skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty cool, actually. If you're entrepreneurial it's good to know that even hackers will fall for anything provided it's being marketed by someone who seems like a hacker, too.
I am still waiting to learn that they are just trolling with the name Soylent and have another name picked out for it.
Ask HN: I only have HackerNews cred of (15), does it matter?
I've submitted a few links and comments on HackerNews but like more users, I don't ever make it to the front page. Actually, most of my stuff usually gets 2, maybe 3, total ^ on HN.

So, here's my question. Does it really matter?

Is my (15) cred number with HackerNews just a vanity metric or does HackerNews actually improve my experience or sharing ability as I get a higher cred number?

Thoughts?
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Just clear your cookies or use incognito mode in your browser - no NYT paywall
Sorry, here is the bare link (shouldn't be paywalled):
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-inc...
EU to operate drone fleet under the control of Baroness Ashton
Obama says a lot of things.
I don't understand why removed my reply. I really am author of iRedMail project.

I saw this post, then registered an account to say something (I forgot my old account coz I read HN with RSS, not web).
Indeed, you can always encrypt the data prior to putting it on AWS.

To me, this stole the end-of-article emphasis from the issue about Internet stopping being global.
Right. I'm just saying it's not a strategy to advocate.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/07/yes-the-middle-class-has-be...
> Let's treat this as an issue of computer science, not politics.

To be clear: for those that are able, advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution. Government access to all user data could become a requirement to run a legitimate business. Even if we were able to convert everything to an anonymous P2P traffic-flooded web, we would still live in fear (will the 5th protect you?).
No loops because (as it's a game AI) it's meant to be called once per game tick, rather than as a driver. I didn't try continuations but it's possible you could get something like that to work.

As a Rubyist for a decade now, please avoid is_a? if at all possible. It defeats the awesome flexibility that is duck typing. Also, I have no idea why you feel that would be better for cases, my code ran in a case statement for brevity.

'look' told me that it returns an array of Spaces. They're the same type as the Space feel returns.

Agreed on pivot though.
Transparencies make things less readable. Tap targets are less obvious. Wireframe icons are harder to parse visually. Thin fonts (thankfully larger now) are harder to read. Undemarcated areas of UI make it harder to distinguish controls from content (not a feature IMO). I actually like flat design but they've taken it too far.
no fat in Ensure! It can't be a complete food without fat right?
If you post to the pdxruby list introducing yourself, I'm sure you'll get several invitations to drop by and visit:

http://pdxruby.org/

One startup I don't see mentioned yet is New Relic. There are lots of smart and friendly people there. Also Cloud Compass and Elemental Technologies.
"The idea that human nutrition can be boiled down to a minimal list of ingredients that are the only things you should eat is nonsense."

why?
I get your point (sort of), but your take on the situation seems sensational to the point of being self-defeating.
why not? It demonstrates the ability to hold a huge amount of information in your head at once, make rapid decisions in a high pressure environment, and do what are essentially Bayesian probability calculations in your head. I may be biased as someone that played poker to put myself through grad school and had a nice hourly rate by the end of it, but I think that it requires a high intelligence, the ability to emotionally disconnect from decisions, and the ability to retain and act on such large amounts of information that it's a definite positive. (It's also really boring and psychologically brutal at times and I wouldn't recommend it to many folks.)
Yep, cmd+shift+n works like a charm in Chrome
At 500 you get the downvote. Your karma impacts how your comment is ranked on the page IIRC.

Besides that it's a vanity metric.

I'd actually prefer to know how many people read my comment more than I would how many people felt like giving me imaginary points over it.
You need both legal protection and technical solutions. So that the legal contact can allow for the technical solutions for full secure traffic to operate.

That is why we need both activists and engineers.
Beware Star Academia
This usually means you're a third party firm that helps the transition to Apps, support, change management, custom integration work, etc. You can also own the billing, so a company pays you, and you pay Google. In return, you typically provide ongoing support to the company. I think there's also a portal to help manage your customers' Apps configuration.

Relatedly, I used to be a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist. http://certification.googleapps.com/Home/overview
Parent's comment is about Android.
This cannot be overstated. As a practical matter, and in any kind of near term, political solutions are drastically more likely to bear fruit.

But more radical, long term solutions are still important! An exciting prospect.
Perhaps I assume too much, but if nutrition and what one should eat were really as simple as what Soylent is trying to do, wouldn't NASA or the Soviet Space Program devised a solution like this for the Astronauts and Cosmonauts? Each program spent tons on researching anything and everything needed to go into space and at some point, I would presume their scientists would have proposed or tested an idea like this.

