skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should get a kitchen scale and measure the foods you eat. It's pretty simple to keep track of calories and portion sizes this way. i.e. I had 150g of pork loin for lunch. I can type "pork calories" into google and some clever google app tells me that 100g of pork loin is about 200 calories. So I had a 300 calorie lunch.

I lost 10 lbs in 3 weeks keeping a strict 1500 calorie a day diet and it's just as simple as taking a minute or two to measure your meals.
The proper motion of some of the faster stars is enough to get a date within about 200 years, and the positions of the planets have been searched exhaustively within that range, so I think the 13291 date must be accurate.
The positive news is that while it might take a while to learn the conventions, usually the conventions are enforced all around. In your case, the conventions are documented in the docs for Control.Monad, the library those functions are from:

The functions in this library use the following naming conventions:

> A postfix 'M' always stands for a function in the Kleisli category: The monad type constructor m is added to function results (modulo currying) and nowhere else. So, for example,

filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
filterM :: (Monad m) => (a -> m Bool) -> [a] -> m [a]

> A postfix '_' changes the result type from (m a) to (m ()). Thus, for example:

sequence :: Monad m => [m a] -> m [a]
sequence_ :: Monad m => [m a] -> m ()

> A prefix 'm' generalizes an existing function to a monadic form. Thus, for example:

sum :: Num a => [a] -> a
msum :: MonadPlus m => [m a] -> m a

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/C...

Personally, the things that I found hard were idioms (like learning that $ is just avoiding parenthesis, "go" is for loops, etc) and how theres a lot of libraries that make the code shorter at the expense of forcing you to be aware of them (for example, applicatives <$> <*> look alien until you learn what they are and monad transformers add a lot of "magic" to the code as well as force you to use annoying lifts all over the place)
Samsung has not dethroned Apple in mobile profits.

....before the site realized that it was comparing Apple's after tax net income to Samsung Electronics pre-tax operational income.

Samsung DID NOT provide net profit numbers.

:)
When I was in the US, I had no issues with consulting with pharmacists at the Fred Meyer's Pharmacy nor at Walgreen's. No one encouraged me to not have a consultation, and they were very professional.
When his story was originally shared on HN, I believe it made a point that his diet wasn't entirely Soylent and that he consumed normal meals once a week. I wouldn't be surprised if that combination could carry him for a long time.
So what is wrong with shared ssl / gpg keys? You could establish your own web of trust with local peers and grow a web that one could traverse to find someone who "friends" a foreign public key you want. Since you can get all the keys from all your trusted peers up through that person, you can establish a secure link.

The only problem is getting that first key into the network, like is the issue with all man in the middle and cert attacks. But I think it is more reasonable to get a physical copy of a key (or get it over a lan where nobody can intercept or manipulate) over a local net.

For example, I imagine Linux distros could include the public keys to sign network communications the same way they sign packages. Microsoft could have centralized easily exploited public keys by governments for their OS, but that is what you sign up for. You link into a massive web of trust sharing public keys but never private ones, and nobody except the endpoints can decrypt it, and you have no public trusted certs to exploit (everyone is a certificate authority).

You would have to use a web of confidence approach like bitcoin, where you confirm against multiple peers the validity of a provided public key until you have a satisfactory confidence threshold if you want to be really thorough.
well, I didn't mean it like that.

IMO, the author of the article went way out of his way to try and prove soylent to be something... I'm not sure what he was trying to prove actually -- it seemed like he was generally kinda being negative. what bothered me is that he's spending so much energy to try and belittle something which is cheaper and probably healthier to eat than most fast food.

why didn't he just give constructive criticism?

EDIT: what I would like to see is some sort of concerted effort to try and make a cheap, inexpensive food, which isn't perishable. that's all. I'm sorry for being negative myself. I think such a product could go a long way for improvement of all humanity
Hacker News, the NSA and Freedom
I doubt wifi will get more expensive or be less common on airplanes in 4 years. But sure, assume it will. SkyMall would still have to compete with tablets that passengers carry.

I can't site a research paper to back this up though.
While I wouldn't go quite as far as to say "not a hair's breath of difference between the two", I will say that there hasn't turned out to be as much of a difference as I would have liked in some areas. And, certainly not as much as was advertised.

And, that advertising is the point here. The parent was arguing that people had no reason to believe that he was different at that time (without the benefit of hindsight). But, based on "rhetoric", "presentation", raw intelligence, proposed policy positions, etc., there certainly seemed to be a striking difference between Bush and Obama.
Excellent write-up! I'd love to see a similar write up for the popular medi-fast diet!
Why is everybody so negative about this? He's doing something weird, but he is still leaving himself open to scientific evidence, which is better than the average mystical / religious diet recommendation (chinese medicine, hinduism, vegetarianism) which mostly do not accept scientific evidence, and instead do their diets for unassailable moral/mystical reasons (balancing "qi", balancing hot/cold foods, purity obsessions, etc.)

