skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for "what barrier," well, consider a website that is visible on Bing but not on Google. Go ahead and tell them "but visitors have no switching cost!" The cost of not being visible where customers are actually looking for you is very high indeed.

That isn't a cost to the customer, it's a loss to the supplier. The problem suppliers have is that customers have lots of competition to choose from. A customer might have equal preference for two books that each cost about the same amount and therefore choose the one which is easier to find. That choice makes all the difference in the world to the publisher but negligible difference to the customer.

That's why the customer places such little value on searching for alternatives. Because there is negligible harm to the customer. If there would be customer harm, the customer could instead exercise the option to spend only the few seconds necessary to find the book at another retailer. Unfortunately for the supplier, there isn't, so the customer doesn't.
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> The whole reason why the "event driven IO", callback mess, etc. is a thing is because of the costs of native OS threads.

Nope. The whole reason why event driven IO is so popular is because of all the FUD that has been spread about the 'costs' of native threads.

Native threads are cheap as hell on modern systems. Programming in an event driven style may be more natural for some problems, but for the vast majority of cases, native threads and blocking I/O is superior.
I once went to shutdown our staging realm to do some task.

~/realm_control_production$ ./realmctl.py stop --no-warn

Oh shit, that is production, not staging. I got the surge of adrenaline and hit Ctrl+C within a couple of seconds.

Thankfully it only completed the very first part of the process that prevents new users from logging in and puts up the maintenance page. No playing users were kicked off the game servers. All I had to do was run

./realmctl.py allow

to get new logins to start working again.

This is what taught us that we need to have an extra confirmation for actions on the production realm.
This: https://map.couple.me

We kept the design simple, otherwise a "batching" mechanism could be introduced that would replay a single batch of 50 messages but that would make everything a second delayed. However, part of the map allows you to login and see your messages live on the screen as you're sending them to your partner and for that the real time streaming is pretty critical.
Speaking of printing...who remembers those early tractor fed dot matrix printers released about the same time as the PC XT?
Pocket: Pocket Premium
That's actually one of the fairer reviews I've seen. I think the author misses the appeal of Soylent for a lot of people, which is that for these people, food itself is primarily a hassle rather than a source of joy. These people would rather just scarf down a boring drink for a few seconds per day to keep themselves alive than deal with the problem of deciding on, buying, and preparing traditional food.
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
> As someone stuck with CScope on Linux, I really really wish there were better alternatives

Doesn't clang (using a frontend like YCM[1]) provide exactly that?

[1] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe
Also, "exclusive checkout" is something that doesn't even really make much sense in git, but is important for people collaborating on non-mergeable assets (3D models, textures, etc). We end up using git for code and in-game assets but p4 for source art assets.
It's telling that even though this individual claims to dislike Soylent, he continued to drink it for 90% of his meals on some days. Unless artificially forcing himself to drink Soylent was part of the experiment, his actions say he prefers convenience over taste. The fact that so many commentators seem terrified of the addition of another option for food, without removing the ones we have today, tells me Soylent is going to be truly disruptive. The skepticism of Soylent in the mainstream media has been very much "I don't know why, but it just seems wrong to me." Appeal to tradition 101.
I once had a boss who would deliberately skip over any indian sounding names in a pile of CVs.

Update: He would skip over them without reading them.
I think perforce deals with binary files better too (not sure of the details)
The new version is really a step up. Props to the dev team for being responsive as well. I sent them an issue during the beta, and they had pushed a fix a few days later. There's still glitches here and there, but those usually result from one hand being on top of the other or something similar.

I'm excited to see where they go with this. I'm not sold on using the leap for my everyday computing tasks, but I think there are some great applications for it.
The second article says it all: these are initial reactions.

I believe the sentiment has changed drastically since the deal's first announcement (at least it has among sites and blogs I frequent).
after having to use it for one job it is now a required question I have about the organization using git/mercurial/perforce before I'll accept a job offer.
How can beats sell a phone cheaper than its headphones?
WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues
Because dystopic ideas are the new cool, with self driving cars and astronaut food... seems that the future is designed by startrek fans that did never read 1984.
Content creation for all: Ways to simplify online publishing
And I'm pretty sure you lost the plot, because this thread is about the header library in the OP, not the browser chrome. Your suggestion to double-tap to the top (with a menu that doesn't follow you) means I lose my place. And so it's not a good suggestion.
“TrueCrypt is not secure,” official SourceForge page abruptly warns
It could also be useful in developing nations where access to food isn't as prevalent as it is in first-world countries.

