skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Facebook is that it's trying to invent problems for its solution. It has been my observation that the limited internet accessibility in India is less because of people not being able to afford it (internet is quite cheap, and definitely affordable for anybody who can afford to have a phone capable enough for modern web) but because there is a huge barrier to internet literacy. Most people aren't online because they do not know the benefits of email, search or social networks. And even if they do know the benefits, there's a barrier to learning it. I have many relatives in my family who are well to do but don't know how to use the browser properly. At the same time, a lot of people in the lower income classes don't feel the internet is important enough to invest in the resource to access it, eg web capable phones. Free basics will not provide that section of people any kind of benefit, because it doesn't lower any of those barriers.
There are also:

India
Georgia
Jordan

I'd guess they are all as common or more common than Chad.
This is a good opportunity for us to be positive and to list up-to-date resources that clearly list laptops that work on Linux, or what to look for, what models are good and not-so-good, what is Free and mostly-Free, etc, etc. I am looking for a "mostly-Free", modern Gnu/Linux laptop that I can purchase either new or recently second hand but am having a terrible time trying to figure it all out.
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Until the speed of light starts increasing, latency will always be an issue for thin clients.

Fun experiment: Try ssh-ing into a web host or a school account. Peruse a few directories and open a few files in VI. Type in a paragraph of text. Now try the same on your local machine's terminal and compare the responsiveness!
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Why is this an issue with Obama? I understand he allowed a tax cut to expire that raised the top tax bracket, but it sounds like the issue you're having is more with California?

Also, productive <> those that make the most money. Having worked on Wall Street, I know an entire class of mutual fund managers that I would argue are negative value to society given that they've underperformed their index benchmark for years yet are making millions of dollars a year for their active management "service".
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Very likely larger amounts of binary data linked in your program should better be "read only data", and hence be put in the ".rodata" section. From the objcopy manpage:

objcopy -I binary -O <output_format> -B <architecture> \
--rename-section .data=.rodata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents \
<input_binary_file> <output_object_file>

I had made a short demo of this technique quite a few years ago, but regretably hadn't included the .rodata thing: https://github.com/vogelchr/objcopy_to_carray, so if you want to check this out with minimal effort, have fun with it ;-).

[optiplex /home/chris/objcopy_to_carray (master)]
$ make
cc -Wall -Wextra -ggdb -Os -c -o testme.o testme.c
objcopy -I binary -O elf64-x86-64 -B i386:x86-64 \
--rename-section .data=.rodata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents \
/etc/passwd passwd.o || (rm -f passwd.o ; exit 1)
cc testme.o passwd.o -o testme
[optiplex /home/chris/objcopy_to_carray (master)]
$ ./testme
Dumping /etc/passwd, in memory @0x4006a4, size is 1701.
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/false
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/false
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
We're going to investigate ourselves, and figure out what happened.

We need to avoid a "We did it, Reddit!" situation, but if we proceed calmly and without frothing mob mentality, we can make a positive impact by finding out the truth.
Don't get it. There are still different businesses doing more or less the same thing. Just the media tells the story about the big players. Small profitable companies are still surviving in the current market.

As an example: Amazon is everything in retail. Well, there is a thriving company in Belgium called coolblue.be There is also a Dutch company called bol.com. For every of those great news stories there are profitable small businesses making money. You just don't see them. To be honest that's ok.

Most of those companies didn't need to shut down if they used money sensibly and were not only dedicated to growth. But off course that's what VC money makes you do.
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I think JetSetWilly is suggesting that it is even less likely that a Scot will become PM any time in next couple of decades than it was before. Which seems reasonable.

Edit: The self destruction of Labour in Scotland has pretty much guaranteed this.
Thanks for the link, this is one of the best talks I've watched in a long time.

EDIT: WTH, some random woman out the audience accuses his talk of been racist, this is a guy who travelled into an ebola zone, used local programmers, helped bootstrap an ERP/SMS payments system during one of the worst ebole outbreaks in history in less than 6 weeks and is continuing to work with the locals to ensure the system stays in place...and she accuses him of been racist, ffs!
"IMHO X11 needs to be replaced as fast as possible."

X11 has very little to do with any of your complaints.
I've talked with Robert at some length and listened to his talk on LFE, and that's more or less the way of it, plus Robert himself was an old Lisp buff from way back (hence Lisp-flavored Erlang). It was basically a combination of "this is what we need to do what we want" and occasionally bits of "well of course you do it that way".

That was actually how he described tail call elimination in his LFE talk: "of course you have TCE/O, why the hell wouldn't you?"

