skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point to gas is the wide set of "specific circumstances" in which it is flammable. It is most flammable in its gaseous form so any fuel tank leak at all during the accident could have spilled gas all around the car which (due to its volatility) would quickly flash into a vapor form.

At that point it needs only to find 1 hot-enough part of the car to ignite and spread throughout the vapor cloud to start burning all around the car.
"people are not apathetic but scared to sign"

That's exactly what this surveillance is doing: killing free speech by intimidation is killing democracy.
Why would you draw the vector manually with canvas when the browser can do it (SVG)?
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Here's what we hacked at the 4hourventure.com event today: http://vintagecartoons.tv
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As a fellow brazilian, I totally agree with you. I believe we should not allow party flags to be raised right now. The truth is that politicians from all parties (supportive or not to the present government) were involved in some sort of corruption across Brazil.

As violent and absurd this may sound, I believe those who live in Brasília should go to undoubtedly corrupt politician's homes (like Renan Calheiros') and destroy it, the same way people have been doing with banks, telecom, and media companies (entities that literally have raped and manipulated us for decades) in several capitals.

Although I believe this may not prevent corrupt politicians from being in power in the future (only a properly educated population can ensure that), we need to act now. Our political system is broken and there is no way change will come from those in power - their own interest is holding control.
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That's one way to look at it. Another way is that this is totally irrelevant to any real individual's world view: Why should the fact that people die and suffer make death and suffering somehow things to be ignored?

I stopped riding motorcycles because the knowledge of the risk I was taking became too much. But if we simply say "well, people die, we'll all be dead soon enough," not only do we give ourselves license to simply ignore a whole lot of awful things that either should change or could change our perspective, we throw out the logic we'd otherwise sensibly apply to our own lives.

Most of us make enough poor decisions as it is without the additional rationalization "none of it matters in the long term anyway."
I don't understand why everyone thinks it's terrible if a government surveils its own citizens but it's totally a-ok if it does foreigners. Because if you think about the reflexivity of it all, that means that it's a-ok if China surveils all American citizens and America all Chinese citizens. The only way that makes sense is if you think one government (America or China, depending on who you are) is privileged to violate the privacy rights of citizens of the other.

I would hope that Hacker News would be more cosmopolitan. So much of our work, especially, involves interacting with foreigners. If our government thinks that their communications with us deserve no protections because they're some suspicious other, and their government thinks that our communications with them deserve no protections because we're some suspicious other... then no one ends up with anything.

ETA: And when you think about it, that principle creates a giant loophole: country X surveils country Y's populace, country Y surveils country X's populace, and they have a mutual agreement to share data about each other's dissidents. Just goes to show that if you undermine a universal right for even one person, that right disappears.
I'm only getting Felix the Cat and Popeye, is that all there is here?
The theft charge is just a ruse to get the HK authorities to extradite him. If they only charged him with espionage, then there's no problem for Snowden's atty's to make the case for political persecution. The HK courts will see this for the ruse that it is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/snowden-not...
History books do not portray all leaders, even American leaders, in a favorable light. A perusal of history books will come up with quite a number of people portrayed very poorly indeed. A glaring example: Nixon.
This is what we hacked the last 4 hours at the 4hourventure.com event today. Feedback welcome! :)
relatively healthy

[citation needed]
You should at least be able to control that with regular CPU affinity from software.
Thanks, for this ! Can you tell me your OS / Browser version ? You think video thumbnails should replace album covers ? You don't see the black scrollbar next to playlist ?
Being downvoted for asking for evidence of claims about the term 'truth' is not a good sign.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't read your mail to figure out whether I am allowed to read your mail. Therefore, I am keeping your mail until I figure out whether or not I am allowed to keep it."

Yes, they try to make the rules to close all possible loopholes. No, they shouldn't be the ones making their own rules, since they have a very vested interest in one-sided rules.
Actually we just have a bunch of videos right now, but it should be more than just those. You can use the chrome knob on the TV to switch to the next...
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because the NY Times cannot call him out completely having bent over backwards to support him. Simply put, its no different than Obama claiming he was no Dick Cheney.

What is going on now is far far worse than Nixon. I am referring to NSA and IRS activities brought to light over the last few months. I am not sure which is worse, nah strike that, what the IRS is accused of is worse.
> Honestly thought the people of HN were a bit beyond the conspiracy crap you find on Reddit and such places.

LMAO, hahaha. I was forced past my belief in the infallibility of HN with regard to conspiracy theories right about January of this year. Though I can't hardly piece together who's here because of YC, who's here because HN is where we discuss tech civil liberties, and who's here just because, so maybe the old YC-HN would have been more resistant, who knows?
How is that unfair?

