skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 100,000 mile cliff is disappearing now. Build quality of American cars rose rapidly in the mid-2000s - for example, Ford repair rate declined nearly 50 percent between 2004 and 2009[1].

I remember reading somewhere that this was driven by accounting improvements that arose from the Enron scandal but I can't find the source now.

[1] http://www.leftlanenews.com/ford-reduces-warranty-costs-by-1...
Oh, the nostalgia.

A few people I knew swore by WordPerfect, because it had the most features of the editors known around here. I really dreaded trying to navigate its menues and figuring out why things were buggy. It was a bit frustrating back then, because I thought maybe I was just having a mental block with it. Fortunately, I had WordStar and loved it so much I didn't ever really miss WP, but still took me a few years to understand there was such a thing as software hype.
> There's lots of government sanctioned monopolies, or duopolies. Taxies are often one due to the sheer logistics required. Your city either has a taxi service, or doesn't. There's unfathomable liability not having a taxi service

I fail to see how you need a government-sanctioned monopoly to get a taxi service. I've been on small islands in the Mediterranean with taxi service (it's one grandpa in his car who you call on his mobile phone and he'll come pick you up). Sweden has an almost completely unregulated taxi market and I've never heard of a place without taxis.
...but how will it install the keylogger then? The USB device can do that if it's a keyboard, but not if it's a mass storage device.
Few days ago I wrote a comment praising HN community (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8159956) but unfortunately now I have to make the opposite:

This comments page shows us the dark side of HN community.

There are comments here that completely depressed me and revealed not an introverted but an anti-social personality among some HN users. I am/was also anti-social but I make/made some effort to get out from there. I'm not judging anyone but this side of HN is not a bright one.

edit: I knew that I would be downvoted but I consider that I'm doing the right thing speaking about this.
Soon, the programs for our space shuttles will be coded with JS :P
30x less stolen cars in New York? Im sure Police car crime department got reduced in size, right?

RIGHT?
They've done studies on the effect of increasing penalties on crime, and it's virtually nil.
> WordStar beat the pants off of WordPerfect

Thanks for making teenager me feel vindicated! I still get nostalgia when I think of gray on blue text screens. The keybidings and menues were really easy to pick up compared with WP.
Google is exactly as indispensible as Altavista, Borland, Ashton-Tate or MySpace.

If Google died overnight, very few would really care.
There are plenty of other replacements.

The only ones who would care would be journalists who would proceed to bore us for weeks with articles about how amazing Google once was. It would also spawn a subgenre of writing about the putative sainthoods of Brin and Page ( a la the current cult of Job )
"Draining equity" seems like an inaccurate description, particularly for Airbnb. The equity value of a property isn't diminished long-term by its use as a short-term rental.

Airbnb hosts impose significant negative externalities on their neighbours, and bear none of those costs. Noise, traffic, etc. That's what the regulation is designed to prevent.
I believe police cars in the UK have cameras with automatic number plate recognition. They drive around and it scans for stolen/uninsured cars.
Didn't actually read the article, did you?

"And the decline in thefts has freed up the 85 detectives and supervisors of New York’s auto crime division to focus on stopping organized car theft rings, the sorts of operations that actually have the ability to make coded keys for newer cars."
Disclaimer: I develop http://makeplans.net which is also an online appointment booking solution (SaaS).

I don't think any of our clients would be interested in hosting their own software. Most of our clients don't even have an IT-department. But sure there is a market for open-source solutions as well. Particularly if you need customisation or to be integrated with offline applications. But with a good API and API-connecting services like Zapier integration is becoming less and less a valid point to host your own software.

I never heard about Easy Appointments before, thanks for the link it actually does look quite good unlike most other open source business applications. There a few other open source solutions out there but it is more like Wordpress plugins.
I have an 8 core server Atom which is around 20W. Single thread performance is slow but its pretty good overall.
The same management that allowed contractor failure would
allow in-house failure and the same management that hired
incapable contractor would put together incapable in-house
team.

A lot of outsourcing contacts basically mean that if the contractors deliver late, the outsourcing company gets paid extra (more hours needed to finish it!) and if they deliver a buggy product, they get paid extra (more hours needed to fix it!). So scope creep, avoidable complexity and using bad tools are good for the outsourcing company.

For an in house team who do their own maintenance, the same things mean embarrassment, late nights, and possibly getting fired. So scope creep and avoidable complexity are bad for the in-house team.

Of course, if you don't have enough work to justify keeping the in house team around after the project is done, they might amount to the same thing.
Isolating Migrations from EF for use with tools like Dapper
This is great timing for me, currently working on trying to iron out some bugs in a project with S3, and this helps me eliminate one line of inquiry. Nice project!
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I understand the motivation behind what you're suggesting but I don't think jail time is a fair deterrent.

