skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at http://www.joylent.eu/
I can't get the nutritional info to load, but they have free shipping to Germany/Benelux.
I'm guessing they'll probably phase out soylent 1.5 (aka powder form), but you can still purchase it at the moment.
If you are in Europe you may want to check https://www.joylent.eu/ not sure if it also uses wheat and soy proteins.

I'm not affiliated with them nor I have tried it.
Soylent might be there (US) but it's not here (EU) yet.. :(
Did the iPod require a "third world factory economy", or was that merely the best way to make it when it was developed?

Go back to the original Apple II and subsequent products, they were per memory and Wikipedia all made in the US until the late 1990s. The IBM PC was originally manufactured by SCI Systems in Huntsville, Alabama.
Even if you ignore the way that the types of template instantiations are (for good or for ill) unrelated, these two types are not compatible. Say this particular conversion were permitted. You have your function. (String literals are const char * .)

void blah(vector<const char * > &xs) {
xs.push_back("blah");
}

And you have the code calling it:

vector<char * > xs;
blah(xs);

And that would not be valid. The rationale for the conversion rules for pointers to pointers is based on a similar sort of problem. (In fact I think it's exactly the same problem, at any level, but that only just occurred to me, so perhaps not.)

(This isn't to say there aren't other similar sorts of conversion that would be safe, and that the language perhaps should support, just that this isn't one of the valid ones.)
Fig – Java elegant supplement
According to Loren Cordain, soy contains lectin and lectin is no good for us.
Can someone explain to me the appeal of this product? Why would anyone choose to drink a nondescript sludge over the plentiful ways we can get good, enjoyable & healthy food?

I can certainly appreciate the science behind it - this would be a great boon to helping feed those that are less fortunate, but from what I can see that doesn't appear to be the aim of the company.
Firebird 3 wire protocol (version 13) initial work for Jaybird
Crab
I tried Soylent 1.5 for about a month (not as my sole food source, but for maybe one meal a day), but I was unable to adjust to it well, my stomach was just constantly upset and I didn't feel great after eating it. I then tried Nutren 1.5 [1] thinking it might be different, but same effect for me, so I guess it is just me. I'm going to try 2.0 again, maybe I'll do it in smaller doses at first and see if I can adjust that way. Has anyone else experienced this?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Nutren-Calorie-Vanilla-Nutrition-8-45-...
It's nearly impossible for people to see how you do something useful for users, even if you already work for 10 years in a company. So I'd say that's the least important point of your employability. Other things like being able to integrate to the development team, that's way more important.
An upper middle class lifestyle is not going to happen on $180K in SF either - if you are senior level, but have a family and want to have an adequate place to live.

Median home price just hit $1M. We are talking _median_, not a mansion.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-ci...

Wake me up when senior people in software can reach compensation levels of doctors and other professionals ($300-400K).
Reddit has its users create all the content for free. And AFAIK they still aren't profitable.
The Verge claims that the powder will also eventually use algae sources, and it's still on sale now, so one would assume it's not being discontinued.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/3/9088407/soylent-20-bottled-...

EDIT: Ars Technica has a quote saying "We're always going to keep our powdered product around".

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/soylent-2-0-is-coming...
While we can jump to being disgusted with Facebook, looking at the countries they surveyed it is more likely that they did not communicate their questions the right way. This could either happen due to language barrier, or due to lack of understanding of the users.

What I think is this - when they said "Internet", 3-4% users understood that to be open Web, with browser, a .com and the whole package. They responded correctly that they don't use it. But correctly identified that they spend time on Facebook. So in users' mind, they correctly distinguished open Web from the apps. However, they conflated the term internet with the web.

And a lot of people will make such distinction. If you don't do any Web browsing but remained in contact with your family over Whatsapp, you will term it as, "I was off the Web to save time, but I did use Whatsapp." That does not mean what this article concludes, that you don't think that Whatsapp uses Internet.
Working 10 years for a company looks like a reasonable history in my eyes. Show what you have done and learned in that time.
Mint provides value and it's a trusted brand, so people feel okay about giving them access.

I could potentially trust Mint but anything smaller and not based in the US definitely not.
I like https://digg.com/reader/ but it's not free/cross-platform but it's the closest to Google Reader I found.

If I had to pick up a client application I'd choose Feeddemon on Windows.
In my experience, there was some issue with 1.0 and 1.1, and 1.2 was the worst offender. 1.3 fixed it, which was refreshing! I can't speak to 1.4 or 1.5, because having been disappointed in 1.4, I've hoarded 1.3
arguably HTML 5 is a co-culprit here - it is the new Flash and has massively worsened the situation. Try running a modern home page on anything other than a fast Intel chip or ARM chip and it's basically unusable (Rpi, low end Arm phones). Browsers are the new bloatware and make Microsoft Office look like vi.
If the display shines into your eyes, you've mistuned it. Displays white should be as bright as paper sheet you're holding next to it. Fix the settings now. It'll be good for you. Low contrast displays and screens are bad. That's why contrast optimization is so important, like on Kindle. Every new model got higher contrast than previous ones.
Giving up working.
Price and laziness.

