skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most meaty fish food comes from by catch. naturally that can't replace fishing, but it's not like they compete with is for cows.
Until there's a full version of Firebug available for Chome, I'll be sticking with Firefox for development work.
Looks like you could ask Yahoo:

YOU SHALL NOT:

Sell, lease, share, transfer, or sublicense Yahoo! Pipes or derive income from the use of Yahoo! Pipes in conjunction with Yahoo! APIs or other web services, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, without Yahoo!'s prior, express, written permission;

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/pipes/pipes-4396.html
Meaningless is a little strong. I'm asking generally. And clearly Google is not tuned to answer this.
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I still hope to figure out how to support myself via some kind of online income. I am 45, a lot older than most of the YC applicants as I understand it, I have a very serious medical condition and two grown sons who still live with me. I have lived in the SFBA previously, in Fairfield about 45 miles from San Francisco (halfway between SF and the state capital). My sons are very against returning to Cali. I liked it but I have my reservations. I think I need to go someplace that meets my health needs. Keeping myself (and my sons) well is my highest priority and it is very clear in my mind that this is the single most important criteria for me ever having any kind of financial success.

I have figured out how to get myself (and my oldest son, who has the same diagnosis) well when doctors and most of the world believe it cannot be done. I joined HN to ask how to quickly learn a programming language. I did this more than a year ago, shortly after I got off the last of my medication and finally had a clear head for the first time in many years, but I still have not learned the first thing about a programming language. The reason for the request for info on a programming language: I have concluded that I need a more information dense means to convey what I know. The written word on my website is just not cutting it. Only people who aren't already deeply rooted in current views of the problem seem able to use it at all. Everyone else is openly hostile. I think a simulation (aka game) could potentially solve the problem. But I still do not know a programming language and I am still working full time and still have a significant time burden in terms of continuing to get well. I have never met a single person who was as sick as I was and came back the way I have. So I have zero yardstick for judging how long this "should" take. I will get there when I get there, thus I am in no position to make promises to outsiders in terms of deliverable timeframes.

I also waffle a lot between this idea and other interests. The massive open hostility I have gotten for trying to help people doesn't go over terribly well with me. I often wonder if I should bother to try to solve this issue or if I should go off and try to live the "normal life" I always wanted now that I am nearly well enough to do something like that.
Microsoft has never released a new version of Windows without referring to it as a "bet-the-company" release. This includes Vista. Just because they say it, doesn't mean it's true -- in fact it's probably never actually been true.
Here is someone a little while back who did a Rate My X: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794251

He has a ton of programming done and the site is working, but he is clearly no designer and needs a lot of help on design [ he might have improved it some since then ]. Probably a GREAT candidate to reach out to.
This doesn't surprise me. I'm pretty sure I have taste receptors on the outside of my throat (ie, the front of my neck).

I first noticed it when I tasted blood after cutting myself shaving. I've done a few experiments on myself with sugar vs salt solutions, and I could identify the sugar solution pretty well.

Apparently this is uncommon, because when I tell people they look at me weirdly (although I guess that could be because they think I'm some kind of odd mutant and might sprout metal talons or something).
Starvation is equally an issue with semaphores.. how does that make a mutex different?
Ask HN: "Founder" Status
I recently started a pretty popular outdoors website. I let a friend of mine invest a considerable amount of money into the site's development. He also helps to manage the site on a day-to day basis. We've worked out an equity split and we have clearly defined roles, but we haven't discussed titles. He puts about as many hours into it as I do. We worked on a project similar to the current one about two years ago. This new site is a pretty big variation of the old one, and it's rightfully my idea.

Are there any downsides to giving him "founder" status? Am I being egotistical by not calling him a founder?
There was an interesting thread on Reddit a couple months ago, where an American said he didn't understand why Europeans hate the Roma so much, and wondered if it was just a baseless prejudice like many Americans have toward Mexicans. The discussion was interesting. Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d3hax/why_does_eu...

I was amazed at how many of the anti-Roma arguments sounded just like the anti-black arguments you'd find in the early 19th century in the US.
I agree with you that Chrome dev tools are lacking a bit, but what do you miss specifically?

I find that the JS debugger is far better (or at least since the last time I worked with Firebug). That's enough for me.
Some farmed fish requires fish to feed them, which is unsustainable in itself when you're feeding N pounds of other fish to produce 1 pound of the edible type.

See: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/farmedfish-pnas092...

Recently, I've seen more of a shift to grains, but that reduces the nutritional value of the fish.
I thought the point of the article was not to have dreams, but rather to be awake to the world around you, because much of the goodness in it will pass you by if you're fixated on something else.
Do you need to modify your manage.py?

source /usr/bin/local/virtualenvwrapper.sh
workon yoursitevirtualenv
./manage.py migrate

Virtualenv changes the current environment variables to use the correct python version. So the shebang in manage.py (/usr/bin/env python) will use the right version and installed packages.

