skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://minecraft.net/stats
TED2013 to host Peter Thiel and Elon Musk as speakers
You don't mention where you work, but I'm guessing it's not an "enterprisey" or "corporatey" kind of place. Count your blessings :)
You might consider that "building the product" is not really "most of the work" here. There are three things:

- Product

- A Market for said product (solving a problem for a customer who has money)

- Getting your Product to that Market and convincing customers you solved their problem

In reality, you are probably doing about 33% of the hard stuff (and the other 66% is hard too, making sure you have the correct MVP and promoting it)

Until you've put a product out there, you don't really know how hard the other two are and how critical they are to the success of your venture. hmexx is offering to do that part for what I consider a reasonable cost to test the waters.

YMMV, of course, and you're free to take on 100% of it all, but reducing risk is how you get a product launched. I personally like hmexx's approach here.
One caveat that people rarely discuss about Victorinox Fibrox knives is that the don't hold an edge very long. They're a great starter knife and a great long-term knife if you don't mind sharpening it fairly frequently.

For example, at the rate I cook, I had to buy three separate fibrox chef's knives to go a solid month without needing to resharpen. And then I'd need to resharpen all three. I decided to upgrade to a slightly more pricey knife that was made of a harder metal. I can now go between 6 and 9 months between sharpening that knife.

So if you do go for the victorinox knives, they will arrive super sharp. But be prepared to resharpen them frequently depending on how much you use them.
I don't know about BitBucket's particular flavor of Markdown, but for a full-featured Markdown, see [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/). It supports the elements you're probably missing, ex. definition lists, tables, LaTeX math, footnotes. To add a line-break, it supports using a backslash instead of trailing spaces.

Also, Pandoc gets deeply-nested lists right.
no argument from me on how useful it is.
It should be noted that the event used in that, DOMNodeInserted, is deprecated: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-DOMNodeI...
3 seconds includes closing AND starting the IPython shell. Typing "exit" or ctrl + d + return adds a little time and is generally annoying.

The builtin Python shell is admittedly faster to start/stop but IPython's features rock.
To make this even more robust, steal a clever mechanism from Smalltalk -- the Change Log. Basically, all code changes and basically all of the manual manipulation of state was kept in a transactional log, so you could be as daring as you'd like with exploratory programming without the fear of losing any code. (Mandatory for Smalltalk, because all coding was interactive runtime exploratory programming.)

For iPython, you'd want to implement one change log per source file, so for a source.py file, there'd be a source.py.log file in the same directory. Runtime changes would first write a patch to the source.py.log file at parse/compile time. Then if you ever crash iPython after doing an hour of exploratory coding, iPython could reload your changes after the source.py file. (Actually, you'd want a little ui to come up, giving you the option of leaving off the last few changes, so you can omit something that causes a crash.)
I don't think he's going to turn many people to his side with broad generalizations, then a ton of purchases and equipment. Maybe just come up with a purpose - cook a date a meal, or cook a family a holiday spread - then a simple plan and maybe one piece of oddball advanced equipment. Enough purpose+tutorial articles -> he might manage to justify that kitchen army.

Even then adherents will spend a lot more time cooking and on food than those of us who can just buy a grocery bag of bread and milk and fruit every day or two and live without cooking, or who have other cut down hacks.
For those who didn't know (like me), from the python man-page:

-i When a script is passed as first argument or the -c option is
used, enter interactive mode after executing the script or the
command. It does not read the $PYTHONSTARTUP file. This can be
useful to inspect global variables or a stack trace when a
script raises an exception.

http://man.cx/python
I agree. The net is quite useful for some very specific things. For instance I once wanted to know how to make a pumpkin pie with heavy cream rather than condensed milk and found a thread on chowhound about how to substitute. Or how much sugar/gelatin/alcohol you need to use to get your sorbet to the right consistency.

But as far as going to AllRecipes and following instructions, you can do it, and you'll end up with something edible, but you're not learning to cook properly doing so.
I said "immediate-fire", not "fire". Take time to consider all the facts before reacting; reacting quickly is usually a sign of a bad manager.
> if(function_exists(custom_func) { $x = @custom_func(); }

http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func.php

Why would you prepend @ to your function call?

> if((!isset($x)) || (empty($x))) { echo('Custom Error'); } else { //Do the work }

You're duplicating your efforts. empty() takes into account if a variable or key has been initialized, and also if it has a non-false value. isset() only checks if the variable/key has been intialized and nothing else.
Actually, this is why yield is such an excellent word. If you yield X from a generator, that does two things:

1. Produce the value X from the generator.

2. Yield execution to the calling context.

i.e. exactly the two meanings of yield.
Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity
Obviously this is a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694

If anyone from the investing side thinks that offer is a good deal, try the reverse of that:

You'll pay me $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you've been kicking around in your head for the last year. Once I'm done, I'm on to the next project. At this point, you'll take over and spend an additional $3000 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.