It's a lot cheaper than eating out, and (often) a bit cheaper than cooking yourself. On top of that, it's a lot easier to just shake a bottle and eat than to cook.
It's a bad idea, but if you want automated access it's the best we've got. Ideally banks would provide a nice API, but without a good enough reason they're just not interested.
We know when the firewall was turned off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Legislation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm–Leach–Bliley_Act
Lifestyle? IIRC, the creator of Soylent had a busy lifestyle and as a result barely had time to cook or eat and that's why he created Soylent.
y, I think providing your credentials is a bad idea and haven't done it. This came up in a thread a few weeks ago. I can't believe banks aren't required to provide a read-only access and/or API to your account. That would be a great solution for rolling your own budget tracker and allowing access for services like mint. Does anyone know if any banks have read-only passwords or an api?
Yes, exactly: most advertisers would want to reach the sort of paying subscribers who no longer see ads. By removing all ad impressions from that segment of the audience, you disproportionately decrease ad revenue.

(Also, digital advertising is still very far from efficient)
If it's done right: Time saver. Digestive problem avoidance. The right nutrient ratios.

Time saver can be more important that it seems. If you have to eat quick a lot, or just hate food prep, it can come down to unhealthy fast/restaurant food vs this.
It's for people that are too busy to cook. Sadly, usually people who are busy working on a startup that will have failed within the next year, hopefully leaving them with time to think about life priorities.

I know this makes me sound excessively negative but food is so many things - not just the flavours, but the skill of cooking, the social experience of sharing a meal... Soylent just screams "misplaced priorities" at me.
I don't understand the pricing - do I need 12 bottles per month or 96? How much do I need to live only off Soylent?
I've been a Soylent drinker since 1.0. I've had 1.0, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4.

The biggest formula change in terms of flatulence for me was 1.3 -> 1.4. They dropped the fiber substantially and replaced some of the oats (and most of the maltodextrin) with isomaltulose. I'm still gassy but it's nothing like 1.0/1.1, where I had uncomfortable levels of gas approximately 100% of the time.
Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I get back into academia?
Dear HN,

I just turned 24 and am having a quarter-life crisis.

I graduated over 3 years ago with very average grades from a decent university by doing badly even in the subjects that I knew I was great at because:

1. I wasn't good at writing timed exams (I just cannot think under massive stress)
2. On-and-off phases of depression

Fortunately I am a very good engineer and I did a bunch of open source work while at univ and after graduating have been almost exclusively writing FOSS for the past 3 years. And not simple CRUD apps, but difficult engineering problems.

But here's the thing:

I enjoy writing software, but I don't see an exciting future for myself doing the kind of work I do. I have a great aptitude for Math/CS and I want to do something that is more exploratory research (currently obsessed with ML and specifically Neural Networks).
I want go back to academia because 3 years of working in the industry doesn't give me the kind of satisfaction that university research would. I want to broaden my horizons; I'm also getting older and with each passing year it will get more difficult for me to resume academics. I keep flirting with interesting courses on Coursera etc, but deep down I know it's not working because it genuinely doesn't compare to what I would get in a proper degree program. Ultimately I want to get a PhD and I'm willing to work hard for that.

But it looks like all the good places want someone with at least a 7.5 CGPA (on a 10-point scale), and recommendations from professors. Mine is only 6.5 and I expect to get recommendations from (high profile) industry figures.

I'm Indian, but based in Germany, and looking for univs in Western Europe. I don't believe I could ever afford American ones.

So I'm asking for help, HN:

1. Do you know if admissions committees can make exceptions for people with demonstrated open source work?
2. Any professors/academics here who may be able to help me out?
why? why not just eat good food? !
If your lifestyle does not give you time to cook, you should try to change it, instead of inventing that mud.
I think some banks provide a view only access so you can give it to sites like mint.

Giving full access would be really crazy at least to me.

Good luck
When I was in Thailand the other month and had a phone, I could access facebook when I had no credit, but no other internet site - so this does make a kind of sense.
> more on a whim than after any kind of significant research

Sounds like there was a decent amount of research.

"[Maisey McMaster, financial manager] helped calculate whether the firm could afford to gradually raise everyone’s salary to $70,000 over a three-year period"
Stop feeding yourself with this shit and start adapting a balanced died with plenty of exercise. If you don't have time, make some!
You do realize that for the last several years we've been trying to churn out new developers who will accept jobs for very low wages (or even come on as interns and work for free) and they've got an edge on the so-called "new stuff" which pushes out the 40 year olds?

