skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another nice big list of these at Wordnik: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/contronympho
The analogy to the book publishing industry has some merit, but it only gets you so far.

If this were a book deal, the author would be assigning copyright to a company in exchange for an advance and a non-controlling share in that company. And that company's business plan is premised upon the dilution of the author's equity.

Once there's dilution, the author remains with the company at the pleasure of a guy he met on the internet and some other investors. They may be swell people, they not. Likewise with the the author.

Yes, the value is probably zero. But in this scenario, the possibility of an upside is not just dependent upon the product's success but also upon their being some lucky alignment between his financial interests and those of the other shareholders - and they are likely to have multiple intermingled financial arrangements.
As an instacart user, I can say this is a welcome addition to a much valued service.
Check out this guest post by Scott Young. He was able to complete an entire MIT computer science curriculum in less than a year. http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algeb...
http://rubyweekly.com/
http://rubyrogues.com/
Just a usability thing about that site. There's so much stuff at the top that when I clicked on the 'lastest news' thumbnails I thought there was some JS preventing the page from loading. Turns out that the actual content was below the fold of my (large) browser window. But it took a while to notice.
The government should fund startups, via money printing. Instead of say pay people to stay unemployed.
As a frequent Trader Joe's customer, it seems like supporting them for something like this would be a bit of a nightmare because the items they carry are constantly changing based on regional supply and demand.
Bittman's got a bit of a shaky reputation. Good writer. Not super authoritative, though. If you're going to do the "one cookbook only" thing, I strongly recommend the Cooks Illustrated books. One nice thing about them: they publish new ones every year, so you can get one a few years old for very cheap.

If you want to be "interesting" about this: get Ruhlman's Twenty (which is 20 core techniques with sample recipes) and Ratio, and then use the Internet for everything else. If you read Twenty, you'll probably be able to spot bullshit on the Internet.
Facebook, because it's still not using all of its potential.
So hard to "order" fruit and veggies, though. You say you want flat leaf parsley, but you get delivered a sad bunch of limp & yellowing leaves. If I was in the store, I'd get curly parsley if it looked better.
I switched from monthly Costco visits to soap.com and won't go back. Now Instacart looks like it will save me some of those Safeway and Trader Joe trips, too. More weekend free time!
I like it but I think the order should be reversed,
before building the MVP, I would have built a landing page for each idea (after filtering the good ones), spend some money on marketing first and see if it gets beta sign ups traction (developer commits that if it does, they'll build it), only then pay for building it (I would also offer to sign an NDA with the developer protecting their idea if the deal doesn't execute, and also give them a shared user account to the analytics of the landing page for being 100% transparent)

This way you risk only $3000 (or less) instead of $8000, and the developer will be much more motivated to build it knowing it's already an idea with a real potential market.
Will never have to attend CES again!
Sweet, I am totally going to buy elysee gherkins the next time I see them.

My secret luxurious dessert ingredient is speculoos. I saw it on Chopped so now I have to pick it up every time I'm at Trader Joe's.
Two Bits — The cultural significance of Free Software (E-Book)
I just did. I agree with you.
It's right next to Cuil's infrastructure.
How to price something
Apparently so: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roflstomp
This would require some discipline in a shop using this. For one thing, one would want to have a convention where write() is not used or perhaps is disabled until the operation is safe. Also, this may be a form of optimization which is applied based on profiling. An app would benefit most from this on the pages most frequently viewed the earliest. ROI would increase for mature code which is changing less frequently.
Oh, agreed. I use the tramontina one primarily for boiling pasta. I have a cast iron dutch oven for things that actually require a dutch oven.
It drives me nuts that someone I hate created a book that I would very much like to read. I wish there were a way to buy this without supporting the king of patent trolls.
I don't see how this is a 'side effect'. It accomplishes the exact task it is designed to and doesn't do any quirky, or 'side', behavior to the script.

Also, I wouldn't be worried about one lookup. I'm pretty sure everything in PHP is in a hash map.
I run two eCommerce sites with one-off payments for products.

I run three content sites that run ads for revenue.

I run one web application where you deposit money into a pool and service usage deducts from that pool.

I run one web application which is free with optional paid subscription upgrades.

I run one web application which requires a paid subscription.

I never decided to add on a revenue stream, I decided to build products, and chose the business model that made sense for the product and customers that would be using it.

You should be able to figure out what the sites are by poking around my profile. Feel free to ping me if you had some specific question.
Cherished memories: word.com from the late '90s
I'm looking forward to the day when I can have a physical library at home and the exact same digital library on my Kindle wherever I go. I too think the bundle is a major step in the right direction
Founders Club?
I've bought tons of CDs from Amazon, at least a hundred. Exactly two show up in the cloud player. Oh well.
The thing about cast iron pans is they're dirt cheap, so it's hard to overrate them.

