skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are concerned about the hype? Not the product?

Where 'the hype' includes claims of total meal replacement over long periods of time.. yes.

I don't think many, if any, people are concerned that this stuff is literally toxic. The concern is what will happen if you use it as advertised: constantly, exclusively, for extended periods of time.

People eating McDonalds for every meal every day of the week is troubling, I don't think anybody actually suggests you do that. McDonalds certainly doesn't suggest that you do that, though I sometimes feel that many people wish they did suggest you do that so that McDonalds would be easier to flay alive. Being appalled by McDonalds is an international sport after all...

There really isn't that much of a problem with eating a greasy deep-fried cheeseburger once in a while, and there isn't a problem with skipping a meal or two and having a shake instead. That isn't what concerns me, that isn't what seems to concern DanBC ("I think that's the worrying thing about Soylent. I really wish they'd kept it experimental, or pushed it as suitable for daily use but not all meals, or some such."), and that isn't what I see concerning other people in this thread. The literal product, the substance Solyent, is almost certainly perfectly fine to consume. So are cheeseburgers.
That one is easy and can easily be summed by quoting the wisdom of our savior Snoop "Doggy" Dog:

I'm in it to win it and No Limit is my home.

(I secretly hope that RapGenius applied to YC with this. Woul've been the best application ever.)
I'm not sure if anything will displace Excel (or spreadsheets in general).

But what I'd like to see is a generalization beyond columns/rows/sheets for relating data of various dimensions. The underlying data type would probably be a list (so lisp) but have options to enable order, array access, key->value access, etc. Cell references would work more like in programming languages and operate over ranges that aren't just two dimensional.

So a spreadsheet would be a subset of this. So a set of columns with array access, a set of rows with array access, a notation like column-row for cell references, and all of the operators like $ for absolute references, etc.

I guess the underlying data structure could be a relational database but I'd prefer something human-readable like JSON with a thin notation over it for expressing relationships between structure members. You could use something like the Subtext editor to work on it but maybe if the syntax was easy enough you could write it manually.

I think the real power of this would be if relationships could be executables (like how Excel macros work but with stdin/stdout/stderr and black box scripts written in any language). Imagine being able to call sed/awk or really high level tools like Go/Erlang and Matlab/Octave per-cell the way we use SUM in Excel..
To me the problem is the combination. Soylent market themselves as a full meal replacement solution, no extra nutrtition required. This means they need to prove that a) it does provide everything the body needs, and b) that continuous consumption has no bad side effects.

Mcdonalds on the other hand never market their food as a complete meal replacement solution. In fact, here in the uk, they're very careful to point out you still need a healthy balanced diet (admittedly due to regulations, but still... They do it, Soylent don't)
The only tech business I can think of that meets your description is Pinboard - how do you assess the apps/sites/businesses against your criteria?

Thinking about it some more, most things I "fund" are a bit like this:

* Mailpile

* HabitRPG

* Ubuntu Phone (RIP)
Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?
here you can download the .docx file (you need Word 2013 to open it):
http://www.upir.org/
he's now known as snoopzilla
True. Many days its much, much less. Four hours is a really good day when I was focused and cranking. Most problems that I can just crank out some code to solve (without any real thought behind it) I've automated out of existence.
One thing that I have to say is that this seems like a premature optimization. That being said, Cloudflare does a good job of this for us.
Love your project - were you experienced as an illustrator when you decided to do this? What was the purpose behind it?
That's crazy. If I remember correctly, my current company will only offer 29 days of PTO after 10 years of service. PTO includes sick days.

Then again, I frequently hear that the US falls far, far behind in these matters compared to other countries.
Product Simplicity as a Feature
Not only that. Each request is isolated in its own container. This way one user of your application cannot gain access to data of another user by simply exploiting an application bug.
If you want it so much, you don't have to wait for Soylent, there are other, proven supplements on the market today. I make use of one daily.

But, guess what... it isn't cheap because they've actually researched this stuff and got it past FDA.
This article does not mention that the Minitel was a rip-off. All services were extremely expensive (3617 being the most expensive, at around 1€/minute). It was also investing on people's credulity at the time: for example, expensive Minitel services avdertised in video games magasines targeting teenagers.

