skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salting things a while beforehand so the salt penetrates it is a good idea in general. You're supposed to do that to basically any savory food, including chicken, meat, eggs. For big things, like prime rib roasts, you salt it a whole day ahead.

So, this guy compared wrongly-salted expensive steak to correctly-but-very-heavily-salted cheap steak. Unfair.

Also, in general, expensive steak isn't expensive because it's aged. Aged steak is expensive, but the difference between cheap and expensive is more commonly just which part of the cow it is. Filet mignon is a happy tender fatty underused part of the cow. Also, not very much of it per cow.

A good recipe for chicken:

Turn your oven on high (450 if you have ventilation, 425 if not). Coat a 3- or 4-pound chicken with coarse kosher salt so that you have an appealing crust of salt (a tablespoon or so). Put the chicken in a pan, stick a lemon or some onion or any fruit or vegetable you have on hand into the cavity. Put the chicken in the oven. Go away for an hour. Watch some TV, play with the kids, read, have a cocktail, have sex. When an hour has passed, take the chicken out of the oven and put it on the stove top or on a trivet for 15 more minutes. Finito.

From http://blog.ruhlman.com
I'm used to teens in tech, but not used to teens who take Macbook Air payments in exchange for Tech Crunch articles. cough cough, Daniel Brusilovsky.
"That is the biggest problem with Buzz—it was invented not for us but for Google. " is right on the spot
I'll add my list
- Screenshots
- good quality text info to be found via Google
- Reviews

Thanks!
No limit holdem, the only game worth playing :)
Locally sourced meat tends to be grass-fed or at least grass finished. It also tends to have WAY better living conditions than any commercial plant. A happy animal is a tasty animal.

I highly suggest you watch Food inc. :-)
ruhlman is the goddamn man.
The Zany 2006 Twitter video Biz Stone would rather forget
I thought of this exact page whilst reading; I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

It would be pretty awesome if you documented how you made it work (especially if you do it in such a way that is cheap and easily reproducible).
YC sounds alot like the c-founder type you describe. it doesn't look that way with all the hype but think about it... ( like a good engineer) would google founders have fallen for YC's offer?
Am I the only one who is tired of people talking about green technology -- it will not help the economy until it's better than the alternatives. Asking for federal "partners" and "stimulus" is just asking for a handout.
I disagree. The list you mention is part of the definition of "terrorist act". The definition of "terrorist act" starts by saying:

terrorist act" means an action or threat of action where:
(a) the action falls within subsection (2) and does not fall within subsection (2A)...

The list of things you cite is from subsection (2). However, subsection (2A) reads:
(2A)
Action falls within this subsection if it:
(a) is advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action; and
(b) is not intended:
(i) to cause serious harm that is physical harm to a person; or
(ii) to cause a person's death; or
(iii) to endanger the life of a person, other than the person taking the action; or
(iv) to create a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public.

It's pretty clear to me that this sort of action falls within both subsection (2) (as you pointed out) and subsection (2A). The latter means it wouldn't be within the definition of "terrorist act".
I had no idea about plumping. Do you know what percent of the revenue her supermarkets take?
First a social site (facebook) turned into email. Then an email site (gmail) turned into a social site.

Would you all leave my email in peace.
The difference between prime and choice is not aging, it's marbling. Marbling will also usually be the difference between pricing of different cuts of meat from the same animal, as more often-used muscles will tend to be leaner and tougher.
Ok, listen up, HN. I love this community because you're smart and ambitious, but we need to have a talk.

The Winter Olympics (& World Cup) are coming up. If we're lucky and live beyond our life expectancy, it's one of maybe 20 we could possibly see. 20. That's how short life is.

A long time ago I was getting into film direction and saw a contest in town for 8mm film shorts. So I wrote a screenplay, gathered eight of my friends together, and in one long day, we shot it. Weeks later when it came back from the labs, I took it to a guy I knew (who was also involved in putting the contest on) who had a projector. I was so excited. I was so proud of what I had done. I began rehearsing, in my mind, answers to such questions as, "How did you achieve such genius with so little background in film?", "What was your inspiration?", etc. The projector spun the film; I held my breath. We couldn't see anything; I hadn't used enough light. (In all my books on film direction, lighting an 8mm didn't come up.) The guy said, as he walked me out, "But you had fun making it right?" I took it almost as a taunt. I thought, "Fuck fun. I didn't want fun. I wanted that fucking film to turn out."

So you're on Hacker News because you like technology? That technology is going to be obsolete in at most a few Winter Olympics from now. You're on HN because you have a startup? If you have a great idea and you execute well with a great team... the odds are not even remotely in your favor. Ask anyone in the business. Not even remotely.

