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This is negative commenting. A new awesome feature came out and you said you don't really care about it unless they also provide X features. But then you gave no argument as to whether or not they already provide X features. This leads the reader to assume they don't, when in reality they actually do. So I'm not sure what your point is?
>"I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when somebody possesses material which is secret without having authority."

Terrifying.

This describes journalists and news organizations unless his proposed ratchet-tightening carves out clear and bold exceptions, which are, by definition, not clear, bold, or easy to define in this age of new media.
Is it just me, or are the words "terrorist" and "terrorism" starting to lose their meanings?
Every kitchen I've ever worked in has a commercial dishwasher. These run for 2 minutes a cycle and would be completely unsuitable to baking potatoes (or anything else for that matter).

I have seen them used to wash potatoes though, to save time. I can't say I thought it was a great idea but it never seemed to kill anyone...
We homeschool and that was the one off the list I bought immediately for my kids.
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I hate to draw the comparison, but it reminds me even more of this:

""What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter."

More: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Outside of the US/Western Europe, many men don't have the most enlightened view of women in the workplace. Perhaps this was her response to biases she rightly or wrongly perceived directly or indirectly.
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You convinced me that paying with cash and carrying change around makes you happy.
Can you elaborate on this?

When I tried it, this feature made me feel very unsafe, in that a small, "unrelated" movement of the mouse could lead to huge modifications to my current desktop workspace (and snap me out of concentration at the very least).

Seems a feature that leads to surprise, a bit like if "i" worked as a toggle both in command mode and insert mode in vim.

I'll note that I'm not bashing the feature, nor a personal preference. I'd like to know what advantages are there, from a knowledgeable user.
Most people don't challenge the states right to keep secrets, what Snowden, Assange and others challenge is the right to commit crimes and keep them secret.
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Only politicians have to pretend that everyone is 100% equal in every way, because they can't afford to offend anyone. pg, on the other hand, doesn't need to worry about that as much because what matters is whether the startup is successful or not. If there is a pattern indicating that a certain group of people are particularly bad at running a business, why should he take the higher risk associated with investing in them?
And who elects them? Politicians ready to bestow favours. Thus we have a self-appointed club. Hereditary peers had at least one worthwhile characteristic in that they owed their position to no one save a long-dead ancestor.
I find this project interesting, especially since it seems to be able to lower my cost of living (currently I buy for around 300 EUR a month of food, using Soylent should be able to lower this to ~220 EUR from what I understand). Yet, at the same time I worry how healthy it would be on the long term. For example, research has shown that vitamin pills are often detrimental to ones health and could even increase the chance of getting cancer. I wonder if Soylent uses much the same ingredients of vitamin pills.
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The wheel came after the button (ie there were 3 button mouses first and the middle button morphed into a button/scroll wheel hybrid later, there was nothing strictly scrolling related to the middle button before.)
It was intellectually in vogue in the 1960's to treat prison as a reform institution. Then the 1970's and 1980's happened, and the great cities of the U.S. dissolved in crime and violence, and those ideas went very much out of style.

I think it's an unfortunate accident of history more than anything else. When I was growing up in the 1990's, us suburbanites from Northern Virginia would never dream of going to D.C. at night. What took the capital of the country and dragged it down into that sorry state was a combination of economic issues, the drug war, deteriorating race relations, political conflict, etc. But whatever the cause was, it happened, and the end result was that we had an entire generation of people (the boomer generation), that saw the purpose of the criminal law as keeping the criminal element from spilling out into civilized society. Hence, the focus was, through the 1990's, "victims rights" and "tough on crime" not rehabilitation.
While I agree with your philosophy of vocabulary here, I've read the Harper article too, it's valuable to state directly that everyone knows there's the _(Programming) article too and is simply disagreeing that its a "good" way to use the term. Anyone who isn't familiar with the distinction in terminology ought to consider what things a programming variable represents that a mathematics variable does not..
They actually do do business with you in the form of a 10 btc limit at ach transfer speeds. For most people this is annoying but sufficient. They're just not willing to, you know, give a total stranger on the internet access to $5,000 worth of instantly-transferable goods without knowing their identity.
Site is very clean and fresh, nice job. Your colour palette is perhaps too simple, most companies go for a a few shades of three complementing colours.

