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Review my site - readit.me | kingkilr: Why would I use this over Readernaut: http://readernaut.com/ |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | rufugee: I'd like to see the date the actual cheatsheet was created...not just added to the site. A javascript cheatsheet from 2001 is likely to be much different than one from 2007. Other than that I love the site! |
Review my site - readit.me | ilconsigliere: Phonetically, readit could easily be mistaken for the immensely popular reddit. This seems rather important from a branding perspective.I assume its meant to be "read" sounding like "reed," not "read" sounding like "red".. but it's easy to see how this could cause confusion. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | bajsejohannes: Good job on making a nice and clean design! One thing I found slightly confusing was that some images of cheatsheets links to an intermediate page, instead of the cheatsheet itself.Examples:ANSI C Reference Card v2.2 on http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/c/STL Quick Reference on http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/cpp/I'm gussing it is because these have different formats. One suggestion would be to pick one of them (e.g. PDF) for the image, and create links on the different formats (e.g. "Formats: DVI, PDF, TeX") for alternative formats. |
what if it's not a tablet | johnrob: At this point I'm reasonably sure it's going to take the form of a tablet. But we still don't know what their target use cases will be... I'll throw one out that I haven't yet seen:The tablet will be the perfect remote for apple tv. Infact, apple tv could become moot as people simply plug a regular PC to their TV (which has now become a glorified monitor). With the ability to move a pointer and type freely, the notion of a set top box is now a thing of the past. You're free to surf the web, watch online tv, use iTunes, use bittorrent, etc... anything you can do on a PC is now available in the living room. What we currently call the desktop/PC is now the main form of video consumption. (I'm looking a few years down the road of course, these changes won't be instant). |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | jasonlbaptiste: XBMC |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | abscondment: Clojure, Redis |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | nathanwdavis: MongoDB |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | richcollins: You could do some work to make the directory easier to read. Some inspiration: http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/AZDesigners http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoReferen... |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | nathanwdavis: COBOL :) |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | roder: Riak |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | qw: Jakarta. It may not be hot and trendy, but it's certainly popularEdit: To the persons who downvoted me. I was not being sarcastic. I use stuff from the Jakarta project on a daily basis. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | clofresh: couchdb |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | b-man: plt scheme |
what if it's not a tablet | Groxx: * iProd? (cattle roundup tool)I wonder if they'd go for iSpy for a spy camera. They've got a slogan already: "with my little eye". |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | adam-_-: Redis, node.js & sinatra |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | bradfordw: Languages: Clojure, plt scheme and (I guess a little) newLISP."noSQL": Riak, MongoDB, Redis, (I think the "new-ness" has worn off CouchDB")Trendy: node.js, ruby on rails, django, lift*Really any "web framework that promises to make development easier" |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | rictic: node.js (both the core and projects which build upon it) |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | jodrellblank: Hot as in cool: Etherpad. Almost one of a kind, taken over and closed down then open sourced after a large backlash. I think a good additional web concept to join wikis and forums and sidebar-chats.Are you looking for something to use or something to contribute to or what?If you really care about popular and trendy, get some real data e.g. from http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ and be surprised that the most popular of the past week are a package of Microsoft Fonts and an ERP, Accounting and CRM app. The most popular of all time are eMule and Azaureus file sharing and Sourceforge.net itself and the Crystal Space 3D SDK.In fact the most webby looking one in the lists seems to be PHPMyAdmin, of all things. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | jacquesm: clojuresqueak |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | ambulatorybird: LÖVE (http://love2d.org/) -- a 2d game library for Lua. It's simple, easy to use, cross-platform, and allows for convenient distribution of finished products.(It's not really popular or trendy, but I think it's cool and I like it a lot.) |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | ashleyw: Ruby on Rails, node.js, MongoDB, jQuery, Webkit, Sinatra, HAML+SASS |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | mbrubeck: WebKit/Chrome/V8 are leading the way in web standards implementation, with Firefox/Gecko/TraceMonkey also doing lots of great stuff.Haskell is really taking off, both in terms of compiler improvements and in the size of the community and available libraries. I'm using it for several projects now.MagLev, LuaJIT, Unladen Swallow, and V8 (again) are all exciting because they're bringing modern dynamic language VMs closer to Java-like (and sometimes even C-like) speeds.Android - my phone runs an open source OS, I can install software on it without an app store, and it can run SSH, Python, and Lua. Sweet! |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | jaggs: hobo |
Further studies with maximum ROI? | whatusername: Ignore the ROI. Do it with something that you are likely to want to work on. (You're in a tech field going for your masters - you'll have a decent salary/options regardless of what you focus on - it's not like this is Liberal Arts). So if you enjoy HCI then go do that. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | jackfoxy: Within minutes of discovering this on HN I needed a cheatsheet for RoboCopy. Didn't find one on your site. For what it's worth here's a pretty good one I dug up http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | simonw: Redis - I wrote about why in October ( http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ ) and it's gained some awesome new features since then, including ordered sets and blocking fetch against queues. It's a very different beast from the other stuff that gets branded as NoSQL. |
Review my site - readit.me | barmstrong: Cool idea! Could be something there. Props for getting it out there.Could be a facebook app? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | alttab: Very cool Tim!I will be using this for a ruby reference for sure. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | mattdennewitz: mongodb, mongoengine, redis, node, tornado, neo4j, djangowant to play with openframeworks and cvtypes, but haven't had time |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | Rabidgremlin: Boxee http://www.boxee.tv/ |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | christefano: I don't know about hot and trendy, but these are a few open source projects that come to mind that make my life and work much, much easier: Drupal
jQuery (included in Drupal)
Xdebug
EtherPad
Adium
Miro
Quicksilver
Clyppan |
Review my site - readit.me | jayliew: Is this just a side project .. or can you share your vision and plan for this?I like it, but I have to say that I've been using Shelfari for a while and it appears to pretty much do the same thing. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | rmanocha: Django & jQuery - These two tools have made web development fun for me, again.Clojure/Lisp - I've had a Lisp like language on my languages-to-learn to-do list for longRedis - Looks like an excellent NoSQL DB to begin learning this new concept with. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | dzlobin: Any chance of getting a MongoDB cheat sheet? |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | kylemathews: Drupal, jQuery, Chrome |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | profquail: Math.NET Numerics: http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/Merging of the two largest open-source .NET math libraries...should be an excellent library when it's complete. |
Nice OS X app for recording a personal log | rwl: Emacs' diary-mode and automatic editing of GPG-encrypted files:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoEncryption |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | siong1987: Cramp - http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-crampRuby equivalent of Tornado? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | walkon: Nice site. Have you considered incorporating any interaction with the site, such as a way to rate the cheat sheets or give comments? Also, it (might) be cool if there was the ability to create user/community driven cheat sheets that could be modified wiki-style or something. |
Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project? | proexploit: What are you looking for? Just icons for actions? Check out http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/the-best-icon-sets-for-m.... I just pulled it off delicious, used some icons from it 10 minutes ago. If you're looking for images, try http://sxc.hu. Something else? What type of thing are you looking for? |
An app to organize business-cards ? | shabble: My boss has a miniature scanner designed for business cards. It only accepts fairly small (business-card sized!) stock, but can scan both sides simultaneously and has some combined OCR/Management software which will try and extract the information and automatically populate the contact fields. It'll keep reasonably hi-res scans of the card around as well, in case you later find the OCR wasn't quite right.I'm pretty sure it can integrate with other contact databases, or at least export to CSV or something similar.I'm not sure if it's exactly the same company, but
http://www.cardscan.com/products/core_contact_mgmt/personal/... looks quite similar, but more recent hardware.[No personal involvement/astroturfing, I was just impressed by how well it worked] |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | kls: Dojo They have a comprehensive toolkit for building complex web-app front ends. |
Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project? | mixmax: I always use Fam fam's icons. They're well designed and there are a lot of them. Best of all they're completely free :-)http://www.famfamfam.com/ |
Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project? | taitems: A lot of people (including myself) are under the delusion that you need detailed, descriptive icons. Most of the time your design will benefit from a simple representative glyph.That being said, the "Fugue" icon set would have to be the greatest icon set I have ever crossed paths with. With 2000+ beautifully designed, crisp icons, most of your needs will be met. The license is attribution or you can simply pay $49.95 for royalty free.http://pinvoke.com/ |
Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project? | ashishk: famfam or http://iconfinder.net |
