skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it is just as amazing an experience to drive as it is to look at. The problem is that owning a car is a money-losing proposition. If you buy it new you lose up to 40% of the value just driving it off the lot. Another strategy might be to just buy the vehicle and keep it until the wheels fall off. That wont save you from losing on the transaction but at least you wont have to lose money every 3 years like you might with a cheaper car. Except that wont work with BMW. According to all stats I've been able to find (and I really looked for this because I wanted it to be worth owning one) they don't last any longer than their cheap counter parts but they cost a lot more to fix. The warranty isn't any longer. So that means I'd still have to do the same "piss away thousands every 3-5 years" but with numbers 2 or 3 times larger.
Continuing to work is also a way to feel you have value as a human being and there is more to you than your illness.

I belong to a number of a groups for people with a deadly medical condition. It is very clear to me that well-meaning well-wishers are often essentially helping to kill people with kindness. Their unstated assumption is you aren't going to get well, death is inevitable. Such thinking tends to help make it inevitable. And hearing that 500,000 times from all the people who "love" you makes it extraordinarily difficult to resist that thinking and therefore resist that path. When you are working, no one is giving you that message. They are saying "I need that report next week", which implies you will be alive next week to deliver it. That's a much healthier message than having everyone visit you daily for fear it might be the last chance they have to speak with you as you might drop dead any second now.
Maybe this has something to do with environment. When I lived in the states I bought the cheapest stuff I could get and somehow didn't notice that I had to replace the stuff fairly often. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I've gotten older and lost patience for dealing with things breaking or if living in a country where people really consider quality and long term ownership, but I don't shop for short-term cheap anymore. I care about owning experience, lifetime cost and how painful will it be to me to get it fixed if it breaks.

It's funny but you even have to consider this with consumables like toilet paper. If you get the cheap stuff it's practically half-ply so you have to use 3 times as much. Better to get the 3-ply that costs twice as much.

I answered your BMW comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779306
Zürich, Switzerland

Monthly Expenses $2500+

Wages 100k+
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That’s what it says but that conclusion doesn’t feel any more solid to me than all those in the video.
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Fantastic way to gain insights into the everyday lives of people :-)
Two-week bans? Huh.

It would be fun if they would SUE for license violations (so it's piracy, yay!) next.
Ask HN: Which should I use: Yahoo Groups, Facebook Groups or Google Groups?
I am trying to create an online community (not social network)for Nigerian Internet Entrepreneurs (Globally) and I am wondering what I should use.

I am am looking for something we can use to discuss issues, collaborate, share news, stories, ideas etc. I am familiar with Google Groups via Lean Startup Circle but is seems a bit boring. Facebook Groups require people to join FB not including the additional distractions from logging in. I have not used Yahoo Groups in a long while so I do not know the state.

Are there other options asides the one I mentioned? Of course it would need the special moderating features, and the ability to be invite only etc.

I would really appreciate your feedback.
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GroupSpaces
I've had a lot of respect for the build quality of APC power supplies since an incident where I almost had a fairly large one dropped on me.
Feature Request: Enable me to upload larger images that you could compress-on-the-go.
It beats the entire simplicity of the system if I have to manually compress the images to upload them.
Montevideo, Uruguay

* Rent: $400 (studio 35sq meters) (I actually pay $1000 for a 3 bedroom house - 100 sq meters)
* Internet: $59 (2M/258k adsl)
* Food: $400 (Restaurant meals cost $5 to $25)
* Beer 1 litre: $2
* Corner Bar Food (cheap): $5 - $10
* Books: (2 to 3x US costs)
* Health Insurance: $75
* Summer Vacation Rental (obligatory here): $75 to $150/night x 15 days
* Utilities: $150
* Office (CoworkingMVD): $150
* iPhone Contract: $75
* Fulltime Nanny (for the kids, she also cooks): $400
* MacMini: $1700 (The $600 US one)
* Petrol / Gas: $6 USD / Gallon - $1.5 / litre
* Cars cost 3x US price Honda CRV is $46k new, plus $1k/year license fee (most people take slow buses)

Uruguay used to be quite affordable, but the collapse of the USD, lost %30 of it's value in the last year, and it's not stopped, plus local %6 inflation, has changed things. There's basically no taxes if you do software export, %100 exemption, minus some fees. But there is a %22 VAT and a high import duty. And the Peso is strong and getting stronger, so costs are rising fast. That said, it's basically like living in a smaller european city, both in terms of cost, and quality of life. Software development is exempt from income / corporate taxes, and hiring help (nanny/housekeeper) is quite affordable.

