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> Just like the popularity of the Millenium trilogy does not mean Stieg Larsson can write

Technically, it does. =)

I'm surprised you wouldn't consider the license a language is released under as one of the factors. Or maybe you do, and you forgot to list it. And therein lies the issue: the number of people are indicative of certain qualities, qualities you might not consider important, or might not weigh as highly as other people.

I love erlang, but I'd be hard pressed to use erlang for as many projects as I would like. Not because of failings of the language itself, but because certain qualities it does not possess (ubiquity for one, which affects so many other areas).
YES. Recipes are a long-tail topic. The sites that do best in PageRank are the ones with the most recipes. The sites with the most recipes tend to either be overtly user-generated or slyly repackaged UGC. Moreover, as Patrick will explain, most people who search for prepared dishes aren't actually going to prepare them, which means Google has little incentive to ensure the tops of the SERPs are good.

I'll find the eHow "how to cook a steak" that was pegged to the top of a SERP in a bit.

Another counterexample to your belief about the miracle of PageRank: try searching for symptoms some time.
Not really, in my experience. I had a rusted pan I pulled out of the basement, spent 20 minutes scrubbing and rinsing, a couple of rounds in and out of the oven with vegetable shortening, and was non-stick enough already to easily cook eggs. Am I missing a step I should be doing?
Contact customer service - Amazon has consistent the best CS in the industry. It may be a genuine bug.
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> Republicans are anti-public health care because public care sets in motion a process that
> moves care decisions into federal bureaucracies...

Corporatists oppose "public care" because it's pro-labor. Insurers and pharma oppose anything that will lessen their profits.

I have no idea why any one else would oppose universal health care with a single payer using the capitation model. Probably something they heard on talk radio.
another reason why English sucks!
Hm, probably not. That might work in a suburban setting, but imagine someone in an apartment a couple floors up who orders a significant load of groceries.

It'd be much quicker for a person to cart the whole load to their door, rather than waiting for the customer to unload everything in a few trips. Driverless vehicles are feasible in the next decade or so, but delivery-robots not so much.
Correct. A properly seasoned pan creates a barrier between the food and the iron. How do you know if your pan is properly seasoned? If you can't soak it overnight in water and/or air dry it without seeing rust, it's not seasoned properly.
I got this done on oDesk recently. I got about 50 applications within an hour of posting the job, and I ended up awarding it to 2 people.
I only needed a single page done, and 12 hours after initial posting, the job was [very well] done, and I had spent around $60
IE: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/how-to-disable-java-internet...

Firefox: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/how-to-disable-java-firefox/

Chrome: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/how-to-disable-java-chrome/

Safari: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/how-to-disable-java-safari/

Opera: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/how-to-disable-java-opera/
You should. Even if you don't use it day to day, it forces you think in an interesting manner to solve problems. You can carry those lessons with you as you go forward.
didn't like flux, instead arranged small 15watt lamp to read kindle/book in my bed but leave the light levels in the bedroom low. this was before kindle paperlight :)
I think it's good this way, it forces the developer to think about the implications of escaped vs unescaped output. The way I see it, having htmlspecialchars/htmlentities applied automatically by a template engine is a close relative to the magic quotes; it abstracts something esential for the developer to know.
No. This is stupid. I feel like "pay some goddamned attention" would be a better law than making things artificially noisy.
I'll second this.

I went through the Tour of Go over a 3-day weekend when I didn't have many obligations and messed with a reasonable portion of the examples although none of the exercises (I think).

I really like it, although I don't think it replaces C's niche. But I think for the level where you'd like some of the structure and goodies of C++ or Java without the complexity it's pretty compelling.

The main thing I've been wishing were different about Go recently is that I wish it could generate some kind of C style dlls that could be interfaced with from other languages. It seems that Go wants to be the top-level, so I don't really know a way to use it for libraries or extensions for other languages.

So instead I'm considering C and Lua - C for the library with possibly a linked or embedded Lua to give some higher level niceties.

My hope is that I could create extensions that are callable from other languages using C APIs and then in the extension push some of the actual computations to Lua when it makes sense to use things like lists/dictionaries.
The US flag in the background of the treadmill is kind of offensive -- it touches the ground, etc. (and the waving them around parts outdoors, too, later in the video). The flag-pants are not something I'd ever wear, but that's more ambiguous.

Awesome video overall, though!
Will you drive me anywhere I need to go or pay the difference between a self-driving car and a normal car if self-driving cars become available since I can't look one way let alone both ways? Proximity sensors aren't a good enough solution since as a blind individual I rely on hearing traffic patterns to determine when lights are red verses green. I'm sure you could create an electronic device for use by blind people what would interface with cars and traffic lights to make up for not hearing the noise but who will actually pay for the development and installation that would be required for such a device?
This means that Watson almost gaffed like this guy did on Jeopardy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AorrF2ATGtA
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CDs are not all that vulnerable. If they're either in the case or the machine, they're fine. You can wipe dust off with a lot more vigour than with vinyl.