People survive on life rafts eating flying fish and drinking rain water, for months at a time. Most people using soylent will not eat it for all their meals, and they will almost always be surrounded by other food they can eat if they start feeling bad. So I don't think it's a big deal, let him do what he wants!
The changing requirements and arbitrary restrictions added realism for me.

:)
Just tried it, that's a really neat way to reveal them.
If you edited the contract, initialed all your changes, and faxed it back, they probably wouldn't have looked at it long enough to notice.
Apple still more profitable than Samsung. Net profit vs. Operating profit.
>...if every communications device broadcast a constant stream of data and every other communications device received every bit of data and ignored the (nearly 100%) of it that it didn't care about at the moment, you would eliminate the ability to know who was communicating with whom and when, right? The metadata is gone.

Amateur Radio may address this directly or protocols to model, build upon.
License requirements are also becoming more relaxed, accessible:

Packet radio is a form of packet switching technology used to transmit digital data via radio or wireless communications links. It uses the same concepts of data transmission via Datagram that are fundamental to communications via the Internet, as opposed to the older techniques used by dedicated or switched circuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio

SailMail is radio based e-mail system designed for yacht owners operating beyond line-of-sight radio links to the internet. Much of its underlying technology is built upon the Winlink software originally developed by amateur radio enthusiasts .[1] Operation on SailMail network frequencies requires a license for the Marine Radiotelephone Service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailmail

SSB as a speech-scrambling technique

SSB techniques can also be adapted to frequency-shift and frequency-invert baseband waveforms. These effects were used, in conjunction with other filtering techniques, during World War II as a simple method for speech encryption. Radiotelephone conversations between the US and Britain were intercepted and "decrypted" by the Germans; they included some early conversations between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill. In fact, the signals could be understood directly by trained operators. Largely to allow secure communications between Roosevelt and Churchill, the SIGSALY system of digital encryption was devised.

Today, such simple inversion-based speech encryption techniques are easily decrypted using simple techniques and are no longer regarded as secure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation#SSB_...
McDonald's food contains a larger variety of foods and nutrients than Soylent. For example, a Big Mac has all of the following:

Beef, Salt, Black Pepper, Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Pickles, Egg Yolks, Onion Powder, Mustard Seed, Vegetable Protein, Turmeric, Lettuce, Onions

It's also loaded with HFCS and a laundry list of preservatives and additives. I'm not saying it's the healthiest food, but given a choice between the two, I'd choose the one that at least has a few real food components.

And before you mention Supersize Me and the effects it had on his health, remember that it was an n=1 study and The Fathead Movie did the same experiment and his health improved.
The industry I'm in has very non-technical users and businesses. Last time I checked our telemetry it was reporting that 40% of our customers were on XP and 30% used IE8.
My fridge isn't that big.
Apple is still more profitable than Samsung.

An initial report by Steve Kovach of BusinessInsider proclaimed "Samsung Made $1.43 Billion More In Profit Than Apple Last Quarter, " before the site realized that it was comparing Apple's after tax net income to Samsung Electronics pre-tax operational income.

The site subsequently corrected its story with a new, less racy headline "How Samsung's Profit Compares To Apple's

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/27/samsung-has-not-de...

An earlier version of this said Samsung made more profit last quarter, but it was comparing Samsung's operating profit to Apple's. We apologize for the error.

http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-made-more-profit-than...

OOPS! :)
Kinda like why human flight is impossible?
The medical community is only a small part of the problem. Patients demand antibiotics, people don't finish their charted courses of drugs or take them incorrectly and TVs yell at you to sterilize things, buy harsher drugs etc. What are the first things relatives do when they go to see a relative in a hospital? Give them a kiss, pat on the arm, touch stuff etc. It's not so much a medical problem as a human nature problem. I disagree that we have made the world less safe, do you have a source showing that human deaths from infection are rising or higher than pre-antibiotics? MRSA death numbers (but not death rates) have been falling according to the below link.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/aug/22/mrsa-relat...
Somewhat off-topic, but this thread is a perfect example of how much Hacker News would benefit from some legal expertise to match its technical expertise - although usually the discussions that veer into law involve copyright or other IP, in this case as in those, it would be interesting and useful to get some kind of consensus, perhaps not definitively predicting the outcome of a court case, but definitively explaining what factors a court would take into account and the relevant standards, which I suspect would be easy for a lawyer with some relevant expertise to recall. Instead, this thread is full of short, conflicting opinions, with little to indicate who might be right. I am not sure there is any reason to believe this can be improved, but it's unfortunate for a forum that prides itself on high-level discussion.
According to Yahoo! the Xhibit CTO makes $3K/year. Three thousand dollars.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=XBTC+Profile
There are two (maybe three) articles on the front page right now unrelated to technology or "hacking." HN has long been an aggregator of all things interesting to SV, not just tech — and that's my point. You guys are bouncing around in your own little bubble (admittedly a bit faster now) but you're still just in your bubble. Meanwhile, you stay ignorant to the rest of the country and what it actually cares about, which means you will never have any far-reaching effect. People here are literally saying that we're in a dictatorship or a tyranny because the FBI asked for the use of unmanned drones 10 times in the past 10 years.