I would not take the offer from the original submission, but I'm pretty serious about this one. The thing is, I have 15+ years of experience and given how efficient I am by now, I can make a good living just building people's MVP's, but 50% in every resulting company could make this so much better.

You can email your ideas to hn-offer@maluke.com

Edit: I will also consider offers with bigger initial payments but different equity splits.
Yes modern java servers do this (if configured to do so of course).
Take Responsive Design Beyond Media Queries
Ikea sells surprisingly good butcher blocks for $25: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40082918/

I assume they use odds and ends from their furniture manufacturing.
I love that Bittman article! I think it's much closer to the idea of a 'minimum viable kitchen' for someone whose just starting cooking than this article. And it has the much more approachable cost of "under $300," as opposed to the OP's "under $1000."
I have no choice but to respond to the down-votes. I promised myself I wouldn't at -1 but at -3 I have no choice. This is not a complaint of any sort but I would like to say the following:

We have been active HN readers/contributors for over 3 years. The "richkidsoftwtr" HN handle is one we created simply for this service and not for our personal use.

Having said that, one thing this community appreciates is a good story about a hard working group of guys using innovative ways to solve not only the problems that their customers face but also their internal problems (i.e. how are we going to survive until the next payment is received, etc...).

If you were to honestly take time to read the "about" link (https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about) you would see that we're an honest group of guys trying to do something unique to solve our own cash shortage. We're not just being opportunistic douches but rather capitalizing on this opportunity given the Exec team referred to "Making It Rain" in their post.

After all, having been in this rat-race for a few years, we appreciate just as much as the next person the amount of daily grunt work required to make it. This is just part of our effort. Kudos to all the other rats who appreciate our effort.
I have no idea where they are getting an additional meaning for "moot". Perhaps they mean the admin of 4chan is worthy of discussion?
Regarding pots and pans, I'm curious how these things hold up over time. Is a high-quality 15 year old pan (appearances aside) function as well as it did when it was new?

The reason I ask is because I see what I assume to be quality SS cookware at restaurant auctions all the time and they usually go for a fraction of what they're worth new. When I wanted to get a huge kettle (compared to my 20 quart canning pot) for brewing, I was able to get a 10-gallon SS pot for $30 at one an auction. For boiling water, it works perfectly. I'm just not sure about more delicate applications of heat and food.
I recommend reading Bill Bryson's book Mother Tongue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_Tongue

One thing he notes was that originally there was no spelling consistency because there was no need due to limited written communication. Then as reading and writing became more widespread there became a need for consistency. This took something like 40 years to complete. Unfortunately half way through that period newspapers and dictionaries came out which resulted in some words being consistent and some not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F...
Goal-Oriented Investment App Betterment, Now With $100M Under Management
Well, it is here for movies. A lot of them come with a digital copy.
Totally Agree with you. I would think that a big reason as to why the U.S has the rankings it has is the heterogeneity of the US population.
Software Wars - A movie about how free software will save the world.
You're arguing that we need Skynet in order to prevent the robots from getting out of hand?
But... you could have done it with a linked list!
So, there are problems that are so complex that they can only be dealt with in Haskell?

That would explain why there are so few Haskell programs that anyone actually uses.
suicides, greatest country ever...
They have said that Match is for getting high quality versions of songs that you ripped from CDs, so no reason to feel bad here.
A campfire and a sharp stick.
Ah, OK, fair enough.

FWIW you might also like checking out https://github.com/ludios/Pyquitter. I use it occasionally when I want something like this, you could rig it to start iPython's main().

It also doesn't use inotify but that'd be fairly trivial to add.
I halfway solution I'm reasonably happy with is to have a VirtualBox install of Debian on top of OSX, and install most scientific libraries there. I've considered just wiping and installing Debian as the main OS, but when I first looked the Linux driver support for my MBP wasn't great, and since then I just haven't gotten around to it. VirtualBox works fine for anything that isn't too heavy duty, and anything heavy-duty I'm running on a beefier server machine anyway.
The spirit level claims that a variety of factors, one of which is inequality, are all correlated. It provides very little empirical evidence that inequality is the cause (apart from being on the x-axis).
I've heard that English speakers are far more tolerant of sentences that don't follow the rules and can still understand what is said (eg "the mat cat sat upon"). A French friend said that it can be difficult to understand if the speaker merely gets the gender wrong.
If you have the means to cook outdoors:
http://www.amazon.com/King-Kooker-24WC-Heavy-Duty-Portable/d...
Love it. Couldn't live without it now that I'm used to it. Wish iOS allowed direct control of screen settings also.
I agree with most of the article. I do think he missed a few items through.

