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The appeal of Soylent is cost and convenience. This advice to do bulk cooking instead is not helping in that regard.
Interview with Mr.Purnendu Bose, Founder and Director at ITI Restaurants
The Police dropped a bomb on the MOVE movement house, which also killed children, in Philadelphia.
Thanks - I would like to start slow and then eventually upgrade to a more expensive service, as I am very new to the field. Two questions:

1) Have you ever had any experience with E*TRADE?

2) It would be awesome if you could point me to some resources/books about HFT

EDIT: The pricing seems to be $1,200/month now. https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/en/products/pricing/
> in the hands of an eager government there would be no Turing

Alan Turing worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, which I think you could say was the NSA of its time.
Spider Tank RC robot kits on Kickstarter
vxWorks doesn't really have a userland. However, they do implement certain POSIX APIs and those are all homegrown.
Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
It wasn't just that. The problem with phages is it's impossible to make enough for a therapeutic dose without introducing mutations, so you're never completely sure what you're giving the patient. They're just not as safe as conventional antibiotics.

We'll probably end up using phages because we won't have any other choice. But that's not a step forward for patients.
I think you got it backwards. Windows only obtained the lion's share of apps because Microsoft had the right hardware strategy.

When Apple released their graphical OS, Windows had zero market share. Windows wasn't even a product, but even when it was - people didn't buy it to run DOS apps, they bought it to run Windows apps. It was cheaper and it worked well enough.

That's why Android is comparable to Windows here. It was released later than iOS which already had market share, any hardware vendor can integrate with it, like Windows...and it's more developer friendly, like Windows (compared to the Mac OS). It's also better than good enough, like Windows. And those will be the direct reasons that will eventually let Android overtake iOS as an application platform.
To be fair to Soylent, a lot of the subterfuge against this is "We don't understand the human body enough to do that yet", wouldn't the best way to find out is to try?

My biggest complaint about Soylent is that they turned their marketing to 11 and failed to mention the fact that long term studies haven't been done so be extra careful, however if people are willing to experiment then power to them.

As a final note while complete meal replacement is possibly out of our reach, partial replacement is already done extensively.
Interesting the assertion that 80g of protein is paltry. I happen to agree, as do many people I respect.

But many, many people (esp vegans) argue the opposite. The FDA, after years of avoiding an opinion, finally settled on 34-56g/day RDA for protein.
Awesome write-up. Have you jumped ship from Ruby to Javascript completely? I did so recently, and would love more tips if you have them, but for an experienced Rails developer instead of for novices.
I have come across several doctors that have tried prescribing antibiotics for preventative reasons to either myself or my family. How sad that it is the people who understand this threat the most are the ones causing it.

I rarely resort to finger wagging and shaming for anything, but for antibiotics misuse, not only do I feel it is appropriate, but I encourage others to do the same. Veterinarians should get the same treatment, IMO.
Photogenic Alchemy - Photo developed in Absinthe?
Unfortunately the legal is perfectly clear... to lawyers. I've thought that it would be nice to simplify things, but it already is simple to the people for whom it matters (i.e. lawyers and judges). It would be kind of like trying to make a scheduler clear and obvious to someone who isn't a kernel developer, or at least very technical. You could get the basics across, but there'd be plenty of corner cases you'd miss.
Inventing on Principle (Bret Victor)
Awesome projects from the Docker community
>The lack of advancement in antibiotics is a stark contrast to the recent improvements in treatments for so many chronic diseases.

I'm curious to know what diseases you're talking about here. I don't see much improvement in this area at all.
They're better off for getting code willingly contributed as opposed to forced due to a license provision. I'm not sure how I would explain the benefits of altruism by choice vs. by law (which isn't really altruism, but a completion of a legal obligation).

"...and there are many projects out there were contributions and cooperative development is important for it to bear fruit."

Struggling to come up with a single category of software where this would merit derivatives include source sharing provisions in the license.
No, the best way to find out is not to try. The best way to find out is to study, on a meaningful sample size and with a well documented process and at least a modicum of scientific rigour.
From my hometown to some acquaintances in SF, every meth user I've know has screwed up their life. At the same time, I've been friends with and worked with many highly functional coke users. Scientific studies appear to back my personal observations.[1] If the reduced supply and higher cost mentioned in the article has driven people to meth, it would be another failure of this stupid "war" on drugs.

