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It is not as though the contract is for free service plus payment for the phone in installments.

Who ever said it was? Arguing with you is turning out to be a colossal waste of time; every time you run into problems you gin up a straw man and attack that. This is my last contribution to this thread.

Contract law is a separate issue from the DMCA. The problem here is not the enforcement of a contract, it is the fact that even without a contractual prohibition on unlocking the phone you would still be forbidden from doing so.

I've already addressed that points. The administration has expressed its support for people being able to unlock their phone when its out of contract. So if the administration gets what it wants and Congress updates the law, your complaints will be moot. If you don't like the terms of offer in a discount cellphone contract, then don't enter into such a contract.
How about more in terms of mobile? like Corona?
Just seen this link to a pic on twitter lower down in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5396634

Not sure where that pic is from or whether it is legit, but if they double the RAM on all plans as it implies I'll be really pleased... there's some intriguing text top right too which looks like it might be some sort of stats monitoring system (longview?).
> Is Soylent much more shelf stable?

No, actually, it's less so. But apparently it can be made out of "very common [mostly vegetable] ingredients growable in every place on Earth", unlike most other "complete" diets.
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I don't care about reader as a reader. I care about it because it manages my rss subscriptions for several apps I use daily. Podcasts, pulse, ifttt. They all integrate with reader. Typography,shmypography. pick a client.

This is the reason they are shutting it down. How do you monetize something when the user never sees your content. I understand that, but it doesn't mean the internet didn't just get worse.
For $99 you can get DNA analyzing; that is a cheapest price you can find anywhere imo. However, their service is extremely slow. You are looking at about 6-8 weeks until you get to see your result. I guess they are trying to offset the expenses. Nevertheless, it's a great service to find out your roots and health problems.
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I would guess that the main problem is distribution of said food. Since most food spoils quickly, that presents a huge problem.

If Soylent powder preserves well, then distribution should be substantially easier.
That makes his misrepresentation and manipulation of his audience even more reprehensible.
Crossed the $50 mark.
It's people?
Nobody wants to buy Steve Wozniak's old house
If you have trouble finding people, you might also want to look on meetup.com, for at NYC area meetups related to open source technologies.
> Some people tell me going "ketogenic", or reducing carbs is healthy. I am now skeptical of this claim as lowering carbs makes me feel hungry and tired, and the drink taste less sweet. Perhaps it would be possible after an unpleasant transition period, but I don’t see the ultimate gain...

Their advice seems to fall in line with the paleo/primal philosophies—in a nutshell: man only started eating a significant amount of carbohydrates after the agriculturalization of cereals (grains) about 10,000 years ago. They argue that wasn't enough time for us to evolve enough to adapt.

But to your point about feeling hungry and tired—I think it's because you're addicted to carbs and sugar (like almost all of us are), but you don't NEED carbs, at all. I tried primal for a month, and yes, the adjustment took a few days (maybe a week). However, after I got over the sugar/carb cravings, my energy levels where much more even throughout the day, sans-grains.
Hacker News was blocked, unblocked, and then blocked again in my 3 months there.

My experience was that the Marshall Islands blocks domains with a wide net (for example, new domains or blogs with their own domains would almost always be blocked). I suspect that "Hacker News" would be blocked by a conservative algorithm or human censor, but on review ycombinator.com, the incubator, would be whitelisted.
You're inventing a religion in which your people are the only holy people, and everybody else is just an infidel.
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Regarding client-server communication, are you using an existing library (socket.io, sockjs, etc) for the client->server communication, did you roll your own, or is this an "exercise left to the reader"?
Maybe the service would come with a satellite phone. I'd like that.
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I'm not sure. On topic, could you enumerate some of the specific areas where the Chrome tools "flow" better? I've pretty exclusively been a Fx dev. tool user for the past few months, so I'm personally not sure how things are on that side these days.
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That doesn't mean they aren't more profitable since before Riccitiello became CEO.
The TV tuner is the part that rings the falsest (and the weirdest) to me.

