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Dried lentils are really cheap, wonderfully healthful, and much faster to cook than dried beans.

Peanut butter is already ready to eat, and pretty cheap.

Eggs are cheap protein.

You can pour milk right over uncooked, raw rolled oats and eat it immediately. (This is Quaker's (or store brand) traditional oatmeal or old fashioned oats or something like that. It's the kind that comes in a big cardboard cylinder.) Very cheap and it is delicious and takes only seconds to "prepare".
A more proper analogy: what if, for books from every different vendor, you had to get a separate bookcase (they won't fit in each others' bookcases), which could be removed from your house at their whim at any moment, taking along all the books in it with them?
Fish fillets. Specifically Perch. I buy them frozen.

Defrost in 20 minutes by putting in a bag (or box) of tap water.

Put oven (or toaster-oven) on high heat so it'll be already hot when you need it. Put a bunch of butter on a porcelain/ceramic plate. Put in microwave for a minute to make it melt and cover the plate. Put the fish on the plate. Turn it over so it'll have butter all over it. Pour lemon juice on it. (Can use store-bought lemon juice from a bottle.) Put salt on it. Put it in the oven. Come back after 7-10 minutes. Ready to it.

Healthiness: Awesome. (You can use less butter.)

Price: Awesome. Where I live the whole deal is $4-$5.

Quickness: Mediocre. Total time is ~30 minutes, but most of it you can be away. No need to stir like in cooking. Also, no pots or pans to watch! You make it straight in the plate!

Tastiness: Awesome, assuming you love fish. (And I do, so that's good for me.)
Let me sum them up for you: there isn't any.

Just like the iPhone when it appeared, there really is no rival to the experience iPad offers, to its hardware+software+touch combo.

The closest it MAY come, could be Android, someday. Again, just like with the iPhone.
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Maybe this could be a hint:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121349
For breakfast - instant porridge! Simple, quick, high protein and good for you. You can always vary it slightly by throwing in other things like raisins.
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They are actually GIF's. I agree they are kind of small, but this is a free online copy of a book, no?
There is a strong argument against unpaid internships, they're hugely damaging to social mobility. If you need an unpaid internship to enter a career you're essentially excluding anyone from a poorer background (who have to work for money) from those occupations.
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Don't know but to me it seems unlikely. The links is when they just launched. I am assuming Facebook could have known them only after they launched.
In our town someone made a business of that, starting a technical and vocational training school many years ago. They're doing quite well trading knowledge and experience for money.
When I look at the iPad
Who cares about the "experience" if it doesn't run vim and has no sd card slot?
Problem is there's no middle ground between $0.00 per hour and $7.15 per hour. If you outlaw $0.00 then those opportunities would simply cease to exist for everyone, including poor people working at McDonald's who could swing an internship on the side.
It really depends on your discipline's culture. In the humanities, good writing style is essential. In e.g. medicine with its highly standardized report/article format where articles are targeted at an international community, language rather is a commodity whose presence should go unnoticed.
A data point for you:

DuckDuckGo doesn't return anything to me because my browser is sufficiently old that the clever results presentation doesn't work. Bing and Google both work fine, degrading gracefully.

This isn't a complaint, I know my system (on which I do this sort of stuff) is old, but it is what it is, and DuckDuckGo doesn't work on it.
I think that's the point. Apple wants you to buy a Macbook and an iPad.

The advantage of the iPad that most of these alternatives lack is that it's light enough to hold in one hand while reading or viewing content.
I feel that this is the key point: distinguishing between open and open source.
Openness, in terms of economic freedom, allows choice and therefore increases competition. As you say, this leads to innovation and is better for the consumer.
Those people who don’t use vim and don’t need a SD card slot? I.e. most people?
Yes. But it means those from more well off backgrounds and those from poorer backgrounds will be on a more level playing field when it comes to applying for permanent jobs.
Same here. Most of my friends have a cameraphone and a point-and-shoot camera in the $150-300 range. One also has an SLR. Most of these people do not use the cameraphones significantly.
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I think the MacBook Pro 15" is pretty light already, I'm already content with it. If I were to get an iPad, it would be like a downgrade, at least that's how I would feel about it.
More likely it would be a HTML5/Flash game

You know.. you might be on to something here.

Most of the old school arcade games could probably work very well as HTML5/JavaScript games if you had a hardcore JavaScript coder on the case. Even if the games were "free" on the Web, a cabinet and control system like the iCade could still be very valuable and do-able (I believe the iPad lets you use a BlueTooth keyboard, so the controls could be implemented that way, perhaps).
I think the situation for the forseeable future will be that laptops are used for content creation, while tablets are primarily used for consumption. Students, traveling professionals and freelance creators of just about anything that's created on a computer will need a real keyboard, and often more computing power than is available in a tablet.

