[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":353},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-7175869":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":5,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":44,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":64,"maker_in_thread":195,"shape":197,"grid":200,"attempts":314,"same_week":315,"maker_shows":266,"maker_hidden":345,"reader_version":346,"card":347},"7175869","gender.hankstoever.com","An API for gender classification","title","Show HN: An API for gender classification","http:\u002F\u002Fgender.hankstoever.com\u002F","heynk",1391495856,2014,18,45,1320,2272,59,"shown","data","name gender classification api","api",[23,24,25,26],"gender classification","name gender api","first name gender","gender prediction","mixed",-0.333,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":13},4,16,0,38,{"idea":35,"performance":38,"privacy":40,"docs":42,"design":43},{"positive":36,"critical":37},2,3,{"positive":32,"critical":39},14,{"positive":32,"critical":41},1,{"positive":41,"critical":32},{"positive":41,"critical":32},[41,45,32,41,32,32,41,41,41,37,37,37,41,37,32,37,37,32,32,41,37,37,45,37,41,45,41,41,37,41,41,41,41,41,37,41,37,37,41,37],5,null,{"problem":48,"audience":46,"pricing":46,"motivation":46,"time_to_build":46,"stack":62,"openness":63,"stage":63,"team_size":63},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Estimates the gender of a person from their first name","inferred",[52,54,58],{"id":53},"post",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"7176304","cclogg","This is pretty fun lol. I searched for Santa and it said 99% female haha.",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"7176607","bnegreve","What's the training set?",[],"unknown",{"praise":65,"objections":90,"requests":152,"questions":167,"alternatives":176},[66,79],{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Fun to play with and test names","commenter",[70,74,75],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"7175965","joshfraser","I started searching for the most gender ambiguous names I could think of like \"Jesse\", \"Alex\", \"Erin\", etc. The best one I've found so far is \"Angel\" at 51.1% male.",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"7176439","mastersk3","This is great fun, could you embed share options? I could trigger a share-war amongst my friends!",{"value":80,"source":68,"evidence":81},"Useful for choosing gender-neutral names and deduplication",[82,86],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"7176352","joaomsa","One use I've come across for inferring genders was tackling record depupliction across multiple data sources. In one data set we might have the gender information of an…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"7176615","nl","I spend a lot of time choosing gender neutral names for story based scenarios in proposals (the joys of corporate work). http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUnisex_name has been…",[91,114,125,144],{"value":92,"source":68,"evidence":93},"Results are inaccurate for many names",[94,98,102,106,110],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"7176178","sdegutis","\"Permelia\"[1] is definitely a girl's name[2]. [1]: http:\u002F\u002Fblog.xkcd.com\u002F2014\u002F01\u002F31\u002Fthe-baby-name-wizard\u002F [2]: http:\u002F\u002Fgender.hankstoever.com\u002Fclassify\u002FPermelia",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"7176050","robinjfisher","My name has a 50.444139% chance of being female. In the present case, the API is, unfortunately, incorrect.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"7176159","ddeck","Definitely some odd results: Michael = 52%, Thomas = 62% (although Tom = 98%)",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"7176275","blueskin_","I get ~70% for a name I've never even heard of being used for a female.",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"7176480","karanbhangui","Apparently Karan is female :(",{"value":115,"source":68,"evidence":116},"Gender is not binary and should not be inferred from names",[117,121],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"7176258","sambeau","The only reliable way to find out someone's gender is to ask them what gender they currently think they are. There are more than two genders and an individual's gender can change…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"7176180","onion2k","While it's a quite interesting coding task to write a classifier, for the overwhelming majority of applications you simply don't need to know a user's gender. Making it a public…",{"value":126,"source":68,"evidence":127},"Works only for English names and is not culturally neutral",[128,132,136,140],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"7176228","splitbrain","Without a location parameter this is pretty useless. Andrea for example is a male name in Spain and Italy as far as I know. Also this:…",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"7176565","terabytest","I'm Italian, my name is Gabriele and it classifies it as female. That's wrong. In Italy, Gabriele is a male name. I agree that this is useless without location information.",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"7176067","Dewie","My name has 99.99...% chance of being male. But when I change it to the English\u002FAnglophone version, the chance is only 60.641%.",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"7176333","levlandau","Neat. Should probably call out that it's an API for \"gender classification of english names\". Did you build this mostly for learning\u002Fpersonal purposes?",{"value":145,"source":68,"evidence":146},"Probabilities are not reliable without location data",[147,148],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"7176539","ozh","Fun, although you might want to state it applies to the US only",[153,158,163],{"value":154,"source":68,"evidence":155},"Add location parameter or country scope",[156,157],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"value":159,"source":68,"evidence":160},"State that it applies to the US only or English names",[161,162],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},{"value":164,"source":68,"evidence":165},"Add share options",[166],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},[168,172],{"value":169,"source":68,"evidence":170},"What is the training set?",[171],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":173,"source":68,"evidence":174},"Was it built for learning or personal purposes?",[175],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},[177,187],{"value":178,"source":68,"evidence":179},"Microsoft Windows gndr app using US Census data",[180,184],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"7176583","abe238","Bah I much rather use this app as it's much faster: http:\u002F\u002Fapps.microsoft.com\u002Fwindows\u002Fapp\u002Fgndr\u002Fa062944e-744e-4955-b685-f3197faa2560",{"id":185,"by":182,"text":186},"7176596","I'm not even sure of that. I have seen much better results from US Census data with very different %'s of prob e.g.…",{"value":188,"source":68,"evidence":189},"Unisex names list on Wikipedia",[190,194],{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"7176418","arocks","There is an entire Wikipedia page on Unisex names [1]. Most Punjabi Sikh first names are applicable to both genders. 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