skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not have a drink cooler? It'll do a better job of this than a dishwasher.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/cook-your-meat-in-a-beer-...

The dishwasher cooking trick is old, by the way; here's a reference to an article in Salon about it, from the '90s:

http://www.salon.com/2000/03/03/cookbooks_4/
It does sound crazy. But is it much different from an employer bing forced to hire a certain sort of employee?
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What Linux really needs is more fun
Yes, it is much different than that.
I am struggling to imagine how a guy working for 13 years in software wouldn't have years of living costs covered with liquid assets. What the heck do people blow their money on.
A couple of weeks ago when Snowden had a similar leak about Microsoft's compliance with NSA the everybody was up in arms against them. Naively forgetting that Google is the one that collects way more information and has way more context about most people and is very likely sharing that information with NSA as well. Now here you go!
Ok, let me pull the quote and be more direct about my reaction.

"One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent. I'm not sure why. It could be that there are a bunch of subtle things entrepreneurs have to communicate and can't if you have a strong accent. Or, it could be that anyone with half a brain would realize you're going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent. I just know it's a strong pattern we've seen."

As I read it, unfortunately, there's nothing in this published interview that says a foreign-accented person failed to communicate or needed to repeat themselves to be understood.

It just says a "strong" foreign accent, with not clear definition of the subjective meaning of "strong".

Then, it goes astray, saying "subtle cues" could be what leads the person to business failure; presumably subtle cues that would be obvious to a native speaker. Further, not being idiomatic (i.e. not a native speaker). Thus, the conclusion is the deficiency is the foreignness, not a functional problem like elocution.

So, then I think it's pretty cutting to say people are "clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent" (emphasis mine). Since the strong accent is the foreignness, this read to me as saying Americanize which means change your identity.

I contend this is not the best way to make the point. Also, the wrong track since as we have discussed above to death the real problem is the elocution, leadership and business skills, not the foreignness per se.

However, do you think I read the interview (as published) incorrectly? I'm thinking about a cold reader, like a 21-year old woman in Tennessee who moved here with her parents when she was 12 from Sri Lanka thinking of the next big thing.
My favorite thing about SQLite is the business model. My understanding is the product is free, but they charge for their test suite. If you build hardware that is going to use SQLite, then you should pay for the test suite, and that funds the future development. It is a tautologically perfect business model. Revenue toward a rock solid project pays to make it even more rock solid.
> Geographical distribution is simple math

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

> And the maturity level of your software in two years will, obviously, be two years more mature.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This'll be the next thing I try, definitely. Thanks for letting me know!
Apple’s new ads make the company look lame
I think his point is that the truck analogy doesn't favor PHP when he considers that society has made an effort to reduce the use of trucks due to their general inefficiency compared to sedans.

I think the analogy fails because trucks and sedans are different tools for different purposes (one is better for transporting people, one is better for transporting cargo), while PHP and Ruby pretty much do the same thing, one is just prettier and streamlined.
What makes you think that? Daniel Gackle posts here all the time, and last time I talked to him he was still working on it. Some projects take a lot longer than others, and his was particularly ambitious; it wasn't Google Docs.
Ask HN: Any good resources/books on Marketing for first time entreprenuers?
Does anyone have a recommendation for Marketing 101 or Sales 101 book/resource to help first time entrepreneurs.
I hope one day Coinbase adds Litecoin support.
Kickstarter is so restrictive is because they wanted to maximized profit & also result of their taste. Put restriction on hackers who really innovate and create real products? well good luck with that, I am with freedom.
The idea behind decentralization isn't that it eliminates surveillance, but that it makes indiscriminate mass surveillance less easy, especially when combined with good cryptography.

Mass surveillance has existed in other societies without the help of today's technology, but technology, especially when it aggregates aggregates data in large hubs, makes it very easy.

It's not the protocols that are to blame (they're just contracts for how things talk to other things) for enabling mass surveillance, but the way we've structured our software and services.
The json it loads is 4MB and takes about 2 minutes for me. The graph is kind of hard to make out with everything selected.
Just like when Facebook killed all individual photo sharing startups like Instagram?
Steve Ballmer retires: A dark day for Linux
It's cliché, but competition stimulates demand.
Another detail I've stumbled on is that Sam Rushing, a talented Python programmer, had something to do with Python in Google's early history: http://www.nightmare.com/~rushing/ .

He also worked at eGroups. He wrote "medusa" which became asyncore in the Python standard library (http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/). This was long before Java had async I/O. Interesting that Guido is working on the new async I/O interface "tulip" in the Python core after all these years!

