skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit baffling, for someone living outside the US, why any reasonable person would have expected that sick people, of all people, would spend a lot of time comparison shopping.

The appendectomy example really underscores the insanity of the idea -- who in their right mind, when facing a burst appendix, would risk their life by stopping to do some in-depth reading of price lists to find the best deal on continuing to live?

Your only concern at that point should be getting yourself to the nearest emergency ward. It's crazy to think that you're supposed to stop and figure out if Big Al's Discount Appendectomies three towns over is having double-coupon Thursdays.
In SF it amortizes the cost of Ubering every day in about 3 months. I've run the numbers, it's pretty fascinating.
I think the opacity argument is beginning to shift. I was listening to NPR on my drive home the other day and some people have really started working on this very interesting problem.

There are now 3rd party companies that work with insurance companies that will show you the costs that they incur from specific providers. Not only that, but there's an economic incentive for you to skip on going to the highest priced location for drugs or a physician. An example is MRI costs. They differ wildly in costs for the exact same thing. Anywhere from $1K-$10K. There really isn't much difference in either company in terms of quality of service. So what happens is that the insurance company hedges their bet. They'd rather pay you a certain amount of money (say $100) to go to maybe a $2K place instead of the place in Beverly Hills due to their pricing.

So it's changing, but it's taking some time... Either way, it is a brilliant economic mechanism to solve the problem of rising costs in healthcare.
Oh I completely missed that Bibliography link.
I don't really find that especially surprising but I wouldn't necessarily generalize it beyond Manhattan. Manhattan had an imperfect but certainly widely used taxi system--culture even--before Uber came along. The Uber experience may well be preferable to the taxi experience but the difference is probably not such that a lot of people who were driving private cars to avoid cabs now suddenly stop driving. And a lot of people who live in Manhattan don't even own cars in any case.

I would have expected some impact on traditional black car service but that may be such a small slice of the total that it doesn't show up in the numbers.
Doesn't this have some heavy hardware requirements? Three machines with at least 2 GB of RAM? Is that really necessary if I'm going to chat with five people?
More about Qweboo : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-qweboo-works-experience-y...
thanks! the main company website (http://beaconsafety.co) and/or the mapme.io site? For the mapme.io site I'm planning to add a "how-to" modal later.
Or perhaps the web has always been a broken model and in practice it has begun to turn in to a hypertext systems more along the lines of Xanadu!

I see projects like Open Publish and IPFS as piecemeal attempts to build Xanadu-like systems on top of the existing web infrastructure.

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

"The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing." - The Rise of "Worse is Better"

I've always thought that Xanadu was the "right thing" and that the web was "worse-is-better", and that's why the web was successful, but I'm sorry that I put words in your mouth, I was just trying to be agreeable!
Is pair programming your best option?
Article from early 2014, FWIW. Lots of ansible upgrades and HUGE community uptake sense then. Lots of very shiny things coming in 2.0 as well.

Disclaimer: wrote Ansible. My advice is to try everything yourself, and the language and capabilities of the tool is the most important thing to like.

Ansible builds out a different form of orchestration from most, able to describe more arbitrary processes, which at least to me, was very important. For instance, it's very easy for the software to do something very different based on things learned at runtime, rather than the classic Puppet compile-execute model.

Try everything.
I'm the Fred mentioned in the quoted text. As mentioned by
FLGMwt, Mnesia being a 90s database was an offhand remark done at a workshop in a discussion doing a break.

The reasons I considered it a DB of the 90s is that back then, it could have been state of the art, but by today's standards, under its current form, it makes sense to be used mostly on fixed cluster sizes with reliable networks and a fairly stable topology.

Any fancier cases and you start requiring to dive into the internals when it comes to coming back up from failures, partitions, requiring repairs, and so on. The DB has 3 standard backends: all in RAM, all on Disk (with a 2GB limit), or as a log-copy (infinite disk size, but also bound by memory size).

That ends up leaving you with a DB that has a need for its whole dataset to fit in memory, supports distributed transactions but can't deal with network failures well out of the box (you need something like https://github.com/uwiger/unsplit)

Mnesia gaining new backends (Klarna is currently open-sourcing code for an experimental postgres backend and are using a leveldb one) would fix a lot of issues as a single-node DB, but another overhaul would be required for the rest.

