skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are about to switch to high-deductible only health insurance plans here at work (they had a PPO and an HMO but they're getting rid of them). I already avoid seeing the doctor more than I should. I don't need even more reason to avoid them. Ugh. This isn't good.
Its a rule of thumb (heuristic). Judgement is still required.

(A soundbite is something altogether different.)
Anna, I'm replying to myself since your posts are coming up [dead] and I can't vouch for your reply to me like I did for your top-level comment.

Yes, that is basically how it works. The system takes measurements at a series of slant ranges (called range bins) for each beam position. The returns from those range bins can be mapped to a physical location as long as the location of the receiver is known. Record enough beam positions in a line and you can map a 2D image.
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There is no need to specify the name, but you can give us some hints.
I wonder if it's possible to create an extremely disorienting strobe system, that an operator would carry around, but the operator has special optics that cancel out the strobe's effects. Maybe his goggles are special night vision ones that have a framerate synchronized with the strobe, so it looks like it's always light (or dark).
This is the real heart of the issue. There's no transparency, and the health-care 'market' is set up in order to discourage shopping altogether.

It's a shame, because a free market is the best way of insuring that resources are fairly allocated.
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I agree with the ideas you stated about social psychology & sociology. What people want is shaped by other people their encouragement. Thanks for stating it, I'm noticing I have a lot of implicit assumptions lying around there.

So it is indeed hard to separate cause and effect, I'm wondering if we need to, since cause and effect might go both ways here in a feedback loop. I'm very inclined to believe this myself (one of my implicit assumptions, perhaps even a bias). Cultural notions reinforces what people want, which reinforce the culture. So allowing to reframe yourself to want something different is definitely a course of action that one could take. As is changing other people their behavior (although it has some really difficult challenges IMO, it's easier to change yourself in my experience).

'feminism is not concerned with who "contributes" what to sexism' <-- do you mean all forms of feminism? Or just the 3rd wave? I have the feeling that there are forms of feminism that do look at this, since various feminist views can also disagree with each other (2nd wave vs 3rd wave for example). I wouldn't know which forms of feminism do look at this though, it's more of a heuristic: since there are so many forms of feminism there must be a few of them doing this.

"can they later be said to be contributing to their own subjugation?" <-- Perhaps I have a different idea of what "contribution" means. Even if someone would be brainwashed and completely programmed to destroy the world, then IMO that person would still contribute to destroying the world if acted towards that goal. I do acknowledge that the initial intent was never there and this person was completely reprogrammed (assume a The Matrix scenario, where someone is plugged in and reprogrammed). Nevertheless, a non-intentional behaviour is still a contribution. Even zombies contribute to cultural notions of society (if they'd exist). So I don't think it's the person's fault for being this way, it's the fault of the programmer. But if the person (now destroyer of the world) would realize this and try to stop it, that would be great.

A pragmatic form of feminism that I have experienced myself is that feminists need to take care of their own personal development. This also means that people who are aware of sexist actions and view the need to change it, need to change themselves if they have habits conforming to old views. In that sense, feminism is concerned with who contributes (behaviorally) to sexism, because it gives a lense to look within oneself to change behaviour contributing to sexism. Knowing your gender role and in which way you conform to it is a handy tool to have in general for self-reflection.

"and when we say that some action is sexist we mean that it contributes to sexism; the action itself can be completely free of any ill intent." <-- Thanks for the clarification. I do admit that my understanding of sexism is not as laser focused as I'd like it to be.
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Especially if they need thousands of people to maintain it, when WhatsApp needs 50 employees even though they process an order of magnitude more messages.
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I think Windows 10 in general is fine, but the upgrade process does a poor job. For 2 of my machines, performing an update (not full wipe/install) resulted in an extremely slow system. Doing the full wipe/install corrected the problem.

Unfortunately, if one is coming from 7 or 8 (using the free update), you need to do the update to register your machine before you can reinstall cleanly. I don't know why Microsoft didn't just provide a Win10 product key via the update tool if your 7/8 install was properly licensed. They could always link it back to your machine to prevent sharing the key and not using it.
> The people that buy Bonobos are more likely to be people that, if driving somewhere to try something on, want to bring something home that day. Can't buy direct at Bonobos? J-Crew or Banana Republic are next door. Literally, in many cases.

I think that is extremely debatable. I'm squarely in Bonobos' target market and it is common for me to buy something that I like and have it sit in my closet for a day or two before I wear it the first time. I don't know anybody that treats their new clothes like they do a new computer or phone...where they absolutely have to start using it right away. If I'm ever in a situation where I can't wait a day or two but need an article of clothing right now? H&M it is. No way I would pay Bonobos prices with my back against a wall like that.

