skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, there is no standard for truly owned identities besides usernames and passwords, and those are frowned upon as "different accounts". And many services seem to not want any interoperability at authentication layer and to accept third party (esp. competitors') assertions as credentials.

This applies to Slack too - to best of my knowledge, one can't log in there, using, say, GitHub identity assertion as a credential.

But I'm not sure how Slack has anything to do with this. You're right. They're just a yet another platform with its own non-interoperable account system. Don't see how it's better than anything other, except when everyone is already there, which I find hard to believe. (But any other platform that knows how to consume external credentials is wins in this regard.)
Well, you can't expect a company that's motto is "Gradatim Ferociter" to move quickly. But they have flown a single stage rocket to the edge of space and their engines are going to be in ULA's new rocket.
In my spare time, I should make an app called "Racist NextDoor" where you post pictures of all racist residents within a neighbourhood, especially those making dangerous 911 calls.
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Uber isn't just taking bookings away from taxis, it's taking drivers. It would be interesting to see a study of how cab company fleet sizes change after Uber arrives in town.

Uber raised the bar in terms of user experience, so the industry is scrambling to react. No harm with a little competition. My company (Pocketworks) do a taxi app in the UK that's effectively competing with Uber.

Does anyone know if Ubers long term plan is around disrupting logistics? Having a network of drivers that can move anything on demand would be really powerful.
Yeah, this is close to my reaction as well. Higher deductible plans lead to less spending; confusion among the economically illiterate ensues.

Nothing to see here.
Some of the major college football programs have a net worth over half a billion dollars each. The University of Texas Leghorns (men's football program) brings in over USD$130 million a year. UT has 50K students.

http://www.ibj.com/blogs/4-the-score/post/45498-notre-dame-n...
That #define comment behavior is interesting - I wonder if it was the cause of a nasty bug I had a looooong time ago when I was porting the driver for our Serial HIPPI NIC to the initial release of NT 4.0 (NDIS 4).

There was a crash bug that happened only every few million packets. Obviously, this was a race condition. After a lot of hair-puling and waiting for 5-30min every time I wanted to test something, I decided to simply replaced the actual locking code with a single global spinlock at every entry to see if a serialized driver worked[1].

After that version still crashed, and a lot of trial and error, I finally found out that the spinlock were never actually running. Microsoft's compiler was compiling loops like this as if it was a NOOP:

#define SPINLOCK(lock) \
for (;;) { \
if (TESTLOCK(lock)) \
break; \
}

But it worked after I made this change:

- for (;;) {
+ while (1) {

Empty for loops were dropped... but only in macros. Now I'm wondering if it was getting commented out in some subtle way.

[1] There was some concern about hardware errors, as a similar PCI chip we were using failed to notice changes in the PCI GNT# if it change REQ# in the same clock cycle.
Cool idea, terrible acting. I feel like the "wow" factor in his audience was really killed by the awkward way he made it look like he was pushing a button and waiting for something to happen, instead of struggling to "lift" the hammer while he waited for the thumbprint to register.
why should women have to live in fear when men don't?

They don't?
That is a quality control issue, not an issue of tailored vs RTW. Levi's has it especially bad because they have hundreds of manufacturing facilities and they range from in-house to third party, rich countries (more automated) to poor countries (more manual), and have hundreds of potential denim suppliers even within the same cut style.

But most smaller clothing companies don't have those problems (or they have them, but not as bad), and this problem is one that Bonobos in particular has actively tried to eliminate. It is pretty easy to maintain consistent quality when you are small though, and it will be more difficult to do as Bonobos grows.
Would subresource integrity fix this? Do web browsers mark TLS sites that link to non-TLS resources that have subresource integrity as mixed content?
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You should still be worried. Just because googlebot expensively evaluates JS for some websites doesn't mean it will evaluate JS for your brand-new website. You might get crawled a lot less deeply than if you had good content in your static pages.
This is from the same guy who brought you "Why FogBugz Lost to Jira" BTW https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313489
http://www.rocketlabusa.com/ is a scrappy contender from New Zealand.
(Not the same goals -- they're focusing on being super cheap way to get small payloads to LEO)
Mass shootings are overwhelmingly a US problem, not rest of the first world problem. (There are a few exceptions).

> but not being willing to do anything about those things but sit in their basement of choice and whine.

Or go out and kill a bunch of people.
This is a (somewhat) misleading headline and report.

The report refers to a study which says that sitting is no worse than standing without moving the body.

However, the report does nothing to contradict past studies which show that sitting is bad for the body (in comparison with standing up and walking every n minutes).

