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From this article https://www.imore.com/mac-moving-apple-silicon-not-arm

"First, ARM has two different kinds of licenses. One is for chipset designs. You pay your fee, you take your Cortex cores or whatever, you get them fabbed, and you've got your CPUs.

The other is an ISA license. With that, you get no chip design. None. All you get is the instruction set architecture. You have to roll the actual design yourself.

And that's what Apple's been doing. Making their own custom designs that use the ARM instruction set. For years."


Isn't that what everybody doing Qualcomm, Samsung, huawei ..?


No. They have architectural licenses but they use ARM designs.


Be ready to say good it to a lot of apps.



In Indian Kashmir the minorities were Hindus. They were kicked out by the Islamists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus

Terrorist organizations like ISIS, JEM and ISI took over and now the talk of independence has been missing for a long time. It is all about Islam.


Rebuttal of this propaganda by a noted academic who is a Kashmiri Hindu herself.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NitashaKaul/status/11614847374096...


You can Cherry pick this one and ignore the million others stating the truth.

See here - https://bit.ly/2Z80YRo


Do you think separatists would win an election in Balochistan? (and I don't mean BNP). The situation isn't comparable to Kashmir. Balochistan wasn't one state in 1947 (accession of Kalat is separate case). iamshs is right to be sarcastic.


Well that sure educates me a lot about Kashmir.


You're denying expulsion of Kashmiri Pundits? There is a dedicated Wikipedia page on their exodus: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus


So nobody who is Muslim is ever allowed to have thoughts that aren't communal? They're not allowed to ask for independence as human beings? My God, is this what you all would have done to Cabinet Mission Plan?


Well at least you can sell a bitcoin.


Maybe MS Android? That will make more sense.


MS version of Fuchsia is far more likely.


> Surely with half a million employees you have at least one person on lightbulbs.

Or you can just ask Alexa to turn the lights.


Sounds like an inside job.


It would be ironic if some third-party connected to Apple tested iOS 11 and used Internet Explorer to download the release which causes the visited URL to be indexed by Bing. Maybe the download URL pops up in Bing if you find the right keywords.


These search engines... I do not think you understand how they work :-)

Bing doesn't index and then serve URLs you visit in your browser, even IE.


I can’t find the recent news article but this story[1] is the same in essence: Bing starts indexing web pages it impossibly can know about unless some Microsoft software sends visited URLs to Bing. In the news I remembered it caused some sensitive leaks because company secrets, only obscured by unguessable URLs, were suddenly listed on Bing.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/bing_websearc...


Are you sure? From https://blogs.bing.com/search/2011/02/02/setting-the-record-... (context: Google did a sting operation by faking search results for made up terms, Bing ended up showing the same results):

"We do look at anonymous click stream data as one of more than a thousand inputs into our ranking algorithm. We learn from our customers as they traverse the web, a common practice in helping to improve a wide array of online services. We have been clear about this for a couple of years (see Directions on Microsoft report, June 15, 2009)."

And from here: http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...

> Indeed, the statement that Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, emailed me yesterday as I worked on this article seems to confirm the allegation: As you might imagine, we use multiple signals and approaches when we think about ranking... Opt-in programs like the [Bing] toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites.

Also (same link): > Microsoft does disclose that Suggested Sites collects information about sites you visit. From the privacy policy: When Suggested Sites is turned on, the addresses of websites you visit are sent to Microsoft, together with standard computer information. To help protect your privacy, the information is encrypted when sent to Microsoft. Information associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered in forms might be included."

And (refering to Bing toolbar): > The install page highlights some of what will be collected and how it will be used: improve your online experience with personalized content by allowing us to collect additional information about your system configuration, the searches you do, websites you visit, and how you use our software. We will also use this information to help improve our products and services."

From the same article (at the time, in 2011) Google deny using their services to index search results, FWIW. But AFAIK Microsoft never made such a clear denial - do you have a reason to be so confident in your claim?

There's also this followup: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...

> Bing says it does NOT do this. It says there is no Google specific search signal that it being used, no list of all the popular pages as selected just by Google users. Instead, it has a “search signal” based on searching activity observed across a range of sites. For example, if you did a search on Amazon, Bing might detect that. A search on eBay might get spotted. A search on Yahoo, that also might get extracted. Any number of searches might be identified. Bing would associate the next page you went to after doing those searches as being a possible “answer” to those searches.

> “We aggregate the information,” Shum said. “The entire clickstream gets weighted along with different signals,” he explained. “For head queries, we have more signals. For tail queries, we have less. For the Google ‘synthetic’ queries [done for the Google sting operation], we have nothing.”

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So Bing seem to, as a ranking signal, capture URLs that look like searches, and then the next page - which is pretty clever. If that next page is not already indexed (or alternatively perhaps if they have no other ranking signals for the search they spotted) they seem to index that site as part of ranking that signal. And that was 2011, who knows how much cleverer Google and Bing have got since then.


That's one possibility. I've also seen suggestions on Twitter it might've been from a carrier who is doing some sort of final testing.


Yes. Here's what Pakistan daily Dawn has to say

"As many as seven passengers aboard the Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on Jan 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers in a serious breach of air safety regulations."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1316682/pia-probing-safety-breach-...


Did they also stand during takeoff and landing?

Doesn't sound believable...


They did so because it was hard to do P2P for Skype on phones.


I figured that was just a figleaf and that the real reason was that this made it easier to intercept the traffic.


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