skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure flavorlessness will make Soylent more popular. Most people like to have at least some flavor.

My point is that there already are a lot of products out there that are "fast, simple, and nutritionally complete that can be used from time to time as supplementation when you don't feel the need to sit down for an actual meal," but I don't see everyone who's so excited about Soylent already using them on a regular basis. OK, perhaps you would prefer to have something without sugar in it (I'm not sure why you would object to the other ingredients, fats and salts are essential parts of your diet), but I would think that if Soylent were going to be as popular as people make it out to be, there would already be lots of people replacing meals with existing meal replacements. All Soylent offers over the others is that it's bland, as far as I can tell.

I'm not saying the existing, well known ones are better. Just that they haven't revolutionized food or replaced traditional meals on a large scale or anything.

There are plenty of people who do already replace occasional meals with these existing meal replacers, along with energy bars and the like. So, Soylent will be one more out of a large number of choices in this field, produced by people with no particular food industry experience, and more bland than the rest. Is that supposed to get me excited about "the future of food"?

I can imagine people who already do use existing meal replacers, but having some particular problem with them that Soylent solves, might go for this. And then there's the Silicon Valley hype bubble, where a bunch of people will buy it and drink it for lunch for a month or two before getting bored and excited by the next big new thing (Twitter to your shoes! Personal Instagram quadcopter follow bot! Distributed decentralized FarmVille/GTA hybrid!)

The reason I'm so baffled by this is that it's hard to imagine why so many people would get excited about yet another product in an already crowded marketplace that's fairly niche (well, fairly niche for people who use them as their primary nutrition; relatively large for people who use it to replace an occasional meal). I don't see anything revolutionary about Soylent; it's yet another meal replacer.
This article reminded me how mammals.org would redirect to Apple. I just tested it and it doesn't work any longer. :(
Yes, it is the same Ondřej.

http://ondras.zarovi.cz/#projects
Do you have any opinions on Require.js vs Browserify? I've been using Require.js recently, but just discovered Browserify, and there seems to be mixed opinions on these two, but most blog articles and the like seem a little dated. Probably will have to build something non-trivial in both to know for sure, but if you have any insight on these two, would be glad to hear it.
Very convenient for hacking on the go when you are usually ng something like surface or iPad.
Your assumption relies on the fact that there would not exist a large enough sub-population of non-working members of society to avoid this issue (if you don't work you probably don't care if your partner does).
Ondřej Žára. I've seen that name before. Hmm. The guy behind a server side implementation of Javascript. I loved that concept and I still believe it has a huge potential.

Kudos.
Apple’s $10.5B on Robots to Lasers Shores Up Supply Chain
Justin Bieber Shot my Startup in the Face
Sure you can, just add the function first:

function SUM() {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
sum += arguments[i];
}
return sum;
}

Now you can do stuff like =SUM(A1, B1, C2) and it works like expected.
One of the points of a validation test like this is to be broad in your product offering, and seek feedback to guide the development/refinement of your product and its features.

Your own questions provide exactly that- Maybe nobody cares what type or brand of salsa it is, just that it’s different each month. Or maybe 2/3s of potential users ask that question, and he knows he should add that as a feature/description.

Or maybe he hears people want guacamole and sour cream delivered as well, and he then tests that offering out. Or nobody signs up, it fails, and he’s only lost a few hours of his time.
IPhone & iPad Users Report Severe Motion Sickness While Using iOS 7
The fact that you can put Javascript code which interacts with the cells is awesome.

For example you can put 10 in A1 and then put "=sum=0;for(i=0;i<A1;i++)sum+=i" in A2 to get the sum from 0 to 10. I really like this.
I can understand the logic that adding any connection to a platform increases security risks--- examples of hacks of multiple platforms via weaknesses in adobe/java/oracle listed here: http://blog.evercontact.com/we-think-the-linkedin-intro-team...

I'd say that the funny thing about many "hacks", this one included, is that they indeed seem simple in hindsight, but the team at rapportive was the first to take that creative leap to try something that no one else had in Mail OS.
How would this compare to an HTC One?
The scenario I keep hoping for is: ms buys xamarin, MIT licenses the entire xamarin cross platform ecosystem (while charging for build services like phonegap does), adds a "compile to html/css/js" feature so you can write your web frontend in c#.

This scenario leads to the following: C# wins as the "cross platform mobile language," window phone is the default first environment for cross platform apps, and as developers we get an elegant "write once* run everywhere" that's based on c#.

The asterisk: once plus ui customizations on each platform, so more like write (1 + (.1 * num_non_wp8_platforms)) times

Unfortunately, though I think these moves would make ms a dominating player in mobile and web for decades, I doubt they'll do this.
Well, look at the Happy Planet Index, the top choices are not countries that are known for having great development ratings.

