skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing, absent any negative information a dietary change shouldn't need rigourous proof. Unless there's any indication that Soylent will do irreparable damage from day 1, I see no good reason for an individual not to try it and monitor their progress. If it doesn't work for them, then they can stop using it. How hard is that? How is that breaking anyone?

I don't treat human life lightly. You're just treating a dietary change too heavily.

> It's like what I'm saying is going in one ear and coming out the other.

I was just about to say the same of you. I'm done here.
To be fair, it is "startup hackathon culture" to think like this.

If you build software that doesn't work, people get pissed off and yell at you on web-forums... but in the great scheme of things that's not a big deal.

The main downside is that once you leave software, startup culture becomes incredibly dangerous. If you build an airplane that "doesn't work", people die. If you build a train that "doesn't work", the train crashes into a building and people die. If you build a bridge that doesn't work... people die.

And of course, when it comes to Soylent... if you build a food process that can be infested with diseases, or leave out important dietary nutrition in a particular diet... people can die.

We have all this discussion talking about the diet side of things, but little discussion on the practicality of storage, or whether or not it needs to be refrigerated.
It's been shown that it can happen, so it will continue to happen until it becomes unprofitable or infeasible.....
Proposing counter arguments is considered to be an effective way of reconciling two differing beliefs, as opposed to simply questioning my sincerity. I would be more than happy to know the factual inaccuracies I have stated, and to change my position accordingly.
I broke my jaw twice and had to subsist on this stuff for 2 months at a time. It just plain sucks, and after 2 months of not chewing your teeth feel soft, and everything hurts when you do (eventually) chew. Also lost weight really quickly, went from 183 to 127 in 2 months.
Are you kidding? My response was 2 sentences about how I've seen them especially, and TV news in general, replay things they were saying were so "edgy" for TV, _on TV_. Just like the re-distribution of these images in an article about how inappropriate the taking of these images was. I don't know how to explain that more clearly?
> Any bugs will get worked out over time.

Meanwhile, they'll still market it as optimized nutrition to put you in perfect shape and fine for everyone even if they have allergies etc etc.
As an expat German I feel almost the same way as you. Maybe a Western European phase...
Except the "glop", as you put it, is nutritionally healthy and McDonalds is not.
Any world-wide REMOTE engineering positions? Or maybe H1B and relocation sponsoring?
The movie clearly is trying to give the impression that he is using telekinetic powers, not hacking into the robots and causing them to act as if he is using telekinetic powers.
What I Learned From The First Time I Was Fired.
So, the source is open, if that helps... or, at least was, and will be again. I closed it down temporarily while I separate the 'Personable.com' source from the 'Personable' source, but soon, you'd be able to clone the repo and stand up your own instance of it and host the data yourself, if you preferred.

Interact looks neat, but I suppose that this has a slightly different objective. To me, for Personable, the aim is that the API interacts with other services you use. Perhaps for the purpose of making your life easier (e.g., enter a personal API endpoint instead of having to fill out a profile, and let the website read in the data you let them access), perhaps for making the lives of others easier (e.g., your friends want to know where you're at, but don't want to check Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter to see which checkin is the most current), but all of that interaction depends on at least some of that data being net-accessible.

I haven't gotten into what should be public vs. what should be private yet, so, thus far, the advice for Personable is to just treat it like you should treat every other cloud service, and not put anything there you wouldn't want the world to read, but privacy options are forthcoming as well.
Having taken a good hard look at adding this to a non-chrome browser I can tell you it would not be a trivial task. You can't just take the code and re-use it elsewhere and re-inventing it would require constant catch up.
There's a big difference. You can donate and help a small number of people. The government can instantly pull everybody in the country out of poverty. That's not something you can do yourself.
The problem is when likability affects how someone reviews your technical abilities. It should be a separate category, but most people would have significant trouble disassociating the two; more so if you're friends with a coworker.
> America created the Internet. We didn't just join in what the world was doing.

While pedantically true, you should really read 'The Cuckoo's Egg'. And research into this CERN scientist named Tim Berners-Lee. The Internet has had an international development behind it since it was still split into NSFNET/ARPANET/MILNET/etc. But NSA wasn't there, and in fact couldn't have cared less, because the nascent Internet wasn't where their adversaries were at.

> Are you saying that the government can do what it wants as long as it doesn't have an end goal of violating civil liberties?

The end goal of an action is definitely part and parcel of the morality of that action. It's inseparable. E.g. the government could go around shooting people for being black and that would be unmistakeably horrifying. The government could also give the same weapons to the police for self-protection purposes only and we'd (mostly) consider that acceptable, as long as those weapons were only discharged for self-defense, defense of property (e.g. nuc weapons), etc.

