skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so valid.

Don't wait for some arbitrary monetary goal before you live life exactly how you want to. Money makes some things easier, but also makes a lot of things harder. It will not buy you happiness, it will not buy you meaning and it won't stop your wife from dumping your ass if you don't do your job at home (she'll just take half of your "money" with her on the way out).

I always think of this story when I hear this type of question: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/09/08/the-fisherman-and-the-...
I read your link. I didn't see what you were implying is "misinformation" if anything the link only supports that there is legitimate concerns about soy and that the only group to benefit are women with low estrogen levels (postmenopausal).

Also the article says things like: "[lowers] LDL and Total Cholesterol" but doesn't dive into the fact that lowering your total cholesterol is bad for your health. Since there is good and bad cholesterols, if you lower everything you're damaging your health (see the 1980s obsession with lowering all cholesterols for example). But, yes, lowering LDL alone is good as far as we know.

I don't think day to day people need to be actively avoiding soy, or heck even not having the occasional soy based meal. But we're talking about a meal replacement diet based almost entirely on soy, that's a big deal, and the health implications cannot just be glossed over.

If anything your link has made more more concerned about the impact of a purely Soylent diet on all groups except postmenopausal women who may benefit.
That's incredible! The good news is that it's already warm and humid (woodwinds have a much harder time with being warmed up after very cold storage).
I've always assumed it's because if you read it it's filled with some awesome love/acceptance/transcendence stuff and some really terrible bronze age horrors. It would be too terrible to actually take it at face value.
I have done a lot of interviews where I was told that I was the single strongest candidate on the tech screen. I would be told, in the interview, that I correctly answered questions that no other previous candidate could, often prefaced with "I don't know exactly, but if I had to guess..."

And then I never hear from them again.

I am not making this up. And this has happened on multiple occasions. I get strong positive feedback during an interview, then the company falls into a black hole. They don't contact me. They don't return phone calls or email. Ever.

It happens at least once a month, whenever I start looking for new jobs.
This is practically spam at this point. There's two of them on the first page right now.
The boost::variant example seems quite painful. I'd use boost::hana instead.
Well that makes it more interesting. I've always been impressed with the stuff written up on the BitSquid dev blog over the years.

http://bitsquid.blogspot.co.uk/
Also, how do you preserve the mystery in an age where you can google a JPEG that has every bombable location highlighted?

Video games no longer have that thrill of discovery because the Internet has ruined it. I loved the original Zelda, but we can never go back to that. So while I appreciate the nostalgia, it's like saying newspapers were a better model of journalism than the web. True or not, there's no going back.
Meh. I'm not from Philly and I'd be pretty damn tempted to decapitate it as well (if I wasn't so busy that I passed by without even noticing it).
Yep. Like getting Woz (who had a day job) to come in out of hours and do a lot of the work, then take the credit for it, and then not give Woz a fair share of the bonus...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atari...
Morgan's Paradox for Freelancers
Soylent < 2.0 seemed to leverage the promise of easy shipping/portability, which > 2.0 seems to lose? Soylent as a sustainable nutrition source in areas where it's far superior to what little nutrition may be available, is less likely stable in liquid form. It's a shame, as this seemed to be one of the greatest promises of the brand beyond convenience. Not sure what the differentiation is anymore, amongst other MRP's such as Phood.
Unfortunately the word free is a little ambiguous since it can be free (as in beer) but suddenly you are charged because you make something stupid (or someone hacked your account and created a zillion services)
If you open the discussion section of any article on HN that is behind a paywall you'll find a link that bypasses the paywall and a discussion about how paywalled content shouldn't even be allowed on HN.

So even though they created something of value (otherwise it wouldn't be on the front page) but most people still won't pay for the content.
It's like people think that they know some nutritional secret that soylent hasn't thought of. I take them on their word that they're taking this seriously and every time I read a comment about "Soylent is so clueless! How could they have thought of 'X'?!" then I google "soylent X" and find an extremely detained post explaining how they're taken 'X' in to account.
Ads can be content. The best ones usually are.
I didn't say they got all of the good developers, but they definitely pull a lot of them. For a really good developer it makes sense to at least try to work at one of the companies for awhile. The money is good, and it ends up being a great resume builder. Are there great devs who are passed over or who do not want to work at the big companies? Sure, but the big companies do suck a lot of the talent out of the pool.
Not everyone owns a radio station, but anyone can do a podcast
There is nothing in your response which is an argument against what I wrote. I grant everything you said is true -- it does not minimize my argument at all.
> It doesn't sound like you're describing a world in which someone with 10+ years of solid experience with techs is going to be struggling to find a job, right?

