skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel's big problem is the fact that they invest so heavily in fabs (which is how they're basically constantly a process ahead of everyone else!) that their costs are so much higher than most other manufacturers — and that's why they charge so much more for their chips than most of the generic ARM SoCs. Yes, some of it is profit margin, but they've been pushing the development so much that much of it is just recouping their massive investments that give them their competitive advantage.
There's a nice map halfway this page:

http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html
Previous discussion from a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657074
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If you're thinking about what is the culprit here, then consider that the whole of our economic system is flawed, because capitalism encourages the creation of addictive goods.

It is the world we live in that transforms us into addicts.
> The only thing this piece is missing is a better hardware platform, so I'm going to be very interested in seeing what Microsoft can produce in the coming months.

Why? Honestly, I think the Surface tablets and Nokia's Lumia devices are really high quality.
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There are two android-related repositories (I haven't built any applications with them though):
https://github.com/whitequark/opam-android
https://github.com/vouillon/opam-android-repository
Are you an owner or shareholder of SO? There's no way this was done without their consent, so unless you actually have a say in what SO is or isn't for, well...
Are there any devices that ship with Android that could be reflashed to support a Linux kernel with KVM or Xen bits? Either Intel Atom or ARM-based devices?
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Yes, even at home, during the day you are interrupted by:

* Phones ringing and other such interruptions

* Lawnmowers or leafblowers

* Seemingly incessant construction with drills, saws, hammering

When the sun goes down, these distractions go away and you can concentrate.
Yes it does in Yosemite, not sure why you've been down voted .
Regardless of the difficulty of designing faster CPUs (that is to say, not by just increasing the clock, which has not been an option for a while), for a company that also manufactures the actual silicon, the cost associated to the fabrication processes is incredibly high, and few potential competitors can assume that without an established base.

It's no wonder that their only real "competitor" is fabless.
Anyone wants to work on real, used-in-production OCaml code, take a look at the various libguestfs virt tools:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/v2v

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/builder

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/customi...

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/resize

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/sparsif...

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/sysprep

One great no-nonsense feature of OCaml is that you can just link programs directly to C code, include a tiny C wrapper, and call straight into C with virtually no overhead (literally no overhead for functions that don't need to allocate on the OCaml heap).
This is no joke. When I hired my business's first employee here in Kentucky, the crush of fees, rules and paperwork that came along with her were jaw-dropping. All of a sudden, the government - especially the school board and local agencies - were mailing us with their hands out. Having that first employee triggered things like sales tax forms, quarterly filing requirements, payroll questionnaires, etc. I began to feel that that employee I hired (an office manager) spent 50% of her time trying to make sense of all the new requirements we had because she was hired.

That business eventually went south and now I know better. I will never hire anyone again until the money is flowing in the door at a speed I simply can't keep up with.
I think the Surface tablets and Nokia's Lumia devices are really high quality.

I agree, I would buy a surface pro if I could get it without windows.
No problem, SO detects that and reverts their downvotes :)
I like this article.

Most of my friends and family are the working poor and for years I have been struggling to find a way to give back in a meaningful way. I would love to help them technology-wise, but I've come to realize is that they are not facing a technology problem -- they are facing a problem of opportunity, or lack thereof.

Instead, I've been offering them free training and equipment to learn what I do (software engineering), as I know there is a demand in the area that has not been filled and they can get those jobs if they put in a few months of time and dedicate themselves. Even if they couldn't get those jobs, they could get an office job and 'automate it away' to impress their bosses (this is exactly how I started).

So far, I've had surprisingly little interest. That said, they are not ones to take handouts...
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26 charts and maps to be thankful for
As I understand it, the issues are fundamental to the 14nm process — and one might expect once they can manufacture 14nm Broadwell parts with reasonable yields, they will be able to manufacture 14nm Skylake parts with reasonable yields. Last I heard the plan was for Broadwell to be available for something like six months only.
There are lots of ways to define "more" (or "bigger" or whatever term one chooses to use). Which one is most appropriate depends on what kind of things you're working with.

Working with vector spaces over a given field: "bigger" means "higher dimension". Working with manifolds: "bigger" means "higher dimension". Working with sets: "bigger" usually means "larger cardinality" but could sometimes mean "proper superset".

