skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better arguments against Soylent can certainly be made, though by smarter people than myself. I do have three main issues with it:

1. The idea that we can take something as fantastically complex and as poorly understood as nutrition and successfully boil it down to a formula is really, really unlikely at this point.

2. As incredibly unlikely as it is that someone could create such a formula, even if they had access to and total understanding of all the research that currently exists in the world, it is even more far-fetched that it would be some random software developers who would create it.

3. Even if, despite all that, Soylent is the perfect formula, it still isn't. As is becoming more evident, diet is so individualized that the idea that one formula would be ideal for any significant percentage of the population is very unlikely.

Given all that, it seems really unlikely that Soylent should be the cornerstone of your diet.

So, having spent way too much time studying and experimenting with diet (including SAD,vegetarian, vegan, paleo-variations, etc), the only nutrition advice I feel comfortable with (assuming you are so lucky as to have the choices I do in middle-class America, with practically every food available) is just to start with a variety of whole, unprocessed foods (probably mostly plants) and do your best to identify the ones that you have obvious issues with and avoid those. As there is seemingly no known individual health benefit to gain from processed foods, the safe bet seems to be to avoid them in favor of unprocessed foods when possible. At least until the next over-hyped study comes out showing that vegetables kill!
I won't say I can't live without them but here are a few I always do.
These require a root shell.

Install Xcode command line tools

xcode-select --install

verbose boot messages

nvram boot-args="-v"

make Library visible

chflags nohidden ~/Library

verify Time Machine backups

tmutil compare
While I agree if they're just a JavaScript app there's no way I'm running them locally.
Potential use cases for nanobots
Imagine that after each transaction, the measure of total wealth is normalized to have the original total. Whether or not actual wealth is increasing or decreasing, Norvig's simulation of nominal wealth will have the same dynamics.
Usually I would choose a native app over a website for the performance and better memory management, unfortunately all that is lost with node & friends.
I've done this and once had a phone rep from Geico who was convinced I worked for them because my email was something like geico@example.com. This was probably in the late 90s when email was still new to many people. She was really confused that I wasn't getting the employee discount. "Are you sure? Does a family member work for Geico? No? Are you sure?..." I don't think she ever did really understand what was going on.

Perhaps I could have saved even more than 15% if I'd just gone with it. :D
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> The point is that the fear-response tells you to not play with the tiger, you astounding idiot.

Last I checked, the fear-response "tells" more than not to play with the tiger. For example, it tells (via moral conditioning) not to kill or maim or wound (not to mention insult as you evidently are doing here) one's fellow humans - yet reading the daily news will confirm that such violence does happen on a regular basis (despite fear "telling" them not to do it). Therefore, is there something new you can contribute to aid human understanding?
@mondo, is the advantage really gone? Seems like cutting out the browser would eliminate a lot of overhead.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/07/02/the-colleg...

Says economics majors have 4th highest starting salary. Computing is 1st.
Twitter’s top management just announced a massive exodus – on Twitter
This is exactly the problem with excessively 'flat' organizational structures that seek to do away with hierarchy. You can't get rid of social power, you can only change how it's distributed.

Spreading it out more equitably among all employees sounds good until you realize that it makes decision making even more opaque: when everyone is responsible, nobody is.
Most post-Smith economics -- certainly everything in the market to tradition, classical or otherwise -- views normal transactions as net positive (and positive for each voluntary participant), not zero-sum.

But there's no reason to assume the degree of benefit is the same for each participant, and intuitively I think a more realistic net-positivr transaction rule with the gain randomly distributed would have distributionally similar results.
User generated content in the music business has been tried over and over again. MP3.com, MySpace, Garageband, and many others. The problem is that the consumer wants the hits, the names, the current hot artists. They don't want the long tail of unknown artists.

Sure there are those who like to check out the new stuff and occasionally something pops.

Soundcloud will eventually end up paying the same royalty rates as Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker, and all the rest thus eliminating this "SoundCloud has much better unit economics than Spotify."

What is to stop Spotify from adding an artist upload feature?

The macroeconomic factors on why all of the music delivery services are eventually going to fall in value has to do with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon treating music as a valueless commodity.

No one can charge more than iTunes for a song or streaming service. Apple sets the market price and operates their business at low margins due to ancillary revenue from hardware. If you're a music service and have no ancillary revenue to increase overall margins, you've got a classic business problem. The comparison to Youtube is also flawed because it doesn't mention that AdSense is the ancillary revenue that has kept YouTube afloat these many years.

Furthermore, the content owners (copyright holders) will continue to raise prices and cut exclusive deals with different providers in order to maintain their cut of the pie. You see this with the content patchwork across Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and even Youtube Red. No player has all the licenses all the time.

