skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a shortsighted way of thinking. The goal is to move beyond "releases", and to a continuously upgrading OS, like OS X.

Sure, OS X has new releases, but adoption rate is high, and Apple is quick to cut support for legacy versions. Microsoft is working towards that.

The visceral reaction towards Microsoft for trying this is just a general "I want to be in control for the sake of being in control" reaction that carries no legitimate value.
Thank you, very cool to hear! :)

You are of course very welcome to contribute again – just check https://github.com/nextcloud or join us in IRC #nextcloud or #nextcloud-dev (freenode).
Swift seems to have changed quite a bit, given that every code sample now reads the same to me:

"Oops! You appear to have an ad blocker enabled. ...(etc)"

May I suggest checking linked pages with - the horror - an ad blocker enabled, and rejecting those which behave like this? I'm fine with a short request to disable ad blockers [1] but totally messing up a page just because someone prefers sanity over sponsorship it not worthy of support from a site like HN.

[1] not that I'd disable the ad blocker, but that is beside the point. Blocking ads servers the same function as locking doors: it keeps out unwanted visitors. I lock my door when I'm not around, don't you?
These aren't born warriors. They are built. The all seem to have joined up young and spend many of their formative years in the military. They are not born/bred into military units, nor were they raised from birth as fighters.

The fact that young men take to soldiering isn't unusual. There is some feedback here. Soldiers create the environment that creates people like themselves. Visit any US-allied base to see what I mean. The US is a very young force, with kids joining up and leaving before hitting 30. That makes the US today very similar to the US during the Vietnam era or the UK during WWI/II. This results in a very different culture than in other nations (Canada, Germany, AU) where soldiering is more of a career. Young men create around themselves an environment that supports them. It is therefore no shock that they feel more at home in that rarified environment.
This is why drones are insidious - anyone can press a button. You move from some percentage of born warriors, to 100% keyboard warriors.
In general, complete data on population trends is very lacking. So if you have a source I would genuinely be interested in examining it.

But I guess where you and I disagree is whether or not the problem identified actually is the problem. Which I think makes creating essentially sexist sub-networks/organizations questionable. If the crux of the issue isn't some sort of gender discrimination (nefarious or not, structural or cultural, etc.) then the proposed solution doesn't actually address the underlying issue leading to the observed macro trend.
Some poor SREs have a shitty night ahead of them.
This problem could be solved if we fixed our tech access and intellectual property laws. The constricting elements of the online network effect only exist because we have laws that grant artificial monopolies. The only reason that Discord and/or Slack and/or OtherAlternative can't make it seamless is because Microsoft/Skype would likely file a lawsuit. While there are hairy intellectual property issues at play here, MS's best vein of attack would be the CFAA, which would almost certainly criminalize something like Slack connecting to Skype's network to offer an adapter/bridge between the two networks.

People comment on the queer nature of this phenomenon frequently but seemingly fail to understand that it's that way because We The People made up laws dictating that it should be that way. There is no deprivation of either possession or use of property here, so why did we make this illegal? Let's fix the problem and allow true competition, instead of protecting lumbering incumbents.
How to create a working Linux ELF executable in 45 bytes
Is that an argument for or against windows 10? "You can mostly stay away from metro"? If the switch is inevitable, why not switch to an OS that doesn't force the user to navigate two sets of user interfaces, one of which it sounds like you're almost agreeing is bad?

Not calling out you in particular, but I see a lot of people saying "it's not so bad"... In what world is an upgrade where parts are "not so bad" and "avoidable" an upgrade? :)
Making “The Danger Crew” RPG with CodePen and React
>"But neither are both genders are identical."

I'm going to take a step back and substitute gender for sex. Saying that the two sexes are not identical is a very interesting, and strong stance. Especially seeing as it is impossible to prove with socialization and neuroplasticity.

I don't doubt that there are preferences based on gender. Gender is the word that we use to describe a set of sex-stereotypes that we project onto members of our society.

Aiming for freedom of choice makes sense sans socialization. I overuse this example, but imagine Douglas Adams' cow that was raised to be eaten -- if we raise girls with the notion that they should love children, be self sacrificing, value helping others over money, not be selfish, and raise boys with a completely separate set of traits, is it reasonable to not apply a critical lens to these choices when they cause a detrimental effect on the quality of life of one group, and the set of available experiences to both groups?

Is raising a cow that chooses to be eaten any better than raising one that doesn't? Is it even worse?
Do these drivers still need to get expensive commercial insurance or commit fraud?
Strongly disagree, and I say that as a parent who loves his child. Raising kids is often hard unfulfilling manual labor, and leaving the workforce to do it leaves many women in precarious financial and social positions as a consequence. I know a middle-aged woman who left her job as a hospital exec to be a stay at home mom. Now the kids are grown, she's bored out of her mind, she's ineligible for any career that would challenge her, and resents being financially dependent on her husband. I probably know more women in that position than the other way around, between family and friends. It's particularly challenging when marriages don't work out later in life, which is common.

