skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn that sounds good - completely natural - save for possibly the emulsifiers in the almond milk.
Worth noting that "A spokeswoman for Spark Capital disputed the accuracy of the report"

Privco were the same guys who did the LivingSocial hatchet job a while ago which was proven inaccurate. Privco's MO seems to be wild claims to generate interest in their private company data.

It seems even major publications think Privco's claims and data are not very good. Here's a tweet from TechCrunch and AllThings D editors questioning the integrity of the company and their data - https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/336949975634296833

For those interested, I have found VCExperts data to be better for this type of shareholding info (not affiliated with the company) and definitely less sensationalist.

Unrelated to Privco, a big congrats to USV - disciplined, open and truly thesis driven - not just chasing what is the hot thing of the moment.
How Coca-Cola Used Vending Machines To Try And Unite India And Pakistan
Why is the price so high and where is the money going?

http://teespring.com/realartistsshipnoprofit
> and a huge achievement

Why will it be a huge achievement?
So is baby formula not food?
Problem 1: Annoying, delay-riddled, anachronistic Flash-style "splash animation" on the Web site. Get rid of that. Now.
Very eloquent arguments, you've thoroughly convinced me.
Run your copy through a spell checker! Misspellings can easily make a professional looking site not look professional.
Rather than have everyone in this thread call someone from your list of food scientists at UBC, perhaps you could call one and post the conversation for us. This would be a bit less time consuming for the food scientists.
Ok, so just to be clear... this is real? And not an elaborate Charlton Heston joke? Well color me surprised that... they used the name Soylent.
>It is NOT sufficient for trying a radically new diet like this one.

To you. It's your opinion, not mine. You could say "The FDA would strongly condemn something like this" or "I think this is unsafe" but you can't say it is not sufficient for everyone just because you feel that way.

You can't make blanket claims that apply to all of humanity; being an absolutist only works if you're a Sith Lord.
Don't start any projects without validation. Get in the habit of validating an idea as the first step. After many failed attempts at apps, websites, ecommerce etc (I finished the projects but was really discouraged for awhile), I have gotten into the habit of building a landing page, and trying to drive traffic as the first thing I do, rather than touching anything having to do with tech. Only recent after 5 or 6 failed full fledged apps/sites, have I started doing it. I went through 4 or 5 ideas with no interest, until I came up with http://makerops.com, and had 1000+ people sign up in 2 days! That's what motivated me to keep trying.
I appreciate the feedback. I think this relates to grad school, where I am looking for undergrad. It can be difficult to know whether UTA ranking would be accurate for undergrad comparisons
Entrepreneurship is a Skill
It’s damn hard to build an enterprise company
Ditto turns to IndieGogo for help to fight patent trolls
i believe there is also a large difference, in terms of value, between renting out your flat when you are not there, and renting out a room while you continue to live there, in terms of how much you are invested in keeping the common space pleasant for everyone.
Google apps with a custom domain is 52$ a year, so it's not cheaper.

Btw I don't use fastmail (yet) but after checking my town's tap water analysis, I switched to bottled water. This analogy made me think again about what I'd want as a mail provider.
It's crazy how strongly people react to the idea of this drink. It contains only ingredients that are found in other nutrients. That means the FDA will probably give it a stamp of approval without even giving it a second thought.

There's this idea that because we have such stringent laws governing our medicine, we probably have such laws governing food too. But the reality of it is that if you take a bunch of ingredients that have already been established in the market and you throw them together you're allowed to call it food and sell it in the supermarkets.

In a macabre way, if this drink _does_ seriously harm someone, and they sue these guys that would actually be a good thing, because these guys are doing nothing different from what the preprocessed food industry is doing. Except that the preprocessed food industry optimizes for minimal ingredient costs and maximal consumability, where Rob is optimizing Soylent for maximal ingredient coverage and minimal consumation need, the exact opposite! We might actually get some sane laws (like the rejected one that said food marketed for children should consist of at least 50% nutrients)

Before you question the integrity of this project, please consider that Rob himself has already been living almost exclusively for 4 months. No that does not mean this product is by all means safe or that you should replicate him without doubt, but it does mean he already put his life on the line for the idea of this product.