Music is a wonderful thing, but delivery is a commodity service where the players are competing on style and features. Content is ephemeral and a marketing illusion for the most part. If you want people to come, you have to have the stars.
The point of Zcash is to make the sender anonymous. The receiver is not, for taxation (and traceability) reasons. So, money laundering will not be easy because you'd have to explain why you suddenly got a large amount of money that doesn't match with any business you run.
Bauman: “Social media are a trap”
Can you create a focused, high intensity gamma ray burst and blast a planet with it? What about sending a white dwarf careening through our solar system?
Maybe the compensation of managers has something to do with this: http://avc.com/2016/01/get-the-strategy-right-and-the-execut...
Being a fighter pilot in the US is strange. In most countries it is seen as a long-term commitment, a career. But since TopGun, US fighter jocks just don't stay that long. Five years or so, then retirement into civilian life. Being a fighter pilot seems more of a career stepping stone. (Same goes for seals.) I keep running into ex pilots at security events, at committee meetings, or as politicians. So I can understand the demand. Your brother was up against not just those wanting to be pilots, but also those wanting the badge on the resume.

The flip side is that while well trained, US pilots have a bit of a reputation. They seem like they are trying to fit the TopGun stereotype. I once read somewhere that the Naval program on which the movie is based was losing more pilots to motorcycle accidents than flying. That's probably an aberration as these are small numbers, but the concept that pilots would even ride motorcycles off duty is odd. You'd never see an astronaut taking such risks.
The browser isn't really cut-out, but that's not to say the the performance isn't better. In fact, with a lot of the "browser" side stuff, like bookmarks, extensions, etc. gone there is performance gains to be had using node-webkit/Electron, etc. in my experience using them. It also allows you to get around some security contexts that running untrusted code in a browser environment requires.
I've also been using this for a couple years now. Using it now in fact!

Soundcloud's UI has gotten much better within the past year, enough so that it feels fine to use as a dedicated desktop app.
I'm going to assume from the context is what they actually did was use a crypto-grade RNG to introduce bumps into the geoid surface. That is, instead of everything being 2 meters to the west (or whatever) things were randomly offset from their reported positions.

You could "map" the whole thing or somehow steal the source and crypto parameters in order to transform between geoids, but you couldn't do something simple like subtraction.
Anxiety is fear, just induced into the hippocampus by the cortex (simplification).
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I assume it's not because they want the samples, unless it's some kind of... CIA Fake vaccination-drive v2.
Huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl...

> The grave accent and the diaeresis are the only diacritics native to Modern English... The use of both, however, is considered to be largely archaic.
The diaeresis mark is sometimes used in English personal first and last names to indicate that two adjacent vowels should be pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong. Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë... it is far less commonly used in words such as coöperate and reënter except in a very few publications—notably The New Yorker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#English

> The grave accent, although not commonly applied to any English words, is sometimes used in poetry and song lyrics to indicate that a vowel usually silent is to be pronounced, in order to fit the rhythm or meter. Most often, it is applied to a word ending with -ed. For instance, the word looked is usually pronounced /ˈlʊkt/ as a single syllable, with the e silent; when written as lookèd, the e is pronounced: /ˈlʊk.ɨd/ look-ed). It can also be used in this capacity to distinguish certain pairs of identically spelled words like the past tense of learn, learned /ˈlɜrnd/, from the adjective learnèd /ˈlɜrn.ɨd/ (for example, "a very learnèd man").
A managers job is to get things done using YOU as the tool. Your happiness is as irrelevant to this as the happiness of your keyboard.

If you work better happy... fine, that's a consideration. But really it's the only one. The goal isn't for you to be happy. The goal is to get tasks accomplished. One keyboard breaks you go get another one. The store shelves are full of them. And that's how the pyramids got built.
>Once you're in, the nanny corporation will take care of you for the rest of your life.

The flip side of that is if you quit you will never be offered another salaryman job. By anyone. I wouldn't start a business in Japan unless I was already unemployed.
Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha
Why do people call this encryption when in reality obfuscation is a much better word for it?
> I'm sure too the funding agencies might wonder about all the overhead needed for a grad school with no one teaching graduate-level courses.

Maybe. Maybe not. Probably not.

Either way, which would bill more: one 18 person class, or 2 300 person classes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10853115
I loved his documentary Grizzly Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man). His voice was definitely part of why for me as well.
It seems like there should be an opportunity for a foreign bank to open a branch in Japan? But I suppose they have ways of preventing that too.
Good point. I forgot about Vitamin D.

