skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this.

It also annoys me when what appears to be the background of a webpage is actually a link to somewhere, as I inevitably end up clicking it when trying reset the focus.
Ask HN: I want to do a trial of Soylent – what do you guys want to see?
I'm a computer geek who has very little interest in preparing "real" food and am keen to get my hands on Soylent as soon as possible (the fact that I live in Australia makes that problematic for the moment, although I may just take the DIY approach).

I've also been video blogging for a while and, as part of a new channel I'm working on, I'd like to experiment on myself in various ways and talk about the results. For that, Soylent seems like a good place to start.

I do have a few questions though:

* What do you want to see/hear from someone's experience with Soylent?

* What tests are worth getting to demonstrate before/after results?

* What are some of the best experiments that have been conducted so far?

The plan is to do a daily video for a month, then a large write-up, and if the trial seems promising, I'll continue with 1-2 videos per week.

There's no "catch" to this — if I'm lucky, ads on YouTube will pay for a day's worth of Soylent — but I do enjoy this sort of thing and plan to put a considerable amount of time and effort into making sure the videos are interesting and informative. (There'll be proper editing, etc.) I also have enough reservations about Soylent that I won't just be spouting their PR copy. I want it to work but I'm prepared to be critical.

If all of that sounds good to you, I'd love to hear your input

TL;DR — I want to do a daily video blog while experimenting with Soylent and want to know what you'd like to see/hear from that video blog. What tests I should get, etc.
This seems to be a very positive interpretation for Hachette, which is incidentally exactly what the article seems to push for, while claiming Amazon is acting maliciously.

The interest of authors is very clear: sell as many books as possible. They are paid a meagre sum per book (a dollar, maybe?) so they really don't care about the price other than that it is as low as possible to stimulate sales, but they have no control over pricing regardless.

Hachette, meanwhile, needs to keep prices up since any reduction would come directly from their margin, given that they pay authors a very low and fixed sum.

Amazon of course, as any other distributor, wants to get better conditions from Hachette and naturally uses its customer base to put weight behind what they are asking for. When the deal failed, they presumably had to continue buying books under, to them, unacceptable conditions, so they did two things to consolidate their losses:

1) slash discounts from Hachette books
2) buy less Hachette books

I'm not including the recommendations for other books, because if you have used Amazon at all in the last 10 years, this is just how their website functions regardless if the product at hand is a book from Hachette or a sponge.

If you want to blame someone here, blame Hachette or the relationship between traditional publishers and authors. As I've pointed out above, the interests of the two parties are not well aligned at all. Maybe it is true that Amazon pushes for deals hard to swallow for publishers, but if they are paying authors a dollar on a $10 book sale, that is hard to believe. If their overhead is that large, capitalism demands they are put out of business, and this time it is just Amazon picking up the slack, when it could have been any distributor.
If the compiler can infer the type locally then so can I. At least for reasonably well structured code.
"Still less than the list price (set by the publisher)."

Amazon gets large discounts from publishers, in a case I know of larger than wholesalers or distributors get or got. It does not negotiate discounts so much as it enforces them.
The Maasai are not known for their height, it's the Dinka (remember Manute Bol?) of South Sudan.
but it came at a terrible price on human health

That statement doesn't make sense.

It was because agriculture contributed so mightily to human health and well-being that we survived and flourished to cover the surface of the earth and travel into space.

Even if some of our ancestors were bigger, it doesn't mean that they were "more healthy".
The internet says it is written in Java:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
(possibly with some Python build tools, for which performance doesn't matter)
The article is from September 2013 and it has been explained thousands of times that it's just Libreoffice converting the docs into html
Sorting 10 millions integers on my laptop
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374945
I didn't see any mention of filesystem access on this phone - can someone comment on that?

Edit: I went this comment[1] and the reviewer shows that file manager apps can be downloaded.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7724972
I'm sorry, but to be an amazing programmer in Haskell, the understanding you need of the lambda calculus is minimal.. For example, consider this function to compute the Ackermann function in the lambda calculus:

λx. x (λf y.y f (f 1) ) (λx1 f x.f (x1 f x))

or even just addition

λx y f x.(x f) (y f x)

none of that will even come up in Haskell.

Even the type system - you need to understand some tiny amount - you can only add ints to ints etc. The more complicated stuff, the type inference, the monads etc - can be ignored until later.

