skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protein shakes and meal replacements almost always show the amount of protein/fat/carbs. Usually they reserve these "secretive" proprietary blends for creatine, NO3, caffeine, and similar muscle-building or preworkout supplements. I see what you're getting at it, and I agree they might not have to list it, I just think it would be nice to know and perhaps would increase trust.

I'm in the same camp as the author, saying that people overestimate the harm of fat. I don't think I need 56 grams of fat in a serving of soylent, though. Let's assume I want to maintain my bodyweight and need about 2500-3000 calories to do so given the amount I exercise. Two servings of soylent will give me 1600 calories from carbs, 400 calories from protein, and 1008 calories from fat. Maybe that's fine, but maybe it's not ideal. I guess I'd like to know. I think it's a stretch to say I have no clue what I need. Maybe I don't know what I need to survive, in terms of a bare minimum, but I know what I need to maintain my weight in terms of calories.
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I can only add another anecdotal data point, but my wife and I always turn on closed-captioning when watching TV or a movie. This started when we had children, who can tend to make noise at inconvenient times. We're now so used to it, that we are both annoyed when we try to watch something at a friends house without CC.
So, either have a laugh about it, or you don't put personally-identifying info up on the 'net.

Shocking, I know, that maybe oversharing is a bad idea without some permissions mechanisms in place.
Programming, more so than many other fields, has a strong tradition of self-improvement and education. Tell any "noob" that they are an idiot for using bubble sort and they should have more than enough resources and know-how to figure out why they are wrong and correct it themselves. (Either they independently invented it themselves, in which case they are at least moderately clever and you just told them the name of what they created (what they should google), or they googled it in the first place so they should be able to google it again).

Is it best, in a controlled environment with both low signal and noise, to take your time and explain things in detail in a "civil" manner? Sure. That works great in (small) classrooms for example. In a public kernel dev mailing lists though? No, a fuck off should suffice. If the recipient of the fuck off wants more, they can seek it in a more appropriate place.

IRC is somewhere in the middle; usually civility or ignoring the person works best. This is particularly true since most IRC channels are fairly explicitly there for people who want to give or receive advice. I've only told someone who was seeking help from me on IRC to fuck off once, and that is when he demanded I talk with him on skype instead of IRC, and pressed the issue.

Edit: I suppose I shouldn't expect a civil response if I explain in a civil manner why I don't think civility is always necessary. Hoisted by my own petard perhaps?
DuckDuckGo has no legal presence in countries like that, or any desire to have one. They'll do what is legal in the US, and ignore the complaints of any other country.
> Little "l" libertarianism has always had a tense relationship with the Republican party

It gets even more complicated when you look inside the party. On one hand you have the "Tea Party" Representatives and Senators elected in the last couple of election cycles. Most of them swing towards little "l" libertarianism (at least fiscally if not socially). Recently, the Republican leadership in the House "fired" most of them from their committee assignments because they won't hold "the party line". The current Republican leadership talks a small government game, but isn't very interested in it. It is rhetoric and not action.

If the scale tips into the "Tea Party" favor (lot of interesting primary action), then I can see actual libertarianism (more fiscal than social) having a home, otherwise I expect the 2016 Presidential primary and convention to be epically nasty. The 2012 convention was a screw the local folks type of affair, but I get the feeling the local folks are gearing for 2016.

> But attempting to have a nuanced discussion of politics in this country is as pointless as it is impossible.

My only comfort in this area is that at least some of things that were said by candidates about other candidates in the election of 1800 cannot be said now.

On the other hand, punditry (by both sides) is just as profitable as it ever was as a spectator sport.

note: For those interested in a deeper look at such things. Look at the build up to the 2014 South Dakota Senatorial race. The amount of non-local manipulation reminds me more of national party bosses than a normal primary season. It might be a bit of an indicator of what is to come for both parties.
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They might not like Ruby, or Python. They might genuinely enjoy PHP.
Society is entirely schizophrenic on this point. On the one hand, we use sex to sell everything under the sun. (And, for that matter, the sun itself -- come visit [insert sunny low-latitude vacation destination here]!)

On the other hand, we can't even consider it. At work, in professional circles, etc.

(At least, not "overtly". There's a lot of "covert" use in play, though. From both sexes. Physically attractive people, both anecdote and now studies show, get ahead.)

