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Cast-iron skillets are great for baking bread, too. Shaking in a little cornmeal will help keep it from sticking. The big cast-iron dutch ovens are even better, though: the lid keeps in moisture, and the resulting steam is good for the crust. The enameled ones are easier to clean (and ideal for soup). You can probably find a knock-off Le Crueset-style pot for $60, give or take.

The easiest way to clean them is with a little kosher salt. It's quite abrasive.

See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html?_r=2...
Poorer people can't afford good food and have to eat mostly starchy staples. That's why their health is generally worse.

And you are quite wrong about low income "universally" meaning poor health. There are poor populations all over the world with good health from good diets. The healthiest sub-population in the US, and possibly the healthiest group in the industrialized world, are working class whites in the upper mid-west, in states like Minnesota. They eat a lot of meat.
They did announce plug-ins, you know.

And I don't know about you or other people, but for me it's browsing the Internet that matters most for a web browser.

People are disagreeing, but it's true. I stopped using Firefox because every feature it added was one that didn't add anything to the INTERNET but to the BROWSER. I think that's a pretty important distinction. It added clutter and took away from the web pages I visited. That's why I dropped it.
Has anyone used the Asus Laptop? How does it perform?
If your time is worth $30 per hour, but you enjoy cleaning enough that you aren't willing to pay $10 per hour for it, you're implying that you would sacrifice $20 per hour to clean. So when you retire, will you pay people that much for the chance to clean their house?
Well, this would be the next iteration; and it wouldn't need as much light, since it would be outside. You might consider it a cross between the product you linked to (http://www.aerogrow.com) and another company that produces robotic greenhouses (can't find the link right now).
I think the app market is barely in its infancy.

F'rinstance, why hasn't Vue subclassed the FB Event app to create a cinema trip event that automagically books your ticket? Or Dominos to order pizza for my 'Night of Mayhem'? That's where the value will come from. These all seem so obvious to me...
Repackaging can in itself by useful. I wrote a column about GNU Make for a long time and finally turned it into a PDF and Book via Lulu and it's very convenient for people to have all the columns (which I reedited) all in one place.
If you have an audience it is easier to sell many products. You can repackage all your blog posts into whatever you want, but if there is not much people who come across it, you wont make much.
This isn't it losing its shine, it's the vast overhype dying down. Chrome is an excellent web browser and I love it. But when Arrington calls it "a direct Windows competitor," you know the shit's hit the fan and it'll smell for a long time.

Ted Dziuba has a nice article about that: http//www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/
I guess those nuts over at the MacArthur foundation have no idea what they're talking about.

You may want to submit your theories there.

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.951947/k.11B4/R...
MixTube, a clever Muxtape clone that drafts off of YouTube. Can it survive?
So I started to twitter, who should I follow?
Would love to hear recommendations for who is worth listening to.
Safari might not report it, because I haven't changed anything (I wouldn't even know where to change that in Safari). I checked in FireFox and it was much closer to reality.

Update: Safari does report it, so it looks to be another issue. Perhaps a bug in the scaling for Safari?
Is that really very common? Seems like a resourceful guy like him could figure out which airports don't do that.
Piggy butt?
I would actually say that the content isn't spectacular. It isn't bad by any means - but not in a league of it's own either. Getting real can probably best be described as a cooked down version of common sense and business 101.

What is amazing though is the marketing - which is what this post is all about. I'm sure that at least one third of the people on this site could create the same content if they put their mind to it. What almost nobody can do though is market it like 37signals.
I guess this is some survey of the US which concludes the obvious: that income and health generally correlate. The best lesson to extract is probably "Don't eat like poor people." Which was my original point. It still ignores the plain fact that various poor populations with good diets are quite healthy. The exceptions invalidate the simplistic assumption about the general case and point to diet.
Google, T-Mobile Unveil New Phone
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Burning Question: How Much Computer Security Is Enough?
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How does it perform?

