skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, have been really disappointed with cooking education online. This is an area ripe for a good startup (that someone else can do, I have my hands full). :)

Some ideas:

- Leverage Google Hangout for some interactive classes

- Use gamification to help users learn some of the more boring fundamentals (basic cooking terms, substitution guidelines, units and measurements, basic baking chemistry guidelines, etc.)

- A better instruction format geared toward using your iPad or other tablet propped up in the kitchen. For example, make sure the user can navigate with the nub of a knuckle or some other clumsy way, so they don't have to touch their iPad with fingers that just got through tenderizing raw chicken.

- That instruction format should probably incorporate a hybrid text-audio-video approach. And by that I don't mean a blog post with an embedded video at the top. I mean a way to constantly review just that part of the video that talks about what you're doing.

- Start with videos about things that are obvious but are useful to see. For example, what EXACTLY should olive oil look and smell like before you add the food to it? On a typical gas stove or electric range, where approximately should the knob be? I'm starting to get nervous about this pan-fry step. Are you sure I shouldn't go ahead and flip the chicken? I think I'm burning it! Those kind of things are currently best learned with the assistance of a REAL cook alongside you in the kitchen. He or she can say "don't you DARE touch that portobello; it's SO not done!" There needs to be a way for the more moment-by-moment learning experiences to be available online.

TL;DR - thinking of doing a cooking startup? PLEASE don't give us another "recipes with an embedded video" site. Please.
First of all, you should only submit a reconsideration request if your site is banned from Google (and you haven't used other methods to get it back in).

Your site is not banned in Google - you can check this by searching for "site:riot5.com"

In terms 301'ing your dead links this is a good thing to do however, don't expect them to show in the same place in the SERPs as they were previously at least not immediately.

I didn't find a canonical tag on your pages, not did I find a robots.txt page or sitemap on your site you definitely should add those (you should also submit the Robots.txt and Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools)

Similarly, as you have created sub-domains for languages you should really be using Google Webmaster Tools and telling Google they're geo-ips. Ideally, you should also .htaccess the pages so when you visit from another country you are redirected to the geoip address.

There are other things you do as well but once you have done those, and along with naturally building links to your site you should notice that your SERPs are returning to where they once were and are improving.
FB dips below 20 (19.96)
I think I have always been better when I'm slightly hungry. When I'm satiated, I don't do much of anything.
Congratulations, good luck with the new opportunities!
Data Stories: Interview with Hilary Mason of Bit.ly
+1 I am having a flippin blast working through this: http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
Good question. I think it's a hack: on the one hand it supposedly frees up energy from digestion to concentrate on prayer or repentance, on the other hand I don't feel the thinking is as deep: it locks one into a survival mode thinking - which may or may not help the spiritual practice. Like driving when tired: only the needed parts of the brain that are required switch on. So concentration improves, but the thinking is not as deep (that is when hunger pangs don't distract!)

Supposedly fasting also promotes longevity by affecting gene expression, and the same effects can be obtained from resveratrol. Additionally, small fasts are meant boost human growth hormone, hence the warrior diet: only eating at night. Fasting before and after exercise boosts it the most.

A doctor I once knew said the reason they put new doctors on such long shifts is so they stop thinking and behave more according to text book.

Anyhow, check out this article/podcast about a fasting, and in particular regarding someone grossly obese for 1 year and 17 days: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.ht...

"His weight dropped from 207 kilograms to 82 kilograms. Some five years later, he had regained only 7 kilograms."

I wonder how mentally active he was during that time.
As (a non-religious) someone who tried fasting while holding down a similar job, my advice is simple: don't break your fast every night.

It only takes 24-48 hours for your body to adjust, your fat to start melting and your blood-sugar levels to stabilise. You also stop feeling hungry. I found that while I was generally a little 'light-headed' my powers of concentration were fine and I returned to full productivity.

At first I tried drinking only fruit juice but that gave me an upset stomach so I switched to water and the occasional tea. Once I'd got through the first day of 'starving' hunger I felt great: full of energy and positivity.

As long as you have fat on your body you should be fine, however I'm not sure it would be a good idea if you are all muscle: while shutting down your digestive system saves a load of energy, if you have no fat your body it will convert muscle.

Pros:

* No blood sugar swings
* No hunger
* Fat loss
* A real sense of achievement

Cons:

* Greasy skin
* Zits

Do:

* Keep exercising to prevent muscle loss
* Drink lots of liquid
* Eat something light if the starving hunger returns
* Be careful if you are already very skinny
* Talk to a doctor

Don't:

* Binge eat every night as you'll feel starving again the next day
* Ignore a return to hunger
* Drink lots of fruit juice
* Binge at the end. Gradually introduce food back to your system.
> What does it take to start a new religion? What if I start a new religion which says working more than 4 hours a day is against my gods?

