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> I still manage to do okay choosing my own food at the grocery store

That's because the FDA regulates food. Read The Jungle[0] if you want to know how things were before the FDA existed. These guys need to understand that biotech is nothing like tech and shut this shit down before they kill someone.

There's a good reason why you don't see uneducated teenagers "disrupting" the food and drug industries. This isn't like creating Tumblr.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
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"what is usually called the 'bro gamer' demographic"?

Just because I like Madden, I'm a "bro gamer" now? Get over yourself.
What if it does kill someone?
One of the things I love most about programming is that these sorts of bugs are nearly always something that I asked it to do that didn't make sense: the machine isn't being petty, it isn't angry, it isn't sulking--it simply did what I asked it to, and that means that to fix it I'll have to ask something better.

This is wonderfully different than what we see dealing with people.
I always loved cooking, but the long hours, high stress, and low wages turned me off from becoming a chef.
Well, the final demo was a trace of a Python program (showing Python functions, not Python VM C functions) through the kernel (showing C Kernel functions) back (scheduling things) into Python. Can SystemTap do this (six years after this talk showcased it with dtrace)?
Who is "they"? Your city council? Your nation's legislature? The commie-nazi-jewish-muslim-reptilian cabal who puts radios in your teeth?

No major government will forbid effective encryption, because citizens are far more afraid of other citizens than they are of the government. That's why governments request backdoors, or pass legislation permitting warrantless searches.

Think of it this way: your city council will never be able to pass a law forbidding people from locking their car door, because everyone with a car would be screaming about theft. But they could easily pass a law requiring car manufacturers to provide a master key to law enforcement.
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The problem with Uber isn't necessarily, that it harms the community, but that it unfairly competes with the taxi monopoly. Now, your first reaction might be to say "well that's the taxi monopoly's problem" but there is more to it. The taxi monopoly is a bargain struck between municipalities and service providers. The bargain is that taxi cabs get monopoly protection in return for their agreeing to function as an extension of the public transit system. As part of the bargain, taxi companies agree to do things that they wouldn't do in a free market--agree to drop people off anywhere in the city, agree to serve poor neighborhoods, etc. If the municipalities allow Uber to operate without those constraints, they are going back on their end of the bargain.

Maybe the right answer is to end the bargain entirely--buy out the medallions and end the monopoly protection, and let everyone compete on a level playing field. But allowing Uber to ignore taxi regulations while still imposing them on the cab companies is not fair.
Seriously, this is totally different.

Exped has a separate sack that you squeeze pump multiple times over.
While the OP was just "blow air in" style big opening.

Looks to be about a ten fold difference in effort and time.

Just look at the two videos - can you say with a straight face that they're doing the same thing?
That rule is because people will often be upset (perhaps overly so) by people attacking these topics. Nobody was attacking his surname, and he wasn't upset by anyone mentioning his surname, he was upset by people saying he was whining. They would have been making that comment no matter what his surname is.

I actually liked his piece that was submitted yesterday (and lead to all of this), but I don't get why so many people are making a big deal out of a quick throwaway joke that involved wordplay on his name. If someone mentioned to me that both my names begin with a "c", which is suitable because I'm a cunt, I'd be upset at being called a cunt, not the fact that my name was tied into that.
Out of curiosity, if Soylent really does provide every nutrient the body requires, would that mean a user would no longer have to defecate?

My reasoning is if every nutrient is absorbed and used, there is no physical waste left, and all toxins and byproducts would be expelled through urine.
Your last point is sadly spot on. BTW Upcoming smartphones with Qualcomm chips will also have a always-on listening mode called "Snapdragon Voice Activation". http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/2013/02/20/snapdragon-wak...

P.S. Here are some voice commands for the Xbox One http://www.stuff.tv/news/computers-and-consoles/news-nugget/...
I don't get all the negative, visceral reactions to this product.

Who cares if the physics/technology is "breakthrough"?

It's clear that this is being positioned as a suitable alternative to the battery operated pumped up mattress. The ones sold in Walmart, Target, etc.

I own one of those, and they are a pain to deal with. This looks awesome.

Who cares if there are others out there already - that proves that the market exists and the technology is feasible. My concern with this is, given that I don't understand the technology behind it, and I have never seen it before - is that it is too fanciful to work. i.e. is this another "Kickstarter fraud"?

The presence of existing products on the market that use similar technology is surprisingly re-assuring.

