skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But can you disable secure boot / add your own keys? I haven't seen that discussed anywhere.
I would gladly pay twice the amount I pay for Soylent for a "nutritionally complete lifestyle" that I could get in the same amount of time.

I honestly don't think it exists, though. Cooking and preparing food takes time and creativity.

> Not only is good one of the greatest luxuries in life

See, I promised myself I would leave this thread before people started toting out the arguments isomorphic to "you only eat Soylent 100% of the time! You monster!" - and yet here we are :). I thought I made it clear in my OP, but I don't eat Soylent for every meal- just the meals where, in the absence of Soylent, I would have had something worse.

Does that clear things up?
It contains an unnecessary amount of protein if you're only consuming Ample.
A few comments:

- To answer your question directly, if the numbers in the article are accurate, black women were disproportionately more funded per black female founder. The overall numbers are very low (i.e., relatively few black female founders overall), so I personally wouldn't draw any conclusions from this data since it is too easy to skew.

- Getting funding in general is hard. If a black female founder doesn't get funding, it probably has more to do with their idea or team than with anything else. Said another way, the same idea with founders of different race/sex will only very rarely change the outcome.

- Is it with the effort to pursue VC funding period (irrespective of being a black female)? Most ideas that people have simply don't scale to levels that will be interesting to VCs. Additionally, even if the idea has the potential to scale, it has to scale in the right way (i.e., on a VC timeline).

- I'm curious about why you believe anything in TC or Wired. They are in the business of selling clicks, and most businesses like this are quick and dirty with numbers and/or conclusions. I would weight these about zero in my decision about whether to pursue VC funding or not.

- Social capital goes a long way in VC funding. While there are certainly some people who will exclude because of a founder's blackness or womanness, there are many others who won't. I suggest getting close to some VC-funded founders somehow (social hack this). Private conversations with these folks will get you much more valuable and actionable information than a TC article or a post on HN.

- HN's (and Stripe's) own patio11 makes a point of being willing to meet young entrepreneurs to talk about these types of matters. This guy has well-informed opinions. Even if you disagree with some of his conclusions, you will at least have some great information to act on. Searching for patio11 and kalzumeus will point to a way to reach him.

- I suggest reading all of Paul Graham's essays. Short summary for founders: talk to your customers and iterate your product.

- I also suggest you read Michael O'Church's essays about VC culture on the way back machine. Sometimes they come off as being a bit shrill, but those essays provide a lot of valuable (and imho often accurate) insights about the dysfunction of certain parts of VC culture.

I hope this helps.
Sums up the world really, most every country has a version of this. Status and notoriety has always been used to sell, it's horrible, but it's hardly a uniquely American thing.
> People who are very busy frequently cannot find the time to prepare nutritious, healthy meals from the bare ingredients, and purchasing ready-made food that is nutritious and healthy can be prohibitively expensive for some people

I'm sorry, but I'm getting really tired of reading people use this as a justification for soylent; I'm not saying there is a convenience to it, but phrasing it this way is kind of sad. It does not take a lot of ingredients, or time, to make a set of meals for the week.
Your comment reminds me of this article an article the guardian wrote about "conspicuous production" being the new way of signaling status[1]. To that end, the consumption of food becomes just another thing to be optimized.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/new-statu...
Soylent gets millions of dollars from tech investors.
While true, accomplishing the scale that WhatsApp did with 50 employees is significantly harder and more impressive than being able to serve the same kind of traffic with 1,000 employees building the infrastructure to support such feat.
What does USB stand for again? Maybe it's time to admit defeat and start the whole universal process over.
Ensure, like Slimfast, has much more sugar than Soylent.

Per 2000 calories, Ensure has 135g sugar to Soylent's 45g.

https://ensure.com/nutrition-products/ensure-original#vanill...

http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-drink-nutrition-facts-e...
Breaking a door is not the same as having its master key. It's a flaw of the door. Encryption can be broken as well, but everyone has encryption that is better at not breaking than most doors.
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You can't go hiking with Slimfast, Weight Watcher shakes, or juices.

What I don't understand: the REI market is the one place where Soylent is inarguably better than any other product in its niche, and nobody seems to give a shit about that.

I carry a bag of dry Soylent in my SAR pack. When I get sent out on an assignment, I have no idea how long I might be out for. For less weight than any other option, I have dinner and breakfast and lunch if necessary.

If I know in advance I'm going to be out hiking for more than about three hours, a pre-mixed solution of it in a Nalgene, with a quick chug here and there, really beats back the fatigue.

The REI market is not small, and it's got a huge focus on ultralight, ultralight, ultralight now. Soylent really seems to be missing an opportunity here.
Reading the headline made me think of George Best.
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NASA: High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
> The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist's such as Andrew Ng's opinion) to create a conscious intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do.

