skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all just rubbish so that they can find more eyeballs to stick into the service. They've reached almost everyone, so the next logical step is to bring Internet to the only audience they can't yet reach.
Quite a high percentage of the people in the world without internet access live under governments with poor human rights records. In this new age of massive unscrupulous spying and data mining by governments, bringing the internet to new populations without making sure they understand the risks makes them vulnerable to unprecedented levels of tyranny.

Any initiative that tries to expand internet access without addressing these basic moral issues is suspect, and we obviously aren't going to see responsible behavior on this front from the likes of Facebook.
Hi Aytekin,

I understand and appreciate the suggestion. But I must. Given that, any pointers / leads / subject lines you can think of?

And by the way, how is instant.jotform.com doing?
I think it could be of more coolness if named "Hegemon", which is more connected to "Ansible"...
I wasn't even aware CoreOS is a Y Combinator company, I wonder what the monetization strategy is.
100+ hour unpaid work weeks are more insane, but 100+ hour paid work weeks are also an absolutely insane concept.
when mark name contains space, the auto complete doesn't work, anyone have solutions?
None are marketed for 15-20 meals because the manufacturers know it's not feasible. It's quite different with fundraising, where you can claim whatever you want since it's all still fantasy.
While that's true, I don't believe it's applicable to node.js, so it's a bit out of scope for this article.
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"I don't want software running my car."

Too late. Every car since about 1993 is entirely reliant on electronic computers, and many were even in 1980. Most of them reprogrammable, though usually cumbersome to do so.
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There are a lot of people who have "access" to internet infrastructure but don't have "access" to internet because it's too expensive. If we, as an industry, can cut these costs, then that makes internet more "accessible" for everyone.

We need to tackle these problems first in my opinion, before we go on to the infrastructural problems. It will make a good foundation for the infrastructure that will come later on.
Did you delete the blog post? I was curious to read it, but the link returns a 404.
Nice, but looking at the code I don't think really needs a jQuery dependency. Manipulating CSS classes, $extend, and the very basic DOM jiggering in this library could be accomplished easily without it. More and more people are removing jQuery in favor of frameworks like Angular and lighter weight libraries. Just my two cents.
Personally, I prefer Jefferson's formulation - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
To be fair, I believe you wouldn't have an entire diet based only on Jevity, while that's their goal for Soylent.
Yep. Similar to how an infinite loop in the browser will freeze up the page - the browser only gets to control to draw by putting a draw function in the event loop, so if you hog the thread, the page can't update.
The Soylent founder is a former YCombinator founder.
Not at all. Say, for example, that I'm replacing fast food. In that scenario Soylent costs less money, takes less time (don't have to go to the fast food place, less time actually eating), is almost certainly healthier, and won't make me feel like crap afterwards. At this point I can't think of any way to continue extending the sex analogy that doesn't get a bit too off-color.
I'm not so sure about the online grocery thing. Won't people want to touch their food before buying it?

I say that somewhat ironically, because of course that's exactly what everyone said about online shopping from the beginning. So it's a safe bet, I think, that online grocery will grow and ultimately own a substantial chunk of the market.

I would love to read more about start-ups in this space. Every interface for ordering groceries, including Amazon's, is just frustratingly bad. It's even harder to get ordering right for groceries than it is for take-out!

"Build a better way to buy groceries online" sounds like a great idea. As long as you're cool with Walmart Labs acquiring you in a couple weeks/months/years.
As far as I can tell, you haven't said anything besides politics and government, as you define them, are categorically bad. You haven't provided any reasons why.

My claim is that non-politics and non-government, as you define them, are not a solution. The reason is that they are exactly circumscribed by politics and government, as you define them. The definition of X provides the definition of !X. Thus, they do not ultimately differ. This is a really important point: loyalty and rebellion are very closely related in that they are two sides of the same coin, both dictating your behavior. You don't need permission to sail in international waters (non-politics), but there's lots of places you can't go (politics) if you're going to stay in them. To be clear, I do understand what you mean when you say non-politics and non-government.

My definitions are as follows: to govern is to marshal force in the establishment of rights. To marshal force in the establishment of rights is to govern. This includes your definition of government and your definition of non-government.

> My definition of "government" does not include voluntary organizations.

Even if you join a voluntary non-governmental organization that provides you rights by marshaling force, regardless of whether or not I join your organization, I am still governed by it, in so far as the protections you have been promised by that organization will apply to me. If you pay for damage to your property to be illegal, I am going to be in trouble if I damage it, so I must obey the law that you have created with your wealth, or face the consequences.

