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This Weekend: Charity Marathons

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By Schad Dalton

Events: The winter rains have subsided, the holidays are a distant speck in the rearview mirror and it's now the time of year when events around the city become more prevalent. This weekend is a prime example as multiple events are scheduled, including the return of bonfire season at Ocean Beach from March 1 to October 31. Head to Union Square on Saturday for a free pick-your-own tulips event during American Tulip Day. On Sunday, the Hot Air Music Festival celebrates its 11th year with a celebration of contemporary music at the San Francisco  For those looking to support a good cause as well as dive into the frigid waters of the Bay, head up to Aquatic Park for the 2020 Dash and Splash. On Sunday, the 42nd annual Chinese New Year YMCA Run will take place, benefiting the Chinatown YMCA Community Center. Be sure to check out all of the city's free monthly museum days, too, as each weekend presents new opportunities to visit one (or more!) of San Francisco's many museums for free. Read more about our featured events below.

The Chinatown YMCA on Sacramento Street on December 21, 2012. Photo credit: Don Barrett/Flickr.

2020 Dash and Splash

Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Aquatic Park

Spring may be soon upon us, but that doesn't mean the water around the city has gotten much warmer. This fact comes in handy for this Saturday's Dash and Splash, a 5K/10K race and polar plunge for charity. If that weren't already enough to set this event apart, participants are encouraged to don the wackiest costumes they can find or create while taking part in the plunge and the race. Proceeds and donations will support upwards of 24,000 Special Olympics athletes in year-round training, education and leadership programs.

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How to Get There on Muni: Participants, costumes and all, may take the F Market and Wharves Line, as well as the 19 Polk, 28 19th Avenue, 30 Stockton, 47 Van Ness, or the 49 Van Ness/Mission routes to the area of the event in Aquatic Park.

Muni Service Notes: There are no planned service changes for this event. 

Chinese New Year YMCA Run

Sunday, 8 to 9:30 a.m.
Chinatown

Now in its 42nd year, the Chinese New Year 5K/10K Run benefits the Chinatown YMCA Community Center, which serves more than a thousand youth and families of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Beginning at Sacramento and Grant streets, the race will take runners, joggers, and walkers along a scenic route through Chinatown, into North Beach, out along The Embarcadero, and then back into Chinatown to the finish line on Kearny Street between California and Sacramento streets.

How to Get There on Muni: Take the 1 California, 8 Bayshore, 10 Townsend, 12 Folsom/Pacific, 30 Stockton, 39 Coit, and 45 Union/Stockton routes as well as the California Cable Car Line to near the starting line at Grant and Sacramento avenues.

Muni Service Notes: The 10 Townsend and 12 Folsom/Pacific routes will have re-routes. The 1 California, 8 Bayshore, 30 Stockton, 39 Coit, 45 Union/Stockton routes and the California Cable Car Line may see minor delays near the race course.

Remember that you can take Muni for the entire day for a single $5 fare. The new $5 Day Pass, available on MuniMobile®, is part of Muni’s recent fare changes. The pass is intended to encourage a safe, convenient way to pay your fare and quickly board Muni vehicles, which reduces overall travel time for everyone. The $5 Day Pass is Muni bus, rail and historic streetcars only.

“On Tap” gives you a heads up about the big events in town and what Muni routes and lines will get you to the party. Look for this feature to be posted usually on Thursdays for a look ahead to the weekend. Check out our Weekend Traffic & Transit Advisory for more details.

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Muni's Unsung Heroes of Black History

Muni's Unsung Heroes of Black History
By Jeremy Menzies

Black History Month is a great opportunity to tell big important stories, but also to highlight the smaller, less noted stories of everyday people. This week, we're looking back through Muni history at a few people whose day-to-day achievements may not have made headlines but whose contributions nonetheless made a difference to breaking down racial barriers in San Francisco's transit industry.

In September 1950, Muni started the "Courtesy Citation" program to honor the hard work of Muni operators. Operators who received commendations from the public would be recognized in the railway's newsletter and entered into the running for "Muni Man of the Month", an award that brought greater recognition in the form of a $50 check and a special card featuring the winner's photo inside Muni vehicles.

Lilburn Delaney, conductor on the H Potrero streetcar, leans out the back platform of a car in this 1948 photo.

Right away, nominations came in for many black Municipal Railway transit operators who were recognized by riders for their excellent public service. Lilburn Delaney became the first African-American man to be given the honor of "Muni Man" in February 1951. Delaney started at Muni in September 1945 as a conductor on the H Potrero streetcar line and at the time of his award, was a trolley coach operator on the 5 McAllister.

Reginald Simpkins poses for a portrait at the Muni Photo Lab in this 1951 shot. Winners of the Muni Man award like Simpkins were honored with a $50 check and advertisements featuring their photo inside Muni vehicles.

Several months after Delaney, Reginald H. Simpkins was honored as top operator in September of that year. Simpkins, a driver on the 43 Roosevelt bus route, had no shortage of praise from riders on his bus. One letter noted how Simpkins "never loses his dignity or efficiency..." even during busy and stressful rush hour runs and "his sense of humor is so outstanding that it is a real pleasure to ride on his bus."

Beverly Hopkins (Right) and Helen Carson make repairs to a bus at Woods Division.

In June 1978, Beverly Hopkins became one of the first black women to join the maintenance crew at Woods Division. By the time of Beverly’s hiring in the late 1970s, the Muni staff newsletter says the eight newly hired women comprised the “largest number of female automotive service persons ever to work for Muni shops. The need was there and they were qualified.”

