skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, i think soylent tastes fine. But it's got what I can only describe as an after-texture that is somewhat unsettling. It's like an extremely fine sand coating your mouth.
As with most Soylent detractors, you're assuming people are eating this every day, or for every meal. In reality, it's great as a once-in-a-while thing. I bought some from a friend, and it was perfect for when I was hungry but running late for something. I had maybe 3 meals a week like this. Any time I told a friend I had some soylent, I got the exact same response you just gave.
I'm a bit out of date - the top three ( of the Big Five ) still dominate, though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_%28banks%29

RBC was biggest by quite a margin and for a long time.
Cloudflare allows you to perform redirects.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172286-H...
That doesn't seem like an appropriate comparison.

Tylenol was killing people because it was deliberately tampered with by an anonymous murderer. That's a much more serious issue than a new experimental food that makes some people throw up.

Even though I'm a fan of real food and a skeptic of Soylent, I'll say that the Soylent Bar issues sound overblown already, and comparing this to cyanide-tainted Tylenol is blowing it even more out of proportion.
While the early versions had a sort of wet-cardboard taste, the 2.0 (powder) and the bottles taste pleasant to me.

You have to compare it to what you'd eat otherwise. It may be possible to eat better, but the default for most people is to eat much worse.
What laws of nature? Gravity?
"Backhoe fade" (whether occasioned by backhoes or otherwise) is categorically different from a state actor deliberately cutting another state's undersea cables.
> 50 versions of the same library installed locally

Are you seriously telling me you've never had a linker (static or dynamic) choose the wrong library?
The honest answer is probably that most people are not used to having substantial amounts of fiber in their diet, and being in the form of a liquid makes it much more noticeable if you do have any issues.

The basic issue is that, while you may have gas as a result of eating a burrito, it's spread out over a day. With Soylent or any liquid nutrition really, it hits you over 1-4 hours. Ditto any other sort of gastrointestinal upset - what would be subclinical with solid food and a day or two long timeframe becomes an immediate crisis where you'd better find a restroom in the next 10 minutes.
"People will say it's a booooomb..." to the tune of People Will Say We're in Love

Seriously though... can you imagine how many laws you'd break using that? The FBI would hang you up by your pubic hair, tar, and feather you.
I don't think you have to choose.
What you're talking about is the economic concept of "labor productivity". If we can use factories and automation to create the same amount of stuff with fewer people, then our productivity will rise. If it rises fast enough, then we could have more stuff per person even with fewer people working. Problem solved!

Except: Productivity growth has historically never been high enough to bail us out of the hole we're in, and it has been trending down in recent years for reasons we don't fully understand.

> our material abundance isn't particularly under threat from contraction of the work force.

I wish!
Other people like the taste?

I like it fine. The bottled version tastes like alternative milk.
PyPy uses a JIT (just-in-time) compiler, as opposed to the static interpreter of CPython (the default/canonical implementation of Python from python.org). What this means is that the PyPy interpreter uses runtime information about your program to compile your Python code into very efficient machine code on the fly. Because this compilation is done at runtime, PyPy has lots of data about things like variable types, how often each function gets called, etc, and it can use that data to generate really fast code in many cases.

PyPy is a completely different implementation of Python, so it's impossible to simply contribute improvements from it to CPython. To answer the question I think you're asking, though, the main reason we can't just have PyPy replace CPython as the default implementation isn't strictly technical: The Python community (Guido in particular) has decided to keep the reference implementation (CPython) as simple and consistent as possible, so that it's easy to contribute to and doesn't have any surprising behavior. PyPy, by comparison, is an incredibly complex piece of software. Even if you ignore the fact that it would make contributions harder, its performance is, in many scenarios, actually significantly worse than CPython's, because its optimizations rely on specific patterns within your code. I think it's mostly a good thing that PyPy is its own project and not the default implementation of Python, because it allows Python (the language) to grow much faster than it would otherwise.

