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Ask HN: South Florida edition
I did a quick search and found nothing. Do any bio geeks know what happened to the Cane Toad invasion in South Florida? A few years ago they were everywhere. I have not seen one in a while.
FTA: "“I could not use my GI Bill to go to code school. That was the number one roadblock,” Molina says."

As a veteran who learned to code in my spare time, landed a tech job without a degree and had the older, pre-9/11 GI Bill to help pay for an education, I'm rather skeptical. In fact, I'd say that the core problem isn't the GI Bill, but rather this passage, later in the article:

"But after he left the army in 2013, Molina and his family moved back to his native Oregon. As he weighed his options, he decided that a code school was his best bet to keep learning. He needed an immersive program, but on a faster timeline than college could offer — he had a wife and three daughters to support."

If you have dependents to support, why did you get out of the military without a contingency plan? Unless the discharge is unexpected (for medical or disciplinary reasons), one's enlistment period is pretty well-defined.

I got out when I was 24. Within a year I had secured a full-time, well-paying field tech support job based upon what I had learned while in the Army.

If you're 39 and haven't taken advantage of the myriad of educational opportunities in the U.S. military to ensure that you're hire-able in the private sector, that's nobody's fault but yours.

If there are additional circumstances that prevented Mr. Molina from making that happen, the article failed to cover them.
The Griffin magnetic USB C cables are just
USB C -> proprietary magnetic connector -> USB C.

See https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61M0YzqUbOL...

I have a proprietary magnetic connector now and I don't have a dongle sticking out of the laptop.
Yeah, that's a whole different thing. The FDA is a bit nasty to anyone claiming any health benefit without a study. Ask the cereal companies, they got sued quite a lot. Soylent and others just have to put labels on the food and that can be done without some prior approval.

The killer FDA rule that is going to impact a lot of people goes effective for enforcement on May 5.
Brand defensibility also seems to be a real thing when you have food products reaching 100m+ people (e.g. Coke, Mars, Pepsi).

So brand defensibility + economies of scale. Though somewhat tenuous.
>Look at it like this: if you hire a plumber to install a toilet in your home, would you accept it if the toilet was 'free' but you had to pay a fee for every usage ? Hell no. But you'll gladly pay the plumbers hourly wage and material costs.

Never say never. Years ago, the answer would have seemed to be an obvious" hell no", but these days with X-as-a-service it really seems like a lot of people would be perfectly happy to pay a per-use fee for their toilet as long as that means they never have to pay an upfront fee to have it installed or repaired. Just look at all the people happy to pay a recurring fee for Photoshop.
In Depths of the Cloud, Open Source and Proprietary Leviathans Fight to the Death
One of the small businesses I work with has used them for ~6 months. Way too many rejected emails and mail server failures for my comfort (about 1%). I'm probably going to switch soon if the problems aren't resolved. Too bad, the product and price is perfect for our needs otherwise.
> Exposure to acetylcholine, however, prevents macrophages from producing the inflammatory protein

But aren't there better ways to increase acetylcholine than stimulating the vagus nerve?
I use bourbon.io with Sass

Tyson, one of the contributors, helped me get setup.

My css is now a compressed 4k for the entire project.
I think you're missing tsunamifury's point. My interpretation is that he means UI designers have relegated themselves to UI decorators, while the real design challenges these days are on a completely different level.

Think "interior decorator" vs. "city planner". In software, a designer can have enormous impact because there are no physical limits preventing scale... But many designers never look at the big picture, and instead are content to tinker inside their digital artboards looking for the shade of light grey that's most fashionable this week.
For every iXsystems (who are excellent Free Software citizens) you have many NetApp, EMC and Isilons, who use the FreeBSD code to build profitable products on and give nothing in return.

NetApp is a very good example, as they contribute NFS code back to Linux but not FreeBSD.

Why do you think that might be ?
I personally would never have slimfast because I'm not on a diet! This feels like a large distinction that you are missing here.

If there are non-diet meal replacements, I don't know if any, which clearly seems like an opportunity for a product such as Soylent.
If Forerunner didn't participate in this, then Soylent doesn't have a chance. I'd trust Forerunner over GV (or anyone) on a new consumer brand - and that's what Soylent is, going up against everything from Hint water to Ensure.
That's my use case too. I've also just bought something called MealSquares, which may be serve the same purpose with the advantage of being solid food and using mostly whole foods.
What would the point of that be? Having a USB-C port provides versatility in function. Having a weird proprietary USB-C cable that hooks onto a proprietary magnetic charging interface doesn't provide a ton of improvement over magsafe (even if it could support other USB-C peripherals with an adapter, who wants a USB drive or other device to snap off with a bit of pressure?)
if he comes from a decade experience, he's probably not gonna have started at a time where services like those where in existence.
I think people are reluctant to believe this, but practical evidence shows it to be true. Unethical behavior by groups is very common.
If anything, apps are even more invasive than webapps when it comes to snatching your data, tracking you or displaying ads. (And I'm not defending google)
>All I see is SV hype and marketing.

