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MTA internally only claims the revenue as earnings once they expire. They could do it your way, but the accountants would throw a fit.

Also while they now cost $1 for most of the program life they were indeed free.

Anyways regular users use unlimiteds, bank account backed cards, or do some fancy rolling over of tax advantaged cards for the most part.
Yes! In fact, this talk first appeared on Google Video, before it all got shunted into youtube (which was an acquisition)
That actually sounds like a decent idea.

Bitcoin is already this way. All "cash" is associated with an address. To use that cash you need to be the owner of that address.
I believe if you offered market rates on these high risk loans there wouldn't be any profit. The default rate is too high to allow for market rates.
Irrespective of the justification - and I outlined a good one in my edit - it's definition doesn't change.

Also it would be way simpler to deduct a $1 fee from the chosen amount if a new card is needed, no?
That's not what I've found. I wonder what I'm doing differently. Do you shake your hands before putting them in/under a dryer?
That's not at all incompatible with "C is the best option of existing languages, but still bad in some obvious ways where it could be better (for this purpose)."
As a New Yorker and a long-time subway rider, I get in a rage because I perceive the MTA to be mismanaged. Though performance of the system improved noticeably in the 90's and beyond the MTA keeps notoriously obscure books, and seem incapable of budgeting and planning. I understand that fares will go up for a number of reasons, but too often the MTA finds itself in the hole to a few hundred million bucks and cannot explain why.
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How are you being forced to give them a no interest loan/gift?

If you add money to the card, they give you 5% extra. Good luck getting 5% out of your savings account.

If you add only $2.50 to the card, then they receive no gift. The problem is waiting in line to add $2.50 to the card before every ride, which is why nobody does that.
Most people don't understand that distinction with charity, giving money to a beggar, or volunteer vacations. It's much easier to do something to feel good, than to do good.

I'm still interested in the concept that a company could be good, rather than focused purely on increasing wealth for owners and shareholders. It's possible, yet rare, so there must be something fundamental that's driving these results.

What if we could change it?
I've got six years at the "NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center", NEACC (not to be confused with the North-East Alabama Community College, NEACC), which is at Marshall but really, sort of, part of HQ. We frequently get to do really bad things because the people at Johnson, for example, want to do things completely differently from the people at Kennedy.
I've put money on an unlimited card and it doesn't work. When the card expires, swiping it merely brings up the "card expired" message and there's no way to deduct the remaining balance.
Those numbers may reflect the actual cost of the credit card transaction for them. But still, you should be able to do at least a bank transfer
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Craigslist for bulk or Bricklink for specific parts.
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The strategy for getting rid of red balls is to just wait until you get a lag spike and they go out of screen (forever).
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I'm saying current-gen hardware puts three ports on the card by default. ATI does it, NVidia does it, and Intel does it.
You're right, the accountants probably wouldn't have it anywhere close to the official books.

edited from previous because I completely misread the part about auto expiry.
There's a difference between the culture of literature and the culture of gaming. I think it boils down to the difference between reviews and criticism. Games, for the most part, get reviewed. Reviews are functional and focused on consumption. A review seeks to answer a few questions about its subject: Does it work as intended? Is it entertaining? Is it a good value?

Books, on the other hand, sometimes are subject to criticism. Criticism explores, interprets, and analyzes. It asks "why" and "how" questions. The best criticism expands and changes its subject. Literature as a culture has its roots in both original work and criticism. Almost as soon as there were works to read, there was literary criticism. (The Talmud springs to mind as an early example.) Certainly, most readers and many critics are more interested in reviews than criticism, but the feedback from criticism has been fundamental to the development of literature.

This balance makes literary culture much different from gamer culture. Even with games aspire to be art, the reviews go like this:

The game explores themes of identity and abandonment. Who are we and how are we separate from each other? It might be art. The controls are a bit laggy and the game is only two hours long, which isn't great value for $10. I give it an 8 out of 10.

I've read a few game reviews that go farther but these are few and far between. Maybe the recent controversies will start us down a new path.

EDIT: I wish HN had a preview button.
What do you mean by the current tech? I bet every streaming world engine programmer has look at megatextures and some of its concepts are in open world games available right now. Similarly the fast hard-edged shadows from Doom 3 were ahead of the curve.

And although I agree that as games Doom 3 and Rage were just OK, Carmack is known for his tech; I don't think he gets involved on the game design side.
The problem is you'll have two copies of your desktop (or whatever you choose to have 1-per-monitor of) on one physical screen, because the OS thinks it's two monitors when it's actually one monitor.

