skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are people are having such a visceral reaction to this idea? Finding alternatives to solid, "fresh" food is an issue we will have address in the near future, if not right now. With forecasts about population growth rapidly rising (We said it would reach 10 billion by 2100. It only took 13 years to jump from 6-7 billion.)

This could be implemented not only for hunger in impoverished nations, but for world overpopulation and depletion of resources including livestock and agriculture.

People are commenting this guy is crazy. But in the next few decades I'd rather there was 100 crazy guys trying this for every McDonald's junkie.
What, specifically, is horrifying, though? It's not C. It's not C++. It's not ASM. You're not going to accidentally implement a buffer overflow, you're not even going to accidentally stomp on Ruby stuff. You might find the Rust language itself intimidating but I'm not seeing what's scary about the integration itself.
You are correct. Thanks for the correction. I was dividing by the 1000 of CPM instead of the guess of 10 pages per user.

For how difficult it is to "build" such an audience, my guess is don't much try to 'build' it. Instead, if the project is good, then fairly routine publicity, virality, etc. will be sufficient. Otherwise, the project is not very good and need another project.

Generally project selection is really important. For a Web site or app, my guess is that should concentrate on projects that should be of significantly high interest to a major fraction of all Internet users at least in the US and maybe the world. Examples were Plenty of Fish, Hot Mail, YouTube, Yahoo, Google, Apple's iPhone, Google's Android. Sometimes can get a good start with an entering wedge into a niche, but if early on want to get the half million unique users a month, then it should help to be casting the net in an ocean of millions or billions of Internet users.
Sales guy made a mistake. We all do. Anyone else remember Matt's Hot Nacho mistake?

Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam:

http://waxy.org/2005/03/wordpress_websi/

Follow up:

http://waxy.org/2005/04/wordpress_follo/

Matt's Response:

http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/
Just as much of a stretch to call it proper grammar, though ;-)

(Yes, that sentence was even less proper.)
Vu, try this: "Hi. What are other companies in your batch we should invest in?" <- seriously, first question. I think our conversation ended shortly thereafter.
... and the concurrency of Erlang. (and OCaml might be more apt than Haskell).
You can use Amazon's elastic beanstalk http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create...
Free Personalised Mass Email with Google Apps- for frugal startups
"iPhones still require cables to be updated"

Only for power and it's just a recommendation...
They went from a language with a factor of forty cost compared to C++ to one with a factor of four cost. They saw a factor of ten improvement in CPU utilization. Seems like all Go really brought to the table here was speed. I don't see any evidence that its unusual features were a factor, besides its base-level increased efficiency.
> We could be reading about the food of the future. Normal food will be a luxury reserved for a few.

I doubt it. We have somewhat accurate idea of what's good for the body, and what's not good for the body. That "what's not" is widely in circulation. People haven't dropped their french fries for the salads; for sure they aren't going to ditch them for a monotonous diet of shakes.
He actually specifies exactly what's in his formula on his blog:

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

He's apparently even willing to ship you a batch of his own concoction for free if you agree to try it out for a week with blood tests before and after.
...I'm honestly not sure what point this is trying to make about Bitcoins. Good? Bad? Weird?
They should use poorly chosen weightings. A part of the point of Sims games is that you have to be the Sims caretaker.
Wow, I'm naive. For a second there I bought it.
I love how all the arm chair biochemists here jump on this as being so dangerous because in theory there could be something he needs and isn't getting. Yet most of them are eating a diet that is deficient in things we know you need. This guy's gross sludge is a hell of a lot healthier than what most people are eating, go bitch at them instead.
Are you sure these YC-rejects are building their companies just to prove pg wrong? They are probably just pursuing their dream, which is what led them to apply to YC to begin with. If they succeed, proving YC wrong is just a nice side-effect for them (see: http://lightsailenergy.com/ and others).
Does anyone know how copy-on-write forking plays into the 512MB limit on Heroku?