On the third hand... We are supposed to be "totally committed". (Or, we were supposed to be in the last decade -- I start to lose track.) You're not a quality employee if you aren't putting in 60 hours a week. Wait, you're not worthwhile if you don't own your own company. Work life, personal life -- there is no dichotomy. There can be only one! (Work)

So... radically, almost diametrically opposed viewpoints. And we are supposed to conveniently segregate them depending upon where we are and/or what we are doing. Only... we increasingly aren't supposed to segregate those very activities and locations.

Bah...

I'm all for treating people well. And I think that starts with divorcing ourselves from a lot of this -- both current and perennial -- cultural crap.

The only solution I can really think of is transparency. Don't lie to your kids, students, employees about how the world works. Hopefully, informed people are more likely and more empowered to behave as responsible adults. Respecting both others and themselves.

--

P.S. I wrote this fairly quickly and on the basis of quickly reading the parent comment. I'll have to read through things more carefully, now.

I see that the article starts out describing a literal assault. I do not condone that nor mean to imply with my already-written comment that we can merely... "examine" ourselves out of all such circumstances.

All the same, a lot of the messaging in our society seems, by design or side-effect or both, to misinform. And to omit much needed conversation and correction before we reach the point of assault.

I think of the... scumbag behavior I so often encountered in school and at college.

When you're a young person and without good role models, it can be hard to figure out how to deal with that. And sometimes, even what to think of it. Type A or whatever personalities often make a certain amount of headway just by outright aggressiveness and intimidation.

Also, as a male, I've been in the perhaps somewhat less prevalent position of being manipulated by a world-class female user.

Perhaps we are at the vanguard of having another serious, cultural conversation about all this. Hopefully, for the better. Shine a light on it. Put it in context. Help people to see and find a better way.
> I believe short stay (<30 days) like this was always illegal in NYC.

If by "always illegal" you mean "since two years ago":
http://skift.com/2013/01/07/airbnbs-growing-pains-mirrored-i...
Yeah, I agree they should state that. He did mention a few times that he eats normal meals when he wants to, but even at that it was only a few times a week. If I buy the stuff I'm likely to only replace my breakfasts and lunches and continue having dinner with my family.
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The screen streaming and sharing is a huge deal, IMO. The integration of the OnLive-like Gaikai service is also big. I just saw a lot more to be excited about.

And while they definitely spent time on the typical shooters and racers, they made a point of spending time on games more off the beaten path, as well.
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I'm a college student -- I live off of ramen noodles, and whatever I can steal at my parents house. $230 per month simply isn't in my budget. I was excited because ramen isn't healthy, in fact I've gained about 30-40lbs because it's basically all I eat; and it's becoming a serious health issue.
Apple chief calls on US government to slash US corporate tax
because the xbox one will let you switch between your tv and game (using your voice) without you having to fiddle with your tv remotes
It might help to hire some in-house moderators to down-vote mean/obnoxious/unconstructive posts to oblivion, if the community isn't doing a good enough job. Maybe up-voting of comments should be disabled below a certain threshold of karma as well.
Fourthing, and if you need a longer attention span, SA.

The problem with /g/ is that it tends really hard towards mere consumer choices--contrast with, say, the /prog/ board on 7chan, or even the new /diy/ board on 4chan.
Ahhh. I rarely run brew doctor. Warnings aren't the worst things in the world though and I don't think it is unreasonable that they stick libs in /usr/local/lib.
Can you catch up on lost sleep?
SIGGRAPH 2013
> 2. Social - the visitor has clicked a link, typically with accompanying context from those in their network

And often the context is "That's cool", or "Foobaz widget upgraded!". And I click and have absolutely no idea what the website even does.

It happens more often than you might expect - especially with deep links. I'll go to the home page or a faq page first when that happens. And you'll be surprised how often neither of those give even the slightest clue what the site does.

<SARCASTIC>After all it's totally obvious to those who made the site! I mean how could anyone not know what this site does? I spend hours on it every day.</SARCASTIC>

There are an astonishing number of people who have no "Theory of mind" - they simply are unable to put themself in the position of someone else and try to understand what the other person doesn't know.
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I suggest start here http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298 and check out the continuation of his experiment at http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
But it looks like it still is :/ Stocks are complex creatures. Jumping to conclusions often ends up leading investors into trouble.
I think in the situations you describe it's much more effective to have some kind of authority in place to discipline people for this kind of behaviour rather than relying on abuse. Especially since it's usually done by trolls for whom the emotional response is the objective. I think a brief "This is in breach of rule X, you have been banned for Y days" combined with locking/deleting the relevant comment, is far more effective at discouraging negative behaviour than angry tirades.
I think the Valley's insane wealth is a temporary thing, indicative of a comparatively new industry.

