skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotes, anecdotes, anecdotes - they don't prove anything (remember statistics 101?). It's a sleazy political tactic, a cheap plot twist, a joke. The whole article is one poorly supported anecdote: France.

These articles and comments are like watching a Monte Python Witch lynching. The mob agrees - tax and spends the way to go. "Ooh, no it's the rich they're the ones." Mob: "Yea, it's the richies fault. Burn them!". "Wait, wait, it's the poor - they're not working." Mob: "Burn them!"

If we're just going to support "our guys" "Democrats" or the "Republicans". Or are we going to have some actual discourse?

If it's just "our guys" then "Hey if a little's good, a lot is better!" So, let's take these good ideas to the limit!!! Why not cut government completely? Ooh, that might be dangerous - imagine mayhem as we start fighting amongst ourselves to protect our property or as our defenseless borders are attached. We might end up being run by a repressive communist regime.

OK, forget that. Let's go the other way - let's tax income at 100% and let the government spend it all! Hmm, it's hard to imagine why anyone would bother to work in that situation, could millions end up desperately poor like in Russia? But OK, let's keep going... Do we like the way the government spends money? That's an awful lot of power in very few hands. Some of it will go for good (programs for the poor). But some of it's going to end up in places where it harms the poor - i.e. the war on Drugs where police in Texas are using forfeiture laws to take property (like cars) from the poor. And, if you clench your butt at a traffic stop, O_O, yikes, well...

Hmm, not good - course both are pure anecdotes. In reality, we're gonna be somewhere in between. And that's the rub isn't it? Because I suspect it actually depends. There are times when either can help and times when either can hurt. Right now, we're running up an ungodly deficit, which might be OK, if it seemed like all that spending was actually helping. But it doesn't feel like it is.

Personally, I don't like where the country is today. We work way to hard, there are too few jobs and I'm so disappointed in Obama. I truly believed he was going to try to make things better, more transparent more fair. Instead, it feels like he's laying the foundation of a massive federal spy state. Where the only good job will government ones and you'll only get those by owing someone a huge favor. It all feels very sleazy to me.
Why does he need to have a "business model"? This isn't a startup. This appears to be essentially a hobby business; something that can be sustainable for a single person and maybe a few employees but not something that can scale considerably. By using CNC routing to cut out the boxes, it can scale beyond what he could cut by hand, and thus he can offer a Kickstarter, but this doesn't really appear to be something that he's intending to scale up beyond the Kickstarter, just a way for him to be able to sell some of his sets to people who wouldn't be able to go there in person and buy them directly from him.

The liability concern is greater. He can personally talk to those who walk into his store about safety; less so those who order this over the internet. No one is going to be building a bomb however; all of these samples are in quantities of 30 ml or less. That's less than the 3 liquid ounces you're allowed to bring on a plane, and that limit was set because you can't actually build anything all that destructive with only a few ounces of material.

I'm not sure how you are determining that there are no solid or liquid disposal instructions; did he post the contents of everything that will be included?

Who cares about patents here? He's shipping a chemistry set that is identical to one from 1936, plus a couple more that he thinks are useful. How are you going to patent that? It's just a collection of chemicals, and an instruction manual. The patents on producing all of these materials have long since expired. There's nothing patentable here.

And sure, other manufacturers could do this for a fraction of what he's doing. As you point out, there is some liability concern; liability concerns are greater for a larger manufacturer than for him, doing this as part of his hobby business, merely because they are a bigger target. Asian manufacturers would probably have a hell of a time getting this past customs. And again, who cares? If someone else produces an awesome chemistry set, great! The whole point is to teach about chemistry, and get kids engaged by allowing them to experiment and explore rather than swaddling them and protecting them. The point is not to get rich. Despite what you may think reading about lots of startups on Hacker News, some people just desire to do a good job, not to build a scalable business that makes them filthy rich.

So, the two main concerns I see are liability, and his ability to scale if the Kickstarter is wildly more popular than he anticipated. Even if CNC machining the case cuts down on a lot of the labor, assembly and finishing will take time. However, I don't see this as being particularly more risky than the average Kickstarter; in this case, he's already been making these for a while for sale in person, so it's far past the prototype stage that many products do a Kickstarter at.
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Consider this as a much safer Multi-OS native application development platform that happens to work in a browser and all (ok, most of) your fears will disappear.
humanoids who continue the endless pursuit of some vague promise of capitalist fulfillment (work hard, be rich, be happy), ignoring the fact that the direct opposite of such a lifestyle leads to a much more healthier, happier life which remains in touch with our basic, primal human existence.