Also, your Gitmo example demonstrates much the opposite point. Prisons aren't inherently evil because they are used for an evil purpose at Gitmo. Call me weird, but I kind of prefer that serial killers are locked away myself.

So yes, intent matters. I mean, I agree with you that neither the safeguards nor oversight needed for NSA programs are currently in place, but what if those safeguards and oversight were put into place? Would you be OK with some of those programs then?
These stories of hacks & scandals and your link showing increasing-value only increases my desire to buy bitcoin. Also, this wild story[1] makes me want bitcoin too. What if I just want to buy $500 USD worth of bitcoin and just sit on it? Maybe 10 years from now it'll be worth close to a million, or maybe bitcoin will be shutdown and it'll be worth nothing. I think I can risk it. Who's trust-worthy these days if I want to make that purchase?

1. http://now.msn.com/kristoffer-koch-norwegian-man-buys-apartm...
Facebook Touts Gear That Will Reinvent the Network Engineer
Ok, what would you consider for a universal vm? It seems to me that it's much easier to put one in later than the fundamental problems with JS that need addressing now.
Sure you can.

Dan Gorske has lived on almost nothing but Big Macs since 1972. At age 59, he is apparently still in good health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
Is this a message from God? :) I am just now resurrecting a nice interactive Algebra environment I sold as a desktop application back in the nineties. Google does not have "the beef" site (socialalgebra dot com) yet, but that's OK, I am still working on it. The promo site "stuck On Algebra" comes up on the google. (Yes the graphic design EMR team is on the way.)

The reason one does not see interactive software for advanced math is that it would have to, inter alia, (1) offer a WYSIWYG maths editor and (2) check intermediate steps entered by the student. Both a bit of work.

Gotta get back to work, those "work in progress" signs are fer real.
A better option would be to buy the debt and do nothing with it ever. Just hold it until the person chooses to "redeem" it. i.e. pay the face value of the debt and can afford the taxes on it.

Just send them a message like:

"Hey we're a non-profit founded by Occupy Wallstreeters that bought your debt dirt cheap for X dollars directly from the last debt collection agency to hold your debt. You don't need to do anything now, we'll hold onto it forever if need be. However, if it turns out you need to "check back into the credit economy", we'll sell it to you at cost. Be aware, that doing so will create "income" for you in the eyes of the IRS, so only choose to buy this back if you can also afford to pay them as well in the same fiscal year. You can visit this link and put in your current income to calculate approximately how much you would owe the IRS if we were to opt for us to forgive this debt. Again, you don't have to do anything and we're never going to call you and pester at work like credit collections do."
Python matplotlib xkcd style
awesome
Yeah, I was a little hesitant about that second part also. It was more for effect; I fully realize we're definitely not an insular bunch who can be expected to be rational in all parts of our lives in comparison to the irrational unwashed masses.
^ lmm would have sold the methylamine & quit cooking
Many of the most promising potential routes to solving the hardest biology problems are heavily maths and software dependent. We use high-throughput techniques to generate a lot of data of different types, then use mathematical insights and computational power to reduce the data, then more maths and machine learning to extract meaning.

That maths degree probably means, at the least, that you're comfortable learning graph theory, combinatorics, discrete optimisation, probability theory, etc. These things are the foundation of systems and computational biology.

The software development skills are also sorely needed - a huge proportion of computational biology software is unusable outside of the lab that developed it, and well-engineered software underpins a LOT of successful research. Many great ideas go wasted due to lack of good programmers to implement them properly.

I would say there are two ways in:

1. Stay in your current job, and do hobby work collaborating with scientists to write scientific FOSS and publish it. If you're interested in this, I have a long list of ideas.

2. Transition to science - get a job in a bio lab or at a computational biology/genomics institute. Depending on the specific problem you want to work on and where in the world you are, I can suggest places.

Probably 1, then 2 would be a good idea.
and now Chile is the only country in the region in the OECD.

It was only ratified in 2010 after being run by socialist governments for twenty years.
It's such a pity that Google choose to create such a flawed language as Dart instead of promoting GWT or creating a better Java for the web (which Kotlin might become). Yes, it is better than JavaScript but, IMHO, optional types is not a language feature but a built-in language flaw.
I wonder if anyone actually refused to strip for the researchers, and if so, what the consequences were.
Ah yes, I must be careful as an American, because my employer and everyone I work with is literally this guy: http://wikihistoria.wikispaces.com/file/view/purtian_pic_2.j...
yeah, you could be making zero day exploits and selling them to blackhats, deadly weapons for use in invading third world countries, financial products to help corporations avoidpayin tax. the possibilities are endless and all for the best in the best of all possible worlds!
how many million people are using their site concurrently?
> "many believe welcoming e-cigarette use in public places would erode the decades of progress made in banning public smoking."