When connected to a monitor/keyboard/mouse, I don't really notice a difference between that machine and my real laptop. Obviously compiling the Linux kernel is faster on a real dual-core processor, but using emacs and firefox is just fine on the Eeepc. Even without the keyboard and monitor, the Eee is quite nice to use. The screen is actually brighter than my Thinkpad, and it's certainly higher resolution.

Anyway, I find his use of the term "the Asus" interesting. Asus doesn't even brand the eeepcs as "Asus" anymore. The only part on the laptop that says "Asus" is the serial number label on the back; everywhere else it says "Eeepc".
The interface actually exceeds my expectations. And the keyboard makes such a difference.
Agreed. When Facebook introduced apps the signal-to-noise ratio went way up. It was to the point where I couldn't see what my friends were doing because I was getting pelted with app notifications.

Finally Facebook went back to their roots and brought the signal-to-noise ratio back to something I can keep up with.

Plus, didn't the app developers see this coming?
USA is finally catching up to the far east in terms of high speed 3G networks - all of which is further accelerating internet innovation.

AT&Ts 3G network was pretty much the same before the iPhone came out. I was using 3G with a Windows Mobile phone long before the iPhone existed.
For example, you could hire your neighbor's kid to maw your lawn and stuff like that.
"at least one third of the people on this site could create the same content if they put their mind to it"

I'll give you that your one third could produce the ideas, but how many could also produce the straightforward, simple, clear writing? It's harder than it looks.
HN Feedback: Startup Idea - Sports Twitter Network
This is a network of twitter accounts I've created. I'm looking for input and advice on the idea. The twitter accounts are about 1 month old, and already have about 3000 followers across the network, and growing fast, every day.
1. SimpleDB doesn't really compete with Oracle. SimpleDB it isn't ACID, Oracle is ACID before it is anything else. Oracle has its own programming language, XML features, a very advanced SQL dialect, and many other features that SimpleDB lacks. Similarly, SimpleDB has a distributed replication feature that Oracle doesn't have.

It is interesting that Amazon uses Oracle AND Oracle BerkeleyDB. I wonder how Oracle TimesTen compares to BerkeleyDB for this use case.
This is Hacker News - why not actually research instead of making broad, unsubstantiated claims?

You assert that Hispanics are short and chubby. And you claim this is because they eat rice and beans. I'm not going to argue whether or not you're bigoted, but I'm happy to inject a few facts into this train wreck of a thread.

Googling around, I found the following quote from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/hispanic.htm:

"Obesity in Hispanic populations, as in all other ethnic groups in the U.S., is increasing and worsening as a significant health problem. In 2002, the age-adjusted prevalence of obesity among adults age 20 or more in men was 26% for Mexican Americans and 24% for non-Hispanic whites. For women the comparable percentages were 26% and 21%. In children from NHANES III, Mexican American boys had a higher prevalence of obesity that either non-Hispanic whites or non-Hispanic blacks. In girls, the prevalence of obesity in Hispanics was higher than that in non-Hispanic whites, but less than that in non-Hispanic blacks. The highest prevalence rates in all these groups was among Hispanic boys, age 6-11 years old, with 17.4% in the obese classification. "

Although the numbers show that the Hispanic population has a larger percentage of obesity compared to whites, I doubt that this difference is large enough to be noticeable in day to day observation (eg, I would have a hard time drawing a conclusion that Hispanic male adults aged 20 or more are chubbier than their white counterparts based on this data from my day to day interactions).

And the article notes that diets are quite varied, and makes no mention of intake of fast food. So it seems that Hispanics eat food other than just rice and beans.

Since the data doesn't show that Hispanic populations are significantly different from whites in terms of obesity, and their diets vary beyond rice and beans, your original argument is baseless.
Um, you won't have an audience until you start distribution though. There was a time that 37S didn't have any audience at all, and that wasn't too long ago.
Testosterone and HGH are not foreign chemicals. They're just more of what you've got naturally.
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How my startup used Mechanical Turk to rock our world.
Me? You can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/NewsCred
I've been racking my brain for a while about mobile computing.