Today when I think back, do you know what I remember from that 8mm film I made? How much fun my friends and I had making it. We had a blast. That day is a wonderful, glorious memory. Whether or not the film turned out was always irrelevant.

Everything you think and love and see and know has an expiration date on it. 20 Olympics -- at most -- if you're lucky. And when you're old and smoking that last cigar (because fuck it) and you close your eyes, what will you remember? Do you know? I'll tell you. Not the film. You won't even remember what the film was about. No, you'll remember the day you shot it. "But you had fun making it?" Did you? It can sound like a taunt, but it's not. It's everything. God, be ambitious. Be smart. Good for you. But have fun. Most of all, have fun.

Laugh, HN. Let your hair down. Have sex. Drink wine from the bottle. Dance like madman. Have fun. For the love of God. You have 20 and it's all you'll ever have. Have fun.
Is your new technology crappy enough?
Sounds interesting. I'll apply. (I'm a new grad from Case Western, and I'm really good at learning languages and systems I don't know quickly, and I have at least a passing familiarity with tons of topics.) I am curious though: the requirements mention "deep knowledge of a compiled language". What part? The language, the compiler, the libraries, the generated code, or something else? I've got the first two in spades for C (and Objective-C, but somehow I doubt you're using that much) and can figure out most anything about the third and fourth in a few minutes with the right book or Google query.
More on that umbrella seller startup guy
Take a look at Bandcamp, it's the last nail in MySpace's coffin.

Main page, http://www.bandcamp.com/

Random couple of artist pages for an indication of the customization available, never mind the billing and music serving back end.

http://redfang.bandcamp.com/
http://danielaspector.bandcamp.com/
And an update:

http://internationalbs.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/catching-up-...
No need to wait -- you can already buy a GPU with that kind of specs, and program it with CUDA or OpenCL.
That's a really well done page, unlike most of the eye-pain clutter people generally do.
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I just show my github page.
Roughly half of iPhone owners have one already.
In the sub-world of Heavy Metal bands I know use MySpace and Facebook and see much more traction/interaction from their MySpace page. Their FB presence really only help fans add tour dates to their calendar. The MS page is used for contacting the band and listening to new/demo tracks.

It could be that people see FB as a personal network for them and their friends whereas MS is used for music discovery. I think you'd have to work in FB or MS to really know.
Maternity Beds
Selecting your start-up funding source
"This means a much higher level of competition, and competition destroys margins."

This has wider implications on the ability to profit over the long run in a capitalist society. In open markets margins should tend to zero. It seems the only way to profit would be to have some edge in terms protected market (monopoly) or slight protected technical advantage for a short period. But once the protected advantages are gone margins should tend to zero. Therefore, this isn't just a problem of old media but of all markets.
Maybe they're not even experimenting. Maybe when you change something in one place (e.g. adding a landmark), it affects the layout of a whole lot of other places, too.
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Hey, this is a really good post! Also your startup is really cool.

If you want to improve conversions, make sure the speaker text homepage says something really specific about what you do.

Something like

"With SpeakerText, clicking on a transcript zips you to the right time in a YouTube video!"

It wasn't obvious that this was what you did when I looked at it.
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They seem to be very open and enthusiastic.
Not just education, but actually _wanting_ to learn. This is what bothers me about the position that computers need to be made easier because people just want to get their work done, they don't want to use computers. Well, tough, you have to learn at least something about a tool in order to be effective at it, otherwise, you're going to have problems. So while it's good to work towards a usable interface that is straight forward, easy to use, doesn't get in the user's way and is easy to understand, there is a limit beyond which you have diminishing returns.
At the same time, his arrogance makes him the artist that he is. Not the standard bookworm grad-artist (also arrogant, oddly) we see so much of these days.
Unable to sign up for the app, but the site has some issues which make it feel unpolished, some of these appear in Firefox 3.6 but not Safari:

Browser default blue border on img link: http://grab.by/2lws

Mini Images highlight on :hover as if they are clickable thumbnails, but there is no way to see larger version http://grab.by/2lwz (especially frustrating on tour page - why not show off larger shots?)

Poor vertical alignment on some titles http://grab.by/2lwB

On http://madebychocaholic.com/ :

Black bar alignment issue http://grab.by/2lwK (just realized that it might be intentional but it looks totally off)

Portfolio images dim on :hover and show a zoom button, but the button doesn't actually do anything even though the cursor becomes a pointer.

