skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was concentrating on the lousy logic expressed in the article rather than specific numbers in the study. I think my point stands, since the total cost for any appendectomy is almost certain to exceed any deductible.

As you point out, the real difference in costs (and the factors that actually might influence patient behavior) are the percentage of coverage after the deductible and the levels for out-of-pocket max. As you probably noticed, these weren't mentioned in the article.

I'd hope the actual paper has a better discussion of this, but it doesn't seem to be publicly available: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21632

One of the authors do have some summary slides available:
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~bhandel/wp/BCHK.pdf

From Slide 8, it looks like the studied group had a 10% in-network copay, with a $6,250 out-of-pocket cap.
Can they see your name or profile picture when you hail? Or just your rating? I fear that racism tends to overcome technology ;(
App works clean. Way to go with end to end encryption.
I think you will find many a device with this. I recall my Nokia N800 had a sharp snap after having played any kind of sound in a quiet environment.
Right. If the radar is held stationary, it can produce a one-dimensional "image" of what is in its line-of-sight. Move it sideways and you generate the 2nd axis.

It's a little more complex than that, because the field of view is not a perfectly narrow beam, but same idea.
We recently built a site for a customer in Ember and their SEO guys were concerned about indexing. I wasn't sure how it was going to work out, but in the end Google has been able to index every page no problem.
Sometimes it does. Fight fire with fire, an eye for an eye, history is replete with references to common sense refuting what you are saying.
Oh I hadn't seen that one, that's actually pretty neat. Their pricing is...interesting though. Zero company support at all for the solo package which seems insane to me but other than that it's pretty cool. I wonder how well it works and how it supports third party Java libraries (if at all).
Ok, that may happen. But with Uber-like services some group can decide to differentiate by offering better service at higher prices, while others may focus only on price.

Taxis do not compete in any meaningful way.
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Sort of a weak article - no stats. It'd be much more useful if it simply stated things clearly. Something like "90% of reports are for Xs, while only 40% of the crimes are by Xs". Or even better, "out of n Xs, only m commit a crime". Then show incorrect biases there. (The only stat I saw was % of black population vs % of detainees being black - that's not so relevant without knowing actual crime rates. )

(Edit: I see why they didn't include this stat. According to [1], over 80% of suspects for various crimes were black. So that would explain why the police are pulling over a higher %, right? This still doesn't excuse base rate fallacy but sort of dismisses the one stat the article does provide.)

Or more usefully, provide better characteristics off which to classify. If race, gender, and clothing have no predictive power, demonstrate that and show what does.

Nextdoor could even build priors into the site, over time and help provide accurate predictions. After all, they have both the suspicious report info plus the actual crime info. Imagine if it would rate your post: "Based on your report of a male walking at 6am, the probability this is a criminal is 0.02%" That'd go a long way towards making people update internal models as well as making them look silly for using non-predictive characteristics. (Though if most crimes are committed by young males, it might be called out as ageist and sexist, but hey if that's reality...)

Plus you could grade individual users. So combining the base rate of crime, significant characteristics, and past performance of a user? "MaryX, given your past suspicious activity record, there's a 99% chance this post is incorrect."

Without this, all it takes is a busybody to report everything they see (and they can select on anything: race, gender, hair color, shoe size) and eventually get a correct hit. Then ignore the times they were wrong and point out how "see I reported this X and it was a thief!"

1: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Oakland-crime-...
The dog one is understandable. The elderly people probably didn't forget, definitely not on multiple occasions. It's a good example of where shame should work.
Of course, it is always a matter of perceived utility. I buy really nice food sometimes, because my happiness gained from the delicious steak is worth it.

I might hypothetically use an open source tool instead of Slack because it's not worth $2000 of productivity for 15 people per year.
http://collectionofawesome.com/2012/04/05/farside-comic-jerk...
Very well written and interesting. While some people put the blame on firearms (lets not turn this into a debate on gun control) i believe that its the media attention that is the biggest culprit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4
I'm working on designing a RESTful framework for Java.It will be my final project for earning master degree of computer science. I would greatly appreciate it if you give me your opinions.
Good suggestion, though this could be true for both server-side processing and local processing. If you want the whole image uploaded, anyways - start that, and then run the crop in parallel, and just transmit the crop box once both are done, with minimal additional impact to interaction flow.
It's up to your insurer to provide that information in a usable format. There are products out there that will present this information in a searchable format that makes it easy to do cost-comparisons like your example, all from within your insurer's portal. The problem is getting these insurers to realize that features like these are important to their clients.
What the mainstream corporate media in America and the American Psychological Association have in common is they both spread lies and confusion through their social-engineering efforts.

