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> I disagree with you in every possible way, and I think you've just decided, off the top of your head, to make that up because you think it sounds good.

That tone was completely uncalled for, and assuming you were the one who downvoted me, downvoting me for disagreeing was equally uncalled for. This isn't reddit.

> You might be able to google some statistics, but I'm not drinking your kool-aid.

If you're going on gut feel rather than providing any statistics to the contrary, don't criticize me for going on gut feel.

> Assault resulting in serious injury is categorically worse than fraud or identity theft

I agree that assault resulting in long-term or permanent injury is generally worse than monetary fraud and perhaps partial identity theft (using one's information to commit an isolated instance of fraud). However, it's certainly not "categorically worse" than all forms of fraud or identity theft. Even breaking someone's legs (one of the worst forms of [non-sexual] assault) generally ruins a person's life less than full identity theft and, by definition, less than stealing so much from someone that they are driven to suicide.

> and far more common

If you mean some class of assault is more common than some class of fraud or identity theft, I don't know if you're right or wrong, but that has no bearing on the rate at which a particular criminal will commit repeat offenses.

If on the other hand you meant that assault in which there's serious injury is the most common kind of assault, we'd have to consult Google but that seems highly improbable.
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> … the home of standards such as JavaScript, Eiffel, and C# …

Eiffel, scarcely used; C#, used only for some Windows development.

(I know I am misrepresenting each of these languages slightly, C# in particular as I'm ignoring Mono.)
What are some passions that people have, which other people greatly desire, that are not paid well? I am genuinely curious.
Is it just me or is there still no option to do scheduled scaling from the web interface? Regardless this is still cool!
I think there might be a book here somehow.

A friend of my parents is a Renaissance man too he is nearing 70 now.

In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to.

He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always amazed me because he would always produce some crazy hardware for his many passions. And he had many. This was besides running a successful bank security company.

He is a watch geek and is building this in half size from scratch litterally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen's_World_Clock

One of the wrenches is 400 years to resolve around it's own axis.

Here is some of that work.
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And here are some more of his work:
http://000fff.org/watches/134363_468677071149_7733152_o.jpg
http://000fff.org/watches/135126_468676956149_1839796_o.jpg
http://000fff.org/watches/169423_468677241149_6736953_o.jpg

He also designed this small boat harbour for the local area he lives in https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=bryggen%2C+copenhagen.... because he bought a boat.

I somehow wonder how many Da Vinci's are out there with these kind skills. I can't even begin to think who they manage.
Would be cool to do a series of some of these older hackers.
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The amount of potassium in Soylent is interesting. I noticed a while ago that I wasn't getting enough potassium in my diet, went searching for a supplement, and found that you can't buy an OTC supplement that contains more than 100mg. It turns out the FDA severely restricts the amount of potassium you can get in OTC supplements to prevent certain health risks.[1] I wonder how they get around that restriction.

[1]: http://www.berkeleywellness.com/supplements/minerals/article...
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>>You set goals with measurable results, and you grade them every quarter.

This unfortunately has never worked. I don't if it worked at Google. But as far as I remember 'Setting goals' by and large works like premature optimization or at most in the theme of water fall model.

When we used that approach we found half way down the goal timeline, our priorities as dictated by the business totally changed. We discovered better ways of doing things which altered goals. Some times we found we were simply measuring the wrong things. Some higher priority stuff just preempts the existing business goals and tend to get abandoned etc etc.

I can see how it may work for business folks. Having targets like 'Increase revenue by $100 million', or 'Hire 10 new team members'. But in the grass root level day to day life can hardly be lived in the scopes of rigid goals.
I am in the same boat as you. People who love it are crazy about it. I started it on a plane flight and the guy next to me chatted my ear off about how it changed his life for 20 mins. My current theory is that if you read it in your childhood, it resonates with you. I was 25 when I read it and it did not.
It's a turgo - mid head mid flow, actually.

He wouldn't need such large pipe for a penstock if he was using a pelton wheel, but he also doesn't have the head to drive a pelton efficiently - the more the better for one of those.

I've seen systems that put 2kw of energy through 2" pipe! 350+ feet of vertical head will do that.
It can be annoying when they sell games without proper (your preferred platform) support, but many games can still be played using WINE. For example: GoG doesn't sell the Mac versions of the Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale series, but those games run with very, very few issues in a WINE wrapper. And for Mac OS X at least, there are some great sites where one can download premade wrappers, e.g. PaulTheTall[0] and PortingTeam[1].