And more importantly, the lack of having something in stock to buy at that very moment is what enables them to have a wider array of potential fits, colors, and other options while also being in stock with a high degree of probability of being at your door within a day or two. Those fits and options are part of the loyalty that Bonobos has. Banana Republic might have some pants in stock...but do they have exactly my size, the color I want, the fabric I want, and the fit that I want? Far less likely IMO. I've spent way too much time rifling through stacks of pants trying to find my size only to destroy a cleanly presented stack of pants and discover that they have it but not in the right color. I would much rather invest 30 minutes of my time in a Bonobos retail fitting room, and then never spend another minute in a retail store again.
I'm not trying to be snarky but are you being serious ?

Because NFL-Class Stadium is not one of the features I would think of if I was doing a bullet list of things a university should have.

My 30k student university has a sports hall and a gym.
this is the only industry in the US that has an anti-trust exemption. So they can charge people differently for different services and they do not have to publish prices.

I think if the employees in the study were given a web interface that is required for booking any appointments, they could get better results. The booking interface could show all qualified specialists that work with their plan, and they could also display prices for specific treatment or average costs for a visit to each particular specialist. So instead of forcing people to price shop, they get to see the prices at the point of booking.
This is pretty old... Jun 21, 2015. Also it was using a developer build.
I'm familiar with the logarithmic nature of the Richter scale. I was not sure whether the Bay Bridge was indeed designed to survive a larger quake.
You can take that as a given. I've always thought Brent's Lateralus review was the high water mark (low water mark???) DiCrescenzo piece. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/
I agree. I'm libertarian with a lower case "l" and not too big on democracy. I don't want my town voting on the best way to do heart surgery for me. Why do I want the masses voting on other issues that are equally important. The U.S. is so divided right now, it seems like we could stop it all by returning to more local, or at least, state governments being in charge of most things. No need to enforce rules on a gigantic number of people who are all so different.
Why should bikes go under the cars?
7 years there. No regrets (almost). Use it for everything except Java
I've found that my iPhone does a fairly decent job of discerning my voice in a noisy environment. I suspect that there is lots of clever use of noise cancelling mics to distinguish between a nearby voice issuing commands (mine), and noise in the environment.

It would be an interesting experiment.
The rvest implementation was the main thing that seemed like an R port of the python implementation rather than best use of rvest.

An alternate (simpler) implementation of the rvest web scraping example is at https://gist.github.com/jimhester/01087e190618cc91a213

It would be even simpler but basketball-reference designs it's tables for humans rather than for easy scraping.
Prototypes vs. MVPs
It could still be used in order to share a module between iOS & Android.
For something not related to UI, like persistence, it can make sense.
In all the other cases, Kotlin is probably a better choice for Android.
I guess I am one of the few users that appreciates the notifications. PushBullet uses the notification center to alert me of things happening on my phone.
> It's not enough that you solve a problem. You actually have to bring it to the world. Mochizuki claims to have solved the ABC conjecture, but isn't doing anything to promote his work, leaving the rest of the mathematics world to pick up his slack.

The problem isn't that Mochizuki hasn't marketed it: his solution is widely known despite him not marketing it at all. The problem is that his solution is incomprehensible, even to other mathematicians. And it's worth noting that, if made comprehensible, his solution will provide enough value that people are willing to take the risk of attempting to understand his work.

> I work for a cosmetics marketing company. We design and market three different lines of cosmetics and skincare. I do their website backend. Our products are really good, and attractively priced compared to our competition. We are not producing a Web 2.0 Social Media glorified ad server, but it's not a shitty product, but it does need effective marketing.

Your product is not your website, it's the good cosmetics at a good price. In the current economy, yes, you do need marketing to get there, but your marketing would be worthless if you had a crappy product (or maybe not, but that's even worse).

So you're working on a product that provides value, and your job is not a disproof of anything I said.

> Me putting in 3x the effort isn't going to help their bottom line a whit, and it might even hurt it by lowering the stability of their platform.

That's quite a straw man you're presenting. I never said you should put in 3x the work: I'm a big proponent of keeping a sustainable pace. But I'm also a proponent of understanding the problem you're solving, and if you're looking at a piece of code in isolation from the context of the business, you don't understand the problem you're solving.
I like the shorthand notation:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3788882/Capture.PNG
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Don't say 'fair' when you mean 'efficient'.
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I don't think you're disproving his comment. The fact that your mother was awesome doesn't mean that women like her are common.
Really? I have sent a number of letters to elected officials - I've only ever gotten what appears to a form letter back. Glad you've had a different experience.
That would be nice, at least as an option.

