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It may vary with age.

I have two aunts and an uncle, all of whome were vegetarians for over 15 years and then were advised by their doctors to either supplement regularly or go back to eating some meat, simply due to protein deficiency and muscle attrophy, even though they're cyclists and hikers and just generally active people.

Personal circumstance definitely matters too. I work out regularly and over the past 6 years or so I've found recovery to be most difficult, long, and painful if I dont hit my goal of at least 1g of protein per lb of body weight, daily, from variable sources for continuous breakdown.

Yeah, I tried to edit the "completely" out of my phrasing almost immediately but comments had already been left so I couldn't.

To clarify, soy is a complete protein. What I meant was that the levels of BCAAs in soy are relatively low - especially when only taking in ~80g of total protein / day as the recipe suggests. This is why many longterm vegetarians/vegans often still have to supplement, dispite a high-soy diet. Soy protein is composed of about 18% BCAAs and is fast to metabolise, especially when isolated and diluted in liquid. Furthermore, without solid food in your stomach, certain enzymes are never released by your body's GI so metabolism is left almost entirely to your kidneys.

I'd like to point out that I'm as skeptical of Soylent as anyone else, but I'll start from the top.

Your synical tone, mocking comments, and blatant insults - based entirely on personal opinion - classify this as trolling.

Saying that everyone has access to food/tools/knowledge... i dont think I really need to touch this, Im sure even you realise your error in making this comment.

As for storage/transport vs local growing - go grow a sustainable crop during a drought. Grow one in contaminated or depleted soil. Grow one during a war. If you can manage any/all of these things then Soylent is the least of your problems because you've just solved the global food crisis and you're an international hero so you don't need to be bothering me anymore.

Overindulgance & Slimfast .... slimfast only demonstrates the validity of portioned drinks as a weight-controller so I'm not sure where you're going here.

There is no race to win - find a competetive career and get back to me on this one. Also, just because you choose how to spend you time doesn't mean there is no 'inefficient' or 'wasted' time. Go stare at the wall repeating "gummybears" in your head for the next hour and then tell me all about the value you found in it.

Lastly, whats 'abnormal' is saying "I don't get how anyone sees a positive outcome for [40% of people too damn fat for their own good]".

Writing off 40% of the population simply because they suffer with food and weight problems. THATS abnormal.

So if starting tomorrow, you knew that your body only required you to sleep for one hour a night to maintain and repair itself instead of 7-8 you would continue sleeping 7-8 simply because you think its a good use of time?

I doubt it.

You might still lay around in bed on your days off, or you might stay in bed to procrastinate when faced with something to do that day, but arguing that it would still be a good use of time is extremely flawed.

Its not about whether you "like food" or not.

• Not everyone has access to proper ingredients/tools/knowledge that are required for maintaining a proper diet.

• The vast majority of food is perishable and does not transport/keep/distribute well.

• Lots of people like food too much and overindulge.

Your analogy of sex would be more appropriate if you made it analogous to sleep.

Many people out there love to sleep. But I don't think anyone would argue that sleeping is a "good" or "efficient" use of time, nor do I think anyone would be opposed to providing more or better sleep to those who currently struggle with it.

Soylet is flawed, but subjectively arguing that Soylent is stupid because you like to stuff your face makes you as ignorant as those "40% of people too damn fat for their own good" that you so readily attack, it just means you have a better control mechanism.

Stop trolling.

This mix is completely devoid of BCAAs. Soy protein has no branch chain amino acids - meaning it completely lacks THE fundamental building blocks used in building all bodily tissue.

Look more into different kinds of protein. You might also want to do this for your carbs. Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after. Complex carbs have a completely different rate and method of metabolism.

Please don't offer this as an option to people until you've done some substantial (read minimal) research. At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment and not a hobby-kit. Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.

My mistake. I had been poking around the raspbmc site and saw that he was at King's College - theres also a Kings College in London Canada and I jumped to conclusions.

Looking up his blog made that pretty apparent .co.uk :P

Check out Raspbmc. Its a rPi version of xbmc running on a custom kernel.

The project is run by a student here in London, ON Canada.

http://www.raspbmc.com/

Just went through it on my iPhone.

First, nicely done. The interface is clean, the progression bar is helpful.

A few suggestions: It would be nice to have a bell go off both at the beginning and end of the rest period, so you don't miss the beginning of the next 30second sprint. On my phone I only hear a bell at the start of the rest period. I would also suggest displaying the graphic for the next exercise during the rest period. I work out regularly but I still didnt know what a "push up and twist" was so by the time I figured it out I had already missed 5-8 seconds of the sprint.

Nice to see products like this generating conversation. Keep up the good work.

Complete nonsense... Did I say Ƀ was the standard? Did I say ฿ was the standard?

No, I noted they used Ƀ and gave the previous article props for bringing that symbol more recognition. Did I say they invented it? No.

All of you need to stop trolling, comments like the ones in response to my OP are what ruins HackerNews.

This is a moot point. I recognize that more people use ฿ than Ƀ. I was simply stating what was used on the site and congratulating the use of (what I consider) to be a more visually appealing symbol.

Congrats on using yourself as your own source. Don't beg the question and stop trolling.

Definitely a bubble forming - bitcoins marketcap was 1B only a week ago (http://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap).

Note they also use the Ƀ (B with stroke) to represent Bitcoin. Kudos to ECOGEX for their discussion a few weeks ago that set this in motion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451084).

Well for starters, where do you live? Let me know where you're at and we can fix this for you.

Google Play requires that you list the countries that you would like your app to be available in. We kept our list relatively short for our beta release, which is effectively what you're trying to download.