1. Costa Rica
2. Vietnam
3. Colombia
4. Belize
5. El Salvador

I have to admit that I don't believe people in Belize or El Salvador are happier than say Mexico or Panamá just to name a few neighbors. It's weird how the first "Industrialized" country is Israel at 15th place, and the next is New Zealand at 28th followed by Norway. Also most of the top 30 are latinamerican countries, so maybe is just a cultural thing to be always happy.
New consoles “too limited” for Oculus Rift, says cofounder
How to Fail-Proof your Backups to protect your customer's data.
Kopo Kopo: Building the “Square of Africa”
As the sly boots behind webserver.io I wouldn't mind that first one.. 250K is a bit more than my standard walking around money though
> spying on allies" which -- until recently -- was tin-foil-hat conspiracy territory.

What? Nations have been spying on each other, including allies, since the invention of spying.

> The political fallout will not be minimal

The fallout will be so minimal as to be non-existent. Nations already know allies spy on them, it's not in any way surprising.

It also doesn't really bother them. They have to protect against all spying, if an ally can, so can an enemy. So finding out an ally spied really just means an enemy did too - so it's actually useful information.
First, your landing page needs the attention that others have mentioned.

Second, I LOVE this idea. Kind of like Graze, but for salsa. Actually, yes, do that - make Graze for salsa. Give us options. Let us choose to Hate or Love certain ingredients/keywords.
The problem is that the total economic value (as measured by market price) for the users who only use that 80% of perceived functionality is close to 0 (google docs and OO/LO are free)

The incredibly difficult 20% is what people pay for. It's what the businesses that shell out billions of dollars a year pay for. And it's what a successful product in the space needs to tackle
Have we changed the subject? I was disputing the general assertion "don't pretend the current situation is anything but dire" to which you replied that at any time we (anyone, I presumed) are 3 ways away from revolt due to lack of food. Certainly there are regions in the world where the food supply is more tenuous than others, but in those cases it has nothing to do with environment and everything to do with politics and corruption.

I'm all for fixing corruption and increasing transparency of governance worldwide, including here at home.
It looks pretty sweet. Microsoft has been very uniform in applying its flat design everywhere. I'm not always a fan of flat, but for the editor it works.
I'm glad to see someone making progress in the US derivatives regulatory environment. Bitcoin badly needs an options market to reduce volatility risk, and this is probably a good first step.
Back in the day, before people understood how the web worked (or was going to work), those people generally assumed that recognizable nouns would (somehow) correlate to higher organic traffic -- as if someone looking to buy pet-related items would think to type "pets.com" into his URL field.

Search engines rendered that logic laughably naive, but I still think there could be some ancillary value in (noun).com as a recognizable and easily recalled domain name. I wouldn't overpay for one, but I wouldn't pass one up if the pricing made sense, and if I had actual plans to do something productive and value-adding with the name. (Buying domain names to squat and flip, under the "Greater Fool Theory," is a game I wouldn't recommend playing.)

On the other hand, the biggest non-technical challenge with buying a generic noun as a domain name is trademarking. Picking too generic a company name is setting oneself up for an uphill battle in today's trademark landscape.
Whilst not focused on being an Excel clone, Backgrid has worked great for me. It's bound to backbone/underscore if you're already using that.

http://backgridjs.com/
Truly impressive specs/build for the price. Can anyone shed light on whether $179 off-contract is low enough to be successful in its target markets (Brazil, Europe, Asia)?
Did you live in the south east of England by any chance?
It gets better the further from London you get.
I don't believe the title has changed, its just the way I interpreted it upon first reading lead me to make that (hopefully) clarifying comment.

It read to me that Netflix is stopping Webkit support entirely, which I realise is nonsense.
Economics got there first.
I've been a fan of SlickGrid for a while, it handles huge data sets relatively well. If you want excel-style functionality it'll still take a little work.

https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid
This is essentially what Alexandria used to do: any ship coming to port with any books on board was required to give the library at Alexandria those books for as long as it took for their scribes to copy them. The library then gave the ship owners the copied version (because hey, data is data, what does it matter if you have the original or secondhand copy?)

This helped propel a lot of the world's best ancient thinkers, including Euclid, Archimedes and Eratosthenes.
Xamarin relies heavily on mono, I don't see them rebuilding it just for Linux when they're so heavily invested in the MS platform.
On-demand weather forecasts delivered using Riak
It is not about a faster processor, but the architecture, X8 in this case. This is what makes the Moto X very interesting, like the always on and some other quirks.

I agree that a cheap performant phone is what is quite revolutionary. Google/Motorola does it right.
>"governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret."

