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Any limit to the number of projects you'll fund per person?

I'll just write an MVP generator and spit 'em out as fast as I can think them up.

At one per day (a walk in the park), I'd earn $2,920,000 per year and you'd have enough stuck on the wall to keep you busy forever.

(I wrote this partially in jest, but not really. Between my propensity to write software that writes software and OP's imagination and drive, maybe we're on to something.)
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Counterpoints:

Cookbooks: he's recommending specific cookbooks which he thinks will make you a better cook. As he says, lots of them are crap, as are lots of the recipes and tutorials on the internet. You're paying for curation here more than the content itself.

Pots: Keep in mind that a "10 piece" pot set is really one 5 pots or pans, which is not that much. Having the correct size pot or pan for the quantity of food that you're heating makes a big difference in how things turn out. (For example, when sauteing onions & vegetables you really want a fairly full single layer.)

Whisk: I'm sorry, but it really is an essential tool

Ice Cream Maker: I completely agree, and I'd be inclined to ditch the whole "desserts" section.

Note, that I think there's some debate about what "minimum viable" means here. The stand mixer falls in this grey area, I think. You can probably get away with a good hand mixer (as he acknowledges) but the stand mixer is more versatile and time saving.
I'm at GabrielMtn@gmail.com, would be happy to correspond, and support your initiative.
> In the US, premature births occur at a much higher rate than other country

Pretty much what you'd expect for a system that doesn't emphasize accessible prenatal care.
There are 223 entries in the English list, and 161 in the Italian one.
Any room for a designer in this proposal? If a talented programmer has a great idea, and is able to make it functional, thats great. However, as a designer I'm interested in how these projects will turn out visually.
I use Global Pros (and have ~20 of them), but I'd recommend the $20 Victorinox chef's knife (http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-8-Inch-Fibrox-Straigh... -- get the 8 or 10 inch), and a smaller knife (like the matching one). I have some $4 Cold Steel VG-10 serrated knives which I love, since they're super super tough, too (I use them for opening coconuts, etc.

Also, get a great pair of shears (which come apart for cleaning), such as http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002IMMEW
Dont know who's still using them.

At least one online banking site of a large Scandinavian bank...
More importantly, all other languages have it, too. So why even bring it up?
Currently it's the best way to serve labels for thermic printers that our clients need.

There is no direct input to the printer as a byte buffer, the browser will always print a markup document. Unless HTML5 comes up with Printer Sockets, we are stuck with Applets in order to be granted hardware access to the client machine.
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You must have missed my last sentence. People work at the companies who are running Java on the server. People work at the companies who are developing Java on the desktop. A lot of people. A significant enough number of people that the language makes #2 on the TIOBE list. Debates about the TIOBE relevancy aside, it's at least somewhat of an indicator.

People are working for companies that use Java, and these employees cannot disable Java in their browser because it's required for their job. I happen to work at one of these shops, and I can confirm to you 12,000 people in the US from just my company alone who must have Java in their browser and running constantly. We're not alone in this regard. We're all vulnerable, and the suggestion to disable the plugin doesn't help much.
Here's a counter-offer. If you have an idea and I like it, I'll take your $5000 and will build an MVP. You'll have to commit to spend at least $3000 more on marketing right after it. And I'll take 50% of the business.
I was just surprised to first hear about this on a civilian application.
Isn't a preterm baby which fails to survive exactly the kind of event that wouldn't be documented as an infant mortality at all in a less rigorous country?
The fundamental rule I have is "don't buy sets -- buy individual items as you find uses for them". I bought a lot of really expensive stuff on eBay (Staub, Demeyere) and in Japan (Global Pro knives), and I actually only use a few of each.

A cast iron enameled wok, though, is awesome. I got mine from the Wok Shop in SF for $30 with spatula/etc.

http://refer.ly/cooking_tools/c/59d5b57c118b11e2a4ec22000a1d... is what I came up with a while ago.
I cook quite a bit and have a lot of friends who own commercial kitchens.

- Victorinox Fibrox knives are by far the best value you will get. They are inexpensive and are quite the workhorse.

- I agree for the most part about the pots and pans except cast iron should be #1 on the list. The one thing you will learn very quickly as a cook is that cast iron is your friend. It also lasts forever.

- Someone said something about ditching whisk. Are you freaking kidding me? A whisk costs under $5 and it is invaluable for lots of dishes.

- Desserts are generally hard and require specialized gear. I'd drop the whole damn category.

- I'd add a bamboo steamer to the list. You can pick one up at a asian grocery store. Put it over a large pan of water.
I have the same question. The ubiquity of these Ruby/Rails bootcamps make Python/Django feel like some archaic language and framework when that is hardly the case. What gives?
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Exactly.

This is great, out-of-the box thinking by the OP.

