skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to make the night time colors much cooler for me to be able to tolerate it. I felt like the default was far too red.
If you read the thesis statement in the article, it's a minimum kitchen for cooking from books like Keller.
> "Netflix is pretty good. Both my wife and I pay them $8/month"

Ah, I see, it sounded like you both paid $8 a month for netflix.
That would have been good to know before I started clicking. DANG!
Agreed- seeing real-time changes are helpful to respond to drop-offs or spikes.

Also, if you are aware of the general trend of Tuesdays being higher traffic/results than Saturdays (to take his Etsy example) and don't take those to heart around product decisions, then watching real-time numbers to respond to changes as they happen can help you hop on waves with supplemental content or messaging.
It doesn't bother me, but it's not the standard nomenclature in the film industry.
Of course, but I can't find statistics for that per country per capita.

I would be very surprised if countries like New Zealand and Australia do not have more deployed troops per capita than America does.
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Time for Rap Genius to represent Brooklyn.
If you have a nakiri and a sashimi knife, why would you want a chef's knife?
Bitmaker Labs is another option, we've had 60+ applicants from 10 countries apply to our first cohort in Toronto: http://bitmakerlabs.com/
I think he means that people aren't searching for dishes to actually make them, but just to see pictures/reviews of them.
What about terms? Would your ownership be participating preferred? preferred? common? In other words, would all founders be diluted equally?
We opt to use the curl functions for that.
> Don't know who's still using them.

One thing about applets is they are the only way I know of to generate UDP packets from the browser. If it wasn't for that I couldnt think of anything.
I second the advice by Mark Bittman, the "minimalist". A small kitchen does not need a stand mixer (though a food processor is useful to make Indian food, among other things), and certainly not an ice-cream maker.
Nice to know someone is still using Delphi :) I had a lot of fun with it as a kid.
I find chow.com to be more accurate than CI.

Vitamix and Blend-Tec are both on par; I'd take either. (slight preference for vitamix, maybe?) I've never owned either, although I've used a vitamix at a military hospital; it was nice.

Demeyere is unquestionably better than All-Clad. It just has no distribution in the US (at least not until recently). All-Clad outspends everyone in sponsorships and marketing. "All-Clad is like Starbucks" comes up often.

Staub vs. Le Creuset has come up a bunch. Staub is certainly more durable (interior glaze, color change). Le Creuset has more colors outside, and more range. I have both (and Lodge), and agree about Staub > Le Creuset generally. Also, the stoneware crap from Le Creuset = hate. I hate it when premium brands come up with lower end stuff which is hard to distinguish. The worst is probably Kitchen-Aid; they had a bunch of Wal-Mart stand mixers which were visually indistinguishable and sucked.
American kitchens should probably skip the wok even if they're making Chinese food, because woks are designed for a specific kind of cooktop and are outperformed by large sautee pans otherwise.
And holy shit we both forgot fish sauce. You can't call your kitchen viable without fish sauce!
The two samples aren't independent, and you can't really isolate other effects (e.g., maybe people buy more in summer for the product at hand?)

Secondly, demand curves in practise aren't that fluid. Plus you want to capture consumer surplus. And and and...

Spolsky wrote a post on it once, it has a good and accessible introduction to the concepts, it's called 'Camels and rubber duckies'.
Though I don't know you personally, professionally, or otherwise, congratulations, I guess.
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Or to decide which dish they want to make, meaning, the recipe based on Hellman's mayo and a can of mushroom soup is the one that wins.
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Design Jargon BS
This proposition was a great idea being trapped in a limited framework. Great because it was validated very well in the most profitable segment, i.e., HN programmers. Limited because right now, the investor side is monopolistic (no offense). Scaling MVP takes time, and hmexx won't be able to run 20 projects at the same time.

I think this model should be expanded into two-sided market to attract more capital and more diverse background from techie investors. These techie investors may indeed come from Hacker News community themselves, who are more mature startup-wise (more capital and experience). Although the model has not been tested on the investors' side, I can sense a healthy demand from the comments here (especially from haters' camp :))

P/S: hmexx, would you consider this as my proposal for your 8K investment? :)
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empty() is not a good idea. What if $f["x"] is an empty string ""? Or 0, or 0.0, or "0", or any of the other values for which it returns true?
I really, really wish costco didn't give out samples of anything.

Each sample cart becomes the nexus of a swirling shitstorm of carts and kids, all oblivious to the people who are trying to get some shopping done.
So think of conferences where there's a site up for one day.

If one wants users to clickthru to a particular page, but they're all going elsewhere, that's something that's only actionable on the day of the event (as changing it 12 or 24 hours later does one little good).

