skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It amazes me that VCs find this type of business interesting because it's not defensible in many of the ways a software company is. I am also not sure why the company wants to raise this much money -- they need to continue growing like crazy (outside of tech regions where engineers who are unwilling to cook live) or go bust.

Nonetheless, the drink is ok. I tried it for a few months. Instead of avoiding cooking, I have embraced it, and now cook incredible meals for $3-$4 using my Joule sous vide. Eating real food has changed my mood significantly.

If anyone in SF wants to buy a whole box of Soylent Original (white bottles), I will sell an extra I have for 40% off. Must pick up, located at Chavez/Bryant.
I think both paths are worth exploring!

Ideally developers would have a spectrum of choice: all native libraries (Electrino), native browser + Node (your suggestion), Chromium + Node (Electron). They could then pick what works best for the scale of the project.
I have done both in my time with Soylent.

When I first started I went 100%, then was one of the first people to get horribly sick of the bars, eventually quitting.

Now I eat Soylent as a replacement for meals in which I usually eat crap foods. If I was going to get a sausage mcmuffin from McDonalds, instead I eat a Cookies and Cream Soylent "shake." I think that Soylent's big play is in a healthy meal replacement that is scientifically formulated to be healthy. They have fought with that and being environmentally friendly, but I think it all comes back to being a healthy food in the end. The 3 people I know who eat it, do exactly the same as me. Most tried 50% for a bit, but eventually it is used as a convenient mildly healthy meal replacement when needed.
From a tourist point of view it is just much easier to visit neighbouring Caribbean islands...
Have you actually compared Soylent to SlimFast? They have practically nothing in common beyond being a liquid. Why all the hate?
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My 2 cents. I think of it as a min/max problem. I don't care about my lunch so I want to minify the effort and degrading effects of it and I use Soylent for that. On the other hand, I absolutely love food and love to cook so I tend to cook dinner every night and really enjoy the experience. When I care, I care a lot, when I don't care, I want to minimize the effort involved.
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The best advice that I got was don't quit your full time job. My desktop sharewares dont sell that often nowadays, but its enough to pay my rent and monthly expenses. The salary that I get from my full time job goes direct to my bank untouched.

> "Working from a cafe"

100% agree. For me, no work gets done from a cafe. I wonder what work people do by sitting at Starbucks. I cant write one line of code if I am being constantly distracted. Does anyone feel different ?
They are powered with solar. The technology doesn't change the other problem - they changed the signs previously by updating the content manually (replacing the plates). I'm guessing they have this sorted out.
Soylent is "regulated as a food by the FDA".

I don't know if it was intentional, but your description of the Amish and honey is not completely accurate. The gentleman in question was informed he could not claim a salve he sold cured cancer without evidence. It's not honey, it's a mixture of herbal remedies, some of which are toxic.

It's hard to get any true factual information about this specific case because the coverage is almost entirely in heavily biased "news" outlets that focus on "Natural Healing Remedies".
Soylent was fine. I maintained weight, and was eating better, and the food was easy.

But I'm in a medical weight loss program now, and I'm loving it. It's doctor supervised, I started out at 400 pounds, and I'm down to 360 after five weeks. It's medically supervised because I'm in ketosis, which can be very dangerous. So best to have blood drawn regularly, etc.

But the food is great. You can also get them as your own supplements / replacements.

http://www.robard.com/products/

Right now I'm eating 1,000 calories a day. I'll be going down to 800 calories per day. And I'm burning about 2,000 calories of my own fat every day (that's a pound). Again, this is a dangerous diet, but it's medically supervised.

I feel great, I don't feel "hungry" all the time. It's awesome.
Did you skip this part of the article?

"But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation."

and then: "Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue."
It was hard to find the right nutrition data, but:

Slim Fast:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/125563-slim-fast/

http://www.fathead-movie.com/images/slimfast.png

https://tamafitness.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/shakeology_v...

Sounds like you could probably survive entirely on Slim Fast. It's got Iron (which the original Soylent didn't have), Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin B, Vitamin D, and Iodine, and a bunch of other micronutrients. You probably wouldn't have a great time but I doubt you would on a Soylent-only diet either.

Solyent doesn't seem to differ much:

http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-drink-nutrition-facts-e...
Clif Bars are roughly the same caloric and nutritional content of a standard size Snickers bar.
This is a pretty expensive laptop so I don't think price should be an issues here
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It's not, it's referencing the book that the (apparently very different) movie is loosely inspired by. https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201541809-Why-is-i...
> easily outplayed because you switched to a different drink already.

Not really. Soylent is much cheaper than Ample, and that's a major plus for the cost conscious (which is a lot of people!)