If I were an avid camper, I would definitely buy this.
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X10 powered sockets are $20, and do exactly what you described, yet don't have wide adoption at all.
Internet Archive version of the transcript, since the link in the article seems to go to a blog that's offline:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050424001416/http://blastradius...
Amazon is very much like that. I know quite a few who bailed knowing they'd have to pay back relocation money.
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So, the obvious question presents itself:

What is to be done with the countries that through corruption, incompetence, or malice prevent food aid from reaching their citizens? What exactly is the developed man's burden, here?

This is a tricky point.
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Your last sentence makes me think of HAL from the Space Odyssey series. HAL wasn't explicitly programmed to harm anyone, but he attempted to kill the entire crew in order to fulfill his programmed orders. This creeped me out when I first saw the film, and reading the end of this article rekindled the same feeling.
Now I know that linux kernel devs are not meant to introduce breaking changes into userland, because of the power of his words

And I also know that Linus isn't a person with whom I'll never interact on purpose.
I’m sure there’s a large component of what you say to it, but that suggests that grandparent’s comment:

> the cost of adjusting for the externalities will erase the savings of AirBnB

is false, which is more or less exactly what I’m trying to get at too: it is not unreasonable to expect that AirBnB will continue to be cheaper than hotels even if externalities are priced in.

As for hosts being less dependable, I’m sure that happens, but the few times I’ve used AirBnB, I’ve been quite pleased. By contrast, it seems like more than half the time I check into a hotel, something is amiss or the room isn’t ready by the time it was promised, or ... something. There are exceptional hotels with great customer service, but most hotels are borderline terrible in my experience.
0.02%, actually, but your point stands.
Maybe it is still the kid in me but professional racecar driver. I use to tear cars down and build them up when I was younger. I never have the financial/family support or knowhow to race full time.
What kind of fees are we talking about? Recurring revenue is the best revenue in my opinion, but if you were talking about a $1000 one-time fee vs. $5/month, it's pretty clear which avenue you should take.

Also, if you're talking about offering a service, you're going to have ongoing operational expenses. If your customers pay you only once there will come a time when the profit you've derived from them is exceeded by their ongoing cost.
The difference is that the burritos, ramen, and freezer pizza don't make claims about being "perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition."
Facebook code hints that hashtags could be coming to the service
Solid read. This is one of my favorite blogs about Saas businesses/services.
Sendhub sending unsolicited SMS
Is anyone else receiving unsolicited text messages from SendHub?
For anyone wondering, this comes with GPG 2.0.19, 2.0.20 came out on May 10th 2013 with a security fix:
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-6085/

I believe they've patched it in this release though:
http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/4323-cve-...

It's disappointing that their release notes don't mention this.
Sports journalists don't have to worry about some bridezilla taking their images, soft-filtering them and adding glowing pink hearts, and publishing every single one, no matter how awful. Their work-for-hire is going to professional editors. This is a VERY important distinction.
But they have moved forward. Portal, Half-Life 2, and (I think) Left 4 dead 2 all now work under Linux as of a few weeks ago. That's quite an achievement.
Let's start a conversation at a coffee shop
Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
Now that I am older, I am wanting to be a programmer. Architecture is like being a chef, but with more liability and fewer happy customers.
Any thoughts on a better model?

(I am not asking idly. I am contemplating doing a kickstarter and I need to research how, etc.)
>> "someone who is economically conservative but socially liberal."

I don't feel like that defines a libertarian at all.

When I hear the word, I think of someone who believes they (and everyone) should have the right to do whatever they like - so long as it does not infringe on anyone else's freedoms or rights.
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I had a feeling this wouldn't hit Kickstarter.
In my opinion, you may be working too hard or I hope you take lots of breaks.
I still don't see how that is the offensive part. Being called a penis (or any synonym) can obviously be offensive - though it can also be used in an endearing way as well - and tying that into someone's name doesn't, in my opinion, make it any better or any worse. I suppose maybe if someone called Winer has spent a lifetime listening to the same sort-of-pun then maybe the compounded effect would make it worse, but as a general rule, if that was my surname, I can't see myself caring about whether an insult connects to my surname or not, either way I'm being called a dick.
All you need to found a technology company is a developer
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/PythonMarkers
The inverse relationship - innovation and market cap of technology companies
I don't think it's ever too late. Sure, it's sub-optimal, a lot of people are still on 2.x, but 4.x has finally overtaken:

http://www.techspot.com/news/51862-android-4x-installations-...

Assuming Android will be around for many years, they can fix the vast majority if this issue.
It is not really a given at all. What matters are the games, not the technology behind the console. Showing off a new COD and Madden is pretty sigh worthy at best.