That's only one school of AI ("weak AI"). The other school ("strong AI") says that it's certainly worthwhile to create an intelligence that is capable of thought the way humans are -- if only to get a better handle on what "thought" and "intelligence" really are. Currently weak AI is "winning" because the surveillance and online-advertising industries can get more use out of it. But that doesn't put strong AI out of reach, nor render it wholly irrelevant.
I pay the water utility company for every flush. What is unethical about that model?
And too much protein?

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/fda-daily-recommendations-pr...

"The FDA recommendation for daily protein intake is 50 grams on a 2,000-calorie diet."
Yep, exactly what I do, +1 for using bootstrap's variables as much as possible too, I don't think a lot of people realise how powerful bootstrap's variables are, and can greatly cut down the amount of CSS you write.
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> Within a decade, though, anti-immigrant, eugenic and racist forces would persuade Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924, which dramatically cut back immigration of Italians, Eastern European Jews and other groups considered undesirable.

I guess people with names like:

Leo Szilard

Enrico Fermi

Albert Einstein

Robert Oppenheimer

and so on.

For more such foreign names please refer to the Manhattan Project bios [1]

[1] http://www.atomicheritage.org/bios
I am a bit older than you (36) and I think USB C charging is a great idea.
I just bought a Nintendo Switch, and it is has USB C charger. It would be great if all my other devices could use the same type of charger so I don't have to carry multiple cables/charging bricks with me.
By all means enrich yourself and learn new things, but don't delay your game for 5 years so you can teach yourself how to draw, use proper proportions on figures, color, etc. (on your own because why pay a teacher?). Remember that you're in business, and even if you're a solo dev it's not all about you and your personal growth, it's about whether your business can deliver.

The good advice from a conference this past weekend: "if I was hiring, would I hire myself to do this job?"
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14262035 and marked it off-topic.
TBH

Most open source stuff actually is poorly engineered, if engineered at all, because a lot of it is developed by beginner-level coders. Now, I do of course know that many, many commercial products are full of crap, too ... but engineering excellence still mostly goes into commercial products. Obviously. It goes where the money is, and in most product categories that can't/won't be open source.

Almost every open source project is completely focused on implementation, all the while implementation is only one facet of a software project. All other facets are usually neglected.

Yes, there are quite some projects one might call "industrial-strength XY" -- but the vast majority aren't and never will be. This is also not just a numbers game; a large number of crap-quality open source stuff is incorporated into widely deployed stacks. Just take libraries for file formats, just a couple days ago we got a dozen or so CVEs in libtiff ranging anywhere from denial of service to arbitrary code execution. That thing will be on most web servers.
I use GoogleMail behind a custom domain ($50/year) and am quite pleased. I used to be a FastMail customer but a couple minor outages and weirdness around billing made me switch a few years ago. Functional "report spam" is a big win for GoogleMail, and as an apps (or is it "GSuite" now?) customer you don't have to worry about ads/privacy issues. Don't self-host, I self-hosted (Postfix/Dovecot) before using FastMail and it was a huge headache between reasonable spam filtering on the receiving end, and undelivered/spam-marked emails on the send side, although I learned a lot by self-hosting. Also, it was hard to pretend I was serious about privacy/security when I was self-hosting on a box that any Linode admin could shell into as root, especially after Linode's security dramas. This is not to say that self-hosting cannot be cheaper and more secure than alternatives, but if you're not a full-time sysadmin regularly setting up mail hosts, you probably will get something(s) wrong. I never could silence that voice in the back of my head saying "what if some really important email couldn't be delivered to/from me?", which was sometimes right. As others have said, you have to use GPG if you're serious about privacy, regardless of your email provider. Anyway, for me, $50/year is a great deal for reliable email with good spam filtering, and being able to use my personal address/domain for Google Hangouts and Docs is a decent win for collaboration.
To introduce pattern matching in the future?
Yes, indeed. The submitter needs to sign over copyright. Otherwise you don't have the right to relicense their work under some other for-compensation license. All GNU projects require copyright assignment, for an example. The GPL license is silent on copyright assignment of pull requests, so you have to execute a document outside the license. I believe some other open source licenses address this directly, but I'm not sure which ones.
God I love Starship Troopers. Heinlein was a true patriot.
3,500 calories is a pound
Why is USB-C not becoming Universal?

I don't see the defeat. You can use the port for power, display, file transfer, printing, networking?
> Who expects medicine to be free because they cost nothing to replicate?

I'm sure many people would expect that, if they were perform the replication themselves using thier own equipment, as they do for software and media.
nice article and I almost bought your game but I don't play games on my pc :( But if I did I would - looks mint - Nice trade on experience for advertising
+1 Making money isn't bad.
That Star Wars Cantina Band
I'm not convinced. I make investments in the hope that I will end up getting back from it more than I started with; ideally by enough of a margin to cover the time I had to wait.