I've had tape machines that would pull the tape out and scrunch it up. Strands of tape everywhere is more than "minor signal degradation". CDs are not prone to repeated signal degradation or to turning into spaghetti.
Actually they will ake java 125/hr guy and still be ahead in terms of time/cost
So as a summary, Javascript loaded (except for loaded via document.write) can immediately access the DOM if the Javascript is loaded in the bottom of the body-element making the use of a ready-event like jQuery's ready-event obsolete.
I have always wondered if that really is the case but haven't tried it out myself, seems that it's a green light then. :-)
Is that really a good idea? To enable Facebook to know who you are voting for?
I find cast iron very easy to take care of -- much easier than non-stick (but perhaps we use our non-stick for only messy things). Dump out the food, wipe it out, put back on the still-warm burner, put in some oil.

If something particularly hard to clean was in there, I do what scouts do on a campout: put an inch of water (with a little oil) in and set it to boil, then go back to the "wipe it out" step above.
When I first moved across the country and needed to build up my kitchen supplies from scratch I was quite lost. I think I generally followed this nytimes article and was very happy with the results:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html?pagewan...

The nytimes author seems less fussy about things and imho has a better list for people who need a basic version of most often needed kitchen items.

This priceonomics article is pretty good. I definitely agree with the Victorinox suggestion and only buying a chef's knife and paring knife upfront. I think getting an ice cream maker is kind of ridiculous. I do think it's good to have a few basic cookbooks handy (finding good recipes on the internet is definitely an acquired skill).

One very helpful thing I haven't seen mentioned is to check out restaurant supply stores. They generally charge way less than most retail places, while their presentation isn't always as pretty they work fine (obviously, since they're used in restaurants). The only issue I've had is that the size of things necessary for a restaurant can be too big for my home use.
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To be fair to the author, he's talking capital K kitchen. Like, you take food as a serious hobby and want to have a reasonable chance of recreating dishes from Top Chef or in culinary magazines. I don't think he's trying to make a "Minimum Viable Food Preperation System".
Let's not all forgot the international food related riots a few years back.
Sure I do. You don't need to cook food.

We eat better than most people I know who do cook. Come on over the next time you're in Miami and we'll show you. :-)
Did you want people to e-mail you their ideas? E-mail you an introduction and their background/skills/etc? Shouldn't you put your contact info somewhere? Are you associated with hmexx or just one upping him?
I'd be very interested to hear rough numbers on how many emailed, how many you considered interesting, and how many of those you end up funding/going ahead with. And I'm sure everyone will want a post mortem in 6 to 12 months :-)
> Sweden has just 9 million people, and they're very homogenous.

The population has no impact when we're looking at per-capita statistics.

Canada and Australia have the highest immigration rates in the world, so their homogeneity is going down, yet statistics like these are not going up.
It seems there is a fair amount of devs willing to do this and from what I can see a fair amount of people who would invest in projects.

Wouldn't it make sense to pool a small amount of $2-5k investments from a number of individuals who all agree on a particular project and taking it to launch. Not speaking about crowd-funding/kickstarter. There's clearly a lot of very smart people who can build shit, and a small amount of folks willing to invest. Why not just pool everything together. Spread the risk, but combine the talents of more people.
Also, buying the mp3's essentially gives you a CD for free, albeit at a slightly, yet imperceptible to most, reduced quality. Coupled with the fact that most people buying CD's still only buy them for a handful of songs, I think Amazon is making a bigger deal out of this than it really is.
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I'll add this to your list:

- buy your All Clad pots at Bed, Bath & Beyond with a 20% off coupon

Note: I haven't tried this in a some time; they may have discontinued it. You can get a coupon online, in the mail, on eBay...
Is it better to have a nation with 2.5% diabetic population than 6.5% population, if it meant that the nation wouldn't have the best (but still very good) diabetic treatment outcome? Is that a good trade-off? Probably.

I replied, because often apologists for American healthcare (I'm not saying you are one) neglect to mention why we have a good treatment outcome for certain conditions.
My impression is that the popularity of Instagram filters is to cover up for the fact that 1) the image sensors for the iPhone (and other brands) are inferior to those found in DSLR cameras, 2) that the average user is an untrained photographer, 3) most photos are taken indoors with poor lighting, and 4) the average photo is boring.