Any help with ideas for the college science fair? | mechanical_fish: You're in college now, so it's time to get serious. I'd treat your "science fair" like its grad-school and postgraduate equivalent: The "poster session".Which is to say: You can probably go far by reading a page like this one:http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htmDefinitely not for middle school students. You're in the big leagues now! Unfortunately, you may not cease to feel like a dressed-up middle schooler on parade until after you get tenure, if then. ;)Don't worry about the fact that your project is highly abstract. Almost any science project which is not a toy is highly abstract. [1] But do try to bring it down to earth. Pretend that you're trying to explain the project to the average HN reader's parents -- probably generally smart, but probably barely know what "bioinformatics" means and may not even use the computer that much.---[1] If you can explain your science project completely to a kindergartener and it is not a toy, you've got it made, because the grant money is going to fly in. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | mchadwick: The Linux kernel (Popular. Not hot nor trendy). Over the past 12 months, I've touched Redis, Node.js, Clojure, and a few others on this list, but nothing blows my mind more than learning a new system call or OS feature.Learn the exact copy on write semantics of forking (What happens to file handles? Threads? How does the OS know a paged needs to be copied?), copy two file descriptors with splice, put something in shared memory, move messages over an IPC queue. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | andyjdavis: If you have any interest/connection with education then http://moodle.orgIt's used by millions of people all over the world (http://moodle.org/stats/) and is helping to make education more accessible. |
Review my site - Did They Play | Vindexus: This is actually pretty neat.Your textboxes on the home page are practically invisible though.If I don't enter my email address (I shouldn't have to by the way) then I get an error saying that the person wasn't found. The error should say I have to enter my email address, instead it tells me to try again and recheck my spelling. |
From where should I buy the first server and collocation? | haidut: My opinion is obviously biased b/c I am using that for my project but XLhost.com seem to offer dedicated servers that no other company can match in price/performance. Please note that I am NOT getting royalties from them and that you HAVE to do your own research before committing to them. Before signing up with them I read a few posts on various forums complaining about XLhost down time and poor customer service. I won't comment on those, please Google for the info and make your own judgement. My personal experience is that I can not find any other company were you can lease a 4-CPU machine with 8GB of RAM and 250GB or RAM in RAID-1 for $149. Again, many other factors come into play and XLhost seems to have taken the road of max hardware for less money but maybe lacking in the tech support area.
My site is http://www.euraeka.com/faq, so feel free to check it out and judge/test on performance of the hosting provider mentioned above. If you want to discuss this more please send me an email. I don;t recommend any service specifically, but have been reading and accumulating a lot of reviews of various providers (i.e. VPS, dedicated, etc) from ppl who post on HN. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | Ixiaus: PHP, KohanaPHP; Python; PLT-Scheme; Erlang/OTP; PostgreSQL; Apache, Lighttpd; Emacs; Firefox.Those are the essentials - I'm sure there is more. |
From where should I buy the first server and collocation? | dnsworks: Personally I'd go with Softlayer. They have a stellar track record, and great pricing. Just like anywhere else, however, don't take their web pricing as law, but call them up and talk to them about your business.If you really want to buy hardware, I'd look at HP or Sun. Dell is cheap, and you get what you pay for. HP & Sun have very functional and reliable remote management cards that will help ensure a minimal of on-site management time (I've built out datacenters with 500+ HP servers remotely, only having gone on-site to supervise the physical work of my contractors.)As for colocation, that's a bigger question involving expected growth, your physical and network needs, your remote hands requirements, etc. |
Review my site - Did They Play | jcapote: Rather than focusing on the negative aspect of the game (are you an addict? is someone you know lying?), focus on selling it as a meeting tool to know when/where your friends have logged on. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | Nyarly: http://monotone.ca There's more to distributed VCS than Git. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | rubinelli: Hadoop and subprojects, specially Pig. It may be written in the unsexiest of languages, but if you have lots of data and need flexibility to do anything you want with it, Hadoop is your best friend. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | lunatech: Hadoop, Hive, Scribe |
Review my site - Did They Play | roundsquare: Interesting, but I'm guessing a lot of WoW players are going to hate you for it. "My parents found out I play 10 hours a day and now I'm banned from using the computer." |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | recurser: Mogilefs, transmission & django |
From where should I buy the first server and collocation? | papaf: I'd like to say something in defense of the cloud -- its not just that its cool. Years ago I worked for a small web company which was ticking along and had capacity to spare on their servers.One day, the skilled PR woman working there got an article about us appearing in a national newspaper. Traffic went up and the servers melted. The people visiting probably tried, saw the site was down and never thought about the company again. After a few years the company went under -- it just wasn't growing quickly enough.I'm convinced that things would be different if cloud servers were available in those days. We could have brought some extra servers online for a couple of days to cope with the extra traffic without a large investment in rack space and servers that would only see occasional use. |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | Chirag: Marketing Myopia - Theodore Levitt
16 pages. Publication date: Jul 01, 2004
