skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more.

I completely admit that Soylent is not perfect, and i am also a little worried of the (many?) aspects of nutrition that we're unaware of. But many people live on Fast Food, which scares me far far more than Soylent does.

But just because something is not perfect, does not warrant the very odd zealotry that i see for "normal" food and against Soylent (and like products).

It's honestly, flat out bizarre to me. They act like "normal" food is their favorite sports team, or a company that they have vested interest in. As if their profits will take a hit, if this new fangled Soylent thing catches on.

And i can't imagine it is for our potential health that these people are fanatical. I don't see them being so religious about many other non-healthy life habits that people have. Yet, throw in liquid food and it's a slug fest.

I just don't understand.
Stupid phone: secular-specular
It's mind boggling to me, as someone who was first introduced to web development in the days of gopher, that most fresh developers don't adequately understand simplicity, but also believe it's a-ok to glue a bunch of js & css libraries together and call it "good enough".

The first Java version of an internal app we had converted from Progress 4GL used Java Webstart to dynamically load & launch, and because of programmer laziness (and the 93 3rd party Java components they'd included) it literally took 3 minutes to launch. That was the point where the manager -- who was a better programmer than anyone in the team, but who had previously been hands-off -- stepped in and created some rules and instituted code reviews. Still, though, totally insane behavior by so many young web programmers.
I'm currently doing the same thing for my own personal use. My bank has recently redone their mobile app and it's actually very nice, but I still don't have the insight I'd like without breaking out my calculator.

Where I'm from the banks run on ancient software (we're talking COBOL in most cases) and when an ATM breaks, you see it briefly boot through Windows 98.

Web scrapers could be feasible for an e-commerce service (that's mostly what Yodlee is, the service that powers Mint) the hard part is the regulatory issues surrounding banking web scrapers. It's a very very grey area.

In my opinion with this stuff, if there's demand, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission and third party banking apps could/can provide endless functionality and insight.
> all game of numbers in the end

Personally, I am always wary of this rationalization (and I say that generally being on the winning side of it). It's not "all numbers", it's people, and the second one loses sight of that one starts to let in the door all sorts of evil crap.
Soy hasn't been an ingredient in powdered Soylent since 2013 or 2014. You can still buy it on their site.
They will say existing security clearance required, because that greatly speeds up their hiring process. However there really is a severe drought of qualified developers with clearance, to the degree that even the worthless ones don't really get fired if they show up and don't anger security. And while for some of the jobs that may indeed be a hard requirement, for most of them its more of a preference. If you are a good programmer and fairly confident you will be able to be cleared, then they will sponsor you through the clearance process. Pro-tip just don't lie about shit and should be able to get clearance, they will look over most past issues if you acknowledge them and state that they are no longer an issue.
Yeah, I was thinking that too... it is really well written, it makes compelling and nuanced arguments and it sets a nice thought framework for the debate. This is really an excellent piece, no wonder he's an econ professor at one of the most prestigious university in the world, that guy is brilliant.
I get where the OP is coming from, but it was his responsibility to move on sooner. I worked DoD for a time and lasted 9 months before I left out of a) boredom and b) feeling my skills completely rot away. I chalked it up as a retirement job I would go back to when I was ready to hang out from 9-4 every day.

I had another job where I learned a lot, but after a couple years the job became repetitive with no further learning opportunities. At that point it was time to leave, because if you are not moving forward you are moving backwards.

People need to take control of their own careers.
> Cute, but in discussing the web, its the semantics of the HTML to be concerned with, not CSS properties or values.

Why wouldn't the principle be applied everywhere? Expressing your intent -- writing semantically -- is a general principle of clean code, and of clear communication in general.

It's fine if you want to argue it's more important in html than in css, but that doesn't grant a pass to the creators and proponents of pure CSS who peddle the ideal of semantics with religious zeal and then fail to apply the principle to their own language, or even to realize that they've failed to do so because, I suspect, many of them don't actually grasp the true goal of the principle -- clarity and usability.

If they did, CSS wouldn't be the unusable mess of quirks that it is.
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I just looked at the page for the first time in ages and I'm surprised they don't even get the fundamentals right: tiny fonts, pinterest layout for text items, terrible line height and length. Hopelessly useless even for skimming news headlines.
Cholesterol is produced by your own body just fine.

