skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the market caps of Google, Facebook, Apple et-al it makes me wonder why nobody has bought out Intel.

Or for 1/10 the cost, they could buy AMD. Not because their products are equivalent, but because any new owner of AMD also acquires a very special relationship Intel. Intel and AMD have cross-licensed a lot of IP, without which neither would be able to sell an x64 processor. And (as I understand it) if AMD changes ownership, their licensing deal with Intel is nullified and would need to be renegotiated:

However, according to Drew Prairie, director of corporate communications at AMD, once ownership of either AMD or Intel changes, the whole agreement is terminated for both parties. As a result, after a transaction happens, the companies need to negotiate a new cross-licensing agreement.

“Actually, the agreement is pretty clear – if there is a change of control for either company the agreement is terminated,” said Mr. Prairie. “That does not mean a new agreement could not be reached, but in a change of control the agreement is terminated.”

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clari....

The assumption is that obviously the deal would be renegotiated, since it would be "Mutually Assured Destruction" for both AMD and Intel if either side refused. But what if AMD is bought by a company with deep enough pockets to just absorb the loss? What if AMD was owned by someone who didn't actually need it, and could countenance the MAD?

I'd think that such a company would have tremendous leverage against Intel in such a negotiation. If they demanded it, and were willing to "throw the steering wheel out of the window and play chicken"[1] (ie, structure the acquisition such that both Intel and AMD were prevented from selling x64 processors unless Intel agrees to their terms), exclusive early access (and whatever other special preference they want) would be easily negotiated.

But if this were true, I'd have thought that someone would have already done it. If not Amazon/Google/Facebook (the three largest Internet companies), why not Tencent/Alibaba/Baidu (the next largest)[2]? All of them could easily afford it, and I'd think that all of them could get tremendous benefit from a sweetheart deal with Intel. What am I missing?

[1] https://bpicampus.com/2011/02/28/evening-focus-applied-game-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa...
Considering they came out with a Trump Survival Kit, not too much of a stretch.
Startups are are terrible way to retire. Work a boring job for 10 years and save a lot and you are done. Many many many people in startups never make as much as people in boring jobs.
I was thinking:

"You might mock the speed of someone moving through molasses but a wall of molasses moving at you is no joke."
In Argentina, Jauretche would say: "O es pa' todos la frazada, o es pa' todos el invierno" (paraphrasing, "Either the blanket covers everyone, or everyone suffers the winter")
That's obviously a massively wide field - any particular business topic that you're interested in? Given we're on HN, the VC world is often of interest - I can recommend Brad Feld's 'Venture Deals' if you want to get an easy to digest "anatomy of a venture deal" book. If you want something more geeky on the finance side, you'd be hard-pressed to overlook the Allen & Brealey bible 'Principles of Corporate Finance.'
I've been working on BedquiltDB on-and-off for the past year or so: http://bedquiltdb.github.io/

I'm also currently working on a web version of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations", mainly because I wanted a way to just randomly show single chapters. https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/marc

It's been fun so far, especially the process of choosing a freely-available translation, cleaning it up and so forth.
You are asking for racial theories to come out when you compare Cuba to Haiti. I would stay away from doing that.
This looks like weird since the white house just said there is no evidence of hacking.

Edit: The worst part is trump will still win, but now his base will be ENRAGED. and they have proven to be more than willing to return spite with spite.
And the snow-white sheet of paper did remain pure and chaste for ever -- pure and chaste -- and empty.
> Don't like tech? Don't do it.

Alternatively: love tech but don't like how it's built and the incentives in the industry? Try to change things for the better.

Your way, nothing ever improves. Her way, things might get a little better for some people. At the very least, there's a benefit to highlighting the issue and generating some conversation.
Someone watched Drunk History last night.
Eliminating corporate taxes ranked fairly well when Planet Money asked economists for policy proposals.[0] (All the proposals were things that have fairly broad agreement by left and right wing economists but are deeply unpopular to most people, like eliminating the mortgage interest deduction.)

It wouldn't have been something I even considered before that episode, but one economist argued that people really find corporate taxes appealing because they're suspicious of concentrated wealth. But if we're trying to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor, we could just transfer wealth from the rich to the poor through more progressive income taxes.

While I think they made a good prima facie case, there's one counterargument that I haven't seen explored. Cheating is positively correlated with tax rates. So if you have a variety of kinds of taxes, you can have lower rates than if you just have one source of revenue. You can reduce the incentive to cheat while collecting the same revenue.

