skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so I like cooking and eating food. I think soylent is a scam, or at the very least just another in a long line of unappetizing "diet replacement shakes".

But just allow me a moment to conduct a thought experiment, or at least play devil's advocate.

For years you've been walking to get where you are going and you've been plowing your fields with a couple of very high maintenance animals that are costly and risky. You've been walking out to their stalls and feeding, cleaning and otherwise dedicating lots of time and money to them. It's a lot of work. One day along comes a guy with a machine that replaces animals. Not only will it replace animals in your fields, the same machine will replace walking to get where you're going. A neighbor got it and he swears by it.

Saves time and money? Check.

Solves long standing issues that have gone unsolved by modern technology? Check.

Helps you produce more in your fields and make more money? Check.

Say goodbye to expensive and time consuming animals and sore feet, hello easy street.
Wasn't Silverlight discontinued though?
Lower birth rates is one thing, but lets sort out the fucking inequality first. People have more children in Africa, because they expect to loose some and because they will help out (be economically active). Both those could be solved by better distribution of wealth, an an accompanying does of education.

A child born in the west will consume vast amounts more resources than multiple children born in poverty.
AngularJS Mobile Nav - An angular navigation service for mobile applications
The IRS cannot and will not put people in jail for unpaid taxes. Please do not spread false information.
These top comments are really the worst of HN. Thoughtless, emotional vitriol.

Until Soylent is proved unsafe, there is no basis for calling it unsafe.
Oh God, how could I misspell this 3 times ah! Thanks, edited!
Rapid 3d printer specifically for circuit boards
I have no axe to grind against LLVM or PNaCl, but I think you may have a novel definition of "quite standardized".
State austerity during a market recession makes no sense because the state is one of the few participants who is still able to borrow at reasonable rates. The borrowing will still have to occur, because people need to eat, however it is paid back at Wonga rates of six squillion APR, rather than at the government bond level.
After applying a diff, how does it load the new code? Eval?
Yes, the whole problem with the marketing hype is thinking about this product in terms of this all or nothing "disrupt the food industry" mentality. It might turn out to be a company producing a slightly more economical meal replacement shake that you can down a couple days in place of breakfast, but at the end of the day thats really all. There's nothing new to see here.
Take a look at escapethecity.org.

It'd not software-specific, but they've got lot of "escape corporate life" jobs (with a focus on the UK).
Developer Astrology
You should also read "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" [1]. This will give you a guide to metrics you should be using to track your status.

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuo...
Ensure / fortisip / Optifast (as seen in the video in the submutted link, where the doctor tells him that liquid total food replacements have been available for decades) / etc etc etc.

Here's Abbott Nutrition http://abbottnutrition.com/

Here's Nutricia https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//

It's frustrating that this question is asked, and answered, every single time Soylent is mentioned, and people then dishonestly say that these products are somehow not meant to be used as a sole source of nutrition, even though that's how they're regulated and sold.
Can you clarify what you mean by "spec"? The bitcode ABI document I pointed to is the spec of the IR used by PNaCl. The official documentation covers the Pepper APIs which are PNaCl's interface with the browser and DOM.
The usual job boards have a lot of good stuff using the right search terms like 'social impact'.
Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code Series
When it comes to PR, I like to point out PG's article The Submarine. It names the PR agency he used (for viaweb), I think it was in about 1996 and they spent $16,000/month at that time (which I would consider a large amount now, much less then).
> What about all of the foods in the grocery store than can kill you over years if eaten as a primary source of a diet? Are those considered "safe"

This is very disengenous. The makers of Soylent have come out and said Soylent is the only thing you need to eat to have a full and balanced diet.

I can't think of a single other food at a grocery store that has made a similar promise as I dont' believe any food can do this.
Sure, makes sense but why would I steal millions when I could do billions? - though it's better to err on side of petty.
That's a poor analogy. 1) We're starting from a functional state, 2) Changing diet is nowhere near as violent as hitting something with a wrench.

Humans are very adaptable wrt. food, generally speaking. Look at the different diets all around the world, or even in one person's lifetime.

The only issue I take with Soylent is their claim that it's perfect. I think we need MUCH more time to gather data.
Considering the earliest signs of scurvy start at the one month mark, I don't consider suspicion of a 30 day trial to be overly cautious.
> In fact there are probably places where the security flaws are worse than anything Soylent is doing.

As an experiment, ask people whether they'd rather risk having their credit card number compromised or risk becoming violently ill from a foodborne illness.