As for the other ones - honestly mostly marketing I'd imagine. I've never heard of any product billed as a "nutritionally complete" meal. SlimFast to me sounds like a dieting product (as do weight watcher shakes), which isn't what I want at all. Non-dieting meal replacements, where they exist (I don't know the name of a single one!), just don't seem to target the same market that Soylent does.

Do other products exist that do what Soylent does? I don't doubt it. I've never heard of them, though.
Tennessee seceded in the Civil War too but it's not part of the Deep South either. I think Arkansas did too, and that's definitely not part of the "South" at all. Same goes for Missouri.
> Well, yes, most HN commenters seem to be very money-centered. After all, it's a site about starting new crappy companies, pushing shitty, useless products noone needs.

Whoa.
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Scratching that plug around the nearly featureless edge of the MBP is an extremely unsatisfying experience, especially compared to the old "snick" of a MagSafe plug practically attaching itself.
Damn, it's 2017 and we're still arguing on why leaving a gaping hole in your house is dangerous.
Neither is Ensure a "lose weight" brand. But Ensure is an old-people brand. So Soylent (and Ample, which I learned about in this thread) are basically Ensure for young people.
put a link to amazon on your result, so I don't have to copy and search. and you may make some money too.
that's a limitation of a specific FFI, which is apparently a deisgn choice motivated by limited memory systems.
I work in cafes most of the time and seem to get a lot done.
Ditto, I worked from home for 7 years before my daughter came along. The last two years I've been at an office are the most profitable two years I've eved had. Also, when I go home, I'm 100% present with my family not distracted about getting more work done.
This is a play on the large soft drink beverage companies who are literally thirsty for companies to replace their soda portfolios. Bai was recentesly aquifed by Dr Pepper for almost 2 billion. So a 10x return for this round is certainly possible.
Do you have the time to talk about what you found specifically wrong with the ingredients? Outside of the allergy risk of Soy, many of the ingredients aren't uncommon in a variety of dietary supplements and weight gain targeted products. I found soy lecithin is one of the more controversial ingredients over how it's derived, but the process isn't much different from how orange juice is extracted.
Many of these systems are using the amateur radio service bands. Often 5GHz for video, 2.3-2.4GHz for control and telemetry and less frequently 1.2GHz, 900MHz and 70cm are also used. The FCC doesn't allow encrypted traffic on amateur bands except for specific cases such as satellite telecommand. I suppose that has discouraged adoption of cryptography.

What are commercial operators doing? Another limitation of Amateur bands is that they can't be used for commercial purposes, so licensed commercial drone operators must be using commercial bands where cryptography is permitted. Don't know myself; haven't looked into it.
Pro GMO: they are not hiding that they used a lot of GMO product, instead of selling you something organic with a huge premium.

Glycemic Index/Glycemic Load: a quick search doesn't give me SlimFast's GI/GL info, while Soylent does post the number.
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Those are real reasons. If you think I'm going to spend several years visiting every city in America over 250k people so I can see what it's "really like" instead of just reading about it, then you're absolutely insane. If Detroit can't fix its image in the media, that's its problem, not mine.

Moreover, why the hell should I believe some anonymous troll on HN over plenty of journalistic articles?
The creators of Sesame Street used a lot of science and metrics to optimize engagement. They didn't just say, oh kids like talking puppets, let's do that.

People have theories about what makes kids creative, but without metrics, it's just speculation.
Anecdotally, part of the reason why is the lawyers I've talked to don't feel like FSF have offered enough clarification regarding legal concerns, and the hostility of the community.

When the community will burn you to the ground for inadvertently shipping a binary without code, even after you've apologized and shipped the code, why would legal want to bother with them?

There's been half a dozen knee-jerk $XYZ Corp is in gross violation of the GPL! headlines here, only for the conversation to go "No, they're not. Go away."

Look at the SystemD thing and countless other situations. The mantra is "open and welcome and use our stuff!" Then they go all Walter if you slip a toe over the line.

Neckbeards need to get that they're responsible for the apprehension. It's another form of tribalism. You either need to be perfect in how you fit in, never err, or we'll figuratively tear you a new one.
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Yes, the backend provided by Node needs to be reimplemented using the native JS bridge APIs. Whether this is realistic or not will depend on how much the typical Electron app actually makes use of Node -- I just don't know, honestly. If it's mostly "fs" and a bunch of the other OS-wrapper APIs, it's not insurmountable.