Haskell can be used without understanding - almost all programming languages can. That's why we have so many newbie bugs.
Oh can we _not_ discuss fairly complex issues in comic strip form? I've yet to see one that doesn't automatically qualify for r/bad{history,economics,philosophy,etc} (I'm looking at you, The Oatmeal)
With an added hammer pounding for European-style healthcare, which is mentioned three or four times while considering American immigration influx from "shorter" populations is a throwaway word at the end of the article.
Any reason why you're using a slice here?
>>> numbers[:] = [n for n in numbers if not odd(n)]
I'm thinking that doing
>>> numbers = [n for n in numbers if not odd(n)]
wouldn't be a problem since the assignment is executed after the computation of the list comprehension.
It's hard to compare Nordic countries to U.S. because they are small. Take Notch. If he sells a billion bucks worth of minecraft to American schoolchildren and pays taxes on that in Sweden - that can be a substantial boost to Swedish coffers. Americans can't very well raise enough revenue by exporting to Sweden.
There is a a follow up post that is linked in the link you posted which says the following:

As it turns out, Dropbox views/opens certain file types in order to convert them to a compatible format so they are easily accessible via web browser for its users. This makes sense and is common practice for many cloud storage services to provide the convenience of browser access while not needing any additional software to open these documents.
Awesome, good stuff. IIRC that only happens a lot if Set with forEach isn't supported, and it uses string properties on an object as a fallback.
I think there is this luxury where the targeted users, or audience of Baasecamp may actually have the higher end Phones. So the 5/5c or definitely 5S will be fast enough.

But there are an Ocean of cheap / slow and older phones out there, which i dont think they will have quite the same experience if it was in Web compared to Native.

The Gap will shrink, as technology moves forward. But for the best experience around, may be its best to stick to native for now.
Number should be used in both ways. If the US have a population k times that of Sweden, there are k Notch-likes with possibly k times the revenue of Minecraft, hence k times the potential taxes. The revenue might be considered equal as both Sweden and the US export to the rest of the world (another fallacy of your argument was that Sweden exports to the US and the US only exports to Sweden).
I'm reminded of this purported exchange:

A Scandinavian economist once stated to Milton Friedman: "In Scandinavia we have no poverty." Milton Friedman replied, "That's interesting, because in America among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either." Indeed, the poverty rate for Americans with Swedish ancestry is only 6.7%, half the U.S average. Economists Geranda Notten and Chris de Neubourg have calculated the poverty rate in Sweden using the American poverty threshold, finding it to be an identical 6.7%.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001543-is-sweden-a-false...

Anyway, I look forward to this falling off the front page ASAP.
While HN is probably not the place for this discussion but the thesis could not be clearer. You're merely objecting to the color scheme. Average educational standards in the US are pitiful but I think it's too late. The Chinese understand this very well.
You could also terminate each paragraph with a double-newline, instead of using that to separate them. That would fix the problem.
Hmm, got a Slashdot review as well: http://books.slashdot.org/story/14/05/05/1729223/book-review...
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the point is that in statically typed languages, the type information is used at compile time, and the computer can reason about certain types of errors for you prior to execution. in dynamic languages, the type information may well be there, but you need to exercise the code at runtime (via tests or whatever, but still runtime) to make use of it.
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Almost all phenomena are best explained as a conspiracy.
Free education is not only in the Nordic countries and it is also in a lot of countries in Europe.

Also a few countries also offer education for really small fee.

But I definitely agree with this comic strip.
FTA-
'''

"GovCMS is intended to support more effective web channel delivery functions within Government, and enable agencies to redirect effort from non-core transactional activities, towards higher-value activities that are more aligned with core agency missions," a draft statement of requirements issued by AGIMO states.

'''

It appears buzzword abuse is becoming an international problem across multiple industries and agencies. I recommend a UN task force to look into it and take the appropriate measures. Sanctions are defiantly in order, but at this point nothing should be off the table.
> For databases, there are a myriad of options and tutorials for those

Where? The only half appealing type safe query DSL that I've found for Haskell is Esqueleto, and that features a blank github readme[1] o_O

[1] https://github.com/meteficha/esqueleto
Apologies if you've already read this, but this paper was absolutely enlightening for me on what a more performant Python would look like: http://julialang.org/images/julia-dynamic-2012-tr.pdf especially section 2 on language design, which discusses how it's actually different.

(And yes, I know I'm just adding to the people plugging Julia here) Among other things, Julia actually avoids forms of dynamism that are in practice rarely employed by programs in dynamic languages. Existing code is immutable, but new code may always be generated if different behaviour is desired.

I'm not entirely sure if I could accurately say Julia allows one to trade between efficiency and dynamism when each is desired, but it does appear to be a much better balanced approach than is normal.
Technically they are spamming the hell out of googles results, but google seems to be fine with it
Agreed compared to RWH, LYAH was next to useless for me. RWH could use a refresh though (published in 2008), hopefully a 2nd edition will be in the works at some point.
You might be looking for the Tabs Outliner Extension for Chrome. I've been using it heavily for the "middle-state" of saved and not open, but not bookmarked; now I'm looking for a "meta Tabs Outliner"-esque program, but I can't quite articulate my needs...

> What I want is to maintain a list of current references, preferably with some spatial context (tree-mode browsing is great for this) to what the relationship is between pages in my browser session.