Evelyn Wells, Muni's first female Inspector poses while at work in the field in this 1979 shot.

Evelyn J. Wells holds the honor of being the first African American woman to be appointed as a Muni inspector (badge #54). As an inspector, she was responsible for supervising service, helping investigate accidents, and clearing up delays on bus and rail lines. Working previously as an N Judah operator, Wells began as an inspector in May 1979 at age 28.

These brief highlights barely begin to tell the full story of the contributions or struggles of people of color in San Francisco's public transit history. While much focus goes to major figures and big breakthroughs in history, the day in day out work of these "unsung heroes" went a long way to break down racial barriers within the industry.

Published February 27, 2020 at 03:02PM
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Unlike most DNA tests, ours is physician-ordered, sequenced in a CLIA-accredited and CAP-certified lab, the results are signed out by a licensed clinical lab director, all users have access to genetic counseling, and we try to incorporate as much phenotypic data as possible into the analysis. Our product is a whole-exome sequencing test with 100x coverage and covers all of the more than 20,000 genes, where 85% of known disease-causing variants occur. People always ask, how are you different from 23andme? Looking for a rare genetic condition is kind of like trying to find a typo in a novel. Using a 23andme (or similar) test to look for such a condition is like trying to find a typo in the first Harry Potter novel and stopping after 75 words. Those tests are just not meant for this purpose. Most are based on genotyping arrays that look for very specific variants at predetermined locations in the genome. However, the variants that cause rare diseases can occur anywhere. 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Results Are In – How Should We Explore Extending The Central Subway?
By Phillip Pierce

The Central Subway is set to open in summer 2021 and will connect some of the city’s densest neighborhoods and job centers. It is expected to carry tens of thousands of riders everyday from Chinatown, through Union Square and SoMa before linking up with the current above-ground T Third line near the 4th/King Caltrain Station and on to Mission Bay, the Bayview, and Visitacion Valley.

While this new line will be vital for San Francisco’s growing population and workforce, we know that now is the time to continue planning for the future. 

In order to better understand the needs and goals of the community, we held open house meetings and developed an online survey to gauge interest and explore potential ways to extend the Central Subway. This online survey built on the prior 2015 feasibility study results and previous community meetings on the topic.

This interactive survey was given in English, Spanish and Chinese, and allowed users to drop markers in places where they thought subway stations should be analyzed. We were thrilled that the combination of interest in a new subway plus the ease of the survey technology on the web and mobile (thanks MetroQuest!) resulted in over 8,000 responses – a record for the SFMTA!

In general, the results showed that most people favored extending the subway to North Beach. It also showed clusters of interest in new connections near Fisherman’s Wharf, at the soon-to-be-complete Van Ness BRT and in the Marina neighborhood.

Results

After analyzing all 8,137 paper and online responses, which generated over 148,000 data points and 13,000 comments, we compiled the below graphics to summarize the results:

How do you currently get around San Francisco?

Typical travel choices of those that took the survey. Half of respondents regularly take Muni or walk. Most of those that take Muni do so 4 times per week or more.

Which transportation goals would you like to see prioritized?

Transit related goals were ranked as the three highest.

Would an extension of the Central Subway help meet your transportation goals?

When asked if an extension of would help people meet their transportation needs, 79% either agreed or strongly agreed.

Should Central Subway be extended to North Beach using existing tunnels, with a new station near Washington Square?

A large majority of people expressed a desire for a station in North Beach.

If the train extended from North Beach to Fisherman’s Wharf, would you prefer surface or underground?

Most survey-takers indicated a preference for underground transit.

If the train extended from Fisherman’s Wharf towards Marina/Cow Hollow, would you prefer surface or underground?

As with the previous question, most respondents preferred any extension to Marina/Cow Hollow be underground.

Where would you like to see new subway stations?

When compiling all the suggested station locations, clusters started to emerge, as shown in the above map.

Where do you live?

We received responses from all over the city with a high percentage people weighing in from inside the study area (blue box).

Where do you live?

Zoomed in “home” view near the study area: Orange and red areas denote higher concentrations of responses.

Where do you work?

Orange and red areas denote higher concentrations of responses.

Next Steps

After compiling and further analyzing this feedback, we will begin looking at some potential extension routes from an engineering standpoint to better understand the potential trade-offs and benefits. We will reach out again to share them with the community for additional input. Our goal will be to narrow the options to two or three for further planning, environmental review, and design, contingent on identification of funding.

More Information

For more information, visit the Central Subway Extension project page where you can sign up for email updates.

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Reminder: Service Changes Now in Effect

Reminder: Service Changes Now in Effect
By Enrique Aguilar

This past Saturday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) made several changes to improve Muni service. These changes will improve reliability and connections, reduce crowding and provide one-seat rides for weekend early morning Metro service with bus substitutions. Affected routes include the J, KT, L, M and N Metro lines, 7 Haight-Noriega, 23 Monterey, 1AX, 1BX, 31AX, 31BX, 38AX, and 38BX.

Weekend Early Morning Metro Bus Service

To reduce the need for transfers during early weekend morning service, all metro lines will be served by bus after the end of Owl service and before Metro stations open. Metro stations open at 6 a.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. on Sundays. The new early morning metro bus will be a one-seat ride to your destination.