In food, it only comes from animal products, so you are basically saying that any and all vegan diets are unhealthy/marketing. Dietitians (and millions of vegans) beg to differ.
What about digestive enzymes and all that? I am still unsure about efficiency of absorption with liquids.
Our consulting firm sent 5 c/c++ dev's to a high profile client last month, the interview lasted 10 minutes before they instantly grabbed all of them. Anecdotal of course but choice of language is a poor excuse.
A few years ago some of his own students staged a walkout of his lectures because of his innate desire to laud the American oligarchs:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/2/mankiw-walkout-e...
That's why in the War on General Purpose Computing, publishers and advertisers are on the side of making the computing device not yours.
A reasonable conclusion.
Personally I'm interested in it because I feel like we (as in my family) often waste too much time simply thinking about food. When are we going to eat? What are we going to make? Do we need to pick some things up? Should we go out? We've gone out too much this month and it's getting expensive... It sure would be nice to cut that out for a few meals each week.

Friends of mine who do a really good job prepping meals for the week tend to sacrifice the better part of a day just for that process. On top of that we're dealing with more and more restrictions on our diets due to health issues (cutting back on dairy and gluten).
I believe arihant understands that distinction, going by their sentence, "However, they conflated the term internet with the web." arihant's main point was that if the point of the survey is one understanding of words, then the wording is going to be very important. (And wording is already important in surveys.)
There are plenty of alternatives in the EU:
https://queal.eu/
http://mymana.eu/
https://www.joylent.eu/
https://jakeshake.eu/

and many more I'm sure
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Fast food makes its living off having predictable product available everywhere you go.
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Not sure I can accept the premise, because as the article states, Lewinski doesn't just defend, he also actively trains officers and publishes papers on reasonable use of force.
Why spend energy producing and transporting heavy water and plastic bottles with this pre-mixed Soylent? Everyone already has plentiful water and receptacles at home. Seems like a retrograde step, unless I'm missing something?
I wasn't talking about non-linearity other than the one you mention. That should be abundantly obvious from what I posted.

You can't have quantum computation without measurement, and thus without non-linearity. Quantum computation is not simply "doing the computation in each possible world", it also is some trick to extract (collapse) the information into one particular world, and I don't think we currently understand fully what that means, but it's certainly non-linear. After all the information is often in the amplitude.

Conversely there are measurement based models for quantum computation that rely purely on the non-linear process.
I already use TurboTax, so it's not like Mint is really giving Intuit a whole lot more data than I'm already giving them. Aside from debt-consolidation loans and credit card offers, there's isn't really any advertising that I see there, and I'm less worried about them selling off information about my transactions the way Google probably would to targeted advertisers.

Really, I would think that this data would in some sense be the holy grail for targeted marketing, short of the databases that Amazon has on its customers.
I'm also skeptical that one can live well on soylent alone. There's nothing bad in soylent AFAIK, but there's no way of knowing whether soylent is missing anything vital. With this in mind, I wouldn't be worried if someone replaced one or two meals a day with soylent. But I'd hesitate to replace all meals. I think it's irresponsible that the makers of soylent keep pushing the idea that one nutrient drink can replace all your meals, though I have nothing against the product itself.
Woohoo -- thanks for calling out my previous employer, which also built Macs for a good while (in Colorado).

What a lot of folks don't seem to understand about "third world factory economies" is that the prototyping and initial product runs are still frequently done in the west. Some EMS companies, like Flex, even have hardware incubators in Silicon Valley (google "Lab IX" sometime); all of them offer JDM & ODM services, too.
Thanks for the answer (and to everyone else that replied) - it's always good to hear the other side of the debate.

I could never imagine myself in a situation where I'd consider it so important to be constantly busy that I wouldn't be able to find the time to throw a few vegetables in a pan - but I understand different people have different priorities (and demanding jobs).

It just seems to me like this is an odd way to solve the problem, maybe because I'm extrapolating a bit and seeing it as trying to replace one of the things that makes us human; the ability to prepare and cook food.

I'd be interested to see if any research comes up as to the long term psychological effects of this sort of product. Do people who replace the varied textures and tastes of different foods (if only partially) with a liquid supplement notice any adverse effects or cravings?

Out of interest, is Soylent more interesting than offerings from companies like Graze/Naturebox?
> 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?

Perhaps this is something you would never consider using yourself, but I find it hard to believe you can't imagine why it appeals to some people. Lots of people - huge numbers of people - find it very inconvenient to source healthy, palatable food twice or three times per day, every day. Even lots of people who really enjoy eating or cooking find it inconvenient or limiting to have to eat as often as is necessary.
Yes, absolutely. You can easily verify this for yourself if you want with a simple page with embedded CSS and one with the CSS included from a file.