My questions about your ideal form of government (or shall we say "protection" for your sake) are as follows: how does such a system restrain the power of the most rich? How does such a system prevent the abuse of the most poor?

It seems to me to be some kind of nightmare world where material wealth and social connections end up being the final arbiters of justice.

We effectively have anarchy at the international level today since the UN has no real power. Why is this a good thing? The US, with its vast amounts of power, is able to bully many of the other countries into submission, and there is no oversight. I fail to see how anarchy at the individual level would be substantially different.
I agree. That also takes care of the overly attentive server as well. I had lunch with some co-workers a few weeks ago and the server stopped by our table so many times that we could barely have a conversation. It was mostly to ask us how everything was... over... and over... and over. I appreciate check ins but there are upper limits to their effectiveness. :)
Well, you're correct - however, nobody aggregates the non-US userbase better, more accurately and so cleanly as FB - with 80%++ of their users non-US-based, they are THE goldmine for the NSA.

With the new FB policy office in DC, I am sure they are nice and comfy - as well as with their Security head from NSA-FB-NSA (along with all the other spooks FB has) -- its damn clear what is going on.
Already provided my feedback at: https://ssl.apple.com/support/feedback/

Called at (91) 1800 4250 744 like 100 times already, line always busy.

Already mailed at: indiasales@mac.com

Any of the above methods didn't work.
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gabifrons: I hope you see this; your account has been hellbanned, apparently for the comment you just made in this thread. I agree with you on the N900 USB charging flakiness; it's what made me give up on mine.
I wonder how many of those 2/3 have access to Internet connectivity (i.e. they are within range of a tower) but haven't signed up due to costs. Facebook's initiative could help such people.

Considering the fat in typical systems, I think their goal of 10x compression can be met with only public-domain techniques.
The whole event loop idea, which is core to javascript, allows for the single-threaded non-blocking I/O in a way that no other popular language does. Because of this, javascript has features that make this type of programming easy - first-class functions, anonymous functions, etc.

So, yes. Non-blocking I/O is a standard library feature, but it works because of language features.
> The implication of this statement being that we have a right to survive, and only a right to survive.

More precisely, I would say we have a right to survive and to an opportunity to achieve more. But we have no intrinsic right to have a computer and an Internet connection handed down to us.
Firstly, Bill Gates is being a philanthropist with the billions he earned by running a lot of other entrepreneurs to the ground. But if he's had a change of heart, then I applaud him, even though it doesn't absolve him of what he did in the past.

Secondly, I'm under no illusions about FB's motives, but if this can bring educational resources such as Khan Academy to more people in developing countries, I'm for it. The worst thing you can do to developing nations is to give them handouts (see: Africa). There will be no permanent progress without education.
Is HTML5 audio available on all browsers yet? I remember for Cut the Rope that they claimed that HTML5 audio for games only worked in IE, and that for whatever reason Firefox/Chrome/Safari didn't work quite right and needed a Flash stub.
It would be cool if each photo was a normal profile shot but showed the leaf blower version on hover.

Also, ugh, sidescrolling.
Pretty simple no. You're pretty sick if you think it is.

Can connectivity give people things that should be human rights?

I'd say probably not a efficient use of resources, but perhaps.

If this is the best Facebook has to offer I'll take it.
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The exception was catches somewhere It formed an unexpected, rare execution path that nobody could think of. It was not detectable by reading the local code. A missing error return would have been.
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Today I learned that Winterbells is now available on iPhone. What has the world come to?
" mobile and web application development with a user centric design philosophy and an agile development environment"
They left out an insatiable appetite for buzzword bingo.

From the sounds of things, they're an agency on a hiring spree.

When they quote apps that have virality built in, note that they aren't giving examples of apps they've built. I'd like to hear of more than one example of a successful app that has come out of appster. Their "our work" section only lists two apps, Jaegermeister and liberal party of australia. Doesn't sound like the brilliant long term visionary apps the article is describing.

I feel,like a troll:(
Exactly. Or maybe copy-on-duplicate-access detection. So keep a single copy on heap but when accessed first time by second context/thread then make a copy of it. Azul's Java GC plays some of these games with read barriers. They detect reads to certain pointers and set callbacks to run custom code when they happen.
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> You could almost certainly live indefinitely on Boost or Ensure, because they are essentially flavored versions of the same products used medically in tube feeds.