Anyone who want to do something like this (esp. the OP and jacquesm), please connect with me on LinkedIn: Terrence C. Yang, mentor, angel.
I like to throw some pomodoros in each day. I feel that at first it is a tad awkward. However, after you get used to it, you feel the need to really finish a unit of work in the allotted time. I feel that the pressure to get into the zone quick and practicing it helps. For those unfamiliar: pomodoro is 25 minutes uninterrupted work, 5 minutes break. Rinse, repeat.
I don't think it's fair to compare it to YC. This looks a lot more like something you would do and then take to YC or other investors.
By that thinking, you should completely uninstall anything that is not necessary to run Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office.

If you actually do novel things with your computer from time to time, you are likely to run into Java sooner or later. If you run the same three programs all the time, sure, ruthlessly uninstall everything else.

Even on a desktop where I am not currently using any Java apps, I see no reason to go out of my way to uninstall it if it's already there. It isn't hurting me, and installing it is enough of a pain that avoiding that hassle is a win.
The Victorinox Fibrox that he recommends is indeed a great knife for general cooking. I have a lower-middle range gyuto but I usually use the Fibrox because it's easier to take care of. While I cook mostly vegetables, a friend of mine who is a much more talented cook uses the Fibrox for everything.

In terms of pots and pans, I recommend getting a carbon steel wok. A carbon steel wok requires a bit of TLC but pays off in terms of delicious quick meals and the ability to use much less oil. Unfortunately when most people use a wok (often stainless or non-stick) they never actually stir fry but only end up sauteing or braising/steaming the food in its own juices. A zucchini and onion stir fry should only take about 4 or 5 minutes to stir fry, if even that. A wok is great for meals for two -- for larger meals you will have to cook in batches, if what is being made in the wok is the main course.

A good book for learning how to use a wok is "Wok Fast," which teaches you the techniques behind the wok, gives you a variety of sauces, and a bunch of recipes. By learning why a certain thing is done (such as why you should steam broccoli a bit before stir frying) instead of just following recipes, you can be more creative when cooking. The book is out of print but Amazon lists some other sellers.

Just be aware that most carbon steel woks come with a protective coating that must first be removed prior to seasoning and using it; find some instructions online or else you will end up with strange translucent stuff in your food. :) The coating has to come off as it is the interaction of oils with the carbon steel that cause a wok to develop its non-stick patina.
That's interesting, but the prospect of having them go bankrupt and not only lose digital files, but also physical disks, is a bit disturbing. Also, no word on whether disks are fungible... if I send you my autographed maroon 5 boxset, will I get the same boxset back? Or just an equivalent product feom the warehouse?
Hah! Impossible to please everyone, I suppose :) I originally wrote the story casually rounding everything to nearest integer values, but then figured that, most people reading this (probably) being developers, I should maintain exacting precision. That said, your point is well taken. :)
I like that the article is attempting to encourage people to cook more, but the premise is flawed. You don't take someone who's interested in food and tell them to read the French Laundry Cookbook. You tell them to start with Julia Child, or the Joy of Cooking, or Cooks Illustrated, or Mark Bittman. Crawl, then walk, then run.

Similarly, you don't tell a novice to spend $1000 on equipment they might never use. I've cooked "gourmet" for over a decade and I've never owned a stand mixer. You tell them to buy a good chef's knife, a good paring knife. A stock pot, a frying pan, maybe a saucepan. I have a cast iron pan but i use my nonstick pans much more often.

The difficulty in learning to cook is not in getting the right tools. It's in getting someone to overcome their fear of it. You just need to show them that it's actually not a difficult thing, that you can screw up a recipe multiple times and still have a delicious result. Make a pot of spaghetti, then a simple soup or stew, roast a chicken, fry a steak. Then go nuts making Keller's Oysters and Pearls. But only after.

The people who would find use out of many of the items listed are the same people who know what they need, anyway.
I wish that they'd do this for books. The biggest thing keeping me from buying more ebooks is that they're usually the same price as the physical book - and, in some cases, more expensive than the physical book.

At that price, I'd just as soon buy the physical copy.

On the other hand, it would be nice to know that, when I buy a physical copy, I also have access to a digital version if needed. In the case of technical books, which I reference only occasionally (but need very immediately when I do reference them), it would be perfect.
Cool Kevin, thanks!
Sorry, I don't see that. What he said is clear to me: The C virtual machine does not provide an accurate model of why your code is fast on a modern machine.

He's saying that the abstraction that C provides has deviated significantly from the underlying hardware. Considering the kinds of hoops that modern processor go through, this is a valid point.

