skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those people probably dont have any internet, because:

1 - they dont have jobs and lack of money

2 - they are still strugling for food security

3 - their village or city have no energy

4 - they are maybe even without water

5 - they maybe have a low level education

so if they are so good and passionate about helping people all over the world, and they are insanelly wealthy people why they also dont make a bigger plan..

Thats one of the reasons i really admire bill gates right now.. he spend his fortune for a real common good..

while what facebook and others are doing is not bad at all, on the contrary can be a good thing.. what piss me off is that sort of marketing bullshit, like if we are stupid people that would buy that is "all for the common good, rainbows and unicorns"

Do it, show the good side of it, but also show the real reasoning behind it

A human being asking himself, about what he could do to help improve the life of others.. would get a lot of answers to start with but in none of those cases it would start with "extend the internet to the people that can barelly read so they can share their plate without any food in it for lunch time"
That's true, from both the "for" and "against sides". Anyone who things that only happens on one of the sides should check their confirmation bias.

And no, this is not an "every opinion deserves equal airtime" claim. The vast majority of nutrition and health experts draw on a mix of science, pseudo science and superstition, and assume it is all science.

(Quick check: Think salt intake causes hypertension? That dietary cholesterol (and cholesterol in general) is bad for you? That you can only get B-12 from meat, or that cows make it? If you answered "yes", your answers are not based on science)
Econically speaking, taxing land ownership directly is pretty efficient. After all, it's hard to evade this tax since you can't hide land, and the tax won't affect the (fixed!) supply of land either.
StatusPage.io looks like a very good and needed product but I feel like the fact they are a 100% AWS service this wouldn't be ideal for companies who also host their product in AWS. What happens when an AWS-related issue comes up? Your customers may not be able to get to your product as well as your status page.
Was it this?

https://www.userfox.com/blog/How-to-record-animated-gif-scre...
Agreed. It's easy to criticize.
> Soylent is a fantastic alternative.

This is where you lose me.

Extending my analogy, you're replacing sex thrice daily with anorgasmic sex, thrice daily.

I'm not seeing the upside.
"Self experimentation might be useful, but only if you understand the metrics you measure and whether its stochastic noise or meaningful results."

I feel you miss the whole point of self experimentation. If your aim is for improved mental function, more energy, less health problems, etc., you don't need to know how to interpret any obscure tests. You'll know.

A low-risk food product (such as this) can simply be trialed in a n=1 trial. If the results are positive, great. If not, go back to what you were doing before.

All the studies in the world only suggest how something might work for you. It is only the n=1 test that matters.
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It would be very exciting to see some long-term study results on this.

Also:
Q: As long as we're food hacking, why not open-source it and post it on GitHub?
A: It's a liquid. You can't fork it.

But seriously, the open-source version of this could be the nutritional version of the OLPC.
This is my favorite example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U....
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Some variety of exploits probably lead to this, for example communication to their internal servers from their public servers may not have been isolated well enough from the outside world (providing a proverbial window into their internal system of services, databases, and APIs).

I'd imagine that Riot Games operates a plethora of servers with one, central, very large database containing all customer billing information.

Large-scale attacks are usually coordinated with a collection of exploits, for example SQL injection can provide a means to utilize XSS for exploiting administrative interfaces leading to session hijacking. This can be useful for reconnaissance and analysis.
As much as I'd like this to be true, I don't think it's the case.

There are both secret- and top-secret-level clearances for civilians, and are usually dealt with in conjunction to companies and labs providing products and services dealing with state secrets.
Well it's like that story of Colonel H. McMaster, who DID technically find "one weird trick", and the Army DID pass him over for promotions, etc...

I'm not for or against Soylent, and I usually find this kind of advertising annoying, but it's also entirely possible that people further down the chain of command in any system discover things that people higher-up won't or can't.

That's part of the entire premise of why startups work, no?
If this is something someone could live on, why does this guy's experience eating it sound exactly like a fast?
The thing is, food and shelter are the only two beginning rights humans had - if you can call them rights. Clothing wasn't around the entire time humans were, in fact some tribes and pockets of humanity don't wear clothing or at least not much of it to be on the same playing field as the Western world. A job - now that's practically modern if we're talking about the entirety of homo sapiens walking the Earth.

