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by chroem 13y ago
Am I the only one here that's bothered by a further narrowing of the expected knowledge of students? A good engineer or programmer isn't a human calculator who can bang out hundreds of caclulations per minute or recite petty fact
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by chroem 13y ago
That's exactly what I mean. Despite the content of the article, the title really shows that anything other than mass surveillance is just wishful thinking at this point.
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by chroem 13y ago
How I wish that this title weren't presented as a question...
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by chroem 13y ago
Holy crap. Am I reading this correctly? Is this really a patent for running learning algorithms on the GPU?
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by chroem 13y ago
That implies there's a non-trivial number of candidates who are legitimately against the NSA.
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by chroem 13y ago
Ordinarily I think Stallman takes that way too far, but in this case the exact motivation behind free software was being described, yet it was still placed under the banner of open source. I think there's a time and a place for both t
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by chroem 13y ago
Free software ; the term is free software. In other words, software that respects your freedom. Refer to this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
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by chroem 13y ago
I've never understood all of the hate for using tabs instead of spaces while indenting. My thinking has always been that tabs just make it easier to adjust indentation. As a tab-using heathen, can somebody please explain why spaces wo
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by chroem 13y ago
What they're doing is trying to make it socially unacceptable to assist the NSA/ DoD, and quite frankly it's overdue. I get the feeling that most of the criticism here against the protesters is because HN identifies with the
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by chroem 13y ago
Because who doesn't love having their personal possessions tracked by third parties, right? One person's feature is another person's backdoor.
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by chroem 13y ago
There was an article a while back that discussed how most people's perception of what is "enough" wealth is always ~30% more than what they currently have, be it thousands or millions of dollars. Unfortunately I can't f
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Minecraft - Where's the Modding API?(youtube.com)
2 points by chroem 13y ago|0 comments
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by chroem 13y ago
I'm curious, what phone do you use?
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by chroem 13y ago
As someone who has done a fair bit of Android development, it's ironic that you mention that. The Android design guidelines tend to change on six month basis, and not always for the better. Sure, the changes are usually smaller, but
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by chroem 13y ago
I have a select few sites whitelisted, but they're disabled by default. Also, I'm on Iceweasel/ Firefox instead of Chrome. It's probably nothing to worry about, but you can never be too careful these days.
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by chroem 13y ago
Hah, the joke is on them: I browse with cookies disabled. Of course, I'm sure they have some other way to pwn me, but it's nice to know that I was doing something right.
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by chroem 13y ago
Keep in mind that people go there to brag about their unusually high connection speeds.
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by chroem 13y ago
If you're implying that we need to madly slash all government operations, I think that's pretty misguided. We're actually running a secondary surplus right now, given that the rate of inflation is higher than the extremely lo
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Ask HN: Any ethical, non-tracking advertising services that are decent?
3 points by chroem 13y ago|0 comments
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by chroem 13y ago
Thank god. I'll take anything over the current Android application framework.
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by chroem 13y ago
Actually, the real cost comes from batteries. They're only good for a finite number of cycles, and under the high loads they'll experience in this sort of application, I would put that number at around 250-750 flights. So if you
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by chroem 13y ago
I would like to see some figures correlating taxation to innovation.
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by chroem 13y ago
Or why it was created by the government. We still have no idea who Satoshi is, and bitcoin is obviously robust enough that it had to have been peer reviewed. It's the perfect honeypot.
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by chroem 13y ago
But with this we could kill people all over the globe in record time! Edit: Just to be clear, this is sarcasm.
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by chroem 13y ago
It's not just software patents, it's all patents. The current 3D printing technologies making a big splash right now were all invented in the 80's. The patent minefield just beginning to expire is what's causing th
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by chroem 13y ago
I think you may be confusing the term "tech startup" with "web development startup." This isn't inspired by tech startups, it is a tech startup. It bothers me how people equate technology with the web. I guess t
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by chroem 13y ago
Fine, let's use your example of the small business. Suppose that this company invents a revolutionary technology, such as a cure for cancer or a teleporter. That company is perfectly within its rights to just sit on the technology fo
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by chroem 13y ago
Looking At some pictures and diagrams of the Model S battery pack, yes, it does look to be about twice as large as the average fuel tank. HOWEVER, that leaves out some really interesting things to note. First of all, most automotive gas ta
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by chroem 13y ago
A friend who was writing a bittorrent client in x86 asm was actually going to have something like this as one of its features. Hopefully this will motivate him to start working on it again since it was such a cool project...
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by chroem 13y ago
Does anybody remember what the spat with that one Cyanogenmod contributor was all about a few weeks ago? I'm ashamed to say that I don't remember what it was, and now I can't find anything on it. He was talking about about s

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