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This is an awesome recipe that costs <£1 - I've managed to make it for 35 pence (not sure what that is in dollars these days) using product near their expiry date.

Buy some cheap soup in a tin. I recommend Cream of Chicken because it's quite nice and usually available.
Go to the bakers or supermarket shortly before they close and buy a cheap crusty round bread loaf on discount. You could use a square loaf but that's just stupid.
Warm up the soup.
Whilst the soup is warming up, butter the underside of the bread and put it in the oven, medium heat for no more than 10 minutes. You ideally want it crusty and solid on the outside but not burnt.
When the bread is done, slice off the top of the bread. Scoop out the insides, tearing them up into little pieces.

Here comes the science bit, watch carefully now:

Pour the soup into the empty bread, use the torn up bits of the inside to bulk it up a little or leave them to dip into it. Add salt and pepper to suit and enjoy not having to wash a bowl afterwards. I defy anyone to eat a whole one including the bread.

It won't leak because you baked the bread hard. The butter stops it from getting stuck to the bottom of the tray in the oven.

There, soup hacked :)
If your whole foods has a bulk section its rather economical to shop there for that.

Indeed. However, the bulk spices are even cheaper online, if one knows at which websites to shop.

http://www.herbalcom.com ($6.25 to ship any size order)

http://www.herbco.com (free shipping for orders over $250)
What are the incentives?
Seasoning is like makeup for food.

Nope. Culinary herbs and spices contain antioxidative and anti-glycative chemicals that in many cases also improve insulin sensitivity (e.g. they are anti-diabetic).

http://news.google.com/news?q=diabetes%20spices
1 AND 1 = 1, if operation is executed in < Time (T)

1 AND 1 = 0, if operation is executed in > Time (T)

IC should be smart enough to realize this difference.

Till then AI won't succeed.
I admit that cooking sometimes takes too much time, but on the other hand, one is also supposed to take breaks now and then. For example going shopping is really just gong for a walk, which is healthy. Frozen food all the time also does not sound very pleasant.
That's it? No room for discussion?
Can I sell my shares through ebay?
What utter bilge! Pre-OSX MacOS still had a thriving hacker community, for example.
The potential for harm. Perhaps.

One of the psychological 'disgust' responses has to do with the invasion of chemicals or other external elements into the body. It's pretty near universal.

Drugs trigger that response. These are amplified by reports of steroids harming people. But the glove involves zero fluid or substance transfer. It is like a type of clothing, or an ice pack.
Why Startups Condense in America?

8. America Has a Large Domestic Market.

What sustains a startup in the beginning is the prospect of getting their initial product out. The successful ones therefore make the first version as simple as possible. In the US they usually begin by making something just for the local market.

This works in America, because the local market is 300 million people. It wouldn't work so well in Sweden. In a small country, a startup has a harder task: they have to sell internationally from the start.

The EU was designed partly to simulate a single, large domestic market. The problem is that the inhabitants still speak many different languages. So a software startup in Sweden is still at a disadvantage relative to one in the US, because they have to deal with internationalization from the beginning. It's significant that the most famous recent startup in Europe, Skype, worked on a problem that was intrinsically international.

However, for better or worse it looks as if Europe will in a few decades speak a single language. When I was a student in Italy in 1990, few Italians spoke English. Now all educated people seem to be expected to-- and Europeans do not like to seem uneducated. This is presumably a taboo subject, but if present trends continue, French and German will eventually go the way of Irish and Luxembourgish: they'll be spoken in homes and by eccentric nationalists.

http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
One word. Passion.

Hire developers who are passionate about programming.
To paraphrase Greenspun:

Any expert website is an ad hoc, ugly, slow implementation of Usenet featuring inferior comments.
What is the real USP of Facebook?
Boston Best Place in World for Interdisciplinary Research, Says Microsoft Lab Director
well, here resto and kfc seem to emphasize that they cook chicken at 350 deg C (or some high number like that), ensuring 'avian flu free'

i don't have direct experience with avian flu (I was in Taiwan during SARS, wearing masks, but didn't catch the flu) so i assume i can get it from eating ... well maybe it's just a marketing tactic from kfc and others

but still the peace of mind is there :D
not having to worry about some stuffs is great
Why is that always a Developer (instead of a Program Manager)responds to my Usability issues on Linux Forums?
basically same thing as the slinkset site, no? i still agree with alaskamiller - if we do anything for unrelated content, why not use a forum?

more logic at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312213
It's possible to have several, parallel articles on the same subject.
thanks. i guess i should've just pointed this post directly to the site. oh well, too late now.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312025
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In a way, I think I would feel uncomfortable because having people doing your menial tasks sounds a little like having servants.

However, I think it can make sense. If it makes you happier, more relaxed, or gives you more time to work on something you enjoy... the money spent can be worth it (or even more).