The problem I see is that it was a very cool database back then, but it started lagging behind for a long while and now it has to play a catch-up game. Its model and Erlang interface is still extremely nice and I wish it made more sense to use in production without committing to learning its internals in case of troubles.
This is sad to read. People of every race--black, white, whatever--need to make an effort to get to know their neighbors. Simply saying hello to people when you're walking, introducing yourself, pointing out where you live, telling them about your pets, children, where you work or go to school, where you moved from, etc., can make a big difference in a community. I used to live in a very racially diverse apartment complex (more than 50% non-white). I was friendly with everyone and felt like the people I got to know were almost friends. Smiling, waving or saying hello to people forms a small bond that could help these overzealous people realize that if they reach out, they will see that they are over-reacting. By being friendly and getting to know people, we can learn that most people are not threats to us, and we can all be united in watching against the people who really are.
Reasonable assumptions lead us to lots of incorrect conclusions, but I take your point :)
I noticed that too. They couldn't even spell check?
Disagree I've found their chinos to be more form fitting and comfortable than Banana Republic and I dont have 12 extra pounds. The quality has also been better than BR, most of the chinos I had from BR barely lasted a year...buttons falling off and fraying at the seams/pockets vs my bonobos which have lasted longer. Plus bonobos have nice patterns on their pockets it really sets them apart.
> and it’s just a useless trick, that happens to cost a lot of physical resources

Oh? What would those resources otherwise be used for?
Electric Skateboards Legalized in California, Reversing Ban
Just like the movie industry it hasn't occurred to taxi companies to build their own app to make it easy for people to get a ride through their service. With a little forethought the taxi companies could have snuffed out Uber before they picked up steam, but they ran to their paid for government officials and lawyers instead.
3D camera/computer
Link rot is pervasive. A study found more than 70% of the URLs within the Harvard Law Review and other journals, and 50% of the URLs found within United States Supreme Court opinions, do not link to the originally cited information. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329161

A year or two ago I was doing a project about late 1990s gaming and so many of those sites are gone and were around before archive.org was around. And even if they are on archive.org it is often in a broken state. For example, there were all these Real Audio interviews with people like John Carmack and John Romero and they are just gone. (I actually tracked down one of the people that owned the site in question and he said he had them on a computer in storage and wanted to post them some day...)
That might be true, but that doesn't mean it's something that should be patented.
Yeah, remember when Armadillo used to be a cool kid on the block?
Nobody drives; there is too much traffic
Low as a percentage but still significant. According to this (http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-cars) only 23% of Manhattanites own a car. Of course, that's still a lot of cars and also doesn't account for commuters driving into the city.
Many people worship at the altar of the state. To them, since Uber evades some regulation, it must be the work of the devil. It probably involves some filthy lucre as well.
It's an arbitrary physics constant.
Seems interesting.
Powershell is great, if what you're doing is scripting or trying to work with a .NET API. However, it's not so great when you want to work with a non-Windows host or work on cross-platform software. Every modern OS except Windows has a Bash-like shell and environment.

It's also missing the huge ecosystem of *nix command line apps. I couldn't see myself living on a machine with Powershell and nothing else, even though this is something Linux users can easily do.

Cygwin (and Babun) help with both of these.
What would it mean for something to be made of "pure energy" in scientific terms?
Is this a weird meta-joke where you pretend to miss the joke?
23andMe Wins a Second Life, Raises $115M
Rushdie warns of new dangers to free speech in West
Oh cool! I'm glad to hear it. Let me know if there's any way I can make it better for you (although, like I said, it's a thing on the side).
> Some people walk into Jesse Schell’s Game Design class expecting an easy time, and are shocked to find themselves pulling multiple all-nighters for a class where getting a 100% on everything is only enough for a B. But those that persevere find themselves with new worldviews on everything from sleep to applied probability theory, and learn why there’s no such thing as a prototype app.

Well, if they are sleep deprived, at least he's preparing them for the real world.

But I can't help thinking that maybe if the class allows people to only get a B for getting 100% on everything then it is very poorly structured, or catering to the wrong people.

Also, maybe we shouldn't be teaching people that it's okay to expect unreasonable things just because it's what the industry norm is. Maybe if enough people think it's ridiculous to work all night for arbitrary deadlines, things might actually change.
I've been using Powershell for almost all my Windows interactions for the past 4 or 5 years, and there are definitely a few minor things I always end up missing from the UNIX shells. That said its come a long way from the v1 days, and it keeps getting better with every update.
Oh, I see it now. Thanks for the explanation. The way it is showing up appears like it's a comment to the poster of the Ask HN question!
You're right, the mockery was unnecessary. It's just, agh, so frustrating to me, for men to call out gender-related "unfairness," based on just how far the scales are tipped to one side (imo).

"Across the board" and "overall" seem synonymous to me, I did not mean to imply that men have the advantage in literally every conceivable scenario/dimension.

In this situation I would just tend to err on the side of graciousness and over-correction...men have been calling the shots and having their way with nothing to stop them for so long, for most of us it is impossible to empathize with the challenges faced by the other half. Due to this long legacy there is a tangled web of deep-seated factors contributing to why women might not be competitive with men in chess, and why we might look into ways we can attempt to balance for that. I strongly believe that "just toss them in the ring, no special considerations, because lassiez-faire competition is the best and most fair" totally ignores the larger picture of these issues.

