skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your recipe only applies to certain types of robust rice. Basmati rice is not simple - if you just boil it for 15 minutes, you'll destroy it.

At the very least, good basmati is steamed - you only add enough water to cook the rice (you don't drain it afterwards), then bring it to the boil before simmering it at a very low heat. It's pretty hard to reliably get right - every time I use a new stove or pan or try to cook a quantity I don't often do is a gamble. If you mess up it's either crunchy or squishy.
Rent a cargo bike with kids seats – Copenhagenbikerental
Universal basic income is no panacea
Big difference between privatising the parts of the system that are a natural monopoly and those that aren't.

Privatising the power cables going to people's homes is a dumb move - you won't get the benefits of the free market, as there's no competition between suppliers.

But once the cables are in the ground, competition between multiple power suppliers might be possible - so long as customers can compare prices and switch suppliers easily; and the power plants aren't incentivised to cut long-term investments and imperil the country's energy security.
Don’t break the 21st century nervous system: Cory Doctorwo on Net Neutrality
Bitcoin Futures trading are positive for Bitcoin demand
The space likely wouldn't seem so wasted though if you had rice with every meal.
I don't think I would have read his thoughts if it had been a link to a blog post.
Yes, that's true. Their overall C support is horrible, esp. up to C99.
But they were still the first ones who implemented C11, which gcc and clang refuse to do.
Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help
Spot on.

I can't for the life of me understand why people would think that the sponsors/"corruptors" would act better without a government, even when parts of that government is corrupted by the private entities.
That's not necessarily true - the brain can rewire itself and probably will if some underlying functions are not contributing to your behavior. Maybe not actually deleted, but put into a low-power mode.
S&P and Moody’s and other credit rating agencies need to downgrade the US for our total and complete political dysfunction. We are being passed by as other counties address real problems, while we argue about plain as day facts that only one political party in the world still refuses to acknowledge. America’s power will continue to fade the longer republicans are in power.
Curated data digest – The Digital Republic
If cashing out is easy and reliable, why can’t I withdraw from Coinbase, six months after verifying my bank account?

I’ll tell you: they don’t have the capital to pay anyone, so nobody can withdraw. It’s Mt Gox all over again.
Many of these wallets are actually exchange cold storage wallets, so they hold the BTC but not per se "own" it
Why doesn't the OP just make this an app?
> Why would I buy a separate device taking precious space in my kitchen

I have a microwave rice cooker - doubles as a large bowl for eating, mixing, etc. Alton Brown would approve.
Nation states are investing more and more into the control and shaping of dialogue on the internet.
There's also more complicated tricks, like arbitraging via an altcoin. I'll mention that later, didn't want to get too detailed right at that point.

Basically, though, it's reasonable to assume that arbitrage is happening as absolutely efficiently as it possibly can, and we still see huge spreads, because the Bitcoin market is structured for inefficiency and volatility.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
> wealth became much more fairly distributed
> clear trend of concentration of wealth

These two facts only contradict one another if you have an implicit belief that "fair" is "equal".
This guy gets it. Privatisation on its own does not magically improve services and cut costs. Competition can do so. But privatisation without competition is just a monopoly license to print money.
That's an incredibly broad statement; we are talking about what movies people have watched on netflix. What possible non-anonymous dataset could you be cross referencing to de-anonymize it? Even if you could, who cares?
I expect that everybody with a degree knows SQL and I'm realizing that I could be wrong. Maybe sometimes I'm the only one in the room that knows it. I'll check it next time I'm at a technical event leaning on the backend side.
Rich people can't create monopolies and rent seek as easily if government does the basic infrastructure well.

Peter Thiel gives the example of not wanting to open a restaurant in San Francisco because there is too much competition for it to be successful and you constantly have to work at it for little reward.

Of course the reality is that a successful San Francisco restaurant makes millions of dollars per year. Too little for Peter Thiel to be interested in but for most of us that would be considered extremely successful. The same can be true of websites and the Internet, ala Indie hackers.
You should always start with something basic and only start using advanced techniques like NLP when the need is apparent. They require a more thorough understanding of the problem to be put to good use anyway.
Interesting! Would explain why sending a call doesn't push out as much power.
That opinion stems from a place of privilege and over-entitlement. UPS drivers would get fired for ALL of that behavior, to not hold yourself to that standard at a minimum is shameful.

If it is a question of 'not having enough doctors' so we need to keep bad physicians around, then that's another reason that we need to drastically increase our enrollments for medical school. We certainly have enough willing and able Americans that would be ecstatic for the opportunity.

I assume physicians have something like law-enforcement's 'blue line', but it's pretty imperative that professionals like you hold each other accountable.
I suppose it works for the youngest. Up to the point they eventually notice they're doing the same thing at each new place, with the primary novelty being what problems did the company inflict itself this time.

