skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, the "connectivity for everyone" thing is a thin cover of "controlled distribution channels for anyone who can't afford better".

> people won't care about the few MBs/month it costs them.

This initiative is targeted at the very broad population who can barely afford an Internet connection and computers of any kind. The cost of a few MB/month is something they do worry about. Besides:

> The traffic from a particular website is not significant anyway so I don't think they will go to/prefer websites with free access only.

The traffic from accessing a particular website once, in a "typical" browsing session, seems insignificant to you. I don't think the traffic from today's ad-ridden news websites is so insignificant for someone who doesn't surf the web all day.

In typical Facebook fashion, they describe this as something meant to "bring connectivity for everyone", when what it really aims to "bring a certain kind of connectivity, to a few certain websites, for everyone".

If you have a look at the list of websites included there, this is more than "but they'll only use Facebook for social networking, which they're already doing". They'll also only use BBC, Reuters and Times of India to read news and political opinions, TimesJobs and Babajob to look for jobs and so on. I.e. there will be only a few select information sources and sources of employment in this "connectivity for everyone" thing. This has considerable consequences, e.g. no (cheap!) way to check sources on science-related news or blacklisting "unwanted" companies from the only two widely-available job-seeking websites.
I only see this if coming from DuckDuckGo. It's interesting to see Google copy DuckDuckGo!
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> I had a professor who told the class that if they ever wrote a sorting algorithm professionally, they should be fired.

For straight up sorting, yes.

But, some other algorithms have exactly the same structure as sorting.

As a toy example, take the famous skyline problem. See https://briangordon.github.io/2014/08/the-skyline-problem.ht... for the details:

"You are given a set of n rectangles in no particular order. They have varying widths and heights, but their bottom edges are collinear, so that they look like buildings on a skyline. For each rectangle, you’re given the x position of the left edge, the x position of the right edge, and the height. Your task is to draw an outline around the set of rectangles so that you can see what the skyline would look like when silhouetted at night."

One approach to solving the problem is equivalent to merge sort: you write a merge function that merges two lists of in-order non-overlapping rectangles, and go from there.
http://www.maketecheasier.com/5-amazing-evernote-alternative...

https://framalab.org/
For anyone who doesn't know, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number

A tax ID (and physical card) issued to individuals and other tax-paying entities. The PAN must be quoted in all high-value cash transactions and money transfer mechanisms (such as PayPal).

By the way, for Indian taxpayers the advance tax deadline for this quarter is today :)
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I've tried Gold Touch, ErgoDox, MS 4000 and now the MS Sculpt Ergo. The Microsoft keyboards are the best I've used. Everyone I know who uses an ergo keyboard settled on the MS 4000 or upgraded to the Sculpt Ergo.

Now if only Logitech would make their TrackMan Wheel still. Or maybe Microsoft would make a worthy successor? Hint, hint (I own 4 Logitech trackballs just incase they are ever discontinued completely).
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Just improve education in general. People might study eg math for years at school, but most are not learning several years worth of material.
The alternatives to a juried pool are (a) first come, first serve and (b) random selection, which would you have preferred in this case?

("Admitting everyone" is simply not possible, there's neither the space nor the support staff)
Maybe wallabag (https://www.wallabag.org) though it doesn't provide all the features, evernote has.
http://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float
How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] (2014)
HOF (HTTP over Facebook) when?
and your team isn't disciplined enough to do it manually ("nothing is stopping us" is an explanation why things happen sometimes, but it is a bad excuse)
This is really the crux of it. What the heck are people complaining about?
Exactly

As much as I'd like to work in a antiwork position, it's very complicated society-wise (especially due to the fact that there aren't that many jobs)

Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc
As a native English speaker, and somebody who loves writing and languages, I grok most grammar discussions without thinking about the terms involved. Lay, lie, and so forth come fairly naturally to me. For example, if I really thought about it, I believe I would have spotted all the bad lie-forms in the songs the writer mentions.

But some things still bug me. What's the difference between "will" and "shall"? "Farther" and "further" still get mixed up in my writing even though I know better. Every few months I'll find myself typing in something quickly online and use a homophone "their" for "they're" -- which I absolutely know not to do! Some of these formations you only come across maybe once a year or so.

It's like one other commenter said here, it's not that the oddball cases are so complex, it's amazing that we manage to remember all the rest of it.
And that, in turn, could allow households to get by or even thrive while working many fewer hours than is now typically the case—albeit through a pretty hefty level of income redistribution.

Consider the following thought experiment: two workers in skilled jobs, let's say they're dentists. Dentist A works 5 days a week and the occasional weekend, like most people do now. Dentist B figures she can get by working 1 or 2 days a week and spend the rest of her time playing roller hockey and fishing, and on a dentist's pay, she can.

