skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this accurate for the US?

I looked up my own stats on this for you. Note: I have a used car that cost me around $8k.

I spend about $500/yr for maintenance.

I don't drive very often (I bike to work and walk for groceries/to bars -- the car is left-over sunk cost from a previous life, and now only used for inclement weather and weekend get-aways). So oil changes and tire rotations are only a small fraction of that (maybe 100-200).

So repairs probably cost around 300-400/yr for me. And that's only driving very rarely.

It's worth noting that I'm probably upper tier on the used car repair spectrum. I live in a cold climate -- much harsher than everything in Europe except the Nordic countries. I also live in a poor city that can't afford to take care of its roads. This combo is pretty devastating from a maintenance/repair perspective. E.g., I need good winter tires and they take a true beating. Also, salt.
It's also possible that cars have gotten better over time, and people are fine driving old ones. I drive a 15-year-old car. Yeah, a new car would be nice, but this one works just fine, and hasn't caused me any problems.

But when I think back to 2001, I don't think cars from 1986 would be the same way.

This is not data, of course, as it's completely anecdotal. But based on my own experience, I'd be curious if people really are holding onto cars longer, or buying more used cars.
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It's Glenn Greenwald, not the british media. this is a typical anti-semitic leftist view from all over the world
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As living in the city is getting more and more popular, this is very much understandable.

I can only speak for Berlin, but I got rid of my car soon after moving here. As a student public transport is basically free (it's part of the semester fee) and after finishing university, getting anywhere from anywhere at any time of the day (and at any state of consciousness) felt so natural, that I quickly got myself a BVG subscription.

You can always rent a van for cheap if you have to transport something big - that is if you have a driver's licence. Many people who were born here never bothered to get one.
I wouldn't trust on all of them to do that reliably. If you look at a large group of database systems, some of them are going to have bugs or bad defaults as well.
I do feel that there should be some kind of FAQ about that somewhere on HN. Something like "The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph paywalls can be avoided by Googling the article name or clicking 'web'" would be useful for getting rid of the people commenting about the paywall.
As a product, thats what I would have bought had it been available. Why have a weak router and a weak NAS if I can have a decent combined device with the same power consumption?
Curious if there is a working prototype.
a lot of factors going on here...

1. no jobs to pay for said car

2. must pay for student loans instead

3. cars are less reliable

4. cars cost more today, and more to maintain

5. gas prices increased but not wages

6. insurance costs
If it was 1972, the cars on the market that were cheap and widely available were models like the Mustang, GTO, Firebird, Challenger, Charger, Camaro, Chevelle, Roadrunner, and on and on. They were beautiful, fast, and fun to drive.

Am I excited to spend 20k+ on a cookie-cutter, egg-shaped sedan? No, I'm not interested.
100% luxury

Actually, not owning a car is a luxury. How do you get all the stuff you need/want that you don't/can't fetch yourself from the source? You pay someone else to drive it for you! Same with people who talk about Uber, like paying for someone to drive you around isn't a luxury...
> And even if you take into account the price of college, health care and everything, you'll get to about the same amount but the whole point in the US system is that you do NOT have to pay for other people, cause who needs solidarity in a society.

If I wanted solidarity then I'd have stayed in my home country. I like the idea that I am free(er) to chase my dreams and suffer the consequences of my actions. More importantly I like the idea that there are other people who think like me in this country.
People used to say that the surest sign of death for a project was to get a domain at Apache.org. This goes back at least ten years.
Startup Engineer Unwittingly Implements Crappier Version of Open Source Project
Another product (Discussions) that Google discontinued.
I always wonder why people think the only 'fair' pricing is pricing based on costs. This is not how free markets work.
> tight restaurants margins

WAT????
There were a test a while ago (January 2016 I think) were two exactly similar groups were created:

One were full of hate messages towards Israelis.

The other one were full of hate messages towards Palestinian Arabs.

One were closed almost immediately.

One were not.

Care were taken to make sure they were exactly similar.

Sources:

https://www.google.no/search?q=israeli+palestinian+hate+grou...

(Please note that Facebook admitted this to be the case.)
As a kid in Iowa, all the cars were rusted out. Nobody bought a new one but once or twice in their lives.

In college all the cars were new. Economy was up I guess, or cars were relatively cheaper.

Well, today the cars are getting rustier again. Lots of junkers; more used car lots than new; and even the new ones are econoboxes that won't last but a few years anyway.

Probably a study in there somewhere - plot the rust coefficient against wages or something.
Is that why sometimes I'll see the "vote number" for a comment jump by 5 all at once?
Have you tried using LFS or Git Annex for big files instead?

We've also built File Locking in specific to make it working with big assets a bit safer.

