skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the whole point is that soylent is moderation. Everything in it is balanced, so if you eat only soylent, then (in theory) you shouldn't be getting too much of anything.

>It's likely that he's chosen at least one ingredient that is harmless in moderation, but is detrimental to your health over time.

Why do you believe that that is likely?

>It's also quite possible that there are other things he's underdosing on and hasn't discovered yet (like sulphur before batch #7).

Yes, this does seem quite likely. There is probably a significant number of necessary nutrients that nobody even thinks about because they're ubiquitous.
Why? Email me - ilya@parse.com
I respond to this with: "No, i'm not frustrated because I know you're going to make things right!" in a cheerful voice. Makes me feel better anyway...
Agree, I send millions of Push Notifications via Parse and I am also quite worried. I love their interface and documentation so I really don't want to switch.
> The main problem with SlimFast, as opposed to soylent, is that almost all of its carbs are sugars

Does that actually matter? (I know nothing, genuinely curious.)
Confirmed by Marco on Twitter.

Here is the blog entry:

http://www.marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation
I don't think its right to call them two sides, when
"sexually repressed apes perpetually abusing women" are million times more than "clinically insane extremists"
Around 100k base for people without experience. Around 150k base for VP level (~5 years of experience). Bonus is highly variable (20-100% of base is typical).
Note that your argument began with "It's too radical, it won't work!" and ended with "It's boring, there's nothing new here." When I see this particular pattern of cognitive dissonance, I take it as a sign that the phenomenon being dismissed has real merit. Not to single you out, either--this pattern describes perhaps the majority of arguments I've heard against Soylent.
Meh, that never works. Remember Yahoo also offered $1B for Google in 2002 or so.

Google had a social network that launched in 2004 as well, at almost the exact same time as Facebook -- Orkut.
I encourage you to research what a croissant is and then find and devour one. This comment makes me feel like you're missing out on that.
I was very sceptical of Unity at first. When it was originally introduced in 11.04, it was obviously not ready for prime time. Unity is much more polished now. Unity used to be a resource hog and all kinds of glitchy. Now, Unity is efficient, stable, well thought out, and quite usable. I prefer it to Gnome Shell, KDE 4x, XFCE, Gnome 2, Mate, Cinnamon, and even Xmonad. I don't understand the disdain for Unity these days except for maybe the Amazon crap (which can be disabled).
"Undead" is more like. This thing will keep coming back under different names until it passes.
Incorrect. Whoever learns faster is more fit to survive and thrive on their own terms. They have greater freedom of action.
They are making the same old mistake of over-abstracting.

The fundamental difference between local and remote is the access latency. Until they can get remote content from there to here as fast as they can get it from a local drive, all this "file system is dead" will remain a non-technical marketing bullshit that is out of touch with the real-world application issues. Why the hell you would want to hide the fact that file.mov is 10 hops away behind a saturated link? You don't.

"Death of the file system." Jesus.
Yeah, if by classier they meant closer to upper-class, then I would have to disagree too. Kirk was clearly not upper-class.

Maybe they meant to say flashier or something else.
cri doesnt mean too much absolutely, but it's the metric the standards associations chose to compare lights. after working with medical lighting for a while I've found myself paying more attention to the combination of cri and cct and/or cri and luminous flux. what people need to realize is that lots of other factors come into play such as ambient color mismatch and bleeding of adjacent colors. in some conditions even high cri lights don't appear to show color very well.
I wonder how much this has to do with the rise of Pocket over the last year.

It's no secret that Pocket has improved dramatically since rebranding a year ago. And I'm sure most people who are looking for their first "read-later" app are trying Pocket (free) before buying Instapaper ($5).

Personally speaking, I bought Instapaper for myself and gifted it to a few other people over the years, but I switched to Pocket a few months ago. The continuous updates and simpler interface (those thumbnail pics are surprisingly useful) won me over, despite my hesitations about their business model.
I would have to agree. TweetBot is worth far more than $20 in terms of quality and usability. I just hope they don't turn out like Tweetie. The iOS app is phenomenal as well.
I felt the same way about short variables names until I started using Haskel (which tends to have extremely local scopes). The idea is that if a variable is only used in 2 lines, it is not much mental effort to keep in your head what the variable is doing, but it is a relatively large amount to read the long name. However, most languages make it almost impossible to use variables with small scopes (in terms of spacing), so we only see good use of short variables in idiomatic places, such as for(i=0; i<10; i++).

For example, consider the parents original code:
def between( a, low, high ):
r = []
for x in a:
if low < x < high:
r.append( x )
return r
Even as someone who 'likes' small variable names, the r make that difficult because of the all distance between its definition and use.

Compare that to this haskel implentation

between a low high = filter f a

where
f x = x>low && x < high

(Actually, I would probably use 'as' instead of 'a')
Funny, I was just going to chime in with a Boyd reference.

