skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your instructions provide a perfectly reasonable way to cook a steak, but the theory on searing locking in juices has been proven false (see Good Eats or America's Test Kitchen). The purpose of searing steak is to invoke the Maillard Reaction which dramatically increases flavor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
I get them every once in a while using FF. It has always resolved it self after a minute or so.
If you buy local you're much more likely to get beef that is grass fed, and not factory farm raised beef that is fed corn and lives in their own filth. You know in order to kill bacteria in ground beef, they actually use an ammonia bath, and they can only guarantee it will kill 99% of the bacteria? Somehow, the FDA thinks this is safe. What's the harm in 1% E. Cohli, after all?

Watch a documentary called Food, Inc. and become enlightened.
normally you would get an error on the first mkdir, but you could be tired and just using your history and changing the commands and realize a little late you did a lot of stuff somewhere you shouldn't. I had a bad night once with this (still use the -p anyway, but...).
I find myself having a really hard time taking a side on this issue. If a government, for example, mandated the teaching in school that it's people were genetically superior to all others (say in North Korea), I would say parents were well within their rights to withdraw their students from school. If, however, parents wanted to withdraw their students from school so they could 'teach' them that evolution isn't real, or to keep them from having to go to a school that was too racially diverse (say, in the South right after Brown vs. Board of Education), I would say that the parents are doing their own children harm and their children should have to go to school. I suppose I come down on the side that a government should have a right to impose educational standards, but like any government power it should be monitored closely because it is very easy to abuse.
I'd go with this one instead:
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-shiny-tech-st...
Just modify the text so it's not 3D, and the other elements so they translate well to a black & white printing without the need for shading.
France, Germany & UK spent $1.5 billion on casual gaming in 2009
here in Zürich, Switzerland, the map is exploding with buzzes of various people all over the place. Sometimes there's even conversation happening between complete strangers, which, trust me on that, is totally uncommon here in Switzerland :-)

In so far, buzz seems to have had a huge impact in the society I live in, so I'm happy.

The very aggressive binding to the location IMHO really emphasizes location dependent communication over general communication - something I have used Twitter for so far and probably will still be using in the future.

But for little, location dependent things like "don't visit restaurant x right now - it's full" or "it looks like the tram is late", buzz is incredibly useful and being heavily used for around here.

That it also spawns conversation between strangers is a nice additional benefit.
The author, Steve Gaynor, is one of my favourite video game bloggers, one who frequently argues with perfect clarity views about gaming that I nebulously felt internally but could never articulate. However, this particular post isn't a particularly interesting fit for the HN audience.

But while we're here, I'll link to a much more interesting post of his from last year, in which he gives some insight into what makes for interesting and engaging level design:

http://fullbright.blogspot.com/2009/02/basics-of-effective-f...
Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.
These articles are awesome.

I'm always fascinated by why people seem to think that studying the humanities is living the 'life of the mind', as opposed to hard sciences or engineering; fields which provide more robust means of testing the conclusions one has arrived at through mental effort.
1. After Nuremburg it was a show trial put on by Stalin, there was no justification for the court -- it wasn't like the laws they broke existed in some sort of international context.
2. Not to defend Guantanamo -- I think it's abhorrent, but it is not a war crimes court, it's a place where prisoners of "war" are being taken.

As I said before, I think the entire concept of war crimes in nebulous and if there is any enforcement it should be done by country affected.
What Developers Need to Know About Agile
I tried e-books and they just don't do it for me. Eye fatigue has a lot to do with it and there is something about the physical interaction with a paper book that makes the process feel different.

Computers are great for quick reference but not great for long bouts of reading...
Opera Software Released Opera Dragonfly as an open source project
What do you mean? First of all that was Germany, so 'EU governments' does not apply in that case. Second it is a big difference between buying information about your citizens and selling information about you citizens.
IProcessing: open framework for native iPhone apps using the Processing language
I completely agree that it was by no means a perfect source of information, but when you're at a school level and doing seven different subjects it was the most practical and possibly appropriate, as long as one looked beyond just Wikipedia.

Possibly not the best for teaching research skills with books - but it did help with learning to sift through a lot of information, which I'd argue is more useful that having your school assignment 100% correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internati...
At my High School, I used to rent out loads of Raymond Chandler novels, and some science fiction. So yes, if people enjoy reading, schools should provide books.
I don't know about the accommodation, but isn't the loss of peripheral vision like looking out of a window? Think of the movie screen as a big window into the world.