Programmer Salaries range from $750 to $4,000. With $1k to $2k being the norm.

It's hard to read, but here are the new car prices: http://www.gallito.com.uy/Destacados/D71014.jpg There's a %22 VAT on top of the list price.
Doesn't this depend on your target market? The ideal launch date will be different for programmers, cardiologists, and bakers.

Depending on your marketing budget, the ideal 2011 launch dates could include Jan 1 — Dec 31, in monotonically decreasing order of goodness.
LinkedIn is another option.

In terms of 'boring', what should be interesting is the content, not the presentation. HN itself, is pretty 'boring', isn't it?
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Idle speculation:

Could a games publisher sell the 'trusted membership of the online player community' property as a separate thing to the underlying game?

Maybe some sort of rework of the MSCE structure - 'SC2 Certified Player'
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Ask HN: What do you do when you can't sleep...
... but are too tired to work / do much of anything productive? I call this the "entrepreneur's purgatory" and it is something that I seem to have been increasingly experiencing lately. Sometimes it's because I have a new idea floating around in my head I can't let go, sometimes it's because I'm thinking about all the stuff I need to get done the next day. What do y'all do when you can't sleep, but you're too tired to work?
It's different from other cars I've driven
like Macs are different from the windows
boxes I've used.

OT, but am I the only one who doesn't see the appeal of os x? I have had a mac with os x for over a year now (also had macs before it in the system/os 7.x-8.x generation) and I still prefer ubuntu or windows 7 (although not by much).

The hardware is top notch tho.
Interesting that 8 out of the top 10 countries are former British colonies (or Britain itself).
That's incredible, poor guy. It doesn't sound like he got a great deal of compensation, either - I'd be fairly hacked off if my face was half-melted off because of someone else's / a machine's incompetence.
I quite like http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/File-ChangeNotify-0.17/lib/F... for perl. It's cross-platform (backends for linux, OSX/BSD and Win32 afaik), and is very straightforward to use.
1. Write everything which you are thinking about.
2. Read something totally non-technical and off-topic
3. a hot bath and a hot glass of milk
I have never had a good experience with APC UPSs, my favourite anti-feature is the self-test that ends with power to the load being interrupted. The "shuts off instantly when cable connected" anti-feature bit a colleague of mine recently.
ACTA likely to make criminals out of artists
Very interesting, seeing that it is in Erlang also inspires confidence. I've been using another Erlang product recently, RabbitMQ, and the way you can just throw thousands upon thousands of messages on it, under heavy load, and it always delivers, no errors, no problems, amazes me.
Speaking for the Milan Area,

Food: If you cook at home 300eu should be more than enough, if you eat out, well... yours could be a conservative estimate :) Definitely not a place where people eat out that often.

Health Insurance: The state thinks about that (tax-funded universal health care)

Gadgets: $ value translated to € (as in $599Ipad -> 599€Ipad).

Starting Programmer Salary: Real range depending on the contract type (there are a few options), after-tax it could start at around 1200€/mo for a junior (with very little variance) to well below 3000€/mo depending on seniority and the like.
Because your site hijacked my arrow keys, making it difficult to peruse your article how I want?
Brake lights that show intensity: check. I have read of at least 2 proof-of-concept implementations - one is two red bars plus a white bar (white bar should be instantly recognizable as "reverse") another goes circle->triangle (warning) -> large hexagon (stop!)

Update: I believe that some Mercedes models actually have brake lights that flash during strong braking. Google "adaptive brake lights" for more info.
When we get self-driving bikes they'll be able to navigate around human OR robotic cars much more effectively and then you can just relax.
Unless, of course, your email client defaults to not displaying images. Like GMail.
>I feel a lot of our success is due to luck. I guess what I'm most proud of is successfully keeping the culture as well as we have, given all the success and growth that we've had.