Something else they have in common is they both have been infiltrated by a group of radical activists that have gained more influence after pivotal world events around 1967. For more on this read The Culture of Critique, a scholarly work on this subject with plentiful inviting citations to follow, most of them to the works being criticized, such as The Authoritarian Personality.
Now imagine trying to get something from a freezer or off of a top shelf without having to put the kickstand down and then up again after over and over and over.
Sure that's fair I was mostly commenting with porting the JVM versus bypassing it all together. I'd love to see more commercial support for compiling Java and other languages to native just so they can be more portable.
Sure. I expect that too. In fact I would be delighted to pay more taxes if I knew they were being well spent. The state has failed us in many ways (especially by being easily bought by the highest bidder) but that doesn't mean I don't believe a state like institution should exist... possibly one that is focused more on vital services and less on repression and power. I always find it curious how people like you and me want the same thing but have such divergent concept of how to achieve it (I tend more towards anarchism... maybe techno-anarcho-syndicalist who be a fair label but I don't like to pigeon hole). I'm not saying this to start a political philosophy argument but I do wonder how you expect the poor, sick and hungry to be taken care of in an anarcho-capitalist society?
Sorry for the late reply. So, for this to be true, these systems would have to drive training costs (and other hiring costs) to 0. Is this your contention? I'm not disagreeing, just looking for more discussion.
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You're not too far wrong, though IRC could do with some updating to get rid of some of its more severe limits and issues which prevent it from as useful as it could be for less technical users.
I’ve chosen to not use Chrome as my primary browser for several reasons, one of which is because it disregards native OS notifications in favor of its own, often to detrimental effect. On OS X, they’re an eyesore — they're unnecessarily large and visually incongruent with the rest of the OS, and they sit beneath native notifications rendering them useless if Chrome isn’t the only application firing off notifications.

Per-application custom notifications made sense when there was no standardized system to use, but these days they’re entirely unnecessary.
Can confirm. Launched a project recently with over 500 concurrent PhantomJS workers. Let's just say my hosting bill is significantly more expensive than it was.
Not sure I understand.

What prevents you from using a same identity to log in to multiple self-hosted instances?

I think it's the same. As far as I get it - haven't used Slack much - with Slack you either have to use different email address to create account for each team (subdomain), or you have to be explicitly invited. Or maybe I got a wrong idea. Either way, while I'm not sure all self-hosted alternatives have options to consume external identities (be it third-party leased ones like Google account or self-originating ones), at least some have those. Which means the authentication is fairly transparent.
But finally I just use clean.sh when necessary. :P
That's not really a problem though. Everyone uses 20 different communications platforms. SMS, Hangouts, Hipchat, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc all have different logins.

It may be nice to combine them in one place but it won't prevent anyone from using them.
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It seems taxi services would also be quick to fire if a series of customer complaints emerged, so not sure how Uber's model is strictly inferior to status quo.
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The biggest limitation I saw was no support for the .NET base class libraries at all, which not only makes for some strange looking C# but also rules out using any of the existing 3rd party .NET libraries out there. They market this as an advantage but I'm not convinced.
Wonder how long before we get some stern words from Google about Facebook abusing priority messages to circumvent Doze.
You can price shop if you put a great deal of effort into it.

I'm glad this worked out for you, but if one is visiting the doctor because of some symptoms, rather than visiting a technician to have a specific, prescribed, and highly standardized service (like an MRI) performed, I'm sure you'd agree that situation is different.

It's simply not in the nature of medical care to have price-tags (although the situation could certainly be better that what we have in the US today).

I'd argue this is the case with all sorts of expertise-based services, actually - auto mechanics, lawyers, consultancies of all kinds, etc. You can't know how much a visit to your lawyer will cost unless you know exactly what you need - but much of the time you don't know what you need. You're visiting the lawyer so he can figure out what you need.

Yet every time I see an article that involves economists pondering medical care costs, this fundamental uncertainty (at the personal level) is just elided, as if the economists never thought of that. As if they never actually deal with the health care system themselves.
I'm not so sure you'd want to throw away all of that processing power on the client though. Running some performance testing on different types of devices and figuring out which ones can handle it fine to good enough (especially if you can do it in the background with a web worker) while sending really horribly performing devices right to the backend.
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I think you are seeing it from the strongly-VC-backed startup perspective.

