skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number 4 results in free rides if they tell you after the fact. It's law in Chicago that they must accept credit cards.
There's an important insight in there that I think a lot of people miss. It reminds me of the old, probably apocryphal, story about the maintenance guy who comes out to visit some machine that's malfunctioning, hears about what's wrong, then goes and hits it with a hammer, causing it to start working again. The business owner complains about the bill, since anyone can hit something with a hammer, so the technician creates an itemized receipt, wherein "knowing the right spot to hit" is the majority of the cost.

So much of anything is knowing the right thing to build and the right way to build it. Everything else tends to be much easier problems to solve. The same thing is true in rocketry. And that's what's so exciting about these startups, they're not just trying to fill the shoes of past generations, they're innovating, they're doing research. They're developing the knowledge base and experience base that will serve as the foundation of a tremendous amount of future work. Once you've developed the fundamental technology components and figured out an optimum vehicle design then you just have scaling up and iterating (as SpaceX has done, for example), which is a lot more straightforward.
See https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ for index stats, error reports, etc.
I link to this far too often, but it's relevant to so many discussions had on this site.

The Great On-Line Equalizer
Date: 21 Mar 1996
https://subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles2/X0095_The_Great_On-Line_Eq.html

Relevant quote:
"""
All the people who are invisible in the normal world (the world
run by the rich and powerful), all those people you can dismiss
on the street as powerless and harmless -- ALL THOSE PEOPLE are
now in your face.

You can feel their hot breath on the Internet.
"""

It seems the more we become intertwined with the Internet, the more we start feeling their hot breath in real life. Or at least, the more we notice it.
I like their shirts a lot (much better fit than J-Crew and Banana, much higher quality than H&M), but it's still difficult to justify a $100 shirt from Bonobos when I can get a very similar shirt from Uniqlo for $30.

The pants I can understand, though as someone who primarily wears slim/skinny jeans, I'm not their pants demographic. I'd imagine that there is a large market for properly-fitted pants though, as most stuff from Banana Republic and Jcrew are billowing and terrible.

But overall, I find it hard for frequently-worn shirts and pants to last more than a couple years anyway, between wear+tear and style changes. Paying 200% more for a product that is only slightly nicer (but not 'you will own this for years to come' quality, such as a nice boot) and difficult to buy/return is a hard sell. If someone truly has the money to blow, it's better off going to smaller designer ultra-high-quality (or fashionable) brands.
Perhaps adding a note to that effect on the submissions page would help.
How are you supposed to know how long it has been since the green man appeared? Presumably if it turned green while you were waiting, you would have started walking immediately. Do you have to wait until the next green man if you arrived at the intersection while the light was green?
I went to school with the author. If you like his writing style, I highly recommend his (long but fascinating) account of trying to ghost write Julian Assange's autobiography. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting
After Growing to 50 People, We’re Ditching the Office Completely
No, they don't see that until they accept the hail.
You obviously arent aware of how the Uber app works. If a driver receives only 1 or 2 severely low ratings, they are contacted by their managing office. After warnings they will eventually be fired.

Uber adds a level of accountability that NYC cabs do not have.
I have 30 years in IT, my friend who is a sysadmin also tried to get Docker running on my server. He gave up too.
In my interviews with Uber drivers the only ones that really complain about the company are former taxi drivers.
It's Too Late to Save Over 400 U.S. Cities from Rising Seas, Scientists Say
Sad, I wonder why the neighbors don't know each other better. We found that organizing block parties was a wonderful way to meet people who have moved in and share with them experiences and stories. Our neighborhood has gone from probably 95% white to now 30% Indian, 40% Chinese, and some Russian and probably the rest typical western european decended whites. Through out that as people move out and people move in we try to make people feel welcome and they really do appreciate it.
The Xbox One Is Garbage and the Future Is Bullshit
That was my first reaction as well. "We've engineered a competitive advantage so why don't you throw out that hard work the helps our competitors."

I'm not sure where I sit on this, developers who want to be noticed by other engines will continue to focus on SEO, but how many engineers care about SEO that isn't Google?
If I understand you correctly, you suggest to have shared dictionary and use Paxos/Raft to order its updates. This approach has limitation - see "There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments" paper for details.

I suggest to have dictionary of Paxos/Raft which orders updates only to its element and to use transactions to do multi-object updates.
I think this is a good read when combined with the Gladwell article from the New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-v...).

I'm not against gun control efforts or better mental health efforts (whatever that might mean) but I think that both articles suggest that a lot of progress can be made in figuring out how to arrest this kind of societal disconnect.

