skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never bought a jar of goose or duck fat. We will just cook a goose or duck and collect the fat afterwards. The product isn't as pure, but you're getting a whole, tasty meal out of it, so it's much more economical that way.

I have been cooking with lard for about 20 years. It's just something that my family never stopped using. I learned to cook from my father and his grandmother, and she always asserted the superiority of lard over Crisco, even going so far as to setup blind taste tests (that 85 year old woman was more of a scientist than most of the scientists I know today). Growing up in a rural area, it was readily available in all of the grocery stores. Even though most of the stores here in Alexandria carry it, they usually only have it in small tubs, about the size of a large tub of sour cream. The stores back home had it in bulk-sized canisters of all the same sizes that Crisco came in.

I'm also quite a fan of collecting bacon fat. Filter it through a paper towel first and it makes a wonderful oil for cooking eggs and sauteing vegetables. I've been known to cook an entire pack of bacon in the morning just to have the oil available for making dinner. Having cold, cooked bacon available in the fridge for the next week is a nice bonus.
Google launches Android One-powered smartphones at 105 $
Minorities or 'difficult groups' (whatever they are) have a right to vote, so they can exercise it if they want to. No excuse needed! This is about being compelled to participate, not about wanting to go and needing an excuse. You never need an excuse, there is an election in progress and you exercise your rights.

Do you have examples of places where employers can interfere so easily with the right to vote?

Are polling stations in those places only open during business hours?

Are the rights of citizens in those places subject to the whims of employers?

That would make for an interesting situation.

I'm not aware of any place where a company could stop its employees from voting if it wanted to do so, but that's an interesting perspective. I don't really understand what voting being mandatory or optional has to do with that though.
The "traumatic incident" with pies was seeing them being made commercially!
Automatically strong name signing NuGet packages
KDC reminds me a bit of Clive Palmer.
RetroBSD – Unix for microcontrollers
While this technology may not lead to a more fulfilled or meaningful life there is plenty of technology that can achieve that goal. Look at the progress made for artificial limbs for example.

Even this type of technology can make a huge difference depending on circumstance. Several types of disabilities are easier to deal with using an iPad over the crummy alternatives that existed before.
Yes, but i think this "i want the latest update" argument is much exagerated on HN, but not so much important for Joe User.
My gf just bought a cheap android phone and i told her that it won't receive any updates but she didn't care.
Offering to check for updates (the nerd that i am) she still refused. She just doesn't want to be bothered with it.
I suppose that is true for many people.
And, to be honest, Android didn't have truely interesting new features for several releases. I own my google phone, and it's nice for me to be on the latest releases all the time, but truth be told i couldn't tell if my phone ran 4.0 or 4.4.
Thanks for the clarification, additionally I could only find a Chrome plugin for Torque, which should be compatible with other torrent clients out of the box. However I can definitely see the advantage of using only web technologies. If anyone's interested I found the paddleover example on github:

https://github.com/bittorrenttorque/paddleover.com
Actually, no. Having multiple targets requires more shots. Ammo cost. Every company has to figure out how they will handle the mobile market. They have to pour resources into android and iPhone or else into a bridge tool like appcellerator. Bridge tools have costs because the require customization time.

Compare this to modern Web Development. There is only one family of targeted platforms: html and Javascript. That's it. Don't like Javascript? Tough. But at least you don't have to learn and pay for multiple, vendor-centric tech. I actually long for a standard platform for native mobile development.
Everybody Loved Their Browning Hi-Powers Back in the Day
Here's me thinking I added to the discussion :-D
>So I guess not as many are sold with Firefox OS rather than Android, because ALL OF THEM ARE SOLD WITH ANDROID AND NONE WITH FIREFOX OS!

Wikipedia says it's sold with either and can't dual boot.

>And if it wasn't good enough for you, did you contribute to it? Because you know that half of it is written by volounteers, right?

Ever hear of "throwing good money after bad"?