I bet they won't even ask the odds when they give their answer.
I think it's because they are being completist, including all of the chemicals from the original A. C. Gilbert chemistry set from the 1930s (plus a few extras that they think are particularly useful). If you take out carbon tetrachloride, where do you stop? Lots of these are considered unsafe, and are well labelled as being poisonous.
New Roomba vs. My Cat's Hair
Try to break it into smaller pieces and take the "debt snowball" approach of killing off the smaller pieces first. Celebrate your wins.
i'm not sure fiat means what you think it means
How do you have >10avg comment karma? Snarky one-liners?
Interesting idea. I hope Switzerland does it so the rest of us can watch from the cheap seats and see how it works out.

Human nature being what it is, there will still be some people who manage to wreck their own lives. The guaranteed income isn't much, it would be fairly easy to fritter it away on any number of vices addictions, or just garden variety fiscal mismanagement. So when people find themselves too broke for food or rent despite a minimum income, what then? There's an obvious argument that they had their chance and screwed it up, so they get to live with the consequences. But what if they've managed to drag their kids into the hole with them, or if their really old, or otherwise sympathetic? Do we restart the entire welfare conversation while taking a minimum income as a given?

This also seems like it would simultaneously provide a big incentive for people to want to become citizens, and an equal reason to not let them. I wonder how that will be handled?
I couldn't agree more. I took a cool seminar in college about web security, in which a former senior security specialist for a government agency said that there is no such thing as full security, just varying levels of insecurity. Scary thought...
>it could put humanity in a position to provide a balanced nutrition as a fundamental human right, delivered right to your doorstep by USPS. If the economics worked out it could be provided everywhere worldwide, and then other food consumption could be purely for enjoyment.

So... why not just do that with the food we've got? Drop a few packages of surplus food on the doorsteps of some African countries and call it good?

The thing is, there is enough food to feed the world. The Western world has way too much of it and lots of the rest of the world has too little of it. Hell, even within the western world there's too much and too little at the same time within the same square mile.

The issue is not balanced nutrition, it's making the economics work out, which they do not and never have.

What this may solve is a distribution problem. Some of the food problem in major US cities is lack of access to grocery stores that sell real food. Soylent could be stocked in the convenience stores those areas have access to.
The article just say that S&P punish France rating for their political choice without proof of it's economic impact.

But, for what is worth : richs are leaving the country, young educated dream to leave, less educated want to work for the gouvernement, tv, radio, newspapers talk about gouvernement. And gouvernement only create new taxes and stupid debate (See leonarda...)

People are all about gouvernement spending, without a care for the debt.

It's not signs of a bright future...

[disclaimer : I'm French]
Hugo Barra - First Week at Xiaomi
Be careful what you wish for because it might come true. A lot of people don't like the Open Web and are clamoring for something obfuscated. Longer term is lose-lose for everyone.
My life would be better if someone built some kind of revenue-per-advertisement optimization system.

I'm just saying.
You are not forced to do anything.
I'm not associated with the OP, but I have played with word2vec.

Word2vec can be viewed as dimensionality reduction. In some sense, the dimensionality of words is the same as the vocabulary size, if a one-hot encoding is used (which is most common). For word2vec specifically, the output vector dimension is a parameter specified during training, so you can choose it however you want. I suspect the OP chose something fairly large (>256) because of the performance boost.

Nearest neighbor methods work well with word2vec words: https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/#Word_clustering

The paper associated with word2vec is fairly easy to read and understand, even if you don't have a background in NLP or neural networks: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3781.pdf
Not if you have kids and your life insurance is better than your health insurance.
1) Equality doesn't "just happen". It's something that must be actively pursued. Basically all equality is "forced".

Also, the type of positive discrimination that you describe is irrelevant to this discussion. Your ramblings on "forced equality" were in response to my view that you shouldn't discriminate job applicants because of their ethnicity.

The absence of discrimination is not the same thing as positive discrimination.

2) Whether or not my ideas are socialist (I think "progressive" is a better word) is irrelevant here. The truth is, I can back my claims with credible sources. You cannot.
All I can think of when I see it is "Man, I thought the future was supposed to be awesome. Where is my engineered to be delicious lab grown steak? I get Soylent? This is not awesome."

Given, as long as I'm not being force fed the stuff as a government ration, I don't really see it as a problem, I just get sad when I see it marketed as 'future food'.
Bill does both good and bad. He gets a lot less hero worship than Jobs, despite

a) bringing affordable / usable home computing to the majority (something I usually see Jobs credited with)

b) using a large amount of his vast wealth for good causes (I never heard of Jobs doing anything).
Both desktop versions indeed.
I've heard it referred to as a "Rogue-lite".
NYC != Manhattan. Normal people can't afford to live in Manhattan. If you do, you're paying for the privilege.