And Larry Page's brother apparently also worked at eGroups.
I gave you the step to find the top level, world-wide definition in Google. You say there are other definitions. Ok let's check the Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

"Segregation itself is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons"

If people separate, or group, themselves according to their own desires then that is not segregation according to Google and according to the Wiki which sites at least the "European Commission against Racism and Intolerance".

You may disagree with me but I've provided two worldwide known references both in agreement with each other and with me. The use of the word segregation was wrong by the original author and wrong by HN for posting it that way.
If you build your house on a river-bank, you can hardly be surprised when a flood washes it away.

I guess that's the risk with any entrepreneurial work, that someone will get to market faster or build on an existing user base (in this case, a completely unmatchable user base). Surely though, if a whole business idea can be trumped by a new feature on someone else's site, that'd warrant some stronger scrutiny.
Mythbusters also tried it (with the help of Alton Brown) in their "Surreal Gourmet Hour" episode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqABijWMlxA). Incidentally, that episode also had a bit on cooking with a dishwasher but it was cut (http://mentalfloss.com/article/13132/mythbustersalton-brown-...).
Apple and Microsoft, Then and Now
Is Google Killing Cable?
I think I get you, I did take the more ridiculous meaning first time round.

I still think the second version is still a bit ridiculous, as most gentiles don't have churches. It seems like this is maybe a specific use of the term gentile. I dunno, about the only thing I know of the word is it means someone who isn't jewish, which is a very wide range of people, so I find it hard to believe that jewish people in general are worrying that gentiles in general are looking with suspicion on the unchurched, I mean, what about all the buddhists, for instance? They aren't going to care, and there's loads of them.

edit - I do agree with him that there is no general problem between having articles of faith on the one hand and following processes of knowledge on the other, there can sometimes be specific instances that create problems of course, such as if you believe the universe to be younger than the rocks you are studying. That said, I am not religious by inclination, but I do not think that religion and science are exclusive subjects so I have much I agree with him on. I just found some of the tone of the writing a bit odd and thought it seemed maybe a little shuttered.
The gp point that sqlite gets rid of all the "stuff that has really nothing to do with storing and querying data" still stands.

Sqlite eliminates almost all of the management overhead that other databases force on you, so its trivial to have one database per application. Indeed, I have never seen anyone bother with a multi-application sqlite db, which could also cause serious performance problems. So that renders you sql injection point moot.

As for permissions, its better to let the OS handle that than some half-baked database permissions system. Root accounts/passwords are a wtf in a production environment because they destroy auditability. If you really want permissions, it is trivial to create system user accounts for the application and assign the correct file permissions, or even isolate particularly sensitive information in its own file. Combine this with AppArmor to further lock down individual applications.

All of this is overkill, but so is a full blown RDBMS in many cases. If you are starting out building a new application, just target sqlite until you actually need something bigger. Odds are, YAGNI.
Incidentally, so is salt.
Aspects of that comment are true, but that is a pretty harsh indictment on someone who took a real risk and worked to make it happen.
Its easy to call someone ignorant and stupid because they did not approach a problem the way you would. Dont do it.
Muscle Over Motor: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/12/05/muscle-over-motor/
http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai...

And really, if you think that the RDA is good enough, just take your vitamin pills.
America is no-vacation nation
Scala List Part 1
http://www.scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/24/scala-lists/
A novel way of reproducing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisensory_integration#Rubber...
Why Testers are not the Goalkeepers of Bugs?
Ok, better option.

Give the user four big buttons.

(1) "Deselect all tracking options. I will choose the ones I want"
(2) "Select all tracking optimal user experience, but don't opt me into additional tracking metrics for your use"
(3) "Opt me into all tracking options, both those for an optimal user experience and ones that help you improve the service."
(4) "Give me the most commonly selected options by previously registered users"

(1) is privacy mode. (2) is privacy mode with some concessions for optimal experience. (3) is okay I'll help you guys out. and (4) is I trust the wisdom of the crowds.
They've also announced their intent to launch in Australia: http://www.kickstarter.com/australia
That article did indeed "cover" their digital-first strategy, but it was thickly laden with sarcasm, their heavy-handed ideal of gender politics, and plain old lack of clarity. I didn't "cover" The Atlantic's strategy in the sense that a journalist covers a story, but in the sense that mud covers my boots.

