skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is absolutely fascinating. I'm surprised that many think that this type of eating is some sort of dangerous experiment. People eat crap diets all the time. In my bachelor days, I knew several people who ate only fast food, microwave burritos, frozen pizza, etc. Literally, these people would almost never eat fruit and their vegetables were mostly just the beans in their Taco Bell.

Myself, I eat almost exclusively low carb. Salads, chicken, various low carb veggies, eggs, cheese, etc. I supplement with a lot of protein shakes to increase muscle mass from working out. I feel fantastic, I have very little body fat, and my mind stays much clearer than when I'm carbing.

I think the whole low-carb trend showed us that the dogma surrounding foods and diet has been a load of crap. There are lots of approaches to eating that can work, and many are far superior to the "food pyramid" nonsense that has practically ruined the health of America.

Experiments like this one in eating (er, not eating) may show us things about our metabolisms that we never realized.

I, for one, would love to get rid of most food preparation, save money, and maybe even be healthier. Kudos to Rob Rhinehart for looking for a new approach to the problem of sustenance.
On the left, text as rendered on the submitted url. On the right, text as shown as example for "Tiny fonts" in it. http://i.imgur.com/H6gDIZz.png

Both are perfectly readable and big on my screen.
I’m Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, and This Is How I Work
We used to have more details in a previous version of the site, but people complained it was too much information and got confused :) It is something that we need to improve. For now, you can take a look at the Readme and Changelog documents in each one of the application installer and virtual machine sections. It provides detailed information on bundled versions. But you are completely right that we need to make this information more accessible to end users that are interested in it.

We ship nginx, PHP-FPM with our LAMP and Rails stacks, but not enabled by default. We prefer Apache by default because it is much more rich in functionality, it works equally well in OS X, Win and Linux, people are used to configuring it, and with Apache 2.4 and the new MPMs, it is very similar in performance to nginx. Varnish is disabled by default because many people use the stacks for local development (at least for installers, for AMIs I think it is enabled by default, but I need to check)

When you mention app-specific optimization, what are you exactly referring to? Like a fine-tuned Magento AMI? We are working on something similar to that (incl. multi-server deployment templates) but it is difficult to come up with a one-size-fits-all configuration as performance tuning usually involves tradeoffs.
Ask HN: Any examples of business cards?
I am a researcher and I will be attending a bunch of conferences in the coming month. I would like to have a business card handy.

Is there an accepted best practice of adhering to minimalism as well as conveying the right amount of information on the card? Any examples would be greatly appreciated.
Agreed. I bet most of the people ripping other OSes don't even develop for Android. It's a nightmare.
Awesome, thanks for this, this is good data literacy
As a Debian user that was something that I wasn't satisfied, and which Ubuntu did much better than anyone else, finally I found this link and I could match Ubuntu font rendering.

http://bit.ly/reTb4m

For me the real trick was:

echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" > ~/.Xresources
Oh, good, better than most SEO companies. That's sure setting a high standard.
At least if Chrome made a version like they did with iOS (just a wrapper around the native web engine) it would have a JIT. That would be an improvement over the iOS version.
Rubin is someone who, from his days of running a BBS in New York many years ago, to creating and working to expand Android more recently, has always had a strong alignment with the values of free software, hackers and hobbyists. Over two decades ago he praised those who "write their programs for the hobby, for the hack". His commitment and his efforts for open source software and open platforms have borne fruit with an open platform which accounted for over 70% of smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2012. I am grateful for his efforts in this regard, especially since I have been focusing on writing Android apps for the past few years.
really? ICR on hacker news? i think you might want to post stuff like this somewhere NOT here..
This "CISPA is the next SOPA" meme is about as fact-based as "Electronic Arts is literally Hitler." I'm not telling you it's good or bad, but it's not remotely SOPA. It isn't even addressing the same general topic as SOPA.
Case in point: The Heroku load-balancing issue is a nasty one. The random algorithm (the one they went with) leads to really nasty queues in some places, it's super inefficient. On the other hand, a greedy algorithm doesn't scale well. You get one Heroku dyno (or SimCity road) swamped by all the agents making the same decision.

A popular load-balancing strategy that finds a middle ground is "best-of-two" routing where you choose two servers at random and route to the one with lower load. There are probably similarly simple ways to introduce variety and randomness into the SimCity agents.
Disappointing: Tim Berners-Lee Defends DRM In HTML 5
Ask HN: What's the best way to do a SV startup tour?
I wasn't able to get Google I/O tickets this year (Google Wallet...) but I've decided to take a trip down to the Bay area (from Canada) and check out the tech scene anyway, probably in mid-May. I'm graduating in a year, so I'd really like to get first-hand look at some of the startups in the area.

Does anyone have advice on how best to do this? I don't know if this is a common or strange request.