Visual artists might like a tablet, but a different kind of tablet that's pressure-sensitive and uses a stylus. Apple might do well to create an iPad Pro that runs Photoshop and has a stylus.
And this is opposed to the threat of having mail that needs to be signed-for turn up at your house only on a weekday while you are at work.

Surely this is a universal and solved problem though? Most couriers (e.g. for most larger/heavier items you'd buy online) will not deliver on Saturday unless you pay quite a bit extra, so weekday-only delivery is already an institution of sorts.

That aside, maybe your issue is, secretly, USPS's primary motivation. If they don't have a Saturday service at all, people like you can't request Saturday delivery and will need to go pick up your packages from the depot. That'll save them a lot of time and money.
They launched 49 days ago?
No, people with money can afford to purchase technical and vocational training which poor people cannot.

Money is valuable. If money did not confer advantages to its owner, it would not be valuable. Therefore a "level playing field" between people with more money and people with less money cannot exist.

Besides, you are saying that you would forcefully prevent peaceful people from making mutually beneficial voluntary contractual arrangements among themselves, simply because not everyone is capable of participating. The implications are monstrous. Keep in mind that you are also forcefully excluding the McDonald's worker doing a part-time internship on the side.
The iPad and other tablets will always be made a specification lower than a laptop. Why? So consumers spend more $$ buying the full range of products on the line.
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How's about not claiming to take ownership of my IP for the mere service of hosting and labelling my pics?
And I've never ever gotten such an offer that also includes a discount to recognize their savings and the problems you point out.

Well, come to think of it my account with Consumer Cellular is 100% paperless, that's probably their default and I'd probably have to pay to get paper from them.

(They're a great AT&T reseller for people who spend very little time using their cell phones.)
Well, there's the cherry picking argument, something we can see with broadband build outs.

E.g. they'd offer low low low rates for delivering snail mail on Manhattan Island and leave it to the USPS to handle mail in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.

Hmmm, didn't AT&T do the same back in the bad old days?
Greedy, sure ok. But 'evil'... seriously?
I've never used a desktop as my primary computer. My first real computer was a laptop, in 1992. There are a lot fewer reasons to prefer a desktop now than there were then. I would stick with laptops even if I didn't travel with my computer, just so I could use it on the couch.

I'm not an average user. I'm a programmer, and an occasional gamer. I have a laptop with a fast CPU, real graphics chip and high-resolution screen. Bought refurbished, it was still probably twice as much money as the average user spends on a computer.
Anyone who compares the iPad with a netbook, arguing the netbook has a faster CPU, better price or whatever, simply does not get it.
Doesn't have to be government: when MIT had to tighten their belt in the late '80s or so they started cleaning a bunch of bathrooms every other day instead of daily (and that was largely OK, many have very little use (e.g. patterns changes as the Institute changed and grew)).

This new, improved system was called "Frequent Cleaning".

It's not the government types so much as the B Ark types.
I read facebook looked at doing this, but their users were already manually tagging all their photos (and cool with that) so the additional hardware/implementation resources were errrr spent elsewhere.
1/2 cup cous cous
1/2 cup chicken/beef stock
+ shallots (chopped finely)
+ any vege's you want

+ curried meat ( you can make this in a batch for the week and dish out as required or resort to chinese/indian take out - just a box of curry make the rice yourself..you might as well)

It takes 5min for the cous cous and about 1min to reheat the curry.

This meal gets me by when I need something in a rush..

If its winter a pot of chicken soup goes down well too.. add rice for more 'substance' when required..
I wrote this post a while back: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/12/hacking-your-food-su... I think that's one of the posts you were referring to.

We haven't done once a month cooking for a while, though. We've actually outsourced a lot of our meal prep to Dream Dinners now. Link: http://www.dreamdinners.com/main.php?static=index

You can either go there and prep the meals in a two hour period, or for an extra $20, they will actually prep the food for you. It's not really grad school budget, but we figure it saves us around 40-60 hours a month of cooking prep time. So, to us, the extra time is worth the expense.

That takes care of our main courses and every weekend, we go to the local farmer's market, and get our produce for the week. We also stop by the local deli, and pick up some fresh bread.

And, we recently discovered Trader Joe's wine selection. They have a bunch of wines for less than $10. A lot of them are undrinkable, but we've found a couple of $4 bottles of wine that we love, and we tend to buy several cases of them at the same time. That helps us keep the Mediterranean diet going.

For a long time, we also went to Costco or Sam's club. We'd buy a whole bunch of food in bulk and then wrap it up into smaller portions and save it. I hate grocery shopping, and it really helped to only have to do it once every couple of months. The $200 mini freezer also helped a lot. It's move from Chicago, to New England, to the Bay Area with us. We love it.

