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In an open-plan office, which is shared with sales and support staff, this is almost impossible to experience, except on the weekends (I am, however, way more productive over the weekend).

For weekdays, I've tried the following alternatives with varied amounts of success:

Rain track - this is like a 4 hour rain sound loop and worked really well. I think the noise from rain effectively blocks a wide range of frequencies, but I could be mistaken.

Baroque music - I had a range of results with this. It seemed pieces with harsh sounding instruments, ones with a sharp attack, tended to do more harm than good, where as pieces using mostly just softer sounding instruments.

Dance music - this works best for me, but I must vary the playlist and dub tracks, ones without vocals, work better than ones with vocals. The sub-genres range from trance to dubstep.

During hectic times, I also ask a colleague to take my calls and I'll get back to them later. This works tremendously well.
Ask HN: Popular C magazine
Is there an equivalent of Pycoder's Weekly for C?
Thanks for submitting this. I'd love to hear what resources everyone has used to learn design, development, and marketing.
Big Changes in the IPv6 Landscape in 2012
I added your question in the Q&A so that others can read the summary answer.
2 Years Into Its Turnaround, Nokia Shows Promise
The title is a derivation of 'Learn You a Haskell for Great Good' (http://learnyouahaskell.com/), which was created first by Miran Lipovača, and has also been published by No Starch since then.

When he made his version, I found it interesting and asked him if he'd be fine with me making one in Erlang. He said yes and I started working on it.

The first few chapters will go through similar topics and demonstrations (both go through a RPN calculator and a problem called 'Heathrow to London', for example), and then later on it takes a direction of its own.

So to answer your question directly, I have no idea if it's an attempt to be ghetto cool. It might be. I just picked a title that would fit the other book to maybe create a family of them or whatever. There's two in the group for now.
* 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. You should have one trustworthy cookbook.

* You will be unhappy if your only cooking surface is cast iron. I agree that you can do without the dutch oven but it is the "pan you can do without" that is the most valuable; it is the immediate runner up to the the "list of must-have pans".

* Strong disagree on your mixing bowl point. You need lots of mixing bowls. I have 8 and wish I had more. For instance: muffins and pancakes both want two mixing bowls at a minimum, and three if you don't want to use a service bowl to separate eggs. Sautees want a mixing bowl for proteins and mixing bowl for prepped vegetables. Dinner prep usually wants one mixing bowl just to throw onion skins and wrappers in. Mixing bowls are lightweight, stackable, cheap, and supremely useful, and it makes no sense to chintz on them.

* I don't even know how to respond to "ditch the whisk" unless you're one of those old French guys who can make a hollandaise with a fork. You need a whisk.
Ask HN:  What is the best time to launch your beta
Some days are better for news than others. Is any one particular time better than another to get maximum exposure for your beta launch?

Mondays, Fridays, Early, Lunch, Late.. what works for you guys?
They project each frame 3 times so that your eye can't pick up flicker from the light going on and off. I'd imagine that at the full 72fps it would not be necessary to flash each frame 3 times.

Finding a 'framerate' for the eye is difficult. Under certain conditions, 60hz (think florescent lighting) can be enough that your eyes won't notice a flicker. (your eyes hold a residual for some period of time, and you never see the darkenss). But if you are flashing a series of super-crisp photos, your eye is much more likely to pick up on stuttering because each photo has just as much light.

And then, if you have some action sequence in a movie where parts of the scene are really bright and fast-motion, and others are dim, the minimum amount of frames per second you need to create a 'perfect' experience for the eye is anybodies guess. It would probably also make a difference if you were a person used to looking for flaws in a picture, vs a person who is just trying to enjoy a movie and doesn't know anything technical about framerates, etc.

Regardless, all forms of currently available cinema have framerates with room for improvement.
Would you mind sharing some of your favorite places? There's lots of food places in Miami, but I find most of them to be rather heavy on the stomach :-)
My favorite jar opener is a rubber band looped around the lid. The fat ones from asparagus work well.

I agree that measuring cups & spoons and oven mitts are a big oversight though, and the inclusion of the ice cream maker is just strange.
It's January and we eat lunch on the picnic benches outside our office. There's an ocean right here and good skiing less than 5 hours away.

People who can afford to live here will never leave. Those are the people the rest of us need to be around.
For family photos the GIMP is perfectly adequate, overkill even, editing on an iPad would give you just as good results. It's only if you need a professional workflow that the Adobe tools would be necessary.
It's actually quite a bit more than that. Streak, PagerDuty, and some others.

Velocity -> YC seems to be a great pipeline!
How does emacs deal with:

| Django models.py modules can’t be reloaded
| normally due to the AppCache singleton
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I don't know what "creaming egg whites" means, but if you're going to have any electrics, have one that does a good job of whipping egg whites and don't waste time doing it by hand.
I've got a copy of Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine"

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/...

