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Looking at the pictures at http://modernistcuisine.com/ , I see a strong sense of precision and symmetry.

Reading about the volumes, I see sentences like
new ingredients such as gelling and thickening agents, emulsifiers, and foams have found their way into every corner of Modernist cuisine.

Ever want to infuse liquid smoke into lettuce or noodles?
Ehm, no, not really!

using prehydrated starches and hydrocolloids to thicken hot and cold liquids;
making edible films

I won't touch this pretentious book with a ten-foot pole. Cooking is an art, a lore, not science or mathematics.
And I want something more than "edible films" on my plates.
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Ask HN: Good "How to study" articles?
Hi, I just graduated High School this summer, and i'm really anxious going into University.

Right now i'm trying to get rid of my "slacker" mindset and focus more on being disciplined on getting tasks done (as in goals and such).

I have read an article here about "trying not to think you're smarter than everyone". Well the author of this article pretty much sums up that, if you walk in to class, try and be the person that doesn't think you are better than everyone else, and it forces you to study harder. I really like that article and i forgot to bookmark it. There were other useful things in that article and it would be really awesome if someone knew what article I'm talking about.

It's a small thing to ask, but any advice on how to get rid of this "slacker" mindset? So far reading articles on how to study helps, I just want to know if anyone here in HN ever got rid of their "slacker" mindset.

edit: forgot to mention, I am going into the Computer Science Program in my University.
Concur with the other recommended plugins here, but if you're doing any C or C++ reco a.vim
I take this combination of euro-cent coins with me when I go shopping: 1, 2, 2, 5, 10, 10, 20, 50.

Et voila, you can always pay exact change for any cent value with only 8 coins.
Being Portuguese, I applaud this, but as the article said, lets not forget about the environmental (and local social) damage it creates. A lot of small shops that based their business alongside the rivers are now closed. Many fisherman that fished at those rivers can't anymore. Job creating has been close to none, and in a country where many people live near poverty (minimum wage is 500 euros a month, in Porto (second largest city), the average wage is about 700), high energy (home and car gas) costs are a big deal to many.

But hey, still happy we are doing it, just hoped it would create more wealth to the 'little' people as well.
I won't argue your actual point, but your examples about free newspapers is wrong.

There is much evidence that newspapers because newspapers are heavily dependent on their revenue from advertisement (around 70%-80%), advertisements have a lot of power over them.

Examples are when CBS could not broadcast a documentary on the environmental damages done by large industries (we are talking a few decades ago), or when newspapers did not report many of the evidence on tobacco's damage. In Italy Berlusconi even went as far as asking his industry friends to stop advertising in the newspapers who wrote stories against the government in an attempt to shut opposition.

So there's ample evidence that the strong dependence on advertisement has damaged free speech.

Until the Internet came along though, there was no alternative. As you point out without advertisements' revenues free newspapers would not exist. That is because printing newspapers and broadcasting tv shows is very capital intensive. But the Internet is making publishing costs very low, and hence letting everyone have a word (as shown by blogs or comment boxes such as this).
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"coins people hate and don't use"

I was sure that this would be about pennies. Sure, you get them as change but I've never spent one in my life.
The "metallic glass" name has nothing to do with transparency; the reason it gets this name is that its atomic structure is identical to that of a glass. The atoms in glass, liquidmetal and for that matter liquids, are not arranged in a regular ordering like most solids are. They have an amorpheous structure, where the atoms are "frozen" in a random network.
what would be great is a filter to show jobs that allow telecommuting, and what percentage of the job is onsite. Something like at http://jobs.rubynow.com/ Makes it enormously more useful for us freelancers
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Sure. So you point out that wireline broadband is less competitive (in the USA) than wireless. But wireless with 3-4 competitors is hardly a free market either.

I don't debate that wireline is less competitive (again, in the USA), I argue that wireless is not so different, and in particular so much more competitive, as to need no regulation.
Dollar coins are in wide use. Just not in the USA.

Head down to Ecuador and pay for something with a five dollar bill. (Ecuador, El Salvador, and a few other places use the US dollar as their official currency). You'll get dollar coins in change.

It works great. Coins have value. Especially since nobody uses pennies down there. Everything costs a multiple of five cents. Hopefully this little bit of 3rd world efficiency will trickle up the the 1st world.
Maybe the government will go crazy and you will start plotting a revolution, so you want to purchase stuff without being traced. Checks and balances and all that.
You are just using the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy.

see this, for example:

http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html
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I live in Europe, and I walk to work. And home again. Those walks are awesome .. my mind is clear and free of cruft each and every day.