Tabs Outliner puts every tab as a leaf in a tree, and you can nest leaves and affect the visual ordering on the tab bar at the same time - you can also do this reordering while the tab isn't even open! This is good for a while, but for me when I have thousands, it's lacking in some retrieval sense: I guess I want to query for just these tabs that have connections, and cross-reference research annotations on these sets of connections.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqjcrfKjobY
I love Mate.

If you speak german there's a great Chaosradio episode [0] about the different "Hackerbrausen" / "Hackersoda" where they are talking about the history of Club Mate and other drinks in that genre.

[0] http://cre.fm/cre175-hackerbrausen
So this time it's based on Android?
That seems like a bad choice if you wanted to provide the people with access to true general purpose computing.
The long term averages are showing slightly more than 6 per hour. Over the short term the spacing between blocks varies pretty wildly. I sure would not want to rely on a clock powered by Bitcoin block times :-)
Pretty sure you can hide your money if go through a for profit shell company but you don't get the tax deduction. Non profits are open.
It's just a bootable USB drive? So, all they need now is to find a computer which boots from USB drives (i.e. fairly recent, relatively)?

How does this solve the problem?
Why Apple's Tightwad Ways Won't Change With Deal for Flashy Headphones
An analyst came up with a $250 million annually for Java licenses. Andy Rubin said (exhibit 13) that "Sun is prepared to walk away from a $100M annual J2ME licensing business" into a deal with Google for some portion of Android income, which obviously is not an exact but indicates the scale.

Java wasn't going to power a Sun-sized company by itself, but having this income dry up while already trying to save the company from linux is a death blow.
They are. I can configure Google Calendar to send me SMS reminders about any event I choose at any time before it, and can have it recur yearly automatically - which does what your product does, and allows synchronisation to any mobile devices by calendar subscription.
The desktop reminds me of Chrome OS. Maybe they should have gone with Chromium OS.
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This reminds me to log in more often.
Hear hear. I love the variety of mate sodas in Berlin too. Club Mate is like the OG, but 1337Mate is promising so far!
> will allow old, discarded and potentially non-functional PCs to be revived,

While this feels like a good idea it's often terrible. Have a look at the agbogoshie e-waste dump in Accra, Ghana, for an example. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552994)

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/14/to...

Keepod has been discussed here before. It looks like an interesting experiment, although I would prefer it if people had access to more open systems.
Why is it a for-profit operation with a 30% profit margin? Are they trying to become rich through people's charitable contributions?

Why does every student as opposed to just every classroom need one (with multiple accounts supported)?

And why is the base price $5? Flashing is $.32 (http://www.usb2usb.com/pre-loaded-data-usb-flash-drive.htm) on a $3.41 drive (http://www.usb2usb.com/marketing_series_flash_drive_costs.ht...) = $3.73* ... that's $1.27 less then $5.

This doesn't sound like much until you are doing 150,000 of them. Now we have $190,500 that's not accounted for on top of the existing $300,000 deposited into their personal checking account.

Someone can do this same project for 40% less (at $4 versus $7) and still walk away with $40k+ - a much more typical salary for a social worker.

Or they could do a multiple-account, single device strategy and probably get away with an astonishing 98% drop in price. Of course, there's no money in that. ;-)

* - We can't see the price for 7500+ from this vendor - but I think that a cost of about $3.55 is fair for the volumes the founders are talking about - and there's probably better offers if you call around - so maybe $3.45 is more realistic. It's certainly not $5.00.
> 1) It is merely a guidepost to the rest of the work and doesn't rise to the level of creativity of the meat of the text.

As anyone who has designed enough APIs will tell you (including engineers testifying on Google's behalf during the trial, and many commenters here who disagree with the decision), an API often requires more creativity than the implementation. Sure, the implementation is also difficult to do well, but making that implementation usable by others is no less a creative task. The "table of contents" analogy is backwards: you don't write the code first and then extract the functions into an API. That's how you get poor APIs. For a well designed API it's always the other way around. With enough creativity and forethought put into an API, the implementation flows naturally, and in practice, it's exactly the opposite of the table of contents analogy.

(Not to mention that a ToC may also be copyrightable.)

> 2) over time the structure becomes standardized because of the nature of the information it attempts to organize suggests that standard.

The "nature of information being organized" sounds like "functionality" to me. As before, it is distinct from expression.

> I'd be willing to bet that if you put 10 people in separate rooms and asked them to create an API, 80% or more would be so close to one another that if someone studied one, they could find their way in another.

Consider the corollary of your argument. If you asked those same people to write actual implementations for that same problem. I'd bet you get the same "80% or more would be so close" results. Do you mean that their resulting code would not be covered by copyright? Consider whatever arguments you apply to defend copyrightability of the implementation, and try to differentiate them from the API case.

