skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would call this more "accidentally realist" than "accidentally sexist." I know for a fact that even though I am not a great coder (not a huge part of my job currently) I could get hired over more qualified men because I'm female. I've talked to women who know they got hired in tech because they are women, not because of the skills/experience they have. I know women working current jobs where it's obvious they are not qualified for the job they have (of course, that happens with men too). I've had people at colleges tell me that if only I wanted to do Computer Science I'd be guaranteed a scholarship because I'm female, but there are not the same scholarships for me. All of that, in my opinion, is very sexist against men.
do you know if Zulip exposes an API ? We are currently using Slack as a chat dashboard for operations .. and we do some funky stuff like create channels,etc through the API. I wonder if Zulip allows that.
A quick search resulted in one with a official speed of 8MPH, or about 12-13KMH.
> It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all

Until Uber launches calendar integration there will be an advantage to having a private driver reliably waiting outside and knowing where to go next. Many peoples' drivers also double as ersatz admins.
The sad thing is that all of this information is already in an electronic system somewhere. It's just a matter of access to data.

Your insurer should absolutely be able to answer if you ask "What are the 5 cheapest places to get an MRI within 60 miles of me?"
Maybe useful for a "content" app. Nice effort though.
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That's a very good point. I think I phrased it that way because I believe it's part of a bigger issue at hand - namely that we have all these things reinforcing our bad habits and bad traits, and we don't really pay attention to it since it's so ubiquitous.

I can't think of many technological solutions to these types of problems - I say that because trying to ban those types of software generally is like playing whack-a-mole. You get rid of one and another one pops up.

The real solution is that people have to police themselves when interacting with technology - being judicious. I wish there was a good way to make that part of our culture.

Reading "Here Comes Everybody" is what inspired this line of though in me.

Edit: Especially since reading through the rest of the article: what's happening on NextDoor was happening on other sites: email groups and yahoo groups. I think there's bigger hubbub about next door because it's more visible.
I would take Uber over rude Manhattan cabbies any day. My personal experience with Manhattan taxi drivers after living in NYC for last two years.

1) They drive as if they are on a rally track. I have had never experienced motion sickness before until I moved to Manhattan.

2) If you ignore the tip or tip them in the range of $1-3 you get snarky remarks from them.

3) If you try to hail a cab and (regrettably) ask the taxi driver to drive you to a place where their chances of hailing a passenger back are slim then they will rudely turn you away (Tip: First hop in then tell the direction. It is a NYC law).

I can go on and on but point being Uber is the much needed necessary evil in scarce resource cities like Manhattan.
Much older :)

And it's not just HN or google... Planning to crawl through the web for all the hottest links at any given moment.

Thanks!
A humorous and insightful PG post on Segway:
http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
Poul-Henning Kamp's HTTPS/HTTP2 rant ->https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278
Arguing over nomenclature probably doesn't really matter. There's no one-way™. The video validates that there's need, drew already had a prototype that worked. I think a lot of time just build it all at the same time.

Nobody's ever going to fully externally validate an idea for you ahead of time. Just keep building until it seems like it's boring / you're poor / it has no potential. Don't go off and do it by yourself (without growth / people using it) if you want to build a real startup and not an art project.

I think a lot of times people are looking for an excuse to not build the thing they really want to build. Just build something cool, don't worry if it's an MVP or prototype or whatever. You don't normally have to talk to other people about MVP or prototype because talking about it is usually fake work.
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How Cheap Can Energy Storage Get? Pretty Darn Cheap
> In 2006, about one in 10 employees had a health insurance
> deductible over $1,000. Today? About half do.
> To health economists, this sounded like good news; they've
> long theorized that higher deductibles would force down
> health-care costs. The idea was that higher deductibles
> would make patients become smarter shoppers: If they had to
> pay more of the cost, they'd likely choose something closer
> to the $1,529 appendectomy than the $186,955 appendectomy
> (yes, some doctors really do charge that much). This would
> push the really expensive doctors to lower their prices so
> cheaper physicians didn't steal their business.

This seems so illogical that I think I must be missing something. Presumably, the patient pays the deductible out of pocket, and the remainder is covered by the insurance.

Case A: $1,529 appendectomy.
Patient pays $1000, receives "cheap" appendectomy.

Case B: $186,955 appendectomy.
Patient pays $1000, receives "luxury" appendectomy.

Why would the "health economists" think that a patient be incentivized to choose the less expensive option? Rightly or wrongly, the frequent presumption is that more expensive services are higher quality. Why would a patient go out of their way to choose the lower priced option if they are paying a flat rate?