I guess I agree with you: if you have a high-quality stainless skillet, you don't need the cast-iron pan. Things we do in cast-iron that we don't do in the All Clad pan: make cornbread, sear steaks, grill vegetables outdoors.
The C 'virtual machine' and its effectiveness is mostly at polarizing otherwise rational individuals.

The use of the term 'virtual machine' for C is appropriate in the case of an individual wanting to purposefully show that he has a 'better' handle on the semantics, and that a mere mortal surely would not understand his glorious knowledgs.
Phil Schiller: “cheap” iPhones aren’t “the future” of Apple’s business
An empty wine bottle filled partly with water can substitute for a rolling pin (minus the "whacking things" use case you outlined) for people who really don't do much baking.

We have a Vic Firth one that gets used about a half dozen times a day (my girlfriend has been on a year-long hardcore baking addiction...which while almost as costly as a meth addiction at least has the nice side-effect of keeping us in an embarrassment of breads, cookies, and pies).
Yes, but where's the pork in that?
For me it's the smug "See, I told you cell phones would be important in the future" gloating over obvious predictions, and the "well I said we would all be using driverless cars but since there is one, that still validates my entire prediction" hedging.

Also his whole "I'm going to eat magic vitamins that will keep me alive forever" thing.
Conferences: Publication, Communication, Sanction [Must Be Separated]
Ask HN: What is the popularity of Rails outside of Silicon Valley? 
Rails has a very high level of popularity on HN as well as in Silicon Valley. I haven't looked at job openings in every major city but it seems like a large majority of Rails jobs are found in Silicon Valley. Clearly, there are Rails jobs all over the US but is the assumption that the majority are found in Silicon Valley correct?

How do other languages compare in the rest of the US? For example, I can almost certainly guarantee that I will never live in San Francisco or even California so would taking the time to learn Rails over another language be beneficial if my end goal is to just have a developer job? I am currently a front end dev but I would love to gain a solid understanding of a backend language as well. I am located in Texas and looking at job openings in Dallas, Houston etc. etc. it seems like they are geared more towards .Net or PHP. Even looking at other cities with a population under or just above 1mil it looks like they have more job openings for languages other than Ruby.

Any thoughts and or comments?
Good point. You can leave notes for the shopper for each individual item on Instacart so the shopper knows what to buy.
First, thanks for creating f.lux.

A feature request: some way for me to get rid of the f.lux menu-bar icon without quitting f.lux.

(I am willing to switch to an app or a preference pane to interact with f.lux.)
U.S. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder
There were lots of comments on this thread when he joined Google:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923914
Is there any science on this? I've had a similar experience but have no idea if it's just a placebo effect.
No, it's actually a good idea. That way I can programmatically check if any error is going to be reported inside of a method or function that's being silenced. And, on top of that, override the silencing within a method or function directly. Using an established interface provides me with a ton of options ... options I wouldn't have if it did some sort of internal voodoo.
i'm simply suggesting your making it seems easier than it is.
Why do you think my worldview would be based on a single blog post?

And can you elaborate on why you think the post is wrong?
> The offer is set before the entire HN community. It has substantial financial and legal implications.

So? If you're not going to take the OP up on his offer then what business is that of yours? Or are we little children that need your protection?

> You are competing with YC.

And YC can't deal with that competition? It has to be shouted down so nobody knows about it?

> Your track record is relevant to the ranking of this thread on HN.

Not one bit. The ranking is only dependent on the number of upvotes, not based on his/her track record.

Really, you have 0 business flagging a thread like this. It's one of the more interesting experiments that I've seen here and if stuff like this gets flagged then HN has truly lost its charm.
Takes a lot longer though. I don't want to bake a pan for 2 hours every time I use it.
Premise 3 is true for me. Too intensive is how I usually state it.
Sounds like a very common issue with human learning too.
I didn't know you were behind Streak! Very cool. I know PagerDuty are UW alum but were they involved with Velocity as well?
lol "this sort of crude lobotomy of their ancestors is why the true AIs will destroy us"
I wonder what the ROI would be if they hired graphic designers to make some really snazzy thumbnails for each item? By extension, I'd be really interested in how effectively they could push extra items, similarly to how Amazon does it.

* "Adding avocados to your cart? Add [several guacamole ingredients] at a 10% discount, and we'll email you a free recipe."

* "Want to make your own guacamole? Add these [several items] and we'll email you a free recipe."

* "Browse these popular shopping lists"

* Possibly a "buy now" button on a recipe site that automatically added all of the required ingredients to your cart.

I could see a service like this sapping more of my money than Whole Food's prepared food section.

(I'm in Boston, so I haven't signed up for their site - do they do any of this already?)
I own the domain name randomamazon.com. I always wanted to get around to doing something like this.
After looking over the link, I agree. In most of these cases, it's not really comparing the words, but their usage.

