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Germany's SAP speeds up recruitment of autistic persons
One foundation of the entire argument seems to be that support for the Democratic party makes SV progressive. However, in a global context only the minority left wing of the Democratic party could be called progressive.

Also, a simpler explanation for the large support for the Democrats would be that SV consists of intelligent, highly educated and well-informed people that wouldn't dream of supporting the extremist, anti-intellectual and downright insane collection of circus freaks the Republican party has become.

Just based on the purely anecdotal evidence of online and personal encounters with SV-dwellers, I would consider most of them to be "open minded conservatives".

The other foundation is the way companies in SV are organized and equity dived compared to traditional companies. This could simply be explained as "pragmatic", which is how most companies view it themselves.

It seems to me the author is trying to project his own ideas on SV.
Soylent got a fact wrong.

Either they deliberately misreported something; in which case they're lying while trying to raise money.

Or they made a mistake. And if they get something this simple wrong why should I trust them when they're making something that I'm supposed to be able to live on?
'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'

If only this genius and effort behind 'soylent' were put to good use.
Sony Corp. (6758) rose as much as 9.2 percent in the U.S after Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported the company is “leaning toward” spinning off its entertainment division.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/sony-jumps-on-repor...

That was super hard (typing 'Sony' into Google News). If you're looking at stock prices by yourself and trying to draw your own conclusions you'll probably end up looking like an idiot.
Apple dropped from $600 to $440 during the same time period.
It changed from one guy experimenting with his own body and blogging about it to making a sales pitch with ridiculous claims that have no backing.
The arduino has a nice set of shields for interfacing with sensors and other hardware. Its gpio outputs also tend to be more convenient than the GPIO from the PI.
>people might think they can eat Soylent and nothing else.

Isn't that the intent? Rob Rhinehart (creator) lived for a period of one month eating Soylent and nothing else. My understanding is that Soylent is intended to be a meal replacement, not a supplement of some kind.
In Defense of New Food
I have a budget (£99) Android phone from Samsung, non-contract (pay as you go/"pre-paid"). It has an 800MHz processor and web browsing on it is great. I have a Raspberry Pi, it has a 700MHz processor. The web browsing experience with more than one tab is awful. It can barely handle 2.
Hard drives are a physical medium.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fixed_in_a_tangible_medium_of...
You work at a startup... of course you innovate. But you still mandate expectations on what OS people can use, albeit ones that are different from many companies.
Xbox one is more a media center than a vg console itself.

Sadly we're witnessing the second vg crash. No more hardcore gamers, no more preowned games...

It seems that if we want to have a REAL GAMING EXPERIENCE, (this includes fun, creativity, good stories, simple controls) we will need to go back to the past.

Fortunately, 'retrogaming scene' will gather more adepts. =)
5 things I learned while working on the original Xbox
Yea, it's rather silly to claim that Soylent contains no toxins. It's been suggested that the positive effects of antioxidants may arise through hormesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant#Pro-oxidant_activit...
Prepare now for the end of Windows XP and Office 2003 support
The other thing is that there is an additional type of fragmentation happening on the Android platform: users. Samsung's aggressive advertising has brought a huge class of users who are less technical but also more likely to buy apps as opposed to pirate them i.e. more valuable.

Hence as a developer it would be wise to just test my apps on Samsung devices and not worry about anything else. Likewise if Samsung were to have custom APIs I would be forced to not instantly dismiss them.
I used GPGTools before Mountain Lion and was very sad when the update to Mountain Lion broke it, and if I recall correctly it was because Apple more or less totally redid Mail.app and sandboxed it in a way that made it hard to integrate with. Seems like they have sorted this out now, and this should make it for a quicker turn around in the future.
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Feels like they are jumping the gun in terms of saying this could help with malnutrition in developing countries. Starving and malnutrished people can't just drink a meal replacement shake and be fine, especially kids. There are many other factors that must be taken into consideration. For example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut . I saw this on 60 minutes a few years back.

"Plumpy'nut is a peanut-based paste in a plastic wrapper for treatment of severe acute malnutrition... They are also relatively high in calories, which means that a patient receives a lot of nutrition from small amounts, important because malnutrition shrinks the stomach."
You're describing what Google calls the "Nexus Experience". The parent was describing "Google Certified" android devices, AKA non-AOSP devices.
> There is also some curious use of evidence: Obama won Santa Clara by 42% implies "the most dynamic sector .. is now decisively in the camp of the Democrats", but it was only 30 years ago that Reagan won the same county by >10%.

Keep in mind that Reagan won the nationwide popular vote by 18%, so winning by 10% in his home state doesn't indicate a strong Republican following there. It just indicates a very one-sided race.
Surprised no one is talking about Skype.