Not on the list (I think) but what about head movement of the viewer? If I move my head slightly to one side the picture stays the same while I expect to look behind an object.
Call it what you want, but it's still a factory farm. Cattle are fattened on a corn-based diet to a point where they have extreme problems like heart disease and obesity that would normally kill an animal if it wasn't destined for the slaughterhouse already. Your beef still has to be treated and bathed in an ammonia solution to kill the E. Cohli that is everywhere due to the cattle living in their own excrement.

Or how do you deal with the problem of manure in the pens? Surely you can't keep an animal confined in a cage it's whole life and expect it to shit somewhere else?

Watch Food Inc. You will never want to eat "corn-fed" beef again.
Maybe before someone tries to leave your app, you 'pop up' a survey asking how they liked it. Get them to add their own answers so you can hear more how they feel about your app and see what's bothering them.

There are plenty of people on youtube that review products, one comes to mind is iJustine. I know she accepts requests and she has a very large following. Send her a request and maybe she can do your app some justice.

Post videos to youtube as well to promote the app from twitter. Is it on facebook? Vimeo?
I am always in support of less government - why in the world should a government be in control of the education of children? Society doesn't progress by circumscribing all of it's member entities, it progresses when those boundaries are pushed by people that do things different.

I was home schooled most of my life, and I'm self educated; school was a failure for me because there was too much "authority" instead of "discovery" while learning.
I realize you're probably being sarcastic, but just in case you're actually serious:

Yes. Skin cancer exists all over the world, at varying rates due to complexion/sun exposure/protection habits, etc.

Australia actually has the highest skin cancer rates in the world (with the hole in the ozone being a major reason.)
"This is a bit of a trap."

Yes, it can be. The truth is, some of those brilliant kids going into BigCorp are lost startups, some are future startups, and most won't be startups regardless, because most people aren't founders.

"Also when you're busy at work time can just fly by. It's easy to look up from working and find a few years have gone past."

Roger that.
"Great advice. I don't follow it."
Mayhap it ain't so great?
Ah the css is so well commented to teach others/waste some bandwidth. +1
Hey guise so in the reset.css can we also replace

"html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,.... { ..."

with a single * ... you know like -

* {

margin:0;
...
}
The broken windows economics of IT security
Got plenty over the last couple of days.
It's interesting that home schooling is the example most often used to explain the "Overton Window" political theory:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061020144127/http://www.swordsc...
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7504
If you are wondering why this was submitted twice, it's because I was testing a theory I have about time of day and voting patterns on HN.
I usually just put a liberal coating of garlic salt on and grill at a low temperature, rotating every 2 minutes or so until the meat looks visibly moist. Turn the heat up to high at the end for the final 2 rotations and done.

I've had people fly cross-country (twice) for these steaks and it's really not all that hard. But it makes for an expensive summer season with lots of entertaining on my deck.

One guy was mystified as to why I wasn't using the popular Morton's method of high heat and turn once. Then he had one, came back the next weekend unannounced "just happened to be in the area" and tried to bribe me with a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva Cab (I know cheap wine, but good). Too bad I was out of steaks.

And yes, I usually get the on-sale cheap steak at the local grocery. So long as it's decently marbled it doesn't really seem to matter much what I get so long as it's not skirt or flank.
The Importance of Teaching Computers to Forget
Seconded. I salted a one-inch-thick steak about an hour ahead of grill time, with a rinse and pat-dry just before grilling. It still tasted too salty. Furthermore, even with 5-10 minutes' rest time after grilling, the steak still lost too much juice upon cutting.

This method works: Preheat grill to 500 deg F. Lightly salt and pepper the steak just before grilling. Grill for 4 minutes per side per inch of thickness. Remove, call the guests in, and serve. Yum.
Near the end, patent-avoiding strategies are discussed. Something I've wondered is of compulsory licensing. In copyrights and songwriting, there is a trio of copyright judges that determine the going rate for music in $/minute, and anyone can then reproduce music by paying that price without any negotiation. Of course, better deals can be worked out between parties, but that option is always there. Would it be possible to apply the same sort of thing to patents, to effect a positive change where one is desperately needed?
If all you want is to group commands, you could use {...} instead of (...) so you don't have to spawn a subshell.
Good level design is a closely guarded secret, but you can break-down and study all the great levels yourself. However, some really interesting stuff can be found on the World Creation chapter of the World of Warcraft: Behind the Scenes DVD. Chris Metzen starts by talking about how important it was for them to get the trees to feel right before they could really do anything else. It is pretty fascinating.

