skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is rumormill clickbait (and likely complete bullshit), but it actually would be an incredibly smart thing for them to do, assuming they could keep the x86 licensing deal.

The variable manufacturing cost of making chips is tiny...maybe $3-5 per x86 chip. The rest of the expense of production comes from amortizing the cost of design and plant setup...the majority of which is caused by the need for so many variants for the consumer segment.

So if Microsoft dumped the consumer-focused CPU and GPU segments, they could drastically reduce the design and plant setup costs of production, probably by an order of magnitude or more. All they would need is their existing XBox chips, and a handful a handful of heavyweight server chips. With much lower design and plant setup costs, combined with extremely high volume production, it isn't hard to believe they can drive down the total cost per chip to $10-$20.

And at those price levels, they could likely undercut the PS4 as well as all the other cloud vendors in their respective segments.
To expand on this:

If you're familiar with Python Leiningen takes the place of both pip and virtualenv. Every project has a project.clj file where you declare your project dependencies and running "lein deps" from your project root handles it from there. This includes libraries and the version of Clojure you're targeting. When you add/delete/change a dependency in project.clj you simply run "lein deps" again. You never have to run "pip freeze" or make a requirements.txt file because project.clj serves that purpose as well.

As an example, Leiningen's own project.clj: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/project...
> The use of hashes is an implementation detail and wholly irrelevant.

Not in this case. An ordered map implemented as a tree has the same interface but with very different operation complexities
The way you explain it, it's no different from functions and function composition; in which case, why invent new vocabulary?

I do remember looking into them before and translating them into Haskell and they ended up not being identical to functions in the trivial sense that you suggest, but I forget how.
Our company did free courses for university students - I've had a talk about ORMs. The subject wasn't the problem - the public speaking was.

I've had no further opportunities (not that I was soo bad, I just changed the job since).
The Farewell Dossier – Duping the Soviets
You can use OpenSSL without IO APIs. Just use SSL_set_bio ;)
It is my pleasure to confirm that not upsetting the Wall Street Journal appears nowhere on HN's list of priorities.

Complaints about paywalled submissions have become so repetitive lately that I think we're going to add this issue to the FAQ and declare it off-topic in the threads.

It's fine to suggest an equally good article that isn't paywalled; if it really is equally good, we'll happily swap the URL. It's also fine to ask or share with other users how to read an article. But it's not fine for dozens of threads to bog down with the same generic complaints when this issue has been decided.
Yeah, well, seeing how you turned out, that's not much of a recommendation ^_^!

Seriously, you need to get back to us in a dozen, dozen and a half years, before you can speak with any authority about your approach to your kids and today's Internet.
Sorry I didn't want to be too spammy, link from my profile: http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/
Just curious.. what do you guys use for API management to handle authentications, logging, rate-limiting, etc..

1. Open-source solutions like KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar?

2. Built in house?

3. Commercial services such as Apigee, Mashery?
Interesting, do you have a citation for this one? It reminds me of the "carrots help you see better" myth that began as WWII propaganda [1] as a cover for radar and has been very persistent since.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/20...
the crappy audio is a yosemite bug
I dont think there would be any difference in my lifestyle between 50 million in the bank and 5 billion. It would be cool to be able to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to charities though.
replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806321 - switching audio to the hdmi device had no effect
I used to use/contribute to Stump - I really liked it at the time. Can't actually remember why I moved away, possibly craved the relative simplicity of i3.
I suppose I'd call it smart consumerism if you know which bits are optional and are not arguing that it's impossible to live without things that 99% of people will never have. Do regular ski trips sound awesome? Yes. Would I ever list them in my "minimum possible lifestyle"? Hell no.
Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Released Complete Test Drive 1080p
Indiegogo is down – Greece to blame?
My c++ solution: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7e6cc8f58e9cde1b6fda

I believe it follows all of the requirements. There is one glaring flaw which is that it uses a condition variable per 'wait_until_equal' call, though it uses only N mutexes. So this doesn't fall under the N^2 primitives (in the case of many waits), though its unclear to me if thats an official rule.

Im happy to listen to feedback or if someone sees an error.
Bitcoin fees are more like "tips"m there is no negotiation involved. When someone posts a bitcoin transaction to the network, they can optionally include a fee along with it. When miners bundle up transactions into blocks to add to the blockchain they give priority to transactions with higher fees.

