These things take time. Good original research does not work in the same timeframe as front end frameworks.
Edit: I feel a bit bad about this joke. I know that Front End Frameworks take time too. For example React wasn't deployed internally in Facebook till 2011 and that was after two years of research and development on it. Then it was open sourced in 2013, so that's like 4 years of development before it was ready for public use. But jokes depend on culture and the culture of HN is: "Front End frameworks: lol".
Just curious to see findings. I'm very enthusiastic to see the issue getting more coverage.
I used to have a lot of interest in architecture and design. When I first came to North America, I was surprised by disfunctional urban planning, and even more so by the fact that very few Americans were giving any concern to that.
Car culture is so big in the US that outside of the few cities with really bad traffic problems, nobody cares about sprawl.
The vast majority of everyone's experience of public transportation is shitty, slow busses and commuter trains with limited schedules and stops that you drive to. So cities that force you to use public transit sound really unappealing to people that haven't experienced something like Tokyo.
These two factors are why Americans don't have much concern about urban planning.
Ok, here is a cheap shot of a dream. Future cities like mega malls with a thousand shops facing inside and a thousand homes facing outside, one to one. Roads would be marbled floors and cars would be electric scooters with a basket enough to buy groceries around.
For those who like the outdoors, just get your off road vehicle and face the indomitable and untouched nature. No paved roads, no concrete, nothing outside these habitable malls interconnected by hyperloops. Of course there will be supply roads for trucks but they will be just like highways interconnecting mega farms to mega malls.
Nah, scratch that, there is nothing like a house in the suburbs with a huge yard and a barbecue.
I know what you are saying... However, I met Ben Huh and I think he's a capable individual. When he joined, he took the "job" for six months. Not sure if he will continue to work on it. No updates from the YC folks on that matter.
Edit: You haven't heard from them because they are aiming very high so it will take years before any of their work hits the general public.
Edit 2: From my understanding, they are still working on their Universal Basic Income Research as well and have chosen Oakland as the testbed: http://basicincome.org/news/2017/04/httpswww-youtube-comwatc....
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