That's all it is. If Soylent brands itself as a normal meal replacement, that's not sexy. So Soylent branded itself as a food replacement - which is more interesting and more dangerous (I just cannot trust that replacing food with Soylent won't have unintended health consequences down the line).
I guess I'm an old fogey now (35) but I don't want a USB C charger. I want a non data transferring power plug that can't be used to compromise my machine should a manufacturer opt to do that. I also only use power bricks to charge my phones/tablets at public charging places instead of the supplied USB cables.

Are there power only Type C cables for charging? Is there some pressing need to reduce the ports on the side of a laptop? I didn't buy the thing to be stylish and impress women, I bought it to get shit done.
The maltodextrin is needed to bind the oil into a powder.
> Imagine your government made it mandatory to leave keys in a certain place so police could enter a property in a hurry.

Isn't that literally what the TSA lock on luggage is? Granted, I wouldn't regard a suitcase made of bunch of plastic or fabric as very secure against any form of attack, but why do all these arguments against backdoors never mention this?
And with the TSA master keys leaked a couple of years ago all it needs is one malicious airport worker to open your bags and sniff your panties, erm, steal your laptop.
I don't really hate it, but I don't see Soylent as providing anything you haven't been able to get by just walking down to the local drug store and buying a bottle of Ensure or other meal replacement formula.

I do think they have brilliant marketing, though. They turned something that was for old, dying people and made it cool. So I see all the "research" stuff they post as kind of a joke or marketing, because it has all been done and available for over a decade in terms of product...
I don't see anything in there about improving interoperability with native code. Years ago there were discussions of a project to do that. Maybe that is dead - perhaps everyone interested in native code interop has already moved on.
You can use bitcoin to buy drugs and other illegal things from the safety of your home.
Given that Soylent in the book is an apparently commercially successful product that rides the wave of a Malthusian catastrophe, it's still an odd choice (or a revealing Freudian slip) given their early hype about solving world hunger.
That it is easier to mandate mandatory decryption to the vendors than to power trough the fifth and get password from a defendant.

All writs on steroids.
The advantage, for me, is that there are no animal products in Soylent.
>If there are non-diet meal replacements

Millions.
I don't think anyone wants to shell out for multiple dongles. I've got the latest mbp and it's a huge regression in experience having to carrying around so many dongles. I thought it would be manageable but it's a pita.
Stop using the word "contentious" as an attempt to end discussion like the very thought of some idea being disagreeable to one or more people means it's not worthy of discussion.
The fact that at least 3 people in this thread have named the category "meal replacements" but not a single one has named a specific product I would know by name (non dieting!) seems to me a pretty clear indictment that this category is not as established as you are suggesting.
> It was basically just a copy and paste of Bitcoin with only minor alterations made to the source code (like changing the PoW for Script which never really defeated ASICs and a few other small changes.)

The original announcement of Litecoin [1] shows that it is closer to being a Tenebrix clone.
It was Tenebrix, a coin which has long since faded into obscurity, that introduced Hashcash with scrypt as an alternative PoW. Also, with others already having reduced the block interval time, there appears to be little if anything innovative about Litecoin.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0
It's only needed if you want to drink soylent.
Apple Announces $1B Fund to Create U.S. Jobs in Manufacturing
Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S
Yes, and Germany has a significantly higher quality of life than the US. You think that's a bad thing somehow?
I can do that: I usually manage to get the wrong answer really fast...
Looks great. I've been using Huel, the British Soylent knockoff, for 1-2 meals per day (much healthier than the 4oz bag of chips it replaced), and now that I'm moving back to America I'm looking for local alternatives.
I think the real lesson that's being conveyed is "Don't gear up like you're a successful business until you are a successful business".

> When your game sells and makes some money, treat it in terms of how many years you’ve got until you’d have to get a ‘proper job’

> I’d released three games before I went ‘full time’, and my 4th was just about ready to launch. The first games were made in my spare time while my Real Job paid for my food and rent, because honestly fuck starving yourself, fuck living on beans and worrying about rent. Go Full Indie when you can afford to Go Full Indie, and not before

If you're just starting out, making your first game in this case, it makes no sense to spend a ton on office space, designers, etc. You have no income yet... one step at a time sort-of-thing.