I am one of the people who thing that's the next big thing, but I just can't see what will be the dominant device.

Will it be something like a smart phone/iPhone, or a just tiny yet powerful laptop.
I think its mostly a UI conundrum.
Bunk. The whole article is based on a huge assumption that Android won't have an app store. It's pretty much wild, misinformed speculation. Don't waste your time.
The games are fun.
I like the concept. I don't think I would ever visit the website again (nothing appealing there). But I did follow for the Titans NFL twitter account. That's a real service and will definately add value, especially if you can aggregate from non-traditional news sources.

Not sure how you can monetize the twitter feed aspects. Neat idea though. Good luck!
Hmmm... the flip side of this advice, of course, would be "don't spread yourself too thin", or "pick one thing and do it well"...
What's so interesting about this is that for $60 a week you can get a LOT of calories from fast food. But then you could be dead soon.

In Europe you could east pretty healthy delicious food for about $60 a week easily.

But America seems to lack a cheap + good + won't kill you food option. Like a whole market segment is not served.

And Americans in general don't go out to eat like Europeans do. Either it's (to go) fast food, or an expensive sit down meal.
The big point for me is that although eee Pc is small, it doesn't fit in a pocket, so I wouldn't take it everywhere I go.

Because of this, phones still represent the future of ubiquitous computing.
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So basically a socially affecting disorder will manifest itself on a social website? Shocking revelation!
Growing Pains for fMRI
Google phone to cost $179, debut Oct. 22
US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication
It seems to me like with any mobile device, once the "Oh this thing is cool, and I'm going to play with it" phase wears off. Most people are just content using any mobile device in a way that benefits them, easily, and conveniently.

Music is an obvious avenue for mobile success - there's still lots of tedium to our everyday lives, and there are many places where music can fill in those gaps (car, gym,
park, DMV, etc)
I work as a Systems Engineer, and I don't carry a blackberry or Treo - I refuse to, I don't WANT the temptation to write and respond to emails while I'm eating my breakfast before work. That's a different topic, but the device needs to substantially make my life better in a way bringing my laptop with me can't - and I just don't see the benefit yet.
See also: http://ingamenow.com/
Who is supposed to draft your agreements? You are
That's not a flip side at all.

What they're talking about here is the "do it well." They're making an argument that doing it well involves repackaging that one thing you're doing for multiple audiences.

Content is half the battle. Distribution is the other.
From the T-Mobile website:

"The Android Market is an application storefront, developed by Google, where you will find unique applications as well as mash ups of existing and new services from developers around the world. With just a few short clicks, you can download a wide range of innovative software applications—from games and social networking, to on-the-go shopping. You’ll even be able see which applications are the newest or most popular with a star rating system (similar to YouTube)."

From the Android site:

"Soon after launch an update will be provided that supports download of paid content and more features such as versioning, multiple device profile support, analytics, etc"

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/android-marke...
So having lots of friends and flattering pictures of your self makes you a narcissist?

And here I thought I was alone in thinking everyone who plasters their pictures on the internet is self obsessed.
Just go for it. Seriously. Worry about it later, and if you get sued, make it a big publicity stunt. All publicity is good publicity. If you are just a honest, hardworking individual trying to make a website, you will always be given a chance to avoid trouble.
"Gmail account required to sign in and use, no corporate access email available."

I'm sure this is Microsoft's fault - it's not like they are going to offer up a portable mobile outlook or owa integrator.

But I wonder who this hurts in the end, device sales, or Exchange use by SMB's ? - I'm guessing a little bit of both, mostly the latter.
The facebook redesign is indeed hurting many existing apps. But it's one of those things that hurts in the short term but will help in the long term. Or at least I think that's the intention.

