skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breakfast in South India esp. Karnataka/Bangalore is quite varied. Each day means a different breakfast and both parents and kids usually eat the same food. What we do is pick from one of these each day

1. Dosa - Similar to Crepes but not sweet.

2. Idli - A Rice Cake

3. Uppittu or Upma - Semolina with Vegetables

4. Rava Dosa

5. Rava Idli

6. Vada - Deep Fried rice doughnut

7. Cereal - Not a traditional breakfast and usually rare

8. Toast with Jelly/Butter

9. Vermicelli with Vegetables

10. Awwalaki or Poha - Flattened Rice with Vegetables

It's a bit over the top for sure, even by Indian standards. I'm not sure if people from other states in India choose between all these. I would be bored stiff to eat the same breakfast everyday. One other thing to note is that usually traditional breakfasts are not sweet and do not have any sugar in them. That's for later!
42 happily being a grunt dev (front/back in web) ... after being consultant, project manager, my own boss, sysadmin and failing quite some times.

I sometimes wish to do something real for improving humanity well being, but all my attempts failed so far :)

I am telling people that if you want to make money, you should avoid competitive fields and since crisis is there, and devs are still excessively well paid, it gives an incentive for all kind of people tied by whatever pressure (social, debts, financial) to become a coder to make money fast, and for bosses to put more pressure.

If things worsen, I think I am gonna try to propose the funding of my own sect on kickstarter (rael is my model), or coin the term factorer instead of developer which purpose would be to decrease the costs of having stupidly non reliable/deterministic technologies (mongoDB, hadoop, cloud, systemd, USB, oauth2) and excessive costs (big data that are useless for making money, the costs of cloud that are non linear thus non predictable...) to bring back some sanity to this world and more money to the workers really add values to our existence. Or maybe, just stay what I am : a troll :)
particularly as it turns out it was never needed anyways.

Let's avoid armchair quarterbacking.
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BirdsEye has a dedicated database so it can provide more accurate distributions but its limited to North America (there are other regions). BirdsEye is also a paid product.

If you are serious about birding it's worth checking out but poor UI IMO was the primary motivation for me to build this app.
I was trying to shed some light on why it was a tough battle to get people to trust Western medical teams, which is entirely relevant to the ebola crisis as this distrust is one of the main barriers to arresting the spread of ebola in Africa.
3d printed machine gun folds and shoots endless paper aeroplanes
> What do you consider good feedback? How can you promote understanding and positive approaches in your criticism of the code? How can you help the submitter learn and grow from this scenario? Unfortunately these questions don't get asked enough, which creates a self-perpetuating cycle of cynics and aggressive discussion.

I'd be really interested to hear how teams codify this. To the extent that it's possible, I think feedback should be rooted in objective measures, e.g. styleguide/lint violations, test failures, etc. All too often, though, there are subjective things that come up: organization of code, interface design, using framework X instead of framework Y. These are the criticisms that most often lead to aggressive back and forths.
Wolfram Alpha is amazing at discerning the intention of the question.

In the article, the question "How old is the Lincoln Tunnel" struck me as incorrectly formatted for the parser (I know, that's the point), so I asked Siri, "When was the Lincoln Tunnel built." The Wikipedia article on the Lincoln Tunnel was returned. Wolfram Alpha was listed under other sources, so I chose that. The response? "1937"
That's not a model. What's the model that prevents this? User performs a 2-step auth every time code executes?
> The DUAL_EC_DRBG is a great example of how "golden keys" can be implemented securely, because the underlying problem is the same one that a lot of elliptic curve cryptosystems rely on.

I think it was Schneier who described encryption algorithms as being like a single fence post which is a thousand miles high. The vulnerability is not the encryption algorithm. The attacker is not going to break the encryption, the attacker is going to get access to the key.

The ways attackers might do that have very little to do with cryptography. Espionage, corruption, social engineering, bureaucratic incompetence, completely unrelated vulnerabilities in government networks, etc.
I just learned that Canadian cups != American cups.
(227g vs 218g)
Who would have thought....
Wow, a company that can handle a thing like this in stride has to make a good product. I will look at them next time I need tires.
Thanks! It's not open source at this time. I'm running it as a bit of an experiment and as a way to give back to all the people that have contributed in many ways (data, pictures, recordings, libraries) etc...

I had the initial version working in a couple of weeks and was using it quite a bit. It does take a lot of effort to finish all the loose ends. Hopefully you'll finish yours as well.
> And finally, if this article itself is about harassment and speaking truth to power, then why do I feel compelled to use a throwaway account to post this comment?

Because you show all of the sympathy and concern of an albino crocodile? Because you indulge in blatant victim-blaming? Because after (maybe) reading about the horrific campaign of calculated abuse, all you can care about is yourself?