Too many people fall in love with the idea of running a business, but don't actually know what that really means. They run around organizing things, setting up office space, getting logo's designed by fancy marketing companies, hold meetings, etc... they do everything except figure out how to make money. They love the idea of being a business, but not the actual work that comes with that territory.
Could you elaborate at all? What's easier? I've not travelled in the Caribbean.
I'd say signal loss is a sigificant factor in magnetic solutions given the speed of the protocol. USB-C and Thunderbolt provide metal "envelopes" over the connector when they are inserted. Magnetic connectors cannot do this to facilitate quick removal.
this distinction does not matter, if you steal my code and release it I can sue for damages exactly the way I would if you were to somehow steal my house.
Have they fixed it yet so that it will either charge in both orientations, or at least not clip on when it is backwards? My Surface RT had the same kind of connector I've seen in the pictures for this new one, and it sucked, because half the time I'd plug it in, leave it for a day or two, and come back and grab it for a meeting to find it dead, because it wasn't actually charging.
> Again, this is a dangerous diet, but it's medically supervised.

I'm glad it's working well for you, but I'd just caution that plenty of quackery is "medically supervised", as were fen-phen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine) and the Tuskegee trials.
After all this I can't believe they are actually trying to convince people to take VIP tickets for next year instead of a refund.
Well, if it's useful for all those reasons, and it can be traded for a useful cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ether and now USD and to do everything a cryptocurrency can do then its useful . . . right?

You basically just said it's Bitcoin's more progressive, more nimble cousin.
My thoughts are somehow related. Imediate feeling when entering the website was that everything looks so bland.
Big photos of the persons not so much about the work.
In a way I guess Interface design is one of the least edgy things you can do in the greater field of communication design since it's mostly about conforming to norm, while in traditional graphic design it can get a lot more crazier.

ah the good old 2000 and something full of ungoogable flash websites with crazy interfaces. Everything is better now in terms of the relevance of content but at the same time something relevant was certantly lost.
Ah, ok. There are three things you probably don't realize.

1. While you think anyone can learn fizzbuzz on day 1, a significant proportion of the population do not grasp the logic behind variables and loops (40% I seem to remember, don't quote me).

AFAIK the argument about why this is still rages, it might be because we're terrible at teaching programming logic, or it might be that they're really not capable.

These people can still graduate with a CS degree.

2. There's loads of people who apply for jobs that have absolutely no experience. Lies, half-truths, etc. This happens in all fields. They believe they can learn on the job, not knowing what they don't know.

3. The basic math of bad applicants vs good applicants. Good applicants only apply for a handful jobs (or none at all!). Bad applicants will make hundreds or even thousands of applications trying to get the job they want. See Joel's "Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%":

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/

1 + 2 + 3 = lots of fizzbuzz failures

Making FizzBuzz a great way of weeding them all out.
Their initial shtick was that you could replace all meals with Soylent - an idea with appeal to SV engineers.
Functional JavaScript Arrays
I've written tons of code in cafes. As a notorious procrastinator I find the cafe setting very helpful for avoiding the obvious distractions like Wikipedia holes, etc. I'm sure it sounds stupid to people who are more naturally focused but just the feeling that strangers _could_ be judging my use of time is pretty effective (I know I do it...I may not know why you brought your Macbook to this coffee shop but I'm pretty damn sure it wasn't to read rumours about Kim Kardashian). What I do find hard is thinking through difficult architectural problems in such a setting...often I'll spend an hour in the park with pen and paper thinking about that stuff and then hammer it out at the coffee shop. Different strokes I guess.
Serious question: how many people in that demographic group do you think have ever seen the movie/read the book that it's based on? I'm approaching 30 myself and never heard of the source material before all the news articles/comment threads on this new powder I was buying.

Which is to say, I don't think the name is as problematic for the real-world target audience as some people make it out to be.
Insensitive gravitational wave detectors improved using clever addition
Most of the people who are anti-GPL are either naive or want to profit off of someone else's code without contributing anything back.

For me, GPL doesn't go nearly far enough, and I licence everything I write under AGPL.
I don't think consumer software has been that valuable in my lifetime. MS Office, & Turbo Tax are killer apps that people pay for. People willingly pay for online games too. Other than that? I guess some people buy apps.