Thanks!
atleast it seams to load on your screen
Doesn't make sense to me at all. Yes, it is really good thing to be really busy with something in life. But are you really that busy that you dont have time to enjoy a good healthy meal? What abut sex ? What about girlfriend or wife ? Hey and is sleeping is also waste of time ?

Well, there are always pathological cases like this particular man in question but I dont think anyone else should even try this sort of stuff.

Secondly, our body has evolved not just to digest nutrients but also normal food which may contain many other essential things science is not yet fully aware of. So this sort of artificial diet is risky and it might cut your life by few years. Is it worth it ?
Conceptually, yes, these are two different issues. But since wifi security pretty much requires encryption of the traffic (otherwise anyone could just sniff your credentials during the access negotiation), and encryption requires some sort of access control anyway, they always go together in practice.
A Like Button Can Be A Very Dangerous Thing
Did Jason Fried just respond to Matt in his own way?

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3475-11-criticism-ratio
I love how people want to show you how clever they are ("I found it!") rather than deal with your topic for what it was. Is it desperately wanting an upvote, or "Can't wait to prove someone else wrong"? Oh well.
I might be misreading this, but it seems like PG is humiliating one of his partners in public.

EDIT: Yep, I was misreading this. It wasn't so clear that it was an inside joke. I guess the joke's on me and the stereotypical non-partner VC, ha ha?

From Wikipedia:

Harjeet Taggar (born June 8, 1985), is a British businessperson and partner at the seed-stage investment firm, Y Combinator. He was formerly funded by Y Combinator and sold his company Auctomatic to Canadian company Live Current Media at age 22.

In 2010 he was named as the first new partner at Y Combinator since its founding in 2005, aged 25. In 2011 he was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harjeet_Taggar
While I think his idea is promising, I'm inclined to agree. Simply something a subtle as pooping less for a year might wreak havoc on the bacteria in the colon. As far as I know, the precedents for powder-based nutrition are all supplements, and did not displace a regular diet entirely for a significant period of time.

I think it's something that should be tested in a scientifically rigorous way. Trying to hack your body like this is bold but if it fails it will fail in a very public way that might tarnish the idea for a long time.
It would be nice to be able to see the invisible agents so you could find out what craziness is afoot when people start walking around in circles.
Any tips for next year? I never got even a Google Wallet popup.
I'm not interested in the domain but thanks for putting it out there to the community. Btw ... if you did a write up on how the screen protector business experience was for you, that would be incredibly useful to the community IMHO.
I will never understand why seemingly every web based product wants me to share everything I do with "friends", where "friend" is defined as "random people you may have met once or went to high school with".

I don't care what movies you watch. At all. I (used to) use Netflix (when they had new releases) for watching movies and shows, not for catching up with people I couldn't care less about.
I think the whole thing is in jest.
Hehe... I been at Vipassana meditation 10 days retreat actually.
I'd say Vipassana is a good foundation as it teaches person to listen to/observe body sensations.
Facebook brings back in-profile third-party apps with Open Graph Collections
Yes, I think this is the operative point. If we as a society are going to make this deal -- we are giving the putative inventor an exclusive license to the technology for a substantial period of time in exchange for disclosure of how it works -- we want it to be a good trade. And it's only a good trade if the information in the patent is actually valuable. If there's evidence that that information would still become available in the absence of a patent grant, it becomes clearer that it's not a good trade in this particular case. Simultaneous filings are about as good a source of such evidence as one could hope for.

More broadly, I think the problems we have with the patent system can be seen as being rooted in the fact that there isn't anyone fully empowered to represent the public interest in this negotiation. The PTO is supposed to do this, in theory, but the examiners are overworked and have the wrong incentive structure.

And, there's a key problem: in a dispute over the obviousness of a claimed invention, the burden of proof is on the examiner to show that it's obvious -- which can be very difficult, particularly when the applicant can reply that anything seems obvious in hindsight. I propose that instead, the burden of proof should be on the applicant to provide objective evidence of nonobviousness.

Such evidence could take various forms: showing that others have tried and failed to solve the same problem; publication in a peer-reviewed journal or conference proceedings; showing that the need for a solution has been long and keenly felt.
1. This is not necessarily wrong. Maybe I set it up so he can use all the bandwidth that he can get

2. Why is only the penultimate hop responsible for the last hop? Why should he be responsible in the first place? And why shouldn't all the network hops in-between be responsible as well???

3.Yes, it is OK

"Link sharing" is OK regardless of your decision whether to share or not. Don't blame the technology man.
March 14th, 2013 - Vatican Announces World's First African-American Pope
I just try to keep this classic treatise by George Orwell in circulation among my business friends:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
> Why else would we grant a nearly everlasting monopoly (via copyright, again) other than to reward a Sacred, Difficult Act of Creation?

