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A few points of warning to the creators of Soylent:

1. Chewing is important. It helps trigger the brain to stimulate the digestive process.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7568724.stm

2. "Meal time" appears to be an important social construct. For example, the single strongest predictor of school achievement scores was the frequency and duration of family meals.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/73393...

3. Scientists are just now discovering the importance of bacteria in food consumption. Bacteria can be difficult due to the need for some of them to be refrigerated. NYT ran a great article recently on the problems with baby formula (arguably an infant-stage competitor :)).

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-...

4. Finally, getting the right mix of nutrients can be fairly difficult. I was surprised to find the "dark side of antioxidants". Thus far, in the studies I've read, it has been extremely difficult to "beat" a "whole" foods diet.

http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/the-dark-side-of-antio...

No kickbacks, but the best "drink" I've found in this arena so far has been Xymogen's i5: https://www.xymogen.com/products/product-detail.aspx?pid=78. I use it for reasons alluded to below in background.

Background: wife is a food and travel writer. Some major life hurdles have required us to study and be extremely cognizant of what we eat.
Rather than using for evil, this sounds like an unpublished API that can be used to side load apps without needing to jailbreak the device. Excited to learn more.
Just FYI, no Zimbabwean dollars are being spent: the only trade involving Zim dollars these days is selling notes to tourists as souvenirs -- for US dollars (in which the government has denominated its accounts since 2009), South African rand, Botswana pula, etc.
> As of now, the only really-good GCs are found in the JVM

This is quite a strong assertion. What other GCs have you evaluated and rejected as not-really-good? Does this include GHC's parallel generational GC, or BEAM VM's per-process GC?
For everyone who says "what's wrong with working long, I enjoy the work" they need to see stories like yours. The first time something doesn't go their way, the company may fire you. It doesn't matter who many hours you gave to the company for free before that. Don't expect a thank you for it because you won't get one.
Couldn't agree more.

While in 1st year, I would, each month go to the market and buy last month's tech magazines mainly for software and those Linux distros. Now I am on X but I still have fond memories with playing and struggling with all those Linux distros.

When I recently saw his name in one of the news-letters somewhere I immediately checked whether he's the same guy I used to read in those magazines and I was glad to know he was.

RIP!
Use Incognito is definetely the way to go when you borrow someone else computer
>It's basically just spitting out official figures that have been both shared by Google and Apple and making some observations without any narrative behind them?

These days, that's the definition of news (with some sprinkled in opinion).

I'm not sure it's fair to bundle in the BBC for a lack of impartiality. I mean, they're not perfect, but they still rely on subscriber fees, so free app or not, they have less incentive to be biased in that regard.
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I have an intellectual curiosity for world news and strong critical thinking skills.

And apparently, a penchant for throwing around insults.

choosing to get his news from Twitter over let's say NPR

https://twitter.com/nprnews

Of all the hoax or inaccurate stories that I've come across this year, Twitter take the crown followed by news aggregators and email.

Twitter is just an aggregation technology. If you get inaccurate stories, it's due to your own choices of sources.
As a minimalist, I just use my minimal dishwasher.
Go to an otorhinolaryngolog. These people are specialist and can clear your Eustacian tube. Also, if you happen to have on a regular basis deafness on one side, this can also come from back problems. Tension in the back is pushing tension up to the muscles wrapping the Eustacian tube and then you have issues. If you have control over the muscles of your Eustacian tube, you can repeatedly contract/relax it, it may move the stuff you have there and allow them to fall back again in your nose.
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The inability to send large files is pretty frustrating. The alternative services that can serve as a workaround to this problem (dropbox, etc.) are still relatively clunky as well.
I feel as though there may be a bit of misunderstanding as to what the term implies from an employer's perspective and hence what is actually being requested by "full stack" positions. Given the ever-changing state of the tech industry, the term offers a comparatively safe option to an employer.

If any of us were to make an investment, maximum return with minimum risk is our natural choice. Given that an investment will never come without risk, we will obviously seek to minimise them. A business investing in an employee can seek to minimise their risk by hedging their bets and advertising for a role requiring an individual that is capable of multiple functions and is capable of adapting to changing needs.

Generally speaking, a "full stack" developer has a particular strength, but is capable of much more. The potential that exists in a multi-skilled developer is what appeals to an employer. Multi-skilling often implies experience adapting, learning and improving, so as a business changes, as its needs change, its workforce's capabilities can change to adapt.

