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got any food hacks? | plaes: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/This guy even "invented" his own style recipe card. |
got any food hacks? | wazoox: Soup. 3 potatoes, 5 leeks, 2 carrots, 2 turnips, 2 parsnips, some celery, parsley, one onion. Peel them, throw them in 3 liters of cold salted water, boil for 20 minutes in a pressure cooker, then mix. In one hour you have soup for 1 week for 4 persons. You may freeze it and keep it for later, too. |
got any food hacks? | wazoox: Risotto. A pack of rice, an onion, some garlic, two carrots, two tomatoes, some spices (saffron or curcuma, pepper, cumin, clove), some oil, two chicken breasts. Cut the chicken and vegetables in small cubes, pour oil in the cooker, fry the onion, then add the chicken; add the rice, wait for a minute until the rice becomes translucid; cover with boiling water, add the garlic, vegetables and spice as wished. Boils gently 10 minutes, et voilà. |
got any food hacks? | grendel: Pre-washed baby spinach, baby tomatoes, bacon or leftover meat (like steak, hamburger). Top with two fried eggs and cheese. I tend to eat it for breakfast. |
Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype? | csixty4: Not for me. I used to keep written lists, but got sick of forgetting them at work or having them fall apart when I was caught in a rainstorm.I used "I Want Sandy" for over a year, and was visibly upset when "she" went away. I got accustomed to my to-dos being as accessible as the nearest web browser, email client, or even SMS device. Today, I use reQall on the web, through their voice number, over AIM, and through its BlackBerry client - whatever's most convenient at the time.As you can guess from the two I chose, to-dos work best for me when I can rattle off a sentence in natural English and have the system figure out where & when to file it under. |
got any food hacks? | adam-_-: Make things like stew, soup or chilli in large quantities and freeze individual portions for later.For a quick meal, try stir fry: quick, tasty and nutritious: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/oriental-por...More importantly, learn to embrace/enjoy cooking. I love taking half an hour to unwind and cook something really fresh and tasty (and I'm a student). I'd recommend Jamie Oliver's website for recipe inspiration...Cooking with fresh ingredients ticks all the priorities and doesn't need to be slow, there are plenty of "20/30 minute meal" type books, might I suggest something by Nigel Slater: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Fast-Food-Nigel-Slater/dp/01410... |
What can I do to improve my website? | chrishaum: Thanks for the advice on redirects; I'll do those post-haste.As far as the site content and navigational structure go, does anyone have any comments? Thanks brianlash for the compliment - I do wholeheartedly stand behind our product.A big issue is that of conversion. Our jump rate is about 70% right now; it was 80% before the switch to Wordpress, which is a good sign. Still, our conversion is ~0.1% currently, I would estimate. |
got any food hacks? | waivej: I like making pots of rice and beans. It's really cheap and you can add just about anything. A pot should last a few days and supply good nutrition. I like to start with a good rice, add some veggies, a fat source, and a salt source. Fish sauce is nice. Cheese works well. Crack an egg or two for variety. If you use canned beans, rinse them well and add at the end. Water should be 2.5 the volume of the rice. You get one pot for several days of food and don't even need dishes. No need for anything but a $0.33 can of beans and part of a $2 box of rice and a pan.It is a bit extreme, but I lived on $12/week when I started my company and just ate beans and rice. |
got any food hacks? | daniel-cussen: I just bought a 55 pound bag of dextrose. I mix it with mineral water so I can drink a solution containing it (the carbonation inhibits fermentation, too). It's not very labor intensive, very healthy, and it tastes like what it is: rocket fuel. It is very, very good for your brain.I have yet to ask a doctor about this though. And it's bad for teeth, like normal soda. |
iPad File Sync? | stuartjmoore: Just synced my iPad and bam: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7653/screenshot20100403at11... |
which bike would you recommend | olefoo: This is like asking "What sort of woman should I marry?", without knowing you it's impossible to say. |
got any food hacks? | peter_severin: I use Niçoise salad as a starting point for many salads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%A7oise_saladI don't bother with aesthetics and just mix everything. A usually add a boiled potato, chopped bacon along with the egg to make the salad more consistent. This makes the salad a main dish of its own. I use other ingredients like beans, peas, spinach, boiled beet, salmon, tuna, cheese, avocado, various herbs etc. Quite often I put a shredded carrot in the mix.The salad is pretty quick to make. I cook an egg and a potato in the same pot. I take the egg out after 5 minutes of boiling and leave the potato a bit more. Meantime I wash and chop the greens, tomatoes any other ingredients that I have. I add the egg and the potato, put some balsamic vinegar and olive oil and it's good to go.I make a point to buy the best vegetables and greens I can. This means that I always try to get them from the market, directly from people that produce them. It's not always easy when you are living in a big city. |
got any food hacks? | keefe: This will probably get lost in the sea of messages, but this is a topic I spend a lot of time on. First off, http://nutritiondata.com is a valuable resource - I treat the body as a machine with certain fuel requirements. The key ones are fiber, protein and calories. You need to know your input profile or you're just guessing. Next, pick a few dishes that satisfy this profile. I eat a bowl of carrots a whole can of corn (canned corn is a GREAT fiber per $ ratio if you buy it in bulk) and a large protein shake. Next up is a vitamin, which is absolutely crucial for micronutrients. If you let veggies + protein be the centerpiece of your diet (that is my breakfast) then the rest of the day tends to fall around it, because the bulk makes you less hungry and your body has what it needs. I'd also recommend you workout at least 3 days a week if you don't already - body maintenance is not optional for optimum performance.If you honestly are saying ONE hour is too much time for a full day of quality cooking? You're dreaming to some extent. |