Re: npm, you can of course still use an npm-based workflow for the browser-side part of the app (Webpack, whatever). It's just the Node-side services that are missing.
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Fascinating...how would you extract the data from the soaked paper?
I can't imagine that the creator of Soylent really feels that way, at least from a business perspective. I doubt investors would put their money into a business that was fine with getting beat in the marketplace as long as it helps people.
Thanks for being a condescending asshole.
I think you might be thinking of SWIFT for international transactions. As far as I was aware ACH is only used in the US.
>Do you use it as the occasional convenient meal replacement or how far do you go into replacing all real food?

I replace the majority of my meals with Soylent, but the point isn't to replace all meals...

>I suspect there is both, but what I am getting at is how much Soylent's long-term success depends on people seeing eating as a nuisance that should be optimized away versus something that should be savoured and enjoyed.

In my opinion, eating real food is an indulgence, not a nuisance. 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.

Soylent is meant to replace a fast food burrito or a McDonalds breakfast sandwich, not a home-cooked steak dinner or a meal at a restaurant with friends and family. In my view, Soylent is not about minimizing the amount of time spent on preparing and eating food, it's about providing a convenient, nutritious, and (relatively, compared to fast food) cheap source of nutrition for those times that I don't have social obligations and I don't want to/don't have time to cook something for myself.
FWIW, it's a pretty expensive laptop, and they still put a free version of Windows 10 on it rather than the full version. (Barring the temporary free upgrade promotion.)
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I eat Soylent whenever I would otherwise have to buy or prepare food alone. I eat a lot in general, as I'm trying to "bulk", so I end up eating a lot of Soylent.

Concretely, working at Google, this means a weekday eating schedule of: Soylent breakfast, Google lunch, Google afternoon snack, either Google dinner or Soylent dinner, Soylent before-bed snack. So usually 3-5 bottles (1200-2000 kcals) per day. (Google breakfast ends too early for my night-owl schedule.)

On weekends, it depends on my social schedule. For a day with friends or the girlfriend, most meals will be eating out or delivery, with only 1-3 Soylents in between meals/before bed for extra calories. For a day home alone coding or gaming, I'll eat exclusively Soylent, around 6-10 bottles (2400-4000 kcals) per day depending on how much I can push myself for those gainz.

As someone who doesn't particularly crave the sensation of eating, this seems like maximal utility to me. I get the other benefits of eating (socialization) when I can, and when those aren't forthcoming, I just get a (relatively) cheap, nutritious, fast source of calories. (I do enjoy eating, just not overmuch.)

And it's been a godsend for weight-gain; I have a very hard time stuffing myself with normal food or shakes, but Soylent just goes right down.
I honestly think the practical call if I have to pick one or the other is still USB-A.

Reading MS's reply that is likely what they thougt as well. It is just, currently, the most practical for (likely) the majority of their customers. At one point you could say they are 'blocking' wide acceptance of USB-C. On the other hand: it will imo still take years before most USB devices sold will be USB-C and the legacy of USB-A devices still being around at that time will be huge anyway. Yes dongles fix all that, but no matter how cheap they are, it's yet another piece to carry around, which can break, get lost, ...
Already cloned electron and working backwards from that :)
> HTML & CSS are not really suitable for "pixel perfect" text.

...and a lot of people don't care.

> You'd have to disable the browser's word wrapping & come up with your own logic for where to insert <br /> tags

...unless you don't care.

> even then you have issues like browsers

"BrowserS"? Plural? No. This is one implementation - headless Chrome. Which you could use to do your own rendering. There's no plural. You would use one browser to do your headless rendering.

> You'd have to essentially render text to an image server-side

That is. What this is.

> then scale the resulting image in the browser

What? It depends entirely on what your use case is. If you want to email a PDF, then you could use headless Chrome to turn HTML into a PDF, and then email it.

> So headless browsers are not suitable for rasterizing documents that contain text

I feel like you're off in this weird space, very different from what I've experienced. And I've experienced it again, and again, at different companies.

> Converting HTML to PNG/PDF is like comparing apples & oranges. The conversion will be imperfect.

...but potentially faster, lower effort, and "good enough" for many use cases.
Imagine implementing your amazing solution in real life.

I don't see a situation being frequent where you'd know the message weeks or months in advance of when you send it. If we follow your scheme, there's no encryption; we just meet up when we need to communicate. What if we're on opposite sides of the earth? If we had exchanged keys months earlier, this wouldn't be a problem.
I'm not interested in semantic gotcha games.

You get to limit your house to friends and family. Have at it.

You don't get to limit your country to that. Hell, you don't even get to limit your property to that, if you've got a sidewalk on it.
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Clif bars a terrible meal replacement, they're intended to be something that you eat to fuel or replenish for/from endurance sports.
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>it's solved a large problem in my life: what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal.

