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This.

You'd be surprised at the crap knives people buy. Not only do cheap knives dull quickly, they also are composed of multiple pieces. Dull knives lead to scarring injuries (whereas sharp knives lead to a clean cut that most likely won't scar) and knives that have multiple pieces will be harder to clean and therefore contain more bacteria.

If anyone needs a recommendation, I swear by Global [1] knives. They are sharp as...well, anything I've ever seen. They also stay sharp for a long time. Yes, they will cost you a lot of money (but they're usually on sale somewhere out there) but over the long term you are saving money by not having to buy so many knives.

I respectfully disagree with having a throw-away knife because a knife is a sharp cutting instrument that is supposed to be an extension of your arm/hand. If you are always purchasing new knives, you are changing the feel of the knife and you will change how you unconsciously use it (also known as muscle memory). Especially with a paring knife, use the same one because the 'paring' action usually involves you cutting towards your wrist and you want to make sure that you don't accidentally suicide yourself.

My goto knives are:

- G-4: Oriental cook's knife (http://www.global-knife.com/products/g/product_g-4.html)

- GSF-49: utility knife [I use it as a paring knife] (http://www.global-knife.com/products/gs/product_gsf-49.html)

One other key piece of advice for knives: cutting boards. NEVER NEVER NEVER use glass cutting boards. Tempered glass is very strong and you are just damaging the blade by cutting on it. Use wood (and clean it well) or, at the very least, plastic.

[1] http://www.global-knife.com/
> "And yet people from around the world fly here every day to have critical surgeries performed by the world's top doctors in state of the art facilities."

Citation sorely needed. This claim is regularly trot around, but nobody has been able to point to data that would suggest that this is anything but extreme outlier behavior.

As a Canadian who lives in the US it's often shocking how different the perception of the Canadian health care system is between the US and Canada. Canadians by and large are quite satisfied with the system, while even reasonably liberal Americans I've met seem to believe it's some kind of waitlist-filled hellhole.

I've had more than one American express incredulity when I pointed out going to the US for major medical procedures isn't really a thing in Canada, where they thought it was widespread and relatively common.

By my own observation, there are a few isolated cases of this happening (mostly among the extremely wealthy), and is not at all widespread.

> "but there needs to be some method of exclusion when demand is high and supply is low."

The supply of medical capacity is not fixed or subject to a real physical limitation (like, say, rare earth metals). In Canada the response to constricted supply has been expanding the supply, as well as reducing per-use costs to make this possible. The supply is not infinite, but is high enough that people who need it, get it, and at a cost affordable to them (amortized across the entire population).

[edit] It's worth mentioning that, due to the economic incentive of single-payer health care, Canada invests a tremendous amount of money in preventative care and screening, which serves to dramatically reduce demand for the most expensive, most supply-constrained treatments. In fact I have a friend who works for the Canadian government right now doing computational screening for early cancer detection. It's interesting stuff, saves lives, and saves money, but requires a dramatic economic incentive to build out that simply doesn't exist in privatized care.

> "Would you rather wait 2 months just to see a specialist and another 2 months for treatment like patients in nationalized healthcare systems frequently do? (I'm looking at you, Canada and Europe)"

Citation, again, sorely needed. I grew up in Canada and have never waited 2 months to see a specialist, nor 2 months for treatment. The longest I've waited for a specialist was a few days. I've also (unfortunately) been to both Canadian ERs and American ERs, and the wait times are not substantially different (immediate (Can), 4 hours (Can), 7 hours (Can), and 6 hours (US)).
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I thought you recognized such a need by wanting to learn a new language and ideas..

I did Python for 7 years before I realized Haskell had huge advantages I find very important and it took an extra two years of gradual transition until I had dropped Python completely.
To be fair, running any internet-facing apps in a chroot jail is a good idea no matter which language they use.
That's in Urban Dictionary too ...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=synergasm

;)
It's NOT a hack because the bindings are calling directly into C. CFFI is a way for lisp to directly run C functions, and a CFFI wrapper does just that: for every function that exists in the OpenGL API, the same function (with the same arguments) exists in the CFFI OpenGL bindings.

Duplicating documentation needlessly is a hack. If your library that you program uses another library, are you required to document that other library as well as your own? No, that library already has documentation.

If you want to learn OpenGL, learn a tiny bit of C. You know what? Learn a tiny bit of C either way. It's the foundation at the core of every program written, no matter what language. Plus, OpenGL is a lot more complicated than C, so you've got your work cut out for you if you can't handle C.
Ditch the whisk? Whisks are almost as important as spatulas. Also, what is wrong with the steel bowls for mixing? What do you call a regular bowl, a rice bowl? I need something that will hold several cups of flour. And I need three because I need to actually to mix different things at the same time.