As far as I'm concerned, I know that I'm wasting too much time in general to be able to say that I need to outsource parts of my life because I don't have enough time for myself.
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I thought this was interesting: pricing yourself under the approval threshold gets you in; and from there you are known, and have a base to reach up above the approval level.

My experience is that Economic Buyers find a good deal irresistible (e.g. cheaper to buy in bulk). It's one of the strengths of a well-heeled company, so they like to use it (and should).

They could even walk up the price list for you... this would be easier once the value of the product/service has been verified by the initial usage "under the radar".

I've organized my terms so they rarely need to upgrade (so I haven't actually had this happen) - but I really, really should. Lower entry level + repeat sales has got to be a winner.
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Now this is what I was hoping for!

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There's a great chapter in "Surely your joking Mr. Feynman" about mental arithmetic.

Here's an excerpt, from when Feynman was eating at a cafe and an abacus salesman walked in and challenged Feynman to an arithmetic contest:

"He writes down a number on some paper— any old number— and I still remember it: 1729.03. He starts working on it, mumbling and grumbling: "Mmmmmmagmmmmbrrr"— he's working like a demon! He's poring away, doing this cube root.

Meanwhile I'm just sitting there.

One of the waiters says, "What are you doing?".

I point to my head. "Thinking!" I say. I write down 12 on the paper. After a little while I've got 12.002.

The man with the abacus wipes the sweat off his forehead: "Twelve!" he says.

"Oh, no!" I say. "More digits! More digits!" I know that in taking a cube root by arithmetic, each new digit is even more work that the one before. It's a hard job.

He buries himself again, grunting "Rrrrgrrrrmmmmmm ...," while I add on two more digits. He finally lifts his head to say, "12.01!"

The waiter are all excited and happy. They tell the man, "Look! He does it only by thinking, and you need an abacus! He's got more digits!"

He was completely washed out, and left, humiliated. The waiters congratulated each other.

How did the customer beat the abacus?

The number was 1729.03. I happened to know that a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, so the answer is a tiny bit more than 12. The excess, 1.03 is only one part in nearly 2000, and I had learned in calculus that for small fractions, the cube root's excess is one-third of the number's excess. So all I had to do is find the fraction 1/1728, and multiply by 4 (divide by 3 and multiply by 12). So I was able to pull out a whole lot of digits that way. "
I liked this idea too.

Key Question: how to connect to users and make the initial sale? Many times users are prevented from making purchases like this -- at least on paper.
Living on a dry, high-altitude altiplan or on a humid low-land makes a hell of a difference. The diet has something to do, but heat management affects human body growth far more, considering a baseline amount of ingested calories. Hence the children of Mexican immigrants living in California are way taller and have longer arms. That, on top of the genetic selection for individuals with big chest and short arms, as a positive adaptation to high altitude (and thin bodies and long arms for coast lands --the micronesian being the exception, since they were selected for long periods of food deprivation, while sailing from island to island). Go study anthropology before making stupid comments.
I don't have that psychological 'disgust' response. Infact, I can't understand why drugs aren't used for more things.

Safer steroids for athletes. Smart drugs for college students. And so on.

I mean, sure, they might have bad long-term effects, or have side-effects, etcetera.. but so does most things, that most people do.
My application is not the next Twitter so why should I care about high availability?
Chrome Quickly Loses its Shine
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Looking for a better documentation system
Yeah, there's probably a huge market for places where people could go to eat meals someone else cooked for them!
I'm a bit puzzled by two things:
1) Is it really true that Windows 7 must appeal to geeks? What if it does a really good job of offering a compelling user experience to the standard "Mom & Pop" audience, but adds no new features that impresses the geeks. Is it really doomed to failure in this case?
2) Supposing #1 is true: what (reasonable) features/improvements/changes would make Windows 7 truly appealing to geeks?
On the computation of the n'th decimal digit of various transcendental numbers
> Surely you weren't expecting "hidden" features in any literal sense?

Personally, I expected something more hidden than core features of the language.
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I've got a ~$120 vest full of a gel that freezes at 50 degrees, so it's not painful to wear. I use it as A/C on my motorcycle here in Florida; but my marathon-running co-worker says he's seen people wearing them for a few hours before races, to lower their core temperature. Looks like it works, but it can be done cheaper.
> They're outnumbered by the idiots

So if your aim is to get upvoted, that's your target market. Better to sound right than to be right in that environment.
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I don't disagree, but shouldn't the title really be "Boston Best Place in the World for Interdisciplnary Research, Says Person Tasked With Attracting More Interdisciplinary Researchers to Boston"?
Update: it appears that the spam filter on ESR's WordPress installation is what deleted my comments on his blog.
Is the redesign killing Facebook apps? Yes, say app developers
Maybe someone knows:

Is there anyway to generate a list of numbers in random order, containing each number exactly once?

i.e. use a random number generator to generate a list of number from 1 to x, containing each number between 1 and x exactly once, but in random order?

