skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upgrading cars is about a lot more than just performance...

That new stereo the neighbour kid has? Upgrade. Those new Xeon headlamps that jackass coming the other way on the country road has? Upgrade. Those new windshield wipers you got last year that don't totally suck? Upgrade. Those big rims you see on cars at the local 7-11 once in a while? Upgrade. Just about every single jeep wrangler you have ever seen? Five thousand upgrades. There is a whole class of car for which it is more rare to see a stock specimen than modified. Check out a used car magazine sometime. The number of companies just making aftermarket suspension kits alone for specific models of Jeeps is absurd.

The aftermarket industry for automobiles is massive, and the automotive industry for the most part accommodates it very nicely. This is because, presumably, they are not comfortable with marginalizing what you seem to describe as an insignificant minority. Car enthusiasts.

I can see why the automotive industry may be unfamiliar to a lot of HNers (Lots of us live in cities (hell, these days my car is lucky if I use it once a month), spend our time avoiding grease, and have large salaries so our cars represent a relatively small or otherwise inconsequential investment). But just because it is fairly invisible to you does not mean it does not exist.
In past 2 weeks, I have had 2 friends (from UK and India) asking me if I'm on Whatsapp. I felt a bit outdated for not being on it. It reminded me of early days of FB/Twitter.
The main reason I think, is because its hard.

Either you use a 3rd party service to encrypt, its easy and also extremely dumb (since its not end to end encryption).

Either you use PGP or SMIME and guess what: it's too hard. Their design is fine. I especially like GnuPG (PGP), but the UI, even in CLI, is terrible, terrible!

Most people don't even understand that a GnuPG keychain generally contains 2 private keys, not one (one for signing, one for encryption!) or the concept of master signing key and subkeys.

These concepts are relatively simple, but their use is hard. Terribly hard.
"Summoning a taxi or car service with your smartphone feels like the future"

I remember doing that in 1998 by dialling a number.
This is interesting because it is probably more likely to affect power users. Computer illiterates wouldn't know to search. Novices would use the search menu. It's not until you hit intermediate level and higher that you are likely to see the shortcut keys being used.
Life:
Giving up the entire notion of a proper job being a 9 to 5 daily grind in the office. Have not had a 'proper job' for a while and instead I have been doing freelancing/contracting which gives me more time to try out and learn new things.

Also, like the OP, taking good care of my body which means quitting cigarettes, 2-mile runs every day and watching what I eat.

Programming:
I'm lucky enough at this point of my life to be able to choose the projects that I take on. These few years have thought me never again will I compromise on my promise to deliver quality projects to people. It really stresses me out when bosses change deadlines on a whim and expect you to meet it. Now that I'm older, I would tell them respectfully to get someone else if they really need to meet that target that bad.

In my experience, 90% of the time, nothing good ever came out of imposing stupid/unrealistic deadline. All you get are burnt out programmers, code which resembles a travesty rather than a working application and a mountain of technical debt.

At the end of the day, some people measure themselves from the car they drive, the houses they live in, how much money they make and to me, that's perfectly fine(whatever motivates you, man).

For me, just being able to help people with projects that are meaningful to me, and not having to stay at a job because I needed the money is to me, the best thing in the world right now.
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Actually, current scientific evidence says otherwise.
Don't feel outdated in avoiding a sick technology. Did you mention to them that's it's insecure and proliferates walled IMs? Not that it can convince everyone to avoid it, but some are just unaware how bad it is. Whatsapp developers play on people's ignorance regarding security, as well as on apparent attractiveness of "ease of use" with skipping the registration step (which precisely causes all the security issues). It's a really nasty thing to do.

Here is for the reference:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Account-theft-sti...

As a worthy alternative propose your friends to switch to any federated XMPP service.
No, the concept is that the 'sender' has to send less because the receiver takes some of the load. What ends up happening (for content with enough viewers) is that, on average, you transmit as much data as you receive, so the cost returns to being split evenly. Only now the actual usage is split evenly.
I get the feeling that they are no so much pulling C++ back as rather more prominently showing us where it has always been. There has always an underlying C/C++ based Win32 and kernel library for example, but the .NET BCL hid much of that. Now in Win8, C++ is a first class citizen for designing Windows UIs again, along with C#.
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How about the both of you rub those brain cells together and see if you can organize a cogent point. Otherwise, piss off.
As for your first paragraph, of course. I was just pointing out how things are with states, but you're right that for property it extends to individuals. As for your second, communism begs to differ, but it hasn't done so admirably in the world...

http://dbzer0.com/blog/private-property-vs-possession

It would be nice if a society could exist that wasn't reliant on violence and also not suck, but I'm not sure if it's really possible.

