skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty clever. The major improvements I'd want to make are some sort of RFID chip that deactivates the magnet when I'm close enough, instead of a fingerprint scanner. It seems like anyone who gets close enough can see the scanner, so I'd prefer to have something more invisible.

And the second thing would be just to improve the lag time between grasping the handle and the deactivation of the magnet, so I can just lean down and casually grab it, instead of having to hold it for a second before bringing it up. The more magic, the better.

Still, this is pretty awesome!
Why would Uber survive though? What key purpose do they fulfill? To absorb all the liabilities and lawsuits?

Why do I need to trust Uber for reputation management? Is there really any other piece of Uber that couldn't be replicated overnight by a knowledgeable enough team?
> Yep, it is easier to make languages target DEX than suffer the pain of the NDK.

So what does this look like in practice? Genuinely curious :-)
Emergency care is only about 2-8% of healthcare costs. Most of what we spend on healthcare is for chronic conditions that you have for years, decades, or your lifetime.

@waynemr's comment gets it right -- the real issue is that prices are secret in healthcare, and quality metrics are nonstandardized, so there's no information on which to base your decision.

The Affordable Care Act is laying some of the groundwork for healthcare markets. For example, look at the experiments in bundled pricing that CMS is starting:
http://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/ccjr/
Arguing, that illusion of having a free will is "just a useless trick, that happens to cost a lot of physical resources and serves absolutely no function" is indeed ridiculous.

Believing in free will apparently has an evolutionary advantage regardless of origins of such beliefs.
Economists might be surprised. Actuaries are not. In most actuarial health cost models, cost sharing induces changes in utilization, not cost-per-service.
Disagree. I cycle to/from work and to most errands here in Boston. The bike lanes suck in most places, but bikes on sidewalks are bad news.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off submitting this with a link to your site, then adding the above text as a first comment in the thread. Good luck!

Also, blog posts can't be Show HNs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
But no matter what format any bit of data is in, it should still be documented. Then any consumers of the data are going to have to convert it into a format that suits their language and application.
Really? Why is that? I would think with recent uptick of Uber that they could change that to make it a competitive playing field.
This is not even related to branch prediction, it is a scheme for controlling load speculation. This means executing a load out of order, even if there are stores with unresolved addresses ahead of it. This paper isn't proposing load speculation, it's proposing a predictor when for when it should be done.
He's a celebrity and this got his name in the news. Isn't that more than enough of a reason?
So does this mean Chrome will also follow the Firefox notifications behavior whereby a notification appears for 5 seconds and then just disappears without any trace? Or will notifications continue to stay visible until manually dismissed (either by the user or by the app)?

Without some kind of notification center, either approach would make for a rather poor experience for users in my opinion. The former means users coming back from idling will have no indication whatsoever that they have new notifications waiting to be read, and the latter means notifications could quickly clutter up the screen and users will need to manually dismiss each and every notification that appears (how would users be able to easily dismiss multiple notifications without some kind of notification center?).

Perhaps browsers could delegate to native notification APIs in OSes that offer them instead of building out their own implementations? This is what Chrome for Android does for web notifications and it works quite well in my experience.
What makes the Elements compiler just a toy in your opinion?
Plans with a deductible "over $1,000" usually have deductibles well over $1,000, e.g. $3,000 to $6,000+, and only cover something like 20% costs after the deductible.

So, neglecting the annual limit, the $1,529 vs. $186,955 appendectomy situation wouldn't be $1,000 vs. $1,000, it would be more like (with $3,000 of unused deductible at the time of the procedure) $1,529 vs. $39,791.
You can use babun together with cmder[0] (which is based on conemu and can do tabs).
Just today I installed both and I'm pretty happy so far.
To use babun in cmder, follow this[1] short explanation.

[0] http://cmder.net/
[1] https://babun.github.io/faq.html#_how_do_i_integrate_babun_w...
If you own an apartment in Manhattan and a house somewhere else, and have a car at the somewhere else (which is very common), would that count as a Manhattanite owning a car?
Real-Life Thor's 'Mjölnir' Hammer using a fingerprint scanner
"Also, maybe we shouldn't be teaching people that it's okay to expect unreasonable things just because it's what the industry norm is. Maybe if enough people think it's ridiculous to work all night for arbitrary deadlines, things might actually change."

agreed.

happily, i do notice a recent increase in how much my peers value a sane 40 hour workweek, and a stable fulfilling job (fulfilling in the sense that you believe in what the organization does beyond just the paycheck they cut you). and there seems to be a bit less of the tendency to prize being at a work-intensive startup for its own sake (probably because of a more grounded view towards whether it'll actually be a worthwhile experience, or an experience that will pay off monetarily).

