skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Jason,

I really can't agree with your assessment. You and Scoble - and I like you both a lot - are in a vastly different position than the people Google made Buzz for.

You guys are pundits (not in a bad sense - you're thought leaders).

Google made Buzz for end users and enterprise. I really don't think it's useful for end users at this point. Too many are reporting problems and dissatisfaction with the UI. As for enterprise, we'll have to see what they end up rolling out.

I appreciate that Buzz has worked well for you so far, but I feel you're being overly enthusiastic about the product.
I don't use either, but if I need gmail to try buzz, it's a non-starter for me.
Ritarius,

Here's a good post, if a bit old, on best ways to grab domains. It's changed a bit as domain sipping is no longer allowed. But it'll give you a good idea of one guy's attempt.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-sn...
"Apple's bands" would be the Beatles, Wings, Hot Chocolate, Grapefruit, Plastic Ono Band, etc...
There is an important difference between compliments and complements.
tipjoy I believed a y combinator companyhas tried something similar to this concept, and they shut down already .. http://tipjoy.com/

I hope they have better luck
Recent versions of flash allow for direct video connections...
Discussion of Google blog post on same plan, from HN's front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1115169
Invest it in a micro-finance venture, particularly one in a 3rd World Country (I believe the best known one is this, in Bangladesh - http://www.grameen-info.org/)

The famed 97%+ repayment rates have been questioned, so it's not necessarily the best financial investment you'll make, but for a class project it kicks ass - your $10 goes to a poor woman, who uses it to help her community and her family, pays it back so you can do it again and again. Man, teachers eat that stuff up.
The bottom-line in this article is that you need to take the steps necessary to get a project done. Even if this means self-educating, don't let that prevent you from accomplishing your goals.

In reality, this isn't always feasible. That's why it's so important to have good judgment about these things.

It reminds me of this quote:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

[UPDATED]
This isn't meant to be a religious statement, I'm just crediting the original. You can just as easily replace "god" with "imagination" or "consciousness" or whatever if that makes it more palatable.
The inability to block anyone from following you

You didn't go to the options drop-down next to each follower's name and choose "block"? I've heard that that works just fine. So far all of my followers are my friends whom I want following me.

To answer your question, I like Buzz so far. (I have never used Twitter, so I don't have Twitter as a point of comparison.) I think I will end up liking it better than Facebook, as most of my best friends are quite annoyed with Facebook's new home page and thus eager to try something else.
What You Didn’t Know About Cloudera
> One guy that worked for me for 10 years wrote, “If I fell dead at my desk, George wouldn’t notice for two days.”

This isn't good management. This is neglect. As manager, you should be on top of everything.
There is a significant portion of twitter though who probably would see value here, seems to make sense for a lot of the tech stuff on twitter.

Your right about facebook though, it doesn't seem the kind of thing that will pull in the less tech inclined. Although some people would have said that about facebook, with it's plain unchanging layout compared to all the things people could do on myspace.
It occurs to me that the level of American consumption has always been unsustainable in the long term given the contemporary technology at any given time. New York city was on the verge of uninhabitable because of all of the horses and their needs before Mr. Ford got his groove on.

The best that can be said is that the level of American consumption is unsustainable given the current level of technological development. What I think has made America such a singularity on the world stage is that the Americans have been able to use innovation to stay just a tiny bit ahead of "unsustainability" and do so with remarkable consistency.
edit for clarity:

>[...] was either because of Steve and me OR because of Steve alone.
(f) for me but it depends on how you intend to fit it in the design, (f) is a bit tall.

Also I'd call it "Top Hat & Monocle" as I think this flows better, turn the cord into an ampersand.
Most people associate email\gmail with work.

Most people associate facebook with procrastination\lols.

More people prefer to procrastinate\lol than to work.

Therefore more people will prefer to Facebook than to Buzz.
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The problem is EVERYONE is doing it. Always. The share holders practically demand it. Also, I think it goes without saying that the original post overly simplifies things a bit. If the pharm industry cooked the books to come up with substantiating evidence that looked highly convincing, it doesn't surprise me that stuff like this slipped by.

Previously: Climategate, Madoff, Enron, Sports doping, and so on and so forth basically throughout the entirety of humanity's recorded history.
>- we're targeting the academic market

Not just reddit then?

Edit: the downvoters realise that the company name is a reddit meme?
Few things I like:
1. It lives within Gmail. Generally its very difficult to attract people to whole new thing, while its very easy to make them do some differently which they are already doing.
2. Nice integration with Reader.
3. Nice location based features. (I think Twitter is currently working on this. They acquired some company for the this purpose).
My criteria for this is always can I print it on a t-shirt in one color (i.e. black ink on white t-shirt in this case). If it works on t-shirts it works on business cards, stickers, etc. Keeps it simple and keeps promo items cost down in the early days.

So in short B (that's how I voted).
i dont know what it is, so i don't know. is it a pharmacy or a search engine?
Actually Seth Godin explicitly doesn't want this kind of donation tool. His blog is a tribe he cultivates to sell books.