Personally, I am bored to death with more and more iterations of the very same. It makes enjoying the job harder (and it also makes finding an interesting job harder too).
I'd say it is, but not by directly confronting them with their personality (e.g. saying "you're a dick" every day), but by more subtle behavioural things (like being nice to them when they're not being a dick).
> For some reason though, each company has to have its own implementation of that same CRUD.

Well, they're different CRUDs, no?

Hacker News and Facebook both boil down to a database hooked up to a web-based front-end, but the glue in the middle isn't going to be the same.
when you learn how to use views and stored procedures you'll speed up your application so much.

* and temporary tables, etc.
Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox
Next: Mining bitcoin with pool of monkeys with typewriters.
When I turn on my kitchen gas-hob my PC will pause any playing youtube videos.

Have tried:

> Replacing power brick

> Replacing motherboard PSU

> Replacing motherboard

> Moving house

Clearly a software problem.
I've been writing C# professionally for ~12 years at this point. I'm extremely comfortable with SQL, the first startup I worked for for 3 or 4 years in the mid-2000s did amazing things with it and was extremely anti-ORM. We did things like write SQL that would automatically get translated into XML, which we'd combine with xslt to create dynamic pages.

Yes, I've hit major problems with the EF (including one on Friday which was causing huge CPU and Mem spikes at the busiest time of our year). Yes, it's a PITA to debug the queries. Yes, it can do stupid things. Yes, some programmers can massively over-complicate it.

But you can prise the EF from my cold, dead hands before I give it up. ORMs rock. It's such a huge time saver as long as you KISS and accept you have to drop down to SQL sometimes.

And screw switching to Core until they've sorted out lazy loading. Lazy Loading can also screw you, but again, it's just wonderful when you use it right.

I've also turned into a huge fan of Code-First and Migrations, having been against them at first.
Linear regulators went the way of the Dodo long ago for applications like this. HF DC-DC converters are the way to go, at the currents involved here you'd be paying more for the heatsink in a linear setup than for the whole DC-DC converter.
You need to read between the lines and know the history.

Restricting to UTF-8 and disallowing the previous allowed UT-16 and UTF-32 BOM's (which my JSON library is the only one which did support that), is the most prominent change, yes.

What is troubling to me is that they now prefer relaxed RFC 7159 over strict RFC 4627. The RFC 7159 relaxed mode was a troubled update which harms security, and it should not be turned on by default.

And whilst they support now the insecure relaxed variant, they didn't clarify the still problematic points in the spec. MUST disallow duplicate keys, or MAY? It's not specified, or specified twice contradicting itself. Same for broken UTF-8 encodings. Error or warn or silence?

It's still much better than the YAML spec though. Minor nitpicks.
Nice! But I like the Russian (or Ukrainian?) approach better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuJKsUjD_o
If SML/NJ doesn't count as Standard ML then I'd say Standard ML doesn't count as a practical programming language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380110
Serverless Node.js: the fast, inexpensive way to build your next microservice
SqlAlchemy Core vs SqlAlchemy ORM
Unlike what you stated, it quite needs some practice to get the right formula for cooking rice. There are at least three kind of rice sold in Asian markets, and different kind of rice need different duration, heat, and water to get the best taste. And cooking in pan often leaves fried rice layer at bottom, which could destroy the flavor of the whole pot. It is not simple as you state. Just think about it this way, East Asians might be the people in the world eat most rice in their meals, and they all use rice cooker. There must be a reason for that. Also most East Asian don't add salt when cooking rice, but after cooking white vinegar is added for sushi rice.
That (plane operating costs > rail operating costs) may not be the case when you take into account the cost of maintaining the physical infrastructure (hundreds of miles of railroad) compared to that of airports (a few hundred metres of tarmac).
I don't see anything obvious, but a string-delimited system is more vulnerable in general (especially if the spec grows).

Consider for instance that the escaping of comma's wouldn't be necessary in a binary protocol.
No, but journalists set their priorities by what they are spending their time on. If you have some politically activist billionaires who invest in advocacy groups, you will always find some topic that angers your audience. The right just pushes the narrative that Sorros wants to regulate the Internet and funding all the Net Neutrality campaigns.
Of those you cited only msgpack is besides JSON inherently secure. All others are insecure by default. Read the link I cited.

BTW The latest 2 JSON specs also are now insecure by default, in its relaxed RFC 7159 mode, allowing values such as objects,
arrays, strings, numbers, "null", "true", and "false".

Wait: default msgpack is also insecure, as you can trivially add packets to the front or end, overriding it. It also accepts cutoff or corrupted packets. Only my patched msgpack version was better, but only for prepending packets, not for added packets after. https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/pull/114
> I recall reading some article about how, when mining for bitcoin (for example), what was really being mined are progressively larger prime numbers, or scientific data, or some such data requiring lots of computation.

