skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family also emigrated to the West in the 90s, fleeing war and misery. I empathize with the refugees, but I do not think that Europe should let such a steady flow of people into its territory.

Far right is rising all over Europe, for a reason. A significant number of Europeans do not recognize the country they have been growing up in. The cultural/demographic pressure is a real issue that is fueling far-right politicians' anti-migrants rhetoric.

In 2014, France alone has welcomed as many new immigrants on its territory as Canada. It is just not sustainable, and the longer we wait to face this sad reality the harsher the far right burst will be. Politicians need to listen to their citizens before they actually start to feel helpless/pissed off and vote for populist freaks.
>> Ads inside an operating system (startmenu) and in applications that are included by default (Solitaire).

See, a couple of years back some of us correctly called that this kind of crap was on the way, but we got shouted down with the usual "hur dur slippery slope fallicy" argument.

This smells like vindication.
Its a self-fulfilling prophecy, though, isn't it? As long as the trope that "immigrants are all criminals" persists as a general meme, then those immigrants will have little choice in the broader social context than to commit crimes in order to survive.

If we treated the influx of immigrants from Syria into Europe as "future leaders and workers of a new Europe" instead of "a burden and liability for future generations", then perhaps we'd get a turnaround in the scene. For as long as we continue to project the idea that immigrants and refugees are a 'lower class of society', that is forever where they will stay.

In this, I see an opportunity - if only the governments would get out of the way and make it feasible to put this new work force to productive use. As a business owner, I'm quite happy to help my fellow human beings - and in the case of immigrants and refugees, I couldn't think of anything better than lifting someone out of that band of poverty by paying them to work, and increase their quality of life. Alas, prejudice against the poor keeps them poor.
But you can bring a 6 year old to a Kiwanis club meeting so I wouldn't write it off so quickly. I was in the Kiwanis club in middle school and ran our high school chapter, it was definitely a good organization. I'm not sure it fights the article's definition of a secular group though, it honestly just felt like a charity that organized volunteering efforts pretty frequently. My purpose was 100% to pad my resume for college so I dropped it to the wayside pretty quickly, but in retrospect it was a pretty good organization.
> Because of that, it seems that it's quite difficult to describe sleeping with someone without having sex (and without any intent to) if I believe: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/148323/is-there-a....

There is such a term: to be bedfellows. But the practise is so uncommon these days that many living English speakers only think of it as metaphorical expression.
That's largely meaningless when the default settings are abusive. They know that most users won't be aware of the issues, and will choose "Express Install" rather than looking at the "advanced" options, so MS can still exploit them without their knowledge.
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yes - this is true in India. For most Indians in the west, it is a very harsh learning that the west is a very dont-touch-me culture even between friends.

Interestingly, the anti-gay law in India (Article 377) is an 1860 law that was brought over by the British. Hindu culture is resplendent with gay and transsexual gods. We dont have a deeply religious or cultural basis for an anti-gay law.
Louisswiss, haven`t you thought that today is weekend and maybe administrators of the web site just didn't have time to change this?
My family have adopted a refugee girl. We volunteer to translate for people arriving from our country. We hire immigrants to work in our business, we teach them the language, and we let their kids stay at our house when they need it. All of these things are documented, apart from the free childcare.

Your turn.
Why would I be replaced? I'm still there and just as productive as all my peers?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986132
I am thinking the same thing right now... maybe people will eventually get tired of the privacy invasions and start running an OS that doesn't spy on you
if you describe the real numbers as setoids of Cauchy sequences
with Cauchy-equivalence as the equivalence relation, then there
are uncountably many real numbers.

I start with computable sequences (or — if want — with turing machines), define natural numbers based on them, go to the rational numbers, define real numbers as a setoid of cauchy-sequences (note: all these sequences will be computable by the way we constructed them) of rational numbers, and end up with countably many. So, it depends on what you start your constructive world with. I see no way to start with something uncountable.

You talk about meta-theory and models. I never saw the reason to complicate things with that. Care to elaborate?
Lol. That's actually very true. May not be a downside at all :-)
Finally, an explanation for why all the presidents are atheists.
My 12th grade lit teacher would likely note that we was rather squeezing seamen, and then leap into another lecture on Melville's literary craftiness. Gotta admit, though, it's a legendary pun.
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Honestly, this is getting a bit tiresome.

The world has displayed a lack of interest in privacy with regards to digital systems. Therefore Microsoft has chosen to enable features required for making the computer more personalized by default, but still allow users to opt-out.

Most other vendors don't even give this oppertunity when installing, but can only be done later via some deep-down config change.