And for information, Free is not the largest ISP in France, Orange is.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_%28soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%29
Bread + protein (peanut butter, lunch meat, etc.) + (possibly some vegetables, i.e. lettuce, tomato) is pretty easy to get under $2.00.
What's the record amount of applicants per batch so far?
I've had a similar experience with eBay half the hassle with eBay for me is putting up the listings because their listing tool is so darn complicated.
Small tip: It could just be me, but the color of some of the text makes it difficult to read.
Big congrats to Cam and the whole team! I work for one of the other companies from their TechStars class, they were a blast to have in San Antonio.
Soylent does not require refrigeration.
> "Do you ask for the same level of rigorousness when McDonalds release a new item on their menu?"

If this new menu item is intended to be eaten full-time to the exclusion of everything else: yes.

If Soylent's angle was "running late? don't have time? give Soylent a go!" I don't think anyone would have a problem with it. The claim that bothers people is that it obviates the need for any other food.
Power Computing was doing pretty well, even though Apple wouldn't allow it to make notebooks. And then, of course, Apple/Jobs bought back its license and eliminated the competition....
Apologies; That's only for long-term storage, where the $.90/month per cubic foot is significantly less than the $4.24 ($22.5/half-year, ~$.49 per month) that Amazon charges past the first year.
6 Startups: FarmLogs, COLOURlovers, Apportable, Kytetime, FundersClub, Upverter
So costs get included when they reach a level somewhere greater than 19 cents but less that 50 cents. Got it. Thanks.
You say that unix is confusing. Unix isn't confusing. It's just unfamiliar to you as it was to me at one point. The way you get better is that you push through the unfamiliarity and keep going until you solve the problem you're facing. Sometimes it's painfully slow to acquire the knowledge you need, but that's just part of the process.

All that knowledge accumulates over time and you build skills about how to learn new things.

That's what allows people to pick up new technologies easily. Hard work, previous experience with similar technologies, and some intelligence (which you obviously have already).

I would recommend that you install Ubuntu in a virtual machine (VirtualBox is a good choice) and see if you can get some Python programs running. That process alone will teach you a lot.

For what it's worth, RoR and the Heroku stack are not basic and you shouldn't feel bad for not picking the up quickly. There's so much context that you need to have to understand what's going on and to use those technologies effectively. I bet if you polled your classmates the majority of them haven't even heard of Heroku.
Maybe I just misunderstood you. What do you mean by "thermic effect of water falling"?
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It's a shame the PHP lib has a completely static API. It makes it very hard to mock when doing unit testing.
Performance Comparison Between Node.js and Java EE
That's exactly why I am still astonished at the fact that developers aren't getting what they deserved on the app they may have spent so much time making. I guess people now are just being "cheap" and not wanting to pay those extra $1-2. That's why I respect the guys that made 'Mail Pilot' because they are charging a fair $14.99 for their email client that is so worth what they are asking for it.
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I always wonder what happens with a resubmit (I must have done it tens of times), does the original date still stand? Does it push it to the end of the queue again? Do you see all the revisions?
The sticky footer on the bottom of the homepage blocks the bottom options. I'd make it not sticky ;)
Are you ready kids?!

Aye, aye Captain!
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Updated results[0]#

pop/mil votes density
----------------------------------------
Australia/NZ 27.6* 351 12.7
Canada 35.1 385 11.0
Scanda-Nordic 26.2 279 10.6
UK 63.8 497 7.8
USA 316.8 2445 7.7
Europe Western 191.5 719 3.8
Europe Eastern 161.0 254 1.6
Europe Southern 151.2 138 0.9
Russia 143.5 49 0.3
Japan 127.2 42 0.3
South America 402.8 133^ 0.3
South Korea 50.2 14 0.3
India 1235.3 288 0.2
South East Asia 602.4 129 0.2
Southern North Am 203.0 34 0.2
Other 320.9 49 0.2
Middle East 515.7 64 0.1
China 1391.6 81 0.1
Africa 1085.4 57^ 0.1

# As at time of posting

* Australia/NZ population is NOT treated as Oceania, because on reflection I don't think Oceanic voters would have picked the question as posed. Oceania has been rolled into 'other'.

^ Combined votes for northern and southern regions.

[0] Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...
Thanks, adding some contrast :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_resident#Matching_algo... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem offer clues.
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Yes, yes, of course they are a 501c3.

However, reality demonstrates that Universities are most definitely for profit. This is embedded in their operating principles. Have you worked with the Office of Technology Licensing?

