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Without passing the suite, you couldn't get the patent licences, so Sun could put you out of business if they chose to. Sun used the test suite to define what was and wasn't "Java" (you had to pass the whole test suite or you couldn't ship product) & thereby prevented anyone else from using the core language in interesting ways that Sun didn't approve of.

Google did an end-run around these restrictions by using the Dalvik virtual machine instead of the JVM where the crucial patents lurked, so Android didn't have to implement the whole of the Java library before they shipped.
Really? So you'd argue that we should sentence people, and pass judgment on groups, without any legal basis?

Without a trial, there is NO VERDICT. The entire point of the judiciary is to adjudicate - and without their judgment, in legal standing (which is what, y'know, laws, such as those being proposed, are based upon), there is no fact, nor precedent.

There's no doubt in my mind that Mickey Mouse and the Legion of Doom carried out the 9/11 attacks. I mean, who needs a trial or a legal process to reach a conclusion about a legal matter?
I kinda think that a solid argument wasn't the point.
A scenario I've seen is "weeeeell, your first year is up; our ToS says we can change the pricing at any time, so it's now $1000/year. Don't like it? All right, but remember, the domain is ours. You're completely free to start your business anew on a completely different domain; how about $10/year for that new domain?"

I would not trust such scheme _at all_ - it is much, MUCH safer to buy the domain and set up the CNAME yourself.
I guess the problem most people see is, why are we making brand new HTML elements for things that are part of HTML5 and or can be done with a simple javascript file.

<x-slider></x-slider> can be replaced by <input type="range">
<x-layout> can be replaced with CSS
<x-datepicker> can be replaced with <input type="date">

etc etc...

I just don't see any reason why we need to create a whole new set of HTML elements that are not part of any HTML spec just so you don't need to add a few more characters. And 90% of these are just polyfills which already exist.

If you want a rapid HTML5 development look up Emmet and add bootstrap or some other giant framework. Don't start making brand new HTML elements that have absolutely no meaning unless there is 150kb's of JS to read them.

Me thinks that is what people don't like.
To get the best of both worlds (in Firefox, but I know Chrome has something similar):

* Go to: about:config

* Search "plugins.click_to_play"

* Enable.
Duplicate of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283241
There are also Red and Yellow flavors of Soylent, from the movie. Green is the "new and improved" flavor. And though I haven't been able to source a direct reference, I think the connotation is only the new, Green flavor has the human secret sauce. Soylent is a total-food substitute for the apocalyptic / dystopian future.

It's still not a great name because it will always bring the negative connotation for those familiar with the movie. But I see where the inventor was going with it.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_%28programming%29

"The identifier in computer source code can be bound to a value during run time, and the value of the variable may thus change during the course of program execution. Variables in programming may not directly correspond to the concept of variables in mathematics."
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I'm starting to think this has to be a viral marketing campaign / social experiment.

It's an interesting premise that people would entrust their long term health to unqualified individuals, who lack the resources to employ qualified individuals, simply for an extra hour everyday.
I suggest starting with the hacker school soylent recipe [1], but eliminate the flax seed in favour of using xanthan gum and inulin as fibre sources, and make sure you blend the lecithin granules into a fine powder before making up the mix. That gives a smooth, pleasant texture and makes it very easy to drink. I'll post the full recipe on http://www.makesoylent.com/ this evening.

1: http://www.cookingfor20.com/2013/06/18/hacker-school-soylent...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665193, in case anyone is wondering.
> Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line for what appeared to be unusual behaviours. As the official Incident Report makes no mention of the BDO’s involvement it is impossible to assess what caught the Officer’s attention, but the TSA source indicates Mr. Mukerjee was already on someone’s radar before he chose to opt-out.

As a Mexican, I laughed loud after reading this:

BDO Officer thinks: "Mhmm.. that guy on the line is behaving brown, better check him out".