And, of course, because you recognize that other people will (correctly) think less of you. So rather than owning up to your opinions, you are only brave enough to mewl from the shadows.
Mine too, but note that this study shows the kids regulating their behavior to avoid making an adult stranger (the 'emoter') angry.

My two-year-old delights in testing the limits and seeing how mad he can make me, but I've noticed he shows a lot more caution when interacting with most other adults, especially unfamiliar ones.
According to the Marriott page, the exchange rate that they apply is 1USD=50VEF [1]. This is 7 times the official exchange rate, on par with what I was saying. But I haven't been to Venezuela, so I might be missing something.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/D1wLoQM.png
The "Secure Golden Key" is as secure for the internet as the "Wonderful Beating Stick" is "wonderful" for a kid. Just because we put "wonderful" in the name of a beating stick does not make it so.
The Rise of Silicon Valley (Steve Case Unwittingly Promotes Urban Sprawl)
It isn't open source but it will remain free. There is a similar Android app called Birds Around Me [1] that is very similar. I have no plans to implement on other devices. This is just a hobby. Ironically found after I built most of this app.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sobremesa....
Keep in mind that in many places, and in particular in the Bay Area, the entire notion of trying to create short commutes from work to home as an ideal is one that lots of cities still haven't wrapped their head around.

I live in Palo Alto and I've heard people tell the City Council that no one wants to take public transportation and therefore we don't need it. I've also heard people scoff at the idea that jobs and housing should be built next to each other to avoid long commutes, emissions, lost time, sprawl, etc. Anyone here who says we need more housing next to all our huge office parks gets called "entitled."

We're facing a paradigm shift wherein younger generations want to be able to have the option of taking public transportation. They want to live in lively neighborhoods where friends and spaces for hanging out are close at hand- a trip to the local coffee shop doesn't involve getting in your car and driving to a strip mall. But, people who grew up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s grew up with the notion of the car as freedom and a house in suburbia as the definition of success. To them, quality of life is all about how fast they can drive somewhere and how easily they can park there. When they think "urban" they think "ghetto."

These attitudes contribute to the NIMBYism all over the Bay Area and they're the reason why outside of SF, it's extremely hard to get around without a car. It's the reason why despite being the center of innovation on the planet, Silicon Valley still looks like a Leave It To Beaver throwback.
Google releases 'Primer' app that helps startups learn marketing fast
Keep in mind that advertising was very different back then. Untargeted, often not measurable, and (on the internet) often consisted of a fast-moving "punch the monkey" banner.

Much more than just using it as a revenue source, Google more or less invented modern advertising.
The Median One-Bedroom Rent in San Francisco Is Now $3,200
But apart from the most popular video hosting site, search engine, web browser, web email and maps, what has Google ever done for us?
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Your comment reminded me of a (terrible) movie I watched as a kid that was set in a dystopian future. Here's an awkward scene where a girl tries to borrow another persons hand (a ring on the thumb and pinky are the earpiece and mic) to make a phone call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jR5XzEjeCA&hl=en#t=1126
Where can I find this analysis? It is impossible that there is no reasonable criticism to be made.
JavaScript without jQuery is a thing. We get it.
I think my quality of life would be vastly improved if I started my day with something like this, but I can neither buy this despite living in a very walkable neighborhod nor see myself developing the habit of organizing and executing it myself.
Thanks for the compliment. This is just the 1.0 MVP release. I've got a number of ideas on the roadmap.

My intention was to build a birding app for the casual birder. Birds Eye covers the hard core birder market, I wanted something more approachable.

eBird is really great. It's amazing that it's been running for 10 years. It's really caught on in North America. I'm hoping with this app we will start to get more data around the world (localization is scheduled for the 1.1 release :)
3) there could be a Snowden in any secret room at NSA. Even the "good guys" might not be so submissive. You don't know what gets leaked.
Actually I think most of the work has been done in academia --- certainly that's where the recent deep learning stuff has come from. So, I don't think the important stuff is patented. (In general it's very hard to lock down ML improvements under patent. Once we can do it one way, and understand a little bit about what's working, we can usually replicate that performance with another technique.)

The big problem for open source speech recognition is training data.
> America isn't actually a corrupt, evil police state

I won't say evil, because I think most problems in government are attributable to incompetence, but I think it's a plenty corrupt police state.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/12/googles-y...
CITIZENFOUR, a documentary on Edward Snowden
Ask HN: Who is hiring enginnering sales guys?
This is a strange question, I've been fairly successful in various technical / leadership positions in the past (CEO, CTO, Co-Founder, Senior Developer, Developer etc.). I would really like to try a highly technical sales position next, is anyone looking?
This is, I think, absurd. And investment banker will tell you that eliminating your largest competitor just prior to an IPO will give you a material valuation premium delta. In other words, you are going to price up the company (or not take it down) +/- 5% or greater based on such an external event. Ergo, triggering the event to occur by allocating 1% of the IPO proceeds is basically and arbitrage trading strategy. It has everything to do with things other than the ability to monetize the revenue stream at time T+1. You don't need the (furture) monetization because the deal is already NPV positive as of the close of the order books.