got any food hacks? | pasbesoin: There have been some previous threads on this topic. Search will probably turn them up.My recurring suggestion: Microwave a sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are much more nutritious than white potatos; currently, the popular press has taken to labeling them a "superfood" (insert skepticism here).Wash itPoke it (deeply) in a few places to vent steamMy vintage microwave takes approximately 8 - 10 minutes, depending on size. If your microwave does not have a carousel, flip and rotate the sweet potato halfway through.They can cook somewhat unevenly, so let it stand for a couple of minutes after cooking, while the heat continues to disperse and cooking completes.Season and eat. I cut mine in half, sprinkle each half with a bit of (raw) sugar, and dust liberally with cinnamon (also now being shown to have health benefits).P.S. I went to check the manufacturing tag: It was made in 1977! How's that for durability? No explicit statement of wattage, but 13 A at 120 V, 1 (of 3) phase (sorry, I'm not sure what to assume for the power factor). |
which bike would you recommend | kes: I love my Trek. It's a great utility bike, not flashy, and lightweight: http://www.trekbikes.com/ca/en/bikes/bike_path/fx/72fx/But if you're looking for a fixie, my friends tell me that they love their District (also Trek): http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/urban/district/district... |
got any food hacks? | Mark_B: I always end up getting extra sauces from Arby's. I end up making egg sandwiches with the Horsey Sauce. Awesome + Super Cheap! |
got any food hacks? | nate: I have a book called The Best 1001 Short, Easy Recipes. I brought this with me when we started Y Combinator. Each recipe has at most usually 4-5 ingredients that are often very easy and cheap to get. I don't think anything in that book would take over 30 minutes to prepare and cook.http://www.amazon.com/Best-1001-Short-Easy-Recipes/dp/193129...I'm sure there's some other books of this same ilk that are filled with good ideas that just take a few things to put together.Also my wife just got a groupon to this http://thescramble.com/We've made about 5 meals so far, and they've all been awesome and pretty healthy and easy to make. Even has a handy grocery store list aggregator thing for the recipes you decide to make that week. |
got any food hacks? | wesley: You could try the morphy richards steamer:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-48780-Intellisteam-S...It has several different compartments that can each have an individual timer. So just put the food in and wait for the alarm to ring. Voila! |
got any food hacks? | adw: "Real Fast Food" by Nigel Slater. Brilliant cookbook. |
got any food hacks? | dylanz: Bulk Nori, 50lb's Sushi Rice, Bulk Tamari, Bulk Rice Wine Vinegar, Bulk Hot Pepper Sesame Oil, Bulk Avocados. Cheap, relatively healthy, and delicious! |
got any food hacks? | dkarl: The first hack is practice. (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you aren't very experienced; otherwise, you would have told us how experienced you are.) In this way, cooking is like programming. As with a programming task, a recipe that takes an hour of attention now may take half an hour of your attention next year, and there's no way to enumerate the difference as a handful of tips and tricks. The biggest difference between a beginner and an expert is that the expert executes the fundamentals quickly and sparely while the beginner gets bogged down in uncertainty. "The recipe doesn't specify what kind of oil to use. Does it matter? How big is a pinch of salt? What size and shape am I supposed to cut the asparagus into? The way I'm holding the knife is giving me a blister. The dishwasher is running and all the cup measures are inside -- how do I measure a quarter cup? Do I have to get it exactly right for this recipe? I forgot to buy carrots. Do I have to drive back to the grocery store, or will the recipe be fine without them?"None of the answers to those questions could be called "hacks," but the experienced cook saves a lot of time by knowing the answers right away and proceeding without thinking about them. Luckily, expertise is context-specific, and you can develop narrow yet valuable expertise by making the same recipe several times. You'll become experienced at that recipe quickly. If you've made a recipe six times, you can make it in your sleep. Learn ten recipes and you're set for life, at least for the days when you want cooking to be quick and cheap and predictable. Just because a dish takes you an hour doesn't mean it won't work for you; it only means you're slow because it's your first time making that dish.Repetition is also the key to improvisation. With a little experience, you can browse through the grocery store (or your refrigerator) thinking about how your favorite recipes might accommodate the attractively-priced (or about-to-go-bad) ingredients that are available to you.Of course, you need recipes to get started. Here are two books that have been extremely useful to me. (My bookshelf looks much more interesting and sophisticated than this, but like you, I need healthy, quick, and cheap more often than I need a cultural or historical adventure.)Kimiko Barber's The Chopsticks Diet http://www.amazon.com/Chopsticks-Diet-Japanese-inspired-Reci...This book has the kind of gimmicky title I would normally pass over in a bookstore, but I went looking for Kimiko Barber's books after reading some articles by her in the Financial Times. Fast, simple, probably dumbed-down Japanese cooking. You won't have to adjust the portion sizes.Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven http://www.amazon.com/Mollie-Katzens-Vegetable-Heaven-Uncomm...Not exciting, but more of my quicky standards come from this book than from any other.If you want particular recipe recommendations, I would say:Bean stews and chili are great for freezing in large quantities. When you freeze food, remember to store it in quantities that are convenient to reheat later.Miso soup is ridiculously easy. Here's a relatively complex variation, still ridiculously easy, that is a complete meal thanks to the addition of soba noodles: http://kitchenoperas.com/2010/01/11/miso-soup-with-soba-nood...Salads and raw veggies are great. You can skip the bowl and just shovel them into your mouth. They're great for snacking on at the office, especially since packing them just means rinsing, patting dry, and putting them into a Tupperware container. Expand your idea of what's great for snacking: the older you get, the more asparagus and green beans taste like candy.There are a lot of ways to consume wilted, sad-looking greens that you can't afford to throw away: learn them and don't forget them! Miso soup, pasta puttanesca, stir-fries, perhaps anything with a sauce with a strong flavor.If you like kimchi, there's nothing that can brighten a cold lunch or add flavor to a boring dish of rice and lentils better than a few pieces of kimchi!P.S. Final edit, I swear: Sharpen your knives! Using a very sharp knife instead of a very dull one cuts your vegetable prep time in half. The easy way is to take your knives to a professional. The geekier, cheaper, but much more time-consuming alternative is to get a sharpening stone and learn to do it yourself. |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | pg: If your goal is to do something to make a difference in the world, are you sure you want to become a quant? I think you may be misleading yourself about the degree to which you can participate in that world without becoming part of it. Swim with the sharks, and you become one.Why not make money the way Larry & Sergey or Jobs & Woz did, by creating wealth? |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | Madhav_: this is a really cool idea. I'm interested to see how this turns out. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | adi92: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMEN... |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | fizx: I don't have interest, but I'd like to say that I find your simplicity and humility refreshing, and I wish you the best fortune in your endeavors! |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | cryptnoob: Clickable Link http://www.newsppl.com |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | jack7890: Where are you located? Technical or non-technical? |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | cryptnoob: I'm uncertain how appropriate it is for this to be news related. If you're doing a story on Burma, I want you to be in Burma, not in San Francisco sipping a Latte, posting an ad such as "Myanmar: $100 for picture of demonstrating anti-government crowd". That just seems like a recipe for non-trustworthy information. You are asking for evidence (pictures) to fit your theory (the story you intend to write). That isn't how good science is done, and I would think it's not how good reporting would be done either. You even go so far as make the sources anonymous, which takes even more credibility away.However... I do see merit in the idea of a geo based Mechanical Turk type job board, that's not news oriented. If I'm a web designer or an advertiser, and I want a picture of a can of Coca Cola in front of the Salt Hotel in Bolivia, than this seems perfect for that sort of thing. If I'm a movie writer, and I want to know how many drawers the card catalog in the west wing of the library of congress has, because I'm using it for a plot point, than your service would be perfect. I just don't like it for news. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | mixmax: There are so many mediocre me-too ideas out there - how refreshing to see one that isn't.Best of luck. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | prgmatic: I really like the idea, I could see this becoming a platform that would quickly get acquired by a large news organization. |
Web designer who codes, or designer + front-end coder? | prgmatic: You're better off finding a skilled developer who also does design rather than vice-versa -- it will be easier for you to judge his design skills (which are his secondary) right off the bat from his work samples than it will be to judge his development skills.My opinion is biased though, as I am a developer myself. I think intelligent developers have enough skills to pick up Photoshop/Illustrator and hack together great designs, granted you give them guidance, inspiration, and a few examples of styles that you dig. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | paul9290: Posting this is a good start. Finding talented people(not friends or acquaintances prior) randomly to help develop an idea for free is very challenging. Even more so if you have no technical skills. If you do or do not have technical skills just start up this project on the side. A few hours every weekend. It may take longer but you will be glad you did this! If you have no technical skills go to odesk.com and hire someone. This is what I did and along the way I taught myself front end languages and the person I hired in India is now my partner & friend.Good luck! |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | faber: How does on contact you off-list? I can't seem to find an email address for you. |
Would you like to receive current movie trailers by email ? | swah: Nah, I'll just see them on Youtube. |
got any food hacks? | tcc619: a simple recipe for my tofu soup:1. boil a can of (chicken/veggie) broth soup for 3-5 mins2. while boiling, chop up tofu, broccoli, green onions3. toss in that order once the broth is boiled.4. stir for 3-4 mins on medium heateat with brown rice and sriracha. Serves 2-3, under $4 and done in less than 10 min.-
my fast cooked meal is a permutation of:- brown rice- meat or protein: eggs, chicken, tofu- veggies: broccoli, carrots, onionsother random food tips:
- a 20 lb bag of brown rice costs $20 and will last you 1-2 months- wheat > white- olive oil > butter- don't eat microwaved packaged foods if you care for your health |
got any food hacks? | tptacek: You don't want to spend an hour cooking... have you considered 72 of them, instead? It's easier when it's unattended. Check out sous vide cooking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093433
SV is to crock pot cooking as Google is to Archie. |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | keefe: Waiting is until fullness. You have got a great start, but be very careful not to burn out. Do not rush and realize that it's OK to be learning. Work on whatever is fun for you and do not expect to accomplish anything yet. I would suggest that you start with simulations, NOT real money. After you are successful for some months, do it for real.As far as practical links :http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learninghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_financehttp://tepper.cmu.edu/master-in-computational-finance/index.... |