A better way of reading the study would be to say that "sitting" and "standing without moving" are equally bad. A lot of other research suggests that sitting for hours is definitely worse than taking a break every hour (or n minutes) and walking for a couple of minutes in that break.
Given that only those currently affiliated with a university can read medical studies, I can't blame them too much for that one.
Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself,

I have a sit/stand desk. I think I'm more likely to take a short walking break if I'm already standing. In this case, the study merely moves sitting from being a direct cause to being an indirect cause.
Keep this in mind https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en&to...

> Break up large sitemaps into a smaller sitemaps to prevent your server from being overloaded if Google requests your sitemap frequently. A sitemap file can't contain more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50 MB uncompressed.
Assuming it's RGB, it comes out as (what I perceive as) a pretty mid-range skin color, #c79170:

http://imgur.com/zzOUnRn
This quote has a lot of truth to it. I think the issue we now face is that it gives EVERYBODY power. Even people that shouldn't ever have it in the first place.

Many of these hashtag protests are purely based on emotion and in some instances, don't even have enough information to make a claim either way (or are based on rumor/false information). This is why our court systems were invented in the first place: to prevent mobs of people from attacking innocent individuals and calling it 'justice'.
In general, if I have to chose between two languages, one of which was designed specifically for statistics, and one that was more general, I will chose the more general one.

R's value is in the implementation of its libraries but there is no technical reason a really OCD person couldn't implement such high quality of libraries in Python.
> lots of JS libraries expect things like viewport and window size information, I wonder how Google is achieving that.

Just plug in common screen parameters (e.g. 1920x1080, 1366x768, ...) and analyze it as if it were the result you'd get by default with Chrome on such a screen, I would imagine.
> they got lots of these things wrong

> 1. It was filed in 1996, not 1998.

Ok they used 'filed' when they should have used 'issued' or 'granted'. That's technically incorrect although unlikely to matter to layreader.

> The patent itself doesn't say anything about power efficiency (although perhaps that was argued at trial), so I'm not sure where they got that.

It's argued explicitly in the complaint. Not sure how you count this as something they got wrong since they're right just because it's not footnoted to a level you're comfortable with.

> That may be true, but it's so vague as to be pretty information-free.

It is in fact true and I don't find it vague at all. What information do you think need to be included in an article pointed at the casual reader?
Story is far more nuanced than the title suggests:

"Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself,"

Translation: sitting is still bad for you, but standing isn't any better, which puts a pin in the standing desk fad.

Guess it's time to get one of these!

http://www.amazon.com/DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-Whi...
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/08/10/study-finds-that-the-pr...

"Wind is a credible source of new electricity generation in the United States. Wind power capacity additions in the United States rebounded in 2014, with $8.3 billion invested in 4.9 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity additions. Wind power has comprised 33% of all new U.S. electric capacity additions since 2007. Wind power currently meets almost 5% of the nation’s electricity demand, and represents more than 12% of total electricity generation in nine states, and more than 20% in three states."
Is the link broken? The site keeps redirecting to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/
I hold the door open for everybody, and I've never been accused of sexism. I usually just get smiles from everyone. If a woman were to call me a sexist for holding the door open for her, I'd shrug it off. I'm not so fragile that I avoid speaking to anyone of the opposite gender just because I'm too thin-skinned to deal with the hypothetical situation where someone, somewhere, might think me a sexist.
I hear that "nobody would publish" argument bandied about... but is there any evidence to back it up?

These were University researchers. It's not like they're in it for the crazy-$$. In my experience, they'd publish anyway... for all the right reasons: furthering humanity, intellectual curiosity, academic prestige, etc.
Do you have any links to share? I'm working on a side project for vertical search for programmers. Curating sites to crawl with source code, docs, mailing lists, QA, IRC and tutorials.

Trying to get away from the "W3Schools effect" [0], where outdated, terribly presented information or downright spammy pages are locked in the top results of Google by virtue of being around for so long, or by gaming search keywords [1].

[0] https://github.com/nathancahill/fuck-w3schools

[1] http://www.bigresource.com/
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As other commenters mentioned, the quality of Uber definitely has decreased. Worse than what you are saying, not only do you have mediocre cab drivers but also people that basically don't know what they are doing. UberX is the worst offender here and UberBlack generally has provided good service. If the only option is UberX I will probably take a cab instead.

Based on what Uber is spending on acquiring new drivers I would assume they have eased up on threshold for booting poorly rated drivers. Based on the recent revelation that the map view of nearby cars is now simulated I would assume that the published reviews should no longer be taken at face value either.

At the beginning the pitch went something like Uber would win because it had so much data that it would be able to route drivers much more efficiently than any new competitor. The pick up times rather have gone the other direction over the year. If anything, there are far more opportunities for vehicle transport services now.

