skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phase one: ratatouille

Bought two large aubergines (egg plants) and four courgettes (zuchinis?) and three red peppers, a couple of cans of tomatoes and a can of kidney beans from local corner shop[1]. Cost less than 4 pounds sterling.

Cut and salted the aubergines for 20 minutes and rinsed the bitter liquid. Chopped the courgettes and peppers. Put in large oven dish with four table spoons (60ml) of olive oil. Roasted on gas mark 8 (230C, 450F [1]) for 45 min, stirring once.

Added canned tomatoes and beans and a couple of garlic cloves and cooked for a further 30 min at gas mark 6 (200C, 400F).

5 meals...

1. Served a small portion with rice (cooked in my one button rice cooker). Rest allowed to cool and stored in fridge. Rice is bought in 10Kg bags from local shop for Pounds 7.50

2. A small serving cold on fresh thick white toast for breakfast

3. Fry onion in heavy frying pan and add ready made Rogan Josh sauce from the corner shop. Add substantial serving of the ratatouille. Served with rice with Tumeric/Haldi and naans from the local nan man (1 pound for four naans fresh cooked at local street side bakery). Yoghurt and cucumber (50p per half) dressing.

4. Pasta bake: boil old leftover pastas from various jars. Drain. Stir in 100g (4oz) of cheap grated cheddar cheese (£3.50 for 750g from local supermarket). Spoon in ratatouille from fridge into base of oven dish. Top with the pasta and cheese mixture. Serve with cheap Italian wine (5 pounds and let it breathe)

5. Liquid reserved from the ratatouille plus a few courgettes used in final stages of stir fry of cabbage and mushrooms (50p and 1 pound from local supermarket). Served with rice.

Next: peanut soup but I'm looking for a non-chi-chi recipe. Another local shop oriented to African Caribbean community sells yam and cassava as well as tapioca. They have harissa as well, but I find that hard to digest (burns twice &c).

[1] http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/spicy_lentils_recipe.html

[2] http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/equiv.htm
They don't make 24" iPads.
I would love to know what other products are in your group.
They forgot to update the PiedPiper logo on website
Good. These "news" outlets need to learn how to source their news correctly and not from some anonymous online crap. Hopefully egg on their face here makes them think a little harder about using stuff like this as a source in the future.
The experimental tape Sony has probably ignores this issue.

Tape drives are rated for how many times they can be written / read to from end-to-end. LTO drives are rated for 200+ end-to-end reads.

So an LTO6 tape (2.5TB) has to have 500TB of data read / written to it before it wears out.
Great explanation! Thank you.
heh, we're a rather diverse & cosmopolitan city!
Excellent point.

We regularly extol the virtues of expert-friendly text editors, but don't talk much about the appeals of expert-friendly languages and frameworks. Also worth thinking about: a huge amount of hype gets allocated towards beginner-level languages/frameworks that solve beginner-level problems (todo lists) more easily.
I work as a teacher. Drug deaths are higher frequency in younger cohorts. Emotional impact much higher. Libertarians probably staying away from that one.
I kind of worry about the same issues regarding phpmyadmin, which is a problem with running any web frontend for a backend as a web app.

Wouldn't a solution like pgadmin3 or mysql workbench be a more secure program across the board?
Now make a trillion trillion of them at nanometer scales.
I'll believe it when there is any better available service. I even live in a location where google fiber was announced, but so far it is just nothing.
I'm not sure how it's a "sixth" sense. I already have a nose, so at most this is just an augmentation of a sense I already have.
I'm not sure why ma.tt didn't hyperlink the word Automattic in his post, but he should have, for people who don't know what the company is:

http://automattic.com
Weirdly, middle-click (at least for me) does open the link in a new tab. If I were to venture a guess, it would be that that behavior was unintentional. If it wasn't, I'm also curious about the logic behind it.
Even if it did manage to get somebody at Apple in trouble, the fault lies entirely with Apple laying down false accusations with insufficient evidence, not with the guy who made a lucky guess and didn't even do it intentionally.
Speaking as someone who has lately been studying Common Lisp, I'm not quite sure how I feel about Clojure; I like that it's hosted on the JVM, but I don't like the apparent lack of a debugger, which to my mind is a sine qua non of Lisp development. I haven't seen much in the way of progress on that front, either, but it's been a few months since I last looked into it; is there any sign that that handicap is likely to be repaired?
Contravariance is the Dual of Covariance [video]
As someone posting my resume: I believe about three companies reached out and I got one new connection on LinkedIn otherwise. One of them is relevant to my skillset, and one of them is interesting to me. I think the third is lost in my inbox somewhere.