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[0]: http://paulthetall.com

[1]: http://portingteam.com
No, the "teach me about the world and myself" is not a criteria for being a good book, quite the opposite. It is not because a book teaches you something that it is good, it is because it is good that it teaches you something.

But why or how is it good, then? Well, usually because the writer is a good writer (but not always, some books have no writers, or are good despite their bad writers).

And a good writer is just someone who has a very itchy scar somewhere and would die if not using writing as a bloodletting.
I think another part of it is that an API interface actually makes more sense. While the necessity for the non-technically inclined are pretty obvious, auto-scaling shouldn't usually be done reactively, and doing so is at the expense of optimal service delivery.

That said, I can imagine a good number of times it could come in handy, even for the techiest of us.

It might have simply not been the lowest hanging fruit, and the one thing I keep noticing that with AWS is that there are only two types of features they roll out -- new SKUs (e.g., something new that they can charge money for) and services that they should have written a long time ago, but probably didn't, because they were too busy launching new SKUs.
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It's 3 dollars right now on gog during the sale, so it might as well be free.

http://www.gog.com/game/oddworld_abes_oddysee
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Yeah been wondering this myself. I think that's how Heroku really emerged in the scene, AWS gave you the ability to scale but didn't make it easy by any means (relative to 'heroku scale web n'). I doubt billing was the issue either considering tools for billing monitoring and email warnings have been in place for a while. My guess is that things that don't scale easily (db, workers, etc) which, are what most EC2 is used for, have to be scaled with an API and consequently that unprioritized webserver type autoscaling.
This is excellent news! I was just about to start exploring the auto-scaling capability for our cluster. Even if the API has more flexibility/options, this should make it much easier to get started with the basics.

Now I just wish AWS management console itself got some TLC.....it can be pretty difficult and cumbersome to use sometimes. Even products for fellow devs should have beautiful UIs.
Well, if you compare the whole genre of "great fiction" to "another Gladwell book," that gives the initial advantage to "great fiction," for sure.

I read some of fiction and some of nonfiction, but definitely skew to reading more nonfiction. One nonfiction book, which I think someone on HN told me isn't even the best book on its specific topic, was very meaningful to me and helped me learn a lot about myself. I read the entire book out loud to my dad when he was paralyzed, about three years after his paralyzing accident (which was about three years before he died). The book is The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,[1] entirely nonfiction, but nonetheless a way to be transported into an earlier time and a place that I am unlikely ever to see in my lifetime. The characters were all real, but they all got me thinking about how I think and about how I get along in life. Great nonfiction can can provide more information about the world, humanity in general, and what's even more important, yourself, then you can ever glimpse by reading another science-fiction novel.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc...
Can anyone explain why there is any interest in this story? I'm not snarking: I genuinely want to know.

Why are you following this story? Why are you voting it up? Do you actually want to buy and eat this nutritionally balanced gruel? Why?
Google could impose a spam scoring penalty.

Penalize mass emails containing unique identifying image URLs for identical images.

Where identical means virtually identical.
> are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses

Large hamster ball on rollers. Infinite space to walk or run. Also, you don't need to track their motion or feet, you just feed in the data from the rollers, and you know how fast their character is walking or running, and in what direction.
After I just spent ages setting this up via the API!

Actually there is a nice, cheap service called ezautoscaling.com - looks like a hacker side project but supports the full API including schedules, which I think are missing from the official AWS offering.
I agree with the first comment posted to your comment here that it would be helpful to readers here to provide examples of good books.

EDIT: I see below that you have your own top-level comment in which you mention a history of France you have read, and comment more generally that reading history is generally a good idea. I agree.
I want some on-site storage for 24x7 operation in a "grid is black" environment, though (I'd also like to get fiber, but also have some line of sight wireless and satcom shots). It's unlikely micro-hydro would make selling back to the grid economic.
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Kudos, Twitter. I walked past your offices a few hours ago, shaking my head. It's nice to make it home and see the right thing was done in the end.
Is that 100 mg total or 100 mg per serve?
Omni virtuix is a pretty good approach that doesn't require a hamster wheel.
http://www.virtuix.com/
I'm not sure at all here. Basically because if it takes A two weeks what it takes B two hours. Either A totally doesn't get it all, or B is just plainly cheating in some way.

Contrary to whatever you may think, you will not be able to build the next Microsoft, send a probe to mars, invent the next cancer drug, build a formula one car, or build the Pyramid of Giza or anything of such class working 2 hours a day, while relaxing away your time at a beach.

