skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engine blocks aren't all that crazy. Most of the time (at least these days) they're made out of aluminum. That means that the stress on the bolt is limited more by the aluminum threads that the bolt mates with rather than by the bolt itself.

Further engine blocks are pretty cheap, all things considered. Turbines have tighter engineering constraints and wider price constraints so I would look there before looking at reciprocating ICEs.
"the average poor person today has 3 wide screen TVs, an Xbox, a smart phone and air conditioning." [citation needed]

I'm not disputing your claim that everyone is much, much better off, but the "poor people have lots of stuff!" kind of thinking pollutes the discussion.
No more integrated lastfm suggestions ? This sucks :(
I bought one of these in 2009 or 2010. I've yet to see my $450 open pandora and I periodically get emails asking for more money because of "financial issues."

I'm no businessman, but that whole thing seemed like a prime example of mis-management.
When I'm on either side of the desk, I don't assume that it is the employers job to get a candidate to work for peanuts. The marginal cost difference between what a good candidate is worth to me, and what I can effectively negotiate is tiny in comparison to getting the candidates I want.

That is, it is much more expensive for me to get the wrong candidate, than to pay a little too much for a good one.
I find the most interesting thing about these articles, what they don't actually say. Most of this article was a black box that just said "we can't talk about the methods."

But the last sentence would make a much more interesting expose. Why does he "have serious personal safety issues"? What are these issues? Etc. etc. That's an article I'd like to read about.
Do you consider the Steambox dead? Why do you write of it in the paste tense?
#ThisWeekInStartups: Is Jason Calacanis' Prediction About YC Realistic?
There's a similar page around somewhere on the implausibility of the Falklands War, starting with the absurdity of the conflict over tiny resourceless islands, through things like the transatlantic bombing run and putting all the helicopters on one ship which was sunk immediately. Then there's Thatcher ringing up Mitterand in the middle of the night to demand the remote disarm codes for the Exocet missiles France had sold Argentina, involving threats to nuke Buenos Aires.

And the War of Jenkins' Ear, which is just silly.
Have you read the article ?

quote from article:
"Let's be honest, SteamOS is done. Steam got exactly what they wanted from Microsoft and dropped it like a hot potato (so sorry, you'll never get to use that cool controller).
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Hell, they're probably begging them to let them advertise their Geek Squad services to "optimize" the experience and install that $5 program for $100. But no, the Microsoft Experience is inviolate, the holiest of holies, eternally immutable. No matter how much hatred it gets, it Must. Not. Be. Changed .
And then Alienware ships a Windows 8 PC that boots to Steam instead of Metro."
Science is not profitable, its application is.

And in a perfect world, wouldn't it be great if science was profitable?

No, that would make it vulnerable to abuse, look at what happened to lawyering, college fees, private health care. Capitalizing it only makes it worse. Science shouldn't be influenced by money. Imagine if it were, and compare it to politics. Do you want scientists to make decisions while funded under young earth creationists or big oil?
You can't. Looks like the response is hard-coded.

Would be nice to be able to customize keys, choose a format for a list of a resource, etc. so that if you use this in development you don't need to make changes for your "real" API if you have different standards.
I see that concerning point one and two there is option 'edit and resend' visible if you hover over request in network tab, and there is also option 'enable persistent logs', that shows what happens between refreshes. Don't know how it works, just playing around for 10 minutes.

Overall I'm impressed with new network panel, much better than before.
Not to be the guy to bring this up again, but if this is targeted for development why are sessions still limited to consuming 2GB of memory? Why is nightly still the only branch with 64bit builds?
But I as developer care to deliver the best experience in terms of performance from Android 2.3 all the way up Android 5.0.
Computers Are Writing Novels, but Do You Really Want to Read Them?
Yeah, one that he controls and regulates.
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde freed after 5 months in prison
There used to be multiple civilizations. There still are, but there are less of them. Connecting the world is turning us into a monoculture, and as biologists know, monocultures are extremely vulnerable to diseases wiping them out.

I think we should encourage localized micro-civilizations, if only to keep the species safe. For example, capitalism has become the system that the world runs on. Pretty much all of us exchange currency for goods. But there are lots of failure modes for this system. To keep ourselves safe, we should encourage enclaves with alternative economic systems like bartering and collectivism.

Unfortunately, in the US at least, if someone suggests that capitalism might not be the best for everybody, they get labeled as a "socialist" and shunned.
No keyboard support. Fail.
It would be great for learning client-side development using React, AngularJS, etc. without having to use an existing API or building one yourself.
>as they passed the ACA, they simply changed to rules to use the reconciliation process to pass what they wanted without the Republicans being able to say a word.