If you are paranoid about your data privacy, please just use one of the many privacy focused OS's.
In the end you will always be forced to trust something, or you might as well go off the grid in a third world country. Because thats really the only place complete privacy is realistic.
> Yes, Apple has it's issues.

What's interesting is the ease of which I can replace Microsoft with Apple here.

"From the moment an account is created, Apple begins watching. The company saves customers’ basic information—name, contact details, passwords, demographic data and credit card specifics —but it also digs a bit deeper.

Other information Apple saves includes search queries and conversations with the new digital personal assistant Siri; contents of private communications such as email; websites and apps visited (including features accessed and length of time used); and contents of private folders."

The article makes it clear this isn't just Microsoft:

"“Both Siri and Google Now require access to the user’s personal information to personalise responses, while both Apple and Google offer developers the ability to deliver personalised ads to users based on information such as app installs.”

I guess what this means is if you are earnest in your concern for privacy and security, neither Apple nor Microsoft are in any way possible solutions for you.
You should be ashamed. Accident of birth is a crazy idea. Everyone born in Africa is just an accident? Should they all be transplanted to the EU or USA? EU is already getting close to collapse with USA not far behind. Maybe as the last lights of the west blink out forever, you will understand your ignorance.
Which is where it becomes "inherently immoral".

We have the means to make advertisers shut up without actually silencing them. They're free to advertise to other people still.
Its not justice, and thats the point. Innocent until proven guilty doesn't really seem to apply much to those Dads' who openly love their kids and wish to express that love physically - i.e. hugs, kisses, hand-holding, care. Its a tragic circumstance that a man can't express his love for his kids without having to suffer from social stigma at the hands of those who think they are doing society a favor by propagating the dogma that any man who loves a child must be an offender. I've certainly run into it in my life often enough that I think its really insane that Dads can't love their kids without this threat. I guess it is in some ways similar to the prejudices that the other sexes experience, and maybe fundamentally its sourced from the same conscious/subconscious desire to control the way other people live their lives, regardless of differences/similarities between the relevant parties. If someone wants to hug their kids and openly show affection in the face of social stigma, I think its really the only way out for all of us. Love, above all.
I think the progression is.

Provider: Here use X.
Customers: Nope don't wanna.
Provider: Okay now you have X to use Y. (lol got you)
Customers: Stops using Y.
This is a copy of the original Times article, which was previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224
For normal people. sharing their lives with loved ones is a positive. Creating a social network for antisocial people makes no sense.
We hired the wonderful crew who made this map to design a map of San Francisco for us, they did an unbelievable job: http://theopencompany.net/products/san-francisco-map
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We're not talking about research funding. The comment I replied to referenced NHS placing a monetary value on a single year of life, which directly means that young people are "worth more" than older people.
Other people have different priorities than you do? How "sad".
The WSJ was accidentally too honest about Uber in print
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982005
Nothing stops you from passing a VPN through a TCP connection on port 80 and 443. There are few protocols people haven't tunnelled IP over (DNS included...)
>-How did attitudes change so much that we can no longer accept that someone would like to change an accident of birth?

Citizenship is valuable. It is wealth in the form of economic opportunities, security, stability and all other amnesties afforded to citizens of developed countries. That wealth was built over centuries by the ancestors of the current citizens.

Are you proposing that we should start handing citizenship away for free? That would essentially amount to theft from the current citizens.

The current migrant situation is unfortunate but simply eliminating borders or doing away with citizenship is not the answer.

And I really disagree with the "accident of birth" bit. First of all it was not really an accident. The parents did make a conscious choice however irresponsible it might have been. Secondly all property is pretty much a matter of an "accident of birth" and citizenship is no less valuable than the seven digit inheritance that your parents might leave you.
When did downvoting actually prevent you from seeing or reading "unfavorable" or "heretic" comments here?

Your downvoting won't stop me or any other dissident here from speaking our mind and exposing the hypocrisy or ridiculousness of this type of cheap advertorials here.

Keep downvoting me, it's a badge of honor to wear on my chest :)
From a simple standpoint of energy conservation, it's obvious the observed brightness cannot be infinite; the article questions the brightness value of the sky, not whether it is finite. From conservation of energy, for a homogeneous universe, a region around a star must receive as much energy as it gives out. So the total observed brightness of the sky would sum to the brightness of your own star, approximately (but distributed over a solid angle 4pi).
There's a richest person that dies every time after the last richest person died. The idea that he was the richest person in history sounds very euro-centric.
I don't see one.
I lean as left as there is to go, but reality hits you at some point: There are neighborhoods in Athens where you can't walk at night because of Pakistani gangs. These neighborhoods voted for Golden Dawn because they supported them (by violently removing the Paki-gangs). Of course GD didn't stop at the gangs, they removed everyone who wasn't looking Greek enough.

