skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few cases on there where they mention something as the undisputed best in the high end, but you should get the cheaper thing, and they got the cheaper thing right 100% of the time, but either neglected another top option (which may be better in many ways), or actually didn't pick the top option. e.g. Demeyere is objectively better than All-Clad in every way except advertising spending. Shun Ken Onion is only mid-range for knives (but very good); MAC, Global, and a variety of both cheaper and more expensive Japanese options are better for Japanese, and there's a style argument for Japanese (sharper, harder) vs. European (tougher). Staub > Le Creuset, although the lodge or tramontina is 95% as good for 20% of the cost, and unglazed cast iron from lodge (or old stuff from Griswold, etc.) is just fine for $20-30 (but unglazed cast iron is fundamentally different from glazed).
"Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity ...
Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing ..."

Sounds just like what happens when you raise kids. "Daddy why is XXX a good word but YYY a bad word?"

"It just IS. Don't say that word again."

"Ok Daddy" (kid adds word to internal blacklist)
My brother in Columbus, Ohio, with a health plan for a director level position in a Fortune 1000 company, got a referral to a neurologist for a pinched nerve. Took six months to actually get inside a neurologist's office. This, in a health care market of 1.5 million people.

What's that about wait times in nationalized healthcare countries again? I'm sure he'd have been much more quickly served in Vancouver or Toronto or Manchester.
I've either purchased or influenced the purchase of at least ten copies of Ad Hoc. It has a lot of tips throughout and the recipes are simple enough for most cooks while showy enough for dinner parties.

Oh, and a good set of tongs are my must have in the kitchen.
TapJoy hired 6 or 7 of or summer students out of 30 students interviewing. They were the largest single employer, but definitely not the majority. :)
Well, upload a scan shouldn't be to difficult. Compiling it on the other hand..
Agree and in C you still have all the bugs of the type that you describe for Java or whatever...

It just there is a lot of C out there which means we will see it for ever in our systems somewhere. It will get better over time as tools improve the existing C code base.
Yeah, well, maybe you're right ;-)
Bravo. I had to read 15 minutes worth of comments to finally find one person who actually knows the truth. And this little gem was downvoted. Bravo.
Once I accidentally managed to quickly download mp3's for free when my billing info was out of date.
Google and Syscan are running a secure coding competition for students
s/the/le/

done
For Watson, probably not "trivial", no, but also probably not a hugely expensive undertaking. It really depends on how the system works, though. Something like an artificial neural network would be impossible to manually prune like that; they'd have to retrain it and "teach" it that those things are bad. Without knowing much about Watson, though, my guess would be that its knowledge is largely stored in a structured database, which is more directly accessible.
When Steve JObs tried to save Mark Hurd's job as HP CEO
I just changed chrome to ask everytime if I wanted to active a particular plugin.
Cool app! Beautiful work!
Two (related) things about f.lux from my experience:

1. With only one exception I can think of, every instance of insomnia I've had in the last several years I can trace to not having f.lux enabled for some reason.

2. The reason that happens is that I often won't notice if f.lux dies for some reason, because I am so thoroughly used to it now.

I was having real sleep trouble several years ago, and f.lux is part of a battery of things I did (along with cutting caffeine completely after 12:00PM every day, getting some aerobic exercise, not coding after ~9:00PM, and taking over getting the kids out the door in the morning to force myself to get up) which more or less eliminated those problems.
I'm confused.

C has libraries too. I personally like the headers used by openbsd: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/tree.h?rev...
Where do I apply? I have at least 3 side projects in the oven, but definitely am in a dire financial situation currently. This sort of thing sounds right up my alley. I imagine competition is going to be steep though?
Vernon Vinge - The Ungoverned
Apparently that dual usage for the "in-" prefix existed in Latin as well. Inflammo means to burn, but insanus means not healthy.
Surely not for critical issues like this?
Despite my 'naysaying,' I recognize the value of the idea as an MVP. However, I believe that the HN community is well served by vetting this particular offer.
USD $18B/year to catch Illegal Immigrants
Advice for designers who want to be founders
I get that, but also i'm going to echo the points of the other folks up here that MV is totally an "eye of the beholder" metric.