A note somewhat related to level design that I am always reminded of is OldManMurray's Time to Crate review system for games: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
CooksPlus, Kitchenware, Cookware, Cutlery, Barware Store
E-commerce recommender applications
I live in Chicago. What are your sources of high-quality beef?
It obviously isn't to Chinese standards. China censors dissent and political opposition. The Australian Constitution protects freedom of political communication. ...it is perfectly fine to discuss the philosophical and political arguments on each side. However, it is currently illegal to provide explicit how-to instructions on performing euthanasia.

No, you're presupposing the answer. Specifically, you have already decided where the line is between political debate and illegal action.

But I claim that this isn't an inherent line. For example, it's impossible to fully debate euthanasia without understanding how it's done. Yet your assumption implicitly bars introduction of that material. And China makes the claim that pr0n is inherently destabilizing to the country -- the very same argument you're making against how-to on euthanasia.
I like that Twitter has no advertising to distract me. Gmail does.
I frequently leverage synergies across multiple technology platforms on a go-forward basis -- stake in the ground. Call to action!
Agreed, a few quick videos showcasing the potential and fun of the application would go a long way to making it more appealing and approachable.
No Humans, Just Robots – Amazing Videos of the Modern Factory
Got them tightly under your control, do you?
This is the funniest story I have read in such a long time. If you didn't believe it before believe it now. People are idiots.
Http://www.kamus.com/ind-eng/sekolah
A delicious-like javascript tagging input component
Cloud computing: A Maneuvered Phrase
Equivalent in bash:

diff <(ps) <(sleep 3; ps)
That's very vague. Children may not be able to reason, that is true; however, I was taught to never talk to strangers, never leave with strangers, never take my favorite pokemon card from a stranger, never do anything I don't want to explain to the paramedics, never say something I wouldn't want to say to someone's face, never say naughty things. You get the idea. I never really went through a "swearing phase" either. Occasionally, I do swear, but I don't (and never did) drop f bombs every ten minutes like lots of people have. I never swore on Facebook because I wouldn't want people to read that. I never wrote a private conversation on someone's wall(public message board), through a message(email), or through an instant message- always did things like that in person. You will never see me do things like that, I mean- I might swear occasionally nowadays, but that's as bad ass as I get ;p (and it's usually for comic effect anyways).

To cover what I said:
1) I have remained in control of my "virtual" life my entire life.
2) I have never made a mistake of telling someone I don't know anything important about me
3) I believe if I can do it, others can too.
I saw a pretty telling comment on a friend's buzz imported from twitter:

"I'm glad that I can get a glimpse of the twitter life, and not actually have to figure out another social networking thing. Yay!"

This was striking to me. It seems like this Twitter outsider does not view Buzz - something in her gmail - as "another social networking thing." Maybe this looks different to those of us on the outside.
"Remember that all geeks are shy, just like you. Even the boisterous ones. Or especially. The word “shy” is so universally applicable among geeks that it means nothing: it’s no excuse for you or anybody else. What do you think beer is for? It’s not just a FIFO stack."
I wish I had learned a long time ago that what matters is not about what talent you're born with as much as what you do with it.
Fox & Obel, Paulina - first two that come to mind.
Jonathan Schwartz's Farewell Memo
Who in the government is imposing these so called "standards".
Well written, Dani, thanks.

Big companies are smarter than gov't regulators, they understand their business better, and they have a longer time horizon. So when the government comes around to regulate them, they think "OK, how can we turn this into a huge barrier to entry for new competitors?" They have large lobbyist and strategy budgets. They generally win.

The most misregulated industries in the US are energy, medical, and transportation. So there are lots of glaring inefficiencies, but they are there for a reason. Technologists assume the reason is stupidity and that clever inventions can fix things. Frustration ensues.

For your energy storage system, I suggest you target large energy consumers like manufacturing plants. Big ones have access to spot markets. Give them a system to store energy when it's cheap and deliver it to the machines during the daytime. If you can show <5 year ROI, you'll be able to sell it.
seems like you just merged the apocalypse startup posts into 1 big one.
"Search for a topic and wikipedia is usually among the first entry, which is great for a start but no way reliable enough to put in an academic paper."

Ah, you're looking at the wrong part. Go down to the "citations" part. Any decent article that might actually be the topic of an assignment will have five to ten times more "real" citations from primary sources than any teacher ever assigned me to have in school.

Wikipedia is still a "cheat code" for school assignments, you just have to use it right. Copying and pasting Wikipedia text is wrong. Following it to primary sources is hard to call "wrong", harder to detect, and, honestly, at the point where you're yelling at the student for getting your primary sources from one place and not another you're crossing dangerously close to "You did the assignment too efficiently, do more busy work" rather than "I want you to learn something from real sources". Students are very sensitive to that sort of message (even if only subconsciously) and we send the "do more busywork" message pretty loudly as it is; we don't need to amplify it any further. (I'd say, if the assignment has become too easy, make the assignment harder by making it actually harder, rather than forcing inefficient techniques.)