We also love SafeWay's grocery delivery. It's $10, or $8 if your order is over $100. It really helps cut down on spending time dealing with buying groceries. They keep track of the products that you buy and like, and it's really easy to reorder stuff. The prices are exactly the same as in store, too, so you're not paying hidden fees. I don't know why more people don't do that.

We've been trying http://Alice.com, too for non-grocery items. It's a pain to tell them what you purchase up front, but over all, after the initial hour of setting up the account and preferences, it makes recurring purchases of TP, deodorant, toothpaste, etc.. a cinch.
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let's face it, you aren't getting as much work done when you're stuck on that tiny screen, using that cramped keyboard, fiddling around with that touchpad.

I can understand why some people might feel that 1680x1050 is cramped, but it's enough for me to comfortably have two files and a REPL or two open in Emacs. The keyboard and pointing stick on my Thinkpad are my preferred input devices; if I had a desktop, I'd buy a trackpoint keyboard to go with it. I even like fiddling around with that touchpad: it makes for a great scroll surface.

Last time I tried to get work done on a desktop, I kept jamming my fingers in to the giant spaces between the keys and getting annoyed that I had to reach for a mouse.
I'd be interested to see the results of this experiment on people with autism. As I understand their brains process more of the visual stimulus than normal people do.
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That argument can also be used against all work related legislation (minimum wage, holidays, safety requirements).
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+1 for the slow cooker. I cook 25% of the time with a slow cooker. There is magic to it and it's fast for prep.

Recommendations:

- Buy a decent pair of kitchen scissors. I cut up almost everything directly into the slow cooker with a pair. It's very fast.

- Load up on fresh veggies (a local farmer's market would be ideal). If you make something like chili, cut in 2 - 3 extra bunches of greens like parsley, coriander, young celery, etc.

- Buy an extra large cooker and always make enough to have leftovers. I usually plan on getting a solid lunch out of it the next day.

- You can make noodle dishes right in the pot if you have access to fresh (refrigerated) noodles. Fresh spaghetti or udon work well. Just rinse and throw them in the pot 5 - 10 minutes before you eat. They soak up sauce and are great.
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Hell, I'd dare to say most hackers don't use VIM or need a SD slot on their tablet.
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If you read NurteShock you already know how crucial the ability to focus is. The great news is, you can train this ability and not only increase your Intelligence & Attention Span, but also your game score. http://www.drjonathanreed.co.uk/wordpress/category/working-m...

so next time you kill a few bad guys, or conquer another empire (on your screen), do it knowing that you just got a little more intelligent.
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I don't think hackers will use a tablet to do some serious work. For that we have already our computers. I use Vim, but it's the last thing I could think about speaking of a tablet.

The iPad (and all his wanabe rivals) have a different target than hackers.
> If you read NurteShock you already know how crucial the ability to focus is. The great news is, you can train this ability and not only increase your Intelligence & Attention Span, but also your game score. http://www.drjonathanreed.co.uk/wordpress/category/working-m....

Interesting piece, thanks for sharing. You sound like you read on the topic quite a bit - got any other recommendations for things to check out?
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Correct. Though I would expect that working under exceedingly dangerous conditions would command a very high price.
The reason things are so good for us now is the free software and free culture that gave us the tools we have. Apple firmly sits on that back.
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He said "I don't want to spend an hour every day". That leaves the possibility of finding a few friends to rotate cooking duty with. The added effort of cooking for more people is less than linear with the number of people, so that can save a lot of time.
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http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

This guy even "invented" his own style recipe card.
You can't blame them for bullshitting. They've been dodging responsibility for this kind of thing for at least the better part of a century, and it seems to work for them.

http://books.google.com/books?id=YoXZWqBIIE8C&pg=PA64
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For those among you who are (or were) CS graduate students, are you doing research with a eye to related startup opportunities? If so (and you don't mind sharing), more details would be interesting.
Soup. 3 potatoes, 5 leeks, 2 carrots, 2 turnips, 2 parsnips, some celery, parsley, one onion. Peel them, throw them in 3 liters of cold salted water, boil for 20 minutes in a pressure cooker, then mix. In one hour you have soup for 1 week for 4 persons. You may freeze it and keep it for later, too.
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I just fork, push my patch [...]. If he chooses to pull in the patch, that is his problem.

This attitude is dangerous. It works very well for trivial patches, but not for complicated bugfixes, because those are usually buggy themselves. Accepting a bad change is as dangrous as not acceping a good change. So you'll have to stay in touch with each other, communicating via IM, email or a tracking system, until the issue is really solved.

And yes, this process is greatly supported by DVCS.