...which helped me learn about the MAXIMUM viable kitchen. It has a $10,000 lab-grade centrifuge, among other things.
People like to compare one tool to the others but to me, different good tools have a different tastes and each people have their own taste :)

Kippt is the one I stick it, and the other feature rich tools don't get me at all
Different goals! The OP's aim is a "Minimum Viable Kitchen (MVK) for creating gourmet food".
Thus is common for most of these. They originally had one meaning, but were then corrupted by people misunderstanding them.
For example "moot" originally referred to a meeting of a local (town) council http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/moot-point.html
Probably on the high end of things, but it's really not that hard. Based on what I've seen from my insurance co. the base rate for my doctor is about ~$250, even for something as simple as simple consultation about the flu (i.e., no tests or other treatment/equipment).

If you have something more complicated, like, say, requiring stitches, or even basic lab testing (urinalysis?), it all adds up on top of all of that. I'd imagine if you went to the doctor and he/she ordered a small battery of tests, you'd run up well over $800 fairly quickly.
Yet the framework docs say none of this. Look at rails, it tells you, put your gems in the gemfile.

Laravel says, hack shit directly on your webserver.

If you're supposed to use composer, why don't the docs say this? Instead the docs say, unzip and hack.
Do you steel every time you use the knife? That seems to be what pro's do. Obviously there's a difference between "dull" and "out of true", and if the only problem is "easy to get out of true", well, that's not a big deal.
Startup Act contains provisions to that effect.
I think it's the former. This feels to me like a marketing strategy and loss leader to grab a new set of customers and eventually migrate them into the full Basecamp product.

I could see people saying to themselves, "I love this email list thing, but it would be cool if we also had a calendar or could create lists, etc..." which prompts the upgrade to Basecamp.

The $10 one-time fee then becomes a way to separate the customers who are at least willing to take out their credit card for something like this, vs. those who would never do that. It will probably end up being a decent marketing tool that pays for itself over time.
According to the ToS[1], the dictionary and its definitions are the property of its creators. I guess each individual Urban Dictionary editor has the right to sue IBM for unauthorized use of their content? There's nothing in there forbidding anyone from automatically scraping the site using a bot though.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/tos.php
Just a note about the pots and pans. All-Clad is nice, but also very expensive. After seeing a few recommendations on reddit, I picked up a Tramontina set from walmart.com (weird, I know). I love them. They're stainless steel, high quality, TryPly-clad pans, and you can pick up an 8-piece (5 total pans + lids) set for ~$130.
Having a real notebook open next to the keyboard. It allows me to work out problems with more ease without having to use the computer itself. As I write this, the notebook has a specific problem I'm working out. Every few minutes I look at it, make notes, and keep browsing. In less than half an hour I can break it down with ease. Without feeling guilty for browsing the web, and without being less productive. Either way, I was going to spend a lot of time solving the problem. When I can get my mind off it, the solutions come by quicker. Then its just back to gedit or vim (or *emacs if Lisp), and the code just flows.
That's how I've shipped around 6 MVPs last year without much drama. Try it out.
This.

People focus a lot of the equipment, but a properly stocked pantry will get you further.

Find a canned "quick" item that is super luxurious. Keep it always stocked. It makes the simple life awesome. Mine are "elysee gherkins". Eat a sandwich? Add gherkins. Any kind of appetizer? put a small bowl of gherkins out.
Yes there is. Check out http://www.rubyinside.com/
Ask: How do I memorize mathematical proofs for my calculus exam?
Hi,

I studying computer science, taking a few courses of basic mathematics (Linear Algebra and Calculus II).

Our exams require us to mostly cite well known proofs, like the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem etc.
Altogether there are close to 50 such proofs to memorize.

Regardless of my understanding of the material, most of the students memorize these proofs, as there are very difficult, non trivial and are marked in a very harsh manner.

What do would be the best way to learn these theorems off by heart?
As a person who hates hearing the political arguments around this subject, I am excited to hear people talking about this.

As a dev who knows how hard/impossible it can be to write bug-free software, I think this could be opening a can of worms. The Next Generation of gun law debates could end up being about software failures, privacy, and intense political debates and stupid bills that dictate how/when guns can be rightfully fired.
Isn't it the opposite? Doesn't seasoning of cast iron allow you to cook acid foods? Washing your pan is what breaks down seasoning, but also, seasoning is easy to fetishize. Just wipe the pan down with canola and stick it in a fast oven. Seasoning cast iron is even easier than sharpening a knife.
A few comments:

- Stick blenders, at $20, are a steal.

