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Think of something you have to do every day that you don't like to do. Like flossing maybe? Some people really enjoy flossing. Some people don't. If there were a device I could put in my mouth and in 30 seconds everything were flossed, I would totally do that. But some people would think, man how can you do that and take all the enjoyment out of flossing?

Sometimes when I'm working, I run to the fridge, grab whatever is in it and eat it while I keep working. It usually doesn't taste like anything because I don't even bother heating it.

Soylent lets me do that but it's a lot healthier than whatever leftovers I might grab out of the fridge.

Either way I'm not enjoying the food nor the company (I'm at my desk at home alone). I'm also only spending 10 minutes.
I'm a big fan of Michael Pollan's manifesto: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. The idea being that processed foods cannot hope to match the nutritional profile found in whole foods, particularly plants. This soylent stuff is about as processed as food comes, so I'm inclined to be very skeptical of it's healthfulness.
This is simply not true:

Apple said on Tuesday it saw a nearly 30 percent decline in its China revenue in the quarter ending September, the highest fall among all regions, due to tepid demand for its iconic iPhones.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2016-10/27/conten...
Adding to what others said, slashdot.org was the water-cooler news site back then and the icon for Microsoft was a borgified Bill Gates.

Microsoft did everything it could to destroy openness in the software world. They wrote that the GPL was a virus, hired prominent heads of open source projects like Miguel de Icaza and the name of the Gentoo guy who I forget, and nothing really became of those projects afterwards. And of course there was Netscape and IE up through IE8, IE6 being the most infamous.

Yeah... Microsoft was the bad guy on the block.

(edit: misspelled Gentoo)
OnStartups.com redirects to birch.com – did they forget to renew their domain?
As someone with Crohns disease, who has been on an elemental diet not by choice but by necessity, I can assure you it is very much a real world effect.

Unfortunately, we lack a corpus of evidence of long term liquid diet feedings (and intestinal investigations), mainly for ethical reasons, but there is at least one good rat study I could quickly recall: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01308310 There are, however, countless great articles I suggest you read on liquid diets and their impact on satiety and other important illness recovery markers. One of the important topics for researchers has been how to safely transition patients more quickly to solid food, given some of the less desirable side effects of the liquid food diet.

And yes, I understand that the Soylent team is confident that they've solved, for example, all gastric emptying issues by adding exogenous fibres. I'm positing that for every variable they're convinced they've figured out, they're opening up another potential set of problems that they've not even considered. Their latest opacity on this recall isn't giving me hope that I'm wrong here.
I have all the free time in the world and I have that "ugh do I really need to eat again?"

I find it hard to hit 2500 calories daily to not lose weight.
try the dell xps 13 with fedora 24. you will be amazed!
So true. Most people can't handle it. It's all relative to them and it's not usually logical.

I worked for a small startup some time ago where the owner was paying me more than she paid herself but eventually we only had 2 employees left and everything became transparent. My friend (in sales) became all upset about his salary in relation to mine and they gave him a bump. I was eventually the last one left though.

That was my first professional job and it's ironic my buddy in sales couldn't negotiate a rate he thought was fair. He's actually quite good.

People are perfectly fine working for YEARS with their own valuation and then all of a sudden they think they're worth more because someone else is making more.

And then they don't even offer a compelling reason for why they think they are worth more, which is really why they weren't being paid what they think they should have gotten in the first place.

It's every employee's responsibility to know their value and to be able to articulate it. That's a very important dynamic of the workforce whether people like it or not.

My favorite collegiate course of all time had only one agenda - to teach us to think differently in a way to be compelling and persuade. Every project was related to that premise. We don't have enough of these types of courses and that shifts more power to the employers.
I just noticed when my RSS feed filled up with trucker software posts. http://onstartups.com/all still shows the original posts though.
whats your thoughts on fedora workstation?
No, way more simple! But closest to a "gravy-like sauce". But you have a lot of room for improvisation once you master the basic technique.

One of the beauties of classical French cooking is that it is simple. It is based on this premise of simplicity. One of the easiest things to learn is a "pan sauce". After that you might learn to make the 5 mother sauces which are super simple too.

What this means is you cook the meat, generally on high heat, in a pan with a fat such as oil and/or butter and when it is done you remove the meat and put it aside. The pan will have crisply bits on the bottom. In French, this is known as "fond". This is good stuff!

After you remove the meat and reduce the heat and you put in a "mirexpox" which is usually some onions or shallots, some diced carrots and some fine diced celery. But really, whatever you want! You're using less heat so they just slowly brown for about 4 minutes or so. This is called "sweating".

