skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: Unbelievable. Both the title and the link to the article I commented on have been swapped from the PandoDaily article (http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-f...) to the Vice article which PandoDaily referred to, but that tries to give it a positive spin.

This goes well beyond whatever policy pg was trying to defend recently. This is deeply manipulative.

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It looks a scam, it sounds like a scam, it's marketed like a scam and now it apparently is being produced like any other scam.

So how long until we finally draw the obvious conclusion?

Just because some notable VC's gambled on it doesn't make it any more credible. In fact, there is pretty much zero evidence in the credible column.
If you purchase your own debt, then the lender has just extracted payment from you for $0.
When you say "he never coded", that's obviously meant to imply something, perhaps to lessen his contributions in some way especially in a forum of coders. What does it have to do with this film at all?
Jony Ive didn't write a single line of code either. And Steve Jobs did a lot of design.

Why not just focus on the people you want to cover, without asking the unnecessary question "Did Steve Jobs get too much credit?"
People dont realize what little regulations supplements face compared to "food".

Most products you buy at nutrition/health stores (like GNC/Vitamin Shoppe/etc.) are not really tested. You can pretty much be getting chalk and no one will know. Or you get an overdose of Ephedra and die.
VCs did not save me from the Startup death spiral
You forget that this is a SV product. That wasn't mold, that was "eco-synergy".
The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push
Because the mold occurred when the packaging was compromised -- this is not related to the conditions of the manufacturing.
Kind of. LSI is a dimensionality-reduction method, which means it takes really sparse "bag of words" vectors and compresses them in a way which approximates the original structure. Word2vec gives each word a non sparse vector based on the hidden units of a neural network language model. The model is trained to predict the middle word from it's surroundings, which makes it learn how words are used in context.
The Retina Screenshot Problem
I am from.Brazil, and the influx of French here ( including my associate ) is mind blowing for me... I mean, how is that possible? Usually Brazilians dreamed with France, not the other way around!!!!
I've purchased at least 3 pairs over the Internet from www.eyeglassdirect.com

I've also recommended them to several family members and friends. We've each had really good experiences so far.
The markets probably underprice the value of forgiving debt. For instance, cancelling all mortgage debt under $300K would liquefy the housing market overnight and bring housing prices more in line w/ income, while improving public health and welfare.

The market doesn't price such things in, though. That would be up to the government. How much was spent on the bailouts, and how much would that translate to per mortgage?
>The "guaranteed floor" version of a basic income has a lot of harmful effects — for example, any work that pays anywhere close to the basic income would be a ridiculously bad deal that no rational actor would accept.

Not necessarily. The types of jobs that people would do at wages close to the floor are the types of jobs that they would do regardless of salary. Writers, musicians, painters, artists, contractors, entrepreneurs, small-business owners, stay-at-home-parents, interns would appreciate a guaranteed floor. Seasonal jobs, sales jobs and other jobs with month-to-month variance (make a lot some months, make little other months) would be more attractive. Any job that has the potential of upward mobility (make less now so you can make more later) would be be more attractive with a guaranteed floor.

Jobs in retail or fast-food, jobs that require hard-labour, or are unattractive for various reasons would have to pay more - which isn't a terrible thing. Now MacDonald's and Walmart would have to pay a living wage else nobody would bother with those jobs.

So it may actually work. I'm still a believer. Besides, instead of a hard floor, you could introduce a scaling floor to provider further incentive to work.
>I spent 15 hours with this game, did close to 40 attempts and only once got to sector 7. Usually I'd die around sector 4 or 5.

The game is hard no doubt, so most of the challenge is seeing how far you can get with what resources you encounter rather than 'winning'...

But FYI, the best players have win rates upwards of 90% on Normal. Perhaps 60% with a random ship rather than one of the better ones. In fact there are people on Twitch who win more than 50% of their games WITHOUT PAUSING... !
I suppose you could spin it "Look how healthy our rats are and there is nothing in this warehouse but Soylent! Testing on rats, check!"