Assuming that the intent of indoor smoking bans is to minimize the amount of smoke that is indoors, and assuming that e-cigarette use indoors is not causing an increase in illegal smoking indoors (why would it?), then I don't understand this specific concern.
Now apply some numbers to that analysis and we have an argument. How much have medium-term German and Italian default risks (in percentage points) been affected by low birthrates? How do the projected French rates compare?

To rephrase, imagine a benchmark test comparing javascript engines. A good blog post comparing those tests would have charts and graphs describing relative performance, what affects performance, and so on.

I don't see that kind of reasoning here, just the political equivalent of javascript linkbait.

Again, given his goals and target audience, I don't think Krugman wrote a bad column. I just think this is the wrong medium for it.
End of the Line: Linea Shutting Down App
Based on his comment, my imoression is that David wrote Rails because he neeeed Rails for the job, not because a client needed Rails written for them. There's a difference between those two things.
I think you should do a little more research before coming to that conclusion. Personally, I am not comfortable presenting any decision on that as fact.
How about bringing teachers better tools for their classroom? I'm working on this project because I feel like education is the solution to most things in the world. Over 1.2M student dropout of high school yearly in the US alone...we're working on taking the load of teachers, so they can focus more on the art of teaching and engaging their students. http://studysoup.com/careers
With all due respect, deriving no joy from eating sounds like an eating disorder of some kind. It's like a basic part of you is not functioning.
If someone deploys your code you could notice and sue them. Also, they wouldn't have your brand name, your marketing, your userbase, etc.
Awesome. I love me some Space Disco.
Soylent on the latest Vice piece
Single page apps.
What does the body of your post have to do with the post you're replying to?

Also: oh boy, Monsanto = evil, haha.
Plus, at least one of those products is available a block away from me at the supermarket.
Hopefully under such a scenario they would be requesting preventative care, which is almost always cheaper than corrective care.
Do you accept remote devs? :)
also food distribution....
I would not trust the government's nutritional guidelines. Scroll down to "Monsanto Hijacks Regulators".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/fda-promotes-uns...
There are so many spheres that prove that our life Now is better than 100 years ago: how knowledge and information is spread, how fast you can travel, I bet you know at least several dozens of people around the world. Food, clothes, entertainment -all of these things have changed and for the best. Bill is right, it's fair to share the perks of nowadays life with those who live like hundreds year ago. It's like going back in time when travelling to the poor regions. We can and should welcome people from underdeveloped countries to the World of Today.
All of us with privilege need to stop referring to the place as just 'Africa'. It's an incredibly diverse place, and just smacking that label on it to refer to every place on the continent trivializes the population.

Exactly, Africa is a continent of 50+ countries, many of which are even incredibly diverse countries of tens of ethnic groups.

There are many reasons why this is problematic one of which is that by lumping all countries into one bucket, you diminish the positive aspects of individual countries. How many people know, for instance, that Botswana had the highest average growth rate in the world over a period of three decades [1]? How many people, even on HN, know that Botswana is a country in Africa? There are other, better-reasoned arguments out there [2] [3].

If you want to debate mtalantikite, debate the points he has made, don't just attack him for referring to a 'Europe'. But note that there is a difference in context here. Bill Gates is referring to a particular place he visited in 1993. Was he in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa? Who knows? mtalantikite is referring to a group of countries. He's referred to them as "colonists in Europe", not "Europe". There's no ambiguity here, we know this group of countries, in fact here's the list [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Botswana

[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_...

[3] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/08/confusing-coun...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonie...
what I've heard is: in places with single-payer health systems, health care for small problems, while it superficially looks wasteful, pays off in preventing big-problems early, enough of the time, that it functions as an investment rather than an expense.
Before Sheryl Sandberg was Kim Polese - the original Silicon Valley queen
How can people be against it, unless there's a FUD campaign I haven't heard of or people just don't know what an e-cig is and think they're talking about real cigarettes.

It's literally harmless to the people around you. The jury is still out on what the health effects are of using an e-cig (but people can generally agree that it's probably not as unhealthy as tobacco), but there is 100% no health impact to anyone else. The exhalation is water vapor, which people normally breathe out anyway.

