skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an old muscle car with a built V8. The crackling sound of the engine start, and the sound it makes when it 'digs in' under acceleration, is viscerally thrilling.

The smell of a hot engine, and the shaking of the car also add a lot of fun.

One of the best movie montages ever is the opening sequence of the movie "Grand Prix" where they start the engines and warm em up.

In "Rush" they ruined the movie by having a rock soundtrack laid over the sounds of the cars.

"Bullitt"s car chase has never been equaled because the director had the guts to let the V8s and various car noises be the whole soundtrack. The music overlay stops when the chase starts, the complete opposite of every other movie.
What a coincidence, I have been building a CMS which spits out static HTML which uses the same bolt icon :) http://getsimplesite.com

I think static apps are best suited for very simple apps which don't have a lot of business rules, simple CRUD apps are the best candidates for this kind of a setup. Once you go beyond a simple app doing things on the server is much easier.
I'm a fan of flat taxes.

But you miss the point: a large fraction of those suburban dwellers work and get paid in the city. Cities like London have literally millions of daily commuters.

Money flows out of cities because they contain a lot of taxpayers that consume resources efficiently. Collecting the garbage from a 200-unit condo building is way cheaper than visiting 200 houses in a suburban subdivision. Yet the dollar value of the house and condo are similar and they pay similar taxes. If the city condo dweller works at the next desk to commuting suburbanite, they get paid the same and pay the same taxes. The suburbanite costs more to service and consumes more energy, etc.

Also, cities have a higher ratio of taxpayers to non-taxpayers. There are fewer kids and retirees living there, for example.

I'm not against suburbs at all. Often a great place to live, particularly with kids. But it's helpful to understand their costs.
So, bottom line: Eich was forced out by an astroturf campaign led by professional boycotters (waving the gay rights flag this time) and sleazy opportunists/publicity addicts like Yagan.

If Eich is a homophobe, I would like to replace the rest of the world's homophobes with him. While he may have disagreed in private, his public persona was inclusive and friendly. There are multiple testominies from people that never knew he harbored wishes to limit their rights before the controversy came out. Even the LGBTQ* Mozilla employees/volunteers spoke up to say this. Meanwhile, in Montana/Utah, if the CEO learns you're gay, you're likely to be found dead in the middle of the night.

But the mob had already formed, and they wanted blood. Blood is what they got. And the Mozilla project suffers as a result.

The Eich story, and the lynch mob that followed it, permanantly reduced my respect for HN. While I would not ever donate to a campaign (let alone one that denied equal rights to human beings), this made the gay community of HN (and their supporters) look like easily-influenced livestock. I used to click on the HN comments link before actually clicking the story it was about, because I could rely on the spin being kept to a minimum. I no longer have that guarantee. Similarly, I no longer have the guarantee of fair discourse, and fully expect future comments to be downvoted to oblivion (much like reddit) when one has a dissenting opinion. If someone says you hate gay people (correctly or not), the HN community has proven they will prosecute before a proper inquiry has been made.

Even more disturbing, I have now learned that the militant LGBTQ* members in Silicon Valley are just as easily-influenced, and as easily driven to boycott, as members of Stormfront, or the AFA, or the PMRC. This seems to be such a big issue in the Silicon Valley that I'm now solid in my decision to stay out of SV for any new startup ventures. Intolerance (even intolerance for bigots) is not something I want to immerse myself in.

(disclosure: this pseudonym is owned and operated by a lgBtq*)
It's this idea that really bothers me, I think. I don't know if the developer subscribes to this idea or not, but whenever I see an iOS app priced way differently to it's counterparts on other platforms I suspect it's either motivated by this idea or otherwise some principled stance against Apple.

In either case, it isn't nice as an individual to be singled out as a target for extra cash because of the platform you run on. Just because I use an iPhone doesn't mean I have more money than my peers (and in fact probably means I have less!). Even if that were true on aggregate, I still find it unpleasant, simply because there will be many exceptions.
I'm 57 but didn't start programming until I was 27 years old. My first summer quarter at Purdue they still had punch card readers and I remember sitting in the hall in the basement of the Math building waiting to have my deck read and then pick up the green striped output paper in the adjoining room. The following fall we had our first DEC VT 100 terminals.

I guess I would consider myself a hacker of sorts as I now work for myself doing mobile web development with Python, JavaScript, and Django. I have to work for myself because no one will hire someone my age.
> I'd say a fundamental portion of respect is not encoding your personal beliefs of other people's personal lives into law.

I keep seeing this line from gay marriage supporters. I always have to ask, what exactly is the pro-gay-marriage movement about then? It sounds to me like it's exactly what you're describing here.