The choice (that millions have made) is to get the heck out of NYC. My family is a great example of that diaspora. My grandparents all immigrated to Brooklyn and Queens from 1935-1945. Of about 80 people in the extended family, exactly 10 are still in NYC. The rest of us are scattered from Jersey to Boston, with a branch in upstate NY.

That story is repeated dozens of times in the old neighborhood.
You know what, though? Productivity on a team can be just as separate from people's perception of you (i.e. how much they like you) as individual productivity is.

Imagine this experiment: you have a great, productive team who has one member they all hate (and therefore assume isn't doing much for the team.) You take that person off the team... and the team's productivity plummets.
Sounds like every single Greek tragedy ever.
Not even most places in America. This is not obscene in any way, there's just a bit of nudity.
I work for a public safety agency in Southern California and we have a medium size IT organization within it we have a small developer core that help design and build applications. These applications are used daily to save people's lives. It does not pay much but at the end of the day you go home knowing that the work you did helped saved someone's life.
Not sure where you live but if you are interested, I can point you in the direction of the listings.
We see unsuitably dressed workers scooping powders from uncovered boxes on a factory floor into other boxes to be mixed, with rats in the factory.

They've left that factory now, but it's telling that even though Rob didn't think the factory was suitable for a number of reasons he still went ahead and prepared and shipped product to (I assume) paying beta testers.

What more do you need?
There are also those of us that derive no joy from eating. Eating is an inconvenience to me. I have zero sweet tooth, and I don't have many cravings for specific foods. I'd rather be doing any number of other things, like reading, working out, yard/car work, calling up family, etc. I work for myself (and work reasonable hours). Of course, all of this anecdotal, but the point is that this isn't a dystopia scenario for all of us.

Having an incredibly convenient/healthy option would be outstanding for me personally. I suspect that people like me may represent a much smaller percentage of the population. I want to be healthy, but I hate shopping for and preparing food to the point where I sometimes don't eat as well as I should.

With that said, I wouldn't wish my food indifference on other people. I could see how it'd be spooky to see this kind of living being forced on people. It's probably a bit premature to worry about this just yet, though. Soylent and other similar products are still so polarizing that it's hard to imagine them taking over in the near future.
Agreed.

I think part of the backlash is from Soylent's hubris about how it's perfectly optimized, etc. I think we have a long way to go before drawing any conclusion, but it's a promising technology.
My Philosophy of Chess
> Correct. The main problem I see with OOP is that some people advocate it as the only correct way to write maintainable code, which, of course is completely wrong.

Yes, my opinion is similar. There are problems that naturally lend themselves to being modeled using objects, and others which have to be beaten into submission. Not having to beat them into submission with half-witted OOP implementations, like C++, does help, but it is not always sufficient to take away the sensation of "unnaturalness", if you don't mind the invented word.
Pitch your startup to Business Class
I am fairly sure equality may factor in to your equation.
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/

Now, before you down vote me consider they have been instrumental in making knowledge accessible that generally just couldn't be found. They're likely to be on the leading of eliminating most traffic deaths with their self driving cars, and they're providing free Internet to the world with Loon.

Big and successful companies across the industry are doing great things and having amazing social impacts.
I've played this game a thousand times, and I've still never beat it. That's one of the reasons I like some of these games like that.

I remember the first Final Fantasy where, sure, maybe you could sneak your way through to the boss. But he's going to kick your butt.

Same thing with FTL. The journey is only half of the battle. Being prepared after making it through in another game entirely.
I actually recommend "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya as a more practical guide to the analytics.
They'll sell them off - just like they've always done with surplus copies of movies that are no longer in high demand.
Eh. I'm not so squeamish. I know that pretty much every restaurant will have or has had rodents, it's just part of life.
There are two arguments that are presented in both of these comments. The first is that the historic and pre-historic data on violence is incomplete. For this, there is no doubt and Pinker spends a lot of time talking about this. This is true for a vast majority of topics and its unfortunate that there is just a whole host of things we will never be sure about due to the non-existence of preserved evidence.

The second takes issue with his use of per-capita comparisons and suggests that an absolute rate may be a better measure. This is extremely silly and Pinker spends very little time discussing it because it really is absurd to entertain. For one, it implies the only true solution to any violence is massive population control. And two, it negates any comparison to cultural or behavioral change by simply pointing to the population size of the planet. Think of the statement, "Modern medicine has not advanced from the hunter gather days because more people under the age of 40 die every year than did 5000 years ago."

