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> As far as privacy goes, the potential level of privacy has increased (the proxy now allows you to load images if you desire without leaking IP etc.). The average level of privacy from the change is a mixed bag - more basic tracking (open tracking) will occur due to the change of default, but with the trade off that more advanced tracking (e.g. tracking IPs, setting cookies for correlation with non-email site visits a.k.a. remarketing) will no longer be possible.

> There is no net change to how hard it is to verify whether an address is a valid GMail address - that's already possible by simply talking to a Google mail server.

Thank you.

I read through an unhealthy number of comments on the various threads about this (my train was delayed, and I'd finished the book I brought). Very few people actually seemed to get the key takeaways (your last two paragraphs) correct.
Microhydro is pretty reliable. I've seen quite a few micro and pico hydro plants in mountainous regions of Karnataka (an Indian state) that supply power nearby villages[1]. They're pretty popular in Himalayan states as well[2]. Ministry of Energy subsidizes them[3][4].

[1]http://kredlinfo.in/hydrostat.aspx

[2]http://www.ureda.uk.gov.in/pages/display/131-micro-hydro-pro...

[3]http://www.mnre.gov.in/schemes/grid-connected/small-hydro/

[4]http://www.iitr.ac.in/departments/AH/pages/Activities+Short_...
> Run detailed forensic traces on coins originating from an address. Most routing, laundrying and obfuscation can be traced through to it's final destination.

Minor detail, but you want "its", not "it's".
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Yeah, see http://github.com/trender-io
A "prototypical hacker-founder" may well need someone to come in and help with the business stuff. Scaling a hardware business is a lot different to a software one.

And I'm not convinced Carmack likes being in charge. He might well he happy if he can just hack.
This article has some possible explanations: http://theweek.com/article/index/249955/why-is-the-gender-wa...
I've referred to it as Fiveyesia on HN before, but had forgotten "Anglosphere".
Funny. Google App Engine auto scaled from day one.
That's not it at all. Soylent is uninteresting. Have the Soylent fans ever gone to a GNC?
What lunatic would bet their money on whether people will stop eating? It is a fundamental biological need and evolutionary drive. That's a tough sell for Soylent, and it has nothing to do with "critical mass". And of course it will depend on the satisfaction - that's entirely vapid.

Soylent is not even disguised as food, like most of our industrial food-like products. It tastes like oats according to that blog. Nobody is going to replace all of their food with fortified liquid oatmeal.
Is this a thing? I too would like to go all Soylent for the foreseeable future but am looking for the potential risks
Okay, you've earned a couple upvotes.
No, they don't. These "principles" still require your contract be up or an ETF be paid on a "post-paid" (aka subsidized) phone.
Are we trusting cloud storage now? I would've thought that could be susceptible to official or unofficial attack.
... I would not be able to bear someone playing a game like that in the house. It will be obnoxious.

(I am aware can be used outside gaming environment.)
Personally I hate food: shopping for it, preparing it, and eating it (most times). I'd rather take a pill or chug a drink and be done with it for another 24 hours. Soylent came in and it was a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel (that is, if it's workable)
An example of the building kind: When I bought my house, the first thing we did was knock down the wall separating the front and back living room. We got a cheap estimate, based on the fact that the wall was just a stud wall - it had been knocked through in the past.

Then I got a panicked call from the builders:

Apparently the previous owner (most like, based on some other horrors) had taking out all the brickwork, without putting in a steel joist to hold the hundreds of kilos of brick of the wall on the floor above in place.

The person who had done that work in the first place might very well have seemed very efficient to someone who didn't know the details. To someone who did understood fully what the job entailed, and knew what to look for, once it was out in the open again, the job was obviously not done in a safe manner at all.

But once the stud wall was in place, it was not apparent that there was a problem. First when it was gone and the builders stared up at brick where they expected a steel joist was it obvious the job was violating regulations and was inherently unsafe.

In software, we do the equivalent of leaving hundreds of kilos of brick unsupported all the time, and cover it up with other layers of code, to the point where it is often extremely hard for anyone to determine quality without going back and auditing every line of code and running every little piece through extensive QA.