of course, this is just anecdotal evidence from my immediate friend and coworker groups. friends in their 30s, coworkers ranging from 20s to 50s. lots of the friends are starting to have kids, but this change in attitude definitely isn't restricted to those who've got kids.
It's little more than a rehash of facts with little exploration beyond that. I expected more from such a read.
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I'm glad to hear of more and more young people feeling this way. As a female who is a little bit older than you, I get worried about some of the negative effects of the younger generations being too gender-neutral. As an example, my mother and I both have a condition where we tend to get dizzy ("fainting spells"). That's one very small example of where we need to be feminine and allow men to help us out.
It can be used as a node.js module on the server-side which I suspect would be the better place to run this kind of thing.
If you are a person-of-color, and the taxi picks you up, that driver isn't one of the racist ones.
Conemu should be first on that list.
The annual deductible in this study is $3,750. So, as long as a patient hasn't spent over $3,750, they have the incentive to reduce costs. You are correct, after a patient hits their deductible they have no incentive to reduce costs.
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I just like jabber because it's a standard. I have an app on my phone that'll do Jabber already. There's a lot of server software already out there to host Jabber, it's pretty robust, all we need is a reasonable frontend for desktop
> Emergency care is only about 2-8% of healthcare costs.

Are you counting only ER costs, are counting ER costs plus the full cost of the treatment following admission from the ER. If its the former, it doesn't seem to make sense for discussing the viability of price shopping.
> This is not how you do open source.

Sure, maybe they should have never released this useful software at all. /S

Mattermost started, and is still developed AFAIK, as an internal app from a for-profit company, that they've generalized and started releasing to the community.[1]

Considering that they only just hit 1.0, maybe your tone is a bit harsh compared to their ever-so-slight mis-steps.

Let's be constructive.

1 http://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-sou...
Laughable? Check out the theory of disruptive innovation. From http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/ec...:

"The theory of disruptive innovation was invented by Clayton Christensen, of Harvard Business School, in his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. Mr Christensen used the term to describe innovations that create new markets by discovering new categories of customers. They do this partly by harnessing new technologies but also by developing new business models and exploiting old technologies in new ways. He contrasted disruptive innovation with sustaining innovation, which simply improves existing products. Personal computers, for example, were disruptive innovations because they created a new mass market for computers; previously, expensive mainframe computers had been sold only to big companies and research universities."
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My parents have a pretty Biblical marriage in a number of ways. It's beautiful and has made me wish I believed in that doctrine just in order to have something like that. They believe, much like the article/manual states, that the man is the head of the household. However, he always consults the woman and in caring for her, does not make decisions that are harmful to her or cause her distress. Obviously it's not an either-or scenario, but it seems to work much better than other marriages I've seen where both people are so focused on what they want for themselves.
This is incredible stuff! One of the less-hyped slow revolution is what's happening in non-wearable sensing. Some of it is driven by the consumer-ization of advanced radar systems, a technology that was the domain of the military and space/satellite comm.

Some companions to this work:

1. Wifi sensing from academia, particularly in the ubiquitous computing community- Shwetak Patel's group in Washington [1], Dina Katabi's group in MIT [2], Patwari's group in Utah [3], etc.

2. MIT OCW on how to build a radar system with advanced [4] capabilities http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-003-build-a-small-radar-...

[1] https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/

[2] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/wordpress/projects/projec...

[3] http://span.ece.utah.edu/neal-patwari

[4] I use 'advanced' in the sense that it is way, way, more sophisticated in its use of math and signal processing/machine learning/linear algebra algorithms than your standard automotive speed monitoring radar.
"Dutton's Navigation & Piloting, 13th Edition" http://www.amazon.com/Duttons-Navigation-Piloting-Elbert-Mal...
Although the most recent edition is the 15th (2003), I learned with the 13th, so I know its useful. The 13th was also pre-GPS and spent only 30 or so pages on Loran, so it's mostly celestial and coastal, in addition to piloting.
This. My experience has been that the average to poor performers oftentimes stay comfortable at low-expectation companies because they know they will have a difficult time finding a new job.

Previous job longevity is worth next to nothing without talking to the candidate in my opinion.
Two others in this space:
http://thumbor.org
http://magickly.afeld.me

But neither seems to get as much love as they need, so always good to have more players.
> If "ballsy" is a positive description and you literally don't have balls, then it can be seen as obliquely ruling you out from ever really behaving in that way.

