skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, consumers using credit cards definitely had more protections at that time than they do today with bitcoin. My point is merely that less than 20 years ago people had an almost universal aversion to putting their credit card information into a form on a website. That changed rapidly. I believe that the pieces aren't yet in place to give people the same level of confidence in bitcoin, but I also believe that it's a (short) matter of time until they are. Multi-signature transactions are very interesting in that regard.

I don't believe that bitcoin will destroy fiat or the finance industry as a whole, but I do think it will become a very convenient way of moving money around, especially between national currencies. Much in the same way that sending an email is more convenient than sending a letter internationally. It's not a complete solution; it's a foundation to build services upon, and those services will most likely be offered by the same large financial institutions we have today, along with a few upstarts. Just my 2 μBTC.
Given how much of a problem some people here seem to have with normal food (though it only seems to have happened after seeing the Soylent marketing materials, I didn't know anyone who complained about how much trouble eating was before the Soylent hype), it's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or serious. I suppose I've just run up against the Silicon Valley Hype Machine version of Poe's Law.

Given how bad the hype has become (Soylent appears to me to be about as useful and likely to be successful as Pets.com), I think it's time to start shoring a bunch of Silicon Valley stock; we appear to have hit the next bubble. The problem is that outside of Twitter and Facebook, no one has really gone public recently, so it's a lot harder to actually short these silly companies.
>"We don't chew our cud like cows"

And we don't need to in order to fully digest cereal grains.

>"we have a carnivorous physique and body type"

Humans, like all omnivorous apes, are an odd mix of carnivore and herbivore. We have the abbreviated lumen, but lack the aggressive gastric chemistry of a carnivore. Our dentition is distinctly herbivorous in shape, but the mass of our teeth is insufficient to chew cellulosic material, and we lack the gut to digest it anyway.

The rational conclusion is that we have evolved to eat carefully prepared high-energy easily digestible foods. Which describes domesticated cereal grains very well.

>"There is an evolutionary aspect to it that nothing fattens up then kills americans like grain consumption"

The obesity epidemic certainly owes its spread to the glycemic profligacy of overly-processed grain. It's a bit of a stretch to sum it up by simply saying "grain kills".
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I was thinking more of the machine that creates the dice for the sake of freshness, for one. Further,I can keep an onion for weeks, but a chopped onion has a shorter shelf life.

For that matter, there are food processors that do a terrible but passable job at the prep, but again, the cleaning is suboptimal.
RIL commands being extended AT commands? There is a community of phone unlockers who know everything about these for Qualcomm chipsets but their tools have the best DRM I've ever seen.
Most managers are unable to adjust for their own biases, though.

I'm especially skeptical of managers who evaluate themselves as having above average technical ability after they have asserted how poorly most people evaluate their peers. The necessary conclusion of such an assertion is that people therefore haven't a rational basis on which to judge their own skills relative to others.
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You say it as a joke but I've been interviewing web and software developers for the past couple days to develop new tools to interact with data generated by a method our group has developed that combines next generation RNA sequencing with fluorescent in situ hybridization. Cancer biology is an obvious application. So yes, developers can help cure cancer. They don't understand the biology - that's my job. But I, and many other scientists, don't understand software/web development, so we rely on others to create the tools that enable our work. Not only are these efforts resistant to others coming in and stealing the idea, they can enrich the developers (financially), and they enrich society.

Sorry for being so nasty above, but there's a lot of wasted talent in silicon valley developing technology that allows teenagers to post dick pics while still spouting pious claims of social benefit. The arguments resemble the business plans... we do good like we make money, because people use us, right?
I am actually excited by their move to an established manufacturer. A good manufacturing partner will be well placed to help them deal with FDA approval, which will be required.

However, they big challenge they will eventually face is the existing nutritional product manufacturers. At the moment, Soylent is not viewed as a serious competitor, but it is worth remembering that if they prove that a market exists, Abbott, Nestlé and the like both have the marketing clout and some rather clever tricks to muscle in on the market.

But the saddest thing of all? Despite companies like Soylent, Abbott, Nutriset, Nestlé, etc, clinical malnutrition is still a serious issue. Proper nutrition is essential to successful treatment to many issues (cancer being one), yet it is still commonly neglected by clinical staff and administrators :( And most people don't even know about the risks and that different options exist for different needs!

(Disclaimer: family work in the industry)
Upvoted, liked, and QFT. The only thing I can add to that is to reinforce that there is tremendous value in being the guy that everybody recommends. Not just in business, but everybody should know what you do, and how good you are at doing it.