Overqualification (or the perception thereof) happens. The development world, like most others, is a bit of a pyramid. More experience doesn't necessarily translate to more positions being available. Some (many, even) are specifically targeted at young, entry level devs.
Centralization is a law of nature. It allows for more efficiency through economies of scale.

It's not unthinkable that Facebook will be the top destination 20 years from now if they are (1) successful with internet.org and (2) first-to-market with a viable virtual reality product.
EnjoySAP – Success Factors in a User-Oriented Software Development Process
As some said this post feels completely uninspired.
If you breathe code you have a world of options to create a living wage.
Go out, meet people, work with them (create their minimal products, help them further their agenda) and you will see results.
Just looking at the product page makes me feel like I'm in a PKD short story.
Because the nature of the content is so different, the costs may also be different.

HBO also just recently changed its entire business model. It used to not be purchased directly by consumers. The old model was they sold themselves to the cable companies, and the cable companies sold HBO to consumers. HBO Now changes that, and it's possible it will also change the nature of HBO.
I didn't have any negative feelings toward the taste of soylent 1.x. However, I did realize just how much I enjoy the taste of real, good food.
Common values unite journalism and open source
> I'd say it goes deeper than this: there's a greater emphasis today on the candidate being productive from day one.

Which drives me crazy. Nobody can be truly productive on day one. You have processes to learn, even if it is just an informal "way we do things". You have existing code to become familiar with. You have team dynamics to work into. It takes time.

Personally, I cringe whenever I read a job advert mentioning that the candidate will "push to production on day one". Neither company I have worked for would allow that, let alone expect it. Nor would any company I start in the future, should I ever manage to.
So I'm self taught, no degree, and I get job offers and headhunters out of the blue from all over the central US. Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago, and small cities I've never heard of.

The best thing I ever did was look at my friends early on who were getting found on linked in and organized my linkedin profile to look as similar as theirs as I could truthfully. The next best thing was taking 6 months off from freelance work to just build a portfolio of small projects that demonstrated the skills people were looking for, and it made interviews much simpler.

I honestly refuse technical interviews at this point because they're a waste of time and I don't study the crap they ask for and it indicates technical leadership can't spot a good developer by looking at what they've built and talking to them about their methodology.

If I really want a new job pronto, I email 5 recruiters who send me the most random postings and tell them what I'm looking for. Last time I did this I had 6 interviews scheduled that week and was in a new job that met my requirements in 2. This is in Kansas City, and while there is a fair amount of tech worker shortage here it's no where near what it is other places.

Honestly the OP's story doesn't sound all that different from my own. Started a tech company in grad school, taught myself javascript and front end work, left just before what we started was sold for a small amount and didn't get anything out of it except exhaustion and credit card payments on top of student loans. But my "40 hour a week vacation" as I called it didn't work out and I got dumped in an executive reshuffling. Did one of those code bootcamps to learn back end C# .Net MVC work in 6 months and got my first developer job at $40k, got the next one at $60k 6 months later, $75k 6 months after that, and $100k 6 months after that.

It's very doable anywhere in the country right now, but you can't just float down stream. You have to have a plan and actively work it and check yourself against the market and learn stuff people want you to know to get to the next level. Your skillset is not a constant, and it's up to you to demonstrate that you have it. If you leave it up to someone else to figure out how to do all that you're screwed, because if they knew how to do that they wouldn't hire so many developers who don't know what they're doing.
You could randomize it, or generate it procedurally.
They've considered that: http://discourse.soylent.com/t/phytic-acid-not-enough-of-it-...
Having experience /is/ attractive. Not having it, though, is opposite of attractive, especially at 40 and without a degree.

Reading the article, I don't think "Now, life at a traditional office was not that bad: barely any work to be done, it mostly involved sitting at a desk and writing some emails all day. " means he had a developer job.
> Well yeah... it's completely delusional to think a 3 month developer should earn the median income for programmers.

$75k is not the median income for programmers. $75k is the median income for anyone in SF. Which is exactly my point. To expect engineers to live in SF, you have to be willing to pay exorbitant salaries just to break even. If you want to pay a good salary, you pretty much have to pay 6 figures. Don't like it? Move to Cleveland or Detroit. I'm pretty sure $75k would be considered a great salary there. Just don't complain that developers cost too much and then require them to live somewhere with such a high cost of living.
Sorry if it wasn't apparent but I agree / advocate strongly for what you mention, and we use that model at my company. If you look at how Om evolved though, it started out with that simple model of passing the state object down to child components. Then cursors were implemented to make it easier to pass around parts of your global state without having components needing to know everything.