(BTW, my "write a paper that could be copied from Wikipedia" period ended well before Wikipedia existed, but unless they've radically changed the types of papers that are assigned, this is still essentially the optimal approach in terms of time.)
You're right on about taste vs texture. Often times the tenderness/texture is inversely proportional to the flavor in steaks. Which is why you see many menus placing something like blue cheese on top of beef tenderloin.

However, the "freshness" of beef is in interesting topic. When a cow is slaughtered it is bled and hung in a cooler for about a week. At this point it is usually cut up into primal cuts or sub-primal cuts, sealed in cryovac and sent to the store. At wholesale clubs you can usually buy these whole sub-primals in cryovac. In a normal store the "butcher's" simply cut up the sub-primals into normal size and sell them. The people who work the meat counter in the typical store are simply meat cutters and no longer butchers in the true sense.

Some restaurants keep their meat in the cryovac for extended periods of time and they call this "aging" which is technically called "wet aging". And vastly inferior to dry aging. Dry aging is simply leaving a sub-primal in a temperature appropriate room for an extended period to allow bacteria to break down the meat and moisture to evaporate, thus increasing flavor.

Freshness in terms of beef really means "never frozen". If you freeze beef (or any protein really) then ice crystals form and cause damage to the cellular structure of the meat. This means that juices from the meat will simply exit the meat and never return, no matter how long your rest the meat after cooking.
Shameless Plug: I contributed to this viewpoint a couple of months ago: http://www.connersc.com/blog/?p=56
Lowest maintenance&cost, legal 50/50 split startup in US?
So, a hacker buddy and I are came up with a product idea we are going to pursue together. It is likely to be generating revenue within a couple of months. What is the lowest maintenance&cost, legally sound, 50/50 split relationship we could set up between us?

We're located in US, but in different states.
I actually think you aren't a minority. Many of my tech/web-less-literate friends are already using Buzz and liking it; it's mostly the techies and web developers and programmers that are saying "Oh, it'll fail like Wave" and "It's stupider than twitter and facebook, it'll die instantly".

I also like it, and am noting that others do too.
Why did they go to the US? As EU citizens they could have moved to a country that does allow home schooling quite easily. I'm in the UK and home schooling is legal here. I guess that the immigration judge didn't understand that as Germans the Romeikes have freedom of movement in the EU and so could easily have avoided persecution.
I absolutely disagree. With YCombinator and the dozen similar programs out there, the traditional barriers to starting companies, namely "not knowing what you don't know" are being removed. For a web start-up especially, the only cost associated with the startup for a group of young founders is time.

The goal at Google, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey is to recruit top talent, and give them enough money and benefits that they are completely content and never have a reason to leave. Some still will, but most are probably destined for a career as a middle manager.
The truth is, some of those brilliant kids going into BigCorp are lost startups, some are future startups, and most won't be startups regardless, because most people aren't founders.

Exactly. I will be starting at Google in June, but I am not a "startup lost". I have thought about it, and eventually came to the conclusion that I am not startup material for a number of reasons. This may change in the future after I have worked for Google, and if so, I can always join a startup then.
Cut her some slack. She did confess to sleeping through chemistry and otherwise wrote and illustrated a good article, while pounding bourbon.
1. Get recruited by Google

2. Work at Google for a few years, start a 20% project

3. Leave Google, become a founder

4. Get funding, hire more employees

5. Launch a successful product, build a big userbase, get favorable media coverage

6. Get acquired by Google
In this case the board was complicit - they provided sales leads as well.
World's Biggest Train System
The step he's missing is resting the protein after it's cooked; over 15 minutes, the juices redistribute themselves throughout the meat.

Here's a fun article on cooking beef: Bob del Grosso, from the Culinary Institute, losing his shit over how Mark Bittman writes up his technique for the NYTimes:

http://ahungerartist.bobdelgrosso.com/2010/01/minimalist-of-...
Don't think that survey might help. This person is leaving the app, so he just wants the developers to stop bugging him.

Video (and YouTube reviews) sounds like a huge missed opportunity, thanks.
Right, because that's clearly what's driving sales of Outliers. Telling a small group of people what they might not want to hear as opposed to telling a large group of people what they want to hear.
How To Develop Your Ideas with Interesting Research Paper Topics
When you are assigned to write a research paper, it is always helpful when you have a list of interesting research paper topics.