Untrue. Fillibuster rules were only changed in late 2013, after years of being unable to even get votes on nominees.
Looks like this is trying to solve the same problem as https://bop.fm/
Foodo.eu is hiring Head of Tech for online supermarket in Germany/Switzerland [pdf]
Wow, so Firefox's Preferences panel is being redesigned, or is this a "Developer Edition" thing? I like it - hopefully they'll also add searching capabilities. Yes, like in Chrome, that was a good design choice.

On the theme, I personally don't like dark themes for my browser. But I like that this theme is space efficient, so I hope to see an equivalent for the stable Firefox, as I for one would use it, but please make it light instead of dark :)

I do hope to see Electrolysis get some love. It's available in Nightly, but not in this developer preview. From what I understand, the next version (36) is the first version in which Electrolysis starts being moved between channels.

Anyway, great job.
No, I did not mean that. And I certainly believe that there are actions that the President could take that would help to promote a more limited role for the intelligence agencies, etc. I do believe, however, that the ability for any President to limit the power of the government is limited both by Congressional action and by the government itself. No agency wants to see its powers reduced, and will oppose any measures which could affect them.

Basically, any president which seeks to limit the existing power of government institutions will run into institutional resistance.
A little sarcastic-psychological note: "ONLY 92 PLACES REMAINING." makes me think there were 100 to begin with, and only 8 people have been interested so far...

Either way, it seems like an interesting product!
"you are using an outdated version of firefox"
Sup mozilla im on freaking nightly - detection seem to need work :)
I am honestly curious but is there a link or survey somewhere that says most HNers make/have money?
It blocks all network requests to URLs on the blocklist. This can include ads, if those ads are listed as known tracking resources. I believe there'll eventually be a mechanism for publishers to declare DNT-compliance or something, to make sure their content isn't treated as a tracker.
Agencies have been spying forever. From opening letters to eavesdroping phone calls. I'm not saying it's right, just that the agencies have not become worse with time.

However, I totally agree with you when you're concerned about the diminishing privacy. I think the advance of technology is the key factor for this. Agencies are as ruthless as always and use this new technologies.

Most people are totally fine to tell Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc. everything about their private lifes in exchange to ... distraction. Think of all the health shit ... they gonna make furtunes selling our data to the pharma and insurrance industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore

Veteran of the French and Indian wars. At the age of 78 he participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concorde, where he was bayoneted, beaten and shot in the face. He recovered and died of old age at 96.
>>as they passed the ACA, they simply changed to rules to use the reconciliation process

No they passed the bill with 60 votes during the only time they actually had a supermajority. There were no rules changes needed or required. ACA was passed and signed before changes were made in the reconciliation process.
I agree, that right and wrong are the building blocks of society -- of all societies. But you can also see in history and in other nations, what the result is, when those building blocks are missing or when they are repeatedly violated. That is something that makes me fear for the US. When they train those people, that shall uphold right and wrong to be wrongdoers, when legislation fails, because there are to many interest groups, when even judges are judging for money .... the way downhill will be steep!

Already today, as others also posted, the trust into officials is rapidly going downhill in society. Broader and broader parts of society disband legal living, because legality is also often only an excuse for wrong doing. The officials give the example and the complete nation goes downhill step for step.
They'd open source it because of this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Valve wants to commoditize the OS market, so that the barrier to getting games working is lower. At the moment, all there is is windows and linux. Windows is bad for valve, as they lose control, and linux is bad as it has a higher technical barrier of entry.

Valve needs a third way which "just works" - windows can't provide this, as it's closed source, but a stable linux distribution, with a low technical entry barrier might.
The Dark Side of Stop Losses
Ted Cruz Says Net Neutrality Is 'Obamacare for the Internet'
Libcaca study: the science behind colour ASCII art
> Why would HN highlight these distortions?

So that you and others that already knew better could come here and educate us that didn't. Thank you.
> as they passed the ACA, they simply changed to rules to use the reconciliation process to pass what they wanted without the Republicans being able to say a word.

Not quite. The Democrats had 60 Senate seats for a very brief period before Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's seat when he passed away. The main ACA bill in the senate was passed with 60 votes the normal way. A second bill that was to modify that bill was passed with reconciliation as a way to get members of the House to drop their version of ACA, accept the currently passed Senate version, and then modify that to appease some of the concerns of various congresspeople.

> Reid was pro at changing the rules to prevent opposing views, people need to understand just how much of the problems in th Senate were his doing and his doing alone. Mister Nuclear just got nuked by the electorate

I so very much hate the 'going nuclear' talk. Filibuster breaks at 60 votes is a shit idea in the first place, plus changing it only in one case for appointments is hardly shaking up the political order at large. In fact, the reluctance to do it for all types of votes shows how conservative leadership for the dems were being.
Is it really hyperbole when we know via Snowden that one of the projects of the NSA is to infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt any/all dissenting groups?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellige...

