skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soylent is approaching the 'meal replacement' as an outsider to an industry that is rife with subsidization, existing partnerships, preconceived notions, and vast mires of bureaucracy. They are dogfooding their product, iterating based on feedback, publishing their findings and recipes, and still this isn't good enough for the "disruptive" community of HackerNews.

The two biggest competitors in this realm according to these discussions seem to be Ensure, a product from a 127 year old publicly traded company (Abbott) with 90k employees and 40 billion in revenue, and Carnation Instant Breakfast, a product from a Swiss candy company with a laundry list of other products that don't give me a lot of faith that they have my health as their primary interest.

Soylent isn't perfect yet, but neither is our understanding of the human body. I'm glad to see them get infused with more cash that will allow them to add more expertise to their roster and shore up better distribution. I'm more at ease with Soylent and it's backing than I am with the current DIY movement, at least until things settle down.

I'm glad its an option. I'm even more glad that it's fostering the discussion.
the "office-first v. remote-first" debate brings to mind Conway's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"

So depending on the product, remote-first might actually be a pretty ideal setup. Or not. Very context-dependent
I get this in Firefox (I'm at work):

An error occurred during a connection to www.wordsapi.com.

The server rejected the handshake because the client downgraded to a lower TLS version than the server supports.

(Error code: ssl_error_inappropriate_fallback_alert)
Check out http://www.reamaze.com/developer/mobile
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After watching a few games on the stream it seems like most are seriously lacking in scouting, often not finding the enemy's base until the final battle.
Except "identity politics" aka inclusiveness are at the heart of their open governance model... Or did you miss the drama over their code of conduct; that they were going to one and how they solicited and followed advice from noted social justice advocates in drafting it.

It confuses me deeply that this fact could turn people off of the project regardless of its other practical and technical merits.
If you want to, yes.

If you don't, I feel sorry for whoever has to maintain your code.
Commenting code only works if other people who change the code also bother to change the comments
Be sure to let them know. The only way they can address situations like yours is if they are informed.
Eh, I haven't enjoyed the debugger in Xcode when using swift.

Unfortunately, many of us iOS developers work for clients. These projects are usually on timelines, and if writing the app entirely in Swift slows us down substantially, we will likely go with Obj-C.

Also, Obj-C isn't likely going anywhere.
Note to future readers: This is how we ended up training our new robot overlords wasn't it?
Agreed on excuse. But if the vendor doesn't have people already familiar it might be worth asking whether it's worth paying for them to learn it if you don't already have an existing codebase that requires it.

I've been working in Swift,t he language itself is nice, the tooling and community documentation is a bit rough. For example Cocoapods support for Swift pods is still prerelease and there are a lot of small differences coming from Objective C that can require a little research.

I wouldn't write safety-critical code in either language though.
Don't know if they have shipped anything major but the WWDC app was meant to be in Swift I think. You could probably tell if you get it in the debugger.
http://www.avaresearch.com/ava-main-website/files/2010040106... puts it on #3, after heart disease and cancer. So, it may be an exaggeration, but not a huge one and certainly not an inexcusable one. It is fairly common to remember that something is way more common (or way rarer) than one would think, and then overestimate the number when trying to produce it later.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis#Incidence_and_im... has more links, which I didn't read.
Two Ex-Googlers (Chan, Senkut) Reunite at Felicis Ventures
> The probable reason behind this is that most people programming in C wanting automatic memory management will use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector

The main reason behind it is this is not C.
If I remember correctly, 2014's WWDC app was written in Swift.
Yes. Go binaries are statically linked and thus portable[1] without dependencies.

[1]in the sense of being self-contained, not architecture-independent.
Great news! I'm personally looking forward to OpenBSD, but now that this is done I bet that will be a cinch.
I think its based on FDA allotments. I completely agree though that we're still in our scientific infancy of understanding what the body needs and how best to get it those resources.
what will you do with a pfSense VM on DO?
I'm wondering what the chances of any other BSD being supported are...? Dragonfly? Open? ...Net? :)

edit: after actually reading TFA, it seems unlikely. Well, it seems like Dragonfly is most likely, if any others.
That is because Google has technicians 24/7/365 at their data centers.
These don't seem like particularly new concerns to me, though. U.S. businesses have used 3rd parties to carry or store sensitive information for decades.

Do you worry that Verizon is listening to or recording all your phone calls? Or FedEx is opening and reading the documents you're overnighting around? Or that document storage companies are opening every box they store, in case there's something useful in there? How do you know Quickbooks isn't mining your bookkeeping data so they can sell leads to tax or collections firms?

And what about IAAS and PAAS companies like AWS, Google Compute, or even hosting companies like Rackspace or Softlayer, who typically have root access to every machine they manage? How many companies--even big companies--own all their servers and the buildings they are in?