The fundamental problem with this is that a government isn't a single entity. It's comprised of thousands of people all working on their own specific piece. So by it's very nature, only a very few people will know the bigger picture. If "governments" start leaking information left, right and centre, what that means in reality is hundreds of workers start exposing all of their work without understanding the larger picture.

What if a worker reveals details of a program to track "innocent people". Only to find out after the leak they were actually all in witness protection and they're now in great danger.

When you're part of a huge machine like a government (particularly in Policing or security), most workers will not know the full extent of their work, and therefore cannot understand (or be answerable for) the wider impacts of their actions.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...

"It seems to me that this failure of the economists to guide policy more successfully is closely connected with their propensity to imitate as closely as possible the procedures of the brilliantly successful physical sciences - an attempt which in our field may lead to outright error. It is an approach which has come to be described as the "scientistic" attitude - an attitude which, as I defined it some thirty years ago, "is decidedly unscientific in the true sense of the word, since it involves a mechanical and uncritical application of habits of thought to fields different from those in which they have been formed.""

"Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones. While in the physical sciences it is generally assumed, probably with good reason, that any important factor which determines the observed events will itself be directly observable and measurable, in the study of such complex phenomena as the market, which depend on the actions of many individuals, all the circumstances which will determine the outcome of a process, for reasons which I shall explain later, will hardly ever be fully known or measurable."
The best place to search (for Perl REPL's) is on CPAN - https://metacpan.org/search?q=repl

The current grandaddy is Devel::REPL - https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-REPL

The new kid on the block is Reply - https://metacpan.org/release/Reply

PS. I do find using a Perl REPL invaluable for me.
Dunking for Density: A New Take on Immersion Cooling for Servers
Broken for me too, on both FF & Chrome. As you say, the formulae are just displayed, not evaluated.
Once China opened its door to the world, it could not close it again (2012)
While I appreciate the condescencion, their website says "We use OpenPGP" and doesn't specify how you can decrypt a message using their webmail client without storing (or sending) your keys on their server. If there is a workable solution to that, I'm genuinely curious about it.

I'm sure they're a lovely email provider, but when they emphasize 'Secure Email' the onus is on them to prove that their secure system isn't a series of wishes and 'trust us'.
Why would links suddenly break? It's not like HTTP/1 will ever go away.
This.

It's hard to see this as anything except Microsoft playing 'me too' with app developers as people flock away from their CLR for mono.

It's good for c# developers, there's no doubt, but I'm suddenly wary now; I can well imagine a future where Xamarin is bought by Microsoft and their tools become Microsoft lock in. That's not a future I'm enthusiastic about.
Hövding - Airbag for Cyclists
Snowden is proof of that.
I'm a Lego League coach. We're not allowed to use anything but the stock software and language for competition, but we can use whatever we want for the team project (this year's theme is Nature's Fury, and the kids are working on a way to easily use a car as a generator during a power outage). I'll have to look into this!
Blovio - Easily customize photo, video and audio widgets
By what?

HTTP 2.0 is the standardized version of SPDY.
Yeah, for comparison purposes Walmart is about $14871 and Exxon around $14364.

Using the numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue
I am a bit lost as to why cycles are handled the way they are. Part of the problem, is cycles seem to crash chrome's developer tools.

If you put =A1 in A1, and =A2 in A2, it crashes the web inspector for me.

I am lost as to why putting =A1 in A1 doesn't cause an infinite loop. Why doesn't eval (DATA.A1) not trigger the getter and hence an infinite loop?
Seems more likely that Yahoo is preparing to take a write-down on a collection of assets and is trying to mitigate the total amount by auctioning off the leftovers.
I have a similar service except beer-as-a-service. http://homebrewster.com I would love some feedback
This is conceptually nice. But consider. You want to fork a third party library. On check in you reformat the entire code base? Or, if you don't do it on initial commit, and then somebody needs to modify one line?

Recognize that "third party" might not mean some code base from NVIDIA or whatever, but just some code from 5 years ago in your own company.

And sure, we could enforce the same tool chain on the entire company, but then you have broken diff on probably every line of code in every repository. And the embedded guys are up in arms because it makes bad decisions for their hardware, which is limited to 40 column displays. And so on.

Go got it right. They had green field development, and made the decision on formatting then. I'm not crazy about a few of the specific choices they made, but who cares, really?

Personally, I would like a tool that inspected the code, recognized the style, and then enforced that style. Braces on the same line, well, that is how all new lines will be formatted. And so on. I live and die by source code diffs, and don't want formatting wars to break that. I also spend every day in multiple code bases not written by the company, so I already deal with different formatting styles. It ain't hard to deal with, excepting that terrible Microsoft C style of spacing ('foo( x ,y )' vs 'foo (x, y)'. My eyes can't parse that quickly because it breaks all the normal rules of punctuation that we use in English and every other computer language. (I don't know that MS invented it, it is just pervasive in their code, and it is where I usually encounter it)

All of that is not to say I completely disagree with your idea, it is attractive in a number of ways, I am just pointing out some tradeoffs (and putting the lie to your "no more arguing" ;))
Similar with the galaxy ace. It sucked so badly that you couldn't type on it at all and that had a capacitive screen.

