skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a scam, but simply unawareness by Kogan. Affiliates want to make money - they're rational people. They'll do anything to make money as long as you don't take action.

The funny thing is if you forbid affiliates to have discount codes/coupons, affiliate marketing is not worth it at all. It's only the loopholes that keep affiliate marketing as profitable as it is right now. I mean who in their right mind would want to exert effort to bring traffic where .01% of it converts just for a measly 5% commission? No. You have to cheat a little to make it worthwhile.
Zappos understands that coupons are bad for all sides of the equation. Just give customers the best possible price. Then you don't have to worry about people hijacking your checkout process (which you are pretty much responsible for causing if you use coupon codes).
"Greg Stevens, a lifelong diet and work-out enthusiast, is unimpressed by Silicon Valley’s attempts to re-engineer – or completely do away with – food. It’s all part of the cult of the amateur enthusiast."

Is it ironic that his position of expertise here is as a amateur diet and workout enthusiast as he berates amateur enthusiasm everywhere? This article is definitely part of the cult of amateur enthusiast...
BRB, need horses and guns.
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Neat idea, but you're going to have to refactor many lines of code each time you wrap elements in a new parent element. In other words, this is a ball & chain for
your markup.
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In high school I had friends convinced I'd hacked Microsoft using this trick when they saw my IRC handle on a whois.
I do a fair amount of Perl hiring, and here in the south bay (silicon valley), it's been pretty easy to hire good Perl talent.
This coupon code is a slap in the face
I've been interested in trying this out as I've been mostly tinkering with Chef and Puppet...

Can anyone who's worked with Puppet/Chef and Ansible offer some insights?
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>The Soylent guy is so ignorant of basic nutrition that he had iron-deficiency arrythmia,

So? Once you add feedback (blood tests, medical supervision) to your dietary "loop", these mistakes have the potential to sort themselves out.

>Ignorance of such a broad field should not be seen as heroic when you are potentially placing people's health at risk.

Some people's health is at risk simply by maintaining their normal eating habits.

>Placing a legalistic figleaf over the top does not make the ethical problem go away.

What ethical problem? Don't participate if you don't like the terms. It is not as though the stuff is being tested on schoolchildren, or anyone who is unwilling.
Ask HN: Links to learn like in college?
I'm a 21 y/o male living in Uruguay. Unfortunately, colleges here are unfair and expensive (aren't they everywhere)
I have good experience in java and some in python

Question: What are good pages to get a college-like education in programming?
I don't think this is "scamming the affiliate", but simply testing the price elasticity of demand. Nothing wrong with that.

By simply testing different pricing models the author observed this demand anomaly, which leads him to uncover the platform's modus operandi.

I just wanted to point out that that part of the story is not that clear/well explained.
That Helios article is just terrifying
Yes, let's ignore non-native English speakers' mistakes. That way, they will never learn, and we can continue to subjugate them, along with those for whom English is a first language, but cannot speak it correctly, probably because they were never taught that "should have" is not spelt "should of" and that their "they're"s aren't quite there.
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News type of website for game development?
Ahoy,

I've been lurking on HN for a few years now, and it's always good for a great read, but I am always looking for more sources of information around the industry I work in: video game development.

Just wondering, are there other communities or news aggregators out there specifically for game development?

I am aware of the bigger sites and subreddits, but always looking for more!
It would be interesting if instead of windows, people wore (as an option) something like the ideal version of Oculus Rift, or some other form of VR/AR. Traveling 1Mm/h and it all feels like flying through the air in a comfy seat.
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Company logic: Because why make a discount for you if you're buying anyway.

Coupons codes are usually part of ad campaigns.
It bears repeating, over and over, that this is not how it was originally pitched. That is not the marketing at all.

It is being marketed as a total meal replacement. There is a thin bit of legalese to cover them in case some poor bastard will die of malnutrition.
I'm prepared to stand up (coward level: coward) and point out Obama's address is titled http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/09/protecting-our-sec... "protecting our security and preserving our freedoms" which is "..."

A King-Kong level MEH.
I really want to use ansible (currently using salt), but I'm still waiting for the apt_repository pr[0] to get merged.

[0] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3783
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Looks as if whois name.com is (surprisingly?) not only looking up 'name.com' but every domain that starts (not: ends) with 'name.com', such as 'name.com.someother.com'.
On how much browsers has this stuff been tested ? because that's the point of jQuery , you can trash it all you want jQuery has been battle tested on a large number of browsers and plateforms. Other DOM frameworks not so much, that's why they fail.
> ...file it away for verification/thinking as we read the article, then revisit that after we've been presented much more of the article.

That's exactly what skeptical means.
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Not sure if it is a complete replacement, but I needed to remove a dependency on jquery recently and used this code:

https://github.com/inkling/backbone.native/blob/master/backb...

