skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah. and that sucks. but that is the nature of the trade-off you want to make. you can stay home, or you can go to a bar and deal with the nicotine vapor.

i guess asking someone to stop vaping is an option. but expecting them to comply is delusional, and the request would strike me as selfish and pushy.

i'll add that people vaping in places of congregation is sparse enough in NYC that i'm surprised anyone has even had the opportunity to be inconvenienced by it.
Oh I see. Not sure how to rephrase - but what I really mean is my very last statement - the author doesn't truly believe that it was wrong to take these photos so strongly that they aren't doing the same - they just know these photos are controversial enough to attract attention - and that's what they're after. I'm sorry if it's confusing...
From an inside perspective, stack ranking was actually hurting backwards compatibility. "I made this cool new feature" gets you a lot more recognition come review time than "I made sure that Sim City kept working in the new version of Windows". That's why no one really takes the time to fix things like the console host, preferring instead to write the fancy new PowerShell ISE.
Correlation/causation - dining together doesn't cause all those benefits, it is simply correlated with them. There is probably a common factor which causes all of those behaviours, probably something to do with education and wealth (although working out exactly what is a bit too much science for a back-of-envelope estimate).

Nonetheless, your fundamental criticism of Soylent is probably still valid (even if the target market isn't families.)
The smells are different depending on the device. Devices producing lots of vapour will give off a smell, while less vapour has less of a smell.

The smell each juice gives off is similar to the taste and dissipates really quickly. The flavours in my devices are currently "honeydew melon" and "tobacco+caramel" which has a caramel-ly smell.

As long as someone isn't blowing the vapour directly in your face you'll either barely notice, or it'll be like walking by someone that's wearing perfume or aftershave.
Just write native applications and use normal network communications.

Plenty of choice available with 100% full hardware use.
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Are you serious? I come from a Generation that fought for the Freedom your generation takes for granted. We never complained or showed off to everyone how "awesome" we were. We just "DID". Silently, quietly and without any expectation of fame or fortune.
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p4681/index.html#en_US_2013_...

In most cases, you do not have income from canceled debt if the debt is canceled as a gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance.
Your product looks like it will be a neat service. Do you intend to also have an API to contribute data (in addition to your "import" tool?)
This is AWESOME!Good hacking
The most interesting data is not yet public (and I'm not in a position to make it so). But feel free to email me if you'd like to talk.
Which is true. They also might not.
It has practically disappeared and the submitted link was substituted[1]. I think this is a first.

I doubt that PG is aware of this type of orchestrated manipulation going on. It is quite dangerous for the credibility of HN.

Soylent seems interesting and potentially disruptive. However, it is FOOD and deserves to be put under the microscope. Anyone conniving to make them dodge scrutiny (especially via underhand moves) is not doing them any favours.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720515
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm173146.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette

"In some e-cigarettes, "Tobacco-specific impurities suspected of being harmful to humans – anabasine, myosmine, and β-nicotyrine – were detected in a majority of the samples tested." It is not clear if these chemicals were detectable in exhaled vapour.

The UK National Health Service noted that the toxic chemicals found by the FDA were at levels one-thousandth that of cigarette smoke, and that while there is no certainty that these small traces are harmless, initial test results are reassuring."

So no, it does not appear to be so cut and dry. The whole issue is that it isn't, and some people have a problem with that concerning a product the user shares with everyone around them.
Did you even watch any of the videos? They're like 10 seconds and not edited. If you're not spending more than 10 seconds on your actual activity... I... don't even.
Thank you! We restricted it to 10 seconds to help keep the videos interesting. We definitely need a better way to trim the videos though. We'd like to build a mobile app that makes it very easy to select which 10s of the video you'd like. For now, it just uses the first 10s.
>the nonsensical decision to move window maximize/minimize/close buttons from right to left is an example

Haha, fwiw I actually love that move. I work on a laptop 99% of the time and just maximize all my windows and alt-tab among them.

Moving the window buttons as they did saved an entire toolbar worth of vertical space and enabled them to create a highly responsive top left menu area:

Normal use: Window Title & Description

Holding Alt or Mousing Over: Switches to window buttons and menus

Saves space, works seamlessly. Of course, I keybind literally everything to Vim binds so I almost never use the mouse, which I think is where a lot of hate is coming from - right-handed mouse users feeling like they have to move the mouse further now to hit the window controls.
How many layers of indirection can we put between the developer and the machine?
Something that is standard and vendor neutral.
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Thanks! Good question. We really wanted to optimize for the experience of comparing one day with the next. Video is much harder to absorb than photo so we wanted to make each day really short and easy to digest.