It would be somewhat easier to just start your own company if you wanted to work four hours a day. Though with a good marketing department, some cold reading and a truthy sounding manifesto I'm guessing you could probably pull it off if you wanted to.

> prayers 5 times a day, month long fasts,

IME, not many muslims outside muslim countries actually pray five times a day, and as demonstrated by this thread the ones that fast seem to do as much as possible to align their religious obligations with their employers interests.

> pregnancy

Why is this a problem? Would this extend to paternity too? It doesn't really count as discrimination in my book, as barring any social or biological obstacles in your path, applicable to you should you choose to have children.

If I were a full-time employee and by implication not independently wealthy, I would expect an employer to fund some time off to deal with babymaking. I think this is one of the primary benefits of being a full-time employee (especially since as I'm a consultant now, it costs five figures in potential fees to take two months off).
Keep in mind, this is also a great time to leave FB, there is a talent crunch in the tech world and sometimes the easiest way to advance your career is to go to another company. If your goal is to be a CEO, you will never get there by staying at FB.
Look up Jane Street Capital. They use functional programming with a very strict/smart type system (Ocaml) to help make sure that, for example, there are no logically possible situations in the code that they haven't programmed a response for. They have some pretty good eductional material online.
You can purchase non-NATO 5.56/.223 ammo for hunting, and are typically required to use it when hunting game.

I re-read my sentence and it didn't come out quite right. I agree that 5.56/.223 isn't your typical hunting round. What I meant by my sentence is that you can hunt with it but it isn't generally legal to use non-expanding rounds for hunting.

So I stand by my claim that the AR-15 is a low-power rifle.

No need to move from your position, you are correct. It's an instrument of war and not utility.

There are slight ups and downs depending on the size of game but I agree that the .308 is probably the de-facto starting round for big game.
Xcode 4.4 is still using garbage-collection according to otool.
duplicate

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910304
This is true, but the term "threads" has been abused to refer exclusively to preemptive multitasking, omitting other solutions like coroutines. This is why we keep inventing new silly terms like "fibers" to refer to alternative solutions.
Bebo & Digg ( And no, they’re not the names of my dogs)
Spotted a typo: "wesbsite" http://www.millionshort.com/advertise.php
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Just wait till you start using it :)
Congrats tptacek and crew, and NCC, too!
I, too, have several accounts that either predate test users or predate my knowledge of them. Still easier to use them than the test accounts occasionally.
■ Project A will eventually cost about a million dollars
and produce value of around $1.1 million.
■ Project B will eventually cost about a million dollars
and produce value of more than $50 million.

> To my mind, the question that’s much more important than how to control a software project is, why on earth are we doing so many projects that deliver such marginal value?"

Most in-house software is largely about corporate control of employee actions through the enforcement of particular workflows. On the surface, they're supposed to be about workflows that increase efficiency, but they're not really. Sometimes control is clearly higher up on the priority ladder than efficiency.

This is often why such projects require so much control and produce less value. They're about exerting control in the first place, and the user's desires have to be suppressed to exert this control.

An analogy: Some schools pave walkways, then fine students who cut across the grass. Other schools wait, watch where students wear paths in the grass and pave there. The 2nd option is more effective and gives the most benefit.

IT should not be used for control but to gather data to find efficiencies. The former discourages in-house innovation, the latter encourages it.
HireVue Acquires CodeEval
> Why not:
> glTexImage(my_texture_handle, ....);

Macro?
Sensitive Data Must Be Encrypted
Aurora by Hans Zimmer, all proceeds go to the victims of the massacre
Apple patent filing looks a lot like Microsoft Surface
Perhaps. Or more likely private entities end up on mars first. One of us or someone in between is right. I hope however things end up being is close to my viewpoint =).
We'll be adding https shortly.
> unreasonable accommodations

Who is in-charge of making the call, and on what basis? What is to say working while starving is more reasonable than say, coming in drunk to work which my religion mandates. The funny thing with religious mandates is you can selectively choose the mandates. Someone whose religion dictates head gear isn't required to wear head gears whole of his life to contest that he should be allowed to wear head-gear while passing through a security check, or withdrawing from a CCTV monitored ATM, etc. My religion says you should work drunk; I can ignore it when I am not drunk and when I am drunk and called out on it, I will claim persecution.