Well, lots of things "can be seen" in lots of different ways; that doesn't speak to how reasonable such behavior is. If you said Merry Christmas to me, I "could see" it as religious bigotry, were I so inclined.
The Canadian Green Party Position on Enhancing Security Against Cyber Attacks
I think comic book scanners, especially those scanning long out-of-print work, can be the perfect example of the trials and tribulations of digital preservation:

-The works they are trying to preserve are copyrighted and still trademarked, making it illegal to make copies and distribute them, but a lot of the rights holder themselves see no value in preservation or even reprinting them.

-They use P2P technologies to distribute the scanned copies, since it does not require them to host their content on a server. However the tech they use primarily is DC++ a stopgap between Gnutella and BitTorrent, which has a pro that as long as people keep connecting to each other(even momentarily) the comics can be distributed. However it requires a network of 'hubs' to connect users, creating pseudo-centralization. The secondary tech is of course BitTorrent, which is far more widespread and quite easier to use than DC++, but as with every torrent, there is a huge attrition rates and a lot of preservation comics are sitting with very few or no seeds at all. Most of them have even lost their trackers, Demonoid being the biggest one.

-There is tertiary level of distribution; Cyber-locker sites. People upload these scans to zippyshare, tusfiles, Mega, etc. and post them on forums. Most of these forums have blocked crawlers in their robots.txt. The biggest source of these is the 4chan board /co/. 4chan threads have very short half-lives, doubly so for threads with these links, because the admins want to pay lip-service to copyright holders, and to be frank, most of the links posted there have no preservative value, but are really a source of pure piracy. 4chan does have third-party archives, but just last week I learned that the archive I used to use has folded. Most cyber lockers themselves don't have long life-spans, and Link-rot is more prevalent in their case.

-The fourth level of distribution is imageboards/chans themselves. Some user would 'storytime', post each jpeg in a scaned comic in sequence, a comic if they feel like it, but they too are subject to the imageboard thread half-life.

Despite the effort and complexity, DC++ remains the best way to discover old comics lost to time, but one day maintaining a hub would be too expensive or the imminent crackdown on IP infringement would shut them down.

This is just for American comics. French/Franco-belgian comics, a far more bigger market, face similar problems. Same goes for Manga.
Here is the problem

1) Uber comes in pays well - sources on the net for hip drivers - You get awesome English speaking nice drivers

2) Uber starts to drop rates

3) Good Uber drivers quit for lack of pay, existing cabbies start to drive for Uber

4) You end up getting the same cabbies as before Uber, but with surge pricing.

It takes a while, but eventually it ends back up in the same exact place as before :( Totally happened in Chicago in front of my eyes.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Blog Monetization
Another sacred artifact in Science is WWII gas chambers. Fred Leuchter (manufacturer of equipment for gas executions), Nicholas Kollerstrom (Science Historian) and Germar Rudolf (Chemist) amongst others, were all outcast and even imprisoned (!) for daring to bring Science into this much politicized subject.

No one benefits from censorship. Those listed above should have had their published findings refuted, not censored, if they are wrong. And they should definitely not have been thrown in jail for thought-crimes.

Rudolf's published paper was actually peer-reviewed before he lost his PhD research position. This is absolutely outrageous and no one here has the courage to talk about it. It is a travesty and a mockery of what Science should be about.
Wind is not a practical power generation source. It also has the added drawback of ruining the most scenic and untouched parts of our environment.

Accept that only nuclear and solar meet the needs of consumers and move forward.
I found out about nextdoor.com from reddit. I thought it was so bizarre people would want their full names, address and sometimes pictures broadcast.
I wanted to see if I could get in with a fake address and name and they do require you to somehow verify you live there (they mail you a card or you link it to a phone number) so I just gave up. Lo and behold I get an email the next week saying my account had been approved anyone because "one of my neighbors verified I lived there".
Reading there headline and the URL, I immediately knew that this would be written by Matt Levine.

Amazed that a writer can have a distinctly recognizable headline style. (Also, he must not be relinquishing headline rights to the editors, which is great).
There was a recent Planet Money episode about a company that will shop around for medical care for you and give you a cut of the money that the insurance company saves:

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447098694/why-most-people-don-...
I had to remove the Facebook messenger app because it makes my Android phone swap. It's an old one with only 1GB RAM, but still...
Mars Trek
Meanwhile the ultra-highend designer, Brunello Cuccinelli, achieved a very successful multi-billion IPO valuation by focusing on hand made clothing, ethical sourcing, hands on sales, and superior quality.

Sometimes markets aren't just about driving down price and cheap supply chains. Providing a product an order of magnitude better than currently provided by competition, and charging a lot for it, can also lead to success.