People getting cut off is a problem. I think we can fix it with better tools for upload, i.e., an app.
I'm pretty sure calling it anything other than Soylent Red and Green would be a really, really good idea. Call it a hunch.
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No one eats every meal with their family, and people who switch to Soylent for every meal are doing so for the interesting story and proof that Soylent, at least in the short term, is not harmful and is complete. The fact that eating together with friends or family is great has very little to do with Soylent.
And which effects do you feel?
Unsurprisingly, the companies you listed churn out some pretty terrible code. Square Enix for example has pretty big problems with ffxiv because hacking and botting is so easy. Maintenance windows have gotten longer and are occurring more often in an effort to patch vulnerabilities. Just last week players who were in a specific city accessing their retainers (personal bankers) had their money flushed from their characters by hackers who compromised the trade cluster and transfered it to their bots by listing bogus trash items for millions of gold.
You don't have to eat it all the time. There's no contract, really.
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why does it have any effect on if people should be excited about Dart? You can compile C++ to C but that doesn't mean they're the same language.
Here's an online gift-registry I created. What do you think?
Yeah, we really hope more people start documenting their startups in this way. So often you only see the techcrunch articles and shiny IPOs, I'd like to see more of the struggles.
Thanks! It has been a blast.
> Microsoft Delivers ActiveX on the Macintosh
> Oct. 17, 1996

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/1996/oct96/macpr.a...
See also http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine .
AFAIK the campaign against outdoor smoking is more about litter and fire risks than health.
It's not really necessary to test any food, but because people are scared of GMOs, we do. Being natural does not imply safety or health.
Cycle is a HPC company that configures the software needed for these massively parallel computations, they don't actually do the protein modeling or any of the scientific research. That is all supplied from the customer. They basically setup the environment for the customer to massively "crunch the numbers."
Thank you!

We have that planed down the pipeline:D
No, but it did for LLVM.
ouch, sorry, misread your last sentence.
>And what exactly makes your 'sensitivity' override someone else's will?

Assault laws? I'm pretty sure blowing powdered peanut into the air is unacceptable once someone says they have a peanut allergy
People keeping bringing this up. What is so difficult about the concept that not everyone wants to, or even can, cook meals that are nutritionally suitable, healthy or even intended to be consumed collectively - all the time?
Bug report: using some non-ascii characters crashes the server (for example é or É).
Really? Java is absolutely horrible. Dart looks exciting and up to modern standards.
One of the authors of the dynoSRC hackathon project here.

Thanks for the link! I wasn't aware of this white paper. Would be great to integrate this as an automatic feature in the dynoSRC express middleware. I've added an issue for us to look into (and implement if feasible) SDCH here: https://github.com/diurnalist/dynosrc/issues/3
I think a better comparison would be TypeScript which is similar minus the alternate VM part. MS is very good about getting their developer community to use stuff that they officially support so I wouldn't be surprised of TS becomes the norm for the Visual Studio developer crowd.
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I'm getting the same issue on Chromium 28.0.1500.71 on Ubuntu 12.04.
On planes I just vape in the toilets. For awhile they were acceptable on most airlines, but many have brought in policies (not law) banning them. I heard (no citations, sorry) that the majority of people complaining on flights were smokers that couldn't hack not smoking when others were vaping.
Great idea. Why should people have to be held responsible for their actions?
A lot has been written about combat and crew strategies, and I've benefitted a great deal from reading up on those topics. But when it comes to upgrade strategies, the jury seems to be mixed. I've tended to get the most bang for my buck from shields, then doors. But I've heard arguments in either direction. Have also heard arguments (in varying degrees of persuasiveness) for prioritizing the other systems.

Can someone who's consistently beaten the game chime in on his or he preferred upgrade path?
Please let me generate a status without having to log in.

Please don't pop an alert to my face if I am not logged.
I'm still trying to figure out why we're comparing frameworks like Symfony to a CMS like Drupal. If I want something that gives me an image upload tool without writing any code, I might choose Drupal. If I want something that doesn't even have any concept of 'images', because my application doesn't deal with images at all, then I'll use a framework (like Symfony) to build my app.
Bitcoin continues to appreciate, because positive developments surpass negative ones, by far. In the last week alone:

- Winklevosses: Bitcoin worth at least 100 times more: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101190181

- Federal Reserve economist says bitcoin is a remarkable technical achievement: http://www.coindesk.com/federal-reserve-economist-says-bitco...