Of course, the huge problem here is that there is only an incentive to add substantial fees if the number of transactions is larger than the maximum the network can handle. If they increase the blocksize to allow for more transactions per minute then there will be less incentive to pay fees. The fee system is also not very friendly to microtransactions because its not percentage based.
Nice job. It would also be great if there is option to get image data that can be used in data-uri.
Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
I wish smoking was simply non existent. People in the stories below in my building and the adjacent one smoke which means I cannot have my windows open unsupervised or overnight unless I want my place to smell terribly (not to mention the possible health issues, minor but still...). Never again will I rent above ground level.

Sorry for the not quite on topic comment but I really had to get that off my chest.
Analysis of Hotspots in Clusters of Log-Normally Distributed Data
That's so sad. I don't know what we expect from our jails but it's pretty plain that it either hardens or breaks people.
I don't think the satire was particularly subtle!
+1 I looked at your table of contents: nice topic selection.

The free excerpt was a good read. You might edit your comment to provide a direct link to that.
`elm-make --report=json MyFile.elm` gives the error messages as JSON; very easy to parse out line & col. It's how the vim plugin that there's a video of in the post was made.
Never seen it in a store. My wife is black so her brand choices in most stores are very limited. If we did ever see Lush it was just another one of those light skinned brands we tend to gloss over. But honestly we had never heard of them until the C&D.
Piracy and Politics at the Ports
I was curious so I looked up the regulations for California[1]. A barber license requires a 2-year full-time apprenticeship, classroom instruction, a written test, and a practical test. In my opinion, those requirements are way too stringent for someone who is just going to be cutting my hair. I've had family members cut my hair and I still have all of my ears.

What are the legitimate reasons for the current license requirements? Are there any, or is this a law that is a relic of a past which did have reasons for it? It seems like the market could solve the issue of under performing barbers.

[1]: http://www.barbercosmo.ca.gov/applicants/index.shtml

EDIT: From reading this page, it looks like the service described in the article is illegal because in-home services are only available for "anyone whose illness or other physical or mental incapacitation prevents them from visiting a licensed salon or barbershop". And, of course, it still requires a licensed barber.

http://www.barbercosmo.ca.gov/consumers/inhome_srv_factsheet...
Apple always does updates in batches to help server load as well as minimize the affect of any issues that happen whenever the update goes live.
Yeah, the choice of which browsers to support is a business requirement informed by marketing, not a technical decision. Business requirements should inform the selection of technology, not the other way around. When you let technical requirements drive your business requirements, you end up with a product that is a poor fit to user's needs. It's hard enough to get users for a new product without engineering imposing arbitrary technical limitations.
Chaos Theory and the Logistic Map
Good to know I'm not alone there; sounds like exactly the same issue. For me it would happen with both Mini DisplayPort -> HDMI and HDMI -> HDMI (on the Pro).
Oh boy, if I could publish all of the things I went through. I was hoping too, until I have been in several companies, I have experienced with several developers and that was the time when I started to think, this is not an isolated problem but rather the average.
That's the point. Something is the matter of fact, but it's not what the original question was. The original question is bogus. The way you perform the "measurement" influences the answer you get.

Also if you repeat the measurement multiple times, results will change.

From my personal experience, I didn't like soy sauce at first, but then I got used to it and started to really like it.
A History Deeper Than Pizza: A Timeline of Chicago's Greatest Landmarks
Jeff Tweedy, singer for the band Wilco, does a similar thing. As part of Second City's annual Letters to Santa 24-hour charity benefit, he auctions off a private living room concert. Last time I watched, he ended up accepting bids for 3 shows at the final bid amount.

The concerts themselves are legendary among Wilco fans, who form syndicates to bid on shows. The buy-in is at least a few-hundred dollars per person.
Computer Color is Broken [video]
Yeah, driving into Austin at night after being on the road for hours was like this. We would see the lights of the city spread out across the horizon. It would feel so close, yet we still had an hour drive ahead of us.
Huh? Fluorine's oldest and most common industrial use is in steelmaking. It is also used heavily in refrigerants.
Completely meaningless statistics without factoring in the experience and education of the people surveyed. It's one thing to say you're interested and another to go through the effort required [0].

I'm interested in being a pilot - but I lack any of the education or credentials to actually become a pilot. So my interest compared to the possibility of employment would be meaningless.

How many of the females are interested in Engineering but majored in Gender or Women's Studies and effectively slashed any chances they had of working as an engineer? Surveying for level of education and major (if applicable) as well as previous work experience would make the apparent disparity more meaningful. Now, whether or not their choice of education (and thus chance of employment) was due to a gender bias or gender discrimination is another question.

[0] https://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/11...
Check out https://medium.com/@hyperhq/docker-hyper-and-the-end-of-gues...

