skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a child I used to get rather irritated whenever my nanny or butler complained about their impoverished circumstances.

People definitely love telling these stories. Hearing them, maybe not so much.
Wont people just make fake fb friends and write their own profile?
There are a zillion things I do not understand about startups.

But one thing I know: never use investors. You're better off trading the next Facebook for an 8-figure startup and just not putting yourself through any of it.
Even their landing page is down right now. Would help with that!
Uff, makes too much sense, nobody replies. So I will:

hey, dude, you're right. I'm glad someone writes these things every now and then.
I believe this is called getting "scroogled".
In a year of semi-minimalism, I've probably lost $20-$50 from getting rid of a couple closets full of stuff.

I have to think that's within almost everyone's budget, amortized over a long timeframe and with a payoff of much less clutter.
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Microphones have a host of issues as well. But the reason people notice the difference between cheep speakers and good ones is speakers have to deal with an instantaneous signal, if you reincode based on the characteristics of the speaker you can get a lot from even fairly cheap speakers.
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I'm a big dummy but almost every major decision Google has made since Larry Page became CEO has me baffled. The whole idea of squandering the nice vibes they had by forcing everybody into that stupid Facebook knockoff, killing off cool projects left and right, those dumb glasses that nobody is going to buy... I don't get it.

Is Reader costing them that much money? Put some ads on it then. Is this a Captain Ahab thing where Facebook is the whale? Then someone should let them know that no one really likes their Facebook ripoff because no one likes the actual Facebook. Facebook is a fucking car crash. I wish Google would just make cool stuff and continue not being evil and knock it off with the master plan bullshit.
I had a few high school dishwashing gigs myself. The rib house was the most memorable. Cleaning up BBQ sucked. I learned I never wanted to do that again.
Best alternative to Google reader.
OK. Today I went out and tried Jurassic Park Builder which is basically Sim City Lite for Android.

I am frustrated because I can't start a new game without destroying my current progress. I took a slow route, spent all of my coins trying to evolve my Triceratops too soon, and now I can't use it to progress faster. But this is only the first day.

It's not as bad as Vector, that makes it clear I won't be able to complete the game without a purchase. They could be lying. It might be worth the bling just to own the special tricks. Meanwhile I have come up with some great ideas for how to use the bitcoin in new and exciting ways. I'm drunk!
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>> "I feel like the six million dollar man. My physique has noticeably improved, my skin is clearer, my teeth whiter, my hair thicker and my dandruff gone. My resting heart rate is lower, I haven't felt the least bit sickly, rare for me this time of year. I've had a common skin condition called Keratosis Pilaris since birth. That was gone by day 9. I used to run less than a mile at the gym, now I can run 7. I have more energy than I know what to do with. On day 4 I caught myself balancing on the curb and jumping on and off the sidewalk when crossing the street like I used to do when I was a kid. People gave me strange looks but I just smiled back. Even my scars look better.

>> My mental performance is also higher. My inbox and to-do list quickly emptied. I 'get' new concepts in my reading faster than before and can read my textbooks twice as long without mental fatigue. I read a book on Number Theory in one sitting, a Differential Geometry book in a weekend, filling up a notebook in the process. Mathematical notation that used to look obtuse is now beautiful. My working memory is noticeably better. I can grasp larger software projects and longer and more complex scientific papers more effectively. My awareness is higher. I find music more enjoyable. I notice beauty and art around me that I never did before. The people around me seem sluggish. There are fewer 'ums' and pauses in my spoken sentences. My reflexes are improved. I walk faster, feel lighter on my feet, spend less time analyzing and performing basic tasks and rely on my phone less for navigation. I sleep better, wake up more refreshed and alert and never feel drowsy during the day. I still drink coffee occasionally, but I no longer need it, which is nice."

Yeah, I'm the one exaggerating.

>> "Consuming only Soylent costs me about $50/month, another order of magnitude improvement, and would be cheaper if I didn't need the energy for running every day. At scale the cost would be even lower.

>>Edit: this was a miscalculation from a mistake in my spreadsheet, at personal scale it actually costs me exactly $154.82/month."

...Again. I'm exaggerating.