And the above should answer the sibling's question, too.
Thanks for the post, Abby!
Watson's 'memory' is just a big database of facts, rules, and statistical models. To 'forget' a source they'd just have to rebuild any models derived from it and purge any facts it had extracted.
Well a number of those you mentioned are connected to childhood mortality: life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy among others.

As for the other measures, how you count is important. Without seeing the actual data, it's hard to say exactly how relevant it is.
Rust is the one language that we as a mixed java/c++/perl/scala shop look at, and see a future in. Exactly because of its safety features. Keep up the good work!
... which is fine for creating data structures containing pointers to things created elsewhere, but it doesn't work if you want your data structures to contain more complex data types, without the overhead of another layer of pointer redirections.
If you apt-get your gems you're doing it wrong.
"Outcomes in the US for chronic serious illnesses are at or near the top of the rankings."

This is because we have so many people with chronic serious illnesses that we know what to do with them better (at high costs). This isn't something to be proud of.
It's pretty slick, but the I couldn't find a way to go full-screen? Something like 15-20% of the reading space is with headers and footers that serve no purpose while actually viewing documents.

Compare Google Docs native PDF reader to yours [Screen shots here: http://imgur.com/a/mfVJx]. If I'm using a service to view documents, I feel like more real estate for the actual content would be more useful than social sharing or download links or whatever else.
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And why not add your referral code too?
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Nice idea! The 50/50 split is dangerous unless you specify a way to know who has the final decision. A coin flip maybe? :)

Also more specifics about the "take over" part would be nice.
Reason 6: its part of PHP.
This is an article about the standard library. C has no built in string handling. As an example, there are embedded systems that do no have support for string types due to a lack of support for libraries that handle it, yet they are 100% compliant with the C spec.
Definitely interesting... but is anyone else finding some of these to be a stretch? "Fast" wasn't very convincing for me since the latter is part of an idiom. "Moot" I'm just straight up disagreeing with.
You forgot a DOCTYPE.
I would say that Google Search is only useful to the majority of people when it's searching across an index of the entire web. This scale is likely not achievable at the desktop scale. On the other hand, the algorithm itself (though evolving) has been around for years.

I view Google Search as a less complex algorithm over a larger set of data, while Watson is a more complex algorithm over a smaller set of data. (I've been known to be wrong ;-)
What would you use to get the Wok Hot enough for Stir-Fry. My biggest hindrance to using a Wok is the lack of a proper burner. I imagine there are lots of people in my situation.
Mark Bittman [1] has a very good article about this. I followed it, and have rarely been disappointed [I didn't buy a few things, such as the mandolin]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html?pagewan...

1: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/diningandwine/columns...
What were some key things that got you from 5-10 visits to 50-100 visita /day? Thx for awesome post
> You don't need cookbooks. The internet is better in terms of 'MVK', and the best cookbook is the one you make yourself.

You're talking about recipe collections, not cookbooks, and for those you are probably right.

But a good cookbook doesn't just contain recipes, it contains basic cooking knowledge, it contains general recipes that you can use to make actual meals. And you'll be using those guidelines over and over again when cooking.
Here's another similar article by the same guy, Christophe Tauziet: http://blog.parse.com/2012/11/09/animating-the-cloud-modules...
I can do better: I will pay $10,000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
Proposition HN: I will pay $10,000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

Premise 1:

Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups.

Premise 2:

An MVP built by a lone, but talented techie is almost as likely to turn into something 'successful' as a startup on angellist that has: 4 founders, 9 advisors, 13 press releases, 600 followers, etc

Premise 3:

Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they perceive their opportunity cost to be too high.

Premise 4:

HackerNews has a decent number of talented freelancers with good ideas.

Based on these premises, I present The Proposition [Version 1.0]:

I'll pay you $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you've been kicking around in your head for the last year. Once you're done (ideally within 2 months), you can go back to earning your full potential. At this point, I'll take over and spend an additional $5000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success. We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders.
This is certainly not a "minimum viable kitchen" by any stretch, but it is a reasonable list of equipment necessary to make a certain type of recipe (from-scratch French-inspired New American cooking that involves baked components).

Personally, the single piece of equipment that I would recommend to the home chef* would be a good pressure cooker. Vegetables, stews, beans, and grains cook better and much, much faster, and the stocks you can make in a pressure cooker will blow away stovetop stocks.

*: I would consider a home chef to be someone who wants to spend time cooking. I know many people who don't and I don't grudge them that -- but for me, cooking is a true hobby (as in, something where I negatively value my own time -- the longer it takes, the more satisfaction I derive from it).
I like to add in some noise canceling headphones into the mix to help with the interruptions while trying to execute a pomodoro. A cold hard stare helps too :)
Abundance in supply would drive prices down unless they pulled a Diamond move
Your animated gifs are awesome.
I'd go for a food processor (~$100) over a stand mixer, but I don't make a lot of deserts. For making bread and pizza dough, I got a cheap bread maker for $50, and it was well-spent. The food processor comes in handy quite often; I'd hate to make bread crumbs, sliced or shredded vegetables, fresh salsa and a bunch of other things without one. Also, for those who are (like me) too lazy to keep their steel knives in proper working sharpness at all times, a ceramic knife is pretty handy for preparing veggies.
That's a pat way to dismiss any ranking of countries for health outcomes.