Pleasurable or not, Soylent does offer huge value in these situations simply in that it's a way to not die.
I don't know why there is so much hype about this product still. Maybe there's a niche market for people who are so busy they forget to eat (another problem in and of itself) but for everyone else it completely misses all that is good about eating: taste, social interaction, texture, experience, temperature, variety. Be right back, asking my girlfriend if she wants to sit and chug Soylent tonight instead of going out for Thai.
Its a boot loader, It runs while the system is in real mode (16bit), before windows itself has booted.
No one is intentionally obscuring anything. If you have a better idea of how to explain what we do, by all means, please tell me and I shall make it happen.

What happens is straight forward tho. Ghostery collects tracker data as you browse and sends it to us if you've allowed us to collect the data by enabling Ghostrank.

We take the data in, strip it of anything that may point it back to any user and sell it in packages to anyone interested in these reports. Heres what some of the reports purchased from us looks like: https://purplebox.ghostery.com/misc/trackermap/2.html or https://purplebox.ghostery.com/misc/trackermap/5.html
Heidi Roizen: The One Rule for Building Your Company Culture
You wrote all that and didn't even notice that Apple already has a streaming service that is larger than Spotify?

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/11/apple-itunes-radio-pa...
PCB creation has been extremely automated for a long time now. Between pick-and-place (around since the 1980s) and reflow soldering (auto-magic soldering), its safe to say that PCBs have been automated for the last 30 years at very least.

So yes, its impressive that modern pick-and-place is so fast, but really, it was a solved problem that has only become "more solved" as the years have passed.

In contrast, actual _assembly_ work is still very human based. The iPhone is famous for this. There are exceptions of course (the Sony Walkman was famous for being a purely automatic design from start to finish... the Tesla Car is mostly automated IIRC as well). But the typical products of the modern person (iPhones and Ford Cars) are still largely assembled in human assembly lines.
The assault charges notwithstanding (I don't really have an answer for that, other than "it was a long time ago", as per other comments), NWA is an interesting case. If you listen to 'Straight out of Compton', one of the defining albums in "gangster rap" as a genre, it paints a picture of LA which is like a dystopian future - where the world is blacks vs whites, people who live on the street vs cops, and where the options are kill or be killed. No matter how rough you had it growing up in the 70s and 80s LA, you would not have had it anything like 'Straight out of Compton" portrays. This kind of imagery in a film would not lead to lingering questions about the morality of the screenwriter or director, but it does for musicians.

In music we seem less able to separate the story from the artist than for other artistic mediums. Is it because many rappers maintain a public persona which is in line with that presented in the albums (even though it's not in line with the way they really are), or is it because music is still generally considered to be primarily about raw entertainment, rather than storytelling? It's interesting.
Which is largely because every person who has ordered Soylent can afford more than $3/meal.
Well we can't guarantee 100% fairness right?

You are right about the unconsciousness (yeah, I remember this from my psychology 101 class :) those famous prejudice experiments in the 40s, 50s).

My argument is once you are conscious of doing "I must hire more said gender, said race", you are sort of discriminating people who are believed to be minority. First, do they like to be called minority? Should they be given extra bonus point because they are minority?

Of course we can argue all day and make different situations when and when not to hire a minority over a majority, but let's not.

Granted, what makes one "more qualified" than another candidate. See [1]. This is an old post by Stripe's CTO. One of that is Sunday Test and the whole point is to see whether people like to work with the candidate.

X is super funny and X is as skillful as Y. But what makes people think Y can't have humor in his/her own way and isn't more productive than X? Data we gather from interview can only show some data. But that's where we stop because if we go full investigation we would spend a year to interview every candidate.

Unless we can completely hide our identity from interviewers... we will always be committing the unconscious bias.

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...
Brian Williams interviews Edward Snowden at 10PM EST
git does have very very bad binary asset management. It doesn't really work like svn/perforce in a logical tree structure and each commit has it's own hash and isn't necessarily ordered so there ends up being a _lot_ of copies of binary assets (git -unconfigured- will attempt to store deltas between changes but it can't do that with binary assets... and over time gets _very_ slow with large binary assets).

This isn't necessarily horrid for web apps as the images aren't big. But when you're talking about 500mb PSD files and massive massive 3d maya/max scenes it's horrid.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3055506/git-is-very-very-...
I think he was on assignment - that's why he consumed only Soylent for a week. It's just like the Forbes writer who forced herself to live only on BitCoin for a week. In her case, even though her first experience was uneven and a huge hassle, she eventually repeated her experiment, and found her experience was vastly improved. Unfortunately for Soylent, I think it's going to taste exactly the same in a year.
false dilemma.

nobody says you can't go out for Thai. but if you find yourself regularly scarfing down a Subway sandwich for lunch and losing an hour of time in the process, Soylent might be a healthier, more efficient alternative.
This is exactly the test you are looking for:

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/bayesian_ab_test.html

It can be drastically improved in the case of emails by building a Bayesian model tuned to email itself. Most people just blindly apply a testing procedure to their situation, but if you tune the test to your situation you can make do with a LOT fewer samples.
That looked like a college full of 30+ year olds.
Let's say we take every possible food (restaurant, home cooked, Soylent, etc.) and plot cost against benefit, where both of these data are an overall quantification of disutility and utility, so cost includes money and time spent, benefit includes health and pleasure, etc.