But this made me a bit sad.

I think Soylent is great, it is disruptive, it is more palatable than nutraloaf it could be a great alternative for folks who just need food to live, and it could provide a fascinating 'control' group for various Microbiome projects. But clearly these folks aren't exactly "experienced" as Jimi Hendrix might say.

Here is the challenge, there is a crap ton of knowledge about how to do things that isn't taught in school or on the web or in books. You learn that by 'apprenticing' at a company or organization which is already doing something like what you want to do, and getting the history of all the things they had to overcome and avoid "in the old days." It isn't nostalgia, it is education through experience. That is what experience is. And the only way to get it, is to experience it. It was sad for me when I realized this, I could be smarter than my manager at the time and yet he could be a better manager because he had experienced more issues and overcome them (or at least seen the solution to them) to have a much better sense of what would be an important problem and what would be a minor problem. I could put any situation I wanted in front of him and he had an answer to the "big problem" / "small problem" classification, but he could not express that as an algorithm I could learn from.

So when people come out of college and start companies the next day I tend to cringe a bit as there is a lot of stuff they are going to learn the hard way. That is doubly true when you're doing multiple disciplines (food prep + nutrition + distribution + marketing + regulation + Etc.) and having run a business of type A won't prime you to run one of type B, other than to help you recognize where you need subject matter experts.

One wonders why the first hire at Soylent wasn't someone who had 5 years or more setting up and running a food production line. I don't know but I have heard folks in similar situations say "How hard could it be?"
> "And as for the rat (singular -- not "rats" plural as the title says)"

As someone who has (unfortunately) had to deal with rats before, there is no such thing as a singular rat. A singular rat you see represents many you do not in the vicinity.

By the time you can see a single rat on a simple walk-through of the facility, you have an infestation on your hands.
Not trying to be a "Troll" or anything like that but Google is your friend when it comes to questions like this.
Welcome to the joys of a market based approach to healthcare when there is inelastic demand.
It certainly isn't a scam. However, I went to an engineering school, and have met Food Engineers.

Food Engineering is a difficult branch of chemical engineering. You've got regulations, you've got people's lives at stake. The Soylent guys just went at it like a hacker: because thats what they are. They're taking the "startup culture" and trying to apply it to food.

And that is incredibly dangerous. Anyone who has any connection at all to the food industry knows that PEOPLE DIE IF YOU MESS THIS UP. This is NOT a "hackathon", and a SINGLE mistake can accidentally kill someone.
Java is fastest for server-side webapps. Surprised?
I've played both with frameworks on JVM, python and node.js. Of course speed is not all there is, productivity is usually more imporant; still this benchmark is nice reminder to people that JVM is one wonderful peace of software out there.
>But, since it will eliminate poverty

Poverty is usually defined in relation to others in your community. A poor American is richer than a poor Nigerian. So it won't eliminate poverty =)
The user interface is great! Simple, and it does what is advertised.

If you really wanted, you could make it switch currencies using some simple javascript and graceful degradation so it doesn't have to reload the page for a simple conversion.

Slightly OT: I did not realize Bitcoin had climbed to $350...
Have you considered XULRunner?
Good for them. I don't like Microsoft but I like to see any company getting smarter. It's hard enough as it is to find and keep good people. And there are pretty obvious alternate ways to identify and expel "dead wood" if that was their original justification for stack ranking.
The post-coup economy in Chile was not so spectactular. Between 1972 and 1993, per capita GDP fell. GDP growth for the twenty years after the coup was lackluster compared to other South American countries.

You did mention the economy getting hit bad in 1982 (and 1983, and 1984), you didn't mention Chile was bailed out by an IMF loan of over $7 billion. As Chile's GDP in 1986 was $17 billion, this was a rather big bailout from Uncle Sam.