> But when the researchers looked at why spending dropped,
> they found it had nothing to do with smarter shopping. The
> average price of a doctor visit wasn't dropping.
>
> Instead, under the high-deductible plan, workers just went
> to the doctor way less. The paper finds that "spending
> reductions are entirely due to outright reductions in
> quantity." Workers did use less "potentially wasteful
> care," like imaging services, but they also cut back on
> "potentially valuable care," like preventive visits.

Clearly the incentive is for the patient to avoid costs that are less than the deductible. Lo and behold, the patients chose to avoid costs that are less than the deductible (doctors visits and preventative care), and to ignore cost in cases that are higher than the deductible (surgeries and emergencies). How can this be construed as a surprise?
Until now, species losses have been due to factors 1,2,3. But climate change does threaten to greatly accelerate the rate of species collapse, perhaps unstoppably so, in the coming decades and centuries.

So you're giving Exxon (and the fossil fuel industry generally) a hell of a break, simply because thus far, we've barely been able to see the effects of climate change.
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That's how you get bloated budgets. Why spend thousands of dollars per year on a communications platform if you don't need to spend it?

IRC, mattermost, email, Gitlab, Wekan, Skype/Google Hangouts/BigBlueButton.... there are plenty of tools to communicate without spending loads of cash.
Why can't they just compile the swift core library into the executable? I imagine some things are architecture specific, like launching new threads (iOS calls down to objectiveC code which then handles the system call,etc). I imagine the problem is that you can't compile just the non architecture specific parts. Unless you wrote some code to strip out those parts...hmm is that possible?

Also, how come it doesn't look like they had to provide the path to the runtime? Built into the compiler I guess?
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The article is based on an odd premise. It sounds like the employees in the study were given an HSA with a deposit equal to their deductible, so they could spend up to that limit without incurring any personal cost. The trick here is that an HSA should encourage you to eliminate unnecessary spending because you get to keep the money you save and bank it for bigger health care costs down the road. I'm 27 and healthy, had a really uninformative annual physical last year where my doctor bilked me for a totally unnecessary EKG, and as a result I skipped my annual physical this year and am banking the savings for a serious illness in the future. The study should actually look at whether people went to the doctor less over the long-run for serious issues -- like not going to the doctor for symptoms diabetes, which left untreated can cause much larger long-term costs to the system -- rather than whether they simply avoided "valuable" medical visits, which in this case as "preventative care" has unclear value.

EDIT: The answer to her question "Why wouldn't this group get the care they wanted, pay for it with the HSA, and just run through the out-of-pocket spending earlier in the year?" is that "the care they wanted" is treatment for a catastrophic illness later in my life rather than dubiously valuable preventative care right now. I'd rather skip a doctor visit for the flu and have more money banked in the future for cancer treatment or a heart attack.
No surprise there, as one of the objections mentions is the "stare" factor. That is, how much do you like to be stared at while doing something.
i beg to disagree. i'm in the market for notification, chat, etc. service for an internal application that doesn't have any cloud dependencies and we'd be most happy if it could stay this way. apparently this thing fits the bill at least in some capacity.
Eh, in NYC, yellow cabs were prohibited from picking up fares that way.
There are a slew of developers who tangled with XMPP and came away with very negative, well-founded reasons to dislike the protocol. Do you want XMPP because it is a standard, or you also have a contrary experience to these developers?

[1] http://about.psyc.eu/Jabber#Technical_Issues_in_Jabber

[2] http://josephg.com/blog/xmpp-in-wave-in-a-box/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069810

[4] https://www.reddit.com/comments/rvzdp

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040302

For some balance, there are contrary opinions. This one seems to revolve around project governance.

[6] http://about.psyc.eu/Jabber#Technical_Issues_in_Jabber

And links [4] and [5] have a lot of people piping up saying they like XMPP just fine.

To be fair to XMPP, I strongly suspect it is a protocol trying to solve a very large, very messy problem space, and too many developers are trying to wrestle with it "raw" in its totality, unaware that for their specific problem domain, they only need a subset, and a specialized protocol/library that exposes only that subset to them. It's almost as if too few understand that XMPP is kind of the assembly language (or microcode?) of its problem domain, and most people need a $High_Level_Language_of_Choice instead.
Dependency injection in Scala
> Some groups have even actively silenced and banned the few vocal voices of color speaking up on the websites, according to records that I reviewed.

Looks like some kind of process for silencing voices is already present in the app....it's just mostly being used to silence voices that point out not all blacks are criminals.
Also, thanks for suggesting Google news! =)
Love this, very inspirational and pragmatic. I like how down to Earth Masten comes across in the article (pun intended). Reminds me of the lesson learned in the restaurant business - over-estimate the wait time, deliver early, and let people enjoy!

I think it's something about the inherent risks and rewards of flight that are a great challenge and temptation for advancement - space being a dream for so many from childhood. Maybe it makes us feel a little more important in such a grand universe.