Instagram filters quickly add interest to photos and mask poor lighting and noise.
...which is why Kurzweil's specificity and overconfidence raises eyebrows.
Some new startups and technologies are serving great purpose. For example when you take some classes at uc Berkeley, they shove you into a social network of classes teachers and students. Students ask each other and the teachers questions about work assignments, etc unifying your 500 person lecture.
The top animation doesn't seem to be working in Firefox 18 on OS X 10.8.2. The glowing box works, however.
I wasn't aware you were a PHP developer and were making the comment from the point of view as one; something you might have wanted to mention really with an implication such as the one I took issue with.

Either way, I stand by my comments.
Been in SF; almost stepped off the curb in front of an electric bus.

There's a need for electric vehicles to make SOME kind of sound.

Also, I heard a Tesla pull out and accelerate down the street in Mt View. It sounded exactly like a slot car. I had to laugh. So maybe Tesla should be paying attention to that aspect of public perception - their cars shouldn't be making me laugh.
Induction burners are awesome and extremely cheap. They're not strictly cost effective to operate in the US (we have unreasonably low gas prices) but are pretty much everywhere else. The coolest thing about them is that they're completely portable; they're lightweight and they generate very little ambient heat. You could bring one to your office to make omelettes, if not for the cleanup problem afterwards.
The US has a lower "active military per capita" than lots of OECD countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;)

(just attempting to 'hack' this trend)
Actually, I switch accounts when my karma gets too high, so I keep perspective and don't make "a name" for myself in the Hacker News comments. This one is due. I was hellbanned on jspthrowaway, I believe, for something on a thread regarding Gittip and it's not that important to me anyway. If I deserve a hellban, I deserve a hellban.

Just relax, I'm trying to be nice to you this time around and point out how you're being needlessly confrontational, which makes it sad that you're being needlessly confrontational with me in response.

I don't have it out for you, guy. I'm being entirely honest with you when I say that my response was completely user-agnostic until I looked at the username and put two and two together. The points talking to you directly were an edit, not in the initial comment. My time is a smidge too valuable to "stalk" you around Hacker News, harassing you at every whim, and it's awfully presumptuous to assume I do. That's just silly. If I had known you were going to react like this, I probably wouldn't have said anything.

I'm not hiding my identity, either, so congratulations on knowing it, I'd just prefer to not directly tie my identity to everything that I say here. It gives me a bit more freedom to be honest in cases that would otherwise hurt me indirectly. If I'm posting under my name continuously, I can't say some things.

This conversation isn't going to go anywhere (and it's disrespectful to Hacker News as a medium), and I'm sorry that you react to everything I say with such acidity. I'm going to bow out now, since it's just pointless to continue. You really need to get some perspective and stop treating the world with such hostility, or you're heading for an episode of your own creation. I'm sorry that you and I don't see eye to eye, and that you loathe me so much; if I could change that, I would.
Is the idea of organizing tasks for me depending on their length new? It feels awesome. Maybe this is the personal secreatry I have been waiting for all year.
Pinball may have been more popular pre- (and during) the transition to arcade games, but arguably the /best/ pinball came in the early 90s with the advent of better processing power and more complicated electronics allowing more complex gameplay. Twilight Zone is one of the most complex pinball rulesets I've ever seen, and The Addams Family (from 1993 also I think) was and still is the best-selling machine of all time.

I collect pinball machines; I have 11 of them crammed into a house not designed to hold that many large machines. It's an interesting amalgamation of physical and electronic skills to repair and restore them, it's possibly more fun to restore them than it is to actually play them.
If that's your perspective, why even have a kitchen? You can put a fridge in any room. Replace one of your countertops with a stationary bicycle and add a power rack; call it an "eat-in gym".

It's all love with this comment, you know. Come to Chicago sometime and we'll make you ceviche.
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You are making a trade-off in time, since you have to wait for the CD to ship and then you have to go to the trouble to rip it.
I'm glad that works for you.

I imagine melatonin works better with minimal exposure to blue light after taking it. This might be good for those who have it harder time with sleep schedules than you do.
Ask HN: Where can I learn meditation and mindfulness without the bullshit?
Thanks for sharing this, Gregory!
Trader Joe's already delivers; so does Safeway. However, I'm surprised that the delivery fee is so cheap ($3.99 for sameday). Safeway currently charges $4.95 for delivery in a 4 hour window the next day.

Does Instacart use TJ's/Safeway's prices, or do they set their own prices for each item?
ZURB Acquires Forrst
Yeah, sorry about that. Some of the CSS3 features I use are not supported by Firefox yet. I'm explaining that in the blog post.
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Pragmatism, and inertia.

If you are in tech and in the Bay Area, you have access to talent, networking, if you are B2B - many potential customers. If you are having issues with mongodb and you wish to talk to the 10gen folks - in person - it's not a big deal.

As an employee - you gain a ton of mobility. If I lose my job, or just want a different one, I don't need to pick up my life and move. Whereas, if I join your startup in Ohio or Virginia, or somewhere else with lower taxes that is more friendly to business - I could find myself moving across many states again 6 months down the road if it doesn't work out.

