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Ask HN: What do you eat, hackers?
Ok this question is inspired by the "Ask HN: What do you drink" post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825389), as I'm really interested to know whether the stereotypical pizza delivery and sushi around the corner the standard food for hackers, or are we eating things much cooler/healthier/exotic? What do you guys love to eat?

I'll make a start: cafe around the corner is often my choice for lunch, and I'd order things like fish & chips, chicken caesar salad or stir fried with rice. I generally avoid focaccia for lunch because it gets me sleepy in the afternoon.
Yes.

And no.

Linux was never a very good desktop OS. Though it was a fair to perhaps good workstation OS. However, the future of the desktop may well be in mobile-heritage OSes such as iOS and Android. Just as the PC grew to fill its mini-computer and mainframe big brothers' shoes so mobile OSes are likely to mature into robust desktop platforms (though founded on different paradigms).

And if that's the case, then the linux desktop dream may yet live indirectly, through android and related offerings (chrome OS, etc.)
White House web videos on Economy
http://whatsmycallsign.appspot.com/

When you're on the phone and you need to spell your name, address etc. It will print out the international call sign (Alpha, Delta, Lima etc).

Took me about 30 mins or so, running on Google App Engine but almost all JavaScript. Was going to make it into an Android app instead as a learning exercise, but never got round to it.
Wait, you go to the UK and drink Budweiser? Are you mad, sir? There's beautiful fine British ales to be had, not to mention the congregation of the world's finest lagers. Next time you're in the UK, please try a Peroni, a Staropramen or a Schneider Weisse if you're used to Bud and get the opportunity.

Also Nigerian Guinness is pretty tasty too :)
If they don't use JOINs or aggregates your apps might just run unmodified. In some cases you'll need extra index definitions, either for djangoappengine or django-dbindexer, but you can keep those separate from your app, so you don't need to fork the code. BTW, I've updated the docs and added a short note that should answer your original questions.
I'm not imagining anything, just increasing the accuracy of your statement - I think accuracy is important when it comes to climate science.
- Morning: soy milk

- During the day: tap water (excellent here in Vienna)

- Once a day: fresh pressed juice (mostly either orange, kiwifruit, or banana)
Ostrich or bison for red meat.

Fish

Oats

Fruit

Yoghurt

Almonds

Eggs

Protein shakes

Salad

Cheese

Wraps
P.S. You'll notice a glaring omission in the form of traditional magazines and newspapers, which are already dying today. Perhaps that hits a bit too close to home for business-week though.
I see this discussion popping up here and there. People are clearly tired of consuming for the sake of consuming. We seek other kicks. Nothing strange with that, this follows the development ladder of spiral dynamics or Maslow.

But it's worth pondering what this does to the economy at large. What happens when we start to perceive value more in fluffy stuff like experiences than physical goods? It would certainly affect the job market and the opportunity cloud for startups.

It's time for everyone in business to ask: what are people willing to pay for in the post consumer society?

On the shopping list for a 21st century man would be:

Experiences.

Social status (never goes out of style, but the accessories do).

Time.

Health.

Emotional comfort.

This is worth keeping in mind when you build your startup. Can you package your service in such a way as to speak to the 21st century man in us all? This man does not just want to solve a problem, he wants to feel good and have fun doing it.
No. Flash memory is sort-of write-once in the sense that a page starts with all bits in one state. From there, you can flip individual bits to the other state, but to flip them back, you have to flip back all of them. So, to update a single bit, you may have to read a block, erase it, update the in-memory block, then write the in-memory block.

The trim command will do the 'erase block' part of this procedure before the block is actually needed for data. That speeds up a future write to that block.
Really? You mean to say that if you believed something, no amount of new evidence to the contrary could persuade you to change your mind?
were you serious about the ostrich/bison part?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3ctErsxog - If you want to hear PG discuss exactly this.
I've tried to cut down my coffee intake with mixed results, but I have a profound weakness for Turkish coffee. That stuff's just amazing.
Fashionable cloth,summer fashion,belts,
Fashion, a common word currently used by all of us & it's a currently popular style or practice, especially in Clothing, Glares, Watches, Belts & Indian(Traditional) Sarees. The more technical term, Costume, Glares, Watches, etc has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion".
I played chess a seriously when I was at school but my family moved to a town without a decent club in last year at school so I stopped playing.