My limited circle of friends who game have moved back to PC gaming and given up on consoles. We all own them, but they became glorified Netflix boxes. That was until MS decided to charge $59.99 a year for Xbox Live. Then we all bought Roku devices instead.
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Ah man, I even double-checked and still messed up :p
Looks like a great start, that's sth I've been waiting for a long time.

It would be great if it supports adding more instances (dynos?), balanced through ELB. And... worker instances. And... Some configuration management.

The potential is huge!
Einstein's great insight for general relativity was to treat the equivalence of inertial and gravitational acceleration as a physical truth. He did this intuitively, in a lot less time than 8 years.

To work out all the consequences of that, he needed the mathematical tools that Riemann (and others) had previously invented. It took so long because, and he said himself, Einstein was not great at advanced math.

He needed the math to chase down all the implications, but the insight was not based on Riemann's work.
You seem to be of the view that competitive forces in a perfect market remove the justifications of consumers to complain about their available choices. Since there are only three console makers and studios hold monopoly rights on their IP, it's not anything like a perfectly efficient market.

The console exists to play the games. Not every game is available on every console and the technology of the console also drives features and quality in the games.

So if you want to play a game that requires a certain console, yes, you are forced to buy that console. Likewise, if you want to play a game with your friends on a certain gaming network (PSN, XBL, Steam, etc) you are also forced to buy a certain console.
This is a huge complaint of mine about emails I get from various startups: 'Hey, check it out, we just launched version 2 of our awesome product, X!'

Me: 'I don't remember what product X does, so I'm just going to delete this email.'

I wish more emails would begin with: "Foo is the world's best way to Bar and Baz. You're receiving this email because you joined our service, Foo, in March 2013."

It doesn't matter if you know what your service does. Assume I have absolutely no idea what your service does, even though I signed up for it. Because I don't have any idea what it does.
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Ask HN: Examples of rev share + fixed pricing model side by side?
Hi HN - can anyone point me in the direction of a SaaS offering where the business offers a choice between a "free" w/ revenue share plan vs. a fixed price plan w/ no rev share?

i.e.:

Plan A: Free + 30% of sales

Plan B: $199/mo - 0% of sales

Am considering doing something along these lines w/ my product and would like to see how others have positioned this.
By monopolistic entity, do you mean society? If you don't want to live by the rules of the society you are in, you are free to withdraw yourself and find somewhere else without such onerous restrictions. Likely you'll find it much worse place to live.
Did you read the rest? This applies to YOU:

>"So really there’s potentially only one scenario in which explaining what you do is the top priority:

1. Randomness - most of these visitors won’t be in your target audience anyway"
Here's to another 1000 commits for the world's best text editor. Cheers!
Openness.

Post this information publicly on your website. Express your disgust and give as much information as you can about the guilty party.
>> claiming you can go on and on on just one food source for long periods of time without extensive testing is just irresponsible.

How can pets tolerate eating the same food for a long period of time? Most cat and dog owners get one brand of food for their pet and stick with it for years at a time.

Are our digestive systems really that different?
If the only thing Sony made was the PlayStation line, then yeah, it would be difficult to call that a coincidence. But Sony has recording studios, movie studios, medical equipment, TV's, phones, a huge array of other consumer electronics, various video games (lots for the PC), PC's, and oh yeah, the PlayStation and the PSP/Vita.

And as noted elsewhere, the price started moving only 5 minutes into the presentation, way before anything of substance was announced.
NOTE: If you experience troubles with more complicated regular expressions in the next time, it might be because of the new engine.

:h two-engines

:h 're'
I use Zoho Mail and I definitely recommend it. I've never had any problems with it.
For what it's worth, there is a complementary (early stage) project a colleague of mine is working on where the idea is to let you leverage cloud formation from the command line and get closer to what you're talking about (deployment of a more complex infrastructure rather than just a single instance):

https://github.com/mozilla/awsboxen
Pretty ugly bug. Where did it happen? Anyway, congrats & long life!
I really only care about 2 things from a console box itself:
- will it fit in my cabinet (annoying peripherals included)
- does it have a loud fan or flashy lights that are annoying