I think the better advice would be "don't commute to work". People need to get away from their cars. 2 hours a day spent driving is misery defined ..
"If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" [2006]
"Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English.

Why are you explaining this to me?

Like I already said, the argument didn't even have anything to do with British versus American conventions. That aspect wasn't even brought up until later by another user.

Suppose the band wasn't called "Angels and Airwaves", but "Airwave Angels", and that it wasn't really a band in the literal/literary sense of the word―suppose it was a one-man production through-and-through. The user who raised the argument would have still argued for the change on the same basis, which was that it should be "are" because "Angels" is plural, regardless of the actual number of members and with no notion of British and American style differences.

Bringing up the differences between British and American English legitimizes the issue slightly, but it was completely unrelated. Suggesting that it somehow has something to do with it detracts from how truly ridiculous the argument actually was.
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I believe the tactics used by affiliate marketers to gain money in the short term, is having a negative effect on consumer confidence in web transactions in the long term.
Yes they do exist. It's called adult webcam shows.
We created a prediction market for the next winner of the Clay Prize here http://smarkets.com/current-affairs/clay-prize/next-winner
What makes you think so?

I always found the process of discovery (when you are working stuff out on your own) to be quite messy. You clean up only after you have found your way.

For discovery by reading another one's work, I agree that cleanliness helps. (That's one of the reasons to clean up your work in the first place.)
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On the (in)significance of P ≠ NP
This my response to all the people that have disagreed with me and have asked me for proof. There have been studies like "The Bell Curve" book were they attempt to demonstrate how intelligence varies among people. You can read more about the book here:

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

Basically it supports the view of many people here that there are great variations of intelligence among people. An article that counteracts this type of belief to some degree is this one:

http://minority-health.pitt.edu/archive/00000515/01/Intellig...

I'm not trying to make this a talk about race but unfortunately these are the closest things I could find that talk about human intelligence overall.

As a young person I used to believe that some students in my class were really indeed smarter than most of us. They always seemed to get good grades. I used to think that you were either smart or not and that there was nothing you could do about it. As a young mind thinking like this was very destructive. Who knows how I got out of it but I finally discovered in high school that just by studying regularly I could achieve good grades even if I were not smart. That I could get as good grades as the smartest kids in class and that sometimes I was "the smart kid". Though I knew that it was only because of the hard work I put in. I've seen a lot of friends doing really bad at school and that once they started putting some real work their grades started to improve. The only time that I've seen work made no difference was with kids that had mental disabilities.

Eventually by reading the biographies of several successful people like Buffet, Edison, Einstein, Newton, Trump, Galileo and books like "All The Money In The World" by Peter W. Bernstein And Annalyn Swan I came to the conclusion that what really makes the difference is hard work. All of the successful people that I read about had one thing in common, they worked really hard to become successful.

I have to admit that I'm still highly surprised that people would disagree with me on this one. I'm still in shock. I know I'm going to get down voted for this but I'm highly suspicious that a lot of people like to believe that some people are smarter than others to make themselves feel special. Honestly I think is complete B.S. and I'm calling you guys out on this one. You guys are all full of B.S. Most human beings posses the same level of intelligence.

Thinking that only some people are smart enough to do certain things is like poison. I certainly do not want to be around people that think like that since if you do they will poison you too. And yes, I won't let let door hit me on the way out.
I hate to send people email out of the blue so I'm just asking permission first - can I email you for a career advice question?
Around here, there are laws now that prevent someone from building without providing a sidewalk. Old lots are grandfathered in, I think, but any new development has to also provide a sidewalk.

I suspect it's that way most places, and that's why you find so few without sidewalks. They do exist, though.
There's ups and downs to all payment methods. Cash can be reused to provide change to other customers, and to make smaller payments. Just like credit card transactions can be used to pay for larger payments to providers. Just like CC processing fees can be a huge pain in the butt for microtransactions, but taking cash and lots of it to the bank is a mindfuck and you decide to call one of those armored courier services instead.

That being said, speaking from personal experience owning and running retail stores, credit cards are a pain to accept because of the transaction fee vs. microtransaction issue when people decide to pull their credit cards out for all of a $2 purchase, but more customers spend more money usually because they didn't have any cash on them. What can you do....heh.
That depends on what the GetFoos are doing. Why couldn't you do IQueryable<ISerializable>?
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This was all the proof I had previously needed that Vim wasn’t for me; the only command I ever learnt previously was :!q.