The world is full of examples of a Bill Gates sleeping below his office desk, Michelangelo falling from painting his way to exhaustion, or a John Carmack spending his time hacking in some isolated hotel.

The stories super successful people who work exceptionally hard and very real and are a common place in our culture.

I agree about quality and all that, but none of that will be sufficient for great tasks with meagerly efforts. Great things demand great effort.

I'm yet to hear of successful people who have become what they are by working just 2 hrs a day. Unless they just had a wild date with luck.
doubt that will happen anytime soon, javascript will just become more like c/c++ in the next 5-10 years
Why does reading have to be about learning? Can we not just read to have fun.

I don't know how we got to the point where so many see entertainment for it's own sake as a negative thing.
Ensure has lots:

http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes

(I accidentally clicked the one with the most though)
Soylent is a leading application of an analytical/techie approach to the "question" of food (i.e. what do we eat?), which is even bigger than online advertising, electric cars, or video games.
I'm skeptical of this claim. I don't think that someone bound and determined to be this kind of an asshole would really be stopped by that.

(edit: I want to stress that I'm not saying it's wrong, just that it seems rather counter-intuitive.)
Great idea indeed! I implemented it as well, and packaged it on pip :)
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>>"productivity is measured entirely by the time you sit at your desk" bosses.

Productivity is measured by both building such systems, and how many such systems you build everyday.
No it's not. All you have to do is treat people right and not be a sociopath.
do you have a link to git or anything?
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everyone (unless proven not guilty).
Sure they are, or maybe just re-negotiating their contract. ;p
I second the Karamazov suggestion, and would say also War & Peace by the other great Russian, Tolstoi. One of the bests books I've read.
My only fear is the Oculus management/investors. They could be great, but they seem not so great so far. An investor took over as CEO already and started calling himself a co-founder? That's a huge red flag. The real founder Palmer Luckey seems like the prototypical hacker-founder. Naive and noobish maybe but probably less so than most and obviously super passionate.

I wonder if John Carmack wouldn't be better off just launching a competitor to Oculus. Wherever he goes the magic will follow, and it'd be nice if he was the ultimate boss like he was at id Software.

I'd just really hate for him to get bogged down in a bad environment, kind of the way Linus did with Transmeta, and be forced to resign at some point and start over after wasting years of productivity.

The A16Z guys can probably help avoid any massive stupidity, so that's a nice benefit to this investment.
Ok, I'd still like some examples if you have any. I think that'd help me better understand.
Because PNaCl comes with its own implementations of input, graphics, audio, etc and cannot talk to any of the regular Web APIs. So basically, PNaCL is either ActiveX or it's Flash.

https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/pepperc/grou...

That said, I support using LLVM bitcode more than asm.js myself. I think asm.js is the dying breaths of JavaScript being hailed as its rebirth.
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Here's how missing the news affected me: When I finished my CS degree, I decided have a go at postgrad in another field. I reasoned that if it didn't work out, I'd just quit and get a programming job like my classmates had done easily. It didn't work out. But when I went looking for a programming job, it was surprisingly hard. That led me to change career direction. Only later I found out what the "NASDAQ" was and what had happened to it while I was indecisively loitering at university in 2001.
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Whenever food preferences come up as a topic of conversation at work, I have a co-worker who says, "As soon as they come out with Soylent, I'm in. That's it, that's all I'm going to eat for life." I want to see him do it.
This is awesome... really takes me back. Amazing what you can deliver in a browser these days. I'd simply love to run my first product again (its been 20 years!)

PS: Anyone know the process to get AmigaDOS 2.04 running on one of these (and download a LHA file and install it?)
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There's a guy in my company who rose to upper-middle management faster that anyone I've ever seen. The key to his success was constantly running around, getting social exposure by talking to everybody (about inane bullshit most of the time) and trying to make himself look important.

In the meantime, we lost a really good engineer who was thought to be a slacker because he was a quiet guy and wouldn't expose himself too much.

This sociopathic and pathologic behavior is very common in companies run by "business people with ideas" instead of engineers. It's all based on chest beating, who you know and how much of a smooth talker you are. It's like being in high school all over again. Meritocracy is nowhere to be found.
Per serving/dose/pill. The pills I've seen usually contain about 400-500mg of inactive ingredients (about the same ratio Soylent uses), so the pills are ~500-600mg, which is fairly large. To equal just one serving of Soylent, you'd need to ingest 35 of them.
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Defined Human Minimal Media.