Technical competency across the entire stack is rarely a necessity; intelligence, motivation and an open mind are the essentials. Maintaining an awareness of the broader picture is definitely helpful - when you have a new problem an awareness of the stack can provide an idea of where to start, which logs to start tailing and how you can start trying fix things - but it's the ability and openness to flying by the seat of our pants that makes the "full stack" magic.
Hardest job on the planet? You need to take a step back and look how ignorant this statement is. If you fail as a politician what happens? You might get voted out. But even this isn't that big of a deal unless it comes too early in your career, because you should have plenty of cushy jobs lined up from all the companies you've helped in your political career.

Pretty much every other possible job is harder and more risk than being a politician.
That does seem silly though. There's no "skill" in building a Lego model faithfully by the instructions. OTOH, you do get into a grey area with customizations... like if someone buys two Fire Brigades, and builds them into a Super Fire Brigade, that's going to be "custom" but a lot easier than starting from a pile of bricks.
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(http://www.damninteresting.com/clever-hans-the-math-horse/) is a real life example of that sort of bias in play. Its a bit more of a fun read than the PBS documentary.
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Or always use an incognito window at least.
How would you improve this? Large search bar? Or does it not even have a use case and I shouldn't bother.
My main issue with persistent ds is that they don't have good (CPU) cache behavior on updates. They don't necessarily consume that much memory -- a 32-way trie is quite memory efficient -- as long as the refs to the old versions die soon.

But even mutable concurrent data structures need to keep the old version around, albeit momentarily (hopefully), as they CAS in a new node (depending on the nature of the data structure) in the presence of concurrent readers. Achieving even that with simple ref-counting is not trivial.
The "primary" will have a /u/0/ in the address. It's the one you logged into first if all accounts were logged out. It's the one it defaults to if you go to other google services (plus, youtube, etc).

Nothing exclusive about it, except that you logged into it first sequentially.
Yes. The hardest part of it is dealing with boredom that goes with endless meetings and petty politics. In what way do you imagine managing people to be hard work? Because of all the bullshit paperwork you have to fill out?
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Web servers run logic concurrently because it is the sanest architecture to allow people to write their handlers in whatever language they want. They certainly don't do it for performance reasons. The average web app programmer also doesn't use threads directly for running their own logic concurrently.

Now you could argue whatever shared data store they're accessing needs to run things concurrently in order to maximize performance (and certainly many do), but even then we're usually looking at relatively simple shared memory patterns often with fairly coarse locking that scales well to a few cores, but not much beyond that (which often doesn't matter since you can saturate your network and/or memory bus before that). Maybe once in a while you'll see a lock-less concurrent data structure, but they're still fairly exotic.
From the HTML source, it looks like these graphs are from D3.js - http://d3js.org/
Well, no. As during any week I eat from several different restaurants, grocery stores and supermarkets, with a large variety of products and cooking styles, it is largely more unlikely that I'm missing any important part of my nutrition.

Soylent is a single product, from a single supplier, with a single ingredient list, for every meal, everyday.
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I know you're tongue in cheek, but it really is true, that 'stack' depends entirely on your viewpoint.

For an electrical engineer, working in wireless communications, the stack starts with radio propagation, then radio transceivers, sampling/reconstruction, (de)modulation, error correction, medium access and ends at the kernel driver. Someone who is "full stack" above the kernel driver could be blissfully unaware of the layers of turtles below them.

Then, for the know-it-all communications engineers, there are the device engineers, whose stack starts at the subatomic level, and progresses through atoms, molecules, layers, devices, subsystems, circuits, packages and ends at the integrated circuit.
More medium.com spam, for the love of whatever is holy to you why do you keep spamming HN with this stuff? Props to you guys for figuring out how to beat the spam/voting ring detectors but you're ruining one of the nicer websites that I know about.
You are joking right? Tell me one thing you could do 5,10,20 years ago and cannot do now that supports your future predictions. I am excluding drinking booze in public places.
(I already posted this reply on his blog, but seems like it has been deleted along with a bunch of other disagreeing comments there)

What if you want to add a new element at the top? And even when you need to add it at the end, if you use a decent editor, it won't make a difference. For example, with vim:

(Place cursor on last element)
A,<cr>myNewElement

As opposed to left comma style:
o,<space>myNewElement

Only 3 extra keysrokes for both cases. (<cr> is the Enter key, by the way)

I can't believe this kind of post could make it to the front page of Hacker News.
Everyone already has a bubble around them. The difference is whether you consciously choose to let information/ideas/people/news in or not.

