skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the GP's use of "backend" needs correction? What a language's compiler refers to as its backend and what LLVM refers to as a backend can mean different things.
"Those who sacrifice connectivity for bourguignon deserve neither." -- Internet Ben Franklin
Think about how many people use Windows. Now think about all of those users multiplied by all of their activity. Now hook up to the stream of all that data (because you know that the majority of those users won't go through the technical hassles of updating their settings). Now think about what you can do with that data. You can keep it internal and start to make really, really accurate predictions based directly off of users actions. And you get all that data for free.
As an Indian living in Europe, I disagree with you about Indians not being integrated. Well, depends on which part TBH as Europe is so different depending on the direction. But I have no issues whatsoever in Ireland. and have friends from all over.
This article is just a bunch of quotes from the previously-discussed Times article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224
I thought Microsoft provided clear information on this and options to turn it all off when installing.
For the most part, my personal experience matches yours, but this is a pretty myopic way of looking at the article. I have great friends that are wonderful and amazingly supportive, but there is something just...different about the church community I grew up in.

Take the example of the truly unfortunate disaster, for example as another commenter mentioned, complications with the birth of a 3rd or 4th child. A "good" church community (that seems like a weird phrase, but go with me for a second) would involve people that you might only have passed in the hallway bringing you food, helping out with your other kids, or other chores that you simply don't have the time or energy to do during your emergency state.

Unless you are truly a social juggernaut with a lot of friends that really care about you that much, you're probably going to end up either suffering substantially on your own trying to keep things together, or your close friends are going to resent you for leaning on them so heavily (particularly if the hypothetical emergency at hand is long lasting).

That was waaay more than I meant to write, but I was honestly having the same thought as you and trying to think through it. I think one of the important things this post is saying is missing is more about a community of support with a broader surface area for support beyond just those closest to you.
I don’t feel safe enough with the vocabulary, so please let me use my own words to describe it. Construcive mathematics implies for me to construct all objects you talk about on the things you already declared (for example, recursion becomes a notational shortcut). So, we need to start with something. One simple approach would be finite bit arrays. The most general approach I see, and the one I take, is to start with computable sequences of bits. Consequently, everything based on that is countable.
If it would be MMA — it's quite likely. By the arm bar, yes.

If they would be boxing — Ronda would stay no chance.

But then it's quite natural, you know. In the chess match between Kasparov and Mayweather, Kasparov would win as well. I guess.
> it gets old

and yet it still is an urgent issue that we should not silently accept because it's "getting old" and "nothing will change".
Maybe not if it was chess boxing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
On the level that you're describing, however, is this really all that different from being a military spouse? Perhaps joining the National Guard, knowing that there's a risk that you will have to leave your family and go join a war zone?

Yes, soldiers deploy with the hope of returning, whereas Mars One would be a certain one-way trip. However, unlike a military deployment, Mars One is so dubious (to be charitable about it)... it's questionable to say that anyone involved has REALLY committed to anything yet.

However, you're right. Regardless of how low the chances are that one will actually go to Mars, putting themselves forward like this creates a 100% chance of informing spouses that they WOULD be willing to abandon them. Still, there seem to be many earth-bound scenarios in which couples face this sort of thing anyway.
I think that main problem of using old versions of php is the given ability to install old versions on your server (hosting). For example on my server I can choose between 5.2.17; 5.3.39 and 5.4.43. Of cause I have chosen the last version, the newest.
And as there was written in the article about Wordpress, Drupal has the same problem. Drupal gives the ability for users to install CMS on php version 5.2 or higher. If you are not advanced user (programmer) you can easily make a mistake and configure your server with old php version. Then you can have problems with incapability with modern modules or scripts.
The human-readable representation can be as long as you want. Also, one could embed checksums in the output, so that if non-displayed contents differs that would trigger an output by the diff command (granted, this way it is not so human-readable anymore because of the checksum, but it would still be a more modular approach).
We already have plenty of secular communities.
Hacker News, sports fans, standup comedians, book clubs, students in college, nerdfighters, groups organizing around hobbies and interests, groups of friends.

Community forms not because religion has something sepcial about it, but because people tend to form communities around any subject they are interested in.

Just because religion used to be there, doesn't mean we have to replace it. We do not need something big and ritualized.

You can't start with an idea to create a community and then invent a set of values that fits everybody, at best nobody will care enough to participate in it. It works in the reverse order.