I feel I can pretty authoritatively answer "Betcha not" here. </cofounder>

It's trivial to justify Slack's pricetag at any software company. Your entire team lives in it continuously and it becomes the nerve center of the company... for freaking pennies. It's ludicrous. If you add it up the non-Starfighter companies I run spend like $50k a year on SaaS/hosting/etc ("everything with an API attached") of which Slack is like ~1%, and probably the most underpriced-relative-to-value service which does not quote its pricing in picodollars.
Have you ever been to NYC? Do you have any idea how much extra vehicle capacity would be necessary for Uber to supplant the subways? A subway track has capacity of roughly 25000 people/hour (112 people per car, 10 cars per train, 20 trains per hour) in each direction; that's as much as 10 freeway lanes. Manhattan has 20 subway tracks across its width (5 lines, each with express and local, in 2 directions), so that's at least 200 extra lanes of cars for Uber's disruption to innovate out of nowhere.
Extremely different companies. Blue Origin founded, IIRC, before SpaceX - yet has comparatively little to show, even though it had money of Bezos.

Masten "graduated" from Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society - erps.org - from San Jose, CA area; the group still has projects going on!
Facebook pushes an update to their iOS app once every two weeks (I think). I wonder how much review scrutiny it really gets.

Anyone with experience on an iOS app like that have insight into what the App Store review process looks like when you're that big and ship that often?
In New York, I believe that if a card reader is broken, a taxi driver has to inform you of this before you get in the car.

I mean, it's obviously a scam, so most of the time they don't, and they're not actually broken, but at least there's something you can yell back at him when you arrive and he demands cash.
The primary focus of Comet is on design and prototyping, not on generating apps directly. You'll be able to export production-quality assets for handoff to developers, or view interactive prototypes online / on devices.

That said, Comet will have an extremely powerful plugin architecture, so third-party developers in the community could certainly create plugins to export code for Angular, React, Objective C, etc.
Poaching is for animals, not employees
Well that confirms my anti-seagate bias is not unjustified.

Fairly obvious somewhere in Seagate's management chain, there are people making purposeful decisions to cut corners with quality and care in manufacturing.

By the way, didn't Google research show that smart data is not a good predictor of drive failure? Or was that just on SSD?
Now when I upload an image to Facebook it automatically uses facial recognition to tag my friends. In the video from 2013 he mentions they had already solved the problem using heuristics to find faces in images. Before that, circa 2012, they might have been relying on people to tag their photos.
Facebook doing something user-hostile? Say it ain't so!
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The human mind and human decision making do not work in the way that you're suggesting, especially when it comes to reproduction.

If you were a poor child, you might not even have been taught or have ever learned the self-awareness necessary to be angry at your parents for such a decision. Plus, I find it hard to believe that you'd have the exact same take on poverty and birth rates were you actually poor, and not simply hypothesizing about what it's like to be poor.
I hope that sort of price drops continues to similar devices like the MXB Motocross-boards (motocrossboard.com) I have been looking at them for a while as alternative to driving, as work home and classes are not exactly close together for walking and biking.
I've encountered a few rude cabbies in my last three years here, but the majority have been nice. However, I agree 100% that they tend to drive like maniacs.
With no way to document the pickup request, can't the driver just claim he "didn't see" the raised hand?
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Interesting topic, but the article does nothing more than recycle points taken from the most quotidian of newspaper editorials.
Why is that depressing?

I guess the compiled version as MIT is to make it easier for people to deploy in enterprises that might have issues with AGPL, given that the consequences of MIT are easier to evaluate.
AVG to sell web browsing history to 3rd-party advertisers
Who cares honestly? It's the same rehashed garbage. First world problems galore. Not getting enough sex, not having enough money, not making enough friends but not being willing to do anything about those things but sit in their basement of choice and whine.

Clarifying: The first world problem I'm talking about are the things the shooters cite as reasons for their actions, not the shootings themselves.
Exactly what I was looking for. Will give it a try! Thank you.
This. As an NYC resident, this and this. Even beyond the review/star system, from what I understand Uber sets expectations of cleanliness and friendliness and general professionalism. I don't think the taxi industry ever started with these base expectations. It's a good start.
At what point does the constant retread of mass murders' ideals become fetishization? Does anyone really think we'll prevent more of these attacks by deep analysis of their writings or are we just obsessed with the possibility of understanding horrible tragedies?

I'm tired of reading these monsters' names and quotes. They all thought they were the smartest people on the planet and everyone should read their words.