- Shopify (70,000 merchants!) accepts Bitcoin: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/11/09/shopify-now-accepts...

- China fuels Bitcoin surge to record high: http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/12/investing/bitcoin-record-hig...
> Because Soylent robs families and loved ones of the ritual and ceremony of eating together.

And frees them up to participate in other rituals together?

Just think how many other activities could be correlated with "families that stay together." It's almost a given, since the alternative would be a family that was divorced or estranged from each other... yet still came together for meals.
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In fairness, you judged me first.

I've never had a problem judging performance when I was doing my job right. Any time I've been unsure it's because I was either not managing the team properly or did not have enough technical knowledge to evaluate the estimates and claims (e.g. this took longer because of X and Y).

I know you can manage performance in a way that allows evaluation even if you don't have the technical chops to evaluate it technically, because I have seen technically weak peers do a good job of it.

I didn't discard the reports of my peers. I noticed a trend of the peers who liked me rating me higher in areas of weakness (as perceived by both myself and my boss) than my skills deserved.

Data that contains some bias is not useless if you can adjust for the bias.
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To start off, the definition of capitalism is simply private ownership of goods, and the ability to trade those goods. A society in which even ONE good was tradable would be considered somewhat capitalistic.

Specifically you could refute the efficiency of a free market reaching an equilibrium price (one that maximizes total surplus for buyers and sellers). However the experimental data suggests precisely the opposite, even in monopoly markets (double auction, perfect information) when tested in laboratory experiments.

Many issues people think they have with capitalism are actually the result of a system that definitely does NOT inherently take in to account all hidden costs. This is often used by government officials to make policy decisions that add costs or incentives to a market to correctly account for all factors (environmental, public good preservation, etc.).

Hope this is helpful!
Thankyou! Yea I've seen a few things like that recently. One other interesting one is the 1 second every day app[1].

[1] http://1secondeveryday.com/
I don't think Soylent has to stop families from eating together, and if it does, the reason those families aren't eating together probably isn't entirely due to Soylent.

Rob himself mentions in his blog many times that he imagines most people won't do what he's done and quit eating real food altogether. It's more of a "fast food" replacement than anything. When you're busy with work or something and the act of cooking is a distraction, you'll often just grab a bag of chips from the pantry or -- if you can take the time -- you might run out to the nearest McDonald's to sate your hunger. You don't want food because it's good, or because you're spending time with your family -- you want it because you're hungry. Rob wants to provide a quick and healthy meal for times like that.

Will I use Soylent? I dunno, probably not. But I can see where the niche exists.
For example, in the first link the author summarizes his long comment: " In short, he's extremely sloppy with his numbers and relies on almost no scholarly sources. I would not accept the type of work he puts in from an undergraduate.". So maybe Pinker does jump to conclusions that not necessary result from the data.

Is he forgetting that Pinker writes mass-market books, not journal articles?
Because you're not looking at the important metric.

The _price_ of BTC is completely irrelevant to its "success". The only people who care about BTC price are speculators who are simply "day-trading" with the newest penny-stock.

The real measurement is whether or not people are actually using BTC as a mechanism to transfer wealth between each other.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

Notice: the number of BTC Transactions have remained steady for months.

When BTC transactions reach an all-time high (and when those BTC transactions are more than just temporary "flash crash" exchange volume), then I'll start calling it a success.
Poor font. Makes the text hard to read. Too little information. Why should I sign up? How is this different from Facebook gifts/Amazon Wish list? An intro video/slideshow will be nice!
I don't understand why people dismiss XML like that, I use it a lot at my line of work and it makes sense.

We need the structure that JSON can't give us and other data markup languages are too obscure to teach them to everyone we work with.
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Thank you! We want this be a place where mistakes are okay, and hope to do the exact opposite of glorifying. I've personally tried to take lots of videos when I was feeling stress/down, because that part is usually so well hidden among startup founders. We encourage users to post their fail videos (there's videos of people falling off unicycles, for example).
No mention of rats. /snicker/
From Plutarch's "Lucullus":

"Lucullus now turned his attention to the cities in Asia, in order that, while he was at leisure from military enterprises, he might do something for the furtherance of justice and law. Through long lack of these, unspeakable and incredible misfortunes were rife in the province. Its people were plundered and reduced to slavery by the tax-gatherers and money-lenders. Families were forced to sell their comely sons and virgin daughters, and cities their votive offerings, pictures, and sacred statues. At last men had to surrender to their creditors and serve them as slaves, but what preceded this was far worse, — tortures of rope, barrier, and horse; standing under the open sky in the blazing sun of summer, and in winter, being thrust into mud or ice. Slavery seemed, by comparison, to be disburdenment and peace. Such were the evils which Lucullus found in the cities, and in a short time he freed the oppressed from all of them."

