skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you love it!

Yea, I didn't design the first version. Working on a redesign, but I just wanted to get it out there to test the new pricing model and demand.

But you connect to Facebook, then it shows you the price and you can pick a year, then it generates a preview and gives you the updated pricing depending on how many pages you have.
I've been complaining about how much trouble eating was since I realized I was underweight maybe 6-7 years ago. I've narrowed it down to some kind of mental problem that makes me chew 3-5x longer than other people. I therefore get full 3-5x sooner and it's hard to eat enough calories.

I've tried supplements and eating very dense foods (lots of grease and carbs) with lukewarm results but if Soylent works as promised, it'll basically change my life.

That said, my comment was meant to be humourous and I totally understand how people who don't have problems with normal food might view Soylent. It's the ultimate first-world problem.
I'd never heard of these guys. Telecomix does similar things, but with more activism and politics involved.
Well, GP is off by a couple orders of magnitude..

3000 people out of a population of 310 million is 0.001%.

Equivalent of 7 airline fatalities. Not so bad.
I have seen closed source software where the difference between crap and not-crap (for my specific need at the time) would be <5 lines of code. If I had the source to them (+ the ability to build it without spending a week), then they'd become 'not-crap' that very day.
OpenMRS.org - OpenMRS is a collaborative open source project to develop software to support the delivery of health care in developing countries.
No, quora. I'm not going to log in with Google or Facebook to read this.
check out the teams at TheImpactEngine.com Some awesome companies looking for great talent and trying to change the world.
This is very interesting. Wondering if it's a service that VPS hosts could provide. Think Digital Ocean doing this or just exposing access through their API.
I'm not sure the poster meant "bignum" as in huge numbers like GnuMP handles, or if he meant exact 64-bit integers, which JS doesn't have (natively).
I don't disagree with any of your points (and they are well put).

However government is viewed by many as a legitimate purveyor of lethal force, both locally (everything from cops w/ guns to the death penalty) and remotely (intercontinental missile strikes, rendition, and foreign occupation).

Since governments typically have significant control over the media (by being able to classify information or more direct measures) there exists a significant self-perpetuating propaganda regime, which I think calls into question the basic legitimacy government is thought to enjoy, and along with it the mandate to use lethal force.

Most of the things we consider atrocities are the abuse of lethal force. When a militia member in Africa forces a child to murder his parents, we consider that unequivocally wrong, yet when a government murders his parents we consider that a legitimate projection of lethal force, perhaps only b/c we don't know the details.

So while governments do have some legitimacy and do a lot of good, the basic structures (consent, monopoly on coercion, and propaganda) are ripe for abuse and (I'd argue) transition into covert/improper use of force as they stabilize and their purpose becomes widely viewed as oriented toward peacetime activities.
Don't the Winkelvii have large Bitcoin holdings, whose value they presumably wish to drive upwards? Sorry, but I think this is a case of a market remaining irrational for longer than some people can remain solvent. I don't intend to waste money betting against it, but I'm not impressed. A couple of years ago people were predicting the price of gold was headed for the stars too, and a lot of them have lost money since.
Just use "use".
There are already a lot of companies doing Instagram books. But your "book of the month" idea would be interesting, especially with a more premium binding like this product provides.

Also, this isn't just photos; it's statuses, comments, check-in's, etc too.
Show HN: Open source semi-transparent, resizable Windows 8 Start Screen
Hello All

https://github.com/pprov/menumod

When I upgraded to Win 8.1, I was disappointed (although not surprised) at the lack of enhancements to the Start Screen. At the least I was hoping for a way to resize it or make it transparent so that it wouldn't interrupt my workflow when I needed to launch a program. Alas, MS it seems is pushing its tablet interface on us whether we like it or not, and desktop users be damned...

So I spent a month fooling around with Spy++ and figuring out how to make the Start Screen do what I wanted. What I have isn't perfect, but I am able to adjust the size and transparency of the Start Screen, which was my goal. I'd say it's pre-alpha at this point, but functional.

I'm making this post to see if anyone is interested in contributing to the project, or even using it...I am definitely more motivated to polish it up if I know the project is scratching other people's itches and not just my own.

Thanks! And of course any feedback is appreciated!

PS. I know there are many other products that do this same thing, but the ones I tried either didn't work, were full of installer add-on garbage, or didn't have the resize capability that I wanted. Plus, coding this up was pretty fun :)
How are security issues handled by these manufacturers?
try binceipt.com. It committed to kill receipt book in order to reduce paper usage.
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> It will also ultimately be a failure and frowned upon in modern society. Why? Because a Soylent-saturated world would rob families and loved ones of the ritual and benefits of eating together.