It's possible that, for some people, Soylent (and similar products) is the only place where benefit exceeds cost. Perhaps the only foods you enjoy are extremely unhealthy. Or perhaps you don't have the time or money to buy and prepare fresh food for yourself.
Its explained in many places, such as our website, our FAQ, our support board, all the store listings, and finally in the extension itself.

Ghostrank is not a tracking service of the user, its a way to measure the ecosystem of trackers in the webbernets.
I don't think he misses the appeal. In fact, he is quite clear in stating his understanding that one shouldn't necessarily consume Soylent for every single meal (or even more often than one would prefer). Unfortunately, he then immediately forgets that maxim and devotes the last 75% of the article to how unpleasant it would be to eat it for almost every meal. Asinine.
Given that Rhinehart has thus far forgotten iron and sulfur in various versions of the formula, I'd be scared of this particular future too.
I think it speaks to some other problem if people think eating is a hassle. Eating is super important to live, determines a lot of your health and most people here have missed that it is also a very important social interaction. Maybe this is the HN bubble but eating is not just about sustenance. Could you get someone who is not a workaholic tech employee to eat this willingly? Somehow I doubt it.
i have to imagine that if Soylent manages to scale up their business this is going to get much, much cheaper.
That's obviously true. What's your point?
Compared to what, the TV-dinner and fast-food revolution?
... brain damaged?
Postmortem from getting kicked out of college for hacking
The price will almost surely go down as the company streamlines processing and improves its supply chain. Economies of scale and the likelihood of future competition will make it even cheaper.
It sounds like the Soylent Revolution will be pleasurable.

If you have Soylent for one or two meals a day, then you'll really enjoy everything else. The mechanics of pleasure are well understood - you enjoy things more when you don't get them so often.

And it's cheap(ish), and apparently not too unhealthy.
I personally just don't like this concept that food is a "nuisance". Or healthy food rather. Food and meals are the one thing that brings people together and offers up conversation, laughter, and emotion. Food is something that a lot of people enjoy and look forward too.

Are we really supposed to just take soylent as a healthy alternative for sustenance so we can continue to work? Just buy a juicer and keep it natural then. But really, take the break and eat a meal with a human being. You've got one life. Live it.
Well, you are already using one of the best tools to keep your online footprint to a minimum, and it plainly asks you if you want to contribute data. This is an option and its off by default.
"actually Farthard was in my original lede, was wisely cut" - Farhad Manjoo, the author of the piece [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/471825996174217216
Except I'm never doing that, so I will never buy this product. I want to lose an hour eating because I can spend time with my friends or take a break or talk to people. Subway isn't that bad either, and is certainly more enjoyable to eat than Soylent.
Tons of people grab breakfast or lunch "on the go". It's not just workaholics. And for the 20 minutes some people get to talk over lunch, soylent would work just as well as a tub of yogurt and an apple.
People in developing nations can not-die for a lot less than $3/serving.
In Australia, a later retirement age is to be phased in. It will go from 65 to 70 by 2035.

Living longer and working longer.
Completely agreed. A lot of commenters on HN are completely missing the social function of eating.
It isn't just tech employees who are workaholics. Think about single moms working two jobs to stay afloat.
If I had to guess, it's Broadcom. While their merchant switching ASICs (Trident+, Trident2) have become good enough to displace most custom spun ASICs for 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps switching, their NIC hardware has long been somewhat of a disaster. Interesting to note is that Broadcom has basically sold the NIC business to QLogic: http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s832628
From the related video on that page: "if this was all we had to survive, then what would be the point of living"? That basically sums it up. I've ate field meals before in the Army and although they are okay too, I take the preparation of good food seriously. It's one of the relatively inexpensive luxuries of modern first world society. Taking the time to enjoy a meal gives my spirit a rise.

And honestly, when the world seems to be moving towards whole foods, organic meals, and avoiding processed foods, this seems to be going in the opposite direction. Not saying it has bad ingredients, but that the appearance of being processed will dissuade people.
Oh, come on. Mass starvation is really something of the past. And developing nations are not going to want something like that, the more traditional the culture, the more they value real food. Plus, with real food you actually force people to spend time on making vegetables and growing them, Soylent just makes you a consumer and nothing else.
Doesn't Ensure provide these same options? If so, is it fair to really call it a revolution, or it is just providing something like Ensure at a lower price point?
"I just had a 1 hour lecture and have a 2 hour lab class coming up. By hour 1 of that lab I'm going to be lightheaded. What do I eat?"

