skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea, but I actually think Edmund's TCO is a bit more comprehensive and uses real world data for each car.

http://www.edmunds.com/porsche/911/2011/tco.html?style=10138...
scroll down. He explains his algorithm :
"The caclulator uses exponential depreciation is used to calclate the cost of depreciation and the asset value of a car over time"

That sounds like a fair way to do it.
Absolutely agree on these guidelines. It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself out there in public. It should take just as much class to offer advice and constructive criticism instead of tearing somebody else's work down.

edit also, is it just me or is the front page plastered with Show HN links? Does anybody else think that's awesome?
Show HN: My Static Page HTML App To Track And Recommend Books For Hackers
Well, my wife polishes her heeled shoes as well and someday we'd like to market to women. But our target market right now is men. More opportunity for someone (yourself?) to open a competing store for women (or unisex), right?
Really well done article. Though I'm not sure if I should leave it feeling angry or just laughing. Nothing about the article is really surprising though. Kind of reminds me of this:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/22/292467...
Which you can also get by hitting Ctrl-T. This works for FreeBSD too. (Not sure about the other BSDs.)
OK, I'll bite.

No, it actually doesn't work. While it does sound like a good idea in theory (tit-for-tat), in practice greedy corporations (I mean that neutrally, in the capitalist sense where corporations have a duty to extract maximum profits) have powerful incentives to shaft employees over these benefits in order to maximise shareholder value.

In an ideal scenario, companies would compete for employees, and would provide good benefits to out-offer other companies. In practice, a large part of the workforce is groveling for jobs and will accept any raw deal for some kind of income.

Oh hey, egregious example: Walmart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart#Health_ins...

Or that thing that's been in the news lately: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/30/hobby-lobby-...

Or some random link from "company denies healthcare news" search:
http://www.news-leader.com/story/money/2014/03/18/washington...
In principle, this isn't a good fit for Show HN since the project has been discussed before, including recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716859

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

But since today is turning into a Show HN carnival, have at it.
> Does that make me "less sophisticated" than somebody who looks at their wedding ring and says "Gold prices are up from when we got married; let's cash this sucker in and make some profit"?

They wouldn't buy a ring in the first place.
only OS X Docker client exist.

"The Docker Engine uses Linux-specific kernel features, so to run it on OS X we need to use a lightweight virtual machine (vm).

You use the OS X Docker client to control the virtualized Docker Engine to build, run, and manage Docker containers.

To make this process easier, we've designed a helper application called Boot2Docker that installs the virtual machine and runs the Docker daemon."

https://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/
Fill out the signup form at the bottom to try the beta.
I wanted to inspect the network tab in Chrome and it froze the whole browser.
Version press still doesn't have a defined pricing structure. Competing against Open Source on Github doesn't bode well for them!
Hey, good to hear from you. Yes, we've just released our public beta and you can download it on our website if you join the beta program.

About Windows Live Writer, we do have a lot of beta users that migrate from Windows to Mac and are helping us building a very good product. WLW still have a lot of users but Microsoft decided to shut it down. :/
Show HN: Musicality Chrome Ext. - Playback controls for your favorite players
danso, that's an interesting idea, but it goes against one goals stated
in the site guidelines, namely, a user should not be able to give their
own comment or opinion preferential placement. It's the reason why urls
in text posts are not turned into links (anchors), and why we're never
supposed to editorialize submission titles. The same is true for rank
weighting, since text based submissions sink faster than url based
submissions.

Though not exactly, the guidelines roughly suggest a way around this
issue; write something on your own site, and submit that instead. If the
guidelines haven't changed since the last time I read them a week ago,
pg essentially said to write your own blog post and submit it, or
something like that. e.g.

http://example.com/show-hn.html

This solves all of the problems, but few people realize it.

