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>> This kind of article seems to ignore the fact that almost everyone eats poorly.

An argument could be made that most people don't eat poorly, they simply eat too much. Over half of the US population is fat. It's insane.
Here be weird programming habits
APPLE.COM.ZON.COM
APPLE.COM.WWW.ZON.COM
APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM
APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM
APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
APPLE.COM.DENIS.DA.DOIDE.DA.PIEM.UNIX-BG.COM
APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM

A lot more sane on the Apple front so far.
On the topic of the HTML parser, you may be interested in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/HTML_...
I'm at a Perl conference right now with hundreds of other attendees. Perl definitely is alive.
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I was going to say this kinda reads like an advertisement for your product.
But, after rereading, it is more advertisement than kinda advertisement :-)
Wow, what an in-depth comparison with JQuery.
>> We weren't made for anything.

No, but our bodies have been fine-tuned through evolution over the last million years, up until probably the last 20,000 or so. Your digestive tract is different from a cow, snake, or wolf for a reason.
We're taking Laura Poitras at her word that she did not edit the interview. There's no way for us to know if this is what Snowden actually said.
This needs to be downvoted
Plus: girls and things that aren't CS.

Creativity needs outside experiences and knowledge not in your domain to flourish. Go to college - it's one of the easiest places to get a large breadth of that stuff.
What is the point wasting any time on Perl 6, given it's undeniably unambiguously spectacularly awful track record, and the fact that there are so many other wonderful and better languages available to spend your time learning. There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful (and definitely not any more easy to learn and use and maintain) than any other language. There are no jobs programming Perl 6, and there never will be.
I think you're being a bit unfair here. First, the Segway is now entrenched in our society, thus it's lived up to a lot of its hype (though not all haha). Second, your main complaint seems to be that he's talking about it before showing a prototype. You're being an unnecessarily harsh critic IMO if you require that each idea presented to you must have a physical component.
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Take a look at Common Lisp. There, string is a synonym for vector of characters.

There are no encoding problems, either.
Do you have any reason to believe that the wealth distribution of other coins (forked from Bitcoin) looks much different? With an deflationary currency you will always have early adopters that own a large percentage of the wealth.
There really isn't much to see here. After reading I thought I had missed something, perhaps one of those "page 1 of 30" things at the bottom. But to get the "full story" I'm told to buy some magazine or whatever. So much for releasing information in the public's interest. It's time to Jason Bourne this thing and make some MONEY off of it!
Parent was specifically referring to the no. 3 aqueduct for NYC, which was started in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No....

Also, the highway through the Keys has seen very large infrastructure improvements over the last few decades, so while not a new project it is a significant civil engineering effort.
This kind of article seems to ignore the fact that almost everyone eats poorly.

"Poorly" is relative. Most Westerners suffer no deficiencies, and are unhealthy more from a lack of activity and excess intake. This turns people mystical about their food, as if finding the magic elixir will cure lifestyle issues (such as the current hysterics about carbs: The Japanese get 70%+ of their calories from very simple carbs -- white rice, which is of a nutrition profile closely related to table sugar -- and they have marginal obesity and excellent health profiles. They just eat less of it and maintain active lives).

There is the paradox that the US is one of the least healthy people's, yet one of the most absolutely obsessed about their food.

A Big Mac has an enormously complex nutritional profile, as hard as that may be to imagine. An egg and a slice of bread is a superfood. Both have been maligned because of excess or sedentary lifestyles, but either in moderation can be an ideal part of your diet.

Nonetheless, I dislike the linked article: It attacks Soylent mostly from a defensive, elitist attitude that tries to hold information freedom as some sort of anti-intellectualism. While there are legitimate complaints about Soylent (and I don't think "everyone is different!" is a good approach), it seems like the creator(s) are trying to find the relevant information, and trying to use the accumulated knowledge of nutritionist. Just because they didn't classically train as a nutritionist does not invalidate their work.
Well I can't really do a speed test because the js file he links to 404's lel
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN 5 DAYS BEFORE THE SINGULARITY?
Not sure where the data driven parenting part comes in from earlier comment - this seems to be a app for snagging photos and "took first steps". As a parent of young children at nursery school, I would love it if they supplied snaps and so on (They do use some iPad app, and print things out to a folder) - it just has all gone so quickly so something to pull it together whould have been / will be useful.

That said, I have nothing like the time to upload a photo to J Random website.

Hence my marketing tip o' the day -> get day care and nursery schools on board - you have a market. Try and get parents on board and you have maybe three email signups.

I did not see but are you releaseing the code under a free license?