Believe me, I know about this one.

Also, micropayments make it worse. You'll get the same dropoff for $0.05 as you would for $5. Again, I know from data. Making the amounts small just means you get less revenue. http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/03/the_first_penny.html
Product Management As CEO Training [video, 2009]
People won't put in money to their system.
Should definitely rewrite for clarity it's a mess. For example:

"My own experiences with Adwords quickly showed me that people will click an ad, even if it isn’t at all relevant to what they are searching for. For example people searching for “747 seating plan” will click on an ad with the title “wedding seating plan”. It is the nature of the web that people are surfing rather than reading, and clicking on an irrelevant ad doesn’t cost them anything [...] you can be sure that I have “747″ set up as a negative keyword."

He switches voice within the para and there's not much hint he's doing it.
Brands Wasting No Time With Google Buzz. This Could Get Annoying.
To post a comment the first option you can select is "Optional: Sign in with Facebook" which opens a Facebook login window. Which is why most of those commenters had that [f] in their comments.

So perhaps they thought they were somehow logging into Facebook but while they were really doing some kind of remote authentication.
If you are going fast, which presumably in this situation you are, your power steering isn't giving you much boost anyway. Losing power steering doesn't mean you lose steering, you probably wouldn't even notice it until you slowed down
The History of Hacking (infographic)
It's not surprising given his attitudes that he has problems finding good people. Also, it sounds like he is in the business of selling platitudes not creating new products. I'm sure people who take his advice see profitability miracles like Fiorina realized at HP. There is certainly money to be made following his advice in mature industries, but I'm not sure that it's particularly good for innovative industries.
Exactly. On a modern computer, the gain from not piping cats is almost always negligible. I don't think most shell scripts today ever get to the point where you have to worry about inner loops and the such.

These days, if you hit a performance wall from spawning too many cats, I would think you switch to some scripting language where you have everything in one process. Premature optimization, people...
"Since when do better products automatically win in the tech marketplace?"

Of course they don't always win, but this is what everyone said when MySpace was on top of the world. If Buzz is genuinely better then Facebook needs to be worried. Google has every other ingredient necessary to win.
Why the hell does anyone still read anything that this guy writes. More often than not he's full of shit. Why risk your time trying to figure out which is the case for any single piece of his writing.
His rules for supplier credit fail the basic rule of reciprocity, unless he also extends 45 days credit to his customers, which I doubt.
The Flattr video isn't loading for me and there doesn't appear to be any other info there, so please excuse me if they're already running with the concept of guilt-micropayments.

A half-baked idea I had (and emailed Ivan from TipJoy about ages ago) was the concept of a tip jar that accumulated funds based on pageviews from each specific user, then tried to encourage them to tip.

Right now, a donate button on a blog will just have a flat approach - plain button, donate x, y or z, and that's it.

I wondered if a content provider couldn't set a value for pageview (e.g., 2 cents for a blog post or forum topic), and then count per user. Following wording is off the top of my head and completely awkward, but you'll get the idea:

"In the last month you've viewed 582 pages on mysite.com for a total of $11.64. Would you like to make a voluntary donation that reflects your use of the site?"

Like I said, half-baked but could interest blog and forum owners enough for them to try it and virally spread the word.
How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)
Just as a point of reference, the documentation submitted with a NDA is on the order of hundreds of thousands of pages.
I think Buzz's most fatal flaw is that it relies to heavily on Gmail. Anybody who hasn't used gmail until now will probably not start using Buzz.

Another thing (but that's very imho) is that Google applications still look and feel like Excel. They are certainly very good, but also feel like work.
I don't think most small-business owners are really like this, fortunately. It'd be a pretty sad world if it were really true that "profits aren't everything, they're the only thing".
The Network is the Computer: Why a Google ISP Can Succeed
Google’s Little Fiber Experiment Could Cost Over $1 Billion
oh hi there :) I am going to have to drop you an email now
Another fun thing to do is use an empty entry, like

mv .xinitrc{,.bak}

or, if you have some stuff mounted under another mountpoint, such as when installing gentoo:

umount /mnt/gentoo/{proc,dev,boot,}

That empty entry expands to the base path, which can be a nice shortcut.
I have been involved in automotive recalls as a quality engineer and believe it or not things have advanced in the last 40 years and this is no longer how recalls are handled. In fact the cost of the recall is usually one of the last things discussed after the decision has already been made.
If it's any consolation, they probably questioned the colour of the bikeshed.
Adventures in libel (or why I won't read your forum)
The latest on ISP libel law and take-down requests, assisted by expert libel solicitors Carter-Ruck.
My parents didn't send me for piano lessons - the other 3 kids in the house went for them though. This meant I only got to start lessons at about 11 (might have been 12) when they realised I actually wanted to have them.