Windows support in Git can definitely be improved, though luckily there are many great Git clients available nowadays.
If Denmark is like Sweden (It has a very similar political system, as do all the Nordic countries) then donations usually aren't solicited by politicians but by parties. Individual politicians rarely campaign at all.

Obviously parties can be indebted to donors just like individual politicians - but the result at least superficially seems to be lot less shady dealings since buying something off a major party will take a lot more than buying an individual.
yes, I knew it will happen to me one day... thank you for the heads up!
It's still the same... "OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down" http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/openof...
Ask HN: Teaching Assistant bot for GitHub
Hi HN,

I'm a TA of an Advanced Programming course. Our team has currently 25 TA's, 3 teachers and +150 students. We use GitHub as our main platform, using a different organization each semester, so I brought some help.

Last semester I started to program a small bot to automatically submit assignments and this month it should be able to mention potential issue reviewers. I'm working with other TAs to create modules for grade submission and notifications vía Telegram (our TAs group is there).

Do you have any feature ideas? Would you use it? I know that this course will use it and that some other courses will use our bot next semestre. Maybe in a few months I'll show it on Show HN.

Thanks!
Usefulness of a motorcycle has an all-season vehicle is very climate dependent. I know HN biases to the bay area where it might be possible. Out here, we get 14-18 feet of snow in an average winter. That motorbike is going to get you in the ditch for half the year. Especially when "plowed" after a big dump can mean single lane (for both directions) with a couple inches of slush or powder.
I love how the rich and privileged in this hypothetical are the lambs.
The Evolution of the US Mortgage Industry
or Germany
The problem with that approach is that you're limited by the quality of your weakest tool. Code review might be a strength, but if your CI tool is weak, that's what you'll be judged on. Integrations are a way to allow you to focus on what you do best and effectively outsource the rest. Ideally, the integration hooks would be well integrated, but I don't see an upside in trying to make a monolithic app in this market.
In case you're tired of expensive complicated graphic editors
ArduPilot and DroneCode
This is one of the reasons I started my food side project https://bestfoodnearme.com the idea is to give you a list of amazing food dishes close by, so you can quickly figure out what to eat without reading reviews. I personally find it difficult to find new places to try especially when traveling. Reviews can be biased in many ways especially from competitors or dishonest restaurants. Some sites give you the feeling that the reviews are a payola type situation.

I hate spending any time reading them. I just want a list of great dishes.
Which it totally would be if it didn't get interrupted for ads every 10 minutes and then have flashbacks to remind you what you were already told before the commercial break.
Are you labouring under the impression that The Intercept is a British thing?
My favorite was arguing with my brother and I said "logically ...." he replied I don't believe in logic. He won the argument I had nothing to work with.
Well, that is the patch that causes this problem...

At the time this patch was submitted, ARM was running a program that awarded engineers who could improve performance of aarch64.
Not OP, but I'm on the same boat. We've been using a self-hosted GitLab CE instance for more than three years now, but we can't use the bare-bones approach of GitLab for issues tracking.

Trac allows us to fully customize the issues workflow, even for individual projects. We can have custom fields. We use several plugins (the extensibility of Trac is second to none!), even a few developed in-house, implementing custom validations and/or custom functionality.

Trac is very lightweight (as GitLab issues), but much, much more powerful and flexible. When you need the extra functionality, you can enable it, or install some 3rd party plugin that provides it, or develop your own plugin or component (which is really easy), without turning the whole thing in a bloated mess (like Jira).

The only thing I don't like about Trac is its glacial development speed, and its UI, which turns older and more outdated every year...
> The problem with "just calling this experiment a failure"—why that won't work in practice—is that JavaScript is not a failure. It's extremely successful.

I don't see the "success", only the tons of dysfunctional bloatwares. JS made the browser slower and worse just like all the JS-based desktops(gnome, cinnamon, deepin(golang...)). Also, it has stopped PLT advancements by stealing young people(future community) to create useless websites and apps. Neither "failure" nor "success" are good words - "curse" will fit better.
i still have a ton of invites, so hmu if you want one
HATEOAS is critical to REST -- it being nothing more than a terribly obtuse rendition of the ideas behind how the web

REST APIs must be hypertext-driven.
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
7. Millenials seem to flock to urban areas where cars are less required
Why even ask...
Do you happen by any chance to have a photo of said laptop?
With posts being visible for only a minute or so it's a miracle every time a post reach the front page.

It should be possible to down-vote posts that have reached the front page, because when they reach front-page they will get a ton of up-votes.
How Spotify designs holistic experiences for music listeners and creators
As far as I know, PNG does not support CMYK nor spot colors.