The configuration line reads:

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"

And I verified that it worked using a commandline http tool as well as the firefox developer tools (network section), on the second view it only loaded the page and not the CSS.
I use Paymo as well and I'm very happy with it. It's got a nice user interface and I love that I have everything I need in a single app: time tracking, task management, and invoicing.
Or a desire to feel like you are overworking like a superhero
This is a book for teaching young kids. Trying to start them off with a language like Java or C# would be a terrible idea; not because they are bad languages, but because they have such a high learning curve.

With something like Ruby we can start the child right off with

puts 'Hello World'

Immediately they have a positive feedback cycle. At this stage they don't need to know that a top level object has been implicitly created for them and this statement is part of that object. We'll get to that stuff later. Start off basic with some simple lines of working code. Move up to conditionals, loops, add in methods later in a sort of procedural fashion. Eventually higher level concepts will be introduced.

Also to this point of yours, "It doesn't have first-level functions, instead it has blocks (which can take parameters to serve the same use as functions but aren't)."

That is one of those things that comes from someone that hasn't spent enough time with the language. While the treatment is slightly different, the outcome is the same. Ruby supports closures and passing methods to methods.

Before you retort with, "But blocks/procs aren't 'really' methods", you might also want to step back and realize that Ruby also allows any method to be passed as well using &Object.method(:method_name); that basically says "Oh hey; pass this method just like a block".
> I think you have the causality backwards though. Tables were used for layout before CSS existed. When CSS was created, it was designed to mimic exactly what was possible to do in HTML

That's exactly what I said. I think the difference is in our interpretation of that causality: you see it as an intentional concession in the name of backwards compatibility; I see it as a failure of imagination.
> I miss the games I played as a kid on my SNES and Sega Mega Drive.

I think this may be a defining factor for a lot of people in this thread. As a kid, time management is extremely different. You presumably had much more time and less options of things to pick from, so for the most part, video games may have taken up a large percentage of what you enjoyed, and even what you cared about.

As a kid, I would sit for hours playing the nes Zelda and repeatedly dying, picking up the controller, and having another go. But now, now if I even have time to play video games, I just want to sit down and play some mind-numbing, flashy video game to blow off some steam. After a day of work, I don't want to continually be challenged and exert mental effort.

I just wish that both clever and mind-numbing games were still being built, but lately consumer trends have skewed towards the mind-numbing.. which I do believe is unfortunate for people with more time and interest in playing quality video games, namely the next generation of kids.
The financials had to be calculated. That is a given. But what about the psychological/social implications? It seems that would be a far more important side to consider.
Most likely because advertisers pay much more.
If I'm not mistaken, they have also increased the price of the powder. It is listed now at $280 for 28 days (112 meals), which used to be $255 (when I bought it). Or had they already changed that pricing?
Alan Hamlett is awesome and I wish that team all the best!
It's a Tragedy of the Commons situation: When we block ads, we do it relatively aggressively, so those that implement advertising in an acceptable way get crushed anyway. You are either using ads people don't see, or doing terrible things like many Minecraft mods, often downloaded by kids, and hosted at a particularly nasty site where the obvious download link gives you malware. To block horrible things like that, we also sink anyone trying to use sensible advertisements. Behaving like a good citizen just gives a website less revenue, and gains them pretty much nothing.

At least one ad blocker tried to avoid this by marking some advertisements as legitimate/unobtrusive, and not blocking them. That didn't fly very well, as the rest of us just claimed that they were in league with advertisers, and just using this unblocking as a different source of revenue.

That's why the good actors are moving towards mixing advertisements and other content to be so similar as to be impossible to filter. Sponsored stories, content modified to add a few links to advertisers and such. Pay people not to post advertisements on their page, but to actively talk about you in the same way they talk about other things on their site.
I would love this from someone with the know
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I don't think it's just that Ruby isn't a good intro to programming. I don't think Object Oriented languages are a good intro to programming. OOP is just way too abstract. In the teaching I've done (some adults and kids) they tend to get the basics of FP where everything is just a list much better than the weirdness of objects.
I'm not sure that repealing Glass-Steagall was the problem. We did have the savings & loan crisis and that was prior to the repeal.

Personally I think it has more to do with the banks going public and then being on the treadmill of ever increasing profits. The NYT has a piece on the issue from 1999.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7DF1639F...