Every "brown" (Mexican, middle-easter, Indi or person with similar color) can confirm how they get "randomly selected" in a lot of checkpoints.
While we're at it, why did Ahmed Bougacha register an entire domain for this topic?!?! (srsly, I'm wondering if he's just super-passionate about this topic and had the resources to spare? Is this the beginning of a much larger set of questions related to the topic, etc.? )
>On topic, I'd be happy to offer some advice on how to set up MySQL in a way that limits (or eliminates) the concerns proffered by most "MySQL is not Production Ready" comments

There are no settings for "make triggers actually work", or "remove arbitrary limitations like being unable to update a table referenced in a subquery", or "make views with aggregates perform well enough to be used", or to add expression indexes or check constraints or window functions or let you set defaults to functions or to have a transactional DDL or to make rollbacks not corrupt the database or to allow prepare/execute in procedures or to allow recursion in procedures or to allow triggers to modify the table they were fired against. That's the point, mysql is full of crippling limitations. There are non-broken databases available that are superior in every single way. Thus there is no reason to use mysql. I know quite a lot more about mysql than you seem to think I do, and there is a reason that the only thing I do with mysql is conversions from mysql to an appropriate database that actually works.
If you're talking about the Java windows updater, IME it gives up really easily and then doesn't remember to update until the next patch goes out. Also, aborts if any other installer is running.

OTOH, the Linux openjdk package stays pretty up to date and doesn't install the Ask toolbar ;-).
The other critical element is you'd need to have a situation where a burger was something that really isn't optional, and going without it means you or your children are in pain. This definitely affects the calculus of the decision.
And McDonalds is in the business of real estate, not making burgers.

All I'm saying is that just because they do something day in and day out doesn't make that their business.

To be honest I think doing this to get BTC to sell is a great business model if they trust the price to climb.
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... and the mouse, and the display... just SSH in.

This closely resembles the herd of servers at my disposal. I find it a highly productive desktop environment / user interface.
I've been enjoying using Puma in clustered mode for some production sites, but falling back to Thin for Server Sent Events (new EventSource()) - does anyone know if this is ever likely to come to Puma, or is there a fundamental reason that the Puma process model can't support SSE?
This is a joke. Everyone in the bitcoin community and even in the civilized world believes that the value of bitcoin is going to go up over time.

If they are handling bitcoins then they will be making and losing their daily bread on those obscure forex spreads. The point of using a payment processor is that you don't want to accept bitcoins without a support network and hold them over time by yourself. If that's all you wanted to do, you would use the Satoshi wallet and write some RPC-JSON hooks.
Discovery:

* http://turntable.fm/ambient_chillout_trip_hop2

* http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/

* Last.fm

* several subreddits

Aquiring:

* iTunes

* Amazon

* (rarely) Physical CDs

Managing:

* iTunes, with a playlist for newly acquired music, and the actual files separated by folder based on where I acquired them from (free downloads, bandcamp, Amazon, iTunes, etc)

Backup:

* Dropbox
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Nice calculator; but it misses the currency conversion costs. You can't get $9.46 as a UK merchant - you get paid in £GBP and they add another 2% from mid-market rate - so $9.27 would be more accurate.
I think I've heard of past attempts, but they didn't seem to catch on? This Soylent stuff seems to be "proving" itself; or at least not debunked enough to drop it just yet. If it truly does work, I think a lot of 3rd world countries would benefit from it. So at least for me, I'm interested in the developments of Soylent. In general, I'm interested in any tech that TRULY is world-changing even if it's not in the form of a computer. Now do I think it belongs on HN? That's a bit debatable, but if people are upvoting it(and not gaming the system) then it has the right to be here just like anything else. Maybe HN is slowy changing to be more than strictly 0s & 1s news?
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Interesting, thank you for the education. I always considered "financial independence" having a positive net value/no debt. I guess you can tell what kind of situation I'm used to.
I'm skeptical of articles like this because they tend to draw conclusions from studies that only provide weak correlations. The only concrete evidence I can find is that meditation can help some people relax and temporarily reduce their stress levels. My experience confirms this but I prefer other means of achieving the same effect (like exercising).
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>> An aspect of Soylent that I don't get is the assumption that it gets you out of the drudgery of eating

Maybe not everybody is going to use it as a straight meal replacement. I for one like to think I would enjoy a glass for breakfast. Or maybe even for a quick working lunch, you know, on those days I'm too busy at work to stop and smell the roses and go out for an 1.5hr lunch break.... I've seen sooo many people get up in arms about completely replacing food. "ZOMG WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE LIKE FOOD" etc.. Really, I'm fascinated by the nutrition needs of the human body, and I think trying to cram everything into a drink is a curious concept. And yes, on those days I'm on the road, I think it would be better than stopping at say, Mcdonalds or Subway. Likely in both taste and health.

Also, Only Soylent green is people. All the other soylents (red? purple? I don't remember the colors..) were legit food I believe. I do enjoy the irony though...
No you are wrong. MRP companies are just more careful regarding marketing. Taking a "failing is ok, we'll fix it later" approach to your own health is a terribly retarded approach. Especially because long term effects can take months and years to manifest (lack of nutrients).
As I put in another comment... I can believe that the BDO thought "That guy over there is behaving brown", which made him check him.

