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That was my point, yes. I don't object to the 1% having a voice in politics; of course they should! I just object to having a system that defers reflexively to their needs and interests over those of everybody else.
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I clicked on the link expecting to see something about food dropped on the ground...

Then I noticed that the site doesn't scroll in my browser when using my keyboard.

That's when I hit Ctrl + w and posted this.
google's silo is as good as or better than most, and I trust Larry Page not to do the-wrong-thing more than most CEOs out there... just always keep a backup and don't worry, be happy
God took centuries to write the bible; Gutenberg reproduced the work in a few days.
I prefer these services free and have no problem being tracked for more personalized ads. I don't wanna pay with my wallet - I am OK with paying with my information.
Either way its evidence that rolling out OS upgrades to hardware shouldn't be left up to them.
Let people take risks. They can die if they'd like.
I am opposed to hellbanning on hacker news. I believe it hurts our community for the following reasons:

* It lacks transparency - nobody knows who is hellbanned, and why they were hellbanned. There is no appeal.

* It is a crude tool - hellbanning somebody fails to take into account that they could reform their behavior, or just have made some bad decisions in the heat of an argument.

* There have been cases I have seen where useful or interesting comments have been lost because the poster is hellbanned. This demonstrates that it doesn't just have theoretical flaws - it actually is causing us to lose valuable content.
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Thanks Sara. Glad I checked back in time to catch that.
> Oh I thought people were mostly lactose intolerant.

People (and, really, adult mammals that aren't humans of European descent) mostly are lactose intolerant, which is a non-immune issue (and thus not an allergy.) Milk allergies (allergies to one or more of whey, cassein, or other milk proteins) are a different issue, but also a real thing.
> I disagree with that, since people who make money with movies and music tend to do that via selling access to the media

That is excessive rationalization. What the creators intend to do with their content is kinda up to them. The fact that they haven't tried to directly monetize it doesn't somehow make it fair game, and the OP even acknowledges this.
Yes, they share some common infrastructure.
He is clear that he complied with the first C&D, which asked him to remove the infringing content. His post is primarily about their second letter, which demanded he remove two sentences that simply make reference to "Snow Fall."
Did you stop reading after the first couple sentences? He took down the content. The NYT then came back and said even having the text "The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour." on his site was copyright infringement.
I guess this is a backlash (albeit an opportunistic one for some) against Google's previously touted love for openness. I agree with the OP that unlike Larry Page, Eric Schmidt was the one who always talked openly (forgive the pun) about openness.
invest in an IP lawyer to review...

The problem I have with that is that only a trial can tell "fair use" from "not fair use". A few billable hours with a lawyer probably won't tell you anything more than that. Review is great, but it's not an absolute, as an IP lawyer is most definitely not the final authority.
I use Chrome to view PDFs, it isolates the process and doesn't support as many "extensions" as reader, so it is much safer. Works very well.
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> Want to bet on the results of a double blind study?

Unfortunately, I don't think such a study is runnable. How do you blind 'oil-sludge' against 'real food'?

That said, randomizable is perfectly doable: Rhinehart could flip a coin each week to decide whether to eat real food or Soylent. I suggested as much on his blog a while ago, but he never responded.
As far as I know, Debian armhf is compiled for ARMv7. This means that the compiled executables will sometimes use instructions that aren't implemented on older ARM cores. As the processor on RaspberryPi is ARMv6, don't expect to ever run the official Debian armhf. I think it is theoretically possible to compile for ARMv6 using hardfp, but at this point it seems unlikely distributions would put in the effort to improve FP performance on such old hardware.
Real food has the advantage of millions of years of natural selection and relationships to our genome we have only begun to understand.
just added the ability to change the background color: 'background_color red' to change the body color, 'terminal_color red' to change the terminal color. Thanks for the suggestion!
Novel/screenplay writer, or a journalist for technology or art related subjects.
Does the NYT have a right (before we get into fair use or w/e) to demand that a video be deleted off youtube rather than made private? I thought copyright was (roughly) about limiting distribution, so even if NYT's copyright claims apply to that video, can they control what the OP does with it if its not being published?
This is a legitimate question due to speed comparisons I've seen between PHP and Python/Ruby.

Also, it seems like the obligatory "if you replicated their special and custom 'platform' in C and it exceeded Ruby or Python's performance by miles what would their reasoning for continuing to use Ruby or Python be?" People like the language, deal with it...
I think about what is a minimum viable product.