I'm not sure you can claim that. Patients live off enteral diets for long periods but in very controlled environments, and even then it's still hard to get right. For a fully functional person, going to work, going to gym, being exposed to environmental stresses, and so on, to only live off Ensure might not be feasible.
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I think that if I ever had to load your "fast" website on a dial-up connection I would hope that it had some sort of progress bar to fall back on.
By that argument, if you believe in any human rights, if a worker is needed to enable it they also are slaves.

Right to religious freedom/political beliefs etc then the police who defend you if attacked because of you're beliefs are then also slaves.
"I don't want software running my car."

Too late. Every car since about 1993 is entirely reliant on electronic computers--and many were much earlier. Most of them reprogrammable, though usually cumbersome to do so. Changing software during service is common these days--and the dealer may not even bother to mention it.

Tesla's use of software is pretty normal. Go sit in BMW 5 series, or a Ford Focus. All soft interface. Tesla's is just nicer, and not afraid of taking advantage of the fact that everything is software already.
README on the GitHub repository says MIT at the very bottom, but agreed that it would be nice if this was more prominent.
Of course it's hard, I don't think anyone has claimed it's easy.

For some reason this subject hits a nerve with some people really, really hard (Aside: it's actually really fascinating to think about why that is. Health concerns are definitely not enough to explain the level of vitriol.). Those people then tend to use some really disingenuous arguments against Soylent. For example, I can't say how many times I've seen people dismissing Rob as "having spent a couple weekends reading Wikipedia". Well, no, he spent quite a significant amount of time reading textbooks and journals, getting a pretty reasonable grounding in the science. It's also not like it's his first time studying science, seeing as he is an engineer, yet somehow people are actually describing him and Soylent as "anti-intellectual". Obviously he didn't go through a traditional degree program in nutrition, but I've seen what comes out of a lot of those traditional degree programs, and that's really not much of an argument against him.

It's especially fascinating to see this backlash in a community like HN, where most of us work in a field that has done a lot to cast off the traditional model. A lot of our role models didn't go through those traditional degree programs either, yet something about nutrition makes people completely freak out. Yes, I get it, nutrition is complex and we know relatively little about it. Yes, I get it, if you screw up on nutrition people's lives are at risk. And yet, as Rob often points out, nobody was up in arms yelling at him when he was eating a terrible diet of pizza rolls and fast food. I find it really hard to believe that Soylent could be worse for you than that.

Sorry for going off on a bit of a rant, obviously I've thought about this all for a while.
When service is down - how open should I be?
really curious, you don't think this exists already?

also, doesn't it have to be blended?
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I have been thinking that appointing Congress/Parliament by random selection from the population would be a good idea. Who do you think would be more likely to want to want power, for example?
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I don't have a horse in this race one way or the other. I didn't back Soylent, I'm not for or against it, just an observer. But did you read that Herman guy's original comment[1]? He's borderline ranting from the outset. Amongst other ostensibly useful advice, he tells the Rob guy to include copper when he already did, the Rob guy gives a reply that seems to encourage further engagement but Herman does not respond. Herman then escalates and expands on his rant months later on reddit. Am I missing something that happened between Herman's orginal comment and his reddit rant?

I'm not disregarding what Herman says, he seems knowledgeable. But if you act like a dick, it's less likely that most people will really warm to your advice.

1. http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424#comment-514
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No doubt people can misjudge things. With health changes, I think it is often easier to see changes in the negative direction, like the author when he stopped the soylent trial.

If the changes are great enough in magnitude to be obvious, then you know you're on to something. Also, measures like weight and computer mental agility tests can be quite reliable if you are consistent in your testing, and they aren't subject to misinterpretation or wishful thinking.

Edit:

Below, skore is skeptical that a person can notice a significant change to their own health. I respectfully disagree.

Check out the blog of Seth Roberts. He is a professor who is involved in the quantified self movement. He records many subjective measures qualitatively, and feels he has made some significant discoveries doing so. I won't try to summarize anything here, but anyone interested can read for themselves on his blog. Roberts studies rats, and he is the ultimate human rat.
When are people going to start appreciating the biology of the human species for the miracle that it is? I'm not talking faith-based logic here ... but consider for a moment that the placebo effect exists.

That's it. Game over for nutrition science.

You can convince someone's mind to change physical attributes of their body using psychology.

Who's to say this guy's brain wasn't really excited about the prospect of a new diet that he was told by a really smart dude was going to make him more productive and healthier? Hook, line, sinker.