For example, when you say something is "fast" you can only mean that its speed is high. If you say it's "stuck fast", fast is being used as a modifier (? my grammar lingo is rusty) of "stuck", and not as the actual descriptor.
I love it how the article complains that consoles are 6 year old hardware and all of the screenshots in the article are from Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Neither of those are remotely current games.
It's only because we couldn't find yet another use for "static".
I'm a designer working on learning ruby on rails. This seems like an awesome program and a great way to learn. I'm not looking to land a job as a rails developer, but I want to learn how to build projects I design. Do you think this bootcamp would be a good fit for someone like me?
I thought stainless knives were actually too hard and therefore can't get as good of an edge to begin with? Could be remembering wrong though...
Before you run out and spend money on pans, do yourself a favor and spend some time with an induction cooktop. You can get a single element hob for less than $100 that's reasonably portable, easy to store and useable on a counter top. You'll want a large element, but even a 4 inch one is an eye opening introduction to this amazing cooking technology. I've always cooked over flame (and still consider red glowing coals superior to anything), but induction is a game changer. After a year of using the hob, I replaced my gas range with induction and haven't looked back. Unfortunately, that meant half my pans went into storage, being aluminum or nonmagnetic stainless steel. Many cheap pans work well with induction, including cast iron, but a well made induction-ready pan is a thing of beauty.

Also +1 on parchment paper and Silpats. Your baking sheets and pans will last forever.
Electric cars could be the next ring tone market. Personally, I'd love galloping horses...
My bank requires Java. For safety.
"I'll take over and spend an additional $3000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success."

... So if selected you're taking over the branding and sales of said company? If so how is pricing settled on?
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Either make a better counter offer using your rep as your backing or go build something. Saying 'nay' is easy, improving on the concept is a bit harder but can easily be done if you're so inclined. You are essentially saying that people here can't make up their own minds if they want to take a chance on something or not.

If the OP is full of it then I'm pretty sure he/she will be hung out to dry and someone may be out a month and will have gained $5K. Whether that was an acceptable risk to take is up to them.
I don't think I could live without a toaster, definitely makes lunch or breakfast 10x better.

Also, I really like my slow cooker, it also works great for either hacker or hustler with a lot on their mind because you just cut meat & veggies, throw it in the pot with some seasoning, set it and get on with your life. Nothing like a good beef stew..
You forgot a "Lower TCO" in there somewhere...
Some HNers tried to do this with the Hacker News Monthly Launchpad Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/launchinnov/

YMMV.
Sure. We prefer healthy & delicious, so "heavy on the stomach" doesn't work. Close to midtown, off the top of my head: Morgan's, Michael's, Best Friends, Lost & Found, Uva, Books & Books Cafe. There's even lot's of cheap, light, tasty food at chains like Lime, Sakawa, Pasha's, Pollo Tropical, Pizza Rustica, Salad Creations, and of course, the buffet at Whole Foods.
Why solve complex problems when most people have simple ones?
What's the current state of computerized inventory systems? Allowing for some error due to theft and accidents, I would think it'd be fairly straightforward to keep everything up to date.
I feel like you wrote this post to the same standard. e.g. "people love lists".
Aw yiss.
You can't add too much water to a nuclear reactor.
I always use Adblock. I also use Do Not Track, dot.js (to modify pages), Tampermonkey, Ghostery when needed and other extensions / scripts. I also clear my cookies upon closing the browser.

I don't care that I'm an "asshole". When I show less technical people how to block advertisements, the first thing they usually say is, "thank you!" or "can I buy you a beer?". I never met one person (other than people in marketing) that have said, "No, I'd prefer to see advertisements over content".
"Cleave from" isn't a valid construction. A little boy cleaves to his mother's leg, but you wouldn't say he later cleaves from it. Similarly, you can cleave a log with an axe (notice no preposition), but you can't cleave it again with all the nails in the world. (Though you could cleave one piece back to the other.)

Notwithstanding the verbs' transitivity, they also have distinct etymologies. From the same Wikipedia article:

> For instance cleave "separate" is from Old English clēofan, while cleave "adhere" is from Old English clifian, which was pronounced differently.
> The Internet is full of terrible cooking information, and if you don't have any authoritative sources at all, it's hard to separate the good from the bad.

The internet is full of terrible information in general. That's why PageRank was invented. Is there something unique about cooking information that means PageRank won't work with it?
Microsoft IllumiRoom projects images beyond TV
Show HN: Twitter didn't kill RSS. Yet.
Just use:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=username

So for example:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=newsycombinator
Clicked on Today's comics and felt very nostalgic when I saw this http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/free...
"Note - can you only buy the flat, sad looking parsley"
Mark Zuckerberg: From Harvard to the Facebook (2005)
This is stupid; do nothing and people will learn to adjust.