Theoretically, one could use triggers to enforce types. Not sure if that is worth the hassle, though.
Yep! It can do whatever WeeChat can do. Tor, who made the Matrix script for WeeChat, is also one of the core developers of Glowing Bear :)
Those startups could rapid prototype using Cloud provide---oh.
I think you are seeing it from the strongly-VC-backed startup perspective. In any company I've worked for that kind of expense needs to be justified. Sure, that's a small fraction compared to salaries, but there will be many such "needs" for many small fractions, and if they are not watched after they add up pretty quickly.
Totally. That said, IBM isn't short on optimizing compiler folks. Open ecosystem support is a strategy to pick up small and mid-size buyers; it will be interesting to see if IBM gets there. I would look again next time we source hardware.

And, if IBM put someone internally on a properly vectorized go compilation pathway for Power8, I would buy in a heartbeat, provided it ran some sort of debian variant.
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I'm not saying this to start a war, but I don't use an iPhone. I use an Android phone. I have found the Facebook Lite app on Android to use virtually no battery when idle. I know that this app was pretty much designed for low power phones.
It's odd that on the one hand, they are thinking about low powered phones and using less data while on the other hand, as with iOS, they aren't.
yes, and I do.

I actually use slack via the IRC gateways, and the push notifications from IRC are nearly always 2-3 mins ahead of the slack ones.
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Hadley,

Thank you for all of your hard work! Keep on keeping on; your contributions have been phenomenal!
Caret is a great package for a lot of utility functions and tuning in R. For example, the sampling example can be done using Caret's createDataPartition which maintains the relative distributions of the target classes and is more 'terse'.

> data(iris)
> library(caret)
> data(iris)
> idx <- caret::createDataPartition(iris$Species, p = 0.7, list = F)
> summary(iris$Species)
setosa versicolor virginica
50 50 50
> summary(iris[idx,]$Species)
setosa versicolor virginica
35 35 35
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Seems an important distinction given that the largest quake recorded in California was a 7.9 and the largest in San Francisco a 7.8.

So presumably an 8.0 is plausible but an 8.5 may not be.
Just what we need, another solution to a problem that was solved two decades ago!
Exactly. It would be trivial to have a "flag" button that after a certain amount of "boy cried wolf" complaints Nextdoor either prevents people from making crime alerts or in some other way throttles them. If this sort of behavior is causing a ton of user churn Nextdoor needs to get something in place ASAP.

It could say something like "5 of your neighbors thing you are complaining too much, but hey, don't shoot the messenger!".

Signal to noise will always be a problem in online communities because of the one to many nature of them.
Try Facebook Lite. It's designed for low powered phones.
Backblaze employee here. I am surprised Amazon S3 still doesn't support IPv6. In our very first invite only beta to Backblaze B2 we don't plan to support IPv6, but we plan to support it soon after. Maybe it is much harder for Amazon because they have so much legacy code and we could plan for it up front?
Lots of stuff here, and thanks for the engagement! I'm going to take these paragraph-by-paragraph for clarity:

1) I think Gates' point was that what works for Arizona midday doesn't necessarily work for Pennsylvania or Washington. While the math might pencil out in the ideal case, he's concerned that the focus will leave R&D in more efficient solar before we get a universally cost-efficient solution for photovoltaic. I think he'd agree with you that the goal is to have people motivated to go solar for selfish reasons (to save money). I think he'd disagree with you that you can price based on removing existing subsidies and market bias towards fossil fuels, since those subsidies are in place and the externalities aren't yet priced.

3) Problem is, we can't just shut down the coal stations without eating an enormous cost in terms of lost power production. For most energy planners, the goal is to let existing (massively expensive) infrastructure age-out and transition to renewable/carbon-neutral infrastructure on the new installation side. Otherwise the costs are untenable.

4) While negative pricing should incentivize investments in storage, I think Gates is looking at the imbalance in the incentives that led Germany to that point. A negative price indicates that there was over investment in infrastructure, and they're still stuck with the coal plants for base load. Similar to my comment on #3, you can't just shut off existing coal/oil/natural gas without hitting someone with the bill. Making that the taxpayer's problem is not going to go over well, and the companies are going to lose tons of money if their investments in those plants can't pay off over their 30-60 year projected lifespan.
Be interesting to compare this with other IDS offerings.
Hi Leobi,

At the moment it's a pay-as-you-go model with decreasing price per transaction - we only charge on successful ones-.
The starting price is 30cts/transaction, and decreasing to reach 5cts/transaction on higher volumes.