Also, Barry and patio11 open their books to a developer audience whilst mostly selling to a developer audience. So you might not get the same uplift. Then again its worth trying, HN readers have sex too :-)
Good luck finding any decent Perl programmers to hire. And if you do find them, good luck paying their exorbitant hazard pay and keeping them happy enough to stick around. And then after they leave, good luck finding more Perl programmers to willing to clean up the unmaintainable mess they left behind.
This is actually genius. A nationwide tube system feels like it would beat the pants of of trucking.

I'm not sure about narrower though -- maybe the "with car" design could be modified to have shipping containers placed on to the sleds?
Seems like a horrible tax because it's not your property. It doesn't matter if the person in question has many resources or few, those resources are not yours to steal (or "tax", or whatever euphemism for aggression you want to use).
https://github.com/nbubna/HTML
Good for them! Ansible is amazing and everyone I've shown it to so far love it because it's just so much simpler to use than the alternatives. As soon as I found out about the project (before AnsibleWorks was even founded) I knew these guys were gonna be well off.
No. It'll either help you more or hinder you more.

Make it a nonfactor by not putting one on there. They'll validate your merits without doing that. It's okay to put one on a portfolio - HR and future bosses don't look at the portfolio first. They'll do that if your resume is up to snuff.
Damascus is currently like Tatooine: 36 degrees C and fair.
American unions have not killed off any city. If you are trying to imply that Detroit was killed by unions you are gravely mistaken.
welcome to 1995.
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This is a problem when noone wants to lead though.

Here at my company we tried to make a pre-A round of sorts (mostly because we are in Brazil, and investors here are unwilling to invest anything close to a A round here).

We had several people commit saying that if other people go, they will go too... But we found noone to commit as leader, and all the other commited investors refused to go without a lead investor, kinda annoying situation.

Happily our seed investor liked our recent results and expanded his seed investment instead.
How could it possibly be unintentional?! Did they actually say this, or have they just been coy about the naming process?
It may be useful to recognize a dying brain from a non-dying one, don't you think?
My thought exactly, the first time I saw this.

But this is a much more advanced project - you need to supply your own box to put it in too ..
this made me smile, thanks! :)
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I've seen Universities have been security for their professors than politician's laptops. It's truly bewildering - then there is the fact that the technology MPs are generally not well versed in technology at all - witness the myriad of awkward speeches given on tech topics in governments around the world. Does any country actually have a genuine politician with a CS degree in office?
Well you should just use Common Lisp if you want an object system like Common Lisp's. It comes without all the baggage and duct tape of Perl.
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Fifty years in the future : Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft or Apple?
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He will do the "commercial" support, but since it's still a very early phase in the project, the final customer isn't expected to use the admin interface itself, we'll do it. And by "we" i mean "I".
So basically, he'll forward the customer requests to me.

Do you have an idea of a "normal" commission ? I was expecting something between 10% to 20%
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They deserve this so much ! For their amazing work and amazing support across irc/github/mailinglist <3
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I agree that meal substitutes have existed for years before Soylent. But when I read their KickStarter campaign, it seemed like they wanted to remove meals completely.

Maybe I didn't understand their mission.
While I agree with you, I think you may have missed his point. Enjoying eating is different than satiating hunger/nutrition.

People enjoy eating food that tastes good. Fast junk food tastes good to a lot of people (including me, even knowing the health risks).

The only thing that has a chance of replacing this is food that still tastes good, or that you can convince them is good for them (Subway has been pretty successful with this tact).

I'm definitely skeptical that something mildly sweet tasting (like watery cake batter) is going to get the masses on board with it.
Ask HN: Any good alternative to viewtext.org?
viewtext.org is down. I used it for their json API. Any good alternative to it?
s = []
for x in range(100):
s = s.append(x)
format s

In other words, this is something that holds just the same for vectors of any type.

The "philosophical" "argument" is really not relevant, since the difference between characters and "symbols" seems to be just what you want (whatever that is), while words and sentences can be represented by strings themselves. This is just a tangent that adds nothing to the question of how to represent a string.
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It's interesting. I've recently started building WP plugins myself and I would like to know what the workflow is for doing it through github.

I don't really like invoking the global, though that may be the way Wordpress does things and i'm just not aware. I've been able to avoid it in any case with one multi-file plugin by dependency injection.
Startups are Hard
A nice blog post by Robert Saric about startups.

"It has been nearly 4 years since we started the journey as independent operators of a business. Meaning that we started from nothing, and our only sources of income came from the value we generated for clients. We ventured into the business world as 3 software entrepreneurs, who had experience working with companies and building things, and now we’re a team of 8."...
Exactly. I have some doubts about Soylent, but the only real argument this article provides is: different people have different nutritional needs.