To reduce overcrowding and increase transit reliability on weekdays, the 7 Haight/Noriega will begin running 60-foot buses.  Adding bigger buses to weekday service will provide Muni customers more seats and comfort during morning and evening commutes.

23 Monterey Reroute

Due to construction at SFPUC’s Southeast Treatment Plant, the 23 Monterey will be rerouted from Jerrold to Palou between Toland and Phelps. New bus stops will align with the 24 Divisadero.

Richmond Expresses

The last runs of the day for Muni’s evening Richmond Express service will change, which includes the 1AX, 1BX, 31AX, 31BX, 38AX, and 38BX. Customers are advised to check schedules and note alternate routes. For customers traveling outbound at 7:00 p.m., alternate routes include the 1 California on Davis and Sacramento streets or the 38 Rapid at Fremont and Market streets.

Please pay attention to Muni Alert signs for instructions or look for Muni ambassadors near the affected bus route stops to answer your questions.

12 Folsom/Pacific Extension in Spring 2020

As Muni prepares to update the 12 Folsom/Pacific route to travel through Rincon Hill, we've been keeping a close eye on construction on Folsom Street. Although the Transbay Folsom Streetscape Improvement Project is making progress, conditions on Folsom east of 2nd Street are not yet ready to serve the 7,000 daily customers who ride the 12 Folsom/Pacific. If construction proceeds at the current pace, we anticipate launching the new route in Spring 2020

To learn more, please visit the project page.

Published February 24, 2020 at 03:12PM
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Director of Transportation Report: February 18, 2020

Director of Transportation Report: February 18, 2020
By

In this week’s Director’s Report from the SFMTA Board of Directors meeting, Jeffrey Tumlin gave updates on the following topics:

Washington, DC Visit

• House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on “Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Automotive Technologies” held last week in Washington, D.C.
• Testified, providing city perspective on what we believe federal AV legislation should include ensuring safety and accountability.
• Urged the Committee members NOT to preempt state and local authority to take measures we think are necessary to protect the public as the technology is tested on public roads during the many years we expect before the federal government adopts AV minimum safety standards.

Muni Service Change

• Starting Saturday (Feb. 22) numerous service changes go into effect to improve reliability, connections and reduce crowding. Affected routes include the Metro lines, 7 Haight-Noriega, 23 Monterey and the 1AX/BX, 31AX/BX and 38AX/BX.
• All metro lines will be served by bus after the end of Owl service and before Metro stations open Saturdays at 6 a.m. and Sundays at 8 a.m., providing customers a one-seat ride to destinations without a transfer.
• The 7 Haight-Noriega will begin running larger 60-foot buses to reduce overcrowding and increase reliability on weekdays.

Black History Month

• To celebrate the two courageous women depicted in the video, the SFMTA’s Black & African American Affinity Group (BAAAG) will be hosting the inaugural event for staff during Black History Month. On hand for the celebration will be Mayor London Breed and Kimberly Erickson, Acting Chief of Staff for Director Toks Omishakin, California Department of Transportation.

Church Station Elevator Upgrades

• Upgrades to the Church Station outbound street elevator will begin the first week of March.
• This will require the elevator to be out of service for about three months while work is being done.
• The station's inbound escalator will be available for customers with disabilities. Wheelchair users traveling outbound will be directed to the elevators at either Castro or Van Ness stations, or to the parallel bus or F Line streetcar service.

Our Board of Directors meeting is usually held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. To watch the meeting in full, go to SFGovTV.

Published February 21, 2020 at 02:52PM
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This Weekend: Russian Festival and Pop Art Show

This Weekend: Russian Festival and Pop Art Show
By Schad Dalton

Service Change Reminder: Starting February 22, 2020, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is making service changes to improve Muni service. These changes will improve reliability and connections, reduce crowding and provide one-seat rides for weekend early morning Metro service with bus substitutions. Affected routes include the J, KT, L, M and N Metro lines, 7 Haight-Noriega, 23 Monterey, 1AX, 1BX, 31AX, 31BX, 38AX, and 38BX. For more details, visit https://www.sfmta.com/servicechanges.

Events: There are a plethora of events, large and small, taking place throughout this coming weekend. Take in a free show by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra at the Herbst Theater on Friday evening, February 21, Take the family out for an education fix on Saturday during the weekly free de Young Museum Day for Bay Area residents or the Cal Academy of Science's Neighborhood Free Days. Be sure to visit the Academy's website to make sure you live in a neighborhood being offered the free visit or to plan ahead for when your neighborhood is on the docket. Those looking to get into the Mardi Gras spirit can head up to North Beach on Saturday for the Mardi Gras Second Line March beginning at North Star Cafe. Throughout the weekend in Pacific Heights the annual Russian Festival will return to celebrate the Russian American experience and, in SoMa, pop culture art fans will have three days to enjoy various works of pop art from some of the world's best-known franchises. Read more about our featured events below.

The 1 California will take riders heading to the Russian Festival with a short walk of the event on Sutter Street. Photo: SFMTA Archive

Russian Festival

Friday-Sunday, Various times
Pacific Heights

Piroshki, borsch, and flavored vodkas, oh my!  Those are just a few of the highlights of the celebration of the Russian American that is the annual Russian Festival. Over the course of three days at the San Francisco Russian Center in Lower Pacific Heights, attendees will be treated to folk song and dance, ballet performances and much more.

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How to Get There on Muni: The 1 California, 2 Sutter/Clement, 3 Jackson, 22 Fillmore, 24 Divisadero, 38 Geary, 38R Geary Rapid and the 43 Masonic routes all have stops within easy walking distance of the event.