If you want to come up with a way to produce a low rank for the US on some holistic indicator, you will not have a hard time doing it. Are we the "healthiest" country in the world? Certainly not! We don't even have mandatory military service.

The issue here is that we need to be clear on what lessons we're trying to draw from the rankings. People definitely want to use rankings like this in inappropriate ways. If you want to look at this and say "America has an obesity crisis", nobody credible will argue with you --- but you didn't need this ranking to do that anyways.

On the other hand, if you want to say "America has a crisis of unavailable health care", well, you're wrong. The statistics don't bear that out. We have other health services problems, like bankrupting the uninsured, but measured by effectiveness and outcome, we have a top tier system.
I'd highly recommend adding kitchen shears and butcher twine to this list. Both items have a ton of uses and I've found them to be indispensable to have around.
Agree. Patients need better information if we are ever going to be serious health care consumers. Doctors have very little incentive to help us shop for services. Co-payments, lack of reimbursement, etc are all tools used by insurers to reduce cost (combat moral hazard, etc), but very little has been done by patients historically to systematically lower costs.
The thing I'd want to know most is what you expect you and your fellow entrepreneurs' respective contributions to be after the initial development phase and marketing push when there's more work.

You imply that they'll tend to be fire-and-forget type projects (iPhone apps would work well I guess) but even most of them need some significant attention further down the line. Who puts in the extra dev work or marketing efforts (or even further investment) if it's worthwhile/needed further down the line and how are they compensated if that split of work is very uneven?
Seconding the whisk. I have a very minimalist kitchen, and its one of the few things I feel I'm missing.
Obviously I live on the wild side.
Definitely should have put "for gourmet cooking" or something to that effect in the title, as that was the intended purpose. Half the comments here are "you can cook with less than that" with which I agree. You just can't cook a high percentage of the stuff in a cookbook written by a guy with Michelin stars.
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)

I would really prefer not to have to do this. Do you have a suggestion for how I could avoid that wait? I live in the U.S. and those timeframes don't seem particularly high compared to what I'm used to.
Consider'd: http://javascriptisawesome.blogspot.com/2011/07/faster-than-... ?
Title should read "The Minimum Viable Kitchen for heavy consumers"

Go and live in a developing country for a few years, see and taste the phenomenal food, then double check if you need to spend a fraction of $971
I can't recall where I read about it, but I seem to remember that in some cases one country may count infant mortality differently than another. For example, one country may mark a baby's death after birth saying it was born while another may not consider the baby that dies soon after birth as not having been born in the first place. When comparing numbers from country to country one has to make sure they are allowing tallying the numbers the same way.

To further your point about statistics not telling you the whole story. I often see statistics that suggest you are more likely to be shot in the US than another country. This suggests that living in the US is a highly dangerous thing and that we all fear being shot on a daily basis. But if you look at the numbers it's generally not as dangerous as it sounds since you are more likely to shoot yourself than be shot by another person. The reason being is that suicide deaths by firearms are often much higher than homicides. The same for the statement I keep seeing that you having a gun in your house increases the likelihood you'll be shot. It's because you're more likely to shoot yourself with it than be shot by someone else.

Statistics can be presented in different ways to support different agendas. You have to be willing to look at the raw numbers objectively and consider how they are tabulated to get any meaning out of them.

Ty Cobb must have sucked at baseball because over his entire career he failed to get a base hit about 65% of the time at bat.
The precedent of a questionable value proposition by an anonymous member raises the question, are caveat emptor funding offers beneficial to the HN community?

Logical assumptions lead to a plausible candidate - but that's not identity.
Apparently nothing, since they've just added a load of albums I bought to give away as Christmas presents to my Cloud Player account...
It seems to me that you could just feed your goat the parts of the plants that you can't really eat yourself. All the green crap from soybean plants for instance.

If that is worth it probably depends on how much goat milk is worth to you, how much the green crap is worth to you otherwise as compost, and how much goat crap is worth to you as fertilizer.

I don't think it would be worth it, but it wouldn't terribly surprise me if I were wrong.
Mark Bittman wrote a nice column about outfitting a "no-frills kitchen" over at the NYT. I came across it via a review of knives over at the wirecutter. I can recommend both.

NYT article:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html?_r=1...;

The Wirecutter review:
<http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/a-great-chefs-knife/>;