skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it's the hardware side of the company waking up that the software and "solutions" side of the company is a gangrenous fifth limb.

Things like trying to start an app store when they didn't have content (e.g. Steam) or a platform (Google, Apple, Microsoft), trying to pivot that abomination into a media store after Netflix already won and the studios are all trying to start their own, trying for way too long to deliver solutions of putting parts in verticals (e.g. tablets, micros) where they are at best only competitive on one of price, power, or performance and immediately face-planting, but limping along seemingly oblivious to why any of these projects fail.

The mention of IoT though makes me think this isn't the case. Definitely part of the brain-dead trendy "solutions" thinking. I don't think you're going to compete with commodity cheap micros with the best IP or the best process size... price is king.

There are too many layers at Intel, and that leaves too many of those layers too well insulated, able to believe it was the brand that won them their markets (not the economics: Wintel monopoly in personal computing history, having the best server and laptop parts currently), and that despite the economics of new products and "solutions", the brand will somehow convince people to buy in.

Like, why do I ever see you on Television, Intel? Who is the audience for these ads, potential investors? Shouldn't they rather see higher dividends? People don't go to the mall and buy Intel chips, they go buy Macbooks and they use Instagram. Facebook and Apple buy your chips at a scale where it's all ROI, and you deliver that, so what are the ads for?

This shit is why I left, and why always did the quicksale on the stock purchase plan.

Intel needs to just keep making the best parts and leave it to the market to conjure up asinine things to do with them. Kill all the product lines where there's no road to being #1 ROI within 10 years, keep those in the lab.
To you and @nxzero, I'm not debating whether it's better or worse, I'm trying to find out if I'm actually understanding it right. From some of the other comments, it appears that it is just a matter of them sending you a physical disk -- it makes sense now.
>The whole market is overvalued, not just the tech unicorns.

Yep. That's what Peter Thiel is saying as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485376
It's about time somebody wrote an "Uber for X" generator.
Have you been following the current earnings season? We are witnessing horrible earnings while stocks keep going up and up. All the losses in August 2015/February 2016 have virtually disappeared after the oil price recovery.
Does this include laptops ?
Tangentially, I found this notable for the reasonably high-equality, in-browser PDF commenting.
Of course not, http://sytse.com/ has my personal email.
Look for 'nomad programmer/freelancer' or similar. There are some who share their experience on blogs, I've even seen ebooks about the topic. One such blog http://www.thestoner.info/the-life-of-a-nomad-programmer/
Indeed. This is just a business selling a product someone wanted. Cisco is a multinational company; it makes no more sense to hold them to US law for products sold in China then to hold a Chinese company to US law for products sold in China.
I doubt with the CFO being let go most people will end up getting re-hired in other groups. Their revenues are down, they're closing up shop in some areas or realizing they need to run some areas with less people. It's actually a pretty big deal.
The problem is that your use case (retina + 16GB) is easily satisfied by the 13" rMBP, and the vast majority of Apple's consumer customers will not need more than 8GB of RAM for the next few years. Apple made the design decision to focus on consumer for the Macbook, making 8GB RAM standard across the board. This probably works well as they can optimize the size to fit the exact memory modules required, but leaves a few high-end people like yourself out in the cold.

I guess Apple assumes (probably correctly) that if you really need 16GB of RAM, you can afford an rMBP.
> and it's actually difficult to find any sort of high performance laptop (for cheep).

I went to a computer store recently, and told them that I was interested in dropping about 2k on a laptop, and I brought a list of specs (at least 16gb ram, lots of cores, etc.). He suggested I should get a gaming laptop and never gave any suggestions from his store.

It will be interesting to see what the future holds, because they're already getting close to the physical limits of what they can build in terms of processors. If they start slowing down financially, it may be the case that we'll still be using computers that are about as fast as they are today in 7-10 years from now.
Can you ELIAJPWKVLAC* why Timbre is so much better than, say, Logback? I imagine not having to write XML configuration is one thing, but what else?

* Explain Like I'm A Java Programmer Who Knows Very Little About Clojure
Intel finally realized that ARM is dominating growing sectors (mobile and embedded[1]), while they're dominating the shrinking ones (desktop and server).

[1] still can't bring myself to say IoT.
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3054605/computers/pc-sales-pl...
I'm on chrome, absolutely no issues at resolutions up to 1080p. Haven't bothered with higher since screen res isn't. I throw video and AE rendering on the machine when I'm out with it, occasional compile with gcc.. damn thing is great. I would love to see newer generation Air come to light. I'd buy one immediately.
What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
Yeah, I get that. But 100% of the time, I'm swiping a credit card—so there is no debit portion. And I can't believe they don't know this, and still prompt to choose credit vs debit.
Yes, during compilation.