First: I'm not sure it's even possible to get reasonable TV reception with a handheld device, and doubly so for two separate standards (ATSC and DVB-T). Receiving a clear ATSC signal is hard enough with a reasonably sized antenna; with a tiny patch antenna in a phone, you'd have a very hard time picking up a clear signal, especially inside buildings or vehicles, which is where I'd expect a feature like this to get the most use.

Second: The terminology is wrong. The mobile / handheld variants of ATSC and DVB-T are called ATSC-M/H and DVB-H, respectively. That being said, neither of these are in widespread use, so I'm not sure it'd make sense to implement them either.

Finally: Google has not shown any interest in getting involved in OTA television. Adding support for it in their phone would, if anything, undermine some of their other ongoing efforts, like having TV shows available in Google Play, and other video content on YouTube. I've never seen any other mobile phone with this feature, and I see no reason why Google would be the first.
Oh, I don't disagree; some topics are inherently intractable. It's just that, in all my experiences, the numbers are more like 1 truly intractable topic for every thousand that some expert will mistakenly claim is intractable simply because they haven't put the effort into tracing out the connections to other topics.

The woman top row of this xkcd pretty much sums up my life:

http://xkcd.com/566/
A lot of people are complaining about the speed of the site.

They'd be complaining less if they could read the texts before the images were loaded.

A simple way to do this, is to give the areas containing background-images a background-color that's close to the color of the image. This way, if there's text on top (white text for example) it'll be readable BEFORE the image loads.

They'll notice the wait time less.
Any sense of how easy it is to swap these pieces out? I would hate to have a Django-like scenario where it is, technically speaking, possible to swap out things like the ORM, templating, routing etc, but doing so pretty much ruins the benefits of using Django in the first place
That doesn't even seem extremely slow to me. My gram buys crap from china on tv that takes 6-8 weeks. Maybe it's because I know little to none about the subject, but how long should it really take?
"this is probably the worst thing ever" (referring to eval from another site) truly is <i>the</i> worst thing ever. OP speaks the truth. I didn't get beyond that for obvious practical reasons.
No; the difference from (say) a car loan reflects the fact that there's no lien created on the phone. That in turn may be because such a lien would be unenforceable. Still, the reason there's no lien is not relevant. Its absence is relevant.
My database is on their $20/month plan. I'm not sure, maybe I was just unlucky with Linode. Just to give you an example - I have an SQL query that was taking ~90 seconds on Linode and when I moved it became 5 seconds. Again, YMMV.
The components of Soylent (as listed in an earlier blog post) are chemically stable at room temperature. (caveat the probiotics). (this from looking them up in the 'rubber bible' [1]) I would expect you could spoil them if they got too hot (oxidizing) but other than that doesn't look too bad.

Assuming the $150/month calculated, that's still pretty pricey for someone who makes $1-$2 a day in wages. Its not clear to me how to calculate how that cost compares to sending sacks of wheat or rice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_P...
That's a nice theory but EA's stock has been stagnant since 2009... smart investors really don't care about EA (or any other gaming company for that matter).
If you have a large application, upgrading it will not be trivial. Suppose your company spent several months developing their app on Rails 3.1.x. Rails 3.2.x comes out and some gems you're using break when you try the upgrade. Your company still has other bugs to fix and features to produce, so they switch back to 3.1.x and just make a note to check compatibilities periodically.

The 3 versions patched are not forks. They're just different versions of Rails. In three years, they'll probably still support about 3 versions and drop support for older versions once they hit a certain age.
Afaik there aren't any service agreements that prevent consumers from unlocking.