This is a killer app and a genius acquisition by Microsoft. Having so many young, tech users using Skype is going to have a massive flow on effect to other users in particular older ones.
I think that's correct.

Anecdotally, my personal network in tech seems to side with Democrats for reason like environmental protection, global warming, gay marriage, abortion, and olive branch foreign policy; not because of economic reasons like union support, wealth redistribution, or strengthened regulators.
I'm the cofounder of Codecademy, so I'm obviously a little biased. One of Codecademy's biggest strengths is definitely teaching the basic principles and beginning concepts in programming but many of our users have gone on both with Codecademy and with other resources to find jobs, create companies, or build their own side projects. A small sampling of people like that is here: codecademy.com/stories. Let us know if we can help with anything!
After seeing the presentations for the WiiU, the Playstation 4 and the Xbox One I think we really another gaming company. Apple or perhaps even a startup.
Raspberry Pi, Dancing Lego with Five Servos
That announcement trailer felt like a car commercial
Being able to call one number, enter zip, and press * was fantastic. I actually got to speak to three humans in the offices of my VA representative and senators. All took down my information, and even asked me to repeat which bill I was calling about just to be sure. Great experience.
Quite a few of us probably DO have an active NDA with Apple (e.g. from being a Registered Apple Developer). Though IANAL ,from my reading of the terms viewing the materials shouldn't constitute a breach of the NDA either.
only if you treat revenue and value as interchangeable. the value of someone having a stable place they can rent and not fear the landlord will kick them out to run a revolving-door hotel he can squeeze the maximum amount of rent out of is immense, whether or not they can afford to pay as much as the collective influx of transients would.
Having a Windows Phone, 8.0. Updates come in all the time from the Marketplace.

Which in turn updates every thing on the phone. MSoft designed it so that every function is an app. No need to update the entire os, but rather just the app. Ive seen updates for Utils and diagnosis tools come in as well as your regular app.

Maybe its something the Android Team needs to look into. Even though their is carrier bastardization, it still allows for real partial updates of internal Android Apps.
I did apply to Amazon and get an on site interview, but I did not perform as well as I should have that day unfortunately. I'm kinda at a loss right now in what to do, so I'm trying to figure out what I can do to talk companies who are hiring devs. I figured Seattle is where I should start as it would be cheaper for me in general to live there while I search, though SF bay area may be a better start in terms of # of companies who are looking.
Indeed: http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-i...
Thx for the friendly response!
FWIW, I've found it to be a hotbed of creativity and innovation, >and< a hotbed of flash-in-the-pan douchbaggery, if that's what you seek that out. The stupidity is easy to avoid.
Big tech skills gap. Let’s do something about it
Exactly. If it really cost $65/week or whatever the Kickstarter is charging, why would they bother doing it? The whole point is apparently to raise funds to cover all the startup costs - of course you are paying more than the marginal cost of Soylent.
We're working on it at buddycloud: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/buddycloud-dev/jehtPgsCurQ/c...

And as you say - there's a bunch of stuff to support if you go the traditional route and try to bolt on more crap to MUC or <message> stanzas. We're considering just building hangouts on top of "ephemeral" buddycloud channels that just disappear when the last recipient leaves them.
There are some price points where it is less expensive to buy more quantity. For example, buying 23 1-color shirts would cost us$249.09. Buying 34 1-color shirts will cost us$247.52.

Thus, I prepared this data: http://pastebin.ca/raw/2379519 - also http://filebin.ca/htp59WvLcjl
This thing is seriously ugly. Makes me think of the first XBox.
I find the standard of writing in this article appalling. It seems every paragraph is only a couple of sentences, and the useful information from the quotes is inexplicably spread all over the place rather than just giving you the whole thing up front.
I would have loved to talk to this person. I was particularly struck by this comment: Finally the machines will do what we ask them to do and not what we ought to ask them to do. In the discussion of the relation between man and powerful agencies controlled by man, the gnomic wisdom of the folk tales has a value far beyond the books of our sociologists.

So often in debugging I see that machine doing exactly what I programmed it to do and not what I meant it to do. As we build things with greater influence in the world such bugs go from being "oopsies" to ones that do a lot of harm either economic, human, or both.
Excerpts of Apple Executives' Senate Committee Testimony on Tax Policy
Urban Dictionary finds a place in the courtroom
I don't know, 'duh' is a good term for that feeling when you realize something you should have realized a long time ago.
Who said there was?
That to me doesn't sound like a recommendation to actually replace every single meal for that month. Rather, it's a unit of measurement that provides better context than simply giving the number of kilograms of powder you'll be receiving. Even so, I don't think it would be harmful to do it for an entire month anyways, and I doubt very many people will be that hardcore about it. It will work perfectly as an occasional meal replacement for busy geeks on the go. Attacking the extreme case is attacking the straw man, IMO.
As someone else in biotech, I agree with your sentiment. I would advise the guys behind this to go back to making social networking and photo sharing apps and leave biotech to those who know what they're doing. You can't just say "oops" and apologize when you put someone in the hospital, or worse. It's not like if someone hacks your Instagram account.
Experimenting on yourself with replacing food with shakes is one thing. I find that an interesting project, and I'm sure many others did as well.