So what do you guys think of DotNetNuke? | weaksauce: I think the appropriate question to ask before talking about the technical merits of various platforms is:1. How much content do they have in DNN already?2. How much of that is going to be tough to migrate out of there?3. What kinds of customizations have already be done in DNN?4. Why are they contemplating moving to a new l(a|n)(m|pg)(d|r|p) platform and who do they know to program in these new technologies? Is that you? It might make sense to move to a linux, nginx|apache, postgre, django|rails platform if they want to make a website that is very custom and needs to be fairly maleable. |
got any food hacks? | vishaldpatel: I have a small blog here: www.seevishal.com. In it I keep a log of what I've eaten for the past week. Many of the things I make take 15-20 minutes to prepare, taste pretty damn good and are good for you. |
got any food hacks? | rjb: I usually overbuy bananas since they are so easy to eat on the go, but can also be quickly turned into the most amazing vegan ice-cream.1. Freeze ripe bananas2. Mash with strawberries/blueberries/mangos/etc.3. (optional) Add agave nectar and coconut milk to taste |
Would you like to receive current movie trailers by email ? | pgbovine: huh? do you mean links to movie trailers? or sending them as attachments? |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | loganfrederick: Hey CleanCode,I'm also 20 with very similar interests as yours. You don't have an email listed, but I'm hoping you could email me at loganfrederick@gmail.com to talk to you more about quantitative analysis and computational finance! |
which bike would you recommend | frankus: I have a giant seek 1 from last year and I love it. Bascally I wanted three things in a bike: 700c wheels, a hub shifter, and hydraulic disc brakes (probably overkill for you, but we have hills here). |
which bike would you recommend | dmlorenzetti: What bike to choose is a very personal thing.There's no substitute for riding lots of bikes. Pay attention to how upright you like to be, how far forward you like the cranks, how wide you want the handlebars. Pay attention to whether the shifter and brake positions work well for you. Pay attention to how stiff you like the frame to feel.The only specific advice I would give you is, don't think too small. Right now you just want to do a daily routine in the park, but if you get a bike that just barely lets you do that, you might miss out on some of the other joys of biking-- touring, day rides, grocery shopping, whatever might grab your fancy in the future.You might also prowl around EcoVelo (http://www.ecovelo.info/), an advocacy site for sensible commuting bikes. That site should give you lots of ideas about what, in general, other people value. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | robryan: It is refreshing to see someone post their idea outright at the earliest stage. Most people would be far to worried that their idea would be ripped off by someone before they have started which would rarely ever be the case. |
which bike would you recommend | expeditious: Find a local bike shop and talk to the people there. Ideally, find one where the owner actually works there. Talk to them and find out if they are there because they really actually care about cycling. Ask if they ride to work. Ask if they race. If they do really care about cycling, you can usually trust them for the most part (in my experience). Ask them for advice. |
So who got an iPad (or touched one) today? | johng: I ordered one, was one of the first, but my town doesn't have Saturday delivery so I have to wait until Monday. Sucks big time.Shameless plug, but I'm an Admin at http://www.ipadforums.net if you are into the iPad, check it out. |
Searching HN | bootload: "... I was wondering if anyone had made a search engine which searched through submissions, comments, ect. ..."This is a good question & wonder why it isn't on the menubar at the top. Try http://www.searchyc.com/ excellent in every way. |
Searching HN | wglb: At the bottom of your page in the middle in color is HNSearch. |
So who got an iPad (or touched one) today? | mos1: I got one. While I won't claim it's perfect, most of my complaints are about app quality and availability, which will rectify themselves shortly. My first day experience with iPad is a lot more positive than my first day experience with iPhone was.If the ESPN app had been of higher quality, I would've loved it during the games tonight. As it stood, there wasn't anything of gamecast caliber, but it was still handy for keeping track of who was in foul trouble without having a laptop handy. It's smaller, cooler-running, and cheaper than my laptop, all of which are a bonus for use near alcohol.As it stands, my biggest complaint is that because there aren't "users", there's no good way for me to allow access to private information (email especially) and also let guests play with it. I wish I could require a password to some apps. No other major critiques.The screen does, in fact, get smudgy as hell when using it, but at least for me, it's only visible from an off angle, so I don't notice while I'm using it. As such, it seems both the "it smudges like a motherfucker" and "it doesn't matter" groups were correct.If Apple will add in some sort of parental controls system or something for accessing/viewing the existence of some apps, it'll gain substantial utility for me. Until then, it's like a much shinier indoor Kindle. |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | cbare: Hi, There are so many cool applications of machine learning that you'll find plenty that are fascinating, good for the world, and will keep you out of the poor-house. Models of complex systems from economics to linguistics to biology are built with the same toolkit of techniques. Have fun and good luck. |
got any food hacks? | dnsworks: I'msurprised nobody else mentioned this, but in the past decade there's ben quite a growth in chains that prepare home-cooked meals for you. I know people who buy 7 of these at a time, and freeze them. Then you just mix the ingredients together, and bake or fry it. No thought has to go into it, but where's the fun in that? |
got any food hacks? | cakesy: Brown rice. Simple, soak it in water for 24 hours before you cook it, tastes great. I add soy sauce, and chillies for taste. |