I hope that answers your question. I apologize to anyone who knows more about the details than I do if I over-simplified things. :)
This may be unrealistic for a bootstrapped budget, but have you considered WeWork?

https://www.wework.com/locations/san-francisco
Try being international, you get bounced around to a bunch of broken links on their website trying to find the "correct" software version. Then half the time you can't download it because your country (Australia) is a "security risk" and they can't export software for a device on retail shelves.
That's exactly how I felt about our old Volvo. We bought it used and didn't even know it had nav until I accidentally hit the the buttons on the back of the steering wheel during our test drive. It was a disc based system, but pretty fast. The discs were 10 years old and some points of interest were out of date, but it was surprisingly good for being that old. If there was a missing waypoint or destination, we would just enter the street address in and be good to go.

The interface was what I loved though. The screen popped up out of the dash* which meant that it was super easy to see without looking down at the center console, and it didn't replace our radio or other screens with the nav, the screen was nav only.

The controls were cursor based (not pointer, but just menu selection) so the buttons were on the back of the steering wheel, so you didn't even have to take your hands off the wheel to run it. All it needed was a 4-way pad and an enter and back button. There was an IR wireless remote that the passenger could use.

One of my favorite features was that it easily supported multiple waypoints, search along route, and it stored routes even when you turned the car off. Taking a multi-day road trip? No problem!

* How the motorized screen still worked on a 10 year old volvo is probably a small miracle considering what didn't work on that car.
It was not Tylenol that killed people. Someone put cyanide capsules inside Tylenol bottles. I am saying "someone" because as far as I know they never found the person who did this.
Or, "How to kill people with pacemakers". Seriously, there are a lot of bad uses for this which have nothing to do with phones.
Nike's Mark Parker on Imagination, Innovation and Art
>Wells Fargo put her onto a permanent blacklist that others in the industry pay attention to - she can't get a job anywhere else.

I just listened to this episode last night, by chance.

She speculates that she is on a blacklist, because she's having trouble finding work. But there's a more charitable (to the other banks) explanaton: she was a very low level employee who, true or not, just got fired for a massive fraud under investigation in the public eye. Maybe they're simply thinking "this might not be the best hire right now" and move to the next resume, of which there are probably many.

Because, as much as people in management are responsible, there were also front line employees actively committing fraud here. They are also responsible. In fact more so. Her case is not the norm.
"Those X where used to calibrate spy satellites camera" #stopclickbait
Seems like I see a lot more fearmongering ABOUT Russia.
Because you can get so much free hosting credit, especially if you're in an accelerator in the Global Accelerator Network. I'm not sure the numbers published on their site are complete or tell the whole story. I've personally seen startups get 5 and 6 figures worth of AWS credit with up to 2 years to use.

Also, using AWS doesn't necessarily imply IaaS. You can use Elastic Beanstalk.
So why aren't the competing products I've tried / researched, not filled with so many of the common complaints that Soylent has? For example the one I use is entirely flax/hemp/sesame/rice, that's about as fibrous as they get.
The biggest difference is the fieldstrength of the primary field used to induce a voltage in the target, the same basic principles apply.

It takes a (much) higher fieldstrength to induce voltages that will destroy electronics than what's required to flip the occasional bit without damage.

Lightning can cause EMP like effects by inducing voltage in conductors not directly hit by the lightning.
The Post-Capitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker
Plausible.
The arguments I've heard generally come from people who think it's more convenient than alternatives they could make themselves. In my experience, those thoughts are incorrect, but it still explains the reasoning. I think the other reality is that people who don't like to deal with food, or have issues with food such as problems with obesity, or an eating disorder might think it's a solution to the "I can quit smoking, I can't quit eating" issue.
Serverless Framework 1.0 released
Not enough by a far margin.