GraphQL doesn't mean moving to stateful components, it's just a nicer way to have a singleton data store because instead of chunking and passing a map around, components can declare which data they need. In that system components are still read only, and dispatch to external pure functions.

David Nolen does a great job talking about the trade offs and the evolution of everything in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNs9TG30E8& I highly recommend it!
Yeah, I could see how that would be quite frustrating and defeating. There was no satisfaction greater than fully completing a game. Can you imagine reading a book with some of the chapters missing and requiring external resources to read?
Extensive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303

Really extensive discussion.

Of course, this article is different from that one, so perhaps discussion specifically related to this article should be had here, although no doubt many points will be repeated.

Tricky.
I think you are massively underestimating the difficulties to get published in a decent journal.
Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of Internet
Open your account with a $100 Visa gift card.
There are plenty of very healthly adults raised on formula. There is not strong evidence either way and your comment is a great example of how fringe and trend chasing nutrition can be. The same can be said for soylent and probably every other diet fad out there. Will it kill you? No. Is it the secret to eternal health and well being? Also no. So tired of diet fads on HN.
It may be more accurate to say that The Valley has different standards for software development on web & mobile than employers in other regions and in different categories. The quality of a developer depends on the overlap of their skills and the employer's needs; never judge a fish by how well it can climb a tree.
The visual scripting is provided by Unreal in terms of Blueprints natively, and Unity has a widely popular GameMaker package.
I wasn't very clear - I don't want to share the details of my drunk exploits with my parents, if something happens that is relevant to them and my friends I add it to both. Hardly takes a minute.
A few ideas off the top of my head:

Go to a gaming conference and show it to people there.

Talk to some of the well-respected (note: that's not the same thing as popular) gaming folks on YouTube or Twitch, and let them try it.

Find well-respected gaming bloggers/reviewers and show it to them.

If what you're building is VR but not exclusive to gaming, talk to people in the field it applies to.

Go to a technology conference and talk about how you built the software or how you solved some particularly interesting challenge.

If you're building on some other projects, talk to the authors of those projects, and show them what you've built (along with giving them credit in your own project).

Make a video yourself and post it to YouTube, in concert with any of the above.

Start building a network of people who are interested in what you do, so the next time you can just post interesting things to that network.
> Strangely, for me it was getting fit. What a very odd thing to put off till some unlikely future.

Yeah, tell me about this one. I'm a guy who had a heart-attack, right in the middle of a period of time when we seemed to be getting some momentum going with the startup. I knew I was being silly putting off working out and being active and eating healthy, but I figured "things will level off soon and I'll get back to that stuff". Ummm.. no. Didn't work out that way. And when you're on the back of an ambulance being rushed to the emergency room, it's a bit late to start worrying about getting fit.

Luckily for me, I survived, and I've gotten back into bike riding big time again, and now I take time out to go ride an hour or so a few days a week, work be damned. :-)

So there's at least one lesson I learned and benefited from, but what a horrible way to do it. If anything I say on HN can help influence anybody else, let it be this.... DO NOT DO WHAT I DID. Take your health seriously, and do it starting NOW, regardless of how old you are. Remember, the artery damage that leads to heart-disease (and ultimately, heart attacks) begins very young... in some cases as early as your teen years (maybe earlier in some extreme cases). And definitely by your twenties, if you aren't eating right, watching your lipid profile, staying active, etc., you are setting yourself up for problems later.
If you're simply explaining why you think that people have that reaction, then that's a very good assertion - appreciate the input.

If you're posing an argument, then imo, you're largely mistaken. Most (needs citation) people don't use Soylent-like products to remove a positive human experience. They remove the "human experiences" that they already struggled with, and don't want.

For example, I'm not skipping out on meals with my family and loved ones. Those are social interactions, the food is just something to prompt the social interaction.

However, when i'm alone in my house getting ready for work - I don't think these are part of this "human experience" you refer to.