Speaking of Uncle Sam funding, you can read on the CIA's own web site a rather polished up version of its involvement in Chile at that time ( http://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/chile/i... ). While it mentions plenty of covert funding, what is not mentioned is how many of those strikes you speak of were bankrolled by the CIA, US AID, ITT affiliated organizations and so on. Many of the workers who were on strike were managers or professionals.

Then of course there's the question of whether a democratically elected government should be overthrown with the heavy financial and military help of a foreign power, leading to a new system where a happy day for a young woman imprisoned in secret detention centers was where she would just be raped, as opposed to a host of the bizarre things that happened at the secret detention centers that came out in Chile's 2004 government Valech commission report. That aside, the GDP growth was less than Chile's neighbors were doing at the time and was fairly small anyhow.
Look, a product guy is nontechnical and often gets credit for greenlighing a solution he'd never have thought of. Was Jobs the ultimate product guy?
Oh, that's an interesting point!

Does this number includes public AND private? How is it calculated?

In France there is basic healthcare, which is really good and free for everyone (free as in taxes!) and then a lot of people have additional private healthcare -

I wonder if this number is included, because for what I remember, additional healthcare in France is about the same price as healthcare in the USA. Add to it the price of the public healthcare, which I assume is higher than USA, simply because more services, and the logic is, the overall is more expensive?
I can't say about Mumbai because I haven't lived there but in Delhi and Bangalore you can get a decent house in many of the major locations for $333 a month. You would need to search for it though because finding houses is a big challenge these days.

Getting internet is not a pain, it takes 2 days to get one from any private company like Airtel and about 1.5 weeks if you take it from a government company like BSNL. The connection works fine most of the time though occasional hiccups are inevitable in India.
Warning: Shameless plug for project that isn't finished

This, among other things, is the reason I started building http://personable.me.

Ultimately, I see it as being the recepticle for WiiThings data, Fitbit data, etc., and I'm working on those now. I just finished up (but haven't deployed) Webhooks, with the idea that input + webhooks for output should allow a personal API to interact with other systems when API data is updated.
I know. I was in Argentina 2 weeks ago, and was amazed at how many french were living in Buenos Aires. Either they came directly to work, or came as exchange student and never left/came back as soon as they could!
What you do, is then you hire a 10-year veteran of the food preparation business.

What you DON'T do, is pickup a few textbooks on body chemistry and assume you can figure it all out by yourself.
doesn't your digestive system have to re learn some tricks if it's not used for a long time ?
I wouldn't consider the 30 day test to be remotely significant. Maybe when we're talking about years Soylent can be considered safe...
From the QA link:
They can also be in other forms, such as a bar, but if they are, information on their label must not represent the product as a conventional food or a sole item of a meal or diet.

So, Soylent is probably considered a food since it is a sole item of a meal.
Christopher Lee
Random idea: If a creditor is about to sell your debt to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar, what if they were forced, by law, to give you right of first refusal?

For example: I owe a credit card company $20k, but I have defaulted on the loan. The credit card company is about to sell this debt to a collector for $1k, who will proceed to make my life miserable. If there were such a law, the credit card company would first have to offer the debt to me for $1k. In this scenario, I could indeed buy my own debt and we all could go on our merry way (except the debt collector).

Crazy?
I did a fair bit of work in Unity earlier this year. The Unity UI makes a lot more sense once you realise it is built by the objects in the scene. You can code entirely in Visual Studio and just use the Unity window to view the results. But you can also start extending your entities with custom controls and debugging panes and build your own graphical tools. Unity basically makes it incredibly easy to whip up graphical debugging and editing tools for the times when that makes sense but doesn't prevent you from working in whatever IDE you are comfortable with.

For example, I worked on a tool for procedurally deforming enemy meshes to prevent the whole 'attack of the clones' vibe that many games fall into. Rather than use print statements to figure out what was happening in the code, I used Gizmos [1] to draw various important coordinates on whichever mesh section was under the mouse and added handles to let me interactively modify the inputs to the algorithm. I also added debugging output on the side panel that updated in real time as I deformed meshes. In Unity its trivial to build those kinds of custom tools. Debugging the same problems with the usual print statements and compile/restart cycle would have been much slower.