There's a computer inside that SSD that reads a soft signal to decide if writing is enabled or not. More often than not its firmware is full of known bugs.
> One of the great joys of life is food

The explanation probably starts here. This isn't true for me, and presumably isn't true for some other people as well.
Surely people who can afford Soylent can afford to buy decent ingredients, a rice cooker, and a crockpot right?
given this is "Russia sub ship loitering near Syrian undersea cables."

its probably fud aimed at the strong russian syrian government relationship.
I enjoy food, but don't budget my time appropriately in the mornings. Soylent is my go-to when I'm leaving for my commute in the mornings and for nighttime if I end up working on my own projects at home too late to remember to make something, since I prefer not to eat solids right before bed.

Recently, two friends have given me their own reasons for choosing Soylent. One of them feels that eating is a chore, and the other is convinced that drinking amounts of it will allow their body to take more junk food on the weekend. Not the best reasonings in my opinion, but those are some of the opinions out there.
You're wrong. I've seen it, and I guess I understand why you think it's a legitimate gripe, but it's just a name.
Not every meal is gourmet, sometimes you just need fuel. Additionally, some people don't really care about food as a pleasure to begin with.

Personally, I have a bottle of Soylent maybe once a week when I'm too lazy to make anything else, and I have a soylent bar a couple times a week at my desk when I need a snack but don't want to resort to a candy bar from the vending machine. A Soylent bar is 250 calories and has a reasonably good balance of macro and micronutrients, a Snickers bar is 215 calories and has an abundance of sugar.

I expect that there are relatively few people who consume Soylent as the majority of their calories. Besides, it's not like most people are eating meticulously balanced diets to begin with, so the "long term effects" point seems fairly moot to me.
no because you get just one point in time and to compute an orbit you'd need three (or the apogeo/perigeo + another)
That wasn't the feat people make it out to be. In US elections there are only a handful of states that could go either way.
You're wrong because we all get the joke, and are over it. It's a very conscious branding choice to label themselves as counterculture and edgy. It won't appeal to everyone, but it clearly is a conscious marketing choice, and you'd have a hard time saying their marketing isn't going well.

I think your time would be better spent telling MetRx or Ensure to change their names, considering they are brands which are not very successful at capturing the market Soylent is dominating (the bottled-nutrition-by-choice market).

As far as I can tell their only issue is quality control and customer communication, changing their name wouldn't fix either.
Angular Router: Preloading Modules
Actually the name was derived from an earlier book to which the movie was based on [1]. On the other hand, Soylent Green (as a movie) is pretty low in pop culture, and I can't say I've really seen any issue with the name. I'm fairly certain Soylent (as a company) has done market research on whether the name is worth it.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food)
It feels fairly native actually, there are cases where you can tell, but given the benefits, it's usually worth it.

The ionic team did a great job of optimizing css, and managing routes/screen animations to follow the expectations on different platforms.

Angular is slow, but it's not that slow. It's fine for most apps. Stop underselling ionic.
Guess they recycled this from the emails they sent out about Soylent causing intestinal problems. Can't believe I backed them originally.
Docs much bettter than internet or app-based symptoms checkers
I would guess that competing products aren't as widely tried and/or aren't as closely connected to an online-savvy community.
I'll second Volvo, we bought a used 2003 XC-90 several years ago and the Nav in it was great. Even with the 10 year old discs it found 95% of what we needed by name or waypoint and the interface was incredibly easy to navigate while driving. I chalk that up to the fact that it's _not_ a touchscreen, which means you can build muscle memory and menus were super predictably.
Revealing Private Information Through Browser-Based Timing Attacks
Interesting. I have an AI agent that can solve these types of problems.

What kinds of other unsolved problems are out there? I'm always looking for something interesting.
Because the publisher might not be at fault: it is a good way to get a competitor out of business and that has happened. Have a botnet click on your competitor, he gets banned and loses income? How does that make sense?