The logic for whatsapp is also similar, if less coldly transactional. The what'sapp TEV is something like 10% of FB value today. Again, these are the orders of magnitude financial advisors will mark-up a valuation for eliminating a major competitive threat. The only assumption really for operation performance is zero NPV.

This reallu only works for companies acquiring strategic threats at still early valuations with paper/zero interest finacing (say, Google buying FB at $7B), tho.
>> Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is widely rumored to be an investor in Google.

I wonder if this is/was true? Bezos seems to have made investments in many other companies like Uber and Twitter (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/05/a-stroll-through-the-...)
Yes, but how would we trust them if they are already selling spyware infected phones in other countries?

The making of phones is going to get commoditized - everyone could make a phone in a few years, from parts and using open source software. Then we will have choices and never have to use spyware again.
So what you're saying is, "golden keys" are no less secure than any other form of encryption.

People are repulsed when you call it a back door or a "golden key," but "secure golden keys" are simply key escrows. Escrows are one of the first things you learn to build after asymmetric crypto.

Escrows are well understood, secure, and generally regarded as a good idea. However, "back doors" are scary, sordid, and insecure?
Just pick one that gives the feature I described without being a pain to the user.
I believe Cortana would get that info back in less than a second. It seems Siri takes more than a second for me just to activate, before it even begins listening... Maybe this is an iOS 8 issue for the time being...?
Why Breast Cancer Patients Hate October
Actually the original URL would have been http://zdnet.com/etc. when this (rather silly) article was published in 1999. CNET Networks, which owned com.com, tv.com, radio.com, search.com, and news.com, bought ZDNET a year later in 2000.

A few years afterward CNET began to transition many sites including news.com and zdnet.com over to suffixes ending in .com.com; I vaguely recall being told that it was to enable CNET-network-wide cookies without that era's browsers pitching a fit. (Note the Wayback Machine indexed it as zdnet.com.com only after 2002.)

Eventually I helped (I was not alone but was the most vocal) to make the switch away from news.com.com to news.com, which made more sense and served readers better. Of course I've since left to found http://recent.io/, but thought I'd inject a little history as someone who worked at CNET Networks during part of that .com.com time.
People who enjoy this might like this similar thing from TIME Last year: http://time.com/8515/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats/

For each of almost 30 countries, it has a photograph of an average family with all the food that would comprise a normal week's consumption, accompanied with a description and cost. (Not all families are from separate countries. Some larger countries have two families from different regions).

Later, the authors published an expanded version as a book, which I believe covers 80 families.

I think there is at least one more subset of photos other than the set TIME published that has been published in some major online magazine, because I am sure I saw one of a German family whose weekly consumption included an amazing amount of beer, and that doesn't match the German family in the TIME article.

More directly relevant to the current story, here's a look at typical breakfasts from several countries: http://www.businessinsider.com/breakfast-around-the-world-20...

These are adult breakfasts, not kid breakfasts.
Maybe - but Google's Driverless Car looks awesome! I'm not a fan of Google Glass, but that's interesting. And Android?
Did anyone else see the headline at the bottom of the page claiming that 'Amazon Workers are Today's Coal Miners'?

I haven't read the article, but given the amount of death and human suffering coal miners overcame, I can only assume it is consciously sensationalist.

It is almost as if certain villainous categories are built into our collective minds and we are looking for actors to play the parts.
Devicons – The developer's iconic font
https://www.yourprimer.com/

Interesting that they put out the iOS version first. You wouldn't ever see Apple put out something on Windows before OSX. Presumably the Android version isn't ready yet, but what does that signal about Android development compared to iOS development? (not necessarily a true signal, but within Google it could potentially be controversial)
I like it.
Excellent work guys.

Going to poke around more this weekend.
I don't think people should be given special treatment because they belong to a particular group. It's not a HR problem - It's a problem with society itself. Certain groups will inevitably lag behind (in terms of number of candidates) in certain fields because of complex social factors which companies cannot really change (and maybe it's even wrong to try to change them).

There are complex social and psychological reasons why people choose to work in particular fields - I oppose the idea of using marketing to steer people into choosing careers which they have no natural interest in.

People spend most of their lives working - It's cruel for companies to manipulate them into lifelong commitments that they never really wanted.
Where is this video you speak of?
The Open Speech Initiative Begins (2013)
Point of fact - Kiwis eat both Vegemite and Marmite, and the preference is binary and very strong (no-one likes both equally, that I've ever met) and survives the usual jingoism between Aussies and Kiwis.

