skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about other people, but my next Intel CPU will have AVX-512, which Skylake doesn't have. I'm expecting AVX-512 to (up to) double integer/FPU vector computation capacity.

I also want to see some proof future Intel processors (especially 10nm and smaller) have not lost durability due to electromigration [1] (or some other durability issues small feature size can cause). There's already some indication this might be happening on current Skylake CPUs.

Of course not all workloads will get faster, but it could help with things like parsing (XML, json, etc.), games, media processing, compression, physics simulation, etc. -- or really anything vectorizable that needs to run on CPU for reason or another.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration
Upper, lower, number, 8+ characters is actually a pretty loose requirement.

My standard spiel when I'm telling people the password requirements after giving them their temporary passwords is "You're going to have to change your password when you first log in. There are 4 types of characters: Upper, Lower, Digits and Punctuation; you're going to have to have at least 3 of those 4, it doesn't like your first name, it doesn't like your last name and your password must be longer than 8 characters. I recommend selecting 2 unrelated words that you can remember, changing at least one letter in each to uppercase, throwing a digit in before, after or between them and adding punctuation somewhere else."
Why not allow charging for bots and stickers? It stifles bot innovation as there are many great bots that have real costs that must be sustained somehow. Same with stickers. Great artists have zero incentive to make sticker packs since they can't charge for them and anyone can give them away to other users.

Developers and artists should be treated like stakeholders rather than cannon-fodder and free labor.
News like this out of the blue is strange. I was pretty sure that the post-PC era was a sham. It still is, right?
In case we start rate limiting it makes sense to me to offer a smaller user pack than 20. I'm not sure if it will be part of the bronze pack or a separate offering. I'm also not sure about the price, it might have to be based on activity (pay per hour) or a price higher than $200 per year. For now we'll first wait how the situation develops and what will cause the biggest problems.

One possible business model is charging for speciality machines with OSX or Windows on them.
I'm not sure how much of an effect this would have, but from a consumer's point of view, there isn't as much of a reason to buy a new PC every few years anymore. The laptop I'm using right now was purchased in 2011, and the prices in stores now are very comparable to what I paid back then. I've made up my mind to buy a new one a few times, but then when I go to the store, it just isn't worth it.
Find me a specific incident perpetrated by GOOG/FB that has directly facilitated human rights abuses. This is not an accusation of a vague misuse of information. This is a direct action by the company that they knew would facilitate torture, etc.
Think about this way: Why would anyone care to read the mere facts that you dislike the longer form, or that you "found the photos interesting"?

Actually writing a "TLDR" is a fairly useless convention if you are attempting to have a useful discourse - but actually telling people that you found it "too long and didn't actually read it" is just insipid in nearly any context. You're saying you couldn't be bothered to read and summarize the article, and for some bizarre reason you want us to know that.

what you found interesting about the photos might be of value... or anything else substantive that you might add to the conversation - a demonstration, say, of how the point(s) could have been make more efficiently.

If you can't convince yourself you have something intelligent to add, just don't hit reply, it's a good filter. You'll still get false positives (or at least I do) but it's worth a shot.
I won't downvote you and I agree that Android is way more open, but I understand antitrust to be about monopolies. I don't think Apple is anywhere close to a monopoly position with iOS in any market, and I'd be surprised if they're above 50% in any European market.
So Intel is cutting 11% of its workforce, Goldman Sachs just reported a 56% drop in profits, Morgan Stanley had a 50% drop in profits, Netflix missed subscriber growth estimates etc... yet, the Dow just hit a 9-Month high, and the S&P500 is now above 2100.

The whole market is overvalued, not just the tech unicorns.
And there goes my secret Y Combinator Winter 2016 idea.
The US is entitled to use its leverage to effect cultural change abroad. One way we do that is combat foreign corruption by holding American companies accountable when they engage in fraud abroad. We also hold Americans who participate in sex with minors in foreign countries accountable. This is in the same vein.
Let's go further: I'm happy to pay with cash, if it means I don't have to deal with fraud.

In all seriousness, using cards used to be super-fast. Remember those Visa commercials - swipe and go, swipe and go, oh no someone with cash ugh it will take forever.

Now in CVS I have to swipe the card, tap NO (I don't want to donate), YES (this is debit card), my pin, YES (is $9.75 correct?) and then wait for transaction to be completed. Meanwhile a guy next to me handed $10 bill and got quarter back. He left before I finished swiping my card..
I have 50GB from Telia in Denmark and pay roughly $50, but that includes Spotify and HBO Nordic subscriptions in the bundle. Most everything else in Denmark is pretty expensive though.
I understand you. People are stupid. They want laws. I don't understand people.