It wasn't a very serious or desperate posting, so I'd call this a good result. It certainly tells me which firms want candidates so much they're willing to respond to some jerk's self-serving self-advertisement ;-).
> K-Mart is more sad, it's more like the dilapidated shanty, leaning to one side, with ten kids playing in the yard.

I'll bet I first stepped foot in to a K-Mart some 40 years ago. The really sad thing is that by my recollection, K-Mart has always been that way. Dirty, poorly-lit in many cases, and eternally in need of an update. Perhaps there was a time that K-Mart stores looked shiny, new and not run down, but it must have been before my time.
I just spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out what Automattic is and does. I gather they are in some way connected to wordpress, but beyond that I am baffled.
This seems like comparing apples to oranges. Looking at the average lifespan of smokers v. the average age of an alcohol related death isn't right. It should either be the average lifespan of those who drink (or perhaps even more accurately, alcoholics) v. the average lifespan of smokers. Or, the average age of a smoking related death v. the average age of an alcohol related death (and within this, probably should add something that splits out causes between alcohol related decision making, ie drunk driving and alcohol related illnesses, although the point of the comparison is to highlight the dangers, so the fact that smoking doesn't result in drunk driving accidents is important).
Ask HN: How to Monetize Online Bartering?
I am a lawyer and I ran into an interesting legal problem this past week. Basically there is a physical good ("Widget") which is illegal to resell (sell p2p), but is perfectly legal to trade. As it turns out there is an entire "under ground" market dedicated to trading Widgets, the most analogous good I can think of are sneakers which have an enormous underground market, called sneakerheads, who buy/sell/trade custom, vintage, limited release, and rare sneakers p2p. The only difference with the Widget and sneakers is the Widget can not be sold p2p, Widget can only be traded. Therefore, if you need a specific product to answer, imagine the product would be shoes and the community would be sneakerheads.

How might one monetize or make a business out of building a online community for the sole purpose of facilitating p2p trades of Widgets? I can think of advertising, paid membership and selling products to the community related to the Widget.
The Next Space Race: Commercial Crew
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An Open Letter to Facebook on the Heels of F8
True. You can get a lot of the stuff that Target sells elsewhere. One thing that I like about Target in my neighbourhood is that it's generally so empty that it feels like you have the whole place to yourself. (Not that that's sustainable in the long term.) It's also open until 10 PM, which generally makes it the only store open after 9 PM around here.
Why not?

You got input, output and calculations.

What else do you need?
Python recursion visualization with rcviz
Consumer Physics’ Kickstarter campaign transparency
Booting xv6 OS on intel CPU
Trying to boot xv6 on a real machine but failing. xv6 is an OS for x86 PC written by MIT. Need help to get it to boot on an INTEL CPU
I'm not a woman, but to me the fact that it's clean and bright makes it much less soul-crushing to shop retail.
Yes, what do you want to know? :)
I keep a notebook in the bathroom...
An authoritative answer to why "final default" methods are not allowed in Java 8
This won't work in our country. Drivers don't follow traffic regulation, the roads can't even be called roads. Everything is just wrong. Even a very advance AI can't handle our roads in Philippines.
While this is a reasonable approach, it quickly breaks down when you look at code written by others who do not follow this approach.
Do Your Homework on Open Source
I suppose this just goes to show that internet infrastructure is a natural monopoly and it takes a company with $400 billion market cap to disrupt the market and create actual competition.
QiPack: Ultra-Thin Wireless Portable Charger
Everything is sales
That's true, and again, something that more data like this can be really helpful with. I disagree that it will steer people away from this argument though, since "victimless crime" is alive and well, despite the very moving and personal response of "parents of the children who die are very much victims." Especially given that those who libertarians are trying to convince are generally technocrats, assuming they don't bother attempting to convince those arguing from morals.
What is the benefit here to the tweeter? I guess you could post an affiliate link and get paid for it. Otherwise you're just advertising for amazon for free, which hardly needs doing.
I know that Wordpress as a platform touches a ton of people, but I'm curious to see what sort of revenue Automattic must be doing on the paid side to justify a $1B+ valuation.

I guess it's possible this has little to do with the company's earning potential, and everything to do with reach and influence.
As I said, the problem is that when a kid is having trouble, it's very difficult to figure out where he's going wrong if he isn't showing his work. To take a simple example, let's try factoring a quadratic. The kid doesn't show any work and just writes down "x = 1 and -5." He's wrong. Well, how did he get there? Did he make a careless mistake when factoring it? Did he try the quadratic formula but mess up a term? Is he just guessing? I don't know because he didn't show his work.