The Wright Brothers were bicycle mechanics. They beat out the entire world into manned, powered flight. Creativity, some resources, and tenacity can do wonderful things.
I have rewritten the python ggplot to put it on per with ggplot2.

You can try out my dev version [1] (rewrite branch). It will be nearly API compatible.

[1] https://github.com/has2k1/ggplot
Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology
A Geek's Dream: Tesla Races DeLorean in “Back to the Future” VR Experience
If you want to make it across the "commerialization valley of death" you are going to have to sweep the floor with Alchemy API rather than simply "perform better in some circumstances"
I've actually been looking for something related. I need to quickly classify if an image contains a face and also if it contains any text. The former seems to be relatively straightforward, but I haven't found anything for detecting text, only OCR'ing it which I don't need. Anyone seen anything like this?
> Intelligent life also happened in our solar system, but you seem to consider it unlikely elsewhere.

Occam's razor, plain and simple.

If the strange variations in that star's brightness turned out to be caused by an alien civilization, that would be way, way cool. But before we jump to conclusions, we should explore more mundane explanations; given the unusual observations, it should still be very interesting, whatever the cause.
I realize this is the actual title of the piece, but it's going to get much fewer views/reads because of it.

For the sake of HN readers, it might be worth editorializing this title to add some kind of context.
Have the taxi services in New York seen a drop in ridership? I'd guess that a decent number of Uber rides would have been taxi rides. Many people claim to prefer Uber over taxis anyway.

How likely is it that Uber cars have actually replaced taxi cars on New York streets? In the minds of many consumers, this replacement has already happened.
According to the article, they did both; the definition is in terms of physical constants, and the electric-scale and silicon-sphere experiments were separate ways of measuring according to this definition. This let them verify their work by checking that two separate methods of measurement came out with values that were similar to each other with enough precision.
>You must live in a very sad, homogeneous world then.

And he is lamenting that fact. How sad for you that you take it as a personal insult that this person's observations don't match your ideal.
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/the_rage_of_the_avera...
This is a common misunderstanding, but in fact the HN guidelines ask you not to use the original title when it is linkbait.

We changed the linkbait title to the subtitle. Once you get past that, this is a substantive piece.
Hmm, off-road boards...
This is the sort of thing that you know but you forget, and I'm sure it occasionally bites people in the butt. The U.S. doesn't just use out-dated and counter-intuitive units of measurement, it overloads their names with other, slightly different obsolete units of measurement!
Multi-book your flights with this app. Spend less and find free stopovers
A Study on the Coverage of ProbeAPI and RIPE Atlas
No, you'd just need one increment after all of them. An increment in every else-if block is redundant because only one condition can be executed per loop.
You think they're funding researchers at market rates?
I recently visited a sports doc, and had this exact experience. I had no way of figuring out what my cost would be, even for something as simple as a 15-minute consult, until the receptionist tallied the bill at the end of the visit. The only criteria I could use to pick a care provider were Google reviews, credentials, and a few weak "scores" my insurance company provides for each provider.

My experience did mirror another comment in the article- I rejected a speculative X-Ray from a nurse as I was pretty sure it was unnecessary and I was paying 100% out of pocket, which I realized at the moment was (in a way) the HDP at work. (The doc later agreed with my choice)
I'd like to know that too
Wasn't there actually a radio ad which just did that?

edit: found it http://www.cultofmac.com/328705/toyota-radio-ad-shuts-down-i...
The idea that uber will replace public transit in NYC is laughable. Sure, there is a group of rich yuppies (and their parents) that will gladly give uber their business, but NYC's transit system serves a much, much broader demographic of customers that cannot and/or will not to pay ten dollars or more every time they want to get around the city.
Would you like to expand on why you think it shouldn't be patented?

Architectural optimizations are often dismissed by outsiders as being "obvious", but what they don't see are all the other "obvious" ideas that don't work for various subtle reasons. I worry that if you make these techniques unpatentable, they'd become trade secrets and nobody would publish them, and we'd be worse off as a community.
> Just like the movie industry it hasn't occurred to taxi companies to build their own app

It wasn't actually built internally to the industry, but the taxi industry does have its own ride-ordering, etc., app: Flywheel.

So, there might be some narrow sense in which what you say is true, but in the sense that actually matters, its false.
Also, some percentage of taxi drivers are racist. I've had tremendous difficulties hailing a cab, Uber removes this (and having to think about it).
Just because you are anti-privacy and anti people's rights it doesn't mean that my countries laws should support you.
If you are interested in a similar approach by a Facebook developer: http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/image/best-cropping-position.html
They also have a double wheel version that also uses large wheels which seems like a better idea.

http://www.theairwheel.com/buy/q3black340wh/
Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini
You will still have notifications, you just won't have a notification center. Pushbullet will still alert you of things happening on your phone. Plus, the Pushbullet badge in your chrome window will still tell you about unread notifications (I don't see why this would change)
The “Income Inequality” Scam
I understand you post. (It made me laugh too.)

