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> Pedestrians and bike riders are not compatible either

Maybe you could explain what you're thinking of when you say this? My experience says that pedestrians and bikes are fully compatible; they commonly share sidewalks.
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Because it shouldn't be a defence of a driver to say "Sorry mate, I didn't see you". And if that is a defence, then isn't it a form of victim blaming? And what measure would be enough to allow the cyclist to ever prove that the driver must have seen the cyclist? Surely lights would be enough, but enough London cases about cycle deaths would appear to show this isn't enough... cyclists with lights are still killed.
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Do cyclists in Netherlands skip traffic lights and act like they have a chip on their shoulder?

Well American ones do.

If cyclists are going to share the road, they would see fit have their bicycles registered, pay yearly fees and purchase insurance - both for themselves and the ones they cause harm to [1] - just like motorists do.

Anything else is just favoritism. Won't stand in a court of law, here.

The next time a cyclist injures someone - fatally or not - I can see the auto lobby getting behind efforts to requiring cyclists treated as motorists. I will gladly chip in for that.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Bicyclist-sentenced-for-...
But I feel like the causal direction might be mixed up here. There are two phenomena: Netherlands is safer for cyclists, and Netherlands punishes automobile drivers more for hitting a cyclist. You seem to be implying that the latter causes the former. But it seems to be that both could be caused by a third (potential, I don't actually know) phenomenon: that the ratio of cyclists to automobiles in the Netherlands is much higher than it is in the US. It's easy to see why this third phenomenon could cause the first two.

Now, granted, the author's complaints about US automobile manufacturers' influence on society can still apply, because that can at least partially explain the lower ratio of bicycles to automobiles in the US. There are undoubtedly other contributors to this low ratio, like the significantly higher median income and vastly lower population density of the United States.
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He's not in arms against the tech, but rather against the laws that make them mandatory. Because it encourages motor vehicle drivers even more to not properly pay attention because they're not the ones at fault when hitting a cyclist.
Registration and Insurance isn't a bad idea actually...
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While I totally understand that it must've felt menacing to nearly have been hit by a bicycle, do you _really_ think it would've killed you?

I also think that cyclists shouldn't ride at speed on the sidewalk, but even if, cyclists causing pedestrian fatalities is extremely rare. It has happened, but it's statistically insignificant when compared to cars killing pedestrians.

There is a big difference between getting hit by 90kg at 30km/h vs 1900kg at 45km/h.
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I don't get your argument. Just because the lack of X does not excuse behavior Y doesn't mean that the presence of X isn't advisable. For instance, if you collide your automobile into another automobile because you didn't have a rear view mirror, that obviously is not an excuse. And yet, it is still reasonable to advise (and indeed require) that automobiles have rear view mirrors.
More like seeks refund from Pearson? The body of the article directly contradicts the headline. I'm hope that FBI investigation turns up some dirt, Pearson is a name that comes up too often in public education, and seems like universally negative reactions. How do such shit companies manage to gain such a stranglehold, particularly when it comes to government contracts? Across 50 states and the innumerable local governments which enter into these contracts, is it literally graft all the way through?

Clever seems like the one breath of fresh air into the system. Maybe they will get into actual curriculum development in the future.
Bikes can go much faster than pedestrians. People can get seriously hurt when bikes run into them. Bike lanes are what's needed (and exist in many places).
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At first I thought this was going to be a parody of "anti-rape-culture" campaigns (e.g., "teaching women to defend themselves from rapists is wrong, because we should be teaching men to not rape women"), but much to my surprise it seems that the author is serious.

And so I really have to wonder about his grip on logic: The whole purpose of making cyclists more visible is to prevent drivers from hitting them! Driving around Vancouver -- a city with a large (by North American standards) cycling population, I have on many occasions come across cyclists who were visible only thanks to the lights on their bicycles. Fortunately those lights were all I needed; but on one occasion I passed a cyclist whose rear light had burnt out, and thanks to his black clothing, the lack of street lights, and the overcast night, I had no idea he was in the road until I passed him -- even though I had been looking directly at him prior to passing.

How, pray tell, am I supposed to avoid hitting invisible cyclists?
This article is mostly nonsense. The way I look at it, mandatory helmet laws are protecting not only cyclists but also drivers by reducing the likelihood of a serious injury resulting from an accident.

In regards to improving bike-ability, adding more bike lanes is certainly the best way forward. Meanwhile we can encourage responsible bike use for those who share the roadways with motor vehicles. I'm frankly appalled at the general disregard to bike safety and traffic laws by NYC cyclists. A policy of early education and strict traffic law enforcement would likely alleviate a significant portion of the problem.

As a side note, the CitiBike program has done nothing but encourage terrible bike usage behavior and dangerous habits.
In London this is being answered through speed restrictions.

A gradual move to 20mph on all roads is being introduced: http://www.islington.gov.uk/services/parking-roads/street_im...

Some boroughs have already completed the move (i.e. the link above) and others are following.