That's the problem with USA security, against say the one in Europe or the middle east (I think Israel has very good trained anti-terrorist immigration officers): In these other countries, there are a lot of darkish-skin people, so they really have to learn how to profile someone who is up to something. In the USA? I guess the majority of time they just use the skin color... and that's why they get a lot of false positive, and /very/ annoyed people.
Older products like Ensure weren't good enough to go "all in" on liquid food because they don't have 100% of everything we know we need.
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I don't really see negativity. I see people (including me) not quite getting it and asking for clarification.
I would think it is because of how "modules" can effectively be "bolted" on top of existing things quite easily.

Consider putting a new "module" on a bicycle. If you were doing it statically, it would have to have the screws in the proper place to be able to attach as it needs. Dynamically, however, you just use a zip tie to hold your piece onto the bike.

To be sure, if you buy a nice bike, many of the common attachments have "static" points where things can be added. If you want to place a holder for a phone, however, you are much more likely to do something that is much more adaptable at fitting things on.

becomes much more easy to bolt on funct
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I didn't mean people using hstore, I mean people having relational data, putting it in tables like you would with a normal relational model, but just not using foreign keys and joins because they mistakenly think "joins are slow".
The Spanish had grown up knowing that gold could be swapped into land and wine and women. Get a lot of it, go home, live the good life. I doubt it was more sophisticated than that.

Actually it really was. Spanish, Europeans, Asians, and perhaps other nations elsewhere, tried different methods of exchanging goods. In the beginning they would have exchanged good directly (salt for sheep), but they found this would be very hard because you could not readily divide certain goods and you had to buy significantly more or less of what you needed. Other forms of payments were introduced in different parts of the continents including salt, silk, and even nails in some regision, etc... Then came metal. It wasn't easy to divide, but soon enough they introduced small equally sized weighted metal. But as you can imagine the crooks would mixed different metals, which in the long run lead to coined money to certify authenticity. However Kings started to reduce the quantity of gold to repay debts they owed because it was not so much based on weight, but more so on "coin." There is more, but you would want to read the Origins of Wealth of Nations by A. Smith for more on the subject.

Gold seem to have been a good "currency," (but then again what do you mean by currency) and could have remain such, but the problem has always been the value it was based on and what you could have afforded with it. There layed the problem.

The above is what I understood from Adam's Smith Wealth of Nations, Book I, but I must admit I am still at my first read and perhaps by read 3 I will have a better understanding.
With that in mind, if they want to free up the naked middle-click button they could enroll a bucky bit. Ctrl+middleclick or Meta+middleclick.
Exactly, Soylent Red and Yellow are fine. Soylent is a portmanteau of "soybean" and "lentil", from the book that provides the story for the movie.
(This is completely off-topic, but you only needed about 1/3 of the commas you used. For instance, "if you wanna know, ..." does not need a comma. Your final sentence does not need any commas. Etc.)
Her in Norway most banks have gone together and made a common id system known as "Bank ID" that uses Java. It is used for many online transactions, not just banking. Many can't buy things like movie tickets or online goods without using it.

A total nightmare from a security perspective.
Perhaps simply watching it all unfold as opposed to just going and buying something.

Personally I am curious as to how it works out; I've never been one to buy gels or sports drinks, preferring to make my own because I know what goes in them and can tweak it for me. I get this vibe from the Soylent project.
> So far it seems no-one who has leaked information has had the clearance to get to the truly painful stuff, but the psychological screening to get to those levels is specifically designed to keep potential Snowdens and Mannings out.

This implies that the reason nobody has leaked such things is because it's too high in the security clearance hierarchy and therefore nobody of good conscious has been near it. The reality is much more likely to be a result of compartmentalization rather than "making it high enough security clearance" such that few can reach it - as if getting higher security clearance grants you access to more and more information. Even at the highest levels of clearance, you can only see what it is deemed necessary for you to see.
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not in a rigorous schedule determined by society

Why don't you just eat when you want to? As an adult you do what you feel like doing. This is neither here nor there in the discussion regarding Soylent.

In fact, not eating food as often makes you appreciate it more when you have it.

