skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's possible, but not with current CPU from Intel or AMD.

Researched this recently after stumbling upon Librem 15:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15

Librem 15 sounded too good to be true, and reached the conclusion that it is. Chatted with coreboot devs on IRC and read this article:
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...

Gluglug is probably the best option right now:
http://shop.gluglug.org.uk

Here's an email (March 2015) from Gluglug responding to some of my questions:

Hi Duncan,

>
> 1) Libreboot X200 w/ 8Gb RAM and 120GB SSD is spec'd as CPU P8400
> or higher. Would it be possible to receive a X200 with T9600
> (2.8Ghz) at this price?

T9600 isn't available on X200. If you are in the EU, you can send your
own X200 for flashing if you like.

"Or higher" means that I can send one with any CPU. Most of my X200
laptops (and most of what you will find online) have the P8400.

> 2) The X200 page mentions inclusion of ProteanOS. Is this available
> now? If not, could you give me a rough estimate of when it will be
> available?
>

There is no ETA, but it will be available some time this year, as a
kernel and initramfs file which will go into the libreboot ROM images
and be bootable from the GRUB payload.

> 3) How does one update libreboot when it's already installed? Is
> this something that can be done from within the operating system,
> or does one need to open up the computer and flash via beagle board
> or similar?
>

No disassembly or external hardware needed. You can update it in software.

> 4) The list of supported hardware on the libreboot website is
> limited to older laptops with low display resolutions. Would it be
> possible to utilize libreboot on more recent hardware? If not, what
> is the limitation? Chipset? It would be amazing to run libreboot
> with a more modern CPU...i5, i7, etc.
>

Those newer Intel systems will likely never be freed, due to the
management engine (ME). The ME was removed on GM45 (X200 uses this),
but it is a lot harder on later platforms.

At present, the plan is to now focus exclusively on AMD and ARM for
newer hardware platforms in libreboot.
I think this is correct. I remember using a version of this as you described, in primary school (it may have been simpler, my memory is quite fuzzy).

I'm 27 years old from West Africa.
Did you seriously call MPEG "flavor-of-the-decade"?

Are you aware that probably 1 billion TV's can decode it? If there is ever a codec that can be called a "forever codec" it's MPEG. (MPEG-2 to be specific.)

H.264 support is not far behind.

It's only getting easier, not harder, to support every video format ever made.
Zappos had managers for over a decade before recently starting an experiment to go manager-free.

Medium is a tiny company.

Valve...had some interesting claims surface when their structure was discussed here. Such as a shadow management structure.
Not true. The reason these class names are so long is that they explain in great detail what the class does.
Because once they were the most skilled people and now the market is paying higher wages so either you do too or you don't get to hire managers who can work anywhere else.
As someone who live in Melbourne (Australia) and is considering moving my family to a rural location for cleaner air for 10 years or so after the first child is born, I am unable to comprehend someone taking their child to live in one of the most polluted cities. Even if he (and his wife) did not think it through beforehand, the hospitalisation should have been a huge wakeup call.
I guess it might depend which features of lombok you use. Lombok vals don't comply with the Java language spec so you might have issues there (as so many other tools e.g. IntelliJ). Friends don't let friends use Lombok...
Interesting. Thanks for sharing a bit about your situation.
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You can use the canvas API for pixel level drawing, I'm not sure what's your problem with that:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/...
> So do you propose to make the separation of content and behaviour go away? Because that is one of the key features of the HTML+CSS+JS structure.

No, only thing that goes away the cognitive burden of keeping in mind the original HTML, CSS and the JS representation/modifications of HTML and the interaction of all three.

As many websites are currently designed, content if often loaded and inserted into the HTML by JS. The separation of concerns enforced by this system is extremely blurry.

You could also tell the interpreter to not evaluate macros and just display the content as is.

> As a developer, I love to know what I am currently working on. In HTML, I define the structure of the content. In CSS, I define how it looks. In JS I define the behaviour. Lovely.

You can do all three in the same language and still maintain separation of concerns, like is done in most other languages and with native apps.

> As a user, much of the time I browse the web without JavaScript. Because I am only interested in the content. Not in popups that beg me to join newsletters, animated things that make the page more "fun" or ads that try to grab my attention. Also I often disable the pages stylesheet so I get a nicely readable big font with good contrast to the background.

Again, you could tell the interpreter to ignore style elements, or write a reader macro to do it yourself. That is the beauty of lisp :)
>Google's core business is searching & indexing the web

Google's core business is selling ads. Android doesn't cannibalize that, it extends their dominance in ads to mobile.

It ain't like people have stopped googling things on their phones now that they have apps, either.
That sounds like a much better idea. Views might be significantly less, but conversion rates might go up. You no longer annoy people and it is much more like a regular banner ad: it never blocks the main content.