Whenever there's something worth believing in and organizing around - peoole do that naturally. So instead, we will end up with a lot of small "tribes", communities formed around shared interests, friendships, etc. You can look at reddit to see how process naturally works, and what works well.
In order to stop having refugees, one must stop having wars, like the one we have in Syria. The NATO supported the 'rebels' while the Russians supported the 'authoritarian regime'. Of course depending on where you get your news from rebels could be named 'terrorists' or 'freedom fighters' and what not.

In between a few million people die, lose everything and so forth. Entire generations vanished. The NATO countries and Russia should take care of these refugees. They should pay for shelter and social re-abilitation. Even host at least half of them... Of course the best solution would be to stop war, but people are weak and stupid.

In Greece many people help these refugees, actively. Others hate them because especially in Athens the number of 'aliens' is overwhelming. Hence, Golden Dawn got 6% in 2012 by running an anti-immigrant campaign.

Generally speaking throughout Europe, anti-immigration sentiment is growing stronger. Switzerland is about to close borders to everyone else, the UK, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic want stricter immigration control. France is openly against Muslims (due to the recent events, Charlie Hedbo, etc.).

It's like living in 1932 all over again.
No. I want my elected officials to create effective system that prevents them on landing on the shores in the first place.

And well ... they are not my fellow human beings. I long ago shed my humanitarian beliefs.
I don't know why you consider that "justice". That sounds awful to me.
I know we are tracked it's just that I never thought it will come to this. There is no choice but to sync contacts to the cloud. I mean, there is choice....not using the phone. In my experience using Android tablet it's a little less intrusive. I guess with Android phone it's the same thing. You probably give right to access contacts to many apps, etc...
Even when other companies are doing it also, does it make it better?

At least until now, you could use a computer and OS without being sold (just don't use some free services and avoid paid products where your data is also sold). But when the OS is also selling your data, you just have no hiding place any more!
How is the largest worldwide software roll-out, that happens to be the most important (debatable) operating system, not interesting on a daily basis?
The whole notion of sovereignty in its current form is an accident of European history. The borders of the world can't be said to be much other than arbitrary, for huge pieces of it.

Seen another way, you could remove the citizenship of people who went negative. Then you'd be rid of your obligations.

If it sounds absurd, that's because it is.
Interesting idea!

Did someone actually do such a thing for the older versions of Windows? Was it possible to meaningfully decode all of the outgoing data?
The wikipedia article surprises me though..
The actual brightness can be calculated as an infinite sum of start brightnesses getting weaker with the distance. The result of an infinite sum can be finite or infinite. I would have though apriori that the sum is finite because the star density is so low. But at the end of the article they seem to suggest that the universe is dense enough for the sum to be infinite...
DirectX 10, HTTP/2, kernel improvements, etc.
I can see that might be appealing to some, but it still doesn't really appeal to me. I'm not sure I'd want a wider community of people I hardly know to rally around me like that.

Perhaps I just haven't been in a bad enough situation, perhaps I do trust my friends and family that much, perhaps I'm just more insular than that. I don't know.
I posted this under the title that "PG's 2008 startup ideas are still untapped"
Those willing to work aren't exactly a blessing either, unless the country has a severe shortage of labour. As far as I know none of the western European countries are in such a situation.
Personally, this really resonates with me. Growing up Catholic (but later abandoning it), I find that the sense of community you get out church is pretty much unrivaled by anything else. I do miss that. The relationships you have with friends, family, coworkers, people who you share a hobby with, etc. is just different.

Also, growing up in a religious environment, you are used to thinking about things higher than yourself such as the meaning of life and morality. I find these questions to still be relevant, and yet, there aren't a lot of spaces outsides religion to explore these topics in a serious way. Philosophy meetups in a bar just don't quite do it for me.

Personally, I think that we've given up a lot more that we think by giving up religion.

I think The School of Life does a good job of tackling this problem. They're not religious, but they've created a community of people who want to actively question and improve how they live in a deeper way than most regular, secular people do.
Maybe we could IP block microsoft DNS and server in order to be sure nothing leaks out even when set off through user space configuration ?
>I can't put my finger on what it is that is a problem though.

IMHO, the problem is language - i.e. immigrants speak theirs, and natives 'speak theirs'. Natives are unwilling to allow another language into their lives, whereas immigrants are forced to learn another language in order to survive - in both cases, it is a lot of work to learn a new language.