Which was a refreshing perspective to me, considering how many programmers still seem to have been heavily indoctrinated to the idea that recursion is automatically bad.
There actually IS a way to exercise after you leave without laying out cash + tax dollars today. Consider esofund.com, its a fund that will pay your exercise price and tax liability for a proportion of your upside in a good financial outcome. If it doesn't work out, well at least you didn't throw away your own cash. They're basically a vc that takes common stock in companies by getting rights to employee shares.
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Its very easy to ask others to sacrifice themselves fir your own good. Different to be willing to do it yourself. While I agree hive mind values should be considered above the individual, Its far easier said than done.

But from what i understand, the nsa chooses to train individuals in part based on psychological aspects. I wish i could find where i read that
Not everywhere. Schooling is totally state-dependant.

And maybe the fiercest and bitterest war waged in state politics over the last decades were about school systems.

In Hamburg there are mostly comprehensive schools. In the largest state, Northrhine-Westphalia, there are still those separate tiers, but comprehensive schools are probably the majority.
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On the 8th ISP and Carrier Lunch in Frankfurt 2013, I heard a talk from CompassEOS thematizing optical processing chips for a new Generation of routers. In my opionion It's kind of click baiting to talk about the "first" processor utilizing light to improve connection speed when I had similiar technology already in my hands back in 2013.
As for the public/private debate, at least for schools, I can some points. Indian school system is very different from the US ones. Majority of the schools, both public and private follow curriculum set by either two central boards (CBSE and CISCE) or the individual state boards. In either case, the level of education based on the curriculum is not very different between public and private schools. So many students are now enrolled in private schools solely because the public schools have highly inefficient management with teachers hardly qualified enough to teach to them not turning up at all.

The case is entirely opposite in higher education. People swear by public institutes and universities and private institutes (barring a few big ones) are looked down upon because they have historically charged more for a lesser education compared to the highly subsidized and excellently staffed public universities.
After couple of thousands of years LHC would be viewed the same way we consider Egyptian Pyramids today.

Back then Egyptians were sure that everything they do makes a perfect sense - the height and shape of structures are in accordance with the opinion of the most knowledgable and authoritative experts, writings on the walls are perfectly correct and verified many times, etc.
At this point we have to start distinguishing between the political entities and the people.

English dominated Scotland

Apart from the ban on Gaelic and Highland dress for a while, and the Highland Clearances? The latter are not entirely simple, as plenty of the landowners in question were also Scottish. If I may paste a paragraph from Wikipedia:

<blockquote>

With the development of pseudoscientific racist ideas from about 1850, the Clearances were at times supported by belief that the Celtic "race" was inferior to the Anglo Saxon "race".[31] George Combe's popular and influential The Constitution of Man, published in 1828, provided a framework which would be used by some to support theories of racial superiority[citation needed]. In 1850 Robert Knox published The Races of Men which asserted the inferiority of the Celt compared to the Anglo Saxon and Nordic races[citation needed].

The view that the economic failures of the Highlands were due to the shortcomings of the Celtic race was shared and expressed by the two most important Scottish newspapers, The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald – and even the more northerly Inverness Courier.[31]

In 1851 The Scotsman wrote that

“Collective emigration is, therefore, the removal of a diseased and damaged part of our population. It is a relief to the rest of the population to be rid of this part."

Similar views were held by senior public officials. Sir Charles Trevelyan was co-founder with Sir John McNeill of the Highland and Island Emigration Society.
</blockquote>

These days we'd call it ethnic cleansing. Trevelyan was Cornish. McNeill was Scottish.

Perhaps the Scots played such an important role in Empire as they had nowhere else to go?
It's difficult to compare as for optical you have to add the power usage of the laser itself and for the electrical chips you may need repeaters (as stated in the article) depending on the length and bandwith used.
Market forces are slow in some markets. It's very hard to get started in the telecom industry in india, so you pave the way for an oppressive ologopoly instead. There's no reason to believe that Romania's telecom industry and market is comparable to that of India.
Yes, except when you have to select something in between the time you copy & paste, e.g. change focus to the URL bar of a browser. Then ctrl-C is your friend, and works everywhere except the terminal.

But the terminal is a special case when it comes to copy/paste and always will be a little weird on any platform. Especially when it comes to line-wrapping in full-terminal applications like vi.
You're forgetting "opiates from engineered yeast". Not quite landing a booster rocket, grappling a comet, or scoring a flyby of Pluto but among biotech types it was kind of a big scientific deal in '15.
It would be kind of like saying Google is offering Gmail for free for charity reasons. I think most people would immediately shot down that argument as well.
I could add:

Scotland: We tried to have an Empire of our own, but failed.