Nor clipping paths.

For print, there is not really an "open" alternative that is as good as TIFF.
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We've just opted for GitLab EE, the True-Up Licensing Model won us over, but also the promise of a working Jira Integration. That's still very limited and a pita to setup, even harder when you use atlassians hosted Jira. I don't want to buy GitLab Licenses for non-developers, especially as our Jira is connected to Zendesk, something which doesn't make sense to connect directly to GitLab.
Cool video from developers to developers!
Included in that are tons of people who have their own service business like real estate agents, doing bakery deliveries, many maintenance workers, etc.
Israel has a real problem allowing journalists to accurately cover Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.
It may be luxurious to use Uber (?) but if its cheaper can it really be called a luxury?
> And even if you take into account the price of college, health care and everything, you'll get to about the same amount but the whole point in the US system is that you do NOT have to pay for other people, cause who needs solidarity in a society.

You seem to be angrily agreeing with the person you replied to.

Paying money to the government or a private monopolies that are heavily, and often bizarrely, regulated by the government is basically comparable.

Any sense that you "do NOT have to pay for other people" is mostly fictional.
It is not you. If you look closely at Apache projects. They are mostly Java type projects in various state of completion. Some are either failed at corporates and hence dumped there (struts, cordova and so on) or too experimental and hence good place get wider audience. If successful the main sponsor will add proprietary features/components and sell product and/or support(e.g Hadoop ecosystem components).

Some exceptions to this are Apache Http server, tomcat, svn etc.
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Fully agreed. I wrote a paper six years ago that came to the same conclusion: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/debs2010.pdf
Google doesn't make money from reCaptcha[1], and reCaptcha isn't deployed to stop the kind of crawlers Google operates (you'd just add a line to robots.txt if you wanted to do this), so I'm not sure how this is relevant.

[1]: OK, maybe in the extremely broad, indirect sense that reCaptcha helps Google solve image classification problems, which make Google products like Maps/Books/Images better, which increases traffic, which increases ad revenue
Yes I did, I'm terribly sorry, I'm wrong here.
> In the end, I get around 1.5k euro out of the 7k I cost my company (employers also have to pay additional social and pension payments).

Is your pension program a personal pension program or is it like Social Security taxes like in America?

Also, one of the biggest reason why there is no real right wing in Europe because people who might think that way (low taxes, personal responsibility) all move to America (so should you).

Also check out https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantOut
Nice! It also works in at least a few other romance languages, I'm going to use it in the future.
Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Pet insurance is certainly an option for low-income pet owners, but for whatever reason it hasn't taken hold in the US, where less than 1% of pets are covered. Vets have a somewhat negative impression of it, as it tends to be overly restrictive and, of course, doesn't cover pre-existing conditions.

Crowdfunding healthcare for pets is a fairly popular thing on GoFundMe (50M monthly users, only slightly lower traffic than Kickstarter), Indiegogo, and YouCaring. We think it's a unique and active enough niche to deserve its own, dedicated site, where the funds go directly to vets so as to better avoid scammers who just "claim" their pet is sick.

As with any crowdfunding model, most of our marketing is done by the pet owners (to their friends and family) and the vets providing the care (to their other clientele), so we're not dependent on inspiring strangers to donate.
I'm pretty sure all browser extensions are "open source" but I get what you're saying.
Ilya Grigorik: “The future is already here”
uhhh, because its 20 times more tedious?
Version 2.4 has the following features:

- Share local files
- Drag & Drop files / folders from Finder to any folder in any cloud account
- Drag & Drop files / folders from any cloud account to any folder in any cloud account
- Show progress bar while a file is being transferred
- Fix the problem with the Onedrive account that did not allow the creation of a folder in the root folder
- Add multi accounts is now free (our sincere gratitude to our users who have purchased it)
That's very very true. However, "fair pricing" is mentioned because companies tend to use the term in their marketing explanations for raising prices. In free markets, it is also the responsibility of consumers to understand not only the prices they pay today, but the prices they allow companies to set tomorrow.
Censorship, especially a state interference in censorship smells really bad. Even if done for "good reasons" this can go bad really quickly.

Having that said, and I'm all for free speech, but a post calling to use a better knife to inflict more damage on an ethnic group (I'm not making this up: http://blog.adl.org/international/instructional-content-on-h...) should probably be legitimately removed. (and it was removed by Facebook / Google / Twitter)

Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed, whether they are posted by Palestinians or Israelis.

Some examples of posts that were probably the trigger of this:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Terrorism/Palestinian/Do...

Facebook should follow one rule - any post that is illegal should be removed. How do they decide what is illegal? they let their legal department interpret it I assume, or wait to be sued and then decide (http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/20000-Israelis-su...)