The "sweetheart deals" mentioned here are definitely aggravating though, they seem deeply unfair, and zero sum when states compete for the business.[2]

I'd like more countries and states to adopt a "most favored company" rule, where any company can claim the same terms as the most favored company in that territory. Similar to how the WTO ensures fairness. If a state wants to eliminate corporate taxes, fine, whatever, but you can't just do it for one company whose execs took you out to a few ball games.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/10/18/163106924/a-tax...

[1] Planet Money had another episode on that a few years back, on the state level.
And a lot of people would argue that the most awful part of Cuba today is still the Guantanamo of Bush.
Not only is it common for companies to assign you more work than you can do in 40 hours while asking you to work no more than 40 hours, but it's also quite common for them to make you feel inferior if you don't accomplish the assigned herculean labors in 40 hours or less.

I had a boss who would constantly tell us about some wizard team mates of his at another company who could perform miracles and knew everything. I'm sure he thought that he was inspiring us, but it actually made at least me feel like a complete bozo.

No, I can't perform miracles. I don't know everything. I have better things to do with my time than devote my life and my blood to the corporation.
That is correct.....
I've another post I'll do in a few days that details how you can become storage account admin from being root on an instance.
I think what the parent commenter is referring to is your insistence on staying on the same 4 or so talking points without actually listening to others and their opinions.

HN is a place for discussions. That means being open to people having ideas other than your own, and acknowledging that those ideas may have merit. You don't have to agree with them; I don't agree with everything said on HN. That said, you do have to be open to accepting that others have different viewpoints and that they're not crazy for doing so.

That's why there's policies in place for civil commenting, and the like. To foster a discussion between people with potentially opposing viewpoints without devolving into a personally-charged argument.
there's also FASTbuild (http://fastbuild.org) which supports windows
If you find this interesting and would like to read about another money pit, HN led me to read about the Oak Island Money Pit many months ago.

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/topics/oakisland/story....
Which regulations do you think are the greatest impediment to hiring?
That would be correct since GPG checking is disabled. Would just be a case of bumping the version number and releasing a package under the same name.
Part of the problem is education. Back in the day (70s, early 80s), many people were tackling hard computer problems (formerly known as "AI") with languages like Lisp (Scheme, et al), rather than Simula 67 (C++, Delphi, Java, et al). Not me, I was a student, but I did see that stuff.

Enter the microcomputer in the mid 80s, with its 16 bit memory model and single wimpy core. (ignoring 8 bit toys). Running a garbage collector on such meager machines wasn't practical, so malloc/new and free/destroy it is, then! (yes, the irony is precious when Java appears a decade later)

After the early 90s, the Simula programming model has been pretty much the only thing taught to developers - a few self-taught people perhaps aside - so it's the only way they think.

Trying to convince these people that large chunks of their logic should be immutable data, processed in a "one way path" (directed acyclic graph) through functions, some of which are built of or build other functions, and that input and output types (which can be traced backwards and often inferred rather easily) can be assembled "on the fly" makes no sense to them.

It's almost like standing on a box on the street corner and trying to preach at people in Greek. They don't understand a word you are saying. "Get these freaky cultists out of here!" :-)
Spinzall, the Culinary Centrifuge
Research on Physical Unclonble Functions (PUFs) at SES Lab, VT
Surely you jest. That's dangerously close to the money hole[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Video Game Fight
Can you name a single trade where that's not also true? Keeping any mechanical thing running for years takes a lot of monkey-patching and duct tape. Technical debt in software engineering is not the exception. It's typical.
Comprehending first-class continuations
We dose almost every drug in terms of mass. Hosting is on S3 and completely static, which minimizes the attack surface. The site is HTTPS-only to prevent man-in-the-middle content-altering attacks.
> which uses the most operators, but not everyone believes this is a good thing

You cannot really have too much builtin operators, they are basically functions that don't depend on context (i.e. on type of the object). The only side effect is that some of them are not going to be used often and you'll need a quick way to look them up to be able to understand the code in those cases.

However, having too few of them is a problem that leads to contextual dual meaning operators (like '+' in many languages), related cognitive overhead and bugs.
Actionable Books Weekly
I think and there's a plenty of technical books, which are fun and/or philosophical at the same time. I still remember one of most poetic phrases I read was a comment to a proof in mathematical textbook.

It was in Polish and translation is something like that: "One probably has no soul, who - after reading this proof - can be totally free from a delicate thrill, which decent men used to feel after seeing something really beautiful."
oh the nostalgia! I remember learning about this as a kid. Sad that it's all abandoned now.
I was just about to say how weird it was that almost all of the projects you named were worked on by Yehuda Katz and then I noticed who posted it...
Why not use clang's PCH (precompiled headers) feature?