You're most likely thinking about Primecoin[0].

> Isn't there something of real value being mined? If not, what is being done when people _mine_ bitcoins?

"Real value" in a computational sense is difficult to articulate. Making a calculation part of a mining algorithm that ultimately results in _new_ information is challenging because it, by definition, requires a lot of effort to not just calculate, but verify. Folding proteins, searching SETI datasets, etc. presumably require the same amount of effort to verify as they do to solve in the first place. The way that cryptocurrencies that use a "proof of work" ("PoW") are typically set up is to make it very difficult to solve a computation, but very easy for others to verify that the solution is correct. The other component of PoW that makes it beneficial as a verification tool is the ability to increase or decrease the difficulty of solving the calculations required by the network. Without the concept of adjustable "difficulty," a network could not adapt or grow as more (or less) computational power is brought online. This difficulty of computation is a core component of the decentralized, distributed nature of blockchains.

If you'd like to learn more about it, here are a couple of resources to get you started:

- "Proof of Work" (Wikipedia)[1]

- "Is there a way to set up proof-of-work systems so they would be even more useful?" (StackExchange, orig. asked in Sept. 2011, updated Dec. 2017)[2]

- "The Fair Cost of Bitcoin Proof of Work" (Tomaso Aste, University College London, 2016)[3]

- "FoldingCoin" (HN discussion, Jan. 2015)[4]

Bitcoin's hashing scheme's "value" is in its ability to make it computationally difficult (and of significant real cost) to attempt to cheat the network.

Simplifying a very complex discussion, you can consider it, in a limited sense, analogous to the different ways that the World's governments and assorted financial institutions spend untold billions of USD, EUR, RMB, YEN, etc. every year to secure, confirm, compensate, and extend the underlying infrastructures that support global financial exchange.

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[0] http://primecoin.io/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system

[2] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/331/is-there-a-w...

[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801048 (Note: A subscription to Elsevier is not required to view or download this research paper)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8962896
It's pretty weird when you consider how food trends go. In China, back in the 90s, my parents use a pressure cooker and a wok for everything. And it's the norm as for most families I know both parent work and they have to come home at 5:30 and put food on the table at 6:30, with no easy option like frozen pizza. Now with supermarkets and food delivery you don't need to cook if you don't want to, and if you do choose to cook it becomes much more fancy(and western) with more time consuming steps.

It seems the reverse in happening in us?
damn u dumb
Try and make your sentences short and to the point. Take one of the paragraphs you spoke, then repeat it over and over and over again until you're at the point and avoided the tangents. I'm no expert but I think that's also why your colleagues stop listening, because you don't get to the point. Avoid fillers too - uhs and ums, stuttering, stop-words, etc - and try to focus on bringing your point across in a single, firmly worded sentence.

So taking your one sentence:

> I have found that when I speak, I rarely command attention and captivate as some others do. Probably something in my speech patterns. Perhaps they are slightly more apologetic / geeky / nice than others. People may interrupt me or turn away, even people who respect me.

You could rephrase (and speak) this as:

> When I speak, I rarely command attention and captivate as some others do. People interrupt me or turn away, even people who respect me.

People have a short attention span. I myself tend to mostly ignore this one colleague I have because pretty much half of what he says is filler, like, a ramp-up to his point ("so uhh, basically, like"), his main point (stuttering and lots of uhs), and end-filler ("you know?"). Mind you that he's not a stutterer as such, he just needs to make noises while he's trying to think of what to say next (like uhs). Not speaking in his native language is also a factor there.

TL;DR: Firm, short, unapologetic statements. "We should do this" instead of "Uh, guys, excuse me but, like, I think we should sorta lean towards this?"
How Tesla Model X can be about car-2-car transit at speed
I have realized that ones we have self-driving cars, the next step will be to switch between cars at speed. This could drastically reduce prices by higher car utilization, lower the number of cars on the highway, plus increase travel speed without the need for stops. Could this already be realized with Model X? It seems so. The Wing-doors can be opened more than 45degrees (not possible now due to SW) enabling two cars to drive up close to each other on the highway and open the doors at speed. It's also easy to remove the front arm-rest so all 6 people can exit through the same door.
If this is part of Musk's, the other car producers will already be behind when they all have self-driving cars on the highway.
Read the whole article. She makes it abundantly clear that her parents were not upper class. Just middle class what in the context of that region means "no private transportation of any sort let alone a car". I assume they had bicycles at most.
S-expr are powerful, but too powerful. They do allow object deserialization, which is the insecure part.
'Gregory'.
This is so true.