Ultimately, our economy is based on specialization and carefully constructed relationships of mutual obligation. Contracts have to mean something or there's not much business going to get done.
So what makes Reamaze better than, say, Zendesk or Helpscout? Looks like they have the same features that you do
Working on it - www.somewhere.com - but they have a huge lead. As a networking tool that nobody likes but everybody uses, that's quite some lunch :~/
If that were true, there would be no such thing as Jury Nullification. As long as the concept both exists and is valid, a defense that argues the law itself is in fact a completely valid defense.
He linked to another essay of his: http://blog.samaltman.com/growth-and-government
> Why would you want to place the server in the center?

Because for arbitrage you need to know the price in both area's before you can react. If its instantaneous at the collocated site and 5ms to get to your other machine, you need to wait 5ms to act and then add about the same time back on to send your order to the further location.

If your machine is in the middle then you only need to wait 2.5ms to act and then add about 2.5 ms to send your orders.

This type of arbitrage is much easier if all orders originate from one machine( as opposed to each collocated machine sending its piece of the stat arb order.

If you have 2 machines sending their own parts of the arb order then you have to sync them if one fails to get its side of hte order, and hence more latency.

EDIT in case I wasn't clear, the benefit is having one machine do the arb instead of two machines sending simultaneous orders. This way the two machines don't need to sync up to determine if one leg was done and one leg was hung. All the information is in the same program on the same machine so there is no distributed state to reconcile.
Has anyone tried it? Is it an open source or commercial product? Can't find enough information... Can anyone help?
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It's only a problem if unreasonable, excessive and unwarranted violence is used by the law enforcers. They should use every available indicator of crime in order to focus on problem areas. The alternative means that we're willingly sacrificing safety, peace and security in order to not offend, and that I find absolutely distasteful and negligent.

Of course, 100% innocent until proven guilty; I'm not saying we should convict/target people without merit based purely off of race/age/obesity/hair color.
Currently Go only statically links libraries. I thought I read in one of the roadmaps that they want to do dynamic linking down the line but I cannot seem to find that source anymore.
At least in the early days of Google+, the internal instance was really great. I don't work there anymore so I don't know if it is any more. But people would post about stuff they're working on, questions they have, frustrations, etc. I thought it was super useful. Much more useful than external Google+ has ever been...
wow…so interstellar wars/conflicts for resources is really not that far off…time to start playing starcraft to train for the future :)
"If I had to take a company public, I’d love to only have my shares priced and traded once every month of quarter."

sorry, that's a bit non-sensical. The enormous uncertainty associated with lack of transparent pricing would lower both private and public market equity valuations. We want prices to be as transparent as possible
This isn't once off. This is people who think that's how your supposed to use the internet.
Maybe not, but it might eat into a lot of document/collaboration platforms.
check this blog - http://databasearchitects.blogspot.de/2014/05/trying-out-hyp...
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While his example of the flight sim might be an extreme, I'd agree that many genres have been oversimplified. One incredibly disappointing example that comes to mind is the X-Com series.
They have a bunch of stuff that was "planned" for Q1 2014 (separate hardware for master/slave setups) that aren't even close to shipping. Pretty frustrating. I like Digital Ocean and I use them in production for some apps but it's very hard to take their techops team seriously when they are missing deadlines by 12-18 months or more without regular updates. It's pretty unprofessional.
HackerNews

Reddit: Programming Multireddit, bitcoin, hiphopheads. I try to stay away from regular news and joke subreddits.

Github

stackoverflow

youtube

pandora

spotify
Just created a droplet and sadly, it is 10.1 amd64 only. Won't be very useful on low-memory VMs. I hope they add i386 too.

EDIT: Anyone cares to explain downvotes?
This. 1000 times this. It's not even about automated diagnosis. The software used by most radiologists is more than two decades behind the state of the art, lacking even basic image registration and segmentation capabilities. (source: I've worked with radiologists who review brain images at several tier-one, top-10 hospitals).

If you are lucky, some eager, tech-savvy resident will use 3D Slicer or OsiriX on their personal laptop to coregister and segment images, and do longitudinal volumetric comparison. But those basic tools are not available on the platforms used to read most images.

Major vendors are trying to catch up, but from what I've seen, demand (and thus willingness to invest) is surprisingly limited.
Having written android apps and never having written an ObjC app, swift was a combination of confusion, aha moments, and wtfs. In particular, not so much the language itself, the lack of any kind of well supported and well used package management is rather lame. I don't know if this is something I should expect as I haven't worked with ObjC but coming from python and java land I don't really like submoduling in my dependencies and wiring all of them into the build system via the GUI.
If you take requests?