The Osinga book is excellent if you have the determination to read it. It isn't a light read.
I enjoyed the podcast that Marco had on the 5by5 network because he seemed like such a regular guy who happens to work hard and put out a popular product. A lot of times it also motivated me to get to work on my own things. Congrats to him and Im looking forward to what he does next
Indeed, the types of programs I write are very different from a web browser.

For what it's worth, I know I speak for at least a couple of other people when I say that we were, for a long time, hoping for a "better Go" -- we are mainly rubyists who want native compilation, a better/safer type system, better concurrent performance, more easily massively parallelizable -- and that Rust's development has been going in a slightly different direction than we were hoping. Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate C++11 or even Haskell.
Congratulations to Marco. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
I don't know if you have any stats or facts to back up this claim. I'm a game developer and have worked 40 hour weeks for years and have a broad range of out of office friends and activities. I know many others the same.
Another shameless plug for Soylent Orange. It's gratifying to see him bump his recipe towards mine in switching to oats. If you've never seen this before SO is the off the shelf version. It doesn't quite hit the same optimal micronutrient profile, but it gets you close. I find this + one meat based meal per day works pretty well.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjA38cUd4BZBdGZ...

I have yet to do a proper min-maxing of ingredients for optimal nutrients/calorie.
Yup, same for Mass Effect / Dragon Age. Those are all killer games and I will keep playing them even if Satan himself is the publisher.
That is something I've never understood...how can the Canadian dollar be worth 2% more when prices are nearly always much higher in Canada?
>Sample size is 1.

No. He has a group of volunteers who are testing it with him, see the second post: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474

Not to mention the community that's sprung up around it, on http://discourse.soylent.me and elsewhere
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It's only subjective to a point. There are many things that are almost uniformly considered attractive by the majority of the population.

There was an AMA from somebody who did research on this on reddit a while back.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1cstrm/i_did_research_...

It says in there that it's usually around 30-40% subjective.
If anyone in the street just straight up tells anyone they're "ugly", something is seriously fucked up about them.

Seriously, go to http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/ and get some tips. Get a new haircut that suits you, maybe consider using some hair product, if you have acne issues or something see a dermatologist, get proper fitting clothes, etc. etc.
When I compare this to the Parse/Facebook deal, this seems like a more natural transition.

I actually doubt it has much to do with Pocket, instead I think is exactly how Marco put it, grown bigger than a single person could manage.

Congrats to both Marco and Betaworks.
New Algorithm Helps Evaluate, Rank Scientific Literature
http://buddy.com/

Options are truly abundant in this space.
I do plan on open sourcing. A little self conscious about the code as I'm more of a designer, but watch this space.

At the moment it's quantizing down to 40 colours with a tree depth of 4, I then pull the top 12.
I hope the platform can stay as independent as it is. I just recently won a Google arranged hackathon in Munich (and through it a fully paid trip and tickets to I/O - yay!) and it would have been totally impossible to do this without parse. A few lines of code and I was able to setup a complex messaging system between a native Android app and a server visualisation.
It sets you free from so many worries and really makes any mobile app that talks to a server so much easier to develop. It's the single most useful service I have ever used in this space.
Arment two days ago: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/326757551947530240

He may be just refuting the "peak downloads/full time on Magazine" claim, but kind of an odd response given this.
"Until you get your head around the idea that you're describing "what" you're building rather than how to build it, you'll feel an impedance mismatch."

Trust me, us maven haters understand declarative programming just fine. There is no impedence mismatch. Maven the build tool is simply an inferior solution with several superior alternatives. After discovering Buildr, I've never wanted to go back to Maven, and I'm willing to trust that Gradle (Groovy), Leiningen (Clojure), and SBT (Scala), are all also superior to Maven while integrating well with Maven's dependency system.
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The fact that this project is "focused on reducing the impact of short life cycles for commercial mobile devices" excites me as I'm sure many folks dislike how quickly technology grows obsolete and stale when you just bought a new phone and a new one comes out a few weeks later. That being said, security of mobile devices is an increasingly important issue as we become more and more reliant on information connectivity for our daily lives.

I would be curious to hear the results of Phase I and of course look at the framework they use to extend the Android OS.

Why not try to commit the Security extensions into the Android project?
As long as the people that wish to see it pass are around there's a group of people that don't want to see it pass fighting it. If we keep the public educated on the consequences of such bills we'll keep playing this game but hopefully gain a bit more support on each iteration.

This is one of those scenarios, as I see it, where it is as easy as supporting the groups battling on the hill and educating/informing your friends when the topic comes up over a beer or such. My girlfriend asked me yesterday about what a "Kispah" was. Once I figured out what the hell she was talking about I simply gave her the quick overview of what it was introduced for and why it is against our best interests. She knows now and can make up her own decisions on support.
Yes and no. There is a thin line to walk here. On the one hand, there is a definitely harmful component to the fat acceptance movement as you point out. On the other hand, discrimination and humiliation of obese people is wrong and counterproductive.