In the days after Columbine, there was a huge reaction from people who wanted to paint with a really broad brush, along the lines of random kids being potential suspects just because they liked wearing trench coats. John Katz had a project called "Voices From The Hellmouth" over at Slashdot, that invited people that had similar difficulties to write in and share their thoughts and experiences of being bullied or ostracized. I'm convinced that efforts like that can save lives.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from-...
In 'The Illusionist', the magician Eisenheim did a similar trick to Crown Prince Leopold, except it was King Arthur's sword in the stone.
I'm not sure how much that applies here. Killers with manifestos have always existed, it has little to do with the internet. They were always in people's faces because, well, they killed people and left manifestos.

Where the internet does come into its own is allowing these disturbed people to find other like-minded (like-disturbed?) people, and feed off each other's misery, perhaps making them more likely to kill.
They did, in 2007. Things might have changed by now.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Yeah, as I understand it the Unabomber was politically motivated terrorism. He also had the distinction of being a pretty smart guy, which is unusual for the demographic that gets into mass murder.
thumbor has a similar feature built in.
> what power they have is not just unearned but waning

That's the interesting thing, though, isn't it? Leaving aside questions of "earned," is their power waning? Does it console Veronika Weiss or Katherine Cooper that we might have a woman as POTUS? I know no one is crusading for it but I will: when will we see equality in mass shootings? To put it in less obviously straw-man terms: why should women have to live in fear when men don't?

My point is: the exceptionalism is apparently justified, because when it couldn't be, they went out and justified it. Got any breathless expose's about your troubled writings?
Why would you ignore the tip? Points one and three are valid, and you should always hop in before you direct, but ignoring the tip on what is essentially a luxury good (metro is $2.75 a ride and you can transfer as many times as you need to get where you need to go) is quite rude when it's expected and part of the culture.

If you can't afford to tip your taxi driver, take the train. Sorry.
It is not nearly as bad though. Carly is famous for their problems for example.
> I'm a 6'3" American, not a 5'8" Italian.

If you're not average height and fat it's hard to find off the rack clothing that fits.
That was my conclusion too, going to try this out when I get home
> How does it hurt men, hurt competition, for women to have their own prize?

This has already been answered and I'd like to hear your rebuttal.

It hurts men and competition by devaluing the prizes. To quote jstanley again:

"She's no better than me, but she is a WGM and I am nothing".

Do you see how this hurts competition directly? Like it or not people compete for the recognition which is embodied by the prize. If the prize can now be given out without full attainment of the skill being tested for, then it loses its meaning and its signaling value.

> For whatever reasons, women aren't competitive with men (in chess, at this point in time)

I'd also be curious to hear from you why you think the reasons for this are "whatever reasons" - I'm presuming by that you mean, that the reasons are inconsequential or they don't matter or they are not important. Why do you believe that to be the case, without first knowing what the reasons actually are?

EDIT: all players have their own ELO score but they are still competing for the prize, which is the embodiment of the attainment of certain skills. If women can win this prize without attaining the same skills then this is devaluing the prize. Please address this directly, if you will. Again, to make this clear, players compete for the prize, not for the ELO score. If players did not compete for the prize, there would not be a prize.
Nextdoor appears to facilitate neuroses in isolation, which was not the case with public meetings.
When you learn something from your company on HN there's something to be said about your internal communication or lack thereof ;-)

I'm not going to throw you the first stone, I have to read the local newspaper if I want to know what's going on at my (very small) company.
Russian email provider mail.ru is not checking SPF records in their SPAM filters
This was obvious. The whole point of high deductible plans and PPOs is to push costs onto patients who then don't choose care unless it is absolutely necessary. Preventative care suddenly becomes $400 a visit instead of $40.
It makes sense for a lot of restaraunts and stores to use something like this as a shared delivery service.
It will activate if you hold down the home button, something that can easily happen accidentally when your phone is in your pocket or otherwise squashed against something.

Mine activated the other day in that manner and my three year old looked around wildly, then said "Was that the robot lady?!"
Awesome. And they can cancel after accepting, but only so many times I think? So that helps a bit!
In theory, I think it's supposed to keep the taxis from driving by. First come, first served. And/or to reduce competition with the blue and green cabs (providing them with an incentive to exist). NYC is something of a regulatory disaster.

You can, for $2, use Uber to hail a green cab outside of Manhattan.
Are you advocating more spending on mental healthcare and less spending on prisons? If so I agree, but that isn't explicit in your comment.

These people committing these acts don't usually end up in prison, anyway.
Brits are also less shocked by "fag" because of its use to mean "cigarette." In college I had a French teacher who scandalized her American class by casually dropping the word into conversation. Turns out she had learned English in England, and was unaware of the American usage.
I think some of it is Rstudio the ide, which shows variables in memory on the side bar, you can click to see them

This.
Most programming IDEs show the code but hide the data.
Excel shows the data but hides the code.
RStudio is awesome because it shows both the code and the data.
I heard it too, and also found it interesting. For the curious, its Planet Money[0], Episode #655: Pay Patients, Save Money

[0] http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money
Happens to me quite often if I accidentally have something in my pocket which presses down the Home button of the iPhone for a few seconds.
Health insurance in America is actually about managing cash flow rather than managing an insurance policy. After extensive research and data investigations, you'll discover that the actuaries at insurance companies are fantastic at what they do: you'll usually end up spending the same amount out-of-pocket in a year no matter the plan--the question is just would you rather spend more at the beginning of the year on lower premium plans, or spread out costs evenly throughout the year on higher premium plans.

A few associates and I are working on a (very very alpha) tool for plotting out actual expenditures for all plans for which you qualify, giving you a report of where you'll spend the least based on your expected health events. The tool saved me over $4,000 this year by guiding me towards a better health plan than what I had originally picked out when I switched to self employment.

If interested, check out http://lucentary.com/ (but please keep in mind we're still fleshing out an MVP!).
I have to agree. I love the fact that it's easier to rate drivers and I'm always judicious in rating drivers. I always give drivers 5 ratings if they don't have issues.

There are complainers out there but from feedback I've gotten after commenting on a driver once I suspect Ube at least attempts to handle those kinds of situations.
How 80 Days Adapted the Modernist Spirit of Verne
Re #4: really? How long do drivers with <4 stars last on the platform? (If [1] is correct, they don't last at all, because they get booted below 4.5).

All else equal (and many say all else isn't equal here of course, though that argument cuts both ways), a system with SOME accountability is better than a system with none.

[1] http://uber-partners-static.s3.amazonaws.com/chicago_uberx/f...
Piracy and new content creation: a Bollywood story (2014)
>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) to set a cap on the number of its for-hire cars operating in the city.

They should stop trying to take aim at Uber and use the opportunity to learn from them. They should study why Uber is so successful and what they - the taxi company can do to compete. It is the only way they stand a chance.
Lawyers, accountants, and mechanics all have to provide estimates to a client precisely for this reason. I see no reason why medical practitioners should be any different.

As an anecdote, I have found that price comparisons are perfectly feasible in a non-emergency situation. My son broke his arm, and instead of just driving to the nearest emergency room, I called around to a handful of urgent-care clinics and found one that was able to quote me some prices that were reasonable, so we went there to get him treated. Easy.

In any case, I think the ACA is a train wreck, piling on more of the crap that makes our system suck: the disconnect between consumer and producer. If we ever want to make our healthcare market sane, we will have to largely cut out the middleman ("insurance"), and the only way to do that is have patients pay for their own care (particularly routine care).
Honestly, I just use conemu with bash (installed with gitextensions/msysgit) in windows... except for the /c/... drive starting the path, it's really decent... the paths are a little different bit it pretty much works the same everywhere I need it. I prefix ~/bin/ to my path and setup whatever I need in there.
So the yellow cab cabbies I see running Lyft + Uber while being horrible drivers must be the exception, right?

I feel like cabbie turnover is so high, if 1000 join Uber.. 200 get canned so switch to Lyft... 200 more cabbies will just join Uber the next month.

A rating system is good over the long term, but if people have an average life in a market of a few months - it doesn't do a bunch.
Sure, it's a first world problem. I guess you can either emphasize "first world", or "problem." As a resident or denizen of the first world, I'm interested in first world problems.
They raised just North of a billion dollars [0] in September, the 2nd Ave Subway is expected to cost $4.5b [1] for 1.5m of track, three new stops, and a new entrance at an old stop. So yea, you can be sure as shit they're not building their own tunnels. At least not here.

[0] - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
[1] - http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/31/news/economy/nyc-subway-cons...
> the test cases look just as good as I could do

I think you can do better than it did on these:

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/6534443...

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/6530952...

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/6544323...

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/2815597...

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/6484351...

http://29a.ch/sandbox/2014/smartcrop/examples/images/6476531...
Thank you for response, maybe I'll return and update it someday.