(defun foo (x) (compile ()
`(lambda (u)
(print "Executed")
(aref ,x u))))

(foo 0)

... reports a compilation error and of course does not print anything. If however I directly type the offending form (aref 0 0) a runtime type error is signaled.
All that mobile traffic increases server traffic. I don't think the switch to mobile is a big hit for Intel as long as they are the only major player in the high performance CPU market (let's see if AMD can turn it around with Zen, but I don't have my hopes up).
I suppose on its face it's not a bad idea: pay some people to train an AI agent. It's a bit annoying that any information about how it's working out so far is unavailable, but on the other hand, it's also rather revealing that it is. If it was working that well we'd probably have heard a lot about their tech by now.
I am not surprised. I am a huge fan of Thiel, his book Zero to One was a real eye opener for me.
Not that chip-and-pin has been invincible: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-ri...

Certainly harder than cloning a magnetic stripe, but the PIN verification was as simple as the reader saying "Is 1111 the right pin?" and the card responding "Yep, that's the right pin." So they took apart the cards and MITMed the response to always confirm, no matter what pin was entered.

Hopefully that's been fixed by now, but with the number of readers that would need to be upgraded, I wouldn't count on fixes rolling out quickly. And who knows if there are other weaknesses?
I think it's called twitter bootstrap, and it is terrible on both user experience and performance. So much hate...
Agreed, but if I'm a dev - I prefer something free to start with, generally I'm not going to spend a lot of money when there are free alternatives.

I like how Atlassian does it - they more or less give it away for free for small companies and then once you can afford it they start charging more. Unless I can get going for free, probably a non starter.
I think we're in a post-PC era. Yes, I spend my work days on a laptop. But most of my personal computing happens on an iPhone or an iPad. I think that PCs (and laptops) will increasingly become "things we do work on" and smartphones and tablets will become "things we consume stuff on". A lot of PC sales, I think, were coming from people buying them for personal use to consume stuff. That market is changing.
Facebook is the most powerful attempt to construct a true modern walled garden. Bots and VR could be really useful in this attempt. Please, do not let this happen.
Great cloud services, or the fact that my work has in no way been accelerated by newer processors. The only noticeably workflow-related speed increase I've had in the last five years is damn near zero-margin SSDs.
Getting WordPress on modern PHP
> How much of your time is now on a mobile that used to be on a desktop?

None, since I don't want to have (and don't have or own) a portable surveillance and tracking device (also called mobile phone) in my pocket.
It goes further than this. Android, being free software, can be used without any Google-proprietary code by anyone who so wishes. Running a 'Google-free' phone is not only possible, but practiced by many - without any repercussions from Google as the code is, after all, free. If the user so requires, Google-proprietary apps can be installed on demand, removed on demand, replaced or updated or whatever - under control of the user.

In jail terms, Google puts its users in a light security facility, Apple users are locked up on Alcatraz.

As to why the EU plans this action on Google (first) is a good question. It is clear that the wheels of justice are seldom round, and greased in strange ways...
The purpose of EMV isn't really to counter physical theft, it's to counter passive theft using devices like skimmers.

> How is this ANY different other than harder to implement a scanner which would steal the swipe [...]

The magnetic stripe on the card is essentially just a barcode read by magnets. Like a regular barcode, it's trivial to copy.

The chip on a card is actually a very low power computer that uses cryptography to produce an authentication token the scanner can present to a bank to authenticate a single purchase. It's essentially impossible to recreate the entire chip and the token can only be used on the purchase it was intended for so skimmers are pretty much dead.

You can read a little more about it here http://www.firstdata.com/downloads/thought-leadership/EMV-En...
> the highest/lowest/largest/smallest in recorded history is like 150 - 200 years usually