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#precompiled-head...
Fidel Castro in context
You're pumping in what's (loosely) soapy water to extract water. And in places where there's mostly positive pressure anyway.

None?
Wait, someone who Amazon does not trust to send them money, is securing travel in the US? That seems problematic.
I always wondered why cards get processed so slowly in some countries...
Good point, but I'm afraid the analogy still isn't spelled out enough for me to actually make sense of it. Like why does that make a horizontal/vertical discrepancy?
The other Matt Levine article about the Dell buyout is also a really good explanation of "how stocks really work": https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-13/t-rowe-pr.... It really shows the parallels between finance and software, where we've taken simple primitives and built so many layers of abstraction on top that no one really knows what's going on top to bottom anymore. It makes our lives easier when it's all working but it can also have crazy failure modes.
Not necessarily.
Self help books have the potential to introduce new better(?) perspectives to the not-so-feeble minded too.
FDR and Obama murdered thousands of their own citizens? Jeeze, I need to brush up on my history...
> They are also huge eCommerce site and book store.

That is a complete miss-categorization. Amazon AWS is a single business unit with EC2 being a single product inside of it. When people say Amazon Web Services it very clearly means more than just EC2.

To compare EC2 to SQS (simple queuing service) and saying they are different is the same as comparing Amazon Book sales to Amazon Clothing Sales. It is a distinction that not many people would make.

Actually in a way it is more like saying that Amazon Selling the Twilight novels is different than Amazon selling college textbooks.
They employ way too many sales and marketing people that would fight against such a straight-forward solution. You would think that the lack of having any actual competitor after AMD more or less folded would make their positions redundant, but Intel moves slowly.
I don't believe in homeopathy because there's no scientific or medical evidence that it works. Fibromyalgia is a documented medical condition that actual doctors diagnose. I'm sorry, but I don't really see a parallel here.

(That being said, I didn't downvote you; even if I wanted to, I don't have the karma for it)
I think he's included under "etc"
The best part about this post is that the author is 13 years old. You are going to have an amazing career. I started programming around your age too. Trust me, it helps :)
Che wasn't a communist either. He was just a nasty guy who wanted to stir up trouble and enjoy some ultraviolence.
I feel your pain. Haskell makes it possible to write very powerful libraries which change how you think about your program, like MTL or conduits, and has APIs like Data.Text which change how you think about string processing. However, the language and community is quite mature.

Most of the debates either have answers (use Text instead of String, most of the time) or don't matter to most people (MTL vs transformers or monadLib). In my mind, it's no worse than trying to pick a JavaScript framework. If you're interested, give it a shot some day.
I treat perl as "ruby, except faster and with non-castrated OO"
The first personalities, maturity and goals/values of the first people in matter a great, great deal as others have said. Flourishing is hoping for too much; you just try to keep that shark moving and alive - you try to preserve a working culture; if it improves that's delicious icing on the cake.

Humans are made to herd cognitively, getting that culture firmly in place to start with is actually harder than keeping it going. (Consistency and honesty can be hard when you're in charge and get get away with shit.)

Still, as others say, it's bloody tough. I would add that you have to be ready to confront and even fire people fast (for clear, previously stated reasons) if they really wander. If you can't filter out personality disorders, such as narcissistic personality disorders any culture will crumble, though.

One critical purpose of your mission statement should be to explain to anyone who's ever been fired why they were fired, and why they should have known from the get-go that they'd be fired for doing what they did.
If the idea of having part of your hard-earned wealth confiscated rather than passed on to your children doesn't boil your blood, you're made of different stuff than I am.
WaPo Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist from a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
Instead of trying to judge the person, how about we conceive of behaviors?

They could be someone who cycles in and out of addictive or manic shopping. The word that comes to mind for me there is "tragic".
Show HN: Microplan – Plan your project from command line
It's unbelievable that an article can get to HN front page in which the author doesn't know the difference between Rails and Ruby. So annoying!

This is NOT Ruby for God's sake:

SYSTEM_EPOCH = 1.day.ago.to_i
I've moved most of my reading activity from books to long-form journalism articles, Stratfor, HN, and Quora. That said, books have not completely left my life. There's a certain cross-section of really really smart people, who encode their ideas only in books. These ideas are foundational, they provide the bedrock on which I understand the rest of it.

These ideas, you think you've read half a book and gotten the gist, but as time wears on, the ideas take on new life. Take, for example, a book like Guns, Germs, and Steel. I'm not going to go back and reread that book, but the underlying idea of geography as a fundamental determinant of society, is worth revisiting as time goes on. Because you miss things. You miss the full depth of what and how.