If I had free hardware, I'd certainly at least test it out and report any glaring bugs, but I don't have any interest in it as a platform. I don't like BlackBerry phones either, but nobody goes "just try them" there (iphones, though, have their own cult around them of course).
Remote Direct Memory Access – RoCE versus iWARP
It has been my experience that JavaScript is a high level language.

In this particular case, Ruby is not being compiled to JavaScript but being transpired.
The three phones are:

* http://www.flipkart.com/spice-android-one-dream-uno-mi-498/p...

* http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00NEFFWF6?

* http://www.snapdeal.com/product/karbonn-android-one-blue/193...

Almost the exact same specs on all three phones.
The Making Of: Single Div Drawings with CSS
As far as I can see at the moment it's just been dismissed as a fake by the people who allegedly sent/received it, and they would deny it, regardless. That does put Dotcom on the back foot and with a burden of proof, but it's not yet game over.
Micromax: http://www.amazon.in/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_183159547_...
Karbon: http://www.snapdeal.com/product/karbonn-android-one-blue/193...?
Spice: http://www.flipkart.com/androidone&bannerid=mob_androidone_a...
Bootstrap vs. Foundation: A Comprehensive Comparison
Hah, how nice it's here today. I just started a small hardware project (hopefully a Show HN in a month or two) and I got hit by the fact that I don't understand jack squat about batteries, especially Li-Ions and Li-Polys.

This (and jacquesm's) link is godsend.
From what I've read, super capacitors still have about 1/10th of the energy density of good rechargeables.
You're definitely going to be called a weirdo should somebody see you cooking with butter there. And at least in Spain as far as I know, even cooking with sunflower oil is frowned upon.
Is your body mostly microbes? Actually, we have no idea
Apple has contributed back to a lot of BSD-licensed proyects, as well as released some of their own, so don't be so sure.
What would you have done (in by that, I mean "what do you advise normal people who aren't well-known, don't have a good knowledge of technology, and don't have a ton of money, to do")?
Here is a district-wise map of percentage of rural households with a. electrical lighting and b. mobiles. http://imgur.com/A7PXuwa

Surprisingly, they don't overlap. Numbers are from the 2011 census. Interactive version at: https://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/
How so?

(Palmer seems to be a very much honorable businessman to me.)
Ask HN: How might you approach B2G SaaS pricing?
You are doing something very important here. Many people forget that the guys running the show at the NSA are, in all probability, at least as savvy as any one of us. For this reason, it is always a good starting point to ask oneself "What would I do if I was in their shoes?".

A prime example of how this thinking can be applied is the TrueCrypt fiasco. Ask yourself: If you were the group leader at the NSA tasked with TrueCrypt, would you have your undelings doxx the authors? Would you then try to lean on the authors?

If I was a group leader at the NSA, I certainly would.
Important thing I learned today: 9 Volt batteries are crap. I was just about to re-build my charcoal grill air blower which used two 9V's. Now I will go with some AA's or even a lantern battery.
Will the Apple Watch change the way we read
There's an important difference between market data--which comes from actual sales--and market research, which is done prior to the launch (and sometimes even prior to the development) of a product.

Apple pays very close attention to market data, and it obviously informs their product development (see the big iPhones now, for example). What they tend not to do is market research: surveys, polls, focus groups, etc.
To whoever wrote this;

Dude, chillax.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
But a Linux-based swift compiler would mean some multi-platform devs wouldn't need OS X as much. Bad for Apple.
In a decentralized world, community management might be a core piece of marketing.
Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours
Oddly prophetic note on Radio Shack, which is recently sending signals about its impending bankruptcy.

Jobs: "Radio Shack is totally out of the picture. They have missed the boat." - "...their model of retailing, which in my opinion often meant selling second-rate products or low-end products in a surplus-store environment."

And the nail in the coffin: "I don’t anticipate that they’re going to recover and again become a major player."
Thanks, that saved me some keystrokes.