But the fact is that there are some people for whom obesity is actually a medical problem that has nothing to do with self-control, and a statement like the one in the TFA demonstrates considerable privilege blindness.
You give your keys to imo.im.
Also, get a good hair cut. Pop for an appointment where you consult with a high end stylist. A good stylist really does know what they're doing. After that, once the style has been determined, you can have a less expensive haircutter simply maintain that style.
While I would be more than a bit anxious that I miss some nutrient (just like the missing MSM/sulphur) because soylent is a blend of raw earths and isolated ingredients - Rob's mentions of increased focus and better sleep really inspire me to check on what major nutrients I could be missing, and fix that by either supplementing or changing food habits. [I understand that Rob's motivations for using chemically produced ingredients are political and economical (resource consumption), but I'd rather eat live food as long as it's possible :)]

E.g. I recently started increasing potassium (eating more lentils and potatoes, and the occasional powder/pill) and my focus increased so much. Two years ago, I discovered that keeping vitamin D up in winter stops me from getting sick all the time. And I think MSM helps me recover faster after workouts (interesting fact: cooking decreases MSM content radically, so one could eat raw stuff instead of drinking it in powder-form).

Next step: Instead of swallowing pills, incorporate food that contains all that stuff. And have a deeper look at Soylent's more exotic ingredients.
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http://www.firebase.com and https://www.backlift.com/index.html
You might be able to overcome that by investing in some jam-jar glasses and a thinkgeek t shirt. Bonus points for food or armpit stains.
Polaroid's SX-70, the greatest gadget of all time, turns 41.
What about accessory charges? You don't get to have clean hands just because some else does the dirty work for you.

Really though, what is your point in asking?

Because you keep making these assertions about how awful the CFAA but handwaving away critiques of your argument and any charges you don't like. So, you say that conspiracy and trade secrets charges are plenty, but from the point of view of interest of the public, why should we abstain from charging the guy with everything we can pin on him? Because he's a white-collar criminal as opposed to some kid with a bunch of drugs or a gun? Or because the deterrent 'yield' on marginal charges diminishes?

I get that you hate the CFAA, but you always spluttera bout how unfair it is and how much it's used for leverage against defendants. You need to show that prosecutors could not bring as many charges for an equivalent crime of stealing something from a safe or locked filing cabinet, and you need to show why the breach of trust involved in compromising a private computer system doesn't or shouldn't matter. As it is, all your arguments seem to revolve around 'it's just a computer, it's not that bad.'

I had the same problem with the Aaron Swatz case with people saying it was no big deal that he plugged his laptop into the wiring closet. Just because an act is trivially easy to commit doesn't mean that you have a right to do it. My neighbor tends to leave his window open, but I don't think it entitles me to enter his apartment even though I could do so very easily.
I think the best way to get a tech job in finance is to live in a city where finance is a big industry (New York, Boston, Chicago, London). If you punch "C++" into Indeed for Chicago, IL, half the listings that come back are for positions at trading companies.
Read vs mmap (or io vs. page faults)
I switched from Instapaper to Readability about a year ago, despite Instapaper being faster and having a better (actual) business model. I was lured by the beautiful reading experience that comes with Readability’s iOS apps.

Hopefully, with a focussed team behind it, Instapaper will begin to catch up on the design front. I’m looking forward to seeing where Betaworks take it.
Unfortunately that could change in a moment's notice in the future :(
I haven't followed very closely because I don't really have interest in it (I like food, cooking, etc.) but I have to ask, if he's pushing this as a product after such low levels of reliability does he garner any liability should it prove to be damaging long term?
Everyone wants a piece of mobile dev tools. Think Twitter + Crashlytics and now Facebook + Parse. As some might remember, Facebook at one point only had Heroku as their core Dev partner [1], so it only makes sense for Facebook to get in this space.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/558/
I'll say congratulations to the individuals who helped build Parse and show everyone good developer docs.

As a user of Parse, I'm done. I have zero confidence that the service will continue as is for very long, despite the best intentions of the original team. Biggest concerns are requiring FB auth, FB's flippant attitude towards privacy, and the engineering culture mismatch.
I think Facebook is making a play to take over Android. Buying parse gives them an app platform and something like iCloud but it works.
I recall that a large reserve was also found in Afghanistan a few years ago. Link: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-06/why-finding-li...
They said additional 3rd-party, which implies MS is a third-party?
I always thought that Parse would be an excellent acquisition target for Azure, since the cross-platform support of Azure for mobile platforms is done so clumsily.
Note: By "less hackable" they mean "more secure" and not "less open".
I'd rather play a fun non-"AAA" game than a boring "AAA" game.
He's not a spammer, and the service actually benefits the tweet authors to some degree which cannot be said for spam. Favorite counts are posted publicly, which at least theoretically adds to the user's credibility. Additionally, the accounts doing the favoriting will have some real followers, and those followers will see the favorite and might retweet or favorite it themselves.