You'd enjoy the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/zen-motorcycle.pd...
What's the advantage of running 150k cores for 18 hours versus far fewer cores over a period of a few days or weeks? Is efficiency gained with increased concurrency while processing data in a certain way?
Back to your hyper-relaxed "the human body is no more complicated or serious than a machine" thing?

I can't believe I have not made myself clear on this already, but I'll give it one more go: You can fuck around with lawn mowers because breaking one typically doesn't fucking kill somebody.

If you break your fucking lawnmower, you buy a new one. You don't get to buy another human.

Such a lazy attitude towards human safety is positively chilling. Have you learned absolutely nothing from the horrors seen over past centuries of people treating human lives like any other test subject?
you are very generous with what you call meat, bread, and vegetables.
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The Soylent guy keep mentioning that current food system will not scale, but gives no evidence that his system will. It appears to be very wasteful to grow or synthesize each components in their original form, separate them and then finally mix them, compared to naturally occurring food.
Capone was indicted for tax fraud, not for simply failing to pay his taxes.
Interesting. You should build out your offerings in jobs that help in Third World Development. There's a lot of good work to be done there. But the listings, as is, look good already.
Well, as long as they IPO before that happens...
idealist.org is another place to look.
Reading the article I can't help but feel awestruck at how lucky the global community is that Gates turned out the way he did.

Here is someone who thinks clear thoughts, behaves in an altruistic manner and has the raw power to make it happen - a near impossible combination in today's world.

And as if that is not spectacular enough he is in a position to persuade other rich people to follow suit.
Since it is massively parallel you are saving time.
The human body isn't a machine. It is a more complex thing that includes many machines. There are so many features of the human body that we can not examine and that we don't even know where to look...

The real question is "Soylent is perfectly optimized... for what?" Soylent may be optimized for "meeting the models of nutrition that we have." Yet, those models may be like using an FAQ to run a nuclear reactor. I'm not trying to fear-monger. I think Soylent is a great experiment. I wish I had to guts to carry out the reporter's month-long experiment.
I'm not going to let your random site SSH into my machines. Can I host this myself?
let me know if you find a working solution.
It might be interesting to note that someone in the discussion under the original article (an unregistered user going by the name 'The one who knows') claims that "the admin of bitcash.cz Carlos upset the czech hacker comunity SooM.cz and accordingly to Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/tx/44f66e60460926d1ac75667ce30604290...) it looks like those hackers donated all the BTC that was on bitcash.cz to wikileaks".
It's too early to say (remember it typically takes 7-8 years to reach a major exit event). But SendGrid and LightSail Energy are probably the two that have raised the most money and are public about being rejected from YC.
> Do you trust the professional opinion of someone who would complain about this? And loudly, at that? Do you think this person is representative of a majority of front-end engineers?

No. Whatever community they are representative of, I don't want to be a part of, and I think their attitude certainly deserves ridicule, which I provided.

> Google is a for-profit company.

So is Oracle, Monsanto and others. Yet somehow Google has managed to release and support a lot more community projects. Google Summer of code. The same Angular JS project that people are supposedly following so closely was also built on Google's dime.

Of course they are for profit and water is wet, is there a point in saying that even. At no point did they say they will close source Angular or enforce trademarks on it. People use, love it, code is available for forking yet they still bring accusations and hate that is above and beyond what as reasonable.

> Perhaps the confusion is my fault and not your own. But if you could elaborate a bit, that might help.

Well, read the set of posts again from the beginning. The initial comment asked, how come this is in the news, this is quite old. And my response is because it probably relates to the previous post about Dart and Angular JS discussion. This was meant to somehow expose a deep seated conspiracy inside Google to prove some of those accusation right. In summary I was explaining why this is popular again when it was supposedly old news. Hopefully this makes it easier to understand.
Thanks. I still don't see how that's fundamentally different from JVM or .NET languages though. Sure, your jars or asseblies might be more than one file, but they're all in the same directory. Deploy means upload the contents of that directory.
That's not generally true. In some cases robots offer improved precision, but in many cases a robotics-oriented factory takes a tremendous amount of capital to design/create and there would rarely be a business case to build it if human labor weren't so costly (due to labor laws).
I entered my name, it said my account was created and gave me a URL. But, that URL wouldn't load.
If you're not willing to provide at least a tiny part of the safety net for one person on your own, I don't think you're serious enough about it for me to give up what safety net I'm already providing to others without compulsion.