Green is also a colour closely associated with greed and money, or nature and freshness. Neither pair of concepts fit well with your product really.

Content seems well written and concise. You mention an Android version which I don't think the video did.

The last section at the bottom of the page is rendering strangely in Chrome (but not Firefox). Every 'e' has a very heavy weighting on the middle bar, it looks thicker and so every 'e' stands out in that final description beneath the subscription box.
Did you just reply to your own question?
I like the middle mouse paste, or rather the highlight to copy more. But it can catch me out.

What I find catches me out more though, is the tap to click on a touch pad. I do like it, but I often get tripped up by it. I therefore declare It's flawed - rip it out ;)

Good to question these things.

I do think the chorded keyboard shortcuts that may be ingrained in many, are actually a difficult combo for the novice. I'd suggest that a mouse selection is easier, but alas that's a really difficult thing to do for mouse newbs too. I can still struggle with mouse text selection.
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Hyper inflation is hard without an external event (war, loss of all foreign trading partners, etc.). Just an increase in the money supply has very little to do with hyper inflation.
They'd probably be better off trying to jettison the keyboard to simplify the computer interface.
Can you post your recipe?
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Most of these are essays, which together would make up perhaps one of two books. Together with the 4 books listed in the books section of that page, I'd say you have a decent short list.
I was also alarmed by that paragraph.

> Various doctors, dietitians, and food scientists
> have been reviewing our formula and providing
> suggestions as they see fit. We have been listening
> to them and testing these changes in our beta
> program. Each modification requires making a new
> batch of Soylent by hand, shipping them to our
> beta testers, and gathering their feedback, a
> process that takes at least 10 days per revision.

The idea that the dietary advice of a doctor could meaningfully be tested in a few weeks by a beta program of laypeople with no scientific controls is utterly ridiculous.

Even if you had a large beta program and ran each revisions for 100 days, the feedback would be garbage unless you had proper controls and measurements in place.
It almost seems as though you're asserting that facts can only be established by court trials, which is a farcical notion. Sorry, but just because there was never a trial doesn't mean Al Qaeda wasn't behind the 9/11 attacks.
And Haskell's ST monad.
Just kill the fucking applet already, no one uses it. All it does now is give the JVM an undeserved bad name.
Ah - Makes sense.
The bottom is about $30. That's about what my tropical fish tank aquarium heater cost and it'll hold any fishy-temp within a degree, permanently underwater, for years. If you demand a digital dial, or a timer, or perhaps higher wattage to heat up quicker, you might be looking at as much as $50, maybe as much as $100.

A hackerspace project (or startup?) to convert aquarium heaters into perfect hard boiled egg sous vide devices would be interesting and theoretically cheap. There's people who think nothing of $500 for a coffee maker, so they'd probably go $50 for a dedicated egg hard boiler or something like that, which would be well over 100% markup on wholesale prices for aquarium heaters.
I'll add that OSX has a wonderful focus behavior.

As you said, scrolling under pointer is a huge boon, but also clicking on background windows (in most well-behaved apps) usually focuses the window without sending the click to the window (possibly triggering an unintended destructive action).

But the best part is that cmd-click allows interacting with windows without focusing them, allowing all sorts of things like translating your IM window out from under a movie player without covering the video.
The problem with biometrics and the like is that you can always capture the data somewhere along the way and then fake a client to imitate it. So if your passwordish thing gets compromised, your account can be compromised.

And once that happens, you can't change a password that is your face.
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Why would you ask doctors or dietitians for advice about the taste of the preparation?
From what I've seen in the US political and judicial system (I may be too cynical), I believe that the following would happen:

Point 1: The definition of what is "serious" would be so watered down and full of political rhetoric that anyone, at any time could be found to be a 'serious threat'.

Point 2: This would simply increase the amount of 'terrorism' convictions, and may actually lead to a quicker trials and harsher sentences --- surely the police and prosecution wouldn't bring a charge to MY court unless it was serious! Look at the new law that makes it so!