http://www.casadogalo.com/marketingmyopia.pdfAt some point in its development, every industry can be considered a growth industry, based on the apparent superiority of its product. But in case after case, industries have fallen under the shadow of mismanagement. What usually gets emphasized is selling, not marketing. This is a mistake, because selling focuses on the needs of the seller, whereas marketing concentrates on the needs of the buyer. In this widely quoted and anthologized article, first published in 1960, Theodore Levitt argues that "the history of every dead and dying 'growth' industry shows a self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and undetected decay." But, as he illustrates, memories are short. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | etherael: Awww, no Groovy? |
can we have a standard quote format | revorad: there is no agreed standard formatMost people here italicise quotes with asterisks. see http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc. |
How do you come to HN? | micheles: I just press n <TAB> in the address bar in Firefox or n <ENTER> in Chrome. |
How do you come to HN? | thristian: I type "n <Down> <Enter>" in Firefox's Awesomebar. It's like Googling for sites you visit frequently, but with a local database optimized just for me. |
How do you come to HN? | monkeygrinder: I have it bookmarked (news.ycombinator.com) |
How do you come to HN? | pbhjpbhj: FF: I either use the drop down in the address bar OR click in the address bar and type H and hit down-arrow then enter OR click on HN image in speed-dial OR if I'm feeling keyboardy I use ctrl+L to get to the address bar then type H and hit down-arrow, enter. |
How do you come to HN? | rms: Ctrl-l, n, enter |
How do you come to HN? | DanielStraight: Ctrl+Space Y. Site Launcher extension for Firefox. |
How do you come to HN? | Kliment: I have the new-page within my first 8 ff tabs at all times, so I can always hit Alt-number-f5. |
can we have a standard quote format | roundsquare: Sorry to ask, but why is it a big deal? I think its usually pretty obvious when something is being quoted...Just my two cents. |
How do you come to HN? | pmjordan: Speed dial on Opera, pinned to the 'new tab' page in Chrome. Sometimes I start typing "news." which is autocompleted accordingly. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | goodgoblin: I like your site. However, I did a search on 'transactions' and it came up with nothing. Cool idea though. |
How do you come to HN? | adam-_-: Often just select the icon from the home screen of my iPhone... |
How do you come to HN? | dagw: I type "news." in Chrome or firefox and select "news.ycombinator.com" |
How do you come to HN? | Mc_Big_G: Bookmarks toolbar in FireFox |
How do you come to HN? | yan: Command+3. It's the third shortcut in my Safari toolbar. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | chrislo: Have you seen the Ruby "cheat" gem?http://cheat.errtheblog.com/It outputs cheat sheets to the command line, and allows people to edit them through a wiki. Might be a good source of cheat sheets for your site?Also a command line tool to pull in cheat sheets from your site would be useful, although automatically converting them to ascii might be tricky. |
Resources for 3D solid modeling | amatheus: constructive solid geometry seems good, but boundary representation looks better.I've found some resources:
- an online course on Geometric Modellinghttp://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab/G_mod/FYGM/- a book about boundary representationhttp://www.amazon.com/Boundary-Representation-Modelling-Tech...I think these will suffice to start.Thanks for the comments! |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | kattervon: Additional property taxes on land near the stations would be a good source of revenue. It's likely that the adjoing land commands higher rents due to proximity to transit, and it's rational that some of this extra revenue goes towards maintaining the transit that is its source. |
Rate My Startup - LetMeGo: Let lodgings bid for your stay | toptrader: Where did you get all of the hotel data (rating, amenities, types, of rooms, pictures, etc.)? Are the hotels that sign up required to submit that information? |
What kind of businesses/sectors/occupations do the following? | JayNeely: Restaurants.With the exception of the runway space, airports. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | wallflower: Public transportation is a choice for some. Whether economic-driven or lifestyle. My point is its optional - you can't force people to take public transit.Public transportation is necessary because not everyone can afford a private car or wants to drive a car (not everyone can bike - and biking in inclement weather is not a good experience).Public transportation works poorly outside of urban centers because of grid density problems (in the suburbs, you can't cut through someone's yard to get to a bus stop - whereas in the city, regular blocks make it more direct to get to bus stops).However, public transportation has to support the suburbs because a lot of lower-paid workers rely on it to get to their jobs in the suburbs. On many suburban bus routes, you will probably find it a maddening experience - as it is designed to go in loop-around fashion through office parks.In other forums, its been argued that private auto industry gets a huge indirect subsidy from the government by the government supporting almost the majority of infrastructure road costs, wars to keep oil producers in check. The private auto industry has huge lobbying powers (see how much highway construction dollars came out of the last stimulus bill). It's also been argued that the true purpose of public transit is to give jobs to people. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | jgrahamc: Why make them profitable? |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | yaacovtp: Get rid of the unions and lower revenue/fares at the same time. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | cmos: Stop subsidizing low gas prices for automobiles. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | tjic: Much of mass transit (airplanes, tour buses, Greyhound, ocean cruise lines, etc.) are profitable.There are things that people are not willing to pay for, and government types have labelled these things "market failures", which, BTW, is a misuse of the term.Government has then stepped in and run programs that people are not willing to pay for.So the question really boils down to "how would you make something that noone has ever figured out how to make profitable...profitable?"It's a bit like recycling: there have been metal recyclers for centuries. People do not recycle glass and paper because it is a value DESTROYING activity.... and thus government got involved, and requires people to separate their trash streams...before recombining about 75% of the "recycled" materials and putting them in landfills.The only good answer to this question is "mu". |