This also doesn't address any of the social rituals associated with food. Personally, for me, breakfast is the only meal that is removable, but that's because I'm not a morning person. I telecommute and have a family. Sitting down to lunch with my kids and wife (or just wife, joy when the kiddos are in school), is a great break in my day.

And dinner ... don't even get me started. I love sitting down to dinner. Makes me really just feel sorry for single folks whose lives revolve around productivity to such an extent.
Well, if UK was depending on NSA intelligence, I am not surprised they would be even more worried than the NSA itself.
He's someone who knows his stuff so completely that he's able to explain it clearly to non-programmers. I think theres a famous quote by Einstein: “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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Is it to me or I need to somehow compute the hash of the password used for email? [1]

[1] https://github.com/al3x/sovereign/blob/master/roles/mailserv...
A couple weeks ago I built something similar, except that my solution is even smaller (doesn't depend on jQuery, 1 single file, 1KB gzipped and minified). Check out: http://buunguyen.github.io/rainbow.js/.
I had no idea it had more actual pictures on the page until I read about the sidescrolling.
I doubt it; POP3 and SMTP are plaintext. Put a few wiretap in at major colos; build a few data centers, maintain a couple of essentially very large hashtables and it seems plausible that they could instantly pull up email contents.

It'd be a bit bigger scale than GMail search or whatever corporations use for e-Discovery in Outlook, but it'd be plausible.

Whether the government allocated budget to such a contraption is another matter; I think that would be a bigger concern than the technical plausibility of "store everyone's email for all time in perpetuity". I mean, if GMail was supposed to fulfill that vision (ha!) then it can't possibly be unreasonable for a determined government to build it.
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Yes, I addressed that didn't I? Before states there is tit-for-tat killing, blood feuds, taking justice into your own hands, raids on ones property ... after states, plus property rights plus trade there is a reduction. It seems that property rights plus trade would lead to a decrease in violence also but there would be a power vacuum and you would still need some entity to enforce the rules (consistently, fairly and not punitively) and it is difficult to imagine a non-state structure filling that role. A volunteer police force and judiciary? Free market militia?

I mean, we all see what can happen when a police state goes bad so that prompts some to imagine a utopian world without the 'evil' cops but unfortunately we had that world in the past and it was, in fact, worse. This is not comparing like with like though. It would be difficult to definitively know without, I think, accurate computational modeling of societies and that's a toughie, I don't know if anyone has tried that. Stephen Pinker does provide data on societies that haven't integrated into the modern world (hint: more per capita violence than our own, including the US which is far more violent than any other developed country) and also there is archaeological and historical evidence from societies of the past (seems to indicate they were more violent as well: homicide, torture, theft, rape, ...)
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I would also recommend Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/A...
Thank you. The second link is a wonderful read.
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Wow ... That's very clever, I'm impressed. I'm not trying to criticize you, specifically, but it just seems so odd to see such a constant barrage of unmitigated pedantry. What's funny is why, if our sole goal is show how clever we are, do we focus on such a laughable matter but instead question the very notion of rights themselves rather than some barely sophomoric clothing not being a right because of tribe this that or the other ... I mean I don't know, some tribes in the past decided a great many strange things but I'm not sure there is really a "meta" point to be made of it.
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I'm kind of surprised at the amount of hostility in this thread. Sure, Internet access isn't on the same level of need as food or water or shelter or medical care, but it's still one of the most empowering things in our society. There are many different levels of and aspects to aid; it's not a negative if an organization decides to focus its efforts in an area it knows best.
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I may just be guessing, but indisales_support? Could it be a typo and be "indiasales_support"? (note the addition of an 'a')
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Alternatively, how about a karma threshold to be able to upvote stories on the front-page? Make it the same threshold as downvoting, 500.

This should go a long way to prevent the redditification of HN.

If you aren't a committed participating member of the community, you don't get to push things to the top of the fron page as easily. It should also help a lot with sock puppetry, since it would not be trivial to create accounts to push things to the front page.
I get what you are doing. I do not understand why I would use this.

Doesn't "bundle check" do this for you already (ie., in Ruby)?

I also don't like that giant picture. Takes a long time to load and doesn't really have anything to do with your project.
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Sure, but things like FWD.us being more than a little affirmative* of peoples' doubts and the whole PRISM thing aren't helping them either.

*The political horse-trading supporting fracking, Elon Musk pulling out, etc.
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How do you create a society where organizations would have a vested interest in leading efforts to lower barriers to electricity. Even in present conditions, electricity is after-all a prerequisite to better internet access. I wonder why there are fewer juggernauts looking into electricity than internet.