I wish it were compulsory to learn at least 2 foreign languages in European countries - sure, there is the defacto 'English as a second language' standard, which has produced a lot of tolerance in previously warring societies, it has to be admitted - but wouldn't it be great if we all were encouraged, somehow, to .. say .. learn Farsi .. as a means of solving the big European problem of integration, immigration, and internationalization? I mean, it really only makes sense for the Western European powers to promote polyglotism given our current circumstances. I think I'd be happier about immigration if my kids grew up learning the language of the immigrants in our land, alongside their native tongue, anyway .. I'll be doing my best to encourage my kids to learn languages of the immigrants during the course of their lives.
This is extremely unlikely under the current political system (capitalism). Communities take care of their members, which reduces their dependence on the economy, which slows economic growth, which is one of the core goals of capitalism.
It takes 1 Libya bombing to create a damage so big would take 1000x Gates foundations to heal.

The bigger problem is that average Joe doesn't give a sht. As long as the refugee/immigrant is not there, to get his job* he doesn't care. When he finally arrives and takes his job, instead of getting mad to the people who is exploiting the situation, he gets mad to the immigrant who can barely speak the language.
Don't forget whole of Libya :(
This might be my biggest gripe with C's syntax.

typename identifier[];

means three different things, depending on where it appears: As a function argument, it is a pointer that will be accessed like an array. As a variable with automatic storage duration, it is an array whose size will be determined by the right-hand-side of an assignment from a braced initializer list. In the middle of a struct definition, it's illegal. And at the end of a struct definition, it is a flexible array member.
From what I recall a lot of these where set up for those who felt the Masons where it bit to secretive or a bit to Deist for some peoples tastes
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Exactly. I challenge anyone who complains about the "new"[1] data logging in Windows 10 to take a hard look at Google's policies as well. They record just as much, sometimes more, when you use their services. Their email service in particular is 100% invasive: They literally read every word of your email and any email you receive, whether the person who sent it to you consents or not.

But it's Google, so of course they get a pass in the media.

[1] If you turn off all the privacy invading options when setting up Windows 10 (choose "Customize" instead of "Express"), there is no more logging than Windows 7 does by default. Somehow that is never mentioned in these articles though.
But I'm sure Mr Stallman is feeling a great disturbance in the force. As if a million soul have been coerced into non-privacy.
Even when you disable it, you never can be sure, because it is in the Privacy Terms you have accepted. So you can never be sure, that your data is collected even with different settings, even because of error or because somehow the switch was reverted e.g. by an update.
Yes, of course. But the difference is that Ronda would also decisively win a street fight with Maywheater - something that women are not supposed to be able to do and hence worth noting (and wonderful to see if it ever happened).
I'm talking about naval military power.
There are other important downsides to static linking. Namely, critical security updates to shared components. It's better to have to update your tls library once per system, than to update every app that came with it. And that's the best case scenario where the developer notices and the app is actually repackaged.
As a software dev who has used and benefited from AVX2, I think the last data point in the chart is quite a bit off. Perhaps their benchmarking software didn't support AVX2 yet (Haswell/Broadwell) yet?

> Blue depicts parallel performance, while purely sequential performance is shown in orange.

Sequential trend seems to totally disregard up to doubled integer vector performance in AVX2, first introduced in Haswell. Original AVX didn't support 256-bit wide integer vectors. Also Haswell up to "doubled" [1] FLOP/cycle.

[1]: If your workload is FMA. That said, it is a pretty common FPU workload. See for example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15655835/flops-per-cycle-... for reference.
I don't think diff will perform well on two 4gb inputs. I agree there should be a modular approach, but I don't think flat text is the best lowest-common-denominator. Your proposal would certainly work for a lot of cases though, and it is very unix-y!
As a Brit and someone who leans to the left, I've no issue with us as a society taking people in who require aid but that has to come with conditions attached primarily that they respect the culture they want to settle in.

That said I've also no interest in taking more people in who think that intolerance of their intolerance is wrong, enough of this already, the liberals (at least that part of it I don't consider myself a part of) have been grappling with this issue for a while "How do you respect the beliefs of people who don't respect your beliefs" and they still don't have a clear answer.

Here in the UK we've had numerous cases of child sexual abuse (rape, sexual slavery, passing girls around up to 60 men and some shit I don't ever want to read again) against vulnerable (overwhelmingly white) girls perpetrated by what the media euphemistically calls "asian" men (but in reality have been way over 90% Muslim's of Pakistani descent), the councils, authorities and the police knew this was happening but where so worried about the political fallout of been seen to target (even though they where committing the crime) members of the Muslim Pakistani community they backed off and basically looked the other way (even when members of that community where publicly speaking out about the problem!).