I see your point about not contradicting the article, but I think there are instances where evaluating the performance of a website in real time (for time-sensitive events) could have a real impact.

I don't think we're disagreeing so much as talking about the same point from different angles.
You might enjoy this link ;)

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
What helped me to learn proofs was applying the logic and axioms they relied on over and over again. When working through problem sets (or doing extra problems for study), don't just stop when you can cite the theorem, but work through why it's applicable to that specific use case.

You can then start working through the general cases, until that's the way that you start viewing the problems in the first place. If you decide to go further in math, this process will really prove out (pun intended), as the basic logic will stick with you, even if you don't remember the name of the theorem you're trying to use.
Warning: this post is an ad for an email list service.

Secondly: how do they get away with charging people for an email list service? Is this for an Apple-like cult of Basecamp users?
Once you get over the 3D header this article is amazing.. the visualisations are incredible.
Yeah, I've done the same thing with Calphalon. My wife and I also went to a Calphalon outlet store to complete our registry, and got some ridiculous deal. I don't remember the details, but I think we ended up saving like $500 because the people at the outlet store were nice and felt like giving us newlyweds the employee price.

Anyway, I guess my point is: don't pay full price for cookware, you can probably get it for less somehow.
> YES. Recipes are a long-tail topic.

There are many (non-tech) long-tail topics that I've successfully searched for using Google, so I don't think this is a generalizable statement.

> The sites with the most recipes tend to either be overtly user-generated or slyly repackaged UGC.

I can't speak as to the average user, but I am usually able to easily ignore/sift through such sites. They pop up frequently in all kinds of searches these days, and is one of the clearest signs of Google's results going downhill.

That said, I have no personal experience looking for recipes online, as my cooking knowledge was largely learned from my mom, and I've had no reason to turn to any other sources so far.

> Another counterexample to your belief about the miracle of PageRank: try searching for symptoms some time.

When did I suggest that I believe that PageRank is miraculous? It has its pitfalls, just like any other algorithm.

And I've actually searched for symptoms several times and successfully self-diagnosed (confirmed later during a doctor's visit). So this example of yours doesn't hold up. My success there may have been swayed by my professional biomedical knowledge though.
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True, and this is my biggest problem with writing optimized code in C -- it takes a lot of guessing and inspecting the generated assembler and understanding your particular platform to make sure you're ACTUALLY utilizing registers and cache like you intend.

If there were some way of expressing this intent through the language and have the compiler enforce it, that'd be fantastic :)

That said, there's really not a better solution to the problem than C, just pointing out that even C is often far less than ideal in this arena.
> C is the language that doesn't force any preconceived notions about how the world should work onto you

Some preconceived notions forced upon you by C, off the top of my head:

- problems should be solved by describing a linear sequence of steps (as opposed to logic/declarative programming)

- a variable can have different values at different times in the execution of a program (in contrast to standard mathematical conventions)

- a function can return different results when called multiple times with the same arguments (again, in contrast to the standard mathematical meaning of the term)

- there is random access storage of information (with constant time access and update)
You might not be able to make a perfect quantum copy, but with iterative refinement you can get arbitrarily close. I think 99.9999999% or so would be good enough.
True, but that's something that occurs at such scale that it'd be unfeasible to try and implement internally.
Yes, it's a web app, but not subscription based. Essentially: create account, create toolkit, pay, download.

No drag and drop, WYSIWYG stuff like the others you linked. Purely focused on customizing a design style.

Hope that answers your question.
What's your metric for "decent" produce ? I prefer to get produce from 99 Ranch because it's better and cheaper than what's available at Safeway.
The use of the word "support" in the title is critical.

I've witnessed second hand the anti-pattern where a company has lots of remote workers, and fails to support them. You quickly get a 2-tier system where only the workers who are in the office actually know what is going on. This can seem to work for a while, but there is no shortage of problems.

One of my current contracts is different. One of the founders has been remote since the beginning, so they pay close attention to this type of issue. They have a number of remote workers (including me, very much part time) and it seems to be working out quite well for them - because they have the necessary support infrastructure in place.
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Thanks, Matt. :)
I think this is great.

One risk to hmexx, but may actually be a good thing, is that they get the 2nd or 3rd best idea from their dev partner. Then, if there is a healthy exit, the dev partner can fund their no.1 good idea. However, after a successful exit with hmexx, they may be in pole position to participate in the next deal with their dev partner while seriously reducing the biz partner's work load. This would be great for deal flow.
I had a cold a few weeks back, and a coworker found me a search term that prominently featured cerebrospinal fluid leakage as a possible cause for runny nose. Just to establish how far apart you and I are on the usability of the Internet for this.
I like it, can you add random browsing within a category (e.g. I want to browse random humor books)
Serious security flaw in the Faye pub/sub server, patches released
> OO buzzwords and programming fads that come and go in "higher-level languages" simply end up making a bigger mess of things as a project grows

No, it's not the language features which make a mess. It's people lacking judgement and common sense. (Like, trying to apply patterns everywhere. Been domain-specific [crypto] consultant on such a project and watched it smash the schedule by more than 2x. It wasn't the language [Java], it were stupid people.)