Today in Belo Horizonte a bill is being voted forbidding markets and grocery stores from opening on sundays.
I am also that someone, as well as the someone who further slows lines down doing the reverse—expecting the chip reader to work, inserting my card, only to be told by the cashier (after waiting for a few moments with nothing happening, of course), "Oh, that thing doesn't work. I don't even know why it's there. Just swipe it."
Ad blockers are breaking the internet, study finds
Wouldn't Amazon's same day delivery "fleet" be better suited for something like that?
Didn't they spend 300 millions on a diversity initiative recently to hire women and minorities ? who are they firing now ?

http://fortune.com/2015/01/12/intel-diversity/
They do:
https://newsroom.uber.com/us-new-york/a-reliable-ride-for-yo...
I think if there's any time Apple would switch to their own ARM designed chips for Macs, it's now. This along with Intel slowing down from their Tick-Tock schedule will probably do it.
>Most Uber for X companies are just providing a delivery service at a higher price.

They're providing a delivery service for which they have to charge a non-trivial amount. The problem is that the mainstream population is mostly not willing to pay for what delivery costs. As an add-on to some restaurant businesses, it seems to work but that's the main exception.
I would bet they want restructure so they can do more stock buybacks...
According to the article Visa is releasing a software update to make the transactions faster.
Very much agreed.

The very beautiful potential consequence of this kind of teaching is that it will get more and more people onto the path regardless. And once you are on the path you will recognize the suffering inherent in the pursuit of wealth, fame, and power.
> As much as I despise the lack of depth in the average content, I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it.

For me the beginning of the end was when Facebook created the Newsfeed and started "optimizing" it based on your behavior. Suddenly, content was no longer chronological (including photos in a single post!), all articles were click-bait, and most posts were "on behalf of the user". For example, "So-and-so has liked Pepsi!", "So-and-so has expressed interest in this local event!", etc. All content seems designed to provide the illusion that everyone is always on Facebook. And you should be too!

Luckily, I've found a workaround that fits my workflow well. I'm still a pretty avid RSS (GNU Emacs / Gnus) user, so I added the people I care about to my "Close Friends" group, subscribed to the RSS feed, and read it on my own time. Posts maintain chronological order and are 100% text (unless I choose to click on them). Most importantly, when I'm done sifting through the notifications, I'm done. Since I'm not on the website, Facebook can't manipulate me into wasting my time.

With my luck, they're shut down this feature in the near future.
Julia does it right, but then also cheats. It uses high performance multi-methods, partially because it's a lisp and common lisp has been optimizing multi-methods for decades now. But also because Julia has a built in JIT with a very powerful type analyzer. Which means that while every function in Julia is a multi-method, you almost never pay the costs when writing high performance code.

The cheating comes from the run-time compilation features being leveraged to inspect "already compiled" code and dodge around the dispatch. However this causes problems in larger systems (Julia has some serious shortcomings when it comes to large projects, and they ban people who talk about it too much) because if you add a method to the multiple dispatch already compiled functions won't make use of it without recompiling them too, this is basically the expression problem being displayed in a dynamic language (because they choose speed over true dynamicism; they leverage the dynamic features for a different purpose and loose the feature typically gained). This is a very bad form of cheating because multi-methods are often seen as a solution to the expression problem, but Julia still has the problem even though they use multi-methods.

Try the following:

# Library
abstract bar

ex(x) = println("dynamic")
ex(x::bar) = println("bar")

test(x::bar) = ex(x)

type foo <: bar
x :: Int
end

test(foo(5))

# Now our code
ex(x::foo) = println("foo")

test(foo(5))

It should print `bar\nfoo` it doesn't.
My bet is on falling PC sales. I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier, to be honest.

PC sales by year: http://i.imgur.com/IxSo1oy.png
> Are we supposed to forbid companies from complying with customer requests, even if they're unaware or just don't really care how those will be ultimately used?

"Unaware" is a red herring because Cisco knew exactly what they were doing. From the court filing:

174. In October 2002 and September of 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010, Cisco shareholder resolutions identified concerns regarding potential human rights abuses arising from Cisco network technology solutions provided to foreign countries, including and especially China, and called for investigation into Defendant Cisco’s complicity in these abuses. These resolutions were presented to the Cisco Board of Directors, including Defendant Chambers, and in each instance, the Board of Directors issued a statement recommending that shareholders reject the proposal. Well after this point, Defendant Cisco continued to help the Party and Public Security officers to suppress Falun Gong through use of the Golden Shield.

175. Cisco’s Golden Shield files include several court and prosecutorial reports identifying the douzheng of Falun Gong and other “hostile elements” as one of the five tasks of the Strike Hard campaign created to suppress Falun Gong with the Chinese for the term “element” designating
targets of persecutory campaigns in the PRC.

176. Cisco’s marketing materials in China repeatedly boasted that Cisco’s technology solutions could guard against Falun Gong, block and track Falun Gong, monitor and profile Falun Gong, and in other ways persecute Falun Gong.