I wondered, what if the future Uber, rather than offering the awesome service it had in the beginning, ended up being just as mediocre as what we had before -- cabs, buses, towncars you booked a day before -- but just in different ways?
Interesting but I don't understand what "222.77%" failure rate mean for ST1500DL003 in 2015 ? Each disk died twice !?
Few professions attract as much despise as taxis, and this is worldwide. Hotels and hostels being undercut by AirBnb because of taxes? Yes we could have some compassion. Taxi drivers? Unanimity against[1]. Worldwide.

The debate is not only for NYC or DC. It's knowing that your transportation service in Paris, Kinshasa or Moscow has a 4.5 rating.

[1] I don't even have a personal opinion on this, personally I loved cabs in Madrid, but I'm just taking notice of a worldwide trend.
That is no justification for the driver to be rude or snarky.
I was so excited when 23andMe dropped their prices to $99 a few years ago and immediately gave myself a 'Christmas Present' and bought a 23andMe kit.

I seriously thought this was the future. I was so excited to see my health information.

It was really cool to see that my spit could confirm that I'm 1/2 asian and 1/2 european. Also, I found it interesting that I have more neanderthal DNA than 99% of people who took the 23andMe test.

Other than that, all the things I've seen are marginally useful at best.

I log into my account once a year or so when I get an email from 23andMe. I understand these things take a lot of time, but I think a lot of the initial users aren't so ready to tell everyone that they need to sign up for a testing kit. I think people were so much more interested in it years ago.
I'm wonder if they're cutting out a lot of the rendering that PhantomJS is doing. Not to say that any type of rendering is cheap but I'm guessing they have a limited version of a JS rendering engine that does just enough to index the page.

I bet they'd also skip on all the FB like buttons and other common social media elements that don't impact the content.
Given the incredibly long life of patents relative to how quickly the computer industry moves (still, in the post-Moore's Law era), I'd argue trade secrets would be preferable.

If someone did implement this into a chip that was successful, it would take a lot less than 20 years to reverse engineer how they did it, even if they took steps to avoid reverse engineering.
I argue that standing is better because the bias towards movement is higher. You can (and will) shift your weight around and take more frequent breaks, simply because you don't have to stand up to do so. That might be enough.
It was definitely a straw man. I'm a dude and I don't live in fear of a shooter, and I don't get the impression many women do either.

My point is: We're quick to claim victory as society grows more tolerant and race/sex matter less, but I think we claim it too soon. That young white men feel entitled to shoot people when their lives don't work out (and apparently others don't) is as real an imbalance as wage gaps, etc.
Pretty much the same I hear, but one other thing they seem to prefer is longer rides than short ones.

About the benefits, most of them do Uber as a side gig so they often get benefits from their main job or Uber is a temporary thing.
I think NFC or Bluetooth might have been better but neat execution nonetheless.
About a year ago I wrote a post[1] about how I couldn't get google to index my AngularJS app. My main problem was the interaction between googlebot and the S3 server. I'll have to go back and test if the crawler's behavior will render the correct content.

1 - https://medium.com/@devNoise/seo-fail-figuring-out-why-i-can...
This is great but it does conspicuously leave out one major point of contention with wind power which is their visual impact. Sometimes noise too. Offshore projects have been fought and canceled over this issue. And it looks like the key focus of this article, the 60% capacity, is only achievable if the turbines get even bigger:

> The average new wind turbine in the US is 80 meters tall at its hub. NREL looks at what capacity factors could be reached with 110 meter tall and 140 meter tall wind turbines.

Additionally it looks to on-shore sites primarily in the Midwest where it's really flat and so these monster turbines could be seen for miles. I would certainly hope people are cool with it considering how green a power source it is, but I thought it was a bit odd that such an in-depth piece left out one of the biggest obstacles to wind power growth.
2nd addendum:

I will add that I carefully avoid peanut oil, having found it to be extremely inflammatory. Anytime I have it, there is just hell to pay. So I will say that if people are consuming fats that promote inflammation, that would be relevant -- but not because they are fats per se, but because they have a chemical makeup that promotes the inflammation that promotes chemical derangement and infection.
I'm a tall guy with an athletic build. The bonobos "tailored slim" cut shirts are the best off-the-rack fit I've found. I recently tried Trumaker for made-to-measure shirts and was totally underwhelmed. The tailored slim shirts from bonobos were a much slimmer cut than what I got from Trumaker.