However, it only works if the contributor comes with an attitude like "I want this bug fixed in upstream" and not with an attitude like "Here is my patch - use it or don't".
Risotto. A pack of rice, an onion, some garlic, two carrots, two tomatoes, some spices (saffron or curcuma, pepper, cumin, clove), some oil, two chicken breasts. Cut the chicken and vegetables in small cubes, pour oil in the cooker, fry the onion, then add the chicken; add the rice, wait for a minute until the rice becomes translucid; cover with boiling water, add the garlic, vegetables and spice as wished. Boils gently 10 minutes, et voilà.
Chill out and do it without a cofounder. :)
UPDATE: 1 is done. 2 turned out to be a bug, which is now fixed, i.e. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=r6rs+vote&v=. Thx again for pointing it out!
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Thx. I'd appreciate you sending me specific queries that didn't work for you. Feel free to email me any time.
I would argue that correct intuition about anything can be had without math. Using math may be one way of gaining that intuition, but intuition, by its very nature, is not mathematical.

I'm not sure it's useful to argue whether an intuitive picture of electrons hopping or not is more correct. (Electrons are in any case not really little balls that are in one place.) These are all models of the world made with specific goals, where the most "correct" model would be solving the schrodinger equation for a macroscopic system -- something that would not give you any particular insight as to how things behave.

I think the usefulness of an intuitive layman's understanding should be derived from whether it makes you conclude the correct things about the macroscopic behavior of electricity.
it can substitute for pasta too

Since it is pasta.
There is something to a change in workflow. I always say give it at least a week to get used to the changes. Perhaps you've already done that though. In any case, there is no "catch" so-to-speak, but I'd love to know what you are not finding. Please email me anytime.
Pre-washed baby spinach, baby tomatoes, bacon or leftover meat (like steak, hamburger). Top with two fried eggs and cheese. I tend to eat it for breakfast.
It is a continually improving experience, so if that was a while ago, it may be worth another shot. If not, sorry to hear that--but I'd appreciate knowing what types of searches weren't working for you, or better yet the actual searches. You can click 'Give Feedback' on any page (bottom right corner).
This kind of mathematical advisor could be a differentiator in the dating-site market.

Any HNers working on one?
and most of all it's a status symbol.
True, what good is a device you can type and work on if you can have one that can't?
Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives?”
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As you agreed, it has visual similarities to a virus. That's all.
Yet, I'm standing here outside the Boston apple store waiting in line, MacBook pro in my bag, checking my news on my iPhone. Honestly, the real reason I'm getting an iPad today is because I thought I would enjoy playing with it, not because it would replace any of my netbooks/laptops/smart phones.
I once made scrambled eggs just of curiosity, the recipe has deciliter of milk against every egg you put in. It takes long time to cook, but beats any omelet. Because I usually don't have the patience to do scrambled eggs, I just do an omelet with approximately ass much milk than eggs. Paprika is my favorite add on, and pretty much any meat is fine.
I posted this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236781) with a link to The Guardian article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/02/ordnance...). The Guardian have long run a campaign to get the UK to open their data, and the OS is a really big win. Prior to this, post-office data was very expensive to license (despite the information having been gathered with UK tax payer money)

You can browse the data available and download the CSVs directly here:
http://data.gov.uk/data/publicbody/Ordnance%2520Survey

Data includes full postcode lookup:

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-code-point-open

And all transit (bus stops, train stations):

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan
Am I right in thinking that this is post code <-> lat/long, and not post code <-> address which Royal Mail still keep under wraps?
If I could make a point on the subject of cameras, the market definitely isn't polarising into cameraphones and big SLRs. The most important thing that's happening in digital photography at the moment is the blurring of the line between SLR and compact camera and between stills and video.

Samsung, Panasonic and Olympus are attacking the incumbent duopoly of Canon and Nikon by building cameras that have interchangeable lenses like an SLR, but use an LCD viewfinder instead of a bulky and complex mirror and prism. By substituting complex mechanical and optical parts for electronics, the smaller players rob Canon and Nikon of much of their competitive advantage.

Further up the food chain, Canon and Nikon are making great efforts to take on Panasonic, Sony and JVC (and even Panavision and Arai) by leveraging their optical expertise to offer a lower-cost alternative to professional camcorders and even 35mm movie cameras.

I find it very interesting that in the compact digital camera market, the megapixel war is almost entirely finished - almost all marketing is now done on the basis of ease of use, low-light performance or novel features like face recognition or panorama modes. The cameraphone is certainly supplanting the digital camera at the low end, but the digital camera is also supplanting the camcorder.

In spite of what many might regard as a fatal blow from phone cameras that effectively cost nothing, the market for digital cameras is thriving because people are taking and sharing more and more photographs. I think we have a great deal to learn from what is going on in the digital photography market.