Here's one:

WIRELESS CUSTOMER AGREEMENT ("Agreement")

3.0 TERMS RELATING TO YOUR DEVICE AND CONTENT

3.1 Your Device

[...] You agree that you won’t make any modifications to your Equipment or its programming to enable the Equipment to operate on any other system. AT&T may, at its sole and absolute discretion, modify the programming to enable the operation of the Equipment on other systems. [discussion of SIM locks follows]

https://www.att.com/shop/legalterms.html?toskey=wirelessCust...;
"My DNA is 2.9% neanderthal, which puts me in the top 91% of 23andme's members (not sure what conclusions to draw from that!)."

Checkmate, evolution deniers.
The more likely correlation: the kind of people that get bored with academia overlaps with the kind of people that have the drive to fund a startup.
Yeah, Listen was discontinued in 2012 so it wasn't ever going to improve - but it did the job for me for long enough. Pocket Casts has 2 features I missed in Listen : variable speed playback and sleep timer.
I take it you're a bitcoin supporter :)
But the collective action as you've described would be disrupted as soon as it becomes a big enough issue that a newcomer to the market can profit from a different business model. Equal service and no contract for instance. Eventually perhaps better service and no contract. Actually, last year I switched to a provider who does exactly that. No contracts is part of the business model. You can't get a long term contract from them if you tried.
That's not an option for me, my database is more than 20G.
Thanks Ryan. I've read through more of the documentation, and I like what I am seeing. The client-side state management and push rendering looks especially cool.

My play Clojure / Clojurescript stack is a weird combination of libraries like Noir (+ Chris Granger's Clojurescript libraries) / Lobos / Korma / Hiccup / stuff I ripped from Clojurescript One.

The example explains how to use Datomic with Pedestal, and I notice you're using Domina for DOM manipulation. Is that basically the minimal stack for a database driven app? It'd be nice to see an explanation of what the rest of a Pedestal app might look like, what libraries Pedestal might replace (especially something that integrates with Postgres / MySql).

Congrats on the release and a sincere thank you to you guys at Relevance for all of your Clojure work.
Communication happens over HTTP at the wire level, and we use the Server Sent Events standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events), and particularly browsers' EventSource implementations as the foundation on the client side.

Pedestal Services have a balled up implementation that transmits the data from the server side.
Lost $16 in print for every $1 in digital... this applies to newspapers only, right? What about the rest of the online publishing world? You know, all those written news sources that began life in digital form such as blogs and written content aggregators?
To people grousing about it no being in JS: The hell is wrong with you? JS being the only language your browser will run is the problem, not people choosing to use something besides JS for something they do on the web.
The "[mostly vegetable]" aspect would, in theory, also reduce stress on water supplies because raising animals requires a fair amount of water. I don't have a definitive source at hand, but there's an interesting interactive exploration of the matter on NatGeo: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshw...
It's not slang, but I'm bothered when people use the words "setup" and "login" as verbs while using the phrases "setting up" and "logging in". If you're going to use "setup" and "login" as verbs, please use the words "setupping" and "loginning". I especially like "loginning".
They should sell this on Cydia to replace the iOS default keyboard.

It looks pretty interesting but I do not really have a problem with the default keyboard.
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I have a great deal of respect for self-experimenters, no matter how crazy they seem.

That said, I'd like to see him compare two months of Soylent to two months of eating solid meals with a similar nutritional profile. Most of the benefits he has experienced are probably just a result of extremely well-balanced diet, not anything specifically related to Soylent.
This is just a marketing ploy - otherwise, the ingredients and instructions as to how to make it would have been provided for free on the blog. And no, I don't buy the excuses that have been made as to why the list of actual ingredients can not be provided.
Congrats, and I'll add one nitty comment. I think the main email address should be "help@" or "support@". I get that you are trying to be whimsical with the "hi@", but I think you should stick to using your site design as your branding tool and keep the email address standard -- it just threw me a little.
Sometimes there is a trigger event. Maybe this is it.
Just to check if I'm understanding the presentation right, will the implementation involve compiler magic to turn this:

@coroutine
def getresp():
s = socket()
yield from loop.sock_connect(s, host, port)
yield from loop.sock_sendall(s, b'xyzzy')
data = yield from loop.sock_recv(s, 100)
# ...

into this, similar to how C# does it? (let's pretend multi-line lambdas exist for a minute)

def getresp():
s = socket()
loop.sock_connect(s, host, port).add_done_callback(lambda:
loop.sock_sendall(s, b'xyzzy').add_done_callback(lambda:
data = loop.sock_recv(s, 100).add_done_callback(lambda:
# ...
)
)
)

Or will the `yield from`s bubble up all the way to the event loop and avoid the need for that?
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Being in my second year of Electrical (and Biomedical) Engineering at McMaster University, I have to say I love CircuitLab.

My advice would be: Buy all the EE textbooks (they're expensive, I know...) and make sure that all the problems in the textbooks can be done with CircuitLab. Make it really easy for PSPICE instructions to be converted to CircuitLab. The education market is a huge one for you and I think you can really win out over PSPICE/MultiSim here.

You've already done a great job with PSPICE compatibility in terms of terminology. And I love how easy it is to modify MOSFET/BJT models. I'd prefer a bit more customization of the simulation plots, though.
i love this - thank you for brightening my day.
(and indirectly making me create an HN account.)
For anyone interested, 23andme is also starting to sequence exomes (the important parts of the protein coding regions) for $999, which can potentially provide much more interesting information than simply looking at SNPs. But from the website, it looks like they are still in closed beta: https://www.23andme.com/exome/

However, there are several blog posts describing the types of results and analysis the exome enables. For example, http://jchoigt.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/a-first-look-at-my-e... and http://blog.goldenhelix.com/?p=1282 but more can be found on Google.
Sorry, but after reading the following (elsewhere on that blog), I'm hard-pressed not to dismiss this as an elaborate troll.

"I read a book on Number Theory in one sitting, a Differential Geometry book in a weekend, filling up a notebook in the process."
That really is my opinion- I read the entire article, it is quite verbose, does go into some interesting aspects of Google fiber that I didn't know about (like the Google Fiber demo lounge), but reading it was a waste of time because the reasoning behind the whole article can be summarized by my tl;dr.

I almost feel like the author had compiled a bunch of random facts and interviews, needed some thesis to tie it all together, and instead of titling the article "Some interesting things about Google Fiber" it was given the contentious linkbait "awesome but unnecessary" headline.
One more reason to push stripe as a payment solution for clients / bosses. Good job.
If you want to see a really beautiful type inference, take a look at Hindley-Milner. Not only is it global (it infers all the types in your program) but it's also surprisinlyg simple--it's basically just a straightforward constraint satisfaction problem.

In particular, take a look at how it has been extended by real languages, especially OCaml. OCaml has some very cool sub-typing features but manages to maintain global inference, unlike Scala. (Largely by choosing structural rather than nominative sub-typing.)

So some languages have had better type inference for longer than Scala has been around.
This is very helpful to me, having not come from the c++ world and not really having a good grasp of the whole "smart pointer" stuff. Thanks!
Possibly this was an edit joke by ycom admins? : )
Great to hear more confirmation from you both that this is a serious pain point! (Not just for hobbyists, either.)
When has science of fact ever got in the way of someone who denies evolution?

These are the kind of people who put saddles on dinosaurs and have "Creation Museums" (http://creationmuseum.org/)
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Crazy name. Grab-bag, ad-hoc nutritional doctrine. Still, I'm glad such fringe self-experimentation happens.

My biggest concern would be that healthy adaptive systems benefit from variety, challenge, and chaos.

Intermittent fasting is good. A little contamination from things that are normally unhealthy is good. (See, for example, the hygiene hypothesis or the idea of hormesis.) Chewing is good -- as is the somewhat random mix of very-chewed or less-chewed foods you swallow. Triggering your body's reactions (including your gut biome's reactions) to different extremes of nutrient mix will keep the systems 'practiced'...