Started again around 2.5 years ago and I'm pretty serious. Trying to do 10-20 hours per week of training, seeing a coach for 2 hours/week and entering tournaments (I'm in the middle of one this weekend).

I don't play much online, just chess puzzles, books and playing against the computer ( The hard bit with computer chess these days is not "playing better than a grandmaster" but "playing like a nnnn rated human" ). At the level I'm at memorising openings isn't too big. perhaps 20 lines to a depth of a dozen moves is enough.

My rating is 1900 FIDE (although I'm probably 100 points lower in real life) which puts me in the top 100,000 players in the world or something like that. My medium term plans are to get a low level title (below grandmaster) in around 3-5 years. It's a plausible goal if I put in the hours.
The Coolest Shop Ever
This is one of the coolest shops ever, situated inside the tallest building made from shipping containers.
This is relying on the classical approach of the ground equipment operated by satellite operator or internet provider relying on satellite. The upstream and the downstream are independent from each other. Usually you have two independent channels for encapsulation : a DVB-S/DVB-S2 (with MPE encapsulation) on the downstream and a proprietary DVB-RCS (a strange concept for a standard ;-) on the upstream.

By so, it was somehow difficult to keep track of active terminal as packet encapsulation and decapsulation as this is often independent infrastructure doing so. By so, an attacker could benefit from this lack of state tracking, by injecting packet in one direction to have a functional transmission channel. This allows collateral attacks on the downstream when the traffic is unauthenticated and in clear (like some explained in the slides at BlackHat).

To limit such attacks, an authentication and encryption layer/scheme must be provided on the downstream (and a smaller scale, on the upstream). Some VSAT equipment suppliers implement such scheme (including protocol keys distribution scheme among terminals) but it's not regularly the case due to incompatibilities with existing terminals or other limitations.
Ostrich or bison for red meat.
Yes definitely; very under-rated IMHO. Any meat lover should at least try them. You may not like them (I find ostrich a bit too dry) but the are different enough to warrant investigation.

Also wild boar meat.
I loved Chai when I was in Gurgaon. Great stuff.
Doesn't Photoshop have a huge ecosystem of plug-ins and brushes and stuff. Seems kind of platform-y to me.
I think he's probably saying that most people are like that, and sadly, I have to agree.
I play (well, I have played) and agree it's an amazing, beautiful game like no other.

I only reached around 10 kyu though; don't have the time for it these days.
I did something very similar to this, it worked, I weaseled my way into the video game industry and I shipped a major console title. You can do it, too!

However, the industry sucks. I left after about a year. In that time I learned the terms "stress migraine" and "death march." Compensation is pathetic.

Upside: wanting to make games propelled me to learn to create software. Now, I have a fantastic career as a software developer, minus the games and the stress migraines.
Gimlets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimlet_(cocktail)
They cut through like a knife.

Gin Hemingways
http://www.liquoranddrink.com/Drinks/344-Hemingway-Daiquiri-...
Warming on a cold day.

Hefeweizen

Coffee
Brilliant, where do you get that stuff anyway? In restaurants or home made? Would love to try just for it's rarity.
i play it. it's my favorite board game: i'd say it is the best example of a well designed game :)

though i do not play it online.

my dad thought me how to play it at the age of 8. for some time i played it at a go club, but that never really caught on. now i play with a couple of friends or with my dad.
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I used to drink ungodly amounts of Red Bull which I stopped doing.

I drink a lot of water and a lot of tea (usually Earl Gray, Gunpowder or Pu-erh).

Once a week I make three infusions of Mate and about three times a week I get a mug of hot chocolate.

When the mood strikes, I enjoy a green tea (usually the ones from Japan) or Rooibos.