For cooking most western foods, for example, i think he totally misses the mark in the pots/pans section. Having worked in a 'new american' kitchen, i can confidently say that buying cheap aluminum/stainless 8", 10" sautee pans, an 8" nonstick, a 1pt saucepan, a 2qt pot, (~$9 ea at fsw or whatever) and a cheap $30 dutch oven covers the vast majority of of cooking needs if you throw in a few pieces of steel wool and let the sheet tray pass for whatever baking.

the notion that heavy pans for 'even heat distribution' are essential is true at some echelon of gourmet cuisine, but getting to know how your pan behaves on your stove is infinitely more valuable and cost effective than buying a set of all-clads. case in point, buy a cast-iron fry pan and discover its 'even heat' characteristic still includes a hotspot right under the burner.

75% of all recipes don't require all that much, though, it's the 25% that add much of the weird equipment overhead (i'm looking at you, spring form pan!)
Also a Canadian, just want to confirm this. I can see a doctor instantly, for free, at any one of the clinics near my house. If I need to see a specialist, the referral usually happens within a few days or a week for anything urgent. Ditto for bloodwork, you just take the referral to a hospital.

There are some exceptions, but generally things work well.
>The study listed nine health areas in which Americans came in below average: infant mortality and low birth weight, injuries and homicides, adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, drug-related deaths, obesity and diabetes, heart disease, chronic lung disease and disability.

I hope people don't think this is some condemnation of the US health care system. No matter how good your health care system is you're not going to be able to correct for serious lifestyle problems.
You're missing the fact that you can get any songs from supported CDs that you bought after 1998. Even if you don't buy CDs anymore, if you've bought any from Amazon in the past, this is a great way to get access to them in the cloud.
Instead of purging the vocabulary, they shuld have tought it/she/him the concept of registers[0] and code switching[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%29
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching
I do know what it means for a zero day exploit.

But by the time I heard about it, Oracle could have 100 developers busy on this one issue.
Maybe it's because I'm confused about what a "regular bowl" is (I assume you mean salad/cereal bowl), but I don't understand how you can cook without mixing bowls. I use mixing bowls for all kinds of things from pancake batter to tossing veggies for roasting to putting stuff in as I prepare it. I also sometimes use it as sort of a crappy double boiler for melting stuff at low temperatures. I would want at least two so I can do more than one thing, and really three so I can have a couple different sizes.
Coming at this 7 days late, but...

The median household income in the US is $49k, I believe. 40% of households spend more than they bring in and have considerable consumer debt. Of course, 50% of households make LESS than $49k income and 2+ kids.

Here's a list of state schools with instate and out of state tuition: http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/

This is their "best values" list. Nowhere is a $25k over 4 year school that I can see.

You'll need to account for living expense, textbooks, etc., for those 4 years as well (or maybe you're assuming that our hypothetical student can find a supporting job while going to school-- note that youth unemployment is approx. 2X the national average, and that the cheaper schools here are in states with generally higher unemployment).

Saying that college is reasonably affordable for most americans is just crazy.

All that aside, my hypothesis is that college impacts success (STEM-degrees having a higher impact), but that socioeconomic starting point has more of an impact. When you have three things that are highly correlated (success, starting point, and education) it's really hard to argue for causation with controlling for the third variable. When I look at all of my high-school peers who didn't finish college, they're all employed and making great money (I went to a mediocre private school in Maryland), but half of contemporary college grads (presumably most near the median background) can't find jobs (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57434159/half-of-colle... ).
I only see $8,000. Where does the other $2,000 come in? How would one contact you?
As the bill was being debated it was my understanding that the lowering costs would come from improvements in health as a direct result of increased preventative care and earlier detection of disease (in the stage where it is cheaper to treat).

