skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moonlight as a professional food writer. I have a $800 a month food budget. I've eaten at a quarter of the restaurants on the San Pellegrino List. I still use a rice cooker.

Ebert unfortunately gives the wrong impression of the cuisine you can make with a rice cooker. He's a vegan and he can't eat, what do you expect? The reality is that rice cooker cuisine in Asian has come out of situations where people didn't have access to normal cooking appliances, but also could not start fires without burning down their dwellings. I learned about this in grad school where our dwellings were similar.

It made me appreciate different types of rice, broths, the technique of steaming (a good rice cooker should come with an attached steamer)...what could be more foodie than that? I bet I can rival your cooking with just a rich cooker. I can make luscious steamed turbot with a parmesan asparagus risotto, steamed spicy Vietnamese sausage and silky coddled eggs over a lemon-grass infused rice, and hearty congee with miso and wild mushrooms. I use homemade stocks as bases for all of these. I make them in my crock pot, they don't take very long either.

My rice cooker meals are better than the meals served at many restaurants. And to be honest, I use my own restaurant budget on meals that cost as much as $300 a person, which leaves not so much for day to day food. But damn if I'm going to eat crappy food. Rice cooker? Makes cheap, easy, and delicious meals if you have the skills. I would definitely not recommend Ebert's cooking advice or cookbook though.
When the police starts going door to door, collecting guns, how many you think would be left from the 300M?
I tried it and it told me a domain was available, I click through, select godaddy only to be told that it was already taken.
Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence [1]. I don't like the TSA, and I'm not friends with anyone who does, but that's because I live in a strange bubble, surrounded by academics and engineers. Most people don't have a problem with the TSA.

Here's what happened to me the last time I went through a TSA checkpoint:

I opted out. The TSA agent made a snide remark about about me being separated from my belongings, which I'd already put on the X-ray conveyor belt [2]. Then, I was forced to wait about half an hour until an agent was free [3]. There were TSA agents standing around, not doing anything, but, those people, apparently, can't do pat downs.

When an approved agent was finally free, instead of cordially walking me over to the pat down area, he shoved and body checked me to get me to move. After the perfunctory patdown, he pointed to my luggage and said I could go get it. He then stepped in front of me as I started walking towards it and gave me one last shove, away from my luggage.

So, do I like the TSA? Of course not. I have practical and philosophical objections to their process, and perhaps 20% of the time when I opt out, I'm treated like human garbage [4]. But, most people don't have any weirdo academic objections, so they go through the regular process and everything is fine, 99% of the time. Sure, they have to to the airport half an hour earlier now, but that's a small price to pay for what they see as protection from terrorists.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2012/08/09/surprise-gall...

[2] It's a bit like being threatened by the mafia: those are some nice things you have there. It would be such a shame if anything happened to them while you're away. This was sufficient to keep two couples, who initially decided to opt-out, from actually opting out.

[3] https://twitter.com/someben/status/274976070271377409

[4] It's like walking into a random replication of the Stanford Prison experimenter [5]. Will the guards be aggressively unpleasant? Maybe!

[5] http://www.lucifereffect.com/about_content_extensions.htm
The highlight of this release for me: built-in support for the ObjFW Objective-C runtime.

https://webkeks.org/blog/?5f
>>Any data on this, all data suggests that were there are more guns there are more deaths, apparently evil interferes can buy guns too.

Le me give you a different perspective on the matter. Free Speech means that you can be critical of the government. It also means that you can spout hatred against something you dislike [1].

I believe most people agree that criticizing your government is what free speech was meant for and not for attacking some harmless group. But to control one kind of speech is to control the other which is why it is not done. In essence, you cannot have it both ways. It is a necessary evil.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
> No one actually uses disks in such a fashion

Not sure what you mean... there are quite a few data storage & processing tools out there that use a log-structured on-disk storage that were designed to read/write sequentially. These could potentially take full advantage of these instances.

Many other solution requiring random IO is indeed a fact, but I still think there are systems that could benefit.
interesting point! so let's say the US gov't passes a law restricting individual citizens from having and/or distributing a cryptography technology. as a citizen who is prosecuted under this law, I call the ACLU and EFF for help, and they agree to jointly defend me.

Which amendment(s) form the basis of our claim that this law is unconstitutional?
Copyright laws are archaic and backward, because only the photographer have right and the person in the picture don't have any, We can't even make a copy of our own picture.. instead of a shared rights and responsibilities....
It has nothing to do with "custom C code". Any tool with a custom language (or equivalent) that wants a runtime JIT for the language and code compilable to LLVM IR would need to link in the compiler libs to do that. Custom DSLs are everywhere.