To make this go away, all that clever support needs to be disabled, which is actually currently impossible in Linux!
> It turns out the MTA has designed it that way.

That's awful.

I'm no expert in economics, but bear with me. The MTA operates a natural monopoly. In a natural monopoly you don't have competitors, so your customers can't turn to someone else to receive better service. Furthermore, the government has granted them the right to be the one provider in this market.

I think that this makes them somewhat of a public service. Normally quality of service comes from the pressure of competitors, but in this case there are no competitors. I think the government has a responsibility to see that this is clearly a dishonest tactic and fix it. If the government doesn't enforce honest practice, than it won't get enforced at all (because competitors aren't there to do it). (sorry for the somewhat confused argument, but there's really something wrong with this)
Agreed. Mine was an inexpensive Seiki. Super nice to have the real estate. Next one will hopefully be the 50" one, tilted like an drafting table.
As a Gentoo user,

what I enjoy (freedom of choice):

[ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-1.2.6-r1 USE="X alsa bzip2 encode fontconfig hardcoded-tables iconv jpeg2k libass libcaca mmx mp3 network openal opus sdl ssse3 theora threads truetype v4l vorbis x264 zlib -3dnow -3dnowext -aac -aacplus (-altivec) -amr -avx -bindist -bluray -cdio (-celt) -cpudetection -debug -doc -examples -faac -fdk -flite -frei0r -gnutls -gsm -iec61883 -ieee1394 -jack -libsoxr -libv4l -mmxext -modplug (-neon) -openssl -oss -pic -pulseaudio -rtmp -schroedinger -speex -static-libs {-test} -twolame -vaapi -vdpau (-vis) -vpx -xvid" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" FFTOOLS="aviocat cws2fws ffescape ffeval fourcc2pixfmt graph2dot ismindex pktdumper qt-faststart trasher" 0 kB

what I suffer through:

Currently merging 1 out of 7

* www-client/chromium-38.0.2125.44

current merge time: 31 minutes and 45 seconds.
ETA: 1 hour, 37 minutes and 10 seconds.
> You could even write it on the back of your Metrocard if you can figure out how to get ink to stay on it.

If I want to write something on a credit card, I put some clear tape over the ink afterward.

I've never seen a MetroCard, but based on photos online, it looks like heavy paper stock with a glossy finish. So a sharpie and some clear tape should do the trick for the lifetime of the card.
Can I get the 7.50 I was forced to pay for the card back too?
There could be an "unlimited ride" card, like NYC has. It would work out to be about $125/month if that $2.90 is accurate compared to the $2.50 for NYC and everything else being equal.
At one year they replace the card for free. Seems like a good thing, so you don't end up with one that falls apart...
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Your next sentence wasn't particularly useful, as there aren't any other choices. If I want what I consider a reasonably-sized phone (~4.2"), I have to settle for something with crap specs.

I use a few apps that poorly implement the top-left button such that left-swiping doesn't do anything. Sigh.

Yeah, just playing with mine, and noting how I readjust my grip to do various things. I just always feel like I'm about to drop my phone when I have to do that.

And I just realized: I've never dropped and broken the screen on a phone until I got my Nexus 4 (which I've broken 3 times). My Nexus One and Nexus S lived happily break-free (well, ok, my S broke because someone [accidentally] violently elbowed it out of my hand, but that's hardly due to the size of the phone).

We'll see if the market "fixes" this. I'm skeptical, as phones have been larger than my preference for at least 2 years now, and they're still growing.
Yeah, but it's one I found I often neglected in the past. I ended up buying a Roomba since it was on sale and it's worked out quite well. It's not perfect at vacuuming but on average the floor is a lot cleaner when I can run the Roomba every couple of days while I go out for lunch versus me getting around to vacuuming every few weeks.
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You may want to check out "Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming", it has a few chapters on Consensus.
I can tell you from experience that the cards don't last a year. They are very flimsy and they stop working sooner than that. If a card becomes too damaged to read you are supposed to send it in to some MTA address to get a replacement but I've done that and never heard back from them. You can also go to their office in lower Manhattan during business hours and do it in person. Which is okay if you work downtown, but useless otherwise.
Lots of research has gone into this, under the name Byzantine fault tolerance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
Author here. Thanks for the feedback.

The presentation originally moved forward on its own but as you get into later sections there's a lot going on visually so it's easy to miss key points in the explanation. There's also an issue that the presentation is attached to the wall clock in later sections so you need the visual in a certain state before moving forward on the explanation.