Personally I'd love to move - I think the costs of living are ridiculous - San Francisco's a joke in many ways, but on the other hand, the Peninsula/South Bay are still expensive, but boring suburban strip malls with some nice hillsides. But every time I do a job search to see what's out there in other parts of the country, the only place I could find similar interesting work is Manhattan. (There are outliers, I'm speaking in generalities.)

Can tech business gradually move elsewhere? Sure. But with Google, Facebook, Apple, HP, Oracle, Stanford, Berkeley, etc, etc, here - it's a very uphill battle.
I'm both happy and sad to see these bootcamps spread. Happy, because I think they're a good way for people to get into the industry or learn rails/node/ios/whatever. Sad, because they indicate the failure of colleges and universities to teach modern development tools, environments, and frameworks. Yes, I understand that education is supposed to "prepare" for the workplace rather than "train." But the notion that in 4 years of undergraduate study a 200k education can't bother with what these bootcamps do in 6-12 weeks....
Here's one I used in a GC implementation a while back. That last 'uint_8t obj[]' is used to hold the object that was actually allocated.

struct meta_obj {
meta_obj_type *next; // next object in our list
mark_type mark;
size_t size;
gc_type_def type_def;
uint8_t obj[]; // contained object
};

Or another (contrived) example:

struct obj_type {
obj_type_enum type;
};

struct string_obj_type {
obj_type_enum type;
char *c;
};

You start with a collection of obj_type pointers and cast them to the appropriate pointer type when you have identified the actual contained struct. Useful if you need to have a heterogeneous list of things.
I do something similar with Spotify. Works quite well
They could have, but then they would have had to go through the Urban Dictionary and try to classify its terms by register. Like it says in the article, the problem wasn't that all of Urban Dictionary was obscene, it was that they couldn't tell the computer which parts were and which parts weren't.
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Read the book "Mindfulness in Plain English," by Bhante Gunaratana
Well, my offer is to get 50%, not 25%. If you want to reduce my share you can increase the upfront payment, so I guess you can spend some money out of your pocket to get a portion of the company. This can get out of hand fast =)
Yeah, it was just an example number, earlier I mentioned mining it down to nothing and I still got "it's just as deadly" kind of comments. Unless I'm missing something from physics, stretching the potential energy of the out across ~10 years from mining it will not be the same as letting it hit the earth.
I left out consumables, but yeah on deli cups.

Couple minor rebuttals:

* The sharpener I recommended takes seconds to use and can't really be messed up. Cook's Illustrated says it works as well as an electric one that is much more difficult and more time consuming. I can sharpen my knife with it in less time than you can even safely package yours to take to get sharpened, and the Fibrox needs to be sharpened somewhat often. Seriously, buy that sharpener and try it. I'll give you the $9 back if you don't like.

* I don't think a 10 piece set costs more than the individual pieces you described typically. They count lids at pieces, so it's really more like a 6 piece set. I frequently need multiple saucepans or skillets when cooking so I really don't think it's overkill. (I'd recommend one saute and one skillet at minimum). You need a small saucepan and a large. I would agree that the first thing I'd spend extra on would be All-Clad pans. Most restaurants, even good ones, use cheapo aluminum pans though, so I don't think I'd call it minimum viable. (I probably should have recommended cheap aluminum pans from a restaurant supply store honestly.)

* I'd pick the blender over the stand mixer any day, and I almost never make beverages with it. It makes awesome soups. Aerates a quiche. Makes homemade mayo. Purees fruit for sorbets or granitas so well you don't even have to strain out the seed chunks. I don't think I'd do any of those with an immersion blender.
This might sound cheesy but the best time to launch is <=now. Why worry about a particular day if you are ready?
For those considering Twig or other templating alternatives: http://phptemplatinglanguage.com/

Really, PHP itself is a fine templating language if used properly. Get to know the short tags (including the short echo <?=$stuff?>) and the alternative syntax for conditional statements and you are good to go.
Of course you can make up a number and try it. But what if your wrong, how do you properly handle increasing your price on existing customers? Also, how do you know if it would be better to increase the price and maybe get more per customer, or decrease and maybe get more customers? How do you test that?
I live in Texas also, I know for sure that Austin has a good community of ruby developers along with Boston.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm looking forward to reading the article!
another part of me thinks this model can't scale.

It scales just fine if you are in tightly laid out cities. Like in the UK or NY: http://www.peapod.com/
Don't those usually say they specifically exclude All-Clad?

Actually if you want the cheaper line, Home Goods or TJ Max has good deals on them.
Very impressive, however I fear that he doesn't cover specifically the issue of learning by heart theorems.