It's an interesting question, just what nutrients does the human body need in order to sustain itself? We have a good definition of what individual cells need but not a lot of data for how the body copes long term with just those nutrients. My guess is that will power will lose out in the end.
If nothing else, he kind of slipped in the 'people desire'. Why is that a requirement for a passion? As in, why is the requirement that one should be making it for other people? E.g. what if you are really into scuba diving?
I have prepaid for some. If it's not awful I plan to try using it for the majority of my nutritional needs.

I like eating, but I don't like sourcing, preparing, cooking or cleaning up. I don't like eating in at restaurants either. I'm lazy and antisocial. So my intake is currently pretty bad, mostly take out or processed items. Soylent would definitely be an improvement for me nutritionally.

You may not be snarking, but a lot of people seem very upset that this product exists and that people are interested in it. I'm not sure why.
You can do scheduling with OpsWorks, I believe.
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Music. You can have hundreds of thousands of fans and still not be able to quit your day job.
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Interesting: so it's not just Soylent. I wonder why liquid supplements aren't affected by the 100mg limit.
People have their priorities, but what's often missing from modern parenting is any semblance of cost benefit analysis. A key example is breastfeeding. The long-term medical benefits of breastfeeding, unless you're in the third world and lack access to clean water, are quite tenuous. But the practical benefit of bottle feeding is real: feeding can be totally delegated to the father. For my wife and I, this has been a huge boon to equitable division of child care between the two of us. I'm the nighttime parent, the "I'm hungry" parent, the "I need comfort" parent. My wife is the "roughhouse with the kid after work" parent. If I were totally dependent on my wife to pump, and if she had breastfed, I doubt I could have established that told with our daughter. Yet, my wife gets a lot of snide comments from other women in her mommy circles who have their kid strapped to themselves 24/7.

Women are pressured with these parenting fads, but taking them on basically concedes to taking on the role of primary caregiver.
Emphasis on the couple of minutes, about how long a normal person can handle the Oculus being feeling nauseous.

I had a friend lay flat on the floor for half an hour after a level of Quake 2. Brings back fond memories of my first days playing Wolfenstein 3D and experiencing motion sickness..
Academia/research. I was making more than some of my world class professors a few years into my career, where I was using research they developed and improved upon.
It was more interesting to me as a teenager and is normally found on the required high school reading canon. It's been so long so I'm going simply by memory here (instead of going to Wikipedia and quoting verbatim) but what's stuck after 15+ years has been the themes of individualism, independence, and desire to map out one's own destiny.
I read that book. It left me convinced that I couldn't learn anything at all from those fictional war stories since I couldn't distinguish the truths from the half-truths, and it was a turning point in my literary life as I realized I do indeed prefer to read non-fiction.

(PS I still read and enjoy fiction. I don't get why everyone's so up in arms about Bill Gate's mild preference for non-fiction)
This man is much more sure of his construction abilities than I probably will ever be:

> So if the roof collapses, it might be my fault...

http://ludens.cl/paradise/house/house.html
If he's really that excited about it, we've already been able to buy complete liquid nutrition for decades.

http://www.nestlenutritionstore.com/departments/therapeutic-...

For the truly hardcore, you can also buy complete sources of intravenous nutrition. Expect to pay hundreds of thousands a year for this extreme productivity boosting option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenteral_nutrition
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I can't tell how serious the question is, but: how about anything that serves the poor, such as providing warm clothing for the homeless in the winter? Providing dental care for drug addicts?
> Why are you following this story? Why are you voting it up? Do you actually want to buy and eat this nutritionally balanced gruel? Why?

I don't like the idea of Soylent. I enjoy cooking, eating out, and trying new things. If you are so busy that you absolutely can't manage to make things (even in advance) or eat out, there's likely other lifestyle problems that Soylent won't solve for you.

However, I'm interested in it because of a) whether it is healthy long-term; b) what this could mean for our eating habits/nutrition in the future, and; c) potential ramifications for those who are not well off.

Healthy, fresh food ain't cheap, and if something in the future (perhaps not Soylent itself) can alleviate the nutritional side of things it'd be a step forward. Obviously, fresh food shouldn't be restricted only to the wealthy, but I don't think an option would be bad.

There are still a lot of questions about what constitutes a "complete" diet, how much regulation should surround products like Soylent, and so on.
You should remind him that biology is not computing.
We invested in Oculus after we saw a demo of the new prototype. For me, it was up there with the first time I saw Apple II, Mac, the web, Google, iPhone etc.