skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by what you're trying to protest/demand.

What's "metabolically disadvantaged"? Are you suffering from a medical condition for which no satisfactory diet (in the proper sense of the term) has been developed?

I'm not sure I have all the background information necessary to properly understand all the intricacies of what the OP in the link you posted is describing; but it sounds like what he's going through is complex enough that it probably won't solved by something as straightforward as Soylent (which is basically "let's take everything current science says your body needs, and mash it all together in one solution").

Any light you can shed on this for the non-initiated would be appreciated :)
I've started working on something along those lines: http://gilliam.github.io/ . Currently using LXC, but adapting to docker is quite easy since "VMs" are provisioned and launched via shell scripts.
People often think that exporting a secret key from GPG means that the exported version is unencrypted. It's not. It's still encrypted with the same password that it was previously. Hence why you don't get prompted for a password when running:

gpg --export-secret-key

And hence why the output of:

gpg --export-secret-key | paperkey

Is already protected by a passphrase. The folding paper idea wouldn't make the printed data any more secure. I could give you my paperkey and you wouldn't be able to do anything with it.
been looking forward to this new update.
These are all estimates from this article: http://business.time.com/2013/05/21/inside-yahoos-tumblr-dea...

Which in turn got them from a company called PrivCo: http://www.privco.com/

Who knows how accurate they are.
I think the bigger issue is that each party caters to their fringe groups and then shifts to the middle when they are in office.

GWB backed one of the biggest expansions of entitlement programs since LBJ (Medicare Part-D).

Obama seems to have no problem ignoring the international community when it comes to using US force globally.

The only thing that separates the two parties (when in office) are the issues that can keep them in office (e.g. the issue of abortion and guns is pretty evenly split in the US)
Isn't this a general problem with the internet? i.e. the authors of content know exactly what everyone is saying about them.

This isn't a problem with offline or private discussion because authors have no way of knowing what we said.
I've used their docs for years.. but found them buggy. For example bigger documents formatting would just start acting in a weird way (where i just couldn't set the text size correctly anymore).. copy/paste wasn't consistent.. wasn't crazy how regular browser shortcuts were overridden .. mobile app was locking..
i do command them for coming out with a great free product ahead of the the competition, but it does feel like Google leapfrogged them as far as UX and multi-platform support.
The facility is apparently FDA-approved -- this says nothing about the product itself.

edit: I will probably try it myself as a replacement for some meals, so I hate to simply sound like another voice piling on, but it seems pretty clear to me (whether it was intentional or not) that the "FDA-approved" comment is misleading.
> Firefox sucked -- thanks Chrome.

Sorry but the influence of Chrome on Firefox has been universally negative perhaps with the exception of performance.
I was mostly commenting on the state of commenting on hackernews.

Somebody comes out with an idea to drastically transform the way that we consume food + the top comment, at the time, was about one small detail in his vid.

Is it wrong to ridicule that kind of comment?
Here's my situation: I have a product that I know 6% of 2000 users who have given me their email address will take for "free," though it requires 15-20 minutes of work for them to participate (so they must see some value here).

I originally priced it at $99, but I haven't been able to get anyone to pay that amount or $19. Do I just keep dropping prices until I can get someone to pay? Is it a fair test to email out varying "discounts" to groups of users to determine a price?
Have you ever watched the "Big Bang Theory" TV show? There's a reason a character like Sheldon is portrayed in the show: Elements of that character are found in a number of disciplines, including programming. What I am saying is, there are people who are utterly rude and inconsiderate and don't actually know it. They somehow failed to develop human qualities about them. They exist and are very real. I worked with a guy who would wear a badge reading "Asshole <his name>" for years. People left him alone. He was very nice, but playing that role got him peace and quiet.

I would venture to guess that most online assholes are socially dysfunctional people.
I'm more interested in seeing Soylent succeed as a benefit to people around the globe who literally cannot afford (or don't have access to) a proper healthy diet.
Ask HN: How do you finish things?
I think I've had a fairly successful career so far. But in my personal time, I have so many projects that I've started but never seem able to finish. So many weekend projects that just died, and over which I've kicked myself when I see someone else release the same thing a month or year or two later.

Some things I've found to help are working with others and setting aside scheduled time blocks for personal work. These tactics help, but only a little.

It's not new. I always was late with my homework and such too. Though for some reason, in my actual professional work, I'm diligent and disciplined.

But I want to address this and become a more productive person. Do you have any successful strategies or tactics you've used to combat this? Any good resources?
This could be very well be just me, there are too many clickable things on screen, the UI seems overwhelming.
Ah, so not many people know how much space the average user consumes....
http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...
Yeah, I know it's encrypted. Just could be a fun project.
> 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.