But you would expect they tried everything and the current ads are the ones that work best. Which is a bit disturbing (and the base for my earlier question).
Their book business has not been their core business for more than a decade.

Nonetheless, I suppose cannibalizing their ex-core business is pretty exceptional.
I think you are confusing the intimate privacy of individuals and business secrecy.

Privacy is about talking without restraint, giving an opinion you might be scared to tell in front of some people you don't trust entirely.

For example, I recently had a one year class with a teacher, and the students really hated how detached the teacher was. They tried to tell him several times in nice manners, but he could not hear it, so they gave up. It was excruciating for them. They were fending for themselves while they was equipment, a nice room, and everyone was coming, but the teacher was so uninvolved in teaching and helping it was depressing.

When a executive came to listen and write a take our opinions about the school program, the teacher could not be here, and it really made a difference, because they would not have spoken if he was there. This is privacy. You must be able to talk without fears.

There are things that must be public, and other that must not. Feedback and opinions must be constantly made possible without fear of arguments, bad blood, firing, etc.

I agree that corporate privacy/secrecy should not exist, and that there are many things like accounting that should be made public since there is no intimacy. There are many laws that make a difference between the intimate privacy of individuals and financial secrecy.
Stripe is an example of a company that prided itself on a manager-less structure, but then converted to having management.
I don't think I can argue much with nationalism. India has had nearly 70 years now without colonialism

I think you may find a large proportion of grandparents who will say the positive developments aren't anywhere to be found. Though there have been some nice things going on like having no one rule & no one to opress.

From my point of view, better the British than the Mughals.

If you're a keen scholar of history you may also find that if it were not for the British India would be many many small countries today.

I'm not sure if that counts but it would have had a different sort of destruction this way, perhaps it may have turned out better. Would you say secessionist states today are good for India?
But what are emails if not documents? Social media is just fancy document sharing.
> there sure as hell is no such thing as an advantage based on UI

I agree with the first part of your post, but... I have quit all kinds of services for a competitor because of a shitty UI. Now that being said, I think having (and not being able to escape) a shitty UI is symptomatic of more intrinsic problems. But there is a business advantage.
This is on about the same rhetorical level as "Why do you kids like Apple Jacks when they don't taste like apples?"
Type 3 covers the Nazi occupation of France, so...
I'd add to this: a book is an example of a sophisticated technology that has become invisible as we are familiar with it. Looking at aspects of the history of the book may help us see how to develop the technology I'm using to write this and that you are using to read this so that it disappears in the same way as the book.

Some would argue that direct manipulation interfaces on mobile phones are already part of the way there.
Java applets and Silverlight were attempts on this idea but both failed quite miserably. Not necessarily because the idea itself was bad, in the Java case the execution was bad and the .net case came in a time where moving away from flash was the latest trend and the fear of proprietary lockin from MS too high.
That is why we invented this: http://www.faqs.org/bs/ad.iphone.php?r=%2Fpatents%2Fapp%2F20...

Bitcoin has solved distributed money. But distributed social networking is still a hard problem to solve. That's why people take what they can get. They host their own blogs with Wordpress, the web is distributed, but social networks are all centralized silos!

But soon that will change. When http://platform.qbix.com hits 2.0 :)
No it is not nearly as nice as Haskell. It is however usable in contexts where Haskell will get people killed and on embedded devices where you can reasonably afford the Haskel overhead.

Also I haven't seen design by contract as enforced by the compiler in Haskell yet (not this is different from testing).
It's way more complex than that.

> Wouldn't this sort of thing be coming out of the NSA's budget anyway?

In the grand scheme of things, yeah. NSA was spending $250M to undermine cryptography [0]... fucking rats.

But back when all of this was happening, I suspect that NIST actually was the one paying NSA. Reminisce back to when we all assumed that NSA weren't bad actors, do you think that NSA would be able to politically explain funding a partnership with NIST?

Consider that the entire point of spending tax payer money on NIST is that they do research into standards. How could NSA explain to NIST that they randomly feel like spending money from their own budget to help them out? I could be wrong, it's hard to find information on who NIST contracts with, but I think it'd be a very odd situation for NSA to have paid NIST for the opportunity to do their job for them.

The normal operation of NIST is that they give money to consultants in exchange for working on standards, it's unlikely to think it would be the other way around.

> NSA can just claim they are helping to strengthen encryption... in fact that's probably exactly what they did when they first introduced DUAL_EC_DRBG to NIST in the first place.

Nope. NIST was consulting with both NSA and RSA, figuring that they were getting unique opinions from both. Behind the scenes, though, NSA paid RSA $10M to begin using DUAL_EC_DRBG in a few of their products, which is kind of unprecedented because RSA sells a lot to government and NIST approval is required by software used by government. NSA then turned around and pointed at the fact that RSA was already using it, bolstering the argument they'd been trying to make to NIST the whole time. NIST then put it in.