Amusingly, the organisation that was setup to administer the English bailout of the Scottish Darien colony scheme (one of the main benefits to Scots of the Union) went onto to become RBS which itself required a vast bailout a few centuries later...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
You can resize the input box, that goes a long way towards keeping an overview over what you wrote for larger comments. Hover over the lower right hand corner of the edge of the box, then a resize mouse pointer should appear.
Probably that's why the new app sucks... just like it's predecessor.
Thanks! However, http://www.amazon.com/forum/-/Tx18X5FNV15HHU8/ref=ask_dp_dpm... it looks like this does not come with a low profile bracket. And, are two antennas ... enough? Just my 6300 in my laptop have three.
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StartupWeekend Baghdad again and again
A head injury or intoxication could have been the cause of the way he was writing, but it's too early to know yet.

IMHO, we need to find out exact timelines before jumping to conclusions.

It is well known that Ian was very PC, so using racial slurs would have been out of character. Could these tweets have been made during his incarceration by a third party? I think this needs to be ruled out.
I wouldn't even be able to list every trip I've done abroad for the past 10 years. I'd probably forget to mention half of them, which no doubt would trigger a whole pile of nasty sanctions for lying on an application. In some places that might even be reason to detain you.
I don't know. When the flight is 12 hours, 45 minutes on either side isn't such a big deal. I did get stuck in a 4 hour immigration line at Heathrow once...I'll just avoid the UK from now on.
Crooks, or dumber than a baked potato. Either way, run fast and far.
Do they have to be? They can be smart enough to rationally weigh the pros and cons here.

Really, there aren't any pros of Free Basics when you take into account the fact that a similar, net neutral business model can and has been implemented (by Aircel). The details are different (data cap or speed cap instead of walled garden), but the business model is the same -- get people to start using the internet for free in a limited way, and some of them will come to the non-free services. But net neutral. You can basically take Facebook and the walled garden completely out of the picture and it would probably have similar efficacy.

Why can Facebook and Zuckerberg support free basics -- when they're not even from India, but these smart Indians cannot oppose it because they're not the target audience?
The €12,61 I mentioned is the Flexi-Pack charge (just without VAT). There are no other costs apart from a one off charge of ~€25 to install a switch.
What is the purpose of not sunsetting this app on the desktop? Twitter already owns Tweetdeck which seems like a major overlap.

https://about.twitter.com/products/tweetdeck

After all Twitter only list their IOS/Android apps and Tweetdeck in the footer on their about pages.
Data of Dependencies
Hello people,

Recently, a very large [python library](https://github.com/networkx/networkx) had an issue opened about creating the `requirements.txt` for it. It was not very easy for people involved to write down an exhaustive list. Hence, I thought of writing something which could do the job. See [here](http://apps.himanshumishra.in/depends/). It simply crawls every module and digs out the imports from places and generates a dictionary of builtin and non-builtin modules. I wonder what more can be done with these data of dependencies if we have them in large number? I am very eager to discuss it here.
> What's wrong with copying part of an API? You yourself admitting that I can do whatever I want with OpenJDK, including copying only part of it. I can then use this copy to make a product that turns a profit.

Absolutely, as long as you comply with the open source license, which is plain GPL in this case (just like Linux). Google didn't -- until today -- as they released Android under the Apache license rather than the GPL license. They always had the option of going GPL -- in which case Oracle would have not come after them -- but they didn't want to[1].

> If Oracle will sue me to this practice, then Google, not Oracle, is on the right side here.

Google did not comply with the license (either license, actually). Their legal claim was that they don't need to comply with any license, because if APIs aren't copyrighted, then they're not Oracle's to give (i.e. to license). That legal claim, too, is perfectly reasonable (as is its opposite), but it seems clear to me that it was Google who was at least ethically, if not legally, wrong in this case.

In any event, Java is also licensed with a standard open-source license (through OpenJDK), that you can use -- wholly or partially -- for any purpose whatsoever; Oracle has never sued anyone for using its code or APIs in this way for whatever purpose.

---

[1]: Which is why people in the free software community, even though they believed copyright shouldn't apply to APIs, were pissed off at Google for going to great lengths (and basically asking for this lawsuit) all in order to avoid the GPL option, which has been open to them all along.

For example, here is what the FSF had to say in 2010 on the matter (they were against Oracle's lawsuit because one of Oracle's tactics was to claim software patent infringement, which the FSF is against, as am I):

"Oracle's lawsuit threatens to undo all the good will that has been built up in the years since... Unfortunately, Google didn't seem particularly concerned about this problem until after the suit was filed. The company still has not taken any clear position or action against software patents. And they could have avoided all this by building Android on top of IcedTea [an early OpenJDK distribution], a GPL-covered Java implementation based on Sun's original code, instead of an independent implementation under the Apache License... It's sad to see that Google apparently shunned those protections in order to make proprietary software development easier on Android." (emphasis mine. Source: https://www.fsf.org/news/oracle-v-google)

I will add that while Oracle has treated some of its acquired open-source projects abominably -- e.g. OpenSolaris :( -- it has been very good to OpenJDK (more than Sun), so much so that virtually all development on the runtime at Oracle is done on OpenJDK these days. Also, Oracle still maintains more open source software than Google (and possibly any other company save for RedHat), but I'm not too hopeful about its future treatment. However, OpenJDK is now way too big for Oracle to ruin even if they tried.
I'll add that by segregating read-only and writeable data, you allow the virtual memory system to efficiently share a single copy of the read-only data among all processes loading it.
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But you can say the same of any free service. What about free news website, free email services, etc? They all could (and do) drive competition out of business. But they provide a service which is just good enough for most people. And if people want something better they will pay a premium for it (like access to The Economist website).