After reading the tut on HN the day before on how to be your own vpn provider with openbsd [1] I started to search for a tutorial that was either openbsd or freebsd with softether without much luck. I was about to do an instance of debian & softether.

Perhaps my comment would be better served in another way. I'm new at this and have no idea what I'm doing. :)
How can I go about from setting a vpn server with a webpage for paying customers?

I'm looking at it more like a learning experience than to make it into a business, but if it works great. Could you or someone point me into the right direction into what needs to be read for each step of the way? I have very little linux experience, non in bsd and a little in python.

Thanks in advance.

[1] http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/
The problem with AngularJS can be summarised thus:

"Its marketing and documentation does not correct those who believe it is suitable for web-applications more complex than simple CRUD apps."

As soon as you have an application where you have to reason about the events ocurring in your page, with AngularJS you're lost. Note that CRUD apps are a sizeable proportion if not the majority of applications, so it's brilliant for a massive number of applications.

But for anything more complicated, you're on a knife-edge of performance-problems and ballooning accidental complexity.
>" As I said, everything I've seen from Soilent indicates to me their just brushing aside warnings from real nutritionists."

Real nutritionists?
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman

Soylent provides a means by which we can gain a greater understanding of nutrition. It is, in a very controlled form, an experiment. and Rob's blog posts on his own early usage of Soylent have indicated just that. I'm not sure why you are so vehemently against this, but your posts are full of logical fallacies including many ad hominem attacks at a person you seem to know relatively little about. You can disagree without resorting to such petty and embarrassing tactics.
My problem with a company vacation:

The people I work with are not my friends. I despise most of them. This is true for every place I've worked. It's probably true for most people here. You don't chose your co-workers. And now you're forcing me to take my vacation with these people, who I put up with every day at work.

You may be puzzled reading this. "But my company is like a family." Some companies are really like this; everyone's your friend. But if every company was like this, we wouldn't have shows like "The Office."

It's also hard to expect everyone to go on a vacation. What if your kid has to go to school? What if your spouse has a job, and has to stay home. Can you ask people to leave their family behind for a week so they can bond with their co-workers?

Then you might say "fine, just make the vacation optional." You won't be fired for not going, but when it's time for performance reviews, who's gonna have "not a team player" on their report? The one person who didn't attend.

But you make a point. We're people. We need contact. My solution? Work at a co-working space a few times a week. Work out of a library or cafe every so often. And get everyone on your team to use video conferencing.

And if your team lives in a close vicinity, it's totally reasonable to schedule some day trips.
Was Wave even a social network? I vaguely remember it being more like a real-time Google Docs before Google Docs went realtime.
I'm not big on the time and commitment it takes to prepare some meals, so I instead opt for the "easy" option of grabbing whatever is in a bag that I can shove in my face hole.

This generally results in me pooping out a product that was subsidized heavily by Big Corn that is not digested, a bunch of preservatives and additives that benefit the storage of, not the digestion of food, and other crap that I'd rather not think about.

Some people just don't think eating is...interesting?
I knew that orangeade in Greek is "portokalada" but i'd never made the connection!
I couldn't find any information on persistence and crash recovery for this thing... is it able to beat Volt because it doesn't write to disk?
What an incredibly naive view of the world.

As others have pointed out, reducing education to "moar money!" is simplistic.

Reforming immigration only seems good at lowering employer costs. Are there any studies that show it would help growth? Maybe we should instead focus our efforts on helping the unemployed and underemployed already in the US get training and jobs.

Cheaper Bay Area housing only helps people in the Bay Area. There's a whole lot more to the United States. Wouldn't a better policy be to try to make it so businesses in Detroit, or Buffalo or any other dying city can be as successful as those in Silicon Valley?

Reducing regulation: the old cry of business owners everywhere. Regulation can be good. Sam uses the example of drug companies, and yes, bringing new drugs to market is expensive. But the consequences of screwing up or literally deadly. See the example of Vioxx. Isn't one of the rallying cry of hackers right now Net Neutrality? How do we think that's going to be accomplished outside of regulation? Isn't the lack of regulation (not calling broadband Title II) what got us into this mess?
XCode tooling support is limited in some areas but definitely production ready. LinkedIn's new SlideShare app is written completely in Swift:
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/02/slideshare-app-built-in-swif...
Here's a simple thing: I want to SMS a friend. I type in their name in my Hangouts OSX app. It brings up their GTalk interface. No. I want to SMS. In iOS texting or Android texting, all I need to do is search the name (obviously) to call/SMS. In Hangouts I need to know the person's number, so what I do is open the Google Voice app (which is deprecated), search their name, copy/paste their number into Hangouts, and SMS them. Ridiculous.