Muni Service Notes: There are no planned service changes for this event.

Pop Culture Art Show

Friday-Sunday, Various times
SoMa

Fans of pop culture art or perhaps a fan of such franchises as Harry Potter or Star Wars should set aside some time throughout this weekend to head downtown for the free Pop Culture Art Con at the Palace Hotel. The show will feature nationally-recognized artists and their works showcasing characters and scenes from Disney, Marvel and DC Comics, the aforementioned Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises and much more. 

How to Get There on Muni: Riders may utilize an Muni Metro line to downtown, the F Market and Wharves Line, any Market Street bus route as well as the 8 Bayshore, 10 Townsend, 12 Folsom/Pacific, 14 Mission, 14R Mission Rapid, 25 Treasure Island, 30 Stockton or 45 Union/Stockton routes to near the event.

Muni Service Notes: There are no planned service changes for this event.

Remember that you can take Muni for the entire day for a single $5 fare. The new $5 Day Pass, available on MuniMobile®, is part of Muni’s recent fare changes. The pass is intended to encourage a safe, convenient way to pay your fare and quickly board Muni vehicles, which reduces overall travel time for everyone. The $5 Day Pass is Muni bus, rail and historic streetcars only.

“On Tap” gives you a heads up about the big events in town and what Muni routes and lines will get you to the party. Look for this feature to be posted usually on Thursdays for a look ahead to the weekend. Check out our Weekend Traffic & Transit Advisory for more details.

Published February 20, 2020 at 03:02PM
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Show HN: Gripeless – Capture Complaints https://ift.tt/2HDfCWy

Show HN: Gripeless – Capture Complaints Hey everyone, We all see these amazing ideas being posted on Show HN but let's be real - every product has some gripes that could be improved. The gripes could be things like broken flows, unintuitive UX behaviors, or some interactions being too slow - you name it. Everybody has their favourite products, and each of those products (awesome as they may be) have a couple of small things that could be improved to make them even better. What's interesting, though, due to a variety of reasons we usually don't report those things at all - we might not think the complaint is solicited, we might not think that anything will be fixed after we report the thing, or even just writing and sending a semi-formal letter is too much friction for such a simple task. This is why we've built Gripeless, an all-in-1 solution to make the process as smooth as possible for the user so that they don't have to write emails, don't have to think whether the product-owner is acting on those complaints or even requesting complaints in the first place. Gripeless can be installed onto any website and the provided script is only 20kB gzipped. Both the script and the management dashboard are built with Elm, which turned out to be an amazing choice for making things fast. We're specifically building a product that can capture complaints and efficient access to them, so Gripeless is not a replacement for: - Email support software - like Zendesk or Supportbee - Automated analytics - like Google Analytics or Mixpanel - Error reporting software - like Sentry or Rollbar Complaints, that's what we're all about. There's a lot of existing science behind complaints in the service industry which this product is based on, and we've linked a bunch of it on https://ift.tt/32fjHcJ. Let us know what you think. - Maciej [1] https://ift.tt/2SNZY13 Create your project over at https://ift.tt/32fjHcJ February 20, 2020 at 02:41PM

Launch HN: App Brainstorm – Predesign Prototyping for Drafting Apps https://ift.tt/2SHDaQh

Launch HN: App Brainstorm – Predesign Prototyping for Drafting Apps HN, I'm Eric from App Brainstorm (https://ift.tt/3bWu8Gz). This project got me motivated because when making apps I wanted to: - Figure out the content, try flow alternatives, and edge cases at thinking pace. - Test a prototype I could interact with, and not have to memorize it, the case with graphic mocks. - Understand requirements without reading much. I hope you find it useful, and tell your colleagues about it. From time to time I'll blog about the app drafting subject, examples, reverse drafting, etc. If you have suggestions about those topics in general please let me know too. For private questions or comments, the site email: contact@ February 20, 2020 at 12:22PM

Show HN: Build your own location-aware logistics app in an hour https://ift.tt/2uQZZYR

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Show HN: Data store with change-request mechanic https://ift.tt/2ugjycB

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Show HN: EVILVIL.space – My tiny 2D Zombie Game https://ift.tt/2V6Pnja

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Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics https://ift.tt/2T4oSs3

Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics James, Tim and Aaron here - we are building a self-hosted, open source Mixpanel/Amplitude style product. The repo is at https://ift.tt/39RhNlc and our home page is https://posthog.com/ . After four years of working together, we originally quit our jobs to set up a company focused on tech debt. We didn’t manage to solve that problem, but we learned how important product analytics were in finding users, getting them to try it out, and in understanding which features we needed to focus on to impact users. However, when we installed product analytics, it bothered us how we needed to send our users’ data to 3rd parties. Exporting data from these tools costs $manyK a month, and it felt wrong from a privacy perspective. We designed PostHog to solve these problems. We made PostHog to automatically capture every front-end click, removing the need to add track(‘event’) - it has a toolbar to label important events after they’re captured. That means you’re spending less time fixing your tracking. You can also push events too. You can have API/SQL access to the underlying data, and it has analytics - funnels and event trends with segmentation based on event properties (like UTM tags). That means we’ve got the best parts of the 3rd party analytics providers but are more privacy and developer friendly. We’re thinking of adding features around paths/retention/pushing events to other tools (ie slack/your CRM). We’d love to hear your feature requests. We are platform and language agnostic, with a very simple setup. If you want Python/Ruby/Node, we give you a library. For anything else, there’s an API. The repo has instructions for Heroku (1 click!), Docker or deploy from source. We’ve launched this repo under MIT license so any developer can use the tool. The goal is to not charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for things like multiple users, user permissions, integrations with other databases, providing a hosted version and support. Give it a spin: https://ift.tt/39RhNlc . Let us know what you think! February 20, 2020 at 11:27AM