I've always hated this definition, because it's so empty. The whole debate of politics is what happens when the freedoms and rights of different people come into conflict. Different groups define these freedoms and rights differently, and think different responses are appropriate when there is conflict.

The difference between a libertarian and say a conservative is not that one believes people should be free to do what they want and the other does not. It's that one defines "freedom" narrowly and the other defines it more broadly.

Take something like prostitution. A libertarian would say you have the freedom to sell your body or to buy sex for money. A conservative might believe that people should have the freedom to create cohesive communities based on traditional values, and having your kids see prostitutes on the side of the road undermines that. Similarly, the two react differently when coercion in prostitution brings the prostitutes' rights in conflict with her pimp's. A libertarian might say that we have other laws to deal with abuse and coercion and that banning prostitution is unnecessary. A conservative might note that such abuse is endemic to prostitution and that banning prostitution could prevent the burgeoning of an extremely abusive and coercive business. A liberal might swoop in and say we should legalize prostitution, but regulate it to prevent the downsides.

Or consider something like workers rights. A libertarian would say that people get paid what they deserve when everyone can freely bargain. A liberal might point out that employers have vastly superior bargaining positions. Interestingly, what liberals say about employees and bargaining is not dissimilar to what conservatives say about prostitutes: when you look at the circumstances most prostitutes find themselves in, how "voluntary" are their actions really? Libertarians perceive "voluntary action" to be extremely well defined: basically, if you did it, it must have been the product of your totally free exercise of will. Both liberals and conservatives take more nuanced views (though in different contexts).
I don't have a dog in this fight, but to be fair, that thread is 1434 days old.

Not saying that anything has changed -- I really have no idea -- but I'm not sure how prudent it is to base high-tech decisions off anecdotal data that is 4 years old.
On the other hand Dave has a notoriously thin skin. He is very good at criticizing everyone else but he absolutely doesn't take criticism himself. Only time you are going to strike up a conversation with him is if you agree with him on everything. He generally expects everyone to bow to him as the inventor of blogging and RSS and podcasting and whatever, and that means you are supposed to listen to his opinions on everything, agree with him, and see his wisdom and if you dont, YOUR BLOCKED, cut off, dismissed and ignored.

Who knows how that meeting with Marissa Mayer actually went down but there are plenty of people who have been lectured, scolded and demeaned by Dave who have probably wanted to walk out on him so its entirely beleivable that she did and he probably provoked at least some of it.

You would think Dave would, after all these years, realize that if you post stuff on the Internets people are going to flame you for it because A. They disagree B. They troll for fun C. Dave has ticked off so many people over the years they flame him because they are perma-tired of his holier than thou attitude.

No people shouldn't be rude, ever, but they are. Dave is rude all of the time too. Yea you can just like, you know, block the entire Internet and that will stop it, but at what price. I think Dave is mostly pushing for the latter, or at least he wants anyone who doesn't agree with Dave on everything to be blocked permenently from everything.

Dave, if you want, to block everyone on the Internet who disagrees with you, fine, go for it, write your own tools to do it, but don't expect everyone else to do it for you.
It gets weirder too. In SF I can make substantially more money working for a random social startup than I can working as a postdoc directly on cancer-curing science. I have the capacity to work on such science at a high level, or a social startup at a pretty moderate level. But society has worked its compensation out such that being a highly trained PhD is far less compensated than someone working on the tech scene.
HN generates traffic and traffic generates money so of course it is gamed.
Hi Samuel, maybe you can post the CSS for the blue design to use with Stylebot, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm....

Or even better, a guide to the CSS classes so we can use customize and share our customizations using Stylebot. :)
I've switched to feedbin.me ($2 a month), web app is ok, iPhone Reeder (iOS) can sync but not yet iPad version.

Has few bells and whistles (which is a plus in a way - not infected with social disease) but does the basic read and sync quite well.
Well, if you only like Madden, you probably are. It's like if you collected art, but only art with football players in it.
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I'm sorry but I find that a poor example.

You have to maintain a car, feed it (oil/diesel/electricity) and care for it (regular washing), otherwise it will go the 'way of the horse' ...

I agree with you on your last statement but I don't think soylent is a solution to that problem. I don't think a formula will have the nutritious benefit of a manually prepared fresh meal.
I wish I knew. I have probably 15gb of stock photos/EPS/etc that I've used/collected through the years and it's a pain. I use Adobe Bridge to browse/search. I also organize the files into folders for easier viewing. I used to change the file names to be something that was useful - that's really the best way I've found - but, as my "collection" grew, I just sort of stopped b/c I acquired something like 2gb in one month (which was 200+ images). Too much work!
I'm very optimistic about Soylent and just paid for a month, but saying exercise did not work for you is worrisome. Moving around heavy objects and maintaining a healthy diet (which Soylent may make easier to do) are the key to health, plain and simple.