Edit: In the name of fairness I looked for more nuanced/clear criticism of The Atlantic's digital-first strategy and was unable to find any. Almost all the pieces were fawning over its basically unrivaled success among the old guard. The Church of Scientology events were quite troubling, though: http://www.emediavitals.com/content/lessons-atlantics-sponso...
Agreed. The thick accent is just the tip of the iceberg. I found people like this to be somewhat old-school. Education as a hazing experience rather than a process of learning.

This fits well with my experience.
I think they're trying to question you about database entries regarding your life in Experian-type databases. Past addresses, cars you owned, etc. If you never generated that sort of paper trail, the automated verification fails and they just won't do business with you. I too hope they can set up an alternate method soon.
List of Magic Numbers and their meanings
The largest 64 bit prime is 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFC5
So you'd rather it be fast but doesn't work?
Reddit is an interesting case; they seem to have almost unlimited amounts of user good will. Case in point: I get the "you broke reddit" pageload failure message an awful lot and I'm sure others do too. How many other sites have userbases that would tolerate such a high number of errors?
Left-of-field, but Tasmania (the island at the bottom of Australia) is stunning and you will not regret it. It's very much a cold climate, and home to pristine air and wilderness like you can't imagine. Hobart is a perfect base, a place of history, makers and artisan food and brew producers, and you can hike Cradle Mountain, walk the Bay of Fires, relax at Wineglass Bay, whale watch at Freycinet and visit singal-malt whisky distilleries in the highlands. Then to up the ante, hop on the Orion from Hobart and explore Antarctica. Whatever you choose, enjoy! :)
I don't know how much the test suite costs by itself, but it is included in Sqlite Consortium membership, which is a typical open source support-style business model. For $75k, you get almost a month of sqlite developer time and tons of support (eg their home phone numbers). Not a bad deal for companies that want deep sqlite integration or customized versions that fit on tight embedded systems.

https://www.sqlite.org/consortium.html
Coinbase may have venture investment, but their customer service and week-long verification process will make this a nonstarter. If you want to read some of the more entertaining stories about their customer "service" read this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=147341.80

One of my favorites:

Well they refunded the BTC. In order to get a response, all I had to do was post on several BTC related forums and chat, contact the founders on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and file a complaint with the government.

What a company. Now hopefully I am able to successfully transfer the coins out (doubtful).
At first glance there's stuff I like and dislike about this, but the strongest thing is probably separating out how the messages move around from how the keys move around.

Moving encrypted blobs around is easy, as long as you don't care about traffic analysis. Handling keys is a bit harder. Separating those makes sense.
How many years ago was it that Facebook bought out Divvyshot?
Employer provided policies are governed by Federal regulation (ERISA) which is much less policy-holder friendly than state regulated insurance. (At least in "Blue" states, probably a different story in Alabama.)
Do they hope to be as successful as Diaspora? "open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS" sounds like a great summary of a killer project that nobody will ever use.
Do banks really do this? I thought they were primarily concerned with the ratio of owner equity to market value...
SQLite 3.7.17 already makes automatic indices, if none exists for the join, if the planner recommends it.
We're not "so restrictive." Our guidelines ask projects to be on-topic exactly like Hacker News' guidelines for comments do. We're a funding platform for creative projects. We built Kickstarter because we believed that there should be a space for creative ideas to be shared and find support. Every single guideline is there to support and strengthen that mission.
No, this is net tech. Crawlers, parsers, protocol implementations, web servers, cryptography. Sorry, I'm not allowed to disclose much more. Suffice it to say it's not specialized/overly mathy/abstract, and it's very similar to the kind of software the majority of HN users write.

I do hope I can advertise it at some point, as the "Haskell in Industry" page is sorely lacking non-finance companies, and I'm sure there are a lot of companies out there using it.
Sorry, my reading comprehension failed.
Adjusted for inflation, I would not at all be surprised if that was right. The FAX machine was a critical business tool for a large fraction of businesses for a very long time.
Using HTTPS Everywhere gave me a warning on visiting https://google.ps, Chrome blocked the url giving a warning on the HSTS/certificate pinning.
Thanks, just watched it. I love dystopic movies. And I agree.
This will be responsible for a few deaths if it ever becomes widespread. The obvious way is by preventing people from calling 911, but the other way, potentially just as deadly, is preventing people who are on-call from being called into hospitals where their services are required.

Someone who's on-call isn't always at the hospital. They might well be across town, within a certain range as dictated by maximum response time; that is, they can be anywhere within fifteen minutes' travel to the hospital once they've been called. Of course, if they don't get the call, or get the call late, that could mean someone's life.