So while Massie's bill doesn't stop NIST from being infiltrated by NSA via NIST contractors, it does stop NIST and NSA from directly consulting and that's a step in the right direction.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...

[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rs...
What are you on about? Did you fail to notice the past few centuries of republicanism?
I don't think there's been a better fashion subculture than the hippies.
Apparently the xs4all QuakeWorld server finally died at the end of last year: http://www.quakeworld.nu/news/920/xs4all-down .
>The far-right consists of anti-immigration people. That's not far-right. That was a normal centre-right opinion just a few decades ago. It's definitely not Fascism despite the implication.

I think Golden Dawn waving Swastikas around counts as fascism, even if some of the other right-wing parties in Europe are more tiptoeing around it.

I honestly doubt real fascism will make any great gains until the financial elites feel their masters of the universe positions threatened, at which point some of them will throw their lot (and considerable wealth) in with the far right and ramp up the rhetoric and the violence. That's when things are going to get scary real fast.

We're not there yet, but the potential is growing very quickly. The fusion of a lot of cash, a paranoid elite and a bunch of terminally unemployed very pissed off young people is explosive.

>The far-left consists of people wanting to protect their government pension funds, green activists and people who do not like meddling by the likes of the IMF and WB. That's not far-left either. They definitely aren't communists.

There are communists in Europe, but yes, what is designated far left by the media these days is pathetically middle of the road by historical standards. Syriza's a mildly lefty damp squib.

>It's ridiculous how the media portrays these mostly sane political opinions as extremes held only by extremists.

Of course.

That said, left/right/far left/far right are all relative terms.
It's said Chicken Tikka Masala is actually the most popular dish in the UK, well knocked off the very top but its still up there.

Mathematics, Jewellery, Ideas on Governance, A strong work ethic, Missiles & Weaponry (yup)... There are loads of other things. I think the tone of your question suggests one shouldn't bother to bring this out too much as it will not change your ideas.
Yes, really. (facepalm)

Don't worry, I'm working on them. One argument is usually quite popular: Stories where policemen are caught using such tools to track their ex. Funny enough they're not generally afraid that police might be corrupted.
Why someone would use this language for a real project is beyond me.
Two Convicted Murderers Escape New York Prison
the penmenship is still considered as a central part of primary education in many asian countries, notably in japan, south/south-east asia, I think in china and korea too.
It is sickening to see people boasting of the beauty of civilized Singapore and shaming the poor laborers, the ones who make the city beautiful and are massively underpaid for their effort.
Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you? (2011)
What Exactly Are SQL Views?
Industrial pollution is less dirty than residential pollution?
Expanding my earlier response.

I've got a few goals here, at varying levels of meta.

One is to simply get inputs from people on what their perceptions (and rationales) for "big problems" are. I'll try to summarize those.

One is to provide a reference check for my own views and models of the space. I've had a few suggestions which expand, or possibly challenge, the framework I've been using, though generally modestly.

I'm curious as to the expressed and implied views of what makes for challenges, and the dynamics driving them. Again, I've been forming my own framework for this, though I'm trying to leave that out of this process to the extent I can.

At a meta level, finding the most productive forum(s) in which I can ask questions and receive responses is another element. Though that itself suggests another Big Problem: Where can people intelligently discuss Big Problems....

To be further expanded at the subreddit mentioned previously.
Darpa robotics challenge won by South Koreans
A fully decentralized blogging platform has been created
Show HN: Supycache – Simple yet capable caching decorator for Python
According to the site though the app is only live in Seattle.
A good set.

On social inequality and mobility: this has been suggested by quite a few respondants (I'm inquiring in multiple forums). I'd like to ask you, and others:

Why do you feel this is a problem? What are the consequences?

Actually, a "5 Whys" approach is strongly encouraged.

(That applies generally to _all_ of what are considered problems.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

Also, as a "space pessimist": what do you see as the benefits of interplanetary or interstellar space colonization?
What does smog have to do with Hinduphobia?
I found it troubling as well - but do you personally live in the absolutely best place in the entire world to live? The least pollution, the least crime, the highest life expectancy?

Or do you accept someplace not as good?

Sometimes things seem "good enough".
Can someone that reads Norwegian verify this? I haven't found a lot of material in English.
it's exactly why education, especially primary schools etc. are financed by the government in a lot of countries, because educating the mass is not profitable.
I don't think they actually have any need for the study.

They were just making a point of how bad the air is.
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> Did India ever try to implement a one child policy like in China? It may seem drastic

Drastic doesn't even begin to cover it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-U_Pq80OA

If you can't watch the whole thing, at least watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gAkzDSzvg#t=413

The amount of misery this policy is creating is unreal. No country should EVER try this.
The linked article shows that open defecation does happen when people have access to free indor loos.
Nation \neq Civilization.