Oh and "this is mine" has meaning in the context of a relationship where one party will simply be upset if the object is taken and the other party cares enough about them not to take it for that reason, even though there is no threat of violence if they do. This is how many couples and families work.
Right, and Macs are optimized for performance and physical aesthetics, not practical servicability. Sound familiar?
A reasonable point, but assuming you want a Mac, on balance I think it's better to get a somewhat upgradeable model than abandon the platform altogether. Apple seems to be on the edge between continuing to support general purpose computing and migrating everyone to an iOS-style walled garden. By buying Macs but not iPhones or iPads, I'm hoping to increase the demand for actual computers over appliances that are locked down with the force of law.
Not sure what the performance or aesthetic improvement would be in this case?
There certainly was drama, but nobody believes that other manufacturers are any better, so I wouldn't call it "save face": Apple can actually gain a marketable advantage over everybody else here.
3D Rendering Tutorial
Ask HN: What takes you too long to find?
For example, PHP functions or car specs. If there was one thing you could find more quickly, what would it be? All of your answers will help me a lot, so thanks!
There is a silver bullet that would make C++ very competitive for most of the web/db centric apps:

It is Reflection/introspection capability built into the language.

Without it -- it is impossible to do DB structures to C++ structure mappings, or UI fields to C++ structures mapping.

There are of course work arounds (QT's macros, pre-compilers, etc).

Every time I approached this topic with some in C++ community, the answer always was ' C++ philosophy is -- if you do not use a feature of a language you will not pay a performance penality for it'.

Reflection, obvsiosly adds performance penalty.
When I suggest that it should be a compiler switch (like RTTI) -- the reply I get -- is that reflection cannot be turned on/off on per compilation unit., and instead must be on per project level.
But C++ standard does not define 'project level' compilation option -- therefore, not acceptable.

That's pretty much where this discussion gets stuck
Integrity is Forever
I am responding to your post on a 5+ year-old Mac with upgraded RAM and a replaced battery. The upgrade/refreshability is a key factor in this machine being worth the premium price it cost.
Victoria's Secret used to (still does?) make their products in Honduras and then send the essentially-finished garments to the US, where inmates in private prisons sew on "Made in USA" labels. Because the "Made in USA" labels are sewn on, that counts as the final step in the assembly process, even though literally nothing but the "Made in USA" tag is even made in the USA.
My, my, this is a postful! You think scarily close to how I do, and I'm a big fan of Sublime's Cmd-P, so this is full of insights, thanks! Just wondering if you've ever tried Jekyll, as I see it as the natural publishing platform to a dev's blogging workflow.
Cheaper insurance,
Women,
Keys
I had the same realization at about 23 (I'm 26 now). I'd like to talk. What's your email? It's not in your profile.
^ This -- nailed it.
> That is, is the decision to use glue instead of magnets out of an engineering concern?

Some of the new iMacs are being assembled in the US from factory "D2". I suspect the decision to use glue instead of user serviceable parts like screws/magnets is to reduce the amount of human labor required for assembly.
The Cell and The Pyramid
Take Heart: You’re in the Arena.
SMART car is $12-$25K now, so that problem is solved.
I would guess mainly because a Microwave starts at ~$30 whereas an iMac starts at about $1000 and obviously cars are even more.

This stuff becomes important when you have an item that is expensive enough to bother repairing.

I guess most people would be pissed if they spent $20,000 on a new car and when the clutch failed were told they needed to replace the entire car or spend many thousands of $ having the entire transmission rebuilt rather than being able to take it down to the local repair shop and have them do it within a day for a few hundred $.
Agreed. It's very interesting.
And as a junior Android Application Developer, I've learnt so much in less than 30 minutes.

To Romain Guy, please keep it up. Thanks !
There's absolutely no doubt that all the components were made overseas, the boards made and populated overseas, and probably the aluminum casing as well though that is conceivably Made in USA. The glass might be made in USA, a lot of Corning was at least recently.

It's final assembly, screwing the parts together. Gluing the screen. No screws in the screen, so perhaps Apple imagines that connecting cables and gluing the screen counts as assembly, and who is to say otherwise.
So much for insightful.
This is very much a erroneous filler post with such highlights as:
Acton’s most recent tweet was on January 13, 2012 (no, he’s not an active tweeter), a day notable for Whatsapp getting pulled from the App Store (restored four days later). The tweet was “Whatsapp.”