Those are meta-rights that have been appended on; those are privileges that make sense in contemporary, first-world culture. The access to knowledge is the prime candidate for being added to that list, if anything else should be added at all. I don't see why this isn't an important discussion.
Sad to see a lot of people being cynical about this just because Facebook is taking the lead. Facebook may have personal interest in it but if the global good is greater, we must learn to be appreciative. Most discoveries and inventions, heck even the space race dint start out of the goodness of heart; but aren't we glad they did? I am all up for anything that brings people new source of information. Atleast its better than sitting in a corner and grunting how we don't have Google Fiber or how a 1px scroller disrupts the workflow while failing to realize that 2/3rds of the world has never visited a single webpage in their life.
>>As for the calculus interview, that sounds like fair game. PMs are supposed to have some PM interviews and some SWE interviews, and math is a perfectly acceptable area to ask SWE candidates.

Lets leave the managers alone for a while.

When exactly was the last time, you as a programmer used 'calculus' while writing programs.

Your statement shows everything wrong with hiring programmers these days. Which is to demand expertise in totally irrelevant areas, and when the persons fails to the test declare him incapable of doing his actual job.

And then when you hire people experts in irrelevant areas not being able to do the job, start complaining that good programmers are difficult to hire.

How will we find good programmers when we are not even looking out for them?
Even with all the data he's recorded, you just can't draw any sort of conclusions from this. The diet's effects on health can take years to take effect. Just because his standard blood panels are normal for two weeks doesn't mean it isn't causing problems. Specifically, the bioavailibility of the supplements in soylent may not be high. I think it could be really dangerous to eat this stuff as your primary source of food for a long period of time. Eating it from time to time, though, could be convenient and nutritious.
If connectivity is a human right, then IT workers must be slaves.
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It's not required, that's just how you provide a billing address so that when sites do an address verification, it doesn't fail. The page you linked says exactly that. Sites aren't blocking you from using a gift card, they're blocking you from paying without address verification.

> To make an online or phone purchase, you will need to register your card. You can do this by either calling the issuing provider, or by visiting their website. This information should have been supplied to you when you received the card. It may also be printed on the back of the card. When you make an online or phone purchase, the name, address, and phone number you use will need to be exactly the same as the information you provided when registering your card.

http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/prepaid/gift_card_how.htm...
800 calories for one of his two daily meals is not bad. And I'm curious what you think he should be eating for calories as a vegetarian (he said he didn't eat meat) if fat and starch are both off limits. A raw vegan diet is the only one I can think of that limits both of those, and I would dispute its healthfulness.
Here is the behind-the-pay wall link: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732410820...
Why build an online store from scratch when it's obvious that's not where the value-add is? Use something like Shopify and focus on the business. Don't use a lack of technical expertise as the justification for failure. Keep moving.
But I have presented the definition I was using in my first comment. At that point, disagreeing with my definition is pointless, and no longer addresses my first comment.

Besides, I have shown repeatedly that my usage is indeed standard. The Wikipedia articles on politics and political science both overwhelmingly show this. Only in casual language, like "office politics," is the term used to refer to non-government interactions.
Not quite as easily solvable with software as you might think. Most such scheduling problems are NP-hard.
No thanks, Mark. Here's hoping that your plan to AOLify the rest of the word and violate the privacy of your future would-be users fails miserably.
Soylent is $65 for 21 meals

Jevity is $40 for a case of 24 cans
http://www.amazon.com/Jevity-1-2-Cal-8-oz-case/dp/B002HQMBZM...
Red line in Syria has been crossed. Gas attack kills hundreds.
The syrian civil war subreddit is collating information at we speak. Reports are coming in of over 280 dead at the moment in response to a gas attack north of Damascus.
What I get out of this and, by proxy, a lot of successful crowd funding is that it is a market validator. This guy will no doubt make some money on selling Soylent, but what will also happen is that a large multinational will swoop in with more credible competition.
Here is an opportunity to see if an app can be created to privately tunnel through whatever FB pipe they give you.

If you can have a dummy account - and be able to get a tunneled connection through it, then that would be good.

Otherwise; I would never trust them with ANYTHING
> I have a big problem with the "you might miss unknown-to-science micronutrients" argument. If that's the case with Soylent, it should also be the case for the average person's diet (...)

And it is the case. But because most people vary their diets, the deficiencies are not so severe. For instance, most diets lack magnesium, but on average, people also rarely go long periods without eating something like fish or sea food, which provide a good amount in one meal and keep the person above dysfunctional levels for some more time (it will still be a problem later in life).