Now fast forward a year, dentist A has done 5x the dentistry of B, has encountered 5x as many tricky situations and dealt with them, has kept her equipment in tip-top shape because it's being used every day, has had the time to bounce ideas off other dentists in the practice and so on. A is just after 1 year, a much more experienced and better dentist than B. So who do you go to, when you need some work done? The one who has devoted her life to dentistry and does it every day, or the one who sort of does it on the side when she can be bothered? Pretty soon B won't have any work at all - even from people who like the idea of working a 2 day week!

So these ideas about falling work weeks are nice in theory, but they don't take into account human nature and how real people think.
Hm, interesting. This seems like a "Spock vs. Bones" type of worldview, although I would have never guessed that I would side with Bones (age, probably?).

Yeah, perhaps if you want fully rational discussion, then emotions are counterproductive. But should that mean we should have this sterile environment without any passion? And does showing a passion really means aggression? I just don't think so.
Another one :). JS and HTML? No, thanks.
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Yes, but the number which indexes the position in PI where your book starts will probably be longer than the book itself.
I've started to use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine in Firefox recently, but accuracy of results often falls short of my expectations. So I end up entering the same query again at Google especially when searching for technically detailed Q&A. Is there anyone who only use DDG in everyday life?
I got some older model (no touch screen, dual-core and only 1GB of ram) and it is indeed amazing. Perfect for work anywhere, when you put a lightweight Linux distro on it.
Yudkowsky is a good writer. That's all.

Terry Pratchett was a good writer too. (Probably even better.) And that's all you need to be.

Yudkowsky has, like old Goethe had, grander aspirations. We humour them for their literary output.
> They are still charging same regardless of what the packet contains.

The issue here is that this is not internet. Facebook has partnered with a local ISP that decided that some packets (say, those from Wikipedia) can pass for free but others (say, those from GMail) cannot. Wikipedia is not (AFAIK) an AS; as such it doesn't have a deal with Reliance Communications at the internet level. And yet, there is now some business for Reliance to transport Wikipedia's packets. This is completely breaking the internet as it is designed (and as it works best)

All the chatter we've seen with ISPs and content providers is because AS interco is highly contentious. In this case we're not talking (only) about AS; we're talking about websites having to bend to an ISP for it to behave as expected. It's absolutely not ok.

> customer doesn't have to pay more for particular traffic

Of course he doesn't have to, because he doesn't even have access to it, whether there is a route from website to ISP or not. That's the horrible part of it: now peering with an AS is not enough, you need some other arrangement.

> Do you expect ISPs to provide all data for free?

I expect users to pay for laying cables, then everyone peers with everyone else and traffic is free. But we're not there yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_%28Internet%...
Thinking about it a bit more, if Facebook messages are themselves free, you can set up a fake facebook account and run a desktop client which acts on special messages, in effect achieving TCP over XMPP. This is probably no more than a week of work for one motivated developer.

Or, given that wikipedia is free, you could use a private talk page to transmit data too. That could be even faster for individual files. Post a message to the talk page which a daemon polls frequently, then replaces the talk page with a base-64 encoding of the content you requested.

Both of those require you to have a machine with unrestricted internet access, but I imagine unrestricted home internet access to be much cheaper than mobile internet.
I've been doing this for a living for about 15 years now and have had to implement a sorting algorithm from scratch a couple times for special-case scenarios.

Graph algorithms, and linear algebra complexities, on the other hand, I've had to worry about a bunch.
"start charging for data"? Wait, does that mean they do not charge for data at this moment in time?

Are ISP government supported and thus free of charge to any citizen?
If Linux or ChromeOS is an option, a Chromebook might do. Other than that it is indeed difficult to find anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203946

Unsurprisingly, the need was raised from the same "internet.org" bullshit.
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Your thought experiment applies to a very very few jobs.

I don't necessarily want a cashier or a postman who has devoted his entire life to their career. Just 1-2 days a week is more than enough to be a very proficient cashier or postman.

One can even go the other way and say that I don't want a prostitute or truck loader that has devoted their entire life to their profession, for the obvious reason of physical degredation.
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A member of the Rust community, barosl, wrote Homu (bors 2.0) which Rust has been using in place of the first bors for a few months now. It's even better than the already-great first version! I'm seriously considering setting it up for my own projects, since I believe it has support for using Travis CI as a testing backend, in addition to buildbot (which Rust and Servo both use).

https://github.com/barosl/homu

Example interaction: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/23381#issuecomment-80...

Docs: http://buildbot.rust-lang.org/homu/
You could leave a top-level comment: "Have you checked all this code matches our coding standards?"

If they say yes you could start getting more specific - "does this bit of code match our coding standards for exceptions?"
play with a shader version here: http://glsl.herokuapp.com/e#16062.1
I liked HPMOR, but mostly as a guilty pleasure.

For comparison, `Harry Potter and the Natural 20' is a better piece, because the author just wants us to have a good time, and is not constantly trying to prove how smart he is. (HPMOR reminded me a bit about Freakonomics in that respect. But Freakonomics is way worse.)

HPMOR could do with some radical editing, perhaps?
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Here's one telecom's implementation of this proprietary Internet.org app showing free tier fb/messenger the photos are still displayed just obscured until you pay for a data plan (notice it uses free.facebook.com which is complicit in enforcing this. https://youtu.be/sUGZdFXs22o?t=2m16s

Guess no embedding creative commons university pdfs in wall posts.
Honestly the first thing that come to my mind was: is this going to start a little revolution in 3D printing, especially talking about costs? I mean, considering the current cost of filaments of plastic for 3D printing, one could also think of starting a little business creating these filaments with plastics wastes that all of us have at home, and sell them for a fraction of the costs of the ones we can actually find in commerce.

Anyway here[0] is also their campaign on IndieGoGo.

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protocycler-free-sustaina...
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No they are charging for data. I think belorn wanted to say something like airtel will charge pay per site violating net neutrality.
My 12 year old loves it. The 15 year old... Not so much
I use a git repository with text files and Terminal IDE to git on android.
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It applies to any skilled job, or job in which experience matters or regular practice matters. A straight up cashier no, but a salesman, yes. A waiter no, a sommelier or fromagier, yes. And so on.
There's no need to convert all TeX back to markdown; the converter only needs to recognise the sub-set of TeX that it produces.

If anyone edits the TeX to fall outside that sub-set, it's reasonable to just embed those parts verbatim in the resulting Markdown.
Remember that at a flat company, you don't have to stay on the bus with the loudmouth. You're free to leave any time and do something else, or even work on the same thing in a different room. Get enough people to do this, and the loudmouth stops being a problem. If the loudmouth continues to fail, his performance will be an issue and he might be fired.

Contrast with a traditional company where the loudmouth is a manager, you're not allowed to move your desk, and dissent (like working on something else, or ignoring the guy) leads to HR action.
Same here, I tried really hard to use DuckDuckGo and lasted with it as my default for around a month. I started using !google a lot and had to switch back in the end as I found it was just slowing me down.

It's fine for basic searches but the results really lack when it comes to any kind of technical query.
Add !g to search on google. Or !gi for google images, !gn for google news, !w for wikipedia, etcetera. See https://duck.co/help/results/syntax for more tricks.

And yes I'm using it in daily life.
Why would they need to be "free?" Not everyone needs personal internet to benefit from a free (as in freedom) internet being available in their area. Unfiltered information spreading in a community is almost guaranteed if it exists.

How on earth are we going to get them innovative/affordable internet solutions if no one can compete to get there?
Looks cool. My boy spends a lot of time building games in scratch and has tried a few different ways to do it collaboratively with his mates without much success. This could be a great next step if you're successful.
Well, I did not realize Github has had AsciiDoctor integration for two years now (I've been doing most of my scientific work in GitLab during that time). I retract that comment and regret the error. Hopefully they add it to Github pages some time soon.

To be honest, there was never really any conscious decision to pick Markdown over AsciiDoc. It was just serendipity that when I was looking to convert a bunch of my existing Markdown notes to papers, John happened to add (at Martin Fenner's urging) pretty robust support for citations to Pandoc. Being able to use an existing .bst files and Natbib author/year syntax with existing Bibtex database files, while also using CSL to format to everything else was pretty key. The syntax only worked in Markdown at the time, so I went with that. This project just simply grew into an experiment on how to get the least hack-y looking source document for what I needed.

Basically, I had a bunch of existing Markdown stuff typed with both my phone and my computer using NValt (already using the double-backtick math syntax as a hack), and I was looking for a way to reuse all that. If I had to do conversions or had to start from scratch, I would have just started another LaTeX Document, and then this project wouldn't be here.

As an aside aside: I personally think that one shortcoming of AsciiDoc is that Markdown ended up having a more mature application ecosystem outside of the most general purpose text-editing tools. I'm thinking of something like Scrivener/Ulysses which is really great for project writing and has robust markdown support while writing. I've also recently found out that TeXpad "mysteriously" formats Markdown syntax in the editor, and builds an in-editor TOC of it. This is in addition to with rendering support in basically every note-taking tool. Sadly AsciiDoc doesn't seem to have experienced a similar growth spurt in terms of popularity amongst developers, and as a result have a bit more friction to use.
This is a good topic to Discuss in length.

