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Will shortly be starting at a new company where I get to do things with OpenPOWER. I've never even touched a POWER architecture system apart from the occasional PowerPC Mac, so this will be an interesting learning experience for me.
I like it. It's the sound a descending mob of angry chickens might make.
The announcement: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/12/178
I have very limited knowledge of this situation, but, I'm gonna pile on anyway:

With that kind of money raised, the founders didn't get "nothing". They got a salary, probably a decent one, for however long they were running the thing. Which is more than many startup founders get out of businesses that fail. If they don't have personal debt, or didn't lose relationships or friendships, they came out ahead of many startup founders who started a business that failed.

They raised more money than the business was worth. I don't blame them for doing so; many people have done it, and no amount of seeing other people make that mistake will necessarily prepare a founder to turn down several million dollars of extra runway to try for the big exit. But, it sounds like there is simply less money on the table than there are people wanting that money (and that have contractual rights to it).

Given the interests of GetSatisfaction were always misaligned with the interests of their customers (i.e. the business model was effectively a shakedown, in the same vein as Yelp), it shouldn't be surprising that eventually their dreams didn't align with the reality of how many people wanted to pay for it. No matter how good the product is, if you have to extort people to buy it, you're not building a sustainable business.

I'm all for ranting about VCs being assholes, because sometimes they are. But, as far as I can tell, that's not the case here. Founders made some bad calls, probably some other people did, too. The business failed. It happens. If I were them, I'd take this as a valuable lesson...and probably wouldn't burn bridges with the people who invested in me in the past, because history indicates they'll be the same people to invest in me in the future (a failed business is not a death sentence in the valley, and many investors have invested in the same team for multiple businesses).
It's going to be highly location/talent dependent, but from a quick glance at salary sites, NY,NY seems to pay about 20% more than the area I'm used to. Thus, I could see a reasonable salary of $150k at the Senior (10-12 year level.) Obviously, there are specialties where you could do much better.

That's a high salary at 24, so you will either grow significantly, or you'll see that level out quickly.
Thanks for the post-

It would be interesting to see some more detailed N=1 studies posted regarding Soylent. In particular, I'd be very interested in seeing a blood lipid profile, blood pressure readings, and blood glucose readings before and after to see its effects on key markers for metabolic syndrome.

I'm not opposed to the idea of engineered food (it would certainly be convenient), but I'm not convinced that the same macronutrient profile is ideal for everyone. My other big concern is that there's potential harm in the lack of diversity - e.g. "unknown unknowns" so to speak.

Unfortunately, the field of nutrition is not very WELL studied despite the high NUMBER of studies published, so I won't pretend that I have a better answer than Soylent to the problem with nutrition in society. It's good to see that people are at least working on the problem in creative ways, so long as they aren't harming anyone.
Aligns reasonably well with my (short) experience. I got a bag from a friend and ate a jar of Soylent every morning for breakfast for about a week. It was in fact pretty great: I'd pour out N calories, where N was how much I figured I'd need to eat to get to $nextmeal, and then I'd drink it and be on my way. The stuff has really nice properties as far as hunger goes, too; it has neither the lead-brick problem that I get from things like chicken and dumplings nor the gone-in-fifteen-minutes problem that I have with fried rice. I generally ate as much as I wanted and felt perfectly full until right when I'd expected to be having lunch or dinner.

To answer the people who think it can't possibly be healthy, honestly, I don't have time to fix most of my diet. I can put in all the time I want to make sure my dinners are perfect, and I generally do, but I'm too rushed in the morning to have anything other than cereal. And I have to have lunch out so that's impossible to get right. Even if Soylent doesn't have "the proper carb-fat ratio" or something, it's better than what I have right now.

So, summary, I have some on order and the rest of you can say "I told you so" if I get cancer in thirty years. Given what some other people survive on I doubt you'll get the opportunity.
Nobody said to dump it out a pipe at one single point. Spread it out leaky pipe style over a large volume of ocean so that the average salt concentration does not significantly rise.
I was not making fun about people drinking soft drinks.
My point is that sweet drinks are unhealthy, no matter witch kind of sweetener they use. For me, the fact that there's people that ONLY drink soft-drinks (including fruit juices) is quite shocking.
But anyway, seeing the amount of downvotes I got, I guess I touched some kind if american social tabu.
This is great! D3 is really powerful but it's kind of a pain to compose on-the-fly.

Feature request: It would be cool to use the same viewport settings to plot arrays of points instead of functions, so that it could be integrated with something like an iPython notebook.
For the little or lot it's worth, filming and photographing police activity in public is rather strongly protected in the U.S., whereas the Gag Law sets fines of €30,000 for doing so.

It may be the last bastion of true freedom in a Free Speech Zone world, but it's no minor difference.
Which service do you subscribe to, if you don't mind my asking?
As an employee your intuition is largely correct. You can expect to max out at about 2x of that (inflation adjusted). The way to make dramatically more than that is to be compensated as part of the revenue stream of a business in some way, and then to increase the amount of revenue that is funneled into that business.

Owning your own business is the simplest example of this but other options are available. Startups model this via equity, finance typically does this via bonus payouts, and consulting does this via bill rate.

Usually this comes with an increased level of risk or less guaranteed income. It would not be surprising to move from one mode of compensation to another many times in your career.
I definitely misread this as suggesting.we would all become monks and philosophers, rather than focusing on how others perceive us.
Throwaway account for the purposes of workplace anonymity. I just wanted to add an anecdotal data point.

I am also a mid-20s year old living in NYC working in tech, although not for a large company. My cash compensation is currently around $200k/year, salary + bonus. I also have some options which may or may not ever be worth anything. I would parrot what a3voices said, and say that I probably got to where I am by having a slightly-more scarce specialty in tech, and also by being one of the people with a full grasp of the company stack.
I sympathize greatly - I too have felt the squeeze, and if it weren't my good fortune landing in software engineering, I would be still depressed over the debt from undergrad + grad school, along with the immense credit card debt my parents left me to go with homelessness. I once wondered how I was going to pay back what likely will end up being $250k-300k - even still, I end up surrounded by many people here in the Valley who don't understand how fortunate they are in comparison.
Well 50% mouth and 50% anus, sometimes its hard to tell which half you're talking to though.
I think of cooking like I think of sex: it's best when you use a variety of methods/ingredients, and when you share it with someone.
The problem I have with statements like this is that it gives no context for what 'not healthy' actually means (and, by extension, what a 'perfectly healthy' diet is).

For example, I often don't hit 3 of the 5 recommended fruit/veg in a day and I consume far too many fatty foods. Over an extended time frame this will probably cause me to become overweight and deficient in vitamins. Given this, it'd be useful to know what the advantages and disadvantages of soylent would be in my current situation.

Do you have a link to the studies? They presumably give more information about their benchmarking.
Makes sense - but I guess I would have to ask why not try Soylent then? Soylent is basically the the oatmeal smoothie you're describing except nutritionally complete, so why not just do that? Why make your own that is less healthy and complete? It almost certainly can't be cheaper.
Considering many people on this HN are, well, hackers, and can spend a ton of time coding, optimizing, etc... often even evangelizing coding for everyday people, I feel like this is the lazy answer.

Which is fine; there's nothing inherently wrong with being lazy or ignorant about cooking. But evangelism about Soylent freeing up ones time is silly, all things considered. It's not for everyone, it's not for families, it's not even formulated for women, the elderly, children, or generally for people with nutritional needs that deviate from those of a 30 year old male. It's for the lazy dude who doesn't want to cook.
Source? I know they recently changed it for digestibility purposes, but most of the DIY projects and the older versions of Soylent were an exact match to what the health authority recommends if I recall correctly.
The site’s down, so for now here’s a backup from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325121339/http://www.newsta...
Correction: Division by arbitrary integer valued variables are the slowest integer operations.

You can accomplish division by a constant / modulus by a constant without a full division, however. For example, (x == x % 256 - x * 256), mod 257. That sort of thing.
The domain name could have been hijacked, yes. The whole sales page and the "Vision Phreak" setup seens like a one-man operation so far though. (E.g. the facebook group has over 10k members but it seems like the owner just added them all by himself). And their Google+ profile is all about "phreaking" and posts from wannabe hackers.

So yeah, not sure about Huthos but Vision Phreak is definitely shady.
This isn't a "founders got screwed" story, it's the story of most failed startups. Usually the founders don't burn their bridges though.
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Maybe "college level athlete" means something different than what I think, but I have a hard time squaring that with 1200 calories a day. I might be overestimating, but when I think "hard exercise", I think of Royal Marines etc, that generally target at least 3000 calories a day. I get that you need to eat less if your goal is to loose weight -- but I can't understand how anyone can be active on that few calories. Good for him it works, though.
Awesome, is it written in TI-BASIC?
Yes we have a budget.

When I refer to our 'struggle', it's not so much financial (we live within our means - modest vehicles and a small-ish apartment in the suburbs), but rather the mental and physical toll of working a full week, plus school and studying, cooking, cleaning, etc...

We're actually better off financially than a lot of people, for instance we could start a modest small business, however to ensure a 'stable' future (ie. buy a house, raise a family, etc...) in the city were we currently live we'd need either more capital or more skills/education.
In addition to the difficulty of measuring the cost of losing an entire species forever, as others have pointed out, the question is really do we want this to be an actual functioning river? The more sensitive species are indicators that something has been fundamental changed in the ecosystem.
SQLite4 is being designed as a key-value alternative to SQLite3[1]. SQLite3 and SQLite4 are meant for different use-cases and are expected to co-exist. Unfortunately, SQLite4 hasn't yet been released, but wanted to let you know that the SQLite developers are actively working on addressing the need for an embedded key-value store with SQLite4.

[1] https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki
Not to disagree with the poster, but I do want to point out the obvious fact that there are many different ways to consume Soylent. Most days, I skip breakfast, have a relatively healthy lunch (often socially with colleagues), and then drink Soylent as a filling and healthy (and relatively low-calorie) dinner, while my wife and kids eat normal food. I also love adding cinnamon, cocoa powder, or (as a special treat) PB2.

To each their own.
Thirty years ago, when computers were not part of so many people's lives, it made sense. I remember what a big deal the graphic tree was in MS DOS 5.0. More recently, it has been hard to overcome 20+ years of GUI habits. WYSWG hampers our conceptual models.
Investors don't inherently get screwed in the process of a quick flip if they have common shares. It means the investor is directly aligned with the founders, and makes it harder for the investor to get a return at the expense of the founders.

Investor puts in $1m for 20%.

Founders quick flip for $30m. The investor just made six times his money, and earned a payout fully aligned with the founders. Absolutely nobody got screwed.

The reason investors like liquidation preferences, is so they can improve their odds of getting their money back at least (and yielding the first dollars of return). They aren't aligning their interests with the founders in this case, they're putting their interests in front of the founders, just as debt does. Liquidation preferences are a way of saying: my equity is more important than your equity; you need my money, so I'm going to make sure my money is treated with more importance than your equity.

Liquidation preferences exist solely to protect investors from their own poor choices at the expense of the founders / earlier shareholders.
Because you can use Dropbox as a raw storage system by encrypting stuff on the client ?
There are a lot of really good ones in that same style, but I agree that Gar1t has to be some of the best.

I'm particularly fond of this one:
"I would like a job as a software develeloper" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJ8aaCgYN0

and
"C++ Programmer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1TsOHyJPpw
Same! I love cooking and I absolutely love food. It feels like a disgrace to me that some people would exchange actual food for some gray mud, but I guess that to each his own.
True, and not everyone will want to dig up and move to Idaho. Established roots, friends, etc. There is more to "home" than just the walls in which you sleep.
It's about time someone said this so well.
No, my home definitely exists in Zillow. That was one of the first things I checked when we started looking at it.

What all resources do you use in the code? I run with NoScript and Ghostery and AdBlockerEdge, among other things so it's possible you're trying to load a library that is being prohibited on my end.

But that doesn't explain the problems in MobileSafari on my iPad. ;(
I didn't notice that, thanks :)
The "C++ Library" link on http://leveldb.org/ points at Google's LevelDB, so yes.
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More recent thread:

http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/list/2015-April/008610.ht...
http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/list/2015-April/008611.ht...
http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/list/2015-April/008614.ht...

I'm a co-author on the mentioned paper, and the author of the second post. Edit: and author of the linked blog post above.
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I really pity the author. He's lost the ability to enjoy a book and throws a fit when typesetting is flawed. A sure path to disappointment and unhappiness is to demand only "the best" in everything. He should just learn to read his books as they are.
Oh, I think we all embrace some form of "gray mud" at times. Sometimes a smoothie, sometimes a diet coke and some peanut butter and jelly on toast, things that are quick and get me going in the day. Or people that do fasts, or weight loss mixes, or some of the crud I eat while on long bike rides (power bars, cliff bars, supplements in water bottles, etc).

I think giving up all food for something like Soylent is a bit silly, but at the same time, we do all make different sacrifices at times.
Phoronix article covering new features/improvements in 4.0:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0...
No, there isn't.

The pf in FreeBSD has forked away.

The much ranted about "performance improvement" in OpenBSD's pf isn't an issue on FreeBSD.

http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/list/2015-April/008611.ht...
I am not a cryptographer is there any already implemented system that can do something similar to this with multi-part-keys to unlock a vault?
Just reading that gives me that reassuring, confident advertising announcer's voice in my head.
On the contrary, I think this just goes to show how challenging it is to build a business that is 100% defensible, and doesn't rely on another platform/company.

Building an app? OK, better hope it doesn't violate Apple's TOS.
Building a consumer website? OK, better hope Google's next update doesn't affect you negatively.
Building a Buffer competitor? OK, better hope Twitter doesn't ban you from their API
that'd be great, you can open an issue here if you want https://github.com/maurizzzio/function-plot/issues, thanks for the feedback
I wonder how Soylent's uptake would differ if they were pitching it as a quick occasional meal alternative.

Everything I've ever seen about Soylent is along the lines of "now you can eat nothing but Soylent!", which, for how much of the world enjoys both cooking and eating, seems like a tough pitch, except for a very, very small niche that, I guess, doesn't actually get any visceral pleasure from food.
- Intel Xeon provides the best performance.

- Power consumption of Intel systems at off, idle and full power states are less then of ARM64 and POWER8 ones

- ARM 64-bit and Power 8 are currently providing a significantly lower performance / Watt than Intel

Damn.
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Little bit disappointed by the POWER8 data. I guess it would start paying bigger dividends in scale up systems, but the power and thermals are a little shocking - I think there may need to be some tuning and AFAICT Linux may not be running on bare metal.

Same for ARM, but I guess the sweet spot there is scale out.

Intel has been putting out amazing chips since Haswell.

We need the others to do well to keep them honest and innovative.
people do not care and they will not care you may be right, but you are painting with an immensely broad brush. you care. i care. i bet many care. does that mean anything? time will tell. ...nothing is being done about NSA, Gubniment corruption, torture allegations, etc Jeez. What did you expect, a revolution? This country of mine [ours?] was built to do things slowly. The original idea was to make it hard for the central government to do things quickly, thereby weakening its power. It may have worked for a while, but it also severely handicapped anyone in the government to stand up to banking and commercial interests [there are some in the government, past and present, who legitimately care about people and earnestly try to do the right thing]. things take time. understand, i have said, verbatim, everything you stated more than once in many different situations. i agree, but i guess seeing it in writing from another person rustled some optimistic feathers i had not known i had. a personal story, so take it with a grain of salt: someone i know, very personally, works for no such agency. at the time of the Snowden Revelations, they were obviously mum. to date, they have said nothing about it, but i have watched the bags under the eyes deepen, the gray hairs multiply, the demeanor sag. Does this mean anything to anyone, does it mean there is hope? who knows such things. i encourage you to consider two things: 1) wedding bands serve the very important function of reminding a person what they already know; the effort is the point. the building is the amalgam of the bricks put into it. 2) no one changes their mind during an argument; it is only after silent and solitary consideration that a person's mind changes.
Big relative to our tech. How long ago was it that we thought Earth-like planets were extremely rare? 20 years? 10?
OpenBSD dev spams us to buy his book, attend his tutorial on pf at BSDcan, and buy OpenBSD CD-ROM sets.

Why is this on HN? Why not a link to the original announcement?
Tesla's battery technology arguably represents a paradigm shift in how batteries work. At least, they reportedly re-envisioned it from first principles. Tesla has chosen to keep this technology proprietary and make lots of money off of it rather than publish it, but it's not unlikely that it represents some serious original research.

How much of that is done by Musk himself is debatable. One of my pet peeves about the Musk fan-club is that he tends to partner with some very brilliant engineers and then get all the credit for the work they do. However, people high up in his companies (more than one of them) have said that he involves himself very extensively in discovering the technology itself, and his bachelors and the first couple years of his Ph.D were both in physics, so it seems likely that he does at least know the science behind what his companies do.
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"I'm not convinced that the same macronutrient profile is ideal for everyone. "

Yeah, this is my big problem with all of this. In fact, given the known differences in gut fauna that localized cultures/diets have, it's pretty much a fact. Different people process different foods differently.

I agree with your assertion that quantity of nutrition "studies" doesn't provide quality. Most nutrition studies seem to be done with the goal of proving X diet is better than Y, sponsored and paid for by X.
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To be fair, I find it much easier to fall asleep after using my Kindle Paperwhite than I do with an iPad. But, virtually every aspect of the Kindle ecosystem user experience is an experience in mediocrity. In some respects, I feel like the company is like what you'd get if you crossed the worst aspects of Microsoft and Google.

(And apologies to my friends who work at Amazon, but let's be honest: you're all going to quit within a year or two to work somewhere that's less abusive of its employees.)
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I tend to think that the simulation hypothesis put forward in Stross's "A Colder War" is a much greater likelihood. :-/
"Reading books is a large part of how I make a living."

Sounds like he spends a lot of time reading, and it's natural for minor annoyances to become like Chinese water torture when one does something often.
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Seriously. I was only ever a high school athlete but even then I was eating ~3500 calories a day and maintaining weight. At 1200 calories a day you could be mostly sedentary and still likely lose several pounds a week.
The post got truncated by a bad character in my blockquote paste (sorry!). It should be legible now (and include two figures).
Too late to edit. I meant "Is [it] possible ..."
I am curious whether the downvoters would actually post why they are downvoting this in particular.

Are you really saying you want just a few monopolistic companies to control people's social experiences online?
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