You seem determined to find a moral root for what seem entirely to be pragmatic objects of law, but I don't think one exists to be found. If I were to eschew cynicism in answering your question, I'd propose that the legislators behind copyright extensions believe them to be the most effective means of pursuing the purpose of both patent and copyright law defined in the constitution, which I quoted in my previous comment. If we were to admit cynicism into the conversation, I'm sure you could anticipate what my answer might be.
The nationality of the original poster is irrelevant.

As long as there are people who the poster would like to see free to use the code who are American and subject to US Copyright Law, the issue has potential relevance.

Ditto for French users and French law since we've been informed that the declaration is useless in France.
too lazy, or too busy? I could be doing a bunch of other non-lazy things I much prefer doing instead of cooking, such as coding, exercising, music, reading, etc.
Overhyped synthetic-milk or what. Another misguided 'engineer' thinking he can 'hack' a system, which modern science is still figuring out, and that too without any controls or rigorous monitoring...

I'll check back in 5 years and see how healthy he is, assuming he sticks solely to Soylent without problems till then.
"less terrifying than writing Ruby extensions in C" Very true, still terrifying though. I wonder if the reputation of C might not cause a selection bias towards the type of developer that can hack it though. Anyway, this is definitely a solid move.
Yes, you are misreading. Harjeet wrote a clever piece of satire mocking the insincerity of most VCs.
I don't think that's where is "falls apart" at all!

To quote Edison, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

He's out there trying something, seeing what works. If it turns out that there is some essential nutrient missing? Well? We found something out. And that's pretty cool.

Personally, I think it'd be worth setting up a study around this kind of thing. If we could cheaply produce a human chow of sorts, a lot of good could come of it.

Personally, I'd be down with it. I'm a bit of a weekend warrior foodie, I love making big meals on the weekends, or every once and awhile during the week. However, for the most part, day to day eating is just kind of rote. It takes too much time to make something decent, and so I usually end up eating a sandwhich, or maybe fast food, or perhaps some microwavable thing. If I could supplement 80% of my eating with a nutrient rich drink, I'd be pretty happy to do so. Finite control over calories would be a big plus, as well.
Comparison of search options for web applications
But I was only trying to water your lawn! It sent me a DM!
Ubuntu Touch Boasts Support For 34 Devices, 22 On The Way
"Young man discovers meal replacement powders and thinks he never has to eat again." - The Onion
[General support for jmatthew3 - http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerni...]

The period to file was supposed to be important though in non-conflicting applications. It allowed, for example, potential applicants to seek investment in various ways without fear of a specified disclosure causing loss of priority. Do you know how much inventors availed themselves of that ability?
Oddly enough, for me, playing The Sims taught me how much time is spent eating, defecating, and sleeping.
This is mail from Harjeet written as if it's from a VC to a YC partner like himself. Since Harj is not a VC and is part of YC, he wouldn't write Paul a mail like that. It's satire.
A sentence I never though I'd see 10 (or even 5) years ago: "It's compiled to JS, so I expect it to be fast."
The part at the end:

"On a separate note, I feel like we could be doing more to help YC companies. We're in awe of what you've built over there at the Y and we'd love to grab a coffee and talk more about how we could be helpful to both the companies and you."

Is the reason you should know this is satire.
> For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work,

I really don't, how do you define what is a waste of time and what isn't? Why eating is a waste of time and working isn't?
If you took it to production you could just distribute a mixer that has compartments for independent ingredients, maybe even go so far as to standardize cartage sizes of them to use as a fixed insert, have them delivered regularly, and plug them in to make your nutrient sludge once a day.

Then just go a step further, have it delivered by automated transport, brew itself, and you just go grab a cup of juice to keep you alive and get on with your day.
Child porn - the ultimate illegal activity. The only reason people would go on the Internet.
> I might be misreading this

This is an inside joke. Harjeet is imitating how VCs typically respond to YC when YC asks the VC for feedback on a meeting with the startup founders.
Very few of them are real glibc based ports which allow using normal X.org (let alone Wayland). Most are SurfaceFlinger based version.
In a language with a more rigid module system I'd agree with this, but Ruby's is really problematic for this sort of thing. Your requires will eventually cease to be documentation as they go stale, and you'll almost certainly accidentally use a dependency you don't require. All of this results in Weird Dependency Failures At A Distance.

If there's one thing I wish Ruby would adopt from python it's the import namespace system. Then this kind of proposal would become more practical.
Chrome comes pre-installed on many Windows PCs.
It may be apt, but it's a stupid name from a marketing perspective because of the associations it brings to mind. I noticed how eager he was to correct the record about the term "soylent", demonstrating a common blind spot among technical people. He should be focused on persuasion but is wasting attentional resources on pedantry and ego stroking.
Your irony detector needs adjustment. As pg wrote in his introduction to this letter,

"I sent the YC partners an email saying I was growing increasingly impressed with one of the startups in the current batch and asking what they thought of them, and Harj Taggar replied with this brilliant piece of VC boilerplate."

