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That is besides the point. The main point highlighted by the committee is that companies like Apple, large companies that operate across the world have a choice in how much tax they can pay.

Your small start up or your uncle's deli does not have that choice. Apple decides it will pay tax on profits generated in Mexico, Canada and Brazil in the US (~6 Billion) but profits generated in the rest of the world just sit in Ireland collecting dust.

So tomorrow Apple can easily decide to move profits from Mexico, Brazil and Canada to Ireland too. Which is all fine. Just means less US tax revenue. Less kids get STEM scholarships and more H1B visas.

Apple and the rest of the MNC's are never going to admit this has a cost to America but it does. All they are saying is we have a legal right to do it.

Sort of like a son telling the father thanks for paying for my upbringing and college now I am moving to China and dont look at me if your need anything in you old age cause I dont have any legal obligations.
It's not everybody. CoD has a very large demographic and it encompasses a significant chunk of the console and hardcore PC gaming market, and they're better games than people give credit for, but they're far from universal appeal.
"I ran 3.14 miles non-stop. This is an irrational improvement."

[checks date]. Late for April Fools.
> it appears that he is taking things are already approved from human consumption, and mixing them together.

...and then saying that the nutrients are stable for years.

> A lot of the arguments here seem to boil down to "Much smarter people are working on this and they haven't solved it, who the hell does this KID think he is?!?"

Mavericks can solve big problems. They show their working; they provide a demonstration; they give a proof. Other people then pick at the work to see if there are any problems. That's how science works. We check the sample sizes, we check the stats, we check the confounding factors, we proceed cautiously.

This guy has gone from self-experimentation (and caution about letting other people try it) to a full blown sales pitch full of errors and over-blown claims.

The actual product might not be the TimeCube of nutrition, but the documentation so far is hopeless.
I've found that the best reason to design at 1x is because the coordinates match the coordinates for the developer and also because sometimes the 2x size won't split nice and evenly if you don't keep it in mind. For instance 15px for a gutter.
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> No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not backed by public data is slander.

That is not enough. It also needs to be untrue and it needs to harm the reputation of the company.
"... antioxidants, probiotics, and nootropics. It's everything the body needs." - Soylent video

"It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." - from The Matrix
Hundreds of hours coule be reasonable if you included conception, explorations of alternatives, etc... Just think of multiple designers being involved.

It's incredibly easier/quicker to code something when you're just copying someone else's end result.
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When I migrated back from Windows 8/Phone 8 to iOS, I looked at this - but this loophole, from everything I've read, has been closed for a few months now.
If you can keep things like that in mind, then designing at 2x means way less work later on (doing a batch /2 on size in Photoshop over all assets is stupid simple).
The unread issue was fixed 2 months ago. The most recent bug only lasted for 30 minutes and was the result of one of my app servers being down and HAProxy just kept serving requests to it. In other words, 1 out of every 12 requests would fail. Ugh. But that was resolved 7 hours ago, and it seems your bug is more recent.
> $230 is cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for a lot of people too.

Put probably not cheaper than grocery shopping for a month for one person, unless that person has particular food tastes that Soylent isn't going to address.
Why a race car? Why not a 'regular' car? Just compare the Chevy Volt against the Tesla Model S!
Google supports openness just fine and not statistically less than yesterday or n-days ago: https://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:google. Regardless, I'm dubious to believe having closed software makes one evil; just the same for discontinuing a product. Three steps forward; one step backwards; not evil, even by your ridiculous terms.
> It is not 'fair use', because it is not copyrighted in the first place.

> 'Fair use' is a legal defense to make copies of copyrighted material. Yes, it is copyrighted, but it is a fair use anyway, if X, Y and Z.

> Facts and factual statements are not copyrightable in the US in the first place. Nor does copyright, in the US, prevent someone from comparing something to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. So you are correct that there is no legal basis under copyright to prevent such a comparison, but it's not about fair use.

This is simply incorrect: I wish you'd stop replying to everyone who mentions "fair use" with this. Nominative fair use is the ability to use someone else's trademark for the purposes of comparison. Thus, NYT's second demand, to cease referring to "The New York Times" on Scrollkit's website is entirely about fair use. It has nothing to do with NYT's copyright claims.
>‘The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour.