That being said, I do find it a bit disconcerting to see that all the cautionary language of his blog is gone in this marketing site. It wasn't a good idea to hire a sales person for this kind of project, he already has more initial backing than he should need in my opinion.
I went through this process a few months ago but I chose to still use some silos. I moved my blog (blog.markwatson.com) from Blogger to a cheap Wordpress host, maintaining article URLs. I asked people to start using my email at my own domain; I still forward it through GMail but I back it up frequently. I can flip my domain email to my VPS email hosting service very quickly. I could live with loosing my calendar so I left it on Google.

There are a lot of siloed web properties that I use without depending on them: Google+, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. I enjoy them but if they dissapear I can live with that.

Two we properties that I do depend on are Dropbox and Evernote, but I am a paying customer of each.
I suspect we won't get the recipe now either. It's a commercial venture, and more power to him. If this concept proves out, I'm hoping we can make an opensource alternative.
It's pure chemicals

What is food if not chemicals?
FYI, I wanted to troll myself due to the irony of writing a post about talking too much about entrepreneurship. Feel free to troll in the comments here or on Medium, I totally deserve it.
Sure, if you want, but I can guarantee that without the flame thread, we would not be hearing about this bad patch at all. As a newbie, I'd be seeking out the Rules/FAQ thread, where I'd hopefully have the patience to read all the way down and find that breaking changes are never good.

Some things are important enough to flame over. I grew up on IRC, so I have a thick skin to that, and I've been flamed on my fair share of mailing lists too. Know what I learned there? I'm often wrong.

To an outsider, a thread where nobody gets flamed is usually pretty inconsequential. Coarse or colorful language makes it stand out more.
Startup idea: Soylent Restaurant.

Only one item on the menu. No need for a kitchen or trained chefs. I'll be rich!
> 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.

This is a silly thing to say, honestly. It's unscientific in every possible way, and honestly sounds like saying "I don't think there's any way there's not a god" to defend religion.

It's worth giving it a shot, or doing research to prove or disprove it, but wild speculation is not the way to approach this one, imho.
Your only argument is an argument from authority. Sorry, I'm just not impressed at all.
Dave nailed it. It's why I rarely comment and never post. HN is one of the most unfriendly spots on the net. It's downright hostile.

I love the curated links, but that's about it. Trying to engage in conversation is a crap shoot. You might learn something, but you might encounter someone just dying to turn district attorney on you and just wanting to rip into you. I'll pass.

And God forbid you have a negative view on vi/vim.

Let the downvoting begin.
But that's the point - they claim it's safe for anyone; that it will correct cholesterol; that it's okay if you have problems with digestion; etc.

You only need common sense to realise that this single product cannot be safe for everyone.

What type of flour does it contain? They say it's hypo-allergenic, so it shouldn't have any gluten in.
This is developers talking to developers, at Google IO.
mail.com + netvibes.com

Netvibes has AJAX widgets for all one's needs.
http://eco.netvibes.com/apps/essential/us
I have wondered whether I would regret "the theoretical stuff', so I appreciate the feedback. Karma point to u
MS sucked

This is not going to be a popular view, but here goes anyway...

Depends. I've been using Outlook Web Access since it was first released. Granted, you need Exchange, but these days Outlook.com provides similar functionality (or so I'm told - I use Exchange Online now).

That said, the most useful calendar I've found is Family Room on Windows Phone. I share it with my girlfriend, who has an iPhone, and it works insanely well for us.