I guess he wrote a shell script at ~/bin/q that killed Vim processes?
It wasn't, when the comment you just downmodded was written. There's a reason Aaronson's posted multiple clarifications, after all...
They kind of have to be sideline businesses. Expensive niche job boards work well only if you already have a valuable community and reputation. They can't be created out of thin air, you need to have "main business" to piggyback upon.

Most of the value is created elsewhere, job board just helps with extracting it.
I use the Contour from the same folks:

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm

The two halfs are built into a single plastic block but there's still about 6 inches of separation between the two islands of keys. I love it, though there are other benefits, like two key clusters of 6 special keys (Enter, Backspace, Ctrl etc.) under each thumb area, amongst several other things. Double the price though.

From the images on the freestyle it would appear you still have to deal with both halves being linked by a cable, so it's probably not that great a difference from a normal ergo keyboard or the Maxim model they sell (unless you put it into the vertical mode). I'm sure I've seen setups with one half on each arm of a chair.
I hope you are right... suddenly it doesn't seem that many other consumer electronic companies are interested in material science. Are Dell, HP, Motorola, Lenovo, etc... trying to catch up with laser manufacturing?
>> Forget competing with Facebook and go make some amazing new tools.

I agree.

>> Micro-payments, so bloggers can charge half a cent (or pence if you roll that way) for someone to read a full post.

Micropayments dream, again? ;-) Didn't that failed every time it was tried?
considering the low barrier to entry, do you think those sorts of things pay that highly? I imagine that if the customer pays that much, most of the value is captured by the gateway.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I read an article a while back about some British unemployment office causing controversy for posting webcam girl jobs at something like ten pounds an hour. I can't find it, though, so I don't know.
I agree with the basis of your theory but I think it is a bit more complex than this.

Previously I was in the "language first" camp, but a recent submission here has modified my beliefs on that. But I still think certain things must be learned in childhood to have a chance at reaching your maximum potential. For example, as far as I understand, unless you learn a language as a child you will never be able to get to native speaker level no matter how long you are immersed in the language (though you can probably get so good that only a native speaker would notice your mistakes).

I also think saying "if you work hard enough" is a bit of an oversimplification. Technically I believe that's true, but practically people first have to realize that they actually can learn X. For example, if someone was always taught X poorly they may assume they are incapable of learning it and, therefor, wont ever put in the work required (assuming the effort would be wasted).

I do think every non-mentally handicapped person has the same potential as a child [1], which is why investing heavily in teaching (and teaching of teaching!) is so critical. An average teacher can teach average people pretty well, but an outstanding teacher can teach anyone. I think a lot of people today assume those that "don't get it" are just genetically of lesser intelligence. In my experience their brains are just wired differently and because of that it takes a different strategy to get them to have the "aha!" moment.

I think the reason many people believe that some people are just genetically stupid is they look at e.g. what's happening politically in the US, how some of these people can't be reasoned with, make life changing decisions based on pure emotion, etc., etc. and just assume "well, they're simply too stupid to be capable of anything else". I think these people simply haven't learned how to learn nor how to reason. It may well be too late to reach them now but I think there was a time that each and every one of them could have been. And that's important to know when planning the future.

[1] Same potential as in: everything child A can learn/do adds up to the same value as everything child B can learn/do even if child A and B both excel at very different things. In other words, I think people's mind are different, I just don't think some people are genetically "stupider" and nothing can be done about it. In fact I consider such thinking self defeating and even dangerous.
Construction as an industry has collapsed in this country and therefore trying to find a new career makes a lot of sense.

I too share ryanwaggoner's concern about his father being able to find work, but as a (once successful, before the crash of the field) general contractor he already has a good fraction of the social skills needed to become a contractor / freelancer in this field.

Given that, while the startup process might be tough as you point out, it's at least in one of the only 3 general areas in our field where older folk can get or stay employed and is worth trying.

(The other two areas are embedded and classified work, the latter because it's very expensive for the initial company to pay someone to do non-classified work or just (mostly) sit on their thumbs while waiting for the bureaucracy to finish their work)).
I think I can remember three different times I've decided to look up and I saw someone watching me. I waved "hello" to them and continued on.
Wow, that's really quite the height from which to fall down.

I was surprised to learn that the peer review process did not include giving the reviewers access to the raw data. Is that the way it is normally done? What is the reason for that?
What are you talking about?

