skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summary: Bottles on the production line sometimes got jostled making them splash Soylent onto the exterior, resulting in mold on the outside of the package. They halted shipping and expect to resume on the 8th.
I did that 4 months ago. Literally each month since then, it has crept back up so that it is now within $10 of the original bill.

My only other options is an equally shady CenturyLink.

I hate (yes, hate) internet/cable in the U.S. I truly wish we had some honest lawmakers who would do something about this.
> Rates of all types of addiction — not just alcohol — are elevated in aboriginal peoples around the world, not only in America. It’s unlikely that these scattered groups randomly happen to share more vulnerability genes for addiction than any other similarly dispersed people.

This isn't sound science. Just look at a map of lactose tolerance and you will find that people not exposed to milk-producing livestock until recently are much more likely to be lactose intolerant.

Convincing research would look for genetic markers directly -- or perhaps look at alcoholism amongst children adopted across cultures.
Or you could just buy Ensure, which has no trouble shipping and is available at nearly every grocery store and pharmacy.

I don't get Soylent's appeal, and I don't understand what unmet needs in the market it is meeting. My best guess, people that want to feel like they are "hacking" eating. Which is really just different marketing for a meal replacement shake.
The Poise Family of Chef Cookbooks
Arrest and investigate, or investigate and arrest, try, convict and punish. That's civilization.

Take people out because someone says they're bad. That's not.
So you can keep using the micro theory? That's good to know. Especially given the claims of this article that different scales will always want different theories, I got the impression that micro theories simply don't work anymore at macro scales. I can quite readily believe that the computational resources necessary to evaluate a micro theory at macro levels may be completely infeasible, but as long as the theory still actually holds true (even if you can't compute it), that makes a lot more sense.

So I guess the real claim here about the nonexistence of a Theory Of Everything is really about there not being a computable theory that holds true at all scales?

It also seems like there's a bit of a confusion going on here between a theory that describes all forces, and a theory that works at all scales. The article here is making the argument that there won't be a Theory Of Everything because you really do want to use different theories at all scales, rather than finding one grand theory that works everywhere. But previous discussion of a "Theory of Everything" (or "Grand Unifying Theory") that I've seen were concerned with finding a theory that describes all the forces, not one that works at all scales. The article did talk a bit about that, and mentioned string theory and superstring theory, but it seemed like more of an aside. My impression is that if we do find a Grand Unifying Theory that describes all the forces at the smallest scale we know of, that still wouldn't be a Theory Of Everything according to this article because it wouldn't be usable at macro levels.
Nobody is “keeping Lessig out” of getting involved in the political system. He’s just trying to do an end-run around the standard process (or more realistically, just wants a platform for his message and has no intention of becoming president), and the DNC thinks it’s a waste of their time to humor him.

Last year he pulled his “Mayday PAC” stunt which spent $10M or whatever mostly raised from a bunch of silicon valley VCs, and basically accomplished nothing.

Another analogy: This is sort of a similar circumstance to people with no connection to the mainstream scientific community who are convinced they have invented a perpetual motion machine or developed a Theory of Everything or proved P=NP (or whatever), but then don’t get time or attention from mainstream scientists. Occasionally they turn out to be neglected geniuses whose work is rediscovered decades later, but most of the time not.

The DNC has a limited amount of resources, their debates have a limited amount of time, and there’s no advantage for the DNC or the Democratic party in general in letting anyone who can raise $1M get on their debate stage, and significant risk in letting someone like Lessig in to grandstand about how “corrupt” or “untruthful” their other candidates are.

There are some other candidates who are also not serious contenders at this point (Webb, Chafee, perhaps O’Malley), and letting them into the debates is also sort of pointless, but they are career politicians with some skin in the game who can at least be trusted not to cause a scene.
It's interesting that starting from the principles he states in section 1.7 the rules of probability can be derived. This formulation is from http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06597 (where it is shown that the measure-theoretical approach is just an special case):

(Representation) Degrees of plausibility pl(A|B) can be identified as unique real numbers p ∈ R; and

(Qualitative Correspondence With Common Sense; Logical Internal Consistency) This has three sub-Principles:

– If there is more than one path to a correct conclusion, all such paths must lead to the same plausibility result;

– In assessing pl(A|B), You must always use all of the available information that You regard as relevant to the assessment; and