Show HN: Orbital Index, started on HN, is 1 year old today https://ift.tt/2HEVfbp

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Show HN: A better unicorn IPO leaderboard https://ift.tt/39UpQh5

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Show HN: Ciid – Chronological Image Identifier, Written in Rust https://ift.tt/37CYVoI

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Show HN: Kasaya – A “WYSIWYG” scripting language for browser automation https://ift.tt/2VeocCS

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Show HN: Asciibook – An eBook Generator for AsciiDoc https://ift.tt/2uRiZ9G

Show HN: Asciibook – An eBook Generator for AsciiDoc Asciibook is an e-book generator tool that can convert AsciiDoc to e-books in HTML/PDF/EPUB/MOBI format. GitBook used to be the best open source e-book generator, but they abandoned the project at the end of 2018. E-book authors either continue to use GitBook without maintenance or write their own scripts. So I came up with the idea to write a new eBook generation tool to replace GitBook. Homepage: https://asciibook.org/ GitHub: https://ift.tt/2H9WmzA Features: - Supports generation of HTML/PDF/EPUB/MOBI. - Based on the command line, distributed via docker, works well with CI/CD. - HTML/CSS/JavaScript based theme system. - Support latexmath. For demonstrate, I generated an e-book using the source code of the "Pro Git", please visit https://ift.tt/2VdMjBE. This project has just been released, I will continue to optimize it. Welcome to use and provide feedback. February 20, 2020 at 03:30AM

Show HN: Walling comes to Windows to help you organize your ideas https://ift.tt/3bSoiGn

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Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading https://ift.tt/2HEzSqU

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Safe Streets in the Year of the Rat!

Safe Streets in the Year of the Rat!
By Uyen Ngo

Happy Lunar New Year! Celebrated by many in the Asian community, the Lunar New Year follows the cycles of the moon and the beginning of its calendar year is usually in late January or early February. For many, the beginning of the year brings a fresh mindset and resolutions for a happy and healthy new year.

Each year is represented by one of 12 zodiac animals who are associated with certain characteristics. 2020 is the Year of the Rat, the rat is considered a clever and resourceful character. Safe Streets in the Year of the Rat launched last week and is an educational traffic safety campaign reinforcing one of Vision Zero’s main messages of slowing driver speeds for everyone’s safety.

In the zodiac, rats are seen as savvy, quick thinkers. They’re not the fastest, instead they use their smarts to get ahead. This new Chinese-language campaign references these zodiac qualities and encourages people to plan ahead for their trips throughout the city by leaving early and driving smart, not fast.

Copy reads: Goal for Year of the Rat. Plan Ahead, Leave Early, Drive Smart, not Fast.

Vision Zero launches this campaign aimed at advancing cultural competency and reducing injury disparities. As stated in the Vision Zero Action Strategy, equity is a core principle. Our transportation system should be safe for all road users, for all modes of transportation, in all communities and for people of all incomes, races and ethnicities, languages, ages, abilities, and housing status.

Chinese make up the second-largest racial group in San Francisco (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates) with Chinese being the second most spoken language in the city. This community is also disproportionately involved in severe and fatal traffic collisions. To ensure Vision Zero safety messaging reaches this important community in San Francisco, Safe Streets in the Year of the Rat was developed.

To achieve equitable outcomes and save lives, Vision Zero initiatives go deeper with multicultural communication and outreach so that we can uncover culturally-specific assumptions, barriers, and motivations that lead to more effective ways of reaching communities of concern.

Over the last couple of years, organizations and cultural consultants serving Chinese populations - as well as residents themselves - were involved in the development of this campaign. From outreach to focus groups and intercept surveys, the Chinese community shared traffic safety concerns, identified common channels for receiving information, and prioritized the visual look and messaging of the campaign.

The campaign plays on the Lunar New Year of the Rat theme as well as emphasizes the culturally celebratory colors of red and gold throughout the design. Here’s to a safe New Year for all San Francisco.

Where will people see this campaign? To reach the greatest number of people, the bulk of this campaign will be delivered through digital advertising and will connect with Chinese-speaking drivers through their devices (cell phones, laptops, etc.), especially drivers using Waze, Uber, and Lyft apps as well as those using WeChat. Paper advertisements will also be placed in Chinese-language newspapers.

Vision Zero SF is the city’s road safety policy that will build safety and livability into our streets, protecting the one million people who move about the city every day. San Francisco is committed to achieving our Vision Zero goal of zero traffic deaths.