It might be a failure of management. But often this is because of woefully lacking resources - clients, whether internal or external, often don't understand the importance and refuses to pay for proper management as well as proper testing, qa and documentation. And this is allowed to continue because often it is "good enough" - just like my wall didn't wall down until the new builders had gotten a steel joist in, so often software projects survive horrific decisions or lack of attention to detail.
While using gocraft/web I've slowly come to the realization that it would be very convenient if the Context already knew about the Request and Response (without me having to pass web.ResponseWriter everywhere).
Maybe it hiccuped? It seemed instant for a valid address, but a little slower for invalid. I assumed it keeps used addresses in cache but had to go digging to confirm a negative, but it could be a fluke. Anyway, it's faster than waiting for the image proxy.
His "awesome reaction" is the same reaction he has made hundreds of times to various scenarios in many games. It's his schtick. Hardly a ringing endorsement for the Oculus device. (Although I do hear that they are fantastic.)
If you're small you can just use the tools Amazon provides you and get pretty far -- CloudFormation and/or OpsWorks, combined with AutoScaling (now configurable from the console! :) ).
You can use CloudWatch which is already part of EC2 to monitor your instances for you. You can also have autoscaling scale up / down based on these metrics. You also can have Elastic Load Balancer monitor the health of your backend web hosts port state (ie: is the nginx port down for more than three health checks? OK kill that instance and replace it with a new one behind the ELB).

All of these functions are builtin to AWS and now with the new web interface it is much easier to configure autoscaling to do these types of things.
This works on a philosophical level of "knowing more about the world", but with regard to just information, fiction doesn't cut it (nor is it meant to). For example, you don't learn more about shipping containers or processor architecture with fiction.
EC2 has had auto-scaling for ages -- this is just the web interface.
> and Google has no way to know that all of those point to the same image.

They could do content hash-based caching rather than URL-based caching. It would be more private, as the email senders would have to generate a unique image for each recipient.
I would rather like to see better CPU performance first then auto-scale. Awful CPU performance is what keeping me away from EC2, trying linode nowadays..
Sweet, I didn't even think of using the string methods; always nice to have a blind spot pointed out.
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
The site is down and hopefully will up soon...
I'm going to piggy-back on this comment and mention that Rackspace recently added auto-scale as well, FWIW.
Quote:

The bones holding your teeth get a 'workout' when you chew, helping to keep them strong. The saliva produced while chewing is also beneficial, helping to clear food particles from your mouth and wash away bacteria so there may be less plaque buildup and tooth decay.

--

Note that saliva also contains enzymes to break down food, and if you only drink Soylent I doubt you produce much saliva for digestion.
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Austerity? Japan has been running huge deficits.

Austerity is where you leave within your means. When you do it by choice, you're in control. When you are forced to do it because you've been borrowing and spending everything as soon as you get it, it can be a disaster.

Its not frugality that's bad. Reckless behavior that destroys investment in future productivity - that's what's bad.

To verify this, save as much as you can for a decade. Note that you have money to buy what bankrupt individuals must sell at a loss. You are better off BECAUSE of your austerity.

There is no reason to believe that economics works ass backwards for a group than it does for the individuals in the group.

Economics is fractal. Prosperous individuals make a prosperous country and a more prosperous world. Pursuing poverty never will.
Calcium carbonate, really? Basically, it has some basic nutrients, but most of them are pretty low quality. I'm not sure about you, but I personally get stomach sick even just with 5g of Potassium Gluconate - I can't imagine the (pukey) effect of 15g!
By what process can I "understand whether these correlations matter for specific, interesting questions"?
Good luck in your endeavor!
Potassium chloride is used as a salt substitute. It's often the cheapest way to get potassium in your diet.
I'm not sure what kind of effect that might have on the eyes. Tempted to try it but I'm scared that after a couple of months I would get +5 glasses.
They'll still have to serve the image to google though.
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I'm 29, and my first graphic design experience was the Talking Coloring Book on the A1000. Photoshop is better, IMO.
From the creator of Soylent

> Soylent is not the first drink with calories in it, nor was Google the first search engine. There are many liquid diets. You'd probably be surprised how long you can survive on just cow's milk. No one says 'solid diets exist already' when someone makes a new food. I don't see how the viscosity makes up an entire category. I considered Ensure but found it much too expensive, low calorie, unpalatable, and an ingredient make up that was far from complete or optimal.

> The goal of soylent is to make something ideal, not just a quick shot that will get rid of hunger for a few hours. I need something that allows me to run and lift and think, not just survive, and something considerably cheaper than normal food. A big part of soylent is its personalization as well. There is no 2000 calorie human. If you want an ideal diet you have to personalize it.

http://discourse.soylent.me/t/comparing-soylent-to-existing-...
Because 99% of $.99 phone apps are garbage and you know you'll download it, use it once, and never launch it again.
That is weird. I am accessing from Singapore. I believe the apps is tracking user location? Multiple location webpage testing, you can use http://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html
This danger is hardly confined to fiction. Even a completely true set of facts can be presented in multiple ways to support different agendas. Also--who takes the time to check every fact in every book they read? Quite a lot is taken on trust when reading nonfiction.

Anyway, this is only a danger if the reader is credulous about what they are reading. But reading a lot of fiction can help a person learn to detect an author's point of view, biases, and, in some cases, hidden agendas.

