 0% of hits coming from duckduckgo to any of my sites.

It's good alternative search engine though as Google becoming increasingly opinionated and rattled by inconsistent changes with never ending improvements to their algorithms.
It's like Free Healthcare: Unless it's expensive, people will be out there breaking bones and getting diseases for the sheer hell of it, and not caring about the consequences because it's free!

It's in Mises somewhere. Cato Institute said it. Or... something.
It's ready when it's ready. There's no time commitment from JetBrains.

It is usable now even for production although the compiler is not yet optimized and the language is still evolving.
I hear you on distractions... Who would want to study accounting or read long books when you live in the Village? But NYU is one of the best schools in the US for getting to Wall Street, so it's not a complete vacation for everyone. For some the student loans are a reasonable and sane investment.
If people own cars, they are going to tend to use them even if public transit is available. Long term, we need public transit that is good enough that people will decide they don't need to own a car.

The thing that has stopped me from ever reaching that point is not the cost of public transit, but the long term reliability. When I buy a house or rent an apartment, I need to be able to base that decision partly on the mass transit options, and then rely on those options not changing out from under me--no bean counter deciding that the bus that comes by my house does not have enough riders and canceling it. That bus needs to keep running, even if it has few riders. Even if it is often completely empty. Bean counting has to be done at the level of the complete system, not the individual bus line.
It's called the "C++ Standard Library" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Standard_Library), not STL which is the precursor.

STL and the Standard Library have common elements, but on the whole are different things. People seem to make a habit of confusing them in part because educators insist on referring to STL in their training materials.
Wow, trying to find the root of this story is a pain. But it is going to be an important one I suspect.

These guys have basically taken the DNA that glows when you shine UV light on it, and put it into a fog. Such that if you are at the scene when the fog goes off, you'll glow too.

This is the beginning of a trend that I'm not sure is going to turn out well. For example, everyone knows that your piss smells after you eat asparagus. Now lets say you put an odorless aerosol in the 'target' area which disperses a variant on the asparagus enzyme. Now back at the office you've got a detector in the urinals and free soda. Is this surveillance? Is this a violation of your 5th amendment rights? (spot tests of urine have been tested in court and upheld)

Note that I'm one step past folks who completely change all their clothes and wash their hair to avoid detection. That will be the first step of course.

We've become so facile at collecting DNA and analyzing it at crime scenes, seems like this is a logical next step. Give the crime scene some DNA that it can put on the criminals, you would be hard pressed to contest a search for some "other" DNA on your clothes I expect.
How the Large Hadron Collider came into being
Most of Seattle's busses are double-length, so there's a heck of a long way between the driver and whatever shenanigans may be going on in the back.
> You're the only one who seems to have a problem with realizing that your taxes pay for government services.

Them and the entirety of the Libertarian and Tea Parties, not to mention whatever Anarchists still exist.
This seems to me a rather pedantic objection to a moral structure for a theoretical language... it's worth noting that both "anti" and "bio" existed as parts of language before antibiotics. The word antibiotic has a general meaning because it is made from known parts, and was used as the best fit for something which was discovered.

Also worth noting is that scientific research is heavily controlled in the world of 1984 for the reason that it brings novelty, advancement, and change of thought patterns.
What, you mean the web isn't Facebook and Google?

We've seriously let the centralization of the net get out of control, and nobody seems to really care.
You're wrong, Snobby Quartz Writer Snob. That appendix is my favorite part of the book, and it's responsible to a large degree for my sensitivity to corporation's attempts to change language (Me: I like a cheese burger and a small fry. McD's counterguy: cheeseburger and regular fries. How irritating.)

But worse than the English-teacher-vogueing, is that the snobbery gets in the way of a really good point.
The best i've been able to come up with is using something like dnsmasq plus a public resolver. it'll filter the results for you so that you can have their fake A records get turned into nxdomains. it's not a perfect solution (they can change the a records and you have to reconfigure) but it certainly seems to help.
Somewhat true: The article argues it may cost more to collect fares if ridership is held constant. However, ridership would probably increase and lead to more expenses.

So now the argument boils down to "Is it efficient or is it wasteful to ferry around all these extra people who didn't think the bus is worth the cost of a fare?"
Proof of payment systems also attract homeless. They don't have tickets but they also don't have money to pay fine so they don't give damn. They are not a huge problem. Group of normal commuters can stink almost as bad as homeless person. Security is not an issue since all busses have security cameras.
Fascinating issue and the rest of the Retraction Watch website is eye opening!

I rarely read academic journals anymore but I had always assumed the top journals did a good job of filtering out bad papers and quickly retracting those that were later disproven. Like every human activity it is not so simple.

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/

Edit: Warning this is blog addictive - I just spent a solid hour reading. It's kinda science gossip but still important.
Crazy talk. Clearly they have housing and jobs, they just like living on the bus!
>All I'm saying is that we have to be careful with subsidies.

Don't forget the subsidies on the other side of the equation: As the poster above mentioned, building larger roads to handle increased traffic is very expensive.
Could it be because of the rules variation? See the comments on rule 5b to negate Perfect Bot's strategy: if forced to an already-won region, the player may choose any region.
Citi Bike "Smart" Helmet Navigates to the Nearest Station by Adafruit
OK, so the point was most likely about the specific use of the words 'Never-Before-Seen' in the title. Overreaching?
True - I was generalizing about coaches. But... Coaches are the highest paid public employees in most states. (http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-...)

And I hear you on the necessity of this benefit. It's like anything else, if you want the best of the best in a competitive market, you have to find a way to pay them.
Yahoo’s Very Bad Idea to Release Email Addresses
It's awesome that kids are in Tech these days. The discrimination against minors in the past was unfair.