His blog is overly sensationalized. It really does read like a sleazy ad. He even gave his experiment a product name 'Soylent'. Sure, I was being funny about it, but I wouldn't call what I said an extreme exaggeration of what I just read.
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Oh yes i almost forgot, DEPENDENCY! Imagine a world with no seeds (google terminator seeds), and genetically modified and patented animals which don't breed. At best, everybody should cultivate and farm his own food. If you don't have the time to prepare a meal, you don't have time to live. I hope there is strong demand in real and natural food as long as i live.
I want a light weight feed reader with very few distractions. Upon visiting your page I see that you use webgl on your homepage and it appears that you only allow logins through facebook?
Javascript? I haven't been tracking the details of this game at all, but is the GUI really done in Javascript? Are they using a custom engine of some sort? How can that possibly be performant?
This is not news, this is something very basic related to direct navigation traffic vs. paid traffic. If 50% of traffic is through direct navigation (ppl typing www.yourcompany.com on their browser to land on your site), and Google ads can bring you the other 50%, then that's great, otherwise not. Saying that people would've come anyway sounds amateurish and easy to measure. Stop buying ads and compare your traffic to your prior traffic. Direct nav. traffic for big brands such as Amazon and Ebay is around 50% of their total traffic, so obviously they benefit less from Google ads then companies whose direct nav. traffic is 5%...
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Just to clarify - that was an example. Whatever will be wrong with Soylent, will probably be something no one considered.

What do we know about completely eliminating fiber from the diet for an extended period of time? Or what do we know about chewing food being beneficial for dental health? It was mentioned he hardly poops on Soylent - were there prolonged studies on this subject?

Willingness to risk is something I respect, anyway.
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THANK you. I've said this for so long and I'm always scoffed at.
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Indeed - I stopped short for exactly the same reason. Can't imagine why I'd want a reader app to mess with my contacts in any way.
>When in reality, the human GI evolved to support an extremely broad range of inputs as it's most significant factor.

While we can agree that innovation should not be stifled, the idea that we can determine the processes by which the body utilizes nutrients and their interdependent effects, after a few months of research, is utterly hubristic.

I often make the claim that the human body (other animals are close too) exhibits one of the highest levels of complexity out of all the known systems in the universe, far exceeding the complexity of man mad systems. I challenge anyone to put forward a counter-example...

I've been researching nutrition for 5 years and read hundreds of papers on PubMed and, involved with QS (quantified self) and life extension movements, track my bloodwork in Google Spreadsheets etc.

You may be wondering, why would someone invest such an extraordinary amount of time (1000+ man hours) an energy in this topic? Well I used to think very differently about my health. As a young strong-willed software developer, I arrogantly assumed like many before I knew it all in my teenage years. My mental model of the body, was not dissimilar to your current views on GI (the body will just handle whatever you throw at it). As a result after 10 years of eating badly I ended up with a chronic disease (Psoriatic Arthritis).

Being a teenager I knew better and ate anything I wanted, which specifically was an extreme diet consisting entirely of pasta, milk and coke. Because that's what my body "wanted". Now I'm in my 30's and undoing the damage, but I've learned that this system really is complicated, more so than a rocket or microprocessor. You're right in the sense that the body can tolerate it for a while, but it's not designed to cope with abuse over a period of many years. Eventually you will pay the price.

Even now though, I wouldn't consider myself an "expert", although some of my peers might. But I have learned enough know when someone is out of their depth. This guy is well intentioned but that does not mean he's justified in making such grandiose claims.

For example he says "Vitamin D" and "Vitamin K", without acknowledging various forms exist.

For example he says he takes "Vitamin D(400IU):"

What exactly is 'Vitamin D'? Cholecalciferol (D3) [1] is quite different from Ergocalciferol (D2)[2]

D3 levels are particularly important when talking about overall health.

Or take "Vitamin K" for example, are we talking about the philoquinone (K1) [3] or the menaquinone (K2) [4] group?

Even if then, if one is talking Vitamin K2, there are various menaquinones forms so is he suggesting Mk4, mk7 or some other form? [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecalciferol

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergocalciferol

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloquinone

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_k2

[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10084398
Am I supposed to read all this? Who curated it? How do I know its any good?

The thing is, if I want to be a better writer or blogger, there's already an ocean of advice at my disposal. And now there is even more.

These bookmarking/ content discovery apps are like dump trucks of information, and I wonder who has the time to actually read this stuff. Who is asking for all of this?
You manage to say a lot while saying absolutely nothing of value. That sounds harsh, but seriously thus far you've said that Andy Rubin is to blame for <something vague and unsubstantiated> because <something vague and unsubstantiated>, and Android has <some unstated fundamental security gap> versus <some other alternative>. I don't think I've ever read such an absolutely and completely unsupported comment chain that wasn't sitting deep in negative territory on HN. And seriously, the nonsense tweet by Schiller (who would have known that Apple would toss barbs Android's way?) is why you think Rubin moved on? Give me a break.