To learn more about Vision Zero work visit visionzerosf.org

Published February 19, 2020 at 05:05PM
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Show HN: Convos – Self hosted IRC chat https://ift.tt/37ELGE4

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Show HN: Demo Trivia App with React, TypeScript, Redux, React Router, Animations https://ift.tt/2wyYa3j

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Show HN: Interactive Fitness App – using a video component to loop exercise reps https://ift.tt/38HD2WL

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Show HN: Larq – Binarized Neural Network Inference with MLIR and TFLite https://ift.tt/2vM2I5W

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Show HN: Ldapper – A simple, ergonomic Python ORM for interacting with LDAP https://ift.tt/2Vcft46

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Launch HN: Goodcover (YC S17) – Cooperative Renters Insurance for Half the Price https://ift.tt/2SG7rih

Launch HN: Goodcover (YC S17) – Cooperative Renters Insurance for Half the Price Hi HN, we’re Chris and Dan, co-founders of Goodcover ( https://ift.tt/2T4mCkG ). Goodcover provides renters insurance (only in California at the moment) and operates as a cooperative. We take a fixed fee on every policy, pool the premiums to pay claims, and then return what’s left over back to Members through an annual dividend. Thanks to this model and good technology we’re able to cut the price of renters insurance in half. I (Chris) worked in traditional insurance for 8 years. That time taught me to love insurance and how it picks people up after disasters, but it also gave me first hand exposure to the things people hate about it – the ever-increasing prices, the adversarial claims negotiations, the mountains of paperwork, and the byzantine decision making. All these inefficiencies kept us from really understanding and working for our policyholders – the people we were meant to serve. I became convinced technology was coming for this industry. I moved to SF in 2016, which is where I met Dan through a family friend. Dan had co-founded Cloudkick (YCW09) and was now looking to start another company. He also knew technology was coming for insurance, especially after his early career at IBM where he saw just how many “tech consultants” were placed in State Farm. Meeting him was a breath of fresh air – we started Goodcover in 2017 and got into YC right after. And then… it took us two years to get a product to market. We had opportunities to get going faster – you can get an agent’s license, buy off the shelf software, and sell other companies’ products in a matter of weeks. But they would be the same crappy, overpriced, adversarial products that everybody sells, and everybody hates. What good is that? Instead, we didn’t take the shortcuts and stuck it out to change the business model to cut the price in half, and Goodcover is the result. The story of how we did this starts with how insurance prices are made. If you have lots of claims data, you can run regressions to learn how underwriting factors like location, customer data, previous losses, etc all affect the frequency and severity of claims for every dollar of coverage you are providing. You then load that claims model with your expenses and desired profit margin, and boom you have insurance rates. You then have to get the Department of Insurance in each state you enter to sign off on your rates (not too low so you lose money, not so high that the government calls out your gouging). We knew technology would save us a lot on processing costs – with Dan’s technical background we knew that we could build technology that would run the business for a fraction of the cost that the typical industry vendors charge. We weren’t going to be saddled with huge agency forces or massive brand advertising. But, we didn’t have any claims data. Enter Quirk 1 of the insurance industry: all personal lines insurance pricing is public. Since all product and pricing is approved by the state government, to start something new you need to essentially reconstitute work other companies have done, proving that the elements you choose work for your target market. This is why most new insurance offerings are basically just another version of the pricing model sold by the “Insurance Services Office” (ISO – yes, that’s a company, not a government agency). It’s approved everywhere and used by everyone, so it’s a quick start. Lemonade uses ISO with one important modification: they set their minimum premium at $60 instead of $120, allowing them to claim an introductory price of $5 a month. If you buy more than the minimum coverage though, you’ll quickly get to “everybody else’s price” territory. However to cut the price without sacrificing coverage, we couldn’t use the same model that everyone else does. We needed a more granular model where we could charge the safest 99% people very little in exchange for charging the riskier 1% more. In my insurance career I had learned a lot about models designed for high-value homes, jewelry, cars etc – these models price in catastrophe (like hurricane and wildfire) very precisely to manage exposures in high-risk places. This granularity results in much lower prices for safer risks, since prices there don’t need to subsidize risky ones like they do in traditional “mass market” models. We decided to adapt these models to build our own that would be applicable to our target market, i.e. Renters. Our competitors that don’t use these models are in a bit of a pickle, because they can’t raise prices for high risks too fast thanks to regulatory constraints, meaning they have to keep prices high in safe places to balance the book. It also meant we could start with a coverage baseline that was better than the usual Renters Policy, including coverage for mold remediation, water damage originating from other peoples’ apartments, etc. We modernized the coverage, getting rid of extra coverage for things like oriental rugs and replacing it with more computer coverage. And critically we lowered the expense base, allowing us to offer huge savings thanks to the compound effect of lower costs and more granular pricing for our target market. The biggest apples-to-apples discount we’ve clocked so far is 71%. Custom model in hand, we were a critical step closer. But we still couldn’t offer insurance until we had the capital ready to pay claims. Insurance regulation sensibly makes sure that before you sell insurance to anyone you are adequately capitalized to pay your claims. Thus we set out to raise more capital. Here’s where we ran into Quirk 2, and something I should have known all along. Insurance Claims Capital is inherently not venturable. VCs look for 10-100x return on investment. But, as we grew the company, by law our claims capital reserves would always need to be at least 3x our expected losses (8x is normal). That geometric growth pattern is not scalable. Even if we raised over and over again, by the time we “made it big” we would be selling shares to normal investors, people who value insurance companies on a multiple of their cash on hand. Today’s insurance monsters have grown their cash base slowly for about 100 years. We found it was inefficient for us to own this capital, and therefore impossible to pitch. Money we raise should go to scaling our operations, not sitting around in case we had more claims than premiums. This meant we need to get claims capital partners – aka, rent it from insurance companies. We had hoped to avoid this because of quirk 3 of the insurance industry, “underwriting profits”. It used to be you could run an insurance business with huge expenses at a loss and make money because interest rates are great. No longer. The way insurance companies make money today is by keeping the difference of premium minus claims and expenses, or “underwriting profit”. This sets insurers up to be in conflict with their customers, and my experience in the industry showed me that if there was a root cause for all the reasons people hated insurance, this was it. So not only would we now need to ask insurers for help, we’d need them to give us their profit back to return to Members. This process took over a year. Fortunately we secured in-principle approval from a great reinsurer (TransRe) early on. The next step was to find a “primary” insurance partner to get us set up in California. We still have the chart of our emotions on the whiteboard in our office from that time – with huge ups (like when we moved to board-level conversations with one of California’s best cooperative insurers) to huge lows (like when those talks collapsed because that insurer’s agency force wouldn’t allow the channel conflict of a digital partner). Eventually we got it done, inking a three-party deal that worked for everyone, providing a more or less stable return for our capital partners but with the excess profit returning to Goodcover’s Members. With model and insurance capital partners in hand we then moved to get approval from California, which went as well as a process like that could, thank goodness. While we were working on these business objectives we built the necessary technology to service policies, quotes and maintain regulatory compliance. The easiest way to think of insurance is it works like an append only database. For instance, to remove coverage you would amend a person’s policy contract to remove a coverage, and so similarly in our tech stack we append an event that describes the changes to the policy which outputs a final policy. As a side benefit, this allows us to see the current state of a policy at any point in time. This model works well for us considering most, if not all, of our code is written in a functional language (Scala). Which brings us up to late last year when we wrote our first Goodcover policy. Honestly it’s been quite an ordeal, but we think the changes we’ve been able to implement have been worth it. I am so thankful for the hard work and persistence of the team, and for all the feedback and help the HN and YC community have given us over the years (shout out to anyone who remembers our “Advice” Show HN from 2018! - https://ift.tt/2zeHKh7 ). Renter’s insurance in CA is just the first step, (home and more states on the way) We have a ton more listening to Members to do, but we hope you enjoy the benefits – and are super grateful for any feedback you have! February 19, 2020 at 12:00PM

