skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this isn't new software. There is an actual answer to what this purports to be, i.e. a complete nutritional food. It is a very hard question to answer, and even if you had the absolute top minds of the industry making a food source in this manner you'd be provably messing up badly as recently as ten years ago. You'd probably be messing up today but we don't even know how at the moment.

I mean look at the warnings on what is basically the next step, TPN http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/nutritional_disorde... . He is basically drinking almost exactly this. Look at all those scary scary warnings. Some of them are IV dependent, but things like "Metabolic bone disease, or bone demineralization (osteoporosis or osteomalacia), develops in some patients given TPN for > 3 mo. The mechanism is unknown. Advanced disease can cause severe periarticular, lower-extremity, and back pain. Temporarily or permanently stopping TPN is the only known treatment." and such are probably some odd nutrient problems.

Any nutritionist will tell you that there just isn't a great long term complete meal replacement. If this guy has one that is great, but he has done nothing to prove it yet. I mean he isn't even completely replacing meals, and has only been doing it for 6 weeks. Which is shorter than some people have done entirely cabbage based diets. Heck he could have subsisted on beer for this long. ( http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/the-beer-diet/2... )

It is sort of like some blog post claiming to have solved scaling and not actually had any real workload. I mean sure it doesn't look completely broken at a glance, but it hasn't been shown to even work yet. Come back in a year or two when you've dealt with some load (or merely a couple years of drinking the same thing in this case).
There really is a missing link between heroku and aws where one would have more control than on heroku but less devops problems than on aws. And if done right, people would be throwing money at it. I guess that is that elasticbeanstalk and opsworks are trying to solve.
Someone had made something like that for internship reports, when I was in college. Very handy, when you needed a bonus paragraph here and there on "How this experience made me a better person".
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You can certainly enjoy your life a lot more if you take your ball, go home, and play with your computer. Who knows, computers may even turn out to be popular in a decade's time.
Agreed! An MBA type at a hackathon abruptly told me that writing code (the thing I do for a living and often for fun) was too boring. I said that if you want to make something bad enough, you'll figure it out. He told me at the end of the day that he'd started learning HTML. It's a start.
So if thousands of engineers independently worked for years trying to solve some important problem, and then finally a mere two of them come up with solutions around the same time that are similar, you'd say the solution is obvious?

That's a pretty weird way to define obvious. It is true that sometimes a term used in the law deviates a bit from the meaning of that term in ordinary English, but rarely as far as your definition of obvious does. In English, obvious means that it is easy to discover. It should be readily found by any reasonably competent person who looks.
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> you can use UIWebView to render HTML/CSS, and to execute JS. Yet that wasn't good enough for Mozilla -- why?

One issue is that Apple gives themselves a much faster version WebKit, but doesn't let anyone else use it. If you want to be a browser on iOS, you have to use an intentionally crippled engine.

Another is that Apple's iron grip on iOS is in direct opposition to the Mozilla Manifesto. Mozilla simply can't be a party to that platform without compromising its values.

That second issue is at the heart of FirefoxOS.
> If I could afford to give up work, I could afford to not cook.

Conversely, if you cooked more, you could afford to give up work sooner :)

(One of the ways I was able to go 2 years without working was by cooking almost every meal. The only ones I didn't was when it was cheaper to buy than cook, i.e. an entire meal for 0.75 USD in cheap countries)
If you want to be a software engineer that can produce a large, complex, and high-quality product, learn to code.

If you're cranking out weekend-project websites (see author's examples) and $0.99 apps, you'll get by with a minimal knowledge of software development.

There is a difference between hobby and professional programming, but both are equally important.
You can have a lot of fun with your post doing a literal or subjective search and replace of your "eating" with alternatives such as "hunting game" and "butchering". Or "vegetable gardening".

Also the relative success of fast food restaurants vs gourmet grocery stores does tend to point out the majority has already decided in favor...
Etsy really isn't competition for eBay, at least unless they change their policies significantly. They explicitly ban mass-produced items.
Go's standard lib is built around it's communications and concurrency primitives. Sure one can extend other languages with new capabilities to take them into Go's realm, but that implies a movement away from stock standard core, whereas Go users, at their core, share a common massively concurrent message passing beast of a runtime and a concurrency friendly standard library that they are all unified behind. One will never mobilize behind a concurrent library in the kind of ways doing it up front will accomplish. Go has a large community of practitioners all writing massively concurrent code. That is huge and has never been done before.