– Equivalent states of information about (A|B) always lead to the same pl(A|B).
Should we all pretend that "fair is meaningless in context of culture exchange" is a reasonable thing to say now?
This happened to me and they absolutely refused to refund me the 5 days I waited for a tech to show up so he could throw the switch. Absolutely mind boggling.
Okay, what's a non-shit cable provider?
Exponential back off is a good idea, but to make it even better you'll want to add some random jitter to the delay period. Especially in the case of deadlocks this helps avoid another deadlock when two things would have retried at exactly the same time.
Also see this documentary A Murder of Crows:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/a-murder-of-crows-full-episod...
I interpreted it in the context of repeated "demographic crisis" claims about Japan getting older. I still read it that way, but if that wasn't your intent, I apologize.
The case against checked exceptions
Show HN: An Antigen clone written in Go
You should be embarrassed because you're asking for CC, Street address and CVV -- everything required to order anything online anywhere.
In a sense it is possible when you're very young (i.e. early 20's or so). I was able to slide by at that age with minimal employment, for months at a time, followed by a few months here and there of retail / delivery work.
Of course, I ate shitty food, had no access to medical/dental care (possible when you're 20 years old, not 40), lived with multiple roommates in rather cramped conditions, and lived very frugally - little going out, no girlfriends, kids, etc. We were not forced to buy health insurance, and most of us just gambled.

Once you're older, all it takes in the US is one trip to the ER, a traffic accident, bad roommate, etc. to screw your life up big time. Once in a hole, it is very difficult to climb out here without serious money. The US does have some social safety net, but it doesn't really apply for a single male (with skills) that is simply choosing not to work much.

Nowadays, with rents and other costs having doubled or tripled in most areas in the last 15 years, I'm not sure I could pull it off as a 23 year old in 2015 like I was able in the late 90's
1 - Live and learn, eh?

2 - I think other technologists don't carry the same prejudices against technologists, so they don't accidentally showcase those prejudices. I guess there's a

3 - Spot on.

4 - I think the incentives are against concise initial communication. It's like online dating - from a strictly rational perspective, spamming out a halfway witty message gets better ROI than individual messages. It feels gross, tho. Being reasonably concise would involve some targeting, which would cost timemoney. So you get gross (in both senses) messages. Also, maybe expect an email from me.

5 - That's legit. Maybe my perspective is a little myopic on that point. Oops.

6 - Interesting. My current contract seems to be a fixed percentage, though they won't share the number ("A percentage in the 40s"). I assumed this meant they were lying, but I applied for FTE here and lied about what I make, and HR caught it.

Interesting to hear about it from the other side.
The Internet is 20 years old. Calm down lol.

Also does humanity win when cultural tradition, cultural _information_ is lost forever? Are we sure we are capturing all that is useful?

Is it really inevitable or could we _choose_ to assign more value to the preservation of extant culture?
I'd be interested in hearing from, say, a biologist or a medical doctor, too. But the article only interviews academics from social work and psychology.

I'd like to see some links to research on genetics. The article links only research on environmental factors in addiction.

The article's conclusion may well be right, but it's not convincing if you don't agree with the conclusion before reading it.
Yeah, it feels almost like the mess of JavaScript libraries of the last five years: Everybody is dropping a hook into the water with some newfangled containerization technology, hoping to make it big.
Interestingly, the hardware side has not given me that much trouble. There were cases of busted drums in laser printers, but compared to the software issues I have seen, the "robot" part usually works remarkably well.

There's a saying about dogs, that one should not be scared of the dogs, but - if at all - of the owners. I guess that kind of applies to printers, too. ;-)
What is with all the comments about 'potential for abuse'? Are so many people in so many offices really like little children trying to get paid for as little work as possible - or is this just some kind of twisted disciplinarianism leaking out? From what I see of people regularly staying late, and working through lunch with a sandwich in one hand and typing with the other, on average the opposite problem holds...
Or picked the right startup to work for.
Naps are good even if you don’t work through the night.
The title is just the hypothesis. Their conclusion is the opposite: "The findings suggest that it is unlikely that Native Americans carry a genetic variant that predisposes them to alcoholism. Certain variants of ADH and ADLH do have a protective affect against alcoholism in some Native American people; however, these findings do not explain the high incidence of alcoholism in the tribes that were studied."
Not to be "that guy" on HN, but if you can't do this right now you need to shut your form down until you can. Collecting this info without encryption is irresponsible.
this is a great example of using typeform to bootstrap your way into providing a service. Really cool idea and i'm glad these guys are doing this — I can't wait to cancel comcast!
Soylent is not the same as Ensure - if you google soylent vs ensure, you'll see a lot of differences.
I do the same thing but with a google doc.

I mull over these ideas and decide which ones to pursue. I've accumulated quite a few. I even built a scoring system to decide which ideas to pursue that I was using for a while.