As someone pointed out, the future is headed towards Closed Wallets - Paytm or Apple Pay.

In India, most of them don't understand security. Online banking is nascent, still not reached critical mass.

Many transactions happen via Cash on Delivery here in India. I run Jumkey.com - a Jewellery Marketplace, more than 70% of orders are on COD.

I feel, RBI has made enough good choices and protecting customers first. Banking Rules should be Strict.

Paypal was promoting easy money movements without trace being left. So, How RBI reacted makes sense in that context.

Coming to Innovation, 2015 is all About Mobile and Mobile Wallets. Will only get better overtime.
Its expected value will likely still be linear - since values are distributed among cells uniformly, and there ratio of empty cells to all cells is bounded from above (otherwise rebucketting occurs), expected position of the first nonempty cell is also close to the beginning. Calculating it is a good exercise, helpful Google keywords are "order statistics of discrete uniform distribution".
We've heard this form of thinking before.

The standard of living we all enjoy is due to the slave labor of the negro. Without blacks, how would we cultivate our land? How would the economy of the South function?

It wasn't a good argument then and it is not a good argument now. People shouldn't have to work to make your shitty society work.
Just coming up on four months, here.
Enter!g in your query to automatically redirect it to Google. I do this for about 50% of my searches (mainly looking for docs)

!yt for youtube is useful too, as is just ! for I'm Feeling Lucky and !wiki,!define.

This is the main reason I began DDG, so useful, faster than using a drop down or looking for the relevant site on Google. Not sure if other search providers do this, but I also appreciate the privacy aspect of using DDG.
What is your experience with Chisel? How much more productive are you compared to writing Verilog?

I am interested in trying out new tools, but information on Chisel is pretty sparse.
ES6 and test driven development – Can I test it? (yes you can)
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I have been thinking about that Graeber's essay intensively - because on one hand he is strikingly right about that many people now feel that they do a bullshit job, and on the other hand his explanation to why this happens is laughably silly.

My conclusion is that it is the complexity. It is that people don't understand why they do something - this makes their work meaningless for them. And accidentally there is a big chance that their job is useless in an objective way - it is just that the people that direct them also don't understand the system fully.

And the complexity grows in many ways. One is that our lives are much more regulated than they used to be - we have more laws about everything. In one way it makes lives more fair - but the complexity from the entangling of different laws grows quickly. Another is that we actually have less cultural regulations. For example - take noise from parties, in the past it was that there were just some dates when everyone was partying - because everyone had the same religion etc.

By they way - in 'User Innovation' there is this notion of 'advanced analog field' https://books.google.pl/books?id=BvCvxqxYAuAC&pg=PA134&lpg=P... - an area where there is a much stronger need for something then anywhere else. It is often that the innovation happens in that 'advanced analog field' and later it is adopted in all other areas. Like abs was invented first for airplane breaks - but later it was adopted by the car industry. I think that maybe we should treat software development as a kind of 'advanced analogue field' for law.
So, it is a good thing to enjoy one's "anti-work". Which is to say, it's a personal and societal good to enjoy what you do for a living. Um, is this some new existentialism thing? Yes, attention attention: it would be best for everyone to like what they do, especially when what they do is hard. If you can't dazzle them with data, baffle them with bullsh*t, am I right?

Here's a fun what-if. What if in the next 10-20 years, robots and software begin automating away huge swaths of the non-creative drudgery jobs, doing the work safer and better than humans ever could. And, right around the same time, we develop life extending vitamins to give humans 500+ year lifespans at the physical age of 30. The vitamins soon become cheap to make, anyone can get them. Millions of people, suddenly vigorous and youthful, who used to have [bad/fake] labor jobs will now be priced out of the market. Grumble, grumble, they say. Life was better when I at least HAD a crummy job, grumble! Thank God, the anti-work problem is solved: the crappy jobs have been purged. Except now we've got a huge new powderkeg of a problem to deal with.

My question is, will we plan our future society ahead of time and peacefully enter this new era of plenty and health? Or, will we have wars and endless class strife between the have-jobs and not-have-jobs? Can we have a public debate about this before it actually happens?

When I read the OP and your message, I hear a negative view. Both of you posit negative thoughts about the current work scene that could lead a reader to doubt and resent their own job and position/status. You're simply stirring up trouble and unhappiness when you fail to also bring solutions to the table.