Disclaimer: I support same-sex marriage.
I honestly misunderstood the definition when I first read it. I've built a variety of web apps (old php + mysql, actual static content, nodeJS + angular), and I this terminology escaped me. I've never looked at an Angular app and referred to it as static? In fact, what is defined here is the exact opposite of what I'd assume was a static application.
Mercedes has been dominant the past two races as well so it's not necessarily a spoiler to say they have been owning the season. On the other hand today's race ended a few hours ago and I didn't expect to run into race results on HN of all places. Oh well.
I'm trying with http://www.sciencegist.com

The difficult part is getting contributions and building anything sustainable around this idea. You can reach me at info@sciencegist.com if you want to chat.

There's also http://usefulscience.org/ and http://sciworthy.com/ but I think they both have staff to write content.
>It creates a hostile environment where your opinion can cost you your job.

It would probably already cost you your job to publicly declare (let alone financially support) similar non-equality views of both blacks and women. Why is this so much worse?

Oh no, one more particular flavor of bigotry becomes socially unacceptable. However will I cope. </sarcasm>

>Also, what does firing Eich achieve for the gay rights movement?

An object lession that being bigoted against LGBTs is just as unacceptable and repugnant as being bigoted against blacks or women. Regardless of your position in life. A double standard that I, for one, am glad we are reversing.
http://forrst.com/
This kind of implant is commercially available now: http://2-sight.eu/ee/home-ee
And this is why OpenSource is awesome.
I built something like this about 4 years ago called BigStartups.com. It was built to help network the startup community and was moderately successful. Unfortunately, there were co-founder issues and we shut it down. I often think about what it could be in todays world if we kept working on it. Oh well...
Of course headlines are important, so is the principle of charity.

It seems like there is a thread in too many stories where the headline is parsed in the most uncharitable manner.
http://www.startupvideoawards.com is something similar of Awwwards for video startups
I could imagine a variety of services to go along with modular, open hardware for proximity communication. My impression is that this is a relatively unaddressed market.
> trying to turn activists into the "real" monsters for speaking out

If the activists act like monsters, then that needs to be called out as well. Power corrupts. Do you think the activists are immune?
you can't make a 10-second soundbyte out of it? I sure can. Picture Scumbag Steve, if you will.

ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BOYCOT MOZILLA FOR ANTI-GAY CEO.

DONATES TO ANTI-GAY CAUSES.
Add a thin-layer of javascript for immediate feedback on certain UI operations, and I'm sold.
Is it though? We haven't even arrived in Monaco yet, anything could happen and the drama has been amazing to watch so far. Take tonight for example... Vetel being instructed to let Ricciardo pass and complying, Force India going 3/5, Hamilton and Rosberg dueling, Massa(??) blitzing the field on the start. The president of Ferrari walking out in disgust. That horrendous flip...

This doesn't even get into new arrivals like Magnussen and his amazing debut. This season is far from over and getting more interesting by the day.
There's a fundamental difference between recognizing that what people do with their lives is their business, and attempting to force them to stop through legislative fiat.

Nobody's forcing you to do or not do anything by allowing marriage equality. The same cannot be said of its opponents.
Is this possible with a Chrome Extension?
Re: AWS using 2^30 for bandwidth. That's a serious error

I agree, but it's an error which saves us money, so I'm not going to complain too loudly... ;-)
$OPWR: A great day for do-gooder startups
Scaring probably caused the microelectrode array(MEA) to fail.
There is significant research going into MEAs and they are becoming much more viable for long term in vivo use.
What is interesting is that Mercedes came up with the split turbocharger only in the first race - in preseason winter testing, they were running a more traditional turbo charger.

Now that we've seen the split turbocharger with the turbine at the back, the compressor at the front and the motor-generator unit in between on top of the engine block it seems all too obvious. But coming up with this is ingenious, and making it work on such short notice is quite a feat of engineering.

I can't wait to have this in my road car, 40% fuel saving with only a little drop in performance.
Good points. I think I agree with pretty much everything, and your fourth paragraph about the problems that automation generates for folks are pretty spot on (hadn't thought about the patronage system emerging from wealth inequity, but jesus that has happened historically a lot).

In case I wasn't super clear above, I believe that if there are fewer jobs that kill people, that's a very good thing. Technological progress is super legit. But you can't deny that people seem to desperately need some sort of sense of job-driven accomplishment, at least in western cultures, and finding a way to change the culture and politics such that people are able and willing to live self-driven yet fulfilling lives seems like it's gonna be the big challenge to getting everyone on board with the relentless pace of technological change.
Doesn't Vimeo do pretty damn well with this? Or are you looking more for snippets of animation/shots, instead of Vimeo's YouTube length videos?
You understand you're the definition of a schoolyard bully, right?