What about parallel construction, putatively started to help with terrorists but now usually used in drug investigations in order to sidestep civil rights safeguards?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
There was a talk about it at this year's FOSDEM,

https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/game_openpand...
I recommend this NPR podcast, you'd be surprised by the results.

"INCOME INEQUALITY IMPAIRS THE AMERICAN DREAM OF UPWARD MOBILITY"

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1...
This is, IMHO, the best part about getting your kids into PC gaming vs giving them a console. I got very interested in scripting from seeing what scripts could do in Quake 3. Console gaming doesn't offer the same opportunities for learning / tinkering. This is not to say that games themselves can't offer a level of exploration / tinkering, but you're still confined to a locked-down, DRM'd, anti-cheat, closed-source appliance designed to just play the games, not create / modify them.
Writing a brainfuck interpreter in Elixir, part 2
Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist
This is very similar to Mozilla's proposal to the FCC last spring: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/mozilla-offers-fc...

Mozilla: "The petition calls on the FCC to designate last-mile delivery of edge provider communications as “remote delivery” services, and as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act."

Obama: "I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act."
I see, the "new rules" are easiest to summarize as one more "let's do it like Chrome" step.
There is no difference between refusing unanimous consent and a filibuster. Reid just changed the cloture requirement to 51 from 60.
The government created the internet. For a while in the early 90s corporations tried to create it, and what they came up with were walled gardens, the open internet blew them away, look up Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy.

The internet works because of the underlying open, bidirectional, equally privileged connections. If the corps are starting to change that it must be stopped. The internet is one of humanities greatest achievements and we can't let greedy monopoly beuraucrats kill it.
In regards to this point:

"If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it."

Are ISPs permitted to block illegal content currently? It would seem that this distinction shouldn't be left up to the ISP. Does this mean that my isp would be able to block me from visiting The Pirate Bay? Or could my ISP have blocked me from reddit when "The Fappening" was going down?

The way its been worded its implied that ISPs are permitted to block illegal content but not legal content. I'm just curious if its been that way all along or if this is something new.
Why Trade Like a Hedge Fund?
>>When the FBI start assassinating American Citizens in their sleep after an agent drugs their food to silence African American Political movements... THEN we can start talking about a "police state".

You do realize that the USA committed extrajudicial murder of an American citizen during the current president's term, right? Or are you just ignoring it because it's inconvenient to your narrative?

>>Today's laws make such surveillance and wiretapping illegal.

And yet we have the entire population under surveillance. Compared to that, spying on a handful of civil leaders is nothing.
what's an average poor person? what you saw on TV? Did you actually spend some time in a poor neighborhood? Pretty easy to make stuff up to win arguments.
To be precise, it didn't prevent that crime from happening. You seem to be assuming that the law-abiding folks reacted to the non-working camera but the criminals didn't.
In the UK, the police have the power to stop and search, including viewing images, only someone 'reasonably suspect to be a terrorist'. http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice

It doesn't say so there, but other advice I've seen the Met. issue explicitly states that taking pictures of a building in and of itself isn't sufficient for a police officer to 'reasonably suspect' a person to be a terrorist, and taking pictures of the police definitely isn't.

The Met. keep publishing advice telling their army of goons to leave photographers alone, while at the same time winding up said army to catch terrorists. It's a farce.
How we’ve made Raptor faster than Unicorn, Puma, Torquebox
> Parsing?!? In ORMs and DBMSes?!?

Yes. Stuff stored in files has to be parsed when you read it out of files.
In the eyes of the public, I think that it was very much believably about terrorism-- people have internalized the false maxims that security must be sought, and that liberty must be traded to get security. This wasn't really a popular trope before the anti-terrorist propaganda came along.

I agree with you when you say that it was never about terrorism but rather increasing executive power, though. There certainly was a trend toward increased surveillance for many years before, but the entrance of surveillance into the new world-dominating media of the internet is a story in and of itself, I think.
> there is no way to write algorithms in C#

Sorry, but that's just bullshit. I'm a C programmer by trade (I program device drivers), and love Linux/BSD/Unix and despise Microsoft, you can write any algorithm you want in C#, or Java, and I'm not talking about Turing completeness. (just recently as part of a school course, I had to implement red-black trees in C# and Java, I could show you the source if you still don't believe me).

C# and Java references work just as well as pointers when defining a tree node for example.
Still confused. What did Steam get from Microsoft?
Consistency / familiarity is a very important part of developing UIs/UXs that are intuitive.