You need something unique, that's a force multiplier, that lets you punch beyond your weight.

You have to spend a lot of effort on things you might hate, like documentation, marketing, fit and finish, and installers to really make something people can pick up and use. But that's part of the MVP; either push through the pain or get help.

Don't Learn just to Learn. Say your day job is PHP and MySQL and you're a machine at that. If you don't know any Scala or CouchDB, it's not a good idea to switch to them, unless you've got an excellent reason or enough cash in the bank to quit work for two months because you'll waste that much time thinking about how to look up the length of a string and stuff like that.

Use project management tools. Bulleted lists on notepads, in text editors, index cards and such are powerful. (Today's "cloud" systems for project management are painful to use because they don't have the tactile immediacy of paper systems -- overcoming that is an opportunity)

Stop doing something. There are only 24 hours in a day. To free up time on activity A, you have to stop doing activity B.
I like Evernote Hello for this as all the info/notes is digital and synced across my devices. No cards to lose, no ink to smudge.
Someone did https:// on one of them. The links have to be exact to be considered unique.
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> Completely OT, but when the hell did the asterisk-asterisk denoter for italics become multi-line?

I'd say since forever. I don't remember it working differently, and I've been around for some time now (old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pygy)
Right? Medifast. Optifast. Slimfast. There are literally thousands of options.
And that's a very valid point too. If you wanted me to completely give up my entire diet and consume just one product for the rest of my life -- here's what you need to do:

1) Have some (at least one) long term, large cohort, controlled studies proving the efficacy of this diet.

2) Be someone I can trust with being careful and honest with your scientific method over a long period of time.

So saying that you shouldn't trust some mixture put together by some computer programmers in their 20's is just a shortcut to the the two statements above. He (assuming gender here) was absolutely right in his assertion.
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That makes sense, but he still might have been bored. I don't think its unreasonable to take control of your destiny, even if you are a kid. It obviously worked out well for him.
There you go folks, out from the horse's mouth
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Yeah. It's been frustrating at times, but it is satisfying to figure something out "alone" (clearly I only figure it out because someone else wrote a book about it).

I can get away with it because I don't have any deadlines or anything like that, really. I can just hammer away until I figure it out.

It's definitely been useful, though. And you're right; learning skills are still skills for sure.
Prior art on the link between food waste and world hunger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeoa0-U8-Yw

The concept of Soylent is orthogonal to the slow food movement, but it isn't incompatible with local production by definition.

None of your objections make any real sense. This is an early prototype of balanced-diet-in-a-pill, but because they haven't solved the problem of clean water across the globe, they're the cynical ones?
The idea that charging high prices is somehow "unethical" is completely ridiculous. If you don't like the product, don't buy it. Value based pricing rules the world, guys. Nothing, repeat, nothing, you buy in daily life is priced completely on its material costs. Giving an Ebook author flak about it is just silly.
Not anymore! They deprecated that feature, only exists for old users.
If it were uploaded to YouTube servers, and shared across CDN's around the world, would that not be distribution in the finer sense? Additionally, "private" is different than unlisted, and the video can still be shared publicly, just in a limited sense.
This article was written in Oct 2010, but it looks like they still use PHP.
> Soylent doesn't have to be the pinnacle of human nutrition, it just has to be better than burritos and ramen and freezer pizza.

People who care to do better than burritos and ramen and freezer pizza already can do better than burritos and ramen and freezer pizza with minimal effort.

So, no, I don't think that the bar Soylent needs to pass to be offering an improvement over current options is quite that low.
Usually, when you have $5m to invest, you have to put it into something large and very real and quite boring like a shopping center. And if you get a IRR of 8-9% a year, you're doing well. USV turning $5m into 50x that is along the lines of Don Valentine and Cisco. It is a rare cosmic event.
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Gotcha. My bad. I'll re-read the post
You can do a lot of really bad stuff to your body for a year with few noticeable external affects, especially in your 20s. A good decade of testing sounds about on target.
But according to the three criteria described in this article on nominative use[1], it looks like using the New York Times' trademark in this case would be perfectly legitimate:

The nominative use test essentially states that one party may use or refer to the trademark of another if:

1. The product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark (e.g. trademark is descriptive of a person, place, or product attribute).

2. The user only uses as much of the mark as is necessary for the identification (e.g. the words but not the font or symbol).