And saying that you should be happy staying home if you really want kids is a crock. You can love your kids without desiring to restructure your whole life around them. And as a society we should be skeptical of glorifying parenthood to the point of encouraging people to structure their lives around their kids.
This doesn't work either:

$ echo The quick brown; fox jumps over the lazydog > sample.txt
The quick brown
bash: fox: command not found
69 euro for a button is ridicules which is even more crazy when it's for only 2 years subscription (wtf it's a freaking button), even flic (https://flic.io/) is 34$ and doesn't require a subscription.
Linux is a viable option for many people. A good portion of people literally only use a web browser.

Just saw a whole school switch to ChromeOS.
> Honest question, why not just run Windows 10?

Because of the built-in spy functions (in Germany this is a highly sensitive topic for the two dictatorial regimes on German ground in the 20th century where lots of people went to prison because of the surveillance).

With Windows 10, Microsoft infringed the acceptability line for this.

Further dubious point on Windows 10 are that Windows 10 will be the first version that also supports Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). If you don't know about this sensitive topic, go read about it.
Oil industry is extremely high-tech.
To get Microsoft-owned media content in front of more eyeballs. This is what Google (indirectly) did with Android, and what Yahoo wish it could do to shore up its declining share of consumers of its content.
Chrome has made some pretty major, breaking changes due to auto-updates. I opened Chrome one day to find that my VPN to work would no longer function due to sweeping changes in extension permissions. I would agree with the parent that Chrome's behavior is very similar to what MS is doing now, and probably for similar reasons, except that MS is actually giving warning before they do it. That doesn't make it any more pleasant, but it still will result in a more secure infrastructure.
Because of the spyware, because of the in-system ads, because of the two control panels, because of the frequent and uncontrollable forced reboots, because of all the embedded nagware (try skype, try office, try onedrive, try cortana, try candycrunch, try bing - it will make your premium laptop feel like a cheap device purchased at Walmart). Let's be honest, it's a junk OS. And because if you upgrade you loose control of what features you will get (microsoft will force you to accept updates and upgrades), and God knows what other moronic decisions the guys who brought you windows 8's "all apps full screen", the contextual menu at the other side of the screen (bright idea on a 4k monitor!), etc, will force on you with no way to opt out.

And the cavalier approach that Microsoft is adopting to force that upgrade on their users is obliterating the little faith and goodwill I had.
"In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer, or bidder). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeover
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/takeover.asp
Kabam uses BigQuery
Yes, the risk was taken when the company was formed. I didn't mean that it was taken after the company was formed.

I am a long time ownCloud use. iirc, it was even announced on planetkde first.
On the more finance side of the industry maybe, but not in a situation like this.

First of all, YC has at minimum hundreds of millions in their fund ready to invest out and I'm sure no shortage of LPs looking to give YC more money. When they are looking for partners they don't care about people that can bring new LPs in to raise money, they are looking for people who will actually help the companies they invest in.

Second of all, I wouldn't be surprised if none of the people added as partners were significantly wealthy (unless it was independently). If your startup doesn't have a massive exit or you aren't an early employee at a massive public company (Google, FB, etc), you aren't going to have millions of dollars to throw around.

And of course the fact that the people joining don't need to be rich is an advantage for YC. They can find people who fit the mold of what they'd like their partners to be. I've worked with a lot of people before and I don't think there has been that strong a correlation between successful exit and smart, helpful person.
That is largely my story except for settling into clojure.
> Normals HATE technology bullshit like this.

Judging by the frequency of security breaches they don't hate it nearly as much as we would want.
Same, Github has way too much white on the page and it absolutely kills my eyes. I've been using this for a few months and there's no way I am going back.
But is in the process of moving to their own datacenters:

http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/apple-data-center-move/
I can't assess for truth, but I reckon the sneaky upgrade of Win10 users (those who gave refused until now) is becoming a running joke on 9Gag. And popularity is important when the European commission sets the fines. Just saying.
Why not link the Rust libstd dynamically?
And is it Microsoft's data?
>
The visceral reaction towards Microsoft for trying this is just a general "I want to be in control for the sake of being in control" reaction that carries no legitimate value.