I think the best way to generate ideas is to think about things you're interested in and questions you may have regarding these topics. Write them down immediately in order to preserve and develop them.
Sadly, i can't comment on pretty much any of what you've written, as you've phrased it in a way that would require discussing matters i've given legal advice about.
When should a hardware company stop updating drivers
I think it's a little more optimistic than that. Recently there was a Kaggle competition that analysed enzyme make-up of saliva of animals in order to predict epileptic seizures (I might be mincing specifics here but the point remains). So while it's true that we won't be able to treat some of the things that a fitbit etc. highlights (bad decision making, cancer, etc.) it can definitely potentially be used in preventative diagnoses and early detection warning systems. What an age we live in indeed!
badass, easily recognized. These are subjective terms. YOU think the swastika is badass. YOU find it to be an "easily-recognizable" symbol (at the time of it's introduction).

You can't prove things like that, so why do you believe this stuff? Why do you present it as fact?
It's not a binary choice.
I still can't believe cooking and cleaning dishes is a thing.
I was hoping for a technical solution.
The simplest solution of all, as far as I can tell, is to add a new virtual interface to the host (all hypervisors provide this functionality; or use macvlan on bare metal) and assign it to the container after obtaining layer 3 information about it (DHCP, static addressing, whatever). Then you don't have to worry about the complexity of overlay networks or NAT.

What's the objection to this?
So your argument against it is, "somebody else already made something similar so why bother"?
I used to have several friends in Pakistan, a country with a relatively low average age. IIRC, Pakistan is the "youngest" country on the planet, demographically speaking, and has a lot of problems that grow out of that. So I have read up a bit on how average age interacts with things like crime rates, tendency to be involved in violent organizations, etc.

More adults/higher average age/demographic shift in one direction or the other has a known impact on group tendency towards either civility or violence. The most violent groups on the planet are predominantly made up of young men under a certain age. Governments take advantage of that reality for filling the ranks of their military branches.

Anyway, maybe I am just saying it badly.

Have a good day.
A person with a masters degree in social work assures us that the genetic evidence collected to date is bunk.

>severe stress doesn’t just affect one generation: it is passed down, both socially — affecting parenting — and physiologically, by actually changing how children’s genes are read, which can alter both brain and body, a phenomenon known as epigenetics. Research on children of Holocaust survivors, for example, shows changes in reading instructions for genes related to stress.

Citing debunked garbage study, appealing to science like magic when it confirms biases. Article immediately discarded.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem seems to suggest the same conclusion. Yes, it's not the same thing. Yes, it's an overworked analogy. But the fact remains, we rely on axiomatic systems for all of science, and axiomatic systems are shown by that theorem to have fundamental limitations when you try to extend them to "everything".
The SPIN Operating System (1995)
There will always be people with more exotic tastes than a legal brothel will cater to. There will always be human trafficking.
The Martian brings science, largely unchanged, from book to screen
Paywall. Here's a re/code link:

http://recode.net/2015/10/02/apple-acquires-u-k-based-speech...
Thanks! We're thrilled that it's something you're looking forward to!

And typeform has been fantastic. We actually made a form for this ourselves, but the UI experience with typeform is so much better. They're really building a wonderful product.
Its his property, there is nothing wrong with that.
I thought was an interesting question, so I Googled, and there are actually some pretty convincing replies on Soylent's forums - http://discourse.soylent.com/t/comparing-soylent-to-existing...
Soylent isn't always used as a replacement for good food. It's used as a replacement for junk food that you would grab in a hurry.
Michael Booth talks about Finland's schools in his book, "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia." He points out that in Finland the most revered and treasured profession is teaching. The smartest students, the most driven students, they all become teachers. Articles like this are wonderful at pointing out that relaxed and individualized teaching can succeed but they are glossing over an important cultural norm.
Experian CEO trying to lobby his way out of responsibility for T-Mobile breach
Not necessarily. The nazis were opposed to both capitalism and communism.
I remember reading an old Reader's Digest Medical Compendium type book in high school that I had found at a thrift store and they had this story in there. If I can find the book I'll share how they wrote it in there (but he was self-conscious about putting his head on her bosom if I remember correctly so he came up with his alternative method because of that so as not to make her feel uncomfortable).
I've canceled Comcast service several times now. I've got a pretty good routine down. Basically you just preference the call with "I'm canceling my contract with Comcast today. There is no discount, inventive, or conversation that you can give me that will convince me not to cancel. This cancelation needs to take less than 5 minutes and the phone call is being recorded".
Lost, then returned two years later: Grand Canyon from the Stratosphere
Google Officially Becomes Alphabet
Ensure is not the same thing as Soylent.

1. It is way more expensive than Soylent powder.

2. It has too much sugar and too little of everything else. If you scale the calories to 2000 you'll have 400% of your daily recommended value of some nutrients and 50% of others.