Meanwhile, if he shows that he's factoring the polynomial and writes a 5 where he should have written a 3, I can immediately tell that he knows what's going on but made a careless mistake. Alternatively, if he writes down a bunch of gibberish, it means that he doesn't know what's going on and needs someone to go over the concepts again.

It's like a compiler. Do you want a compiler that compiles really, really fast but just throws opaque error exceptions, or do you want a compiler that is slower but gives you detailed warnings and error messages? I'd rather take the latter. Maybe once I'm perfectly sure that my code works, I'll do it with the former.
Could Establishing Maternity Leave Policies Help Startups Close the Gender Gap?
Vocabulary Statistical Mapping – Shakespeare vs. Hip Hop Artists
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I too am curious, as there's not much in the way of revenue even on the horizon for Tumblr according to pieces like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/technology/no-regrets-for-...
The Dash looks really great. I'd love to read a review on these when they are delivered.
I would prefer a wishlist feature instead of a the shopping cart so i can purchase the item later
...let me define location it returns when I refuse real location.

This would destroy some apps, e.g. Ingress.
I had a similar reaction the first time I read about them. They've acquired a few apps / businesses as well. I think they do pretty much anything software / Internet related. They 'build products for the web' as it were.
Floqker is looking for some kickass individuals
Launching this Spring, Floqker is unique social media platform that will allow you to create interactions and experiences around what you care about the most. We are in need of some highly talented, uniquely innovative, and just all-around awesome people to lead our digital and event/presence marketing strategies. Contact us at info@floqker.com if interested and be sure to check out our page www.f6s.com/floqker!
- For others in the HN community: Did you find it interesting, or did you use it to find fits for opportunities you were aware of?
I didn't directly participate in any way, but I did find it interesting. Particularly in opening up the thread and doing a search for "Austin" or "C++" or "Ninja" to get a general feel of how the job-seeking hn community is represented in various vectors. I could see myself actually using it in the future (both to find candidates or potentially find work in the future)

- For everyone: Outside of the above benefits, what concerns or issues do you see with a thread like this, and would you support some sort of recurrence?
I think it's worth some sort of recurrence. The biggest issue I saw with it was that it seems like it will unfairly generate more interest in the 'top comments', which in a thread like this would ideally not be ranked by anything more meaningful than who responded first. I would like to hear feedback from those who were listed far down in the thread as to how their experience was, compared to say 'jader201' who says he had a great experience with it (but was within the top 5 most of the time)

I also noticed there were essentially 3 kinds of posts. Purely "mini resume" posts, posts with "this is who I am", and posts with "this is what I'm looking for". I'd be curious as to how different tone resulted in different responses.

Interesting experiment!
If that's your definition of art, then I can only consider myself fortunate to have been doing something else. Though, it's hard to see why anyone would gain anything in studying it were that the case. They could just make totally random shit up and claim, with as good a justification as any other, that it was as worthwhile as the work of any renowned mathematician.

However, I don't agree that art is unconcerned with reality, nor that maths is. We learn to draw by looking at things in the world, we get our rules about anatomy and so on from there; we learn maths based - at least initially - on physical examples; we tell stories based upon common themes and situations. The basic rules of these things are drawn from their correspondence to reality; with what people have experience with; and form the meaningful grammar of the system. Art is always a language, and a language is always representative. Even when - as arts - we may bend a few rules and simplify certain aspects to lend emphasis or make it better suited to approaching a particular problem.

To hold otherwise seems to me to deprive them of a foundation to communicate any common meaning. It would be no better to learn maths, under that definition, than to spend your life insanely scraping crayons across a page. (Indeed, given that the symbols would also be arbitrary in their meaning, it would be hard to tell the difference.)

Is maths an art, is it a science?

It's a language of enquiry. To claim that it proceeds solely by a 1-1 correspondence to reality is to picture mathematicians off somewhere counting things and deriving pi from taking increasingly precise measurements of actual circles. (And, really, even physics proceeds with the help of a healthy dollop of imagination that forms the foundation of hypothesis.) To claim that it has no correspondence to reality is to reduce the whole exercise to nonsense.

I do not see how either position taken as an absolute is tenable.
I would argue that compared to it's competitors, WP has a more solid business model and actual revenue. See Tumblr for an example of a highly valued service, with great reach and "influence" but no revenue.
99% of kids who were "always good at math" will continue to be good at math in college. So the entire article is a rant against a straw man to make a case for his beliefs on how math should be taught. Not that I disagree that math education is stupid, but just saying this rant is has no foundation.

The 1% of kids who did well in high school and then fail in college because they are so attached to their rote memorization of techniques have a profoundly broken approach to problem solving that is bigger than the education they received. I've tutored many kids exactly like that and it is very hard to pry them free of that mentality. It is part of their personality. Also, those kids were never really good at math in high school either and were battling (using tutors for help frequently) uphill to get through their entire primary curriculum.