Still, Facebook should handle it as it handles things anywhere else. Maybe Israel have some good examples of content that should have been removed, but in most cases it has been removed, so basically Facebook is outsourcing moderation to the Israeli Government because they don't have enough moderators that can read Arabic or just not enough manpower? No matter if it's justified or not, a government should not meddle with the moderation operations of a global public platform.
Often times when searching for something, I would love this as well. I usually add phpbb, forums or discussion to the search keywords, but it's never 100%.

I would love something like this as well...
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Hacking Congress' Rules for Privacy and Security [pdf]
>Don't people choose convenient fictions? Not people worth knowing, IMHO, no.

That's a convenient fiction to believe, but I haven't found it to be true in anybody.
Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City
I'm not the GP but I can echo the sentiment. :)

One middle-to-major annoyance I still have with gitlab though, is that merge requests across forks aren't visible from any automation via the destination repo. That is, if a bot account has access to the prod repo to perform CI builds, and somebody opens a MR from a private fork, the bot can't see it.

This has made us adjust our workflow for pretty much all prod repos to push branches to be reviewed under a review/* branch on the destination repo, which is cumbersome and requires additional permissions.

GitHub makes all pull requests available as branches on the destination repo via the refs/pulls/* namespace, and that's been really useful. It'd be awesome if gitlab had this too!
That's an unexpected sentiment for the username John Galt. I was all set to write a rebuttal, but now I'm not sure what to say beyond expressing my surprise.
http://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.htm ???
I think git LFS is having same issues as Mercurial Large Files had in the beginning. It's going to get there, but it takes time. We're considering that Mercurial LargeFiles support is much more mature.

In regards to Git vs HG. We see that most of the users take advantage of plugin system that Mercurial has, eg Facebook with their plugins for handling huge monorepos.

It also adds some advanced workflows, eg doing a code-review using phases and secret commits makes it much more pleasant to work compared to Git.

FileLocking is quite easy with Mercurial actually.
We're working on some other approach on this actually and want to work on a better system that emulates what SVN/Perforce have and bring it to Git and Mercurial with RhodeCode as the tool to have at least basic file permissions.
For more information on this "digital intifada", the documentaries from vice are pretty good: https://news.vice.com/video/palestinian-social-media-uprisin...
I can relate. I'm don't own a car, preferring to use car-sharing services instead, but I would love to go kajaking more, which requires a car. Very costly, very annoying.
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I guess. Nine in a row.
Apache is biased towards giving communities a chance.

Costs are low -- for about 200 projects, the ASF runs on a budget of around 1.4 million USD per year. It doesn't take that much to give a community a home -- the community itself is primarily responsible for making things happen.
What a REST API should look like
This is very disingenuous, it would be more transparent if you led with the fact you've got a (very) complicated tax situation.

VAT is also not your contribution, it's a client's, you collect it because you can offset it.

So that 63% figure is pure and utter nonsense.
would absolutely love one, you're the man,
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The difficulty with how most GPUs are connected to the rest of the system is that the data has to go RAM -> CPU -> GPU. If it could go directly RAM -> GPU, then the calculations would be better, but still not great as PCIe is still lower bandwidth and higher latency than RAM -> CPU.

It's not about GPU performance, it's about the latency and bandwidth of getting that dat to the GPU. If once you ship data to the GPU, you reuse it many times for many calculations, that cost is amortized and it doesn't matter as much. But if you ship data to the GPU and use it once, then that cost will probably not be amortized. I think of databases tending to fit in the latter category.
> It is around 50%

No, it isn't. The total tax wedge under OECD definitions, which includes employer payroll taxes, the Danish income tax burden is on average around 38%. Excluding employers payroll taxes it's around 36%.

For comparison, the "all in" number for the US is around 31%.

The OECD average is 36%.

The only OECD country that crosses the 50% mark is Belgium, which consistently is one of the highest tax countries in the world.

You can find this data here [1], and while the publisher isn't exactly neutral, the source for all the data is an OECD publication which is also freely available (I don't have the link handy). The OECD report has far more detail

[1] http://taxfoundation.org/article/comparison-tax-burden-labor...
Have you ever used IntelliJ IDEA? It seems to meet all your requirements: it looks and feels identical on all platforms with a JVM, it's very focused and "put together", and the layout just makes sense. In fact I only mention this after spending the last month trying out all three (Eclipse, NetBeans, IDEA) and settling on IDEA for these reasons and a few more (especially how it indexes the whole universe and gives you smart autocompletion in every place imaginable). And the Community Edition is free, if price is a concern.
And all javascript related questions still have w3schools as first result, god dammit.