It’s an unreasonable and baffling request for the New York Times to tell us to take down this statement. A statement of fact about a company is not a copyright infringement.

Can something like this be considered defamation? (or did NYT come out and publicly say that they spent hundreds of hours hand coding this?)
Having done pure liquid diets (with significantly reduced caloric loads) on numerous occasions (not by choice, unlike these fellows) this is mostly true. One will typically see bowel movement frequency drop dramatically, although not entirely to zero in my case.

That said, I am missing a significant length of digestive tract, so my experience may be atypical. I would also note that that as calories increase, to or above your metabolic needs, that this effect would likely diminish.
Like "Hufu", the healthy human flesh alternative for cannibals who want to quit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
I'd so prefer to see

#define HEBREW_CHAR_MIN 0xfb20
#define HEBREW_CHAR_MAX 0xfb4f

(Probably with even more descriptive names, but I don't know the problem domain.)
Local sign up was there since the beginning ^^

We use some responsive design for screen size. I have to optimize some UI action for tablets and mobiles. We will maybe publish a mobile app if customers ask for it.
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I disagree that your example is equivalent. If I understand how the OP is using the times content, I think the equivalent would be using, without permission, the entirety of a popular video or song to demo a media player that you wrote.

Personally, I'm acutely aware of and entirely in support of the times' need to protect their vast investment in generating the very best news that people are capable of generating. TBH, I'm a little surprised and confused that the OP is surprised and confused.
The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees.

That's disingenuous. 0.02% of something that a CEO thinks (based on nothing but his own ego) is worth $10 billion is not meaningful equity.

The proper way to model this is that equity compensation tends to be about 1/3 of what the person is giving up in salary, career advancement, etc. If you're paying $30,000 to work there, you'll typically get $10,000 per year in equity, or $40,000 over 4 years. That'll be 0.4% if the current valuation is $10 million.

Now, let's say a clueless schmuck puts his whole life savings (or, more accurately, what he'll be getting in lieu of savings over the next 4 years) in some extremely volatile (100-500%) penny stock, because that's actually what's happening (with that penny stock being in one's employer, i.e. controlled by someone who can fire you for "performance" Pincus-style). Some of those people are going to end up modestly wealthy (no employee gets rich) and most are going to be hosed.

To say that employee equity in typical startups (there is "meaningful" is a huge stretch. You'd have the same results asking people to pump their savings into penny stocks. A few would get very rich (from modest starting points) and most would wipe out.
You know that Sony have integrated a "share" button right on the controller?
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Whey protein only works if you don't already have some kind of dietary restriction like lactose intolerance, which I do.

Mind you, I really enjoy eating my food and am not looking for a shortcut to "just get nutrients".
I've just gone and read through a few recent entries from Dave's blog. I can see some name dropping, but I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. It's not a self-serving hagiography, at least from my sample. He's proud of what he's done, but I expect a degree of that in a blog. If you don't like his style of writing, you don't have to read it.

You accuse him of refusing to engage with criticism, which is quite a serious claim in a community that prides itself on rational discourse. Other commenters have also alluded to this, though I've not seen evidence for it. There's a fine line between critical responses that you should engage with and personal attacks that can be ignored. Your comment here doesn't read like constructive criticism to me.
Yeah, I posted Veekun's thing.

Low overhead for deployment and ubiquitous availability are definite advantages for the beginning of a project. Unfortunately, those two advantages disappear when your site becomes successful. For a large user base, there's more overhead involved in keeping a PHP webapp running smoothly, and by that time you won't need ubiquitous availability because you'll be, hopefully, running and configuring your own servers.
Memcached is the ancestor of the front end for Couchbase, so while we regularly come in as one of the most consistently fast NoSQL databases, we can't take complete credit for that (other than picking a great foundation).
does soylent expire?
The irony of this HN discussion literally hours after the "Hacker News Is Depressing" article is so thick I could cut it with a knife.
Google are blacklisting Microsoft. But they can't say that so they're whitelisting everyone else.
> 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.

That is one definition, but not the only. And I'm sure there are creative ways to enforce contracts without State force--third-party arbitration could be an option, social pressure, etc. Most contract disputes I've been involved with have been resolved without the need for legal action. There are plenty of social dynamics that come into play.

> 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.