One of the tougher problems I've had on /newest with url based
submissions is differentiating between spam links and people who just
forgot to add the leading "Show HN:" when submitting their new site/biz.
If you create a new travel, dentistry, or cooking site and forget the
"Show HN:" on your submission title, there's a good chance I'll flag it
as spam. I try to be lenient because I really want to avoid clobbering
someone who is just starting out.
I've always viewed it as an arms race to see who can get away with what between providers, insurers, and patients (and before ACA, employers to a degree).

The true cost of service at this point includes having staff and systems (with their own support staff) to negotiate and calculate the cost on both the insurer and the provider side.

So, in a way, if you have one particularly tough to deal with insurer, that cost gets distributed among all patients, and their insurers as well. In addition, the basic cost of any visit now includes some of that administrative overhead.

In the oil change analogy, if you had to walk into the shop, and there was a base price of $50 to cover the administrative costs, you had to wait until you saw a mechanic to decide if you really needed an oil change, and they charged $50, and then you paid the $20 dollars for the oil change, you can bet by now someone would have started marketing a per-visit copay style insurance for cars too.

None of this is to say I disagree with you, just that it's even worse than I think we all think it is.
It looks like the 20% is 20% of the value that year, so it looks like value is shown with exponential decay.

So if a car starts out at $20,000 it will be worth $16,000 the next year, $12,800 after the second year, and $10,240 after the third. Notice that around the third year, the decrease in value slows considerably.
The consequence will be a lot more Show HN on the front page, a bit like the "upvote all Show HN" day which broke HN completely. I'm seeing it already.
ClearVoice Launches New Tool to Showcase Content Authority
Hi, co-organizer here. I definitely hear you on this. I actually ran something called the “NOSQL Summer” a few years back and we ran into a similar question, so we created a bunch of “NOSQL Winter” aliases to cover people in the Southern hemisphere. We may do something like that for the SoS as well.

It’s hard to resist names with Summer in them, because it’s a handy trope with lots of positive connotations. Summer (no matter which months of the year it happens in) is a good time for passion projects and the like. Plus there is the trend established by the “Google Summer of Code”, “Rails Girls Summer of Code”, “Infinite Summer”, etc.
please flag and move on then, rather than start a conversation about how bad it is.
Great idea "Paul" but the problem is not with the length of the name or difficulty, but with the fact that people I just met are trying to assign me a name I may not like.
Show HN: Trending topic data collector for Facebook
I built WhatsBuzzing - http://heyjimmy.net/whatsbuzzing

Its use is two-fold:

1) General users on Facebook can login and see the top 40 trending topics on their Newsfeed, through statuses and comments.

2) Data is collected and access is going to be sold to third parties like advertisers, designers, and media companies. With this data they can get a real feel for what people are thinking about topics like, the World Cup, or a new movie, Coca-Cola, etc.

I just need to get users now :)
thanks for helping :)
Inside Monsanto, America's Third-Most-Hated Company
OK, just to clarify - I wanted to point out that the site basically says "once you're reading this, you're getting tracked" paradox warning in a (IMO) funny way.

I don't agree at all with these practices.
Most people post on both Hacker News and Product Hunt anyway, and they probably still will.
To echo dang, we (Product Hunt) certainly can't take any credit for "inspiring" Show HN. It's existed for years.
Don't the maintenance costs go up after a while. Otherwise people would only buy 10 year old cars as they'd be like 20-30k cheaper :D
Yeah, that has actually been an issue for us during development. Something like this requires quite a few more assets than a normal webpage, and clearly Chrome's Dev Tools don't handle that too well.
Maybe there's just both kinds of people working at the NSA...
I can't imagine how a service like that could be profitable. Is it just for the Chicago area?
The Ideas That Won’t Beat LinkedIn
"as more xbox and playstation users switch to PCs"

Is that actually the case? Sure, you can get more horsepower from your PC, and they continue to advance as a console becomes obsolete, but that HP also comes at a much higher price tag (even if you build your own rig, as many of us do). A PC also add complexity.