The $.ajax function was all I needed.
>If we were happy that it was properly functional, we wouldn't be looking to upgrade it.

That doesn't follow. You can still upgrade something that is properly functional.
I think most people would prefer to live if they're starving. Soylent potentially solves a lot of logistical issues in feeding starving populations.

Also, trail mix doesn't negate Soylent being a good alternative.
I really like what you have said about enjoying the journey :)
You're right. I think he was referring to himself as being a spy before all of this, as in working for the US intelligence agencies. Probably? I'm not sure what else that could mean.
It seems far too simplistic to declare "Macaw will make you into a lazy designer" or "Macaw will transform the way we design the web". Both sides seem to ignore the fact that Macaw is a tool, not the tool.

Macaw (or something that builds off of what Macaw starts) will find a niche in prototyping designs that handcoding will be too slow to do.

Handcoding will remain the backbone and the quality control.

I work with a lot of folks that produce content but have no need, and no time, to learn HTML/CSS. But a tool like Macaw can allow them to deliver content in a way that I can refine instead of building from the ground up. Now, that flow may end up being a terrible waste of time, but a tool that met that niche well would be a welcome addition to my life.

I won't be building a site with Macaw - but I will gladly accept content designed in Macaw to build off of.
I don't. I have no interest whatsoever in what your face looks like, whereas I might be interested in your ideas. In this case I actually skipped the video and just read the text summary, expecting it to have better information density. My suggestion for improvement would be a little more discussion of what concrete benefits would be provided by the availability of the proposed software, and evidence that the work can be done for such a small sum of money.
Can you reduce your server costs?

At around 0.16K per request * 5,000,000 requests = 800,000K (781.25M) * 30 days = about 23.5G per month. That is well under the 1TB you'd get per month for a $5 VPS at some place like https://www.digitalocean.com.
I totally agree: daycare is the market. The only reason I'm marketing to stay-at-home parents and nannies is because the app doesn't really have to change in order to do so, and because parents are very vocal online and can really help spread the word. I might drop the parent/home angle eventually. We'll see.

Yeah, the book and the app are totally separate audiences. Not ideal, but that's how it turned out. Munchkin Report is my personal Bingo Card Creator (h/t patio11).
On OS X main was wrapped in a function that made it work with the Finder (manipulating an argv containing --psn).

It was annoying to me because I worked on a application that did the same thing internally and where SDL was not a hard dependency. But well, it's not that bad as I make it sound.
Do people really do this?

Yes, they do. Those few seconds are a great time to sift thru emails ("junk...junk...junk..."), check weather for the next hour while I'm outside (Dark Sky; "aw, man, it's gonna rain in 10 minutes"), watch short videos ("awright, what's this 'You Shall Not Pass' goat video?").

And I take my iPad to lunch to facilitate any interesting, albeit idle, chats ("have you heard of X?" "yeah, look at this" [pulls up webpage]).

Yeah, you're sick of technology. Some of us are addicted to it. Well, a LOT of us.
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How the hell did he not notice his overall sales not being affected by $200k/wk. I figure you'd be able to tell right away if your sales went up that much.
Yes. Also please video this and put it on YouTube.

Would make an interesting "how far a person can get trying to bite a wild cow in the neck before being trampled to death" case study.
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW): http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/

CourseRA courses: https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&lngs=en&ca...
Thanks for sharing!

Just watched it and I find it awesome, not just for the voice recognition but as well as a nice spoken out video of VIM usage. I learned some of nice things that I will use now more regularly in VIM.
Just using the native XMLHttpRequest has pretty good support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...
So by that argument, I can replace 90% of my food with Soylent, and get the other 10% as I normally would?

Also, how do I know I'm getting the correct mix of everything? If I go by cravings, then the stuff I'm missing is usually ice cream or cake or candy...
Hiring a good editor on your own seems far more valuable than giving up control of pricing your own ebooks, and getting 17cents[1] on the dollar for digital royalties though.

[1] http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/acquisitions-editor.ht...
Government would be the slickest grease to get this problem solved quicklky as he direclty outlines in his plan. If you want to lay 1000 miles of track (or tube) through private land, you need to get about 50,000 signed up. His plan to put it alongside a highway means you only need one approval.
> What ethical problem?

That he is wilfully avoiding the advice of the experts who study this full time, has demonstrably already made dangerous errors and could reasonably do so again.

He continues to hint that Soylent will be a total meal replacement while using paper-thin disclaimers to try to excuse himself from wrongful death and preventable illness lawsuits by relatives and insurance companies.

He is aware, because numerous nutritionists have now explained these facts to him, that a total meal replacement is not possible in the long run. Actual food contains a wide variety of nutrients, only some of which are known about, some of which are essential to life in differing degrees for different people.