Since Windows 10 brings built-in surveillance functions to the table and will be the first version to support the dubious Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions), it is much better to be safe than sorry or in your words: better to be in control for the sake of being in control than in no control.
I think it is more a reaction that Microsoft is suddenly "changing the deal" and forcing users to get something that was never part of the bargain. People are feeling cheated and tricked and lose all trust in Microsoft. Heck, people are getting interrupted with a forced upgrade when they livestream games or present the weather on TV. Who knows if there's more surprises in the windows 10 pipeline?
The definition I use is very similar. I like to think of consciousness or sentience as the ability to model (or predict) one's self.

A pattern-matching entity that can match its own patterns.

I might disagree about the intelligence aspect. It seems to me any entity that is at least moderately interesting (has any kind of behavioral complexity) would need some level of intelligence in order to model itself to a respectable degree.
> a few of their datacenters are down the street from one another

They have backup power systems and multiple backbone connections.
They did in the article

$ cargo rustc --release -- -C prefer-dynamic
$ ls -al target/release/hello
-rwxrwxr-x 1 lifthrasiir 8831 May 31 21:10 target/release/hello*
ITunes Connect and TestFlight in particular has been an absolute shambles for at least the last 3 months. Nobody there seems to give a shit or take responsibility (ranging from support up thru to the highest levels).
> Just to be cautious: Is it a valid question to ask after all? We have hundreds of gigabytes of storage, if not some terabytes, and people should be using decent ISPs nowadays, so the binary size should not be a concern, right?

$ find /usr/bin -type f | wc -l
2254
$ du -sh /usr/bin
445M	/usr/bin

If all these programs were written in Rust and statically compiled, assuming only a 600K difference by binary, that would make my /usr/bin 1.3G (or 300%) larger.

But in reality all those programs are dynamically linked against many libraries in /usr/lib, so the difference would be even bigger, with libraries duplicated between all those programs.

Sure, you can dynamically link with Rust too, but then, you hit the other problem that there is no stable ABI (yet?), and that upgrading Rust (every 6 weeks) means recompiling everything.
So this is why my AppleTV won't connect to Netflix / Hulu right now?

I want a refund.
We live in an age of information overload.
I agree with this viewpoint, but it's not popular with this crowd for obvious reasons (hence your downvotes). I think there's a bit of a double edged sword here. People don't want to upgrade, but want a vendor to provide updates and protection for a long time with OS's. This is the SaaS/webapp model moving to the OS, because big version number upgrades have always sucked for all software - not just OS's.

Where else do people expect a single anonymous purchase of around a hundred dollars to last them for 5+ years with a vendor constantly making improvements to it?

It's a good upgrade, it's free, and people better get used to it. It's a good choice for most people, so unless you feel like compiling your own OS, it's gonna be stuff like this, chromeOS, or buying hardware/OS as a single package (apple).

Yes, plenty of us on here are hackers, or "special users" that might not think it's a good choice, but for the bulk of windows 7, and 8 users this is a good path and their experience will improve with it.
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Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems too coincidental that multiple services

(Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far)

have been affected, on the same day.
Developers don't get "poached". They're not deer. The leave because something better is offered to them. Usually much better.

There's much more to this than we know yet.
Docker too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822562
"DRM related content such ad HBO Go, Netflix, etc." None of those will be supported on a device for as long as they will be supported on a PC. Not that I'm a PC fan, but the general purpose operating system idea really shines here.
Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
Thanks for the great summary. But I'm guessing previous immunotherapy based treatments are also based on stimulating T-cells to fight cancer cells. Any idea why they didn't work? This method only makes it easy to stimulate T-cells, but what about mutations in cancer.
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This is hardly scratching the surface:

http://musicconsultant.com/how-to-make-it-in-the-music-indus...

Looking up recoupment in the music industry is infuriating on its own, it isn't far from modern day slavery. Control over PR budgets is another one, and shitty royalties is a major one.

If you spend a few hours looking up those leads, I sincerely doubt you'll still think I'm misguided or not educated enough afterwards.
haha great timing!

This morning I was scraping the images from the 2016 report and given they were like ~230 images I thought it could be cool to download them in parallel, but I quickly realized this would lead to such path and downloaded these in serial.

I still wonder what's the _right way_
thank god game center is still up!
>Honestly, I think Windows now has worse support for legacy hardware than Linux.

I don't know where people got the idea that Windows ever had good hardware support. I switched to Linux right after win7 came out because it ran like shit on my laptop. It said my graphics drivers didn't support aero transparency but my laptop graphics supported transparency on Linux and a whole bunch of other cool shit with compiz and Linux ran flawlessly.
Nah, don't you know that the oil industry is just digging holes. Real high-tech is working on hard problems like how to deliver grilled cheese sandwiches
Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store.

If iOS is their vision of the future of personal computing, then the future of personal computing is a walled garden presided over by a bureaucracy about as functional as a badly run DMV office.