Here's the GCC manual page: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Typeof.html, note that you can go "Up" to the main Extensions section where you'll find the sub-page for typeof.

Also, the OP does the usual "everything is a function in C" error, which is weird in a text about macros in programming languages. The typeof extension, like sizeof, is not a function, it's a unary prefix operator. But nobody seems to care about that for (the standard) sizeof operator, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Also, of course the local temporary variable should be marked as const.
You can still get lard.

Tripe, however, appears to have almost entirely dissappeared, replaced by kebabs.
Here it is on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/106026217

Worked fine for me in FF on linux. Might be worth a try in Chrome.
I would have definitely gone to court arguing that my IP address and me are not the same entity.

On top of that I would have used the (firm) German privacy laws to use the discovery process to figure out if they had obtained my (private!) name, address etc in a legal way.

To me this seems like a racket and I highly doubt that the case would have ever gone to court.

I would expect an outcome like this:

https://torrentfreak.com/evidence-against-bittorrent-users-s...

And without a ton of money the German state would likely appoint a legal representative.
Hah I was wondering about that
Adding no value to a discussion makes a comment neutral, not negative.
Glowscreen: LCD monitors hacked to use incandescent lamps
So, I can only create perfect solids with some numbers of sides (3 and 5). Why is that? Some symmetry caused by having 3 dimensions?
> Go doesn't let you build abstractions - it offers what
> it does, and if its not enough - tough luck.

This seems contradictory. Go offers primitives, and lets you build exactly the abstractions that make sense in your domain on top of those primitives. The argument here appears to be that the primitives are too low-level, which is a fair-enough point, but not at all what you're claiming.
Actually the fine isn't trivial; the last time I saw a news article about someone being fined was ~2002, from memory the fine was AUD$500 (approximately USD350 then, more now). Having said that it isn't actively enforced, so much so that when someone is fined it quite often makes the news (even if local).
9V's aren't crap, they're useful because you can linearly regulate them down to the majority of the common bus voltages used in electronics. Mainly they're by far the simplest way to get 5V in a portable system (9V + LM7805). LiPOs will do fine for anything below 3.7V so most modern systems with 3.3/2.7/1.8 will be OK. But if you need a 5V system with anything aside from a dedicated supply or a 9V battery you need to include a step-up converter which adds complexity (though some ICs only need a few capacitors) and cost.

The main downside [for a 9V battery] is that linear regulation is inherently wasteful and you lose (4V x your current) to heat. They also have a comparably low capacity compared to AA's so they're not the best choice for a long life application. In that case you're better off using a 95%+ efficient switch mode supply, but then if your system requires low noise you have other considerations.

It's not cut and dry!
The lipid hypothesis did it. The idea that fat and dietary cholesterol cause obesity and heart disease.

That's only half the story though. The factually wrong part (fat in == fat deposited). The other part, that is still factually correct and hence a good reason to avoid lard, is that saturated fats absolutely and unequivocally lead to atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

I'm surprised how easily the 'bad' fats are getting a free pass in the name of decriminalizing 'fats', in the bleeding-edge of dietary pantheon.
Using Azure Storage Emulator Command-Line Tool: WAStorageEmulator.exe
So I guess you don't have a computer and you are typing comments from a tablet? Because where there is Firefox Browser there is Firefox OS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Firefox_OS_Si...

Yeah, it can't dual boot, right.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/the-geeksphone-revolution-g...

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2014/02/21/geeksphones-revoluti...

https://searx.oe5tpo.com/?q=geeksphone%20revolution%20dual%2...
Mad Science at Nodeconfeu
> I never thought people will actually come up and defend
> code duplication.

DRY is a principle, not an axiom.

Overapplication of DRY as axiomatic has led to much pain and suffering.
Show HN: Masked-Selfie-GIF/Avatar Generator
And they'd probably want to seize all your 0dayz to use to spy on activists too. :P
Basically reads as a Digital Ocean advertisement. Also couldn't you have saved even more money just adding LaTeX to each server and not having a dedicated LaTeX instance?