The upside is you can change your python version & packages without changing hard coded paths to the virtual environment you want to use.
The difficulties of providing 110-volt power to your airline seat
I'm a customer of yours. Out of curiosity, what mailing lists do you participate in?
1) Sorry, my bad... Usually I've got only setuptools and virtualenv globally installed, so pip is not available outside of virtualenv.

2) I know that Varnish is awesome, don't get me wrong. But for the most use cases putting Varnish in front of nginx doesn't add any benefits... nginx on its own can handle pretty much all standard caching use cases, so Varnish is adding only a little of per-request overhead. Of course YMMV ;)
Khan Academy + Instant Search = Khan Instant
So you saved this app by using fork(), not (just) by using C. You can use fork() from a lot of languages, including shell scripts and PHP.
Interesting blog, but unlike me, most people here don't understand Spanish. This looks like auto-submitting link-farming spam.
LOL how depressing. Guess I'll just have to live vicariously through the other posters. Lesson to the rest of you, get SV living out of your system before you settle down and have kids.
Ask HN: Can my side project make money?
I've been working on http://www.goblabble.com for the past two weeks. GoBlabble lets you instantly record and share your voice over the phone.

Do you think I can make any money with this? Any ideas for premium features?
What's entertainment for a lot of Jay-Z's listeners is more like a guidebook for far too many young black men (and the women who chase men like him). I personally like rap and know that if you dig deeper into many of Jay-Z's songs, you'll find more substance, but that doesn't negate the fact that he has a far more negative than positive influence on people who need all the positive role models they can get.

I upvoted the comment above yours because I see his (and other rappers) influence firsthand among friends and family members and it's really very depressing. Sometimes I don't know how I justify listening to his music...
There are several reasons environmentalists hate aquaculture which may or may not apply here:

- Most aquaculture is not disconnected from natural waterways (sometime its a caged area in a natural waterway). This means depleting resources and waste dumping which hurts the natural ecology.

- The problems of high density farming: genetic diversity issues, antibiotic use / superbug breeding grounds / diseases

- Fish farms use feed made from by-catch creating some incentive for it.

- It can "look wrong." This may cause people to look for reasons.

On the other hand, aquaculture can be a self sufficient facility in the desert that deals with filters etc or even produces vegetables as a by product. I think relatively few aquaculture businesses actually operate like this, but many could be. The two biggest species (by far if you measure by weight) in aquaculture are tilapia (mild white fish for Americans) & carp (strong oild fish for Chinese). Both of these are easy (high density, grain eating, hardy etc.) freshwater species and would be easy to make eco friendly.

*As a hobby many people do aquaponics. They grow plants hydroponically using bacteria to convert the ammonia from fish waste into plant food. Tilapia are a popular choice. I'm not sure if this particular approach is most commercially viable, but it works as a proof of concept for environmentally sound tilapia growing. It sounds like a lot of fun.
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Melinda Gates Keeps Apple Out of her House... Again
clickable link: http://www.goblabble.com
So, the English department ended up in the black because it taught so many students? Presumably, all undergrads are required to take a couple semesters of English. How fair is it that the University forces the purchase of the English department's product but doesn't force the consumption of other subjects like aerospace engineering (presuming, of course, that no aerospace engineering requirement exists for most undergraduate degrees)?
I agree, varnish in front of nginx might be a bit overkill. We use varnish because we run apache, and I'm so infatuated with it that I recommend it to everyone. I've seen it pull off thousands of requests a second without breaking a sweat, then again nginx is no sloth either.

We are considering switching from apache, but the current setup works so well that we don't want to mess with it :)
eh, I think that following references rarely results in an accurate picture, especially following up on references that the applicant gives you.

Have you ever given a bad reference? I've given lots of references, and I've checked lots of references. I've never given a negative reference, and I've never gotten a negative reference when I checked someone else.

This is for two reasons. 1. when the applicant lists references, s/he is going to list people who think positively of him or her, and 2. if some random guy calls up and asks for a reference for someone who used to work for you, you have a relationship with your ex-employee. You have no relationship with this new company. You have nothing to gain (and possibly significant liabilities) from handing out a negative reference.
A couple more I find useful:

- Evernote Web Clipper - for saving code snippets and notes about projects
- Resize Window - to open a page in a resolution of your choice. Very useful.
- Awesome Screenshot - take a screenshot and let people know what you think about a page ... if you're using Safari, Coda Notes is much nicer, though :)

And, of course, the developer tools included in Chrome (first in Safari ... and they still are nicer there) are great, too.