Now the magic happens. You crank the heat back up and "deglaze" by adding wine, vinegar, water or whatever. What happens is all the bits that are stuck to the bottom of the pan come off. You use a flat edged wooden spoon to help scrape them off and they come off easily. This is where a ton of flavor lives. You keep the heat on high and let your wine or whatever reduce a bit. It cleans your pan too.

Then you add some meat stock - chicken, beef, veal, etc. Stir everything around a bit and let it reduce. It should boil and steam. Over time the water evaporates and you get to a point where you have a thick sauce that isn't too thick but not watery. In some cases you could add a roux (flour and butter mixture) to thicken. Add some herbs like thyme if that sounds good. When it's at the right thickness you take off the heat and pour through a strainer and add some butter and stir to thicken. Discard the parts you used to help flavor the sauce like the carrots, onions, etc. Or keep them if you like them! Up to your taste!

Now you pour over your meat and whatever else. It's pure flavor and dead simple. And this is but one technique you can play on many ways.

You want a link? Google "pan sauce" and dive in. It is the easiest way to make a basic meal into a gourmet meal I think. Steak, pork, chicken or whatever.
Coming from the weightlifting world, I saw this as exactly what it is: re-packaged "mass gainer" with some vitamin, flavor, and ingredient tweaks. So revolutionary...

Yeah, a bunch of nerds trying to live off of what is essentially mass gainer/meal replacement - who probably don't even exercise - will probably get sick. Especially when the makers try so hard to be "differentiated" and mess around with the formula.

Y'all fell for this.
The context to which I was responding to was that in the article the women were suggesting that people who have children should be given special treatment. Things like, if you choose to work less because you have a child you should still get the same raises and promotions as someone who didn't choose to work less (regardless of whether they reproduced). Things like your employer arranging for emergency daycare for you if your kid is sick, or otherwise allocating company resources (space) for kids to hang out in when they're out sick from school.
My understanding was this generation of nvidia GPUs is a pretty solid step above the AMD offering.
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Do you have a link to the story about the insurance policy? Sound like a fun read.
I totally understand his point. I think you're the one with reading comprehension issues here...
Your argument is essentially Pascal's Wager, replacing "believe in God" with "don't use that technology". I don't think modeling any action as having infinite value/cost is ever helpful, because you usually end up with multiple infinities and no reasonable way to decide between them.
What do you mean by unnatural? What is in Soylent that isn't natural? Food in and of itself is just a mix of different chemicals - be they from plants, animals, or other sources. But at the end of the day, a molecule of glucose from a plant is identical to a molecule of glucose created synthetically.
More nutritious? Uh... no. I have no idea why you'd think that. The nutrition facts[1] on the powder show that you can basically live on the stuff and receive 100% of your micro and macro nutrients. Which is the whole point.

[1]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/4/assets/Compl...
Yes - as I stated in another comment we need prices and markets for resource optimization.

The comment to which I replied chaffed at thinking there could be any other system than what there currently is. To me this is a dangerously rigid way to view the human life. Everything should be questioned, if only to find answers.
> Biology is hard. Humans are really, really variable.

Plus Soylent has been presented as a replacement for all other food, and some people use it as such. I would think that would make it more likely that their users would experience problems, since it would mean greater and constant exposure to ingredients that might not cause issues if consumed less frequently.
On the average work day I've got 4 VMs running at any given time, eating up 6-8 GB of RAM. Put Chrome, my IDE, etc, and it's definitely relevant.

My real complaint here, though, is that besides the GPU and CPU, this is essentially the same specs as my 2013 MBP. I'm not going to drop $3.6k for an incremental upgrade.
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I mean I think you're right. You can have it all and we do today. An amazing supply line of ingredients from around the world and endless great recipes and education on technique on the Internet. We can have our cake and eat, both in the kitchen and the bedroom. Rejoice!
To me, the place to start is with the consideration that if a key vendor isn't turning a healthy profit then that key vendor is likely to go away. The second thing to do is run the numbers and determine if the new pricing means shutting down your business, seriously impacts the odds of future success, or is rounding error.

The third thing, is to act on the results of your analysis and if it's not time to shutter the doors come up with a plan for mitigating the effects of the dependency.

From the vendor's point of view, your company wasn't pushing a renewal deal through and therefore the vendor's revenue stream has been uncertain. It is also possible that over the past year the vendor has repositioned itself toward a different scale of customer and is taking their product in a different direction.

Maybe the cost can be passed along: http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+%28and+no%2C+I%...
I'm still curious why the soylent thing has hit it off in the HN crowd and not, say, Slimfast. Which is basically the same thing but with more production hardening.