In C# you can make your objects implement IDynamicObject with this signature ...

public interface IDynamicObject {
MetaObject GetMetaObject(Expression parameter);
}

That returned MetaObject is responsible for defining the runtime dispatching, and you can do it however you want. The "binders" defined in MetaObject are returning Expressions, which means that the DLR library also has a chance to do inline caching.

F# uses the same API.

> Just means the tools (IntelliSense/compiler) can't provide the info I need, and I'm forced to go read documentation for small things.

Yeah, reading documentation in this day and age. The horror!
Thanks for the update from the real world.

Do you have any experience with debit cards vs credit cards?
I enjoy taking good podcasts along with me on my walks because then, streets get associated with topics. The corner next to the ugly second-hand store is now all about planning the European high-voltage power grid, and the flower shop at the hospital is about self-made bicycle computers and OpenStreetMap.
I use almost no configuration changes either. I use a lot of machines, and I can't be bothered to install configs and plugins on every machine I come across. If I become dependent on weird plugins, what do I do on a machine that doesn't have them?

Also, I haven't even come close to mastering all of the commands and other things that are already built into vim. If I haven't mastered all of those, why do I need to add more? Instead of changing vim, I should change myself. It's much easier, and it transfers to every machine automatically.
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I have a good moral argument that you should only eat animals and fungi, not plants:

Plants are autotrophs and don't eat other things. Animals are heterotrophs and do it other things. Applying the Golden Rule in reverse, it's fine to do to lifeforms what they do to others.
That ultimately depends on the merchant agreement. Regardless, it's a percentage and/or a flat fee (and usually the flat fee that makes no sense for micropayments), and varies depending on other factors (which creditor, what kind of card, etc). But that's not what I'm talking about. Typically in the US the merchant is responsible for paying all fees and is not allowed to explicitly charge the customer for it in any extra way except through methods like "cash discounts". So the customer will pay for this some other way (like raising the price of the product). I guess that's the difference I'm nitpicking about here...just as ridiculous as it is ok to provide cash discounts but not credit card surcharges, it's ridiculous to claim you're not paying anything for those additional fees, because retailers that have to deal with the possibility of micropayments aren't exactly oblivious to the fact that a percentage+flat fee just killed their profit on a $2 purchase.

There is a lot more to the cost of accepting credit cards than just the transaction fee, just as there are costs of accepting cash. It's just that the benefits of accepting cash (i.e. tax fraud as I mentioned above) is a lot more appealing than accepting card payments to many businesses. But I digress...
As has been pointed out, coins were "accepted" elsewhere once notes were withdrawn.

Looking at the title provides clue to human behavior: then there is no need to ask "why do people resist accepting what they hate."

Simple principles of shaping behavior suggest one simple principle: reinforcement: offer discount for using coins (i.e., $1.01 of merchandise for a $1 coin) or transaction penalty for paying with notes.
Briefly stated Krugman says that cheap-labour manufacturing is better than rural poverty for the Third World.

He is right on a historic scale (development taking decades and presuming that transfer of know-how and tech sooner or later is to be followed by the ability to retain larger profits within the receiving nation).

But this is nothing original as a thought because ~150 years before him it was Marx who said that capitalism is better than the rural feudal economics, anyway, and explicitly acknowledged its productive power (Before dissecting his problems as a social order, in his understanding).

Anyway, this arm-chair observations hardly matter to the overworked and overstressed individual, or to the parents of those who commit suicide out of desperation.
Maybe not, but that's not what the Google-Verizon letter says.

It does not suggest that massive government regulation (or in fact any regulation: no need to turn it into a dichotomy) will do more harm than good. Their point is that it's unnecessary.
OT, the Treasury has a program of selling dollar coins with free shipping, to encourage dollar coin usage. And they accept credit card payment. People have been using credit cards to buy the coins and deposit them to the banks. It's a good way to earn credit card cashback.
Two weeks ago I was hacking away in my apartment. It was a normal Arizona summer day, clear skies and 106 degrees F. All of the sudden my window started rattling and I had no idea what was going on. Peering behind my blinds I observed sheets of water falling from the sky. We get rain like that maybe once every year. I promptly undressed, donned my bathing suit, and went for a walk in the rain.
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I used to have a Sandisk Sansa e270, which was supposed to have a LiquidMetal backplate. I wasn't impressed; to me, it appeared to be just another dull grey metal alloy. But then, I'm not a metallurgist.
If your language has REPL, I must recommend ConqueTerm.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771
I was with Tichy until I saw that link. Amazing work.
Love the BitchX inspired theme :)