> sounds like he's written multiple lines of C to me

I don't contend that he's written a lot of C. I DO, however, contend that he's written some ANSI C. If you're writing ANSI C, you have to account for AT LEAST all of the following behaviors:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...

For example, if f is some function, then in the sequence

int x = 0;
f(x++, x++);

the call to f is undefined behavior because x is modified twice without an intervening sequence point. Anybody claiming that such language is "high-level" is a moron, regardless of their "accomplishments".
I don't need your money to work on my own idea. I'm enough by myself to do all the required work.
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"To my mind, Cuil could've stayed afloat, but no one wanted it to. It was easier to sweep that giant pile of FUBAR under the rug, but, in retrospect, they would've still likely been a large company, albeit not Google size, but large nonetheless."

Care to elaborate why (you believe they'd become a large company)?
maybe I just fell for the usnews rankings

as a first generation college student, it's hard to say 'no'.

perhaps my circumstances are too unique.
It requires skilled security researchers to unearth this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bang type="yaml">--- !ruby/object:Time {}
</bang>
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Wow do I ever disagree on undercooking. American cooks have exactly the opposite problem, and the literature suggests our guidelines are way out of whack too.
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rusting people's jimmies... gonna have to get a Watson ruling on that one.
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It must be a NY only thing.
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What a bummer. When I discovered that the best way to get an A in my math theory classes was to memorize proofs, I pretty much guaranteed that I wasn't going to get good at math.

Before I discovered this, I did the homework and learned from it, and I tried to figure out proofs in the moment during exams. One of my proudest moments was on an advanced linear algebra test, where I proved a theorem in a way that was not anticipated by the professor. He wrote a nice note next to my proof. But I missed more than I got, and I received a B+ in the class.

Later, I figured out that most professors rarely present completely new theorems on undergraduate exams, so I copied everything down and especially attended the pre-exam review sessions. I learned everything by heart. If you asked me how to prove anything that the prof had reviewed, I could bounce it to you immediately. I think my abstract algebra teacher had been doing some of it on the spot, because when I regurgitated one of his proofs back to him on an exam, he wrote a nice note next to it as well. It didn't feel nearly as great it had when it was really my own creativity, I remember thinking, "don't you realize you did this in class?"

Now, of course you can't learn it by rote. It's impossible to learn something as complicated as a proof, even a short one, without understanding it. So my advice about learning the proofs by heart is to make sure you completely understand them. I found that I still did get stuck, and I came up with little memory tricks - not mathematical things, the kind of tricks you'd use to remember people's names.

There was a rare breed of student who didn't memorize the proofs, and only sometimes came to class. They'd get the questions right on the exams anyway. The professors loved them.

I doubt I'm smart enough, but I do feel that I might have eliminated my chance of become one of these students by making sure I was an A student who memorized proofs rather than a B student, for a while, who understood the underpinnings and used logic and deduction (gasp! mathematical reasoning).

The best solution, I'd say, is to go ahead and memorize those proofs, since grades do matter an you aren't getting into a top grad school with mainly B's (and if you're doing this for engineering or something, I guess to some extent it's just something to get through). But if you care about math theory and want to be good at it, make sure you spend a lot of time working independently on problems that don't have an answer you can memorize.
I love Instacart and use the product with our startup probably 2-3times a week. Going to the grocery store takes at least an hour when you consider driving and standing in line. Instacart is like 7-11 - you never plan to a trip to 7-11 and always pay a premium, but it's everywhere and convenient. It's great that if I crave Ben&Jerry's ice cream, I can buy it and have it delivered in under 3 hours.
With the added Trader Joe's delivery service, our Instacart usage will probably bump to 4 times a week.
They've done this before a few times here in the UK.
I know, Ricardo. It's a real good money. My question was where to find highing pay jobs like this in brazil, if you are not a senior developer.
javascript-dependent. the whole point of anigifs is pretty much opposed to that.
Exactly which major software vendor are you thinking of that has ever done something like that?
Kurzweil is certainly a very smart guy, and he's done a lot of important things. I think people are uncomfortable with how specific he is when making predictions. He also makes predictions in many fields in which he isn't an expert, but a well-informed observer.

