skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If patent trolls are moving to this, it seems to be a great development for society, since it makes patent trolling itself by both NPEs and PEs less profitable or unprofitable.

The legal system still seem to be broken, because it should offer a large reward to the "PTAB troll" to be paid by the patent owner so that instead of settling they would go through and invalidate the patent, while still getting money from the patent owner, who would also lose the money from the (non-)infringer.
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Will suppose that bulk of you people are corporate minions doing desktop or web stuff. At home and at work do 'deeply' embedded code. Assembly and C, with some Python honey poured on top to fill in the cracks. So perhaps it is a POV thing - huge company stuff done by several programmers vs small little black box stuff done by one or two EEs.

But a good tool, however mundane the task, will always be fun. This is my second Law of Engineering.
you missed the second part: 'eDekka said its patent claims to "improve the functioning of technology," but Gilstrap ruled the claimed improvements simply weren't present. None of the eDekka claims met the standard for patenting, Gilstrap found.'
It's still early days. Niche, maker domain. Pieces of the puzzle are emerging such as the low cost "wino board". (I'm looking forward to this). Keeping costs down allows more experiments and creative mixing and matching.

Intranet of things is important too. People want a connected but secure and private home. Things are personal. Do we really need or want Google in our fridge? If the fridge senses only one egg left in egg compartment, there needs to be options for how that information is then made available to members of the household. Google cloud, sure. But also more private exclusive services too with a focus on privacy not advertising and "link with Google profile in order to use this feature" nonsense.

Sensors, logic and easily configured rules are important. We want to sense whether the cat has walked downstairs or a human. Cat doesn't need night light. How many humans are now downstairs, maybe one is sitting still in a chair, the other moving around. A smart house knows all this.. Via low cost sensors and a reliable rules engine, standards and easily configured without tech knowledge. Still a way to go.

It needs to easy like piecing together Lego. Depending on your home and things and people in your life you will have a different arrangement of connections.
No. You usually can't pick judges unless the forum is so tiny they only have one. You can't pick the forum unless it has jurisdiction over the matter.
No details on whether you can sell only to US customers or worldwide.
SDK Seems small enough for people to integrate into Games and make some easy money if supported worldwide.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10314854.
It will be interesting to see whether the alrger iPad pro finds use as a game board; it loks like it's large enough for two people to comfortably play many traditional games, like Connect 4 or suchlike. This seemed like one of the most interesting possibilities for the ill-fated Microsoft Surface Table, but past attempts were just too large.
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There are promises there, it just hides it. All async functions return a promise, and `await` works with promises builtin. It's basically the same thing as generators, without the `function*` syntax.

Which is unfortunate because async/await only works with promises, and if you want any other async model (like one that doesn't eat errors all the time) you can't use it. Luckily, generators are fine.
I dug through 2 links and found it, thanks for letting me know:

https://help.github.com/articles/about-two-factor-authentica...
"by ending the sale of devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with Amazon’s video service."

I predict they'll make it easier soon. Amazon is pulling an "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" approach to negotiations.
The biggest regrets I have in life stem from ignoring my "spider sense" about a situation. It's often difficult to articulate what's wrong, but if you have a vague feeling something's wrong, it most likely is.
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They used to say the Space Shuttle isn't ready to fly unless the weight of the paperwork is equal to the weight of the shuttle.
And while you can get it running, it doesn't support Chromecast because they want you to buy their own competing product. I can feel the Justice Department's Antitrust Division rumbling from here.
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You're right (fixed). I meant to say Amazon Video, not Prime Video. I was thinking of the feature where you can pay to rent or purchase a video, not just the set of movies that are included in Prime without additional cost. I agree that the 'Prime' part does not have a lot of new releases.
Strange that the artwork upload doesn't seem to support vector graphics. They want a rasterized JPEG?
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OK, haters gonna hate, I get it.
Writing Friendlier Clojure
The argument doesn't really make assumptions about how you contribute to a business. Investors fighting for higher capital gains also drive up the costs for the business they fund.

Higher ROI is how an investor increases her wealth relative to other members of society. Lower capital gains make the society richer overall.

If you invest your savings in a space business and genuinely care about it, then the return you demand becomes the cost of space exploration. Identical dilemma to that of the worker.

The class warfare between owners of capital and workers is essentially the same mechanics but taken between two specially chosen groups. In general, each individual and each group seeks to increase their share relative to others (whether you call it income or capital gains). Costs going down is how we all get richer as a society (the costs including both paychecks and capital gains).
Much appreciated. That's a great opener for a discussion with our impl. team.
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For people looking for replacement ideas: I use Zim + Syncthing. Works on my Linux machines, and Android app works OK.
> I predict they'll make it easier soon.

Aside from "Amazon said it in a press release", is there any reason to think that these services really aren't "easily compatible with Amazon's video service"?

I mean, lots of other video services support Chromecast and AppleTV, and I haven't heard of it being particularly difficult.
Housing policy in Britain is a bit like this. Houses in Britain are so expensive that many people are priced out of the market. So the government offers tax breaks and cheap loans to first time buyers. This means first time buyers can afford to offer more money to purchase a house, bidding against each other and driving house prices even higher.

This has been going on for decades, but they still do it because there are no votes for letting house prices fall, and plenty of votes in offering help to first time buyers. The fact that the general taxpayer is footing the bill is just a detail.
The community of attorneys and jusges handling patent cases didn't have the technical know-how to understand the breadth and depth of fuckery-duckery going on in the realm of obvious software patents, allowing trolls to pull a bankable fast one.

Enough fast ones get pulled and they start catching on. That's who's being educated: the courts and legal community.
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Recommended! My team uses eslint with the "Standard" style, no more arguments about how a for-loop should be written. http://standardjs.com/
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Not with GitLFS, since it's designed under the assumption that the hostname serving your repo over ssh is also the GitLFS server over HTTP.