Obviously I'm not talking about using unmanned drones when I talk about conspiracy theories. I'm talking about Helianthus' entire argument and the arguments I see being perpetuated here. He walks you through it (in true conspiracy-theorist style), asking questions you would never really ask and then answering them as though he makes some big revelation.

They are taking this fact, that the government is flying unmanned blimps around DC as a more cost-efficient way to patrol DC's skies than having manned fighter jets, and using it as proof that the government is spying on civilians with absolutely no evidence. You see these types of folks pop up in news articles like this all the time, because they think they finally have the proof they need to convince the unwashed masses that there's something deeper going on. It just happens that HN is on an anti-government crusade, so they're passing out upvotes like candy to anyone who posts something remotely angry about the NSA.
This was posted a few months back on HN, looked promising so I bookmarked it. Hope it helps and it is what you're looking for.

http://unsplash.com/

Website Title:

Free (do whatever you want) hi-resolution photos.

10 new photos every 10 days.
It might be a while (personally busy at the moment), but it's a project at the tippy-top of my to-do list.
Thanks for your feedback!

> There was also something where I made a note, went back to the list, and tried to edit it again and couldn't. The little pencil icon was hidden. Seemed like clicking the table cell edit icon, as well as the main portion of the cell, takes you just to the "view/share note screen". Feels like a bug to me. I would've preferred the table cell edit icon to go to the edit view and then immediately edit the note.

Noted. Maybe I put the table view cell accessory view too small to be tapable. Will try another way and I consider one click editing.

> Is being able to change the screen brightness really necessary when looking at a note...?

I think when your note is a long essay and if you are reading in a dark environment, this could be helpful. I will take note about this and consider it, thank you!

> I'm not that familiar with markdown - what is reading time? Is it literally just how long you think it would take to read?

Sorry, this reading time could be unwanted option. I will consider removing it.

> When creating a note, I wanted to cancel, but instead I had to click the tick to save the note. I then went to "pull down" - not knowing what the gesture would do - and it created another new note, but not allowing the same title. To me, pull down refreshes. Maybe I'm stuck in my ways and it's now a gesture for many different things. Still, it'd be nice to be able to cancel out of the new note screen, or to even delete the note if no content has been added?

To prevent duplicated file name, which could lead to syncing conflict on Dropbox, every note name must be unique.

Funny though, I think the "pull down to create new note" would be useful in order not to stretch your thumb to the compose icon, think Clear :). You can disable this in settings, though. I think I need another kind of animation and icon to differentiate those gesture from the traditional Pull to Refesh.

I think when user create a new note but not type content right away. They will come back later to do it. They can delete it manually. Thanks for your suggestion, I'll consider this!

--

I'll look into these issues and bugs carefully and submit a fix soon. Sorry that it caused you those inconveniences. Thank you for taking your time to reply here! :)
We're only subject to the policies that they can enforce. If a technical solution is found that routes around government's ability to employ surveillance and interference, there's not a lot they can do about it until they catch up.

If security is outlawed, only outlaws will be secure.
>Windows 3.0 and 95 were built on top of DOS which already had the majority of the market. Apple never had a large portion of the world-market in the 80s and 90s.

The Apple II predated the IBM PC. Apple had virtually the entire market in the '80s.
So Xhibit is faceblock?
The immaturity and uselessness of this article(written by somebody in a competing market) doesn't support any fear, uncertainty, or doubt for me.

I vouch that if there continues to be market interest, and a lack of forceful interference(from say, a government); Soylent will become what it needs to be in order to succeed(safe, complete, and vetted).
This is something that concerns me about soylent. Ensure is basically the same thing, already mass produced, and Ensure is freaking crazy expensive. Crazy crazy expensive. I'm not willing to spend that much money to not have to prepare food. I'd make more money if I just take an hour off work every day and make my food. How can soylent be cheaper? Is Ensure just gouging?
You asked the same question at 10 karma and got a detailed response from anigbrowl:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5948259
>“And that’s what’s been eroding over the last 20, 30 years, well before the financial crisis,” he added.

Is he still blaming Bush for what are unarguably, by this point, his problems?

>The economy is “far stronger” than four years ago, he said, yet many people who write to him still do not feel secure about their future, even as their current situation recovers.