#1 is a cast iron skillet as others have mentioned. It's the third most used pan in my kitchen.

#2 and #2 most used is an omelet pan. Use it not just for omelets but for any kind of eggs. Also rocks at grilled cheese. Here you do want to go non-stick.

#3 is a set of measuring cups and measuring spoons. My advise is skip the plastic and get stainless. Plastic ones seems to break after a few years, especially if you run them through the dishwasher. You will also want a separate set of measuring cups for liquids if you get serious about cooking. OXO makes a nice set of three clear liquid measuring cups with graduations that you can read from above. Indispensable IMHO.
If you've ever spent some time reading some of the really good cookbooks you'll realize just how valuable they can be. While a 'minimum viable kitchen' may be a misleading title, the author is focusing an audience interested in more gourmet, high quality cooking. The difference between the recipes found in a cookbook by say Thomas Keller or David Chang and those found at recipes.com or even foodnetwork.com are significant for the 'foodie' cooks.

I also think a standing mixer is a luxury, but I've upvoted everyone who's said you cannot ditch the whisk. Whisks are important. Enough said.

Many comments on this thread have been about knives. I've owned quite a few knives over the span of years of professional cooking. A really good chef knife will really only be appreciated by those who cook either professionally or really seriously as a hobby. A soccer mom who chops onions once or twice a week to cook dinner very likely won't know/feel the difference between a 50$ Whustoff or Henckel vs a $250 Shun.

The other important thing to know about knives is if you do decide to spring for a good quality blade, maintaining it is really important. Sharpening with a whetstone with the appropriate grit and honing the blade before each use will keep your sharp edge for much longer.

All in all the article is good. All-clad is hands down the best quality and most durable cookwear out there. Although I don't think using a dutch oven to make sauces is a great idea.
Actually, my cast iron pan has a donut shaped hot spot, with a cold spot in the middle.

My 12" allclad fry on the other hand, not so donut shaped.
:) that's what the post is about:

* my site is well designed, easy to read

* responsive design ensures repeat visits from people (ie. people don't just say "well, fuck, can't see it on my phone")

* publishing schedule that ensured I had fresh content every week

* putting strong opinions into my articles. People like reading strong opinions

* listening to readers and adjusting design/content according to concerns

* analytics which allowed me to measure which topics are more successful and popular than others

* strong branding and community involvement that makes my name recognizable on several well-trafficked forums.

But let me simplify that a bit:

* write GOOD content. Something new, something fresh, something that answers questions that people have. Put yourself into it, make it passionate.

* share your content wherever you're active. Whether it's forrst, linkedin, or reddit, be active, be recognizable, have a history of commenting on other people's stuff, and post at good intervals. I get most of my traffic from there

* analytics: analyze your strong points and weak points. Figure out what's getting ranked on google from all the awesome stuff you write. Make that topic stronger, support it with a few more articles.

:) That's basically it! My articles were popular, they got shared, they got linked, raised my PR, gave me traffic, and show up on the front page for several great keywords!
Is that 4 accounts that have been hell banned now, Jed? You can call me "troll" all you want and bang away at that downvote arrow.
1. Find someone on (Elance|Odesk|etc.) to do it for less than half of $5,000
2. Get the difference
3. Profit
You should learn not to rely on that link for your understanding of the world. It is crap.
This hasn't been my experience so far working as a software engineer in the valley. I've worked with/know several gay engineers and startup folks. To be fair, I don't know whether the proportion is representative of the wider population or not.
Out of curiosity, why would one skip a whisk? They're cheap. They take up very little room. I use one so much I bought a second.
Please add whole foods or berkeley bowl or some other place with decent produce (nob hill in MV is ok) -- Safeway is great for national packaged food, Trader Joe's for private label frozen stuff, but both are weak for produce, meat, fish, deli, etc.

A drug store might also be good, although Safeway probably has enough of a selection for OTC medication, cleaning/etc. supplies, etc.
I think the post is great, but he made an assumption that wasn't stated and might cause all of us to disagree.

He picked a cuisine without saying which one.

A MVK will have different sets of equipment depending on the cuisine you choose. A Chinese kitchen will have a wok and a rice cooker, while a French kitchen will have things that you need to make bread.

The most important thing is to choose a cuisine and stick to it! There is a lot of learn from one cuisine before you move to another.

In my experience (being Chinese and born in North America), my kitchen holds a lot of stuff that i like (black bean sauce and grainy mustard) that just don't work together, but i wouldn't want to live without. (Also wok spatula and tongs if you are looking for an equipment example)
It does not help at all that we have overseas military commitments at a scale no other industrial country would match. The suicide rate for veterans is wildly higher than for civilians.
>i'm not sure if there's a language where there are _no_ words with 2+ different/opposite meanings?