But let's go look at patterning: look at Node: everything is hinged around re-using Node's core patterns, callbacks and every now and then slower events. There is promises work abound, but it's not used heavily: indeed it'd be hard to, with intermodule work, because A) it's not the standard lib B) nor are promises standardized. People seem to prefer something I loath- the horrible Async library- which gives them a bunch of composition tools to make worse the awful awful crime that is callbacks: because callbacks are what Node is, people pick up tools to do it more, to a further extreme, rather than going to the foundation & reshaping the landscape. (PS: Callbacks are A) awful B) actually & entirely the right decision.)

I was reasonably seriously into Perl, but I don't know what perl CSP style library you seem to be alluding to that A) you seem to indicate people used & B) got on par with Go 10 years ago. But I'm interested to hear of it! <3 me some CSP.
Jeez, man, chill out. History is littered with amateurs making breakthroughs. You're take down is uncompelling. Processing for health is a bit different from processing for cost.
It's quite possible to live on a very low calorie diet[1] of 800 calories or less. In fact I've read about successful studies using only 300 calories per day.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_low_calorie_diet
Just upload to YouTube who's solved all these video hosting issues? And then I can click on the "Watch Later" button to add it to my queue...
Yeah, but then that better thing becomes a chore, when you do it all day every day.
Most of his ails were probably caused by moderate obesity, and his meal replacement shakes probably have him on a calorie-restricted diet.

At the very least, this guy is probably more aware of his calorie intake than he was when he was free-eating.

(free-eating is when you eat what you feel like whenever you want to, without worrying about what or how much you're eating)
I don't understand.. Why wouldn't they spend the few minutes needed to just make this public?
[0] is a rather amusing read. Given are personality traits with the groups correlating the strongest with said traits. Personal favourite:

Liking ‘Walking With Your Friend & Randomly Pushing Them Into Someone/Something’ correlates with having few friends. Go figure.

[1] is the full article of about four pages.

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2013/03/07/1218772110.DCSu...

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.full...
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View source... download video.
I have money and time, how do I make the jump to tech?
From the time I wake up in the morning until night, I check Hacker News, Techcruch and Engadget about 10 times. I have about 25 ideas for apps and start-ups and I have the resources to fund ventures (low six figures) and dedicate time to feeding them. But I don't know where to start. And I have no tech or programming background beyond end-user enthusiasm and early adopter status.

I live in Irvine, CA.

Guidance?
> They built this beautiful, different, rich product that is objectively amazing. And yet the players they wanted to please can't stop talking about how shit it is.

This experience has been true for all game developers of all gamers forever. While many games do have serious flaws and much criticism is valid, my experience is that gamers are the most entitled, fickle, negative audience you can imagine.
I look at it just the opposite. Alcohol, in too much quantity, is essentially poisonous to your body, so it processes it out first. Glucose, in too much quantity, is also poisonous to your body, so it processes it out second. Ketones, on the other hand, are produced[1] by the body, so can stick around as needed.

1. Trust me, I know everything produced by the body is not good. It's just that, when comparing ketones to glucose and alcohol, I think ketones win hands down.
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The difference being that basic computer science algorithms are very very well studied and understood, while human nutrition is not at all. In your example, computer scientists would argue against the conclusion based on knowledge, while biologists are arguing against this based on not knowing what will happen and assuming (likely correctly) that the results will be harmful. It's a far less powerful position to be in.
Thank you. This is great!
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Thank you. For someone independent like me, what kind of logo could I have? Or can I just put my university logo?
> If that gets in the way of nutrition, taste wins every time.

It's actually worse than that. A major current research thread is on the low-level mechanisms of "food reward" and the interaction of the brain and obesity. For example, Stephan Guyenet at the University of Washinton researches this area[1]. Even if nutrition is fine, hyper-palatable foods[2] can have a negative impact on health for a variety of reasons. In good part, they basically make it impossible to avoid overconsumption, but there are other implications being studied. Check out Guyenet's blog and twitter feed for references on this developing area. (N.B.: The work that Guyenet does and references isn't always the most accessible or easily interpretable in some cases. He's emphatically not a top source if you're just looking to learn a high level approach towards improving your diet.)

[1] example blog post: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2013/02/food-reward-fr...

[2] The idea of "hyper-palatability" refers to engineered button-pressing of the human brain by modern processed foods and food ingredients. It doesn't mean "food that tastes good", of which there's a world's variety that this moniker doesn't apply to.
> We get upset that VC's respond with boilerplate

Even if it sounds impersonal and lazy, this is just called being polite, most people still prefer an answer of this kind to "lol no, sorry, you suck". And that's why we do it aswell. Perhaps we should work more on make it seem less impersonal, but the message is clear and loud in any case.
Common in commercial software, too.