There's an even bigger push for this now. It seems like everywhere I turn someone is learning to "develop". Sad to say, most of these people only know how to pump out good SASS or HTML or know how to throw a bunch of APIs together.

This of course is a skill of its own, and clearly one that pays bills, but the market will become saturated and the bubble will burst again.
I tried to subscribe to a danish newspaper online (their online version), and I couldn't even pay by creditcard. These companies really live in the past.
I've been using Soylent as an occasional meal replacement, not a complete food replacement. In a decent thermos it works well to replace my breakfast, lunch, or dinner with minimal fuss, and is cheaper than eating out when I don't feel like cooking.
Average is over.
It's not liquid, but Quest bars taste pretty good, and are gluten free and free of soy proteins. It's not quite the same as soylent, of course, there's no real added vitamins and minerals, but it makes a decent lunch (I eat 1 or 2 every day for lunch - two a day during the week, one a day on the weekend).
What should we be feeding dogs?
> it's [not] safe to eat Soylent or another similar product regularly.

As opposed to what? Eating organically grown vegetables and fruits, nuts, mushrooms and oceanic fish? Sure.

But that is definitely not a diet of most people even in developed, rich countries. And while we can't say confidently it's safe to eat Soylent, we absolutely can claim that most human diets are really, really harmful.

I bet Soylent would be much less harmful (if at all) than eating fast food, pizza with red meats fortified by antibiotics and hormones.
Hmm, yes, there's VST's, ribbon controllers, ableton Push and the samplers, arpeggiators and sequencers builtin to DAWs and many synths. And Max for Live is amazing.

I have devoted thousands of hours voluntarily as an adult to guitar, mandolin, clarinet, violin and viola, among others (after many years of involuntary music lessons as a kid), I think it's worthwhile, but there's definitely a trend to using e.g. drum VST's in recordings in such a way that it's hard to discern that they're not live drum tracks.
I can't trust them. They have 0g of cholesterol yet it's an important part of a healthy diet. This rings of "marketing diet" to me.
Well, different circles, different definitions. On HackerNews I expect everyone to translate hacker = programmer. On CNN I expect hacker = Kevin Mitnick.
You can (and I do) from time to time cut out ads manually from the web with the DOM inspector. It's particularly good for screen-filling modals. Of course I can then make the cutout permanent with a hosts file or user-configurable adblocker ...
That is not poaching, that is you either not rewarding properly or having a sub par work environment
20kb is still over a minute at 2400 baud ;-)
Alright i'll bite.

"I can cut them out" can be, as stated in another comment, an ad cutting physical machine.

Your move.
This is an absolutely baffling article. The job market for developers is not glutted by over-supply, it's one where marginally-qualified people get hired for salaries well above the national average because companies need SOMEONE to do the job. And virtually nowhere cares about degrees, especially for experienced devs.

And having a single development job at a big company for a decade isn't some kind of career-killing move... unless you turn it into one, by letting your skills stagnate and wither, which is on you.

(Or maybe that wasn't a development job for those ten years? The article is vague. If, for some reason, the poster was out of the dev world for a decade then yeah, it's going to be harder to get back in without a lot of aggressive self-retraining. But even then, if you actually can program, it should be very do-able.)
The bar and restaurant business has always attracted college graduates who found that they could make decent money (and, I suppose, continue the nocturnal hours they were used to). I remember a guy who had passed the New York bar exam, which gave him the right to practice quite a few places, and kept right on tending bar, despite frequent phone calls from his mother. But he was certainly making better than Starbucks money.
BigDecimal vs. Double in Financial Calculations? Give Me a Fluent API for Double
> Once you've removed the rubbish developers there are indeed far more jobs than developers.

Agree. And once you add in the big companies like FB, Google, etc... picking up a huge lot of the good+ developers, everyone else is scrambling to find someone who can at a minimum do FizzBuzz.
That’s the point of an abstraction. What happens behind the curtain is (allegedly) not relevant to the mental model we form to do our work.

You can compile OO code into assembler. You can implement it with functions and closures. You can run it on a VM with special support for virtual dispatch.

In order to be an effective abstraction, you have to think of it as being different. I’d go so far as to say, if you look at OO and say to yourself, “this is just inside-out objects” and dismiss it as not brining anything to the table, you’re missing the point entirely.

Of course, you ought to realize that an object is an inside-out closure, and a closure is an inside-out object. But as an enlightened thinker, you can hold that idea in your head and simultaneously hold in your head the idea that they are different things.
Inactive accounts are in fact purged from time to time, but the domain you are thinking of is sdf.lonestar.org. The sdf.org domain was only added a few years ago, and for a while the admin was also using freeshell.org for marketing purposes. lonestar.org is the UUCP network that SDF has long been connected with.
I think it's simple too, but doesn't need a meatspace analogy like that.