So yes, it is not insane to consider both sides, but in this particular instance - of someone claiming "unfairness" to men because women have their own bracket where it may be "easier" to get a cool title (and you see this argument all over sports) - I find it pretty gauche. It's just the same general issue where people of privilege see no problems because they aren't affected by them, and then label attempts to correct them as "unfair", I guess because of the explicit and intentional nature of the initiative? (Contrasted to the "naturally occurring" or "subconscious" unfairness all over, which I guess is acceptable?)

How does it hurt men, hurt competition, for women to have their own prize? For whatever reasons, women aren't competitive with men (in chess, at this point in time), men are the best, everyone knows that as a given, do we really need to rub it in by forcing them to be ranked alongside men? Is that really preserving some concept of integrity of the sport? Is that helping women get better? Or does it just further discourage them? Obviously some people are fine if women are muscled out of playing chess, if they can't hang that's their problem, right? There I go with the mocking, but agh! Have some compassion, understanding, graciousness...
>I just don't get the constant hate they receive.

Everyone is looking out for number one (themselves), so the protected cab industry is going to fight uber tooth and nail. They'd be stupid not to. Any protected industry would do the same. It's on the rest of us to see that for what it is.
My Lessons Learned in SaaS Startups: Hire a VA
Don't forget http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/

Is there anyone else to add to the list? The news we had "recently" on Indian rocket science was not about private endeavours, was it?
Switches fail, too. It does make sense to move as much as they can to software, since it saves weight and cost and you can have one generic human-input device as opposed to a whole wall of switches, buttons, knobs, and indicators.
Why is it impossible to show prices? Medicare and private insurances have defined price lists. They should just be forced to make them public.

A system where one group gets charged too little (is that really true in the case of Medicare? I doubt it) which then forces another group to be ripped off in a hidden way doesn't make sense and hurts the country.
The author takes pickups as a measure of congestion, but as they (sort of) admit much later on in the article, this is a bad measure.

The argument of regulators is that, in the absence of proper congestion pricing for cars on the road, the market equilibrium for number of taxis per inhabitant will be higher than is efficient. That's how they justify a cap on the number of cabs. (It increases wait times but, they argue, it is worth it for the fewer number of cars on the road causing congestion).

So the question isn't "are there more Manhattan pick-ups after Uber entered the market?", it's "are there more cars on Manhattan street?" or "Have average trip times in Manhattan increased?".
These are not edited out mobile device. These are posed shots with empty hands.
I'm involved in a few communities that have slack setups. One of the other nice things that Slack offers is that I only need to have one login to all of them. That's something that none of the self-hosted systems can do right now.
They could do what Qt does and charge for commercial addons. The Qt ones are pretty compelling: in-app purchases, for example.

Plus I imagine that people using the other front ends are doing it for other reasons. C# and Pascal seem like enterprise moves (for the enterprises of >2005 and <2005).
You can price shop if you put a great deal of effort into it.

I got a MRI on my lower back in April.

Going to my insurance provider I was able to get a list of places to get a MRI near me. Since I kind of live in the boonies, everything was 45 to 60 miles away so it was a difficult search of an unfamiliar area.

Anyways, going through this list I called them and made sure they accepted my insurance plan. This is a super small business plan that costs me $1400/mo. On top of this it has a huge deductible.

The magic words are "contracted rate" - call up the office and get the specific code for the procedure that your doctor prescribed. Call up your insurance company and ask them, at this physician, what is the contracted rate for this code? They will put you on hold for 10-30 minutes and come back with a number.

Doing this 4 times I had 3 places that were between $1100 and $1800. That is my out of pocket cost for the procedure. Then I found one place that had a contracted rate of $440. That's a quarter the most expensive place!

There is NO UI or no realistic way to do this. This process took me about 5 hours of work on the phone to complete.

As a bonus, you can ask the physician what the insurer pays them for the procedure. Once you have all of the numbers in front of you it's a bit easier to tell why one place was 25% the cost of another place.

Anyways. Contracted rate and medical procedure codes. Those are the things you need.
This is pretty standard terminology for marketshare. "Apple takes smartphone market share from Android thanks to strong iPhone sales" [1] and similar. The idea is that the marketshare was one place, and another company was able to grab it. Maybe through a better product, maybe through cheaper pricing, maybe through a big ad campaign, maybe through mismanagement at the first company, maybe through changes in trends and styles, lots of possible reasons. Whether they "earned" it or not in some moral sense isn't usually particularly decidable or relevant.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/apple-takes-smartphone-market-s...
An alternate alternate solution would be to install elevators more friendly to cyclists. I imagine they would have to be larger in floor area, with wider doors, both front and back, and have different floor request controls.