Detroit once had the highest average income in the United States. Cars are still as popular as ever, but the auto industry eventually shifted and diversified and broadened and left Detroit mostly behind.
Could a mod remove the editorializing from the title then, please? Considering how misleading it is?
He also formalized Brownian motion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process.
We've been using Celery for a few months now to accept pre-orders after our Kickstarter campaign ended and it has been a great experience. I've gotten emails from multiple customers complementing us on how easy it is to pre-order. I highly recommend Celery to anyone who wants to create a post-crowdfunding campaign order page or even a DIY Kickstarter alternative.
The 'listen first' approach is a good general rule for socialising too. Most people like talking about themselves and what they do, and they'll like you more if you ask them about themselves, even if you're not actually that interested.
So now, I will build a Mac Book pro out of old Pentium IIIs and 128MB DIMMs. I knew those spare parts collecting mouse poop in my parent's garage would come in useful.
Yeah, judging from just the quote, that strikes me as decent wordplay worth at least a minor chuckle. Lighten up, folks.
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Separate from that law, literally every New York lease I've ever seen has included terms forbidding the rental behavior that AirBNB promotes, and I'd be surprised if the bylaws of every co-op didn't include house rules forbidding this type of activity. Some condos may be more-flexible in their laws - but there's always been a pretty-strong legal framework in-place forbidding re-renting an apartment in this manner.
I know the voice features have been available in the Xbox already, but I am really excited about them in the new Xbox. I expect them to be light years beyond on what they are now and key piece of the devices functionality. If it works really well it could open a whole new way of interacting with computers. It could also open the door to voice activated home automation, by training the masses to use voice controlled devices.
I've had DLNA devices for years and dealt with constant failures in various ways, AirPlay just works and changed the way I used my AV setup completely. Only a personal experience but I have heard plenty of complaining from friends as well.

Synology didn't seem to have much trouble adding AirPlay server support to their NAS devices and XBMC has support as a render target so I really don't see a reason MS wouldn't/couldn't support it other than NIH syndrome.
For those interested in the topic, here's a guest post on swombat.com by Kevin McDonagh, on the same topic:

http://swombat.com/2011/2/25/kevin-mcdonagh-how-to-attend-a-...

Very different approach, but Kevin does seem to be able to use it very successfully (and despite the machine-gun-like appearance of it, he's a very laid back, friendly, chilled out guy).
Avalanche airbags use the same (or similar) phenomenon to inflate to a larger volume than the compressed gas canister contains.

I thought it was the venturi effect, but maybe entrainment is more accurate.
Also, I've found that many of the best connections occur at the events/parties/meetups surrounding the days of a conference. I live in Portland and OSCON is pretty expensive, but you can get a free Expo pass, wander around and get some free beer, and accomplish quite a bit without registering. Same with SXSW interactive.
Image Processing toolkit for .NET framework using C++ AMP
(The flagging, that is. As to talking about him, it's hard not to when his favorite subject in his writing seems to be himself, no?)
>I see that machine doing exactly what I programmed it to do and not what I meant it to do

Chuck, don't you love spending, 15mins+ disabling parts of your code only to realize you forgot a variable, a comma, or one of these ';'

:)
Very cool. Is there anything similar for Rails?
As a person who just launched their first two Android Applications this was an excellent read.

My biggest question is do you think its best for applications to charge a one time large fee or a monthly smaller fee?
> Forbidding short-term rentals, in theory, can increase the pool for annual rentals, thus bringing the cost down.

That's completely contrary to how supply and demand would work--if you forbid short-term rentals you move all the short-term demand into the annual market, increasing annual demand, which drives up prices and causes more scarcity.

Since short-term housing can house multiple people each year and annual housing can house only one per year, each new annual housing unit added will be accompanied by multiple new demanders that were previously in the short-term market and could have been all housed in one year by that apartment as a short-term rental. You increase annual supply by one and increase annual demand by more than one--likely by more than half a dozen--and so prices skyrocket as demand outstrips supply and the shortage is exacerbated.

Of course, city governments are not exactly the gold standard of understanding economics when passing housing laws.
I don't have a scientific background but I still manage to do okay choosing my own food at the grocery store. Soylent doesn't have to be the pinnacle of human nutrition, it just has to be better than burritos and ramen and freezer pizza.
Hopefully it'll be at least some time before the make such a big change to Mail.app. Remember it worked well for many releases before we got into the current situation.
In order for any third-party eavesdropping to happen, the Xbox would first need the capability to transmit information while turned off. I seriously doubt it has that ability, let alone a relevant vulnerability. Microsoft's response will hopefully confirm that they couldn't use the Kinect as a recording device while off, even if they wanted to.