This is true, but I don't think it's working. Looking at the current prison population, something is deeply flawed. Are most jurors even aware of jury nullification?

> 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.

Fair enough.
Stop coding, pick up the phone and call some of your free users. Ask them if they'd pay for your product and why/why not.

If none of your free customers are willing to pay, then it might be time for a pivot. Such as licensing your app to financial providers as a value add.
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I agree with this and the parent comment.

"Conditional" purchases are BS.

The people who buy don't give you conditions.
The people who give you conditions never buy.
Managing black lists is definitely a pain in the ass. If you can do outgoing spamassassin it definitely helps. I also use MXToolbox's free plan to monitor my two outgoing mail servers for blacklist. Alternatively, you can use Nagios to monitor blacklists.
Ignorant crooks wanting to make a quick buck.
I don't consider my submittal to be any sort of complex project (really more of a guide to doing something far easier than normal), but there's probably a fair amount of us that would love to have a working, stable Android Java alternative that's also free to use and integrates well. I thought I would share this for anyone that felt the same way as I do about having to always use Java. I searched Google extensively for someone getting Scala to work without some sort of external SBT (Scala Build Tool) plugin that requires you to type out commands and renders some of the features of Intellij (like debugging) unusable.

I couldn't find any such solution, so I just tried building it without any sort of external workarounds. Did not work of course, since Scala is too large for the Dalvik Compiler. However, ProGuard reduces the size to something manageable and is built into Intellij, so enabling that + telling it not to obfuscate the sources, allows you to build in the same manner you would with Java in Intellij and lets you focus on what matters--the code :)

I'm not a Scala expert by any means yet--I've only really delve into it the last week or two after previously seeing fellow developers mention on HN that it was a viable alternative to Java on Android. They were right and I'm glad I tried it. I've had prior experience with functional languages (F# and some Haskell) and the similarities of Scala to languages such as Python and C# make it pretty easy to dive into if one is familiar with any of those. Having prior functional experience helps with the learning curve of some of the powerful features, but not necessary. Since Scala is a imperative/functional hybrid, you can work with either paradigm (or both).

So far, I haven't had any issues using Scala on Android. Works for me as if I were using Java, which is awesome. Plus, Intellij lets you use both in a project without issues and will automatically convert from one language to the other (but generally takes some rewriting to get it more optimized for Scala since it has many additional features).

Feel free to ask any questions though or I'm sure there's some with more Scala experience than me that can answer some language specific things much better than I can.
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However small percentage of the costs paper is for book it is very large percentage of the value (at least for a percentage of the customers).
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I think it's slander because he does not know how many hours NYT spent on making it

You're confusing the legal concept of "slander" with the concept of "perhaps being wrong". For extra irony, by your definition of slander, you're guilty of it simply by accusing this guy of being guilty of it.

edit: Whoops, by posting this I too am guilty of slander by your definition.
It's not just _food_. It's a bunch of the stuff that this random programmer thought was important, out of the set of things we know of that we get from food, tossed into a blender.

It's none of the things that we get from food that we haven't identified as important, or that this dude didn't think were sufficiently important to include, or anything else along those lines. He's repeatedly had to adjust his formula to account for deficiencies he's discovered in his glop along the way.

Do you honestly think he's done ironing [1] out the kinks in his forumla?

[1] Deliberate phrasing: one of the things he missed was iron. Can you even begin to trust the nutritional knowledge of someone who missed something as basic as iron?
About ten years ago I was working for a company that was featured in a (fairly glowing) article in the NYT. We linked to it from our media page, and a month or two later received a similar letter from their legal department instructing us to either remove the link, or pay them some outrageous amount of money (something like $4500, if I recall correctly). So we changed the link to an "I'm feeling lucky" search on Google that took you directly to the article. Never heard about it again.
Rackspace's hosted mail is $2/inbox/month now, and they have a minimum of 5 mailboxes.

I used their service when it was Mailtrust, and continued on after Rackspace bought them without complaint, but that was when I could buy a single mailbox.
From perusing the main page, this looks exactly like what I want. Thanks for the awesome suggestion.
I appreciate your honesty ;-)
"but we don’t have the resources to fight the Times’s legal department"

My personal opinion (based on years of observation of this type of thing) is that it is well worth the money to invest in an IP lawyer to review and to see if you have a leg to stand on with respect to fair use.