If they still have to go to the same board, there's a simple gambit described in a previous article that gives first player a big advantage. Open with the center square in the center board. Second player must play center board. You play the center square in the next board you're sent to. Continue, forcing the second player to play in the center board until it's completely filled and you have a marker in every surrounding board.

Using this gambit I managed to win against the variant posted by gjsriv.
Not saying China is innocent, but this is why stuff like this needs to be transparent and the public needs to know about it, and if the government isn't willing to make it public, then whistleblowers like Manning and Snowden need to make the public aware of it, no matter what "laws" they have to break to do it. But then it's the public's responsibility to protect them against the government, for doing them that service.

Because you have no idea what the government is doing in your name, and what kind of conflicts they are creating, and then "all of the sudden" you end up with another war on your hands, and the US government propaganda machine tells you it's their fault and they are the aggressor against US, when in fact it could be the opposite, and the attack may simply be retaliation for USA's own actions.
That's akin to saying: Who cares how Carmack held his keyboard; what matters is what he made.

The code you write is an intrinsic part of the result. There goes form and function as one. There can be art in the function as can be art in the ideas embodied in the source code that carries out the function.
How is Tesla direct selling to customers hurting car shops that sell cars from one or more traditional manufacturers but none from Tesla ?

Is there a rationale behind that ? As in car shops are scared Ford or GM would open a direct-to-customers shops for lower prices than they could offer to ?
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Indeed, but unless they're cutting the defense budget to fund the Mars expedition, I don't see how that is relevant.
I think you should get a new logo, the "cloud" logo is already used by tons of companies, and this doesn't really have anything to do with clouds or cloud storage. Regardless of that though it seems very well done. I'm a little confused with the top thing. It's on US I click it and it goes to UK. Though it looks like a select menu.

When you click HD, what happens? It would be cool if you could select the levels like you can on youtube (240 to what ever)
jeremylevy, I had a similar idea (a music service based on YouTube), but you executed it far better than I could have. Bravo!
If you re-read my comment carefully, you will see I say it's probably easier to sabotage something else than try to do something overly technical.

I'm pretty certain the Class C hasn't got the features you are talking about and it's a legal requirement that any mechanical action overrides any kind of computer control.

The brakes control you are talking about is probably the emergency brake control that makes the car brake more if it detects you attempt to make an emergency stop.

It can also be an ABS that prevents the wheels from blocking should you break too hard.

I'm confident that the computer will NOT brake while you are driving unless you do an action. It will also not steer unless you ask it to. There are many safeguards to prevent that (otherwise your car will not be allowed to drive).

However, I admit that even if the car cannot be remote controlled by default, one can imagine that with today's technology it's possible to turn any car into a remote controlled one.

I nevertheless think it's overkill and there are probably much simpler and straightforward ways to provoke an accident.

Last but not least, I don't think reporting that a General is highly critical of the Whitehouse would make him an "enemy" of the government, quite the opposite.

Don't fantasize about what's going on, I realize reality is trivial and uninteresting but that's not a reason.
This would be great marketing for a new monster movie. We're doing a world first, live stream as we dive to 5,000m, come watch! Hey, what was the weird thing that just passed by... oh my god, we're being attac... cut to stand by and watch as social media outlets explode with the news.
I have no idea what this does still...
tl;dr "President Obama wants to make it a crime for a reporter to talk to a leaker"

Worth reading it in full.
NPR's Planet Money did an interesting show on the topic:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...
I think you're getting defensive :). By saying I'm not building complex projects without any knowledge of what I create, you're trying to circumvent your own self-invented inadequacy without actually putting the pressure on yourself. Whether this was done subconsciously or not, I can't say.

I suppose it depends how you interpret the term web developer, since that's what simfoo was discussing. Myself, building browser-based games isn't web development, it's game development, which I feel is an entirely separate domain. Building a website, you really shouldn't need more than a day to put together the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The front-end of the majority of most websites is very similar. Normally, this would indicate regular code reuse or warrant a framework, but as indicated in my original post, I haven't found any framework that actually significantly speeds up my development time.
The sad fact remains that many, maybe most people around the world are better off (sometimes a lot better off) having their Internet spied on by the US than having it spied on by their home government, or than not having Internet at all. The extra problem with having national Loon-a-like networks is that (as the OP says) apparently it goes against the grain of those stratospheric winds.
That's a tow truck dude, where's the car?
This is one of the themes in the film A River Run Through It, where a father tells his two sons that they have to find/achieve art in whatever they choose to do in life.