This learning can be greatly accelerated by training. College-level literature courses teach students the mental framework to critically evaluate any piece of writing.
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Techstars publishes a fair amount of data too:
http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/

Then there's general studies of VC-backed companies. Not much available on pre-VC companies though.
This is pretty cool.
Backspace not working for me though in Chrome.
Don't use a password. Use a private key, print it as a QR code, and mail it (or multiple copies thereof) to your new address (or to someone you trust). Then you can answer honestly, and they can't access your servers.
Really cool! It even supported doing things like:

inoremap jj <Esc>`^

Backspace ended up triggering the browser's back action though. Other than that, this is really nice.

Edit:
After looking at the source, this seems to make use of emscripten to reuse Vim's existing source code. This really makes me wonder what other cool things we can bring over to the client side.
Wherever he goes the magic will follow, and it'd be nice if he was the ultimate boss like he was at id Software.

It's quite arguable that the best time for id was back in Romero's time, through Quake 1. Carmack was an excellent steward technologically, but from a business standpoint I think they were far outstripped by Epic in terms of being a business based on technology licensing.
What are you arguing against? He didn't say that fiction is always better than non-fiction for learning about the world.

However, many people (Bill Gates included apparently) operate under the opposite assumption that non-fiction gives you more information about the world by default. And that's simply not true. Fiction can change your views, give you new ideas and insights, challenge your beliefs, etc.

Fiction writers create based on their life experiences, their feelings and ideas and also the information they got from different sources. It's pure ignorance to assume they only offer brainless entertainment.
think of it as a set of effort versus determination curves. every time you shift the effort curve a bunch of less-determined jerks give up. on the other hand if you shift the curve the other way and jerkery becomes as easy as pressing a button, a lot more people will give in to the casual impulse to do son.
Thank you for answer. I swear I'm not just trolling, but I'd really like to push you a little further on that point. First, I should be clear that I'm not trying to argue with you or convince you of anything. I just want to understand what people are thinking.

Bearing that in mind, would you be so kind as to read on while I make the "Dr. Spock" case against Soylent?

Scientifically, the questions about human nutritional requirements you alluded to were largely answered 70 years ago by British government researchers. They put volunteers on controlled diets, with varying quantities of different micro-nutrients, and studied the effects carefully. It's thanks to their work that Britain avoided mass malnutrition during the war.

As a nutritionist, Rob Rhinehart isn't fit to hold a clipboard for those pioneers. What kind of incompetent neglects to add iron to his initial formulation?

And there's plenty of precedent for these kinds of nutritionally balanced rations, usually developed for military or medical purposes. E.g. check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut. If I were to make my own Soylent, I'd probably use that as my starting point: it's cheaper and better tasting that Rhinehart's formulation. I don't see anyone getting excited over those.

So ... that's the "Dr. Spock" argument. But Dr. Spock wouldn't buy a Rolex, or get a tattoo either, and yet people do.

Whatever the case is for investing in Soylent, it's not rational. It's about your emotions, or it's a status symbol, or a it's statement of identity. Something fuzzy and humanistic.

But what? What is it? I truly don't get it. Can you enlighten me?
Nice. Do you import itertools in your .pythonrc or was it just already in your shell?

itertools is one of my favorite python modules.
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So was national socialism, though.
The FDA considers Soylent a food.

"According to Arthur Whitmore, a press officer with the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Soylent would fall into the category of what the FDA considers food. Unlike a medication, Soylent will not require FDA approval, unless it contains some new type of food additive, which Rhinehart would need to disclose.

It’s important to Rhinehart that Soylent be considered a food, as opposed to a medicine or supplement, so that food-stamp recipients can buy it using EBT cards."

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-is-powdered-soyle...
http://discourse.soylent.me/t/fda-press-officer-comment/3783
Have you tried the new c3 instances?
> if I had messed up, his head would've been on the chopping block next to mine

Maybe he trusted you?
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Fair enough. These apps do have their target market, I just feel like we (myself included) could be doing more to help people rather than just keeping them entertained.
> auto-scaling shouldn't usually be done reactively, and doing so is at the expense of optimal service delivery.

You can react predictively (or predict reactively, whichever way you want to say it.)

Set up a cascade control system, training it as it runs on (process load x cost-of-scale.) It will begin to "see the signs" of load being about to occur, and adjust accordingly to reduce it. You know, just like any modern thermostat.
Arcanum is fucking brilliant. The writing and world construction is wonderful.

The only problem is that (unpatched) pursuing Tech can put you at a disadvantage. Otherwise, it's an amazing game.
Wow, I can use hjkl to move my cursor !!!
Does not compute. Millennial "women" are 12 or 13.
Kinda cool as a demo, but too many vim shortcuts are hijacked by the browser for this to be useful to me.
For the curious, here's the postmortem of Fallout Tactics:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3088/postmortem_micro_...