I have to use Gmail at work, and find it to be the most obtuse email UX I've ever encountered.
Maybe the fact their branding and marketing copy is a paragon of hyperbole and ambiguity could have something to do with a hostile reception on a site with a relatively marketing- and logic-savvy readership. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with more dystopian PR than this, to the point where you have to wonder if it's satire.

I wouldn't even consider ingesting this mystery powder, even if they paid me.
I myself don't mind if you make such comments. It can be important to question people's motives for saying things (politicians, for instance). However, as another data point for you though, and not knowing anything about Dave Winer before today, when I read the Marissa Mayer article I didn't have the impression of any self-aggrandizement.

Your mileage varies, obviously.
Really good response, and you're totally right. I was applying my own personal bias to the comment, and that wasn't fair.
No need, here's a perfectly good breakdown from 2 months ago: http://www.businessinsider.com/rob-rhinehart-food-substitute...
If you need calendar and contacts synchronization, a hosted Exchange account might fit your needs. For example, Microsoft sells accounts with 25GB storage for $4 per user and month.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/msproducts/exchange/compar...
I'm working on this right now! It's going to integrate with both Amazon S3 for file storage and Amazon Glacier for backup. I hope to get it working with the BitTorrent Sync protocol so I don't have to write my own app that watches a dir and uploads files to the server.
8 start-up buzzwords to avoid
Apparently 1,016 backers, with $130,000 kicking about, at last count.
The New York Times told me to take this down
What if Enterprise IT built a website? :) I'm getting a 504 gateway timeout. I only mention it because it says "cloudflare" and the post hasn't received a lot of attention so I assume it's not a traffic issue?
Microsoft actually ended up learning from Google and Apple by coming in late. I think they went for an intermediary between Apple's cohesive ecosystem and Google's open ecosystem. Agreed, they had their own Windows PC OS distribution as a model as well.

If Windows Phone ever takes off, it would ideally offer the best of both worlds. Differentiation in terms of hardware and apps while core functionality remains the same.
The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
This is kind of hardcore, pity there was no discussion about it here.

r/netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1eqh66/0day_windows_...
While this is great, the teaser animation/splash screen [1] is incredibly irritating. While slick and very pretty, the "typing" animation took way too long - and there's no obvious way to disable it.

Does anyone know how they got around sandboxing, since that was the problem with Mountain Lion up until now?

[1] https://gpgtools.org/index.html?teaser=1
the rumor you're basing that on doesn't appear to be entirely accurate [1]. either way, i don't think its fair to draw judgment one way or another until they actually explain how that will be handled..

also, this issue is nothing new and is certainty not unique to microsoft or the xbox. i think its fairly well understood that there's going to be a change in this area as the way content is distributed continues to evolve..

whatever the actual implementation is, i'm pretty sure it wont be as bad as you're implying (... removed the ability to buy, sell, and lend games) and will probably be standard across the industry - and structured in a manner as not to totally decimate the second-hand market..

[1] http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4348916/xbox-used-games
Tabs in the title bar is a better UI decision. The URL box belongs to the tab, so it should be part of the tab. Your objection here seems to be 'Firefox mimicked Chrome and this is a bad thing', rather than these things being objectively bad.
...that the suppliers claim will stay stable for years. How have they tested that?
You shouldn't, assuming you're happy with the service Google provides. If you're on Google Apps and like it, then you're set!
It's not the earthquake issue. It's that the Peninsula is already fully built out & most existing residents/voters don't want any high density development, they want to keep the existing single-family-home environments.
Most printers keep a copy of what they print in memory. And some printers do so for a very long time (up to 2 years in my experience, it had an internal hard drive). So be sure to destroy your printer before getting rid of it if you print your GPG key with it.

Also, many new printers comes with internet connection (some even over 3G) and contact the vendor when ink is running low or maintenance is needed. The problem that they are not always well protected against attacks from the network.