They exist, but AFAIK they are all constructed languages. lojban is one example of a language where every word has exactly one meaning (as well as having audio-visual isomorphism, completely regular grammar, etc.)
Echoing Kristjan and Jeremy's sentiments here.

It's a very fine line to walk in finding the intersection of public good through individual empowerment and corporate sustainability through partnerships with CSRs and non-profits. And then there's the challenge of doing this in a way that doesn't breach user trust and privacy in data.

No one doubts our heart's been in the right place but what's exciting now is proving out that our business acumen's in the right place too.
I don't at all understand why people are berating this proposition.

This proposition makes a helluva lot of sense.

I have done the hustling/marketing side of a startup. I got my failed (sigh) startup lots of good press and lots of users.

I would venture to say that I probably put in more work than any developer on my team at that point.

Now, I am a hacker but I 100% fully understand the value he is putting down. He will be just as invested in your MVP as you will be. His sole job is something you never have to worry about. Maybe he doesnt hold his end up of the bargain, which may happen. If that does happen, well make sure there is a clause in whatever agreement you sign.
I have to say this is genius and I agree with the premise 2 totally.
The Canadian government is in the same boat. In fact, they are offering an open source framework that is modern, responsive and complies with WCAG requirements: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew
PG making it rain? Tell me when he calls a square dance as good as Guy Steele:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZzLgcHfcM
As a Canadian I'll chime in and say that I waited 6 months for knee surgery. In a way it sucked, but on the other hand it made sense. I waited 6 months because all I had was a meniscus tear, so I could still do many forms of exercise, drive, walk, run, and work. My chief limitation was my inability to do Judo and soccer.

So I waited for 6 months behind a number of people including those who had similar non-critical injuries but were diagnosed earlier and those who had severe knee injuries requiring reconstruction or replacement. Rationing was done on a need basis rather than my ability to pay. Some people may talk about how terrible this is, and to be honest I probably could have afforded the surgery in a "private" system. Then again, when I was much younger and needed my first knee surgery I would have been hosed in a private system. And no, I wouldn't have been covered under my parent's policy in a private system.

Furthermore, when I have required urgent care, I have received it immediately. The longest I have waited is a few hours in the emergency room. Close friends who have dealt with much more serious life-threatening diseases have started receiving treatment/surgery within a few days or even the same day.

So yes, I experienced the terrible gulag that are Canadian medical wait lists and it really wasn't that bad. The wait lists are based on triaging, rather than wealth, and having wait times based on medical decisions made by professionals rather than economic incentives seems a much more humane system to me. I understand that some will call this "unfair" but that just means our definition of fair is different.
Does anyone know what database they use? Or just files and folders?
I mostly agree. I just recommended the pots and pans set because they're cheap that way, and you really will use everything you find in a 10 piece set (which, btw, usually counts at least 3 lids as pieces). Knives on the other hand... I got a set as a gift long ago and have at least 5 I've not touched.
Interesting; I never thought of that analogy to Python. I've just had it drilled into my head from everything I've ever read about C++ that "using namespace std" is terrible, and I shouldn't use it.

Great advice. Thanks!
Votizen monetized early on by selling its services to campaigns to discover new voters and drive them to the polls through peer-to-peer contact: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/votizen-launches-virtual-pr...
Seconded, I have that Lansky set and it's the best sharpening system I've used, and very fast and accurate, whether you're grinding a blade to a new angle or touching up an existing edge.
Agree wholeheartedly on the Victorinox Fibrox not holding their edge, though I don't have any experience with their chef's knives, just the santoku.
I'm intrigued by Instacart. Part of me realizes that Webvan had it right all those years ago, and another part of me thinks this model can't scale.

The best ideas are the ones that teeter on the the edge of improbability. Watching the success (or failure) of this company is like watching NASCAR. Keep making those left turns until something blows up or you win the Cup.

Win or Lose, I'm glad someone is trying this idea. The Instacart folks just might have enough hustle to pull this off.

Wishing you folks lots of luck!
The Good:

The way the Rails team responded so quickly in patching this.

The Bad:

The patches for this and other recent security issues had little time for testing and hence broke things. The old failed idea of trying to prevent full disclosure, which ultimately harms the community whilst doing nothing to really prevent the bad guys arming themselves with working exploit code, and all the resulting kerfuffle we saw.

The Ugly:

The Rails codebase. Seriously. As you read this, interested people are now pouring over it, looking for new vectors of attack, and we are awaiting the next series of having to scramble and fix the bad things that the magic in Rails enabled.