I usually only buy the one type of rice, a short grain brown rice from SunRice in Australia, and usually only when it's on special.

Anyway, point being: I know I can cook this one particular type of rice to perfection in a saucepan with 1 volume-unit rice to 1.5 volume-units water. Bring it to a rapid boil for one minute, then wrap the whole pot in two dry cotton bath towels (hotbox), leave it for ~45 minutes.

Voila!

Also works with some short grain white rices, with 1:1 ratio and many fewer minutes in the hotbox.

Personally, I can't stand any long grain rice (Basmati, Jasmine, etc).
Interestingly I agree with these sentences (sans not being 30 yet and not having kids and leaving at precisely 5:30)

I want to start a product because I think it'll be useful and I have bills to pay, I concern myself with user privacy first and foremost when designing and I don't want to fall into the trap of doing an "apple design". I don't want to scale either, I want to have a healthy and slow growth, maybe not even grow beyond a point. From a pure business standpoint these things are irrational (except paying bills) but personally I find them important.
Bad team can easily screw an good idea too.
It's important, just not for the reason most commonly accepted ie risk for the patient yada yada.

Easy question : do you know what it looks like ? I think no picture has been published, I infer what it probably looks like out of what I've seen and my experience which is relevant in this case, but most people are probably not able to do so (this is arrogant I guess ?).

BUT it is indeed bad and damaging for the doctor/patient relationship, which is today even more prevalent than the care one.
I don't think this is a particularly well argued piece but it covers a lot of the arguments for and against quite succinctly.

I do agree with the underlying premise that UBI could easily end up being detrimental to the poor. I also agree that there's little evidence that the current industrial revolution is fundamentally different from previous ones. But the basic thrust of the article is too trite: regulate employers more and everything will be OK.

Although I'm fairly skeptical about UBI in practice (at least in a naive form), I'm definitely coming around to the opinion that "more of the same but different" isn't going to work long term. Not because we'll all be replaced by robots but because the current opaque, complex and unfair systems are exacerbating divisions.
If you want composable kernels in a high level language, I can really recommend http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

with the CUDA backend: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-llvm-ptx

See http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/ch06.htm... for a great introduction
I'm often fond of saying that idealism is not lost in adulthood, but rather gets patched for real world vulnerabilities. So I generally like the idea of a series of patches making a whole. After all, isn't that what evolution is?
Which other software probes for a static analyzer? Is there a autoconf or cmake probe?
FreeBSD and chromium are islands unfortunately.
Intel vs GlobalFoundries at the leading edge
The airplane gets tax-free fuel to burn and doesn’t have to pay for environmental damage it creates.
Let's look at the humours model you're referring to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

Can such a model arise from a combination of the scientific method (observation, experimentation, etc...) and lack of adequate tooling to study the body?
Probably sharpen my algorithm skills. Get easy questions done in 10 minutes and have it work the first time I run it.

Also want to speed up my design and planning skill. Coding is easy, but figuring out what to code is painful.
At the local level, I could deal with private ownership. But if and only if there were strict regulations in place and an oversight body. But, at that point, would it really save local residents money anyway?

The closer that the government is to me, I more that I can control it (albeit with much frustration sometimes). But, private ownership, I can't control.
You could also just buy the Lithium 9V batteries instead of Alkaline and put in your regular smoke detector - same result https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01684J7P0
For the sake of stronger definitions I have clarified the sentiment to express this point.
"Cooking rice is the simplest thing in the world"

Yeah, for us in the west that's what it looks like, also many of us think 'rice is rice is rice'. But there's a huge variety all with different cooking needs, and there is a large difference between well-cooked and just-boil-until-it-looks-done rice.

But, as with most single-purpose appliances, rice cookers only make sense when you use it daily so that you can leave it on your counter top. Better rice cookers have start- and stop timers so that you can do long prep methods without having to think about anything.

I've never been to a Chinese home that didn't have a rice cooker (huge selection bias in there but still). If it were as useless as you say, a rice cooker wouldn't be a primary appliance in Asian households, the way a coffee machine or kettle is for us in the West (after all, why use those? you can just boil water in a pan).
I was looking into getting a cheap laptop recently, turns out you can get a decent one for €200 nowadays (probably less in the US), which outperforms and outprices anything you can build with cheap ARM chips. A decent laptop-sized screen is already €100, and the whole PiTop setup (HD display, RasPi 3, 6-8 hour battery, case, touchpad, keyboard and charger) costs $320. The €200 laptop outperforms it and even comes with a Windows 10 license. And no crapware as far as I could tell.
In my country, pressure cookers are advised to be used along with pre-soaking the rice for energy savings (its usually advertised by government).
Monkeys with typewriters are currently busy banging out whitepapers for ICOs.