Fine. So how well does normal food adjust to those needs? Who the hell tunes their food intake exactly to their needs? Do we even have the science to determine what your personal needs are?

The vast, vast majority of people simply eat what tastes good. Or even just what's available. Some people try to stick what they think is healthy, but they often do that on a much narrower scientific basis than Rhinehart uses. Lots of people follow thoroughly unhealthy diets hoping to lose weight for a few months become they gain it again.

Soylent, in contrast, is pretty easy to tune to your needs, once you're aware of them. You're not stuck with whatever the nutritional value in your favourite food is, you can actually tweak it (or let a qualified nutritionist do it for you). In the future, I can imagine Soylent dispensers that dispense your perfect mix when you insert your chipcard with your nutritional needs.

So despite the author's dislike for amateurs, his only argument sounds to me like it's in favour of the direction Soylent is taking.
Several! They sell all sorts of different things and I'm not a food scientist (or anything remotely like that) so I find it difficult to draw any general conclusions about eating habits from my own experiences.

Unfortunately I also haven't surveyed 'most people' during that time so I don't know whether the statement I originally quoted is an opinion, or in-depth knowledge. Which is why I asked.
The article doesn't offer any reason why it shouldn't be the other way round - people with the described character traits are just more likely to like cats and therefore more likely to be exposed to toxoplasmosis.
Possibly by non-earned-income he means passive income.

You are not allowed to exclude passive income on form(s) 2555. It is foreign earned-income, not foreign-earned income.

Although foreign retirement benefits are also taxable to the US for many countries.
Are they still selling misogynistic t-shirts?

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Perl_is_my_bitch

It's so telling how Randal Schwartz, purveyor of hooters booth babes and publisher of "amihooternot", chimes in about how it's bad because it gives Perl an image of being the tool of "teen perl hacker misogynist guys," and that's harder to sell to Corporate America. Yet it doesn't even occur to him to mention that it's also bad because it's WRONG and disrespectful to women and offensive to people who aren't sexist.

The Perl community certainly has a long standing and well earned reputation of being "teen perl hacker misogynist guys," that drives away both women and Corporate America.

See also:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Randal_Schwartz

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Stonehenge_OSCON_parties

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Acme::Playmate_talk

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col59.html
It's actually not that bad but OpenGL (and thus WebGL) is a right-handed system by default (It supports whatever system you want though). And right-handedness is also kind of a standard, think about cross-product, Counter Clock Wise direction, etc...
Wasn't Edison more successful?
I tried Ansible just last week for automating server config and setup as it happens and was really impressed.

I was using shell scripts previously but like the idea I can just spin up a server and from the base OS, run a deploy which will install everything I need from a local recipe, including configuring and restarting services, and have the server ready to use in a few minutes. It took a few hours to learn the ins and outs of their concept of playbooks (just simple recipes for deployment), but I liked the way you can nest these so once you have a setup for say Postgresql that you like it is usable in any other recipes combined with other components.

The best bit is that it can be run multiple times when new configs are added - this means any config changes to say nginx can be done on the playbook and then replayed to send them to the server(s), over and over till the recipe is right. This avoids the biggest problem with fragile servers which is an agglomeration of config changes and ad-hoc installations over original setup scripts. The playbook becomes your server config documentation.

It'd be great if VPS providers had a library of Ansible playbooks - perhaps AnsibleWorks should consider having a library of playbooks which they manage on their website for common OS/setups and are downloadable from there? Their examples don't really cover all the bases as yet (I wanted Nginx/Postgresql for example), and it'd be nice if whatever setup you want there's already a playbook ready for.

I'm sure similar things are possible in other comparable tools like Chef and Puppet, but I liked that Ansible requires nothing on the server, doesn't require git etc. and has a simple declarative language rather than a dsl to learn - the configuration language is very simple - you can start just by executing commands and installing packages and build up from there.

Would anyone care to compare to Chef/Puppet for those who haven't used them?
The C2 TASER doesn't look like it would be easily used with a handgun. I've got a small Surefire with an activation button in the back and a lanyard so I can let go of it if needed.

One needs to distinguish between "a bump in the night" that might be an intruder but probably isn't, and a known intruder. It's impractical to call the police for every instance of the former, and nowadays down right unwise unless absolutely necessary ("Don't talk to the police"). But I would of course hole up and call them if I'm sufficiently certain.
The explanation is lot simpler in practise than most comments have explained so far.