There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of terrible customer support from a company with this kind of money. Their good UX near-monopoly and success seems to be making them lax toward their developer community... much like Microsoft became.
I got hit by this. I had an incredibly long, TeamViewer-specific password, and a family member happened to witness (what was likely a bot) incredibly quickly open Chrome, go to Paypal, login using saved credentials, check the settings page, and then pay an invoice that had been generated moments after viewing the settings page.

TeamViewer has definitely been compromised, and reddit.com/r/teamviewer is replete with reports.
Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers.

Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.
I'm hearing both names for the first time, which is quite surprising in the context of a $3B acquisition.
You need a connection to Apple to use third party apps you already have installed? If true that's ridiculous.
There's a Stuxnet Copycat, and We Have No Idea Where It Came From
"keeping your system patched is a prerequisite to remaining secure" Completely false. This will 100% NEVER be a sane security model. The one true way is to have verified secure software installed in the first place. That is not impossible. It is just more expensive than releasing patches as flaws are exposed. Do not be fooled by the general flow indicating correctness.

The type that are afraid of patches are often also afraid of the network, which is quite prudent. You judge them unfairly.

"Power users should be using not-Windows." Well then...
I get that the rate of improvement in game simulation will eventually lead to experiences that are indistinguishable from reality, however, how did he calculate the one in a billion chance that we're not in a simulation? That just seems like a wild guess to me.
> Just to be cautious: Is it a valid question to ask after all? We have hundreds of gigabytes of storage, if not some terabytes, and people should be using decent ISPs nowadays, so the binary size should not be a concern, right?

Phones? IoT? Embedded? OS devs? Someone just checked in a 14KB binary size reduction to our shell (by removing unnecessarily virtual methods in some C++) that was widely celebrated.

Also, smaller .dll's load faster from disk.
> However, the comparable US company can invade my market

Again talk about "invasion", I'd suggest you don't be so emotional so we can have a fruitful discussion.

Aside from that nobody owns the market.

You may feel it is an invasion because the barriers are low to do business as a foreigner, but this goes both ways.

I successfully sold products in the US as an EU citizen without having an office there, so it is possible.

And there are many tech companies from the EU that do the same on a much larger scale.

Our problem is really the legal framework, getting loans for starting businesses, getting investments from private investors (this is getting better though) and bureaucracy.

In the US you can fail and rebound from it, in most EU countries your life is destroyed because you'll be burdened with debts till the day you leave this earth. (or you lose all wealth you have accumulated to this point)

If we in the tech sector weren't so lucky to be able to start businesses with low capital investment I would have never started one because I don't have the rich parents/family that could help me if things go bad.

This is the problem from my perspective that we face here and no amount of protectionism will change that.

On the other hand I'm truly amazed what risks people take to start businesses in more capital intensive sectors in the EU. I wouldn't have the stomach to do this, to me these people seem almost insane.
> ThunderX2 is a 14nm FinFET design, and the company claims it will deliver 2 to 3 times the performance of ThunderX on select workloads with a higher performance to power ratio. Their plan for the X2 is to include 54 ARMv8.2 cores with a target frequency of 2.4 to 2.8 GHz and up to 3 GHz in turbo mode (versus their current 28nm, 48 core, 2.5GHz design), 32MB of what Cavium calls shared Last Level Cache (LLC), 6 DDR4 memory interfaces running at 3200MHz (1 DPC) or 2966MHz (2 DPC), multiple 10/25/40/100 Gb/s Ethernet (KR) interfaces, enhanced virtualization support (including IO), ARM Holdings Trustzone security and a variety of hardware accelerators. [...] [1]

Is ARM's TrustZone not the same as Intel's ME? At least I remember that AMD uses a ARM Core with TrustZone in it's x86 CPU's to basically achieve the same (or something similar) as Intel's Management Engine.

[1] quoted from: http://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2016/05/30/cavium-s...
Playing with the Rust AST
That was the feeling I got from the startup community about ten years ago — lots more bootstrapped, single-person, not-so-sexy startups.

These days, since startups are much more fashionable, it feels like it's the majority of startups are all about getting VC funding and ran by much more "idea" people.
The oil traders could move to WhatsApp or somesuch but I'd be kind of sad if they went. The other day I was trying to get free historical stock data via an API and Yahoo Finance was about the only thing that did it ok.

Yahoo could assure their financial future by going massively long oil futures and then putting out false messages about Saudi Arabia having been nuked by ISIS or some such. A tad illegal perhaps but an offshoot in some ill policed part of the world could do it.
BGP? Tier-1 issues?
The only Apple thing that I know was on AWS was the beats1 radio thing when it launched, not sure if it still is.