Show HN: The declarative way of documenting components https://ift.tt/2P2zrdZ

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Show HN: Hyvor Talk – a better way to add comments to blogs https://ift.tt/37MCE88

Show HN: Hyvor Talk – a better way to add comments to blogs Hello HN! I'm Supun from Hyvor Talk ( https://talk.hyvor.com ), a commenting platform for websites. First, to be clear, Hyvor is the startup I'm building and Hyvor Talk is the first product of it. Here's how it started. I'm a PHP dev and I did a blog a little while ago. When it came to adding comments I didn't like the options available there for three reasons. 1. Some were not privacy-focused. They collected a bunch of user's data and placed ads on users' sites. 2. Most of them were not modern-looking. 3. Most of them were expensive. So, I created my own commenting system for my website with only comments and replies. After a few weeks, I thought it would be better if I could allow others to use this and solve the above 3 problems. So, in December 2019, I started working on this full time. Since then, I have developed many features (most of them are based on suggestions I got through our Discord server). Here are some features/facts about it. * It does not collect users' data. * It's fast because of no third party code, ads, etc. * It has a powerful AJAX-based moderation console. * It's completely free up to 40,000 page views per month. * It's fully customizable (colors, fonts, texts) - You can see some customized pages in our landing page. * It has a built-in spam detector. * I and my girlfriend (a graphic designer) worked hard to make the system as much as user-friendly and attractive. At the moment, I'm happy to say, 20+ websites use this commenting system actively. More than 1000 users have signed up as commenters. Thank you for checking this out! I'd love to hear your feedback. February 19, 2020 at 09:31AM

Show HN: Bootstrapping a community-based startup for AR creators. Catchar 2.0 https://ift.tt/2P8LLJI

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Show HN: Final Fantasy VII Running on Vulkan https://ift.tt/37FZbTV

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Show HN: Code for: “interactive demo” from Trevor.io landing page https://ift.tt/37EcunN

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SFMTA Public Meetings February 18 - March 2

SFMTA Public Meetings February 18 - March 2
By

Board of Directors Meeting

Tuesday, February 18, 1 p.m.
City Hall, Room 400
Nearby Muni Routes: 5, 19, 21, 47, 49, F Market, Civic Center Station

The SFMTA Board of Directors provides policy oversight for the safe and efficient transportation of goods and services in San Francisco. This includes the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), automobiles and trucks, taxis, bicycling and walking. The SFMTA Board of Directors also serves as members of the San Francisco Parking Authority.

Our board of directors meetings are usually held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The agenda includes presentations and discussions on adopting the Bayview Community Based Transportation Plan, the Fiscal Year 2021 and FY 2022 operating budget and the Curb Management Strategy.

Valencia Bikeway Improvements Open House

Monday, February 24, 6 p.m.
City College San Francisco Mission Campus
Nearby Muni Routes: 9, 9R, 14 Mission, 24, 49, 67, J Church

Following a successful pilot implementation of parking-protected bike lanes between Market Street and 15th Street in spring 2019, the SFMTA began advancing design work between 19th Street and Cesar Chavez and has developed a draft design to share with the community.