I see the appeal of biking up to your own front door without getting off, but ramps may be the worst possible way to do it.

In the use case where you are carrying heavy items in panniers on your bike, you need some way to get those items from the garage to the apartment. Why not use the bike itself? And if you can put your bike in your apartment, you don't need the garage.
Designing for People Who Have Better Things to Do with Their Lives
cmder using git bash is what I use and it's almost perfect. the only thing missing is multi-pane inputs. for that I use MobaXTerm.
Quite a lot, actually. Certainly relative to almost all other areas of the country the rate of car ownership is low, but the streets are so packed with parked cars that many vehicle owners are willing to pay for private storage with monthly rental rates that are typically between $450 and $600.

My impression, though, is that most car owners are not using their cars for intra-Manhattan travel, which is what Uber is doing a lot of. Rather they're using their cars to travel to NJ, upstate NY, Long Island, or other areas where taking an Uber isn't practical.
Willy might not agree, and this isn't really a criticism, but I think 1.5 simply got out of hand — he did a lot of (much-needed) architectural cleanup that took a long time to complete, but along the way a lot of new features (and subsequent bug fixes) got piled onto the same branch and intermingled with the cleanup work.

It's one of those "take apart your airplane and put it back together again" projects that one generally shouldn't do, though sometimes there is no way around it. If you need to rearrange the whole internal architecture of your engine, you should it do it quickly and not mix it with new work.
I use Slack's 'Posts' feature which is a full Markdown post that you can embed in a chat in Slack.

The reasons I use these are:
1. Rich content, organized & clean lists with outbound links for status updates about things I'm working on, linking to Asana/Github
2. Notes from one on ones, or general progress updates that I keep in a private channel and save basically as a stream-of-consciousness/reality log, having them there makes them readily accessible in product and having them in Markdown makes them very readable when I'm browsing through.

In short, I treat Slack rooms almost like I would treat a folder in Dropbox, they just happen to also include some chat between people :P
and dont forget git bash inside intellij
Sending email alerts probably take very little code. Receiving mail is where the complexity is.
Ultra-high vacuum is way harder to maintain than simply keeping it in nitrogen.
H&M/Zara have horrible quality compared to Bonobos/Banana Republic. I've bought clothes that barely lasted after one wash similar to the woman's clothes from Forever 21.

Bonobos has better quality, slightly slimmer and more modern fit than Banana Republic. The quality has also been better as far as chinos goes. Also I like Bonobos' attention to detail, the pockets have nice patterns and better buttons. They also fit better in the right places and seem more movable.

As far as their shirts are concerned I can find more flashy or newer type designs/patterns that are still office friendly. Plus most of the button down shirts dont have that huge blousey look at the bottom when I tuck them in. For my body its hard to find shirts with broad shoulders but a small waist.
I guess I just live in a less racist neighborhood. I've experienced none of these problems and Nextdoor is very useful for myself and my neighbors. Blame the idiots living in the neighborhoods posting these comments, not Nextdoor.
Agree, but at the same time switching to another chat app for private messaging would be difficult . With this I can still stay on whatsapp and send encrypted messages rather than switching to another app..I guess we need to just copy the text by long pressing
Right, but using that in a human/computer interface was not possible/intuitive until capacitive touch screen was available, and even then it was a stroke of genius to "port" real life object interaction into the software realm.

They didn't patent the gesture, the patented its usage in the human/software interface context.
The comparison is R to Python+pandas.

The equivalent comparison should be R+dplyr to Python+pandas.

Base R is quite verbose and convoluted compared to using dplyr. Likewise data analysis in Python is painful compared to using pandas.
Wow, I didn't realize there still was a taxi industry in Manhattan. Thought Uber had taken over.

I guess its actually slightly harder in an area like that to compete with cabs because there are lots of cabs and you can just wave one over. Although the app is pretty easy to use.

Do the taxi companies have an app now like Uber and are they competitive in pricing and pickup times?
Which is the fair comparison.
Somebody please create this.
I am looking for a company that can allow me to create my own sample orders of dog food. You show me a page of 100 dog foods. Allow me to sort/filter by price, brand, various other criteria. I order 10 sample-sized portions. They arrive at my door and I give them to my dog. I try out the 10 over the next week or so and then I am able to record which ones he liked. I can repeat until I've found the perfect dog food.

Dog food is expensive and buying a big bag (or even a medium sized bag) of food that my dogs won't eat is doggone awful!
How to get the most out of a tech conference
2. You go to an ED and they treat you but an UCC would've been enough. You made a mistake and pay more than you should.

In this case ED will often send the patient to their affiliated UCC located nearby.