I also sense that a great deal of profit will come from matching consumers values of quality and ethics over price for the coming generation of consumers.
I tried a few of those, so I will share my experience with powershell and with cygwin as well as Babun which I enjoyed:

* Powershell - Easy to use, typically comes with Windows, or not too complicated to install. Does plenty of unixy commands (ls, mkdir, all come to mind, not sure how many others). Definitely an improvement over plain old cmd, but sometimes it doesn't sync with system variables (could be a PEBKAC issue though) but it is definitely usable.

* Cygwin - Works great, I would say somewhere about the same as Babun (I think it's based off of it if I'm not mistaken, but with it's own tooling, packages are from Cygwin if I'm not mistaken), my only "complaint" was to do with how it installs and what not, I think you're asked to pick a mirror and packages, someone feel free to point out if my assumption is wrong or if this has changed, I think it's an alright thing, but I rather be able to not even think about what I want to install until after I've installed it.

* Babun - I honestly had a great experience using it, and definitely used it frequently enough, you would run a bat file and it would copy itself into your userdata folder when I used it sometime back, and came with plenty of the tools I wanted and it's own toys.

In the end I say try them all for yourself (if you can) and use whatever is best for you. I would recommend starting out by trying PowerShell before the rest of these because it already comes with Windows sometimes saving you time, but that's just a solution for lazy people.

In the end I ended up just going all in for Linux since my experimentation with these shells. If and when I go back to Windows (it's been half a year now or more) I'll likely use Babun or just plain PowerShell.
Open Publish has a lot more going on that just that single repo!

There's a whole suite of supporting services for interfacing with the blockchain, parsing the blockchain, creating transactions.

https://github.com/blockai

One piece that we're using in production and hopefully publicly releasing soon is the state engine that turns blockchain transactions in to a state of asset ownership. We run our own public access state engine endpoint behind this module so anyone can query about published documents or ownership here:

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish-state

We built another service called Bitstore, a content-addressable cloud storage web service that uses Bitcoin public key infrastructure for authentication and payment, and it pairs nicely.

https://github.com/blockai/bitstore-client

I'm on Freenode as "williamcotton". You can msg me and I'll give you a link to our staging server to show you the full system.

As for how IPFS relates to Xanadu, IPFS is very much interested in the "permanent web":

https://neocities.org/permanent-web

"Where links do not break as versions change; where documents may be closely compared side by side and closely annotated; where it is possible to see the origins of every quotation; and in which there is a valid copyright system-- a literary, legal and business arrangement-- for frictionless, non-negotiated quotation at any time and in any amount."

http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

Open Publish is an attempt to build a content-addressable copyright system that pairs with the content-addressable delivery system that IPFS is building with the hopes to create something along the lines of what Ted Nelson was envisioning.

BTW, BitTorrent is another great example of a related content-addressable delivery system.

Content-addressable systems are at the root of Xanadu-like systems and it seems like the web is headed that way!
If Imgix could implement this server-side, that could be awesome.
I've met some nice neighbors via Nextdoor (and gotten help with some small things a couple times), but the discussions do tend to degenerate pretty rapidly (so much for posting under one's real identity having any significant impact on the quality of discussion...).

But anyway, since I live in a high-crime area, by far the most common type of post is someone describing how they were just robbed (oftentimes at gunpoint), or they just saw a car get broken into, etc. It does make me kind of paranoid since I never would have known about any of those crimes had I not been on the site. I feel like my other neighbors who don't use it are comparatively clueless about just how much crime there is even within a few blocks of us. I guess that could be considered a good or a bad thing.
I doubt having your back out is ideal condition for riding a device where you may have to hop a couple of steps to catch your step if you mess up anything.
Then you either take the road for a bit, if it's safe, or ring them politely. It's the same if you're walking fast, which is really all biking is.
> Skateboards burn much less energy than walking too

Per distance traveled, sure.

But probably not per minute, in typical use.
Can't you "just" calculate the 50 cheapest "around-the-world" flights (measured by $ per mile) worldwide? Then you could propose good flights.
Not to mention - in my experience, hailing a cab is stressful since you're not sure when one will come by. Uber is not.
A few weeks ago I was in a meeting and Siri blurted out "Sorry I didn't get that". I've never had "hey Siri" activated (I immediately verified) and nothing was plugged into my iPhone 5. Rather disconcerting.
Race into Space
Have you by any chance used JavaFXPorts? http://docs.gluonhq.com/javafxports/
Nobody, not the article or any of the comments, seem to have jumped to any conclusions.

The article suggested possibilities, including comets. And reasons why it might not be that. And it included aliens, and some things that would be expected if it was that. All depending on more data which the article explained, they are waiting to collect.