andrewliebchen

Cars are by far the most dangerous things to pedestrians. If electric bikes get people out of their cars, pedestrians will be better off on balance. Rather than banning electric bikes, NYC could to better to build separate infrastructure for bikes.

Maybe because HTML/CSS was intended to lay out and style documents, not support complex application layouts?

What you've posted will only center a `<div>` with a known width (ie, for `margin: auto` to center a child element within its parent, the width of the child must also be specified).

Not sure if you're mistaken in your comment or there's a bug in the site. When I select all unknown dimensions and a block-level element, it gives me a flexbox output (the right answer, IMO).

It's not the media's job to give equal time to "both sides" on an issue or be "balanced." I trust Serial, based on the exhaustive reporting of their first story, will do a fine job exploring this story.

I think Una turned issues off on her repos...she's getting issue spam:

https://twitter.com/Una/status/659128221292605440

I look at it a little more optimistically...sure departments try to spend every last penny of their budget so that they don't lose that funding. That's a given. What if departments could spend every last penny BETTER?

Maybe its true that saving money isn't a priority, but spending money on things that have the most impact, or that get the most value is a priority.

I work for OpenGov, so I hear this from our customers (who work in government) all the time.

...Or you can come work at OpenGov. We're hiring too ;)

http://opengov.com/careers/

It might be 20 miles by car, however most places in SV are only a few miles from Caltrain. Just take your bike onboard.

This is why Caltrain has the highest (I think) number of bikes onboard of a commuter rail line in the nation.

I live in Mountain View and work in Redwood City. I don't have a car. It's not a big deal. For all the innovation in SV, it always surprises me how close-minded the area is when it comes to transportation options beyond the car.

Yeah, that yellow text in a blue background has aged so well. At least there won't be a link to that "Contrast Rebellion" site...

Yeah, except that the VC wants to continue to squeeze more milk from the cow. "More pasture land!" he demands. "Add growth hormones!" he suggests. The cow dies, then he gets to write posts about how the cow's desiccated udders were the bottleneck for his sweet milk.

The title is "How I'd redesign piano sheet music," then the second paragraph (after the TL;DR) mentions guitar tabs.

At this point, we should just all agree that article titles are at least slightly sensational. If no one on HN debated the clickbaitiness of a headline, comment volume would drop dramatically.

Edit: reordered the paragraphs.

It's clearly stated that the solution is meant to be like guitar tabs for piano. It's a limited, instrument-centered approach and not intended as a complete or universal solution.

I wonder if a model like this has a place in Silicon Valley. I can't decide if I would prefer to just have my no-strings-attached options, or purchase actual shares in my current company which would presumably come with voting rights.

Just because this beta software doesn't support your browser doesn't mean the open web is dead.

They certainly tend to stick around longer than bus routes. Streetcars represent significant infrastructure spending, while a bus route can be changed by a bureaucrat.

It might be simple, but it's certainly not simplistic :)

> At the end of the day, trying to deal with real people leads to unreal problems.

It's funny you say this, because you've managed to reduce real people (transit riders) into an unreal stereotype ("crazy drugged out/drunk").

Letchworth is a Garden City. Brasilia is a "towers in a park" type Modernist city. You're interested in "towers in a park."

Historically, cities like Brasilia were designed around the logic of the car. For example, most roadway intersections feature over and underpasses, cars are completely segregated from pedestrians. By most accounts, it doesn't work so well.

Streetcar lines don't change like bus routes do. Their funding is harder to cut, and indeed their operating expenses are less than busses.

Businesses can count on their presence into the future, as can riders who try to plan their car-less lives in their community.

The "garden city" movement was a thing, but not quite what you're describing. "Towers in a park" was an organizational scheme for cities proposed by Modern architects, such as Le Cobusier in his Ville Radieuse proposal, and is maybe more like what you're thinking.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse

All mediums have constraints. Perhaps our designs should be better a working within those constraints. Obviously, vertically centering in all situations is something CSS doesn't do so well in some situations and just fine in others. Know the situations in which it doesn't work and design another solution.

Open a PR for a name change. Let people +1. Boom, democracy in action.

Diller + Scofidio's Blur building (http://www.dsrny.com/#/projects/blur-building), in addition to being an awesome environmental experience, was a tensegrity structure.

you know that the "brutal" in brutalist references the French word for form-finished concrete, beton bute?

The Space Shuttle's cargo bay was the size it was so it could carry military satellites to orbit. Vandenberg Air Force Base was going to be a west coast launch site for the shuttle, and it seems as though every astronaut use to be a Navy pilot. Our program was plenty "militarized."

Just because something supports commerce doesn't mean it should be free. My city (Mountain View, CA) has outlawed plastic bags and requires stores to charge for paper bags...commerce supports that were "free" to the consumer in the past. Yet, for some reason, the city provides TONS of free parking in municipal lots.

Car owners kind of already pay for infrastructure for their vehicles through excise tax, gas tax, and tolls (not really, but at least its something). Why not charge for parking too?

The city already legislates how many parking spaces the mall should have, so you can't say there's no civic control over private parking.

Why couldn't our city councils tax each parking space? Landlords would pass that on as a parking fee.

Even most metered city parking is far below what the "free market" rate would be.

Having the sun at its highest point as close to noon as possible is a human right.