In general, you can take "X is bigger than Y" to mean "Y is isomorphic to some substructure of X, but not vice versa". If "isomorphic" means "in bijection with" and "substructure" means "subset" then this is cardinality. If they mean "isomorphic as vector spaces over F" and "vector subspace" then it's dimension. If they mean "homeomorphic" and "topological subspace" then actually it isn't true that lower-dimensional manifolds are always "smaller than" higher-dimensional ones (so maybe we actually want a different definition) but in this particular case the rank-1 tensors are a lower-dimensional proper subspace of all the tensors so the definition gives the "right" answer.
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They announced a while ago that Broadwell's delay will not affect the scheduling of Skylake. They both use the same 14nm manufacturing process, so if Intel has fixed the issues with Broadwell, everything makes sense.
Anyone know which GPU they use?
The Intel Core i7 5930K is the fastest 6 core Intel Core i7 5xxx CPU. It is the second faster Intel Core i7 5xxx CPU available. To call that mid-range is not correct.
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FOSS has value in other places too. In particular it has value when software isn't your core business. As such, you develop instrument software, analysis tools, support tools etc. which supports your core business and give it away for free.

This does 2 things:

1. If your open source package gains widespread adoption, it gives you control of the tools that most users in your area use.

2. It levels the playing field and takes software out of the equation to a degree. Competitors have little reason to develop their own platforms when they can leverage yours.

----

In addition to that, I think FOSS software is valuable almost everywhere else, but as you say, does lead to different models.

Data analysis software is probably a good example of this. You write the analysis software, it gains widespread adoption. You provide a data analysis as a consulting service. You can claim to be the leading experts in the leading package (because you wrote it). I think this model also works for RedHat and others.
So these companies led the cartels? I get that there was a judgement, but it's REALLY light on details.
I've been experiencing the wake issues on 10.9, as well. Bouncing wifi seems to fix it, but it's very annoying. It seems to be when I close lid on one network and open it on a different network that it gets confused what to do.
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The first one is basically identical. The second one I probably wouldn't do. In both cases it just comes down to style though.
> Nothing at all against OCaml, but it puzzles me where these HN micro-fads come from. There have inexplicably been a surge in OCaml posts on the front page over the past week.

Facebook just released a static type checker for javascript last week that happens to be written in OCaml. This release announcement was pretty well received here on HN[1]. After reading the commentary here and looking at Flow I've found myself reading more about OCaml. It wouldn't surprise me that others did the same and decided to share interesting articles they found.

I imagine the bubbles of popularity you mention are regularly kicked off by a similar event. When an article or piece of new software gets popular it follows that related material would also see a surge in activity.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222
Recall that you were the one who first said that I am an "enemy of quality". Somehow on HN your smiley-disclaimed trolls -- posts that are almost always the "enemy of quality" -- get a pass. So yes, accept it as some aggression: When you dare pass judgment on my opinions in such a vapid, haughty way, expect a negative response.
But stack-everything only has such a vibrant and focused community because community rules have been made as clear as they have. If you go through Jeff Atwoods blog, you'll see that they are making the same considerations for Discourse, which has it's own "community rules" that ship with it. They're not only writing better forum software, they're also investigating what makes great forums great and horrible forums horrid and they're baking it into their product.
Unless someone writes an annoyed blog post about it. When it does end up permanently googlable.
I really don't care. Steve Jobs was a huge prick in real life and Hollywood will canonize him again.
The details vary, of course. Typically it's any gameplay-related commands the player gives.

You avoid the timing problem by having the client timestamp the packets. Time on the server side is quantized into "ticks", which are basically frames of game state that are independent from the clients' framerate.

Or at least, this is how Source engine does it.
Add sanity to creating HTML emails
When Korea imposed a limit on working hours, did it make people happier?
> On a smaller scale it can definitely be done.

I think that is a pending discussion here on HN because it is considered a lifestyle business instead of a startup that grows fast.

Many times the difference between success and failure is the size of the business you have in mind.
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It also doesn't help that the Hadoop ecosystem is unstable, insecure, and overkill for the vast majority of the use-cases out there. Cloudera can also be thrown into the same bucket when they will no doubt file next year.

IMHO Hadoop just doesn't have a viable business model behind it. The people that really need a big data solution will run it themselves, and the people that don't (who will have it shoved down their throats all in the name of big data anyways) will unsuccessfully run it for a year or two before scrapping it for a better, more appropriate solution.
This is entirely consistent with my experience since I was a teenager.
I've long thought OCaml was weirdly suppressed. It's a language that makes a lot of sense for a lot of problems; the only thing I can think is maybe people were put off by thinking strongly typed = java? It's particularly irritating that the Go folks never seemed to have looked at it, since their language could stand to learn a lot from OCaml.