At the point where your product + blood panels is only breaking parity with the standard western diet, then you need to rethink the development and plausibility of such a product.

If I was selling flying cars right now that did no more than eventually catch fire, I would be dragged into prison for fraud and being a danger to the public. But because this bloke is selling it as a "supplement" while all the press is about total meal replacement, it's A-OK. Hunky freaking dory.

It's unethical. But people want to believe.

That's the basis of marketing: a person willing to believe an impossible claim and another person willing to lie.
Huh, that's interesting, I hadn't heard about that before.

I don't think most people will find this helpful though. One of the main problems is that the chip vendors don't tend to release the hardware specifications and development tools.

Several of the USA carriers are itching to phase out all their 2G networks, so that they can re-use that spectrum for LTE. So a 2G baseband has limited usefulness moving forward.

Adding to that, implementing any kind of 3G (WCDMA, HSPA) is an order of magnitude more complex. Just the handoffs between a 2G and 3G cell tower are complex.

Sadly, LTE is sort of simpler than the 3G technologies, because its all just data (no special transfer mode just for voice). However, instead just going all IP protocols for voice and other services, they decided to implement a host of new and complex protocols for Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE). And some of the current chipsets now have to handle handoffs between LTE, 3G and 2G.

So this open-source stack will not get carrier approval. And even if it were to get popular, the FCC would likely throw up a stink, and the carriers would start banning users that are using a non-approved 2G stack. They would be somewhat justified in that because the existing baseband implementations go through extensive (and expensive) compatibility testing to make sure they place nice with the network under all possible conditions.

If you want to do open-source radio, your first fight is to get some spectrum that can be used unlicensed. There's big competition for the best frequencies (that can carry enough data and have decent range), so the spectrum auctions cost billions of dollars, and the winners are the existing major players.
The public in East Asian countries see public transit in a different light than most North Americans, partly due to a lack of cars and the population density. They are probably the some of the few governments that can afford to foot the bill for such an unproven project with potential for dramatic benefits (and cost savings over building HSR), but also with the risk that the 10 billion or so could go down the toilet. Europe would be another ideal target, but I doubt any governments there have the appetite for big capex infrastructure projects right now.
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Pretty much this. I've been drinking a concoction of Spirulina, Hemp fiber+protein, Rice milk, and MCT oil, for a couple of months now, and not only is it cheaper than most commercial MRPs (including soylent), I've found it to be much more satisfying and about as nutritious as well. That being said, I haven't exactly ever tried to live off any MRP for any prolonged period of time, which I guess is the 'novel' claim this product is being pitched under. At least they seem to be open-sourcing the recipe and keeping it relatively simple (as far as MRPs go).
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Nursing home patients, some seniors, and those who cannot eat regular food (i.e. those with advanced MS) depend on them to survive.
If you're hiking significant distances carrying light, dry trail mix is much better than carrying heavy liquid Soylent.
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"Yes, Perl6 was announced in 2000, but the actual implementation effort (both Parrot and Pugs) started in 2005."

But if we believe in the Osborne effect, then already from 2000 the announcement of Perl 6 started to eat momentum from Perl 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
I wrote a silly (unfinished) game about 10 years ago, and SDL portability never ceases to amaze me. The game has been ported to devices I didn't even know they existed.

It's amazing because I did it for fun and I used some data structures I would have never expect to be so portable (ie. using a double linked list of objects in static memory instead of alloc/free). I wonder if that's why it works even in very limited hardware.

My favourite, the game running on a TI-Nspire calculator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=acdAqxiwG7I&t=15
> So there literally is no such thing as “the perfect mix of vitamins, minerals and nutrients” for all human beings. A mix that is optimized for a 20-something inactive underweight male could quite easily kill a 60-year-old woman or a 30-year-old athlete.

The writer seems to be making two assumptions:

(1) if everyone eats the same food, it will cause health problem, including death, for many

(2) if people individually choose what to eat, they'll mostly eat healthier than if they all have the same diet chosen for them.

Are these assumptions true? To find out, we'd need to do an experiment. However, the experiment has already been done: during WW2 in Britain food was rationed and everyone ate what bureaucrats in Whitehall decided they should, not what they wanted to. The result? The nation's health improved.

So Stevens appears to be wrong.
"It's bad because it's not tailored."