I think (this is anecdata from some bike theft victims, including myself) that there are folks who steal bikes to ride them, potentially for transportation to work/school, and those who steal bikes to sell them elsewhere.

We should find a way to deter both groups but putting someone in jail for a $300 (let's say $600 to cover some of the unintended effects you mention) probably won't stop the commercial thieves as they'll find other lackeys to do the theft.

On a more important note, I feel uncomfortable having someone locked up, costing taxpayer money, for committing a non-violent crime whose damages are less than two weeks' pay at minimum wage.
>To some extent, this feels like the old "if you have physical access…"¹ rule.

not if you 'lose' couple of those pendrives labelled payroll in the parking lot - this is old cd/dvd attack vector, but this time its interactive courtesy of smarts in the firmware.
As a .Net developer, i dig Entity Framework (for ease, quick to start, ...).

But sometimes, EF isn't fit and i'd like to use tools like Dapper (backed by Stackoverflow). I'd would be nice to know that EF Migrations is available seperatly from the main package.

So i thought to post it on the UserVoice of MS. But i'm curious, what are you guys using as alternative for EF Migrations ?
You could argue that he was funnelling money from richer economies(West of EU, US) to poorer economy(Bulgaria) - because he was making many many times the national average wage, everyone around him,every shop that he visited or purchased from benefited from his endeavour. What he did did not bring worthwhile services to other people,but the money he earned did.
>to a layman like me, it would seem that professionals wouldn't be publicizing the fact that they have switched to fat-fueled endurance training because it would be a massive competitive advantage.

Except it's a disadvantage, not an advantage. All kinds of diets have been tried in the name of performance and the results are pretty clear. The typical world class runner's diets in the top performing country (Kenya) has 76.5 percent of daily calories consumed as carbohydrates. This group of runners has absolutely demolished lower carbohydrate consuming western runners. Marathoners from other top-performing countries (Ethiopia and Japan) have similarly been scrutinized with similar results.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15657475
Can I use this for a setup where multiple users look at the same "screen"? I combed through the documentation and am attempted to say no...
The Rise of ‘Best of Breed’ Applications
I live in London and I've had my bike stolen around once a year; four times now. I try to treat it as just a cost of life (the bike is still saving me money compared to train tickets), but it gets to be irritating. I've got a cycling holiday booked next month and I'm terrified my bike's going to be stolen just before I go.
Another example of using loopholes to open up a market comes from Europe: In Sweden we used to have only 2 channels government public broadcasting. Commercial television was thought of as something evil that will corrupt the innocent minds of the population. The loophole used by the first commercial broadcaster was satellite - they headquartered themselves and broadcast from the UK to a satellite and then sold satellite subscriptions in Sweden. Eventually the government relented to the popularity of commercial TV and the first terrestrial commercial station started broadcasting in 1991.
Less processed crap works for me.

I noticed as a student, that it was cheaper to cook my own stuff fresh, and miraculously I got less spots and fewer colds.
there are ide/sata/usb write blockers, but they would need to be modified to filter specific custom SCSI commands used for firmware update.

Best defence for this kind of attack is running your own firmware on all USB devices :)
Why Most VCs Won’t Intro You To Other VCs  unless
I do a fir bit of "extreme sports". Mountain Biking and Kayaking mainly. Ironically no one I know (who participates in these sports) drinks Red Bull on a regular basis.
Or stayed at home and claimed unemployment, if the marginal gain from working ceased to be worth the cost.
This? ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f&v=BeLZCy-_m3s
Relevant: my post about my experiences hiring logo designers on Fiverr from last week: https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-star...

(HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152631)
It isn't a special case. (its : his) :: (it's : he's)

So you don't say "it's" for the same reason you don't say "hi's".
Linux vs bsd network stack
I spent easily a 100 hours on D3 before I decided to buy something from RMAH. I had lots of fun with the items I found, and then decided to spend 20-30 euros on some other stuff I wanted to experiment with. I did not do it to make the game fun - it was fun without it. I just wanted to add variety without playing for another 100 hours just to get the items I wanted.
For years Honda offered a deal where you bought a new Honda and got 3 years' insurance free. Obviously this is worth a lot more to younger (and less careful) drivers.

(Which was largely deliberate; Honda had an image problem where they were seen as an "old man car". Now they're a "boy racer car", which I'm not sure was the intention)
I am sure the average revenue per order is quite a bit above $5. They developed lots of different ways for sellers to rise their revenue abilities.
Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode
> Shareholders should be furious.

You can't change the past, so what'd be the point of getting furious at the management?
I guess you're referring to this comment[0]. The "out" just seems like the cadence the author intended. I agree it sounds better and may lend a certain extra impact, but I don't know about "critical." Or am I missing something as well?