You should basically be 'on' all the time, and making it a point to illustrate the value you bring everywhere you can. It's a scalable business model, but if you impress enough people every day, then at some point, you'll start getting recommended by people you haven't even met, and who haven't even really gotten any idea of how good you are.

The only objective beyond that is the one where you're constantly raising rates because people are beating down your door.
Right now it's just reading. My approach is to attack reading first because it is the harder problem (and exposes more features that need to be represented in the internal format). Once I'm confident I've covered what needs to be represented, then writing is easy.

Honestly, the biggest challenge here is trying to understand the full scope of the problem -- its huge!
I see responsible debt with personal loans also playing important parts as loans to startups and corporate investments. It serves a function of distributing capital where it can be used most effectively at a smaller scale.

A creditor needs only say 5% a year return and will be willing to lend. I may need money now to buy a new computer or repair my car which has value greater to me than the 5% my creditor values if my car/computer allows me to work effectively or even work in the first place.

Countries without broken social structure such as Sweden and Norway also high debt to income ratios. Debt is not about having to pay for things that we think the state should pay, its strictly about our consumption patterns. And some of us debt finance high value items such as education and some of us debt finance lifestyle increases. http://www.norges-bank.no/pages/93708/Staff_memo_2013_05_eng...
Ask HN: Does GitHub receive a disproportionate number of DoS attacks?
My perception is that the answer is yes, but I realize that perception is not always reality. If they do, what's the long term solution?
I don't get how clocks are bad this from the article.

I get that syncing clocks across systems is hard and when it goes awry, unintended consequences are incurred.
And this is precisely why a thing that is not monitored is not actually a thing.
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Alright I managed to fix this. Had to write some pretty dirty route hacks in rails to get around the problem, but such is life.
Social login does not have to mean ability to post as you. If used just for oAuth (login) it just provides profile information and a list of your friends. Twitter won't even provide your email address. If you use Twitter it will be no more than what is already public if your account is not protected. I would rather not have another login to remember myself.
This deep underlying assumption that nudity = scandal is amusing. I'm Australian, and I thought my culture was pretty similar to the US in a lot of ways, but the puritanical terror of nudity that pervades ever word of the article seems very odd indeed to me.
Is the installer actually open source? I searched a week ago for the beta source and it wasn't available yet.

(I'm quite annoyed by the current developments in cyanogenmod: Less and less is open source as it seems...)
It should be possible to test against something like Ensure, I'd imagine.
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I posted this online, and wanted to get your feedback:
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Really serious medical conditions are inelastic. If you have cancer, you will seek treatment, regardless of the expense. The difference between $10,000 and $500,000 is not a factor when your life is on the line. In an inelastic situation, the market-based approach is silly (or even bad). Medical providers & insurance companies will move toward providing care at inflated prices.

And the left says: "Health care is a human right." And they're right.

BUT! this is important. Less serious medical conditions are much more elastic. If the price is $15, maybe you'll go to the doctor for a hurt collar bone. If the price is $750, you wouldn't. I didn't.

And the right says: "we can't provide unlimited health care to everyone, it's too expensive." And they're right.

But we don't _need_ to provide unlimited health care for everyone.

Care in a life-threatening situation (cancer, stroke, heart attack) should be considered a human right and subsidized by society. Care in any other situation should be considered "elective" and be subject to market conditions.

What do you think?

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Edit: there IS an upper bound to how much someone can pay for health care, obviously. But it's high.
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If you think it is "trivial" to make a bland substance taste good without substantially changing the nutritional makeup of that substance, there are a lot of diet food companies who would like to have a chat with you and make you fabulously rich. Jamba Juice would like to know the secret, too.

Most things that innately taste good -- stuff that you could drop in a blender and drink and it'd still be agreeable -- are fatty, salty, starchy, sugary, or some mix of all these. Healthy and good-tasting food requires pleasant textures and careful composition that allows a small amount of fat, salt, starch, etc. to enhance the flavor of the whole meal.
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I would argue it's less 'good' design and more that design is a secondary, or ever tertiary concern - which, from an engineering standpoint, it is.
I saw a few negative reviews on Google Play arguing that a turn key solution might let some people not read the detailed instructions, warnings and risks thoroughly. Being a CM user, I must say I agree with this. Reminds me of a thread in XDA where a post read - If you are asking the question what is root, then you probably don't need it (paraphrasing).

Let alone the instructions/warnings/risks, I know many Android users who barely go through the permissions they grant an app during installation.