Edit: I mean that more as a statement of curiosity as to if they did any research and the results of it than as an argument (since there's flaws to it like the argument of variety and morale in long missions). I would guess the Soviets if not NASA would at least be interested in it due to the tight budget of their space program and the ideology of the government (perception of avoiding extravagance).
While I agree with the general reasoning of the author, I hesitate to agree with its conclusion. Like most of us here on hacker news, I've been following the Snowden/Prism/NSA stories rather religiously and, for the most part, have been very happy with the rather overwhelming coverage here on HN.

But there have been those getting tired of the news; understandably so, the repetitive hum of media coverage these days is enough to infuriate anyone who has the capacity to remember stuff. The author of this article seems to be pretty infuriated at the the public's fascination with Snowden and wants, rather ambitiously in my opinion, the public to shift their attention to the core of the issue.

I'm not sure if the public is capable of maintaining interest in such a passive evil (I guess I probably don't think too highly of the public). I do think, however, that the public is capable of fixating on the Snowden story because it is a rather interesting story. And the longer the public stays fixated on Snowden, the weird guy living in a Russian airport, the longer the NSA's wrongdoings also stay in the public consciousness.

I say, keep the melodrama coming, if only to keep alive the story of injustice to the public. The success of Snowden's whistleblowing (i.e. in terms of tangible impact) may actually rest on it.
What I thought might make for useful discussion was the things that were said, not so much who was saying them. What do you think about the topic?
Because nothing is simple in life, our bodies are complex, and there's Wikipedia if you have tons of super broad questions like that.
Ensure has 20% of its calories from fat.
> If IDE support is getting to the point where you can hover-view/click-through to type, then that is really quite impressive.

Like this? http://i.imgur.com/RRFq0dl.png

Compile times are easily control by breaking the files up. Similar to C# partial class, they can still go in the same module. I'm using the free Visual Studio Express for Web, so I'm not sure about Mono/Linux support, but I hear there is WebStorm and Sublime Text plugin support and one I also like which is Adobe Brackets.
> generations of born-here Americans have never lived in a totalitarian state, and thus don't have the frame of reference to understand why the NSA's power could lead to grave harm.

Are you sure it's not just that the only people currently talking about this issue are white, college-aged, middle-to-upper class American men?

And for you to whip that out, I really hope you aren't one of the born-here Americans you talk about, because you would be just as bad as the people who supposedly don't care: you would be appropriating the experiences of the underprivileged to back your own, unrelated endeavor.
I never was able to see them with my naked eye. Of course, the hacker in me want to figure it out, so I spent day figuring out how to reveal the picture. The solution is to XOR the image with an itself at a variable phase shift. There is one phase shift that reveals the general shape, then increasing it shows the 3-dimensional details (you'll want to bitmask with the general shape here).

The way I assume it works is that our brains naturally filter out patterns so we can see the interesting stuff. In a stereogram, the underlying image is XOR'ed with a random pattern that is repeated, and therefore filtered out by our brain. Interestingly, the repeated pattern is not constant, so if you XOR the image against the first instance of the pattern it will look increasingly noisy as you get further into the picture.
Myself I do not check for the user karma when up voting the link or comment. I do it if I like the content.
Peer review is f***ed up – let’s fix it
> advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution.

Policy changes come about because of technical reality. Better technology is always superior to government policy.

By all means, pursue both the technical and political solutions. But creating and distributing tools has proven to be the better method of change than depending on governments.
I hope they don't start asking for the Healthcare insurance to pay for all the long term effects they may get from this. Wanna live off Soylent? Good. You're on your own.
(from the article)
US government should have turned surveillance into a huge, privatised business, offering data-mining contracts to private contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton and, in the process, high-level security clearance to thousands of people who shouldn't have it

That part there really illustrates the corporate fascism which has permeated the US government.

Who's to say that some analyst working for a private corporation isn't selling our stolen information to some nefarious third-party for whatever reasons?

The idea that any "oversight" would preclude the above scenario is about as believable as the insistence by "high level" government appointees claiming that the NSA doesn't "wittingly" collect data from American's communications.
No. They need to hire professional staff who can handle a routine customer request.

A HIPPA privacy practices document is 4-5 pages at maximum. Perhaps all of the compliance materials for the practice would fill a binder, but not this particular document.

See the AMA's sample form here:
http://www.ama-assn.org//ama/pub/physician-resources/solutio...
Actually, the UK is ahead of the US in equity (and debt) crowdfunding (the JOBS act is moving the US to the same place gradually). See, for instance, http://www.seedrs.com/ (or http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/crowdfunding-your-next-sour... for an overview).
I think most people are unlikely to exclusively drink Soylent. I tried Soylent, and rather enjoy the taste. I could see myself drinking it for breakfast instead of eating sugary cereal.
If you're starting from the point of having perfect nutrition, you don't need Soylent. Most people, however, eat junk food and it's hard to eat well when you're busy. For the average person in a rush, replacing a meal with Soylent may be an improvement.
Change your egress traffic queue discipline. fq_codel was mainlined in the last two years to solve buffer bloat and has the side effect of helping to alleviate ddos. It flags bad traffic flows (ie, ddos attacks) as bad queues and prioritizes other traffic around it.

See : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel

Note, this doesn't help at the endpoint under attack. It requires a qos shift on the infrastructure leading to that thin last mile pipe, so the last mile packets they get are the the good flows.

Also, a warning: CoDel itself is pretty experimental still. It is only just being deployed as the default in proprietary routing hardware this year. Other queueing disciplines are an option, but the default (fifo) is a sack of garbage that causes a lot of these issues in its simplicity and inability to bias bad traffic from the good.
>When the NYPD started frisking every other black person, where was HN? What about when the right for women to have affordable birth control was being oppressed? But suddenly the government is peeking at your search history and it's "tyranny!"

That's not really fair, right? I mean this is Hacker News, so it makes sense that people are expressing interest in and concern about things related to technology.

>All of these arguments are looking increasingly like conspiracy theories.

I don't get this talk about "conspiracy theories". It's not a theory once it's unveiled and right in your face, is it? Trying to dub people's reactions or sentiment about these topics as conspiracy theories is dismissive and effectively a back-handed ad hominem attack.

It is not a reason-based response to people's legitimate concerns and, worse, it's just plain incorrect. It is not theories that the government is using drones, massive surveillance programs, etc. These are admitted facts.
So, I'm not convinced that this is helping the situation:

- Is this data taking into number of working adults ($/house-hold)?

- What about the rising costs of living (like eating healthy)? [is this normalized based on any consumer metric of just inflation?]

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statisti...
According to Daylight's book The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra, Dijkstra actually advocated adding recursion to Algol 60 despite not having good reasons to use it himself. He felt that it made the language more general, while his detractors at the time felt that anything unnecessary (especially anything potentially having a negative performance impact) amounted to waste. Dijkstra was a vocal opponent of putting machine-specific stuff in the language. History seems to have borne out both.

I think it's a bit of a dilution of his message to say he was a champion of comprehensibility. He was more interested in correctness, and his dream was that formal methods would be foundational to software development. That clearly didn't happen.
This market fetishism sounds familiar, have you been trawling through von Mises or something? I've heard the same diatribe from vocal internet libertarians and am curious as to the source of this meme.
Someone stated it below, but "the legal contract [must] allow for the technical solutions". If the government makes security illegal... then what?

As much as we might not want to depend on the government, we're subject to policy.
I think most would pay for others not to read it.
Cooking food in bulk is anything but convenient. Where the hell do I put all of it? How do I track if it's still good to eat, etc.
In the fridge?
I don't know. I think history will tell, but I get the same president-y vibe as all the others. My gut is that it isn't the president (we should put anyone in there), but a toxic system of governance.

This is why I'm a huge fan of attacking the root of all problems: the confluence of money + power. Power shouldn't be bought.
http://www.priceplow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pat...
I actually think that was a relevant (but probably unnecessarily snarky) comment.

The title says "Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.S. Social Fabric" but really, how can one take an article like this seriously given the context of current events which have been unfolding around us? Yes this is an issue, and yeah it is something we should be concerned about but seriously? There was a rather momentous vote in the house a few days ago when congressmen/women broke with the ranks of their party and voted with their conscience or with their pockets.

Yes, Obama, I would agree that the US social fabric is fraying, but let's not stop there, let's admit that it's getting ripped the fuck apart. It rather infuriates me that the author writes "Mr. Obama was philosophical about historical and economic forces that he said were tearing at communities across the country". The last thing I'd like to hear is how Obama is pontificating in the White House about social ills when he stands behind the most intrusive government actions of the 21st century.
Great concept.
Pharmacists know a lot about drugs and all sorts of other things.

If you have chronic conditions that require medication from a specialist, they are usually the folks who prevent you from having a harmful interaction when your GP or some other doc prescribes you something without asking or thinking.

The box is there because the NYC pharmacy is busy, and checking the box helps the to avoid being sued.
I'm talking about 10GE overflowing 20+ gbps attacks for $5.

http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=232
Yeah, I didn't notice the preloading option earlier. With the preloading, it is a lot better.
I am all for this since I rarely have time to enjoy food. However, I also understand that some of the nutrients probably can't be absorbed by the human body in that form, so for me, it'll be treated as a supplement. If they can do one thing that'll make me buy this. It'll be to change it into a cookie.