At my university, we had a case of a printer which has been hacked and many giga of scanned and printed documents were downloaded. Fortunately the attacker couldn't find a way from the printer to other devices on the network (computers, hubs…), but some people had scanned their ID card for instance, which was a problem they really hadn't forseen…
It's unfortunate that they've closed registrations, with no indication as to when they'll reopen.
""For Tumblr's employees, they will go on to start their own companies and create new jobs; David Karp and his co-founders will likely become active angel investors or VCs; and Union Square Ventures will reinvest much of its returns back into the next generation of New York City startups.""

So essentially the things that made the company "magic" will no longer be fully invested in it's future success. And the new hires won't have the lure of making loads of money either since there won't be any future payday to wish for.
The industrial design goes against today's trends, but I really like the looks of it and I like to see Microsoft taking more chances once again. I think it will be a great success.
I'm calling it: Soylent is the Pets.com of this investment cycle. Ironically dog food is probably more nutritionally balanced than Soylent, which is almost beyond parody.
Yes, that would be the one. The fact that it was opt-in is not relevant to him using it way too aggressively.
I don't believe the situation is untenable.

Really, given the tenor of some of the online communities i've been involved in, what passes for unacceptable behavior here is still practically civil. I understand the desire to 'engineer' the problem away but I don't think that's really possible, apart from the community itself being more tolerant and the moderators being more strict but fair. It is a public forum, with a practically nonexistent bar for entry. And i've seen older, established posters act with vicious condescension and newer posters being polite and considerate. You have to accept a certain ground level of chaos, bigotry, backbiting, trolling and noise as part of the system.
I'm using hosted.im with my own domain. It works fine, except you can't add GTalk contacts right now, since Google is blocking incoming contact requests from other servers.

I doubt your contacts will migrate unless you do it on the client side.
A very cool usecase!

"Have a weird build failure like a segmentation fault in the compiler? Publish the Docker image and have someone take a look! No need to take the builder offline while someone SSH's into it. "

In particular this notion of using it for a build environment, and then being able to share the EXACT problem with the build with other developers strikes me as a very interesting. I can imagine many build environments to benefit from such. Any failed build (in automation) can be handed to you as a chocolate on a platter.
I read his blog posts leading up to this and liked the idea. So, I decided to try it myself. After many revisions, I finally figured out a good way of doing it and it ended up being more expensive than just eating regular grilled chicken, sweet potatoes, etc.

He is using Maltodextrin for carbs. It likely contains Glutamic Acid and has a horrible glycemic index. You might as well eat sugar. I don't know what he is using for protein; but, I guarantee it sucks. The correct approach would be to use cross flow microfiltered whey protein because it retains all of the essential amino acids. It's also as expensive as Greenwise/Whole Foods chicken. Cheaper methods tend to lose certain essential amino acids.

Another issue is the absence of toxins. Believe it or not, consuming the toxins contained in whole foods makes us more robust. There is actual research that has analyzed these effects.
Their revenue was selling the product at more than its cost price. He pushed Woz to build a great product. I think it was Woz himself who was obsessed with also making it cheap to manufacture.

I am not saying that Steve Jobs did not intend to have profit, I'm saying that reasoning about revenue was not a limiting part of the product establishment.