EDIT: Also, the OSX Hangouts app crashes about every 2 hours with no error message. This is a "known issue" of varying types on Google's site, but customer service with them, well, you know how that is.
I believe production was also halted due to an issue with gas? Too many people complained so they refactored the recipe.
This is correct, but i still want to try a soft drink made with currants!
Yes, it's production ready, but the quirks in tools are significant hindrance to productivity. I would estimate 1.2 ~ 1.5x longer to get it written in Swift.
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"Aside from the obvious and well-documented economic benefits (for high-skilled workers especially, but for immigration more generally), it’s a matter of justice—I don’t think I deserve special rights because I happened to be born here, and I think it’s unfair to discriminate on country of birth."

I'm going to leave aside the issue of high-skilled immigration for moment and talk about Sam's addendum of "immigration more generally."

Low-skilled immigrants from Africa and Latin America have not yet shown evidence of assimilating into the American mainstream. Income and educational attainment is still much lower, the communities are still segregated, etc.

So there are two possibilities:

Possibility 1) It will be just a matter of time before they assimilate, just as it took time for the Irish or Italians to assimilate.

Possibility 2) For a variety of reasons, assimilation across racial lines is much more difficult. It is even more so when there is a fluid border with Mexico, and the U.S. no longer does the same sort of cultural imperialism it did in the early 1900's in order to assimilate immigrants. Thus long term, assimilation will not occur. Long term, the U.S. will end up looking a lot like Brazil, with a white overclass, a brown helot class, and a black underclass. Technology growth will slow as it becomes low status for the educated white overclass to do real work. Political corruption will grow as voters will vote as tribal blocks, and votes are determined by buying the votes, rather than making good policies for the nation.

I don't want to get into an argument about whether 1) or 2) is more likely. But I will argue that there is at least a 5% chance that 2) is true. If 2) is true, it would fundamentally change the character of the U.S. in a very negative way.

If we slow down immigration, and 1) turns out to be right, then we can always let more immigrants in later. If we accelerate immigration, and 2) turns out to be true, it cannot be undone. Not ever. Thus even if there is a 5% chance that 2) is right, it makes sense to slow down third-world immigration, until we can prove that assimilation will occur.
smart pointers are better than GC or do it yourself imo.

smart pointers and RAII allow me to explicitly model ownership and lifetime in a non imperative way. In addition, I am not subject to arbitrary GC runs with non deterministic amounts of work to do. Instead, objects simply go away as they are no longer needed in a completely deterministic way.
>Auctioning off work visas is pretty easy.

It certainly is. That's not the point.

>The US Govt takes $10k extra from their paycheck in taxes every year for 3 years. Solving your Dubai problems is pretty easy.

The Dubai problem is that the workers are forced to take a loan in order to work. Your idea does not solve it, it creates it.

>If India is really worried about people leaving after getting educated, they can restrict emigration like the GDR, Soviet Union and North Korea.

That worked out wonderfully for those countries, didn't it?

>Of course, there are bigger problems we should worry about. I was educated in NJ but then immigrated to NY. Maybe NY also needs to restrict immigration from the B&T crowd, solely for the benefit of NJ, of course?

Depends if NY decides to secede from the union. Do you think that's likely? Or do you think that citizens of both states will continue to pay taxes to the same IRS and be governed by the same federal legislature?

Hey, maybe the US should merge and become an Indian state to allow for unbridled immigration. How would you feel about following their laws and paying taxes to Delhi?
Wait, does he actually run a medical firm that is licensed to use the MRI machine, or did he just buy one outright? I was told that people couldn't just buy one, you had to represent some kind of medical entity to be able to purchase one.
Peter Boncz is involved in some capacity, he told me last time we talked. I believe Peter is the senior academic from the VectorWise project, and second most senior generally in the MonetDB gang after Martin Kersten.
only got a draw by this method
Project Ara's next prototype will stand equal to a top-tier smartphone
I wonder what performance would be like for multimedia applications or gaming (which are usually written in strongly-typed, compiled langs like C++).
Important control mechanisms for walking identified
Depending on demand, adding other BSD variants is certainly a possibility. We had to start somewhere, and the FreeBSD community has been very vocal about wanting to see this happen. This is the first non-Linux OS we've decided to support, so we're excited to get feedback on it.
There is something productive about some of the negativity, but ultimately I end up feeling like some sort of fanboy when I start correcting some of the inaccuracies.

We should hold companies to higher standards; they don't pay us to be their PR team. But in the case of some of the negativity regarding Soylent, it feels more like jealously than genuine concern.
I think the takeaway from this is that remote is harder than folks make it sound. Not just anybody can do it. Running a company that is fully remote is even more difficult especially when you're trying to establish things like a coherent company culture. Big remote-work fan but it should be clear to everyone that Colocating everyone to a physical space definitely has its benefits, especially when you're starting out.
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