Slate also documents the banks going public, again prior to repealing Glass-Steagall.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2010/01/the_...
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I'm hosting at virtual access in Uitgeest. Any difference you see is most likely because the server this is on is a massive beast.
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If all ads get blocked, all advertisers go bust.
Right after I graduated with my BSCS in 2002, I went into the Army for four years (which is how I got my clearance). The only employers willing to even look at me ("if you love programming so much, why haven't you been doing it for the past four years?") were defense companies, and only because I already had a clearance. :)

We sometimes hire fresh grads without a clearance, but experienced hires are generally expected to already have them. It's not cheap (and definitely not fast) to get someone a clearance. Though, some companies/contracts/projects are probably more flexible on this, especially if they have something unclassified you can work on while they wait for your clearance to come through.
haha I think they were implying the opposite
Extensive plots for Germany for comparison:

http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-files...
It's convenient and relatively healthy to my knowledge. Blended with some peanut butter or fruit it's pretty tasty too.
Yes, this is exactly why I think a guide examining such a topic would be good. You get a doc page for it (see icebraining's comment), but that's about it. Performance gets covered often, thinking about how to get the most of PostgreSQL's type system doesn't.

I don't really use this feature to drive structure (really at all), but do use it extensively when programming functions in PL/pgSQL. I also exploit this in queries sometimes as well. It's not a life changing feature to be sure, but it is relatively unique and can help solve problems that are more cumbersome to solve without the feature.
Other dogs, obviously
Putting your content up for free is the same as throwing your magazine over my fence for free.

I think you have the chain of events backwards. You are describing spam. A better analogy is that there are a hundred magazine providers waiting by your fence and then you ask them to throw you their magazines.

You are right though that the consumer is empowered with technology to block or not block - but the broader problem is that consumers have shown over time that they aren't willing to pay for content (at scale) so they are left with making money somehow.
Try http://www.joylent.eu
It's the european clone. I love it.
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Raw meat. Unlike us, they can manufacture all the other vitamins they need.
Good points and well written, however it all depends on perspective. Most of us don't have the same investment as someone imprisoned for speaking out.

The author bemoans the demise of blogging and the rise of decentralization, I remember bemoaning the rise of blogging bringing about the end of Usenet. It's always sad when you see your favorite niche of the internet disappear but it also smacks of elitism when you complain endlessly about what the masses want.

My kids think of YouTube as the empowering platform and free streaming music as their birthright. If I tried to get them excited about Usenet or gopher they would call me out as the old fart I am.
Awesome.

Is it just me with my limited sample or is there a huge trend towards recurrent neural networks, deep learning, and natural language processing right now?

This, combined with other sources, could be a good way to find indicators of what we should all be brushing up on.
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Not even close, 9 requests, 145 kilobytes, total time 300 ms. You're loading 3 css files and 5 files related to fonts.

But not as bad as most, so there's hope :)
Ensure has a much higher glycemic index. And its lower fat and dietary fiber doesn't give much satiety(I think as intended).
Most diet shakes are still in the "fat is bad" mindset, and almost all the calories come from simple carbohydrates.
Soylent has a better texture after hydrating for some time.
One would hope. The problem is, content produced on Reddit (and HN) is way better than content produced by newspapers, by a very simple mechanism: someone posts an article to Reddit/HN, people start debunking all the bullshit, misinterpretations and lies journalists wrote in that article.

Newspapers have a lot of trust to regain with people. But then again, I suppose the general population doesn't give a rat's ass about the truth, and want to read only something shocking to use as a "social object" (i.e. something you can start discussing with other people you meet).
SOFORT(.com) has built a strong market presence in Germany and is expanding throughout Europe. They basically do the same thing you are talking about: provide an easy "check-out" experience using customers' banking credentials and custom crawlers.

The solution is well-liked by merchants. Banks generally don't like it (for obvious security/privacy reasons), but are cautious in actually preventing it. SOFORT actually used to be the only payment method to buy german train tickets online without a surcharge. In a recent ruling, a court deemed this to be an inacceptable intrusion to privacy, forcing the train operator to offer another free means of payment.

Pending EU legislation (PSD II) will force banks to offer some sort of limited API access that'll allow users to sensibly share access with services like Mint or SOFORT.
Soylent is a step up if you currently have an unhealthy diet though, and I'd wager you could make the same argument about an unhealthy diet missing something vital.
Thanks for the info, knew about OpenKnit, but the other two were new to me. Do you have a link to 'nervous systems'? I can't find it online.

In the interest of completeness, there's also OSLOOM (no visible progress since 2013 though): http://www.osloom.org
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