Making the conscious choice to filter to your preferrences is important and liberating because it enables you more control over the kind of life you want to live.
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Interesting, that number is about the same as it is here in Atlanta but the cost of living is drastically lower.
I'm always paranoid that they'll have keyloggers/malware installed. I only log in to things from my phone, otherwise I don't log in.
Soylent is a much better name for a nutritious food drink, it's almost like they meant it from the beginning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
I think Facebook is getting into "follow information" as well. Recently I've started getting items in my newsfeed from pages I've never visited or liked, with the header "<page> posted about <topic from my profile>"
If you find '.' and ''' and ''s' offending, you can change the symbol to the old dot and "@" for instance.

and that's much better than that.much better, don't you think?

cookie adventure: my @ Cookie Monster =
print "Cookie Monster, why is the Cookie jar empty?"
why: my.cookie.jar.empty: @ cookie monster

# why cookie monster, why? :)
why: my.cookie.jar.empty: @ cookie monster .why: "tell me!"
Seeing a doctor would probably be best. But if you were determined to try to solve this yourself, you could try reducing the pressure in your outer ear, see if you get some leakage. The MacGuyver in me says all you need is a vacuum cleaner, some duct tape and a plastic pint glass.
So what's to come of the white space networking work?

At $70 BOM cost, it failed, but at $15 BOM cost it might succeed. Why not put the work into the public domain and let someone else do good with it?
You can get a free Amazon EC2 instance for a year to play around on. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

It has been a great learning experience for me.
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Right, I think the Soylent people mostly agree with you. The thing is, they say, most people aren't having 21 emotionally enriching delicious meals a week. Sometimes you are just eating to get things done, and that's where you throw in a soylent and then stop thinking about it.

Beautiful artwork is important, but sometimes you just want to paint a wall white so you can get on with doing other important things.
This sounds like bullshit on its face. Democracy has existed before now, so what is it about our (largely ineffective if we're honest) democracies that has managed to make the world a safer place?

Also, are you sure there is any correlation at all (assuming these stats are even right)? Couldn't it be that with the rise of nation-state and spread of democracy there was a spread of much better education? Better communication? It could have been any number of things or simply coincidence related to none of them, yet you pick the ones that those in charge would most want us to believe it was.
I wanted to tackle this space and problem - the waking up experience. I downloaded many alarm clock apps - alarms with puzzles, irritating alarms, youtube integrated alarms that played clips you chose or from a genre you selected - the most pleasant one I could find is by UNIQLO called 'Wake up'

..the problem? too pleasant, too soothing it blended into my dreams and I didn't want to take up. they have a web demo http://www.uniqlo.com/wakeup/en/pc/
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Cute, except the article stated he was getting them from "people" NOT news outlets.

Sorry if my insults offended you, but this article was link bait trash designed to make the misinformed, filter-bubbled, over-protective moms feel better about themselves. I call it how I see it.
Here is a thought - why don't they use the email address and password to distinguish between users....
I just digitize everything once a week. I also use camera on my phone a lot.
Do you share every meal with friends? How do you arrange the invitations?

It seems, that soylent is for time, when you eat in solitude, and for me it's the majority of my dinners.
This is a related story from Gamasutra about a polling of developers and how they feel about Android now as far issues with Fragmentation and how much money they are making with the platform. The overlying consensus seems to be that Fragmentation isn't much of an issue anymore and iTunes makes more money but Play is catching up fast.

edit: broken link

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/192935/revisiting_andr...
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Author of the post here. Is the only reason you think the post is spam that it's hosted on medium?

I mostly posted this there to try it out but if there is something wrong with doing so (other than seeing a tld of medium.com), I'd really appreciate hearing about it.
Those numbers sound very low to me, actually.
Just to clarify: they aren't getting YC support and funding for this idea, but rather they were in YC for their previous idea and then pivoted to Soylent later.
Hmm.. the only profession I can think of where being in your thirties is a disadvantage is some form of sports.
You're not a genius and your idea is probably dumb
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I used the CCNA as a proxy for the level of knowledge as the proper class room taught CCNAs do cover a lot of the basics from first pricipals.

eg how to design and build a small network (2/3k hosts) from the ground up starting with layer 1 the physics behind wifi, how switches STP Ethernet TCP/IP and so on.
Why doesn't anyone post stuff like this when other startups are trying to disrupt well established industries?
So far as I can tell, this uses the standard method for sideloading apps via a provisioning profile, but speaks the iOS's USB device protocol directly instead of relying on the MobileDevice libraries from Apple.
If you want a Master of Technology in Norway, you need to take examen philosophicum at your university. In theory it's nice. I think it's a valuable thing to learn, and interesting to see the roots of the science I'm working with. However, it has some issues. Especially that when I had it, it was more a history lesson about philosophy. They are changing the subject a bit now, to be more relevant, so I hope they also change it to include more thinking and less memorizing what he or she (mostly he, unfortunately) may have meant.