As for "devaluing", it's akin to giving kids awards for just showing up. If you're physically and mentally capable of caring for yourself, do so; giving you a "living guaranteed income" just for existing devalues what you're able to contribute to yourself and society. Yes, I understand the idea that it's somehow "fair and simple"; I also understand that such altruistic abstractions fail hard in reality.

I've seen the profoundly infirm earn a living, and I've seen the wholly capable wreck what they have on the premise that someone else would replace it. The truly needy I gladly give aid to; I despise these movements toward compulsory support of those whose only need is a reason to get up and produce.
If you know you are only storing two languages, they can go directly on the parent table, named english_text and spanish_text. If you are talking about the easyness of storing a hashmap in NoSQL, ie:
{
english :'text',
spanish : 'text',
french: 'text'
}

You can achieve this in the same table with the JSON storage type:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/datatype-json.ht...

Really though, a decent ORM will take care of all the foreign key implementation, and a hashmap is well served by a 2nd table called 'texts' with 3 columns. I can see why you would be opposed to this, because of the extra join but given the right indexes it won't be slow at all.
That sentence has tons of insight on the problem of health care. Thanks.

As an aside, is there not some elasticity to medical care? People demand more health care for small problems when the price is lower.
> I'd actually like someone to name an open source software project that we all know and love that hasn't benefited from immense institutional support.

OpenSSH might count, from the rant on their homepage:

Please take note of our Who uses it page, which list just some of the vendors who incorporate OpenSSH into their own products -- as a critically important security / access feature -- instead of writing their own SSH implementation or purchasing one from another vendor. This list specifically includes companies like Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Red Hat, and Novell; but probably includes almost all router, switch or unix-like operating system vendors. In the 10 years since the inception of the OpenSSH project, these companies have contributed not even a dime of thanks in support of the OpenSSH project (despite numerous requests).
Off topic but, I think that really gets to the core of our problems with food in western culture.

Sharing food is the only bodily function we share publically. We don't use the bathroom together. We generally sleep and procreate in private with select people. We don't give play by plays of our breathing or hygiene, even if they are technically public.

But food, food is such a powerful cultural symbol that we share it with our loved ones and even complete strangers. The power of food is so great that it's the centerpiece of many cultural touchstones (the harvest festival, the sacrifice, the fertility ritual). We talk about the food our grandparents made in tones so reverential it might as well be religion.

But when we get our lunch we get food in our cars and eat it alone. It was prepared by someone we didn't see and will never know. Not that long ago even convenience food was prepared by a person we knew. I realize that most of us don't do this every day or even most days, but certainly the rise of eating as an exercise of convenience and driven strictly by our taste buds has coincided with the rise of our fat society. I know that correlation does not equal causation, but in this case it seems likely to me that one has led to the other.

We've already started to disconnect from our food in dangerous ways. Why not add a new meal replacement if it's healthier? And it's not like the internal combustion engine made us a bunch healthier either.
Yeah, I agree that there's a lot that we don't know about the human body, and I disliked any claims by Soylent that overreached in this way.

But we do know about nutrients and have a good idea of the proportion of them for the avg human.

I think my main problem with the backlash is with the argument that boils down to "We don't know, so let's not risk it". I don't see why we can't try it, and then monitor and react. If I started using Soylent and then 30 days down the road I was feeling ill, I'd probably stop using it first thing while exploring other causes.
Can you clarify the definitions of those terms that you'd prefer to use, which exclude the products on a McDonald's hamburger?
Started this thread, but in no means affiliated. It seems as though you need the 'enterprise version' (scroll down the homepage).
If you want to see real work on improving the rural Africa, we have to look at sustainability, not bringing Monsanto into every corner of the world with GMOs and ammonia fertilizers. This is the kind of work that is needed: http://workingvillages.org/about/

Getting African farmers into self sufficiency, not dependent on Monsanto or any oil company. There is nothing wrong with doing manual labor on a farm. Why should we measure progress by how many people stop working on a farm and work in a factory instead. We should aim to improve efficiencies on a farm not by minimizing the people per acre, but by maximizing the output per acre.
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Chris Thomas, an Australian SEO guru, talks about how to game the app store as well as his new invention: earmuffs for sleeping.
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Is there a way we can be sure his donations (and the donations of people and companies that decide to donate because he is doing so) are not furthering his own agenda and creating a market for the companies he invests in? Even if they are beneficial to the affected populations, can we call that philanthropy?

You mean, does he hope to make back hundreds of billions of dollars from the tens of billions of dollars he is giving away? He currently owns less than 5% of Microsoft, and on schedule to own even less (possibly none) in 5 years. You're suggesting that Bill Gates is such a skilled investor that his investment of well over $30B will earn him huge profits from his portfolio of stock investments, preferably before he dies?