If your app takes up 256MB, does that mean you can only fit 2 workers? Shouldn't there be some savings due to copy-on-write?
"A number of startups are helping banks decide whether to extend a loan by mining social media to predict whether a person is creditworthy"

I thought the whole point of going to the "credit score" system was the remove any risk of bias (or accusations of bias) from lending. Isn't social media mining just going to bring back the exact same issues?
"reverse engineering"? I don't think that means what you think it means...
British people: Do this.
I love Codecademy, like, as an addict, but it doesn't teach anyone how to make anything.

This could probably be seen as a serious problem, but not a problem with Codecademy, more of a problem with society as a whole.

Codecademy DOES provide people some of the tools they'll need to make things with computers. And another tool in the kit is always a good thing. Makes us better makers.

We can give people knowledge, we can teach them how to think, but if they don't know how to DO anything, what are they going to do with all of their ideas?

In my experience people usually just need to be enabled to become makers. Tell them "You could make a thing! A Cool thing!" and if they believe you, they'll go out and prove it.

This article is useful in that way, it might enable folks to start using whatever they do have in their toolkits to start producing. Creating value.

But "Don't learn how to code"? That's just silly.
> With games you always have to create illusions of complexity in order to get acceptable performance.

Or you can just suck it up and create real complexity, which can be awesome!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
Hey there,

I used to Vim too, and started using Emacs since I started doing a lot of Clojure development. Since then, I have not looked back. The power and flexibility of Emacs is second to almost none. Just the other day, I was working on a Latex file, and I had a buffer open with a pdf viewer right next to my tex file, that would update as soon as I saved changes to my tex file. And the community has done almost everything you can think of already. If not, just write it yourself!

To get started, I would highly recommend using Emacs Prelude: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
It's incredibly useful and user friendly, and makes your Emacs all the more powerful. This is a good intro article to it: http://batsov.com/prelude/

The other blog that I find useful even as a fairly seasoned Emacs user is http://www.masteringemacs.org/
It has some great guides and tutorials for beginners too.
I think you miss the point of the google play store. Certainly, Samsung could fork and offer their own storefront, but they would lose some of the core Google applications. Take for instance Google maps, we have already seen what happens when a company like apple dumps maps for an alternative..
He isn't selling it, the FDA has nothing to do with it regardless of what he calls it. And just saying something is "not food" doesn't do anything to stop it from being regulated. The FDA does regulate dietary supplements and meal replacements, exactly the same way they regulate any other food.
Since it did not appear satire to me at firs glance it means I'm quite naive when it comes to the VC world. Good to know.
Wealth, risk, and stuff
I hope he doesn't damage himself

Bad as it sounds, I hope he does. That would be the equivalent of "failing fast", I guess.

Here's the worse outcome: he goes happily for some time, inspires some people to follow his lead, the group grows ... 5 or 10 years down the line - bam, they all end up with some irreparable damage to their health ...
This is an unusually bleak and uninspiring message. Reads like a mundane press release. An average update from a small startup founder is more exciting.
Inside the New York Times’ web redesign
Either way, they hold a hostility towards YC ( or anyone who rejects them) which is what such 'soft letdowns' are trying to mitigate.
Frank & Oak - seriously. You know that I love the guys, but a DAU for F&O. I think that I'm easily 2xMAU maybe a WAU. But no way am I a DAU for F&O.

Google Search

GMail/Google Calendar (or device specific version: Taskbox/Sunrise)
Rapportive
Google Hangout/Skype
Twitter
LinkedIn
Dropbox/GDrive

Prismatic
CardMunch
Kik/iMessage/SMS/GChat

I have been off the Evernote. And I'm still trying to find a to do list that fits my workflow. I
I'd agree here – given the nature of the digestive system, and the different things that are absorbed at different points across the digestive tract, I'd say that throwing it all in, ready for the body to soak up is probably a bad idea.