I take issue with a lot of the other design decisions in Unity, but the UI is a massive improvement over most work-flows once you learn how to customise it.

[1] http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Gizmos...
I love how nonchalant the CEO was when he called the VICE reporter to tell him not to eat any of the spoiled batch of Soylent.
I admired the honesty of it. It doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence by pretending it's anything other than a plot device.
"If we focused too much on quality, we'd run out of VC money!"
Dribbble is for pixels, Behance is for visions
Interest rates on 30 year non-jumbo loans for a while were under 3%. I think they're edging up to 5% now.

If your debt is at the rate of inflation it's basically free debt so it basically just becomes a time-value of money exercise. It's cheaper to pay off your debt now then in the future.
I've been a huge fan of Warby Parker, http://www.warbyparker.com.
>I have done all of that, except tried different ships. I only played with the starting ship, on hard difficulty, because I wanted to finish the main game before trying the extra modes.

You should 100% try the other ships, it's the fastest way to learn. The different ships teach you different things. Some ships start with no shields, or no weapon, etc, and show you different approaches which you will bring into any ship.
There's a big difference between donating money to the poor and creating a vast society-wide social safety net that enables riskier careers (like entrepreneurship and art) for more people. I support the latter, not the former, and I cannot anywhere near afford the cost of the latter by myself.

Think of it as a new social contract with a modern definition of human dignity that does not include having to toil at a horrible job just to survive. I'd sign up to that.
SF Coders build Health Sherpa to find healthcare options
Hey, nice work! Can you explain the "comma delimited list" functionality any more? It seems (awesomely) similar to a hack I did a while back with Word2Vec which would pick out the word which didn't belong in a list.

My hack: https://github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample
I love this idea, I can't wait to default on all of my loans!
"Physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found"
No, that would happily evaluate "(sequence_ ((display 'a) nothing))".
Of course, this is a prime time to get btc and sell it. Scammers probably are not expecting the price to climb much longer in short term.
Yes, it is currently. However, we need to innovate to change that and I believe we can!
If not, you can (eventually) use Personable.me, but I'm still in the process of integrating enough sources that one could realistically use for health analysis.
No, but it did for Flash.
I hope you're right. Or at least, I hope the changes you describe aren't just a blip. My worry is that the QOL improvements you cite seem largely based on depletion of capital stocks: Fossil fuel reserves, topsoil, fish stocks, aquifers, forests, uncultivated land are all being used far beyond their replenishment rates

What if all the progress we've built is not built on any solid foundation? How much of our QOL boosts are based on actual increases in carrying capacity vs. capital drawdown? What happens when we run out of capital and built a system dependent on it's continual usage?
> the price for care is everything you have, whatever that happens to be.

Still seems preferable to dying.
Plug and Play dives into Bitcoin world | Silicon Valley Business Journal
Reducing administrative overhead specifically is pointless. It's looking at one part of the cost while ignoring everything else.

The relevant question is costs - benefits.

The cost of Basic Income is $20k x # of adults + overhead. The cost of Basic Jobs is $20k x # of adults willing to work who can't find work + overhead - value of labor provided.

I'll make up some USA-centric numbers to illustrate the calculation.

Suppose overhead for BI is $50/year and overhead for BJ is $5000/year. Suppose further that there are 250M adults, 50M of which are willing to work but can't find work. (The remaining 200M will keep their current job.)

Cost of BI is $5 trillion, cost of BJ is $1.25 trillion. This assumes that the Basic Jobs provide no value whatsoever and Basic Income provides no disincentive to labor whatsoever.