If it was, how do you explain the launch of the iPod?
downvotes? I assumed he was making a joke? I normally try to not comment about voting, but in this instance I'm actually curious whether he was making a joke or not.
Thunderbird is useless because of the pathetic filter capability. For example, there's no way to import or export filters, so what are you supposed to do? Re-enter them manually on every computer you own, and then run around maintaining them forever?
Don't forget to make snide jokes about the male member in the presence of a media hound.
Let's stop and think. This is a good thing.
The truth is, none of us know whether or not it's snake oil. Just because we don't have enough information to prove it isn't a farce (besides the founders' insistence on their good health), does not mean we have enough information to prove that it is.
Is it dangerous? Highly unlikely. The vast majority of early adopters will probably be people at least somewhat characteristic of this community, meaning smart enough to know that if something makes you feel awful, you should probably stop eating it. If you bought a month's supply, maybe you get burned a few hundred bucks and it wasn't the best decision. If you bought a week's supply, you tried it for a few days and felt terrible, just make the intelligent decision and stop eating it (or drinking or whatever the process of consumption should be called).
Whether or not the people behind this are looking out for everyone else, we don't know. But let's be honest, neither is McDonald's or even the businesses stocking microwave dinners in grocery stores. They're in it to make a profit, not to fill you with the proper nutrition. Frankly, the goal of many of the businesses in the food industry is to cause customers to crave the product, often at the expense of nutrition (i.e. by loading with sugar, conditioning the brain to crave more). To say that they know better than these 20-somethings who have been collecting some actual data besides "hm, tastes good" is exceptionally naive. Your average gym rat eats far healthier than a microwave dinner diet.
This could be bad. But none of us have the data to prove it. Until then, I'm hopeful. Innovation in this industry is long overdue.
To say that these 'kids' are too young or inexperienced to make a real innovation and prove us all wrong, is a shame, especially in this community.
Is it perfect for everyone? Doubtful.
Is it better, on average, than the diet many of us are consuming? Well, that just might be true.
Who are we to say it isn't?
There are a lot of things I have seen in Unicode that seem like they should not exist in the first place. MATHEMATICAL [BOLD|SANS-SERIF|DOUBLE-STRUCK|MONOSPACE] DIGIT for example... I guess those things potentially carry significant meaning in some mathematics texts though.

I guess the ICU stuff probably gives you an strtol equivalent that can handle that sort of stuff.
> How exactly is Google evil?

Well, there's an account out there with my real name tied to it that I never wanted to happen and to this day have no idea how it got there. I don't have a Google + account. Probably there was something that I clicked when I was tying my mobile phone to my Google account or something. I can't find any way to delete it either.

My YouTube account keeps telling me I should use my real name there as well....

Basically they try to make you give them things - they're an invasive presence. Does this make them evil? I don't know, I don't care. People who want to argue about good and evil are often avoiding arguing about the real issues, like whether someone's a nasty piece of work, or whether they're being abusive. When someone behaves like a scoundrel you know what sort of person they are, whether you can call them evil or not. What I do know is that my next phone is not going to be an android phone - and, when it isn't, I'll delete my google account entirely. I don't want people who treat me like that in my life. They make me feel dirty for associating with them.
Wow, yours is way better!
God, you are just embarrassing yourself now. Please just stop.

Actually, he's not. He's presenting an argument. You're presenting a personal attack.

What's distressing is that you're being upvoted for it.
We got hellbans. Much cleaner.
Here you go:

http://www.ispconfig.org/support/

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-13.04-nginx-...
I downvoted your comment on that thread, because I found it representative of the kind of drive-by flaming that's become endemic on HN. I was going to reply to you, but didn't feel that doing so would bring anything new to the discussion or lead to anything other than a flame war.

So instead I'll say it here: what sucked about your comment was not that you dared criticize the Great Dave Winer. What sucked is that you did so in a mean-spirited, dismissive tone. You can get the same point across without being a dick, and as much as it may seem like pointless platitudery, saying things like, "I get where you're coming from, but..." and, "it's hard to tell solely from what's written, but my impression is..." really do let you deliver the message in a way that's less likely to offend, and more likely to be heeded.

Parsimony in code is good. Parsimony in interpersonal communication can come across as brusque, dickish, and dismissive. It's worth thinking about how what you write is perceived, in addition to saying what you want to say.
> You can't make blanket claims that apply to all of humanity

Except Soylent are doing exactly that.
A side point: Does it make signifiant difference from a legal point of view to have the mail provider in Australia ?

For example, would it free from the 13 years old limitation on account ownership?
What, it's only at version 0.6!? I'll usually wait until my food at least matures to version 1.0.