Unless you provide a detailed spec and enforce some conventions, I'm willing to bet nobody will have an exact duplicate of another, either for implementation or for API. An API for the same functionality, say for getting the number of absentees, may be labeled getAbsenteeCount() or nAbsentees() or NumNotPresent(). Or even absenteeList().length(). Or a poorly defined API may require something like classSize() - numPresent(). Or a really badly defined API would require iterating over each member of the class and checking the "present" flag. And that is the point: each expression of the same functionality can be unique, and hence a candidate for copyright.
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It solves the problem of each user not having a consistent user experience on a shared computer.

I know, it's not exactly solving the right problem, is it? Also, I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be with storing all my data on a flimsy, easily-misplaced USB drive.
Didn't know it's that popular, especially among "hackers".
At work the Coca Cola crate gets empty faster than the Club Mate crate.
We had a Cray at Apple. I got an account on it and mucked with it for a while, but nothing serious. Its main use was to simulate plastic flow in molds for the cases of Macintosh computers (molds are pretty expensive, $500K to $1M, and you want to make sure they'll work well before you commit to making them).

Turned out that Seymour used MacDraw to design parts of the Cray-3. So we were using each other's computers to design our own computers....
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China plans high-speed railway connection to USA
I've never seen anyone drink that outside of berlin ...
An alternative to killing and eating swans to deal with overpopulation might be to catch them early.

Swan Egg Omelet anyone?
At the 30c3 there were Club Mate and Flora Power.

Flora Power is actually a bit better - not that sweet.

https://twitter.com/zeitiger/status/416496391209644032/photo...
Visit any Hackerspace anywhere in the world, and you'll likely find a crate of two of Club Mate there. It's a de-facto official drink of Hackerspaces worldwide. At ours (Kraków, Poland) we go through a crate or two a week.
Go to any co-working space in Berlin and you'll see.
Well when the colour scheme dictates primary colours, and the painting is of something requiring the full spectrum, then it's valid to complain about the colour scheme. Or to be less subtle, when was the last time you saw a comic strip express a nuanced view?
In hacker spaces it's everywhere.
The company I work for has always a few Club Mate in the refrigerator.

In Düsseldorf/Germany.
It's not bundled at all - it's just a bunch of packages on top of Debian. It just happens to be available preinstalled as an install image on BigV.
Mate is the national drink here in Uruguay, has been for a century or two :) (and for 500 years in Paraguay).

And it was a fad in California some years past. ("According to a major retailer of mate in San Luis Obispo, California, by 2004, mate had grown to about 5% of the overall natural tea market in North America")

But I'm surprised at the speed it's propagating in Europe.

Many say it's much better suited for prolonged concentration than coffee, almost every single university student here drinks it, so I'm not surprised that German hackers are taking advantage of its benefits too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)

There's a Congress on Yerba Mate and its health effects and benefits going on right now (from the 8th to today)

http://www.infoyerbamate.com/index.php?option=com_content&vi...
The hardware costs $x.

Then there is flashing the software. And creating the software. And creating documentation. And distributing the devices. And providing support.

They're not just selling a USB stick, nor selling a USB stick that has a bit of software on it.

They are possibly testing the devices on a range of older hardware, and distributing that older hardware too.

I think this is a pivot - didn't they used to aim this at people worried about security?
By all means, let's have 45 submissions about Apple bidding for Beats, and let's have "The future of Unreal Tournament begins today" at number 1 for 12 hours, getting over 700 up-votes and nearly 140 comments, but let's not discuss the present situation with regards education.

I get it now - HN is not a place to have an intelligent discussion about things that affect the future, it really is a place for people to discuss technology that really matters.
Everything besides Club Mate is Berlin Hipstery :P

;)
> Before there was Borat, there was Mahir Cagri. This site and the track it inspired on mp3.com created quite a stir in the IDM world, with people claiming that “Mahir Cagri” was Turkish for “Effects Twin” and that the whole thing was an elaborate ruse by Richard D. James (Aphex Twin). (Captured December 29, 2004 and December 7, 2000)

Okay this just blew my mind. Anyone else follow Aphex Twin's various shenanigans? Was this ever investigated further?
Cydia.
One of the best east coast hackerspaces, http://www.nycresistor.com/ has practically made it the official drink of the place.
Learned about when visiting LeineLab in Hanover, stuck with me forever since. At Hackerspace Kraków we go through a crate or two in a week, and this drink kept us through many sessions of night hacking.

Edit:

Re Club Mate being semi-official drink in Hackerspaces worldwide, see http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Club_Mate_Pattern :).
Just wanted to add that most modern believers in 'natural rights' that I've met, i.e libertarians and market anarchists, don't recognise intellectual property as real property. See for instance http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf, a libertarian patent attorney writing on IP law.
Or tea. Probably the hackers second choice.