I think this is the way Container-as-a-Service to go, instead of the current form of AWS ECS.
And some of it is regulatory capture... restrict how easy it is for others to enter the market.
I've had this problem for years, and I think it's because I often switch my apple account between countries. The update notifications and the updates themselves come through on two different channels, which are usually out of sync.

1. One app will think my account is "in" the U.S., sends me to the App Store for an update.
2. App Store checks and sees that, oh, nope, this is a German account, but maybe try back in few days.
Sure, they are all tradeoffs of some kind or another. It's crazy to think that one person deploying a linux box on AWS would be aware of them all, though. For example what is the default file-max on Ubuntu? Why?
Given the number of comments with "Please tell me this is a satire" in this thread, I would say it wasn't particularly explicit.
Energy isn't why there are poor people though. The poor have plenty of energy in the form of sun and coal and wind. $50 worth of energy can get you from New York to Toronto. Energy isn't the problem. The problem is security and education.
Not that I'm aware of but it would be useful, an impartial third party watching your talk would be less intimidating than getting someone you know, hell you could have someone go over the slide deck as well for common errors.

...and now I'm thinking of how you'd build that and how the UX would work, damnit I have enough side projects I want to build ;).
This is the age of writing iOS apps for love
Is the job simpler because Clojure is not statically typed?
We don't really have presentations in Polish schools. Well, maybe now, I've heard on the new college graduation exam (matura) there is sth like this, but when I was in school I didn't have to do any presentations. Usually it's either written exam, test, or oral exam (more like interview than presentation).

Also (at least for me) - presentation to friends is completely different thing - I've been active in students club and made a lot of courses (we had this exchange - everybody taught others about his hobby) - it's completely different experience to give a speach for a few friends over a beer, and in huge hall to dozens of strangers.
It strikes me as both grammatically confusing and arrogant to refer to this organization as "the US Chamber of Commerce" when it isn't affiliated with the US government at all. It's a lobbying organization.

It's analogous to calling something "the Google" or "the Microsoft."
Right, but at the same time you can't say that Safari is the only thing holding mobile web development back. Because dropping users on "old" versions of Android isn't an option from a business standpoint, Safari isn't the only thing holding people back. And 4.4 really isn't that old; so there are tons of users on older devices.
Not given the ethical cost required to get anywhere near there, no.

Though "Do you want to" makes it sound like it's as much of a choice as "Do you want to move to another country?" (Which is itself a rather restricted thing)
>>> Why has that not resulted in anti competitive behavior lawsuits?

IANAL but folks over reddit explained it as this:

Microsoft was a software only vendor in the past but Apple is the hardware and software vendor. US and EU laws dictate that the hardware manufacturer to have full control over the ecosystem becuase of the industry behaviour in the past and who the end-consumer pays his money to.

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/39q25f/el...

I am not sure how correct it is but at least it makes sense.
I was having the same issue with my iPhone 5s a couple of days ago.

Apparently, it's specific to a T-Mobile update and using calling over Wi-Fi.

[0] http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/06/25/iphones-hit-w...
>This algorithm is an example of the “visitor pattern.” The term visitor pattern simply means that some object, function or other piece of code is executed once for each node in some data structure, such as an array, linked list or tree.

Hm. Isn't that a (map)?
It is probably easier to get a Class A commercial drivers license and drive an 18-wheeler.
>> “The door is open to provide a little more maneuverability,” says Lockheed Martin F-35 site lead test pilot David “Doc” Nelson.

That's the best praise that the lead test pilot will give it?

Also, did you have a look at those comments at aviationweek? Not a lot of love for the F-35 among readers there.
How we used Intercom to better interact and retain our users
Oh, interesting, I've never looked at it that way!
Uber for X services thrive on high retention something which is low for hair cuts. How often do people get them? Also, hair styling can be subjective making it hard to quantitatively define quality- which makes it hard to scale.
It's analogous to calling something "the NY Times Company."
> HTML5 forms the backbone of Modern (Metro) UI.

Factually incorrect, WinRT certainly supports HTML5 apps but it supports .Net and C++ too, all of the WinRT implementation code is either native C++ or .Net.
In addition to the fact that like smeyer mentioned that many USPS vehicles just stop and deliver through an area, or only go to community boxes now, using USPS vechicles would likely come with significant legal issues. The USPS is (in part) funded by the US Govt, it is essentially a government owned and operated division. So if you start jamming 65MP camera's with highly accurate GPS and inertia sensors etc on them may cause peoples heads to explode with conspiracy theories.