But isn't that produced through exposure to UV, which LEDs don't emit?
Surprised to see Peirce on the front page!

If you enjoy this you should check out his other popular essay: "The Fixation of Belief" (http://peirce.org/writings/p107.html).

My professor had a "swear jar" for mispronouncing his name (it sounds like "purse", not "pierce").
Okay then ... name one instance of fear being a second signal (in addition to reasoning) heightening perception of a dangerous situation. And consider how effective such a course of action is, in minimizing the risk of that dangerous situation, in comparison to handling it with no fear at all. While I haven't read the book, I bet Mr. Gavin de Becker never considered the option of "no fear" (not ignored fear) in all his threat assessments.
I thought about trying to measure the input on the real-world code that I have to use it in (specifically, decoding email messages). The challenge of trying to do base64 decoding fast there is that you generally have to ignore whitespace characters (and possibly other junk as well).

The code implementation here clearly requires that all the extraneous stuff get kicked out and the resulting string be compacted, an operation whose overhead by itself could easily negate merely a 46% gain; it's hard to see how it could be modified to make the stateful decisions while still keeping the tight gain. I also have a sneaking suspicion that the improved scalar version might turn out to be worse in real-world systems because the 4KiB table would cause L1 cache thrashing if you're doing lots of small base64 decodings followed by later processing (e.g., string conversion).

So the real problem is that the measurement is done in a way which is different enough from real-world scenarios that it's questionable if any speedup is actually achievable in those scenarios, let alone one as significant as a 46% gain. It's easy to be fast if you ignore having to do it correctly.
Emails expose close ties between Hillary and accused war criminal Henry Kissinger
At least ownership of larger corporations is typically more spread out. Bailing out family businesses, who typically offer no ownership to their employees, only really serves to enrich a particular family and maybe helps them afford to use others for labor a bit longer.
Yahoo shuts down BOSS API
Just to clarify, I wrote what I understood the piece to be, I don't necessarily hold the same view. I have seem my share of resources squandered by a short-sighted politician looking for re-election.

I guess in a perfect world, the State realizes it needs to plan and invest beyond 4 years, and in the rest of the cases your mileage will vary greatly.
Yes but at your own risk.
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If you look at the valuation of Bonobos you quickly realize this could be a great start up idea. Assuming you can lower the price for the average consumer where they can wear it as daily wear. It would greatly protect consumers against potentially fatal situations such as knife fights, drive by bullets, cross-fire bullets, and shrapnel from explosions.
Based on what I know, that data wouldn't tell you anything useful in the US.

How much you pay varies wildly based on: the treatment, the care provider, your insurance plan, and what other treatment you've received that year. One provider can charge 10 times what another provider charges for the exact same treatment.
also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/arts/design/ricky-jay-and-...
Can't judge whether holocracy has improved Zappos' financial results--and what else actually matters?--since Amazon doesn't break out Zappos separately. But I find it easy to believe that Zappos was ordered to reduce expenses; salaries are the easiest place to start cutting, but obviously if cut too much or recklessly results can suffer over time.
I meant that there isn't a supported way by Amazon. What about purchase history? Kindle books? Coupon credits? You're gonna manually migrate all AWS services you use one by one? What about AWS credits you might have gotten?

While you can certainly register two accounts and start all over, it's clear I meant an intentional support by the system to allow one to separate the two.
> Twitter might have looked like a place to go

Which, while slightly off topic, reminds me: does Twitter do automated resume checking? I applied some time back at 3am for a job I was more than qualified for and got a rejection almost instantly. I thought maybe it was an automated system so I tweaked my resume and resubmitted and it was rejected again almost instantly.

Really put me off from ever trying again considering that I met the requirements listed and it declined me saying I did not. I had an indirect way to send a resume through some friends but decided not to bother after that.
> Large scale distributed systems aren't that simple.

It is not simple but it also doesn't have to be 1000 employee-type of complexity.

As a counter-example I'd point to WhatsApp was handling 1B users with 50 employees. That includes custom apps for fringe phones used in 3rd world countries. It included media sharing, it including managing and ops.

I know they are not Twitter but still 50 vs 1000 is a huge difference.

They've traditionally credited Erlang and FreeBSD as one the techologies that was responsible for their success. Not sure if Facebook will strong-arm them into switching to whatever Facebook is using.

One can then ask, well, why don't companies look at that and learn and do the same? And I think the answer is once they headed in one particular direction with their choices, they are more susceptable to the sunk cost fallacy. Coming in one morning and telling everyone, screw it, we picked the wrong direction 2 years ago. We'll lay off 50% of the people and re-write the whole thing in Swift using this other stack. We'll cut half the products and work on new ones. Etc. That is almost impossible to do. So they are sort of bound to heading in the direction they've been heading, even if individual people will all see it is probably the wrong direction.
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Because, like it or not, Windows is the platform for graphics programming.