Traffic in London rarely gets above 20mph anyway, so it barely impacts. As a driver it makes driving more relaxing and hasn't impacted travel times. As a cyclist, it's a joy to not have vehicles racing to overtake in appropriate places.
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I'm a cyclist in the U.S., but have no problem admitting that probably 90% of the time, the cyclist is at fault. I've ridden bikes in Europe with real bike lanes—U.S. urban cycling culture is not Dutch cycling culture. There is not a culture of responsible cycling. We don't have real bike lanes. We don't stop for red lights. We don't stop for pedestrians. As a result, the U.S. also does not have many drivers or pedestrians that are sympathetic to cyclists. In general, I am ashamed of my fellow cyclists in the U.S..
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London has over 6,000 cycles that are registered with clearly visible numbers, and with the cyclist on the bike known.

It's called the cycle hire scheme.

In this time, not a single cyclist has been tried for anything, and yet several of them have been killed by HGVs.

Registrations aren't stopping cyclist fatalities.
Pretty sure the burden is on the car to ensure safety, since they are the one operating heavy machinery in public, instead of just walking.

It actually does make sense to blame the driver for their behavior.
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yep their beef is with Pearson:

In its letters, the district said it wants to meet this month to arrange “the dissociation from Pearson and recoup the costs of Pearson licenses that we paid for but have been unable to use.”

Board member Monica Ratliff, who chaired a technology committee that raised serious questions about the effort, said the district has been patient with Pearson but that time has ended.

“I believe that it is time for Pearson to either deliver on its promises immediately or provide us with a refund so that we can purchase curriculum that actually works for our students,” she said in a statement.
One of the main problems is that the road have not been designed for cyclists at all. In Denmark there is dedicated bike lanes, and cyclists like you describe is for the most part not a problem at all.
I agree with you in principle but let me make a cheeky comment: Average speed of a motor vehicle in London is 8.98 mph ( http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2012-11-19/tfl-average... ) so way lower than average bike commuter speed (~12-15mph)
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A cyclist in London died. I can't recall the guys name but probably can find the information for you if you insist.

He had a Flare rear light, reflective jacket, and even during the court case witnesses testified to the brightness of the light and it's effectiveness. The weather and conditions were good.

The driver still used the SMIDSY defence, still walked free with little more than a fine.

At what point do we stop and say that perhaps it isn't enough to be dressed as a clown and lit with everything possible... perhaps the responsibility to not hit a cyclist should be with the driver to drive with care and attention?
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I am happy that the service providers in India will continue forth expanding into poor and under-serviced areas without a large subsidy to free them of cost-benefit decisions.

I'm sure they will operate in the best interest of the public.
> do you _really_ think it would've killed you?

I've almost been knocked into a busy 50 mph street by sidewalk cyclists, so yeah.
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Heh, that's the traditional way of making coffee. Eg Turkish, or how it's used to be made here in Norway:

* Put kettle on, bring water to boil (now, the rough frontiers-type pours in coffee right away, enjoying the bitter, ruined taste that comes from too high temperature)

* take off heat (the hipster adds a thermometer, the scientist adds a thermometer, and takes the time, notes down the time, and uses a stop watch for next brew session)

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I think it could indeed kill you. It's rare, but certainly can happen:

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0: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-23/pedestrian...
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There was a great talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management) re: Omega in 2011 at Google Faculty Summit [1]. Absolutely fascinating to see the scope of the problems they are dealing with.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFMlO98Jkc

Edit: remove error in my comment re: borg/omega order.
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There is nothing wrong with riding a BMX, leeching off your parents, and playing Smoke On The Water on one string, when you are 14 :).

At that age, you should have fun and experiment. Whether that's playing on a one string guitar, pretending you are in a rock band, or programming an AI bot.

Just have fun, you'll have time to worry about your mortgage, career, and children later.
Of course it's an unsolved problem, that's why parent said "someone needs to invent one".

And there's no such thing as the "real cost" of things when we're talking about inventing new stuff. You're talking about the current cost, which is completely different.
As it stands now most package managers already require signatures before installing applications. We already put trust in the people who maintain the repositories- and whose keys we've decided to use for verifying code. My issue isn't so much with who polices it, my concern is how easy can I override it.

I would have absolutely no problem with Ubuntu shipping with this exact same feature, assuming that I can also add in other sources of trust and self sign extensions I want to place in.

My point is that the problem isn't whether someone can make these decisions or not. It's good to have people make them, and that extra level of protection can mean a lot. None of that is a problem- the real issue is Apple attempting to enforce exclusive trust.
> The notion that you can legally run down and kill a child on a bicycle just because that child was "wrong" is what's insane.

Even if the kid say, hides behind a tree then decides to cut across traffic without warning?

The fact that I'd go to jail for that is what's insane.
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For instance, there seems to be a lot of framework/packages already available in other higher-level/modern languages (python NLTK comes to mind), whereas with languages closer to the system, à la C/C++, it seems everything may need to be built from the ground up.