I'm not convinced that more people are switching to PC. The PS4 has so far outsold all of its predecessors. Perhaps more people are playing games on a PC (and I'm not counting mobile stuff here, different audience), but I don't think that it's coming at the expense of consoles.
Your drugs are expensive because the rest of the world freeloads by artificially restricting the selling price of drugs, leaving the US to bear the brunt of the R&D costs.

Your FDA and legal system pushes up the price of medical devices.

But yes, you have the most unnecessarily complex and convoluted health care administrative structure known to man.
I'm using an exponential depreciation function to calculate the cost of the car in time. The car loses most of it's value during the first few years.
Intel ahead of regulation removing conflict minerals from their supply chain
Feedback greatly appreciated!
Kaiser is great. The problem is with Kaiser is that it's not available nationwide. If I remember, it's only available in big metros.
I got taught the various levels of FU (f*ck you) money...

Here are the responses available, when dealing with a pain in the ass at work:

Level 1) FU, I don't have to work here.. but I should probably find a job in the sometime near future.. like.. the next year

Level 2) FU, I don't have to work here.. or anywhere. I'm out

Level 3) FU, I don't have to work here.. or anywhere... I'm going to my yacht.

I got level 1 ;)
I prefer `alt+.`, which does the same thing without having to reach for the ESC key.
> how much of a pain in the ass it is to get an insurance claim on your house or your car or whatever filled.

I have had nothing but excellent experiences with both my car insurance company and my homeowners insurance company.

The trick to having a good relationship with your insurance company is to have a good insurance company.
> Not sure what I would do with such a typeface!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO DOESN'T LOVE ALLCAPS? I DON'T NEED NUMBERS, EITHER. X EQUALS FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY NINE POINT ONE FIVE FIVE SIX THREE. SEE?

IT'S LIKE I'M WRITING IN COBOL. THIS IS FUN.
There's a definite influx of Show HN submissions happening right now. I see 7 in the top 30; I've never seen that many before.

I'm sure they won't remain at this level, but I hope formalizing the action will encourage more to post. I also hope that there is less of an expectation of a perfect product when something is submitted, and we can respectfully offer advice. I've seen some products that were obviously weekend hacks torn apart as if there were a 15 person team building them for a year.
The statistics on medically-related bankruptcy are usually flawed, and overstate the extent of this problem. They usually assume that if you owed more than $(small amount) in healthcare debt, (exact amount varies by study,) the bankruptcy was caused by this debt. Some of the better studies use healthcare debt as % of total debt accumulated in year(s) before bankruptcy, and come out with much lower figures.[1]

It makes sense that if you owe a lot of money, some of it would be to a sector which makes up a large part of the economy, and an even larger part of consumer spending. To put it another way, if you measured the impact of car debt the same way that most studies measure the impact of healthcare debt, you would see that cars cause many, if not most bankruptcies (which is an absurd result, as most people can easily liquidate a car and move to a lower cost option).

[1] will get a citation when I have a little more time
... you get a arrested for having a "very high score".

Considering this is PRECISELY how spam filtering works, it doesn't seem entirely irrational.

Much like spam filtering, it would all come down to dialing in your filters and picking a good threshold.

Hell, if the system was good enough, it could actually improve freedoms. We currently arrest many innocent people as part of the legal process (who are later exonerated). What if our "arrest filter" outperformed the current system, in terms of percentage of innocent people arrested? It doesn't have to be perfect to be better.
Make it free now and see where it goes?
Hey you guys: you're tripping HN's voting ring detector like mad, and all the new accounts you're creating are just getting themselves and the rest of you penalized. Please don't do that! (And no sockpuppet comments either.)

Best of luck with the project!

Edit: oh, I'm afraid this post doesn't qualify to be a Show HN because the product isn't ready to be tried out. As the new guidelines say (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html), landing pages and beta signups definitely don't count. But you're welcome to do a Show HN later when the product is ready to be played with.