The initial purpose I wanted it for was a hard disk burn in test - read every single block on the hard disk in random order, but I need to guarantee I read each and every block exactly once.

Storing the entire array in memory first would use far too much memory.

(It does not need to be cryptographically secure at all, just random.)

Any ideas?
Aside from noise cancellation headphones, sometimes I wear silencing earmuffs (something like this: http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/product/Bilsom-Viking-V3...). Most brands I've tried have been pretty equivalent, though some will probably be more comfortable for your head than others. Those, coupled with good earplugs* , usually tunes out most human speech around me.

* Earplug reviews here: http://www.slate.com/id/2118800/ My favorites are the Moldex Rockets, not listed: http://www.labsafety.com/search/Moldex/12675/?type=brand . Again, fit is at least as important as noise reduction; you want to be able to put them in and forget about them. Earplugs are quite cheap, so you may want to get a grab bag with two pairs each of ten or more kinds.

Alternatively, wearing headphones with pink noise (like white noise, but with less hiss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise) works well, particularly if you can wear earmuff-style headphones over earplugs.

Here is a pink noise loop I made by stitching together the sample loop on wikipedia: http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/pink_noise.mp3 (It's released under the same CC license as the sample on wikipedia, as a derived work.) Also, mirror it if you like it, as I am moving this week and in a day or two it will disappear.

Of course, not having a cubicle or open-air office is the better solution. (And not having loud neighbors.)

For more thoughts and studies on ambient noise ruining productivity, see _Peopleware_ by DeMarco and Lister.
not nonhacker news

(I've been waiting 580 days to say that.)
"... The english is just too old and too difficult for most people to read to be anymore than a chore ..."

Good point.

Now if we are talking say "The A-Team" I'd agree. Bodie, Doyle, Tiger and jewelry man, Mr-T. I can see how some might spell Mr. Tee, Mr T or even Mr. Tea if you're a Brit. But meddling with the spelling of the greatest, most recognised writer in the history of English literature?

"... Harry Potter is REAL present-day entertainment, and anyone who wants to get into the industry has to understand that ..."

I agree J.K. Rawlings, is a modern master of story telling. But I can name plenty of classic literature novels that have gone straight to mass visual media bypassing their literary cousins. Behind each great bit of entertainment is a great script. A lot of these scripts are based on classic lit.
"I assume that by post, you mean comment."

I feel I've been caught out on my speelling while commenting on someone else's. Shame on me!

"However, I think it should include submissions. :-)"

I agree completely.
I think 1 is true. A regular user has no way to evaluate is a new OS is good or not, so they'll ask a geek. An internally honest geek will answer based on if the OS is good for the questioner. But most people will not, or, are not, able to do that, and will answer based on if it's good for them. So yes, 1 is true.

#2 is tough. Really tough. But I would start with customization - make sure everything can be changed.
"... A 'top' reveals there is no swap to speak of: ... Is that what you mean? ..."

Yes. This is with the Lin version so I wonder what they (Ausus) are doing not requiring a swap. It makes me think I'll have to look harder at the Ubuntu eee version to see if they swap if I get a eeepc.
Is it me, or does it feel like he wants microsoft to do a better job of accommodating him? (i.e. members of the media.) And he's not so concerned with the more typical, but less visible geek.
My apologies... you are right. its "The Rails Way" by Obie Fernandez.

Thank you.
I think he meant something like this:

true == !0 == "0" == false

Which still isn't that interesting, since it is much the same as:

true == (false == false)

More interesting, something like:

> ! 0 == "0"
false
> 0 == ! "0"
true

Since "!" acts as if false === 0.
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OH yes the redesign is killing apps. But wasnt that the point?
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Some of the cheapest meals you can make will be pasta, stew, or chili type dishes.

For example, a great tasting pasta dish I made last night contained the following: (prices are approximate and based from a Canadian's standpoint)

- 1lb of Bacon: $4.50 (Yes, it's not GREAT for you but in moderation it's ok and it's easily substituted with another meat)
- One onion, one head of Garlic: $1.50
- 1lb of Pasta: $2.50
- Parmesian, Some Butter, Parsley: $2.00 (plus you most likely already have this)

That creates 4 servings of a fabulous restaurant quality pasta (This is the actual recipe: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/09/cooking-with-ryan...)

I made it last night, girlfriend and I have left overs for today. Super cheap, delicious, and healthy enough considering most of the stuff we eat is pretty healthy ( see : moderation!)