Further, you don't really know what the hell you're doing to all 100 trillion of the little beasties living in your gut by drinking that stuff. We're really a very carefully balanced system for homeostasis and shortcuts rarely appreciate the subtlety and complexity of the system they are shortcutting.
I actually love BTC and have personally invested in them. No point.
Wouldn't the announcement mention Andy's new role even if the project could not be named? Without mentioning his plans, it leaves open questions like these, which does not make Andy look good.
Im not thinking about the FDA specifically here. I'm thinking about general wrongful injury (possibly death) lawsuits where someone becomes seriously ill from consuming nothing but their "magic soylentesque shake".

Marketing it as a food replacement would be very difficult because of subtle differences between people's bodies. I think they stick with supplements/protein powder because it reduces the possibility of wrongful death lawsuits (and similar) while still allowing leeway with federal regulations.
Great links, thanks for sharing.

The paper [1] is particularly intriguing. I've been wondering if anyone had done any serious correlation analysis of FB Likes with other personal traits. This is a good starting point.

There's a sea of personal information available, and most people are willingly sharing with apps/pages/sites or publicly with the world.
I simply click the link, and a real PDF viewer shows me the content. I close the viewer when finished, and forget about it.

It's the same experience, except that the PDF is rendered right, the fonts are nicer, and the scrolling is far better. I can also view it as a presentation with slides easily.
D* Lite Source https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume/status/311218564600315905
Real-time map of cyber attacks
Haha, that's funny... because the XMLHttpRequest thing, the main enabler of Ajax, is actually a Microsoft invention,or, should I say: "Microsoft did it first.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...
Failures of the “Business Model Canvas”
Failures of Alexander Osterwalder’s “Business Model Canvas”
Have you never had an inside joke with someone? It's not about exclusion, it's about connecting with someone else (most of the time anyway).
Has this not been known for years now? Google has been making motions to converge.
Agreed on all points. However, I do think you are over-estimating the value of online service booking. Any existing maid service that already has the customer base and cleaning teams could hire a web developer to make a booking function for their Wordpress site.

Stripe is different because it handles REAL pain (charging credit cards, billing, developing and distributing low cost POS hardware).
I just killed the shell that it was running in. By then it was consuming one CPU core, and about 2 GB of RAM.

Then i tried again, in a subshell, and let it run...

[user@machine] ~ % zsh
[user@machine] ~ % yes `yes no`
zsh: fatal error: out of heap memory
[user@machine] ~ %

[user@machine] ~ % bash
user@machine:~$ yes `yes no`
bash: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:5184: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes (4297060352 bytes allocated)
> So iPhones aren't so secure.

What's your benchmark? If you have access to the hardware virtually everything can be jailbroken. With the iPhone, however, you can't do it non-destructively (i.e. you can't get personal information). At least that's my understanding, if I'm wrong please correct me.
>there are dummy social buttons loaded by default, you have to "enable" them

Neat. This looks like a very reasonable way to go if you decide to have social buttons.

Is there a ready-made solution for this?
Been rejected twice. Although I know is irrational to get angry I would be lying if part of me doesn't want to succeed to shove it on PG's face.
HTML 7
This level of complexity for images (1x and 2x) is madness. And the real kicker is, it doesn't even account for the kind of variable zooming people do on their phones, which can result in 1.73x, 2.79x, 4.23x, etc.

I've found it vastly simpler to adopt a much more flexible and simpler approach. Just include single images (not multiple versions), and pick resolutions that are appropriate for the image -- that convey the level of detail the image deserves. And when you up the resolution, knock down the JPEG quality.

Sometimes this means 3x or 4x for bullets or icons mixed in with body text. Sometimes it means 1x for photographs. Sometimes it means 3x for small illustrations and 1.5 for larger ones.