Please stop by the open house anytime from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to share your public comment on the proposed changes. As part of the SFMTA’s Quick-Build Program, this open house will also serve as a public hearing. This next phase of improvements includes parking-protected bikeways, parking and loading changes, adding parking meters to side streets, left-turn restrictions, stop changes for the 12-Folsom and commuter shuttle program, and pedestrian improvements such as daylighting and advanced limits lines on Valencia Street from 19th Street to Cesar Chavez. Pending the approvals process, the improvements are anticipated to be installed in spring 2020. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our Meeting Round-Up feature highlights different SFMTA public meetings that will be held within the coming two weeks. These meetings give you the chance to share your ideas and provide us with helpful feedback. Join us at our next meeting to learn more about SF's changing and complex transportation system.

Those listed above are just a few highlights. You can find a full list of upcoming meetings to keep up to date on your favorite SFMTA committees.

Published February 18, 2020 at 12:02PM
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Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use https://ift.tt/2SYCc15

Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use Hey HN! We’re Cameron, Trung and Matt from API Tracker ( https://ift.tt/38GoNBc ). We make tools to help with using third-party APIs in production. When software teams integrate with APIs they often run into outages, network issues, interface changes or even bugs that cause unexpected behavior in the rest of their system. These problems are hard to predict and prepare for so most teams don’t deal with them until there's a outage and have to do an emergency build to add logging and get to a root cause. This is what happened to us. Trung and I are both software engineers and we spent a lot of time and energy trying to make our API integrations robust and reliable in production. We found ourselves instrumenting all our API calls so we could know how many calls we were making, how long they were taking and if they were failing. We set up alerts for errors and latency increases and integrated with PagerDuty. We wrote retry logic with exponential backoff. We wrote failover from one API provider to another. At the end of it all we built a lot of tooling that required maintenance and wasn’t even applied uniformly across all of our integrations. After building all this infrastructure we realized that many other teams are reinventing the same wheel. To solve this problem we built an API proxy that takes requests and relays them to the API provider. By proxying this traffic we are able to instrument each call to measure latency, record status codes, headers and bodies, and add reliability features like automatic retry with exponential backoff. From there we can monitor and alert on issues and provide a searchable call log for debugging and auditability. We knew that because we were asking teams to run their mission critical API calls through us that we had to build a highly available and scalable proxy architecture. We’ve done this by designing a proxy that can be distributed across multiple regions and clouds. We are currently running out of AWS. Global Accelerator allows us to use their private internet backbone to quickly get traffic to our proxies which run behind AWS Network Load Balancers. While this can help us ensure resilience against infrastructure outages, we also need to protect against self-inflicted wounds like bugs and bad deployments. Upon release we bring up a new set of proxy instances, deploy the code, and run our full test suite to make sure that each instance is able to proxy requests correctly. Once all instances are healthy they begin to go into the load balancer. For companies with more stringent needs we support on-premise installations as well as a client-side SDK that can do instrumentation without the proxy. Today we offer the service as a subscription. We hope to make it easy for teams to get visibility and control across all their integrations without having to build it themselves. This includes: - Detailed logging on all of their third-party API calls - Monitoring and alerting for increased latency and error rates - Reliability features like automatic retry, circuit breaker and request queueing - Rate limit and quota monitoring We would love to hear from the community how you are managing your API integrations. Our story is a result of our experiences and how we dealt with them, but we know the HN community has seen it all. We would love to hear from you about problems you’ve had and how you dealt with them. Please leave a comment or send us an email to founders@apitracker.com. Looking forward to the discussion! February 18, 2020 at 12:00PM

Show HN: CoveTrader – Combines multiple crypto exchanges into one trade platform https://ift.tt/38EhbiB

Show HN: CoveTrader – Combines multiple crypto exchanges into one trade platform Our dev team recently launched CoveTrader at https://ift.tt/2V1JF1Z. Using our extensive experience from traditional financial markets, we connect to many crypto exchanges (Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, etc.) and show aggregated order books, trade lists, and analytics in both real-time and historical formats. We currently support BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, ETC, EOS, and XRP, but are adding more. It's currently just analytics, but we'll be adding order sending in Q2. Feedback and feature requests are welcome and can be sent to sknudsen@covemarkets.com. February 18, 2020 at 11:32AM

Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS https://ift.tt/38EDEMJ

Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS Hi HN! We're Parthi and Kunal from FounderPhone (https://ift.tt/39LIHew). FounderPhone is a shared customer support inbox for SMS and calls in Slack. We've built and shipped 7 products recently and if there's one thing we've learned, it's that your personal relationship with your customer is your secret weapon as a startup. Having customers email support@company.com or message a bot via Intercom doesn't feel personal. People are skeptical they will ever get a response. We've had a lot of success giving out our phone number to customers we really care about and telling them to text us whenever something comes up. Apparently, lots of great founders like Patrick from Stripe did this while growing their startups. The problem is that phone numbers aren't really meant for customer support and it gets overwhelming pretty quickly. So we hacked together a solution for ourselves where we made Slack a shared inbox. When a customer texts or calls me, our team can also see the messages and incoming calls. We can discuss how best to handle the issue in Slack and then anyone can respond via text. For calls, anyone available can redirect calls to their own number. From the customer's perspective, they're just texting a single number. They're not frustrated with messy tickets or being routed to 3 different people. They will always read your responses because it's in their SMS inbox instead of being lost amongst their 20,000 unread emails. This is just the start! We're looking into building a whole suite of software to make customer support feel both personal and immediate. We're making an integration with Segment and Sentry to alert you when a customer has an issue so you can reach out to them about it before they complain to you. Text our FounderPhone (510) 756-2522 with your name or email founders@founderphone.com if you have any questions. Thanks for checking us out! February 18, 2020 at 11:02AM