1400 vulnerable often in care white girls in Rotherham alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_sex_abuse_case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesbury_sex_gang

Estimates of the numbers abused runs into the thousands if not tens of thousands.

I number amongst my friends many people of indian and pakistani descent and they are just the same as anyone else in that they are appalled about this stuff - to the extent they are angry that the authorities didn't crack down on it, they know they get tarred with the same brush and that is tragic.
There is nothing cheaper than data.
This is the nadir of the utterly rancid freemium model of software.
The line is crossed. When we don't stop it now, this will be the end of privacy for every computer user -- at least of commercial OSs.

Even with the possibility to deactivate all this, the user consented to the "privacy terms" -- so the OS can even collect data "by error" -- and they will come away with it.

To trust such a company again, there would be a second set of privacy terms needed, that would be used for everybody that rejects the data collection. But I don't think, that there will be a second set of terms at all (for that to happen, a majority of people must start to think about their privacy).
That works now, but one the Intel SGX instructions are commonplace it is going to be next to impossible to modify "secured" code or read their RAM.
The only solutions are:

1. Build more housing (won't happen)
2. Rent control (doesn't work, mostly. Distorts the market)
3. The bubble pops (most likely)
They did, and they do. It's the usual scaremongering that happens when any large software company has a new release.
This is a terrible article, it only repeats and speculates on articles that appeared previous days, with some random tweets as further "evidence".

Also, it feels rather disingenuous to accuse Microsoft of spying on a webpage fully loaded with 3rd party trackers and ads. Unlike Microsoft, Newsweek did not ask me for permission to spy on me when I was reading this article. And I certainly could not turn it off.
Secular Communities don't really need a revolution. There are strong and well founded communities all around the world, and many in the states. They are bonded over like interests, and often strengthened by a total lack of interest in recruiting those who aren't actively seeking them.

In the american north west, I have met many secular art-festival goers, academics/research scientists, swingers, like-sports fans, and community living persons who have total support from their communities. The groups that I've seen most supportive are very inviting, but don't actually recruit at all, nor advertise themselves much.
Host a text-to-speech service on Heroku
Yes, my parents (who are not religious) did that when my siblings and I were born – a "naming party". I don't think there was any actual ritual or any organization involved, though.
At 1:56, it appears that the old motor suffered from the infamous valve-in-piston design flaw :)

If you enjoy hacking, do yourself a favor and get your hands on a small engine with a horizontal crank. They're harder to find than vertical crank motors, but much easier to run on a bench and more closely resemble a car engine. Take it apart and put it back together again. If you're not going to put the engine back in service, there is very little you can get wrong. Don't worry about torque specs or gasket quality. Just get your hands dirty! It's great fun.
I thought, HTTP/2 is something that the browser must support. Did you recognize, that there are some different browsers out there?
> For me national borders are sacrosanct, so you have no good reason to break one

National borders are fairly arbitrary and are being fought over all the time. Nations with more military power can obviously get away with occupation of land that is not 'theirs' (as if it is anyone's, but for arguments sake, let's talk about who was previously settled there).

I think the person who is trying to save his family from plight has more 'good reason' to break one than crusading governments.
> Also, growing up in a religious environment, you are used to thinking about things higher than yourself such as the meaning of life and morality. I find these questions to still be relevant, and yet, there aren't a lot of spaces outsides religion to explore these topics in a serious way.

This is extremely arguable. Some religious environments promote the exact opposite: proxying of morality and any question about the meaning of life so that you don't have to think about it.
paywall

edit: workaround = load the URL in incognito-mode.
Why don’t you sell me stuff?
Ten to fifty years is a long time to project into the future .... I think there will not be so much a replacement social media web site to Facebook as 1) fragmentation of the social media space. 2) the waning of social media as the predominant focus of personal computing. I would go out on limb and say that software agents will be the next big thing. That is applications that know a lot about you and do things on your behalf without your direct intervention. Less interaction, not more. I think the proliferation of web APIs and big data, make software agents more viable.
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And the sad thing is, they still don't, and Windows users will keep using Windows 10 after this flurry of articles dies down.
Yup, my point was that Lincoln is generally not believed to have been bisexual, just like the bed sharing magi.

As for Buchanan, that article feels rather polemical. Is there a more authoritative summary anywhere?