Maybe the language is finally hitting critical mass? Maybe lots of people are hitting the same shaped problems at this stage in the evolution of our cloud platforms? Maybe it's just dumb luck?

For your specific things: Rust is probably not mature enough yet but worth keeping an eye on. Go makes me cry. Scala does a lot of the same things OCaml does as well or better, at least if you "stick to the good parts" (there's a ton of extraneous crap in Scala); if you're in an environment where the JVM is acceptable then TBH you won't gain ever so much from having both in your toolbox.

Haskell is the tough one. My take is that purity is a very heavy burden, and even the most advanced language in the world can only go so far to alleviating that. But the power it grants you can be huge - or can not. If you find purity worthwhile, go with Haskell. But if you just want the functional power boost and don't want to immediately expend most of it on carefully tracking your effects, OCaml is a perfectly good choice; at the least, it's an incremental improvement in the Haskelly direction, without having to wear the hair shirt right away. I'd say much the same for Scala.
It's a little scary to see journals that are trusted to vet the papers they publish charging the authors substantial fees.
Update: I just found:

https://www.juliabox.org/

:and am trying it now
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How does this apply to red light cameras? If you're too distracted by a camera you probably shouldn't be crossing the street to begin with.
I find it fascinating. I had wondered about the YKK on zippers but never bothered to look it up.
What's the point of this comment? Some of us don't browse reddit.
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I thought one of the benefits of the Apple ecosystem was that they controlled both the software and the hardware, so they should be able to catch these things...
I've always been curious about why almost everything seems to have a YKK zipper on it. Now, after decades of idly wondering about it, I know.
Samsung 'eye mouse' helps the paralyzed use PCs, will be made open-source
Browser Rounding and Fractional Pixels
Using cat in terminal can get you owned.
How the US patent system is strangling US innovation
As a Dutch person, I really like that website.
Oh crap, I didn't know IDA was free for non-commercial use. I thought it was like Photoshop: prohibitively expensive for most users, so everyone pirates it. I'm going to have to give that a shot.
They've also pushed the market into caring more about effects on battery life.
Just another example of elitism prevalent among the tech community.
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Funnily enough I was mucking about last night trying to get some bar code detection stuff going with python and it seemed everyone uses ZBar for that. Would that have done the job in this case? I guess the article is more of a teaching project than an attempt to read barcodes...

( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zbar )
I think one of the most realistic options would be to explore F# on Xamarin, if you are willing to pay the indie subscription fee (for Xamarin, that is).

F# is a superset of OCaml (well maybe not very strictly speaking but practically for all intents and purposes). Xamarin is gaining a lot of traction as a platform for writing native apps that deploy to Android and iOS.

Personally I have very good experiences with both the language and the platform, I would recommend you check it out.
Your HR strategy is already dead. Over-biased on the desire for the "senior/experienced developers". Meaning that your organization and the thousand others like yours perpetually create this apparent "shortage," since all "senior/experienced" had to start as "new college & bootcamp grads". Since there are rather few moments where organizations are willing to take the chances on the "college & bootcamp" types, there will of course be fewer moments where future "senior/experienced" ones are sown.
What's interesting is that the USA has very high rates of drug abuse, illegal and prescription drug abuse, despite having very strict laws and harsh punishments for drugs (it varies by state, but generally).

The lesson is that the harsh punishments don't solve the problem.

Drug addictions should not be blamed on the addict, there is still a huge problem here. I think they can be treated if they are accepted, the addiction approached like a mental disease, with counseling and honesty.
SQL, NoSQL? What's the difference these days?
What OS would you want to run on it? I can't think of something better suited. Android apps aren't optimised well for a large tablet and iOS is too focused to work well on a device that is supposed to allow you to replace your laptop. You could run a linux distro but I don't know of many that are touch optimised very well (Ubuntu has something in the works but I read recently it's definitely not ready for primetime yet).
"supercomputers touch our daily lives in a wide variety of ways."

So by looking at weather graphs and taking a drug I've used a supercomputer because it was used in the production process (generating, analyzing data)? By that argument I've used an oil refinery because I'm buying petrol.
UK the first country to establish free open data on all registered companies
Timezones, if accurate, don't seem to necessarily rule out UK contractors working afternoons-evenings for some of it.

GCHQ have definitely used it, I know that much.

I see nothing that looks Israeli to me in this one? Are you thinking about Myrtus?
Happens to me as well on a rMBP. There's also significant lag opening new tabs.