I suppose you could say removing a bad human experience is still removing a human experience, but then.. why are we arguing in favor of those bad experiences?
I'm surprised, no mention of Reddit?
Nokia's digital mapping bought by German carmakers
I'm in Seattle and am getting lots of contact from recruiters in DFW and Austin, and not just the usual LinkedIn spam BS. My background is heavy on DevOps and I've got about a 50/50 split on .NET and Java.
Something like "If the web stops, it goes backwards" or "The web must develop to survive" would be a more contextual title here.
Is there that much of a difference between that and telling the browser to download and cache a common CSS file for the site? Assuming the common CSS doesn't have a lot of cruft in it.
Let's say that a site owner switched to a micropayment model. And they charged per page view what they had been earning on average from serving ads. They'd be fine, right?

I can't imagine that many sites are earning $5 per month in ad income for each of their regular users. But maybe someone could point to some reliable data?
I've deleted some "Share this" and such stuff if epub and it's available here – https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws3xakwcd6dqbss/Breaking%20Smart%2...
I've had no problems using Linode Images with that as the limit. I use it to pre-bake some package updates that take a while so that I can use the image to provision new systems:

https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/image-bu...

https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/deploy.r...
https://diy.soylent.com/wiki/other-nutrients
On point 3 I'd say yes, enthusiastic people learn new stuff, but it has limits. There is too much technology for any one person to master, but I also think it's a trap to spend too much time constantly learning the latest technology, at the expense of actually building stuff (and learning from the experience).

At least I found myself falling into that the last time I was between jobs -- constantly watching beginner videos on new thing X, Y, Z instead of actually doing something useful in one of them.

Back in employed world of course it can be the opposite -- you become a master of whatever tech your company is using but get little exposure outside that. It is however often possible to guide the company into a new technology and get the best of both worlds.
The poster I was replying to said he doesn't consider any form of advertising as "acceptable". So according to him, either posting a Show HN is not advertising, or it's not acceptable. I don't see how it could be consider anything other than advertising.
It thought this was pretty interesting, especially the negative reaction of some of the other businesses in Seattle.

>"Leah Brajcich, who oversees sales at Gravity, fielded complaints from several customers who accused her boss of communist or socialist sympathies that would drive up their own employees’ wages and others who felt it was a public relations stunt."
There is no over-supply of developers, there is an oversupply of CVs?
Was the text at the bottom hidden for anybody other then me? I had to highlight it to see it. It seemed like a Easter egg, but I'm not sure.

It was below "Sum types and pattern matching are awesome."
A while back, a highly-educated friend and I were driving through an area that had a lot of data centers. She asked me what all of those gigantic blocks of buildings contained. I told her that they were mostly filled with many servers that were used to host all sorts of internet services.

It completely blew her mind. She had no idea that the services that she and billions of others used on their phones actually required millions and millions of computers to transmit and process the data. I'm not sure how she thought it worked, but even after I explained it to her, she couldn't comprehend that there were servers on the other end of her phone.

Magic.
I genuinely think it's a great piece, no sarcasm intended (though I obviously playfully ignored the fact that the OP was implying the opposite)

Experiments in general are meant to be simplistic. The goal is to remove as many confounding factors as possible to isolate a single phenomenon and study it.

From there, he builds up to a more realistic model by incorporating more and more factors.
Maybe through 0.facebook.com [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fast-and-free-facebo...
Feedly does what GoogleReader used to do and it's based on the GoogleReader API. Unlike GoogleReader there is a subscription based premium membership available in addition to the basic ad supported service. I was an avid GR user and Feedly (basic) has served me very well after it was shuttered.
(I am not affiliated in any way with Feedly. Have tried many RSS readers and Feedly IMO is the best of the bunch.)
I haven't watched TV in more than a decade. Nobody I know watches it. It had been almost entirely superseded by cable channels, which are being superseded by streaming now. I though this is self-evident and does not require an elaborate explanation.

What does require some explanation in the order of events. At some point television had decent TV programs. People still stream and torrent them. They are classics. Than the overall quality declined. Only then cable sort of "stepped in", became more prominent and got good content. (In the process, however, news programs became what they are right now.)

Interestingly, the shift to streaming is quite different.
Nice web site, I really liked your comments in it.

I've been writing this on and off for the past 6 years. Whenever something peaks my interest I write it up.

s/peaks/piques/

Ref: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pique
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I agree that these are good things to do, and I actually do most of them already. But how can you consider these things "not advertising", such that you find them acceptable? These are forms of advertising. These tasks aren't managing the project, they are certainly not building the project. That pretty much just leaves marketing the project.
Right. I suspect the response to my answer depends partly on whether you're old enough to remember how all pervasive AOL was.
The 187.5 radio signals from space are transmitting PI