This is why restrictive diets (vegetarian, vegan, zero-[something]) and other fads should never be taken lightly. Nutritional deficiencies compound over time and wreck havoc on your body. That includes concoctions like Soylent (and even the ones used on patients in critical condition, which cost way more, are more complete, and still are not advertised as perfect meal replacements).
FB is a front for the NSA at this point. Not willingly, perhaps, but by-proxy
Facebook is an investor in the Asia Pacific Gateway[1], and, despite the minuscule size of the Wikipedia article, it stands to reason that the project will be very big for the SEA region.

Their interest in providing internet to as many people as possible isn't new, however Facebook's "internet for everybody" initiative is indeed unexpected.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Gateway
Yes, I have mentioned this before in this thread. Of course the ideas of refraining from political action are relevant to the field that studies political workings, in the same way that atheism and other forms of religious skepticism are relevant to religious studies.
Connectivity: a human right.

Privacy: not a human right.

The right of the NSA and any other three letter agency to get access to all your private messages or 'private' accounts on Facebook: inviolable.
Thank you. There is no right to the labor or capital of others.
It might be because each time I interviewed was for a new hire position or internship position...and their university recruiting is pretty solid. Google's on the other hand...
>>"the people who will put up with bullshit"

Isn't that the case already???

Most people joining big web giants I know are generally the kind of people who don't do any great real work but practice hours daily and spend insane amount of time on interview sites, take huge efforts in achieving expertise in one thing and one thing alone 'clearing interviews'.
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These aren't really hidden, the "lists" link is at the bottom left of the page. I did upvote this however because lots of people might not know about it.
You might as well say the internet is a front for the NSA
This is all a bit silly.

Here's an advertisement for a bunch of full meal replacements for people of normal health or crappier:

http://www.abbottnutrition.ca/static/cms_workspace/en_CA/con...

As you can see, they've been on the market for decades, and people have been using them as sole-source nutrition for decades.
It's true that wars have gotten less violent per capita over time, but all the earlier wars you listed were state endeavors as well. I was talking about comparing human violence before states to human violence after states.
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Neither food, clothing, shelter, or a job are human rights either.
From my talks with boatowners / boatlivers on the river Cam in Cambridge, UK, the upkeep and fuel ain't too bad.
I didn't see an author listed. The pronoun 'I' is used. Anyone know who?
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These proposals look too vague / generic. There's already a lot of people who build mobile apps today and try to compress as much as possible, or limit how much they download.

It's like announcing you're leading an initiative to improve the health and nutrition of children, but you won't actually be distributing any vaccines or food, but laying down a set of principles to align local supplier incentives and politicians.

Bill Gates criticized Loon because, and probably rightly so, concentrating on health of children with easily preventable measures is the biggest bang for the buck. But this initiative seems even more like Vaporware.
You can try and compare different countries. Some have much bigger governments than others. (E.g. Singapore's government lives of ~15% of GDP. European governments are typically closer to ~50% of GDP.)
Sure. Human rights are not universal laws in the same sense the laws of physics are. And, as our ability to provide well-being and comfort for ourselves increases, we can expand the notion of what the bare minimum is that everyone ought to be able to afford. [edit] But in a world where there are still people who die of starvation, it is immoral to talk about making connectivity a human right. [/edit]

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By "a job", I did not mean "working for some company". Rather, I meant the opportunity to do something society considers valuable, and be rewarded in return.
You switched terms. The human body can survive in space, but it doesn't do well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_h...

My point wasn't that humans couldn't survive on soylent. It's that I doubt it will beat real food. Further, it will be very, very difficult to test.

The reason for the presumption in favour of real foods is that thousands of years of testing by our ancestors let us identify foods that worked reasonably well.

We don't necessarily know why foods work, but any hidden defects would be more likely to surface over a several thousand year period, vs. the short term period we will be testing soylent.
Shut down fuel supply is code for turn off the fuel pump.

This can be done all mechanically, scroll down on this page to see a deconstructed inertia switch. http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/InertiaSwitch.h...
It's the full stack instead of just the web client, but Zimbra has a very full featured (and closest I've found to gmail) ajax interface.
> ...we can make internet access more affordable by making it more efficient to deliver data...

They are planning to work on data compression. Then, internet would be more affordable for people who already have internet connectivity. So, their work will essentially depend on the current and existing way internet connectivity is spreading to the 2/3rds that don't have internet connectivity now. But, are spinning it off as a moral / humanitarian ambition.