3. The user does nothing to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. This applies even if the nominative use is commercial...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use
I wonder why we haven't heard as much from the development team at Pitchfork. The masthead lists Development team as:

Matt Dennewitz
Neil Wargo
Andrew Gaerig

They do amazing work with the Cover Story series. A blog post from them showing off their techniques would gain a huge amount of traction, at least here on HN
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Instead of writing out all my own thoughts on the matter (I've did before on HN, but I don't know how to find those particular 2 or 3 comments), this article pretty much covers it: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...

The only exception (and this might be in the article as well, but I'll mention it because it's IMO the only exception) is when you've got a recurring troll, one that gets banned, and IP-banned, but returns through a new proxy every time. At that point, wasting as much of their time as possible is pretty much your only defence. Although in my own experience, even then, slow-banning works just as well if not better. And I've experimented with a number of very novel deterrence methods when I was forum-admin on a (sometimes) rather trollish forum, but only against the truly notorious bad apples. That place, it was of utmost importance to be as light-handed with modding as possible, because drama is really sticky.

In all other situations you are just wasting the valuable time of normal people. Normal people you may disagree with, or ones that are really really difficult. But some of our favourite hackers and open source coders are really really difficult people. If you hell-ban someone, they might not notice for a few months, spending effort on their posts, you really burned a bridge there.

And don't forget you will make mistakes, somebody makes one thoughtless tasteless (awful) joke, gets hellbanned, continues contributing their valuable insights like nothing happened (because they don't know) until they somehow find out (which can take a long time), I have seen this happen on HN, and it is such a terrible waste of the bright minds we have here. That is why I am opposed to hell-bans.
Yep, and that's what I meant. However not all of them are identical to Gmail, and some pretty basic commands at that.
I worked for a car rental company and I know all the ways they can claw money out of you (read the fine print sometime).

I am pretty careful.
I doubt that even McDonalds would advocate that you only consume McDonalds as a healthy diet
Here in the US, it's very difficult to prevail on a claim of either slander or libel (vis-a-vis many European countries), thanks to the First Amendment. While NYT Co may (may) be in the right regarding their first C&D, I would be shocked if they were to prevail on the second.
>also read this thorough breakdown of Rob Rhinehart's claims regarding Soylent by a health expert and nutritionist

It should be taken into consideration that the article is a hit piece, and many of Stella's comments seem to miss the mark or are totally irrelevant. For example, it doesn't matter if he's not using "real" olive oil; many people live fine without ever tasting the stuff, but it does matter that olive oil is [almost] totally devoid of omega-3 fatty acids. Olive oil is not a complete source of fats! Living on fast food isn't cheap, but who cares?

It's as though Stella Matsovis decided to respond from the standpoint of a forum troll!

Also, iron deficiency won't show up in three days, obviously, but what's not addressed is that he claims the problem disappeared after he started taking an iron supplement -- the real surprise! ...come to think of it this latter point makes me want to doubt the veracity of Rob Rhinehart's claims in toto: he may not have even been eating Soylent, or he may have changed the recipe in a more obvious way, or... y'know. That's more concerning than the simple idea of a meal replacement powder. Ditto: his claimed caloric intake (1000 kcal/day?) should by all rights have killed him by now. Even calorie restriction true-believers usually aim for 1400.

I made an earlier post in this thread defending the general idea and possibility of Soylent. I hadn't looked into it with serious interest until just now.

My new concern: his claims about Soylent appear to be simply impossible: iron deficiency appearing in three days, ridiculously low calorie consumption, etc. They may, of course, be artistic license in the construction of a narrative. I would like to believe that his physician is already aware of this experiment.

>The author has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to protein digestion and assimilation.

Does it really matter? As long as he's not actually eating hydrolysate [isolated amino acids] (which would probably be rather painful!), most protein powders are, shall we say, mediocre at worst.

Addendum: the most obvious regulation he's breaking is false advertising. Soylent is [probably] fine (at least mediocre) despite everything, but billing it as the gateway to perfect health is, uh, silly.
All I am looking at is whether there is a basis to hang a hat on.

And if that is the case then people will come to the defense of the accused and the complainant may back down or reevaluate their position. All with the resulting publicity (which actually would happen even if he was wrong but that's much more risky so I wouldn't advocate w/o some leg). In any event you have to ask yourself what their game is and whether they would seek damages (can't get blood from a stone you know) and whether they even want to spend (they aren't exactly super profitable or anything) resources on this.