No coffee and no alcohol. Never liked the stuff.
Essentially anything with more travel-distance than a laptop keyboard. I've tried a lot of different models. Currently, I'm using a Logitech diNovo as my main keyboard, but I'm looking for a replacement since it is starting to break.
I started juicing (organic) about 6 months ago and love it! My current fav juice is carrot & apple. If you want the freshest and most natural juice try juicing your own.

Also, love me some Ice cold coke!
Water definitely, unless I feel so sick of the taste(lessness) of water I'd get an ice lemon tea. By the way I hate energy drinks but at times they can be life savers...

Here's another post for discussion about the best hacker food
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825811
Where I live there is always "that one shop" that does one of these unusual meats. You just got to look.

For wild boar, an Italian shop is your best bet to get some kind of salami or cured meat.
Ah that's a good point - reminds me of this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/10/1...
I think the desktop itself is dying. The Linux desktop, however, did give birth to KHTML, which became one of the major browser platforms. You can now access your apps without a proprietary software requirement on most devices. A win, but not in the way anyone expected.
"...in the US" doesn't increase accuracy.

"...in the US; here's a good study on the subject:" would.
I would guess that, if you tried, you would discover that that 'anyone can reproduce the original' is not quite true. For example, the Getty site says:

Handheld and video cameras using existing light are welcome in the permanent collection galleries. Please check at the entrance of the changing exhibitions for any restrictions in those galleries. Flash photography, tripods, and monopods are not permitted.

Those limitations make making a good reproduction a challenge.

As to your question: they are probably asserting the copyright on the photograph itself, not on what it depicts. That is perfectly OK. If that weren't possible, press photographers would have a hard time making a living.
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George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
A 'martini nut' would drink actual martinis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_(cocktail), rather than suggesting five different types of vodka.

Nothing wrong with vodka drinks, I'm a big fan of Belvedere Black, but you will get some funny looks from bartenders if you're being that precise with your specifications yet using the wrong liquor for your drink.

Particular the Vesper, whose recipe is very well known.
The urban heat island effect and 'micro-climates' have a negligible impact on long term warming trends, especially when records are averaged over large areas. Also, rural temperature records show the same warming trends as urban ones. The 'evidence' on this site isn't relevant to arguments regarding the existing of global warming.
That's quite the adventure! Our time zones might not let us play in real time. Facebook has a Go playing app. I'd be happy to play a teaching game with you.
Reminds me of a friend who passed on both Yahoo and Google in the 90s :)
I'm philh on kgs, but these days I mostly play in person at my university club. One consequence of this is that I don't really know my rank. We have our own ladder, on which I'm currently 15.5k, but it tends to underrank people as compared to KGS. I'm probably not above 10k.

If anyone's interested in a game, I can play most evenings, British time.
2-3 liters of unsweetened tea, mostly green and some wulong

2 liters of water

0-4 liters of beer, mostly Tsingdao, Yanjing or imported stuff from Japan or Europe

an occasional coffee

No milk, no soda and no juice
Please, don't send FUD here.

PCWorld is a magazine witch primary Ad buyer is Microsoft, this kind of magazines live from their ads(I have worked on printing presses), not for their customers paying the magazine.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

No, Linux is not dead, and you make the numbers totally up(1% market share). Linus is not going to be professional in the areas that commercial software makers only support Windows or Mac(games, CAD, CAE, publishing...) until they support Linux, but is the only OS in witch you have total control.
I played chess a lot in my teenage years and I was very good.
Italian Champion under 12, under 18 and under 20, fide master with 2 international master norms.

Then I decided to quit.
It was incredibly fun, but also a lot of work which is not going to pay off unless you become a very strong grandmaster.
I'm still thinking what a loss it was not to spend that "teenage energy" into doing something more profitable.

But it was so fun that I'm thinking about a comeback :)
you created a group another day, posted link on a US-centered website, and expecting Indians to join.
Blood.
The hard part is the cost.

Unlike at home, there are a few more things required:

Those might include (but not limited to):

local RAID (*)
mirror to remote-site
versioned backup
off-site backup archives

And every piece of that puzzle needs its own:

fiber
ethernet
physical space
cooling
electricity
management (support team)

All the above need be redundant and enterprise quality (to minimize downtime and errors).