The reason being is that this is a tempest in a teapot [1] and has the potential to deliver gross amounts of publicity to the startup as it is discussed and dissected ad infinitum. As such if the IP attorney decides that there is a basis for fair use I would go with it if at all possible and keep the page up. In the end the Times isn't going to want the negative publicity over this (even if they have a reasonable case) and may very well end up backing down. Could end up being a Streisand effect as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_in_a_teapot
That looks like normal software development to me. Enterprise IT just involves more people, money and time.
They tried to get on Kickstarter. Kickstarter didn't want them because Soylent is not a "creative" product.
If this isn't a "native advertisement" for scrollkit, nothing is. I can't believe a piece of content marketing has gotten the #1 spot on HN.
The space shuttle would be a better analogy.
I agree that it is reasonable, and the level of polish that they had in the final result is worthy of their time. I am sure that scrollkit has spent much more than 100s of hours creating the scrollkit toolbox and presumably the NYT did it from scratch.

I am mostly wondering where he got that number from, was it a guess, did they quote it at some point?
What does Soylent taste like? What does "the body doesn't have to get rid of unused waste" mean? I'm reminded of the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer goes on an all-yogurt diet for a week. :\

Also, it's a little disconcerting when the only founder with any food or biotech background is the sales guy.
I thought Snow Fall was great -- but I'd much rather tip my hat to Pitchfork.com for their "Cover Story" series when it comes to compelling online content publishing:

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/
I want to address the common demonstration of "it took you N * X hours to make something, but I replicated in N hours".

We see this statement very often. When Pinterest got popular, how long until we saw replicas? When Medium and Svbtle were introduced, wasn't it just a matter of hours to me-too replicas came along? There was one fellow who's name escapes me that came up with the hidden-left interface menu that you swipe into view from the top that's now commonly used in the Facebook app and many, many mobile sites.

None of this is new, and there's nothing wrong with it. Copying is the biggest form of flattery as is often said, and its a validation of your idea.

What happens very often is that we see great ideas in their finished, polished form. Someone's showed us the path.

When you show me how to build a bridge, I don't have to invent a bridge. In many cases, I see your awesome bridge and figure out even better ways to build it. But coming up with that first bridge, doing the engineering and testing and iterations on it, that's hard.

That's really hard.

So yeah, you can recreate what someone else made in a lot shorter time than it took them to invent it. But invent something new and you'll see it takes you a long time too.
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I hope that is one of their tips.
Part of the appeal of Soylent is that you don't have to juice the carrots, cook the oatmeal, or scramble the eggs.
A nice tool for doing this, fyi, is xScope which lets you mirror your clipboard on your phone over bluetooth.
Me too; been with them since '04 when they were webmail.us and not a single issue.
If you use Sketch to draw your interface, you get @2x exporting and slicing is built in. It hurts my head to think about what I would have to do if I was using Photoshop.
You should have a look at this: http://cozy.io/
I agree that $19 is too low. That page is trying to convince me that I will get ~20 comments from smart & knowledgeable people at a cost per comment of <$1.

I simply don't believe that pitch. Anyone who is willing to do that for <$1 doesn't value their time, so why would I value their opinion?

I'd increase the price, add some case study/ROI, and provide more detail about how it works (not necessarily on the landing page, but clearly linked)
I really, really don't understand your question.

Consider your front page. It's the same as everyone else's front page. The ranking of the items is a function of how old each item is, how many points it has, how many flags it's got, whether it's trip a filter, etc.

Now I flag an item. That penalizes the item and causes its computed value to fall. This in turn may cause its position in the rankings to fall, and thus will affect the front page.

But the front page is your front page, and hence my flagging an item can affect "your" front page.

How can you think it would be otherwise?
Isn't this always the case with acquisitions though?
So basically this article finds no good open source / self hosted alternatives, but instead lists a bunch of paid services. And even those don't live up to the "Google Silo".
Daniel, you need to understand something -- it's a blog.

That's what blogs are about. One person's view of things.

It's not intended to be objective.

Now, you don't engage in "intellectually honest critiques."

If you think that's what you're doing, try getting a second opinion on that. You're a flamer. I don't engage with people who do that. Sorry.

I don't like your style -- I don't imagine you care about that, just as I don't care whether you like the way I write.
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