I'm curious how even eating Soylent for 90% of one's meals would perform this "rob[bing]" of which you speak.
I've used this in an (unfortunately unsuccessful) hackathon project - it definitely got us out of CSV-cleaning-hell.
I'm getting somewhat tired of these kinds of stories, the stories and the responses here both follow identical patterns.

1) Security is compromised at an entity that deals somehow with bitcoins. The security of the blockchain remains unimpacted, it is as relevant to the fundamentals of the currency as much as someone getting robbed is relevant to the fundamentals of the fiat currency they were robbed in.

2) Much whining and gnashing of teeth ensues as to how bitcoin is going to collapse any second now because clearly it is just some crazy snake oil and look at the rash of compromises as evidence, and by the way it also happens I disapprove of it because it goes against my views on what a currency needs to be.

3) People respond much along the lines I'm responding now.

4) It devolves into an ideological argument along the lines of the characteristics of the currency itself and the potential death of fiat money and its implications.

Conclusion; Some people are fundamentally ideologically opposed to bitcoin and will use whatever they can to drag it through the mud at every opportunity.

Compromising the blockchain or the fundamentals of bitcoin itself is news, even when it's overblown or exaggerated like the recent Cornell findings, some venture getting owned because they failed to adequately secure their place of business is par for the course and barely a footnote at this point in time.

For the first time in normal everyday business history, security really matters now. You can't just put up a banner with the legal penalties for acting against corporate policy and actually expect to hold people accountable via the legal system for ignoring your banner, the new rules are that you need real security.

Frankly I think that's a good thing and something that is far overdue, the swiss cheese state of general security practices coupled with the apathy and ignorance of general computer users has gone on for far too long, but because the individuals in question were never held personally to account there was never the motivation to really fix the problem.

Now there is, people need to accept this new paradigm if they want to deal in this space.
There is actually a 3rd inside the SIM as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_identity_module#Desi...

This is what Java Card was developed to run on.

If you are interested in getting lower level access to your radio, you could look at the defunct http://openmoko.com/freerunner.html project or the resurrection of the Freeruner, http://www.openphoenux.org/
Ever since watching the "Cities" episode of Human Planet I've assumed most restaurants have pest infestations to varying degrees. Is that not the case?
I hope you realize there are more rats in more restaurants and food factories than you think, and that health departments nationally, while quick to cite, fine, and demand changes to your pest control, really understand that rodent problems happen, and don't shut you down for a rat. Rat infestation... yes.
I see it like this:

I regularly used a fax machine at my job in Japan, and personal computers were not prevalent in my workplace. Businesses are very conservative and don't want to stand out.

In Japan, print is still the dominant way of spreading information. I always figured that the best designers ended up as print designers—and my web developer friends used Dreamweaver.

Not only that, CSS is very inconsistent with its english: "visibility: visible" OK! so then the opposite is "visibility: invisible" right? No. It's hidden.
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I thought that the refrigerator was more about soundproofing (that way it wouldn't matter if it was listening or not.)

I think it depends on the model. I tested a couple of phones, including a blackberry, inside my fridge a few years before Snowden did his thing. We put them in and then tried to call them and none of them rang. But the fridge was one of those trendy stainless steel models. Perhaps a more ordinary fridge would have less effect on signal strength.
I'm going to blog about it soonish. I'll cc you on twitter
Are any other major OSs using SHA1?
https://twitter.com/rosalabs/status/396327848010477568

(@rosalabs is the company behind Soylent.)
Get a job in trading and you can change the world.
Is there a better option than trying to build an MVP?
You have it backwards.

The PNaCl thing actually makes it more realistic to actually install a "Web App" inside Chrome and use it independent of an internet connection. The browser is lagging well behind Android and iOS in terms of user experience. Efforts like PNaCl and asm.js help to restore the balance.

All browsers include compilers already, by the way.
That's incredible to me...even at $65 it's less than $10 a day. Half the price would be like $1.25 a meal.

I spend almost that simply for lunch each day (sushi, sandwiches...food on-the-go), so for me spending $65 a week would pretty easily save money. Makes me curious how many people (in the U.S.) spend less than $65 a week on food.
If I'm not willing to go out into the wilderness and lay out ten square feet of asphalt, I shouldn't support a national highway system?

If I'm not willing to personally fly on a jet fighter, I shouldn't support a national defense system?

If I'm not willing to seek out and apprehend criminals myself, I shouldn't support a police force?