I installed version 3.3.0 of an EDI application. Couldn't license it, which was the simply importing an .xml file.

I called. The fix was to apply 'cumulative patch X' available on their website.

Now .. this isn't a minor bug: without a license you can't _do_ anything with the software. It won't even _run_.

How does something like that get out of testing?
Can someone explain to me what this is exactly? Is it a framework like PhoneGap?
"That's a total of 1585 calories."

That fits with the reported claim of being 1/3 of an american diet. That also explains why he's the only person at walmart taller than he is wide.
Providing container operations as functions in <algorithm> operating on iterators means that someone implementing a new container with iterators immediately has a wealth of functionality available with no extra effort.

Also, containers that are most well suited to membership searches (std::set and std::multiset) do include find(Key const& key) as a member.
this is just as likely true as not true.

enterprise sales organizations often do research on individual companies or market verticals, add entries into a big list, maybe combined with other marketing/sales people, and then do a mail merge from their CMS or other software.

just because the sender may not have realized this particular corporation was a direct competitor does not mean they didn't do any research on the company or its market.

perhaps sales guy was going through 200 companies that day in a list sorted on website traffic rankings, or annual revenues, or hosting provider, or any number of other bits of info.

anyway, i run a startup, and i partially rely on received cold emails to get an understanding of the marketplace. we've found vendors, competitors, and VARs that we otherwise wouldn't have known existed. sorry, it's just the way it's done.
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Interesting. This is the very reason I haven't updated any of my plugins or versions of Drupal on my personal site.

I ran an update for the first time and then spent four hours fixing everything it broke. I was so pissed, I decided not to do it again and have already moved off Drupal.

I highly doubt I will use Wordpress either and agree with your take on just spinning up a rails blog project instead.
I use this technique on Heroku for my oauth requests and it works well. One downside is that your responses have to interface directly with Rack, and you lose out on all the functionality in Rails and the middleware stack.

To account for this, I created a controller mixin to recreate the middleware stack for responses:

http://www.jonb.org/2013/01/25/async-rails.html
There's money to be made in an open design platform coupled with low-cost curated data feeds. I like being able to customize and tweak how things look on my machine; I loved running Enlightenment on my Linux desktop 10 years ago. And I love and am prepared to pay for good content because I'm a bit of a news addict. But I can't stand the amount of junk on most news websites. Not just adverts - sidebars, useless statistics about which stories are most popular, social buttons, comment dungeons, pictures of journalists, and about ten other varieties of cruft...to say nothing of the poor quality content that I'd like to filter out. I envision something midway between NNTP (the protocol, not the usenet community) and a Bloomberg terminal, but at reasonable cost and with high standards of currency and curation (which is where Wikinews fails currently).

Users choose (and may pay for) the presentation layers that make most sense to them; one person may choose something redolent of newspaper, another person likes their news with Star trek theme, a third inexplicably likes their news delivered by Clippy, the office assistant. Designers offer a wide variety of different presentation and navigation tools to suit the whims of consumers instead of suffocating in an unwinnable race to discover the one format that rules them all from within the bowels of of a media conglomerate; serious journalists get to concentrate on information-gathering, reportage and quality of references, without having to fill an onerous fluff quota ('It's daylight saving time again, and that means rewriting last year's rewrite on daylight saving time!')

grumble grumble get off my lawn etc.
Besides, you can be married to an opposite-sex partner, vote against every gay marriage initiative on the ballot and still be gay.
Dude I would take a cut to have someone as a vc who said "lol no, sorry, you suck." I mean jesus christ these are the last people we want patting our egos.
I don't know how effective his particular recipe is, but this is a pretty important concept (and not a new one). He nails it when he says that eating is a social activity like going to the movies, but you might not want to do it 3 times a day. People are resisting it now because it doesn't sound "natural" but it will definitely be the new normal.

If we do end up developing a meal substitute it could also provide a solution to world hunger. I remember reading about a gel that is distributed to Africa in cans which was helping the food problem there (can't find it via Google now).
there is no difference between an open network and a cracked one!!!

Yes, there is. An open network means whoever is providing the wifi disclaims all responsibility for how the network is used. Starbuck's may be able to get away with that, as I said, but I don't think the average home user can, unless they have a really unusual ISP. Have you read the fine print in your ISP's terms and conditions?

If the point is that home users should not have to tolerate those kinds of terms and conditions, I don't disagree; but I don't expect it to happen any time soon. :-)
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I can pull out quotes of Greek philosophers or Egyptians extolling the virtues of lifelong exercise and moderation in food... that's not quite the common wisdom I'm thinking of!
Please read this to understand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5370816

If nobody has a right nutrition model today(1), including exeprts doing this whole life, somebody who just read a few books has no chance to cover everything that has to be covered long term. Or in other words, don't you think that military with practically infinite funds wouldn't already use his drink or equivalent for all extreme circumstances, if something like that were enough?