You will save a ton of money making food yourself but there's the whole issue of it being time consuming which makes sense in a time = money world. In my scenario, cooking is a hobby and I want to improve it so it's a bit different, maybe you are the same!
And now you can do it for other people, too. ;)
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That article is pre 2001
i like in-ear monitors (IEMs) from Shure, etymotic or westone myself. I'm looking at custom molded ones also. They usually talk about 25 dB of isolation/noise reduction, which is enough to make jet planes, subway trains, loud clubs, lots of other environments tolerable (I'm very sensitive to noise).

Read (thousands of) reviews

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f103
Apple shuts down Podcaster, again
That explains this baffling part of the conversation... Squeak and Disney?

Willison:
Yes. Something called MEL . And something called Squeak, which is being created at Disney.

van Rossum:
Isn't Squeak a Smalltalk derivative?

Willison:
Yes. It's used in movie production and 3D graphics, as is MEL. It seems like there's an explosion of small, single-purpose languages.
You should thanks hhm. As far as I can remember he posted the first chapter a while back. (And that's how the book got in my bookmarks in the first place.)

You might also like 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312332). Mr Franklin also has something to say about making your fortune in an ethical way.
Another exit for the Accelerator Group (TAG) - Kindo acquired by MyHeritage
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Depends on the terms - and on who should decide about the discount.
I could turn this into a company.
Sennheiser HD 280 Pro closed headphones seal out external noise fairly well. They are professional DJ headphones and fairly rugged (and popular, too). They probably don't work as well as in-ear monitors, but they could serve as an alternative for people with sore ear-canals.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE... ($100 shipped; $200 list price.)

My pair is five years old, and well-used, and it still works. (Headband is slightly cracked, though. Be careful not to pull the phones apart too widely.)
Is windows 7 == midori/singularity?
MySQL Enterprise subscription now offers support for Amazon EC2
"dismiss Chrome as another Froogle"????

I use froogle all the time - it's the first place I go when looking to buy something. I stopped even checking the other deal sites, they're never better.

So I guess chrome will be a huge success :)
You can't get avian flu from eating an infected bird. You can't get avian flu from an infected person. You can only get it from a live bird (and even then it's rare). The hysteria was preliminary--on the off chance that it mutates for person-to-person infections.

Cooking chicken to 350C will result in charcoal, but will have done nothing to prevent avian flu as it was not a risk before. Just marketing.
This is ridiculous. I'd recommend chrome over firefox to anyone on windows[1], but even if he disagrees, it's ridiculous to call it unsuccessful: 2 million downloads in the first week, tons of mainstream attention.

[1]I'd recommend that developers keep ff installed for work, and that anyone pissy about ads do whatever makes them happy.
I'm a undergrad student in Finland and trying to manage relatively cheap aswell.

I try to live by low-carb, high protein, high natural fat and fresh and natural foods, which atleast doesn't make it any easier. I have found out that most fatty foods are inexpensive relatively to their calories. Where as things like bread are actually quite expensive if you measure their calorie contents and other nutrients.

So my advice is to eat more natural fat, even to point that you get like 30% daily calories from fat. Generally I try to choose products with high or normal fat. For example full milk over fat-free and unsweetened Turkish yogurt(with 10% fat) over fat-free and high-sugar.
Meta-tip: Don't forget to do the math. I like making my own chili, and it's healthier and tastier than pre-packaged fare, but after adding everything up (15oz each red, black, and pinto beans, 28oz diced tomatoes, a few fresh habaneros, ~1lb ground turkey, one onion, chili powder), it's slightly more per meal than if I'd bought a small fast-food chili or can of Hormel's
Having servants must be neat for those who can afford it. Every night I cook dinner with about $3 of ingredients, so I doubt paying almost $9/day on top of that would be a good investment. And I love to cook...
Regards #2 the article doesn't give many suggestions and I'm not sure what is suggested is all that good.

"the geeks want better security, more customization, and full compatibility."

Assuming geeks are highly tech savvy, living at the bleeding edge, is full compatibility such a big issue? It also seems to be incompatible with security, if you're going to support legacy code you're going to be left with legacy vulnerabilities as well.

I've no good suggestions for killer features but I'll know them when I see them.
If I never saw another Facebook app I'd never even miss them.
I actually wish someone would create an OS as nice and user friendly as OSX, with the market share of Microsoft, and completely open source.

Also, that I had a pony.
The recent debate was killed. People who did not happen to log in during the right couple hours in the US morning didn't see it.
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this guy is on the money, ive been loosing weigth just by following some of his advice.
Eh?

PHP is overly verbose and terribly inconsistent and lacks powerful methods of abstraction and proper closures and easy-to-use meta-programming goodness and Lisp-macro syntactic wonders; in that sense it's not a very powerful language.
What do you mean exactly? How do you measure work?