which bike would you recommend | cullenking: What does daily routine in the central park mean? Is that a mountain bike scenario (offroad, bumps/potholes, gravel etc), a road scenario, longer distance where you want comfort, shorter distance where you want speed, dual on-road off-road, around town....Bikes can come in a 'one size fits all', but you'll be hating your bike if you start liking one particular style of biking.Post a couple more details and I can get you some decent advice! |
So what do you guys think of DotNetNuke? | mahmud: Go with Drupal at least. |
Searching HN | davidcuddeback: I usually use Google with "site:news.ycombinator.com." For example, to search for "iPad" on Hacker News, Google "iPad site:news.ycombinator.com." |
got any food hacks? | themullet: Personally do mass cooking, picking up ingredients either from a farm shop or if I'm short on time from one of the veggie box schemes.Started off with big chillis and curries, making 6 times the amount I would normally do and freezing the rest. Now also do pastas and soups. I make sure to give some extra sauce as well as try not to use a microwave for the reheating. A meal is as simple as getting out of the freeze the night before and reheating whilst I surf the web.Breakfast:have scrambled eggs on brown toast with an orange.Snacks: fruit or peanuts.Healthy food every day and it's quicker and cheaper then cooking properly every day. |
So what do you guys think of DotNetNuke? | ttrashh: I'm a .Net developer and this is based on light work with it a couple years ago so...It wasn't great. Developing modules was confusing and overly complex. The documentation was horrible. The data access stack was plain stupid if you follow the "correct" way. It's written in VB.Net and many of the examples were in VB.Net. (the VB.Net thing was a big reason I didn't continue) |
Best tools for standing coding | cianestro: I've owned this table set for going on 2 years. Cheap price tag, easily adjusted for height, perfect for holding language manuals, durable, and is easy on the eyes. I would recommend getting a full glass top.http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89871071 |
got any food hacks? | samratjp: If you like milk - make chai (indian tea)Also, to get in some veggies with some taste, try some curries (you can learn to make a decent potato curry and save leftovers - you can get some ready to make mixes at your local asian grocery store). Also, cauliflower curry is pretty good tasting yet economical and lots of leftover. With curries, indian flat bread (naan) is pretty good.As about Ramen, you can make that better by getting better flavored ones (again, hit the asian groceries). A crazy cool trick - make ramen stove top; but first, fry some onions and w/e veggies then set it aside. Do your ramen with water thing, then throw in the veggies and your local asian grocery curry mix.As about eggs - a bagel and omelette in the middle is a pretty decent breakfast. Throw in some fried onions and some basil flavored pasta sauce (try the pasta sauce section) in the omelette and you have a winner. |
Hacking Learning Resources? | samratjp: Cal Newport's Study Hacks is excellent place to start:
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/In general, the best way to learn and retain memory of it is to collect, organize and repeat in small chunks, which you know already. To optimize the cycle is the tricky part. For collecting, keep a simple blog or a private posterous, so emailing it to yourself for future reference. And, use tags, my friend. Lots of tagging of your bookmarks. Amazing how much learning to know where things are when you need them is a handy thing to do.As about organizing, have a buffer time on Sunday (as Cal would say) to organize the week ahead. And remember heavy ≠ optimal. |
got any food hacks? | Mz: It can be done. I and my kids cook from scratch daily because of health issues in the family. Those same health issues means none of us can afford to be chained to the stove. We shop carefully for wholesome ingredients, we are picky about some things we won't eat, and we follow the KISS philosophy. Some tricks:Bake something. Buy frozen chicken or cornish hen, clean it, toss on some spices and organic butter, put a little water in the bottom of the pan so it doesn't spatter grease everywhere and stick it in the oven. If you want, you can toss in some potatoes and veggies. New potatoes don't have to be peeled, just washed and cut to smaller sizes. If you aren't handy with a knife, some veggies can be bought already peeled, chopped, etc. Prep work should be under 20 minutes after you get the hang of it.Quesadillas (or other similar "traditional" foods which involve some sort of flat bread) are quick and versatile. Toss in a little cheese and other ingredients of your choosing (like frozen mixed veggies) and fry for a few minutes on each side.Homemade soup for one doesn't haven't to take long. Potato soup can be made quickly with just 2 to 4 potatoes. Or you can beef up cup-a-soup or ramen noodles with an egg swirled into the boiling water and/or a few carrots or other veggies cooked for a few minutes in the water. (You may need to add some salt if you add a lot of other stuff.)Pick up beef that is cut thin or sliced up like stir fry or ask the butcher to cut a London broil into a bunch of "breakfast steaks". Thinly cut beef cooks rapidly. If you aren't handy with a fry pan, get a George Foreman grill. Actually, if you do that, you can also put thick slices of onion, yam and fresh pineapple on the grill with some eye of round steaks. Voila, meat with sides.Stick to "one dish" meals and add easy things on the side to keep it from getting boring. The practice of making a main dish and a whole bunch of side dishes "with all the fixins" basically requires servants to keep up if you are ever going to get anything else done other than eating. Now that I am no longer a homemaker, I no longer cook that way but because we are picky about buying wholesome ingredients and making things fresh, we eat a lot healthier than we used to. |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | cleancode: Is here anybody successful as a quant and can tell us his story (life as a quant)? |
Hacking Learning Resources? | Mz: There is a series of books, which for the life of me I cannot remember, about learning various programming languages and such. The front of the books has tips like "Read just before bedtime" and talks about why the book is organized the way it is (for maximum memorability). They have illustrations and witty, engaging and generally interesting.A quick google turns up the title "Head First" and I think that is the name of these books. Even if they don't teach any subjects of interest to you, walk into a book store and read the intro that talks about why these books are organized the way are and the tips and suggestions they offer for learning more efficiently. |
