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I just completed the Everest Base Camp trek with my wife - I used Soylent (version 1.4) for the hike. So I basically subsisted on Soylent for 2 weeks of hiking/climbing up to 5,500 metres above sea level.

I did 1 packet per day (2000 calories), supplemented with some snack food on the trail (dried nuts and fruit, Stinger-brand honey waffles, muesli bars etc.).

Motivation was firstly as an experiment (to see how I would cope), secondly because I wanted to accurately control/measure my caloric intake, and thirdly, because I was somewhat paranoid about getting food poisoning on the trek. (I used a MSR Guardian to provide clean filtered water for mixing up Soylent).

I didn't really notice any odd effects - and it went better than expected well. Didn't get food poisoning (wife got diarrhoea, but she ate local food) - was a bit hungry on some days (in hindsight, 2,000 calories was a bit low - I upped it to 2,500 calories on the day I climbed Kala Pattar).

All I can say was, Soylent was great for this use-case, and I'm a firm believer now. At home, I only use Soylent for when I have no time to cook, and need a reasonably healthy/complete meal - if your alternative is going out for a late-night kebab, or 24-hour fast-food, it's not a hard choice for me =).
just tomorrow's winning lottery numbers would be good enough for me
You have reminded me of an excellent article on frictional costs in economics from The Economist [1]. There is a slight snag in that it is an April Fools joke.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719799-it-time-recog...
Dennet is concerned with the origin of minds on Earth and how this is explicable within our current evolutionary framework.

He does not seek to explain the origins of the universe but argues that this is not necessary to understand how minds could come about.
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Now? When was the golden age where that wasn't the case?
It would be awesome if the comparisons would include tests of Linux in a VM. Does anyone have such data? (bare Linux vs. Docker vs. VM)
And C++ has come a long way since then. A long long way. It feels almost like a completely different language now.
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In what jurisdiction do I have to report transferring more than $10,000? That's an obligation of the bank, not individuals using banks.

(At least in the U.S. Do EU citizens have to report themselves for such transactions?)
The nosh toolset can of course import systemd socket, service, and target units into its native daemontools-encore-superset form; which can then be used on a BSD, on things like UbuntuBSD or Debian kFreeBSD, or (in theory) on Debian Hurd; as well as on Linux operating systems.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/worked-example.html
Is that product penetration or advertising?
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Uber is being tried federally because their crimes cross state lines, which wouldn't be the case with one pizza parlor operating locally in one state engaging in the same behavior.
I think the fifth is interpreted more broadly than that. You don't need to have a specific law in mind that you believe you have broken (and would reveal) to take the fifth; you merely need to believe that it is possibly that what you say might be incriminating in some way. Which, given the fact that no person could reasonably be expected to know the whole of the law, and given that lying to a federal agent in the performance of their duties is always illegal, is a pretty safe bet.
OMG YOU GUIZE. SEMANTIC WEB. SEO.

The words remain as meaningless now, as they were in 2004. What did these people want me to do?

Use words... somehow? (alt text on images, human readable uris, meta tags, blah blah blah, that seems to be the gist of it, what a revolution)
So it doesn't really matter what I do. If I have the intention to obstruct justice then I can stay at home and act criminally by doing so? Nice one. At this point I'm sure I'm a criminal. I don't know what my crime is, but I'm sure layers will tell me before they throw me into jail.
Haskell is difficult to learn! For virtually everyone. Especially people who already learned more mainstream languages, because it is so different.

When I learned Haskell I was frustrated by its difficult learning process until I stuck with it long enough, as did almost all who passed the learning curve.

How do you get any reference to "smart enough" out of this?

"persistent enough" is definitely relevant for learning Haskell, though.
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> But why any individual our company thinks that helping to promote hate speech has anything at all to do with free speech is beyond me

"Helping to promote" meaning what? Letting someone have the freedom to speak, or the freedom to own property to post speech, etc? How do you NOT think free speech has something to do with defining speech you don't like? SMH
Ask HN: Is it permitted to proxy HackerNews actions
There are many HackerNews readers/clones out there but they are all read-only.

Would it be permitted to make a HN reader in which the user could enter their HN credentials and if they wanted to upvote a story, the HN reader's server could login for the user, get the link with the auth token, and upvote it for them?

It seems that I am giving the HN reader the rights to act on my behalf so it should be ok - but I didn't see a TOS or anything that referenced it.
You don't have to, it's just the path of least resistance.

We've been working with distros on packaging stuff; it's mostly sorted. Each distro is doing the thing that works for them.

Additionally, making sure we play well with other build systems is a big goal this year generally.
Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?
I see a lot of people teaching themselves data science and machine learning but it seems that in the real world you won't be allowed anywhere near such a position without having a degree in the subject.