One role of government is to coordinate wide-scale activity that would be impossible to efficiently or equitably execute without the power to compel individual action. Once you have accepted the right of government to force you to do one thing under threat of punishment, further argument needs to be about the appropriate scope of that power, not whether the power itself is illegitimate.
It's hard to imagine the type of person that would be on the fence about Soylent that would be ok with it after reading this article. Hopefully the "it was beta" excuse for producing Soylent in an unhealthy environment won't fly outside of SV culture. If anything, it should bring up serious doubts about the integrity of a team that, when faced with overwhelming demand and flush with investor cash, stoop to a level of cognitive dissonance necessary to claim lofty goals of fighting hunger worldwide while sidestepping around the rats and filth in their "beta" production environment. If the Soylent team wants respect they should focus less on dreaming up scientific sounding rebranding campaigns and slow down the "deployment" of their product in order to subject it to rigorous scientific tests and trials before mailing it to strangers.

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Meta: wow, I really get worked up over this Soylent stuff. There's something deeply disturbing about this to me, like we're witnessing the birth of a monster. Maybe it's the first sign of the worst of the "move fast, break things" cutting corners culture smelling money to be made iterating on peoples' health...
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I'm familiar with the concept as it's one of the things that makes me feel even more comfortable with the language– for certain things at least. That being said, there is also a form of comedy based on the vagueness and misinterpretation of speech. I'm at a loss for what it's called– a quick check brought me to manzai[0] but it's not what I'm thinking of. I'll have to keep searching.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai
Is it me, or does the hand waving at the beginning of the article between "write" and "update" smell of bad spin? As a developer I consider both "creates"/"updates" as "writes".

"Riak is designed to accomodate (sp) server and network failures without ever losing committed writes, so this led to a quick response from Basho’s engineers."

As such losing a write to me when I read documentation is losing either a create, update or a delete. Any side affecting operation essentially. Anything that needs to write to disk to record a change...
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As killer robots are nominally no different than land mines I could see support for banning them. My understanding however is that land mine use (or area denial weapons), are still allowed if there is a way to definitively disable them at the end of hostilities. If my understanding is correct, and robot weapon designers are able to successfully counter with the notion "but we can turn them off after we're done." then this effort won't go as far.

At a conference over the weekend in one of the couch discussions there was a suggestion of a 'nearness' limit, sort of you can't use deadly force unless you are within a 10 mile radius of that use. The goal being to outlaw more developed countries flying drones over less developed countries and picking off their citizens.
Why doesn't Ensure have a good webpage showing us these options and educating us on how to choose?

There's more to "product" than what's in the bag.
So that's how the code found its way into the Terminator!
The name is one of the things I love about it. After all, "Soylent is people" is right on target, in the sense that it's a people product, designed to help people with a food problem.

There isn't one group on the planet that wouldn't benefit from at least a little bit of Soylent at some point in their regular lives.

It doesn't have to replace their family meals, and it doesn't have to replace their social eating.

But it can be their occasional breakfast when they got up a little too late. Or their lunch when they need to run to the post office in their lunch break. Or their "eating at my computer" food when they're busy programming and don't want to order pizza delivery. Or their everyday staple when they're on a budget. Or their emergency food when they've just been hit by a tsunami and the rescue team won't come for days. Or their backpack food when they're on a military mission. Or their one-meal a day when they're in a submarine with tight space issues. Etc. etc. etc.
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone? Really?

There's a ridiculous number of operating systems hiding in every mobile phone. What do you think runs on the GPU? What about bluetooth, wifi and GPS? What about all those sensors? The camera interface? The video acceleration? The SIM card? The NAND flash?

Try harder.
Yes, they posted on their forums about the licensing issues:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/197948-New-version-of-Mono-...

Of course, I find it somewhat amusing that licensing is what prevents Unity from upgrading their C# support, since licensing the Unity source code is something that is also very difficult:

We license Unity source code on a per-case and per-title
basis via special arrangements made by our business
development team. As this can be quite expensive, we do
not generally license source code to smaller operations,
educational institutions, nor to companies in countries
which do not have adequate legal intellectual property
protection.

http://unity3d.com/unity/faq
If you try Soylent, and dislike it, there are other products that are calorie dense that may help. (This is not medical advice, see a doctor, etc etc).

I know of Ensure Plus because I know lots of people with anorexia, and it's used during refeeding programs. (Sometimes as a drink, and sometimes through an NG tube).
> 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.