..unless you're sure you'll spend the rest of your life like a brain-in-a-vat, and then you might as well take nutrition by IV.
Thanks! Deep component library and expanded simulation capabilities are our top requests and are definitely where we're going next.
I'm confused. Is soylent the same thing as soylent green? In which case, this is a satirical post (but I don't find it very funny)...

If not, isn't soylent just about the worst possible name for a real food product (with unknown/nonspecific ingredients), because of the movie?
Not disagreeing, but a previous post does list the ingredients: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
Anybody can ask 'why?', it just takes constant effort.

I theorize that all religions begin with understandings of fundamental truths that are summarized to pass along. They then ossify into mechanical words and take on an oppressive life of their own :/.
He did run it by a lawyer; he is a lawyer. A law professor, in fact, at Columbia. And he teaches 1L Criminal Law and one of the topics in that class is the "rule of lenity."

Professor Wu's suggestion that the Administration rely on the rule of lenity is not as off-base as you suggest. Although it's true that it is a rule for construing criminal statutes applied by courts, the administration needs to construe statutes, too, before they can decide whether to enforce them in specific situations.

Professor Wu is suggesting, I think, that the Administration should use the rule of construction that ambiguous criminal law should be read in favor of the defendant to say that it's too ambiguous to be enforced in Swartz-like cases in any principled way.
You forgot the AlphaGrip[1]!

[1] http://www.alphagrips.com/
True, they might need that farm equipment so in the short term they are at the mercy of the status quo. But there's still nothing to stop a group within the market from competing on new terms. Also, if the gap between what is desired and what is provided is significant, then a newcomer to the market would have a field day leveraging that gap. Finally, the consumers are also free to change their own business model so they no longer require that equipment to remain competitive. The supplier would find its market diminishing and look to get it back.
I thought they started this in late 2011 and stopped the program a few months later. Has anyone been part of the program since then?
You are correct that this does smell. I'm also dubious that this fellow will be able to scale up production without people replicating this at home.

Related: I'm sure most of us don't care upon the soylent formulation per se as long as we could easily make our own meal-in-a-shake-form.

Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas about how to produce something similar?
This is a great topic for a thread!

1. I do wear headphones. I need a headset with a mic. My current set is a pair of Sennheiser PC310 but I long for the PC 363D.

2. Never with speakers

3. Everything, and I mean that. I generally go for something without any vocals when I'm trying to concentrate. When I'm really in to something I reach for something electronic. Trance or deep house or drum and bass. Quite often it's Hybrid actually.

5. No playlists -spotify is not available inmy location. I do sometimes reach for DJ Bolivia's "music to code by" series: http://djbolivia.blogspot.ca/2011/04/music-to-code-by-volume...
I always figured they meant moddable by EA, for the purposes of developing and selling DLC.
I've had a couple tabs open to the Lua manual and short reference [1] with an intent to learning Lua for some Redis scripting goodness. Thanks for combining the two for me!

[1] http://www.capgo.com/Resources/SoftwareDev/LuaShortRef51.pdf
Thanks for blocking the video on my zone ...
Of course he will be able to hire people; he just won't be able to hire the best people.
G+ is a tricky dependency. There's little confidence in it outside Google and some factions in the tech press.
Ideally, it would be about a week of processing time (probably a little less). But, I assume they have a limited number of machines and a backlog. And they probably batch everything to make it as cost-effective as possible. At $99 they are running very close to cost.
Honestly the only two things I'm missing on low carb are ice cream (that's okay though) and coke (which is why I'm searching for a pure stevia alternative). I had way less problems then I would have expected.

edit: a) I'm in Germany, not that many products available here. b) I always steered clear of Coca Cola, Pepsi and so on, those were too sweet for me and the caffeine level was rather low anyway.
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I bought the deal when it was on sale for $49 and I remember it being faster than that, however.