My genetic future isn't any kind of investment. I'm never seeing any return on that.
Why do you make this analogy at the level of a country? Why not at the level of a street, or a town, or a county, or a state? Would you be okay with, say, Massachusetts limiting immigration from Michigan? Would you be okay with people on 51st street refusing to let people from 120th street move in? If not, what makes you feel different about immigration at the national level?
To hopefully short-circuit a lot of pointless debate, the product you're about to mention is not equivalent to Soylent unless all of the following conditions are true:

1. It contains enough calories for an average healthy adult to live on (2000/cal/day, give or take)

2. The sugars used are high glycemic index

3. You will incur no major nutritional deficiencies/toxicities by long term use

4. It costs no more than $14/day (or $8/day for the powder) while satisfying all above conditions

Most diet drinks fail on condition 1, most meal replacements you're aware of like Ensure fail on conditions 2 and 3, and the leftovers usually fail on condition 4.
Is there really a big market for a hardware solution to something that can typically be solved with software? There are all sorts of focus-inducing apps, from DNS servers that refuse to serve distractions, to software that actively blocks certain non-white-listed apps from running.
i have used OSGI in projects and find it useful to see bundles states, Camel routes/endpoints, lot's of other useful stuff.
But i have never seen it working properly in PROD enterprise application.
Sadly my eclipse is just confirming that from time to time with errors :(
Yeah- in comparison to Soylent the Ample guys specifically say not to only eat Ample. Arguably people get less protein than they should.
But that's explicitly not a backdoor. That's straight forward, "If permission is granted from 2 opposing parties, crypt can be reversed". And that would have to be added to the crypt on cyphertext creation.

And the Bitcoin protocol has a similar thing, with escrow key permissions. Again, intended behavior, not some "super sekret backdoor".
The crowds here saying that Soylent is "just" rebranded Ensure/Slimfast/etc sound like the same voices that said Dropbox was rebranded rsync/scp/ftp. The arguments are cookie-cutter and wrong for the same reasons they were with Dropbox.
Kodi: Open source TV app inspires full-blown copyright panic in the UK
That's actually a very good idea, I'll add it right now, thanks.
I'm an Android user, but i often prefer to discover apps via the web(search/forums), an it works pretty well - doesn't this exist on the iPhone ?

And sure, maybe this way won't fit my mom, but often, lacking the drive to look for apps, is related with lacking the drive to pay for apps.
I feel like more people should read this book

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food
Clearly, that is better as a seperate app. 99.99% of viewers will never upload, much less use that feature.
Agreed. Starting a company (6 months in) - it's hard to work from home. Worth the money to have an office and not only that but the routine.
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Amazingly, I can actually speak to this. I'm Ph.D. student in Shwetak Patel's lab, and yes, this looks to be extremely similar to the ElectriSense [1] work done by Sidhant Gupta (now at Microsoft Research).

The water analogue was Eric Larson's Ph.D. work, and was much more difficult from a DSP perspective due to two separate issues:

* When water is flowing without turbulence (laminar flow) it doesn't leave much of a signature on flow or pressure sensors

* Any kind of signature that does exist is often changed significantly depending on the network of pipes that stand between the single point sensor and the source of the water event.

For these two reasons it took a while for us to work out a high enough accuracy for the water stuff (in the end we used a water pressure sensor plugged in close to your water heater as a fairly central point that most people can access easily) and that was published as HydroSense [2]. We like our *Sense names. :P

HydroSense was indeed bought up by Belkin, and they are pushing it forward in a way that we just cannot do in academia, so that's a good thing. ElectriSense I don't remember exactly what the IP status of it is, but I do know at least one student was working on some interesting extensions of it that may be published in the next year.

[1] http://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/publications/electrisens...
[2] http://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/publications/a-longitudi...
Another way to trigger a bounce would be to have the evil domain purposefully having strict SPF and DMARC policy set.
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We pay $3000 a month for our startup for a small 3-4 person private office room in a shared space.
echo 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com >> /etc/hosts
I have actually pulled that trick off a few times for things like nav drawers and in over a year we have never gotten a single complaint around one of those elements not working. Of course it's entirely dependent on your audience and what you are trying to achieve, but I have found it very safe to use radio buttons for this purpose in our content.
Censorship is illegal suppression of information. You can tell your kids to shut up, that isn't censoring them.

You try and choose a meaning to support your argument just as much as anyone else does. Welcome to terminology.
No, to find the answer, fall back to copyright law. If you own the copyright to some body of code in entirety, you can license it under as many licenses as you want. GPL for the community, proprietary trade-secret in exchange for money, and everything works fine.