My wife had some major surgery and was in recovery trying to text me and I though they'd broken her - turned out to be the phone.
The Value of a CEO (Steve Ballmer)
If they came up with a unified, cross platform, UI format, it would make it so much easier. As it is now, you have to write your own view for each platform, instead of being able to use generic objects (buttons, cells, text, images, etc.) which wrap the native ones.

If they did that, they would very likely, as you say, dominate mobile for a long time. Nothing is more frustrating than jumping between android XML, Java, and eclipse (or whatever) and XCode, OBJ-C, and the iOS UI, while trying to not go insane.
My god, it would be 911 times 2,356.
One thing I notice when I passed through the States, is that you are constantly being bombarded with advertising, subliminal messaging, NLP. Trying to sell you something, or mold the way you think.

(The fact that a large proportion of Americans seem to think they have a "right" to bear arms shows that more than just the government and military that are fucked.)
For example, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/j...
So should we just go with our gut and intuition? There are places where that's a valid approach (a reason why Amazon Turk thrives) but understanding complex systems is probably not the place for that.

I do agree his model is probably overly simplistic. What could be awesome though is open sourcing something like this and having the debate evolve as a series of pull requests and forks that represent different assumptions and scenarios.
Scraping Github with Haskell [2011]
Well, the similar media queries and repetitive output are eaten for breakfast by Gzip and such. I worried a lot about CSS performance when I started using SASS. I quickly found that CSS is so fast I am better off spending time optimizing my JS and images.
I'd say most of northern Europe. At least Nordic countries and Germany, in varying degrees. Probably similar in other european countries as well.
Show HN: An Intelligent Planner That Adapts to How You Work
I have FINALLY learned how to manage time. I know procrastination is still a huge problem at my school. Every morning I can still find people just coming home from pulling all nighters. I'm working to compile best known solutions into a smart planner. Other solutions focus more on showing what to do that helping you get stuff done. Here's what it does:

Helps yoy break your work down into smaller pieces (30minutes -> 1.5hrs, our attention spans are short)

Helps you estimate how long work will take (based on your past personal history)

Adapts to your working habits ("John really gets a lot of work done at 11pm on Sundays, let's ask him to schedule a short task then to save him time later")

Show you how much free time you have and how you can get more

Help you eliminate distractions

Syncs with Google Calendar, Evernote and Dropbox (Coming later)

…and more

We're currently here: http://www.peersapp.com

I'm looking for feedback on whether these strategies have worked for people. Also, what would your biggest reservation in using this?
The command is go and it's argument is fmt.
This is a bit of topic, but your comment brings up a point that I often see talked about on HN, but doesn't match my own personal experience. You say:" I view it as analogous to being a math major versus being mechanical engineering. One is more theory, the other is more practical." Now here's the thing. I have a degree in electrical engineering, and to get that degree, I had to do a full unit load of maths, physics and computer science. By full unit load, I mean that I had to do as many units in these subjects as a maths major / physics major / CS major would do in their respective courses. And these weren't 'lite' versions of the units, they were the same - we had maths / physics / CS majors in the lecture hall with us, and we did the same exams. The only real difference was that we didn't get to choose which units we did in these subjects - whereas the subject majors got to choose from a wider range of curricula, we were simply told that we would be studying statistics, or quantum mechanics, or operating system design.

Was my university a special case, or is the oft-repeated claim that engineering is less theory and more practice actually just a false generalisation?

I should of course note that after graduation the stereotype probably does hold true - engineers spend much less time worrying about formal proofs, or highly-accurate physics calculations, approximations are generally fine for what we do. But that is not the case whilst studying, at least not in my experience.
"Neurological and psychological applications of transcranial lasers and LEDs"
HTTP 2.0 will still be defined for unencrypted operation, for deployment on Intranets. This default is for the open web.

Since a number of people don't seem to be reading TFA, I'll help:

"To be clear - we will still define how to use HTTP/2.0 with http:// URIs, because in some use cases, an implementer may make an informed choice to use the protocol without encryption. However, for the common case -- browsing the open Web -- you'll need to use https:// URIs and if you want to use the newest version of HTTP."
Did you not read the last paragraph?

> For a company that sees quarterly revenues of over a billion dollars, that’s not a big deal, but it definitely can’t hurt either.

Reading comprehension at its finest right here.
clever title. Got me to read it!