Maybe fragile masculinity? IDK.
Have any examples you could link to? I'm very curious to hear what that sounds like.
You're surprised that they didn't use a top of the line card when most of their target audience will never even make the thing sweat? I have a 1080 and use it to play games at 4k while driving two additional 1080p monitors. It kicks ass and I push it much harder than most digital artists ever will.
Do you believe that there is some chemical (or other) difference between two molecules of, for instance, glucose, solely due to their origin?
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Replace all water with whole milk - problem solved!
Not to the level people in this thread think they do.
Also, they originally advertised it with copy like "A full day of balanced nutrition prepared in 3 minutes for $3/meal" and "What if you never have to worry about food again?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150515220800/https://www.soyle...
I don't understand why they felt the need to pull the product. Lots of foods don't sit well with certain people, for whatever reason. If it makes you sick then don't eat it. As long as it contains food grade ingredients that are non-toxic then it's not on them.
How very unfortunate that they must now focus on "building profitable businesses". You know, there was a time when that was the very point of running a business.
Whatever dude. You keep spreading your FUD. You clearly do not understand what Docker is and what Docker does.
Isn't this why we invented the "multivitamin"?
Strangely, there are a bunch of low-end pentiums that support ECC.
Travel is a luxury, housing is a necessity. I stay in a hotel maybe 8-10 times a year and the other times it's paid for by work. I can afford modestly more expensive vacations, but housing prices are much more of a concern for most.
"If there were a device I could put in my mouth and in 30 seconds everything were flossed"... I think what you're looking for is dental floss.
Something about that picture reminds me of VGER from Star Trek.

But seriously, it should be an interesting read once they've fully studied it.
My layman theory for why it hasn't happened yet is that evolutionary pressure is not high enough. I believe the main advantage of not having to breed on land would be safety from predators. I guess there is no shortage of "safe" places.
It was depressing seeing how MS treated OSS on their own ecosystem (.net). For every good project MS would release there own inferior clone and the whole ecosystem was left worse off.
Care to share your recipe?
> I don't judge anyone for making food and drink a footnote in their life.

I certainly do. Yes I'm a snob.
The Garcia Effect[1]! Always found it interesting that even if you consciously absolutely know the food is fine, the aversion remains. And (like you mention) unlike typical "conditioning", a single occurrence can trigger the effect. Definitely does fade though, otherwise I suspect many fewer people would drink screwdrivers.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion
Ah yes, the cilantro / coriander tastes like soap thing... completely ruins a whole bunch of delicious foods for me :(
…you'd rather eat random shit out of the ground that has been found to not kill you, than to eat something based on studying humans and their nutritional needs?

I mean, I can't say I like soylent much but you're just stupid if that's the argument against it.
+1 to this point of view

Samir didn't just fall for a Nigerian money scam or something (also a foolish thing to fall for). He was nude AND masturbated on video AND showed his face to a stranger on the internet, a public venue. I'd feel for him much more so if this was a private video/conversation with his SO that got hacked or their relationship went sour and she used it against him.

The rare times I considered doing something like this with an SO I was concerned just about it going to a secure cloud account in my control. So why would I give a stranger such power over me, even if their intentions are good? What if they got hacked and extorted, and I get caught up in it as a result? Is this experience really worth these risks?

Lastly, so far nothing bad actually happened to him anyway. He got smart quick once it went south and has been proactive ever since and as a result has mitigated the issue. I'm glad he shared his story, hopefully others like him read it and don't go through the same experience.
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Honestly, this guy is a genius. And people can't get over that their scroll wheel doesn't work on a website that hasn't been updated in half a decade.
Private parties still have to comply with planetary protection treaties. In fact any colonization plan, or even commercial flight, to Mars (or anywhere else in the solar system) from SpaceX needs to be approved by the US. It's not a free for all out there, space is governed by treaties.

That's a big hurdle to colonization and commercial exploitation. Because it means you have to show you're not contaminating alien life.

I would be really excited if we find traces of life on Mars but, at the same time, it would probably delay commercial exploitation and colonization for decades...
Which I thank you for; the not-umlauts in The New Yorker have been a slightly puzzling thing to me, up until now!
Is there a no swearing rule on HN?
I understand GDP as "taxable transactions".
If I'm not mistaken, all Xeon E5 and E7 processors support registered ECC memory. Many (if not most) multi-socket Xeon motherboards won't even let you install non-ECC memory.

Here's the thing... there's really not much of a point in ECC memory for most desktops and laptops. In servers, sure... in mission critical applications even a tiny memory error could have devastating consequences. But for someone browsing facebook? Nah.
As it was said internally: "we are hiring '1 Facebook' every year."
Ha this is on my mind every single time someone brings up Soylent. Seriously, it's a joke. Some kid makes a knock off slimfast meal supplement and HN is all "Goddamn genius is disrupting meals. This is the future man!"