But.... if you take a pull request from someone, either they have to sign over copyright to their patch, or else you have to involve them in every relicensing negotiation, because now they are a copyright holder, too, in the work.
Yeah! I tried MealSquares for a while and they were great. The actual taste left something to be desired - they were quite dry - but if I wasn't into Ample I'd totally get some more.
Why? Most $50mm investments end up worth nothing. The fact a company has investment does not mean they have actual value.
Its most likely not ultrasound, but just on the high end of what's supported by these codecs. mp3 and other codecs are biased towards human hearing ranges but support up to 30000hz I believe. Most people can't hear above 15000hz. Load up any 'dog whistle' app if you want to see this in action.

I imagine these apps use somewhere about 15k where some of us can hear it but really won't notice it too much during the 'empty' spaces between music, commercials, etc.

The middle aged and over execs and managers who approve of these schemes certainly can't hear it.
Oop, yeah, sorry.
That's not a maximum. The body can heathily process a few times that much a day (don't quote me on the precise number).
On the topic of raising/burning $:

I remember seeing that they had a position open for a software engineering role. If I remember the job description correctly, they've built out their own online store?

I recently saw that you can buy their products through Amazon - I wonder if it was money well spent to roll out their own web store versus using Amazon/Shopify. As a past customer I don't remember seeing any particularly unique feature that made hiring in-house staff for this aspect necessary.
Current state of the art in real estate lockboxes includes wireless technology so the devices can communicate usage. They are in the IoT space of vulnerabilities.
They don't really have one. If you go to https://www.completefoods.co/ , you can find a bunch of meal replacement recipes many of which are soylent inspired because they couldn't get soylent shipped to them. Some people also ship their custom blends.

/r/soylent is a popular place where people talk about meal replacements.

I think they are kind of like Kleenex, they will become the common name for the genre.

As for taste, I tried Soylent and it tasted like wet cardboard to me. I ended up switching to Schmilk (you mix the powder with milk) and the now discontinued 100% Food.
"similar or better nutrient profiles than Soylent in most grocery stores"

Really? Slimfast and Ensure have much higher amounts of sugar; what are you thinking of?
>a significant proportion of the population do not grasp the logic behind variables and loops (40% I seem to remember, don't quote me).

>These people can still graduate with a CS degree.

How the heck can someone graduate with a CS degree without grasping variables and loops? These are fundamental to computer programming. Variables are fundamental to algebra. You can't get a CS degree without knowing algebra. Are you talking about some kind of diploma-mill degrees or something?
Sure it can. All it needs to do that is to emulate a HID device and act as an keyboard or mouse. You might notice when it starts opening cmd/shell and typing commands, or not, or at least not fast enough. Or you may not understand what's happening and ignore the black box that popped up for a while on your desktop.
I lived on Garden of Life's Raw Organic Meal + Green Vibrance + Alkaline Water for a while.

https://www.gardenoflife.com/content/product/why-choose-raw-...

https://www.vibranthealth.com/green-vibrance/
An average meal comprised meat and rice contains a large amount of protein. It's a relacement for that. What are you talking about?
There's a ton of research on reduced calorie diets, and my physician referred me to this program, and it's run by my hospital system. I meet with dietitians, physical trainers, social workers, and physicians monthly.

/shrug

I don't really know how to evaluate it much better than that.
Man, I wish I needed 100g of protein a day. I try to be very conservative on my intake, and I still need 142g minimum at 180 pounds.
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>what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal.

Protein powder (whey or soy pick based on lactose tolerance) + powdered oats + whatever for flavoring (eg. cocoa powder and coconut flour) in a shaker bottle - add water/whatever milk - shake and consume.

Throw in fiber supplement if you don't get enough fiber like psyllium husks.

Waaay cheaper than soylent if you buy smart (bulk), scale macros according to your requirements, at home or if you have a kitchen at work you can pre-mix powders in a container then scoop out, mix, drink and clean up in 10 mins tops.

Take some fruit along if you want - like an apple or a banana. Honestly soylent seems like a shitty version of a protein shake diet - low satisfaction is there but you get none of the gains.
There's a marked difference between all of the above if you take a cursory glance at the nutritional information. If you tried to eat a 2,000 calorie diet on classic Slim Fast, you'd be getting around 200 grams of sugar and over twice the recommended daily allowance of sodium. Ensure, Cliff Bars and a lot of other popular snacks of that kind compared about as unfavorably last time I checked.

I agree with the common sentiment that Soylent's original goal/purpose - a simple powder/drink that could serve as one's sole source of nutrition - is sort of ridiculous, but it actually led to a remarkably well balanced product unlike anything on the mass market. It's remarkably filling and nutritionally well balanced for a convenience food.
Speaking of points, I can't tell if you're intentionally missing mine, but either way this is unproductive. If you're sincerely confused, please read up a bit. The Wikipedia page isn't a terrible place to start.
They also have a few days of early release on some sets via Lego.com VIP program. They don't always announce them. The brickheads were this way for a while.