I've read all my posts, several times. I'm internally consistent, and I almost always favor cautious respect over ignorant bashing.

I'm not even defending Eich, again, I don't know him. I'm stating that a social environment where a man loses a job Mozilla thought he was qualified for because of private personal beliefs and internet outrage is not only actively undemocratic, it's foolish and childish.
Most users of Linux on the "desktop" are more dependent on a web browser than on KDE or Gnome, so the drivers are not the only unknown.
I had to look this one up:

Sperging out: When someone goes on a long, in-depth, overly elaborate explanation long after everyone already gets the point, but will not fucking end.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sperging%20ou...
The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves
I was under the impression that one is hardware accelerated while the other is not?
Downloadable sounds for electric cars.

Electric cars must make noise under new EU rules:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26857743
What is regrettable in all this is that no one seems to consider the possibility that people may have nuanced views about gay marriage. According to the mob you're either a saint or a bigot, and thus Eich's value as a human being was supposedly entirely determined by this one opinion he voiced in 2008.

I'm staunchly in favor of gay marriage, which I consider to be a no-brainer -- but it seems to me the motivations of Prop 8 proponents differ a lot in nature, with some being much more excusable than others in their wrongness.

For example, there are people who have nothing against homosexuality but are attached to the symbolic value of 'marriage' as a Christian institution and would be completely fine with another civil contract with the same rights but a different name. This seems to be somewhat in line with Eich's actions (I remember reading a memo from Eich stating he had no plan to amend Mozilla's gay-friendly policies and employee benefits). Although I still think this view is guilty of being wrongly attached to outdated models of society, this is not nearly as bad as what Eich has been accused of.

There are other possible reasons one could have (for example, those who in ignorance of the many studies that showed that children of homosexual households grow up just fine could have unfounded reservations about gay adoption, but would be ready to change their mind if shown the evidence; I've encountered a couple myself), but my broader point is that there is a huge range in the degree of bigotry between those who voted Prop 8 and one should not jump to conclusions so easily as they do not all deserve the same level of condemnation.

Now, I can understand why Eich's views could make him unsuitable as a CEO because, in a purely pragmatic sense, holding views that most of your workforce despise is obviously detrimental to your ability to lead and especially so at such a peculiar organization as Mozilla where ideology matters arguably more than in other companies; it also matters because, as many have said, a CEO is the face of the company and his views and those of the company are sometimes hard to disentangle.

But going from there to making a call to boycott Firefox is a huge jump and smells like a pure appropriation of the controversy for PR purposes. This revelation about Sam Yagan seems to strengthen this feeling. Come on people, we're better than this. Being on the right side of history about an issue does not automatically waive us from intellectual rigor and moderation.
I wonder if using iOS 7's mesh networking feature, if this would be more easily feasible (discoverability of other devices).
It still seems kinda expensive, especially for a dive.
We have public information. The public information is damning: he donated to an organization that ran a campaign of hateful slurs against gay people in order to permanently deny them their human rights in the California Constitution.

I guess there might be some private exonerating information, but I have a hard time imagining what it might be.
something like this which is actively used to treat Parkinson's disease : http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_2008_Groups/grou...
A person without diabetes should not be experiencing large excursions in blood glucose, so presumably this device should not be helpful for non-diabetic dieters.
Did you not read the part where they stated they missed this one and didn't remedy it as they should have?
A cheap hardwire device that I can take to the gym and not worry about breaking it. There are lot's of great workout tracking apps but I won't risk having my expensive smart phone smashed in order to record my workouts. I see more people using pen and paper even with all the amazing apps out there.
GTK and Qt are shaping up well too. Firefox is working on switching to GTK 3. And XWayland can help for those who lag behind.
and yet, all these testimonials came out from LGBTQ*'s working at Mozilla, with Brenden Eich, saying that he treated them as equals.

Perhaps you could elaborate on when Eich said they were second-class citizens. you know, so you aren't accused of putting words in someone's mouth.
Baby near me

Amenities near by with baby facilities, possibly with user ratings.

All of my recently baby-ied friends complain about finding places to go, especially groups of recent mothers meeting up in the middle of the day.
Dude. I've often thought about doing exactly this, but I felt like there was probably something already out there and just haven't taken the time to research whether that's true or not. If there's not, and there still isn't by the time I finish launching my current project, I might just look into taking this on next!
Don't try to count, just establish an upper bound. "I have 1000 servers using this shared key, and they each open at most 1000000 connections per second, so as long as I change the key in the next 500 years I should be fine."
Wayne Coyne (of the Flaming Lips) sorta did that in the 90s with car stereos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaireeka#The_Parking_Lot_Exper...
Huh, is it really implemented like that?!

Why use realloc when growing an array you have an interface to? Just add another allocated buffer to the previous allocated areas. When there are too many small areas, consolidate with realloc/free.