...

http://madebyelephant.com : "We craft interfaces"
http://madebychocaholic.com : "We craft websites and applications"
The Internet is Hard (RWW on users vs geeks)
[Ask HN] How much of competitive intelligence gathering is too much?
I am working on a new app, which has similar existing apps in the market. I registered and used these apps to get an idea about the features of the apps. (For each of them, I registered multiple users, tested the functionality heavily etc). Its trivial to prove that the user is me, as I registered at all places with my primary email address, or variants.

SO what am I wondering if there can be clause in the various EULAs I checkboxed, which says that you can not use our software to create a competitive software etc, and can it be enforceable?
This guy is totally sad and horrible.

The first half of the article is mostly OK advice out of the guy -- it was the reporter who made the outrageous summaries like "cheat your vendors", and the "micromanagement" part didn't seem micromanagey as much as it seemed to mean "stay informed" -- but the end is just terrible. Loving work more than family is seriously one of the worst ideas ever.

Man has no children, third wife, is old and will work until he dies. What kind of life is that? This article is very sad, and I hope everyone immediately recognizes its cruelty and myopy and disregards it.
This thread has a better point-counterpoint on the model:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627679

Obviously, Contenture got it wrong. I agree Flattr's required-clicks are wrong, too.

I only heard about Kachingle and Sprinklepenny via this thread. Kachingle's limited-info flash-intro isn't confidence-inspiring. Sprinklepenny seems to understand more of what could appeal to readers (reallocate/retract funds) and publishers (detailed reporting).

But I don't see any reference to creating a gradient to reward subscribers -- for example skipping a Salon-style interstitial -- and extra rewards for the sites that get people signed up. That's likely the key problem to solve to bootstrap a self-reinforcing cycle of site and reader enrollment.
Just for toppers, this group offered one company that I know a featured “Top 20 innovators spot” if they paid their bounty.

"We loved the innovative way in which they wrote us a check"
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>One other thing I've noticed is that owners of small companies expect you to care about the company as much as they do.

This annoys me too. At my last "real job", my supervisor informed me that the super-bosses were asking for ten hour work days in part to "test our loyalty to the company".

My response to that was something like, "Why should my loyalty exceed the bounds of our employment agreement? I'm here for eight hours of work a day. I don't have any stake in this business, I don't own any part of it, the super-bosses don't care or know me, and why should I sacrifice time with my family to make them richer when they won't even extend sick time?"

This did not please my supervisor.
On the plus side, the convoluted backwards compatible nature of PSD files makes it trivial to get useful bitmap data out of any PSD.
IBM's Jeopardy-playing machine
Could be that the most accessed (zoomed in) cities are shown in the overview map.
This is basically the method I use when cooking steaks.

Also see this post which discusses the effects of flip intervals on cooking time and evenness of steaks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1117296

Also, some other simple tips:

1) In general, the more marbling the better. You want lots of veins of fat in the muscle of the cut. Big chunks of fat don't count, and leaner meat won't have as much flavor.

2) Hard white fat is good, spongy yellow fat is not.

3) Don't overcook your meat.
I'm to understand that you can convert any pair of gloves to do this by just sewing conductive thread into the fingertips. (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...)
What kinds of videos do the Australians want Youtube to filter? I think this might be someone to score political points out of a minister misstatement. I suspect Youtube already does a good enough job filtering porn to satisfy the Australian government. It's not like the Australians want to start blocking words like "freedom" and "nirvana".
then I'd likely resort to getafreelancer or something and get the initial stuff done. There is quite a bandwith of talent and cheap, too.

Though, I wouldn't get excited about it. For an initial version, I guess, everything you get there might suffice; but I might turn to pros asap.
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One of my favorite posts on one of my favorite cooking blogs. I'm a particular fan of the computer modeling of the effects of various flip intervals on the cooking time and doneness of steaks.
Except for that there are no landmarks shown on any of the examples. Looking at the maps, nothing is changing except for the cities and the placement of the highway labels.

The adding and switching of the different cities does seem completely arbitrary.
MySpace Music is hopeless: the interface, the way content is presented, the way search results are inaccurate and incomplete. The search field isn't even selected by default.

If I were Murdoch I would be focusing on an awesome API for anyone to access any and all of News Corp's material. A content warehouse, by which large users can be charged. Uncooperating with Google is one thing, but it should be balanced with this one.

Otherwise, News could run a public talent search for hackers, like The Apprentice or Rockstar INXS, to find CEOs.
I think people will make it a freedom-of-political-communication issue, because that's the obvious way of getting the law declared invalid, or declared not to apply to political speech or what-have-you.