In hindsight, I agree that there are better ways to present this information. Part of this project is to help me learn how to best communicate complicated topics like distributed consensus in the most effective way. Most existing resources are 20 page PhD dissertations which are not very accessible to beginners so I'm just figuring this out as I go.

I'm changing the format in future presentations. I'm working on infrastructure now to allow D3.js visualizations to be embedded into Medium blog posts. That'll give the best of both worlds -- read at your own pace and interact with mini visualizations as you go along.

I'm always looking for CS topics to visualize and help explain better. If you (or anyone) has any suggestions, please let me know. I'm @benbjohnson on Twitter.
Hi all,

I'm Alex, the author of the blog post. I'm so honored that my post made it here to HN. :) Obviously the itch I'm trying to scratch is one that a lot people are.

The suggestions here are very helpful. I think all of us have learned to cobble together a suite of tools to do what we want, but it seems that few are totally satisfied. I don't think what I've proposed, or what other have proposed is insurmountable - we do far more complex things with computers. But given the idiosyncrasies of our individual workflows, maybe it's unrealistic to think we'll find a solution that everyone likes.

I'm going to compile a lot of the suggestions from this thread and around the web in a follow up post on the blog.

I want to quickly address some of the comments on Anki. I've been using Anki for a few years now, mostly to handle the massive amount of knowledge in medical school. I've written about it here. Anki has caught on in med school significantly.

http://drwillbe.blogspot.com/2011/08/anki-guide-for-medical-...

There is no much interest in Anki for knowledge management (and retention), that I'm working on an eBook for med students about it - http://www.learningmedicinebook.com/

I used to think that everything I came across should live in my brain. And so, I went a little crazy with Anki in the beginning, capturing EVERYTHING I read. That quickly wore me down, and I had to become more discriminating. A lot of novice Anki users fall into a similar trap. I realized that not everything is worth occupying my headspace. I've been trying to come up with criteria for what should and shouldn't live in my head, but regardless, I've come to point where I want to offload most of the heavy lifting to my PKB. The really high yield bits from my PKB, however, will become Anki cards, so that the most important things I remember, and serve as 'crumbs' back to the details in my PKB. I'm going to flesh this out further in future posts. I love the enthusiasm here for spaced repetition. It's very powerful.

Last thing, regarding the comments on a better collaborative environment for Anki decks. I completely agree! I love Anki as much as the next guy, but there are some serious deficiencies. Collaboration being one of the them. I still think Anki is the best in class right now, but there is a new tool on the horizon that I'm excited about, and I think it will overtake Anki eventually.

It's called Memorang: https://www.memorangapp.com/. I'm enthusiastic about this app, and while it doesn't have everything I need yet (I think the scheduling could be better), the collaborative environment is excellent. It's worth checking it out. Perhaps one day I can integrate with my PKB.

Anyway, thanks again for checking out my post. The discussion this post has spurred is very fruitful.
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How many of the people need these loans for food/shelter/health?
Perhaps it's just a function of where I live (SF), but I never see lack of availability at slow times, either. The most I've ever had to wait for an Uber has been ~10 mins. (Average is more like 4 or 5.)
Your argument is fundamentally mercantilist; 'dumping', which is what you are describing, is only harmful to businesses in the industry being undercut, but it helps everyone in the country, and to a much greater extent than any harm which may inhere.[1][2] Please consider whether we should allow energy and lighting services to simply be given to the people of these countries for free all day, thus undercutting the utilities, lighting fixture manufacturers, light-bulb makers, utilities, and all the related industries; if you agree that this 'dumping' is bad, we should blot out the sun.[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

[3] http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
> OR, you could just extend PCI express over cables to the monitors

We already have this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

Thunderbolt combines PCI Express (PCIe) and DisplayPort (DP) into one serial signal alongside a DC connection for electric power, transmitted over one cable. Up to six peripherals may be supported by one connector through various topologies.

Not enough PCIe lanes to get enough performance for games but it should be fine for desktop applications.
> "free money"

Hah! That's a good one!

It's like those stores that always have half the store "50% off," they just always charge more and expect you to only buy the things on sale and feel like you got a great deal when in reality you paid what they expected you to pay.

i.e. that "free 5%" you get when buying a card comes is the same damn thing as just charging 5% less on the per ride costs in the first place. It's not free money at all. You just feel like it's free. Honestly, that "free money" only further supports the idea that the MTA is run more like a penny-pinching crony business than a public transport system.
With big enough numbers (and I assume there are a lot of these cards in circulation) it shouldn't be hard to make statistics and know exactly what percentage is never going to be claimed again.