I don't think it's regional. I've never bought an app. I paid for some dev tools, but that's it. Selling productivity outside of people's work is an uphill battle.
To fleece people out of tens of millions on Kickstarter, one must first establish credibility by fleecing ordinary investors out of tens of millions. It helps to have spent some of that on paying Mark Hamill to record cutscenes for your previous space games.
If the software is actually useful people will complain but ultimately purchase it. Problem is, almost all software is only really useful to a select few and just kind of nice to have for everyone else.
A very quick look at the Slimfast page for their high protein product links the nutritional information. It shows that the mix has ~1g of sugars per serving, but is mixed with milk, so you'll need to account for that in your calculations depending on the type of milk you use for mixing.

http://slimfast.com/advanced-nutrition/
That's a really interesting experience. I personally find it to be significantly better tasting than Soylent.

One crucial thing is that the water you mix it with has to be very cold, otherwise I did find it to be difficult to drink. Once you hit that temperature threshold though, it makes a world of difference.

At least for me.

I've never been bothered by the taste of any version of Soylent, even 1.0, so I could just have a unique experience.
> One of cholesterol's most important functions is to support learning and memory — the brain is basically made of cholesterol.

I'd be interested in the science on this, particularly how much replenishment cholesterol it needs on a regular basis.

The brain's mostly fat, but that doesn't mean fat people are smarter.
I have to disagree, I've started working from the quiet coffee shop near my house every once in a while. After a while I just need to get out of the house. I guess if I did it all the time, it probably wouldn't work. But sometimes I start to feel catastrophic in my home office. finding a table to work by myself has been a decent productivity booster.
> ignored this issue

I'm not sure the author would necessarily know that this is true. The author also didn't say whether they informed WP Core that they were going to publish it.

Per the "revision history" the notes about a report sent in 2016 was added after initial publication ("Updated 'solution' section to clarify and highlight numerous resolution attempts"). So it isn't clear to me that communicating the exploit to the team was the top priority.

Regardless of the circumstances though, publishing it seems quite clearly tied to the promotion of their business. That's not necessarily bad assuming they were responsible in how they communicated the issue. I am admittedly reading tea leaves and just questioning whether this is the full story.
I work from home. Here's how I get around this: after waking up and having breakfast, I go for a short (~10 minute) walk or bike ride around the block. When I get back, I start working. That kind of "fake commute" is sufficient to trick my brain into separating work from everything else I do in the same space.
I must have explained poorly. I was not proposing "just communicate securely in advance". I was highlighting the problem with OTPs.

The fact that your key material is the same size as the message means all your security is in the key, thus in your key distribution method. Among other problems, this means no rekeying without replicating your original hand-off - you can communicate exactly as many bits as your previously securely exchanged, no more.
While I'd generally agree with you, you can look up any "meal replacement" shakes made for athletes that are used to add calories. They contain a large amount of protein and calories and are fairly well established. MET-Rx Meal Replacement is one of the larger SKUs on the market, but there are many others.
NetApp
Juniper
Sony
Apple
Panassas.... These all have commits to FreeBSD. When you use it, you do tend to collaborate with upstream a bit.
I think it's naive to believe that the FBI (or any other intelligence or law enforcement agency) will ever be willing to see their own power checked. The way to check the power of those agencies is by having Congress pass exceptionally strong laws that explicitly forbid them from abusing their power.
The base fee isn't the only factor here in play here, though.

People are much more willing to give Apple their credit card number than some unknown (to them) web site.

Amazon works the same way. Just yesterday, in fact, I was looking for a replacement part for one of my tools. Google search turned up several options for the part number -- several "parts warehouse"-type sites and Amazon. The price was a couple of bucks higher on Amazon, but I bought it there nonetheless.

Why? Because Amazon already has my CC info, and I trust them to actually deliver the product and keep my information secure.

The other sites may be (in fact, probably are) trustworthy, but I don't know that. I have no idea how well they're securing my card information. I have no idea if they're even going to deliver the part in a timely manner. Amazon wound up getting my money, because saving two bucks just wasn't worth the risk and extra transaction friction.

Same thing with the app stores. The dev is providing the software, and Apple is providing the infrastructure and the reputation.

Is 30% too high for that? Maybe, maybe not. For an unknown dev, it may well be. If you're a well-known company with an established reputation, maybe it isn't. I've noticed that a lot of the big names (e.g., Bare Bones Software) have exited the app store of late.
Joe Kennedy: Trumpcare is a historic attack on mental health care
AFAICT Yatenfou is saying that the ultrasonic tracking beacon is done by software on the smart TV and not actually part of the television signal.
Privacy-Enhancing Technology: How to Use It in DevOps
...And?