For example, OpenShadingLanguage compiles shaders on the fly as part of a physically-based renderer, and then JITs them at runtime with LLVM. Linked in are the LLVM libs and a bunch of C code that is converted to LLVM IR and accessed by the shaders. The whole lot is linked and JITd together, enabling interprocedural analysis, inlining and a bunch of other compiler optimizations (e.g. constant folding). The resulting shaders are about 25% faster than their previous, hand-coded C shaders.

IOW, lots of products benefit from having a compiler toolchain at runtime they can link with their program. GPL license or not, GCC isn't made to do that.
"It is theorized that earth at one time had rings, but that they later coalesced into what is now our moon."

Indeed. (1997 Nature article) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v389/n6649/full/389353a...
(Voted down by mistake, sorry. Damn trackpad on Linux.)

I understand where this comes from. Personally I sketch/think on paper/org-mode a long while, then throw code at the wall, then iterate back to paper...

Afaik, Perl/Moose has better structure and OO today than the other scripting languages. The same argument can be made for lisp, compared to most everything, but it is also a hacker's delight.
Have you stopped using git tags for releases?
(I haven't updated the repo in quite a while, and `git tag` gives me all releases up to 0.3.)
>Teaching a child to write a top 10 app in 8 weeks- next to impossible.

Top apps aren't necessarily top because they're technically impressive or have good code design, but because they provide a function/service that many people want. If a child can think of something like that, even if it's something simple, then it could absolutely become a top app.
*Slightly non work-safe image at the top of the linked page (full body scans of men and women).

Also, one category of TSA agents not mentioned in this piece: Those who seem to revel in the public's disdain because they can easily make a traveler's life hell if the mood strikes them. For example, the agents in this breast milk incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XhnZlmLGK8

Any job that grants authority over other people probably attracts this type of employee.
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No. What sites assume is that you are located (at least in a regional sense) near the (recursive) DNS servers you use. For example, that's how many CDN's work.

Note: It's certainly possible to share the exact same location (or interface, to be more precise) as your DNS server. I run my own personal DNS cache on localhost. It's not unheard of. I'd guess there would be a few other readers of HN who do this as well.
Ouch. We implemented a JS font loader a-la Google Web Fonts because we thought we can't load fonts in UIWebView other than via @font-face.
Revenue sharing could create perverse incentives to game the system. For example, imagine someone in Africa changing their location to United States and liking Gucci, Prada, BMW to become a honeypot. Or pretending to be a celebrity.
"Can you somehow get a maillard reaction to occur in a rice cooker? Or caramelization?"

You can use ingredients that already have these. Like I use onions I caramelized before hand and top a lot of my dishes with meat that I browned. You can get some browning in a rice cooker if you need to though. Actually some rice cookers are made specially to do that. The ones that target the Middle Eastern market produce rice with something called a "tadig" which means that the bottom rice has turned crispy and brown- ideally with ghee put in the bottom of the pot before the rice was added. My rice cooker produces that and I typically take it out, break it up, and mix it in with the dish so there are lovely crunchy bits.
BitBucket just keeps getting better! Thank you so much for letting single freelance developers host their projects in private for free unlike Github. You guys are better than Github in my opinion.

Keep on going on!
From http://www.mcbphotos.com/#/biography

> Over a six-month period in 2011, Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.

For example:

http://www.mcbphotos.com/#/the-libyan-revolution/vv163

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/nov/16/mobile-ph...

Just because the device is basic, doesn't make mobile phone photography worthless.
I also think that BitBucket has a better user interface than GitHub. I feel that GitHub's multi-level tab design and branch selection makes it hard to switch between the most important views. Also BitBucket's activity stream is a way better: I just don't understand why GitHub doesn't show your own commits and actions in their stream. Seeing your own actions makes it easy to understand what has happened between and since things that you yourself have done.
Looks nice. I'd probably mention somewhere in the page that this is a Dropbox-based alternative solution to Droplr or CloudApp
In some cuisines, like Korean, there are dishes that are made specially with a cloudy stock. If you are a home cook it shouldn't matter so much. It's mostly an aesthetic issue, although if a stock is particularly fatty I will clarify it.
They are grooming their users to be abused, building trust to be exploited.

I believe the comic also asks the question: How many times are we going to fall for this?
How do the police know that you have guns? In most US states, there is no registration of guns.

When you purchase a gun from a gun store, you fill out a form 4473, for the purposes of a background check. The ATF has a record of gun transfers, but not a list of who currently owns a gun. If they recover a gun from a crime scene, then can go through the records to see who was the last owner.