Besides, even if they come up with the next revolutionary data compression technique, I would be very surprised if it would be made available as an open standard to the internet to help make internet cheaper/affordable to everyone. I am sure their IP lawyers will have a part to play then.
welcome to open-source :D haha
I think it's more that they have lower odds of success (at their current mission) than most startups, but if they're successful, a bigger impact. And fundamentally it's meta, so more interesting than any given startup -- there's more of a philosophical argument behind it than just a better designed chat client or whatever.
You know, "you are too stupid to be allowed to make your own food," is probably not a good selling point for most people. I'm going to go out on limb and suggest that it's not a good selling point for anyone.

"Soylent fans" who are fans before the actual product has been seen or tested in any significant way might self-identify as people who need to be targeted by the first paragraph of this reply, however.
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I wonder when Carmack and Rob Pike sit down and save the sw engineering world...
I actually did that years back when my carrier offered free Facebook and I had no mobile connection. It was essentially just a really dodgy HTTP proxy with their messaging system and another account sitting on a remote server. I got it responding to basic requests, but it took a lot more effort than I could be bothered with. I can only imagine that continuous use would get you banned very quickly under their spam filter.

Just for funsies, you can prefix base64 messages with ?OTR?v2? and they'll be recognised as OTR encrypted messages, which replaces them in the web view with "[encrypted]".
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"They trust me -- dumb f*s" -- Mark Z. I think that should have been the cue.
It's not like there aren't F/OSS Twitter clones... just look at StatusNet.

Or Pump.io, which (AFAICT) is a Facebook/Google+/Diaspora clone.
I think she just wants to take a break (maybe even subconsciously) and this is the excuse she can use to do it.
> If your aim is for improved mental function, more energy, less health problems, etc., you don't need to know how to interpret any obscure tests. You'll know.

Perception is different from reality, as exemplified by an Apple anecdote:

http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster.
It's great to see comments like this. I thought I was alone. The jobs I have gotten so far is either behavioural only, talk about past projects, or written technical (they give you some questions on paper and then leave you alone for an hour.)
Depends if you want to go into ketosis or not. There are ketogenic full meal replacement plans out there. I lived on nothing else for 3 months a couple of years ago, in the UK. 28 drinks per week for 4 weeks, then 21 + 7 protein bars. You could presumably avoid ketosis and weight loss by adding in caloric drinks, though obviously not intended.

Afraid I don't know of any in the US, though (assuming location based on time). Medifast seems the closest but they advocate meals alongside the replacement.
the problem I seem to run into when into when hosting my own email these days is that my IP (currently with ovh) keeps getting marked by sbls because of some other bad citizen in the same block. I've been looking at sendgrid and authsmtp as potential ways to avoid this, but would love to hear what others are doing... those of you who hosts... how do you prevent from getting black listed?
I was about to make a Ask HN post asking for these. Thanks.
Why should we assume that Facebook is trying to be a good steward of the Internet with this project and not simply motivated purely by profits? There are plenty of examples of Google pursuing projects that don't readily contribute to their bottom line, but I'm skeptical that a company led by a man who called his users "dumb fucks" is truly benevolent.
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That's quite fun. I might be using it incorrectly, but when I add a new channel it sometimes adds multiple rows and it is tied to a previously created channel. The hits are already there and if I turn one off on the new channel it does the same on the previously created channel as well.
but this thread isnt about the bounty program.
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> No. People need food, clothing, shelter, a job to survive. On the other hand, humanity has done just fine without the Internet or computers for most of its history.

The implication of this statement being that we have a right to survive, and only a right to survive.
see discourse.soylent.me. This is more or less happening already.
"the author grossly does not understand the medical tests he had done and misinterprets the data"

As the author himself, I can corroborate your statement that I don't understand medical tests as well as a trained physician. :) However, the point of the post was to present the data so others could interpret / draw conclusions. I gave my observations and perspective, but I made every attempt to indicate the potential weaknesses in my experiment. I do hope people don't lose miss the forest for the trees here.

The EGFR thing is regrettable. Thanks for pointing it out!
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> I'm not sure what the situation is like on Windows though.

Us poor Windows users have to hike few miles, find the cursor, lift and carry it on the back for a mile to get it to where we want it to, and then place it there. After all that, the page moves an inch.
How are they well-positioned? I don't mean to sound crass, but what has Facebook ever done that makes you think they're well-positioned? They're pretty much a software/advertising company. Sure, they have their Open Compute project, but besides that, what significant contribution to technical engineering have they contributed to that suggest they have the know-how and ability to scale such a massive infrastructure project.