What? I like rooting for the underdog newcomer and all but will you please settle down. The social aspects of food are pretty freaking relevant and worth talking about in an extended article on Soylent. As well exposing are any shortcuts they're taking, no matter how trivial they seem. You'd expect a review on a restaurant to tell you if the reviewers saw any rats there, right? Despite the rats being there, besides questionable operating practices the Vice piece was overall positive, so just cool it there on kicking Vice around.
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That should not change the standards they are held to. Nobody's forcing people to eat soylent 24/7, any more than they're forcing people to eat supersized big macs for three meals a day.
The situations are not the same - the mere existance of such right of first refusal changes the value of this loan.

The price is mostly determined by information asymmetry - you don't know which debtors will be 'dry' and which will pay, but you can buy/sell a bundle of them and assume some average rate. If the sale was burdened with the right of first refusal (on a loan-per-loan basis) to a debtor who has much better knowledge on how much he can pay, then the deal is broken - collectors would be stuck with all the value-below-price loans while the value-above-price loans would get away for the listed price.

Also, it changes the value of your loan pre-sale - if my policies, in effect, tell you "well, you'll have a chance to get away with paying x% of the loan" then you won't pay more than x%, ever. If my policies tell you "I'll sell your loan for x%, but in that case you'll get screwed and pay 2*x% to the collector", then I have a reasonable chance to get more money than x% out of you before the sale.

It's quite likely that a policy "pay $1500 or I'll sell your loan to someone for $1000 who'll harass you until you pay much more than $1500" is rational and economically effective even though theoretically you're leaving $500 on the table; since it affects your decisions on when/if/how much to pay.
The problem is that it will ultimately lead to the market value for debt to drop even further.

- Lender "A" is owed $20,000 by each of 2 people.

- Debt buyer "B" offers to buy them for $1,000 each.

- Debtor "C" realises that getting out of her own debt for 5c in the $ is a good outcome, and take up the opportunity to buy the debt herself. "A" gets their $1000

- Debtor "D" realises the same thing, but he has no way to pay even $1000 for the debt, so passes up the opportunity to buy the debt.

- "B" ends up buying D's debt for $1000, even though it's now obvious that D has little change of ever paying it back.

B ends up with debt that they can never recover - not even the purchase cost. This leads to B offering less money for this style of debt next time.

The only reason B was willing to pay 5c in the $ on the original debt is because that aligns with their odds of getting the debt repayed.

Once you create a system which filters out the debts of anyone who has the ability to pay back a chunk of their debt, the debts that end up selling to the agencies are the real rubbish loans that will never get paid back.
Can you really compare products like Ensure or Carnation Instant Breakfast to Soylent? Pick up any of those products in a store and you'll see that half of the ingredients have nothing to do with nutritional value and are about making the product taste better. I'm holding a bottle of Nestle's "Boost" meal replacement drink right now and here are the main ingredients:

> Water, Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, Modified Milk Ingredients, Cocoa, High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Corn Oil, Salt, Artificial Flavour, Soy Oil

Just because something is "well known" doesn't make it better. Nestle is not a company with an outstanding global reputation and if given the choice between trusting them or a company like Soylent, I'm going to choose Soylent.

Like others here, I view Soylent as an interesting experiment. I enjoy a nice meal as much as the next person but I also appreciate the value of something 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.
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I'd like a RSS feed of people I follow :D
That's all well and good until the IRS comes after these people for taxes on the value of the forgiven debt. Occupy essentially just indebted them to a much more formidable foe than a bill collector that must play by strict rules: the IRS.
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That was the beta/promo batch. I fail to see how that's relevant now.

They're already subjecting the production version to rigorous testing.

As for trials, those cost hundreds of millions of dollars and are done for no other food. Are you suggesting that they simply not make Soylent because it hasn't gone through a phase 3?

I bet you're real fun at bake sales.
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I do not speak with any authority on this, all I know on this subject I read on HN, and I only speak for myself: I've read that the FDA is starting to talk about security of devices on, for example, hospital networks, and that manufacturers are starting to think about it. And I haven't read, or know, a thing about implantable or other personal devices.

tldr: I don't know.
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It should not be a zero sum game. I attempt to pay my team based upon what they are worth to the company; not how they rank compared to their co-workers. You should be able to have an entire team of #1 developers ...
McDonalds is fucking delicious.

I'd still much rather put bland goop into my body considering how terrible the contents of a Big 'n' Tasty combo meal is for my health.
Do you upload my phone contacts to your server at any point?
Sure, of course. Nowadays every single piece of 'time' is invaluable to be productive, to get rich, to achieve something.

But we lose the pleasure in the process. Sure, I'm not able to cook a pleasant meal on midweek as I do on my weekends. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to the extreme of blending all up and feed myself with a straw. Finding a balance is the way to go.
When web "apps" are over 1 megabyte initial load, no, I don't think this is premature. I think it's long overdue.