The evidence you have gathered via your own experience has led you to that conclusion. I believe you when you say you haven't met a woman better at computer bullshit than you. (Probably because you don't meet many women but that's beside the point).

Right, so the only hole in your argument is that in your life you surely would have at least read about, or heard of smart women, be they lawyers, doctors, academics, scientists, writers, etc. We don't need to actually meet those people, we only need to be aware they exist.

The numbers game thing may have nothing to do with ability, but other factors such as left-over historical gender roles still influencing young womens career choices. Or perhaps there may well be a natural "dislike" of programming, not because of lack of ability, but because.... it's programming. Not exactly the most social of disciplines. Men naturally like to lock themselves away in front of screens, more so than women. There's biological differences at work in defining taste in activities.
Africa's Food Security Relies on Adoption of New Technologies
Well, hopefully anti-trust law keeps them from acquiring lyft. I think we'll probably be ok.
So, open source version of the original Skype architecture but using web standards?
Surprised that the cotton gloves or particles that might float onto them or be coughed or breathed onto them aren't abrasive.
Thanks mholt!! We're working every day to make something people want,
Reminds me that a design company was pitching the conversion of the London underground into a network of conveyor belts.

5 lanes, 3 speeds, so that the ones closest to the edges were just about walking speed, while the innermost was somewhere close to a jog (or perhaps even a run).
I wish there were some data on that. My guess would be that uber & lyft are crushing the traditional black car services.
Not sure if I agree with this blogpost, but it's not a crazy idea if you extrapolate from economics on Earth: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-....
The Deployment Age
It also applies to things like gravitational potential energy, or velocity. Climb a flight of stairs, and you gain energy. Gaining potential energy really means that you've gained mass, and so you're heavier at the top of the stairs than at the bottom. The amount that you are heavier depends on the amount of energy you gained, converted into mass. Similarly, as you gain velocity, you gain kinetic energy, which also makes you heavier. If you wave your hand in front of your face, your hand's motion causes it to gain mass. Velocity also dilates time, so time passes ever so slightly slower than for the rest of your body.

This typically only matters in a relativistic context, and doesn't impact day to day life. The difference in passage of time can be measured by an atomic clock if you put it on a rocket into space, but is otherwise insignificant. It's unlikely any scale could measure your weight-gain from climbing stairs, since the amount of energy you gain is insignificant when converted into mass. You can compute the mass gain by solving for "m" in the formula E=m*c^2, so m=E/(c^2).

The speed of light c is a really big number, and so to compute the mass you gain, you're dividing the energy by c^2, which is a much bigger number. Thus a gain to kinetic or potential energy does not noticeably affect your mass in day to day situations. Conversely, if you can convert any meaningful part of your mass into energy, then it's an absolutely tremendous amount of energy: atomic weapons.
It was cut for time to market reasons from the first release. Sorry about that.
I haven't tested this, but the package https://github.com/subokita/Robust-Text-Detection apparently implements methods described in the paper "Robust Text Detection in Natural Images with Edge-Enhanced Maximally Stable Extremal Regions." by Chen, Huizhong, et al. (http://web.stanford.edu/~hchen2/papers/ICIP2011_RobustTextDe...), which sounds like it might be the sort of thing you want.

In particular, the figure on the first page of the paper shows detection (not OCR) of a textual logo in a photo.
The screen graphics are actually the thing that bothered me the most about the film. Some of them were fantastic, some of them were ridiculous.

The CALCULATIONS CORRECT was the worst but there was a clear problem with font sizing in general. The fonts were either way too small on all the detail oriented screens or way too large (whenever the moviegoer was supposed to read something). Just look at the huge overhead screen at mission control. The text is too small for almost anyone in the room to read. Same goes with the control panels in the mars surface vehicle. You may say that SpaceX's Dragon 2 control panel[1] is pretty similar except those screens are at least twice as big and the astronaut is seated extremely close to them.

I'm sure the details of the screens are nice and accurate (they seem to have taken quite a bit of pride in that) but they felt like they were trying to make them so technical looking to impress the audience that they became unusable for the astronauts themselves.

The ridiculous, alignment animating photos from Pathfinder annoyed me greatly too but just because it looked so silly and unnecessary (and I'm normally a fan of animations to add a little extra information to a scene).

That all said, I liked the film. It's not the book but it's about as good of adaptation as I could have hoped for.

1. http://i.imgur.com/jwhxhkU.jpg
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