However git-fat[1] is an alternative system that works in much the same way, but lets you configure where the files are stored.

[1]: https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat
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> It costs millions of dollars to run these operations

Are you sure? Litigation isn't always expensive if you're doing it in-house.
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How about a simple modal switch, maybe even a foot pedal, changing your keyboard into ~105 single-button commands, similar to what Vim does in normal mode?
The Wallet Is the New Browser. ConsenSys & Ethereum
Are they back porting rootless?
http://hangouts.google.com no longer requires a G+ account.
You should be selling electronic content to be the everything store! That's the whole point. If apple and google tries to stop amazon from selling tv shows or movies, of course amazon is going to fight back
That's correct, I've edited my post to be clearer. Thanks.
The keyboard has 3 backlight options: unlit, blue, and red. I have several 'shift' keys which toggle the action (and backlight) of other keys, but having one keyboard two-layers deep isn't as powerful as the combinations you can build with multiple shift modes.
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Here's some work towards that: https://github.com/inexorabletash/indexeddb-promises

Still a ways to go, though...
Might be worth noting that despite the name, feross/standard uses a very controversial and non-standard style. Notably, it enforces no semicolons.

There's nothing wrong with that as a style, but it's certainly not any sort of standard.

Edit: The airbnb style guide I linked in my other comment is probably a lot closer to what most people would think of as a "standard" config. Not better per se, just more common.
I think the proposal was that a user can create global hooks on their user account. So if you put a hook in ~/.git/hooks, it will act as if it was in $PROJECT_DIR/.git/hooks, unless that specific repository has disabled global hooks.

If you do this, then developers only need to install the hooks once when they set up their machine, and then will already have them when they clone a repo.
The typical response to this sort of chart is something like: the welfare state is destroying the family unit!

But I look at this graph and I think: wow, there must have been a ton of people stuck in unhappy marriages before, who could now have better choices.
It looks nice, although the contrast on the top links makes them almost unreadable for me.

What did you build it with, and is there source code available?

I'm always interested in how people put these together.
Are these types of schools worth the cost for people? I'd love to hear from a student. I took a couple months off work to learn new skills and it cost me nothing (except rent and no income), just a lot of Googling and frustration. What's different about this? Is it the class setting + mentor structure that makes it worth it?
Yes! This has been a big source of frustration for me! That you can't logically look at the hashtable algorithm and derive O(1). Instead, it's some ridiculous gentlemen's agreement where we call it O(1) even though it can't be. See my previous "am I the crazy one here" posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807739
Well, Amazon also has an army of middle managers, engineers, and others.
I for one look forward to our networked, distributed game theoretic deep learning overlords.
Put.io's terms are a bit scary for the regular illegal use it's usually advertised for -

'Put.io may disclose specific contact information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Put.io or other visitors to the site or users of the Services. Also, your contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture, or a bankruptcy of Put.io.'
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It's probably a lot easier to steal your keys than it is to dust his phone for fingerprints and go through all the trouble of then faking the print on the sensor.

Heck, all someone needs to do is grab the one permanently plugged into your USB hub on your work desktop after you've left for the day.

Just sayin'...
Amazing talk!
That depends on the volume you're moving.

With their volume discount (400 per week), and a nicer quality shirt, you can make ~$7.30.
This a page showing the new features of Odoo 9 that has been released today.
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Not able to understand the basis of this article.

1. What is 'work-horse' startup?
2. how is a 'work-horse' different from an 'unicorn'?
3. Would not the ubiquity of the 'cockroaches' result in many more c/r failures? Would their failure rate be much less, or would more survive just because there are supposedly many more?
4. is this a veiled zombie-apocalypse article?
5. is the 'plague' an economic bubble? If so, do the demographics and statistics map well with the precursor economic behavior for bubble formation?
6. and who has been 'living large'? Have yet to see any largess in this neck of the woods.
> Pure curiosity: Is security taken more seriously in those deployments than it is in the consumer stuff we've all heard of?

<drink out nose> Thanks. You owe me a new keyboard. :)

No. If anything, it's worse.
China never would have resorted to dredging if they had been able to occupy an island big enough to put an airport on. But all of the islands of that size were already occupied by one of the other countries, so China decided to build one rather than take one by force. The alternative is to abandon their claim on the islands entirely, which would be stupid because nobody else really has a better claim on a bunch of barren, uninhabited islands.

Honestly, this is one of those types of disputes where nobody has a clearly better claim than anyone else, so the nation with the biggest navy wins (the US did this all over the South Pacific, so we can't act all high and mighty). But there's nothing inherently important about those islands other than they grant territorial waters, so whoever has the biggest navy in the region will control them. Very different than what happened in Georgia or Ukraine (or Iraq, or Afghanistan...)

The US media usually portrays this as 100% Chinese aggression, when the truth is that every country that claims the islands is doing the exact same thing (albeit on a smaller scale).
But it doesn't even work in that theoretical world: as n gets arbitrarily large, you've used up all the keys and they have to start sharing buckets, forcing you to iterate over O(n) of them -- although the constant on that is only logarithmic in the size of the hash function output space (aka linear in the size of hash output)!

Edit: clarify and fix error.
Get over it already, single signon is here to stay a n d it is (now) easy to create a bunch of different "pages"-identities that are hard to trace back to your main account.

Or am I wrong?
Experian leaks info from 15M T-mobile credit applications
"But Apple can't be trusted"

You haven't given a reason why. And no, the existence of iOS is not a reason.
Yes, it's in quotes and capitalized for a reason. I did not pick the name.

About the style itself, it very closely matches what we were doing anyway, before it came along. Semicolons are dumb.