And have to mention Google can use this to ban anyone without any justification otherwise. Which was the topic.
> His whole argument is that he's sure
> you really don't want to print in color

He makes several points. When he gets to color, he says: "you probably don't want to print in color as much as you think you do."

Anyway his argument still holds. Color laser printers are still very affordable. I got a Dell e525w, which is not only a color printer but also a scanner, copier, and fax. It was $250.

And anyway, surely his argument is only reinforced if you want to print in color. If printing in black and white is more expensive with inkjet, then printing in color is even more expensive. The article cites a laser that's 1.7 cents a page and an inkjet that is 7 cents --- a difference of 5.3 cents per page. Now add the corresponding HP color cartridge, which is $31.54 for 165 pages, or 19 cents per page. For a laser you have to buy three more cartridges (cyan, magenta, and yellow) but they are usually the same price as black. So a total of 1.7 x 4, or 6.8 cents per page, for all four laser cartridges, versus 19 + 7, or 26, cents per page for inkjet.

Okay, so you would have to print about 500 pages to make up the difference between a $100 inkjet and a $200 laser. But after that it just gets cheaper and cheaper to own the laser. Plus lower maintenance. And the quality of the photos from my Dell is at least as good as any inkjet I owned, even a special Epson photo printer.
I think it's some sort of idiotic tap-to-zoom, like for mobile/touch browsers? Since browser zooming is hit and miss, they probably thought they were oh-so-clever. As Raymond Chen says, someone probably got a raise for this.
Dennis Ritchie has died
I mean a bottle of Soylent 2.0 is a lot less work to me when compared to making breakfast, and it tastes like Cheerios milk anyways.
Yep. I buy one box of Coffiest (12 bottles) per month. I usually drink them before I go swim early in the morning (2-3 times a week). Then, when I come back I get a regular breakfast. And I really enjoy the taste, so... none of the arguments apply.
I wake up on many days at 5am to head out for work. I go from butt naked in bed to out the door in ten minutes. Before Soylent I just skipped breakfast, now I can swig it down really quick. My lunches and dinners OTOH tend to be much nicer, but nothing beats the quick rush of nutrients.
All the nonce schemes of TLS from 1.0 to 1.3
So would this be a good reason for decreased use of antibiotics?
Soylent doesn't replace good food. It replaces the crappy food we eat when we're in a hurry and just need some fuel.
I'm not sure why they didn't just use the MS-PL it sounds like the same thing? I don't understand why use BSD if the MS-PL achieves what they want, and is backed by Microsoft (surely it would be in their best interest to defend their own license).

https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL
I doubt that they teach incorrect theories today. A thing to understand here is that all theories are considered correct, the only difference between them being the area which they describe the best (or more efficiently). They are all approximations and thus can be thought of as all being correct and incorrect at the same time. From the philosophical standpoint, however, you are correct - modern theories do replace the older ones; unfortunately, to apply the quantization procedure you need to be able to understand what it is that you are applying this procedure to - and that is something that is described by the old, "incorrect" theory.
Facebook Bug Bounty: $5M Paid in 5 Years
I've seen the movie, yes.

I think the overwhelming majority of their potential customer base is going to associate it with Soy instead.
It's tangential to the contents of the post, but as a lover of good food (I consider it my one real vice), I've always liked the idea of Soylent. A vast majority of the time I just need something to fill me up. And it's a neat idea to know you're getting everything you need from a single foodstuff (a la the Matrix's gruel). I feel like, if anything, it may make the times you sit down to a nice meal that much more enjoyable.
it was a wonderful place to work.

Was that partly due to the debauchery or mostly because of it? Or was it just the tech and the stock options?
How do you test sample images with google's vision api? Do you have to sign up for a 90 day trial or do they allow you to upload images for trial.
Punishments should always be greater than the financial damages, because otherwise the expected value of fraud will always be positive.
You can't, which is one of several reasons why the original fuckup was so serious. Your track record matters. Why would a new customer go with Zenefits over someone who's always taken compliance seriously?