On the other hand, selling this stuff with claims like, "Soylent is 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," is another thing completely. It sounds like a total scam, especially since they don't even say what's in it.
Per "Poe's Law", I would not rule out the idea that this is an extended prank/art-project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
TLDR: You might think Silicon Valley is a rich white boys club. But we're a progressive rich white boys club. Our values are highly superior to J. P. Morgan's (or just about anybody's really) so there is actually nothing to be critical of.
Testers and Developers, Can We Please Get Along?
I don't know of a good place to put this on the python.org site, but I (a PSF board member) can confirm that it is indeed a PSF project done in cooperation with the Caktus Group. This was something that was done by them to go along with PyCon 2013's wide promotion of the Raspberry Pi.
This applies to business and marketing too.

A big problem is that innovators lacking business experience are easy prey for self-promoting douchenozzles who pretend to be able to "accelerate" them. In reality they don't know what they're doing, don't have the connections they claim to have, and just want to entangle themselves with something in the off chance it might turn out to be big.
Also your git commit email needs to be added to your GitHub account for it to link to your GitHub account. And then it can be used to reset your passwords. So you'd better make sure you pick one that you're in control of.

Unless you ignore the confirmation email that gets sent to you.

If you already have an email address in your GitHub account that you want to use for the purpose of linking commits but don't want to be usable for resetting passwords, and you've already verified it, you can delete the email address and then just add it back, and then delete the verification email that gets sent.

I've written to GitHub twice, once to their support address and once to their security address about it and they were pretty middle-of-the-road about it. But twitter has a big issue with fraudulent password resets so I wish they'd make it so only the primary email can be used for password resets, or provide a way to say which email addresses can be used for password resets.
Sony playstation division only makes up about 10% of Sony's overall revenues (7.2 billion out of 68 billion) so it doesn't make much sense that an announcement from just one of their competitors would have such a large impact on Sony's total valuation.
Not everyone is a determined submitter. Perfect is the enemy of good, and all that. (Still not sure the feature should exist, though.)
I'm glad we're not still called tapers
50%? That's way better than any SV firm
> Know there is much more to a meaningful life than health

Nicely said. There seems to be a pervasive notion among my classmates (yours too, I bet) that health is the most important value. I think people should and do decide which things they value most, and that top value is not always maximizing every aspect of health. There are tradeoffs to be made. (Otherwise, ahem, nobody would do residency.)

Health, by the way, is a constellation of different, related factors. Even within the overarching concept of "health," people hold these factors in different esteem.
Have you ever bought a red bull? Read the can. It says "vitalizes body and mind." I'm sure a lot of people read than and believe it's true. Heck, it may even be true. But it's not breaking any FDA rules, and it's not a harmful claim any more than the claims the Soylent folks are making. Do we not hold any responsibility for what we put into our bodies?
Sorry, should have clarified that. I was replying to a question on HN about "everyone else", presumably "everyone else on HN."
Yeah that's one way. :)
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But it has eight gee-bees!
The fundamental error of this piece is that it assumes that if you vote Democratic, you're by definition not an engineer. (not really, but to me it makes as much sense as your statement)

How does being a part of the evil "one percent" make you any less qualified to have or hold a variety of political views? If anything, I've found that having more money makes me more aware of issues like unemployment, health care, etc because many of my friends and family are not as well off, and now I'm in a position where I feel obligated to do something about it.

Overall, I find the whole left/right political divide to be frustratingly counter-productive. Both sides are wrong, and we waste much time and energy arguing about which side is more wrong.
Good strategy.

I've also found that a lot of people fail to follow up after exchanging business cards-- so I make sure that I do the following up. Even if I don't have much to say, if someone gives me their business card I'll shoot them a short email saying it was good to meet them. You never know when that contact is going to become useful.
Could be interesting to test a "block user" feature where enough blocks within a time span results in a temp or permanent ban. An inability of new accounts to post for a couple of days, might also curb the drive-by behavior.
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Perhaps. There seems to be a lot of people who seem to have thought what I thought, though. Maybe it would be better if they gave an all-out disclaimer saying that, "no, Soylent cannot be considered as a replacement for your balanced diet"?