The kink in this system is that private sales of guns is legal in most states as well. No background check, no record keeping required, just a good faith effort to ensure that the person you're selling it to can legally own a firearm.

So if the police come knocking on your door and ask for your guns, you can simply say "I sold it 2 years ago, but unfortunately I didn't keep any information on the new owner." The police would then need to have probable cause to search your residence for the weapon (which they very well could get depending on the evidence they have).

Collecting all the guns in the US won't be an easy task.
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They probably feel better about what people think about them than traffic wardens feel about public attitude towards them.

You can bet more people dispise traffic wardens than they do TSA, though as a non driver I like them.

I have also dealt with the TSA when I traveled to America and it was a fast, most plesant experience. Not everybody has a bad experience with them, they just don't do massive blogs about there experience oddly enough. Though I was not impressed with British Airways at all, but thats another topic.

But if you remove them and one plane has a problem as there was not enough checks and you can bet everybody will demand that the TSA is brought back. If you remove traffic wardens and one car gets parked illegaly then you can bet there would not be a sudden demand from the public to reinstate them. With that think of the traffic wardens and say hello, they are people as well. Though most think you are some kind of crazy for even saying hello to them as they have a installed fear of all members of the public due to intereactions with angry drivers. With that they see all people as angry drivers out to linch them; So the TSA has a long way to go to be truely dispised. More a case of misunderstood and apprecieated in some regards, but that often gets overlooked by the cry's of foul.

Now
Its a POST via XHR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHR)
I think once rust stabilizes a little more, its going to be a excellent language. The real big thing is going to be stand alone rust programs. I know they have two tickets open ,but I would love to be able to write rust programs that don't require the core library to run.
ETL-as-a-Service
>For some people, jobs are hard to come by, I would wager the majority of TSA
screeners do not have any better paying options, so to criticize them for being
a part of a faulty system, or to paint them as being "from a sixth grade
mentality", or "trying to get employed with border patrol asap" when they are
just trying to provide for themselves and their families, who may not have
better options, is pretty unfair.

I don't think so. It's very valid to criticize someone who works for a morally
corrupt, unneeded and socially harmful agency, no matter the reason. Your
argument is basically a sophisticated "but think of the children!!11oneone"
appeal to emotion, ie not a valid argument.

If there aren't any better job options (which I highly doubt), then it's
another gigantic fucking failure of the government that needs to be fixed ASAP.
"I tend to agree because I feel like we've moved to a point where influencing the masses is more important than having militias or arming ourselves to fight a tyrannical government."

"more important" why must it be one or the other and not both?
You are evil.
And I can't wait for this to happen.
Crowdsourcing Human Microbiome Research
Steve Jobs' yacht impounded over bill dispute
No one jumped a fence to place things in Instagram's back yard. They were invited in and told to leave things there.
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BlueVM

They are cheap and have good deals on and off.
Have not had any issues so far.
If the first 100 shoot back the government will back off or quickly run out of police.

How long would the Nazis have kept it up if every Jew they came for had met them with a gun in his hand?
its happening intermittently because of burst load on server.
Related: http://www.viddler.com/v/c8809791
I don't really like Ad Hoc at Home. It's IMHO unnecessary in terms of techniques and complexity. I don't need to blanch my vegetables to make dinner for my family. Admittedly I wasn't wowed by my meal at Per Se either. I would like to go to TFL though.

I do worship Rulhman though. I also recommend Jennifer McLagan's books for working with nose to tail basics like stock and animal fats.

I usually recommend people visit really good restaurants and seek out books by their favorite chefs. That really got me into Asian cooking through being a fan of the Momofuku restaurants.
Ask HN: Is Google too slow for you?
Google Search, Maps and Gmail are almost unusable. Is anyone experiencing this? I started noticing it a few days ago and now it's getting really slow.

Some other users on the Internet are also complaining. Anyone else is affected by this?
Omni’s Plans for 2013
So an Apple engineer spent time adding support for more 'liberal', non-Apple-based Objective-C runtimes? Wow!

That seems unusual of Apple, but very cool.

EDIT - Looking at the clang source, it looks like GNUstep and and ObjFW (with the exception of old GCC) are the only alternative Objective-C runtimes currently supported by clang:
http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ObjCRuntime_8h_source.html
If they don't, you should patent said software and license it to them.
Great, but Addison Wesley, publisher of the paper versions of some in the series, may not be, and at this point, they might be able to make the call.
As Michael Lewis found in the Big Short. His Liar's Poker (from the 80's) explains the mentality. As he says in the former, he thought the latter would be the be-all end-all.