It is impossible to have the increased preventative care come before patients' access to that care, just as it's impossible to detect illness when a patient cannot even be seen due to lack of insurance.

That was the reason I said I didn't expect a reduction in price in the short-term, because it simply doesn't make sense. That doesn't mean costs won't eventually go down compared to what they would have been if PPACA didn't go into effect, but that's getting beyond my ability to predict based just on simple principles.
Every time I find my eyes hurting while looking at a computer, I realize Flux hasn't been running.
I prefaced my post with "as long as color isn't important to you".

Since it clearly isn't to you, there's no reason not to mess with it!
In my city (a) renting is with very, very few exceptions uniformly explicitly forbidden by home owner association agreements (bans that are now backed by recent state supreme court victories, the only places you can rent are in the small regions of the city that predate the explosive subdivision-based growth that started in the 70's--presumably driven by white flight, but I don't know for certain), (b) renting is made very unpalatable by a number of policies made by the city itself and (c) homestead property tax exemptions for homeowners that make owning very, very expensive if they don't live in their house themselves.
and if they're REALLY smart they have a deal worked out where they don't have to buy the license until you play a track for the first time.
I prefer KeePass (2 or X) with the encrypted pwd database backed up to SpiderOak (or Tarsnap, the only two really secure backup services I know of).

OSS, local not cloud-based, encrypted pwd file, excellent pwd generator, easy to use.
How many? The population of the Internet is almost 3 billion.
Nope. There is no need in C for all pointers to be the same size. An implementation is free (and there indeed, exist some) where a char* is a different size from an int. You can* safely cast any data pointer to void, and a void back to any data pointer. POSIX requires that function pointers can do this; the C standard doesn't require it.

Now, that said, it is possible to write generic link list routines (I've done it) but the devil is in the details.
I like cast iron, and have a couple pieces. The problem is I feel like it's an addition since there are things you can't do in them and didn't fit with the minimum viable gourmet kitchen. Cooking with tomatoes would be probably the most frequent thing I need non-cast iron for.

And yeah, I laughed at the whisk thing too.
Yes. But I'm not sure I follow here, both Sweden and the US use the same criteria to report a live birth (All live births are reported) and seem to use the same definition of Infant mortality rate, (Death before first birthday). I fail to see how reporting differences explain the difference in infant mortality between the two countries. Of course, compared to countries that use extra conditions for live births (weight limits etc.) the US would get a higher rate of infant mortality due to having more laxed conditions for what constitutes a live birth.
Swthr - simple weather, graphed
A side project from 2012, created using NWS public data.
Yes.

There are lots of refactorings that cannot be done by simple search and replace, even for C, because they require semantic knowledge of the language.
~2045 i think you mean for brain uploading.
Try Xcode 4.5.x (wich uses Clang as the default C compiler).

VS2012 has similar capabilities for C++.
This is pretty awesome, it is amazing to see all the weird titles out there.

Is anyone else surprised by the amount of: "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures..." books for sale on Amazon?
Expect Less Targeting From This Year's Targeted Attacks
Amazon's "AutoRip" Service, Free MP3s For CDs Purchased As Far Back As 1998
Good idea, but personally I'd take a $5000 loan instead.
It is fair to point out that with iTunes match you will not have the pressed CD shipped to you. In addition to the hassle of burning your own, burned CD's can degrade over time. The nice thing about both services is that you can always burn another!
Except anybody that use gotomeeting, any number of VPN applications, and any number of enterprise applications, or lives in countries whose official government web sites still use applets, etc etc etc.
That was a much different World where people only communicated with those who lived in their town. International travel and the internet have both made English much, much stronger and more important.
I got this when trying to access the link:

---------------
Application Error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
---------------

That page must be using SOAP! :-)