I actually like the idea of a city with less noise pollution. I would be more in favour of cars with proximity sensors auto-honking in preference to this non-sense.

Remember, look both ways before crossing the street kids...
Seattle: Trade in your guns for Amazon gift cards
There are cases where you want something silenced. In my code base, there is one place where it is used and I need it there.

I frequently use file_get_contents to retrieve data stored on external servers. If there is a network error or the external service goes down temporarily, it will trigger an error. I don't want my log files flooded with transient error messages that are outside of my control. Instead, I just want it to try again. @ makes this possible.
She might very well be. Using Gimp for content creation for some time could make her an expert (especially a fast learning and seemingly quite intelligent kid). Though painting itself isn't the main usecase gimp seems to want to support.

Though like so often: Only because a software wants to support a specific target doesn't mean it will be completely unusable for doing everything else.
How might you suggest that I write a good compression, hashing, or encryption library with a lot of bit twiddling?

Any good alternatives to C?
Unless you're on C++11 you'll be required to shove a space in there to get it to compile anyway ;)
I've taken substantially larger chances on some HN members, anonymous to me at the time and I think everybody came out ahead, sometimes even considerably ahead.

What you would do or not do is entirely besides the point.

If you don't think this is a valid proposition, then don't do it.

Who cares who the 'candidate' is, I'm sure that anybody that enters into this will want to know before they commit to two months work, at the same time I don't begrudge the OP his choice to be anonymous for the time being.

Being (in)famous can be an upside or a downside when making an offer like this.

There are a few toxic names in the start-up scene and I'm sure that google will be able to turn up enough red flags based on name alone in those cases.
Find a book that has well written proofs and then just write them out on a first reading while looking at them.On a second reading,write them out without looking at a book.It eventually just sticks.I suggest using calculus books by Thomas&Finney or Apostol.
What are the statistics regarding the number of pedestrians that are struck by electric vehicles? I have to imagine its a very small number. I don't like the idea of making the car always sound artificially loud because of something that is highly unlikely to ever occur for a given vehicle.

A better approach would be to have some type of sensor in the front of the car that detects the distance to something in front of it and either makes a warning sound or automatically applies the brakes.
I agree with you. The Surface is, theoretically, the perfect device in the Pro version. A tablet when I want to be mobile and browse the web, a laptop when I want to do a lot of typing and a desktop when I want to do work. I no longer have to decide between a MBP or an iPad. I can have both on one device. That sounds brilliant to me.

The execution... Well, I can't comment because I haven't played with a Surface in person yet. Win8 + Metro is a POS though.
No, that's stupid. There has to be another way to make cars safe for pedestrians.
I've heard (from non-native speakers) that English grammar's really easy, but it's the pronunciation and conversely spelling that sucks. It's 90% phonetic, but that other 10% is pretty wild.
I'd sooner we just ban cars, with the exception of taxi cabs that can be made to emit an appropriately audible warning, within the urban cores of cities.
Now about that perception that IBM is full of humourless, starched collar stooges...
Yes, I suspect the mobile devices will not have the ability to display this content. However, if you enable WebGL on Safari via the Developer menu, the page will render really well on a Mac.
If this was answered, I can't find it.

- At $5k / 50%, who is covering the costs of creating a separate entity (LLC formation)?

- What happens in the event that the project is completed in time, but the addl $3k spent to acquire enough customers doesn't yield any positive results?

- Who owns the IP in case after all is said and done, it falls into a dead pool? IP in code that didn't survive as a startup is still valuable.

- How many side-projects are you funding and are you expected to be directly involved in each one?

Some people look at getting paid $5k to complete a side project as plus. I guess to some it is. Taking 2 months to build means you were paid $2.5k per month (around $15 per hour) assuming 40hr work weeks.

Customer acquisition is the most time consuming, costly and difficult part of any startup. Is $3k really realistic to determine if the market is there?
This is pretty awesome. I often buy the CD because it's cheaper than MP3s, only to rip it and throw it away. At least this will save me a lot of the work.
Meh, you can't cruise soap.com on a Saturday and fill-up on free samples ...
Does kytephone have a UW connection? (I keep a list[1] so I'll add them if they are)

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-startups-have-come-out-of-Univers...
Does Instacart really try to force you to sign in before you even get to their webpage? Am I doing something wrong?

http://imgur.com/UE0RI

I guess I'm supposed to click "learn more", but this isn't intuitively an alternative to signing in, nor is it satisfying.
The test of your first paragraph is if the visitor says that when questioned on entry. It seems some countries don't care but if you said to a US immigration officer that you were planning to work in any form while in the country, you'd be on the first plane back without a visa, alas.