I request some data, you send me some data. My computing device (yes MY computing device) then renders it in accordance with my wishes.

That's it.

(oh, and no, I have no obligation to play ball with your trackers)
One thing that I am definitely planning on doing is sending emails to companies of interest some months before the move and just introduce myself. You're absolutely right though: networking starts now, but it is hard when I can't be there in person and go to meetups, etc.
The Mysterious Feet in the Salish Sea
Very cool! Now I just need to save up, for a long time, for a bassoon :)
Hang on, if this content is so precious to you, why are you forcing three "click the monkey"s and a cryptowall on me? If we're talking responsibility, that's where the greater harm lies.

Fix ads and the adblocker problem goes away.
> I don't think the comparison with lawyers and accountants really works

I do, but I think it was misapplied. My step-grandmother is a business lawyer who has passed the bar in multiple states including Florida. She is extremely intelligent, reads faster than anyone I've encountered and is very current with the times. She is also 60 and hasn't been able to get a job in years due to her age... so she has to contract.
Because until last year when Pixar released PRMan 19 RIS, PRMan was not that good at ray tracing / path tracing - the REYES method of rendering and shading didn't scale as well for big complex scenes when global illumination and raytraced light occlusion was done.

The RSL shading language was also causing a rather large overhead of shading time as it was an interpreted language that could no longer amortise its runtime cost over a shading grid of points using SSE - in path tracing, you generally shade one point at a time per ray vertex, although you can batch them up in some cases (but without significant ray re-ordering and deferring, after the first bounce this becomes less and less useful).

Disney also use Ptex for texturing, which doesn't really like incoherent shading points, so that was another reason to put effort into doing large scale re-ordering of rays and batching them up.
What is a top coding bootcamp? Is that a degree? If not, then I don't find it surprising that it was difficult. Just as that article implies, many employers have minimum requirements that you may not meet, and they aren't necessarily crazy requirements.

But a bigger question than that is what market are you talking about? Are you talking about the valley? Boston? Have you considered that IT shortage is not a local problem, and a broader search could turn up unexpected opportunity?
> America is not for nothing the land of opportunity

The U.S. has low social mobility compared to other developed countries. What claim does it currently have on being the land of opportunity?
Ha! The data is completely useless. None of it is uniform. Some artists are repeated twice with different names. The dates are totally unusable. The author field may contain one or more authors, etc.

MoMA wanted to look tech-savvy and trendy by publishing this data to github. But it just makes them look like an old institution that doesn't know how to keep their data clean and meaningfully structured. This is a bit sad. Plus Github's really not meant to publish content. Of course you can but it's weird.

Yes, art is hard to classify, but come on... we're talking about one of the richest museums in the world, and they can't properly manage 200k of data? I would be pretty afraid lending them anything...
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Their prior formulas were supposed to hit 100% RDA on vitamins/minerals for 2000 kcal. Based on that and their claim that one bottle is 20% RDA, I'd say each bottle is 400kcal.

If true, and you need 2000kcal a day, you're going to need 140 bottles per 4 weeks (~12 cases). At $29/12 that's going to be ~$348, which is about $100/mo more than a 4 week subscription supply is today ($255).
Why should you waste time cooking if you don't want to and can exist without it?
For folks in the UK:

https://archive.is/HwClZ
^ is your opinion.

Some people prefer not to spend time on cooking.
Though I can't understand why someone wants desperately to switch from Python to Javascript, I do believe open source projects or at least side projects are very useful.

They show what you can do, and that you are able to solve problems. Maybe the editor plugin is not doing that. A cool demo is worth more than a thousand lines of well written code.
What's wrong with poaching? You don't own your employees; this isn't 1850.
I've got notes/ideas from 2011 that revolve around building a personalized online TV station. YouTube leanback from 2010 was the first major attempt at that. Load it up, videos start playing. Though it looks like they've opted for the choose-your-thumbnail layout now.

Once we're able to nail recommendation algorithms such that near-100% of all suggested content is perfect and desired by that user, game over. Just show them a stream of content. Don't let them pick and choose or require scrolling. Would be like turning on the TV and just getting constant dopamine triggers with no downtime. Videos, photos, text, whatever, perfectly tuned to your desires in that moment.

Internet drugs.
I'm actually looking for a bank feed/API service for banks in Australia. Does anyone know of one?
Problem there is you can't just go get a security clearance - you have to be ... sponsored(?) - is that the word - by a company already. At least, that was my reading of the situation a few years back. I gave up applying to defense positions years ago because every one required existing security clearance. It's the defense industry version of "you have to have experience before we'll hire you to get the experience".