From his blog, he really did seem to push the idea of making Soylent his only food -- IIRC he felt like that the traditional idea of eating from a lot of different sources was stressful (I guess the decision of what to eat, etc, was stressful). His blog seems to be down for me right now, though, so I can't confirm that.
Are you serious? Even not eating for a week will not kill you and i would not call a link to a forum and a 5 minutes video, "sources". At the moment, other than the blog of one of the founders there is not much to read about this. What about some specialists taking a look at this before start selling it?
Thanks,
Sounds like the last option seems the best indeed. My salt configuration is way too slow to build to be used in an autoscaling scenario, that's one reason why AMI seemed suitable to me, but that last combination you mentioned (which i didn't know was possible) looks great.

Thanks again
> 1080p camera... 60 FPS. Field of view increased by 60%....
> motion tracking... detect skin pigmentation changes related to heart rate

In soviet russia, home entertainment system watches YOU!

Seriously, imagine being able to measure consumers' emotional reaction to your advertisements... if you were worried about information being gathered about you, with google adwords targeting you by search, or facebook data-mining your social network, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Dutch Eco-Engineering: Using Nature to Protect Against Climate Change
i think so, they'll be showing off their exclusives come e3. then they'll win back a lot of gamers.
If that's true I think it is pretty specific to you, and honestly I doubt that you would actually prefer it in practice. It's easy to say you can take the abuse when it's clearly framed as an alternative to a polite comment, not so easy when you get piled on by a bunch of obnoxious commenters. Emotional maturity makes it easier to deal with, but it still sucks.

Also you can still give a franker response without being blatantly derisive: "Thanks for your contributions, but I'm afraid they do not meet the quality standards of our project. I think you might need to learn a little more about X, Y and Z, before you do any more work."
How Teens Are Really Using Facebook: It's a 'Social Burden,' Pew Study Finds
Bill Burr on Steve Jobs
The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home
... "the new Xbox will always be listening to you, even when it's turned off. The reason for always-on listening mode is simple; Microsoft wants the new Xbox to respond quickly and naturally to you, whenever you need it."
Replace 'soylent' with 'junk food' in their marketing copy.

"Junk food is 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."

Ever see anyone say that about junk food?
> trust the Soylent folks more than I trust myself purchasing frozen meals in a grocery store.

That's a strawman. You're ignoring the fact that those frozen meals are made by companies who have more experience in the food industry than these 4 clowns combined a million times over. I am MUCH more afraid of the Soylent guys' sheer ignorance than I am of any profit-motivated negligence on the part of large frozen meal companies.

Edit: also read this thorough breakdown of Rob Rhinehart's claims regarding Soylent by a health expert and nutritionist: http://www.businessinsider.com/rob-rhinehart-food-substitute...
Daft Punk: All Hail Our Robot Overlords
"Nexus" is a device brand. "Google Experience" is a description of a software configuration. All Nexus phones released so far have been "Google Experience" devices, but there are also some non-Nexus devices marketed as "Google Experience", such as the Motorola Xoom.
Power of Oklahoma tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
but why would I pay for XBOX live on top of my Netflix/Hulu subscription fees when I can use those services for free on PS3/4 or WiiU?
> No need to update the entire os

You're wrong.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/basics/windows-...

> Maybe its something the Android Team needs to look into.

How Windows Phone updates actually work is exactly the same as how Android updates work: the OS is updated, and these days, the apps (even Google's) are broken out into separate updates. Google was doing this before Microsoft, so Google would not need to learn anything from Microsoft, in this regard.
A week long study? Scurvy takes months. Other deficiencies can take years. "We tried it on ourselves for a few months" is not evidence of anything.
The reason I made was this post was that the spike occurred at the exact moment the Xbox One was announced at the conference. (1:05 PM EST).

However, looking at other Japanese stocks, I'm only finding one Japanese stock with similar behavior today to Sony's: Panasonic [1].

I'm not a fan of asserting that correlation equals causation, but the timing of the stock behavior is one hell of a coincidence. But I admit that I could be wrong.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS%3APCRFY
As a gamer living in Bolivia, 90% of the features peddled as REVOLUTIONARY will weigh in at ZERO for me.

I'll be getting a PS4. I read that you can't even play used games on the XBox One.
Best wishes to you and your family at this tough time, Chris. Hang in there.

At the risk of committing a social faux pas, I'd like to inject a little humor into this thread. Please watch this, and hopefully get a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTzO-_Yl4d0 — Now, in all fairness, by the standards outlined in the video, I don't think the accusation of irrelevance applies to Light Table! After all, it runs on devices which can print...
I see. I live and work in Seattle and I know there are a lot of companies hiring. A few thoughts:

Microsoft casts a long shadow around here, and you may want to at least be familiar with the contemporary Microsoft development stack.

It's cheaper than SF, but salaries are smaller, so that's kind of a wash.

Pretty much all job postings you'll find will be on craigslist.

Life sciences/biotech are big and getting bigger. If you have (or can get) some domain expertise in that realm, that may make you more employable.