- Debugging tools available

- SDKs for game consoles

- Advanced CAD/CAM (not everything is on UNIX)

- Platform of choice for PC demoscene
Homeland seems pretty critical of US policy in Season One, perhaps too much so. After Season One (which should have been the only season) it becomes laughably transparent pro-Israel/anti-Iran propaganda rather than pro-CIA.

It's even more brainless and nonsensical than 24, but unlike that show, Homeland actually seems to take itself seriously.
There is no story here. A small percentage of the text is devoted to a tiny amount of correspondence that proves nothing, and the rest of it is criticism of Kissinger (which is obviously not new).

The "ties" are basically the bare minimum you'd expect between Kissinger and any Secretary of State. They seemed to communicate impersonally and only every few years, and they also seemed to see each other in impersonal ways.
First they raised the prices by 100% ~ 500%, with very little notice, then surprise, surprised, everyone stopped using it (well I'm guessing here, but what else could have happened?). Then they backed off a bit and made it cheaper only for their ad partners. So you could only use their API economically if you display their scummy ads and get their blessing. And now it's just cancelled. The alternative -- YPA -- is a client-side Javascript solution unusable on the server side.

No wonder Yahoo is in such trouble -- lately, they've taken good products, ruin them or stop improving them, then cancel them due to everyone abandoning them (Mail, Maps). Or they just cancel good products without trying to monetize them (Pipes).

I switched my search engine to use the Bing API and never looked back. It's a shame that it is the only top-tier search API available now.
Kind of amazing how some billions and trillions will just stand you right up on your feet in a few years.

Maybe the Fed is now the zombie?
Regarding the Vitamin D3 and K2 quotes, I have seen the same information from multiple sources. Vitamin D3 is what your body produces, and what you would get from eating fish. When I've read up on the topics I've never seen any counterpoints that you should be preferring D2 or K1.
>The author assumes that more productivity is always good, even though Japan has been suffering a lack of economic demand for most of the last 26 years. Big gains in productivity would only make the lack of demand worse.

The Japanese unemployment rate is now at 3.1%, which is very low, even for Japan. In that kind of job market you need big gains in productivity because employers will have trouble filling job openings. There's no reason for the government to artificially stimulate job creation.
Even getting a basic credit card in Japan as a foreigner can be a real pain. If you work for a big company and can get some oomph behind your application you're fine. But if you're a foreign student you're probably going to have trouble.
It seems like the reporter from The Atlantic came up with a hypothesis and set out to write an article to "prove" it. I don't see any reporting, as in speaking to current or former Zappos employees, learning what Holocracy is, or investigating its long-term effects. In other words, this is just an opinion piece.

Extrapolating a general condemnation of an entire business system like Holocracy from a single data point is bad journalism, to say the least. Casually lumping all "flat" structures together and cherry-picking research to support a hypothesis (hierarchies work!) is lazy, and does the reader a disservice.

I'd be very interested in some actual reporting to see how things are going at Zappos. It's possible that Holocracy is not turning out well. It's also possible that the turnover was exactly what they needed, and a positive new model of work is emerging. Unfortunately, this article didn't do any reporting, so it's unable to serve as anything more than a traffic-generating question mark.
Depends on who you're asking and from what timeframe you're asking about. They used to be absolutely horrid in the age of alternate and meta-TLDs when the real rush to nab a domain was on. I can't speak about present times, however.
It was my understanding that the registration time you have with one registrar carries over with the next registrar. In other words, if your domain is automatically renewed for a year and you move to a different registrar and pay for one year, your domain will be registered for two years.

I must say that I have never verified this myself, mostly because I've never needed it that bad. At least something worth looking into if that problem arises.
So the issue is - is it possible to produce a valid measurement? In scientific method, part of an experiment involves a control. There's no way to produce one in economics - the systems are too complicated. You can't know whether measurements you take are the result of your change directly, or caused by network effects of the change as part of other things going on, or just weather from unrelated things happening in the economic system.

Austrian instincts are partly about building a defense against corruption and tyranny. If you let politicians spend money or introduce mechanisms that are difficult to measure, or which can be easily hand-waved away ("we did what we thought was right based on the information at the time"), then they are incentivised to spend. Instead, they form a line in the sand and say that you're not allowed to do anything which can't be clearly justified from a set of first principles. The back-story is not so much a faith in the inherent goodness of markets as in the inherent evilness of governments.
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