Edit: The second comment brings up a third point that the lower rate of violence does not imply we are better off, and is therefore questioning what we should define as violence. Pinker again readily addresses this issue by explicitly defining the type of violence he is analyzing, physical, and repeatedly stating that these issues are outside the scope of his book.
The interchangeability of dystopias and utopias is sometimes a theme in SF. A lot of it is based on perception.

> Or... it could put humanity in a position to provide a balanced nutrition as a fundamental human right, delivered right to your doorstep by USPS.

The notion of using this glop as a permanent solution to fix hunger (someplace the USPS delivers!!!) - well, the fact that anyone would seriously entertain it - is so sad to me that it's hard to articulate. So, classic utopia/dystopia material, I guess.
This isn't a job, but if you follow #hack4good on twitter or geeklist's hack4good feed (https://geekli.st/#hack4good ), there are some cool projects going on around social good. Most recently there was a hackathon around the typhoon that hit the Philippines.
Nobody would have contributed to an unproven web framework written in a then-obscure language.

Two recent OS fundraising successes I can think of are funding for further development of Typed Clojure, and the integration/rewrite of South into Django core. Both projects were in production use when they raised the money!

Imagine today, someone pitching to build a new async web framework in Livescript. "Why not Ember/Meteor/Angular!?" "Why not Javascript?!". It could be that someone comes up with a truly killer framework by utilizing Livescript's features the way DHH did with Ruby and Rails, and if they did I'd happily use it, but I wouldn't put my money on it today.
There's my http://meaningful-jobs.fiveyearitch.com (so long as you are in the US).

We've got jobs in medical research, green energy, and others.
You have failed to understand the analogy. Hitting things with a wrench is how I fix things. Hitting things with a wrench is not analogous to eating Soylent, hitting things with a wrench is analogous to the medical care required when you break yourself.

The fear is that Soylent, used as hyped, has the potential to break a human.

Breaking yourself, or much worse, others, is a far more serious than breaking a machine. That sort of relaxed attitude towards health is exactly why I would not trust a product like this from people like this.

Soylent really should not be banking on "it is difficult to kill a human", and neither should you.
pickle? sqllite?
Does any of this get open sourced for other departments to use?
Yes but you can't paste anymore if you do anything else between copying and pasting. On 2010 at least.
There's pretty solid evidence that biointesive techniques use less water because they make better use of the same space. If I grow two tomato plants in the space I used to grow one, I waste less water.

But yes, you're right, I don't know if "vastly" is the word I would use.
Thanks for the clarification. That the PODs were on rails was never made clear to me. Still, I count that as "physically removing a 4u rackmount storage pod." Those suckers cannot be light. 10 seconds sounds rather fast. I don't imagine you could do it that fast for any of the upper pods.

While I don't recommend them outright, we settled on 3U boxes from SuperMicro. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3u/837/sc837e26-r...

We somewhat affectionately dubbed them "mullets" as in business in the front, party in the rear.

They make 4U devices as well. Cost was about $1000. We added LSI Megaraid 9280 controllers, about another $1500 and ran min-SAS back to a controller node responsible for 4 JBODs.
HTML5 Epic Citadel demo shows the power of WebGL
Ask HN: how should I protect my web source code?
I am currently developing a marketplace startup that is ready to launch, but I am curious to know if I should install a firewall (that means upgrading my current shared hosted to a dedicated server) or should I just use a regular shared web hosted like 1and1, godaddy, etc?

Can hackers really break easily into shared hosted server like 1and1 and godaddy and steal source code? Should I be worry about this?

I am currently bootstrapping, of course in ideal situation, I would do what it takes to secure it, etc, but I am not sure if it would be necessary to start. Of course, if things pick up, I would upgrade my package or possibly move to AWS.

Please advise, and thanks again for the input.
I saw the downfall of stack ranking immediately after a company I worked at was acquired by Microsoft. The workplace changed within a month from one focused on teamwork and support to Lord of the Flies. When the only way you can succeed is by being "better" then someone else you are forced to step upon others.

I believe that this is also the effect of working for a public company with a stock that hasn't moved in price in 10 years.
Likability is underrated. Someone who is easy to work with, improves workplace morale, and makes other developers feel comfortable at work is a valuable asset. Certainly, it shouldn't be a substitute for technical ability, but it can be a very significant complimentary attribute.
>when I hear my Taiwanese friends' music, it seems like it still hasn't escaped boy-band era

1998 might have been "boy-band era" for YOUR culture. Not for everyone in the world. The have their own culture, they don't have to escape to some current trend in the USA.