This is opposed to regular programming gigs where you can get work based on a portfolio.

Also there are efforts to commoditize common methods and algorithms by wrapping them up in APIs and SDKs.

So is it a waste of time to learn it on the side with the hopes of getting a data science job ?
Writing, blog posts on https://thomasroest.com/ that lead people to https://linuxforwebdevelopers.co/
Great thing, never heard about Sourcegraph before, we will surely try it. What is your business plan for it looks like may I ask?
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Which is why I switched to Google-made phones (Nexus). No bloat, frequent security up dates and default apps. Sure, Google knows what I'm having for dinner, but it's a single entity I trust. At least I don't go about moving through apps, reading their TnCs.
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At least first one is a parody: "This library is clojure/clojurescript port of left-pad, it's NOT recommand to use this library actually :)."

And by date of project creation you can assume that others are parodies too: "LeftPad - Why should Node.js have all the fun?"
Well, AI is usefull, at the cost of jobs ( eg. self-driving, accounting, ...)

VR is an new cost ( eg. You pay for something new that you didn't have before), AI can give you cost benefits ( you pay, but it's paid with something else), it's in a totally different range of services/products

Eg. https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/how-a-japanes...
I think they mean http://www.taxi.eu/. It's a single app used by large taxi dispatchers all over Europe; in Hamburg, at least HansaTaxi uses it, the largest and IMHO best dispatcher.

As far as I understand it, taxi.eu is an infrastructure service for dispatchers, while MyTaxi is a bit more Uber-like in that it provides a virtual dispatcher for non-affiliated (but still licensed) Taxi drivers.
Minimum Viable Product. He means that until self driving cars are not even as good as human drivers, it is pointless to discuss features that make them even better than human drivers. I.e. "one step at the time".
Humanity at its best: Your son gets killed in a foreign country and, rather than being angry with the people of that country for producing some murderers, you actually help seven other families with organs from your now dead son. And, the family (or is it just the father) still come back to the same country to celebrate with the children who received the donated organs. I salute that family.
Or even a blog post or something talking about it. I understand that sharing your experiences with the rest of the world might not be top priority while you're hammering away at sorting out these packages so I don't expect you to stop what you're doing purely to satisfy us on HN! But if you've already got something I'd love to see it :-)
Not too bad; with Qt, you can get to about 10 MB - 20 MB for a dynamically linked application.
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could, not would. There are many variables. My comments are not intended as official or objective:)
You clearly haven't played with PIP then :)
I am exactly the opposite. What you are saying (as far as I can tell) is "If management is going to be petty and stupid, then I am too". I think it is smart to avoid being taken advantage of, but I think what you are actually doing is enabling your management's stupid behaviour. If both sides have a hard line behaviour, it will never change.

Instead, I recommend showing the advantages of flexibility. "I worked overtime to give you this thing which would not have been possible under your rules, how about cutting me some slack as a reward?" Somebody has to budge first. Now, if they are only interested in sucking up as much of your time as possible and paying you as little as possible -- then they are being abusive. As in any abusive relationship, your top priority should be to get the heck out of there. As a fall back position, of course, you should protect yourself as much as possible, but having an a priori position of being just as petty as your boss will really only result in unhappiness for everyone.
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Python is a great solution to the problem as well as being installed on most Linux distros by default.
Chances are devs would need for their other dev tools anyway even not on a Linux machine.
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They are optional but it is no longer safe to send a transaction without fees as the code in Bitcoin that allowed for free transactions if they met certain rules has been removed.

You might get lucky but you can always resend with fees to push it through.
Note The Register's take on this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/docker_docks_wallets...

which I posted separately a little earlier.
I can get behind this!
I really like the idea of demanding a schedule and being ruthless about the worth of the meeting.
> I'd prefer a blanket "we're against harassment of any kind and will act if harassment comes to our attention", over many paragraphs trying to spell out what exactly we consider actionable, leaving loopholes for language lawyers (and we nerds have this tendency!) all over the place.

Thank you, you succintly worded my main issue with CoCs and why I much prefer "Community rules: Don't be an asshole" over "Community rules: [3 pages]".

I have yet to see a single situation faithfully resolved with the latter that couldn't have been with the former.
Off topic, but such a crass title makes me instantly disinterested in whatever the article has to say, even if I'm likely to agree with its content.

Is this really the new normal for websites ?
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I was really surprised, and the first time I came across this. I gave it some thought, and concluded I am more comfortable with this solution over anything technical.
> * I don't imagine they literally package sensitive information and distribute it to anyone who pays.*

Why on earth don't you imagine that? On this website alone, there are quite literally stories every week about various companies doing that exact thing.