The much bigger and real tragedy of math education in the US is the very large percentage of kids who have been labeled as "not good at math". Those kids 99% of the time are actually plenty good at math but have fallen out of the system because of frustration and a poor fit for their learning style. Those kids don't end up in universities trying to take calc for science majors at all because they believe they aren't capable and that is a crime.
I found a similar issue with the Square Register app for Android. CyanogenMod's PrivacyGuard feature tells me it tried to access my location 22,000+ times in a 2-day period: https://twitter.com/evanw/status/453576355284660224/photo/1/...

I assumed this was a programming issue (perhaps unregulated retries) rather than the app legitimately trying to locate me 10,000 times per day.
For small programs you will be able to remove the ZALGO-like text. Since it replaces the actual variable names with an obfuscated name, you wont ever be able to get the original code back (i.e. 'var foo' will become 'var he_comes123'. With a lot more code will make the reverse-engineering not worth the time spent recreating the original.
See the look_of_disapproval option of gulp-obfuscate for another example:
function ಠ_ಠ4() {
var ಠ_ಠ1, ಠ_ಠ2, ಠ_ಠ3;
...
ಠ_ಠ3 = ಠ_ಠ1 + ಠ_ಠ2;
return ಠ_ಠ3;
}
A lot of people tweet random amazon links on my feed, not affiliates, just normal people that buy stuff on amazon. I could see it coming in handy for them.

I personally don't see any need for this in my life right now, though I do buy a lot on Amazon.

For marketers, this could be a huge deal.
Unfortunately that is almost impossible to measure with our current tools (at least I have never seen it done convincingly, and I generally agree with you that this is ignored too much. Although I have to qualify that GMO-food is better than no food, while recognizing that in almost all cases, that's not anywhere close to what the choice boils down to).

I think it was sama who said that factory farming is one of the things that in 50 years we will look back at in confusion over why anyone accepted it, and I tend to agree.
Maybe when you retweet someone else's tweet?
Europe doesn't generally use 4-way stop signs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-way_stop) in the traffic regulations; intersections tend to be either regulated, or with one road designated as the priority, or as roundabouts, not like this.

I've driven a bit around Europe, but I have never seen a single such intersection in my life - if they exist, they must be rare.

Of course, "if you have an intersection of non-priority roads and a car from each direction" then it's the same, but in practice it seems that 'they' make sure that such intersections are only in extremely low-traffic places where you'll very rarely see another car at the same time.
The approach I'm taking for a current language project is to start with a minimalist syntax for the first iteration. This allows me to focus on the actual language implementation, which is the part I'm most interested in learning. It also allows me to rapidly iterate on language features without having to spend too much time fiddling with the parser.

Once I've got a semantics I like, I'll probably do a second pass to come up with a new syntax if I haven't decided I'm done with the project. By then I'll have written plenty of test cases using the first syntax, so I should have a much better idea of what I'd like to get out of a more complex one.
The driver won't have to be vigilant or even awake for the whole time, only in emergencies. I'm assuming the car would stop or slow down automatically in case of any problem and notify the driver.

Good point on the pilots, though I always felt that it's unnecessary for them to stay awake (especially on cargo planes). And it looks like many do fall asleep inflight: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/oukoe-uk-britain-pi...

Truckers, on the other hand, need to be alert all the time, falling asleep for even a few minutes can be catastrophic.

I'm mostly hoping for fewer human drivers - two drivers/technicians should be enough to drive a whole convoy of trucks between cities/countries.
I would as well. I might not be in the mood to buy the product right now, but would like to be reminded about it later.
Meh, I think the idea is thin.

So I can have biometrics info only when i stick something in my head? Quantified Self or whatever you want to call it is certainly big business, but it NEEDS passive data collection to ever be a mainstream success. Thus the fitbit, and possibly the iWatch. "Just stick these sensors in your ears" is not a good solution to this. And "All the info you want about what your body is doing while you listen to music" is not exactly what I'm going after when I use these apps.
It's not the OP's fault, it's lack of integrity in the press.

You start by propagating a rumor on some insignificant source like Secret, then a blogger picks it up. The blogger gets noticed by people on Twitter, who catch the attention of some small news source. Bigger newspapers notice that the story is blossoming in the lower echelons and they pick it up. Suddenly, something which carries zero truth has become fact in a cascade of increasing credibility.

This is the problem with modern online media. When more clicks mean more money, the incentives will favor rumors and lies. And this doesn't only happen by accident, as in the OP's case, but it's done over and over again by media manipulators who have realized that it's a bug in the system that's easily abused for fun and profit.