It was a solid tactics game, but there were some rough edges in bringing in the Fallout stuff.
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I'm not making any argument at all...you asked why nurses were in the list, so I just pointed out the pattern in the list that I thought nurses fit into.
Need not have to label the Fiction genre as a non-educative one. Numerous amount of fiction books teach about the world, the cultures and provokes self-introspection.

Non-fiction, agreed. Especially Biographies of successful people who made it from the scratch after a lot of struggling, like Mr. Gates himself.
Even _they_ don't claim that you'd replace every single meal with Soylent. It's supposed to act as the "default", when you're either too lazy, low on time, or just would rather not deal with preparing or going out to buy a meal. It's a basic meal that can't replace the satisfaction of normal food, but sometimes you just don't care about that. You could consume it as often or as little as you want, and know that you're getting something balanced and healthy at the same time.
Exactly. How many 99 cent apps are going to be discussed as being classics here on HN in 10 years from now?

That's the difference between a 99 cent app and a classic game that is on sale for 3 dollars. Unless something happens with the trend of mobile apps being mostly disposable "flavors of the month" no one is going to remember any sort of mobile game classics in 10 years. It also does not help that developers can pull and app and it vanishes (unless you're lucky and rooted your Android device or jailbroke your iPhone and pulled a copy of it) as well as the lack of backwards compatibility on mobile
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Don't many of these rounds have diluton consequences for existing shareholders if some performance target isn't met? Is that taken into account?
How on earth do these people know that the ones spitting, urinating and taunting are homeless? In some cultures spitting in public is acceptable so possibly some of these people are immigrants who haven't yet learned to fit in. Most will eventually get the message and stop spitting.

Urinating in public is a classic sign of people being drunk in public. Most of those people have the money to spend on drinks in bars so I doubt they are homeless.

As for taunting, that sounds like mental illness to me. And the same goes if someone is spitting at other people.

Now I will admit that it is a common side effect of mental illness to be homeless, but unless you actually know that someone is homeless for a fact, you are likely lumping multiple groups of people together and basically saying "This city needs to do something about all the people on the streets who are not like me".

Seems to me like better support for the mentally ill would go a long way to solve the problem, and for those who just want to sweep the problem away by moving the mentally ill somewhere else, that might be a good idea. Bringing people closer to nature in a country setting and giving them responsibility to care for farm animals, and gardens, are all known ways to heal mental illness. Sounds like these people need to put their money where there mouth is. Start an Indiegogo project to help mentally ill people in a country setting and donate your money to that rather than complaining.
Founder Tobias Luettke was the first person I interviewed for the Ruby on Rails podcast back in 2005. Glad to see him doing so well!

http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/programs/1/episodes/tobias_lu...
> Why would they threaten that?

Because messing with you is equally rewarding as "protecting the country."
Commercial pilot.

Pays well once you've invested your life in it. Starting out, though, you're looking at $50k+ to get the required ratings, while being paid $25k/yr to start.
Ask HN: What project (not launched yet) are you working on at the moment?
Would love to find out what people are (quietly) working on at the moment! Something that hasn't launched yet! :) Maybe you don't want to give details, but how about a teaser?
If your dad owns private equity in starbucks and gives you money to buy software from IBM -- THAT is hardly pulling yourself up from the bootstraps yo.
Personally, I like to watch people play it more. For example: http://tasvideos.org/2375M.html

There's a maximum casualties run as well.
Really interesting to see no-semicolon and comma-first style choices die off, and Browserify appear out of nowhere.
fantastic! One issue - I keep hitting is using the backspace key in chrome is mapped to the back button... so it keeps taking me back here..
Great to see Dart moving towards standardization. I've used it for a few projects now and have been really impressed with how quickly it's matured and how much fun it is to develop in.
First of all 1% number is pretty useless even though it's tossed around alot. Global web counters are pointless not only for measuring OS adoption on the desktop (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Measuring_deskt...), they are even less relevant for estimating potential GOG users (who are gamers). If you check out Humble Bundle sales numbers (http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/), that's not 1% at all - it's close to 6-12%. GOG probably can collect statistics of their own site visitors who use Linux - that would be most relevant for them, but I don't have those numbers. And even then, since they have no native Linux games yet, those numbers would give then only the lowest potential margin.

Not supporting Linux hurts them because of their use base. Those who don't accept any DRM go to GOG first, since they are strictly DRM free. And many of those are Linux users.

GOG aren't focused on old games specifically anymore (even though they keep working on digging up more of them). They are focused on Good DRM free games, be it AAA, indie or what not. The problem is that most big budget games are funded by legacy backward thinking publishers who are afflicted with DRM sickness. That's why Steam has way more of such games. But crowdfunding and independent studios are really growing lately, and more and more big budget DRM free games emerge.
Indeed, Node has given JS quite an incredible boost.