skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's any doubt that the game plan is to shrink these devices as much as possible, provided investor interest/market derived revenue can sustain things to that point.

It's interesting how we've seen this shrinking form factor theme play out in the "segway sector" recently with the popularity of "hover boards." I'm not sure if that's a genuine new paradigm of human machine interaction or just a confluence of trendiness, fun, and much lower price than a segway.
Yep - this is pretty tough for the majority of independent contractors. Simply figuring out how much to save is the first issue, but the larger issue is ACTUALLY separating funds from your regular checking account so you don't spend these funds that should go to the IRS every quarter. We built Painless to automate what (admittedly) should be a "routine transfer" but often isn't and becomes a problem at the end of the year when we owe a huge bill that sucks to pay outright. The convenience of automating money movement is the big piece of what we do for our users. Hope that helps!
source project with issues: https://github.com/graffie/mill.blog/issues
PageSpeed Insights should always be used as more of a guideline than a be-all end-all of optimizing.
Are you sure about the revenues going down? According to http://www.statista.com/statistics/263559/intels-net-revenue... revenues seem to have gone up.
I think this article is missing a big part of Uber's success. Uber has three main factors going for it.

1. The preexisting regulatory capture that is mentioned in the article.

2. The service they provide is commoditized making customer to employee relationships irrelevant.

3. They connect people who are looking for a service with unskilled contractors who can provide that service.

Ideas like Uber for food or Uber for housecleaning don't work because they fail all three of those conditions. Companies that meet multiple conditions tend to be more successful. Postmates for example meets 2 and 3. Airbnb meets all three of the conditions (depending on user preferences) which is why it is the most successful Uber for X (or is Uber the Airbnb for X).
It's interesting, however, that Uber is now in fact doing "Uber for food"/"food on demand" with https://ubereats.com.
Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Is Real?
Yes, the article, yes, but I've also been a part of too many projects like this, when a technological marvel is being developed for a number of years, creating new capabilities, technology innovations, and driving efficiencies. Thousands of American man-hours were spent in creating this marvel, only for someone to summarily judge on a whim of what was that effort was about. It wasn't about what EFF said. That just simply wasn't in the RFP/RFC/RFWhatever.
You're not wrong, Walter...
The US had NFC which just sent the magstripe which is different from EMV NFC.
For me, maybe 30%, mostly because I have a computer in front of me for coding most of the day anyway. For my brother's family it's nearer to 90%. He still has a PC for work, although it is on about a 5-7 year replacement cycle, and they no longer need the more-expensive second PC.
Europe Tried to Rein in Google. It Backfired
It's an election year. That always brings out the most extreme positions. Especially since shocking extreme positions seems to be par for the course this cycle.
If that was the author's intention, I don't think it was very effective. The fire department is controlled by the government. Does that imply horror stories and other bad things?
and yet, I feel the same way about the FCPA

bring it up when I run for office
"Sell[ing] people to advertisers" != "sell[ing] people to an oppressive regime."
> We've since moved on to tap/swipe/wave which requires no pin

This is growing in the US as well, which is why chip-and-PIN seems less helpful coming this late in the game to the US market. I'd much rather it be required that restaurants (among other merchants) use portable credit card readers like they do in Canada to keep cards in the hands of their owners.
Why doesn't it make sense? Cisco is an American multinational company. If you don't want to abide by American laws, don't base your company in America. I don't think laws should apply to actions abroad by default, but we have laws specifically written for these scenarios.

US citizens can be prosecuted for some serious crimes committed abroad. It doesn't make sense to treat companies differently.
ASM 5.1 released
I'd probably take it more seriously if they had a terms of service and privacy policy.
Passport is free for up to 50 users. This is enough for most developers to get started and into production (depending on the use case). Plus, you don't have to pay more for internal versus external users. Everything is based on the total number of users in the database, so pricing is simple.
128 cores?
If they're cutting entire divisions, there will be a great mix of strong performers in there -- great for other companies who are hiring.

I'd always love to talk to Intel people from the hardware security projects (SGX, etc.).
If you need to prevent your machine from sleeping for a while (like if you've got something running that you really don't want interrupted) there's always caffeinate -t $NUMBER_OF_SECONDS[1]

1: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

I haven't experimented with using it to try and keep a machine running with the lid closed, however - that's traditionally considered risky for heat reasons.
Have Trump or Cruz ever used the word "hoax", or is that your reinterpretation of their position?