Consequently I don't care what would happen at trial because there isn't going to be a trial. The NYT isn't going to spend resources on this.

This is all strategy based on my experience.[2] You ask 10 people you will get 10 opinions. All I'm saying is that it pays to have someone review before backing down in "3 days". [1]

[1] Absolutely inconceivable that the NYT won't allow someone to locate an attorney to review which in no case is 3 days reasonable. There is no imminent harm to them. This is on the face the standard "scary lawyer letter" intended to cause exactly the reaction that it did.

[2] I had two situations where both American Express and the NCAA came calling with scary lawyer letters many years ago and was able to keep them at bay with a reply letter from my attorney. And other things like this. Law and strategy are two different things.
i'm happy to pay but want to look at other options too - do any other reader alternatives offer web and android?
Just to belabor the point, Snowfall required original reporting, researching, diagramming, interviewing, designing, and writing that Cody & Kate didn't have to do.

Is an hour fast for making a replica? I don't know, probably. But i'm not sure what amount of time i would expect someone to be able to replicate Snowfall. An afternoon i suppose?
You forgot to mention you os. Well I guess you use a Mac like most HN folks do, then I'm sorry idk a tool for you.

But if your OS is Linux I can recommend you using:

Shotwell, DigiKam, Fotowall, F-Spot, showFoto

You can Tag, Categorize and Order pictures that way.

However I recommend you writing a shell-script that uses existing tools to filter the images based on EXIF Metadata or filename where applicable.
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A cursory Googling reveals PrivCo and CEO Sam Hamadeh will say just about anything for an apropos headline.
My main gripe with Soylent (ever since I first saw it here on HN a month ago) is that they are making cooking seem like a horrible chore that nobody wants to do.

To me, the more worrisome thing is that they are making eating seem like a horrible chore that nobody wants to do.
That might need to be qualified: depending on jurisdiction, just because if you don't have a contract with Apple, you shouldn't necessarily assume you're safe from civil liability (if you use or pass it on to others, at least). Here in England, in some circumstances it's possible to be held liable in Breach of Confidence for passing on information you come across that you know is confidential, even without any kind of pre-existing relationship like a NDA.

(N.B. I have no idea whether that's true anywhere else but England. Also IANAL, this isn't legal advice, etc.)
Ouch. Thanks for the info. Switching to CarDAV is one of my upcoming projects but I'm not looking forward to it.
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Oh, I totally agree this appears to be prima facie nominative fair use: using a competitor's name for the basis of comparison has a strong history in US trademark law. It'd be interesting to find out why The New York Times thinks otherwise.

My issue was with GGP's insistence that it had nothing to do with fair use or that people talking about fair use were necessarily talking about NYT's copyright claims. Fair use also applies to trademarks.
How well does this stack up against the milk-and-potatoes diet?

According to the popular science/history book 1493, it is more-or-less a complete diet in itself. The two datapoints it uses to back this up are a story about two Polish scientists who ate nothing but potatoes and milk (or milk products, like cheese and butter) for a year, and remained in perfect heath for the duration, and the claim that prior to the Potato Famine, 25% of the Irish population was already surviving on nothing but milk and potatoes indefinitely, and they were regarded as a healthy and hale race.

A 2000 calorie diet of milk and potatoes (4 cups 2% milk, 5.5 300g potatoes) costs around $65 / day. Preparation time involves as little as microwaving a potato and pouring a glass of milk.
Well played sir! You've managed to take a run-of-the-mill little David vs. the Big Media Goliath story and use it as a sales pitch for your scroll kit and made the front page of HN to boot!
You are probably right, but I could of sworn there was a period where Netflix did not require a Gold subscription. Maybe I just had a Gold subscription at the time for playing games online and did not think twice about it...
While I can appreciate the desire for user feedback, I would challenge the assumption that it's "valuable". The very first point of the article touched on the difference between information that you will gather from free VS paying users. One kind is valuable because it can help you develop the product to be more appealing to those willing to pay, whereas the other kind may end up taking you on a very costly goose chase that won't help you generate any revenue.
Nine times out of ten in my experience, it's not a worry about money, but representation.

If you give a customer digital copies and they "retouch" them or crop them and present it as YOUR work, that's a huge frustration.