got any food hacks? | roundsquare: One "dish" I used to eat was was canned mixed vegetables mixed with salsa. Eat with chips or tortillas, whatever. Enough vegetables to make it fairly healthy, if you get salsa you like it tastes good (you can even add a little cheese) and if you use multi-grain tortillas, it gets pretty healthy. |
Interesting (Non software) books? | samratjp: Einstein's Dreams. Written by a physicist. A great fiction on the nature of how time could be. My favorite example from the book is about how one scenario says that time slows as we go up the mountains and most people stay there to preserve their youth and when they go down to the foothills, they go there for work! |
How To Become Quantitative Analyst And Achieve Greatness? | ig1: Learn the basics and go and work for a hedge fund or a bank. There's a huge amount of knowledge which just isn't written about and the easiest way to learn about it is to work with people who know about it. Plus you'll get much better datasets to work with then you'll be able to get on your own.Check out the forums on wilmott.com for suggestions on books and the like as that's where a lot of quants hang-out. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | hoffmanc707: maybe something you can do with wikileaks, and actually get the real news out instead of the bullshit we see on the tele every day. |
I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers | Mz: I started out with zero technical skills and have learned a little (x)html and css along the way, enough to run my own sites. I now have larger goals. I got completely free technical support initially by spending my time in places (on the web) where people wanted what I had to offer (in my case: information, wisdom about specific topics).Good luck. |
Hacking Learning Resources? | jonsen: Isn't it somewhat paradoxically, that a teacher should ask for hack-how-to-learn recommendations?!No offense meant. Just struck me. Being a teacher myself I know no one really knows the ultimate learning hacks.Actually I'm in a similar process of brushing up my knowledge. For now I'm doing some meta reading:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Readinghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0671212095/ |
got any food hacks? | vahakota: With similiar goals as the OP this fine-tuned protein shake has become the cornerstone of my food intake:3 dl of non-fat milk (taste & liquid)
1 dl of ice cream (taste & carbs)
1 dl of whey protein powder (taste & protein)
5 ml of dry-pressed sunflower oil (omega-6 fats)
5 ml of dry-pressed flax oil (omega-3 fats)
1 cl of ispaghula husk (fiber)
1 cl of freeze dried fruit powder (antioxidants)The energy intake is divided quite evenly among carbs, protein and fats. It provides 1) the essential fats in a decent ratio, 2) a good dose of varying amino acids, 3) enough fiber for the digestive system to function and 4) a good dose of antioxidants. With a quick preparation now and then it is super fast to produce, takes almost no cleaning afterwards and the taste can be varied with different ice cream flavours. It might take a few drinks to get used to the taste if you have never consumed protein supplements but if you pick the right protein powder, use milk instead of water and get good ice cream, this tastes very good. And for some reason I haven't gotten bored with this even after months of almost daily use (on several meals).For fast consumption buy a big bowl (with a lid as ispaghula reacts with moisture without it) and mix 10-20 portions of protein, ispaghula husk and dried fruits in the correct ratio. Store a dedicated 1 dl cup in the bowl. Prepare a ready mix of flax and sunflower oil in the correct ratio and keep it in the fridge with the milk - you can learn to pour about 10ml of it by hand fast. Cut a whole pack of ice cream in small (about 2cl) bits in advance and store it in the original pack in the freezer. For mixing I use a protein shaker which can be flushed with water after use.I get my protein powder, fruit powder and the shaker from http://myprotein.co.uk/ in bulk, which makes this one of the cheapest healthy snacks (below 1$ per serving of about 400kcal). My preferred protein taste is Chocolate Smooth. Ispaghula seeds I get in the form of Pfizers laxative medicine (which is nothing but ispaghula husks and a bit of added sweetener) which goes by the name of Vi-Siblin in the nordics. You might find it with the brand Isogel. I prefer Vi-Siblin S which is sweetened with sorbitol instead of sugar.Don't let the "unnatural protein shake" scare get you. This is a balanced and healthy choice proven by active athletes around the world and it provides your essential macronutritients in easy form. You should still make sure you get enough micronutrients elsewhere as the dried fruid powder is in the mix mainly for it's antioxaditive qualities, but also on that front I would not shy away from the vitamin supplements as this drink provides a good essential fat balance which helps the intake of fat soluble micronutrients also in that form.For those who are trying to get leaner, the drink works pretty well also without the ice cream. This shifts the calorie balance heavily on protein and good fats which keeps you fed for long and provides pretty much all you need to sustain muscle mass while losing fat. |
Design tips? | chronomex: Looks fine to me, I can read the text and everything. I'm not a designer, though, so no doubt you'll have to hide the text somehow in order for it to be satisfactory. |
So what do you guys think of DotNetNuke? | vannevar: I used DNN awhile back and it's not horrible. If they're a Microsoft shop and the app is working and their growth is incremental, let sleeping dogs lie.If they're bringing you in to make a clean start with the best web frameworks available, then one of the Ruby/Python/PHP frameworks others mention would be better IMHO.If the answer is somewhere in the middle, you might have a look at the Castle Project (http://www.castleproject.org/), which I've had some good results with in the past. |
got any food hacks? | radu_floricica: Liver. If there's just one diet hack, this should be it: eat liver once or twice a month. It'll make up for the most atrocious junk food diets, and supplement nicely pretty much anything. If you're vegetatian the alternatives would be spinach and beans. |