This is HackerNews, of course the plug comes first :)

In answer to your question though, yes, quality is not a guarantee. Luckily Facebook has its own built in ranking system - are your friends commenting on the picture? If so, it will probably be worth viewing regardless of image quality

The reality is, this rarely occurs and really isn't that bothersome.

We've been building Frontpage - a similar product for making RSS, news and social feeds all available from the Lock Screen - for a few months now. Same idea, no inputting passwords. No fumbling through multiple apps. Just easy access to your content.

http://www.frontpageapp.com

Check out Frontpage, its an RSS reader that lets you browse all your feeds right from your lock screen. No inputting passwords or fumbling through multiple apps.

We've been working on it for the past few months.

http://www.frontpageapp.com

Download a service like Hotspot Shield. It will run your IP through a proxy and make it look like you live in the US. Boom - US HULU, US Netflix, no problem

hi bnjd, thanks for giving Frontpage a try.

We're aware of the issues involved with lockscreen apps, it comes with the territory. Old versions of Android are fragmented, and even new versions are often restructured for franchise use - HTC is one company that does this and it is likely the root of the desktop showing periodically on yours. Android is slowly becoming more standardized and this will help, in the meantime we're just doing the best we can.

I'll do my best to address the no-connection failure. Does it completely shut down the app? Could you be more specific about the text? Is is too small? Wrong color? Any background suggestions? Its currently a minimum viable product so feel free to toss out what you'd like to see :)

Thanks again for the review.

Hi jpasden, thanks for taking a look and sorry we couldnt offer a solution for your operating system.

We realise that content on the lockscreen might seem counterintuitive, but we view mobile more in terms of consumption/production than in terms of on/off.

Traditional lock screens serve as a barrier between on and off while Frontpage offers a choice between production and consumption. The lockscreen is a great space for consuming content because its highly accessible. Its a bad place for production because it lacks security (obviously). By viewing mobile this way keeping the two separate, we believe we can greatly improve your mobile user experience.

Hi cdl, we're happy you like it!

You hit the nail on the head: mobile is all about accessability so we built Frontpage to bring your content to you, the way it should be.

The low image count is just the nature of The New York Times. Next week we're rolling out a bunch of new publications which use pictures more often so be sure to check for updates!

We'll also be introducing an article caching system to fix those loading delays.

Thanks for your input! Email info@frontpageapp.com if you'd like to be kept up to date on Frontpage's progress as we move forward.

The app is free! Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.frontpageapp.com

Hi rbchv, thanks for taking a minute to check out Frontpage.

The site has some issues for sure. Try zooming out - unfortunately it is currently styled with a native width of 1300 which is too wide and causes some resizing problems.

As for the name, there are standards in place regarding trademarks and logos which require a level of similarity between products. There is no conflict here. Thanks for looking out though!

What did you think of the app itself? Try it out!

The Price is Free!

frontpageapp.com

The price is free!

frontpageapp.com

Hi mflindell, what browser were you using to visit the site? This issue was occurring in Chrome for 2 reasons: the first was to do with image scaling and has now been resolved thanks to your comments. The second is due to Chrome's DNS Pre-fetching feature which causes many sites to lag. To disable this feature, look for "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" under the 'Show advanced settings' section of Chrome's settings tab.

Thanks for your input, and sorry we havent been able to put together an iOS version for you. Maybe if we get enough users, one day Apple will reconsider.

In the meantime, please tweet about us @thefrontpageapp. The sooner we succeed on Android, the sooner we can set our sights elsewhere. Cheers!

The app is free! Give it a try and let me know what you think, any feedback is appreciated.

http://www.frontpageapp.com

I suppose my point was that iOS keeps things reasonably simply--they have a swipe-down notifications window now, you can scan back and forth through home-screen panels and you can access your apps list.

ICS now has the home-screen x666 panels, your apps list, a seperate tab for widgets and another mess of panels, the new people window, your list of recent apps, a home button, a back button, twelve-hundred other buttons (all of which can be reassigned by any running application), blah blah blah.

I know I'm obviously exaggerating, my point is the OS shouldnt promote the kind of clutter that I'm seeing in what should be a clean-cut OS-release demo.

You're right, any sloppy user can make a mess of the iPhone interface. But as a mobile platform, the OS shouldnt promote sloppiness and with all its tabs and panels and pages in addition to all the physical buttons already present.

The VM that Android runs on, as is pointed out in another comment, is designed to kill off processes if it needs resources. Either way, its never been a selling point of Android for me, personally.

I've still found that running multiple applications starts to cause touch-events to go unnoticed, swiping to jump around, etc. But to your credit my experience may be a fault of the device rather than the OS itself. I know dalvik is a good resource manager and all, i just tend on the side of caution i guess. Some peoples' apps try to manipulate the OS in strange ways.

I've got to say, I've had high hope for ICS, both as a user and developer but this OS looks extremely disappointing.

From a user perspective, the interface is super cluttered. Its like Windows, just a screen full of icons and battery-eating widgets.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-...

Check the video out on the link. Watch how long it takes him just to find the camera for the demonstration--at first he doesnt even know which way to go. Its just too much for a phone if you ask me. Even with its oversized screen the Nexus looked crowded. Its not a tablet--less is more.

Furthermore, as a developer I dont like this descision to keep apps running even when you side-swipe them out of the 'active-app' list. Google reps claim that Android can handle resources well enough that we never need to worry about completely closing any app but if you ask me that sounds suspect. If resources are that plentiful and the OS is still completely open-source then its only a matter of time until this is exploited and the phone starts to lag. And if something does go wrong in an app I apparently can't kill it? I just see a number of problems down the road.

Very disappointed.