I mean c'mon, that gruel looks disgusting and the thing already tasts disgusting.
I'm not saying whether or not Soylent is the real deal.

But I don't understand why you think it's not possible to come up with an optimal combination of input (food) into our bodies that maximizes it's output (longevity?).
How is this guys bullshit any different from the last guys bullshit?

The tracking of phone calls and internet started long before Obama stepped into office.
If it's any consolation, it's up to 16 now...
Thus is a sledgehammer proposition, because while the minute power utilization to move packets across fiber or coax is insignificant, running the entire Internet at peak throughout all the time would be a huge electrical burden.

You know how your phone runs out juice really fast on 4g? Do that, all the time, on everything. Data centers would melt.
you dumb bastard.
As a powerlifter I consume 200g of protein per day.

One thing you won't see is any IFBB pros or ANYONE with muscles drinking soylent...

Here's a good URL to read with lots of science.
http://examine.com/faq/how-much-protein-do-i-need-every-day....
Really? I feel rather let down by this guy.

I mean, he was supposed to be different. He wasn't supposed be a dude emanating the "same persident-y" vibe as everyone else. He was supposed to be about change and morality. Honestly I'm more upset at Obama than Bush because I expected the bullshit from Bush but I feel like Obama tricked an entire nation.
> The idea that human nutrition can be boiled down to a minimal list of ingredients that are the only things you should eat is nonsense.

It's perfectly sensible that there is a mathematically minimum sufficient diet, or mathematically optimal diet, with the caveat that:

1. There's a high probability that this varies for each definition of "you", and for different times of day / month / year / within a lifetime

2. Soylent is, with almost perfect certainty, not it. But there is a nonzero chance that a purely soylent diet is healthier than the current median human diet.

Will we get there someday? Probably. I"d say there's a better than 50% chance it happens within the next century. Whether we want to get there is another story. FWIW, our bodies aren't really a whole lot more complex than feline or canine bodies, and we've managed to come up with a sufficiently nutritious kitty kibble (or at least, we think we have).

Remember, deciding what to eat is a decidedly modern problem, as is looking at food as a combination of nutrients. For the vast majority of human existence, nutrition consisted of avoiding starvation. When deciding between options, the proper answer was "all of the above".
For those like me: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
NASA Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in Earth's Radiation Belts
Complexity is not, has never been, and will likely never be an insurmountable barrier to learning more about it. Let's take an individual example: The brain. It's very complex, has an extremely large number of variations from human to human and nuances of operation. And yet that hasn't stopped neurologists from trying to unlock, simulate and stimulate its every function.

There's no reason nutrition can never boiled down to the sum of the ingredients in some form (hopefully a form that tastes better and isn't liquid). And let's face it, Soylent (in a way) tries to basically be liquid Tofu.

That said, In that regard, I completely agree with autarch's take on the article content itself.

I also don't like it that the article started off with a preconceived bias: "Rhinehart, a 24 year old software engineer, believes he’s solved the befuddling food conundrum, and has named his product Soylent. It is intended to replace your entire diet — one food to solve it all." Emphasis where "software engineer" was underlined.

So what if he's a software engineer? It doesn't mean his profession precludes him from learning about nutrition.
This girl was able to get by on only McNuggets so what could possibly be more harmful? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2092071/Stacey-Irv...
Ideally TypeScript will honor the Closure source annotations like this

http://blog.bolinfest.com/2013/01/generating-google-closure-...
Oh yeah. It shows only because:

1. It belongs to me.
2. I've star'd the repo.

Seems like a new "feature" they rolled out.
Wow... despite all of the CoffeeScript programming I've done, I've never come across this, but this kind of "edge" case is totally necessary for variables to "usually" be local, but also still always be able to access closure variables in a higher scope -- which are normally contradictory goals.

In a nutshell... it's totally representative of tons of things in CoffeeScript, in trying to:

a) make things easy for the programmer by removing JavaScript features and syntax

b) to make things easy, make various assumptions in ambiguous syntax situations about a programmer's intent

c) introduce no way to guess or predict which way CoffeeScript will act in "edge" cases like this, when assumptions conflict

d) not bother to document what happens in each edge case, or that there even is any kind of edge case at all -- indeed, to make it sound on CoffeeScript's home page / docs that everything is well-defined, when the reality is just an endless list of mysterious and unpredictable transpilation decisions based on internal undocumented CoffeeScript heuristics

I used CoffeeScript for a full year, and then was very happy never to touch it again. Going back to plain JavaScript might not be quite as concise, but the fact that the code always does exactly what you want it to, no surprises (as long as you know the language), let me program in peace again. With CoffeeScript, there's no way to ever feel like you "know" the language, because these kind of edge-case gotchas will getcha day-in, day-out.