T.
It's a play on "duck duck goose", the children's game. The similarity to duckduckgo was unintentional, but I like it. I actually wanted to call it "bookroulette", but all permutations of that domain were taken.
There's a button that completely disables it for color sensitive work. That's the best option.
Seconding this, I skipped the whisk for my kitchen, and it's fucking impossible to whisk stuff with a fork.
My bank's ATMs display messages like "I only have $50 bills available now", so apparently some ATMs are smarter than others.
If your interpreter takes 3 seconds to start up there's something seriously wrong. Hopefully that's taking into account the human time to hit ^D and an up arrow, plus whatever time it takes to do all your imports or whatever. Assuming that was what was meant, then you probably really just want to learn about `python -i`.

I agree that the real solution here is "write unit tests", but even if you like an interactive interpreter, seriously, just restart it, it should take a half a second at most (and yes, reload() is broken by design, though sometimes it happens not to matter).
[Former Causes employee]

I always liked the term not-just-for-profit.

Congrats on the merge, guys!
Well, the point was minimum viable kitchen for cooking gourmet food. The way I defined it, I felt I couldn't exclude desserts and a stand mixer and get there, though I'll be honest I didn't go through all 300 pages of the book and count. You certainly could leave those out and still cook most of the stuff in the book.

Also internet recipes are a minefield for someone learning to actually cook. I'd say at least 90% of them are garbage, and I might be spotting them a 9.
I feel like there is lots missing from this list that a really functional kitchen needs.

Supplies I'd add to a MVK:

Dry measuring cups/spoons, liquid measures, rubber jar opener, bottle opener, plastic wrap, aluminum foil, digital timer, oven mitts, soap (I also like Lysol wipes for quick sanitizing)

Ingredients to keep in stock:

Fridge: butter (salted for cooking, unsalted for baking), lemon, lime, whole milk or cream, eggs, soy, Worcestershire

Pantry: cooking wine, vinegar, olive and vegetable oils, salt, black pepper (peppercorns in grinder preferably), dried spices (oregano, basil, parsley, cilantro, mint, chive, dill, cumin, coriander, chili powder, red pepper, garlic powder, dried onion, or at the very least some "cheater" mixes like Adobo, Jane's Krazy, Old Bay), vanilla, nuts and nut butters, shortening

Dry ingredients: white flour, white sugar (brown optional), baking powder, baking soda, cornstarch, chocolate, breadcrumbs (or make them)

Also keep around: fresh garlic, onions, quick starches (rice, couscous, pasta, potato), bread, liquid stocks (really you can make these), cheeses, other alcohols

I think you can probably get everything on my list for less than the price of the ice cream maker.
I think Evan Williams and Biz Stone are pretty well-known too (not just Dorsey).

I'd also add Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, and Paul Allen, off the top of my head.
The comparison is the basis for estimating a rate of success relative to resources available to a company entering the OP's program.

If the OP is investing in only one or two companies at a time, then it is practical for him to participate in YC in his role as cofounder. If it's 25 companies, then it is more difficult.
oh yeah, I forgot it was that simple. Watson has several different teams of people to manage its different parts...
It's missing my favorite auto-antonym phrase "off the menu".
You should set f.lux to match your ambient lighting. If the whites on your screen look more orange than the whites in your room, then you have it set too warm (no benefit from that anyway!).
Seriously? Actual production code in ALGOL in 2013? If I ever had to deal with that code, I think I'd feel about like you would have if I wrote this comment in Aramaic because I prefer it to English on numerous grounds. I'd very much prefer the extremely unpopular Racket which is at least alive to some degree.

I think the author's criteria for "effectiveness" are very much different from yours, hence the different conclusions.
ASK HN: I am looking for a co-founder
Hey HN. I am in a little conundrum. A few months ago I got offered an internship position with a company but just the other day I found out they are having difficulties getting the Visa in time (I am Canadian) so am looking for other options. I have a start up idea that I have been wanting to pursue for a little while so I thought I would see if I could find anyone to team up with before I search for another job.