What kind of businesses/sectors/occupations do the following? | mbrubeck: Call centers. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | plusbryan: I can think of several times here in SF where I took a taxi instead of a bus because I didn't have cash on me. Now with the new RFID translink cards, it's much less hassle and I ride the bus a lot more. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | dpapathanasiou: This brings back memories of a similar discussion in a finance class a few years ago.Someone suggested increasing the cost of using private automobiles (via higher tolls on bridges and tunnels, etc.), and making the subways and buses free (both to encourage ridership and to reduce the overhead required for collecting fares).The professor responded that the first idea was good, since it would motivate changes in behavior, but it would have to be a lot, i.e., triple or more the current tolls, to really have an effect.He thought the second idea made less sense b/c mass transit is an inelastic service to the population that currently uses it (i.e., people who ride the subway have no choice but to keep using it), and also since the cost of collecting fares is small relative to the overall income. |
What kind of businesses/sectors/occupations do the following? | yannis: Roman galleys? |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | pbhjpbhj: On your last question> How would you have public transit create more value?I'd answer by subsidising it more. That way more people can afford to use it. Of course that will increase debts further which is the contrary to your original question. Revenue and value are not synonymous. |
What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? | jrussbowman: Tornado and mongodb... primarily beause I'm using them to develop my side project. Also have interests in Cassandra and seeing what happens with it in the future. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | frankus: Michael O'Hare (Berkeley Prof) has an article about why public transit really wants to be subsidized:http://www.samefacts.com/2007/05/energy-and-environment/more...The short version is that the marginal cost for an additional rider is basically zero. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | arfrank: In response to your updated question, I think the best way would be to change the experience of people who ride.- Install TVs with captions and an FM channel so I can listen to the news on my 30 minute commute.- Take out chairs from a few of the cars and make them standing room only so that during rush out you aren't crammed in like sardines.- Make the first and last cars dark so that in early morning and your way back from work you can sleep if you'd like.- Add WiFi so I can work my entire trip in, just came to mind.These are things I'd love to see on the metro cause right now I feel like I lose 30 minutes a day just sitting there and reading. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | maryrosecook: Public transport can create value by running all night. That way, more young people move to the city and bring money with them and create wealth while they are there. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | kingkongreveng_: Privatize the road system. Completely private public transits will emerge to compete. It's really that simple.People don't use public transit because they're already paying for the roads with their taxes. If they had to pay tolls reflecting the true cost of maintaining the roads they would choose public transit, and public transit accessible housing and workplaces.Pre-50s toll roads were much more common and private street car lines were very common. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | cabalamat: Increase population density. Admitedly, this is not a quick fix. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | iuguy: Consolidate the routes and reduce the number of stops on routes. Attempt to compensate for this by increasing capacity where possible on reduced routes. |
How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? | natrius: Separate the functions of providing mass transit service and providing mobility for those who can't afford it on their own. There is no need to subsidize mass transit beyond the value of the congestion, pollution, and any other externalities it reduces. Cincinnati does this to an extent through Everybody Rides Metro[1]. A similar concept is facing a lot more resistance in Austin[2].Another necessary policy shift is ceasing to discourage transit-supportive density. Most American cities have wide swathes of land zoned for single-family housing. If everyone is forced to spread out by their government, it will be harder to provide high quality mass transit. This is even worse when you have neighborhoods full of culs-de-sac, which I think should be outlawed, or at the very least they shouldn't be maintained with public funds as they are effectively private driveways that make the street network function more poorly.Cities also often tax density by requiring large developments to provide a certain amount of funds for affordable housing. Dense developments make housing more affordable in the areas where people want to live by supplying more of it without a commensurate effect on demand. Single-family housing rarely has the same requirements. We shouldn't be taxing the things that make our transit systems work better and provide more affordable housing than the alternatives. Most zoning should be abolished.[1] http://www.everybodyridesmetro.org/[2] http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:... |
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