Other than that I never look at the thing except to put a disc in. Who cares what the box looks like. You're going to be looking at your TV SCREEN the whole time.
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Lactose intolerance is not an allergy to lactose. Most people are actually lactose-intolerant -- in most of history people around the world simply had no need to drink milk after the toddler stage, and those who are truly lactose-tolerant tend to be of Nordic/Scandinavian ancestry, IIRC. Those who are labelled lactose-intolerant (though that itself is a spectrum) can handle a pint of milk a day.
Yea, in real terms the Democratic party are more right wing than the UK Conservative party.
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Personally as a 20 something first worlder earning decent money in tech I am interested in this. So part of me wishes they'd kept the advertising focused on that. Because claiming to be able to tackle world hunger with this "long shelf life, easy to prepare, and efficient no waste" product is disingenuous unless they plan on lowering prices > 10x the listed kickstarter rewards. I'm sorry white kids of America but world hunger is a little more complicated than just waiting for you to come along with a powder. Your product will not end subsistence farming. You want to know why? Take a look outside and around for a change, travel, or read for a MINUTE: as pointed out elsewhere "Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day"[1] ($17.50 / week). Your $65/week product... not going to even register for them. So good luck, I mean it, I'm interested in this product because I kind of eat out too much and not well, and this can be a good product, but maybe reign in the marketing kids because it's sounding nearly offensively naive when you start talking about ending world hunger with this rich kids product for food.

[1] http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-sta...
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This is a bit off topic but....

I want one console on my TV, a console that lets me listen to the music source of my choice whether its Pandora, Spotify, Google Play, or all the other stuff

I want a console that plays nice with my cable tv provider... hell I would love to replace Charter's HD Box with a console and get DVR, TV listings, and On Demand

I want a console that I can play games... including all the major options.

I don't want to be annoyed with advertisments or notifications I dont need.

Most of all I want the console to be able to seperate my needs from my girlfriends. I could care less about Grey's Anatomy and she could care less about Star Trek.

I want to be able to watch Amazon Video on demand, Netflix, and Hulu from my one console, and search all these options plus my cable TV lisitings from one console.

I would also like it to block any content from Robert Scoble.

None of these things will ever happen though because companies are getting more and more in the habbit of setting up walls between services instead of focusing on user friendlines. I dont want 4 boxes hooked to my 3 HDMI ports. I want one box.
As a physician with a degree in biochemistry, I am no expert but will throw in a few thoughts.

1) All foods are broken down into their respective molecular constituents (free fatty acids, glucose, amino acids, etc) through a series of enzymatic reactions. These nutrients are ultimately absorbed through the wall of the bowel or what remains passes as feces. This is true whether you are eating lettuce, ribs, a slice of bread, or this soylent product.

2) Frankly, I see no difference in this product from any other meal replacement powder available in bulk at any nutrition store. If we ever see a nutrition label, I suspect it will look strikingly similar to Slim Fast.
Ah, closures. Is there anything they can't do?
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Don't forget that customer value trumps hi-tech cool factor when it comes to actually having your new idea see the light of day
"Refer to" is not the same as "means the same as". The linked page is a disambiguation page, which is not the same as a page that is explaining exactly what a particular word means.

A conversion is a single thing: an event or transaction. A conversion rate is a number. The two are not identical.
Some replied with this (somewhat old) response by Bruce Schneier to the Transparent Society:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

It is an interesting response, although I don't think I agree with his argument. I'm not sure why they deleted it.
Eh, I think Mr. Winer is being hypocritical, whiney, etc. I also think folks here are right: You shouldn't take digs at a person's name.

My last name sounds like a common word but is spelled differently. I briefly was in circumstances where people routinely drew that parallel. They seemed to think they were the only one clever enough to notice the similarity. Uh, no. I heard it constantly for several months. It isn't clever. Really. A five year old could do the same.
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Personally, I'm not terribly concerned about mattress air pressure once it reaches a certain point. I'm more concerned about the mattresses ability to maintain a certain level of air pressure. My use case would probably be camping/hiking and if the windcatcher can provide enough pressure for my body to stay suspended off of the ground, then I'm fine, personally. I do realize that's not necessarily everyone's criteria, though.

I'll also say that I really dig the way the schnozzle works and I'd probably prefer that, mostly because of the dual use as a stuff sack, and that it gives me more options when it comes to mattress selection.

I just like that there are people trying different ideas out, and I get to recline in my chair and see what sticks.
I do /not/ want my phone apps updating automatically without my knowledge. That's just asking for an app developer to abuse that level of trust and install something under the radar. I can't imagine the level of spyware and malware that would be rampant in an app marketplace where third party apps just automatically updated without user knowledge.

Oh, wait...
And they also show what those bits and pieces are, which is actually quite a big deal, because the components often have non-helpful labels on them (like "Apple" "some internal ID"), which makes it almost impossible to find datasheets on them or source them (say you want to replace a component on the board that you suspect is broken).

So not really sure what would have been a big deal if not this..
Apple as usual is a class act, the pinnacle of American ingenuity.
I don't disagree but it does make it harder to debug other homebrew issues.