Sorry if this is pointless, I just looked it up because I was wondering if there was some deep metaphor or something I was missing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549886
"Water in an of itself won't hurt lungs"

Yes it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning#Secondary_drowning

If you ever get saved from near drowning, you are still not safe.
I see a lot of these front pages with "major bummer, this video can't be played with your setup". Feels like the era of Flash all over again.
Surely the latency cost would be trivial compared to the inherent latency of using an off-site storage anyway?

I'm not sure why you're both asking for it, bit strange given how tiny the cost of using a generic interface is compared to the cost of sending a file over the internet.
I don't understand, It seems HTML5 video to me. What kind of setup do you have?
Sure. Though I wouldn't categorise the USA (and to some extent Canada and UK) finally getting on board the same metric bus as the rest of the planet as entirely "unnecessary".
I was considering something like this to have a local (or local networked) cache store for S3, I am doing 99,9% of readings, so it could be nice to put the cache in the S3-layer.

Does anyone knows if that exists?
The Spanish Priest treated with ZMapp died
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28754899
1/r^3 = 1/r^2 (falloff in vacuum) * 1/r (light absorption by air)
Whoever runs these departments is letting bright technical people make the technical decisions. This does result in some CV-Driven-Development, but for the most part it's a hell of a lot better than trying to explain VCS or DR to your pointy haired manager.

These .GOV dept don't really need to worry about finances and they seem to be willing to hire contract workers and let them get heavily involved in the project. In the UK contractors will happily earn double your perm staff and that's before counting the fact they can bypass the 40% tax bracket.

Compare that to the private sector, they tend to prefer that all decisions are made by perm staff who are often outdated and are happy to sit there at half the contractors salary, paying double the tax and costing the company over 1.5x their headline salary.

Doesn't really make sense to me, you're not gonna find the best and brightest by paying them in a terrible way when they have an easy, more lucrative, alternative.
> Is Windows going away though? Do you know anyone who likes Windows 8?

Yes, I do like it. Specially given that WinRT builds on the original idea of .NET (COM based native programming), before they went MSIL. It is like Microsoft just recovered the Ext-VOS project before their Java love.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-...

I do consultancy for Fortune 500 companies and at least for the next decades, it will surely be around.

> What should we write for the desktop now? Which desktop is "the desktop"?

What we always did. Make use of the native languages and frameworks to provide the best user experience.
nice article, why don't bosses read it?
So those 85 detectives and supervisors, formerly working on auto crime, now work on auto crime -- a subset of auto crime to be precise.

The grandparent's comment has merit. Government has stayed exactly the same size.
I think you can setup nginx proxy with cache. Unfortunately, that's easy only for public files and authenticated requests won't save you much (for that you can also write a small script to authenticate yourself if there's a cache hit).
Also K series CPUs (for overclockers) are chips with defective IOMMU part, small "xeon" E3 chips are Core chips with defective GPU part, and probably there is a lot of other similar binning going on with other parts.
I can assure you that people in eastern Europe, the Czech republic at least, also do complain about having their nice new bikes stolen. Just to put things into perspective, eastern EU is not some wild west.
Scientists create a Tractor Beam on water [video]
I'm sure the NSA, FBI, etc. would love that.
Spoken like a true American ! After all, if stealing a king size snickers bar deserves 16 years (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/040700-01.htm), stealing a bicycle needs some serious deterrent sentencing. Sure, he was a recidivist and had previously stolen some Oreo cookies too !

Or, it's a bicycle - keep things in proportion. Sure it sucks to have stuff stolen (I've been a victim too) but crazy disproportionate sentencing has made criminal justice in the US just insane.

Your proposal sounds great, just like all the other get tough on crime initiatives over the past 40 odd years but it has left the US with what looks like the craziest most vengeful 'justice' system outside of the Sharia introduced by ISIS.

It's all great until you happen to fall foul of these get tough initiatives - see lots of previous HN stories for examples.
Dan Cassaro AKA youngjerks.com response to Showtime design contest
Ugh, I started to write a response, but then I realised I was more or less just going over the same ground that mikeash has more eloquently covered. https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and-yo...

One thing that Mike missed though is that you can do large bandwidth operations faster. You can blend two pixels at a time with 64bit, so your graphical blend can be twice as fast (of course, if you're really worried about the speed of these types of operation, you go SIMD - but that's a pain in the butt and requires in line assembly language to get the biggest boosts. In particular, ARM Neon's C function wrappers on SIMD instructions generally gives you a much smaller boost than if you hand code the assembly language calls. With 64bit, you can get some of the advantage without the hassle).
Beautiful Video: Who is the UX Designer?
> If you want to reduce bicycle theft in the US, the solution is simple: drastically increase the penalties for perpetrators

Then why don't we just give every crime the death penalty? Boom, overnight there's no more crime!
Does this work with the s3cmd CLI?
Maybe the tracker could be powered by usage of the bike.
I had a bike stolen from me, when someone broke into my back yard(breaking down the gate), sawed off the railing the bike was attached to and took the bike together with the railing(the bike was attached with a Kryptonite lock, which I guess was a lot harder to break than the railing itself). Yeah you're right, the crime was not violent, and the bike was worth 2x the minimum wage where I come from, which is not a lot(~800 USD). The gate was also fairly easy to fix, as was the railing.