I mean LaTeX is consuming no resources, you stated that. It likely wouldn't slow down your back end server at all.
Code duplication is not a cardinal sin of programming. In fact, the attitude that it _is_ has probably done more harm to [modern] programming than duplication ever did :)
So far it seems like quality of medical facilities & care is far more important than the availability of drugs. I think even without the drugs, if all of the original patients had access to great hospitals, this wouldn't have spread the way it has. Unfortunately those resources simply do not exist in the affected countries.

I'm all for effectively unlimited money from the first world to help pay for a response to this outbreak, but even if there was unlimited resources you can't just build up a whole medical infrastructure with the snap of your fingers.
The interesting thing about Go, that can help make sense of all its oddities, is that it was not created to assist the developer.

Go was created for businesses, not developers. The holy grail of a corporate programming language is that all individual developer personality is restricted, such that _you cannot tell from reading code who wrote it_. This is all about long-term, large-scale maintainability for massive code bases at massive corporations.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, I do not represent Google, and this is just my opinion after spending time "on the inside".
Just like with dekstops/laptops and Windows.
Nice try, GCHQ!
even if I think it's horribly naive if not flat out erroneous, I can see how someone could feel that way about OpenBSD...but Postgres?!

who is harassing or insulting anyone in the Postgres world?!?!
>So I guess you don't have a computer and you are typing comments from a tablet? Because where there is Firefox Browser there is Firefox OS

>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Firefox_OS_Si....

Fair enough. Still, why should I give up my time to test a mediocre and ultimately doomed OS[1]? I probably would if I was paid to or there was some other benefit (even if it was Mozilla saying "test this for us and we'll stop messing Firefox up"), but I'm happy with CM which does what I need including many things Firefox can't.

[1] Plus, there's the question of whether testing on a computer using a mouse and keyboard bears any relevant resemblance to testing with a touchscreen, as no, I don't even own a tablet.

>Yeah, it can't dual boot, right.

If you're so enthusiastic, fix the wikipedia page then ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone_Revolution
It's quite impressive that Radio Shack have kept going as long as they have. Here's the Onion's take

http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho...
Nex, a lexer similar to Lex/Flex that generates Go code
Not OP here, but I think it more resembles the old rotary telephone things.
"It's fine in Go to do the wrong thing, because they added syntax to make it even easier to do the wrong thing."
Global Marketing: How to Crack the Chinese Market with Weibo
As someone who has worked on a project both with and without community managers, having to do some of that myself when we didn't have one, I think it's a valuable role. Does it really make sense to take developers away from development to do any of the following?

* Organize meetups, hackathons, etc.

* Deliver presentations and/or get not-enthusiastic developers to do so.

* Initiate or sustain joint efforts with people on other projects, so they don't stagnate every time developers get distracted by other commitments.

* Get all that stuff from social media into the correct channels.

Most developers are not good at those things, and do not enjoy them. If your project is lucky enough to have some people who will do those things on their own time (or on company time without getting fired because they're not meeting code deadlines) then good for you. Many don't.

Sure, there's always tension between community and corporate needs. Again, who would you rather have managing that tension? Some introverted developer who only sees the world through the lens of the code as its already written, or somebody with better perspective and people skills?

Not every project needs a community manager. However, those that do will get one - either dedicated, or stolen from bits and pieces of other project members' time. Personally, I think it's a good thing when the project's technical leaders can shove all that other stuff onto somebody else.
So systemic and institutional torture is fine, as long as the rest of us are marginally "safer".
Not really. It's like proposing to use IE6 because people "have heard of it".