Firstly, the type of app that is currently dominant, i.e. the "Joe bit you, CLICK HERE TO BITE HIM BACK" junk, does indeed need to die. I don't think Facebook initially intended for this type of thing to be the dominant form of facebook app, but the amount of distribution power they exposed was a new thing for app developers and users. So we've all installed the zombie app now. Whoopee. It's time to trade away some of the noise that comes from fad apps and instead promote some serious apps. Apps that might be useful to people even when sober.

That's why I'm pleased that, alongside the redesign, facebook is exposing more and more of the API you'd need to do serious things on facebook. For example, just a month or two ago they finally released an API call that can create facebook events. In case you hadn't noticed, facebook events are one of the most useful features in FB, and letting third-party apps connect more meaningfully with the built-in Events app will probably make them more useful. That's certainly going to be the case for an app I'm currently building (for a client) that helps you get from "I wanna see a movie next week" to specific plans with a guest list. One of the most common responses to this app is "wow, finally a facebook app that's actually intended to be useful". If zombies and its ilk continue to get prime billing, people will eventually assume that all apps are trivial and the whole platform will be written off by most users. Preventing that is the long-term benefit.

Finally, this article is just not credible. Suppose your app started to lose traffic around the time of the redesign. You'd have one of those sad-looking graphs and you'd feel shitty. Maybe you were just unlucky? Maybe August just happened to be the point when your fad started dying down? Why make your app better when you could just blame facebook!

That said, Facebook's platform doesn't come with any guarantees. Facebook Inc. can make or break you if they ever decide to care. AFAIK they've been more reasonable than, say, Apple+iPhone, but Facebook dependence is a big risk. This may actually be another thing they should try to solve in order to motivate more serious app development.
I'd like to see international soccer scores/news.
... it adds additional copy protection that prevents users from sharing the DVD copies they’ve made, or watching them on anything other than up to five Windows PCs per license...

It won't let me do what I want, and it's not a good way to backup what you spent your hard earned money on.

And none of this bothers real pirates who are in it to make a lot of money by selling millions of pirated copies.

Either the copyright owners are stupid and don't see how pissing off the every day customer without doing anything for pirates is bad for business. Or...

They are not stupid at all, and the penultimate goal of DRM is not to stop piracy but to bring back DivX.

Then they can charge per viewing, charge for fast forwarding, rewinding, pausing, all a separate charge.

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Strive to be like Jerry Seinfeld
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I just started a couple of days ago too, I picked about 50 people to follow. You can look at my follow list. http://twitter.com/michaelbuchanan
I participated in this study at Stanford for a while. The results are pretty dramatic. I doubled the number of pull ups that I could do in six weeks and went from being able to do 12 reps of 155 on bench to 12 reps of 175.
Correct me if I’m wrong folks, and Android may surprise us yet,but there doesn’t seem to the same kind of simple application where you click, choose, and download - which is tied into a singular payment scheme.

The Android Market was announced a month ago and promises to offer just such a thing, without Apple's gate-keeping, maybe even at a better revenue split.
More signs of the greater problem --> A fake, service economy.<br>

Stephen Colbert: "Our children are very generous, they just don't know it yet"

Aflac Salesman: "Aflac depends on continual unsubstantiated growth"

Let's do the math on continual growth.
(average us citizen has 1.9 children)
A generation is approx 32 years.

Our economy depends, and comes down to 1 thing, and 1 thing only - your and my ability to buy shit, lots of it!

But what is ironic is our economy is at odds with itself, because a service based industry is at odds with a commodity consumer industry.