So, in theory I like it, but the execution is not the best.
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Agreed. But the accusations are not unfounded and he practically skirted the accusation and simply put a lot of jargon and misleading references and connections which Kenneth countered again in his "non-classy" style with no capitalization. Let's call a spade a spade when needed.

I still liked the guy, I knew these allegations. I read his articles while growing up, as I've mentioned above.
Well hindsight is always 20/20, but I don't think it's fair to just say "should have done x" at this point. It happened. It's done. Now where do you go from here?

This is the one thing in Facebook's favor (you can criticize privacy, but it's still a good feature IMO). There's an "undo" for deletes available for a short period.

Also, I have a habit of keeping a secondary email where I forward a copy of all incoming messages. It's a bit of a hassle, but that's another free provider so in the unlikely event one gets nuked, I can quickly grab my things via POP on the secondary (and leave a copy there). So that's 3 places I keep attachments etc... for the future.

You always sacrifice independence and self-sufficiency for a bit of convenience, whether it's accounts or milk. Not quite ready to keep my own cow yet, but I'm counting on my neighbor's one for my daily supply for now.
Shame, I actually do believe some social media (hi, Facebook!) are a danger to society. In this specific case, it's not social media specifically but large scale communication in general that is a problem for him.
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"According to conventional wisdom, the update of reference slots and reference-counts requires atomic or synchronized operations. In this work we demonstrate this is not the case [...]"

Interesting. Rust currently has an atomically-reference-counted type (ARC, briefly mentioned in the OP's post) for sharing data between tasks. I wonder if the algorithm they describe would be useful for Rust as well.
With paid services I can typically get some sort of customer support and have them restore from their archives.

Google couldn't give half a damn about their users.
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Is it reasonable to expect mere morals to have mastery over every facet of the development stack? No it is too much for mere mortals

My Answer: Is it reasonable to expect mere morals to have mastery over every facet of the development stack? Yes, it is called 4 years min. of a CS degree, and then continuous studies in multiple areas... like any other respectable professional
During my studies I've been forced to learn lots of things I don't care for. BUT that's good. If school didn't force me to learn them, I would never have. Sometimes they turn out to be interesting, but not always. The good thing is that now, I'm 100% sure those particular fields are not for me. "Know your enemy." That's why I learn windows server...
I don't see why you're asking these questions, if english is not your native language and you really wonder what "rose up" means, search around first. Your second question is equally pointless.

PS: Read about "phrasal verbs" and you may stop plaguing actually useful submissions with pointless comments.
They do... The problem is a possibly confusing UI for multiple sign-ins (distinct email addresses and passwords). Most sites don't have this as a feature so there's not a standard UI for it [yet].
For Epicurus, pleasure was the absence of discomfort. The pleasure of eating, for example, came from the fact that he was no longer hungry. His feasts were famously simple. Vegetables and cheese.

Epicurus, if he were alive today, might be an early adopter of Soylent.
Oh, no doubt eating for pleasure has a very long history in the West (and East, and other regions) but Epicurus was something as rare as a man who didn't do manual work in antiquity where 99% were farmers, soldiers or slaves who either didn't have their own plots of land, or did so and still ate poorly or even starved because that was the reality of life. I think it's safe to say that Epicurus lived a very privileged life - how many Greeks could study philosophy let alone start his own school? - and that his dietary ruminations never reached nor could be implemented by the waste majority.
I feel the same... probably because of my tinnitus :(
How would one undertake to study the International Baccalaureate without having to take the exams? I'm 34, and this sounds pretty awesome!
Do you have any prior art? This is not a patent for "Artificial intelligence" in general, it's a patent for a very specific method of doing something that appears intelligent, and this is actually what artificial intelligence is all about. See my comment above to see what is required for something to be relevant prior art. Basically, you're not going to find it. And who cares anyway, the scope of the claims is really quite narrow, it's going to take a lot of effort for someone to actually come up with a system which infringes this patent without having read the thing in the first place.
(BA Philosophy here) The biggest problem is that philosophy courses, all too often, are actually "History of Philosophy" courses. Regurgitating Plato or Descartes becomes the objective, rather than applying logic and philosophical methods to modern problems.

Everyone really should take class in Symbolic Logic.
I see, I understood it wrongly. I thought they were still under the YC umbrella, but just with the new product.
If you suspect malicious intent, then never do this. A key logger will reveal your password immediately, and a rouge browser will save your session even though it will tell you that you signed out.

However, for 99.999% of the cases, just use incognito mode and close the window after you are done. Next!
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