By the way, there's a much more real threat that we ignore every day. Most laptops have webcams and microphones that can and have been used to watch and listen to unsuspecting users.
Ah, I should have checked Craigslist before. Thanks for that!

I wouldn't know where to start with Biotech quite honestly as there are so many different areas in it right now. Machine Learning seems to be big in that area as well as others, so that appears to be a good place to start. I have a Statistics degree, so maybe I should be applying to those companies.
Guaranteed every Republican gives more to charity then every Democrat.

Jesus criticized those who give publically -- If a Democrat gives to charity he makes a big deal out of it because he's not like a church-goer who sees everybody doing it.

All these people have built their houses on sand. I'm marveling at what is in store one of these years when they discover God.

God says...

shall they hear without a preacher? 10:15 And how shall they preach,
except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good
things! 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias
saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 10:17 So then faith cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will
provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish
nation I will anger you.

10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
While their high level goals (eliminate hunger, reduce stress on agricultural and environmental resources) are laudable, this project suffers from the same arrogance of doctors in the 1960s who said mother's milk was primitive and could be replaced by artificial formula.

Now, in hindsight, we know what a mistake that was, as natural breast milk contained compounds which decreased various cancer and health risks.

I cannot help but think they are going down the same road.
I got through with this

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I second that. As a lone founder with a technical background, I suck at sales.
Following, perhaps, but not blocking.

One of the nice things that HN affords is that it doesn't really support filter bubbles--at least until mods or the community downvotes you to oblivion. Thus, there's a good chance that people at least get exposed to ideas they might otherwise ignore.

Hell, I can think of several posts where I've strongly disagreed with somebody else, only to be in jovial agreement or discussion a few days later. I'm not sure that a blocking mechanism is really needed; if people are being deliberate and abusive trolls, we have ways of dealing with that, right?
Avalanche airbags use the same principle to inflate larger than the volume of compressed air in their canisters.
you rock. toss me an email :)

nick@teelaunch.com
Hu? Not telling you what's in it ? Isn't the recipe open sourced and extensively discussed on their website ?

Like here for example : http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 ?
I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)
Paperkey - backup your GnuPG secret key on a piece of paper
Pragmatic python versioning via setuptools and git tags
He's still eating Soylent, and has been consuming it for now 4 months I think.
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Don't encode entities, just use the DOM (append text nodes).
Rob wants to put this through proper clinical trials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkuvppi334

As of now it hasn't existed for more than a few months so it's a little hard to give sources for trying it for "years".

Additionally, Rob strongly suggests NOT eating it every day.

As for problems arising months (or years), there's also a post about that too: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=570
I'm studying software engineering and also working as a junior web developer. Realistically speaking I'd have to quit my job to be able to finish my school. The problem is, I view school as a waste of time. Teachers don't know about SQL injection and don't teach unit testing. I learn more efficiently on my own. It's scary how big gaps there'd be in my knowledge if I relied only on the stuff school taught me. The reason I applied to a developer position in the first place was boredom in school(and financial stress). At work I've been learning a lot more and IMO worked on more interesting projects than most of my class mates at their internships.

It's school or work for me but I fear that lacking a bachelor's degree means I can't advance to more challenging programming positions or that nobody would hire me outside of my current company.

Nothing would stop me from starting my own business tho.
Uh, yeah, because Sony not even showing the console itself at their announcement is better, right? Wait till E3.
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This is what keeps me from getting more involved in a lot of online discussions.

As it stands, I code mostly as a fun thing I like to do (I work it into my day job where I can). It's something I really enjoy. I've got a shelf full of books and an interest in the esoteric. I'll like casually reading about lambda calculus and taking long walks on the beach, but when I run into something I can't figure out, I have a problem.

It's painful to even think about going to some irc channels or forums to ask for advice on something I'm writing, even when it's the most sensible thing to do. I just think about how exhausting it'll probably be to cut through the vitriolic responses and get to some useful information.

I'm typically not looking for a dissertation, even. What I'm usually looking for is "Here's what I'm writing. What am I doing wrong, and what resource/book/article could I read to best get a grip on this problem?"

I don't want to face the prospect of mental exhaustion for something I do for enjoyment.

I think language/framework evangelists usually know about this kind of thing. You never see them say "Yeah, the community is great and if you have any questions head on over to our IRC channel. They're super abrasive in there, but if you really slam your head against them, you'll probably get an answer!"
Doubled down, good for you!