If equity value is what's motivating people's desire to not illegally cut corners, I see little reason to assume they won't revert to previous behavior once the spotlight is off, especially as time passes and personnel changes.
My SO and I have a stockpile of bottled Soylent. It's great.

There's always a nutritious meal available. Sometimes neither of us feels like cooking. Sometimes we don't feel like going out. Sometimes you're hungry, need some reasonably healthy food, but don't care if it's gourmet or tastes great as long as it's acceptable. Soylent does the job really well.

I also don't agree that it tastes like shit. The bottled Soylent tastes like soy milk to me, which I find delicious.

I'd say I personally only drink one bottle per week, maybe two. My SO uses it for breakfast fairly often (which previously she was in the habit of just skipping).
By federal law, US broadcasters can demand being retransmitted for free, or they can negotiate a price (and black themselves out if the cable operator doesn't agree to pay it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must-carry#United_States
Check out gitbooks.io for writing.

Slides.com + Screencastify allow me to create presentstions and youtube videos.

Draw.io is absolutely awesome for diagrams.

Image and video editing don't have great solutions as far as I know.
But why not go for a protein bar then? Quest bars for instance are delicious (I'd even prefer them to a candy bar), and pack a far more interesting macro profile than the Soylent ones.
Native GPS systems are painfully slow, in my experience. I have a Subaru Impreza 2014. Its GPS usually tracks a full block behind we're I'm at. If I'm not paying attention and make a turn based on the voice-guidance alone, it's often a wrong turn. Re-routing takes a long time as well; too long to be useful. Additionally, I have to pay for annual map updates if I want them. To someone's point earlier, all interaction with the map is disabled while the car is in motion. It would be nice if it were unlocked so a passenger could use it.

So I use Google Maps on my phone. It's significantly faster, shows more meta-data relative to my route, e.g., delays and alternate route suggestions, and if it has to re-route it's usually immediate.
This is the response I have been waiting for - this kind of decisive action is a step in the right direction.

The timing however is not. This is not a preventative measure, it's reactive. Would Soylent have taken the same action if they had not been put on blast on Reddit and other sites? If not for the bad publicity I don't think they would have done anything at all.

Until they are ensuring the quality of their product from batch to batch I'm out. That means properly mixed bars, testing each batch to ensure the 100% nutritional values they claim.
The View from the Valley
Glad to hear you're switching to GitLab. What made you switch? And how can we maybe improve our pull/merge request workflow?
I have looked at the comments here and everyone is talking about the superiority of their phones and how carplay and Android auto are so much better.

And this leads me to having a Steve Jobs moment: I wish the car dash computers would work as simply as smart watches where they are just dumb remote controls for phones.

I don't have Android auto or carplay. But I have used moto360. And I find that is all I really ever need when driving. The voice recognition is awesome. The interface is simple. And like all simple things it leads the mind to wish for more.

It seems like the car manufacturers tried to swallow too much at once and sucked at all of it.
A friend of mine did some back of the envelope calculations at Burningman one year when the megaphone guys were being particularly annoying - he came up with (from memory) 1km of fine copper wire wrapped round 100g of plastic explosive in the right configuration would probably let you take out a typical megaphone at 20m...

(Note: all memories and calculations are from Burningman a decade or so back - and should be treated with an entire playa-ful of grains of salt.)
Isn't that about what the cable PPV channels charge? Or am I out of date?
If they've really put so much science into the formulation, shouldn't crop-dusting index (CDI) be one of the metrics by which the formula is optimized?
The Platonic form of "too little, too late."
Trump had a really bad couple of weeks and all the polls showed a big Clinton lead except this one. It just tipped over. The timing seems perfectly reasonable.

As for the motivation, as a purveyor of facts I have to imagine that the NYT is frustrated at Trump's complete disregard for them, and his disregard of polling is a big part of that.