A little off topic, but an instance that I thought impressed the gravity of the risks and partly cracked me up was the warning on Alpharev [1] "Warning: Make sure you have read all the warnings below before attempting to run this utility!"

[1] http://alpharev.nl/
You're right on that dynamically it is a very interesting problem and something that from my exposure to economics, economists seem to spend very little time analyzing.

Changes beget other changes and so on. Finding the steady state level of change would be challenging yet interesting to model.
To quickly examine CSV data in PostgreSQL, you can do this:

CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw;

CREATE SERVER my_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw;

CREATE FOREIGN TABLE my_csv (
field_a text,
field_b smallint,
...
) SERVER my_server
OPTIONS ( filename 'some/file/path.csv', format 'csv', header 'true' );

select * from my_csv;
I somewhat agree with TFA, but I think it fails to consider that there are (at least) two different types of open source project:

1. Rails, nginx and other stuff that is used by developers generally has a higher chance of getting useful contributions and institutional support. People use this stuff professionally, if they run into a limitation, they contribute back for pragmatic reasons.

2. Firefox, Ubuntu and other open source consumer products are pretty hard to do with nothing but unpaid volunteers. Some projects pull it off (KDE comes to mind, although several distributions employ devs to work on it), but in general it seems pretty hard: Even if you find enough skilled developers, what about UX? What about design? What about marketing? What about PR? Would Firefox have made it in 2004 without the NYT ad?
(I have installed CM in the past myself on my old phone, but have not done it yet with this phone because last time it was a pain in the ass to install, and was unstable to boot)

It is linked from the blog entry, but I cannot find the windows side installer linked from their homepage while the android side software is.

This sort of oversight is incredibly frustrating for me, and I consider myself fairly technically capable... I can only imagine that this is even more frustrating for more typical users.
This is definitely how it should be, the rule not the exception. It tends to seem like the exception in the places I've been exposed to. Its likely my choice centered around this area of the Atlanta suburbs that reinforces my perception.
> When I'd received my first shipment of Soylent in New York, it arrived in the office in a white UPS box—and the yellowish crust-dust was packed into barely-sealed Ziploc bags.

How is something barely sealed? It is either sealed or it isn't.

They're trying hard to play up the amateur hour part, and that bit with the doctor's "I don't recommend it" where she lists the social aspects of food after she was holding an existing commercial meal replacement drink was pure sensationalism.

Even for an opinion piece, they could stand to be quite a bit more fair. The video said nothing of the bag puncture (only the mold), or the fact that the hand assembled soylent was a limited promo batch and not the final product.

Also, the clinical trial demand (something we require none of at the grocery store) at the end seems simply silly when he breaks his fast with FRIED CHICKEN, something for which we already have plenty of data to indicate that it's bad for your body. You don't get to say "I'll try it once it's held to standards that I hold no other food to" while eating things out of a deep fryer without looking like a total jackass.

It's a smear piece. I expect better from Vice.
That's the general assumption, yes, though there's some debate over it. Denmark is currently discussing instituting modest co-pays for some non-emergency visits (currently there are no fees whatsoever, besides your tax contribution). The main debate is over whether this will actually save money or not, all things considered. Evidence doesn't seem to be very strong either way.
I don't think you understand what an operating system is.
Yep. I had no idea this was the case until I read an article that came out shortly after the original iPhone. The dialer app in iOS during those first few months was pretty buggy and had an occasional tendency to crash or lock up while on calls, especially when pressing the "hang up" button. Every time it locked up on me, it'd never impact a call in progress though (much to my annoyance when trying to hang up).

It made perfect sense once I read that the speaker and mic were wired straight to the baseband, and the state of the dialer application had zilch to do with what was going on in the baseband.
I drank ensure pretty much every day for about 15 years due to health issues. Every flavor tasted terrible, and it was always presented as a supplement by my doctor. Maybe it's better now this was 10-15 years ago
Because I imagine declaring bankruptcy would involve a lot more paperwork and hassle then just buying your debt at pennies to the dollar?

So paperwork is the reason no to go bankrupt?

That and in bankruptcy all your remaining assets would be distributed to pay your creditors.

If you have remaining assets then presumably some other creditor will offer more money to take on the debt. The only difference now is that you get first refusal.
>Disable any anti-virus software for the duration of the install.