E.g.: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/23/heartbreaking
Sounds fraught with spam risk
Don't have them at all. Suits me just fine.
Problem? It's not a problem aside from possibly spoiled food and the misery of cold food. Prepared food is grey mystery slop make from corn and soy. It sounds like Norwegian kids learn how to prepare their own food, a useful skill. They also get to have something of their choice.

I did that in the USA. I normally took a drink, fruit, some nuts or chocolate, and two large meat sandwiches. Converting for you metric people... each sandwich might contain a slice of frozen eye-of-round (lean beef) about 8 mm thick and 10 cm diameter, in something like a hamburger bun. A larger version would have each sandwich being a small loaf of bread (a baguette?) about 25 cm by 8 cm, with turkey perhaps 6 mm thick. I'm sure this blows past the Calorie limits we now have in the USA, but I needed it.
No they can't. It Has been illegal for nearly a century and it id still is illegal to sell telecommunication customers' data. Congress just reversed the FCC rules from October. It has to do with an government agency overstepping their authority and nothing to do with privacy.

Anybody who says otherwise is lying or ignorant of the law regarding CPNI.

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2015-title47-vol3/pdf/CFR-...
BUT HOW DO YOU GET ANY WORK DONE WITHOUT STANDUPS??!?
I'm failing to see your point. I do not know why, nether don't care, why Alice wants to buy currency B. Maybe she just wanted to buy some coffee from Charlie, and she was comfortable that her transaction didn't burn thousands of dollars of electricity to verify it? Maybe it was early in the morning? Faster block times means she'll get her coffee sooner. If that was the reason, let's hope she was satisfied with her coffee.
I also do not care why currency B got so popular, but I suspect it may have been because of the coffee ICO ;-)

Oh, and then there were cryptocurrencies C, D and F too, but that's a different thought experiment.
A training video, full-screen of the program, with voice-over, might be more useful. For something like that, the user needs to be able to read the text on screen.

We don't need to see a talking head.
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Yup, exactly. In fact I think it's the only triple tax advantaged account (when used for Healthcare) and it gracefully degrades into a Roth IRA like account (especially useful if youre ineligible for Roth contribution due to income).
I rather have to convince my bank I'm me as they have much higher security standards generally than the phone companies so less chance of someone else convincing them they are me.
iOS do have this integration in the form of Caller Identification. An app can provide a caller information to the Phone app (I believe in a form of a database, rather than sending each call to remote server) and it will show up in the caller screen. Any VoIP app that integrate with CallKit will automatically get this functionality as well.

Whoscall is one example and is pretty popular in Asia.
I've used it as an end-user in an enterprise with LDAP integration. It worked well in that situation and our sysadmin who set it up was happy with it as well.

At home where it's just me using the passwords across a couple of devices I just use KeePass with the database stored on dropbox.
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Gotta side with SomeStupidPoint here. If an employer is going to whine about any deviation from the standard working hours on my part, then all extracurricular activity stops. You get the hours exactly and nothing more.

It doesn't matter when someone does their work. It matters that they did it, and did it well. Poisoning the water because someone is consitebtly 10 minutes late every morning is a signal to me that it's time to move on.
Because protectionist taxi regulations enacted and enforced by local officials are a local issue. Just because the DOJ can shoehorn a legal argument together to assert jurisdiction doesn't mean it isn't yet another overreach by the already bloated bureaucracy known as the United States government.
> Regulations usually exist for good reasons

It's just a very small group of people telling everyone else what's good for them. I have a better idea - create regulations that "protect the innocent" but at the same time allow people to opt-out from such "protection" and use whatever transportation service they fucking please (but at their own risk).
All of those left-pad libraries are a jest, it's trivial to do padding in those languages. I was wrong about Python and removing packages but on Nuget and Maven you can't, its not allowed.

I think it's worth noting that with Java at least, besides not allowing package removal, the namespace is tied to a unique identifier with ownership verification, so the cause of the left-pad fiasco (kik wanting his namespace) is extremely unlikely to happen in the first place.
Aka "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."

No, it changes literally nothing. Criminal enterprises tend to be lean on corporate structure and paperwork for a variety of reasons.

There is also no such thing as a purely private website where everything is legal and there is no liability.
Then let them build a case against Uber for its use of Greyball. Why is federal involvement under RICO statutes necessary to do that?
In the aspect of scrum the daily is good defined, I don't think you need to experiment about what needs to be talked about.

It is a one time a day meeting where everyone gives a glimpse over what he has done and how this may affect others and what he is going to achieve until the next meeting. Committing to a goal motivates me to get things done. A third aspect is to give the scrum master feedback about impediments which do prevent me from achieving my goals.