The issue is that the people using the powerful tools are also the same people allowed to write the checks and balances. . . .
I don't want to sound negative, but how is that any better than using jQuery UI and similar tools? In other words, what are the advantages of web components over traditional JS+HTML+CSS?
It's worth noting that OpenJDK has had this fixed for a couple of months now:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2463

AFAIK, Oracle Java 1.6.0 is EOL, and thus does not receive patches in a timely manner (if at all).
Even the (not very scientific) test from the EU Food-Safety-Agency make 90-days trials on animals (and that does not tell a lot imho).

If you want to know, if you are allergic, a short test should be sufficient. If you wanna know, if allergies might be initiated from the food, 10 days don't do much good. If you want to know, if some known things (nutrition, et al) are missing from the "food" 10 days won't do you much good and might only be detected in really rigorous blood-tests.

If you want to check for problems with unknown unknowns (and there are a lot of things we yet do not know, regarding food and our bodies) 10 days are nothing more then a nice joke. (Sorry, but living with a biologist make me quite cynical, when it comes to things, that might just endanger us.)

A really scientific method is something else. They might stumble upon some things, but I'd like to know, if every beta-tester gets his blood-work done before and after every test. How does the testing process in the first place look like (blood tests as said? just taste? subjective feeling after n-days of new soylent version? and so on).

> so everyone will get their complete amino acid profile

No everyone will get a one size fits all amino acid profile. And then comes the problem, that humans aren't "one size fits all". They will probably get a solution, that fits one, two or probably max. three sigma of the targeted population.

To be fair, I love food, so soylent would not be for me. I really think, that a cheap food-replacement that does give most people mostly everything they need in terms of nutrition, might really do a lot of good, if distributed in times of disaster or in regions with problematic food distribution (third world). But that is not the targeted audience as I see it.

It seems to be people who do not value food, but have enough money on their hand, to replace it with this product.
>Think of an employee as operating within a sphere of trust -- a set of assets and functions he or she has access to. Organizations act in their best interest by making that sphere as small as possible.
The idea is that if someone turns out to be untrustworthy, he or she can only do so much damage. This is where the NSA failed with Snowden.

And if you read easily between the lines, this is where the NSA failed us as well.

Snowden's sphere of access was very large. He broke org procedure for the good of all Americans and net users on the planet. What is implied is that existing analysts in like positions have similar access, and can break org procedures for nefarious purposes (indeed, as they already have countless times according to reporting), and no amount of official gov't reassurances on "checks and balances" or "proper procedures" can wipe this fact away.

I wonder how many roles at the NSA have inflated spheres of trust, and about all the little and big ways their operators break org procedures all the time...and especially for what reasons...
For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a trendy topic on HN. If you walk into any grocery store or pharmacy, there are at least two aisles stocked with nothing but meal-replacement shakes.

One of the aisles is targeted at young people, with marketing themes around bodybuilding or triathlon training. The other aisle is targeted at senior citizens, with marketing themes around osteoporosis or longevity. There might be a third aisle, or a portion of one of the other two, targeting mostly women with themes of weight loss. However, it's pretty much the same stuff in the bottle on any aisle.

Soylent looks to be a online aisle, targeting the exact same stuff to tech-savvy hipsters, with themes of lifehacking and and classic sci-fi cinema.

I'm sure that your particular Brawndo is special because it has electrolytes, or whatever, but I don't understand why the underlying concept of a meal-replacement shake warrants so much coverage. This concept isn't the least bit novel.
We at PastBook.com were working on a project to make easier to create books in a collaborative way - allowing people from different places and devices to put photos (but not just photos) together, to create stories and keep those memories save forever, even printing them in a book.

We saw this behavior raising up especially around gifting like "put together some crazy photo for the birthday of a common friend" or "having all the photos of a wedding from the different points of view of the guests" or "collecting the photos from a company party or an event".

Main problem in doing this was that still a lot of users are not sharing all their photos on Facebook or they simply prefer to share them somewhere else.

That's why we started working to extend this feature to allow people to simply put photos together independently from where those photos are posted/shared/saved. Then up-sell premium services like, for instance, printing.

We were not ready to launch, but I put together a landing page on unbounce (http://hello.pastbook.com/shared-albums-for-everybody/) to receive feedbacks and beta users, just posted on hackernews few minutes ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283051).