What kind of exercise did you do, at what intensity, and for how long?

The creator of Soylent will be the first to tell you this (he works out quite a bit).
> Have Soylent really thought about that sentence? What happens when someone with a digestive disorder eats Soylent, thinking they're getting the nutrition they need and then they get even more ill?

I was having a hard time swallowing (ha) that sentence too. Many digestive problems have nothing to do with the lack of eating biologically correct nutrients. A good amount of acid reflux problems are caused by having a hiatal hernia for example.
USV are such a positive force on the community, it gives me pleasure to see them do well.

This isn't just a 50x return on $5m cash/a good investment/ripe market/competent founder. It's a return on USV's approach to business: being open on their investment strategy and theories, having and voicing an opinion, and appreciating the tech as much as the business metrics.
Alan Cox, once considered second-in-command after Linus; left Linux development after receiving criticism from Torvalds.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox
It's still nothing like what I'm looking for in an RSS reader, but I'm sure it's good for whoever it's designed for.
University of Texas (UT) is ranked #8

Texas A&M is ranked #47.

[1] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Embedded hardware developer/DSP programmer here:
An interesting turn in the life of the Arduino turned out to be that people used it not so much as an embedded processor, but as a peripheral extension of their laptops and desktops.

Laptops and desktops (with some exceptions...) simply don't have the peripherals (such as DACs, PWM, analog ins) which people need to deal with sensors and robotics. Therefore, Arduino's micro-peripherals were a welcome addition to the world.

Combining the workstation core (CPU) and network into one place gives the Arduino a greater level of autonomy than it used to have. It can now do much more without requiring that it's attached (tethered or "tumored") to a desktop.

Whether the price and features make it worthwhile is impossible to predict. We are in an explosion of microcontroller/embedded development right now and devices are coming out faster than people can fully learn to appreciate them (Commodore 64 junkie). It's probably best to pick the platform that has the strongest support community or the one you know the components of the best.
I realize this was a "random idea" but it makes no sense to me. What is the problem you are trying to solve?
How many startups if they obtained their stated goals on a global scale wouldn't impact the world for the better?

Risk vs reward. Very little risk in tech companies, quite a few in biotech.
I think the biggest issue I see here is that they are selling a dietary supplement and they don't have a licensed or even a trained nutritionist or doctor on their startup team.

That's pretty scary to me. Who is the person who is certifying this as safe for meal replacement?

Where is the clinical study that was done before this was released to people?
Hiding protocol in the URL bar. Fading the server "file path" after a domain name. Tabs in the title bar. Non-native look. No menu toolbar. Status bar. And those are just the ones I'm aware of.
Does Fastmail.FM have the equivalent of the "Archive" action in Gmail? Mail.app on OS X and on iPhone seem to play well with Archive and it's not something that I really want to give up.
> The only difference that matters between friendly exchanges (cooking and room/board) and AirBnB or underground restaurants is that one set of actions threaten the existing power brokers who have the ear of City Hall.

I think it's a shame that most people are too cynical to understand why laws and regulations around food, housing, transportation, etc. exist. Odd in particular that you think preventing underground restaurants has anything to do with protecting the power brokers when there's a big public health case to be made for ensuring that food is prepared in a sanitary environment. I'm guessing you're in favor of a solution that let's people get sick/die and then let the free market enact it's revenge on the restaurant. Good thing we decided to leave that model out with the 20th century.
I'm not familiar with Python, but Ruby SEEMS a whole lot more complicated than JavaScript, in syntax and how you can manipulate code.
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Oh, this project has been on HN several times before, so I guess my brain filtered out all the old information I already knew.
Hear hear.

I resent having to frequently stop what I'm doing - what I'm really excited about - to spend time attending to the endless whining of my body. And I resent even more the things my body does if I don't give in and feed it perfectly every damn time (so far, gastric ulcers and frequent heartburn). Food currently sucks. It could be so much better. It could "just work".

I'm also in for $65.
To clarify and to add onto what masnick wrote, the article _was_ right. The free tier was an option previously, but FastMail has recently dropped that tier in favor of a free trial and, I'm assuming, a lower tier that has a lower cost.

Any previous users of the free tier will still have their account for free, possibly until further notice, but there is no obvious indication that they'll just drop your free account (unless you're inactive for their specified time period).