Currently the answer for me is subway on campus. It's not a good answer. The dilemma of "I need food right now" is severely understated in our current society, and probably a not insignificant causative of obesity (just about everything you can get quickly is terrible for you).
Wouldn't Soylent eventually add some flavouring to make it less utilitarian/boring? It's still the first version of the product and it seems that the author doesn't even consider the possibility that there would be variations of the powder for variety and different taste preferences in the future. Does anyone know if they ever stated anywhere that the taste won't change?
> Why Apple doesn't do streaming...

Uh, yes they do, quite well in fact:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/11/apple-itunes-radio-pa...

Already bigger than Spotify just six months after launch.
But he says that he didn't only consume Soylent for a week, that he still ate regular meals. And then went on to say that there were times when he drank Soylent he would have preferred a regular meal. It makes no sense, why not just drink Soylent when the lack of taste was less important than the efficiency? This would have been a fairer test. If by the end of the week the guy was no longer drinking Soylent for any meals, then I'd buy that Soylent was doomed, but that's not what the experiment was.
Juice is about one of the most unhealthy things you can have.

It's essentially pure sugar.
I have serious doubts that soylent will ever be a viable tool for this. It keeps getting brought up, but soylent is actually an extremely expensive way to feed poor people, and if they don't have access to clean water it's probably actually an expensive way to poison them, a-la baby formula [1].

Just because it's cheap for people in the first world doesn't mean it's cheap for people in the third world. It's really important to remember that.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scanda...
First of all, juiced fruits and vegetables don't provide most of the nutrients Soylent does.

Additionally, no one is saying that if I buy a bag of Soylent then I can never eat a pleasurable meal again. Why do people continue to use this "argument"? It doesn't logically follow from anything.
You wont stop the bitcoin mafia. Not worth trying.
Thank you, thats exactly what we do. =)
I think it's most likely they just didn't want to develop it anymore...

It would be so easy for the person(s) in question to just say that, though.

I don't know what to think.
Whereabouts in Aus are you?

I'm in a vaguely similar boat. Electronic Engineer, doing low-level software for the last decade, and now having to pivot to more web stuff, because there's little other work where I am. And yes, also in mid-thirties.

Might be interesting to talk f2f if you're local?
So you eat 3 communal meals/day 365 days/year? I doubt that. We're talking about replacing the meals people eat alone when they only care about eating something and minimizing the hassle of cooking.
Nice ad, dumb idea. One or both bottles will squirt coke out, and unless you were very lucky one would open but the other wouldn't - depending on which seal breaks first.

I'd also be surprised if you couldn't open a smooth coke bottle top, but that needs some research...
> And it's cheap(ish), and apparently not too unhealthy.

That's really too early to say.
I just don't think that saying Soylent lacks soul is constructive enough when Rhinehart says that it elevates the status of real food to leisure. If the future involves making life more "functional" then bring it on... its only dystopic once the soul gets eradicated.
> The rise of biological psychiatry and its focus on mental illnesses as ‘brain diseases’ had failed to remove the taint of moral and personal failing associated with the majority of psychiatric disorders. But here was a disorder that came packaged with a clear-cut cause that was obviously not the patient’s fault, and which set them in the sympathetic and dramatic light of victimhood.

Actually the original definition of PTSD was only supposed to apply to Vietnam veterans who came back from the war, realized what they had done was morally abhorrent, and were no longer able to function because of that realization. However the committee that wrote the DSM ended up stripping out the all the theory behind the disorder before publication. There is a summary of this here: http://www.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_03/feature_Histor...

Although the history of PTSD in Ethan Watters book Crazy Like Us is better written.
It was his job to do that for the trial period... he didn't choose to.
Can you elaborate what the command is? I would be really happy to learn about it. I know the complicate way to do it. Just want an easier way to do it, rather than multiple steps.

Here are the steps I know of to get rid of big blobs. Long and complicate. Is there a better way?

- Find out size of the big blobs and their HASH.
git verify-pack -v .git\objects\pack\pack-HASH.idx | sort -k3n

- Find out the name of a blob hash to verify the blob is the one to delete.
git ls-tree -r HEAD | grep HASH
git ls-tree -r COMMIT_HASH | grep HASH
git log --all --raw --no-abbrev | grep HASH

- Expire all working reflog now, and then prune deleted blob
git reflog expire --expire=all
git gc --prune=now

- Remove a blob.
git push -force
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached *.zip --ignore-unmatch ' HEAD
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached *.zip --ignore-unmatch ' --prune-empty -- --all
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove webapp.zip' <introduction-revision-sha1>..HEAD
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove webapp.zip' HASH..HEAD

- Clean up reflogs.
rm -Rf .git/refs/original
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --aggressive
git prune
> At least, that's what I've been telling myself.

You and me both...