This includes that you would call "nonprofit" according to IRS, but this is actually an issue that has been debated since Bayh Dole by people who understand the subtlety of what I'm talking about. In short, the very definition of nonprofit itself is inadequate the span the nature of corporations which are under 501c3.
Find a local hackerspace. They'll probably take them and re-use them or dispose/sell them for you.
Give me your twitter password and I'll lock you out, then write you an app that only lets you tweet after solving a soduku.
Google Analytics for the real world.
check out infoscout.co : InfoScout Tells Brands Who Buys What By Getting Meatspace Shoppers To Photograph Receipts.
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Have you gone ahead and looked at specifically what job you want to be doing in "aerospace engineering". It's like someone saying they want to do chemical engineering or mechanical engineering. Within each there is many many different jobs.

Once you know this, how likely is it that you will be able to break in with your degree? Can you break in without the degree?

Personally, unless you truly are committed and really want to do this, further education isn't an answer. You will be losing four years of income plus career growth.

Based on your description of the work you have been doing, you could likely get a good job outside academia. Maybe what you are really looking for is a change of environment.
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I think "Bildschirmtext" was a similar service that launched around the same time in Germany and also foreshadowed a lot of what the internet is now. Online shopping, forums, real time messaging, online dating, etc.
"Soylent is marketing 14-21 meals/week"

I'm pretty sure this was exactly my point. Soylent's original angle was as a total replacement and they've already started moving the goalposts to 14. 14 meals a week is the same thing that Slim Fast has pitched since the late 70's and no this wasn't just for occasional meals or 2-3 days at a time, customers were encouraged to follow Slim Fast's 2 shakes a day as a long term solution.
Better that than patent drugs.

Now, the FDA process may be inefficient or unnecessarily expensive, but long term clinical trials are not something that we should be eager to dispose of.
Ask HN: Favorite domain registrar?
This has come up before, but it's nice to revisit every now and then in case some new, better options have surfaced.
Two simple changes to make Bing better
Training Like Tesla: Six Month Review
I haven't been to Sweden, but I assume he's talking about not being that keen on hanging out at the shopping mall where you get overcharged for shitty food when you get hungry from buying too much stuff you don't really need and spending half an hour looking for parking space after a 30km high-traffic ride from home.
> From what I can tell, it's fairly new and unique ...

It isn't, and it looks there was even an American company which tried to sell something similar (total meal replacement) in the past and failed. Maybe someone HNer will remember the name, as it was commented on a previous Soylent article.

> ... and still isn't marketed in quite the same way.

It isn't marketed in quite the same way because Abbott (the manufacturer) is a responsible company and is well aware a fully enteral diet has drawbacks.
Thanks @gleb, I know I probably won't hear from YC, but you know the adage:

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Rescale runs acoustic emissions analysis in the cloud
> As far as the video thing, the only reason I can imagine is because MRIs are basically huge magnets so they have to build the whole thing out of non-ferrous materials. Plus the customary medical equipment mark up, but still that can't actually be $40k.

There is another solution, which is to use a reflective surface at 45 degrees to your eyes and a video projector the other end of the room focused down the scanner. A few years ago I volunteered for a functional MRI brain scan which required me to watch various video clips, that's how they did it for me. I guess it might be slightly cheaper, but knowing medical equipment maybe not.
Keep in mind that addresses get normalized and also it's ultimately down to the mail carrier to deliver something. So you might be able to alter the mailing address to have it recognized as something different to Amazon but still practically the same for carriers. Or maybe ask your landlord to re-number your unit or let you use the leasing office as your address.
It's meant to be a time optimization.

Who are these destitute people in such a hurry? WTF
Or perhaps a periscope, so the patient sees a view of the room, rather than the inside of the magnet? The periscope could be built out of plastic, like a fat optical fibre, with the reflection being done by "total internal reflection" at the plastic/air interface. That way there are no metallic reflecting layers in it.
I would agree with you on this one. I've never worked with news publishers before but we wanted to explore how the need for distribution affected news quality and what all we could do to extrapolate from there. Ended up spending a lot of time with a fairly large newspaper and iterating on ideas to finally arrive at personalisation as a solution. We got away with a product we could evolve, revenue and lots of insider information about how the publishing industry works. And, everyone knows everyone else, so they referred us to a ton of others too! :D
> Well sure I see that point: one should hire good attorneys. If one cannot afford good attorneys, one is boned. That doesn't seem profound. (Not particularly just either, but whatever.)

The author addressed this ad nauseam in the comments. In particular, see:

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/10/03/lavabits-levisons-re...

> My previous comment was thinking more generally. Society has in the past successfully weathered innovations in technology and commerce without the legal profession running amok. Often innovators were not "connected" enough to hire the best legal representation, if they did so at all. What's different this time?