Much of the climate data goes back thousands of years or more.
You can say the exact same thing about bribing overseas officials, and yet we have the FCPA.
The first time I used a chip reader I kept pulling the card out because I just assumed it was like a swipe. The guy at the till didn't seem too pleased when I kept canceling the transaction.
But alas do not forget that you are in your own echo chamber. Sadly there are many others who are not as informed as you or have such a capacity for critical thought.
Adaptation is a neural network problem where all nodes need to have the same information so the efforts can be coordinated.
I'm in Canada and have had chip tech in cards for a number of years (5+ I'd say). We've since moved on to tap/swipe/wave which requires no pin but does have a transaction limit.
Didn't they acquire McAfee too ? How did it ever make sense for an hardware company ?
There's a separate helper process because Electron is based on Chromium, which has a multiprocess architecture - AFAIK "Electron Helper" is the same thing as "Google Chrome Helper". No idea about the CPU.
VIM Casts
You mean apart from the fact that the US Government doesn't operate a "Great Firewall of the United States"?
Between three kids 2.5 yrs apart each, I think I went more than eight years never getting a reliable night sleep at home. Maybe once or twice a month did I manage to fall asleep and not get woken up for some reason.
"decimation" is also the word with meaning. "nonation" is just turning "nineth" into a verb and then somewhat of a gerund, like "ninething". Without the historical context, it has little meaning.
Snakemake: workflow management system, inspired by make
There was a very funny video where the main character's Chrome book gets destroyed every few minutes and a new one is delivered and he just keeps on working.
interest at zero means that you are stepping on the gas pedal and the car is hardly moving, so of curse a crash is coming, a big one
Us companies camd up with all kinds of methods. Some deployee them. Consumers mostly rejected them for inconvenience and spotty merchant support. Banks rejected costly changes in favor of smarter move of paying off politicians to push largest liabilites on merchants while keeping theirs super-low. Chip and PIN itself got broken plenty by smart crooks unlike some other schemes.

All in all, one would wonder why greedy banks in Europe weren't pulling same stuff or invested in tech with more problems. What American banks did made ton of sense given their evil and consumers' apathy. I was shocked at tge recent reversal to chip cards.
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Is this from the tinyhabits program? It sounds like BJ Fogg's method for creating new habits.
If they can't sell computers in the digital age where software has taken over everything, you can think whatever you want but that does reflect poorly on the economy. Yes, many factors are at play. It is still a terrible sign.
I believe it's down to how your bank sets up your card, and how the retailer's set up. In the UK, when I pay with my debit card at Tesco, after entering my PIN it instantly says I can remove my card. Apparently it's because the card reader skips communicating with my bank until they cash up at the end of the day (the "available balance" of my card doesn't reduce after shopping there until the next day). Tesco is the only retailer where I've seen the card work almost instantaneously, but I expect that NFC payments work that way every time.
Great points.

Also important to note, that Uber does a few things exceptionally well that most other "Uber for X" companies fail with at least one or more:

1) Dramatically increase convenience / quality of service

2) Lower or comparable costs to alternative (esp UberX vs Taxi and vs your own car)

3) Have a demo-able product. Viral word of mouth is so simple when you can literally take your friend for a ride.

Most other on-demand services fail at one of these. Spoon rocket in your example, first started as a more expensive convenience play, then as they tried to scale up, lowered quality (violating #1) in order to compete on price (#2). This is why I stopped using them and also why I don't use their competitors like Sprig and Munchery, just too expensive for what it is.
more details on that kind of stuff here:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/091901.asp
> Hillary Clinton thinks climate change is not a problem and that we should increase our greenhouse gas output as fast as possible.

I'd ask that if we must discuss politics, let's avoid hyperbole and be careful to make accurate statements. All the quote above communicates is that you are angry about her position/actions re climate change, or that you simply want to damage her in others' eyes.
Avoid making cavalier assumptions about others' circumstances.
We wanted to have a free tier for smaller apps/ independent projects, so Apptimize is free for under 10k users. If you have a lot of apps, please contact us to discuss custom options bc we want to figure out something that can work and be accessible.
food services is one of the most hard to start up anyway, right after biomedics and hardware, no wonder they are having a bad time, especially if instead of breaking new ground they brand themselves as Uber for x
Apple has never caved to "customer demand" for things like this.

They do appear to have caved to the demand for irrelevant nonfunctional details like chassis colors.

OP's request is arguably far more important (read: functional) than rose gold tint.
Thankyou, it's time we give you something back.
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Well, that may be because scipy and numpy are not intended for symbolic computation. If you want to do this, use a piece of Software that is intended for those things. SageMath would be an option.

The true values of Mathematica are it’s Solve-Algorithms and it’s Simplification-Algorithms. They did a heap fine job there.
https://rusecure.rutgers.edu/content/password-aging

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff741764.aspx

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Allowing_password_aging
You might call it poorly implemented. The companies dealing with fraud in the EU because scammers found they could physically insert a chip form one card into another[1], and the chips didn't actually authorize the card with the bank fully, just the pin used, might beg to differ.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414375
Wondering if Intel is moving out of some markets completely - mobile chips (phones / tablets) is the one market that comes to my mind. The margins on those are almost non existent currently (on the low / medium end).
Doesn't it? It is just transparent and the traffic shaping is self enforced.
It's honestly already pretty freaking good. If you allow for the fact that Go is a less rich language (syntactically) than Java, I'd even suggest that VSC for Go is on par with IDEA products for their respective languages. There's definitely stuff to improve yet, but the day-to-day stuff is smooth as silk.
I for one, absolutely love Atom. I (sincerely) thank GitHub and the surplus of VC cash that allows projects like these to happen at places like GitHub.