I know it will be a wildly unpopular question to ask but, after his own history at the helm of Microsoft, where he made most of the money he's using now, can we trust him?

You make it sound as if he made his money by selling babies. I know Bill Gates was a ruthless entrepreneur, with questionable ethical practices. But what did he do at Microsoft to make you think he's incapable of doing good for doing good's sake?
Yes, Commando.io Enterprise.
Managing relationships with VCs before they invest in your round
What would the carbon tet even be used for? I can't think of a time when I ever used it during my chemisty degree, so for most things it could probably be replaced with another more sensible solvent.
Thank you for your response. So how should I protect the passwords? I assume you mean the users password?

Why source code is not the value? If they could hack it, then they can just deploy the same code in a matter of weeks?

oh, any suggestion on how to implement the admin backend access? Currently my admin access is just a subdomain, which I think is not secure access (although it requires admin credentials to access it).

Thank you.
there is actually a fallback -- mentioned in the post: pepper.js (http://trypepperjs.appspot.com/)
An amazing offer. Are you comfortable with working remote? The project is low pressure (for now), so 2-5 hours suits.
Early stage, so will be fun experience wise not only building, but shaping a continuously evolving product.
Python/Django. Do email if interested (profile) :)
One place is you can likely find software focussed on helping non-profits be more effective.
Also, the Swedish exchange Kapiton is having problems with "delays" in payments and is currently not accepting deposits:

https://kapiton.se/news/2
https://kapiton.se/news/3
(site in swedish language)
Please try again, we just upgraded web2 because of the increased launch load. Sorry about that. Let me know if its still not working for you.
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"In countries with stronger labour laws..."

Interesting. I would refer to those as countries with "weaker" or "perverse" employment laws...
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No. Really, singling out "biointensive" was unfair as any intensive agriculture would have the same benefit.

>Organic is a loaded term nowadays, so maybe it's just semantics.

So loaded as to be basically meaningless.
Not sure why you quoted this. Is that not true?
Not many, including Go. Go is extremely peripheral to what Google does -- it's essentially a 20% project that did well.
Well said. We shouldn't forget that the "Western World" (Europe, North America, Australia, Japan) makes up a tiny percentage of the world's population, yet it's consumption of resources (or "ecological footprint") far outstrips the rest of the planet.

On the question of population growth, families are getting smaller across the globe. If you're in the UK, I recommend this excellent programme presented by Hans Rosling.

Don't Panic: The truth about population
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03h8r1j

From the programme description: "With seven billion people already on our planet, we often look to the future with dread, but Rosling's message is surprisingly upbeat. Almost unnoticed, we have actually begun to conquer the problems of rapid population growth and extreme poverty."

Rosling is, of course, a well-known statistician so he actually presents his conclusions based on real data.
CSVfix is a tool for manipulating CSV data
I use this tool for estimation: bit.ly/MYOr4

(kidding)
Hey,

I'll be in NYC on Friday and Monday (I live in Rhode Island). Is there a chance that we could meet up?
> Until Soylent is proved unsafe, there is no basis for calling it unsafe.

This is exactly backwards, and is precisely the reasoning scammers use to sell worthless treatments.
It's only a problem if it harms a human suddenly and irreversibly. I'm guessing that anyone who was suffering problems from a dietary change would have time to correct.

Show me some evidence or even some indication that Soylent will result in an irreversible and sudden decline in health.

I'm guessing that you won't, or can't.

Your argument is "We don't know, so let's not risk it". The risk here is minimal. If it fails to live up to the hype, it's reversible.
Interestingly the information rate of spoken Japanese is comparatively low.

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Stopped reading after I saw the meme. :(
It's a good description that goes in both directions. 360 reviews are popular because they reduce single-source bias (a subclass of Common Method Variance). Different perspective of an employee can helps account for unique variance in the employees' true performance. From my perspective Ensorceled's comment demonstrate their value rather than their shortcomings.
Come to #Scala and #Scalaz on Freenode IRC, it's a great learning resource. (REPL in the chat so you can get realtime help with code).
Personally I haven't had a problem using Git. I also haven't done that in a heavy team environment but I've heard good things in general since 3.0ish.

There are a couple things to be aware of regarding how you set up your .gitignore, and now, in 4.3, apparently meta files, but, it's pretty straight-forward, IMO.

I'd ask on the forums and get a current response... a lot of problems with the external VCS were things from back in 2.0ish land, which was quite awhile ago.
You can buy nearly pure sodium hydroxide crystals in large canisters from the supermarket.