I don't think technological innovation has ever had the potential to disrupt existing power structures as much as the Internet and cryptography. I'm not sure what you mean by "legal profession running amok," but if you mean bad court decisions and draconian government legal theories, that's nothing new. We're only starting to see this in the context of technology because of the aforementioned clash between technology and government power.
> The gooey nougat of the hikikomori phenomenon is, it's sort of a quiet rebellion against the complicated and restrictive social protocols that are part and parcel of being Japanese. It is the same with otaku: however trivial their interests may be, they are determined to follow their own interests and choose their own path, rather than simply do what is expected of them.

I thought Zen was the quiet rebellion before it got stratified/institutionalized. I feel that the other phenomenon are more emergent, and they emerge from the mainstream not cracking down on them ,or not being able to..
As far as I know, MRI machines have no moving parts aside from the bed that slides the patient in and out of the bore - the noise is entirely from coils expanding and contracting.
Wouldn't that require N principals, one for each jurisdiction, which is an unusual organizational structure, and requires a lot of trust and shared vision even if it's an n-of-m authorization system?
I think there no longer is any Culture.

Enough smart people disengaged to subcultures so that Culture died inside. It can't do anything, its place poorly covered by a conjunction of a few bigger subcultures. Most commercially viable writers are from subcultures, most successful movies are from subcultures.

What is left from Culture preys on people who don't know better - teenagers (not even majority) and undereducated people of age. Who are forced to consume sub-par product (take modern "mainstream" music) or be left out.
Some mainstream stars of previous times are still active but every new offering is either subculture or crap.
Hey Van!

How much did you guys pay for them? :p
Great! Now the NSA can monitor every dissident of the world without the need to search for them.
...And (3) force people to either create a Coinbase account or lose their money. (The post wasn't very clear, but as I understand it the receiver will get a PM linking them to Coinbase where they will need to sign up to receive their money).

I don't want to just sound cynical, so I'll try to provide a solution. Perhaps there should be an option to reply to the BitTip PM with a regular Bitcoin address where all future payments will be sent.
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That's assuming you lock down access at the level of the application instance. If you create an instance with permission to read all data, it doesn't matter that it's been created by a single request… it's still got permission to read everything. Not saying a single request instance isn't a win for security, but you'll have to build your app around this concept to get that win.
The Referer header is just one more thing that a sophisticated attacker will spoof. I think the GP is correct - with enough preparation, a concentrated PhantomJS attack will look exactly like users accessing the website en masse, and it can be very, very difficult to tell who is real and who is not. That is why they use a tool as heavy as PhantomJS, which (from experience) is not very quick compared to more traditional methods. It is because it spoofs a real browser quite completely that it is so good for these methods.

For example, some pages might do a trick where they set a cookie, load another page, and redirect / drop based on whether or not that cookie is present in exactly the form it should be present. Maybe they set two, one expires immediately and the other contains some complex data. PhantomJS can handle that easily (as it is just Webkit + QT) but traditional tools do not.
If you could implement this for Unity3d using C# I'd be so happy
I'm sure you're right. I just don't understand how this is a problem that Blackberry could have. They've been doing high volume messaging for longer than anyone. This is a terrible analogy, but it would be like McDonalds having a waiting list for Big Macs at some random new low volume location because they don't know how to make them fast enough. I say low volume because the additional BBM users they're getting from Android and iOS (I would imagine low to mid single digit millions in the short term) can't possibly compare to the number of existing users they have on Blackberry devices.
Ironically, this is exacerbated right after you move, too: I have things which I know I own (diagonal cutters, magnetized screwdrivers, etc), but which I _cannot_ find anywhere. It's in some box somewhere in my garage, but not in my "tools" chest, so it's more time effective to buy a replacement.
According to 18 USC § 2709 (C)(1) it is illegal to "disclose to any person" [1] you have received a National Security Letter. Likewise, the FISA court order used to gather all Verizon call data bars Verizon from disclosing its existence [2].

I don't have the legal expertise to say whether one would be forced to lie about it, and the legislation doesn't explicitly use the word lie. However, according to someone who received one and received legal advice: "Under the threat of criminal prosecution, I must hide all aspects of my involvement in the case -- including the mere fact that I received an NSL [...] When clients and friends ask me whether I am the one challenging the constitutionality of the NSL statute, I have no choice but to look them in the eye and lie." [3]

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2709
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-recor...
[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03...