If I were a fish, I'd want not to be eaten. I don't care two bits whether I'm fried in margarine or in butter (to paraphrase Nehru).

Enough said.
> much more readable.

I think this is more of a side-effect of familiarity rather than any inherent differences in readability between the two forms.

Lisps do tend to look foreign to most people because their first languages usually have C-like syntax, and Lisp vs C is a much more dramatic difference than say Python vs C.

Being able to write code that also happens to be valid data structures has some very tangible benefits though.

For instance, in the HTML example, you can replace the strings or keywords in it with variables and it will be evaluated and output into the final HTML. You can also take that HTML element, pass it into any number of map, filter, reduce functions and programmatically transform it in literally any way you want.

This means when you write HTML this way, you can use ClojureScript as your template language, and I think it's safe to say that ClojureScript is a much more powerful and well-designed language than any template language out there designed for HTML.
Is it? I'd be interested in any numbers surrounding the idea.
That sort of mechanism is useful for database systems which have to decide in what order to write out blocks to keep the database consistent. That requires partial ordering, but not total ordering.
Habitual coffee consumption and risk of hypertension: a systematic review (2011)
Seriously? when you actually have something worth using to start with.
When can we expect proto3 to be stable and ready to use for general public?
School is unique in that most of the questions/projects you will be faced with have a pretty solid answer. Often times a definitive one. Work... not so much.
You're sounding like a broken record by now, Cedric.
Can someone explain to me, is this study saying that drinking 1-3 cups of coffee is bad while <1 cup or >3 cups are better?

The language is little confusing.

Edit: I think I got it, the numbers 1.09 for 1-3cups, 1.07 for 3-5 cups, 1.08 for >5 cups are relative to 1.0 for no or little coffee.
What? No it's not. Do you know how hard life is for the blind? :/
When the British came the Mughals were already there. It is a bit different to remove that fish from butter and place it in margarine since it's not free to begin with.

I'm glad you said that. Indian culture and civilization still lives strong, it's just not only in India anymore.

You can thank the British for that (though I guess you hate them).
Quick fix, in nim:

foo_bar = fooBar
Foo_bar = FooBar
foo_bar != FooBar

That is, it's case sensitive with the first character of the identity.

I've mentioned elsewhere that this one bugged me at first, but in practice it simply means that you get to use the language as if your preferred convention (whether snake or camel) is the "official" one- even when calling other libraries. Nothing more and nothing less. Cases where you need both styles but need them to be different things tend to be non-existent / code-smell.
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/38scem/norways_89...

It was discussed on reddit.
Looking at some of the successful 40+ entrepreneurs, it strikes me that the 40 year old entrepreneur in a high growth industry has a very different profile than a 40 year old entrepreneur in a more "traditional" industry like food & beverages, retail, etc.

The former is usually composed of highly educated execs with business experience and a technical background. They jump in after identifying a core problem in their industry and usually have the technical chops + connections to solve it.
Or better illustrated (scroll down) http://mapfrappe.com/?show=30898
Expressing L-systems in Rust
I said pixel level. That's vector level. Also by html+css+javascript I thought you meant strictly primitives within that domain like spans and divs. While svg is part of html5 people typically don't think of svg when someone says to write something in html+css+javascript.

Either way, well played, sir.
There are no unit tests, and the only comments are odd bits of code. How do you know any of it works?
Wow, I've never seen a map of the world before. /s
Similar to MapReduce in that respect. A library that supports a computational model.
Same here. I'm normally using "tail -f | grep something" which less +f doesn't seem to handle.
Your second comment, the one about autonomy, is the real insight that I wish more developers and managers would get. I almost quit reading the article upon finding the part you quoted. Thanks for pointing it out here!

Way too often, real world discussions about management in teams turn into discussions about technical detail ("If we only had tests / quicker builds / used language X then we'd get better results") and this basic, underlaying problem of room for autonomy in the process is overlooked in favour of topics that are more easily discussed.

The main reason I added this (mostly useless) comment was that all replies so far had followed the same pattern of only discussing the issue closest to technology; the tests.

Edit: removed duplicated word.
> the plan is to now focus exclusively on AMD and ARM for newer hardware platforms in libreboot.

New AMD desktop CPUs include an ARM security co-processor which could provide similar functionality to the Intel ME. The open security community will want to take a close look at all code running on it.
Well, it's 1am here and I can't really be bothered to get into this too deeply, but here's one for you:

How would you implement Netflix without using external plugins such as Silverlight?
asm.JS carries you rather close to bare metal.
What Poverty Does to the Young Brain
No, I didn’t invent the Spotify model