Also, why get rid of the dutch oven, but keep the cast iron? A dutch oven is cast iron. I am confused.
He made it rain at the end of the video.
Unnoticed...

Do not make the mistake of assuming that because there's no CVE, that a vulnerability is unknown. Not everyone who analyzes code is wearing a white hat.
You're getting paid $25/hr, a $52,000 salary if the job were to last a year. Maybe not Silicon Valley money, but good money for anyone who can even begin to consider this deal. More money than I make in a year. That's good enough. The 50% is icing on the cake. He's hiring a programmer, and paying you to stay on as technical co-founder.
They can always go back to making boots. There's a large hipster market out there.
It doesn't actually change the INI file. It changes the error_reporting setting in memory while that one function is executing and when it finishes it changes it back.
I've heard that and am not sure whether the comparative statistics control for this. However, even if it's true, that still leaves child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.
I'm mostly with you, but I think almost anybody who needs a guide to buy kitchen basics also needs a couple of cookbooks.

Fishing for recipes on the Internet is an advanced skill. You need to know how to cook reasonably well in order to evaluate the recipes and adjust each one to your situation.

In contrast, something like Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" gives a lot of basic advice, has a set of consistent recipes with clear variations, and is carefully designed to avoid confusion.

And for the nerdy, the Bittman book is available in a Kindle version, so it need not take up any physical space.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about

Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
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Kathy Sierra commented on what DHH posted and it's worth reading (multiple times)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3392-humans-need-to-know-why#...
I disagree. We cook anything for a family of 5 with virtually nothing. Two stainless pans, a roasting tray, frying pan, 2 knives, 2x wooden spoon, metal strainer spoon, peeler, a whisk, a pyrex jug and a couple of forks.

Probably cost us < $100 as most of it was free. Same with our bone china crockery + cutlery (both were $20).

Less to wash up as well and we haven't cooked any ready meals for 10 years - we only cook from basic ingredients.

Recipe books - we own one and it's the Mary Berry baking bible because it's so easy to fuck up when baking and she does 100% bullet proof recipes.
Both Causes and Votizen are venture-backed companies, definitely expecting to make revenue.

I've heard this confusion consistently from people, so I get where you're coming from. It is possible to have a for-profit business whose customer is the non-profit, or the campaign, or the NGO.
Some provinces have emergency dental care for minors covered under their health plans, which is a nice thing, too. A root canal can be an expensive procedure.
The "certain" money in iOS development is making apps for third parties.

"Normal" iOS dev rates pay for a macbook air in a day of work. Easy to get rates pay for a macbook air in 2-3 days of work.
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I think quality of life is a much more important factor to include.
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There are some thing I would definitely do different that would either save me money on my MVK or allow me to choose to buy better quality items.

Things I could do without (I just don't bake much):
-stand mixer
-ice cream maker
-rolling pin
-cooling rack

Some things I would spend a little more on:
-knives
-thermometer

Additions:
-can opener
Ask HN: Is there a free ROR/Django bootcamp I can attend for aiding non-profits?
I am an International graduate student in US and I have an active interest in programming (Though I am not from CS background). I do mostly programming for academic tasks and I have decent knowledge of Python, Matlab and C++. Now my long-term goal is to help non-profits in a very poor region of the world and also using the web to preserve some near-extinct languages from my country. I would like to attend a bootcamp that teaches Ruby on Rails or Django with regards to web programming. I am using the resources on the web but I think I can learn much more in a short time by attending a bootcamp. I have knowledge of HTML and CSS.

But since all bootcamps cost upwards of $1000, I can't afford it. I don't want a programming job in this field hence I am willing to sign an undertaking that I'll not accept any web programming related jobs in US or anywhere in the world in exchange for a full scholarship in the summer.

Please help !
Is there a way to sign up to be notified when a new version is available?
seems a hard way to go to not write unit tests. FWIW, I use the shell too for exploratory coding but the moment that I find myself making changes and restarting the shell, chances are it's time to write it in a unit test.
Missing the whisk renders any good kitchen disabled - you need a good whisk to make sauces, egg whites etc.
I've never used cl-opengl, but the usual nameing convention for lisp names is as follows:

name-with-multiple-words

*global-variable*

so GLOBAL_VARIABLE and NameWithMultipleWords or name_with_multiple_words are easy to figure out. Any body who has used lisp for more than a few days knows how to name things, and since the combinations of naming schemes in C is finite, figuring this out is close to common sense. so glLoadIdentity() in lisp is (gl:load-identity).

