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> I trust my diet to an unqualified individual (me), as do most people.

If you live in a country which adheres to standards of food safety and has regulatory bodies to protect and promote public health then I disagree. You entrust those bodies and the qualified individuals within them because they ensure what you purchase is what it says it is. Soylent has not reached this level of evaluation.

> An hour a day is 6% of your waking life.

If Soylent works completely as advertised yes you gain time. Should it lead to any kind of health problems it's more than likely you lose time.

I'm starting to think this has to be a viral marketing campaign / social experiment.

It's an interesting premise that people would entrust their long term health to unqualified individuals, who lack the resources to employ qualified individuals, simply for an extra hour everyday.

Although I agree with you on many points I think you might be projecting onto D9u's comment. Nothing in the quote he posted suggests it is necessary to disband the NSA, nothing suggests Americans should wish they lived in a country like Russia. A 'course taken' implies a general direction, not a revolutionary change.

In the current situation Russians should be allowed to feel pride that it was their decrepit mafia state that opposed the United States on Snowden. That doesn't mean Russia did it for the right reasons, or that Russia is now a better place than it was before. A lot of Russians who feel pride in this action would probably still take the opportunity to live and work in the USA, the two are not mutually exclusive.

The problem I have with posts like yours is that they imply that because other places are a mess that exonerates the USA heading in that direction too.

The website would also suggest the laptop comes with a sunlight readable screen which presumably doesn't rely on brightness.

I'm not sure if you're serious here. The UK government doesn't own the vast majority of the cameras in the UK which make up this 'huge' number. The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are not connected to a grand network. The majority of cameras are in small shops / stores and are used to provide evidence for shoplifting or other types of theft. It's the owners choice as to whether they are there or not.

The UK government doesn't employ vast numbers of people to watch the live output of the minority of CCTV cameras they do own. The state owned CCTV is almost never used in a proactive sense. You can probably safely commit most crimes in full view of a CCTV camera in the UK. If someone reports you or you leave obvious evidence of the crime the CCTV tapes will be reviewed.

There is a massive difference between the man power requirements of analysing video footage compared to analysis of text.

'I dreamt of building something that would shake things up and improve the web.'

A serious question from an outsider - is this something people really believe or is it a platitude?

I seem to see this statement often since I started reading HN. On the other hand success seems to be measured in selling companies for large sums of money and moving on to something else. Does this really improve the web?

The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately owned and have no connection to the state.

The 4 million+ cameras in the UK statistic which has been floating around for about 10 years now was extrapolated from two streets in Wandsworth and was only ever really media bait. If you believed all these statistics the number of cameras in the UK would have dropped by more than half (over the past 10 years), since the last large scale estimate was under 2 million.

Good point. My apologies To Mr Markham.

80% of folks, however, could care less, as long as Farmville keeps working.

'Could care less' doesn't mean anything.

I think he is referencing 'Millennium Challenge 2002'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

No it is not a serious attempt at proving everything a body needs, not in the slightest.

If it was a serious attempt the soylent team would be composed of scientists with expertise in nutrition. Instead their website lists a lot of people with absolutely irrelevant skills. I can't think of anything associated with y-combinator which is quite as embarrassing as this.

Sadly one part of hopes this takes off, so that in 10 years time we have an idea of the long term results of a diet of this kind of nonsense. It will have been tested on the kind of people who have the arrogance to believe that because they understand business / computing the can 'solve' the worlds nutrition problem.

Speaking as someone with some years experience in ML to me there is a world of difference between the front page for wise.io and mynaweb.com (presuming these are the competing sites).

The Myna page explicitly states it uses multi armed bandit algorithms, the algorithm fits the properties of the following claims. Wise's use of 'patent-pending', 'machine learning technology' and 'deploy machine intelligence' gives the impression of hiding shortcomings with jargon.

In the academic field 'how exactly' a BCI is going to work is very well defined and there are only a limited number of basic types.

It's the representation of BCI in the media which is a joke. The actual science behind EEG based BCI is not that complex that the average person couldn't understand them. The disconnect between reality and peoples conception is similar to the way AI is represented, compared to what it is.

Being middle aged and not particularly into music I'm surprised to find I'm already aware of most of the 'next big things' on the front page. I don't think this is a good sign.

The is also a user on Reddit who posts lots of articles from this source to /r/raspberry_pi.

/r/raspberry_pi is basically overwhelmed with these type of articles. It also features a huge number of posts related to raspberry pi cases. Overall it is fairly disappointing.

These articles are much less informative than explaining how to google for this information.

She is on the board of advisors for RUMi OM™ YOUR SOUL VACATION™ HOME:

http://www.rumiom.com/index.php/board-of-advoisors.html

The other members are:

A mystery man who's biography is a copy and paste of the next mans bio.

The head of the International Schizophrenia Foundation, the ISF plays a vital role in improving health by 'Orthomolecular medicine'

Jerry Garcia's third wife Deborah Koons Garcia (A Filmmaker)

A Former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor.

A medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has researched shamanism.

A family physician practicing 'Integral Theory'.

I don't know any scientist who would be associated with this much nonsense and be expected to be taken seriously.

How many serious scientists would be on the board of advisors for RUMi OM™ YOUR SOUL VACATION™ HOME:

http://www.rumiom.com/index.php/board-of-advoisors.html

This is a nonsense story designed to promote some kind of pseudoscience yoga resort.

Weboob 'Web outside of Browsers', I can get that. But the attempt to put 'boob' in every application name? Am I missing something from a translation from French or is this meant to be comic?

Flatboob: Search for a house.

Wetboobs: Display current weather water levels and to see forecasts.

Nice to see application 'QHaveDate' was altered from 'QHaveSex'.

This is a yc site. I understand your position but if a consumer is having problems contacting a yc company why shouldn't they post here?

This has always been the case on Reddit. The list of top 10 users ranked by their comment karma is made up of less than 10 actual people.