I have two email accounts with Fastmail mostly because they were the only free email service that supported Yubikey, but aside from that feature, I would call them "just another email service."
Then let the population double again. Make larger Soylent factories. Repeat until all joy in life is gone.
I've been using them for quite a while and found their service to be reliable. Even their webmail access is decent. A con is that their spam filtering isn't as good as gmail.
> What I don't get is why are some software developers so terrified of "non-techies"?

I can only speak for myself obviously, but at my work, all resumes are funneled through our recruiter. Sure, we can forward resumes to her as-needed, but it's in her job description to go out and find qualified candidates. She attends job fairs, she posts to Craigslist, etc.

She is also completely non-technical -- she's the recruiter for the entire company, which includes every role imaginable in a mid-sized company: finance, HR, etc.

There's a very high chance that if you sent her the OP's website, his resume would never even make it to my desk, whether or not he was actually qualified. Sure, if I ever received the resume and then ended up on his site, I'd be impressed, but I have to get there first. But why would you want to essentially disqualify yourself before even getting to the one responsible for hiring?
Looking at my comment, the last bit looks sarcastic. I actually meant that I thought you might be thinking more of milk production and less about processed diary.

Anyway, I'm not sure 5 of them would really weaken the point you were making.
I've been working on removing myself from the Google silo for the past few months. It's tough, and the alternatives just aren't as good or convenient as what Google offers, but I think it's an important thing to do at least on principle.

I found Owncloud to be difficult to install and very buggy. For self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV, I chose Baikal (http://http://baikal-server.com/) instead of Radicale. It seemed easier to set up and it's been working great so far. There's no web interface unfortunately, and the Thunderbird addon that connects to CardDAV (SOGO connector) is buggy at times too.

Replacing Dropbox doesn't seem practical right now. Owncloud is buggy, Sparkleshare seems like a "when you've got a hammer, everything's a nail" kind of solution, and I haven't tried Seafile yet because the configuration is intimidating and I haven't really heard anything about it.

Rackspace has great hosted email for $1/inbox/month. Eventually I want to bite the bullet and host my own mail server (I still have nightmares from when I self-hosted email a few years ago) but in the meantime I've really liked Rackspace.

Hacker idea: Create an OSS self-hosted email appliance. Simple setup for a one-inbox self-hosted email server, including DNS, DKIM, spam filter, etc. No matter what anyone says Dovecot/Postfix is not for mere mortals and self-hosted email in general is so full of pitfalls it could be an Indiana Jones temple.
"They don't have a background in nutrition therefore they can't possibly know anything about nutrition"

Never heard of books and the internet?
> So because there is dependence on some monopolistic entity for contract disputes (there really shouldn't be)

Its definitional: if you aren't seeking the threat of state enforcement to enforce a set of mutual promises, you don't have a contract, you have a mutual set of promises that lacks the intent necessary to form a contract.

> then that gives justification for that entity to intrude on voluntary actions?

Yes, using the threat of action by other people to get what you want gives those other people a right to a voice in what you can use that threat to support.

> Seems like a logical fallacy to me.

Subjective appearance can say as much about the one seeing as the thing being seen.

> How about we let people transact peacefully and deal with the problems on a case-by-case basis instead of lumping everyone under the same law that allows no room for exploration.

Enforcement of existing laws, civil and criminal, is done on a case-by-case basis by actual people; even if something creates a civil or criminal cause of action, the party (the prosecutorial authority of the state, in criminal cases) with the cause of action may choose not exercise it, and jury nullification is thing, so, largely, what you call for is the status quo.

If you think the specific parameters of the existing law are drawn incorrectly, you probably ought to address your specific problem rather than calling for abstract features that already exist in the current system.
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I probably agree with you, I was just wondering if there was some more concrete justification.
How does this benefit people around the globe who can't afford or don't have access to a proper healthy diet?

Why don't we instead give money to the sensible things that the WHO does, like genetic engineering probiotic yogurts which produce all of the essential vitamines that humans need (which is something WHO has funded).
SMTP is a delay-tolerant store-and-forward system, XMPP isn't. You can't replace all electronic messaging with a system that can't support DTN attributes.
It could also be any other C6 ring. To me, it simply looks "organic" ;)
I am skeptical of Soylent, but I also think that interesting ideas-- backed by at least some science-- are worth examining.

That being said, health claims such as the ones you cite-- "it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition"-- fall into the realm of regulated speech. You shouldn't be making claims like these without well-controlled clinical trials to back them up. The sellers of Soylent will need to hire legal counsel before long...
What if Enterprise IT built a race car?