But it's not the violence or the financial damage.
It was the fact that I stopped feeling safe in my own house. That the area that I once though was friendly and safe is now filling me with dread and I was so worried about living there that year later I had to move out. That every time I heard noises in the back yard I had to get out of my bed and look out of the window. I shrugged off the financial loss of my bike very easily - but the physiological damage was much greater. Now if you asked me if I want the bike thieves to be put in prison, I would say - absolutely, positively yes. I hate and despise people who steal and I understand how deeply theft can affect a well being of a person, regardless of the value of stolen goods.
List of all HN Spreadsheets (you are probably looking for the contractors list):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqL8kR005z0QdEN...
I left my phone in a cab 2 weeks ago and I'm still waiting for them to post it back to me. It's been extremely liberating being disconnected - I haven't missed it nearly as much as I thought I would.

I also spend about half the time I used to in the toilet ;)
You want the wheels on a bike to spin as freely as possible, any added resistance is unwelcome because it makes cycling harder - and you would need to add resistance to generate electricity. Personally I even hate the dynamos that power the lights, because their effect can definitely be felt when you ride.
The best kind of hackathon project is to demonstrate a new technology. Facebook wouldn’t win a Hackathon, most social networks wouldn't, because technologically, they aren't that interesting. I am glad that you didn't spend much time business/revenue model or market research. I got it wrong the first time I joined a hackathon
> It's "clientless" as in you don't have to install any software on the machine you want to connect from.

Except a browser compatible with HTML5-august-2014-revision. Believe it or not, there are many places stuck in pre-HTML5 times (hotel computers, for example).

If it could stream GIFs and accept clicks with server-side image maps, then it would be compatible with every desktop graphical browser in existence (Opera Mini and text browser would still be not enough).
I (briefly) worked for a company back in the mid 90s where pretty much any form of non-work interaction was frowned upon.

Having spent a couple of months in one of their offices where things weren't too bad, I was then relocated to a new team in their head office. On my first morning, I thought I'd be friendly and said hello to my new colleagues and asked how their weekends had been. I got a couple of brief "it was OK" type responses from them and they immediately put their heads back down into their work.

In the two weeks that I managed there before upping sticks and heading back to a previous company, that was probably the closest I got to a real conversation from anyone. It was the most soul destroying couple of weeks of my working life, and from the body language of the others there, I strongly suspect they felt the same about their job.

When I handed my notice in, I finally got several people commenting on how lucky I was to be getting out. I told them that there were plenty of jobs out there, and they were almost certainly better than this one.

I don't know whether it was connected, but in the months following my resignation, about half the team quit as well, prompting the CEO to start organising lunch sessions to find out why. One person told him honestly, and was promptly suspended.
>Given that Bitbucket has to spend time on fixing performance problems caused by still using basic auth for their API (rather than allowing multiple, revokable API tokens), I don't have too much hope that they'll get around to fixing the most popular, important issues on their own tracker

To be completely fair, the speaker did mention in the video that it is probably better to migrate to API tokens.
You can cut and dice it in many different ways. I am starting to see what you get get for a Fiverr is getting more and more diluted. You will have to pay extra to get some useful additions.
Oh, yes, thanks for the suggestion. I will see if I can use NGINX as a proxy, all my files are public anyway.
404 on http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/1/python
Typically, the drivers are employed by the companies, and are paid either by the hour, or receive a percentage of the fares. In either case, underreporting the fares to the company increases the driver's share. Also, tips, though they must be reported, are exempt from taxation.
Ask HN: Which is more performant for pattern matching python or R-Server?
You might find this interesting:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
If you actually read the big red warning on the main page, it notes that many pages are incomplete and some stuff isn't up yet.
How to Mitigate 'Leaky Apps' in the Workplace
I don't think he is suggesting that. The fact is that many people under 40 are priced out of the market. 20 years ago, a graduate could easily buy a flat or house, rates of owner occupation were higher, and we still had the option to rent. This tended to suit people at the start of their careers, when they were more likely to move for work. After a certain age, you start wanting to settle somewhere.
Firefox on Ubuntu. It's probably <video> using a non-free codec (H.264).
Donating to Xfce through Bug Bounties
I live in Slovenia which is commonly considered east EU. Guess what, bikes get stolen here as well (not sure I know any cyclist who hasn't had one stolen at some point).

And your 90% estimate is as offensive as wrong.