And still I buy pants at the Gap.
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allanmacgregor: No attitude at all! If only you knew my humor (which is poor) you'd know that I was being sarcastic about me doing a 30-minute screencast and it turning out poorly. :-)

I think you're making some great points. I'm a developer myself. And I like to tinker. But I like to tinker with the parts of the tools that matter to the user (my personal preference). For instance, I love GitHub. It is an incredibly useful tool. But I can't change GitHub.com or edit the way it works. With Barley I think the parts that can not be changed by developers (right now, the API is about it) is the part that developers wouldn't care to change. It is a vanilla CRUD system. That's it. But the editor, templates, and the way users interact with site content is all customizable by people. A great example is our Cypress theme. http://github.com/plainmade/cypress -- It allows people to manipulate data and forms and images in ways I've never seen another CMS do. And that is at the template level.

Thanks so much for your feedback Allan.
Thanks for writing! I can also imagine that when there's one very long tube there's going to be a lot of the length change with the temperature, ideally one wouldn't want to have any hard joints at all to allow the individual pieces to extend and shrink. One hundreds of miles long welded tube does sound potentially problematic.
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So let me see if I have you right.

1. Nutrition is an ongoing research project.

2. Therefore wilful ignorance is better than being versed in what is currently understood.
I love the concept, but I couldn't figure out how to make the server inventory dynamic. I tag a lot of instances and want to use the AWS API to grab a list of tagged instances to automatically build the server inventory on execution.

Since the instances are so variable (auto-scaling etc.) I see that as a killer feature. Maybe I have to dig deeper, but I spent some time evaluating it against Chef/Puppet etc. and I couldn't find anything.
Fair points. I think it's good that we're focusing on the video, BTW.

>Why wouldn't Krikorian, a former LA Times reporter, want to not break the biggest story ever, proving Hastings was driving 35MPH?

I have no idea. Maybe because he's a former reporter? Some other reason? I don't know. But, I think it's good to keep focusing on verifying or refuting the numbers from the video.

>Hastings was travelling between 45MPH and 55MPH?

That's what I get.

>It'd be interesting to get accurate measurements and use some video analysis to get a real answer.

It would be good to have more precise numbers (distances, times, etc). But, even with rough (but reasonable) numbers, this takes us way under 80MPH and definitely the 100MPH that some have suggested.

But, doesn't it seem like such analysis should be part of the police investigation?
You may have noticed that WW2 rationing was of food.
I wonder how long till AWS provides some form of realtime websocket/whatever connection service. (I admit it will be some time before things are stable enough to make it sensible for AWS to get involved).

This marks as interesting expansion nonetheless. Probably need to work out what extra cost of this is like (pretty hard to compare though)
If the Gates Foundation really does eliminate polio and make any sort of dent in malaria, that sets a very high bar for Must to jump over.
In what way is this different from jquery? You can do this too:

HTML.find('body section .identity')

which is just like jquery's

$('body section .identity')

and both depend on the structure of your document, so if the doc changes, the code must change.
Yeah it might add some overhead, but showing what has changed since you last visited the page (different color for the comment seems straightforward) would be pretty cool.
Soylent solves no such problems that haven't already been "solved" by existing, better-formulated temporary meal replacements already used by organisations such as Medicin sans Frontier when it is medically sensible to do so.

Logistics are not the cause of starvation. Local poverty is. Selling a bloody expensive powder doesn't seem to be the magic ticket here.
I think it's going to be interesting to read about this as I'm sort of building a SaaS myself as well. Subscribed to the blog feed
can you elaborate on why you are moving away form salt?
I'm the open source curriculum coordinator at Pluralsight. We would love to commission a video to help devops people learn and use Ansible. Email geoffrey@pluralsight.com if you're interested.
Alternate title: "Shooting Ducks In A Pond - It Is So Much Easier To Snipe From The Weeds Than To Actually Create Something Valuable"

What is this guy's argument? That doctors and nutritionists had to study hard, and if none of them decided to do it then it must be a bad idea? Rhinehart's idea isn't even new, he just managed to get it in front of the right audience.

>Unfortunately, such idealism doesn’t survive contact with reality.

Maybe Rhinehart will fail. So what? It is a pretty low-risk project. I don't think anybody is going to drop dead, and if anyone does manage to hurt themselves, they will probably only do so after ignoring some warning signs. OTOH, if he is in some way successful, he will have advanced nutritional science where domain experts failed to do so.
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Corporate risk taking unrelated to top executive pay - Cornell University study
"Cutting or regulating the paychecks of top executives won’t avert future economic crises and recessions because the source of corporate risk taking and fraud typically emerges from non-executive employees, according to a leading financial law expert at Cornell University."
This 'bid' is 9% the cost of the train bid, and there is already a government budget for it.

I am not from California so I am not familiar with the HSR project. But this doesn't seem right to me. HSR is proven and Hyperloop is experimental. Why is it plausible that the same route for both would be cheaper on the one that is going to require more engineering and V&V?
great idea. there is so much in jquery, which we can lose. having thin layers on top of the standards is the way to go. what about events?