Except for the sub-native speed, Atom basically offers everything that high-quality commercial text editors (BBEdit, Coda, Chocolat, early Textmate ) used to offer. On top of that, it's open-source, is free with no limitations, and totally cross-platform. It comes with a minimap, for goodness sake!

I currently use a mix of both ST and Atom, depending on my mood.
"How do you fit my photo to a 4x6 card?

We use an algorithm to scale and crop your image to fit the card.

Can I send a GIF?

We don't have the technology to print GIFs yet. We have some interns working on it."

This is a prank, right?
Don't worry too much - our children's children won't suffer.

They'll be dead.
embedded makes more sense :)
Much to my boss' disappointment, it's almost impossible to find a 1366x768 laptop, or more generally, one that isn't 1080p.
Totally right - We withhold exactly the amount you need to set aside, as opposed to just blindly ballparking it as we've all done at some point (if we separated taxes at all). Taking the guesswork out of the amount we should be setting aside is a big piece of why we built Painless!
I believe that is still quite different from the technique presented by the authors. Their technique applies at program execution, but prior to the execution of the individual functions. What you're showing is all prior to program execution.
In solutions that don't require unobtanium, current cells are arguably only about 1/4th of the way there. In solutions that have been constructed regardless of cost, it's still not 1/2 the way.

I think seeing another 100% gain in affordable solutions is conservative, since 400% is what's possible.
Are you trolling us? 97% of climate scientists agree that the global is warming and that humans are the cause of this warming.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-...

Before it was the warmest March on record it was the warmest February:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/february-smashe...

Oh, and it was the warmest January:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/02/17/january_...

Oh and 2015 was the warmest year on record:

http://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-2015-became-the-hott...

Chart of temps from 1880:

http://www.skepticalscience.com//pics/2c-2016-02.png

CO2 is at 408ppm and climbing as it nears it's seasonal peak.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html

This is a level not seen in the past 15 million years

https://robertscribbler.com/2016/04/11/hothouse-gas-spikes-t...

Here's a chart that looks at some other greenhouse gases, such as methane.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html
From the FAQ:
"For now, we make small returns of interest on the money held in accounts. If we offer a Painless1099 Debit Card, which will allow us to track expenses, then everytime you swipe the card, we will get a small cut that is generally charged to a vendor."

I think the hard sell will be getting contractors to accept that payment will be delayed three more days by use of this service. A lot of clients pay late or require a bit of time and management to get your money.
No, we only have the NSA that can archive days (weeks?) worth of the United States internet traffic, seamlessly MITM 0days, or tons of other frightening things...

I guess a transparent firewall is not a firewall?
It's not promoted on NYTimes.com: i.e., it's not in the top section, but among the long, multi-column list of stories below.
more valuable
Do it, they're incentivizing you to bring up 8 VMs or 1 really big VM.
oil is a leading indicator of demand. The fact that it picked up is a sign that demand picked up. stocks are continuing to rise because investors see the current drop in earnings as a blip, not as a market catastrophe.
Apple has a 'local monopoly' in that it is the only choice for those who have bought into the iOS (and, to a lesser extent, OSX) family. Combine this with the fact that many schools use iPads and the situation soon becomes clear: in some segments Apple has a remarkably high presence.

Now you can say 'but anyone who buys Apple devices does so with the knowledge that these restrictions apply', and that is certainly true. The same can however be said for anyone who buys an Android device, with the added factor of being able to select alternatives for those Google apps and services.

In other words, if the EU thinks Google should be prosecuted, then so should Apple, for all the same reasons - only more so.
No, but what if there is some sort of NSA backdoor? I have no evidence of one, but if they're willing to build special hardware for another country's secret police, why not?
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Fwiw I use and am actually quite impressed with Quickbooks Self-Employed version, and I've never had a problem with 1099 management. They keep tax estimates for you in the upper-right corner so you always know around how much you will need to pay, and you can pay the quarterly taxes online through them via. eftps. While they don't auto-save for you, I'd argue you should be responsible enough to do this yourself. They were a bit buggy when they first released, but their support was pretty good to me and they have fixed all issues I've reported.

That being said, I'm not sure what this product can do for me over what I'm using now.

Actually, I just looked at their FAQ and they don't track expenses or anything... things you can do with Quickbooks.

Now I'm not trying to down this company, but just am pointing out to others that a mature version of this product already exists (minus the auto-save) and that I can't identify "why" I should switch over to Painless.
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/ is almost what you are looking for. interesting part is some are actually believable and also saw a couple good ideas in there
It's why I pay with NFC everywhere now in Austria. The terminals are much quicker that way.
I think the term is "criminal".