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Ask HN: What would you bring on a hard drive for Cubans who don't have internet?
After reading this story https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082806/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT i'm left with the question: what would be the most valuable data to get into Cuba to help the local population. Books? Audio? Video? Software? what would you bring?
- slydo 10y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20150208082806/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082806/http://hosted.ap.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948525
- dragonbonheur 10y agoThe free scientific comic books linked from this page. Just scroll down for English or Spanish versions. https://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/free_downloads.htm https://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/f... And try to get ebooks and documents about biogas production, permaculture, survival skills, handicrafts, how various things work, free computer programming books, compiler construction (Jack Crenshaw's work, not SICP), sewing patterns, cake recipe books, cocktail books (tourism is about to increase). No political propaganda.
- mud_dauber 10y agoMy kickass music library.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWikipedia Offline: http://xowa.org/ http://xowa.org/ OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data Project Gutenberg Offline: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg Scihub (google "scihub torrents") (caution: 50TB corpus) Gitlab (or packaged as a VM to run locally): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce Khan Academy: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-run-khan-academy-offline http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-run-khan-... StackExchange: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- seren 10y agoRegarding openstreetmap, it might be a good idea in general but I suspect that OpenStreetmap details would be really poor in Cuba because of the lack of contributors. So I am not sure it would be that useful to Cubans (who still have restrictions to travel IIRC). Just checked, I was wrong : it is actually not that bad: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5252057#map=17/23.10480/-82.35750 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5252057#map=17/23.104...
- tylercubell 10y agoWikipedia dump, textbooks on a wide variety of subjects, any practical information that can be useful considering the limited resources on the island.
- cyphar 10y agoIf I had enough storage I'd give them a repository of all reasonably large free software projects. I'd also give them SciHub and everything in arXiv.
- astrodust 10y agoCould this question get more Hacker News? The service called El Packete is what you'd expect, and it carries every-day stuff: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a16030/cubas-usb-drive-internet/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a1... If people want Stack Overflow they'll ask for it. They're not without internet access, it's just that their ping times are really, really high.
- bbcbasic 10y agoThis is desert island disks (as opposed to discs).
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI'd bring gutenburg, wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Scihub, KhanAcademy, etc. as already mentioned by others. I'd also bring DOOM. And if they had LAN, I'd bring Quake. Because no matter how grim a situation gets, a good game is fun.
- MalcolmDiggs 10y agoAll 33 chapters of R Kelly's rap opera: "Trapped in the Closet". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet