skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems extremely fragmented, and far too small of a community to be able to afford to be fragmented.

SmartOS, as noted in another comment, is not a general purpose OS. It seems to have the most convincing story behind it for why you might choose it over Linux (but, it hasn't convinced me to do so). And, it has perhaps the largest organization behind it (Joyent).

Honestly, though, they all seem to be niche products or projects. There just isn't the kind of large community one would need to compete with Linux or even the BSDs. If it were a community that was growing, it would be less of an issue, but everyone involved seems to be old-school Solaris geeks who just want to keep working on what they know. Which is fine, and I hope it goes well for them. But, it doesn't look like the future (once again, I think SmartOS has the most compelling story for IllumOS having some small piece of the future).
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The Great American Interchange
I couldn't find the ingredients list -- but because it is not fully understood what food contains there may be missing nutrients in soylent that a well-balanced diet would have.
> your amazingly efficient human body will process it and you'll continue chugging along

Yep! You know how you occasionally read some science-fiction story that spends a paragraph rhapsodizing about some monstrosity that evolved on a death world and can eat anything under the sun? Well, that's us. We live everywhere, we can eat anything. Nothing stops us except hard radiation (and we've even mostly figured that out), hard vacuum (ditto, it's really gravity that keeps us down), and the bottom of the ocean (...getting there). Humanity, fuck yeah.
I'm sure the bridges were burned a long time ago. When people start losing money, it ain't pretty.
I feel dirty after reading all the comments in response to this. I can't help but think that all the visceral hate directed at this piece, all the ad hominem dismissals, and the lack of response to his specific points, have less to do with truth and more with anger at being forced to consider a very uncomfortable truth.
What's wrong with the meal replacement drinks that you can purchase at any drug store and are prescribed by doctors and such currently for people who can't conveniently eat?

During busier days where I don't want to bother deciding what to eat, I just take one of those. Why do we need soylent, when meal replacement drinks have already existed for years?
True. My expression was unwieldy, I meant that its board members were largely representatives of corporate entities (about 185 of them, ostensibly).
While it's obviously sad, and in some ways more surprising when the best and brightest kill themselves it's not the most common group. From the Samaritans UK based research:

> Men from the lowest social class, living in the most
deprived areas, are up to ten times more likely to end
their lives by suicide than those in the highest social
class from the most affluent areas. Men in mid-life
are the age group most at risk.

I hope more can be done to reduce suicide and make life more cheerful in general - I'm a member of 'Action for Happiness' for what it's worth that campaigns for the latter. In the past suicide and the like has been a bit ignored partly because there were worse things to worry about - death from war, car crashes, disease and the like. Now it's starting to become the biggest cause of death in younger age groups as the other causes get fixed.

http://www.samaritans.org/sites/default/files/kcfinder/files...
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It wasn't very smart to offer $100k of work for less than $6k. This is stealing money from the mouths of professional developers who charge a fair fee for fair work. You don't have my sympathies.
Also, what exactly is a database traversal? Is it a random read benchmark? If so, what is the distribution - uniform, zipf, or something else?
It's a shame, for sure, for DataSift.

We have been working with DataSift for about a year now though and it is pretty damn clunky. I'd say GNIP is probably even worse at the moment but maybe not for long?

As a user, if GNIP can capitalize on being part of Twitter, I gladly welcome the improvements this could bring. I'm not super confident though as now Twitter/GNIP will also be a monopoly in the space with the usual disincentives that come along with that. Also, our use case is strongly biased towards the "historic query" features and neither service seems as interested in that as they are in the real time streaming features.

Also, I had considered earlier developing a niche competitor solely focused on the historics space for companies with research-oriented use cases like ours. I suspected Twitter would be dropping this hammer though so glad I didn't waste my time!
> using the so-called "micro multinational" strategy

That's what they call US emigration today? How is that any different from an Asian/Indian/African wanting to emigrate to US? The other guys are just like us.
Moqups
I know you can't share AMIs derived from marketplace snapshots, so I suspect the same may be true of Windows instances. The marketplace instance restriction is rather annoying as CentOS and Debian publish their official images through the marketplace.
The VC industry is ripe for disruption it would seem?

I wonder how quickly the landscape would change if billionaires from various other fields started investing arms to fund tech. Considering the trend in club football where billionaires who have nothing to do with football started investing in football clubs all over Europe. The way they went about running the whole business changed the face of club football forever. Disruptive is mildly putting it as European football's premier footablling body (UEFA) has tried to regulate the flow of cash and has imposed strict investment guidelines ever since, to cope with it. Sort of.
To me, meal replacement drinks sold at drugstore are to Soylent what Microsoft is to open source. Both have their merits and I use both types of products, but I really like a world with open source in it.
I think TFA's also trying to emulate specifically CRT-related effects like phosphor glow/trails. Maybe sort of conflating NTSC and CRT effects into one "CRT simulation"
> Of course you must teach a group of students.

`brudger was not agreeing with this premise. You are.

Welcome to the conversation.
Sociopaths try to manipulate you if they think they can get something out of it. If they think you're just beneath them, they revel in being asshats at you and knowing that there is nothing you can do about it. The measure of a man is making sure that you do something about it anyway.
I have to agree that Soylent is pretty great. I have it for breakfast everyday and sometimes dinner. I'll throw half a scoop of protein powder in there as well because I workout. Weekends I'll usually have 2 meals Soylent and 1 meal normal. I like cooking and eating out, but not 3 times a day. Sometimes I just want to get 500 (perfectly balanced) calories in me and go about my business.
One thing that meal replacement drinks seem to lack (among other things, if I recall correctly) is fibre. The ones I've purchased (Ensure, Boost, etc.) don't contain any fibre whatsoever. If you're at all prone to constipation and you rely a lot on those drinks you are in for a hard road.
Hackathons, I believe, are not about winning/losing. They're about learning/picking up new things in a limited amount of time. Losing a hackathon does not mean you should stop programming -- but disliking programming itself means you should. I've lost a bunch of hackathons, but I still like programming and do it everyday. Do not let a competition get in the way of your whole career.
It is super fun, but I identify much more with the @ than with the character in the browser version

Wonderfulness abounds however, great hack from a true hacker
If I had to guess, the parent commenter hasn't experienced bad typography on a kindle. Typography is very much one of those things that you only notice when it's poor, or if you're really deep into it.

I'm certainly not, and I've never given two thoughts about typography except when weird things happen with it.
> The project doesn't feel like anyone who actually likes books is working on it. It doesn't feel like a passion, it feels like a terrible afterthought that people rotate in and out of making random changes to try and look like they did some management.

You couldn't imagine how right you are.
The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy
For this, check out Splashtop. I've been using it for years and it works great. They even have Win8 touch integrations so you can play Civ 5 touch, and an OS X client so you can use a Mac from a tablet or phone.
> It's an old trick to convert between upper and lower case like this, but I think it's becoming actually harmful to think you can or should do things like this.
> Modern applications are run all over the world, and use text that is often non-ASCII.

So: I disagree. And I say that as someone who daily uses two languages that can't be represented in USASCII.

The specific case described by the article was parsing internet protocol data for, say, SMTP or HTTP etc. It's best to consider it a special kind of binary protocol that some people can read directly. One artifact of these protocols is that they are case-insensitive.

You can't use this trick on user data (which includes domain names these days) and the author doesn't say you should. But for example if you're parsing the response to an EHLO it should be perfectly fine to parse it this way.

Yes, it happens to be in English, but so what? Music is in Italian, a language I don't speak, but I have no trouble understanding "da capo a la fine", though I might be confused if it saw it anywhere other than a score.

Plus I have to say sometime I feel there's simply too much abstraction and it's nice to look at the bits.
Note this is only about the specific configurations they tested and not necessarily about hte architectures in general (eg POWER8 is represented by 3 GHz chips here, they go up to 4+ GHz).
Personally I agree with you. Yet I know many people who dislike anything that looks like pixel art. I'm not one of them and try to judge games on their individual merits. I believe Zynga knows that they could attract more casuals with 'updated' graphics that didn't look 'retro'. I have friends who will ignore all games that use the current pixel styles. I extrapolate from that there must be many more casual gamers who also agree with them. I think Zynga goes after that group by offering similar experiences with 'better' graphics.
The only way you get to any kind of success is generally via a long string of failures, its not the people who never fail that make it its the people who are afraid to fail.
Can anyone parse why the "What's Soylent made of?" (http://www.soylent.me/) screen is so different from their "Complete-Soylent-Nutrition-Facts.pdf" (https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/14/assets/file...)?

At first I thought it was a simple serving size multiple, but carbs are 5x (51,252), Sodium is 2.5x (410,1050), Fiber is 7x (4,27), Potassium is 4x (866, 3500). The only reason I care is that I was curious about Omega 3s, but that's only listed on less official looking table that doesn't give a serving size. And so now I'm questioning what that's actually based on.
...simulation...

Prove it.

Sir Arthur Eddington...

I've seen that analogy before and it's silly, because 1. people have prior experience with sea creatures smaller than two inches, and 2. scientists are keenly aware of the limitations of their "nets," and those limitations leave very little room for metaphysics.
" Since Amazon hasnt updated anything about their typography since 2009 I wouldn’t hold my breath."

