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I love food and eating, but there are certainly meals where I'm hungry and want to eat something, but don't have the time/energy to make something nutritious and complete (lunch is often this way for me). If Soylent was cheaper/available in Canada, I'd be tempted to have some on hand for that.

As others in this thread have said - Soylent for breakfast and lunch but real food for dinner sounds pretty good, actually.
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I think it can return valid data, like empty sets or fake data. So apps shouldn't crash at all.
Compilation video of entrepreneurial advice from Musk et al
This article is built on top of many faulty assumptions...
Most notably,"When you’re second to market with a viable product, your customers will compare you to the company and product that got to market first."

This assumes that the entire market knows about a solution the moment a first mover comes to market.

The reality is that building a brand to the point where every prospect you approach is comparing you to an incumbent takes years.

The first couple years of a new market opportunity, even with dozens of competitors, there are enough prospects in the market that you can be first to market with the people you reach and your competitors will be first to market with a different segment of the market.

That being said, it is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL for every company to differentiate themselves in a way that they can't be compared to a competitor.

There are some nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout this post, but It is clearly built on one subjective individuals perception of things that are beyond our control to really grasp. (i.e. the surface is successful because of a massive ad budget. I would argue the surface is a new category by itself.)
Because if you look at the nutritional facts Ensure is no where near what Soylent is, nor is it designed to be. Not only is it missing the majority of the daily requirement percentages (partially or entirely), but of the 11% of your daily carbs that it does give you, literally half of that is sugar. Sugar.

Why you think Ensure is something you can live off of, is beyond me.
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Thanks for the advice, I currently don't have any dependants which is a plus.

Locally there are a few meetups for developers, I've gone to a few of their meetings. I'll make sure to ask around to see if they know of good recruiters to talk to.

There is almost no security scene in my area. That's why I wanted to ask on HN, since there seems to be a fair number of people on here that are in the security space.

My area is honestly pretty lacking in a good developer scene in general, which is one of the big reasons I want to get out. Thanks again for the words of encouragement and advice.
In case you don't know: http://diy.soylent.me/
This looks like an awesome update! More convenience, more production, more fat, more science!
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I rememebr hearing stories about how Zappos customer service would do things like this... The conversation went like this.

"Zappos, how can we help you."

"I'd like a large pizza."

"Um, you relize we sell shoes. It's also 2 am."

"Yes."

"Ah, ok. Please hold."

"Ok sir, we've found these locations that are open and have the type of pizza you'd like. Here are the numbers."

--

Magic is cool. There are some big scaling problems. They will probably not capture all the buzz the best they could.

Creating an on demand pool of virtual assistants + some machine learning to optimize the solution paths those VA's take so as to provide suggested solution routes for then to follow, ie for Pizza in SF at 2am, here are some options..

At some point most tasks become routine.

And yes, there already exist lots of va companies. Magic isn't surprising if you know about VAs, but many people apparnetly haven't read The 4 Hour Work Week.

A Universal API for all resources, labor, goods and services seems like a damn good product to build, perhaps magic can be that.

Otherwise, how can we begin to create a Universal Resource API?
That's not my point, what I was saying is that the two have completely different curves due to relying on completely different physical attributes.

A soccer player (or NBA player or many NFL positions, etc) is going to deteriorate steadily as they age after hitting some peak year. For some sports there'll be a slight bubble after that ast the intersection of athleticism decreasing and increasing wisdom but not for all. Sure, someone might endure a catastrophic injury and some players are made of glass (e.g. Greg Oden in the NBA) but generally players will wash out either when their athleticism is not high enough for their level or it deteriorates below the level necessary.

A baseball pitcher's curve is different. Their arm/shoulder will either be able to withstand the long term abuse or it won't and if it's the latter they'll wash out pretty early on (likely long before they ever see an MLB field). Once they clear that hurdle the actual deterioration rate is much slower in the general case. It also helps that pitching is a position where accumulated wisdom can really help, a lot like the quarterback in american football and that can help balance out declining athleticism as well
> I disagree entirely with this blanket statement. In fact, somewhere in this thread you'll find a university researcher speaking to how me eventually got everything open sources, and how certain funding is coming with open-source requirements.

When I say "reasonable" I mean commercially reasonable. There's a certain idealism about academia, which I don't subscribe to, but I'm not interested in arguing about it because it's subjective. What I'm talking about is how an investor or company seeking investment would view an offer in the market.

> There is no investor that invests money in to private enterprise and gets no return when that private enterprise profits.

At the same time, no sensible private enterprise takes investment for part of the cost of developing a product, then agrees to give up all rights in the product in return.

I agree the public should get some return when public funding results in patentable technology. But to say that such technology should be released free-and-clear is to say that the public, as investor, should get all the rights to a product just by paying for part of the development cost.
Speaking as someone who has done contest prep diets for bodybuilders and regular folk.... there is huge individual variation in metabolic rate, and the existing calculators out there are all garbage at judging metabolic expenditure.

the only accurate way to determine your caloric maintenance would be to track your food intake while you remain weight stable, and then substitute that with an isocaloric amount of soylent.

They seem to gloss over this and blanket recommend 2000 cals per day
I'm a stickler about this. Beyond answering the odd phone call or message, I have a hard time seeing it as anything but the company unfairly attempting to externalize costs onto their employees.

Just like you give me a work computer to do work related tasks on, the same should go for mobile devices.

My employer used to be rather liberal but recently started clamping down on security. They wanted us communicating in the company chat on our phones so we installed the chat app. But now with the security clamp down they want to set security requirements on anything that accesses potentially sensitive information, meaning they want to dictate the security policy used on our personal devices. I told them to go stuff it, if its a choice between no work stuff on my phone and letting them set the policy on my devices, I'll go without access to work stuff. I'm not going to play that game with you, yes I'm willing to be That Guy that takes a stand on this.

The real irony is that my security policy at home is more strict than the one at work, but they conflict somewhat and I'm not willing to reduce my home security to accommodate them.
I can tell you why, though I am very much against Soylent: convenience. My day is limited, such that I spend a significant portion of my free time cooking. If I had those 2 extra hours out of the 24 back, I feel I would be happeir and more productive. This is the same reason I wish I could get away with only sleeping 2-4 hours a day (I tried at one point to mess with sleep cycles; it was not fun).

Why not Soylent? Because it will kill you. It's pretty simple, I think. I am a big fan of Michael Pollan, and his main argument is that even nutritionists and doctors, people who dedicate thier lives to studying nutrition, can't answer lots of the more complex questions: "Eat carbs! No, wait, eat protein! No, eat whatever you want, just get enough vitamins! Fast! Eat constantly!" What are the chances that a single non-nutritionist got it right? I think exactly 0, and I'm not willing to prove that theory wrong using my own body.

Edit: ideal situation is where the human body naturally requires only 1-5 meals per week. Then I could easily see myself cooking a few gourmet meals. Alternative: be so filthy rich that you are either less busy or have a chef ready to cook for you any time of day.
> Everyone knows the "Web SQL Database W3C recommendation" document should be re-evaluated, better formulated and improved.

Everyone does not know this. Some people believe this, other people believe it should die in a fire. But whatever one things about the current state of the abandoned WebSQLDB spec, that is what WebSQLDB is, and you can't talk about -- honestly, at least -- it and pretend that it specifies SQL-92 as the required SQL dialect when, in fact, it specifies "the SQL dialect supported by SQLite 3.6.19".

You are essentially arguing that WebSQLDB should not have been abandoned based on the content of an imaginary WebSQLDB spec that never existed. If WebSQLDB had specified a (explicit, well-defined, use-case appropriate, single-user subset of) SQL-92 that would be different than what it actually specified, and the discussion would be different.
We will see how long io.js will be maintained and how quickly will slow down
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So use the right pronouns next time.

It takes time to get it right. Dismissing it because you're not welcomed unquestioningly as the savior indicates that you're not.

As I said, sure, we should be try to be nice, but being mean does not delegitimize the movement.
In my experience, the apps I've used don't crash. The biggest problem I've seen is me getting frustrated with an app for not working as advertised. Then I remember that I've enabled privacy guard and the app must not be getting some info it needs from the OS.
>It should be a woman.

Why? You explanation shows why women are perfectly valid candidates; they don't need a man. But why would a man be a bad choice? Why do they need a woman?
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this could potentially be a really cool alternative to a 'spinner' on initial load of an app.
There are two problems.

The first problem is political - firstly Apple make it so that you have to use the Webkit rendering engine for any third party browser.
The second problem is more technical - iOS has memory protection that means you can't take a writeable page and make it executable. This means that you can't (for example) JIT compile Javascript (or any other language). Their built in exception to this is Safari. This is why Safari is faster than webviews.
> But try to imagine what the name "Microsoft" must have sounded like -- it doesn't sound very ambitious. It sounds a little lame. If you planned to be the biggest company in the world, would you name your company "Microsoft"?

They certainly were no match for the ambitions of Intergalactic Digital Research.
Odds are very rarely described in any other terms than 1:X (i.e., only if X is a fractional number < 10).
There are a lot of people like this in the UK, not just in IT, the BBC, the media, even the government are full of them. They look like employees, quack like employees, but dodge PAYE. They are the problem, not a couple of billionaires with Swiss bank accounts.
Then you are missing the point of Soylent. Soylent is not made for pleasure. Soylent is made for easy, cheap nutrition. If that doesn't appeal to you, then it's not for you. Comparing Soylent to french cuisine is like comparing a white wall paint to the entire collection of the Louvre. Yes, a Rembrandt is much "nicer" than boring white paint but we still need white paint day-to-day.
You also now open a problem where women should not be speaking for men. Do we really want to enforce such a gendered nature onto our public discourse?
I think spending some time reading comments on Boston Globe articles will disabuse you of the notion that everyone is kidding.
Most interesting, though I would say "arguments" rather than evidence.
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Not everyone has enough time in the day to prepare meals such that they meet the recommended FDA guidelines. Just because I personally eat Soylent doesn't mean I can't enjoy a gathering with friends at a restaurant or eating a meal at home with my family. It's not all or nothing.
Are you saying that 70% of calories you consumed in the last 9 month came from Soylent? Are you sure about that? I'm mostly asking because it's well known that people underestimate how much food they eat, so unless you actually made food diary you are probably underestimating as well.

Aside for that, in what way was this a huge boon to your life?
The biggest problem always seems to be human intervention and the expectation of how much and where a human might intervene in any play.

In addition, there are global sliders which have some kind of effect on performance. Whether these are just offsetting player attributes or introducing some other factor I'm not sure.

My personal gripe with the latest offering is that recievers most of the time will make no serious effort to catch a ball. They are on-rails to a catch point and do little else.
You can jump in on OC valves off and nothing in your BC and sink like a stone...
There's only one formulation, but the Soylent team has stated that the total volume consumed per day should be based on individual needs (e.g. a petite 5' individual should be consuming less overall than a muscular 6' individual).

edit to add a source (many more are on the forums):

> Then, a bit before midnight, I got a pair of e-mails from two of the folks at Soylent, one from founder Rob Rhinehart and one from customer service vice president Julio Miles. "We encourage Soylent beta testers to decide how much Soylent they require in a day," he said. Rhinehart had a similar message. They both tell me that I don't have to actually eat the entire bag of Soylent.

From http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/ars-does-soylent-day-...
"Be very careful about where you're getting your information from."

I would encourage you to apply this nugget of gold to this post as well.

It is a mistake to dismiss an idea just because others are working on it. In fact, I would argue the opposite. It validates the idea and the market.
I think conflating privacy with quality/security is a bad idea... especially if you're trying to say MS is better a customer privacy than Google... http://rt.com/usa/yahoo-microsoft-campaign-political-862/ - just saying...
A lathe and drill press are all you need to make a gun, but I don't think that most people that own them do trade in guns.
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I know it's bad karma, but I really hope this was due to some kind of problem with their certificates...
I found the article great in forcing me to reconsider my goals in that space. I'd always had this belief that it was possible, eventually, to find the right idea and break through and become the next Microsoft / Google / Apple. The more I actually understand about the broader economic environment, and the more I read about the people in question who started these companies, the more it just looks like right-place-right-time luck.

The article puts that neatly in proper perspective. And that changes the personal self-actualization path calculus for me considerably. Targeting "building a rocket ship" as a goal doesn't make you any more likely to actually build a rocket ship than just starting a company in wherever you find your passion. Where you find your passion is, just due to the way humans are, more likely to be rocket-ship-worthy than any idea borne out of any rational brainstorming process aimed at producing one.
That's my pattern exactly, which I settled into very quickly. From what I understand from others, they had the same experience.
Here's one way to live on $1.70 per day if buying in bulk.

lentil: 180	g
rice: 180 g
banana: 120 g
olive oil: 20 g
egg: 112 g
milk: 99 g
dry roasted peanuts: 50 g

cost : $1.70
calories: 2000
carbs : 200 g
fats : 56 g
protein : 175 g

with macronutirent ratio, calories from = fat:protein:carb = 25%:35%:40%
That's true, but you also need a story about how you're going to grow your reach & influence faster than your competitor does. It can work, for example, if your main competitor is a hobbyist who doesn't take his product seriously. Ditto a major corporation for whom this is a sideshow that can't get resources from execs whose attention is focused elsewhere.

But anybody can spend more money to tell more people about their product. This is not a competitive differentiator; if you do it, and the company who got to market first does it, they'll win simply through Gambler's Ruin, since they start from a bigger base.
Out of curiosity, how much does it cost to feed a member of your family for a month?
What is unappreciated today, even by serious historians, is Henry's wisdom and foresight in separating from the authority and commands of Rome. That is from strategic point of view, as regards England's subsequent development vis-a-vis the mainland of Europe. It was a masterstroke, not to be equalled by the actions and strategic abilities of any subsequent kings or queens. It laid the foundations for the British Empire, which would have been quite impossible to create otherwise and at best would have ended up like the Spanish one.

Compared to this, the endlessly hyped story of how many wives he divorced pales into insignificance. I even think that they were just a useful means to him of justifying this break with Rome, which was his prior primary objective.
Thanks to Google and Android it's not anywhere near as bad as IE6. Apple is not 99% of the market and that is exactly what Android was designed to ensure.
> I'd rather the research be free and have it benefit society.

I do too, but the system of private corporations collecting all the profits of public investment is a twisted concept of "benefiting society". Benefiting society ought to mean that the profits of public investment get distributed among the taxpayers in an equitable manner, not just the 1%.

Not just by commercializing & marketing products, but actually paying an appropriate share of profits back to the government as you would an early stage investor. Or, conversely, making the products available at a proportionately lower cost, thus benefiting society in a manner proportionate to the risk of the taxpayer investment.
Wow, just like iOS.
And even if you believe it is a jab at the bleeding hearts of these total statists you are still left with only part of an AR15, while these total statists control the price of ammo (they probably don't). I reckon you could jab them better by dirt farming.
Tell that to people who died needlessly during a civil war thanks to the sabotaged communication system that NSA caused. I'm sure their death felt like a diplomatic problem, something people discuss between drinking port wine and eating walnuts on the embassy.

Attacking civil infrastructure of a foreign nation is not spying, especially if that nation has an ongoing war. If one uses the term spying like that, then the term spying has been extended beyond what can possible be reasonable. Just because someones intent is information extraction does not make it any less of an offensive military operation if the method used are offensive military in nature.
Anecdote: Two person household experimenting with meal plans (breakfast+dinner with leftovers for lunch) and our groceries cost about $400/mo. Personally, that number seems very high to me, but it could go down as we prioritize cost over following Recipes As Written. Cost was stable around $300/mo before, but with less varied meals.

Those two numbers translate into $50/person/week and $37.5/person/week.

I wanted to try out Soylent for a breakfast replacement, but was also turned off by the price. Edit: Also the delay! Wow, 4-5 months
I think that all goes without saying. They aren't forcing their users to consume 2000 calories a day.
"Directly" is practically meaningless when discussing cause and effect in a system as complex as the global climate. But there is ample evidence that arctic warming, for example, can profoundly alter circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere, which lead to extreme weather events in more temperate regions (http://skepticalscience.com/jetstream-guide.html). Personally, it's a lot easier for me to buy that the climate has altered than that I'm witnessing a true once-in-25000-years weather event.
Interesting find. Makes me once again wonder what other previously thought to be lost treasures are sitting, hidden from the general public, out there on private shelves or in private collections.
Is there just 1 WebRTC implementation? Do Google and Mozilla not have their own separate codebases?
If you exercise, eat more. If you are sedentary, eat less. But more to your point, that's really a criticism of the FDA guidelines, which recommends 2000 calories a day.
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The amount of snow is only half the story. It's also been very cold, way below freezing, so the snow is just not melting. If you get a foot on Wednesday and a foot on Friday, but it melts in between, that is much easier to deal with.
Not everyone experiences food as a "great pleasure". Food is fuel, and sometimes it's tasty fuel.
Whenever I get to berating myself for missed opportunities (probably biggest was turning town a job at FB in 2007) I try to also think of the right gambles I've avoided: turned town early positions at 2 failed search engines, turned down job at Yahoo in 2005, etc...

I find those smart choices don't come to mind as easily as the missed big opportunity choices, so I have to work to keep them in mind too.
What a ridiculously stereotypical Whiggish view of the English Reformation.
I use PeopleChow, slightly altered to be around 66% Oats and 33% Masa. I prefer the taste of the larger oat percentage, and in general i just like that i am using oats, given the (potential?) health benefits.

Furthermore, this mix really leaves my bloodsugar level feeling amazing. I really have to eat balanced meals, or i am left feeling woozy/shaky. I am left feeling almost entirely neutral after DIY Soylent (this specific variety of course).

If anything, the only downside of it for me is the neutralness. Sometimes i am left a bit bored. Quite funny considering i started doing this because i had terrible eating habits due to time restrictions, and now i complain about having to fill time that would otherwise be left with food preparation and consumption hah.

As a sidenote and unforeseen benefit of both DIY and Soylent - they make amazing road foods. When i am driving somewhere far away, i always mix up a bottle of my DIY. And i always bring a pouch of Official with me, for the way back (and random times when you might be stuck without food). Official Soylent plus a bottle of water and a blender bottle is a pretty nice meal in a pinch. Even if you don't want to eat the stuff regularly, i'd recommend it to anyway for road meals.
Wisdom and foresight or lust fueled selfishness?