An easy way to think about this is to remember those times when somebody in the workplace does something above and beyond expectations, eg. they solve a problem in particularly brilliant fashion, and colleagues see it and say 'this, this is a work of art.'
Everything is fine. Don't worry about the drive Q
Also, when you right click on a video it pauses it. I was trying to find a way to get the youtube URL.
I did a fire training with the ALMS safety team a few years back at Sebring. We started with lighting 1/4 gallon of 100 octane (15% ethanol) race fuel then by the end we used 1 gallon spilled on the concrete. The 1 gallon fire was over 20 feet high and took 20 seconds for a volunteer to put out with AFFF-AR suppressant.
That demonstration woke all of us up very fast considering the cars carry upwards of 19 gallons.
It raises an interesting point, however.

Things that are made for practical purposes are not art, right? The thing with software is that the code is hidden from view.

There is an opportunity to make something practical by writing very impractical code, that for example, has variables named after fantasy characters, functions having some sort of narrative arc to their naming, maps "drawn" in ASCII...

TheGoblinKing.smites(our_hero) could be a method to reverse an array.

Again, highly impractical, but with a practical result.

Architecture has a similar duality, but in a different kind of way... buildings are indeed functional, but is there no art to the practice of designing them? No room for ornament, expression, or "impractical" intent? For example, ideologies can be encouraged through buildings by manipulating people's response to their sublime grandeur or nostalgia... this seems like a much more artistic and philosophical pursuit that goes well beyond just the pure function of the building as a place to keep things separate from the outside world.
The reason people consider it different is that they realise the world is a complex place with complex actors. In an ideal world, no country would spy on another. But they do. How could we stop China from doing so? We can't. So we spy back.

However, what our democratically elected government does to us is very much within our own power to change, and we have the ability to hold them to account.
I'm sure the NSA has enough interesting information on the supremes to ensure that a constitutional ruling never happens.
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>I don't understand why everyone thinks it's terrible if a government surveils its own citizens but it's totally a-ok if it does foreigners.

What did you think the CIA and NSA was for?

Are we now going to have a debate about whether militaries and intelligence services need to exist?
I've talked with RN submariners who visited our homeport. I would certainly call them more skilled than the average USN submariner; they have a much smaller cadre and spend a lot more time on sea duty since they don't have to follow U.S. DOPMA requirements.

However they don't have enough spare submarines lying around to just convert one like the U.S. did for Halibut, Parche, or our current special projects boat.
This is a no-op article. Obviously if there's an arrest out for a person, and the person is not arrested yet - it means that the person is still no found / not in custody. Unless the paper meant to point to some kind of collusion/corruption (which it makes no claims of) - there is nothing to see here.

Saying "We can't catch person cause he is missing/at large" adds nothing to the discussion.
teawithcarl did just call SCMP "a top HK newspaper" which is a much lower bar, than a global "top newspaper".

And frankly one I agree with from just wandering around HK for a few days (spread out over many years). And one I suspect you’d agree with if you did the same.

Their market share is large, and their reporting is way better than most local, city newspapers in America.
Why is it harmful? Are you naive enough to think that the Chinese gov't is learning anything new? It's only "harmful" from a "US is such a fine upstanding freedom loving country" public relations standpoint.
Right click Q: > Disconnect

I wonder if this works here
But he paid the price. The current president will never face the same punishment.
Maybe if you're building a plumbing website for a client, most people here I would imagine build apps and complex works of art though, which definitely take longer than a day to put together.

These tools are crazy helpful in that regard.
> ... even when they know that that it doesn't follow the spirit of the laws that they currently operate under, it just pisses me off.

Same here. A lot of this was going on in the 2000s. I'd ask them, so if it was legal to kick toddlers in the face, you'd be okay with that? They define "sheeple".
It's a little more than just an humorous remark (EDIT: not that I'm assuming he would actually archive the cases); the original text seems much more hateful. The last part of the post is roughly:

Shitty petistas¹. Motherfuckers. (...) I miss the time when this kind of thing was resolved with rubber (sticks) on the backs of the cowards...

¹ Supporters of the Partido Trabalhista, as far as I can tell.
But a PRISM 702 doesn't even apply while you access your cloud data; it's simply an authorisation to go in and take any or all of it (and then monitor your later accesses) regardless of whether you've even been near it recently or not. In any case, even if a PRISM search is a border search (not necessarily a search at the border) it's certainly not a search conducted abroad, at least when the servers with the user data are inside the US.
By the way, when skeptics say there's been "no warming for the last decade", they often mean this:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/last:120/plot/wti/last:...