Hacking Learning Resources? | whimsy: As far as I'm concerned, Piotr Wozniak is the expert when it comes to hacking memory. Recalling important tidbits is inextricably linked to learning, and his methods seem to work best for remembering things. |
Designer co-founder? | eam: I'm currently working on a few projects and finishing my last semester of college, but I might be able to help if I like your idea. :) |
Designer co-founder? | keefe: Yeah, I feel you. I'm looking at http://99designs.com/ and http://www.deviantart.com/ right now. |
How would you improve the iPad? | endtime: Without too seriously violating the design goals of the iPad: add a camera.But without that constraint, I'd make it run a full OS (my preference would be Windows 7, but OS X would work for those who like it, I guess), with some kind of clever gesture layer of course. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | ezliu: http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-5th/...http://www.amazon.com/Investments-Zvi-Bodie/dp/007293414Xare both very good general resources.Investments is a very broad approach that covers a lot of markets and basics and how things work. Very accessible to complete beginners.The Hull is an introductory text and a great reference source to keep handy. You'll need to be slightly mathy to get it, but I suspect most HN readers will feel at home. |
How would you improve the iPad? | philwelch: Not much. I would make it maybe 1/4 the weight and 1/4 the cost, but that'll take another few years. An iPad is nice, about five of them scattered around the house is better. (Ever see Star Trek? They have so many fucking PADDs around they'll just hand you one because they want you to read a single one page report.)I would implement "multitasking" but the UI would still work the same: "closing" an app would just sleep the process and swap the memory out. I would allow some processes to spawn "background services" to play audio and maybe a couple other things.They would be fully self-hosting machines with no dependence on a PC. Their data would sync to some type of cloud storage in some optimized semi-lazy way. For instance, if you download a recipe book on your bedroom iPad upon waking up, it'll show up on your kitchen iPad by the time you get to the kitchen. (If it's not actually loaded, opening it up will transfer it over, possibly p2p from the other iPad.)And of course, it would have infinite RAM, storage, bandwidth, and CPU. |
How would you improve the iPad? | cmelbye: Multitasking with an elegant interface (which is a given for Apple). Also, maybe a little lighter. It's tiring to hold it up for long periods of time. |
How would you improve the iPad? | ajaimk: Make it foldable in half. Advantages, it fits into a blazer pocket and makes carrying it much easier. And can also protect the screen. Here's for foldable displays. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | solutionyogi: The most important thing to realize is that trading and investing are different ball game.I don't know much about investing but I did dabble in trading, especially penny stocks. No, I am not talking about those scam emails where they claim that their stock pick is going to go up 100% in a month. I am talking about realizing those penny stock scams and 'shorting' them to your advantage. I learned about shorting penny stocks from Timothy Sykes (http://www.timothysykes.com/) and have made some money. There are quite a few other traders who share their knowledge through blogs. Few blogs which I follow:http://www.bigmiketrading.com/http://www.reapertrades.com/http://www.welcometothegutter.com/And most important tip: Trading is very risky. The saying '90% of the traders lose money' is spot on. Realize that trading is an extremely difficult profession and be very careful if you do decide to take the red pill. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | splat: http://www.investopedia.com/ is a wonderful website with lots of basic financial information that spans much more than just trading and investing. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | sgoraya: http://www.bogleheads.org/readbooks.htmProbably the best resource I have found online; the forums are great, the folks are really helpful with a lot of useful information. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | vaksel: by losing a bunch of money.personally I didn't find the games etc to be all that useful, you act completely different when it's real money on the line.luckily I started out around the time the market started picking back up, so even when I made stupid bets they paid off. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | shughes: By trying to incorporate programming into trading.If you get an account with a company like Interactive Brokers, they offer an API. They also only charge $0.005 per share.You can study a trading method called momentum trading, which is the idea of riding the curve for a very short period of time. For example, right after a financial statement is released, the company's stock is going to go up or down, depending on the statements results. You can write a program that immediately determines the direction the share price is going at the time in which the statement is public, then buy long or short depending on its direction. Then do the opposite when the program determines the up or down curve is leveling off.Pretty interesting stuff, and it'll get you engaged.As far as books, google momentum trading. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | bluesmoon: My girlfriend taught me a lot and then it was just by actually putting money out there and by talking to friends who were doing the same. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | davidkellis: One of the best books I've read about investing is Vitaliy Katsenelson's Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets.Katsenelson argues that one should have a sell strategy in mind before purchasing a stock, instead of buying a stock and then holding forever, what he calls "buy and forget to sell".His book is not about day trading, but he does advocate timing, what he calls pricing, a trade so that a stock purchase is made when it's a good value proposition and sold when it becomes more fully valued.I hadn't heard the term Range-Bound markets before reading his book. He defines the term and uses it to help him make the argument that taking a more active approach to investing (i.e. buying and selling as opposed to buying and forgetting to sell) is a good strategy in bear markets and range-bound markets, and isn't a bad strategy in bull markets.It's a very readable book. I'd suggest it to anyone.Also, Katsenelson has his own suggested reading: http://contrarianedge.com/2009/10/28/books-that-will-help-ga... |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | iamelgringo: I'm not a trader, I do index funds. But, I'm a news hound, and I love reading economic an financial news, which is why I started http://Newsley.com.I went out to NY last week and met with the guys from http://stocktwits.com. They're trying to revamp trading through social media. They have a really active twitter channel,and I follow a number of their twitter feeds.They've also started streaming live video while the US market is open. They have a number of traders broadcast live while they are trading. It's a pretty cool concept. I wish them well.If you looking for reviews of trading news, and companies, etc... there's http://www.investimonials.com/. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | scw: I'd recommend starting by reading this article about how Google approached educating its employees on investing:
http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll...And this talk by Charlie Munger on stockpicking and the art of worldly wisdom:
http://ycombinator.com/munger.htmlThe two major mental models which I've found helpful in understanding the market are the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_market_hypothesis) which explains how the market acts under idealized conditions of rationality. Temper this with learning about Behavioral Economics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics) which covers issues of human perception and how us semi-rational beings actually act, such as perceiving a loss of $100 as twice as painful as a gain of $100.The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is a wonderful book, but reads densely. In more recent editions contains thoughtful side commentary by Jason Zweig which help break up the text and give a more modern perspective. A key idea is the separation between investing and speculation: set aside some percentage of your portfolio for speculating, and experiment with it, but investing for the long-term is the way to go in the absence of something which allows you to escape the financial gravity of the efficient market.A Random Walk on Wall Street by Burton Malkiel covers efficient market theory thoroughly. The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein for approaches to constructing long-term portfolios.Lots more to say on this issue, but hopefully some of these starting points will get you thinking. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | sahaj: start reading the financial news. the best way to learn about the stock market is to start paying attention to the financial news. there's a lot of data to be absorbed when you first start, but with time it'll become easy to read and understand the news articles and how they relate. also start paying attention to the major indexes, prices of commodities and currency. pay close attention to monetary policy set by the legislative body and find out how that may affect the general market or a specific market. pay close attention to the habits of the consumer - how she uses credit, her spending capacity, wages, etc.just like most things in life, practice makes perfect. start practicing your trade/investment hunches. start with small wagers and increase them as you learn more and start to understand what works and what doesn't. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | dirtae: The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham is a classic, and a good place to start. A Random Walk Down Wall Street is also a must read, even if you reject the efficient market hypothesis. Of course, there is a huge difference between trading and investing. These books are firmly about investing, not trading. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | derwiki: I learned enough to know it's a game not worth actively playing. Buy an index fund, do dollar cost averaging, and stay hands off. Why?. Big shot fund managers can't consistently beat the market, and they do this 40+ hours a week -- why should you do better?. Stocks should be a long term investment; the market has always had a positive return over any 20 year period. Index fund and don't worry about it.. You'll do a lot better applying energy to your start-up or whatever you're working on than dwelling on ticker prices.. You're probably not playing with enough money to make it worth worrying aboutRamit Sethi's "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" book is a great overview of personal finance. He convinced me to automate my investments and not worry about following the market day to day.(UPDATE: fixed formatting, thanks davidw) |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | rmanocha: I've recently started doing some investing (in both stocks and MF's) - in the Indian market. Over a 3 month period, I've had higher returns on my Growth MF's than on all the stocks I've bought.I'm slowly starting to pull out of stocks and reinvesting that money into MF's - stocks take up too much time for it to be worth the effort. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | steve19: The same way I learn most things: by making mistakes. |
How would you improve the iPad? | spitfire: 1. A bit more ram.
2. A camera
3. Lower price.
4. Time to mature. |
How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ? | reidman: I read Investing for Dummies back in 2004. It taught me all the basics I needed to know -- mostly lingo, since I had no clue what all the TLAs meant.I had just gotten my hands on a few thousand dollars that I knew would otherwise be wasted on an unnecessary purchase, so I signed up with Ameritrade (back in 2004 when it was much less user-friendly) and had to read the book before I felt confident enough to actually place an order.The book advised me to buy what I knew, and to only buy something I planned on holding for a long time. Luckily I had just tried out a Powerbook for the first time and was blown away, so I bought a bunch of Apple stock. |
How many domain names do you own? | rcfox: I've just got http://rcfox.ca |
How many domain names do you own? | eam: Three at the moment, though it changes. I always have a personal one and then a few others for my pet projects. |
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