Suggests that he wouldn't believe there to be a direct correlation.
These days Sao Paulo has gotten very expensive. I paid $25 USD for a personal pizza, and had friends talk about how cheap a lunch place was, only $7!
Many recent european cars automatically flash warnings when braking strongly.
Wow, where is 'Bash' on that list? While I choose Ruby or (don't laugh) PHP for more complicated things, Bash is what I use for any really easy scripting I have to do.

I haven't taken the time to learn Python, or I'd probably use that over PHP for many things, judging by what I've heard. I'm still learning Ruby as well, or I'd probably use that more, too.
I'm really not a monumental Gore fan or detractor, but I find your insistence that he's unethical puzzling. Usually the left is decried for not taking business considerations into account. Gore is doing the opposite, and being pilloried here even though he's publicly stated his intentions have been to make investments and start companies that would encourage actual change in the market. He's asking for government intervention because thats a major piece of the puzzle, but not focusing solely on it. I'd think that a reasonable business person would be able to appreciate this effort as holistic.

This is the general approach of our era; if there's a vision for the world it had better have a relationship to economy, or it won't amount to much beyond piecemeal charity.
What I mean is that the conversion:

unsigned int flags = -1;

always works, regardless of whether negative numbers are represented in two's complement, one's complement, or sign/magnitude on the underlying hardware.
I'm not sure what you mean.

If you meant "why worry about bits, you should be dealing with values", then there are plenty of cases where that isn't true. Lots of programs (e.g. embedded programs) have to deal with actual bits, not with the values themselves. Just as an example, flags.

(I don't know if this is what you meant, so apologies if I misunderstood your question.)
> The user-wise openness is an implementation detail and may or may not be there.

This is not an implementation detail for the GPL.
To clarify: Social bookmarks? You create a group and invite people to it and everyone can see the bookmarks that are placed into the group?

This sounds like a great add-on to a social network, but not something that I'd sign up for as a standalone product.

Also, a Wiki can do that already, as long as browser integration isn't required.

If we're talking browser integration, there'd need to be some way to sync it with the server. That might be useful, if you can join multiple groups.
This article combines tragically clueless with needlessly alarmist.
>Most people with income of $1000 per month in India can afford a 2 bedroom apartment, a small car and good diet.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm surprised that it would be this much as I'm pretty sure that a couple in the UK can do a 2bed apartment, small car and good diet on the same amount; it would be hard and a little more would make it vastly easier.

Maybe we're just doing austerity better than I thought we were.
From my understanding GroupSpaces is ideal for hierarchically structured groups e.g oExecutive to members. This is more like a flattened distributed groups where person to person interaction is the way.
Ask HN: Am I doing this right (launching, press releases, blogs)
We created our SaaS app (pacpacs.com) and initially released it as a kind of preview/trial to a select few people. We found it very hard to follow the "release early" mantra since the MVP for our service was not really that minimal, so drumming up any hype for the unfinished product was tricky.

A few days ago we opened our doors to the public and I'm now trying to get the word around.

I've started emailing relevant blogs and have put together a more formal 'press release' type page that I am linking to in my emails (https://www.pacpacs.com/press/20101007). But I'm not getting much of a response.

Is this the method most other people use in more niche industries?
Should we consider paying a newswire service to run the release too?

And a longshot: are there any physical therapists on HN that might be interested in giving any feedback :)

Any feedback on the site/service/biz much appreciated!
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I wonder where they got the within the requirements of the open source community. It doesn't sound like something they would just make up.
HN / reddit / slashdot / ...
Sounds rather like Delicious, just with privacy restrictions. Although, I can see myself using something like this.

Here's what Delicious's FAQ (http://www.delicious.com/help/faq#network) has to say about it:

Can I share a bookmark with just the people in my Network?

No, bookmarks can only be public or private right now. We may add something like that in the future, though.
Other option: self hosted groupware, please specify?
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I recall an article on here not too long ago about mine cars (I believe in Australia) that ran 20kph and 10 meters apart when driven by human, but over 120kph and 6cm apart when driven by robots (numbers completely pulled by memory and almost certainly all wrong). Robotic drivers will be better in almost every way. All of your concerns go for people as well and people have proven themselves very bad at driving.

My biggest fear is that there will be a manual override.
If I remember correctly BMWs have a high intensity brake light under emergency braking.
Google Bookmarks also does this - I think it's now superior to Delicious.
> In-ear headphones that automatically pause music when removed. The details mention using either a proximity detector to discover when the headphones are in the ear, or a strain gauge to detect the pressure of the ear canal.