How about no?
Agreed. As another example, Singapore has such problems with birth rate that they need to have huge immigration just to maintain a stable population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#Demographics
You should see the rest of the XDA "community". Open in name, not in nature.
Ah no way - good catch! I'll code up a fix - thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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Thank you so much, Paul. Your excitement is contagious. Our YC interview is on Thursday. Fingers crossed we get in.
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That's a great idea, we'd love to do some importing from vine/instagram, e.g. with #giveit100 hashtags
This seems like an appropriate place to plug http://adainitiative.org/ -- advocacy group working to change the culture of tech conferences.
There are a lot of things that people are willing to do for free, but they wouldn't be willing to do it for a dollar - say, helping someone change his car tire.

There is a psychological difference - if you transfer the mindset from 'helping out' to 'work for hire', then suddenly you have to pay "enough" (which will be a huge amount for many projects) or you'll get less stuff done than you'd get for free.
http://beta.download.cyanogenmod.org/install

Ah, now I see what you mean. I'd say they're waiting to move it out of "beta". The level of stupid questions they get already is reasonably high, so this may be a way of reducing their support load.
Interesting. Just to note I wasn't trying to compare Dart to Go and AngularJS past the point that they're maintained/created by Googlers.
Or ... it could simply be journaling in public. Gasp someone might learn from something you're doing?
"If you write great code or are an expert in genomics or know how to develop new seeds, I’d encourage you to learn more about the problems of the poorest and see how you can help"

I feel like I'm a great coder but I have a hard time connecting the dots and seeing how I can help - am I the only one? I'd love to help - if folks know of opportunities, I'd love to hear about them.
Even so if no one is interested to adopt it before, or even play with it (not saying this is true since this is what I was asking), I don't think the version number really matters.
I think so, at least the code looked like it. (Patched it out of the Settings-app a week ago for a private image)
I like this idea. I started around week ago, recording short movies (5-20 sec) from every day of work on my latest project. It help me stay focus. That's why I think your app may help people like me to record their projects. But I won't create account because I won't login with Twitter/Facebook...
people can change too. its not impossible. i really do believe in this case that Bill Gates' heart is in the right place.
Thoroughly enjoyed visiting Manchester years ago, seemed it had a vibrant community even back then.

I humbly submit another industrial town: http://builtinpgh.com
It isn't worth so much to me that I would prefer people be compelled to clean up after me under threat of destitution, no. I want them to be paid what their work is worth, which is the amount a person free of the threat of poverty is willing to accept to do the work. That might be a lot more than it is now. It might not be much more at all.

If it's uneconomical to employ people solely to do those jobs, then the jobs can be automated, or fixtures and processes can be changed to reduce the need for that labor.
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I can understand waiting to move it out of beta, but their main page is already linking to one half of the software (clicking 'get started' bumps you over to the play store for the android half).
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GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google. Not to mention the video with her and a A list actor floating around.......
Indeed. Military organizations have learned over several millennia that serving unappealing food to heavily armed and lethally trained people is bound to lead to suboptimal outcomes.
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Can you provide more information about how we can help? I'm interested in hearing more.
Right, I was just wondering about the tracking methods used. Do they select by your handset identifier, or an identifier in the SIM?

Would removing the SIM be at all helpful for avoiding tracking if you couldn't ditch a phone with an integrated battery?
Jim Duey's blog post on the State Monad was helpful to me[1].

I agree that one shouldn't reach for monads just because one finds them interesting or neat, or challenging for that matter.

An analogy: consider that in many cases, `while` and `for` loops are great when looping is what's called for. But there are many times when recursion is more attractive still. But what to do if your language doesn't have TCO, and blowing the callstack is a real concern? Well, then you can use trampolines![2]

Now, trampolines are great, but you don't need to always reach for them. An analysis should be done of the problem at hand, and "the right tool chosen for the task", which may be a simple `while` loop. The same goes for monads. Are there cases where the State Monad makes the most sense among other programming patterns? Yes, I think so. Particularly, when you are trying to model a multi-step and nested-steps computation where the steps are intertwined in such a way that one can easily identify "global state" at work. In that case, the State Monad is a tool that will let you thread the global state through the steps and levels of computation without having to twist yourself into knots doing it some other way AND without relying on unfettered mutability.

[1] http://www.clojure.net/2012/02/10/State/

[2] http://raganwald.com/2013/03/28/trampolines-in-javascript.ht...

[&] http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju...
What's the craziest thing you have said at an interview and still got the job?
Well, you could a few years ago. I haven't seen in on shelves in my area for some time. It is still easy to come by at stores that sell soap making supplies, and bio-diesel making supplies.