Any more extensions HN users find useful?
Amazon, start with the customer and work backwards
Based on what it sounds like, there would be no monetary implications, no VCs to impress, no legal considerations, right? This may sound callous, but there is really no reason why you should waste time even thinking about titles when you are a two-person shop operating a bunch of websites. Just let it go.

On the other hand, if you already started to divide your stuff into "his idea" and "my idea", this might be an early warning sign that something is in the process of going wrong, if you previously worked together as a seamless team.
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> A 2010 study of Swedish women found that those who took multivitamins were 19% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer over a 10-year period than those who didn’t. A 2007 paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that men who took multivitamins along with other supplements were at increased risk of prostate cancer.

I wonder how much of this has to do with the kind of people who are health-conscious enough to take multivitamins being more likely to get cancer screening?

I take a couple of Flintstone Vitamins a day, not to try to improve my health, but rather (1) to hopefully make up any gaps in my diet, and (2) their pleasant taste covers up the horrible taste of a prescription I take at the same time.
"But for me, my family in the car is infinitely more important than potential damage that might be caused by an unknown person in an car that's under no control."

I'm glad someone remembered this. Saving someone else might be a good thing, but saving your own family is definitely heroic.
Six years of blogging: lessons learned
- multi-line javascript console

- inline viewing of ajax requests

- go to link that works

- urls that work

- keyboard shortcuts for debugging (go to line, create breakpoint)

- inspector with more options

- easier to edit inline html with highlighting not raw text

- connecting to console via other extensions (chrome API is very
small compared to firefox API)

- Better search in scripts

- Better search in DOM tree

- Better search in inspector

- Less clicking when viewing remote content

- Displaying remote content that works (file is loaded, content tab is empty)

Only a matter of time before it's implemented in chrome. But, firebug already has all this stuff and it makes a huge difference when debugging JS

Note: I wrote a couple of chrome extensions. Therefore, I cumulated more frustration than the average JS developer on chrome because switching to firebug is not even an option in my case ;-)
The Chrome extension gallery has a category for web developer tools: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/web_dev

I don't know how the article missed Speed Tracer. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ognampngfcbddbfe...
You know, that's a pretty good strategy. YOu'll be right a lot more than 50% of the time....
Brilliant promotional strategy you've got there Yahoo.

I'm perplexed as to why a company releases a brilliant product (I love graphical programming compared to coding) and then discourages people from using it for anything serious. No wonder they're in decline.
As far as I'm concerned it's been going downhill fast since Digg collapsed though.

I stopped visiting the main reddit page a few years ago and stuck to proggit since then, but that also seems to have suffered a lot recently.

Does anyone know if the ex-proggit folks just moved somewhere else?
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Exactly. In particular, limos need to arrange for pick-up at least 1 hour beforehand in SF to avoid being classified as taxis (if I remember correctly from the original article).
Someone's clearly excited about the idea lol
Relative comparison theory strikes again.
"tons of libraries" - weren't you the one saying that stupid people don't use libraries? :-)
Water and Cocoa. By cocoa I mean Undutched (non alkalized) pure unsweetened cocoa powder and water.

I used to drink a lot of tea, but cocoa actually has way more antioxidants and I much prefer its effects to nearly every other psychostimulant.

[alcohol for socializing: context dependent. alcohol for hacking: whiskey+matcha green tea ]
You don't, if you need to change envs for a single project. Otherwise, there's no reason why you need to type two(/three) commands when one will do...
Very generous. Hats off to you man.
I'm jedediah on KGS, and would welcome any game, though I'm a meager ~20k, as I've just started playing.
Biofuels: 10 years from now
Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed
operative phrase -that- common

Just because you can doesn't mean you will, in many cases.
Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
First of all, it's not clear to me that priority inversion is an issue with semaphores as normally used. If a high-priority consumer thread is waiting on a low-priority producer thread, there may just be no data ready to be consumed. There's no reason to raise the priority of the producer thread if, for example, it's just waiting for some external input.

Second, how would you solve priority inversion for general semaphores? With mutexes, you know what thread is holding the mutex, and can bump its priority correspondingly. With semaphores, there's no guarantee that the same thread that incremented the semaphore will decrement it later.
Why would they be operating a cab service? There are two things that separate cab service and black car service. 1) black car service drivers are not allowed to pick up passengers by street hail or any other method that is not dispatch by base station, and is booked on a private hire basis. 2) black car service is basically a private transportation in which a limo license has been granted, is suited by it's luxurious demeanor as a vehicle appropriate for ceremonies and uses of luxury or prestige.