I don't love their chinos but I think I just dislike chinos. They are boxy.
I use App Quarantine to open/lock it down when done.
I knew a guy that made a lightsaber that only he could use. Part of the act was that only a "real Jedi" can activate a lightsaber. He used a neodymium ring and a hall sensor. The trick was seamless.
"gave me a lot of reasons to become an entrepreneur". I would guess that this is how most of the HN community feels (myself included), but definitely interested to see if anyone out there has had a different experience.
The viewport and window size is probably just for browser fingerprinting. Google probably just grabs the text, and has a pretty efficient fingerprinting system.
Yeah, in the conferences with TV deals the sports programs are not a money sink. The Big 10 certainly has a TV deal (it even has its own cable network).

Also, just the ticket sales for one game at Camp Randall Stadium bring in ~$4 million.
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Hacker News discussion on the Gladwell article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380513
The title should have been "Millions of Manhattan riders prefer Uber to taxis".
This is why ad based revenue models and commoditising of hardware, enabled by great, forward thinking companies like Google, are so important. It allows the poor to at least have access to the "information age". Google is an incredible force of good in the world. Thank you Google.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388572.
It's a bit of a balancing act between "magical" and "proper". Like it would be very easy to just have a third party control the electro-magnet via a remote control, and it would work perfectly in all situations as long as the third party was acting correctly. But it wouldn't really be a hammer that could only be lifted by one person.
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> Additionally it looks to on-shore sites primarily in the Midwest where it's really flat and so these monster turbines could be seen for miles. I would certainly hope people are cool with it considering how green a power source it is, but I thought it was a bit odd that such an in-depth piece left out one of the biggest obstacles to wind power growth.

Farmers I've spoken to absolutely love turbines; they receive a lease payment annually for each one on their property.

Now, if we're going to complain about "eyesores" through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Oklahoma, perhaps we could address the _actual deaths_ that coal causes first.
it doesnt work :(
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I would be happy to have my DNA analyzed by them for whatever price, but I can't do that because I appear to live in a "wrong" country.
Is filtering really what you want, though? It's trivial to filter out the nonsense from Nextdoor, too: just set up a bookmarklet that drops all the posts containing one of {sketchy, black, hispanic, male, teens, loose jeans, hoodie, 911}. Problem solved, amirite? We can name it sweep_under_the_rug.js
Uber replacing public transit is not a case of disruption as defined by Christiansen, though, since Uber is more expensive. It's not even disrupting street hails per se. Uber is disrupting taxi dispatch, and in doing so displacing street hails by making them less relevant.
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You could argue that, but given there's no evidence to support it, it's at best colloquial advice.

And to be perfectly blunt, that sounds more like an attempt to go back and justify the choice of a standing desk after the fact, now that the base assumption ("standing is better than sitting") has been invalidated.
Or the example from the article, calling a paid number.
Once Uber drivers have been doing it for 15 years like cabbies have they will be just as rude
I agree. I think dressing up as Thor and playing up the crowd the way you suggested would have gone a long way. Also putting the fingerprint scanner where you one actually grabs the handle from, somewhere midway on the shaft, would have been a better design.

If you like this kind of stuff, check out Colin Furze's youtube channel. He does some similar experiments, and is very entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze
Neat project.

I can't help but wonder if you could beat the magnet by kicking the handle sideways, the strong impact multiplied by the lever force might be enough to beat it.
FYI - I tried one of the Mac all in one downloads, and it looks promising. However, all I get are status messages saying that it is waiting for Python or R to initialize...
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I often avoid these sort of visual methods, because:

- they only work with 2 variables, but many interesting problems require digging into more variables

- they only work with medium-sized numbers, and aren't readable when P<0.01 or P>0.99

So they're great for gaining intuition (like the Simpson's Paradox example), but when you try to solve a real problem you find yourself boxed in.
I never used Nextdoor but this sounds like typical online community behavior. How does one moderate a micro community without altering what it is representing?
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Sounds like an opportunity for Uber to improve their software to include GPS navigation for fare pickup.
Looks like a great product! Hard to find good ways to onboard new employees. Just an FYI your sign in button gets cut off about half way on chrome, mac book pro 13". Looks like the ".container" width is hard coded which is causing it to render off screen.
They have an API, not sure about channels specifically though.

https://zulip.com/api/

https://zulip.com/api/endpoints/
Yet we still have newspapers, online and in print.
A bit off topic, but have you tried yoga to help your back problem? I've thrown my back out a couple of times and am in the process of integrating yoga into my daily routine, want to know how well it works (if it works).
Cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:php7sta...
Ok, we replaced the title with your description, in accordance with the HN guideline, "Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good observation! If you watch the video to the end, this actually happens.
Much like people and Yelp it seems that the "value" proposition is essentially blackmail-as-a-service: participate or else something bad may happen.
I still consider it rude personally.
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