I know usually a co-founder should be someone you know well and this way of finding one is not recommended but I have been meeting people in my city and have not found the person I would like to work with so why not try this.

Normally I build all my ideas myself but this is beyond what I can do alone.

So here is the gist of my plan:

- Hardware project. I have not done too much hardware. I do software and will be able to put together the backend for the project. But I will need someone that has experience creating hardware projects from scratch to compeleted product (If you also have experience with OpenCV, that is a plus).
- My plan is to create prototype than try Kickstarter to see if people would be interested/buy etc.
- I believe there is a market for this. Something similar was made in 2008 by Sony but was priced around $300. I would target young adults/adults/bars/weddings/ any type of gathering.

If interested we can talk in more detail. I would come to you if that was possible. Places like San Francisco excite me.

If you interested or just want to talk or have some advice please message me! I love meeting new people interested in similar things.

Email me: me@jonovono.com

About me?

I mainly work in Ruby (Rails), Node/JS. C/C++. Python. I can do HTML/CSS etc but am no designer.

My Github page is at: https://github.com/Jonovono.
You can use LastPass as completely zero knowledge app by not utilizing the binary extensions for Chrome or Firefox.
With children XXX is blacklisted and YYY is whitelisted.
Just imagine hosting this beast and then having 1,000 people wanting to scan the entire thing every second! For free!
Silicon Valley's Fiscal Sacrifice
Instacart adds Trader Joe's
It would be shocking if the US had infant mortality rates that were apples-apples close to Sweden. Sweden has just 9 million people, and they're very homogenous.

The lede on stories about US infant mortality isn't that Sweden outdoes us. It's things like "the US ranks alongside Qatar and Croatia". Those are the assertions I think we need to be more careful about.
As a tip I suggest running your code in debug mode. Which allows you to rewrite method contents as the program is running. If you place a break point in the method you are working in every time you save the program will reenter the method. I usually work in this mode.

JRebel is also worth investigating if you are getting paid to work with java code.
I meant to imply that "lover" was defined as "someone you have sex with," not "someone you are having an affair with." It's just used in the context of an affair because your partner in the affair is someone you have sex with.
OK. I took your advice. Except I couldn't forget because now my VPN client, gotomeeting, and various internal enterprisey things all stopped working :)
Building Doom 3 BFG Edition From Source (Part 1)
Rain making happens at 3:49.
If you would like to negotiate this or another proposition, you can use a service I wrote:

http://lookapinky.com
We're not using the hex encoded UID in the email addresses anymore. They are nice and clean now. bookclub@breeze123.com
I'm always surprised that the LGBT community doesn't intersect more with the engineering community, given that both San Francisco and New York are major hubs for both.

I know several gay men (and a few lesbian women or transgendered people) who work in the startup world, but even then they tend to be non-engineering positions. A former co-worker of mine and I started an NYC meetup for this exact purpose - we're actually having a game night tonight if any engineers are interested: http://www.meetup.com/Identity-Hackers/ [0]

Speaking only for myself, I've never felt any kind of discrimination, though I imagine if I were female or transgender, that experience may be different. I was also pretty lucky, though - my first experience working as a startup was at an incredibly gay-friendly dating website, so when your job is to work on posts like these[1], it's pretty easy to feel comfortable.

That doesn't really solve the problem of getting people in the door, though, and I've often wondered why more LGBT people go into engineering in the first place. I went to a very gay-friendly school, and even there the LGBT crowd seemed underrepresented in the engineering classes. I imagine this is related to the question of why we don't have more female engineers (whether straight/cis or not), but that's a much larger discussion.

[0] I hope the timeliness and relevance is enough to forgive this shameless plug!
[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/
This is a huge downside -- accidentally type your password on a device you shouldn't have? You now have to update every site rather than just updating your master password.
California's New Mobile App Privacy Guidelines Go Beyond The Law