Have either one of them ever said that there is no such thing as climate change, as your statement seems to imply? Or, do they just question the details of how the evidence is presented and emphasized, the tradeoffs in the proposed responses, and the perverse incentives involved?
Sort of. I think Blue Apron has done decently well competing against the grocery / restaurant vertical.
I'm looking for an approach where promises can be canceled. For example, when I'm waiting for a promise p to be fulfilled, I might suddenly decide that I'm not interested anymore in the promise. So I could call (for example) p.cancel(), and the effect would be that the underlying code is stopped (and recursively everything it depends on).
It is ridiculous for outsiders to stick their noses into consensual relationships engaged in by adults. If I were Lewinsky or any other woman you might theoretically be addressing, I'd be highly annoyed at your patronizing "Oh honey, I know you wanted to but he should have saved you from yourself" kind of attitude.

Clinton morally erred by breaking his vows to his wife, but if we set that aside, he did not do anything wrong by the simple act of having sex with Lewinsky. Let's assume, though, that the power differential argument _is_ valid- Who _could_ he engage in a relationship with, being President? Not politically powerful women, because his power is always going to be greater. Maybe other world leaders only? Only world leaders in the G8? He has no peers.

The student/professor example has a few _practical_ concerns regarding why you might want to avoid that situation and you've laid those out, and I agree. But ethically there would be no cause for objection unless actual grade massaging was occurring. That's not a given. In other words, appearance of impropriety is a practical objection, not an ethical objection. I'll zing any professor for taking advantage, express or implied, of one of her students but I will not automatically assume something shady is happening without evidence.

Anecdotes are not data. If we can show that the majority of these relationships are negative, that's a stronger case, but still not worth blanket-ruling the exceptions out of existence.
Jobs created: "Yay! The economy is growing! The economy created xxx,xxx jobs last month! This is a great sign!"

Jobs destroyed: "This can't be a sign of anything. Anecdotes don't help us."
There is fastlane and testflight which makes life easier.
It's really the automation part that we drilled down on. To be honest, we love QBSE and don't consider them competition as much as we see them as a compliment to what we do. Tracking your tax obligation is great, but we take it a step further and just automate the cash that should be transferred out of your every day account and into one that you're less tempted to spend from. For a large portion of our 1099 peers, we see that the savings aspect is either A) hard, or B) a process that, if automated, could free up time to actually focus on work rather than having to actively (and manually) manage your taxes.
Even if you get a high-performance processor in there, it's going to get seriously thermal throttled during any longer periods of serious work. I tried to do large-scale C++ on an ultrabook, but doing long compiles was super annoying. Not only did Qt take forever to compile, the whole machine was crawling while it was happening.
no, oil has been spiking up due to incessant rumors of production cuts. even though the latest talk about a production cut was a no go, oil spiked a bit earlier this week due to kuwaiti oil worker strike.
It's in the title: "Skylake" is the codename for Intel's latest desktop CPU microarchitecture.
Why Lead Companies Dark Launch
this case is about selling an internet filter.

It would not be wrong, as in illegal or subject to any civil penalty, if Cisco sold that internet filter to the United States' agencies.

so that highlights the delicious irony in your retort
It's not criminal. It could and should be outlawed, but hasn't been.
Is there any indication that there is actually light at the end of this tunnel, and not just a lot more tunnel? How much of this is just smoke and mirrors for the sake of product development, and how much is just to bilk investors? I read the entire article, and I don't get the sense that the author is totally sure either.
I am actually shocked to learn that x.ai has human beings reading the emails.

X.AI's marketing materials state it's "An AI personal assistant who schedules meetings for you."

Their default tagline in every email sent says "x.ai – artificial intelligence that schedules meetings "

You have to dig into their press kit to get any mention of human "Supervised Learning".

My typical interaction with Amy has been a 3rd party suddenly CC'ing her (it) into an existing thread.

In many of those cases those threads contain information that I would consider to be confidential.

In some cases the people on the other end work for public companies that I am POSITIVE would not allow for a non-approved human to have access to that information.

I understand the counter argument that x.ai's warehousing this info regardless, but introducing a human under the guise of a blind-AI is unsettling.

It's a disingenuous pitch and should have repercussions if they don't improve their disclosures of what the service is actually doing.
Inside a brown paper package or envelope, unlike a postcard.
A little bit more complex, I guess I wasn't clear enough. But I agree with you.
Optimizable Code (2013)
If it becomes API compatible with MongoDB, it could be especially popular with Meteor developers.

I'm developing an app on Meteor now where the CRUD operations for the largest class of users work well with the MongoDB conventions, but I also need to prepare for the other portion of users who will need more complex queries to analyze the data produced by the first portion.
Getting replication running on PostgreSQL is fairly easy, but monitoring it is a little more troublesome. Unfortunately, the amount of help out there for users is few and far between - half the time my Google searches turn up my own unanswered questions from a year ago.

Your best bet to see the current state of replication is on the master:

echo "select * from pg_stat_replication" | psql

That gives you a list of all the connected replicas, and where they are in the WAL process. It took me a lot of Googling to figure that one out and learn to interpret the output.
One library that is pretty neat:

https://github.com/ztellman/aleph
Throwing up your hands and saying, "I just built it! It's not my job to think about how it's used!" is a cop out. It's also against the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct[0].