"In the first place, he ordered that the monthly rate of interest should be reckoned at one per cent., and no more; in the second place, he cut off all interest that exceeded the principal; third, and most important of all, he ordained that the lender should receive not more than the fourth part of his debtor's income, and any lender who added interest to principal was deprived of the whole. Thus, in less than four years' time, the debts were all paid, and the properties restored to their owners unencumbered. This public debt had its origin in the twenty thousand talents which Sulla had laid upon Asia as a contribution, and twice this amount had been paid back to the money-lenders. Yet now, by reckoning usurious interest, they had brought the total debt up to a hundred and twenty thousand talents. These men, accordingly, considered themselves outraged, and raised a clamour against Lucullus at Rome. They also bribed some of the tribunes to proceed against him, being men of great influence, who had got many of the active politicians into their debt. Lucullus, however, was not only beloved by the peoples whom he had benefited, nay, other provinces also longed to have him set over them, and felicitated those whose good fortune it was to have such a governor."

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/L...
>> it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing.

Yes. You, Sir, are EXACTLY Right. I think it's called Narcissism, and there's plenty of that going around with this Generation obsessed with Instagram (taking #selfies and posting it for the whole world to see), Facebook (showing off how awesome their fake life is) etc.
Yeah! I'll post that video into our meta 100.
While I agree that you would normally win that bet, I am the one you'd lose it on - I have never owned a car and take the bus every day instead ;)

My point, I think, was that even if an idea is good and worth introducing, transitions are hard and shouldn't be handwaved away.
One critique of your site design, I don't know if it's just me, but infinite scrolling can be frustrating. I was trying to get to the "About" section in the footer but it kept running away from me.

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scr...
Except liquid meal replacements already exist (Ensure etc.), and the entire world isn't Valley geeks.

You could eat cheap fast calories everyday but gourmet restaurants still thrive. Not everyone is obsessed with food practicality.
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Glacier is cheaper for small backups that you almost never touch.
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I wondered that myself, but the answer is no; it appends a script element, whose content is the updated code, to the head element. [1]

[1] https://github.com/diurnalist/dynosrc/blob/master/dynoSrc.js...
Yeah, I was pretty disheartened in the Motherboard video that the founder liked the name Soylent.
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I know I don't. I was making a joke referencing a youtube co-founders's only comment in 8 years. It got quite a bit of play on this site recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695904

I apologize if it was too meta.
I think this. https://giveit100.com/advertise
Because if all you're looking for is a different way to write javascript then we already have coffeescript for that. A low level programming language that can be compiled into a lower level programming language, like c++ and c. Is not on par with compiling into a scripting language.
Note that civilization can work out pretty well for itself even if its highly non-optimal for the individuals inside it. I'm certain that two people living two sickly lives and dying at 40 of diabetes is vastly economically superior in terms of revenue over one dude living a healthy 80 years.

Grains not good for anything except acting as an "energy drink" to fatten up livestock animals. Grains are good food for our good food, at most.

Since all the science points toward grains being bad for humans, present me with any scientific evidence our bodies evolved to eat grains. We don't chew our cud like cows, we have a carnivorous physique and body type...

There is an evolutionary aspect to it that nothing fattens up then kills americans like grain consumption; you guys go right on gulping that stuff down; eventually you'll go extinct because of it, then the rest of us won't have to listen to sick people claiming a grain based diet is healthy.
Plenty of javascript in there. You could generate a list of fake random numbers using pseudo-elements to make it CSS only.
Nice! Thanks for the link. I've opened an issue for us to track adding compression in and out of the cache here: https://github.com/diurnalist/dynosrc/issues/4
> I don't understand why anyone gives a shit about S&Ps ratings

There's no better product in the market.
"strong backend programming skills" for a Frontend job?

Sure, having your frond-end developer know a bit of backend is a must. But "strong backend programming skills"? Wouldn't that person simply go work on the back end to get a better paycheck?