Don't worry about things being pixel-perfect, because pixels don't exist anymore. Just aim for whatever resolution communicates the necessary meaning of each element. Good judgment is your friend.
However, you will lose the 2.3 users, who still hold a ton of market share.
Jailbreaks exploit security holes, but you currently need physical access and the passcode off to jailbreak.
I actually wrote the start of a book (it's about 50 pages) specifically on this topic.

This kind of thing was something I had on my plate to try, glad someone has already tackled it!
Interesting point, thanks for sharing. I might do CSS targeting for site-wide images, and leave the in-post images (i.e., the ones coming via email & rss) with the high-res versions.
Sure, it's probably achieved everything it was meant to - like Google probably had when they first became the top search engine. I really doubt anybody is leaving because of that though, it's certainly not perfect, and it's certainly not achieved everything it can achieve. In fact, it probably hasn't achieved everything it is meant to achieve now. Goals aren't static, nobody's going to leave because there's nothing left to achieve with Android.
While you're right, the image is technically Photoshopped, as tangothedog alluded, it is running one or more VMs.

http://newrelic.com/images/signup/bg_developers.jpg

Look at the OS X menu bar at the top of the right monitor. The right monitor also has a windowed VM instance of Ubuntu running on it. The left monitor has a full screened VM (or remote desktop session) running on it.

By the way, why is this even on HN? What's the point, here?
Unfortunately, there's no widely supported way of encrypting the traffic of individual users on a publicly accessible network.

WiFi is designed to trust everyone on the LAN/subnet. But LANs are not secure. People roam between networks all the time. I have around 20 WiFi networks saved on my smartphone right now.

Sadly, people are trained to password protect their WiFi these days. Other than security issues, bandwidth caps and the risk of being held accountable for your internet connections are of concern to a lot of people.
http://www.libreoffice.org/ - full, open source office suite
What is ironic about a Hacker News T-shirt?
Any recommendations for keeping track of email support requests? I'm getting beyond the point where I can just reply straight from gmail. Ideally something I can just self host to avoid a monthly fee, but I'd be open to paying for a really good solution.
Has anyone had any luck outsourcing support questions? Especially for support emails in the middle of the night, it would be nice to have someone answer basic questions and then escalate the difficult ones to me.
> "It's complicated so we shouldn't try is basically the excuse."

I think the actual criticism is more along the lines of "It's so complicated that it's incredibly unlikely this guy has been truly successful."

> "Let the pioneers have fun and play and learn, that's what I say!"

Which is all well and good when they're merely experimenting on themselves. But this guy has gone from tinkering to claiming success and safety and begun distribution.

That's beyond tinkering and well into tampering.

He should absolutely feel free to tinker and explore and even publish his recipes and personal data for anyone similarly-motivated to build upon. But there's a line between doing that and doing what he's begun, the way he's begun it.
Political maneuvering has nothing to do with what CISPA actually says (as many others in this thread have pointed out).
In addition to this, even those of us who sit at a computers for 7-8 hours a day and then spend the rest of our time doing other activities.

I try and go surfing every week day, and most of the weekend, and i don't want to be bothered with taking time out to eat (i've got 2 kids too - so I don't have much time). Sure I can easily go grab some junk food and eat on the go but I really don't want to when I'm trying to keep my body in good shape.

I usually mix a bunch of raw nuts, raisins, fruit/berries, yogurt into a smoothy and have that as food. but it still requires time to make a clean up, not to mention the cost of fruit and nuts. Dinner is usually cooked by my wife, so that's not an issue for me because it's time with the family.
Pardon me, but how is this better than queuing a job, and checking the status for that job instead?
That's my standard MO when dealing with 3rd party API calls from a request.
But Google did eventually release their own maps app in the App Store. If Samsung forks android and create their own store front, will Google ignore all the users Samsung has which is comparable to or even more than what Apple has.
I had the same experience. I tried learning Haskell twice and failed miserably both times. I think my brain pieced things together subconsciously after those two attempts though, because the third time I sat down with it, it almost seemed to come naturally. Unfortunately, as much as I love the language, I also quickly came to the conclusion that it's not a very good fit for the kinds of projects I usually work on, although maybe I would have another sudden revelation if I jumped in and tried using it for a web app. Still, understanding some of the principles of the language, the rich type system, isolation of i/o, etc, have undoubtedly changed my coding style in all languages for the better.