I am a Kiwi, and like my mother I've a strong preference for Vegemite, though my father and brother are both Marmite people.

My wife is American, and has converted to being a Vegemite-lover after finally experiencing it correctly (NOT a mouthful on a spoon, like all those "look how disgusting Vegemite is" videos show). We did a blind taste test last time we were in New Zealand, and to my surprise we could both correctly tell Vegemite from Marmite, and both preferred Vegemite - even though it's Australian!

Edit: grammar
As an adult, I would have a hard time eating olives for breakfast--and I like them. You know...in salads, on pizza, etc. I cannot fathom a child eating a bowl-full for breakfast. Especially when the bowls of feta-esque cheese and sliced tomatoes are already sort-of daunting.

I'll make a wild guess and say that kids around the world actually eat the equivalent of pop tarts (if they have money) or oatmeal (if they don't).
They mention the oldest depiction of a rhinoceros --- in a cave in France. Mind = blown.
Not really - that's kind of a false dichotomy.

Low interest rates are present to stimulate spending. It allows for investments in capital expenditures (e.g. machines) that would otherwise have up front fixed costs that made it unattainable.

This can allow for businesses to invest into new markets or expand where they otherwise would have not spent anything.
Protecting Users by Confining JavaScript with COWL
That is, indeed, fantastic. Does it hold context? I mean, can you say "Find a gas station." and then "Find a McDonald's near that" and have it work? That would be super.
There are some very disturbing stories about extreme conditions in the warehouse.

There's a good NYT article about it (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/inside-amazons-very...)

This is the piece I heard about:

So many ambulances responded to medical assistance calls at the warehouse during a heat wave in May, the paper said, that the retailer paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have paramedics and ambulances stationed outside the warehouse during several days of excess heat over the summer. About 15 people were taken to hospitals, while 20 or 30 more were treated right there, the ambulance chief told The Call.
To add to this; a lot of companies in India just gather as many people as they can with a CS degree in a building (often 1000s) and hire them out in 'teams' to western companies. This is a valid (currently) business plan which makes them a lot of money. It also gives outsourcing a really bad name, but that does not seem to deter companies from hiring these kind of, let's call them what they are, sweatshops. The idea is definitely appealing; you hire educated women and men, usually they are monitored (often by camera's!) to make sure they site and work 8 hours / day, 5-6 days / week and they have the skills you need. Not happy? You get another person right away! You can expand or shrink your team(s) at any time.

That they are treated like robots sitting in long rows of far too little space and that they are not allowed to get up besides for lunch and tea at set times is not interesting to most; that this kind of environment (not even looking at if they are good at their jobs or not; some are, some are not like you say) is destroying any chance of getting quality anyway is lost on most people who hire. This market is growing as it does sound incredibly attractive on paper. The prices are also still a lot (for programmers you pay around 20-40% of what you would pay in the west, it used to be 5-10%) lower than the same role (on paper) in 'the west'.

I hear some companies actually get work done this way and are very happy with it, growing continuously without worrying about who does the tech; they have 100s of companies to pick from and 100-1000s of employees in these companies. How they manage that, I have no clue, but I do hear a lot of my Indian friends who try to make something 'west' quality in India complain about these popping up a lot and a lot young guys dream of making these, in essence no-risk at the moment, 'brain work' farms.
How do you write text messages in private and not have your messages overheard? I think I would be quite self concious that I'm talking into my phone and not directing it at anyone (I rarely use Siri for this reason)
What you're talking about is emotional intelligence, what I'm talking about is self-reliance. There's some overlap, but they aren't the same thing.
That's an interesting way to look at it. I can definitely see your point, thank you.
Well, as accurate as I feel your statement is, I'd also say sometimes it depends on the 10% missing from the products not done by Apple. If it's an important 10% that Apple has nailed (or close enough) then sometimes the 50% is more valuable than the 90%.

But we all have our biases as well. (Even as an Apple user I fully expect Google to always win the Knowledge Vault race. Its in their wheelhouse more so than Apple's.)
It's not a great argument. The Manhattan Project wasn't incremental but it was a reaction to scientific advance. It started after Einstein's letter to Roosevelt warning that an atomic bomb was possible [1], not someone saying "hey, let's build a really big bomb because optimism."

The Apollo program was built on incremental advances in rocketry going back to von Braun (at least), mostly funded due to military competition.

The Hoover Dam was a high point in a long history of dam construction that was very much incremental.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_l...
Beauté: le maquillage ne connait pas la crise
> to have huge, blown-up photos; and using understated interaction and animation techniques to enhance the reading experience.

I probably scrolled past at least 5 images, meaning I had to scroll up to look at the actual breakfast. On top of that the images below, of the kids, loaded faster. I don't have a bad connection. Very frustration article to read in my opinion.