skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, Altera is able to write an OpenCL compiler for their platform. I am not, because they don't document the low-level bitstream format; you always need to have some licensed Altera compiler in between what you write and the actual hardware.
This site could be much nicer if they used javascript to render the latex equations, most of them are already in latex anyways (without the $ signs).
Investors think Snapchat is worth $4 billion. That’s insane.
I don't think it's pretty obvious when you cite the blog for a company involved. Google's been fairly cavalier in infringing some patents (Regardless of whether their good patents, Google knew they were infringing). It should also be noted that the biggest Android player apart from Google, Samsung, has taken to suing aggressively.
> Why that? Have we never heard of defaced web pages?

Well if you can't trust the website you're screwed anyway. If the website is compromised then absolutely any way they have of installing software is broken
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And my head tells me that if you think defecting on a Prisoner's Dilemma at the national scale is "smart", our civilization is dying.
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Official thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653437
Don't blame the patent system. While it is true that patent system should be reformed/eliminated, those companies chose to take advantage of it.

Just because you can steal something when nobody is looking doesn't mean it's justified to be stolen.
You could ask the Lithuanians, I'm sure they would have some colorful input.
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I find it odd that everybody is speculating Apple mostly and Microsoft when the article specifically states Rockstar is acting independently in this regardless of any former promises made by the consortium companies. But yes, time will tell.
We're already way beyond the wavelength of visible light - which is around 400-700 nm.
Pompey managed it 2,000 years ago:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pompey/qt/02411-Pompey-an...
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>note it was in reference to a different bundle of patents

Then it is isn't relevant here. Also, the irony of using an involved party's statement when complaining about "spin" is palpable
I have been obsessed with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs since childhood and I've read the first hand accounts of astronauts, flight directors, engineers, administrators, and journalists covering the programs. What has consistently struck me is that although the programs were marketed - if you may - along the lines of their exciting thrust into the unknown, the programs were executed based upon a cold rational calculus that extended sabre rattling and the grounds of engagement beyond the surface of our planet.

Yes, for me it might be one of the greatest achievements of humanity, but for the people paying for the show all of that work was for one thing and one thing only; to claim the high ground swiftly and decisively before the enemy. For anyone with the ability to put a capsule into orbit and to retrieve it, also possessed the ability to spy on the other party, safely launch and drop a nuclear warhead into the other party's major cities, and one-up the enemy in a show of technical prowess and strength - something that would persuade those on the fence to pick the right side if it were. That's what these programs were sadly all about and that's why they were ended once the high ground was decisively seized.

The reason why there isn't an Apollo-esque or Manhattan-esque thrust towards landing on Mars is because there is no substantial tactical, economic, or political advantage to be gained from the act. Sure in the long term there will be amazing pay-offs if we open up the solar system and expand outwards, but right now in the minds of the people who are actually cutting the cheques that pay-off is too distant, too abstract, too foolhardy, and too unsettling to justify any kind of support.

Now some people choose to rue the cause behind our current Earth-bound civilization, but I think this is actually a good thing. It ensures that when we do manage to find a way to reach out to the stars we will do it for the right reasons and our exploration will continue from one frontier to another because of that fact.
Wait, why is this a problem? Nobody is suggesting you blindly pick the #1 framework on the list without thought. It IS however very interesting to see how things compare on one benchmark. It also provides some empirical evidence that JVM languages are still king if you care primarily about performance.
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See my reply elsewhere in this thread concerning Meteor [1]. Some frameworks are opinionated, for lack of a better term, to a degree that makes it difficult to shoehorn them to provide implementations of our very fundamental/simple test types.

If you or anyone is willing to give it a try, however, we would gladly accept a pull request.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650262
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Democracy, by Monsieur Dupont: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-democ...

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If I recall correctly, the ownership of IKEA is quite intricate, with Swiss foundations and what have you in the mix. Mainly for tax purposes I think - there was quite a controversy here in Sweden a few years back regarding this.

I believe that the wealth that Ingvar Kamprad ultimately controls is substantially larger than what a look at Forbes 500 might indicate, but perhaps that is not uncommon.
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"But they haven’t stopped Swedish entrepreneurs from building giant firms like H&M, Ikea, and Tetra Pak."