But the kids in Business School would constantly write him and ask him for new ways to rig the game.
Instagram Terms of Use Change Represents a Lack of Imagination
Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm impressed and encouraged by the number of people who think that this is a good idea.

To the others, I wouldn't think of this as a replacement for e-mail. E-mail is great for a majority of communications. Framing messaging from a historical perspective helps understand where our company fits.

Prior to the internet when you wanted to communicate with someone you had to attach value to that message. Whether it was a letter, long distance phone call, telegram, or other form of communication the cost and the time that it took to send were non-zero. The cost was also apparent to the recipient, which often had an impact on the recipient's likelihood of replying. The internet has done a terrific job unburdening messages of their cost and the amount of time it takes to send them. At the same time, it has created a problem of a small signal-to-noise ratio.

Consider a journalist who I would like to cover a story. With a list of 800 journalist's emails I can send 800 emails instantly. At the same time, with each journalist I am competing with hundreds of other message senders. This includes people with bad ideas for a news story who suffer no transaction cost in sending their messages. If I could communicate my value on the that journalist's time I could rise about the noise and communicate that idea more successfully. The system wouldn't be perfect, but I am betting that the overlap between people who place real value on a recipient's time and people who are offering value to the recipient is larger than the overlap between people who place no value on a recipient's time and people who are offering value to that recipient.

There's also a lot of discussion as to what these credits are worth. Right now, they're pixels on a screen. Scarce pixels. As we grow an ecosystem of message-sending, some people and companies may decide that they would like to purchase credits at a discount and offer to do things like paypal money or send discount codes for certain number of credits. At first though, the credits won't be the point. The point will be that we will provide a service for those people which will allow them to filter out people who place zero value on their attention.

I’ll address twitter sign-in quickly. When you log on to Gramicon the users who float to the top of your “find users” page are the ones you follow on twitter. Here is a list of people who you have already identified as interesting or notable. Next to their usernames you can see the average price in order to get a reply as well as their user-generated rating. Right now we only allow twitter login because we don’t want people signing up with facebook or their email and choosing the username kanyewest or stevecase.

Thanks and stay tuned for updates!
Source/License?
You are right, a lot of Asian cuisines rely on other strong flavors like fish sauce, tamarind, seaweed, and fermented pastes. With these you will not miss browning. You know you have learned how to cook Asian food when you can make delicious meat dishes without browning.
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The media like to paint gun owners as far-right republicans, but I've always been amazed by the number of left-leaning folks who have a positive opinion of firearm ownership.

The folk singer Bruce Cockburn (he did "If I had a rocket-launcher") is a big supporter of firearm ownership. I saw a documentary about him a few years back. It was funny to see a hippy with pierced ears, blonde hair and an alternative fashion sense hanging out with a bunch of rural, plaid wearing red-necks.
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You could substitute any number of employers in there, it's not just the TSA that's despised. Tax collectors, politicians, financial analysts that nearly bring down the US economy, traffic cops, the list goes on.

I don't concern myself too much with empathizing with TSA employees, it seems like an odd thing to do. There are more important things to worry about in this world.
But what did the poll say? Liking an agency and thinking its effective are two different things.

It's like asking: is abstinence effective for preventing stds? And then inferring that people prefer abstinence to condoms.
This sounds like a "just doing our duty" argument.

If you work for the TSA you're not just contributing to the problem, you are the problem.
Why the Instagram debacle just taught every tech company to be shadier than ever
Github still seems to show tags on the releases: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/tags
This is a very Eurocentric discussion. Many Korean, Indonesian, and other Asian stews do not require browning.
Actually, my understanding is you can't really trademark titles of things. That's why you'll see books and movies with the same titles and nobody getting sued.

There's also a Perl book that predates my book which I didn't know about, so there's precedent for people to do this already.

Finally, I really don't care so much about the title, I care more about people getting the method right. It looks like this was taken down so I can't comment on how it's written, but my typical beef with these books is they use the title, then they proceed to write a completely different book that doesn't follow the method at all. To me that's just obnoxious arrogance on their part and typical programmer "I can do it better" crap. There's a reason my books are structured the way they are, and just taking the title to pimp a book that isn't even close to the same structure just pisses me off.

But, I haven't seen this book yet so I don't know what it's done.

EDIT: Ok found the google cache, and it looks like this one's doing it right. I officially bless this title in the name of ... like whatever and shit.
i am working on a fix that gives an error instead of saying its available.
Python and the Holy Grail of Debugging
https://github.com/mitotic/otrace
At least in regards to the 2nd amendment what the authors meant is very, very clear. See the top HN comment.