And yes this does not mean that nobody is talking to each other through the day. But even if you are a team it is important to get everyone up to date. Most discussion through the day happen between 2 or 3 persons, and not with everyone (4-6 people).
W.r.t. lego, after my daughter was born, my wife turned into lego-duplo collector. Currently we have a full zoo (including animals from arctic, savanna, forest, even some dinosaurs), a full house (including stove, tables, chairs, toilet, bath, sink), and several vehicles (cars, planes, trains, boats).

But what she realized in few months, that our little one plays with duplo in the same way she plays with her plushies, what in my mind as well was not really utilizing the strengths of duplo.

So then she bought her some more discrete pieces. Weird legs with suction cups. Butterfly wings. Head of the giraffe. Weird eyes. Spider legs that can jump.

And then my daughter built an awesome frankenstainian monster utilizing all of the body-parts, she called it Chomper and it was her best friend for a month :-)
I love HAProxy so much. In our architecture, it started with simple frontend load balancing, but it ended up mediating almost every inter-server communication, which gave us a great amount of flexibility in swapping machines in and out, by giving each service load balanced virtual ip addresses. Thanks for your great work, Willy.
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Do you work for a taxi association? See how that pointless allegation swings both ways?

If you knew anything about civil litigation, you'd know that what is alleged in lawsuit filings is utterly pointless drivel as far as trying to use it to substantiate a point in a debate. Lawsuit allegations don't have to be factually true, which is why I asked where the allegation has actually been proven.
There's a small but serious niche developing, where VR turns out to be not only useful but probably necessary.

Places you can't physically access, but need to go, and require situational awareness of events in the surrounding environment as they happen.

Drone piloting. Deep ocean diving. Volcano exploration. Disaster relief efforts. Combat zones. Dangerous places that need human interpretation from eyes that can move throughout a scenario, and inspect from multiple vantage points, to inform decisions.

Beyond these practical uses, VR is less interesting. As entertainment it feels
like an absurd compromise for a lesser value.

Thousands of dollars of equipment, and hundreds of dollars in content or subscription fees, all to enable a shut-in's lifestyle.

Imagine paying for VR tickets to the Fyre Festival.
You work. You do your job. If you're unsure about what task to do, you speak to your manager. You know, how offices have worked for the previous hundred years.
I think you completely misunderstood the quote regarding vaporware
Ask HN: How much does every extra percent of equity require you to work?
I've recently got an offer for engineering work at a company for a market rate salary and 2% ownership share on a 4 year vesting schedule, and have been working with them and happy for over a year. I am used to working 80 hour weeks, I work on weekends and in my downtime and frankly enjoy what I do in the hours of work that I put.

Obviously, some employees will have bigger ownership shares for understandable reasons that they have been in the company since the start, other employees and advisors have the same ownership share I do, but with the quality of work and the effort they put in they seem like they work much less hours.

I'm not interested in picking a fight here, but I'm curious to know how ownership share should actually affect how much work you put it, the latter being somewhat directly related to the number of hours and number of overnights you end up doing to get that work done.

If you're at market rate, you would be at 45 hour work weeks. At 2% equity, you give your work some extra time and maybe think about designs and solutions in your downtime and at home during weird hours. But say that ownership share was at 5%, or you're down to no salary and 2% ownership, does that make a difference in the overtime you're supposed to put in?
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Also, for cargo's usecase (mostly-reproducable builds, a space that rubygems also attempts to fill) system package managers are simply insufficient. Nix is the only one that comes close, and you

A) can't remotely expect anyone to have that installed already
B) have no control over the repository or toolchain
I think the best would be to e-mail the mods at hn@ycombinator.com with this question
Who'd have thought that an additional layer of abstraction has a small impact on performance. Nothing else in computers work that way.
Ah, thanks for that information! I was one of those who thought that w3schools were w3 and that was my mistaken reason as to your question "why?".

That skullduggery aside, their css seems comparable to the rest discussed here.
Would you rather we simply throw away the $1tn already spent and start over?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_th...

The sunk cost fallacy is in game theory sometimes known as the "Concorde Fallacy",[8] referring to the fact that the British and French governments continued to fund the joint development of Concorde even after it became apparent that there was no longer an economic case for the aircraft. The project was regarded privately by the British government as a "commercial disaster" which should never have been started and was almost cancelled, but political and legal issues had ultimately made it impossible for either government to pull out.
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They just say that "the energy trade-off between containerization and enabling TLS/SSL is comparable for PostgreSQL" and quote the lead on this research, Abram Hindle: "If your expenses are people, then Docker is probably worth the hit".
Having a >short< daily meeting is important part of any dev-team.

Goals are:

1. Discussion on who's doing what ( details )

2. Discussion on who did what, since last meeting.

3. Help / suggestions based on the conversations above.