If someone "just doesn't really care" about actively helping a foreign government to capture its political enemies and torture them to death, I have no problem making a moral judgment about them.
> Okay, so then allow for a bike switch if the bike breaks, as judged by a race official.

It's a race. The entire point of switching bikes is that swapping bikes has less impact on the athletic comparison than a lengthy repair and waiting for an official would defeat that. Besides, if you have a race official at hand, you might just give the old bike into his custody for engine detection, defeating the purpose of the maybe-no-swap rule.

The entire point of not swapping bikes would be that it could make engine cheating detection slightly easier. But that is far from necessary, developing reliable procedures for traceable bike swaps is far from impossible.

The entire NASCAR comparison is off anyways. Performance bikes don't really suffer much linear attrition over the course of a race. Even over three weeks of TdF, the distance ridden there is just within the typical service life of the most short-lived expendable part, which happens to be the chain and not the tires. Breakage within a race is therefore entirely stochastical, mostly getting a piece of gravel in the wrong spot, both for chain and for tires. Motor racing, on the other hand seems to be full of trade-offs between deterioration and performance, just look at tire consumption. And where motor racing is dominated by massive technology budget differences between teams, in cycling all participants in a single race have pretty much the same level of support: ranging from none at all on the lower levels of amateur racing to the full set of neutral support vehicles plus two cars per team at the high end.

> What's so bad about DNFs for equipment failures?

Stage races. DNF one stage means DNF for the whole set of stages. That's the entire point of an endurance sport. I suppose that in NASCAR, drivers who DNF for technical reasons in the first race don't have to wait for the next season to be allowed to start again? It's just no valid comparison.
Even if agree with you, centralized vs. decentralized makes a lot of difference, this is not the main point of the article. Centralized vs. decentralized influence your go-to-market strategy and probably your probability to succeed, but not directly your business model.

The point made in the article is that the biz model of the "Uber for X" businesses is not very strong unless X is a heavily regulated market and you are able to skip part of the regulatory burden to provide a far better service.

What's missing in the article, is the effect on the market size. Uber and Lyft changed the market size. I've taken probably a cab five times in my life before Uber existed, probably I'll use Uber five times before this week ends. And the same goes for many people. What about SpoonRocket, for example? Well, I ordered food delivery before it existed. Probably having an app and many more restaurants to order from increased my consumption of food delivery service, but just a 10 - 15% more. Not enough to sustain new players and make enough people switch fast enough to build a sustainable barrier to entry.

Not sure I'm clear: Uber provided a service so much better that increased greatly increased the market size and captured a lot of new users (and old users were fast to switch). Other services failed to increase the market size and didn't provide existing users enough benefit to switching, so no barrier to entry for competitors, a lot of competition, a lot of startups that fails.

I have a doubt, though. We are seeing a lot of Uber for X failing, but that's because a lot of them were competing for the same (in the US car-hailing market there was just Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar). That doesn't mean that one or two company will survive in the end.
Absolutely. Ultimately we must leave this place. Not now—and certainly not in the near future—but eventually "we" (or whatever we become) will have to leave this place in order to ensure the survival of our descendants.
And a voice of stupidity replying to the voice of reason comment.
Thanks neom!
"...firewall vendor..." you clearly did not read the whole thing.
You know what is also irrelevant when you compare it to the history of the earth? Humans.

I know, I know - I'm the life of the party.
What is it with all the "yes of course you should help torture people if it's good for your business" in this thread? Hacker News is usually pretty laissez-faire, but this isn't the normal tone here.
You understand nothing about the markets or the stock market. But like everyone else here on HackerNews you think you are knowledgeable in all things.
and I am not down-voting you, I am re-structuring your karma.

Yes, this may be good for the future of Intel or the employees losing their jobs... but right now, 12000 people are having their lives affected in drastic, unexpected ways.
Not trying to be pedantic, but isn't every business trying to separate "your money from your wallet in exchange for some product or service?" The only potential difference I could see (looking at it through this lens) is whether it's a consumer or business oriented company.

For what it's worth, I'd categorize Amazon as (principally) an eCommerce company.
Lessons learned at React Amsterdam
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02734v1.pdf

http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/monarch-oak11.pdf
I wouldn't call it a disappointment. It will add native USB 3.1 (Type-C) support which is major thing for me, considering that USB Type-C is projected to become the most popular socket in the history of humanity. Also: support of Intel Optane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint), Thunderbolt 3, HEVC, etc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake).
Perhaps they still exist, but the internet exceeded the number of available slots for startups with the word Zen in the name and they disappeared from view.
Closer to nonation, technically, but decimation is the word everyone already knows.
How much of your time is now on a mobile that used to be on a desktop? Their core business is drying up.
This reminds me of both the NeXT Steve Jobs demo and the Knowledge Navigator video they shot during Sculley's time.
These chips are actually smartcards - ASICs that perform cryptographic operations based on a secret key inside of them.