I've had wifi issues on my phone since upgrading, where the iPhone will switch to LTE even though there's wifi available, from a network it remembers. Rebooting the phone will cause it to reconnect, so I'm trying this airdrop disable tip to see if it helps my connection problems.
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This law seems so complex. A small company would have to account for 75 different VATs? I don't necessarily disagree with the idea that the VAT money should go to the country where the buyer is, but the amount of VATs you'd have to account for makes this a very complex rule.

Now, if EU had a unique VAT across all countries, things would go much smoother. I also think it would help a lot to turn EU into a more unified single market, much like US is.
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MongoDB is placed 5th at DB-Engines, and I would suspect SQLite should actually be ranked higher since it used virtually everywhere.

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
Invariant to scale and rotation in JS on mobile? That's fantastic! I just tested the Red Laser native app on my phone and it can handle scale/rotation too. But I never thought about rotation for the Red Laser app and always tried to align it properly between the [ ] brackets.

I think apps that support scale/rotation should not show [ ] brackets but instead a central red +. Haven't dug deeply into how barcode_locator.js in your repo works but with the expectation that the barcode will be in the middle, you might be able to slightly optimize your code to start the location detection from the middle and expand outwards.

It appears you are breaking the image into smaller 'patches' and looping through those to look for chunks of a barcode. Even if the algorithm is resolution independent, you might be able to exit the loop 50-60% earlier if you detect from the middle and go out in a spiral. In other words, the order in which you iterate the loop can make a difference.
Many times the difference between success and failure is your definition of success. VC and an exit after years of grueling work is only "success" for a small number of people who are disproportionately represented here on HN.
I have heard of ZBar but have never used it. It looks like the Python package wraps a binary, correct? Anyway, it looks like it could do the job.
"Microsoft's thing"

SQL Server is definitely one of Microsoft's best products - as well as being an excellent database engine it also is used by SharePoint, the various Dynamics applications (CRM & ERP) as well as being the "natural" choice for application development in .Net

If I had to guess I would suspect that, at least in terms of revenue, SQL Server probably tops Oracle and DB2.
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I don't think all the badges are for good things. I recently got a 'peer pressure' badge for "Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower."
Yeah. I found it neat that this company dominates the industry by making a quality product, not by acquiring and enforcing a centuries-long monopoly on an idea.
Recreational drug possession is decriminalized in Portugal, but still illegal. You will still be fined if caught, and if you possess over a certain amount, charged with a crime. That being said, addiction has declined since the decriminalization.
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People have used chemical mood enhancers in all kinds of society and economic systems.
ENIAC? Zuse Z3!
There's also a port of ZBar using Emscripten / asm.js: https://github.com/yurydelendik/zbarjs
and a hand-made port of ZXing by Wojciech Szela here: https://github.com/wojciechszela/zxingjs
And there's the problem. Why the hell doesn't that require a warrant?

Other than that, I really don't expect the Post Office to ever do anything but comply with lawful requests. What's the alternative? Do you want the Post Office conducting internal investigations of postal customers?
It also broke screenshare on Linux :(
Cool site, and I like their methodology:

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition

It's kind of how I did http://langpop.com/ back in the day (subsequently sold and it looks like they don't maintain it).
Law enforcement in many rural areas feels under seige from heroin. Around Ithaca NY a few weeks ago they found a dead black guy floating face down in a ditch behind Walmart and then the next week a white kid od'd. So there is a very real body count here.
I've heard it many times for IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco. Once or twice for Redhat. It generally works for any large incumbent vendor.
Yes, Opiates can, amongst other things, Make you feel strong and confident, a state of mind free of social phobia. Opiates can also have quite a lot of side effects, such as a drunken, drowsy feeling, nausea etc.

There are drugs that may what you want. MDMA in particular can really reduce social phobia significantly. In some cases MDMA can even cure social
Phobia. It does have side effects too. Amphetamines also lower inhibitions, as well as stimulate dialogue.

I believe addiction potential is more closely related to your reason for doing the drug and your economic status. If you are doing a drug to escape from a bad situation for example, you are likely to become dependent.
Can someone provide a mirror link to the article ? this fails to load on both my 3 browser, blocked at some explicit consent page: http://i.imgur.com/Ui4ARZe.png
You could ofc. erode with a smaller element, and open with a larger one, but that might be just as parameter-tweaky as this approach ;)
Barcode can be anywhere. It's an impressive work. http://www.oberhofer.co/how-barcode-localization-works-in-qu...
Just like waves come in sets. There was an Emacs micro-fad a few days ago too.
No, they dug up the link elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8655178
Zuse Z3? Babbage's Analytical Engine!