That's the same tactic used by banks at a different scale, if everybody attempted to claim all the money in their accounts (during a bank run for instance) the whole thing would collapse, but they know it's not normally likely to happen so they keep only a fraction of the total savings available at any time.
I have never seen the options ending in $9, does this only show up if you're paying cash? When I pay with credit card I always get $10 and $20 options. If it is only for cash users, $19.05 is a really terrible experience for someone paying with a $20.
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I thought homebrew referred to, you know, brew.
Nvidia limits multiple monitors on their consumer cards to 2 monitors and 1 gpu or 2 gpus and 3 monitors in an surround (SLI) setup.

For their professional series of gpus they offer premium mosaic which allows up to 4 monitors on a single card[1].

AMD allows up to 6 monitors on a single consumer card with Eyefinity[2].

Of course through the use of splitters and multiple cards it's possible to attach more monitors. I've personally setup a 12 display system off a single card. There are of course performance limitations when you only have one gpu and a large grouped display.

For what it's worth I've had an easier time setting up multiple monitors in Linux then I have on Windows.

1: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-k5000.html

2: http://www.amd.com/en-gb/products/graphics/desktop/5000/5870...
>If we wants to litigate, cool too; bring it on

That would be a quick way to shut it down. Just threaten to sue anybody who _implements_ it.
Who drives less than 5k miles/year? And if you do, public transportation is probably excellent?
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I haven't been following on this matter, it was or it wasn't Apple's fault?
I already knew that from all my years as a pizza eater. You don't have to be a genius to know that
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If all rides cost the same (i.e. price is not dependent on distance traveled) why don't they sell cards with X number of rides on them? The "rides" on the card could act like forever stamps, in that they would be valid even if the price per ride someday increased. This seems like a much fairer system that would still encourage people to buy in advance and keep their cards.
As for the research part, I think one major issue is that the workflow is too personal and not (necessarily) compatible with other people.

In our research group we ended up doing annotated bibliography in a common repo. bibtex format and git. This way the kbr grows over the time with distributed effort.

There is a common shared structure. You have to provide well written bibtex ref and a paragraph or 2 of annotations. The first paragraph has a strict structure where essentially you reply to a few questions. Other paragraphs can be added freely by each person (with your initials).

Anyway, this is just specific to research and a subset of the kbr, but I'd think also to ways where what you collect can be useful to others, and viceversa others can add to your kbr without generating mess.
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This is a great text; saving to re-read another time.

Personally, I use Dropbox + org-mode based personal wiki. I store each important topic in its own file, and the whole thing gets synced between all my machines. It basically looks like this:

http://imgur.com/Xgpzj5f

I heavily use links between documents, to outside sources, and back-up anything important by downloading PDFs/pictures and saving plaintext in an org file.

My current pain points:

- internal linking - I try to avoid linking from .org file to another, because I expect that if I move a piece of text to another file (or even subheading, for heading-relative links), I won't be able to find all the links that broke in the other files. So I created a "dispatcher" file, that maps links to destinations, so when I move something, I only have one place to check. Unfortunately, this requires two clicks to traverse to your destination, and is basically annoying. So I'm looking for another solution for broken incoming links.

- mobile viewing - I don't use the org-agenda based flow that is apparently required for org-mode, and the Android is too stupid to let Dropbox open my org files (without workarounds that require a lot of tapping on the screen), because there's nothing registered to open files with .org extension sigh. I'm yet to find a good solution for this (even just a simple text editor that could register itself as an app for .org files would be immensely helpful).

- web viewing - sometimes I'd like to browse my personal wiki from someone else's machine, or maybe even link to a particular page; for that I'd love to have a web-viewable version of my wiki. I want it to work seamlessly, i.e. without having to manually regenerate or commit everything. This could be doable with Dropbox and a bit of org-export scripting, but I'm yet to get around to do it.

- web writing - sometimes I'd like to dump some notes into my wiki from someone else's machine; I haven't figured out how to make it work.
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Wasn't intended to be, but i can see how it would be taken that way. If tiger's balls are as powerful as the legend has it... would it be the equivalent?
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Most tourist probably buy unlimited ride card, fixed period, so they they dont have to worry about refills. It pays for itself if you average three rides a day.
PR stunt with some legs. Could lead to something...
So you never actually used the vacuum, but you feel entitled to express on opinion on the quality of the product. Dyson is a design company. Design as in "how it works" not "how it looks." Perhaps the plastic you are complaining about here serves a purpose: keeps the vacuum light and allows the user to bump into things without damaging their furniture or the vacuum.