Meal replacements is a well-defined and established category
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This is my take as well. I don't see an innate advantage to Soylent over existing meal replacements like SlimFast. While Soylent has struggled with quality control, their competitors have been producing high volumes of equivalent products for many years, at better prices, and better name recognition to the american population outside of SV.
This. The longer I 'work from home' the more I discover the importance of separate physical spaces for certain activities. If I spend enough time on entertainment in the same space that I work all day, over time working in that space seems to become more and more 'energetically mixed' (for lack of a better term) and it seems to get harder to focus on specific non-entertainment tasks. I now refuse to eat, sleep, or indulge in entertainment in the same space that I work. I don't even let myself read fiction books where I work. I try to do all deep thinking while walking outside, read fiction in bed before sleeping, and only work while standing at my desk.
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And so if we continue your last point are you saying that all software sales should actually be software "usage" sales and every time you use the software you have time, just like you pay everytime you watch a movie on Netflx?
You overlooked the calories: 180 in Slimfast, 400 in Solyent. And that's just the premade drink. One pouch of the powder is a flat 2000, something I don't think Slimfast even has an answer for. Also, pay attention to the ingredient list: Milk, water, sugar, in that order.

Slimfast is a diet drink as the name implies, while Soylent is a meal replacement. If you wanted to get a reasonable (non-starvation) amount of calories from Slimfast to live on it and it alone, Soylent then wins on balance and cost.
For other readers, a caution - I found Ample to be inedible, taste wise. I took a few sips of the first bottle, and didn't touch the rest of my order.
Free with the current edition of the MagPi

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>> The true cost of bringing a drug to market is 2.8B

While it does makes sense that pharma r&d is expensive ,It's really hard to believe those numbers, specially that they always seem to change: first it was ~$700M/drug, than ~1.5B and now 2.8B ?
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Admiring the optimism but having an untested reimplementation of node would make people a lot less confident in using the project
I do not support the walled garden, mandatory code signing from anybody but the owner and so on. People should control their devices.

I just point that apple show that keeping keys really works.

I don't think that console jailbreaks are from leaked keys (except ps3) but from normal exploits.
> Glycemic Index/Glycemic Load: a quick search doesn't give me SlimFast's GI/GL info, while Soylent does post the number.

It's available. Seems weird to decide based on the availability of the number versus the number.
>>I can't imagine that the creator of Soylent really feels that way, at least from a business perspective.

Why not? Elon Musk did the same thing by basically saying Tesla's patents are "open-source" and free to use:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
What people gloss over about soylent on their way to the oft-repeated "it's just like slimfast wtf" point is that it's not the specific product that's interesting/innovative/valuable (it is kinda like slimfast...), it's taking that product to an entirely new and arguably larger market - I have no idea many 20 to 30 somethings working in tech were out there buying slimfast 10 years ago, but I'm guessing (and I could be wrong!) it's fewer than the number of folks who buy soylent today. assuming it can maintain appeal to "hard-working tech folks", then it's arguable that they can also successfully appeal to other professionals in other markets who, again, I would guess were not buying slimfast or other meal/diet drinks. it's all about marketing and "telling a new story", and i don't mean that in a bad way at all - sure, any company can quickly copy the ingredients, but they will also have to sell the same story, which is totally possible but arguably harder to do as well. that all being said, marketing IMO is only so good of a moat and there's only a few co's who really dominate relying mostly on it (coke, hermes, nike to name a few), so i'm not sure the new market and their story is worth this large of an investment, but who knows it very well could be!
It's intended as a reference to the novel that the movie is "based on", Make Room! Make Room!, By Harry Harrison.

Which doesn't involve cannibalism, but is an odd choice in other ways.
I'm still not convinced.
What machines is Google building and testing these sites on? This one page single handedly consumes a full CPU core and lags on my 2013 MBP.
I wonder how many of its customers are too young to appreciate the reference or the irony. To them Soylent means one thing - this product. It'd be tricky to find out though, without spilling the beans. Kind of a quantum question in that way.
Another example along those lines is the NES Classic Mini. Doesn't connect to the internet, doesn't let you write anything to the console and doesn't come with anything like games to buy or extra storage mediums to use.

Yet within weeks, people had hacked it wide open and stuck hundreds of ROMs on it.
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$350/mo seems _extremely_ reasonable for a quiet studio. I don't think that's the kind of office expense the poster was talking about. For instance, in NYC, $350/month would barely get you a "hot desk" (i.e. chair at a table) in a coworking space.
I mean, the laptop still has USB-A ports. It's just the charging port that's discussed here – USB-C vs their proprietary charger.
What meals are you cooking for $3-4 on the Joule? Looking at getting a Joule soon.
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