It's built from developers with developer in mind: we'll allow every other photo-app to use our API to push/get content from these shared albums and provide books (PDF/PRINTED) on demand, as potential revenue stream for a lot of startups in the photography business looking for monetization channels.
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Indeed. The title is a little misleading (they agree, rather than debate) but I wouldn't have gone to the comments without the hint.
What the hell makes this guy a lord? Secrets are secret because they are controversial or out right illegal (from what Snowden has showed us at least).
So what he's basically telling us is the government should be allowed to be above the law because they need to catch terrorist while at the same time broadening the definition by including journalists reporting of the truth.
The only people these journalists re terrorizing are the people in power who are hiding their abuses of power by classifying them top secret.
I think the easy opt out here then is to say that governments shouldn't be secret, but the military can. But then you get to the strange point, as to whether the government can trust the military.
I clicked the link with excitement that this was some sort of intellectual discourse on implication on brain of stationary posture while computing(i.e., not moving hands away from keyboard for a very long time).

I am disappointed.
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I love food too. If I weren't a programmer I would be a chef. But just like sex, I want to have it when I feel like it, not in a rigorous schedule determined by society.

In fact, not eating food as often makes you appreciate it more when you have it. Go three months without eating pizza and then have some, how did it taste? Now eat pizza every day for three months and then have some more, how did it taste?

I currently eat once a day and I would gladly replace some of my meals with this drink. That would allow me to eat, say three times a week, enjoying the food that I really crave. As a food lover, this is the perfect product for me.
Looking at his code it becomes fairly obvious that he's not a very good Perl developer. That neatly explains why the perl row has so many mistakes.
How would the second scenario occur with BTC? The start of the process is Alice paying.
I've discovered that there are two types of people: Those who live to eat and those who eat to live. I am the former, and Soylent seems to target the latter. I am always looking forward to my next meal. I love to eat, and removing that would be removing a large part of what makes life fulfilling for me.
Ask HN: Buying domains on behalf of users, good idea or bad idea?
It seems like there aren't any web services/applications out there that will register domains on your behalf. Imagine signing up for mybiz.yourapp.com and then paying $10/year to get mybiz.biz and a CNAME.

Is there a good reason not to do this? Are there any registrars that have "merchant accounts"? (Googling around is not serving me well here.)
Unfortunately people do still use it. Including some online banking sites.
What's interesting here is that they would Facebook rather than LinkedIn. Perhaps the LinkedIn network will suggest "Can you afford to pay?" while Facebook is "Are you inclined to?" Or perhaps they're targeting low income folks who aren't on LinkedIn?
Call me naive. but I've never understood why it is so difficult to simply thwart brut-force attacks by setting limits on how many times a password can be entered. Wouldn't that simply defeat all efforts if, e.g., after 20 password attempts the account is locked and has to be manually unlocked through a human process or simply locked for a certain amount of time that would seriously thwart the effectiveness of additional attempts.
Do you mean the Java browser plugin? If so, I agree with you, but this is still a serious issue even if you just have Java installed for desktop applications.

EDIT: To elaborate on jokc's reply (who appears to be shadowbanned), it seems that this exploit is only a problem for applications that use Java's sandboxing features, and the browser plugin is the best example of this -- but desktop applications can use these features too.
Uh, they weren't "tasked with" it. You make it seem like they got this impossible assignment from somebody. They started the project themselves, then hyped it up before they had anything useable.

Nobody really contributes because it's a dead-end project, no matter how many contributors there are. As somebody else in this thread mentioned, "social" is not a software problem.
I'm not sure I get it.. There are already several two way DOM <-> data binding frameworks, e.g. Angular, knockout, ember. What does this do differently? It reads more as a presentation layer thing, but presumably you could do this with one of the above frameworks right now...

Perhaps a walk though of how to build a complete brick would be useful in demonstrating to differences and uses. Does anyone know of one - I couldn't find such a thing in the docs?
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That certainly may be one reason. Another reason may be that he understood the problem he was solving extremely well.
As an old timer, I remember the "useless pages" from the end of the last century which had a useless page daily.

Good to see the concept resurrected.
Can anyone who's used Puma on Heroku comment on how it compares to Unicorn?