That one works even if you use GISS - the trend for the last ten years is cooling. (The trend over several other recent periods is "warming, but not very much".)

Note: the way I plotted "the last ten years" was to plot the last 120 monthly samples. The WRONG way to do that is to specify a "From" year and plot to the current day, because the resulting chart wouldn't start and end on the same month.
I use three separate and unrelated providers. The first being myself (a single Linode VM), and the other two:

http://rollernet.us/
https://puck.nether.net/dns

They both offer free backup DNS.
Which is why we should mostly ignore it. He's using the press to curry favor with HK residents. Nothing shocking about that.
Perhaps it could be due to the fact that, given all past evidence, the chance of this specific petition actually doing anything of any importance is extremely small.

Every time anything even mildly controversial has gotten the signatures required, it is either ignored or replied to with a template answer.

Perhaps one could get a little fatigued after continuous failure to elicit change.
Bingo. The entire NSA hearing a few days ago was NSA directors pointing out under which law they perform each action. They could do it, because according to US law it is legal.

The much more deep rooted question is "is this good?" Every aspect of law in the United States can be changed and rewritten according to the conscious of the people, though this takes a long time to do. Legality is temporary. Under ideal circumstances we would debate "right vs wrong" and change laws accordingly.
It is mind blowing to me that in a world where the internet makes it so easy to aggregate democratically the wishes of the masses, corrupt politicians that neglect the people they represent still thrive. If everybody would spent 10% of the time they spend on Facebook in order to express on a website the problems that they would like to be solved by the state and the solution to these problems that they support, the world we live in would be a much better one. I would guess that the value corruption takes away from the global economy is much higher than the value created by all of the startups that pretend to disrupt economies. Do you want to solve a global problem? Please solve corruption.
Good point, though that does make me wonder if he might have technically fallen under Whistleblower Protection (technically an HR thing) and still been liable to imprisonment based on the Espionage Act. Seems weird they'd be orthogonal, but then we're in a weird situation.
Many production houses still use Final Cut Pro 7 and will continue to do so for quite some time to come. Most smaller teams and freelancers I know are switching to Final Cut X, now that it has support for FCP7 compatibility and multi-cam editing. Features like audio syncing are a lot better in Final Cut X, and once you get used to the new interface, the workflow is a lot more convenient.
I'm brazilian and this article is a lie. nobody has heard about anybody saying this, and the visions the author of the article atributes to all the manifesters are just his visions.

also, the author is an idiot.
Steam itself is sort of a package manager, so that's an interesting edge case...

However, I think that there are basically three categories of application data

1) Documents -- These should never be deleted and are not invisible
2) Settings & other small data not worth deleting, probably nice to keep around in case you ever re-install. Most stuff.
3) Large semi-temporary files, like samples and other downloaded add ons that are optional parts of the application

I think OSX handles 1 & 2 well, but you're right, it needs a way to handle #3 too. However, I think that #2 is a much better default than #3.
This is absolutely awesome. Well done.
Yes.

Or at least exist at what scale, for what purpose, at "peacetime".

History has taught us over and over huge standing armies will be drawn into conflict (often quite easily) and wars ensue. Perhaps the same is true for huge standing intelligence services - not something we’ve had to deal much with in the past…
Not sure how to frame this nicely. The page needs to play better with mobile devices. There is an ever-present back-arrow covering text that gets more obstructive as the page is zoomed. When I decided to follow it to see what was so important that it get in the way, the page it took me to was completely unusable. That aside, I was happy to see that I could actually pinch zoom as some sites block this behavior. Chrome on Galaxy S3.
So what exactly happens now ?
click on the Youtube logo, bottom right of the player, goes for all embedded Youtube videos.
>In an ideal world, no country would spy on another. But they do. How could we stop China from doing so? We can't. So we spy back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right
Mmm, in another report I read it was less than 20% in case of a crash.
Sorry nobody upvoted you. I much prefer your argument! I particularly liked the phrase The execution might as well be left to an automaton. This is the part of the profession - tedious trivial logical translation from specification to program - that I refer to as 'floor sweeping', rather than programming proper (analysis/design/interesting problem solving stuff). Perhaps the percentage of our industry remaining to be liberated from that drugery is high, unfortunately the liberators must be themselves.
> If more developers cared about versioning their software appropriately based on incompatible changes or stability guarantees

But they don't. And you're not going to be able to make them. And even if you did, people would disagree about what constitutes compatibility, stability, and engineering disciplin. One man's "breaking change" is another man's "that was an implementation detail". It's not possible to get this right, since first you need to define "right". That's why versioning is folly.