These folks are my heroes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism Someday I hope to start a religion whose sole purpose is to benefit people like me and is as unreasonable as I can get away with, because hell, why not. It's not like a lot of unreasonable behavior isn't already excused based on religious grounds(not particularly about fasts; I am talking about other extremities).
Cybersecurity Bill Fails in US Senate
Presumably other potential employers had to hire other people, and their other potential employers had to hire other people, and it bubbles downward. Eventually perhaps some business lost an employee who took a better paying position, and wound up hiring an unemployed person.
NSA Hunts Talent At Def Con, The Nation’s Biggest Hacker Conference
It's not possible to estimate debugging time
Software is very similar to mathematical proofs.

Asking someone, "How long would it take you to program X" is roughly like asking, "How long would it take you to prove X?"

And as we know, sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture).
Not really duplicate - that was the intial post 3 months ago. The site has gone through a complete overhaul with new features/functions like News Search, Image Search, Inverse via MillionTall.com etc. etc.
I really appreciate you being open to discussion - its the biggest reason why I value the HN community and why I even bother to comment. I read your original comment many times and think that it needed clarity, eventually you did get to your point about education but that did not come off as your main point.

I assume the Ada Initiative's goal, at least in part, is education. Even through this post alone they have educated part of the HN community that women get harassed at conferences. But I don't think the problem here is that men need to be educated about these behaviors - every decent human being knows its not okay to grab a womans crotch and hide in a crowd. This article wasn't about borderline cases where it wasn't clear what acceptable behavior was. It was about blatant disrespect like telling a female peer at a conference to "show her tits".

I think the men who are doing the harassment need to be made to feel this is not tolerated behavior in this community. If a few perpetrators get embarrassed about being called out and being given a colored card, thats acceptable if it helps prevent sexual assaults/harassment and alters their behavior.
All imaginable inventions have already been invented.
People make massive mistakes all the time.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/jpmorgan-trading-loss...
I'm currently on Ferriss' low-carb diet and I have found constant carb-withdrawal hard to bear on days on which I do much programming (basically every working day). There are some tricks though which help me keep up focus:

- MSM,

- Caffeine (less is more - just a sip of coffee, or half a cup of green tea; too much of it actually downs me after the first high),

- and regular consumption of "allowed" carbs (lentils being my favourite) and fat (peanut butter, olive oil,...). Native coconut oil is a real brain booster, I feel super-focused after having eaten a spoonful.

MSM does really do much in this regard for me, it feels as if it's helping my body renew its energy stores. I can go a lot further with less food when having taken it - and I do need to take it in order to seriously lose weight.

Eating nothing for more than 4 hours shoots my focus down for hours, and is hard to rebuild with low-carb food.
Better than Peapod and Kozmo, the time for such a service is definitely now in the mobile driven world.
For the record, there are other multi-ocean navies: russia, south africa, australia, canada, and argentina among them. I think that's a pretty small factor compared to the influence of the military industrial complex.

The size of the US navy dwarfs every other country considerably, even when factoring in oceanic boundaries.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_bordering_on_...
Snoop Dogg's Pivot
No, guys, why do you despise manual work so much?
(I'm one of Domainr's co-founders, and for the record, we absolutely do not, and will never, do anything ethically ambiguous like front-running.)

We hear of similar issues from time to time, and each time we've investigated, they've ended up being coincidental. The thing to do is look at whois and see when the domain was originally registered — perhaps GD is showing domains with varying "already-registered" states in their search results:

http://domaininfo.buydomains.com/domain-name-basics/domain-n...

Another (creepy, imho) thing to keep in mind is that Verisign allegedly logs and resells aggregate data from unresolved DNS requests:

http://www.domainnamenews.com/editorial/verisign-to-profit-f...

(Domainr uses the DNS to check for availability — it's hella fast, and sufficiently accurate to provide a good user experience.)
Shortcuts for Gmail
When are we getting Watson as a replacement for Google by the way.
1. That counter that changes each second is really annoying and adds no value.
2. I could not figure out what you do by just reading the first paragraph
3. After some more browsing I still don't get it

Todo
1. Less animations - Each time something changes my eye drifts towards it and disrupts my thinking
2. Make a small video explaining what you do
Estimation is a skill, but since projects rarely are the same it can't be applied properly.

It's the classic of confusing how we would like things to be with how they actually are.
I second this. Sounds like it might be a bit too good to be true.
> This puzzles me. Last I heard, the Mac versions of Valve's games were slower than their Windows counterparts.

That's in part a driver issue (though Mach message traffic may also limit perfs), the drivers are mostly developed in-house by Apple, and Apple is notoriously hard to work with (for third parties). So while Valve did lead to significant performance improvements following Steam/OSX I would expect they couldn't work closely with internal drivers developers.

And game perfs probably still isn't the main focus for OSX drivers development, sadly.
Except... when apps are using a lot more memory than they do on other OS, you tend to get a low-memory situation anyway.