Look at when the mentioned companies were founded:

IKEA - 1943

H&M - 1947

Tetra Pak - 1951

Then look at the historical tax-to-GDP ratio chart here:

http://www.ekonomifakta.se/sv/Fakta/Skatter/Skattetryck/

The companies were founded in low-tax, pre-welfare Sweden.
I think what they are referring to is the impact of the individual mandate. Sure you'd expect people to rush into the free option, but everyone who is uninsured and doesn't qualify for Medicaid will have have to pay a penalty if they don't buy insurance.
um... I am very interested in the book but apart from a vague description I have no idea what it says. A table of contents would be very useful to extrapolate what I can grok from it maybe?
I was also confused that when I switched to EC2 instances I didn't see ANY go.
>The Fifth Amendment, like the others, generally applies to not just citizens, but legal residents and others who are on U.S. soil.

This true only once you are on the soil, not at the entry points. If you are not a US citizen, or at least granted some form of acknowledgement by the government i.e. a visa, the protections of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights do not apply to you. Again, this is true at the entry point to the US[1].

So to come back to the original example: if I enter the US as a non-citizen, can TSA or border security force me to decrypt my hard drive? The answer, with no doubt, is 'absolutely, yes they can'. In the eyes of Homeland security, if you are not a US citizen, you have no rights at the border and they will not hesitate to detain you or send you right back if you are uncooperative.

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Isn't that about 3 clicks a second? Was there a database issue?
The fix is easy - if you can't bring it to market, then you lose it.

Or lets just ban patents altogether. No matter the negative effects, it would be saner than what we currently have.
Yeah no sorry, I'm not going to post my (or a friend's) mobile phone number on the Internet, thanks. Why not use emails instead? Phone numbers on the net make me feel weird, I don't like it.
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You should remove the need to wrap the replacement strings in {} so the templates don't need to be rewritten. As it stands now, you're requiring people to write a template once, than rewrite it, and then debug the final result. Better to just use basic HTML.
I'm aware I'm going to come off sounding like the grinch, or an old man moaning "In My Day...", but:

Has it really got to the point where, if we want to cheer someone up, instead of sending them a cheering text ourselves, we outsource it to an online service?
I agree. I'd like to see Pedestal added. I've created a new GitHub issue to let contributors know we're looking for an implementation [1].

Incidentally, the Pedestal team gave their fans a free idea that I really liked in August [2]. Do it for fun and glory.

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[2] https://twitter.com/pedestal_team/status/364945233814884352
Companies are required to maximize their profits, and patents are a legal framework for creating profit.

I absolutely blame the patent system, and it's absurd of you to suggest otherwise.
Riot has less boilerplate than Angular on the Todo MVC implementation.
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Looks interesting, but it would be great if there's an example chapter or two.
Ask HN: Gmail these days delivering lot of spam mails
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> Don't blame the patent system. While it is true that patent system should be reformed/eliminated ...

But thats the point. You can blame the companies all you want, another will always be there to step up and take advantage of it. I do blame the companies, but what does it matter? Are we likely going to see an Apple Boycott? I doubt it, and changing one companies business practices will have little impact on the industry as a whole.

But the patent system - that's a single target we can all align against, whose elimination would solve these issues immediately.
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I like how this looks, I definitively want to try it out.

With that being said :

> Here's the shocking part: a 1Kb library requires the least keystrokes to build the Todo MVC application

I'll decide on my own if it's shocking or not. Also I don't care that much about keystrokes, there's nothing wrong with verbose/expressive languages. I want my code to be readable and maintainable, and then concise if possible. This project looks cool but I wish its creator(s) was/were a bit more humble.
Also, I don't think "block of random looking bits" should be considered prima-facie evidence that it is encrypted data (by any particular key or even at all). But if there is strong evidence that key A was used to encrypt some bits, and if there is strong evidence that person B has access to key A, then compelling production of that key is not absurd if done correctly.
I'm sure Google didn't try to buy the patents to do this with them.
You can open the filters panel to slice the data however you see fit, including by removing all of the platforms from the view.

I have answered this sort of question many times. I eventually wrote a blog entry about it: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/unfair-comparisons
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Yes , I am also getting spam with attached docx files.
I love the communication style on GrantTree's website.

Do you know any similar services with a similar style in other countries? (i.e. Germany)
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