I find myself reading fewer books, and spending more time with each one. I savor each chapter, considering the implications over the next day before I read the next. The latest book I've read is The Dictator's Handbook, and I've found it pivotal. It places so much in perspective. The idea that corporate governance and small-country tyranny would have so much in common is something you just agree with because it sounds so right, but the book actually walks you through how and why.

That's what I'm looking for in a book. Something that totally changes how I look at a certain aspect of the world. Anything else just isn't worth the time.
I hadn't heard this. What might these features might be? Do you have a link to more information?
How Teespring Enhances Its ECommerce Platform with Real-Time Analytics
May I suggest you watch Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety next time? Might hit two birds with one stone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MqJPHxy6g
Where have I said that?
> Tech is big, no need to quit all of it.

“Well if no one out there understands, start your own revolution and cut out the middle man” - Billy Bragg, Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

Bragg was writing about the tension between being a musician and being a political activist rather than the tension between problem understanding and problem solving, but the tension seems to be everywhere. I've got a friend who was frustrated about how little his PhD had to do with philosophy because there was no time for that, only time to publish. Alan Kay said something of the ilk in the epic Ask HN thread a few months ago, referring to how hard it's been to get funding to do good research for something like the last 35 years or so. Hopefully the author can find her 'birds of a feather', it's not like we lack problems that need understanding.
I guess I'd be similar, my first access to a computer was a 48k Spectrum in 1982, putting me about 7 years old.

It had a dead tape-deck though, so I mostly read the manual(s) and typed "10 PRINT "HELLO"; 20 GOTO 10", etc.
Strange that this got downvoted since it makes an arguable point and has links to relevant resources. Reading full books gives me a sense of accomplishment and pride as much as the next guy, but I'm not going to beat the need to do it over anyone's head as long as they're getting the information they need. I agree with the sentiment of this comment. The central ideas expressed in many non-fiction books (business especially) are often found within the first 30 pages only to be repeated ad nauseam through the remaining pages.
What is the performance impact on INSERT when using tables with complex indices like the one mentioned in the article?
Economic data disagrees with your personal experience.
Apparently not: https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kits/intel-at-sc16/

Although I would be really surprised if this was something they actually announced, it doesn't really help Intel to announce something like that and as the article points out it can anger other customers.

That said I have worked in Intel's System Validation group which was responsible for determining when a new chip was ready for general availability. I have directly witnessed Intel's preferential customer treatment where Intel allocated all of their processor production on a new processor to their largest customer(s). In my case they were selling Nehalem chips to Dell long (6 - 9 months) before others like NetApp could get them to start building filers with them. I have also worked in the platforms group at Google so I have an idea of the scale of their hardware effort and how many chips such a deal with Google might entail.

As a result, I think the actual story is this -

Intel got back first silicon that was acceptably functional on the new parts. This kicked off a discussion between their top customers and the potential early availability of parts. Those customers did a calculation on what advantage they might get by getting hardware early. Then Intel went down their customer list from most strategic to least strategic and offered them access. Either Google or Facebook was on the top of that list (likely Google) and they bought some, but not all of the production capacity, and then Intel offered the remainder to the second customer on the list who agreed to take the rest. Everyone else has to wait until the part is released to general production in all of its target fabs.

Further, it won't cause Intel any grief because all their customers know that the ones with the most volume get the most "love" from Intel. And the situation might be different the next time around.
I think the difference is in how the two industries she are comparing here fundamentally treat mistakes. In journalism, you might not get fired immediately for a mistake like that but certainly you're going to get reprimanded and told how unacceptable that is. Your company is absolutely going to run a correction at the first opportunity they get. Any mistake is treated as a major embarrassment by staff of a respectable news company. The viewers/readers might not notice/care but the company does.

This is totally not how things work in tech though. First of all there are a lot more mistakes/bugs, and because of that how bugs are handled is completely different. If you're not doing something where lives/money are at stake, it's ok to release with bugs so long as they aren't showstoppers. When I write something that has a bug in it, I don't even get talked to. We just write it up and toss it in the list with all the other bugs.

There are of course situations in both industries where things are different but I think in general there is definitely a major difference in how tech treats mistakes as compare to how pretty much every other industry.
Where did the author deem anyone a bigot? Your pattern matching algorithm has severe bugs if it identifies this post as deeming families as bigots.
Software, standard engineering (e.g., EE, Civil, Mechanical), and clinical medicine are fields in which in order to understand and learn requires an iterative process of attempting to understand, trying something out (coding and debugging, designing and trying out a hardware or a building or mechanical apparatus or attending to patients) and learning.

When it comes to these sorts of applied fields it is important to do both.
That hasn't happened here, so your opposition is, itself, raising spectres.