Given these facts, I'm not sure how many Twitter users actually care if the favorites they receive are genuine or not. The reality is that few users on Twitter are real anyway. We once paid thousands of dollars for a tweet to go out to millions of followers of a celebrity. The cost wound up being about $207 per collected email address for a free newsletter that was highly targeted to that celebrity's followers. We got tons of hits to the link, but approximately 94% of the traffic to the link posted was bot traffic. This was a celebrity that the ad network we used to purchase the tweet had rated as having extremely high follower engagement metrics - apparently they didn't bother checking user agents when determining this. If you want actual users listening to you, don't go to Twitter.
You mainly just need to be a good C++ programmer to get a job. To get a job where you aren't just a C++ programming resource you need the advanced degree, advanced math, previous experience, etc.
Betaworks.com getting hammered right now. I hope they are better at managing Instapaper ops!

I tease, I tease. In all seriousness, congrats to Marco. A real hero of The Internet.
This is indeed the goal, marketing terminology notwithstanding. We're trying to create a system to tie a file to a user (regardless of device), rather than to any device itself. And to do it in such a way that the user doesn't need to know (unless they want to) on which physical device (or devices or services) the file resides.
"Reward" was the best term I could conjure up while writing. I'm not much of a word-smith. My thoughts are more of the idea that if he does this, and it is a great food replacement then he deserves any praise, fame or riches that come his way. He's taking a huge risk making himself the guinea pig for this experiment and if it pays off that's cool!

If I recall correctly though is motivation is that he's simply not a "food person". He has no interests in the finer parts of dining and sparking the palette of the human taste. I'm not one to judge him because I'm quite the opposite. But for people like him who's to say such a goal is wrong? Something simple, quick, and effective marketed well would be a huge success. I just don't want to see innocent people swept up in the moment and getting hurt.
It absolutely had something to do with it. I don't think anyone would say that Instapaper is 4x better than Pocket ($3.99 vs Free). If anything Pocket has clearly made a name for itself with better design and its new Pocket for Publishers API. I think Instapaper saw its peak about 6 month - 1 year ago and with The Magazine doing well, it was smart of Marco to sell it off in my opinion.
/me immediately downloads dumps of all his app's data.

But seriously, what will this mean for my user data? Privacy, portability, etc.

What alternatives are there that compare in quality? Don't tell me HeliOS, because that's iOS-only (I use Parse for it's web apps mostly).
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Odd. But I think the sabotage theory (no conspiracy required, I think) is still a go, it just required the preview to work.
It seems to me like a blue/orange combo has become one of the most-used color schemes for startups

Really? Crap... I haven't really noticed, and it probably doesn't matter, but we're blue/orange heavy[1]. For what it's worth, we went with this design 3 or more years ago, so at least we probably can't be considered copycats. :-)

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com
My chemistry is very bad, but that seems to be in 3M HCl with added H2O2 at 80°C. Combining that mix with Lithium batteries, to me, sounds like a process that may be difficult to safely scale up from the lab.
That is the thing though. The senators and interest groups who want this passed understand how to work around their opponents. I'd predict there will be some sort of major hacking scare and this bill will piggyback on that and pass while everyone is scared and willing to forego their rights.
I've heard the best way is to get a PhD in a mathematics heavy science or engineering discipline.

Someone I know of was head hunted for a quant firm after he did his PhD in fluid dynamics. I don't think he knew anything about finance.

His supervisor was very disappointed.
This is a big & exciting step forwards for Facebook and what we can offer developers.

(And we're working hard on all your concerns too...)
I was looking into ensure after a few people mentioned it on this thread. Something ensure promotes is that it's good for in between meals but doesn't say outright that it is an entire meal replacement that I could see. I think the difference is Soylent is meant to be a complete diet replacement where Ensure is focused on being a supplement to your diet.
I got a chuckle out of this, but really.. this is HN, not Fark.com.
I've noticed this, too. I still log into FB often. But, my FB feed is dead. Only 1 of my 100+ friends still posts something regularly (every week or two). At first, I just thought people created filters that didn't include me (when that feature was introduced). But, they're just not using FB anymore. Thinking back, I almost totally stopped posting stuff around the time they did because the site just began to feel creepy (foto tagging, etc) and started feeling like a mostly empty room at the end of a party. FB feels today like lj and myspace felt right before they died.

I've been keeping an eye out for the next social site where everyone is going. But, there doesn't seem to be one this time. I think social might finally be over.
Disagreement is a pretty low standard for extremism.