The cars that UberCab dispatches are in appearance and in license compliant with black car services and are hired on-demand on a prearrangement basis through a phone application. In addition, a customer must register for the service and provide a credit card to use the service.

This are not random people calling a cab station, this are specific customers arranging for private transportation they could do by phone, but do so using an application instead.
Note that the Google Maps API have very similar terms. Most people ignore those terms, of course, but technically you need to pay Google at least $10,000/year to use their Maps API for any sort of commercial project.
first, I think "professional" is too broad a brush to evaluate at once, even using your definition of professional.

For instance, I'm very good about taking ownership and being accountable. I'm, uh, somewhat less good at actually getting things done on time. I mean, I won't make stupid excuses or try to shift blame, but I am quite often late on actually getting the damn thing done because of my own personal failings, so if you just measured a willingness to accept responsibly when accepting responsibility is unpleasant, you'd think higher of me than you ought.

"what is the most costly (to your employer) mistake of your career?" is a good interview question to probe the willingness to take responsibility. I know I've made some expensive mistakes, some of my worst were simply because I typed the wrong thing out of fatigue or inattention. (as I have grown older, I think one of the most important things I've learned is how to tell when I am likely to make a mistake, and when to log out.)

I'd argue that a person who claims not to have made expensive mistakes is likely the type to dodge responsibility. (this is eminently true in the ops world. I imagine it's true elsewhere, but I've got a lot less room to speak.)

You could also give them a hypothetical where, say, they could have prevented a mistake but it wasn't something they actively caused. Then ask them if it was their responsibility. "If you hired a guy who did something stupid that cost us a lot of money, is it your fault or his fault?" I'd never hire anyone for management who thought it was the hiree's fault.

showing up on time, in my experience has nothing to do with a willingness to take responsibility when something goes wrong.

As for "gets things done" eh, I'm not the right man to ask about that. When you figure out a better answer than "hire them as a contractor and see" let me know.
Who actually uses UberCab?

Taxi Magic is a fantastic app that's totally legit. Open the app, use your location to book a cab and within 5 minutes it's there. It's Luxor Cabs who are fully licensed and use computerized dispatch.

I tried UberCab once and it was a nicer car but the experience was no better than Taxi Magic, and significantly more expensive to get around town.

I hate non-metered cabs. Taxis are one place where regulation is good. We all know what it's like to deal with a shady taxi driver. The tendency is to gouge vulnerable travelers, not to set lower prices. The consistency that regulation offers is the most important.

I also can't believe the complaints about the taxis in SF. The cab companies are downright excellent when you actually call, and plentiful on the streets.
So I can understand the argument for taxi regulation and prohibiting unlicensed taxis: when I hail a taxi for a 5 minutes drive, I don't want to expend resources looking at competitors, checking to make sure the meter is legit, checking proof of insurance, etc. Since most people want the same thing out of a taxi (as opposed to, say, buying a car), it makes sense for a centralized government agency to do some regulating.

But what is the rationale for limiting the number of medallions? Why not just allow anyone who wants to become licensed to do so, while charging a fee which covers the cost of the licencing process?

The OP's article lists the obvious dangers of completely deregulating, but it doesn't explain the cap on medallions.

(Please, no comments about "because the taxi cartels control the government!". I understand the incentives for existing taxis to erect barriers to the market. I'm more interesting in the rationale of those who argue that a limited number of medallions is in the public interest.)
You have got to be the first person I've ever heard say that MS products are ok for side projects, but that free stuff is better for business. In general, I would associate MS with "businessy" and open source with "fun".
haha, that's a great list. A few of those have bothered me in passing (inline html/css editing, shortcuts, following links without resource tracking).

If you need multiline and you're on a Mac (not sure about Windows), you've got option+return in the console.
These articles always seem to leave out the biggest question: "how can I reload my code without having root access and restarting the web server".
I don't think much of this thread is relevant. If somebody gives me a time to be somewhere, and it leads me to complex avenues of moral debate over the impact on my professional career and the opportunities in life for my children, for less than a kilosecond, then no.

Are they on time for work? Good. Are they late? Did they prevent or ameliorate that having an impact?

Will they execute what they say they will, when they say they will? We may have to wait on that.
Meg Whitman accidentally outsources her campaign videos to Asia
Does pricing vary by location?
I've been blogging at scripting.com for 13 years.

And your explanation of blogging is pretty correct. It's surprising after all this time that people still don't get it, that a blog post is just one person's experience.

They're so accustomed to being told that there is a kind of writing that's anything more. That somehow the big publications tap into a well of collective wisdom that's greater than one person's experience.

Anyway, thanks for explaining. Some of the people here need to have it laid out for them. :-)

BTW, on the third try, the iPhone did fix itself. My friend still went home with the Nexus One, happily.