Is there a performance trade-off when comparing these languages? Does one offer a significant advantage over the other?

PS: The question isn't about ease of programming as all of them will have their unique challenges.

PPS: Any real-time examples/applications will be helpful.
This language looks like it attempted to solve a number of issues from the old verilog days, but wound up reinventing a very very small subset of system verilog instead of inventing something new.

arrays in lucid = system verilog arrays
"fsm" = basically system verilog enums and a little helper logic
"connectors" = system verilog interfaces

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Its definitely better to go where the tool support is. With system verilog you get a lot of nice verification: constrained randomization, built in process synchronization, support for differentiated test bench vs dut, assertions, complex coverage metrics.
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The transgression of cycling through a red light is much
more visible than lets say speeding, mobile phone or dangerous driving.
Yet it is also much less dangerous than any of those things.
Even if we assume that there is a massive level of red light jumping going on part of the Sydney cyclists, fatalities or serious injury as a result of this are extremely rare.
Sadly the same cannot be said for cars hitting people.
I'm not sure what definition of innovation you use but I assure you it does not require invention from first principles.
Come to NYC. We have Citibike here and messengers and delivery people on bikes.

And it's horrible.

The bicyclists ROUTINELY violate nearly every sane traffic law on the books. They go the wrong way against traffic, refuse to stop for stop lights or pedestrians in crosswalks, ride on sidewalks, have few if any safety features like headlights or taillights, and on and on.

If cyclists would simply follow the traffic laws that already exist, there would be many fewer deadly accidents between cyclists and pedestrians (yes, you read that right) and cyclists and cars.
This is one of the nice things about moving to France.

You can ride your bike on a narrow road without a shoulder where cars routinely pass you going 70mph, and never really worry about being taken out. Bikes are things that are found on roads here, so cars just go around them. Usually all the way over in the far lane.

I've never had a car come closer than 2m when passing me on the road. No surprise, since they have signs posted every few miles reminding drivers that that's the minimum legal amount of space that you need to give a bicycle.
Omega actually comes after Borg (hence the name). It's just that Borg was quite confidential until now. I'm pretty surprised they let the name slip.
Haha, I'm sure that's true (in fact, it's one of the reasons many prefer cycling), but I'd argue that the average speed matters a lot less than the top speed. Stop and go traffic, where one minute cycles whizz past cars and the next it's the other way around, is probably the worst of both worlds.
Does something have to be fatal before it's worth doing something about? Serious injury doesn't count?
I'd also expect to be thrown out when i appear for an interview in "provocative" clothing, regardless of sex/gender. How is this special? And why is it turned into an sexism issue?
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I cycle to work nearly everyday in the UK. Locally we have crazy cycle lanes that at junction take you off the road and then have to yield to crossing traffic at junctions whereas if I stayed on the road I have right of way.

I always stop at red lights. I ride the road so follow the rules of the road.

However as a cyclist I also have to take command of a lane to prevent vehicles trying to squeeze by between a central reservation. Only for me to catch them up and overtake then at the next set of lights.

Urban speed limit is 30mph and usually less when traffic is heavy. I can cycle to and from work faster than I can drive. So I get annoyed when I see the same car make a bad overtake 3 times while I am riding. If they travelled with me they would arrive no later.

I stick my arm out to turn right (we drive in the left) and vehicles will continue to overtake me even as I pull out to the centre of the road.

I wear a helmet and a hi-vis jacket. I also have insurance. Even so I have around 2 near misses a week and so far this year been clipped twice from behind.

On the flip side I see stupid cyclists darting across lights, bunny hoping on and off pavements and weaving in lanes. So I can see why motorists get angry when sat in there cars. I have also had a couple of disagreements with other cyclists who are setting a bad example. They generally have a "give a shit" response.
Helmet laws may be dumb, but visibility laws could actually make cycling much safer!
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Ah, thanks! Updated my comment.
It is the other way: Omega was presented as the successor of Borg.
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1) what exactly do they do?

2) why are they so valuable?

3) why haven't the googles and yahoos managed to choke out the small players yet?

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I agree 100%, and it's the reason I love, love, love the intersection at 10th and Pike in Seattle (which is arguably a "shit show" for all the odd things that happen there) because it's people first; people can just start walking out into traffic and traffic stops for people. It's a very interesting demonstration.

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I tried both, and for the coffee I use regularly (which isn't as good as it could be, it's not high grade, and it's not fresh ground - it's also less than half the price of "proper" beans) -- I can't really tell the difference.

For really good coffee I haven't tested back-to-back, but I generally find that letting it steep "right way up" is fine. Also letting the coffee steep in a pre-heated cup/kettle/teapot is fine. Maybe this makes a difference if one makes "pretend-espresso" rather than a full cup of "Americano" (actually more like Lungo -- but still not, as the pressure is lower than the initial pressure for a lungo).

I like my aeropress, but it's no espresso machine. It's different from a French press and a pour-over -- but I'm not prepared to claim that it's the best coffee.
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