Android has a deeply secure design that runs each process as isolated, low-privilege users, needing to request services after passing through fine grained permissions. Do you contest this? Architecturally Android is much more secure than iOS.

The only issues remaining are getting security updates out quickly, though in actual practice this has proven to not be an actual problem (somehow people imagine that if a device is on Gingerbread that also means security patches can't be deployed, I guess having never worked in branched source control systems), and better vetting of the Play store (which will come. The Play store can be both vetted and agile/inclusive. They need to block the bullshit). Neither of this are the apocalyptic "that ship has sailed" nonsense that you are parading.
Linkbait. Indeed, he eats. It's just really awful food.

I am glad I still have the freedom to eat what I choose. I hope that never changes.
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The writing was on the wall for reader once they stripped the commenting/sharing functionality. This was a great tool for the teams I managed to stay on top of things. The redesign destroyed the product.
Script with saved timestamps is a godsend.

Particularly useful when you're accessing via a serial console, as you'll get full boot from BIOS. You can both log and troubleshoot based on output.

Playback utilities can take a multiplier to speed (or slow) playback from realtime.
I don't think the author meant to call poor people "dumb", although he could have phrased the sentence better: "Poor people have clutter not because they're too dumb to ...."
Previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821
Sadly, this is not the case:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supplem...

> While on its surface this would appear to be a reasonable distinction, given that it doesn’t make sense from a policy or scientific standpoint to hold food to the standards as rigorous as the standards to which drugs are held, as implemented by the DSHEA this distinction has the pernicious effect of allowing manufacturers to label all sorts of botanicals, many of which possess pharmacological activity, as “supplements,” and supplements, being defined as food and not medicine, do not require prior approval by the FDA before marketing. In other words, supplement manufacturers basically work on the honors system when it comes to deciding what they will market as a supplement, and the FDA can’t do anything about a harmful supplement until after it has been on the market and caused harm.

> Some firms don’t even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records, for their products.

> Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories. New Jersey-based Quality Formulation Laboratories produced protein powder mixes and other supplements in a facility infested with rodents, rodent feces and urine, according to government records. FDA inspectors found a rodent apparently cut in half next to a scoop, according to a 2008 inspection report.
That is cool. Link?
1 fatality per million years? What kind of crazy number is that? It's completely impossible to make such an estimate, you'd need at least a hundred thousand years worth of data.

I would be perfectly happy with 1 fatality per hundred years, and that's an estimate we can actually make. (Even one per decade is better than non-nuclear power.)
Is not letting guys be cashiers a corporate rule, or just in that particular McDonald's? What's the reasoning behind that?
I love that... I wonder if he gave anyone commit privileges..
What's bad about it? Nuclear power could power us for at least 1,000 years if not 10,000.

That's close enough to "foreseeable future" to me.
How about another petition to atleast open source the code so maybe the community can host it on google apps/ec3 or users can run a private instance
One life lesson I learned: never draw life lessons from fiction :)
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Let me see how I can delicately sum up my feelings about this: "Google, you Bastard!"

I think they announced this while the news cycle is wall-to-wall New Pope Mania to cover up this appalling summery execution :)
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From what I've read, it is better to get calcium from milk, vegetables like Spinach, Kale, Okra, Collards, or Soy or White beans, or some fish rather CaCO3. The Mayo clinic suggests taking CaCO3 with food, because stomach acid helps with the absorption: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/calcium-supplements/AN01428 Otherwise, Calcium Citrate may be a better choice.

The thing that worries me most about this diet is that, while in some ways it may be of great benefit in energy, etc., some of the side effects may not be seen for months, years, or perhaps a few decades.

It is an interesting experiment, but I think it would be a good idea if it were controlled and monitored by a doctor.

Also he said, "This is one case and it's only been a month". I ate almonds, peanuts, cheese, meat, and veggies for a few months, lost 15 lbs. But, since I've gained it all back and then some. One month at a new diet something hardly makes one an expert.
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What you may not have considered is that people like even less when someone complains about trivial problems during their wealthy upbringing.