[1] http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf
Surgical death rates are already a radically bigger problem than terrorism, particularly in so-called western countries. Without looking it up I'd say with confidence that most causes of death were statistically more likely than death from a terrorist act.
No, it seems to be a client-side thing. If no edit was made in the code editor since last run it doesn't make the request to https://www.bloc.io/api/v1/ruby_warrior_players/:id (which seems to be the one that returns the warrior and enemy movements). Repeating the same request in cURL multiple times does return different results.
I have an iPad 1 and have used an iPhone 3G and I am surprised you say that the iphone has had smooth scrolling since it's first release, since I can barely get the 3g or the ipad to scroll smoothly, if at all. Well, I should say they scroll quite smoothly, after waiting for 10 - 15 seconds for the page to become responsive.
I appreciate the vocal skepticism as I feel it's important, especially when it comes to this topic. Proper studies should be done, but if people want to take on the risk themselves to consume soylent then more power too them, so long as they know the risks.
This letter from Bill gates is priceless: http://ia701209.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.p...
when I was younger and lived in the USA, I had a diet of virtually only mcdonalds (and burritos). I survived.

this has got to be, at least slightly more nutritious. LOL, what's the big deal? I'm also like 100% sure this is better than what the starving africans are eating.

why doesn't he just provide some constructive improvements instead of a graphically enhanced rant, with the assumption that the entire world eats a balanced nutritional diet?

oh yea, the various arguments against the man (and other fallacies), are nice touches too... seriously, who cares dude? if he's such a super experienced nutritionist, why doesn't he make his own soylent v2.0?

disclaimer: never tried soylent, nor care to try it, but soylent did inspire me to make my own version of easily reproduced "food". it's still in experimentation, but ironically this article was informative. it's given me a few new ideas to improve my own blend (which uses almond butter instead of soy as a base). thanks!
Just mesmerized by the results...chemical explanations of occurrences to each effect would be extremely interesting!
To me, the appeal of soylent is that it's such a compact food delivery system. I eat healthy food, but my portion control is all out of whack.

My hope is that a month of Soylent will help my stomach shrink and learn the proper signals telling me that I've had enough to eat.
Certainly, if you have an "otherwise likely lethal infection," take the antibiotics. If they screw up your immune response down the road, it's still better than dying now. I need to be clear that I'm not talking about this specific case but the general practice of fighting what are believed to be "bad germs" using techniques that can be expected to screw up the human microbiome and, as a result, weaken the body's immune function, making it more susceptible to exploitation by opportunistic pathogens.

As scythe wrote,

> That is to say: the six bacterial strains ... carrying the most severe antibiotic resistance and responsible for the worst infections are the very same strains present all around us naturally. However, in every case except S aureus, infection is basically unheard of when an individual has a functioning immune system; they are all opportunistic pathogens. [Emphasis mine]

Right now, the emphasis in medical practice is on attacking the "bad germs." What is mostly ignored is cultivating robust immune function, which as scythe points out would mostly prevent opportunistic pathogens from doing harm in the first place. That's probably because until recently nobody knew much about improving immune function. But now, with a better understanding of the human microbiome, it's becoming hard to ignore that the techniques used to fight the bad germs (e.g., broad-spectrum antibiotics) are probably also having harmful effects on the human microbiome and, as a consequence, immune function. So the short-term fix is likely to also cause long-term problems.

To give you an example of what I'm concerned about, let me share what happened to my wife a few months ago. She had a rash on her lower leg, near her ankle, and went to see her general practitioner. Her GP didn't know what the rash was but nevertheless prescribed an anti-itch cream and -- surprise! -- a course of antibiotics, "just in case." (It turned out that the rash was mild poison ivy, so the antibiotics would have done nothing to help.) For many practicing doctors, broad-spectrum antibiotics are used like this as a general prophylactic for all manner of minor ailments. Lots of people are having their microbiomes decimated for very little benefit.

> Sure, taking an antibiotic deranges your microbiome, but doesn't it seem to most of the time readjust?

By what mechanism would eliminated strains be repopulated? And if they weren't repopulated and if your microbiome didn't "readjust," how could you tell? After all, even if such derangements were permanent, we would not expect to observe them until they were challenged by opportunistic pathogens and exploited. It could be, therefore, that such derangements have an invisible cumulative effect: the more screwed up your microbiome becomes the more at risk you are, but unaware of it until you get sick.
I started to write up my theories on the benefits, until I realized that we already have enough problems with the whole M,V versus Amex versus (other) acceptance problem, so tossing in NFC (and don't forget, iPhone doesn't offer NFC) just increases the fragmentation problem. I wouldn't want to be low on fuel in Podunkville, MiddleAmerica knowing that Grandpa's Gas has never heard of NFC.

Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly embrace the NFC payment system and hope it succeeds, but I recognize that your question is quite telling.
This. FFS your body is not a car and you can't (well, not yet) replace parts of it if you fuck it up. You can't stop people from trying but I don't think most of them fully realise the danger they're putting themselves in.
everyone's body is different. there was an article earlier today about losing weight with the same premise.

soylent should be sorta like those the soda machines at the fast food places, cept instead of mixing dr pepper and coke, you could get an extra dose of chicken squirt instead of soy squeeze
I think the point was questioning if he would have had the opportunity if they had known he was gay from the start. Or would he have spent his life getting "treatment"?
> but the insinuation that OP must, by virtue of his disagreement with you, support the extreme end of this institution, is unjustified

OP States: Police or FBI patrolling more efficiently seems progressive and economical.

I'm not insinuating anything. I'm simply questioning OP about his self-proclaimed principles in an obviously Socratic method. The only thing I'm accusing OP of is being ignorant of principled reasoning.
The first time I heard of Soylent and this guy I thought "here is a guy who is literally being killed by his own stupidity and does not know it". I can see people buying into this scam and it sucks. The problem is that Rob is a skinny, healthy looking guy. This diet, if it really is his full time source of nutrition, is going to have its effect on him sooner or later, but chances are that one of his clients, perhaps someone twice his age and weight, will suffer the consequences first.
Thoughts on UI kits and open design
People are delusional if they think ios has better ui than android. The app store has a terrible ui on iOS where many times it doesn't load at all. And dumbing down the ui to one button is not so great.
Soylent is definitely suspect. 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.

That said, there's no reason to think this article is any better. Honestly, I didn't finish it, because as soon as it said that you might crave animal protein heavy products because of a protein deficiency I knew that the author was as full of it as what he or she is criticizing.

The citations look good until you start digging. One of them cites a naturalnews.com article (not a peer-reviewed journal) that in turn cites the Weston A. Price Foundation site, a towering bastion of pseudoscientific nonsense. I wonder how many of actual scientific articles cited even support the points the author cites them for.

In summary, the nutrition science in this article is about as poor as the nutrition science behind Soylent.
I never understood, since HIPAA is theoretically designed to protect the patient's privacy, why doctors/practioners aren't required to sign notices/contracts to the patient.
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From talking to some non-tech people about this, I have a dim view of the possibility that Snowden's revelations will change anything on a political level. People seem to either not care about the power the NSA has over them, or think Snowden is a traitor that deserves death and that's enough to invalidate anything he might have revealed. Society forgets history--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.

But I still do have hope, and the community at HN exemplifies it. Even if politics and society won't change enough to prevent further spying (or, on the scale of decades, a worse NSA-fueled catastrophe), at least all the smart techies of the world are growing aware, getting outraged, and getting organized over what's been revealed. In many ways, our real control over technological progress is the best we can ask for.

If you know how to program, if you're thinking about learning, if your business depends on the internet, or if you're otherwise in a position to create technology of any flavor: the responsibility is on you--on us--to shape the internet and future technology in a way that will protect humanity's privacy and civil rights for generations to come.
I disagree. Most Android fans don't follow open source that closely (eg they're Windows users on the desktop). And most open source fans (myself included) don't consider Android that open.
First Impressions with Kotti
Jaimie is the definition of hacker. The guy will teach himself anything to be able to do what he wants. I chat with him semi-frequently online and he's basically taught himself programming in order to make a game that includes spider-tanks and whatnot. He taught himself CAD and all of the stuff he needs for 3D printing that he uses to make awesome stuff like these robots, and he often hacks the hardware itself (I remember he added a heated print bed to one of his printers). Majorly awesome.
Seconded. Playing with nutrition is the same as playing with any other chemical you do not understand very well. You can certainly do it, but chances are you will do the wrong thing and mess up.

The way I see the "we do not understand nutrition" argument is that we can tell some types of very bad nutrition: lack of vitamin C, lack of amino acids, etc. but we cannot design good nutrition. Soylent is bad. We can see that. However, if it was better, if it included all the known macro- and micronutrients int the ideal proportions, from some wholesome looking sources we could not tell whether it was actually good.

I am starting to come to the realization that all good kills us eventually, and all we are really trying to do is to find a diet that kills us the slowest.
While we're talking about rewriting the Internet, please fix ddos attacks. The current internet is especially prone to ddos attacks to the point where it costs 100x more money to defend than to start an attack of the same size.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-d...
This is completely outside my areas of expertise, and there may already be a name for it, or it may be the dumb thing every rookie thinks of, but what about this: ignoring issues of bandwidth and power consumption (!), 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.

If that's true, then now you just need to solve two problems: (1) how to keep the stuff (which you know is being broadcast to absolutely everyone) secret, and (2) how to coordinate the communication. Isn't that just cryptography and synchronizing watches while exchanging secrets in meatspace, stuff that's been known since before computers were part of it?