From my own experience, in lame terms, if you use non-black caps, for arguments sake let's say you use a red cap from a coca-cola bottle, that red cap will reflect some light as well as the water.
And inside the room the bottle will not "shine" as bright as it could and depending on the Sun's position the room will have red'ish rays - like a rainbow.

So using any colour cap and covering the bottle cap with old photographic film containers like this one http://www.kveller.com/images/Article_images/film-canister.j...
will prevent the non-black cap from stealing sun rays from the water.
Anytime I see a coupon box the first thing I do is google "X coupon codes". This is a case of someone not understanding their own checkout process.
Most annoying is finding a huge, interesting comment page (200 comments), reading half of it, then coming back later to see 400 comments. No visual diff = scanning and scrolling. Searching the page for "minutes ago" shows me in-the-last-hour posts, which is a happy medium.

Hierarchical comments lead to problems like you describe: 1 8-deep thread can come up from the bottom and dominate the comments page. Sense of time is destroyed as who has time to scan the leaves of a vertically-serialized tree? The same discussion will happen in 3 or 4 branches, confusion builds, and sometimes "see my other post below" comes out. What a mess! Maybe that's just the natural, irreducible 'mess' that comes with human conversation, but I've got a hunch it's not.
Don't forget "perl 6 is a mistake".
We need a new programming language optimized for voice:
https://github.com/pannous/natural-english-script
Since Hyperloop is 'Open Source', I wonder if the Chinese government will give it a go.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of places in Asia and Europe, where public transport is not a dirty word, where people are already trying to figure out a way to make this happen in their backyard.
Virgin has 1 out of 7 Intercity franchises, and none of the 18 regional franchises. And its one Intercity franchise is currently in limbo - Virgin lost it, but has appealed the decision. They've gotten a temporary extension on their contract while the franchise selection process is reviewed.

Most of the other operators have multiple franchises, either directly or through subsidiaries - Virgin is a quite small player.
I have a Macbook pro at work and at home. But I use Linux on all servers. I suggest you consider standardizing on one so you can build up your skillset and be aware of the quirks. E.g. I now understand I'd better do an apt-get update periodically or before I want to install new software. The ubuntu desktop installs with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ... etc. You are right that it is easier to pay the OSX tax and I did. But the Ubuntu/Linux desktop is almost there ... such that I probably would be okay if my next laptop just ran Linux.
They probably could have worded this better:

"Greg Stevens, a lifelong diet and work-out enthusiast, is unimpressed..."

"...It’s all part of the cult of the amateur enthusiast."
If you are disabling the app in the Applications menu in Settings, the process for that app will not be able launch while disabled, so FB won't be able to collect anything.
That's the author's problem for not understanding how affiliates work and setting up a commission structure to work for his particular site.
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This story would have been just as informative without the words "ugly", "shocked", "shyster" and "scam".
I once heard a truck driver call in to a talk radio show to explain his theory that global warming is caused by a decay in the Earth’s orbit. The planet is gradually falling into the sun, which is why things are getting hotter, he said. This man was too uneducated about physics, cosmology, and climate science to realise how comically ill-informed he sounded.

Actually, the writer is the one that's ill-informed. The Earth is constantly falling into the sun. We call that an orbit. Doesn't lead to the truck driver's conclusions, but the author of this should be ashamed.
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I disagree. You could argue that a musician probably thinks "I have to play a D# for one and a half beats" as well. Or they can draw a dotted quarter on the sheet. We have symbolic languages for a reason - they are, once learnt, superior. If anything code needs to move further away from spoken language, more in the direction of APL and its descendants.

A skilled musician likely doesn't engage the speech centres of their brain, they see a note on the sheet and translate it to motion. You should be able to take in the symbol for "apply a function to each item in a vector" at a glance without any clumsy English getting in the way. APL had it right, but coding has been crippled by catering to the lowest common denominator.
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It automatically turns itself off at night. And then back on again in the morning; and not in with the shocking "argh! my eyes!" suddenness of an incandescent, but a gradual taper that allows your eyes to adjust slowly.

Also, you could use a cup and a rubber-band to cover it if you needed darkness mid-day.
I agree. Perl is great and often the fastest way to git 'r done, especially across multiple operating systems.

Perl got a bad rep for two reasons. First, writers of boutique languages wanted a reason to feel good about themselves. Second, certain segments of the Perl community (I won't name names) insisted on writing obfuscated, baffling code that read like line noise from a modem.

The Perl community counteracted this, but there were still enough of these people out there to give it a bad rap.

In the meantime, if you're a Perl programmer who can write functional, efficient, clean and readable code, there's no shortage of stimulating work.
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