We will probably keep this, but introduce monthly/yearly plans. Probably $19/m for starter, then 49, 99, 199... Still need to fix the thresholds.

We already and always have two interesting things for test, starters, or very small businesses:
- An unlimited testmode.
- 10 monthly transactions for free. Forever.

What we mean by universal/dynamic pricing is:

- Universal pricing is when you sell a product at a fixed tax-included price. For instance, you can sell an article at $10. Tax is then deduced - if applicable - and you obtain your net price.

- Dynamic pricing is when you'd like to have a fixed net price. For instance, you sell a monthly plan: $10 + Tax - if applicable -.
Let's take an example: As a French company selling digital goods,
* If my customer is an French VAT registered company, the final price would be $12 - VAT 20%-.
* If my customer is an Italian consumer, the final price would be $12.2 -VAT: 22%-
* If my customer is a German consumer, it would be: $11.9 - VAT: 19%-.

Best,
"Popular among the Mumford & Sons crowd."

That would be weird, because Pfork hates them.
I personally use ConEmu + babun for my everyday work activity on Windows system. I grow accustomed to it and it's a wonderful replacement when I have to do some lightweight Unixy thing without powering up a VM and when my Ubuntu laptop is out of reach.
I haven't used it, but from reading the datasheet it appears to be nothing but an RF motion sensor. The output is simply a voltage level reflecting the magnitude of the Dopper shift the sensor measured. There is no ability to perform range measurement or range gating, so all it will tell you is if something is moving within its (very wide) field of view.
For where you sound like you're at, I wouldn't even worry about it. Usually when we say bandwidth, we mean bytes/second, to and from the caches and main system memory.

But, really, don't worry about it -- for windows, ovh or hetzner, or if your workload varies a lot, azure or AWS are almost certainly what you want; put the time in to product development until it's so successful that you _need_ the tech help to scale.
Sorry man, but I can't agree with you on this one.

The guy took out student loans for 3 (!) of his children on a manufacturing job. He knew the risks when he took the loans.

In fact, without knowing the particulars of the case, it seems like he kept the loans in his name because he believed that if he was unemployed and of retirement age, he might be able to discharge their debt through his bankruptcy. Allowing this sort of debt discharge would create a moral hazard that would seriously pervert debt/degree decisions.

Ultimately, his kids should be the paying off the debt, and it should be on their balance sheets, not his. They are receiving the benefits of the degrees, they are of working age, they should be paying down the debt.
Is that still planned to go from Bakersfield to Fresno with a promise that they'll totally get around to building the tricky bits once everyone sees how great it is to be able to travel quickly between Bakersfield and Fresno?
As presented, people are only vulnerable if they:

- Allow Siri from the lock screen

- Have headphones plugged in (presumably Apple's)

- Are not using their device or have their headphones in (otherwise the attack would be detected immediately) OR:

- Have audible feedback from Siri disabled

P.S. Link to source article: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hacks...

Original research publication: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
So Windows users are calling everything a "shell"? The 'terminal-emulator', the execution environment, the userland, the programming language?

What's next? The graphical user interface? ... Wait ...

Oh Lord ;-)
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You make a good point by showing that worse-is-better is probably the way to get there rather than trying to solve everything at once, but I bet when all is said and done we have something that looks a lot closer to Xanadu than the WorldWideWeb!
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I wrote a paper on how to control the project cost escalation that is relevant to this discussion. Typically 90% of construction projects are completed over budget with median being 28% over. http://leanconstructionblog.com/Target-Value-Design-as-a-Met...
Overall, The Martian got the science pretty close to right and avoided the pitfall of turning astronauts into psychopaths or portraying NASA as a bunch of uniformly suited nerds with pocket protectors. There are nits to be picked, of course. Martian gravity was not accurately portrayed for obvious reasons of cost. Winds are portrayed as having orders of magnitude more force than they would in Martian atmosphere, but it's hard to make the setup work without that. I can live with that.

The one thing that actually bothered me because it was a simple, dumb, mistake that had no real purpose or advantage for the film-makers was this: The units used are all metric, as you'd expect for NASA, except for pressure, which is reported in psi on multiple interface screens and the hab cam dash. Miles were also used in dialogue, but you can sort of justify NASA using miles to communicate with the American public. Myanmar and Liberia will probably abandon imperial before the U.S. finally does.