In conclusion, people are morons who make decisions from emotion and without facts.
Current agricultural practices are highly unsustainable. We are mere decades to depleting all groundwater aquifers in North America. Fertilizer pollutes most waterways. Pesticides are seeping into most groundwater in the central US. And you think we should scale our processes larger? Insanity.
There is No Global Warming - Shown with DataVis + Video
... at least in Virginia.
Dart 1.0 launch is imminent
Tesla CEO Says There ‘Definitely’ Won’t Be Model S Recall
e-cigarettes still emit a smelly, visual byproduct. The proponents claim "It's not smoke—it's vapor!" Just wait until you're sitting next to an 80 year old nam vet on an airplane who insists on "vaping" because "hey, it's not smoking."
For those looking for a TL;DR:

1) Keyword Stuff Your App's Title
2) Keyword Stuff Your App's Description
3) Spam Everyone You Know With the App Store URL

BONUS: Write a blog post about earmuffs and cram a paragraph or two about App Store SEO near the end.
It will add to the pressure of directing larger percentage of GDP or indirectly, serve as incentive for companies to make profit, to solve this problem. I am more concerned about a high birthrate in countries with religious fanaticism and lack of education than a high birthrate in general. Colonizing Mars and the Asteroid Belt will need billions of people more.
Spree: The Modern Way to Hunt + Gather
Here is an idea, to steal from their idea I guess. What if we kickstarted a campaign to raise $50-100M to buy off random people's debts this same way they did? Target areas where people are hardest hit financially, softening the burden in those places a teeny bit?

Could also be used for buying up grossly underwater properties and issuing new loans to help people? Just a thought.
For me, one of the strategies that made a lot of difference was checking what tasks I could do where, since there was plenty of work I needed to do away from the computer. The context that a task takes place in matters a surprising amount.

Beyond that, though, I'm very intrigued by the idea of the tool adapting to work habits. Looks interesting!
How is this proprietary? Isnt there an open spec?
If you enjoy that sort of thing, check out "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...

The FOOF entry is always amusing.
From my initial reading of your comment, I thought you were defending the posting the photos on the grounds that FoxNews does it too. That is an excuse (a bad one), not justification.

It seems that wasn't what you meant. Maybe you would like to rephrase?
Could you elaborate more on #1? I'd like to read your list of ideas.
https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/
If there is a good counter to this discussion of the Shock Doctrine, I'd be interested:
http://www.cato.org/blog/johan-norberg-vs-naomi-klein-round-...

(Besides, 3000 dead and 27000 incarcerated and many of those tortured -- sounds like a left regime rounding error... :-) )
This is how food is supposed to make you feel. It's as basic and primal as sex. Soylent is like a culinary celibacy, apparently without any sort of spiritual edification.
If we take the definition of "standardized" as "there exist one or more cross-vendor (draft) standards that, when correctly implemented in a user agent, allow asm.js to run properly" then asm.js is standardized.
Yes. http://reliefweb.int/jobs

Edit: You'll most definitely want to avoid the big organisations. Also, right now you could join about any NGO and get sent to the Philippine, small NGOs usually work as meritocracy. And networking is key in this field.
Killing Kennedy
There's NAEV, now, for this kind of thing. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=939711...
Absolutely Agree.
That's fair enough and adds good perspective. Will keep an eye on your progress. Interestingly, open-sourcing Interact is still doing my head in. If I ever finish it I'd like to make some money from it. But at the same time I understand that I get zero security cred for closed source. Happily I can delay that decision for a while...
Add to that list:

Telecoms Sans Frontieres http://tsfi.org
So you'd be fine with co-workers seeing that on your screen?
How Getting Into College Became Such a Long, Frenzied, Competitive Process
26 Mile Alien Mothership in our Solar System
Most juice is based on the same stuff in Febreze plus nicotine. It's not smoke. I've sat next to some smelly old ladies with horrible perfume on, but I'm certainly not going to compare it to something of known carcinogenic origins.

Edit: speeling on my phone.
I don't know how many tech related job listings they have, but you could look at http://www.idealist.org/.

This is their mission statement:

"Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

Idealist is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect."
why the f do i need a google+ account to download Dart?
Absolutely agree, it definitely is "startup hackathon culture".

Well, that combined with typical SV engineer hubris. Being bright in your field and well paid does not mean that you can be the master of any field. Some engineering disciplines require tighter tolerances. Some fields, particularly those that use human subjects, have much tighter ethical and safety requirements.

It seems as though being immersed in SV startup culture for too long can render somebody literally unable to comprehend the notion of more stringent requirements and regulations existing.
It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternity? When javascript was introduced it only worked on netscape browsers than other browsers adopted it later. It wasn't made a spec until later.
Is there a PNaCl spec or just Google's implementation?
The tax regime barely changed in that time. Sales tax went from 18% to 19%...they added a 3% royalty on something metal-related...I think that was about it. That answers the "tax less" part of the question.
Sausage Making with Git