If I'm reading this wrong, let us know (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll put "Show HN" back in the title.
Unfortunately I can't... lots of people "didn't" do too well, since it was a little early exit.. I was in early enough that I did well..
The problem there is, I have no idea how to model maintenance costs! The field is basically a hack. If there is a better way, I'd like to do that.
How often do you scrape the link to check the changes?
A suggestion: make a google query with the story title and monitor other similar stories to the recipients email, similar stories might provide additional information =)
Not only do we integrate Facebook we also link their Foursquare, Google Places, Twitter, Yelp, Instagram accounts.

Here are some good example pages:

http://www.goodbeernyc.com/
http://www.seadogkeywest.com/
http://www.dcfdavis.org/
http://www.rescatefamilycenter.org/

Any feedback would greatly appreciated.

Protip: If you don't want to actually auth our Facebook app. You can put any facebook page id or user name in this url. Example with 'goodbeernyc' username. http://facebook.12engines.com/goodbeernyc
> are afraid they may to have to give them up if word gets out and the courts or legislators start taking a closer look

Seems more like it was the DOJ that was placing strings on access to the devices.
How will 'Show HN' differ from Product Hunt? Is PH going to become subset of Show HN?
War-hole, like holes. Andy War-hole.
Show HN: Another way to bookmark
First thing I saw "só testando mesmo" in the screen cap. Well, parece legal (looks cool), I'd like to test it out but, unfortunately, I've got the only mac (the original MBA) that doesn't allow upgrading to 10.8/9.

Nice work, though
Thanks for reading, and the kind words. It's paid back pretty well, but the drop off has been tremendous so only time will tell.
> In bash, 'ctrl-r' searches your command history

No! In emacs ctrl-r searches your command history. It happens that bash use emacs mode by default. All other emacs basic commands work too: ctrl-p, ctrl-n, ctrl-f etc...

If you are a vim user, and especially if you love venting how much you hate emacs, then please add this to your bashrc:

set -o vi

and now you can use vim command instead of emacs.
1st freeze with mirror
2nd at the table. couldnt do any moves. and now I cannot join "premium members can only play at 2 tables"
Thanks, we're all enjoying the Show HN carnival today :)
Better still - write flattering descriptions. "Cute guy with red shirt", "Woman in pretty dress", etc.
Breaking Spotify DRM using Statistics and Dyanamic Analysis
Now we are into serious nit-picking land, but anyway:

The font used by this site is the "Fixedsys" system font from Windows, not any CGA/EGA/VGA text mode font.
> 'htop' instead of 'top'

meh, I don't like htop. "atop" on the other hand!!!
Samwer Brothers' Cloning Rocket Goes to Warp Speed
I wasn't familiar with MonkeyParking until now and a quick glance at the top results on google doesn't make it exactly clear to me what the problem with their service is.

How are people hoarding public parking spaces? Surely it can't be cost effective for people to be repeatedly parking, selling the spot, then driving until they find a new one, but that's the only real abuse I could see of the system.

Can you explain what the problem is with the service for those of us not in SF and not familiar with MonkeyParking?
Thanks Tim, I know it wasn't malicious. The only reason I decided to make the point was because it is a trend. And because I think to half the world it's an invisible problem.
Show HN: ClearVoice - Transparent Search Index of Top Content Producers
Show HN: Source code for my online resume simple page template
Some questions that I have:

Is the documentation clear?

Is there anything that I can do to further simplify anything?

Are the security measures too aggressive? Not aggressive enough?
fwiw I was able to get a test post working in Slack and the Save seemed to work, but the confirmation link in Slack 404'd.
Keep up the great work, guys!
Offline Browsing Secrets In Chrome
Show HN: A Rogue State Along Two Rivers
There's no good way to refer to the entire DOS/Windows command shell lineage without confusion, but that's what I meant. I don't technically use DOS at all anymore. I think "that system" is easier to understand in it's entirety and find your way around than Unix, although it has been getting progressively more complex for years. I actually use OS X most of the time now (plus Linux on servers and Windows for 3D stuff).
A discussion of the algorithm powering this can be found at: http://www.sphere-engineering.com/blog/quickanswers-io-a-new...