I'm going to stick with remembering the amazing people taken from us instead. I think about people like Liviu Librescu and Alex Teves a lot as a reminder of the requirement for good people to stand up to evil. http://nonotoriety.com/
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He doesnt have much in common with the people mentioned in this article, except Breivik maybe, though i might be completely wrong since i havent read up on the Unabomber.
There should be a Mad Max reference in the article with Immortal Joe shouting "mediocre", because even in their blaze of glory moment for these troubled individuals, there is no glory and barely any blaze. And I think that the reason they leave this manifestos is because they feel they cannot do anything right and put it as insurance.
People alone with their thoughts. Early, frequent and long-term intervention can ease the suffering of mentally troubled individuals. Instead we build prisons, invest in security and hire more police.
Sorry, I haven't had a chance to review the article yet, but hasn't PressureNet[1] been crowdsourcing weather data for years now? I know I've been silently contributing ever since the Galaxy Nexus was the new phone on the block with it's fancy barometer.

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
> best alternative

For 100% of the XML feature-set I don't actually know of a viable alternative. If you are using XML for the right reasons and the right way (rare) there is currently little or nothing that can replace. That being said, there are a vanishingly small amount of problems that actually require XML - namespaces and extensibility are two of them.
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Yeah, it's terrible, but deactivating your account is exactly the wrong thing to do if you're interested in fixing this sort of behavior.

Nextdoor doesn't make people be shitty human beings, but it is a local forum that augments or replaces the sorts of venues that people used to be shitty in -- town hall meetings, HOA events, neighborhood watch, political rallies, etc.

Arguing with people on the internet is (heh) usually a waste of time. But pushing for decency and respect within your neighborhood is not a waste of time if you value strong communities.
How onerous would it be for competition to enter the market, via Flywheel or some other white-label app?

Uber decided to hold off entering Spain, which let a bunch of similar services (Cabify, Hailo, MyTaxi) operate in that market. Same in Denmark - almost every cab passing by advertises a URL for their specific app.
John Karl's book is very good.

My favourite is 'Self-contained Celestial Navigation with HO 208' by John Letcher. It's out of print but used copies show up on abebooks for a reasonable price at times. It's often recommended.

I also like 'The Sextant Handbook' by Bruce Bauer. Also out of print.

A very nice modern coffee-table book about the history of celestial navigation is 'Finding Longitude' by Richard Dunn e.a. : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HPMW95A

Finally, you could subscribe to NavList at fer3.com. There's enough in the archives to fill several books and the people there really know their stuff (well, not me so much, but others do!).
The quality of Uber drivers in San Francisco has dropped all the way to the point where I simply will not try to use Uber anywhere near downtown. They will accept the ride and the app will show they are "1 minute" away, however it will often take upwards of 15 minutes for them to reach me because they don't know their way around the city and are confused by all the one-way streets in downtown. I promise I"m not exaggerating, it really does take that long. I've stood there and watched them on the map spending 10-15 minutes driving very long distances away from me before finally turning in the right direction and painfully, slowly, starting to get closer. It's ridiculous.

If I'm in downtown or SOMA, I will use a taxi (either hailing or using Flywheel). It's usually a huge time saver (and there's no "surge" pricing either).
Sorry if this is a stupid question as this is outside my field of work, but how can you tell if your page has been successfully indexed or not?
Mass is constant in this equation. It is absolutely incorrect to talk about a "rest" mass and a "relativistic" mass, only energy and momentum are relativistic, while mass is always a constant. Algebraically it may make a tiny bit of sense, but there is no physical meaning behind it.
Do you know if they sent Google a sitemap? Our client is insisting on a sitemap that has pointers to every-single-product. Something on the order of 2MM+ product pages. It seems like a bit much to me
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I don't think that go as people tend to use it really benefits from vectorized code. Most people who are using go that I interact with are not writing numerical processing code but network servers and business logic for high level web APIs. You might get minor speed ups in vectorized memcpy but I can't see much else.

I imagine the most important CPU features for most go code would be a good branch predictor and fast atomics / synchronization primitives.

If you're using go for numerical processing code I'd like to hear more about it. Mostly because it's kind of a PITA.
Thanks, that's quite insightful. It is, I believe, an excellent example of being able to take nearly any biblical, (or talmudic, or quranic(sp?)) passage and bend it to any particular moral framework (in this case feminism).
Nextdoor should create a feedback system to incorporate this effect and help people calibrate. It could also bring in base-rate crime info to help make more accurate assessments of suspicious reports.
I have no clue what the exact numbers are, but apparently it is an issue:

http://www.reactiflux.com/
It is not a mass (or a "rest" mass, if you want to use this incorrect and unnecessary notion) that you measure.
Chrome will not let me download the zip. It is blocked. Possibly because it is uncommon?
I was expecting a Natural Born Killers scene here.
So they're actually evaluating all js and css Googlebot is consuming. That's insane.

Can we forget about any new competitors in search engine land now?
Not only do you have to match Google in relevance you'll actually have to implement your own BrowserBot just to download the pages.