I am sure that most Indians who have the means to pay for broadband will not want to be restricted to that facebook service. In fact the more restrictive facebook makes it, the more likely it will not prevent competition.
Seriously, the more you earn the more taxes you should pay. If you think the US is bad then look at the UK. I call BS on higher earners paying taxes in the US where the top earners also have the biggest tax loop holes. I probably pay more taxes on my 25k a year than you ever have. Yep, that is right 25k a year with a teenager, by myself. So please go on with your first world problems.
> I'm always a bit shocked when I reboot and I'm back at my desktop in under 30 seconds.

30 seconds? That's still a lot of time. Debian Linux starts within 7s on a dual core 2GHz with SSD.
> Does anyone know what we have now?

I can't quote exact figures but to give a ballpark figure, we're talking about ~5 picojoules per bit at a distance of less than 10 millimeters. This is on a modern (20 nm) SoC.

So we're talking about a pretty significant improvement in power consumption and communication distances. A modern chip running at 2-4 GHz requires several clock cycles for a bit to reach from one corner of the silicon to another. It's becoming a major hurdle to think about when designing chips.
We (Indians) already suffer a lot due to free things provided by government. (Laptop, Cycle, Bus Pass, for students, TV, Mixie, Fan for household) all in public money but labeled as the party that is in power. Now a private company starting this, tomorrow what stop Reliance doing this where they encourage to buy from thier stores across India. Or send Ads of particular party for vote with higher preference? TV and News is already fully controlled by mafia parties. Now internet and next text with whatsapp i think.
"obligated to act in the best interest of shareholders".
Obligated how specifically?

Also, all shareholders, or the majority?
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I'm a debian stable user. KDE5 will come to me when it does. Anyway, I'm truly sceptical of KDE's trajectory now I've been burned a bit (and I'm saying this as a sort-of former "KDE person"). It seems like a lot of focus & motivation was lost around the time of the mobile/tablet/vivaldi distraction nonsense.

My main problem with kmail2 is that it feels like POP3/local mail support & local filtering is a (very broken) afterthought, and while being able to do everything on IMAP would be lovely, some of us are stuck on POP3 mail for a little longer...
WebSockets are a tool like any other and as usual, picking the wrong tool for the job is a great way to shoot yourself in the foot. Agree with the author that they aren't suited to replace HTTP but I don't see the need for this apocalyptic tone. WebSockets have been available in many tech stacks for a while now and we don't see much abuse. Developers disciplined enough to stick to Rails don't seem overly prone to jump on the new shiny toy without thinking.

Web Sockets are great to bring some of the more heavy duty apps from Desktop/TCP to the web. PubNub, Pusher and the likes show it is possible to achieve reasonable scale.
But it's not much of a monopoly and though I'm not American I'd have no problem with the Chinese government giving me the option of say free commie propaganda basics. I probably wouldn't use if but it would be fine to have the option.
Yes but then there is that percentage 8 to 10% he owns in large banks which means he will have say in what banks do atleast unofficially.
*> Voters do not have much incentive to make informed votes since the expected impact of their vote is very small.

True. This is called learned helplessness. But people can also learn autonomy, emancipation instead, given the possibility to make an impact.

I'm not pretending that people are "astute and informed", they aren't; but they're definitely able to become so.
> Former Windows 7, now an "unfucked" Windows 10 Enterprise.

Congratulations ;-)

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2956574/microsoft-subnet...

> IMHO X11 needs to be replaced as fast as possible.

Why? If you don't like X11 you can switch to Wayland right now. I am content with X11 for many years.
Same for me. I rather travel by train/bus instead of feeling like a fucking terrorist every time I want to board a flight.

Also, the time saving on national flights is negligible. For example, Munich to Hamburg takes 6 hours via train and 1.5 hours via airplane. Then add transport from Munich Hauptbahnhof to the airport (45min if you're lucky), and from Hamburg Airport to Hauptbahnhof (25min). Another 45min for security controls, checkin, boarding, baggage retrieval... 3.5h minimum. And you don't have (fast) Wifi or 230V on the plane, and it's cramped.

Only upside of taking an airplane: no. fucking. loud. kids. (because parents do manage to keep their kids under control on a plane, in contrast to a train)
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