I fully understand and practice the idea of self-deprivation for heightened experiences (I've followed the consumption habits of Ramadan despite being an agnostic, for example). However this product doesn't deprive you of nutrition or liquids, obviously, and while it does deprive you of taste (or at least good taste), the benefit of real food is that the variety is enormous. You mention pizza, for instance, yet again it isn't the choice of pizza every day or Soylent and then the monthly pizza -- many people with good diets already have pizza so infrequently that it is an enormous treat. The same with a grilled burger. Or a steak. Or a lobster. Or a fresh fish. Or sushi. Or Chinese. Some butter chicken. A turkey sandwich on fresh Rye. Or even, dare I say it, the occasional Big Mac. It goes on forever and ever and ever, such that if I ever lose that delight with food, I'm doing something wrong.
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Exactly. If you want to live on liquids alone you could just stick to milk. I know a cheap person that lived on nothing but oats and milk for quite a while to save money. Nothing I'd do for a new laptop or other equipment.
> It would be interesting if we genuinely tried prison as a reform institution. Stop the violence, stop the drugs, provide real meaningful work, and ... err.

Where is the money in that? Your "clientele" numbers might actually go down - less prisoners == less money.
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I agree completely, I would think that's the exact use case most of us are interested in. It sounds like the perfect breakfast drink or quick on the go lunch.
Thanks! What's wrong with flax seed though? Don't you get a lot of omega 3's from that in addition to the fiber?
> It's an interesting premise that people would entrust their long term health to unqualified individuals

I trust my diet to an unqualified individual (me), as do most people.

> simply for an extra hour everyday

An hour a day is 6% of your waking life.
Should've called it Ecmuino.
Wouldn't rm as part of GNU binutils, be more likely written in Emacs?
He posted it elsewhere in this thread[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283159
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It's like ASP.NET's template processor is coming to the rest of the world.
Everything under discussion is equally optional. You need water to have green grass just like you need to mow the lawn to have short grass. Neither of those things are required by the grass, they are purely optional things society expects of us.
Hmm... a corollary might be that startups (insecure due to their very nature) have a huge edge with regards to standard institutions, precisely because they don't have to deal with security problems.

So, as they grow bigger, they become more inefficient and customers more unhappy (see: Paypal). I hope there are ways to mitigate this.
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Soylent only probably has 100% of what it's testers know they need and who knows how much of what they don't know they need. Ensure is good enough that people live on it, they don't loudly trumpet it as a complete replacement because 1) the market for that is small and it makes you look like a quack 2) people have a variety of nutritional needs based on life style, genetics. Hell ALTITUDE will change your nutritional needs.
You gave the reason yourself: The existing market is segmented, and none of those markets shouts 'average HN user'.

Compare the marketing/segmentation of the existing products:

Senior citizens: For old people / a worse replacement for regular meals / medical.

Women losing weight: I'm fat / unhealthy / a worse replacement for regular meals / temporary, once I've lost the weight I'll switch back.

Bodybuilders: DUDE, CHECK OUT MY LATS. I ALWAYS DO 10 x 10 DP SETS AND THEN SLAM DOWN A PROTEIN SHAKE. DUUUUUDE.

Soylent: For many people, on many occasions, food is a hassle, especially when trying to eat well. It allows one to enjoy the health benefits of a well balanced diet with less effort and cost.

Now which of these is going to attract, and which is going to repel, the stereotypical HN user?

Of course these are stereotypes, but this is marketing, and segmenting often uses stereotypes to push people into making different purchasing decisions: As an average HN user, I'm going to feel weird/wrong buying a women's weight loss shake, or a senior citizens medical food, or a gym expert's protein shake, but I'm going to feel great buying Soylent, because I fit into the marketing.

My point is that none of the existing products on the market market all these points:
* An equal replacement for food, instead of a worse substitute on one axis or another (at least nutritionally);
* An all the time replacement, not just for a specific purpose;
* Market direct to the consumer (this seems to be the issue with some of the replacements used in hospitals).

Now, whether Soylent actually meets these claims, or whether the stereotypes are actually relevant to the contents of the products themselves, is largely irrelevant at this point. This is marketing, and HN users are gullible to it like everyone else. (Personally, I'm rooting for Soylent)

Re the name, which a bunch of people who seriously fail to see why that name: because it is rebellious in exactly the way average HN users are suckers for.
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Stephen Wolfram is doing it too ;D http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
Interestingly enough, the parietal region (which is shown to be thinner in the meditation group) is shown to be thicker than average in the brains of mathematicians: http://www.ajnr.org/content/28/10/1859.abstract?ijkey=c47242...
Interesting. How does one begin to integrate this type of markup with something like Ember or Angular?
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