That is actually not true -
http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/bookerly_am...

Oh and this - "Speaking of highlights: Amazon has no graceful option to update books. Updating a book, in Amazon’s world, is the digital equivalent of handing you a new book, then burning your old one. Hope you didn’t have any notes or highlights in there."
Hey that's actually not true. I beg the author to please provide examples and scenarios. Amazon goes to great lengths to not impact the reader by erasing their notes.
Thank you so much Anonymous for completing it :)
Computer science also seems to follow the pattern in other sciences.
Huh, that's interesting. I have the option of taking just 6 months off and then going to college in the Spring semester - is that what you would suggest doing?

If you don't mind me asking, do you think you could go into more detail about what made the first six months great and the next six not so much?
if People can take a massive range of macronutrients. Seriously, if soylent was going to be a problem, then people would have to be FAR more careful about what they eat then they are now.

It all reminds me of the perfect is the enemy of good arguments.

Is soylent perfect? Most likely not, is it better then the vast majority of people are eating? that wouldn't be a high bar to jump, and I think it jumps it easily.
> it fails to really explain at all /why/ the English landscape should be more eerie than other landscapes.

The issue isn't whether the English countryside is more eerie than other landscapes—it's not, obviously, since ghosts aren't real; every countryside is equally mundane.

Instead, the question of the article is to ask why people write about the eerie in conjunction with the English countryside. And that the article does address—it's used as a metaphor for things that are pretty and peaceful on the surface, but which hide unpleasant details and histories:

Some excerpts:

> What are those pressing concerns, though, and what are the sources of this unsettlement? Clearly, the recent rise of the eerie coincides with a phase of severe environmental damage.

> Digging down to reveal the hidden content of the under-earth is another trope of the eerie: what is discovered is almost always a version of capital.

> Contemporary eerie culture is also drawn to the military and security infrastructure that occupies much of England’s land and air space, from Salisbury Plain to Otterburn to Foulness. This dispersed geography of conflict and surveillance has attracted the interests of ...

> Yet state surveillance is no longer testified to in the landscape by giant edifices. Instead it is mostly carried out in by software programs running on computers housed in ordinary-looking government buildings, its sources and effects – like all eerie phenomena – glimpsed but never confronted.

etc, etc.
If the protocol was properly designed, the proprietary nature of the server wouldn't be an issue as we could write a server implementing the protocol too. For instance, I don't have to worry about all of tarsnap being open source, because I know from the way the client is implemented that the server can't do a damned thing to sniff my data.

However, due to how much of an awful botch job the protocol is, even if the server was FLOSS, it would still be untrustable.
I agree with this post, but not with regards to the Kindle, but more Amazon as an entity.

Also, perfect timing to read this article, after just purchasing a Kindle Paperwhite and having it for a few weeks now.

As a casual reader, I find the Kindle Paperwhite as the perfect medium for my reading needs. I can hold it in one hand, I can read it any time of the day with adjustable brightness, and the e-ink is very clear and the font is fine. With respect to the article, I don't think the typical person cares much for typography, as long as it can be read and understood. The justification notion, I would argue that the typical user may not notice it as much as the hardcore reader. This is where I disagree with the parent post here, as in Amazon may understand "the customer" in this particular case, or at least the majority. Everyone who I've come across absolutely loves, and heavily uses, their Kindle(s). Some people even collect them! All reviews love them and it's a great experience.

The point of the article: Now, I'm all for making the Kindle the best reading device ever by adding all these cool features (justification, typography, different modes for different things like iBooks, etc.), but instead of targeting the Kindle as being deficient for most users, the article is targeting Amazon more so for it's lack of pushing the product to all it can be and I think this can be extracted toward larger companies doing what they can to push the envelope with their product. This is where I agree with the parent post, Amazon seems to be lacking in this area. The blogpost written and the parent post both point to deficiencies in how Amazon looks to their customers and pushes their products to the best they can be.
Meet the Goats of Amazon's New Goat Rental Service
Thanks! Being a minor restricts a lot of my options as far as being in less-developed countries for too long (liabilities, etc.), but it's something I'm interested in.

Any suggestions for specific places to go?
Just to clarify terms here, "opt-in" means disabled by default, with user action needed to enable the feature. "opt-out" means on-by-default with the ability to disable it: exactly the situation you describe. At least, that's my understanding.
No doubt HPC is a big influence on design since they can sink big gov contracts, but IBM is claiming it's a serious competitor to scale out x86.