You can't solve this problem by hosting people. You solve this problem by actively supporting anti-WAR campaings and removing from power parties who made/support wars.

All these Syrian refugees (God help them) who pass through Greece wanna go in central Europe and the UK. They do not intend to stay here (Greece). Some will stuck here, some will pass the borders... These were create by the NATO (Greece is part of the NATO and the UK is a strong member of the NATO).

That's why every time you hear someone talking about "attacking" a country in middle east, you should really think about where all these people will go...
And you are confident that these crimes are not just being reported but are in fact happening at a higher rate among brown people?
> France is openly against Muslims (due to the recent events, Charlie Hedbo, etc.).

What?

There is certainly a growing anti-islamism (political movement who supports using the Qran (Muslim's sacred book) as a social and political framework), and lots of frustrations the infamous binationals from Algeria (holders of french and Algerian citizenships) that decided to massacre people for drawings.

There has been also some shock to see lots of support for Charlie Hebdo's terrorists among muslim communities online. During the aftermath of the event, a hashtag on twitter was among the top of the country (#Che - in Arabic "Che" means "you deserved it").

I would not call France "anti-Muslim", especially when 10% of the population is of Arabic descent, and Muslim. Seriously, the US has barely 1% of its population that is muslim. France has no lessons to receive to anyone concerning how it handles its muslim majority. The cultural pressure is unparalleled.

Disclosure: French expat of Algerian descent - immigrated to France in the 90s.
I'm not defending Microsoft with that, I'm just attacking the cliche. "Being a product" is mostly unrelated to whether you're paying. Companies are jerks.
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Wait till you get a load of the Obfuscated C Contest
> The issue can be mitigated by disabling the WebUI when not on a trusted network (like at home) or behind a NAT device (i.e. not directly reachable over the Internet)... but is not really a solution that will scale well across the user base.

Why? I was under the impression most home users will have a (shitty) wifi router separating the home network from the world. If you can breach this and/or run code on a machine inside the home LAN you are already done. I don't get what's the new threat here.
Type punning by casting through a union is allowed by c99/c11 in that the behavior is unspecified(not undefined) and a footnote clarified the behavior to be the expected.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11639947/is-type-punning-...
I've found that a great deal of these idioms are explained in the excellent book "Advanced C Programming: Deep C Secrets" by Peter van der Linden. Its one of my goto books for when I want to enhance my 30 years of C-programming experience with a little more insight - I've read it multiple times since it was published, and always learn something new. Check it out if you want to dive more deeply into some of these oddities:

http://archive.arstechnica.com/etc/books/deep-c.html
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It's hard to be sure why exactly shared libraries and dynamic linking appeared. Your explanation about reducing file size for smaller HDD and RAM footprint is probably one of the reasons, but I don't believe it's the only one - I don't remember many shared libraries from MSDOS days (where with 2MB of RAM and 40MB of HDD, storage was really scarce). In fact - I don't remember any libraries! To run Doom you just borrowed the floppies from a friend and it would 100% work. The same for Warcraft 1.

I believe it's more similar to Database Normalization from RDBMS world than to anything else. And the most important objective of Database Normalization is considered "Freeing the database of modification anomalies".

My own experience with shared libraries is pretty positive. I have fixed OpenSSL vulnerabilities many times by just updating the OpenSSL library and restarting all services. Compared to my own experience with docker where after waiting for a few weeks I had to change my base images (as nobody was updating them) updating just a single shared library and having the vulnerability fixed is way easier!

This, of course, is true if those who maintain the software you use do care about backwards compatibility (which tends to be true for the "boring" stuff and false for the stuff considered "cool" - looking at you nodejs library developers who break my build at least once a month).
Wow that's incredibly fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
I was raised catholic, so I hear you on instilled neuroses.

I think your parents' success lies in their making the screen a finite/precious resource for you. Whatever their motives, and however inartful they were, it still had the outcome of making you choosy and resourceful. Sure you might be a bit type-a on some things today as a result, but at least you have an idea why that is.

I dunno ... Given how bad most people appear to be at parenting, I'd say on the whole you scored.

Did you wind up with a good paying job? Would you say you are faring better than a majority of your peers? I'd say if you can get out of your 20's debt free, you'll be a model person.
Physical displays of affection among men is more common in cultures where such displays aren't likely to be misinterpreted as sexual in nature. For example, it's common in Saudi Arabia for men to hold hands and even kiss:

https://melaniekillingervowell.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/b...