Happy Hacking!
This would be of interest to me as well. Have just about finished recoding the game that I couldn't get in the MS store due to tester issues. Have been able to do this one with my own skills and some volunteer VAs. I want to do a bigger VN as a follow-up, and this time pay the VAs, and pay someone else to do the artwork so I can concentrate on the script and programming. Getting some dollars up front so I can start it now, and have someone else be point on marketing would be darn close to ideal. I'd probably want a 51 - 49 split so I have creative control, but otherwise...
What's your point? For instance, what improvement to us healthcare would cure obesity?
PHP doesn't use threads unless you are using the pthreads extension [1]. I am not sure how it would affect that ext. Normally it won't affect any other PHP scripts that are running.

[1] https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads
Ask HN: Are there alternatives to MVC for web development?
For web development, I have primarily learnt/seen MVC. Wondering if there are other patterns used for web development and wanted to udnerstand the differences and may be play around with them. I use python primarily as a language if it helps.
Also - Startup: And you're going to be working on our project, with the documents and design we came up with. Dev: Great!

This guy: Work on your own idea! Have your own dream! I'll just put in the money and experience to make the business a success. HN Devs: You're not offering enough to have a 50% share in the company that wouldn't exist without you!
(1) Help Medicare track cost-effectiveness of tests/procedures involving really expensive technology (development of which will only get more & more expensive); (2) Teach Medicare patients how to become actual consumers of health care (how to shop for price/compare treatment options) -- i.e. help transfer some of the burden of reducing cost from payers to patients w/out causing mass hysteria
SAP warns against data science
it's probably a play on duckduckgo.
This is a kitchen that can bake tons of stuff from scratch.

Without that (expensive) component, you can greatly pare down this list to about ~400ish
Isolation, helps to limit the damage done by a random bug or attack. Can also be useful when you have apps with weird dependencies.
Can't upvote this enough. Well, except that I'd replace "poorly" with "vaguely". "Implementation-defined behavior" is there for very good reasons in every single case it's there.

Sidenote: With John's name, I'd be tempted on a daily basis to change the last two letters of my name to a single 'x' ;)
I find the OP's idea and post really interesting and this discussion enlightening. It has made me re-think the notion of angel investing as this is very grass-roots (one developer, one idea, one partner/investor). However, as a non-coder (not since 1984) whenever I have tried to find a technical co-founder I always hear the argument that coders have tons of their own ideas so why would they build mine - especially for 5-8K. The OP is calling out the coders WITH ideas - it would be interesting to see how many really have undeveloped ideas vs. how many do not.
Or Edward Bernay's "Torches of Freedom" campaign that made smoking cool for women.
Perhaps I'm tired, but how can the Japanese life expectancy figure be higher when considering fatal injuries?
I'd really love to hear some of the 'not fit for print' things that Watson said.
This report[1] claims that the difference in reporting child mortality isn't the chief cause of the difference in infant mortality between the U.S and similarly developed countries.
Instead the claim that most of this difference is due to the high percentage of pre-term births in the US compared to other developed countries.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db23.pdf
Think of it like this. The exploits are already out there, whether they're public or not. MSF takes these exploits, and packages them into a coordinated tool. Sounds evil, right? A script kiddie can grab this tool, update it so it has the latest exploits, and voila! pwn the internet.

Well, they can do that without MSF. It's just harder.

Where MSF helps is with pentesters and other security professionals. When they perform a pentest or audit, tools like MSF/SET/Nexpose allow them to rapidly and accurately determine if a network or system is vulnerable, and prove it (within the bounds of the engagement's scope). Without these tools, a pentest would require far more tedious work.
What stops me from buying it, getting the MP3s, then selling the wrapped CD on Ebay?
I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley.

Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
Thank you for the input. I can see why the backend and operational pieces would be far more important to the people to actually HAVE to manage the site. Maybe this is just a plugin idea...
Using the model of 'small holding' - 5 acres per person style.

Goats provide:

Meat
Milk
Leather
Bone
Manure
Farts
Goat blood
Useless baby boy goats

They eat. They eat far more calories than you'll ever get from them. Someone has to look after them, and that person also needs to eat.

Someone needs to grow the food for the goats, and for the goatherds, and that person needs to eat.

For a goat to produce milk it (like most mammals) needs a child to feed. Thus, you need at least one male goat for breeding. But male goats don't give milk. And they stink. And billy goats are just plain mean. So this stud-goat, stinky, mean, lazy thing, also needs food and care. And the birthing goat needs some attention. And if it's a male it's useless, so someone has to kill it.

All that time and effort, and all you get is goat meat and goat milk. Maybe some will think it's worth it, but other people would prefer using all that time and energy on a wider range of food.

> tell me this: How many 30,000 lb. John Deere combines do you think will be sent with the first settlers?