Someone once told me the price calculated for each GB. I thought he was crazy, and then did the math myself. (he was quite sane)

(*) or more commonly storage arrays from HDS/IBM/etc, which start at 100K+ and go north (way way way north)
So what? We shouldn't try and collect more evidence? We should give up on the debate? This really shouldn't be about 'sides'.

By the way, as evidence of global warming, repeated snowless winters in Detroit would not be especially more convincing than the huge amount of evidence we already have.

You don't have to wait to observe the effects of climate change. Where I come from - the south-west of Western Australia - when compared to the 70s, rainfall levels are way down, stream flows into dams are way down, number of hot days per year are up, and average temperatures are up.
2 2liters lemon soda with 4 to 6 green tea bags brewed in..

or

2 2liters lemon soda with hot coca mix with cinnamon mixed in
This depends on whenever it's american "budweiser" or original Budweiser (Budvar). With original Budweiser being certainly better that anything Staropramen, but you are probably in for a hangover, as it has particularly high sugar content for light beer (the brewery had even financed scientific study few years ago into what caused this).
The Vesper is rather vile, but its very well known recipe does indeed include vodka.
Some technical details: It's a mashup of Last.FM data & Youtube. Futhermore, there is a Facebook integration (you can discover new music through your friends) and it's easy to create playlists of all the (new) music you find. Playlist urls are being stored as a Bit.ly url.
Everything is clientside JQuery code, so there are no scalability issues.
Any feedback is welcome!
Also see: http://seldo.com/weblog/2010/09/04/san_francisco_city_guide_...
I'd like to wait for a year to see that the design does not go up in flames before I applaud it.
There's a video by founder of Sequoia Capital, saying that market is even more important than both the founders and the product, i.e. best product + best team will still fail if there isn't a market
Exactly. You can use the Climate Reports to lasso areas away from urban centres in the map:

http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtml

The site says nothing about global warming or the cause. The site does show that there is a consistent warming trend over summer months across all of Canada, and is most extreme in northern Canada. Also, I believe the Environment Canada data is accurate to within 0.2 degrees C.
That's some incredibly refreshing brutal honesty, makes me incalculably more tempted to invest with them than the usual 30 pages of financial-marketing bumph about said firms unblemished perfection, mathematically perfect risk system and strangely graphed double-digit alpha.
Pardon the short answer, but simply:

No, its not bad at all.
A. google
B. Facebook
Why does typing accuracy improve? Is it because the keys have less wobble? I figured that generic keyboards on the market differ greatly in wobble.
This whole thread makes me want to start learning how to play again. I don't think I have played more than about half a dozen games but it is by far the on of the most compelling games I've encountered.
Thinking of your software as a butler is difficult but important
I think I can get by without right-hand number pad (that's for accountants). But how do you substitute for grey +-*/ keys?
I used to play second board in interschool competition. We were a small school, but had a really good team (number one board ended up state champion.) Took a couple of years but we ended up winning the whole thing.

Interestingly, Terrance Tao's brother (Trevor) used to play in the same competition sometimes.
??? why pointing out such article?
> Linux was never a very good desktop OS

Have you ever seriously tried to use it? Because, lacking a proper official definition of what a good desktop OS is, I am very satisfied with the one running in front of me and can only say it's really good. Good as in "solid and predictable".

I understand there are Linux distros for every taste, from the heavy-duty-server guy to the most curious hacker that wants to compile the kernel for every upstream release, but I find - and that's first-hand experience - Ubuntu makes for a very nice destkop OS.
The reason there's so many substitutes is that the original contents are no longer available in their original recipes. The original vesper called for Gordons and didn't specify which vodka, so you have to improvise.