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/top10/09/362_kiss1.j...
Well, I heard an opinion that the thing is pretty similar with what you said about "Gladiator". Basically, professional sport is business. For it to be profitable it must attract people (basically, to sell tickets, abut perhaps even more importantly — sell adds for higher prices). And to attract people it must entertain them.

All this Ronda-centered marketing stuff (like this whole thread, actually) seems to do her well, but otherwise it's just not interesting to watch a fight that lasts for 15 seconds and ends with submission by the armbar. Every time.
Those are different articles. Your comment is analogous to linking to old Docker article discussions when a new article is posted in order to try to discourage discussion of Docker in general.
"Other people are data-thieves too!" and "We've been stealing data from for a long time" are not justifications for MS's current bad behavior. This isn't about Google, even though they are worse in many ways.

A big part of the problem is the creeping-normalization of these practices, where bad behavior is excused simply because it is common. This is how "big lie" propaganda works, and the apparatchik can always be relied upon to find some excuse for why we should just ignore any problems.
Men and women have different hormones even in just societies.
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Well, if chess round is first and they play fast…
There are some problems, but the large majority of immigrants to Denmark do work. In fact if you include both intra-EU and extra-EU immigrants, the work rates are higher for immigrants than for Danes. Non-EU immigrants and Danes work at almost exactly the same rates (~85%), while intra-EU immigrants work more (90%). From Eurostat: http://i.imgur.com/2vKqI7e.png
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it's a bit tongue in cheek, but many people agree, that's telling
I've lived in a shared house for 7 years. To me, one of the advantage of a shared house is to be with people that are different than you, because you all have different experiences and can share and learn from that.

Of course, it's essential to have a good feeling with the others, but I feel like this is going way too far, with just you ending up with others alike, and no diversity. Granted, that's what they sell : “highly curated community of like-minded individuals.”
I agree with you, but I still down voted your infomercial comment because I felt it was childish and added nothing of value. It has nothing to do with whether I agree or disagree, but the whether the comment adds to the conversation.

Granted, most HN users these days don't follow that rule. They'll down vote purely based on whether they think you are right or wrong. But in this case, your comment didn't contribute anything meaningful. Maybe you thought it did, but as someone who agrees with your sentiment, I felt it didn't and down voted accordingly.
Repo seems to be down or invalid - anyone know where I can find the sources? I'd love to attempt to port this to OSX ..
You just described HN in A nutshell. Looks like I've angered the HN gods it's all the way at the bottom now. One step closer to censorship....
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This is what happens when Facebook hacks Nintendo
Snarking on the internet doesn't make you a dissident.
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Yes, that's the argument I was referring to, and as I said in the comment you're replying to, I don't believe that the cost is worth the benefit.
Ghostery...
Sadly, we sold it before I went off to school.

But I later bought a bright orange '64 Triumph Spitfire ($400!), and spent many interesting hours tweaking the engine (with its infamous twin carburetors), until an unfortunate failure in judgment occurred on the Potrero Grade.

We were able to put the engine into a close friend's Triumph, so it's possible that beautiful little temperamental engine lives on, somewhere.
I want to do something very violent to that person who "hates const with a passion". No wonder he didn't provide his name.
These strange syntaxes are perfect additions for the article "How to write unmaintainable code", which already has a Duff's device example:

switch(count % 8) {
case 0: do{ putchar('0' + (int)j);
case 7: putchar('0' + (int)j);
case 6: putchar('0' + (int)j); /* Unrolled
case 5: putchar('0' + (int)j); * for greater
case 4: putchar('0' + (int)j); * speed.
case 3: putchar('0' + (int)j); */
case 2: putchar('0' + (int)j);
case 1: putchar('0' + (int)j);
} while(--j > 0);

Without syntax highlighting, a passing glance may not recognize cases 3 through 5 are commented out.
Users sitting on gigabit links close to the server make the tradeoffs, and people on a high latency end of a 3G link, or an airport wifi with a weak signal and 50% packet loss need to live with those tradeoffs.
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If you're moving to live in a new country, it seems pretty sensible that you should have to learn the language of your new home.
The way I see it, ridiculous rent is largely (but not solely) thanks to predatory real estate owners and bankers. Given that a place to live is a necessity and that people need to live reasonably close to their workplaces, I think it's worth considering some form of regulation. I don't know what that might be, but it's clear that the system we have doesn't work.
I have a curious lack of interest in games - chess, sports, video games, board games, etc. I think the problem is they do not accomplish anything. There are so many fun things to do that also accomplish something, so I prefer to do them.
Nice. This reminds me of the o.cn isometric maps of cities in China. http://sz.o.cn/