I would see a more likely partnership being the trucking/shipping industry (like FedEx/UPS etc). While the technology would have to change some to get the right angles etc, it would seem like an easy way to cover significant territory. But then again, it wouldn't be contiguous areas at the same time so they would likely have to mash old and new images at a much more frequent pace which may not provide as good a consumer experience.
It's even tagged "bad-theory." I think it's pretty clearly a joke! A really good one!
Hi,
You can have a look at Cloud 66 (http://www.cloud66.com/how-it-works) a full stack container management as a service in production. Cloud 66 uses Docker technology and integrates 11 open sources tools to cover end to end stack deployment on any cloud provider or on your own server, within one click.

You can compare different Docker solutions (http://www.cloud66.com/compare) and read how Cloud 66 used Docker.(http://blog.cloud66.com/docker-in-production-from-a-to-z/). (disclaimer: I do work at Cloud 66 )
For anyone in SF, my employer is hosting an Elm meetup next Wednesday night centered around this release! http://www.meetup.com/Elm-user-group-SF/events/223500480/
Congrats to davidu and team, you folks made an awesome product and I'm excited to see how Cisco can integrate it in their products as well as what they plan on doing with it in the future.
Good catch, that's pretty hard to deny
Scientists discover fundamental property of light – 150 years after Maxwell
According to the Fluorine Deception, they needed a way to get rid of the effluent so they made it a health product rather than toxic waste. That book however has been dismissed by most supporters of fluoridation as written by a nutbar.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Fluoride-Deception-Christopher-Bry...

"Concerns over fluoridated drinking water have long been derided as the obsession of McCarthyite cranks. But this muckraking j’accuse asserts that fluoride is indeed a dire threat to public health, one foisted upon the nation by a vast conspiracy—not of Communist agents, but of our very own military-industrial complex. Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy, drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret archives of government and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of fluoride and the motives of its leading advocates. The efficacy of fluoridated drinking water in preventing tooth decay, he contends, is dubious. Fluoride in its many forms may be one of the most toxic of industrial pollutants, and Bryson cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated drinking water to bone deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other complaints. The post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water, he claims, was less a public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride—including the government’s nuclear weapons program. Legendary spin doctors like Edward Bernays exploited the tenuous link between dental hygiene and fluoridation to create markets to stimulate fluoride production and to prove the innocuousness of fluoride compounds, thereby heading off lawsuits by factory workers and others poisoned by industrial fluoride pollution. Bryson marshals an impressive amount of research to demonstrate fluoride’s harmfulness, the ties between leading fluoride researchers and the corporations who funded and benefited from their research, and what he says is the duplicity with which fluoridation was sold to the people. The result is a compelling challenge to the reigning dental orthodoxy, which should provoke renewed scientific scrutiny and public debate."
The theory I've encountered is that fluoridation previously had an impact on cavity-prevention before people were actually brushing their teeth with fluoridated toothpaste. Now that toothbrushing is much more common, the impact has waned.

Late edit;

Here's a look at toothbrushing frequency in Europe by country from 1994 - 2010:

http://i.imgur.com/VVBldAy.jpg

Just imagine how much improvement you'd see from if the chart started in the 1940's and 1950's when many cities began fluoridating their water supplies. Not to mention that many early toothpastes were often ineffective at preventing cavities by primarily relying on baking soda and peroxide.

(Full brushing frequency study: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/suppl_2/20 )
And yet municipalities put it in our water. I feel poisoned drinking tap water.
> Linked lists don't suffer from this problem, but at the cost of 1-2 pointers per item.

Another cost is the cache misses. If you are doing operations in a sequential fashion using an array would have a significant advantage if the number of elements is high. That's another tradeoff to take in consideration.
Exactly. They have done a great job with branding to make almost everyone think they are an official part of the government. The Chamber of Commerce represents generally support incumbent business interests.
I've been in exactly the same boat, and am really glad a fix is here now!
> In my opinion, those requirements are way too stringent for someone who is just going to be cutting my hair.

Commercial barbers do more than just cut hair, and the license applies to more than just hair cutting [0]. So, yes, its maybe slightly overkill for just cutting hair (OTOH, managing more different grades of barbering licenses would increase regulatory complexity.)

[0] http://www.barbercosmo.ca.gov/forms_pubs/publications/barber...
Retail Brands Expand Globally with Pitney Bowes' Borderfree and MongoDB
Do you guys use Kong (https://github.com/mashape/kong) or similar open-source solutions for API management; went with commercial services such as Mashery or you built that in house?
It should be noted that the negative effects were found in areas with much higher levels of fluoridation (i.e. areas of China with naturally occurring fluoride in groundwater) than are typical in the US. There wasn't enough information to draw conclusions about US fluoridation levels.