If I've got a 4gig machine, and running 5 apps takes up 3.8 gig, trying to run another app with necessitate swapping/paging some of the existing apps around to accommodate my new app. If those initial 5 apps only took up, say, 2.8g, I'd have less chance of hitting 'low-memory' situations in the first place.

I say this as someone with 16g mbp and SSD who still hits beach balls and unexplained pauses on a daily basis. Fewer than I used to, but it gets annoying. Not quite as annoying as win95/2k blue screens of 12+ years ago, but getting my ire up.
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Bullshit. Programmers are not bad at estimating time, they simply are not used to. Most of the time, time is estimated by managers and they always suck at the first time.
But you can't define your way out of the problem.

Meeting the requirements have nothing to do with what it takes to meet them. Two very different things.
I watched an interview ("fireside chat", they called it) of him early in July, and he was talking about this very thing. Basically he said that he loves both SpaceX and Tesla, but he realizes that SpaceX has the potential for much greater impact on humanity as a whole than Tesla. He also said that, for this reason, if there ever comes a time when he must focus his energy on one company, it would be SpaceX.
@sp332 Thanks for the info. Yup, if you install the offline Gmail, it will still check in the background when Chrome is closed. This background feature is only available to Chrome apps or extensions but not to the web pages.
Facebook stock drops below an arbitrary number in a popular number base
Seriously, HN, please stop submitting micro-updates to the Facebook stock price. The fact that it dropped below $20 (briefly) is terribly tedious. All it means is that (a) Facebook's stock has dropped a bit more and (b) Facebook's stock is below a small multiple of a power of ten.

If Facebook stop suddenly drops by 90% then it might be worth discussing, or if Facebook suddenly submits an SEC filing that reveals that the end is nigh. Until then let's not get obsessed with its stock price.

There are only 30 spaces on the front page, let's reserve them for something meaningful, not what looks almost like technical analysis and the nonsense about 'support levels'.
Yeah, either way it's win/win. The only constraint is the cost of hosting, which can easily be amortized over all of your sites.
Evidence of methodological pro-army submission on Reddit
The point is that knowing that Zurich is in Switzerland is more similar to knowing that Denver is in Colorado than it is to knowing that Denver is in the United States. Presumably the size of the city is interesting because the implicit assumption is that knowing where Zurich is important because Zurich is a big city.
FB users are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Nothing gets done in August (and that's OK)
I'd love to see what the patch looked like.
You are right. difference is :

UPDATE June 15, 2012: Added search term highlighting (don't know why we didn't add this from day one)
UPDATE June 29, 2012: Million Short gets a facelift - a new design.
UPDATE July 3, 2012: News and Image search added - two of the most requested features.
UPDATE July 3, 2012: Million Short gets mobile and tablet update.
UPDATE July 4, 2012: We launched Million Tall - the inverse of Million Short.
See Spolsky's "Fire and Motion" for a far better take on this.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
I love this site. I have used it several times to find what I was looking for when all the other search engines were full of seo spam. I just need to remember to try it more often!
Sharp to ship The Next Generation iPhone display this month.
certainly a cheerful moment for me.
I think facebook has received too much attention, which it doesn't deserve. There are so many innovators, who are diligent, conscientious and work hard, but got ignored by the society. Hopefully, this can teach those speculators something.
F*** I love the internet
Neat.

Does this mean the nature of working there is going to be different? I've been through an acquisition before and everything changes afterwards.
Realistically you are stopping one time during the work day. Possibly twice if it is winter, due to the shorter days. All the rest of the prayers are timed outside of normal work hours.
> It would be somewhat easier to just start your own company if you wanted to work four hours a day.

I do own my own company, and I work more than 4 hours a day. Let's say my religion permits working 2 jobs regardless of state laws(they permit multiple wives, multiple husbands. What's the big deal with multiple jobs), but you can work for more than 4 hours only for your company.

Let me try this:

The lord sayeth thou shall not work more than 4 hours; except for the company you have more than 35% stake in.

> IME, not many muslims outside muslim countries actually pray five times a day,

That's not the point. The thing is you are allowed to do so, and the employer doesn't have a say.

EDIT: So let's assume my religion is an exclusive one, and there is only one member - me. Does that mean I should be allowed to work 4 hours a day, come in drunk etc. because only a few people(exactly 1) does that; or else I shout persecution and give my life savings to a legal team.

> pregnancy
>> Why is this a problem?

Sorry about that. That was my failed attempt at political correctness. My examples were particularly about Islam, and I thought I should include something non-Islam.
If I were an employer, after reading this, I would encourage my observant Muslim employees to change their schedules and work at night, and from home if possible. Not every job can accomodate this, but many can.
New compression and deduplication utility
it moved again :)