This was my first working Haskell program - https://github.com/johnsoft/haskell-sudoku-solver
Can't do everything in life just by empirical patterns of actual experience from the past. Instead, need to think, look at how things work, find causes, reason, and plan.

It's not about me. I should not use my resume as my primary evidence. But, yes, I've been in business, sometimes as a founder. As a founder, sometimes I made good money and sometimes not. Now I am a founder again and hope to 'go live' soon. And I have seen a lot of business founders over the years, some close and some distant, some with failures or with successes from small, medium, large, or extra large. I get my views partly from such observations.

Just now in my work, I don't want a co-founder, and for essentially the reasons I gave: Dilute the direction and/or
quality of the work, spend more money, and spend time in 'management'.
I bet this is the most honest advice Matt Mullenweg will get all week.
That looks correct, the population starts fudging as soon as you pass 500 pop

http://np.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a6oeo/proof_that_th...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778

As I type, at #3 on front page.
We use SupportBee and it works pretty well for shared email support. It's a paid product but it's affordable and the pricing isn't based on the number of people.

https://supportbee.com

Depending on your business you can probably get away with only answering support requests during business hours.
"Does IP adress = the person who pays the ISP bill"

No - because "absence of bug reports does not mean there are no bugs"

Feel free to replace "bug" with "security breach"
Firefox for Android supports Froyo (2.2) up the latest Jelly Bean (4.2). Chrome for Android only supports ICS (4.0).
Updating a firmware while on battery is a pretty bad idea, so I can see why it's recommended.
Yep — Lean Canvas is much stronger than Business Model Canvas for tech startups.
The Dangers of Pirating Swiftkey
I started reading LYAH, and found it interesting but slow. I wasn't patient enough to get through more than the first half of the book. Then I found "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours"[1], which was much more interesting. I just jumped into that and wrote a simple Scheme interpreter which then morphed into an interpreter for my own language.

[1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

Basically, I learned enough to become comfortable with Haskell through that little project. After that, I got better by working on more projects in Haskell, doing more reading and answering StackOverflow questions.
Source maps in JavaScript are a cool idea. More people should know about them [1][2].

[1] See, e.g., http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...

[2] ...or http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/source-maps....
How to double science research
How One Person Captured 10,000 Photos at SXSW [Memoto]
Show HN: Chess OCR App - point it at a diagram, and it will load the position
And I wonder how people can put up with the perpetually blurry and over-bold Mac font rendering, not to mention the fonts themselves.
And now I've heard of Acquia.
I got the distinct pleasure of describing my big physics idea to Murray Gell-Mann, who is both a Nobel laureate and expert in (one half) of the specific topic I was interested in. He told me very bluntly he thought it was hopeless, and I consider it a sign of respect that he didn't feel the need to sugarcoat it.

There's politeness--with which I've only seen Gell-Mann flirt--but then there's the sticky-sweet bullshit the OP was parodying.

(He's wrong though, and I'm still working on it :)
Was HTC's profit from mobile alone 50% greater than Google's entire profit at the time (as Samsung's is now)? I think some people have missed just how dominant Samsung has become.
Recruiters are often looking for, e.g., 10 years of experience in a technology which didn't exist 10 years ago.
It's also invite only, and I don't know about you, but I can't see the value in spending a lot of time trawling through there, looking to see if there's a name I recognize from HN, and then try to figure out if I know that person well enough from posting here to ask them for an invite. And that's even assuming people would use the same name on lobste.rs that they use here anyway.
When you get tired of food, wine, women/men/{other object of attraction}, song, and sleep, you are tired of life.
Really?

This is what gave it away for me: "From: Harj Taggar".