Much faster (yes yes, almost always).

(Disclaimer: Last time I used C++ I had hair. :-) )

Edit: OK, thanks plorkyeran.
is virtualhostx [0] what you want? personally i ditched it many years ago in favor of editing the hosts file. it really doesn't get easier than that.

not sure i'm on the right track though because the benefits you list seem contrived. "not as permanent"? "not as much work"? we're talking about editing a single line in a short file.

[0] http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/
Intriguing. I have some immediate questions.

What is wrong with using taskrabbit itself? What tasks do you envision? What about virtual assistants like Zirtual.com?
- Movie Quote Search
- Search for a movie quote and it brings up the part of the movie where the quote starts. User can then adjust the length of the clip they wish to share. No longer than 30 seconds.

- Mobile App - Timed Deals for local businesses.
Company registers their deal and how many they wish to offer. A potential customer who follows certain types of products may get the promotion, The catch is, Promotion only last 30 seconds(max) and you have to buy it right then.

Anyone wants to help me with any of these I'd love the help.
> I can't see how any serious business would trust private data to "the cloud" today.

If you are a US-based company, your data is already one legal maneuver away from having your data copied.
Today's race was the first time we got to see just how fast the Mercedes is on low fuel with new tires. This innovation is worth 2 seconds per lap, which is massive in this sport. The championship is theirs to lose this year. Teams don't make up such a time gap over a season, and Mercedes won't stop developing.
An IaaS provider which meets "paranoid" security requirements -- essentially, being able to remotely provision a box in a trustworthy way, and know you "own" that box at least as much as if you'd carried it to colo yourself.

Then, the ability to secure those boxes (and boxes you drop off in colo) against tampering short of powering them off.

(tech details: Intel TXT, TCG TPM, cheap HSMs, Intel SGX, etc.)
like this, http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html ?
>religious significance to many people, and by forcing the definition to change, pro-gay rights groups are also codifying personal belief into law.

The establishment clause to the constitution says that religious beliefs do not get to be encoded in law. And considering I have not seen one single anti-equality argument that wasn't either religiously motivated or a gigantic mass of "appeal to tradition" fallacies, I suggest the "anti" side move to a different country where theocracy is an accepted form or government. Because this isn't one.

> The only proper response should have been to remove all legal rights associated with marriage, and force all couples to get a civil union. Tax that instead.

I'd be okay with this, but it's not a change that happens overnight. There are too many things.. insurance benefits, tax benefits, inheritances, visitation rights, etc. associated with the spousal relationship. Those will take some time to work through. In the mean time, this is a suitable band-aid.
I don't think it is sinister, or a conspiracy, just the kind of coordinated rebranding and messaging modern corporations do all the time. I don't think it takes a PR genius to say "why don't we wait until after Ballmer leaves before we roll out our new initiatives, while the new CEO is still in his honeymoon stage". Microsoft 2.0, finally emerging, instead of poor old Ballmer, always late to the party with hamfisted plans.
Deis certainly does. http://deis.io/
surely banning Firefox was pretty stupid given that it's quite a large open source project?
This stunt just seems like a cry for attention.
Many people on hacker news have explicitly asked for this: a platform for listing your open-source project that needs contributors. I tried here:

https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute

But nobody cared. Perhaps I was doing it wrong or I have not do many/any promotion. Anybody wants to take this idea and solve it for us I will really appreciate it.
Finally, someone who understands the true meaning of hypocrisy. Pretense is a large part of hypocrisy. People often misunderstand that by saying someone who does something opposite of their beliefs is a hypocrite. No, it's both that and pretense. And, Sam Yagan seems like the proverbial hypocrite.
In other breaking news:

) Earth still exists
) Human's breathe oxygen
*) Cow's fart a lot

Not to be a total arsehole, but I mean... uhh, what's the point of this?

If anything, it sounds like, from the copy, they want you to make websites but instead of calling it a "website" because that's un-cool? I don't get it.

// Start of semi-related rant

I would also like to call this statement in their opening paragraph complete non-sense and almost simple minded:

"Static web architecture eases common web development headaches without introducing additional complexity"

After many years of doing web development, I can see programming in Java, Obj-C, or .NET is worlds easier for application development. Instead of 27 different platforms (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari on different platforms) I have one-- the god damn operating system. Was this always the case? Nope, but it is now.

Is it easier to write a single screen on the web using JS, HTML, and CSS? Sure, but the return is marginally decreasing as the application grows. More screens, more complexity, the more HTML/CSS/JS start to show their age.

Web development becomes actually more complicated than writing a native application.
But you're single issue on Eich. Who wasn't actually making laws against same sex marriage, but instead made open source software that improved the world.