"Visa chip cards are not only more secure, they are also simple to use. Chip cards and terminals work together to protect in-store payments. A unique one-time code is generated behind-the-scenes that is needed for the transaction to be approved - a feature that is virtually impossible to replicate in a counterfeit card."

Magnetic cards can be easily duplicated. A Smartcard is virtually impossible to duplicate (The NSA might be able to. A criminal won't).

The Pin code is used in Europe to provide 2 factor authentication.
Something you have (the card) with something you know (the PIN).
Its only to prevent people from using your smart card if it's physically stolen.
- Cuts outlook: sees revenue up mid-single digits, down from prior outlook of mid- to high-single digits

- Also cuts full year margin guidance, sees 62% down from 63% before

- Generated $4 BN in cash from operations, of which it spent $1.2 BN on dividends, $793MM for buybacks and saved the rest for severance

- Notable difference in GAAP vs non-GAAP: GAAP Net Income: $2.046BN (missing expectations), non-GAAP Net Income: $2.629BN
I saw that as well, refreshed a few times (thinking it was failing to pull in content via some over-complicated API call) and then saw the article appear.

I gather this was just a stub to help the site's SEO rankings, sort of like how support teams that are measured on "time to first response" will quickly reply to any new ticket with something like "Thanks for getting in touch. We'll look at your ticket and get back to you shortly." It may take them 24 hours to get back to you, but they've stopped the clock. Maybe Google News gives extra juice to sites that are first to break a story.
HN's scoring algorithm should ignore or discount upvotes if the user did not click on the article link before voting. For extra credit, HN could also watch for page visibility changes that would indicate that the user, in addition to opening the article, also switched to that the article tab. :)
No. The MacBook Air isn't even 1 pound heavier.
This isn't at all out of the blue. As the article states, Intel revenues have been declining for over half a decade now. A few years after the first iPhone hit the market.
Unique transaction IDs
That is actually being built bit by bit by individuals.

See OpenBazaar for one. Bitcoin with changetip and payment channels. P2P search engines. Attempts at P2P forums / social networks.

It won't be quick, but eventually they're going to be bypassed entirely (I hope).
To be honest, that's a very fair point and figuratively speaking, a kill-shot. I might be right that solar subsidies are never going to pay off, but at least we can be sure it's not going to suddenly fail, foot us with a bill for the clean-up, and poison innocent people.
EU Set to Charge Google Over Android Phone Apps
This is so true. It's an annoying guessing game during this transition period.
People lying and evading the law is hardly "misfortune." This company looks like it was bungled from the start. I have, so far, refrained from spouting off on my blog about it, but, as a woman, I am personally offended at this hype fest.

All this cult of personality shit that swirled around this pretty young college drop out who was supposedly a billionaire by age 30 and now is looking like the queen of vaporware is just a huge fucking set back for women who want real careers.

If all you want out of life is to be cooed at for being a media darling, go to fucking Hollywood. Stay the hell out of the business world.
must. resist. joke opportunity.
Solid find! Sorry for the issue you're having - we haven't seen this yet. We're running on Angular 2 and it looks like our auth, which requires cookies, is causing a crash. That's why you don't see any copy. We'll look into and/or report this to the Angular team. Thanks again! Very helpful!
BuildKit looks nice and their documentation is really nicely structured. Is there anything they have that you're missing in GitLab?
“We wanted to make a mirror of a community that existed in real life” Zuckerberg
CESG (UK cyber-security agency) advise against forcing regular password expiry
The US actually had a lot of contactless cards for a while, before EMV, but it seems like that's been phased out (outside of the use of NFC via Apple Pay / Android Pay.
If you pick and choose stocks, you can tell any story you want. Intel cutting its workforce is more of a reflection on the state of the PC market rather than the US economy as a whole.

I'm not saying the market is overvalued or not, but this is in no way indicative of that.
We had layoffs/firings here and that is what happened for a lot of people. There is no point in sticking around when the same moronic manager is kept around while talented, productive people are forced out. Many of us are only here until our shares vest. Our stock price has taken a huge hit as result.
They started in 2010 (it's even the first sentence of their history on the Wikipedia).

They are probably about 5 years from shipping
You might be surprised to learn that AVX-512 is not available in Skylake - it will only be in the Xeon line. It also won't give you anywhere near double performance, since a lot of AVX2 code is memory bandwidth bound anyway (which is probably one of the reasons it's not in the desktop chips.) I would've bought a Skylake so that I can test code on an AV-512 machine. Now I'll keep my money and wait and see.
src: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DC-OS-Open-Source-Bet...
New Magic Leap Video Shows Your Home as a User Interface
NPR to the rescue:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...