- Kitchenaid is a good mixer brand, but Breville also gets very high marks.

- If you're going to bake even infrequently, the rolling pin is non-optional. A good solid rolling pin can also be used for whacking things (e.g. butter you want to soften but not melt) and as a cylindrical mold.
hmexx, to be clear: you pay $5000 to the developer to seed full time development for a month or two and on completion you will in addition spend $3000 promoting the product.

An open question is: how active of a partner would you be once the business (hopefully) becomes a real/profitable business? Are you offering to be a full active partner in running the successful businesses that you seed with this offer? If so, then your offer sounds like a good deal for developers.

Anyway, great idea!
What an interesting reflection on who we are as a species.

We build systems to organize who we are (urbandictionary) but hate it when the systems use that information tell us who we are (watson).

It feels so much like the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.

Perhaps an appropriate response would be for the computer to measure the tension in the human voice response to it's queries and optimize for lower tension.

So it can pick three words:
Bullshit -> 80% confident;
Sham -> 70% confident;
Fallacy -> 50% confident;

Within limits, it will pick the less optimal word and measure the tension in the response and find a way of influencing confidence based on responses.

Think multi-armed bandit problem but with social situations. I mean, to be honest, isn't that what we all did when we were in middle school? We used as many bad words as possible measuring the response we got from others? None of us were born with a binary understanding of when to use certain words it was more trial and error.
So what you are saying some people are better than others and have preference before the law because they are "protected class" and since AIG shareholders do not belong to this class the law and fairness works differently for them. I see.
I think it's an awesome idea, and I'll gladly take you up on it. I have a side project that's nearly completed for some months now, and this is exactly the kind of kick in the butt I need to finish.

To all the naysayers: I take it that you all have finished your ideas, went through YC and are accomplished millionaires? If not, what's with the negative attitude? Here's someone OFFERING you money for your project, and OFERING to do all the hustling for you. You underestimate how much work and trouble hustling is...

Thank you for this opportunity, and you can expect my email later today!
ROFL-stomp? That's a new one on me.
What is especially interesting to me is to see how well this "build it and they will come" approach will fare against the popular "customer discovery" approach.

Of course, I assume the OP will be vetting the ideas through some kind of idea rubric, so he has some idea of market validity and isn't pushing forward some technology blindly.
That wouldn't work because it would include things a person did at various times during their life. It also would be hard to make sure that it reacts or changes in response to new stimuli in the same way that person would.
I like it but I think what you should do is reverse the order a little, I would first get ideas from people (sign NDA etc if people require it), then put a landing page, get the marketing going for a few weeks, the ones that get the most sign ups, go back to the developer and make that deal, the rest, well, you save your 5000$ and the developers time on a potentially bad idea (could be a great idea, but not attracting enough interest)
This is something I'd go look to Cooks Illustrated for. My only real issue is, don't buy the sets. The pots & pans you need are specific. You definitely don't need 8 of them.

Cooks Illustrated doesn't like Tramontina; they claim they heat unevenly and require more oil. They "Recommend it with reservations". The "budget" brand Cooks Illustrated likes is Cuisinart.
I teach at Catalyst, and one of our students shares your background. He's doing great, and I wouldn't be concerned if I were you. Feel free to email me if you'd like to be introduced, or if you have any further questions -- shawn@catalystclass.com.
Practice, practice, practice! The more hands-on experience you have, the greater your facility with the material will be.

If you're looking for more material/exercises, check out the prep work that all of our accepted students complete before the course: https://github.com/kushpatel72/App-Academy-prep-work/blob/ma....
There are probably "better" stand mixers than Kitchenaid, but you want to be in the Kitchenaid ecosystem. Having a non-Kitchenaid mixer is like working in the receivables department of a Fortune 500 company and using Linux + OpenOffice.

We have a pricy Vitamix blender, but I use my stick blender much more often regardless.
OOon the other hand you probably have more computing power in your purse or pocket than entire server farms had in the 80s. It's all relative.

The big question is just when is Moore's Law going to quit applying.
The difference in heterogeneity between the US and the other countries has probably increased from 1950 to today. But I also suspect that some of this difference in life-expectancy between the US and the 14 others is that it might be easier to implement preventive health care measures that reach the whole population in societies that have more comprehensive health care insurance by default.

It would be really interesting to see data comparing the healthiest people in the US and other similarly developed countries.
If you're on Windows, there is always the ActiveX version...
It's true... I didn't search very hard, but I didn't find any "real world and/or big" apps written in Racket. [Edit: of course if we exclude Hacker News website, which is written in Arc, which is in turn written in Racket.] I think it's mainly because it is (or was) a Scheme - language almost universally thought to be very beautiful, very useful in education and completely useless in real world.