There's no absolute freedom of political communication in Australia. Instead, there's a test of whether the law is appropriate and adapted to a legitimate purpose. It's not at all clear how internet censorship laws will fare under this test.
What if I live near a "commercial" plant, so it's local to me?

Local is nonsense. If you want grass finished say so. Don't say local. And calling it commercial is misleading too, since grass finished is also commercial.
I use it only to keep track of the music artists I like. It actually works really well.
Are there any words that can still safely express that concept? How about "rule of law"?
This looks like an accounting stunt. In most countries, banks have to value their assets using fair (market) value. States' financial arms should do the same.
It may be dependent on recent usage and search patterns. The standard search is influenced by 'hot' content, so why not maps?
What successor to Deep Blue does this article discuss?
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Your post is factually incorrect and absolutely anecdotal.

An example: MMORPGs are absolutely susceptible to piracy.

http://www.xtremetop100.com/world-of-warcraft
I imagine Conroy was making the point that it was technically possible. I don't think that bringing up Chinese internet censorship was the most politically astute way to make that point, mind you...
Hey, thanks a ton for your input. I thought about pay per consumption because it is more suited for the casual ebay user that wants to purchase an item but does not want to pay for a service that will use in a discontinued fashion. What do you think ?
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The language of the place names seems fairly arbitrary too.

I've noticed them switch a few times from English to Welsh and back in Wales - Caerdydd instead of Cardiff, Pen-y-bont for Bridgend. Something similar happened to Ireland for a few weeks last year, too. For some reason, Gaelic seems to be excluded from this; I haven't seen Steòrnabhagh yet!

The centring of the map has changed, too - when they first put up the map of the UK, zooming in from the default location would bring you right into the centre of my town. Now it's in the Irish Sea.
you wont find the "commercial plant" selling locally.

You could go further afield for your meat (I do myself actually) but a "local producer" is certainly the style your after.
In israel the electric company is working on being an ISP. they use some kind of robot that lays fiber on top of electric cables.
Not sure but it's a fair whack. She makes a little more on direct & local sales but mostly that is because she also gets some of the retail markup too (which the supermarkets soak up).

EDIT: here is some info on plumping. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-can-eat/food-politic...

My Aunt's produce isn't modified all that much (because it is marketed as premium and local produce by the supermarket - they buy from numerous small producers in local regions and distribute to that region). However most of the generic chicken you see in stores will be plumped in this way. Im not sure of the exact water content but I recall watching a TV show once about it that suggested 70% water content (including what was already there)
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Then I'm afraid for your kids.

Any parent who equates on-line socializing with vehicle safety is clearly someone who needs a reality check.

Yes, I am a parent.
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Hey, it happens. One company I worked at moved into a new office (after I left) near the top floor of a highrise. There was a crack in the roof under one of the building's cooling units, and their computer room was near the plenum. During a big rain storm, water leaked down from the roof, through the plenum, ran along the ceiling and dripped all over the racks. Oddly, many of the computers remained running despite having water pooled inside of them.
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Aren't you worried about the plasticizers from the bags?
I really want to do sous vide, but basically everything I've read says you get bad results unless you have a serious-dude vacuum chamber packer sealer $4000 thing, which seems mildly impractical.

Especially, you can't do the spectacular compressed stuff without one of those.

You can get sous-vide-like results sometimes without said equipment, though; Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home book contains a lot of unstated backports from sous vide techniques. For instance, he has you blowtorch a big prime rib roast and then cook it at very low temperature in the oven (275 F) for two hours. It reliably comes out with the uniform-pink-almost-all-the-way-to-the-edges effect. Presumably not quite as close.
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I mostly find it disruptive of my attention. Gmail is work. Facebook is play. I'll keep 'm separate, thank you.
Yeah, except YC takes ~5% while the annoying business c-founder type take ~80%. And I'd argue YC even provides considerably more value than most 'business' co-founders.
Agreed. The only way I want the terms "fat, dumb, and happy" to be used in reference to telcos is when talking about their pipes.
The Fed can't manipulate interest rates down. They have to offer a high enough rate to sell their notes. Right now there is such over-saving that the fed can clear the sales by offering almost zero (really negative rates if you factor in inflation) interest rates. For all the talk I hear of the Fed printing at record rates, I have yet to see anyone point to a treasury auction that failed.

"we are printing money like crazy instead of letting the dollar adjust in value as it should." I can read that as you advocating for a variety of different things, and so I can't tell exactly what point you are trying to make.

Any way, thanks for the discussion and good luck in your engineering career.
Thank you very much.

The renaming is fairly annoying, can anyone think of a way to auto-name users?