What you have with material design is a very well documented approach to promoting this. The wrong direction? As a developer I lack the expertise/talent to have an opinion one way or the other on the direction presented by material design. But if the designer community is unhappy with the approach, then they should probably get together to create competing principles that can be adopted by the rest of the dev/design community.

You are still free to design you applications however you see fit, but you risk missing out on users quickly feeling comfortable in your applications.
I'm using "barrier to distribution" here as from the person I'm replying to, a thing providing a choke point where you can collect revenue. You're using the words in a broader sense.

Also, I don't think you're right about the history of licensing. Spectrum auctions are relatively new, at least in the US. I'm pretty sure that during the time radio and TV were figuring out their business models, license fees were negligible. See, for example, Coase's 1959 paper, "The Federal Communications Commission"; his proposal of treating spectrum as a tradable property right was considered novel and radical.
Apple's secret weapon: Leverage
> Go does help prevent errors in untested context-free code
> snippets... by being really really simple, and not trying
> to mash a ton of logic into a single line for no reason.

But there is an example in this very thread of a manually-implemented map-via-a-for-loop from a well-meaning Go user that accidentally underflows into an infinite loop.

This isn't an attack on Go (which I respect as a language for having the temerity to be opinionated, a facet that more languages need to emulate), merely bafflement at your claim that implementing everything anew via bespoke loops is somehow effective at reducing errors.
I never meant for money(one part of it), i said a better deal, or a better complete package if you will.
> Why would I want to randomly access variable length fields in a file, to start with? It's a very niche thing to do.

If by "niche" you mean every interactive website does it.
That's what I'm also curious about. I never finished my degree and understand I have to leverage work experience and a killer portfolio to get my next development job, but have yet to figure out how to structure my resume around this niggling detail.

Leaving off the education section is interesting... I'm assuming this strategy is to give you an opportunity to create interest as a candidate before the (inevitable?) question comes up, "I see you didn't mention education on your resume... Could you tell me more about that?"

Edit: Grammatical fumbling.
The "Folder" metaphor is something I've been considering a lot lately. It seems so ingrained in modern computing.

Apple has started to move away from it tags and "All my Files."

I struggle to think of a better way to solve organizing and collecting items than into nested groups.
> Ted Cruz is now tarring this as "Net Neutrality is the Obamacare of the Internet".

That is disastrous. If the Republicans unite against Net Neutrality just because Obama supports it, we could easily get a Republican president in the next election, and then the Internet in the U.S. will be doomed for a very long time.
"John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute."

I have to agree here, I'd have less problem if all camera feeds that the gov't has access to are available for all citizens, including police cars, etc.. at all times.

Also, the fact that discretion is rarely something one thinks of when it comes to the police or prosecutors lately with nearly 1% of the U.S. population in prison.
President Obama to the FCC: implement net neutrality
Yes, that would ideal way to use twitter. But most of the people don't use twitter for that. For example, Mashable has 4.3M followers, what they do is tweet every 15 minutes or so with their links, sharing a link multiple times. And for these 4.3M followers those, the kind of tweets you mentioned will get buried among these tweets.

But its very difficult to separate the "less useful" tweets. For example @pmarca shares a lot of links always accompanied by some comment. But a lot of people share just the title and the link and can be considered less useful in a sense that it should be displayed in a list like in Delta.

Still that's a great idea, and increase the utility of twitter for a lot of users. I never thought of that. Thanks.
Firefox 33.1 - A new 'Forget button' added
Pretty much. I never close Firefox on my laptop, and haven't seen any performance degradation for over a year now.

Chrome on the other side, starts degrading my entire system's performance forcing it to hit swap memory the second the string of tabs on my top bar threatens to stretch across the screen. No need to wait for 'months of use without closing'...
I don't think it's ever a bad time to point out that Republicans are generally anti-consumer and pro large corporations.
If they've really made it past all those rough spots like that weird manufacturer in Texas, then hats off to them.

It's entirely possibly my name and number in line were lost in the void and mistakes like that happen. If they're really still going, at least $450 went to the development of open source and open hardware, and I don't consider that a complete loss.

Anything is better than knowing I contributed to vaporware.

EDIT: Looks like ED is still going. Good luck to him.
Pgpool-II Enables Horizontal Scalability in Postgres
Actually it is free and open. It's not private, however.

The internet was never a private place and it will never be.

Edit: It's important that we don't loose the freedom and openness. That's what the discussion is all about. Not about the lack of privacy.
F**k Off as a Service REST API
Why the hardware restrictions and special browser build requirement? I'd like to play with this but don't have a Rift. Are there any plans for a slimmed down version like http://vr.chromeexperiments.com/ that can work with all the cheap plastic and cardboard phone mount headsets?