But, it's an interesting suggestion I am sure many of us have pondered. Although a distaste for startups that sell out quickly as we have learnt time and time again: everyone has their price.
Do any major browsers have a setting to disable overriding default keyboard shortcuts

I don't know about that. When I'm using a web-based word processor or spreadsheet I want CMD+s to save the document I'm working on instead of bringing up the "Save Web Page As" dialog....
Interested to find out the results of this!
I'm gonna chime in and say that I would certainly propose sharing as a permanent state of affairs. Just not sharing the works of authors who'd prefer we didn't. I propose we move toward listening to/watching/playing more stuff that's Creative Commons or similarly licensed.

Mix that in with a bit of Work-for-Hire for things no-one really wants to make, and it would hopefully be viable. Maybe I'm an idealist.
Very entertaining, wish there was an Android/online version.

Though the title is misleading - nothing is censored. It seems like a variant of bubbling: making fully clothed people look nude in a SFW way.
Chef Solo Demo (open source infrastructure management)
"decreasing the U.S. incarceration rate, which is the highest in the world"

I suppose that is one way to reduce incarceration rates: reduce the number of laws.

I seriously doubt the majority of incarcerations involve a regular person just smoking a few joints. Most are hardcore drug users that committed other crimes or dealers (which will still be illegal).

"raise U.S. tax revenue from drug sales, instead of sending the money to Mexican drug lords"

If drug users really cared about the violence in Mexico, they would boycott any drugs grown in Mexico. I haven't even seen this as a suggestion. Why?

"spend some of this new tax revenue on actually rehabilitating drug users, instead of sending them to prisons, where they often come out worse than they went in."

I thought drugs were okay? Why do we need to spend the money we get from drug revenue to rehabilitate addicts? There are plenty of other things that could use that money..like paying down the national debt.

"I could go on. Drug legalization was tried in Portugal, which had a massive drug problem, and it solved most of their problems."

I would really like to see some pros and cons. The problem is that all of the pro-drug users only want to talk about the great things (and deny any of the bad ones).

Until we can have an open and honest discussion, there won't be any progress.
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> The cars and drivers are still subject to existing regulations,

Is this not what Uber's crying about? You want to have it both ways?

> and customers safety are still protected under exactly the same regulations as that of those who hail a cab in traditional means.

Not at all true. For one, Uber is using unapproved and therefore possibly fraudulent measuring devices. Again, you can't have it both ways: you can't both complain that existing regs are stifling Uber and need to go, and also that customers are fully protected by existing regulations.
Don't be a hater
It's $200 per marginal 8GB, actually. Per 1 GB, that's only a $20 markup over fair market value of the RAM. It's not so much when you say it that way, just like a text message is only 10c each, for each of the thousands Twitter/AIM generates.
Hey, it takes a lot of effort and sweat-of-the-brow to be born as the kid of some rich dude!

I've been trying for years and I still haven't managed it!
That's a very wrong way of thinking about the problem. It's not actually a human error except in the strictest sense. Imagine if the mechanism for flying an airplane involved a thousand different levers that all need to be carefully moved in concert in order to avoid crashing. Is crashing such an unflyable plane a "human error"?

The problem here is that browsers allow overiding ctrl-f and almost no users realize this is possible. It's not just a human problem, it's also a browser design problem. Browser makers have trained their users to trust that pressing ctrl-f will pull up a find dialog, it's as much their fault as it is user's fault.
Actually I poked around the site more; it's not as bad as I thought (it takes normal credit cards, although authorize.net is kind of a pain). And the non-DRM ebooks are fairly acceptable. I'd still strongly prefer Amazon, but wouldn't pirate out of spite.
Shifting? Apple has sold appliances for over 28 years.
A shim is a thin and small piece of wood used to fill in small gaps. They make a very poor analogy to web browsers, which are tremendously sophisticated user-facing apps in their own right, and that dwarf the high level "UIs" they support in complexity.
He means when displaying the icons on a webpage. You use one big tiff file, which is loaded using just one connection. Then with CSS you choose which part of the big tiff file you want displayed (as an icon). Like "show the second icon on the 5th row". Try googling "CSS Sprites".
Great. Good humor too.
I'd also say it's worth taking a look at the book Talent is Overrated. It explores HOW you practice, a step beyond the 10,000 hour rule. http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-World-Class-Performer...
straight links to media files, it usually takes like four clicks, and that's if I make a good query to start with
In some cases you're actually helping the owner's chances of selling it to you in the future. Sometimes I pirate something and it's so good that I just have to buy it.

Of course, in a lot of cases demos would work well for that, but they seem to have fallen out of favour recently.
will share with you when it's done. thank you!
In a symbolic shift, IBM's India workforce exceeds U.S.
> I've never been to New York, but I've never been on a Uber thread without hearing some New Yorker claim that taxis won't offer universal service

Uber's business strategy in New York is (or at least should be) different from Uber pretty much anywhere else, because the New York market for taxis/liveries is so different (which in turn stems from New York transportation in general being unique).

I've asked every Uber driver I've had (in both NYC and SF) a few questions, both about themselves and their passengers, and every single confirmed my hypothesis that Uber in SF is seen much more as a replacement/alternative to the regular taxi cabs, whereas Uber in NYC is more of a luxury service - similar to a limousine, though to a lesser extent.

Outside the tech community, people here (NYC) don't seem to view Uber as competing with the medallion cabs at all, which is why their decision to sign yellow cabs (illegally) made no sense. One driver told me that he had just finished dropping of a passenger who only wanted to drive three blocks, just so that he could show up at the club in a black town car instead of a yellow cab(!).
As a frequent user of WhatsApp, I'm nervous about facebook buying it and messing it up.

WhatsApp is nice because it's the de facto way of communicating with groups of friends and across borders. Its fast and works on many devices. Yes, I know there is no security built in. I'm okay with that, and I have a suspicion many users would be okay with it also if they don't already know it.
We as individuals don't have a say in how the state works in any meaningful way. There is absolutely no difference, in practice or theory, between a "criminal" busting down my door or a "DEA agent" busting down my door. The fact that >50% of society supposedly approves of the "DEA agent" is no consolation and certainly no justification to the victim.
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Ha - this is what I was thinking the entire time. As long as humans are physical, we will be subject to coercion. I think Assange has good points, but the internet could still be used for plenty of harm even if they couldn't tell exactly what you're saying - even that is doubtful.
Hit up with those in HackerSpaceSG maybe?
If you take a glance at the development of Constitutional law you realize the document itself is largely meaningless. What matters is the progression of SCOTUS cases that interpret a simple archaic document in order to apply it to a massive, complex government.

It's quite easy for a Supreme Court to rationalize the disposal of civil liberties. Look at air travel. The argument is that people are consenting to the invasive searches because they are choosing to fly; never mind that flying is basically the only reasonable way of getting across this giant country. They can say the same thing about the internet. "You are consenting to use the option of internet based communication. If you want privacy, speak in person."
When I posted this article, I considered changing the title because I agree that it is somewhat sensationalist and slightly misleading. I chose just to keep the actual article headline because I couldn't think of anything better at the moment. Would it have been better to change it? (I honestly don't know the HN norms)
Per 1GB, that's a $20 markup over $5.
That's probably because it's Windows-only. In the Humble Bundles, Windows users consistently give less than Mac users, who consistently give less than Linux users. Most bundles are cross-platform, so the average is higher.

It's only about a dollar, maybe two, lower than average anyway.
> If they don't continue to expand aggressively, someone will eat their lunch, ala Groupon.

Groupon had no competitive advantage, barriers to entry, or economies of scale. If anything, they had a competitive disadvantage due to merchants' impressions of their brand (versus others), and diseconomies of scale, because of the Ponzi-like business model which has been discussed elsewhere on HN.

Uber has a major competitive advantage in that they already have drivers on the road. That's not everything, but it's a lot.
Minifiers don't just remove whitespace. Eliminating comments, for example, can save a lot (although it seems that most HTML out there is poorly commented in the first place). A smart minifier can also drop optional closing tags like </li> for a bit more gain (although I don't know of a minifier that does).
Why would people be OK with constant security risk, but not OK with one time registration step for normal XMPP service? XMPP clients are available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. So it's a really interesting psychological hook that Whatsapp developers catch their users on here, offering a completely inferior solution, with selling it of for the fake attraction.
I think that #STOPSOPA has clearly demonstrated that a lot of people making noise can influence the United States at the very least; and the United States has a number of economic and political tools (I'm not including military tools here) that it can use to influence the decisions of many less than democratic regimes. Politicians are more willing to advocate the use of these tools publically if they think that 1) People care about this; 2) People support using them.