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Not sure I agree 100% with the productive/unproductive value system you're establishing, but I do think it's an interesting idea — how can we weight the various aspects of a trip w…

I really like the idea of building a subway map projection based on travel time, without making you select a starting station. Might play around with force-directed graphs in d3 — …

Thanks! Site looks pretty cool — much more readable than mine :)

It should! As far as I know, GTFS is pretty transport-mode-agnostic. (I imagine the bus stops are a bit more dense, though — it helps that the NYC map has a recognizable set of lin…

You need to tap a couple times — the first tap triggers the hover state (definitely not ideal for mobile). Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to hit the same stop consistently multiple…

Just pushed some changes to make it a (little) easier to use on a small phone. Still far from perfect, but a little better!

The issue with using average waiting times (as opposed to picking a particular time and computing actual waiting times) is stations with multiple trains — the N, R and Q might each…

I'm calculating travel times by simulating a rider starting from the selected stop at a specific time (for example, "weekday late night" is 3 AM, and "rush hour" is 8 AM) and "wait…

Thanks! Turns out the MTA does keep a pretty detailed schedule (not that they manage to stick to it much, these days) in the GTFS format, so it's not hard to compute travel times c…

This. I can't find a single example of an actual UI you'd build with famo.us on their entire site. How am I supposed to know what makes the framework worth learning if I don't see …

No particular reason. The API currently involves importing `plugin.py` files and calling functions in them, which makes it a bit simpler, but it should be possible to bridge with o…

That's embarrassing... I'll run off and debug that right now. Edit: should be fixed in the next build of the translator plugin. Now to update the screenshot...

It's primarily an API on which developers can build plugins in Python (though doing a lot of useful stuff actually requires calling out to Applescript, of all things). There's no v…

As a longtime iOS developer, I find the android layout system far superior for a lot of things. Before AutoLayout, things like containers that adjusted their size to fit text requi…

Is it automatic? A function of highly-downvoted comments?

Not to suggest any sort of conspiracy, but why is it that this link has (as of 4:21 EDT) 103 points, 43 comments, and was posted one hour ago, and yet is ranked 33rd on the HN home…

I'm imagining a Pinterest-style UI working great here — I can imagine tons of people using a sort of Pinterest for code/products.

Creating a driver-owned replacement for Uber's service could certainly work to give drivers a better deal, but unionizing existing drivers is a better means to that end. Uber certa…

It's not just voice input that's severely neglected by UI designers—it's text-based interface in general. Consider his example of choosing "California" from a list of states—most p…