It seems wants to have his cake and eat it too: "I've fixed the recession, but there's still massive unemployment." I've never understood this obsession with stock markets as economic health indicators and obscuring of unemployment by calling it "underemployment" (http://www.cnbc.com/id/100870095).
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Ps...
>I'm not sure how I would explain the benefits of altruism by choice vs. by law

This is the 'perfect world' scenario where everyone does 'the right thing', of course in such a world we wouldn't need any laws or any written contracts at all.

In reality though, I make sure that I have a written agreement with my employer which legally binds him to pay me a specified salary at the end of each month, because when push comes to shove I don't blindingly trust that he pay me my salary just because it's the 'right thing'.

Nor do I only want my specified salary if he 'wants to give it to me instead of being legally bound to do so', if he owes me salary I want it even if he doesn't want to give it to me.

In my opinion when it comes to companies in particular (which is generally the equivalent of an extremely selfish person), the typical course of action is to only contribute back if they legally have to, or if they see a practical benefit in doing so that outweighs the potential advantage they could have by keeping their changes to themselves, color me cynical.

I also think this is what makes copyleft a good base for cooperative development between said companies, as they are all legally bound to contribute their changes back which is something I believe comes across better in the board room as opposed to relying on other companies returning the favour because it's the 'right thing' to do.

>Struggling to come up with a single category of software where this would merit derivatives include source sharing provisions in the license.

Any project where you want to be able to benefit from any enhancements made to the code of the original project, including any derivatives/forks.
If you click on the image at http://xkcd.com/1190 it takes you to this page. Either a vote of "awesome" from Randall or a collaborative work. Does anyone know which it is?
Can anyone show an example of what 20% of the carry would look like. I'm a bit unclear how much the advisor gets here and how much AngelList is getting (and what they are getting exactly).
The last thing I need is hackers on the other side of the world to gain control of my wallet.
We've made things fly - even all the way to space. We've transplanted organs. We've developed vaccines that eradicated diseases. We are making progress towards deciphering the genome. What once required a library the size of a city block can now fit in your pocket. You can have a conversation with someone on the opposite side of the planet. Or even someone who isn't on the planet.

Nothing is simple in life, and our bodies are complex. But if you EVER ask me the question: "Will people figure it out?" Unless the speed of light factors into the discussion, I'm putting my money on "yes" every single time.
The internet, which largely runs on IP and extended by NAT, appears to have been constructed poorly in terms of privacy. There are protocols like ICE/STUN/TURN (which is what WebRTC is built on) that supposedly try to bridge the gap to enable true P2P connectivity, but I believe even ICE appears limited in that it doesn't actually solve the hairpin problem, where two peers are behind multiple levels of NAT routers. I'm still investigating this issue, so correct me if I'm wrong.

What we need are better routing systems. Take a look at CJDNS which has a novel routing protocol. I don't know what the scaling limitations there are, there doesn't appear to be documentation on empirical or theoretical performance guarantees; but it's a start, and there's a growing community behind it.

With ever-cheaper devices, it should become possible to create a new family of router hardware that connects devices in a mesh fashion, scalable to the world at large. It's not going to be easy to design, and it sure as hell won't be easy to get physical adoption for (considering that the current internet is "good enough" for most), but it's possible.

P.S. I've created a subreddit at /r/fourthtech if anybody wants to get into deep technical discussions about various topics on better internet/communication protocols.
The difference is that that Ballmer is talking about a company with real products that makes billions of dollars, and this guy is talking about a company with no real products and no revenue to speak of.
A comment in recent Joseph Bonneau AMA thread on Reddit seems representative in this regard, also being unusually well-written[0]. Apparently it has yielded its author Reddit Gold.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j6qo4/i_am_joseph_bon...
But most of us don't have to sign off schedulers.

Most of us are supposed to sign documents full og legalese once in a while.
Is there any reason you know for the decline outside of your article? Has the merger hit snags since then? Did you ever look into the 10%+ beneficial holder "XSE LLC".
My memory could be mistaken, but I seem to recall that they have tested this and do have options similar to Soylent, and the reason they use "regular" foods is more for psychological reasons than technical ones.
See my root comment. I used it for a whole year, and it would drive me nuts every day. I would never use it again. But then again, you've never personally met me, so maybe I don't count :)
> I think this logic is pretty common to people who don't have a dystopian view of the future. Do you see some major flaw in it?

Hypothesis: Wars are starteted out of emotion.
Microsoft makes everything. Xhibit makes nothing. Their descriptions will be deceptively similar.
So there... you have your answer. At least you have more than my meager 7.
It's definitely cool, and I hope you didn't get a migrate developing it. Downside is that having the score and other messages not part of the stereogram means you have to unfocus to see them. It would be even more awesome if the whole thing were 3D.