They've done this in the past.. PowerPC (6xx), PReP, CHRP, PowerLinux, now OpenPOWER. It looks too similar this time where they cannot get things into gear lowering margins to gain volume. The Tyan box is basically a reference platform.. over priced and poorly designed (2U, 3.5" disks, several thousand dollars?!). Crossing my fingers something good will happen, but placing little stock in it.
Is flirting with girls sexist?
> The only way to truly beat the system financially is to get early equity in a startup that becomes very successful.

Or ignore compensation as a route to wealth. Invest in real estate on the side. The job provides security. The investments create wealth in the more distant future.
How do you see the process technologies getting closer? Intel has an insane R&D budget that they spend on their process technology. Nobody has managed to close the gap yet, what makes you think that's going to change?
Writing a Lexer and Parser in Go – Part 1
I didn't like early versions soylent, joylent (the UK variant) is ok (the strawberry one is pretty good), I'm not sure what later versions of soylent are like.
...and in other news, the United States government is
said to be contsructing a new carrier-grade backbone
network in anticipation of the expected petabit scale
traffic preciptated by an emerging new fad referred to
as "hologram flash mobbing."

When consulted, a panel of scientists suggested instead
that it might be more practical to place a very bright
lightbulb in front of the capitol building. This
suggestion preciptated a large spike in hologram traffic
when a spokesperson for the organization, the swift boat
veterans for truth, questioned whether the light bulb
might shine brighter than the eternal flame at the tomb
of the unknown soldier, to which one member of the panel
flippantly replied:

"Well, the inverse square law suggests that if you'd
prefer a brighter flame you could always go stand within
it."
Yep. That's correct. EBS isn't terminated when your SPOT instance is.
i don't think I fully understand what you're saying, could you explain it in more detail?
Where do you get those statistics?

Wikipedia says median household income is 3.3-5K/month (45-60K/year).

Average household is 2.5 people, so you're right if you're including children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
Good point, bought in bulk that is probably a cheaper meal.

And no I don't have any 3rd-party scientific study proving the long term effects of something that has only been out for 2 years, but thank you for asking. There's an absolute ton of 3rd party, peer reviewed science around nutritional completeness and what that entails, and Soylent adheres to the best practices of that research extremely well. Oats and milk is actually a pretty darn good approximation from what I understand about the nutritional content of oats (super strong), but my point is why not at least try Soylent if that's what you're going to do? Soylent is basically by design a super optimized version of that meal.
"It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in."

Careful...your "idealogical function [is] leaking through"...
Really? 632(a)? This 632(a)?:

>632. (a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of
all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any
electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records
the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried
on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a
telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year,
or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

The one that explicitly exempts radio devices? The type of devices that modern cellular phones are?

And people are arguing about 'expectations of privacy' and 'explicit consent', when the actual statute uses 'confidential communication'? My phone calls are not confidential and they occur over radio devices.

HN's behavior here is rather shameful.
Antimarket opportunities
Desperate autosuggestion is desperate. People with healthy eating habits don't obsess over whatever they eat for pages and pages; people who are not 'religious' about food don't pepper it with righteous words; people who are happy with their choice don't feel the need to justify it with a long, pseudo-philosophical rants on the Internets.

Now, proceed to shower me in down-votes.
I have never noticed latency spikes like that from Amazon through transit… especially not for anything as trivial as 10Mbps which even a Micro instance is capable of sustaining.
>while ignoring the fact that there are laws, rulings, and precedent already on this issue.

Of which, none you can cite?
Disagree; we've had the tech for a while to keep coma and locked-in patients healthy (or healthy modulo extremely sedentary lifestyles). Same thing with cat food and dog food. Soylent is a trivial extension.
...why do I get the feeling that they're only selling 'up to' 2 gigabit?

In all seriousness, this is a good thing.
I think you are overreacting. Maybe he does have a better grasp on a few areas in life than you or I do.

It's just a book. One that might make people think a bit and question their own life more.

What I find gross are people scared of criticism and offended by anything that remotely challenges one's beliefs or actions.
Fedora recently ditched naming the versions themselves the community can name if it they wish. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/201...
Electrician and Plumber won't be automated away any time soon. Both require more dexterity than any robot currently available and would probably require a 'true' AI as each situation would be significantly different. This is a problem where humans will be both cheaper and more efficient than a robot.

Manufacturing (by humans) is definitely on its way out though.
Golden post.
I love that it begins, "Rejected returns are a disappointment."

(no snark implied. It is sweet).
Thanks. Looks like that'd be the cheapest way to run g2.2xlarge.
If you need a reason to keep your data overseas, here it is.
NSA seems hell-bent on destroying the US' IT economy.