(The point of ignoring power and bandwidth is to determine if this is ever possible in any universe, not just if it's possible for us right now.)
It really comes down to this :

- The guy is not a career nutritionist.

- He's basically recreating the food they eat in Matrix (the second movie I believe)

- He's making money off it.

#1 and #3 are pissing people off. I'm actually glad many people are offering to be guinea pigs for this because all-in-one fast food is a good tech to unlock.
I love the "it's sure healthier than eating a pile of rocks mixed in with cow shit" argument.

Yes, and hitting yourself across the face with rebar sure is healthier than driving it straight into your eye socket.
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Oh I see!

If you've been through the same thing, I would definitely want to be able to contact you in case you have any advice on such matters.

Could I request you to provide me some way of remaining in touch with you?

Thank you!
As someone who has had the misfortune of holding this type of scam stock in the past, I have great sympathies for the shareholders.

There are all sorts of ways you can find yourself holding a worthless investment(myself, via the entreaties of an overly enthusiastic and gullible friend) but once you have it, the rationalization machinery is going to kick in deeply, because now you're a sucker, and you really don't want to feel like one.

That's why there's often a lot of online noise generated around obviously bad companies like Xhibit - it only takes the slightest big of hope to keep people in as the price plummets.
Have you tried drinking lots of water with your meals? Especially carbonated water/Seltzer water? That tends to curb appetite very effectively for some people.
Buying food in bulk = cheap
Cooking food in bulk = convenient
Kind of like http://securesha.re but less security, more social.
Doesn't Ensure already exist?
I'm not sure why it's dead, but here's the subject comment from user 'zhb:'

Interesting. I'm author of iRedMail project (Zhang Huangbin), and i'm a HN fan. :)

* iRedMail is a free, open source, mature, high quality mail server solution.

* It's under active development.

* We listen to our users, and respond quickly in our online support forum: http://www.iredmail.org/forum/

Yes, it does make our customers satisfied.
If you're just getting started with Javascript, I'd say learn Javascript and jQuery. Here are two good books:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596517742
http://www.amazon.com/jQuery-Action-Second-Bear-Bibeault/dp/1935182323

If you want to use Javascript/Ajax in a Rails application, this is a good introduction to how Rails' "remote" forms/links work in a jQuery context:

http://www.alfajango.com/blog/rails-3-remote-links-and-forms/
http://www.alfajango.com/blog/rails-3-remote-links-and-forms-data-type-with-jquery/

I would get to the point where you understand all that before tackling Angular, Ember, or Node.
It is getting a bit difficult to take the dude seriously, isn't it?
I'm guessing it might depend on the point in your Go code whrn you setuid as the tests that I did on my own project, setuid changed the user id as expacted then the processes were spawned.

However you have given me reason to test my own code again and more thoroughly :-)
Hehe, i feel identified with some of these frustrations, but i think it's better the way it is.

> Its more ruby style to do 'space.is_a?(Enemy)' than 'space.enemy?'. This would also help to build case statements rather than lots of ifs.

But that would require to explain that an Enemy class/module (and possibly others) exists. With the presented interface you can/should only care about Warrior and Place. Much simpler.

> no 'print' or 'puts'. How am I supposed to know what 'look' returns when it never really tells me?

With Ruby's Array methods. Warrior#look returns an Array of at most 3 Places. What else should you know?

> I prefer a single set of rules rather than adding rules as you go. When first I have to use :backward but later this becomes basically redundant as 'pivot' is added, it just makes me frustrated in having to refactor. Same thing for feel/look.

That happened to me too, but i think it adds to the sense of progress and discovery throughout the game. Like most games, you don't start with all the tools and abilities at your disposal. And you can always ask respond_to? if you want an algorithm that works for all level ;)
I wouldn't eat the tasteless crap and this guy is spot on. However, some of these comments stating eating only this stuff vs eating all processed food isn't too far off.

At the very least, I would not use a fast carb like dextrose/glucose, I would say use a longer burning carb to reduce energy spikes and dips.
Thanks for the link! Looks interesting.

Here's an alternative link, that actually works: http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/2003-2004/040218-ee38...
pw;dr (paywalled), other version please
I'm not listening to this politician tell me what my values are or what it means to be an American until he stops tracking my phone calls, watching my email account, photographing my snail mail and examining my bank and credit card statements. If he can't stop making obvious mistakes, how can he possibly think he is going to "fix" something as complex and subtle as the economy. This is pure politics from someone who knowns nothing else.

Edit: Sorry if this seems harsh but I'm having a hard time taking this guys bullshit anymore. Is there any substance in this new focus on the economy or is it just a way to change the subject.
Indeed, but that doesn't change the fact that it makes more sense having that functionality in the web server itself given its a standard and expected function in all web servers.