Yet the idea is very simple. Instead of putting say dictionary behind Paxos/Raft and coordinate update to this state, it makes sense to have dictionary of different Paxos/Raft instances and to use transaction to coordinate multi-updates.
Uber launches Uber Rush, merchant delivery service, in three cities
Wondered why MySQL was dying on me with 4.2.0.. Good to see they got to it quickly.
That doesnt address it. See also:

> Precise data on congestion is hard to come by — that was part of the fight — but we were able to estimate that Uber vehicles contribute to about 10 percent of traffic in Manhattan, south of Central Park, during the evening rush hour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/upshot/blame-uber-for-cong...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379904
UBS Overcharged Itself for Some Derivatives
And as a side note, for my family I actually love high deductible plans when I can get the deductible around the same dollar figure as my max HSA contribution. Once I can hit the deductible for an individual, free healthcare!

I never hit it, because I have very few health needs. But add a pregnancy and delivery into the mix and you're set. It's the opposite effect of what the theory in the article supposed, but just one data point.
Parsing is definitely not a few ms. Maybe using Apache and parsing an XML message with a bad XML library it is a few ms... grabbing a message off a Solar Flare card with some good code is a few micros. if you are in hardware on your NIC you can be even faster.

Time from message sent to seeing back on marketdata feed can be a few ms, or it can be faster. Depends on exchange and traffic. Few ms didn't use to be totally uncommon on CME, but it may be closer to 1ms in the 95th percentile these days, for sure.
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128M for the same service my local tailor provides me. I'd give money to my local tailor in a heartbeat before this company.
I agree 100% and would just add this as another way of saying what you just said: the healthcare industry _is_ a market, it's just that patients aren't the customers, we're a product that the insurance company sells to medical providers (much like google offers us "free" email and then sells us to advertisers).
Antineutrino technology could change the game for nuclear verification
How One of America's Most Overweight Cities Lost a Million Pounds
I don't know that I would go head-to-head with Google in crawling the entire web. However, I do see a lot of opportunities for "vertical search." That is -- search engines focused on specific, niche verticals (travel, healthcare, etc)

I'm working on a couple of projects in vertical search, and it is quite exciting. Sure, I'm building tech that Google had in 2005, but we are surprised with the results. We achieve search relevance simply by curating the sites we crawl (still in the thousands in some cases).
The approach I've taken to this dilemma is to work directly with the scientists to understand the quantities they are trying to compute rather than attempt to port the code itself (yes, I actively choose refactoring over porting).

Once the underlying algorithm has been deconstructed, one then reconstructs it parallelized in CUDA/OpenCL/whatever. In my experience, the implementation language and APIs can easily lead one to a suboptimal realization of algorithms.

Once done, the original python code can serve as a reference implementation for conformance and unit testing. Of course, if you have 1M+ lines of legacy code, this probably won't work. But in my experience so far, the core algorithms have been less than 50K lines of code, and usually less than 10K.

IMO sometimes one has to stand one's engineering ground to persuade them to make the right decision. And bonus, one ends up a ground floor domain expert at the end.

Finally, I turned down a very prestigious project 4+ years ago because they wouldn't let me take the above approach. They opted instead to do it entirely with compiler directives. That project still hasn't officially shipped. It has, however, driven a significant amount of improvement in said compiler directives.
App Store review can only do minimum security level check in reality. And actually there's not much they can do either. Let me give you 3 examples:

1) Hybrid apps that most contents are actually webpage, such as the tripadvisor app and at&t app at some point (not sure if it's still hybrid today)

2) Games. You can load new code as static files or contents, then the app parse and execute the code as a new update. This is quite common in mobile games. As games require frequent update like once or more per week, it's really an unwanted workaround to fulfill the update frequency requirement.

3) Do you remember/know the case recently that some hacker released a "poisoned" version of xcode and apps written by that xcode "automatically" contains code sending user info to that hacker?
The tests highlight the fact that face detection might be an important parameter to add to the overall weight. Test photos where people had noisy shirts ended up getting cropped badly.
The Art of the Propagator
This decision makes sense. I'm assuming that they're going with the platform native notification APIs now.

With the release of Windows 10, all three platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux) now have a native notification center that supports persistent notifications that were missed or haven't been dismissed.

The Chrome's notification center was always out of place for Linux and Mac users since there was already a fully featured native notification center that wasn't being used.
From your first paragraph:

>‘I have noticed,’ it says, ‘that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.’

So, PLEAE can you stop fucking mentioning these assholes names? For the the love of God you are perpetuating the problem.
I don't have any data to back it up, but my theory is that Nextdoor allows bad behavior because people have been trained by millions of comment sections that confrontation on the internet is fruitless.

That's a misguided instinct when the people you are talking to live two doors down. Get a handful of people who see them everyday to say, "knock it off", and they usually will.
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Town hall meetings, being somewhat limited in duration, do a better job of filtering out the peeve of the minute nonsense. Half the time the problem will resolve itself before the meeting.