(1) Because biology is darn complicated, like in "we still don't even know all the bacteria that live in our bodies." Not to mention organic chemistry 3-d effects like in http://folding.stanford.edu/
I assume it's a more direct aggregator :)
Mostly agreed, one difference that I would like to highlight is that errors are not always backpropagated across all the layers. In addition to contrastive divergence the breakthrough has been that you can get away with unsupervised learning (like with autoencoders) in the layers.

On the comment that RBMs are new, now I have to come to accept that if one looks hard enough almost all things are old, only the name changes !
Both the AP and the client station produce nonces, which together with the passphrase and other values are used to calculate "pairwise" keys and eventually session keys. This makes hijacking more difficult. As you intuit, however, it can certainly be done by one who knows the passphrase and is able to sniff the nonces.
"There's probably more complexity to food than breaking it up into vitamins, minerals, and calories."

A picture perfect display of modern belief in vitalism theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism

A fairly stereotypical way to being an organic chemistry class is to start out with traditional vitalism and pivot into the historical first complete synthesis of urea, of all things...
pretty much the only thing i can conclude from this entire thread is that the acquia guy got caught red handed doing his job.
You're looking for Dave McClure.
When did I say a things about laws? By accountability, I mean:

Does IP adress = the person who pays the ISP bill?

I suppose legislation could help to clarify things in that regard but that has little to do with understanding the technology.

What I'm saying though, is that (like marssaxman) I'd like more people to share their connection but I understand why many don't given the technical issues, bandwidth bill, and legal uncertainties.
On the plus side, you could take one to touch in at work for him.
I am doing this for the 1st time in 2013. Having paid my 2012 taxes (1040 schedule C) using turbotax, it helped me estimate quarterly payments based on 2012 earnings. If I make a lot more or a lot less by mid-year I can make adjustments.

I was hoping there was a light weight accounting app that would help me with bids/quotes, invoices, expenses, and taxes all under one roof on the cloud.
Take your ideas and try to find something similar that is already out there. Do your research on that particular company or product to see what programs they use and how they work. Analyze their past performance and what changes they have made. Reach out to them to ask how they did it.

Once you have enough information on the toosl they use, go reasearch those tools and methodologies. Find the user groups and forums. Look at how to download and install their tools and runn through youtube and google to find tutorials. Buy some books for the major coding platforms you are interested in (iPhone sdk, Android, etc.) start going through the tutorial books.

You check tech sites way too much, so you might want to set a hard time limit on how much time a day you spend browsing.

Make sure you "produce" something every day. Whether it is a simple table view app or a sprite animation, have something that you can look back on at the end of the day that works. This helps keep you moving forward, and gives you the fulfillment of building something. You might not always build something relevant, but it is important to do it.

That's all I have right now. Good luck!
This reminds me of the fearsome chapter in Launch Pad where Paul Graham is telling the founders of Science Exchange that VCs use any excuse when they dont like you as a reason not to fund in their case circumvention in this case "strategic issues and proof points". Which leads into another Paul Graham quote "Listen to the answer ,dont listen to the reason"
Also the investor couldnt have been more obvious with the fact that the real reason he emailed Paul was that he wants to get his claws in YC on a deeper level " keep em coming" "on a seperate note we feel we could be doing more to help YC companies" on a seperate note? really? Paul is a veteran at the VC game so trying to bait and switch him with all the "we loved him and where impressed but" nonsense is crazy to me. But its one of his partners so it might be just a simulation of the dozens of emails he gets like this on a daily basis
Thanks for the links. I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that what the source was saying is not possible. Since I wasn't familiar with the credibility of RPS (which I now hear is very credible), I just felt like reading the article didn't tell me anything concrete.
But on day 3 I noticed my heart was racing and my energy
level was suddenly dropping. Hemoglobin! I think, my
heart is having trouble getting enough oxygen to all my
organs. I check my formula and realize iron is
completely absent.

That part strikes me as odd. I'm prone to iron deficient anemia, but a few fasting days doesn't cause any major issues for me. Something else was going on that day, or he has some other health issue. But yes, very sensationalized story telling.
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While I too have heard that nutrients absorb better when isolated, it makes me wonder if his body is going to adapt to the shakes and start absorbing the nutrients it needs first until saturated. While the reaction you mentioned above may happen, maybe the adaptation will absorb the specific nutrients and neutralize the already saturated nutrients.