As for drinking 'actual Martinis' there's no such thing as an actual Martini. There's plenty of stories as to the origin, ranging from the Mexican gold digger in Martinez to the bar in New York that put gin in with Martini Rosso in the late 19th century. I tend to follow the Knickerbocker Hotel 1911 recipe for classic Martinis, which I make often but a well mixed Vesper is an incredible drink, and something most of the people here are unlikely to have tried. It's the closest I can imagine to an actual pan-galactic gargleblaster.
I play, but not nearly often enough. I'm probably somewhere around 12k, far below thangalin's level. If there is any such thing as objective quality in board games, go is objectively the best game anyone has come up with yet. Wonderful, wonderful game. But also dangerously addictive. The fact that it's basically impossible to play a quick game doesn't help.
Heathen!

To be fair, the first sip of a great Vesper tastes a little like Jet Fuel, and I'd never drink one at anything approaching room temperature, but a badly mixed Vesper is pretty much undrinkable.
Dumplings
Cheese
Pad Thai
Salmon Sushi
Gourmet Sandwiches
Linux is the best desktop OS I ever used. Sure, it required me to learn a bit about its innards and consider what I need and why, but once configured it is a flawless and relaxing experience for me.
I don't think this has anything to do with Microsoft, they're simply almost 2 weeks late hopping on that band-wagon. Note: the argument is about Linux on the desktop, not Linux as a whole. Linux as a whole does well with adoption elsewhere(mobile, servers, super computing, routers?). I don't really know much about Linux on the desktop as it was never a dream for many of us who have better things to do and I don't think it was ever alive so I don't know how it can now be dead :)
I have a somewhat strange requirement which seems to be rather rare in stand-alone keyboard layouts (as opposed to laptops). I like to hit Alt_L and Alt_R (which I remap to Control) with my thumbs because it makes Emacs chording far more comfortable. This is very awkward with a long spacebar. The MS Natural keyboards are good with key placement, in my opinion, but I prefer the lighter activation of a notebook. I definitely like mechanical switches, but don't want to change my chording technique to deal with a long spacebar. Any recommendations?
I believe that there is a need for such simple application. I am doing something similar to promote wikis, http://new.simpliwiki.com
Android will be bigger than Windows ever was.
Miller's bridge between zippers and records was a great hack.
I can't judge your specific situation, but your comment reminds me of the adage "Never send an IDE to do a programming language's job."
Great! but interface is a bit confusing. i still do not understand it fully. :(
7 litres of water a day. I started drinking more and more, and now I just sit there constantly sipping water all day (well, when I'm not in the bathroom....)

Also green tea, coffee if I'm real tired, V if I'm even more tired, and Vodka/Scotch on weekends.
"In some cases, we were making a conscious act of generosity to another, younger venture firm, down on their luck, who we felt could really use a billion dollars in gains."

Besides showing a fantastic human side of their firm, a post like this should be raw encouragement to entrepreneurs who, despite their bottomless well of optimism, once in a while get "no" fatigue.
Linux is a passable desktop OS if you're a developer or most of the things you need live in the browser. I have an Ubuntu box loaded up and sitting in the garage just in case my Macbook gets stolen or dies on me, and I know that I'd be able to clone my projects and be up and running and billing clients again in a couple of hours.

That being said, desktop Linux is lacking a lot of the other things that I use on a daily basis (no, Gimp and OpenOffice.org are NOT "just as good"), and I just don't enjoy using it as much as OS X.

However, I in no way look down on the people who love their Linux desktop machines more than life itself, because without them we wouldn't have things like Webkit, TrueCrypt, VNC, Wine, Eclipse, and Cedega (and its cousin Cider, for running Windows games on Linux and the Mac, respectively).

So keep hacking away on your Linux desktop machines!
I love the idea! The layout/UI however needs some work.

Why do I get a second HUD (upper right corner) when I'm in fullscreen mode? Why are there two buttons to toggle fullscreen mode? Why is there a tick icon in the search box? Why do you have the "Generate your own MTV, click here!" text still visible, after I already searched for an artist? Your "Why? What? How?" text is also pretty nondescript. And why am I able to resize and move the floating box anyway?

Again, the idea is great, but the UI is very confusing. There's too much going on. Try to simplify it!
Dr Pepper, Tea and Water. My holy trinity.