The general idea is good but the implementation is odd. It should be enough to do like the ipod/iphone, that pauses the music if you unplug the earphones. I don't know if it's a original idea by Apple, but I love it.
How would dishonest people exploit Marco's proposed solution?
I guess I'll bite to then :)
Yes that is more or less it. If for example you work for a company and have company based bookmarks - you could create a work network (like Yammer) and you can then bookmark just like you would normally with say Delicious - add tags, categories etc.

However other people in your company could join your network and you can then see what each other are bookmarking (it is social bookmarking but with a like minded audience). No one could see into your network except the members of that network.

This could be something fun like a sports club based network where like minded people are all bookmarking useful sporting sites etc or it could work for a business who want to share work links.
Platforms differ, and the limits.h reflects this, that's the point. We should use the abstractions (the #defines) of the standard library, i.e. refer to these values by their names, that's the way to write portable software.
> I think the best solution would be one completely within Safari - window.external.AddFavorite or something similar.

But then, what of native applications? And what if you actually just want to send a URL to an other native application? Also, AddFavorite (terrific casing from the MSIE team here) with arbitrary JS?

Also, if the registry/send to method works with offline web applications, then there is no restriction, the site "just" need to bundle a small offline webapp able to handle the information (not sure if there is any specified way for the OS/shell to send data to offline web applications though)
You could setup your own NNTP server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol
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I totally disagree. We don't need mass transport to deal with pollution, we need transportation that doesn't rely on fossil fuels.

Personally I view mass transport as the stop gap to deal with the fact that cars really suck today. Mass transport will never be optimal because (a) it is mass transport, which means sharing space with a bunch of (potentially sick) strangers and (b) the bigger the group the less common the final location. A car can go exactly from point A to point B but a train can only go between stations. Every change between train (city-to-city) to tram/bus (location within city) is wasted time, as is every tram/bus stop that you don't use.

In my perfect world we would get rid of mass transport and just have a sort of network of cars. Most trips people take are planned well in advance so you could schedule when you want to leave, walk outside and step into the car that's waiting there for you, kick back and wait to be let out at the door of where ever it is you're going. The car wont need to park because when it's done with you it goes for the next person.

Something like this would be much more efficient than mass transport that has to just keep on making the same trips regardless of how many or how few people are using it at those times because people might need to use it.
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That FAQ is almost exactly what we want to offer. I have completely different bookmarks at work to what I do at home. People at work would find my browser bookmarks really useful but some of these are sensative and have no place in the cloud. The idea therefore is to create a solution for this problem (if one does not exist already).
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He is able to function perfectly well, except for the fact that he has occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

How the hell is that perfectly well!? Sounds like something out of a Monty Python sketch ... oh just some small seizures, but he's fine really. It's perfectly safe to stick your head in a proton beam kids. Perfectly safe.

Really interesting though, I was under the impression the beams needed a very strong magnetic field to remain stable. How come he was able to stick his head in one?
Exactly. Phone manufactures are in the pocket of the carriers (as google proved with the Nexus one, you can't sell phones without carrier relations) and carriers don't like rooting as it limited their options to block certain software and services (e.g. VOIP / tethering).
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FTA: “The VSS Enterprise was a real joy to fly, especially when one considers the fact that the vehicle has been designed not only to be a Mach 3.5 spaceship capable of going into space but also one of the worlds highest altitude gliders” Siebold said after the flight.

That quote is just awesome. It's one thing to make something cool, but another altogether to make it cool -and- fun to operate. I just have to respect that.
Yeah. I often take them out momentarily to talk to someone or do something and having to pull out the player and restart the track would be annoying.

Unless of course it detected when you put them back in and resumed.
I can handle $1k / month, I just prefer not to. I go out for coffee periodically, which would bring that number up, but that's usually business-related. I can legally bill in RMB.

$2500 sounds really high for visa and entry /exit expenses, unless you're including plane tickets. My year-long visa was $100-200. Anyway, I see you're near Dongzhimen - I'm near Yonghegong, so not far. I'll drop you a line some time.
It's good but doesn't work exactly how I would like it to - if you are listening to something on headphones, plug the device into a docking station you get the audio out through the speakers but when you unplug the headphones the audio stops.