Just ask yourself (if you are older than 21) What did my dad do when he was 21? (good chance it involved actual labor in which there was a physical product, or outcome)
What did I do when I was 21 for a job? (Most like it didn't involve anything physical)

All early signs of an economy that is based on nothing, not backed by anything, currency is relative, and the consumer doesn't have faith in - what doesn't exist.
I have a pair of Shure canalphones. The noise reduction is impressive. It's fantastic on flights. The only drawback for me is that after a few hours I start to get ear fatigue from the pressure of the foam on the inside of my ears.
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there's a hard number limit for how many good relationships you can realistically have with people. personally I think someone with say 500 'friends' either is a psuedo celeb or collects people like pokemon for their social network site
A quick comparsion chart: T-Mobile's G1 Android phone vs. iPhone 3G
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How is that even legal?!
Yes, that's one of the unintended consequences of this experiment =). Originally, my plan was to tell them what to make - but she took the initiative in suggesting meal plans to lay out her skillset, and wanted to save time by cooking the same food for her family. I definitely look forward to my drop off days for just that reason!
They even removed the story about Podcaster being shut down!

So... Anyone have a mirror/cache or whatever handy? Google cache is failing on this one.
This is going to be a PR disaster for apple, from a developers point of view. He may have been asked to pull the blog post until they get time to talk to him about it.
The android marketplace allows for-pay apps, but all apps will be made free in the first month
Content is half the battle. Distribution is the other.

Don't forget the third half; getting people to give a damn (i.e. marketing).
HN: Here's 100 invites to our closed beta
HN: I bestow you with 100 invites to our closed beta program! =)

*UPDATE: We felt it was a little unfair that people weren't given a chance after 30 minutes of posting this, so we've increased it to 200 invites. Please keep in mind that we're not trying to focus on growth right now, but user feedback, so if you can't get in, please hang in there until we release this after it's ready.

Would love feedback; we're a newer startup in the midwest trying to open up the world of internet radio. The API and documentation is in the works.

http://www.onellama.com
Invite code: ycnews

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I appreciate the effort you've expended to setup a new news site but, I'm unlikely to ever venture there. If in fact, this act betters Hacker News, I'm even less likely to venture there.
Did the author take down the post because of the NDA requirements or because it is a retraction or...? What?
There are free software exchange clients, and it's an open platform. Do the math. :)

The truth is that the baked-in software stack is never going to be what sells this phone. If what the user wants is an expensive, high end, pocket-sized browser appliance, then the iPhone has already cornered that market. Android is trying to be a platform. The extent to which it succeeds is precicely that to which criticisms like yours miss the point. If there are important things that it can't do that aren't addressed by the developer base, then it will fail. If not, then it wins.
I have a hard time believing that Apple will ever put their name on a clunky external keyboard for a phone. The whole idea just screams "ugly" to my sense of aesthetics. Keep an extra gadget in your pocket just so you can type on your phone? (even worse: it'd have to clip on to the phone or something for access to the display). Ick.
I assigned the letter 'b' to my corporate bugzilla. Now my coworkers wonder why I seem almost psychic when it comes to remembering the details of a given bug.... typing 'b 17084' is a fantastic way to pull up bug 17084. I've got shortcuts for wikipedia and google as well.
Yeah, exactly. And it makes it really hard to do anything useful on Facebook.

I only have 54 friends on it and I get useful info, and really sparse updates. It's useful rather than addictive.
FWIW, this doesn't always work. I know of a certain columnist who took some of his columns and had them made into a book (via Apress). Well, nobody bought the book and he now has several thousand of them sitting in his garage. I picked up 5 of the books when he was giving them away, meaning to give them to coworkers two jobs ago. I forgot, and now they take up a lot of space.

(This was the publisher's loss, though, not his. That's the way to do things :)
I'm loving this already. Very clean and to the point interface, simple signup process, nice decision in using the genre cloud. I see LOTS of potential here.

Though I do have to wonder if you will have to deal with streaming issues, even though these other radio stations are doing the work.

I do have one question though, the sound quality is actually quite poor, how do you plan to address that? I Can easily see myself finding a station and just letting it run all day if I code, but only if there's better sound.