There's an actual, articulable reason shit like this is illegal, and it isn't just arbitrary FCC bullshit. Being annoyed at cell phone calls isn't worth someone's life.
Ask HN: Any one else think it's a strange time to be a computer scientist?
Having looked into our fields' history -- most of the real exciting stuff (new) happened in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm not the only one but many other prominent members of our field also express that nothing new has been done for ~30 years. Some really exciting stuff I have come aware of: Timesharing, the internet, Smalltalk, Lisp, designing hardware for software, different methods of programming, tools to enhance our understanding of science.

At first enthused about browser/server web applications (using rails framework) -- I find completely dull, and now feel to constrained by the browser and the server interaction. Working with squeak I find I just want my computer too be squeak and build off that.

(caveat: graduated 4 years ago)
horrible company to interview for :/
If you don't want to do anything with a loooong slow cook time (like beyond 4 or 5 hours), you can just use ziplock bags, hot water and a medium beverage cooler. I "backyard sous-vide" steaks and pork chops like this all the time. Ziplocks don't leach any nasties at 130ºF and you don't sous-vide grilling meat long enough for the heat loss of the cooler to really matter. Fish is cooked at lower temperatures than beef/pork, so it should work even better.
> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos.

Which is why they didn't have to worry about some silly mobile app with ridiculous 'filters' that only teenagers use when they want to feel artsy.
> Sqlite eliminates almost all of the management overhead that other databases force on you

Multi-user support is what forces that overhead on you.

It's just that SQLite consciously aims to be a single-user system.

> As for permissions, its better to let the OS handle that than some half-baked database permissions system

This is nonsensical. There isn't an isomorphic mapping from the Unix permissions model to SQL's permissions model, particularly when you start introducing stuff like row-level permissions.

If you write an application which uses a DB backend, and you require multi-user capability, you can either delegate some of that to the database, or roll your own. In which case, half-baked permissions systems are back! Especially if you can't isolate database connections (because it renders any app-code permissions system moot if you allow 3rd party code execution, such as plugins).

All that overhead is there for a reason. Those reasons are irrelevant in the single-user case. But they are not irrelevant in the multi-user case.
Does anyone know if CDMA is vulnerable to the same paging hijack?

I know that Verizon here in the US registers the ESN/MEID of the device itself for service provisioning (with a SIM only being used for GSM roaming and LTE).

I would guess that CDMA doesn't have to 'page' to find the right phone (though it might ping to see if it's still connected / in range) as the phone's ID is already associated with the number (no need to query a SIM).
You are assuming that everyone values the same things.
How Facebook’s Shared Photo Albums Impacts Other Startups. Hint: Doesn’t.
I hope that Paul doesn't consider a Boston accent to be "a strong foreign accent."
What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate
Also, proper equipment is falling in price rapidly. You can buy an Anova immersion circulator for $200 (used to be $300 until the Sansaire kickstarter showed up). I see no reason to believe that the market has bottomed out; the components are just not that expensive.
This is negative marketing. Anyone that does $1M+ a year in online sales doesn't want their payment vendor losing money. What I want are honest FAQs and simple integration options. "Free" is irrelevant. If I can get incremental customers and I hope that means $20,000 more bucks. I don't give a shit about $400 vs. $200 vs. $0. Hell, I pay Apple $6000, and I am only kinda mad.
No you're not disqualified to comment because you're white. You're not particularly entitled to comment is my point, except in a "I have a mouth and it's my right to use it" sense, and your words do not seem especially imbued with any kind of understanding that you might have gained from your circumstances.

I mean, just the fact that you're bringing out nazis and the klan as your examples of most white racists is absurd. The white racists who are the problem aren't the people who go out of their way to how everyone how much they subscribe to theories of white supremacy. Between those people and, say, Rush Limbaugh listeners or people in favor of starkly discriminatory voter laws, the latter are much more of a threat to daily life. And those people don't think they're racists, because they believe racists have hoods and swastikas.

Jesus it's not cherry-picking at all -- there's a reason why "I can't be racist, my best friend is black" is a joke/gag/dead giveaway of racist attitudes. You should try hard to understand why that is. Presenting the Asian-ness of your wife as if it immunizes you from being racist, or proves you aren't now and can't ever be, is classic tokenization.

Maybe this is a new idea for you, but some white guys marry Asian women because they're racists. They project their weird stereotypes/fetishes into an entire race of women. Cross-race affinity, still racist. Not saying that's you, just saying racist behavior is more than "I don't like those people."

Another thought for you -- people can and often are more racist towards some groups than to others.
It looks like they ended up with a better, more generally applicable, and yet, still recognizably Apple-product-related name.