If I remember correctly breaking with this image was one of the reasons for name switch, but it was done rather recently (in 2010) and it will take some more time before Racket will get it's chance in the real world... Just how many years it took Haskell to convince people that it's something more than an obscure research project?

Certainly, the language would benefit greatly from much higher number of libraries, for example, and their lack can be a serious setback for larger projects. On the other hand the language itself includes many sophisticated, impressive features that help with programming such projects - one tiny example is a very nice module system, closer in essence (I think) to that of OCaml than to that of Python and another is an object system, which is well thought out, easy to use and really powerful.

So, while Racket is nowhere near Common Lisp (I really hope you used 'CL' as abbreviation for Common List and not Clojure :)) in industrial usage, I believe that it is (or will be shortly) ready for it's chance in the real world. It would take one or two moderately successful startups to build their products in Racket and open-source all the libraries they wrote to make Racket really viable alternative for other languages.
Hah! You deserve a billion upvotes because of the chuckles I just had remembering trying to explain the difference between one pass and two pass to a junior dev (which was completely irrelevant to our jobs at the time, I suspect he found something in Stack Overflow about it or something)
What drives me nuts is that it knows the smallest denomination at the end of the transaction but out doesn't remember this for the next transaction.
I like using pomodoros periodically. I find that I don't always need them, but if a day or two goes by where I'm feeling unfocused, using them for a couple of days gets me back on track.
Don't forget to use driverless vehicles to make deliveries (this is an ideal world, after all).
I sometimes curse the Linode remote console because it's buggy, slow, and the list of unsupported operations could fill a library, but at least it's not Java. I didn't know Rackspace's used Java.
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I understand both the reason for the sound alert and the distaste for carrying forward the existing bland hum. Perhaps the NHTSA could come up with an acceptable standard definition (x db, localizable, y frequency histogram, etc. ) that would guarantee the vehicle was audible, and then curate a library of tone generators that were acceptable for use on city streets.

I'm not the only one who would like his vehicle to purr like a kitten, literally.

But this is just a general instance of safety standards that try to achieve their goals by indirect means; rather than specify what exact sounds must be used. Why not have a requirement that a vehicle must emit a sound that is audible , indicative of a vehicle and not an offensive breach of the peace.
The model described here in this post sounds like a good start-up idea itself. Although you would need a fair amount of capital to mitigate the risk of company ideas that may fail.
I've long been a diehard C fan, and I still jump at the opportunity to use it, but the realization that choice can be harmful has gradually pushed me away from C.

The problem of choice with libraries is really only the beginning though. Coding style/formatting choice, language feature choice (infamously an issue with C++; which subset of the language to use is the source of most trouble in C++ teams in my experience), build system choice, etc are all sources of trouble. Most modern languages cover some of these with various effectiveness, but miss others. Unfortunately, the popular modern languages seem to do rather poorly in these areas.

I find either extreme comforting. The reckless freedom that C offers is alluring, but the bondage of a batteries included language with strong idioms covering the entire system makes for better programmers.
Complex are the ways of the enterprise.
Agreed. In this case, it's not actually 8 pans, since they're including the lids in the count. It's actually two sauce pans, two saute pans, and a dutch oven - which is perfect for me.
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Take a look at "your" money. Notice that it says "Federal Reserve Note." That's because it's a promise created, promoted, distributed and backed by the government. In a very real sense, it's their money.

As the "property" you feel so strongly about, belongs to the government, it seems only fair that you should follow their rules in the use and disposition of it, don't you think?

I have another question, too, which is on a completely different tack. Why don't you care about the poor and weak in your society? Don't you see you're all in it together? Doesn't common fellow feeling let you see that trying to lift up the disadvantaged is a genuinely human and humane thing to do?
Flatbreads in frying pan.

Actual bread takes 10 minutes of attention and about 2 hours of wall time.
Wow, not sure how I forgot Pair and Vidyard.
worth reading in relation to this, including the impact of the CSSOM http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/deciphering-the-critical... and using the DOMContentLoaded event
I like the name. I immediately knew it was a play on duck duck goose.
Another one that I ran into at the same time as parse_url is that passing NULL to urldecode would throw a notice, which was simpler to @ away then check first since it always returned an empty string anyway.
So here I'd just point out that if you're going to have a dutch oven, it should be enameled cast iron.
Good list. We've got a lot more stuff in our kitchen but that list is what we use all the time and wouldn't want to live without. I do have a couple non-sticks for omeletts and stuff like that and love them dearly but treat them very gingerly.
I've never heard them called "stick" before, but I was going to chime in that immersion blenders are more useful in everyday life (plus you don't have to wash anything else - puree that soup right in the pot you cooked it in).