The joke is on the people who think that Taggar was expressing what he thinks, rather than what he has heard too many venture capitalists say when they aren't willing to say what they think.
tl;dr: Use New Relic and use Unicorn. Weren't these two things that the RapGenius post specifically mentioned as problematic? (Cost and memory constraints, respectively, IIRC.)
Scaling Computer Science Education
Hire more server huggers, make extra sure das-blinkenlights stay blinking, buying a second backup generator.

And- obviously enough- off site redundancy; multiple data centers. Which they talk about the difficulty of: 10Gbps pipes between DCs is not a lot compared to write throughput of a single computer's main memory, much less a DC's. For some compressible checkpoint logs there might be a way forward.

Perhaps we need a new *-cast technology: after any-cast we'll all be needing n-cast, which sends our traffic to the n-nearest DC's? :)
"You, as a home user, are not likely to get away with that."

His point is that you _should_ be able to get away with that. Precisely because there is no difference between an open network and a cracked one!!!
I'm finding Diigo's strength to be in the browser. I haven't tried the mobile apps in a while and I know others have these features.

One neat part of Diigo for me is being able to create an rss feed that you could presumably feed into one of these other apps.
Brillant, and there is a common denominator across all this kind of communications: there is no real information, so after some practice it's easy to spot it's just bullshit.
Btw this style is not just common to VCs, but also to clueless management.
Sorry, I guess that it's the default assumption since most people do come from an imperative background. And you had to choose a language with significant whitespace as your first imperative language, that's just low ;) But essentially, in languages with Algol-inspired syntax the semicolon is an end-of-statement marker. In Python, this is normally (but not always) the newline character.

I hope that helps decrypt the monad explanation part of my post somewhat. I wish I could give one which better relates to your background, but of the three languages you mention, I've only had very superficial exposure to Clojure. And you've also probably heard it before, but I would recommend LYAH over RWH as the first Haskell text.
Online Courses and Programs in Music
Digestion involves heavy duty mechanical crushing and grinding, at least three sets of enyzymes, dissolving in acid strong enough cut metal, more mechanical squeezing action, and anything microbes can do to the remainder, over the course of several hours.

Up against that, ageing a steak is not going to make a difference. As for bread, if anything, it is easier to digest than something "natural" like raw grains since it has less fibre and anti-nutrients.

The food in question is ever more "processed", since it seems to be made mostly of the base nutritional chemicals.
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Also, to be more serious, Pocket PC once ran on top of two processor families, so if you think fragmentation with a VM is bad, it's a lot worse when you have to build two binaries and try to explain to users which one they need to install.
> Mental performance is harder to quantify, but I feel much sharper.

A friend of mine frequently goes on crash diets and fasts and always reports that he feels sharper in the beginning. I'd guess (unscientifically) this is actually evidence that he is missing a few important nutrients.
I read it the same way, until I realized that "<founder>", etc. was in the original.
How else would you suggest he gets qualified to try something new?

Because saying you need a masters in biology is short sighted like you can onyl develop the necessary skills in a singular environment.

Reading is the most effective information transfer methodology we have besides hands on engagement learning, and I don't see many circumstances where you can get hands on experience brewing nutrient sludge.
Have you looked at moo business cards (http://us.moo.com/)?
The Japanese pronunciation in question is the Chinese-derived pronunciation for both 四 and 死.
Of the total space in the universe, what fraction at most do you think is occupied by self-aware minds?

Somewhere between vary close to 0% and vary close to 100%.

What is the maximum percentage of all the matter in the universe that is organized into conscious beings?

Somewhere between vary close to 0% and vary close to 100%.

Regardless of whether life is common or rare on other planets, it is certainly vanishingly scarce overall.

That makes plenty of rather large assumptions life may or may not only consisting of organic life on planets. For example, as our view of the universe is hobbled by the speed of light most of the planets in existence may have been transformed into Dyson spheres by AI (as one possibility) and we have no way of knowing. Or to bring up a classic idea the observable universe may be an influentially small part of a larger organism.

PS: Now, I suspect your probably more or less correct. However, just because something seems to be the most likely possibility does not make it the only option.
Android Chief Andy Rubin Breaks Up With the Green Robot
Then the irony is as delicious as a Hacker News T-shirt ;-)
> For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, where you spend your time getting up early every day, doing something all day (hiking, walking, gardening, building, whatever) and go to bed late in the evening (i.e. Full days of activities you want to be doing). I spent 2 years doing this [...]

How did you afford this, financially? What was the before/during/after story of how you organized life to do this?

Suddenly up and leaving my job and financial obligations (of which I have few), for a period of a year or two and then resuming where I'd left off does not seem even remotely feasible.