[0] https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-profess...
I think it's obvious why and you've stated part of it. Apple's designs are rapidly approaching the level of Intel's and Intel is stretching out their R&D and reducing their investment in this area. So Apple will be asking themselves, why give away all that margin to Intel when we can do it ourselves and keep it? (Intel's gross margin is 62%, no idea what it is for their consumer processors specifically).
The Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (presentation)
Recruiting, Training and Retaining GIANTS [pdf]
I don't understand the objection. It's not like you suddenly lose all benefits and protections of US citizenship when you step over the border. If you don't want to follow these laws, move your company and renounce your citizenship. If you're not willing to do that then you need to follow the rules.
It's ironic that you'd pick Airbnb, since there is a very straightforward argument that the same effect is in play there - Airbnb is successful because of regulatory arbitrage.

It's not like "booking places to sleep in foreign countries" was waiting for a new technological innovation; rather, the existing regulatory frameworks in play placed a cost floor and a high barrier to entry for competitors.

Much the same way that a municipality artificially constrains the amount of cabs on the road, a municipality artificially constrains hotels by zoning specific parts of town for hospitality use. Most cities won't let you open up a bed and breakfast in any given residential neighbourhood.

--

In this view, as articulated by TFA, both Uber and Airbnb owe their success to a) being cheaper and b) having greater supply, both artifacts of their ability to _skirt existing regulation_ their competitors can't avoid.

Can you think of a different successful 'Uber for X'?
>The whole market is overvalued, not just the tech unicorns.

Who is it overvalued by, and how is the "true" value determined?
It's called infrastructural inertia. We had it first, so we have things implemented in legacy ways. Other countries get the benefit of "leapfrog development" or "second-mover advantage"
they just announced closing of UberEats in NYC.
>There are people and firms which consistently beat the S&P 500 after fees and trade commissions on a timeline of 20+ years without using insider trading. What would this be called, other than "smart" trading?

Mind naming a few? I'm unfamiliar with any firms that consistently can beat the S&P 500, much less for 20+ consecutive years. This could, of course, be called "luck". Given the number of investors, some will inevitably beat the index. The point is that it's impossible to predict, ahead of time, who that will be.

> I agree with advice advocating index funds for beginners, but it's not fair to an individual's potential aspirations to claim that active trading is simply ineffective. It's extremely difficult, but that's wildly different from being ineffective.

Again, even amongst professional investors, who have decades of experience, and spend 80+ hours per week doing this, very few are able to consistently beat the index.
I read through some of the discussion, and some of the article that you linked. Based on what you said, I was expecting to read that the hack depended on taking out the card "early", but that does not seem to be the case. I thought you were saying taking out the card early lead to this particular vulnerability. Were you instead saying this vulnerability existed because of poor implementation in general, and that has no direct relationship to removing the card early?
Perhaps "understand all the trade-offs" should be the mantra of programming, in any language.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! (Perhaps too close to James Joyce, but that's not the point.) Understanding cost/benefit and making good decisions is the basis of winning a lot of games, the game of programming included! A programming shop needs to be good at the task of optimizing its programming, obviously, and as in any optimization task, cost/benefit comes into play.
I hope your day hasn't been too sad.
Apple Releases Report on Government Information Requests [pdf]
I think if you can manage to comment on the rampant unconstitutional behavior that has been free and unpunished for decades, from torture and indefinite detainment to secret courts allowing the NSA to go ahead with bulk collection in the past, there is something very wrong with you.
Very interesting idea! We'll get back to you on that -- it would be a big shift from our regular approach/work, but I can see some companies willing to do this, especially those already selling ads on their newsletter e-mails.
Exactly the tech industry has been incapable of coming out with new functionality that really requires more power.

The only thing I can see which is going to benefit a lot from CPU power is more advance AI or machine learning built in. But we are only seeing very gradual moves in this area now.

VR and Games are also candidates of course, but most people aren't hard core gamers. They are fine with Angry Birds ;-)

And with the bandwidth we got today, it wouldn't necessarily be a big problem to offload much of that processing to servers and do it as a service instead. In many ways we might be heading back to the dumb clients of old where the majority of processing happens on a remote server.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515433
Actually, when you go to 'Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles' section it is unchanged, so the tutorials should still be usable :).