"Mother! The staff is whinging again!"
Perhaps, but I believe the one I saw was on people, not rats.
Thanks. Amazing how easy it was. Google Takeout made me login three times over. Oo
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It's unfair for Google to claim usage has been decreasing since it broke the social aspect of Greader (which was the part I loved the most) which I think is a major factor in declining usage. I definitely saw less content that my friends on Greader used to share. My usage of the product dropped after that, but it was still useful enough I wanted to keep using it. This is probably one of the most shameful episodes in google product history. I bet they're rationalizing away all the feedback from upset users too. They should at least let someone spin off the product into a startup. Most startups would die to have the user base of Google reader. Just because Google doesn't care about it, doesn't mean there is no market to be served.﻿
PHP was such a security nightmare for so long that I am very reluctant to enable it on any box I actually care about. (It could well be better. It's been a long time since I was sysadmining many boxes.) So for a project I have to do the hosting on, language choice still matters to me.
Remotivate yourself
Newsblur's Android app doesn't have a widget.
Better get some more servers. newsblur.com and dev.newsblur.com are not responding. "502 · NewsBlur is down"
Is it me, or is there something offensive about this being awarded posthumously? It reminds me of how people are vilified while living, but celebrated as soon as they pass.

Where was the government's honor for and protection of his efforts while he was living? Imagine how encouraging it might have been to him to have his efforts supported and meaningful change take place as a result. It's great that some legislation is being introduced to address some of this, but why so late and why the rogue DOJ in the first place? All of this happened because of the IDEAS expressed by this man. This should be scary to all Americans.

And, speaking of that, these are relatively minor intrusions into our freedoms compared to the wholly un-American Patriot Act. When will that be addressed? Kind of makes these legislative changes look like lipstick on a pig.

It is more than a little hypocritical that the same congress that abides the abhorrent assault on liberties that is the Patriot Act, is handing out "Freedom of Information" awards to anyone, let alone posthumously to a man who was unjustly prosecuted by the DOJ. The latter being arguably the primary beneficiary of the abuses enabled by that act.
I really dislike this story. All I got from it was that this guy loves to stroke his own ego. WTF. The worst of it is that this story got so many points and that people are really lapping it up.
I sent Google Wallet support the following message:

I'd like to know specifically why I was allotted a ticket and unable to complete the transaction. Was this a problem with the registration application? Was it a problem with Google Wallet? Should I be concerned about using Google Wallet as my own payment gateway? What steps are being taken to prevent this from happening in the future?

Here is their sophisticated and well reasoned technical response.

Hello John,

Thanks for your reply. I understand this issue can be frustrating on your part and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Our registration system might have mistakenly processed the registration but the order was cancelled and is now sold out.

You can always watch our Google Developers page (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDevelopers/posts) for future updates on Google I/O.

---

I will not be buying any Google Products after my shabby treatment by the Google Wallet staff.
vmstat and iostat are also useful for tracking memory issues.

sysstat ('sar') reporting can also provide some of that much-needed history. Sar output is pretty readily visualized with utilities such as gnuplot.
Livestock and pets aren't as healthy as you think they are. Their lives are better because they are protected from various factors like bad weather, lack of water or food, but they still need a vet or medicine (by the way, chicken used to have antibiotics in their diet). I doubt that they're in a better shape than a wild animal living in a good area.

As an example I'll quote from an article [1] about the eggs from free-range hens with access to pasture:

The "Mother Earth News" and SARE studies found that free-range eggs contained 67 percent and 40 percent more vitamin A, respectively, than conventional eggs (see References 2, pages 1 and 3).

Free-range eggs contain more vitamin E than their conventional counterparts. The "Mother Earth News" survey found triple the vitamin E in the eggs they tested, and Pennsylvania State University research found double the vitamin E in the eggs of grass-fed hens (see References 2, pages 1 and 7).

Though I agree that beating or at least improving J6Packs' average diet wouldn't be that hard.

[1] http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/health-benefits-fr...
1435 days ago- that's almost 4 years. I wonder if one day in 2034 someone will post a "done that" link with a conversation over 10k days old?
This Man Thinks He Never Has To Eat Again
http://www.protopage.com has full screen mode with keyboard navigation if you first do Colors/Settings then untick "open news items directly" (Unticking this will mean headlines will open in the internal full text RSS news feed reader instead of navigating to the headline's web page directly).
I agree clothes shopping can be 'a major pita', but I suspect with the right level of wealth and a carefree attitude, it need not be. Just overbuy things that seem right; who cares if they don't fit well or no longer seem stylish after the first wearing? And at very high-end outlets, the staff will be better at making good recommendations at a glance, you may get to know the consistent sizing/cuts, and the aura from the brand/style can cover up minor issues. (Wear something expensive confidently and it seems that's how it's supposed to fit.)
Or to put it in a more socioeconomic context, consider a low-wealth actor that might prefer to avoid toll roads, versus a high-wealth actor that would rather pay a little bit to save some time. Those are the kinds of motivations I was hoping to see in this game.
I used to be a big Listen user, but the app was so buggy. Then I found Stitcher and never went back.