3. It comes in annoying sizes (one bottle is only 240 calories, wtf?).
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US, analystish job in finance
Maybe look into it more? Ensure and Soylent are very different products, even if they state similar purposes.
It's not all quite as recent and out-of-the-blue as Snopes suggests:

Domain Name: forthepeeple.com

Updated Date: 2015-10-02T15:06:29Z

Creation Date: 2014-10-30T23:09:22Z

Unfortunately I can't trace back to 2014 to determine if the original registrant was alpha@mycareerfox.com

Archive suggests there was something parked there in December 2014

https://web.archive.org/web/20141217043318/http://forthepeep...
Soylent seems to be under more scrutiny than any other food product I have ever seen. And at the same time, they are being more transparent, and showing more responsibility than any other food company I've seen.

We've all gotten new food at some point that had gone bad; and yet I assume most of those companies just kinda shrug it off as long as it's below a certain threshold.
I'm also confused by the premise that "scale" is a concept that is meaningful at any micro/macro level of a theory-of-everything. I mean, at some point, the whole idea of space and "scale" may not even exist anymore.
I would suggest using HTTPS on your main domain. While you do include an iframe from a HTTPS source for the form that asks for a credit card, someone could MITM the main domain and replace the iframe source with something else, and the user might never know.
Is this perception even slightly based on reality?
I haven't checked, but I suspect that a better down scaling method can be used while still being compatible with the same decoding algorithm.
That's a pretty generic canned response. While I'm interested in your "proprietary technologies," I'm more interested in how you plan on physically buying the tickets. Are there APIs for purchasing lotto tickets? Good luck.
I'd say that comment said that perception of safety is key
This makes sense for versions after the format gets finalized.

If they do it for pre-finalization versions, then they (and other implementations) will have to keep supporting them, which probably doesn't make sense considering how small the corpus of images in this format likely is.
Supporters of this may believe that giving inmates jobs is a better rehabilitation device than playing basketball, working out, watching TV, or sitting in a cell all day. Instead, being taught to do things that most members of society have to do to survive.

Work credits could be seen as getting a shorter sentence by showing that you can behave like members of society (i.e. displaying evidence of your rehabilitation). They normally give credits like this for general good behavior, too (again, evidence for behaving in society, at large).
I remember when I first saw Havok in action (Half-Life 2 tech demos). It ushered in a new era in gaming. Things were expected to behave at least very close to reality. The way the developers described it back then made it seem like a revolution and I think it's easy for gamers these days to take that stuff for granted, since it is indeed "in pretty much every game ever".

Integrating it into Azure seems like a natural step for MS. I hope this ultimately means better environments for us to play in!
On the other hand, people here are a bit larger on average. Evens out I guess.
The Decline of ‘Big Soda’
Appreciated your insights as well. Fixed percentage isn't uncommon, which would usually be set by the end client (place you work) to try and keep their contractors from getting gouged - though 40% seems like gouging to me, although I've seen higher.
Really interesting idea! But I'm not sure how I feel about a company impersonating their customer cause that's what you would do right? I think people will be reticent to provide personal information...
Summer 2014 I traveled the US via motorcycle, camping for the majority of the nights. "Real food" takes time. Refrigeration, cooking, cleaning, time, not crushing it in transit... I also don't eat meat (and was vegan that entire summer), which makes finding decent food in many places (if you're willing to eat out) really hard.

I unfortunately didn't get my original Soylent 1.1 in time for the trip, but how I wish I'd had it.

I don't use Soylent on a daily basis, but I always take it camping or on extended trips. I'd rather have a decently balanced food source (nothing is perfect) then eat greasy fast-food or just go hungry so I can make an extra 100 miles of travel before sunset.
I'm guessing MySQL doesn't support this (hence the need for a cron job), but postgres lets you set a statement_timeout on the connection. It will force kill queries that go beyond that timeout. I worked on an app not too long enough that occasionally would have some queries go off the rails and start blocking everything. We set up postgres to just kill off anything taking 30s automatically, and then were able to root out the issues without worrying about everything blocking on these broken queries and taking down our systems.
Good question. I'm not sure anyone thought to ask. That place was such a madhouse, I'm kind of surprised that was something people complained about.
This is pretty cool and all but a comfy office couch is pretty sufficient for power naps during siesta hour.
Neat... I can see a use case for this in comparing pre- and post-final HTML documents (though I don't relish the headaches involved in actually acquiring both relevant sets of images at the same time out of our CMS).

Presumably it gets deeply murky when dealing with compressed jpegs?
TC implies there's no such thing as a perfect antivirus program (which detects all and only viruses), or a perfect typechecker etc because if you had such a program, you could turn it into a halting-checker easily: for an AV program, if you want to know if program X halts, you simply put the virus at the end and run the whole thing through your perfect antivirus checker - by assumption, if it detects a virus, then the program X must halt (otherwise the virus would never be able to run and is just dead code) and if it doesn't detect a virus, then program X doesn't halt. Since we know you can't solve the halting problem... In more general terms, this brings us to Rice's theorem.