On a side note, I usually didn't need to go there very often. These days XCode takes care of most of the certificate/provisioning profiles crap. Still, for a newcomer this can be overwhelming and they should really try to simplify it.
To me, it's more that Moore's law is over and that observable speedups are much less obvious to the non gaming consumers
VOO isn't exposed to international developed and emerging markets. If you have the appetite for risk, you may want to take significant positions in VEA and VWO.
Every single HN thread. We get it, people who browse without JS feel really superior. But beyond that this discussion is perhaps not interesting -- and it's certainly off-topic.
There's actually some very well thought out features related to what he's having a problem with. Don't just go with the "one endpoint per vm" that the default comes with in the older portal. Create a virtual network. Specify a custom DNS server or two for that subnet. Set static IP's on the NIC object in the new portal. Create a public IP address and bind it to that resource.

There are lots of options for fixing this problem. I'm really not trying to be all "read the eff manual" or anything. It really has changed a lot. Look at how some of the Azure Resource Manager templates fix this problem. They are all on github. The can show you what's possible even if you don't go with the declarative model for your environment.
Google has an intimate relationship with the State Department and the Department of Defense. At one point they created a "tool" to track defections from Syria[0][1], and encourage civil war, meaning they are at least in part responsible for the violence there.

They also censored Benghazi related video on Youtube at the request of the State Department, which, while not really an "abuse of human rights," and only a temporary block, still amounts to propaganda and censorship.

[0]https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12166#efmAMoAbj

[1]http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/22/leaked-clinton-emai...
On the consumer side its possibly back to a shared PC era. Instead of multiple PCs per household, just one PC to do work that's about 5 years old, and each person has their own annually updated phone/tablet for everything else.
The answer (assuming this is the same story I wanted to reference) is that the credit card companies just considered the existing fraud to be a cost of doing business. Yes, instituting these new chips will lead to less fraud, but it also has a big cost. For a long time, they looked at these two costs, and went with the cost from fraud.

Of course, that analysis ignores the very painful cost to consumers of identify theft, which is why I'm glad they're finally implementing a more secure system.
You have a lot of learning to do.
Figuring out why antitrust does not apply would be a good first step.
Not as specific, for sure.
That's a really good point, but to your notion about neural networks, I talked with a Ph.D student who was working on some interesting 'damaged network' ideas vis-a-vis RNNs that have connectivity issues. Their thesis is that most systems work in a partial vacuum and by adding the sort of disconnection in a network you can tease out a more durable network in all conditions. I thought it was a pretty novel field of study.
I don't see this as belittling customers or incoherent at all. I'm pretty sure every engineer has thought about these issues before and we've all seen spectacular crashes from load. I think the idea of the article is that user registration and login isn't as simple to scale as everyone thinks it is.
Hillary was for the Keystone pipeline before she was against it.

Dr. James Hansen of NASA has written that the Keystone pipeline would be "game over for climate" [1]

So I think it's fair to say she doesn't really treat climate change as a pressing problem, unless forced to by political expediency.

She also opposes the most sensible solution, a carbon tax.

I think the difference between her recently stated positions, and her actual political DNA, as well as that of her financial patrons, makes her a wolf in sheep's clothing on climate.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-...
non is 9, deci is 10, the workforce was reduced by 11. How on earth is 11 closer to 9 than 10? Or were you just trying to sound smart?
Not sure where I read it and I have not heard of the tinyhabits program. Will surely have a look.
I too have hit limits of what Laravel does, but for me this is actually a good thing. I think Laravel handles most of the drudge work and then leaves things open for me to do business/app-specific things my own way.

Of course this is subjective, as everyone draws the line of "how much do I want my libraries/framework to do for me vs. how much do I want to do myself" in a different place.
Alternatively, in MLs (this sample specifically is OCaml) :

type expression =
| Number of float
| Add of expression * expression
| Subtract of expression * expression
| Multiply of expression * expression
| Divide of expression * expression

let rec eval expr =
match expr with
| Number n -> n
| Add (expr1, expr2) -> (eval expr1) +. (eval expr2)
| Subtract (expr1, expr2) -> (eval expr1) -. (eval expr2)
| Multiply (expr1, expr2) -> (eval expr1) *. (eval expr2)
| Divide (expr1, expr2) -> (eval expr1) /. (eval expr2)

Hey look, I just built a calculator DSL. And everything is statically typed and typechecked (and if I left off the "Divide" case in my "eval" method, it would warn me).
I'd add 4) Flagrantly violate existing regulation.

Uber/AirBnB just straight up ignored laws regulating their industry. They bet that regulators wouldn't crack down too hard and they were right. But not every industry is regulated like taxis/hotels. Imagine a food startup that violates health and cleanliness regulations, or a finance startup that ignores the SEC.
Ask HN: Most top Telegram bots are free, so who pays for hosting?
There's no way to charge for bots, and all the popular bots are free. Are these bot developers just paying to host popular bots as a charity? Why do all these developers pay to host bots for nothing in return?
That's what you're trying to do by poring over investment books and investopedia. Anyone can track the market by buying the S&P 500 or an index fund. All of the complicated investment advice comes when you try to do better than the index.