However there are actually several types of algorithms working for different kinds of questions. The most general one is explained above.
Have you never heard the classic movie line?

It's quiet. TOO quiet.
You're assuming this evaluation is from the point of view of someone early in a programming career. If you've already got a bunch of experience, and had elevated roles, the cost benefit analysis is going to be different.
Usage:

1) Find what people are saying about a book before purchasing. Example: http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Slaughterhouse-Five.htm#the_bu...

2) Save a list of books that answer a particular question as a link to share with others instead of having to list your favorite books over and over again. Example: "These are the best sci-fi books I read last year: http://www.hn-books.com/#B0=164&B1=166&B2=165&BC=3&EC=0&FC=0...

3) Read reviews

4) Create a "Countdown clock" that shows how long your startup has until you run out of money: http://hn-books.com/EZ-Business-Model.htm

There are a few more features. More functionality than most folks would expect from a static html page app.
I've been following this for a while. Great progress, great play experience, great game!
Why does the sum 7x8 catch people out?
My blogging suffered severely when Blogo stopped working with the latest OSX a couple of years ago. Why did you guys stop working on it?
Pitch me this Billion dollar idea
Well, when you say

> You won't get to hear about how the trial turns out from your grave

that's equally projecting something onto me, so... that's not a great way to have a productive discussion neither.
>It's easy to say that "costs are too high" - that's fine, but where are they too high?

I have two (totally anecdotal) answers, from my own experiences and those of my former partner, who spent 15 years working in hospitals:

1 - Administrative overhead. Especially with billing and insurance.
2 - Practices, procedures, and policies to prevent lawsuits. Needless waste, lack of reuse of items that could be cleaned, and safely reused, high premiums for malpractice insurance, training efforts and refusal to make decisions out of fear of suits.
Well, in context, I believe that quote was intended to mean "as a US company, we can't stop the government from intruding upon your privacy", not "we don't value your privacy".
Is xkcd becoming a RFC/ISO replacement for no-nonsense protocols and compliance standards?? If so, I welcome it.
Would be interesting, if it could plug(o) into Draft (http://draftin.com).

Great concept, though; it's not just an editor, but a publishing tool (CMS).
Can I just change the link to be a direct download one?
Show HN: Upworthy for Grilling
Look at the sales of the game industry over time (page 12): http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2014.pdf It's pretty clear the entire industry is shrinking. I don't know about you but if I ran a major game company I would definitely want to be exploring all options for possible growth right now (or better yet 5 years ago). Comparing video games to high end sports cars is apples to oranges.
This is so fantastic. I'll definitely use this resource when looking around at startups in the area. Thanks for your work!
Very well executed! Thanks for the info.
We're taking "Show HN" out of this title because the software isn't ready to be tried out.

Please read the new Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Landing pages and email signups are explicitly excluded. But when your work is ready for people to play with, please come back and do a Show HN then!
What's the etiquette on repost? It's quite possible that you posted at the wrong moment and got buried. (unfortunately, like this comment)
Comparing cars to human beings is disingenuous. A car is a machine with a finite number of parts and well-documented methods of action.

A human body is an enormously complicated set of systems that can mysteriously fail at anytime for no reason at all, and then fix itself without intervention at times. There is a reason doctors are "in practice."
It's like spam, right? If you respond based on hilarious numbers, you're exactly who they're looking for.
Poverty isn't a great measure as you can be out of poverty without a livable wage.
Windows 7 64 bit, Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153
'ctrl-r' is reverse-i-search in vi mode as well.
Interesting, haven't heard a report of that before. Looks like you got automatically cleared out of that table now though.
Thanks for the kind words! Our goal is to profile every startup in the area (and world).
Offline Browsing In Chrome
https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/issues/116
The beginning of the article mentions using off the shelf parts, with terrible results. I'm sure if it was that easy and they got decent results from it, they would not have expended so many resources custom building stuff.
Bus passes? In most UK cities you can buy a photo-id pass for a week or a month and just get on. Most regular users have them.