If you disagree, please cook up your own numbers and show me how this could be wrong. I'm just curious to see any mathematical model where BI makes sense - I haven't been able to come up with one myself.
PNaCL and asm.js are roughly the same in terms of "exposing" the code in this sense. Both can be easily disassembled/prettified using readily tools readily available today.
Every band needs a great front wo/man, even if they didn't write any of the songs.
This is the third story in two weeks. Either the hacking attempts are increasing or the site owners are cashing out. Either way it's bad news. Anyone with bitcoins must use an offline wallet.
On the other hand I see this more like a concerted attempt to build mistrust against the virtual currency and its distribution network. Tinfoil hat anyone?

[Edit: Thank you for your lame negative votes, sad people. You can go further and ask for more negative power to vote this down and then just die negatively voting right here.]
I'm really tempted to set up a kickstarter for a documentary of me living for 6 months on the various existing liquid feeds.

It'll be tricky getting a doctor to fit a feeding tube up my nose, but I'm sure someone would do it. (Bit scary using non-medical people because of the risk of the tube going into a lung.)
US GDP in 2012 was $15.68 trillion. You're saying the US government gave away more than a year's worth of productive output? You'll excuse me if I say citation fucking needed.
Call your credit card company and offer 50% as paid in full, they'll probably accept 70%.

It'll absolutely kill your credit score, but its an option.
> Do the math, and just start doing the part

This provides the money transfer, but it does not provide the safety net.

> devaluing of human worth

There are two ways I can interpret 'devaluing' here, and I don't understand how either one makes sense.

Iff 'dropping the value of the money', it does not drop the value to move and spend money.

Iff 'devaluing people', how in the world does it devalue people to make a rule that they deserve a certain amount of the nation's production, to enjoy food and such with? I could understand if you said it devalued the ideal of gainful employment, but that's not what you said...
Why Nobody’s Buying Your Stuff
As a long-time beta user I can tell you that it works as described.
I'd assume this maneuver would trash the debtor's credit, reducing their future access to credit - thus, limited moral hazard. The presumption, more likely, is that any price a debt collector is willing to pay for a debt is more than what a penniless debtor is able to. $20k of debt wouldn't sell for $1k unless the debtor were making so little that $1k would be a substantial amount of their time (else the cc company wouldn't sell for $1k).
Megashare.info | 521: Web server is down
I believe Microsoft learned that lesson a decade ago. Since then, they've pushed Silverlight as an open, standardized, cross-platform programming environment for the web with virtually no success. This is the relevant comparison.
>The only weird thing I've found: There's an option to show the reachable systems on the map, so you can plan your route through a sector in advance.

>This is quite a gameplay change from the route guessing game you encounter with the default settings, making the game easier.

>I feel a little bit like cheating when enabling this...

They patched this in and it feels weird, yeah. I wish they would tie the upgrade into the sensor systems: see one level of nodes at level 2, and the whole map at level 3. I like feeling of jumping into the uknown but i can't turn off the minmax part of my brain enough to turn off a free option.
Can anyone explain where to go to buy debt like this?
From the outside as a developer, you can feel the effect of such a drama-driven system as Stack Rank. MS's obsession with perfect backwards compatibility means they can't make mistakes, because those mistakes are forever.

So why embrace a process that seems to celebrate daring? A move-fast-and-break-things approach to projects? You'd think MS would be an analysis-paralysis company, because every MS product needs to integrate with hundreds of other MS products and be supported on oodles of platforms for like a decade.

But instead? We see this crazy wasteful churn of APIs and packages and MSDN Magazine-driven fashions.

I mean, how long will MS be stuck supporting Silverlight? Or Linq2SQL? Or ClickOnce installers? Or the zillion different SKUs of SQL Server and Access?
You must be the dude still holding out on cell phones because of the microwaves?
You seem knowledgeable so I figure I'd reply here since I keep getting mixed messages on this point: Is it easy to commit your Unity code in a VCS and have teammates work on it with you simultaneously? Some people say yes, some say no.