You have it backwards: Massive industrial farming makes things many times more, not less, efficient.
The figure doesn't go up, the ranking goes up. (Meaning all the other figures go down.)
This kind of argument probably worked better in the 90s or something, but it does not hold as much water today.

First, the exorbitant rate of medical inflation in our "market" healthcare system is a fiscal menace not only to the public sector, but to the private sector as well.

Secondly, the deteriorating health of the American workforce is an increasing threat to global competitiveness. An overweight employee pool with high prevalence of unmanaged diabetes is not an attractive one for global capital.

Expanding access, controlling costs and emphasizing preventive care are things we need to get better at out of naked self-interest. Saudi sheiks who want to fly in for a quadruple bypass may continue to do so, but if we lose them to somewhere that bows and scrapes to the mega-rich more than we do, good riddance.
Thanks for this. I've always been a little perplexed as to why an enumerator in Ruby uses 'yield' when it seemed like it was really the caller that was "yielding" to the enumerator. I ought to have been thinking of an enumerator yielding (as in giving) a value to the block provided by the caller.
The Minimum Viable Kitchen is a microwave and a spork.
The article has an updated section on that question.

>I asked Robert Ohsfeldt about this, who responded that the adjustment factor was based on fatal injury rates relative to the average. Hence, the adjusted numbers shouldn’t be seen as hard numerical estimates of life expectancy, but rather as a way of understanding the true relative ranking of the various countries on life expectancy excluding fatal injuries.
On the scale of Internet exploit significance, this is actually quite low compared to many of the exploits in MSF.
YC also has Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Maverick Capital working with any company which takes a convertible note.

Furthermore, those companies taking the note have a much longer runway than hmexx will provide and will be plugged in to a network of later stage investors.

Finally, each YC company has access to the other companies in its class and the YC alumni...and lots of other things in the valley.

It's logically possible hmexx could approach a similar level of success but it looks unlikely.
Love it.

Can you please add filters for "by-genre" and "kindle-only"? Please..
That's similar to my kitchen as well.

These days I do have a lot of random appliances, mostly from loyalty rewards. They're handy, but the only one I regularly use is my electric mixer. No need to a stand mixer!
I really love Codeacademy. Keep up the good work, guys!
I write unit tests. This is still very useful to me...sometimes even in the process of writing those tests.
Under that classification, what is a low level language then? Even Forth abstracts away registers, and allows structured programming (or a sort). Is the set of low level languages that people have heard of in 2013 an empty set?
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EXACTLY! I had to fight with this one. Especially when I started working on forms.
Ugh, what a country!

Such a nice day. I think I'll go out the window!
"Turns out clear thought in any language is the main thing."

No, the ability to express your thought clearly is the main thing -- and that is why languages matter. If your code is cluttered with pointer-juggling, error-checking conditional statements, and the other hoops C forces you to jump through, then your code is not clear.

Try expressing your code clearly in BF, then get back to me about this "languages don't matter as long as your have clear thought" philosophy.
Sounds interesting. I'm really interested in the YC W13 startups -- if there are half as many, maybe twice as good? And maybe a leading indicator of other startup trends (b2b vs. b2c split, which technologies, etc.)
"HONEY BOO BOO ON MARS"

"THE KARDASHIANS ON MARS"

etc etc.

People spend stupid amounts of money on stupid things already. One of the big networks has easily got enough money to send an idiot and a camera up there.
.. which is absolutely fantastic visualization of math that just about anyone will find approachable.

thx @unconed !
Here's my recommendation for a knife sharpener, the Lansky system: http://amzn.com/B000B8L6LI

Buy that, plus the "Ultra Fine" stone: http://amzn.com/B000B8L6MC

The Lansky system has metal guides that maintain the right honing angle for you, so you can easily get a decent edge by just following the directions in their video. So long as you treat your knives right, you should just have to do that twice a year. (No dishwasher, and don't let them bash against silverware in the drying rack and in the drawer.)

As for a knife, get something with a real high carbon steel blade. Most stainless is too soft and loses its edge.

Chicago Cutlery used to be good, but I see now they've cheaped-out on their design. (If you have the good fortune to find an older Walnut Traditions knife, make a "boat" with aluminum foil and soak the handles in mineral oil, then don't wash them so much. Oil soaked wood doesn't need too much washing.)

This one looks promising: http://amzn.com/B0000CFDD5
I love f.lux. It helps save my eyes. It's a savior, indeed.
Thanks for the pointer; That is a completely valid instance of being a shill. :)

We'll take a look when appropriate. Naturally, it will only make sense if we can either forbid CC's, or explicitly charge higher for the CC payments. (Basically, the customers have to be willing to choose their payment method, and be charged for their chosen method.)
Yeah baby, talk dirty to me.
Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you.

The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...
EA is being sued over a tattoo from 2004