I wonder what people here like outdated patented codecs. It's like a lose lose in all aspects.
yes it does sound like an ad! but happy users are ads anyway. we owed them this! And we could not host latex instance in backend coz GAE (app engine) being a PAAS, does not let us install any other software.
Show HN: Easy-to-use Objective-C wrapper for AAC audio conversion
And some of the people that were given the experimental drug in Africa died as well. Correlation does not equal causation.

We all love silver bullets and magic serums, but the real answer here is to get the basics right. There are major improvements that can happen in sanitation, medical care, keeping quarantines effective, proper handling of the dead, etc. A lot of major epidemics were stopped in the 1800s and early 1900s with these kind of things, Ebola can be fought in many ways without inventing a drug.

Solving the crisis on a large scale isn't really a "medical" challenge in the normal sense, it is about logistics and resources and public trust in government & doctors.
My Rockboxed Sansa Clip crashes when I try anything in Opus. I keep FLACs in my music collection, but I encode to Vorbis for the Clip. I used to put the FLACs on there directly, but with Vorbis I can put 4x more music on it. I also need to have better hardware for FLAC to make a perceptual difference.
Good point. I was probably a bit optimistic in remembering them as plain beef!
No, your parent is right.

Of course: turing tarpit, greenspunning, yadda yadda yadda, but his point remains: Certain abstractions with a low cost/benefit factor are just not expressible in "idiomatic" Go.
What's the role of a founder/ceo (5 things)
He seems to be really obsessed with Canonical and its (former) Community Manager Jono Bacon.
It's more than a good idea; it's critical to keep your privacy intact and not have your processor time and power bill wasted by the latest developer's way to justify his own existence with 2MB of jquery rubbish to replace the normal scrolling effect with one that induces motion sickness, then marketing adds some stupid full page pseudo-popup advert in case users aren't irritated enough, or the developer who can't spend 15 minutes getting CSS menus to work (seriously, even I know how it's done and I'm nowhere near 'programmer') so sees some more jquery rubbish to use instead, etc...
the more common way to do this is with new relic's uptime monitoring. I don't think heroku cares.
New study links polar vortex to climate change
the first time the instance can be very slow. Like 20s response time.
Don't forget the cube with quadratic sides. In general these are called platonic solids [1] and there are only 5 of them.
Why only 5 ? It has to do with angles and how you can unfold such a solid. (so it's somewhat caused by getting something from 3d-space into the 2d-plane)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
You can just run it through https://www.virustotal.com/ to see which AV's will get it
There was discussions last week of compiled C++ being used on the client side too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287700
This is normal for any company that's been through a few funding rounds. Go here http://ownyourventure.com/equitySim.html and play with some numbers - a typical setup of 2 founders on 50% each will have both of them on 10% by Round 3. Alibaba has had 4 rounds, and the last one was huge.
Flexible robot can withstand fire, snow – and being run over by a car
I'm not saying it's a silver bullet, and I never implied causation either on n=2, while it may be that they recovered because of that. Don't change the discussion. My point is, if you are dying from Ebola and you'd like to test a last treatment before all bets are off, why not accept it ?

I think that if you were yourself in such a situation, with any incurable disease, you'd see the world in a different way. It's always easy to talk about things that do not concern oneself directly. And again, right NOW, Cancer patients have that choice, so why not others?
Madden is just catching up to the realism Dreamcast's NFL 2k series had in the early 2000s.
@jacquesm: I suspect what the parent was saying is in the face of Jim Crow laws or even implicit or subliminal discouragement of minority voting (whatever the cause or reason).
Well, that high end phone will become low end phone in two years, or even faster if you can't update its OS. So, in this case we are comparing, 2 years of high end phone + 8 years of low end phone against 10 years of low end phone for half the price.
Reading over the source on the example apps, the first thing that jumps out at me is _underscore _prefixed _variables and it just looks odd in ruby, especially with :_symbols
iOS 8 Location, Motion and Activity Tracking. What You Need to Know
The price isn't bad but you can already get slightly worse Android phones for $70 in Russia, and cheaper in China.
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