I'm not informed enough to comment on his actual predictions, but I've heard him defend himself. His response to criticism that I've heard is, "my critics are uninformed about fact X," but he doesn't make an attempt to justify X. That approach strikes me as disrespectful and intellectually dishonest, as it's a tactic used by many hucksters and snake oil salesmen. I have a limited understanding of his positions, but the way he presents himself makes me uneasy.
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> I can't make mayo with a fork

Yes you can. You just need to run the fork wide in the bowl (with firmness) and pour the oil VERY SLOW. It helps if someone else pours the oil so that you have one hand left to hold the bowl still.
Yes, design (not engineering design but "artsy" design where human perception is a big factor) is fluffy.

But that doesn't imply it's bullshit.
I live in London and I have my location set to Recife, Brazil. That way I get 'sunset' around 9pm in the winter - late enough to let me continue working on a bright screen, but early enough to not blast blue light before going to bed.

The point for me is not so much matching the environment but not staring at a blue screen right before bed.
business is not a zero sum game. Companies in the same space can work together or play off of each other. Also, taking business from a competitor doesn't necessarily harm anyone. Maybe it harms the businesses bottom line but so what? If you're direct competitors and you massively kill their income then a) you have improved life for customers (given them a product they desire more) b) you probably have job openings and can cherry pick the best of your competitors workers c) in many cases it can be argued that the people at your competitor weren't doing their job very well, or they would not have been in such a poor position, so maybe it improves the workers lives to move on to something they can do, and enjoy better... it's rarely enjoyable to be at a floundering company. Remember, nobody is living a life built on a complete set of rules. EVERY path we intentionally attempt to follow is, or is based on, an oversimplified idea. If your statement is true then since most rules, laws, and guidelines are oversimplifications of what's actually needed / desired, they're "stupid"... so, what would you suggest? Throw out most of the laws? Throw out most of society's rules? They are oversimplifications, and thus are "stupid"..... or wait... maybe your claim that most oversimplifications are stupid, was in fact, an oversimplification, and thus...
I love LYAH, I think for learning Haskell, LYAH is the best intro, better than Real World Haskell. And at first I thought LYSE would be a sort of 1:1 mapping of LYAH, but no, LYSE treats it subject matter to a much wider breadth. There are like 20 extra chapters! And the "Don't drink too much Kool Aid" sections are a nice feature, not a lot of books call out the hype about something and give you the real low-down. Quite refreshing to get a realistic, pragmatic view instead.

Thanks to the author for making it available for free online. Im going to go purchase my copy now.
I think I'll let them just deal with their hurt feelings i.e the consequences of "microaggressions". Its character building.

Except that it's not character building. It's not helpful and it's not good for people. It's harmful and doesn't help people. The original article refers to it taking a lot of courage and work to consistently out themselves. What makes you think consistently putting those barriers up where people need to come out is helpful? Punching someone's arm every hour will not make them stronger, and consistently presuming gay people don't exist won't help gay people.

Do you still want to do it, even if it turns out you're actually hurting people?
I think the OP might have meant that more in the sense of a social network / public internet site.
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tl;dr: dwolla has fewer fees than Square or PayPal
It's hard to measure ambient light correctly for something like this, because in a dark room, most of the ambient light is actually coming from the screen itself.
In fact Eclipse features a special compiler that builds your code immediately and also allows IDE to highlight your errors better than any static analysis would. So actually it kind of does. Assuming compiler IS the language.
C is the language that doesn't force any preconceived notions about how the world should work onto you.

... except for a type system based on the memory model of a machine which strongly resembles the PDP-11, a compilation strategy built for machines with less RAM than my car fob, and optimization possibilities limited by aliasing, plus everything kscaldef mentioned.
Wow, you +1 for teaching me something new. I've been using stupid vegetable oil on a cloth all these years to season my cast iron, and it's the biggest pain in the ass. I never even thought to use shortening.
Why is there not a single link to Dwolla?
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I'm just saying that if we're choosing a lossless audio codec I'd like one supported by Apple. I'll sacrifice storage capacity for being able to listen with iTunes/iPhones. That said... I always choose mp3's for everything that's not a "master copy".
Actually it is $8000 for 50% difference because it isn't just the initial $5000, you also would have to pay $3000 for marketing.

And if the OP knows more about how to market than you do, you'd actually need to spend more than that to market your idea as well as the OP will.
Eh. Every field has its jargon. Techies who mock business lingo live in exceedingly fragile glass houses.
Today I am reminded of reason number #37 to telecommute: influenza.
Great article, but an "MVK" is really one iron wok, a heat source, and a knife. Everything else is useful but not "minimal".