This would make a great Black Mirror episode.
You need to take the stick out of your ass. Give me a break I thought this was "hacker" news. You can't respond to comments unless they adhere to some kind of courtesy code?
Honestly, what the other poster said: whole milk.

2400 calories per gallon, well balanced between protein, fat, and carbs (you might say that it is ideally formulated to feed large mammals :P). The best part is that it is readily available every where and super cheap (< $3 per gallon).
There are a lot of products, like Ensure, which have a much longer researched track record than Soylent. It's more than sticking a few things into a powder.
Yes, you're right. Should have said English. I lived in London.
You might find this interesting http://quadro.me/
I'm particularly excited about the inclusion of Lucene 6's KD trees, allowing for up to 8-dimensional geometric search. Normally you'd use that for geolocation stuff, which is fine, but I'm excited about the possible applications for using it to index document embeddings!
I'm not them; HN's comment policies on civil discourse are largely about what can say (and call) other users, that doesn't apply to the person above as they're top of their own thread (i.e. it impossible for them to be targeting another user of HN). Swearing in and of itself isn't against the site's policies.

Only thing in the comment policy you could even call up is "gratuitous negativity" but I'd argue their comment provides enough value (e.g. phytonutrients) to just call it negative rather than gratuitously negative.

I'd recommend you yourself review the policy before calling out others: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I appreciate healthy skepticism, but evidence has been thrown out on far flimsier premises by even the lowest of courts. It would be very surprising if evidence of this manner continually survived through the court system on appeal after appeal.

This isn't saying it can never happen, but it would be in contrast to the multitude of times that evidence was discarded for less.

I haven't had a chance to read the fcc's reasoning on why the ISPs are allowed to collect the data in the first place, and I do agree it seems like a ruling that's just can't wait to show off all its loopholes; but I think this would be pretty difficult to bring as evidence in trial. Though I do agree and think it'll be used as a cudgel for other purposes outside of the courts, for threats or for discriminatory justice.
I think it has more to do with the road blocks being put in place by current isp's. Fighting and working around those increase fiber installation costs and makes it harder for them to be profitable. They still will probably expand google fiber to places that already have community fiber installations.
When I saw the title, I thought maybe they'd found actual evidence about where Jesus was buried. No, it's the traditional birthplace, identified as such in AD 329, apparently.

Edit: find->found
I think the man you are referring to is David Cope [0]

[0] http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm
That's a fair point. I agree with you. The sentiment of the article, taken as a data point, probably has some useful properties insofar as it predicts market/voter/etc. behaviour. I wouldn't publish an article about it unless I'd tested that claim, though ;)
I wouldn't attribute it to some kind of nefarious gender issue.

It's as simple as marketing, which does matter. Slimfast in it's name implies a diet drink, not food replacement. Most people would never even consider them in the same arena and that's due to simple marketing by the very companies that produce them.
There's a niche that Soylent has been really helpful in, that pretty much everyone seems to have ignored so far (including Soylent-the-company, who I sent an email to regarding this and received back a form letter response that hadn't had all of its fields filled in).

Backpacking, hiking, search and rescue, hunting, anything outdoors.

I carry an unopened package of Soylent powder in my SAR pack and I've been glad I have it several times. Take a Nalgene, fill it up to about 300 ml with powder, add water, shake vigorously, and now you have enough fuel to ease fatigue for several hours. It's lightweight and convenient and easy. Cleanup is simple.

Now when I'm peak-bagging my default is just to carry some Soylent with me. The only time I carry my mess kit anymore is if I'm going out with the intention of a morning, afternoon, or evening meal ritual being a planned part of the trip. Like, "let's hike out to Phoenix Lake and have a nice hot dinner at sunset." Otherwise, Soylent.

I've been gradually becoming a disciple of the ultralight over the last couple of years and food weight is challenging to whittle down. The alternatives, freeze-dried anything, are mostly disgusting and still require carrying a stove, fuel, and require cleanup. Soylent has reduced my pack weight and size by quite a bit, and (for the most part) I'm getting better nutrition overall because I can just chug it in small doses throughout the day. It also means I'm less likely to develop a fatigue-related injury.

It's gotten some attention from other folks on my SAR team and my longtime hiking partner has started giving it a try too. It doesn't seem to be something that's really caught on in the outdoor industry yet. I really wish Soylent would sell small, lightweight packages of the powder that were pre-sized to mix with about .8 liters of water and then get it into places like REI, but I guess that's not something they're very interested in.