I really enjoyed playing but always felt an earlier start would have given me more chance to learn and progress with that instrument. In short I wish my parents had been more pushy with me (and not just in this as it happens).
Well you can only block someone if they have a public profile. My x is in my "followers" list and does not have a public profile :-( . Why cant they have a facebook like option on whom to allow or not, why link something like this to a public profile.
It works in makefiles, too. (100% sure about BSD make, pretty sure about GNU make and others.)
Interpreting the article to fit your suggestion shouldn't you simply let them know that the library is there if they want to try it.
Interestingly enough, I found that the ideas come either way--whether you're outsourcing or not. So, if you want to outsource things, don't worry that the ideas will stop coming. They just show up when you're taking a shower, driving, or doing any number of other things.
A perfect girlfriend theory
3 dicks and I was done. I seriously wish I could erase that from my memory.
Some guilt associated with giving up seems rather a good thing. If you give up because you're just being lazy or because someone made fun of you then you're giving up for the wrong reasons. Some activities that improve ones mindset, health, outlook, happiness are hard and require motivation - developing the ability to persist with something you find hard or challenging in some way is also a very important skill.

Your suggestion only works for parents with near limitless means. If my kid took a passion for piano, say, and we bought a piano we couldn't just buy something else that year if he wanted to do something else and we'd be unlikely to sacrifice our holidays 2 years in a row to indulge him if he's going to quit. You make your bed, you sleep in it.
That's an interesting way of looking at it, but you're still talking about "preference" of one over the other. Unless there's a new tool out there that can integrate everything for me, (even if I prefer FB/Buzz/Twitter/etc.) I'll still probably use all of them for those precise separate reasons.

I think it'd be interesting to see how many NEW social network users Buzz will bring in, just because of the simple fact that it makes setting up a brand new network easy as pie (vs FB and having to build up to a nice little community of friends).
There is some really great info on that site. I'm a sys admin of 3 years and to see the comparison in performance is going to force me to change my scripting habits.
Why would this cause you any more pain than normal? You can just remove that chain with rm -r, surely?
It spurs interesting debate when someone puts a strong stake in the ground. I mean, look at this thread :)
A Tech-Focused HARO, PRManna
Good point. But often I imagine that even these old-world service firms tend to see specialization of labor from the partners, and somebody ends up holding the sales bag. I just think most software companies as idealistic and technical as this one will probably wish to have someone else attend to all the messy pre-sale human interaction once they reach a certain scale. If only to provide a clean signal of the right opportunities, shorn of noise.
Hairs trace human history
I like their style:

"As of February 10, 2010 @ 04:24PM PST

"Battle station fully operational"
Am I the only one who saw the URL and didn't bother to read the article?
IMO you've got to find the proper amount of indifference and micromanaging. If you act the way the guy in the article says to act you will have a hard time finding good people, and actually keeping good people will be impossible.
My favourite use is when installing packages using package managers, especially when I need the dev packages.

Old fink example:

sudo fink install lib{png,jpeg,ssl,whatever}{,-{dev,shlibs}}

which expands to:

sudo fink install libpng libpng-dev libpng-shlibs libjpeg libjpeg-dev libjpeg-shlibs libssl libssl-dev libssl-shlibs libwhatever libwhatever-dev libwhatever-shlibs
I didn't really learn to live until I spent a year at death's door. Since there is no cure for my disorder, even getting well doesn't remove the "death sentence" I am living under. I find it is a gift and very freeing.
Can I click a button more than once?
Twitter Blog: Super Data
Writing object to object mapper: moving to generics
Full disclosure: I'm a surgery intern who was taking a course in drug action and design from an NIH immunologist at the time the Vioxx story was unfolding. The real story is how industry lobbyists and Republicans push for a weak FDA and the Dems push for more stringent regulations, which is just fine by the industry so long as the regulatory funding never keeps up. It's essentially another patent office but every new drug application that makes it to approval comes with literally rooms full of documentation.

As far as loathing big pharma, they're really the only ones who can play the game because the stringency requirements are so insanely high. Genuinely novel discoveries might come out of universities, and small start-ups might get the prototyps developed, but it's rare for them to survive on their own. They usually end up selling to one of the big companies.

From 30,000 feet, the pharma industry looks a lot like the IT industry.
Wimps need not apply.
NoSQL in the real world
Is it all hold-em all the time, round robin, dealer's choice, or what?
Because of this question I went ahead and wrote this little blurb on how to integrate Loom into shopping carts (and paid content sites): https://loom.cc/faq#shopping

Thank you. That is all. :)
Sorry, yeah, this is what I was referring to, I wasn't trying to imply that Google is responsible for doing it.
Idiot Lesson On The Types Of SQL JOINs
I can't stand exercise for its own sake. I love playing sports (say, ultimate disc, the most pretentiously named sport invented), because there's stuff going on. I love the feeling of exercise. But just lifting, or jogging on a treadmill or something--I just can't do.

But, man--if anyone else is like us three, you gotta try biking. I bike commute to a day job, and it's quite sufficiently safe if you're not stupid. For some reason, even though my brain can totally turn off in the car, in the bike I'm totally engaged in a way that's quite enjoyable. I've even tried listening to music/podcasts, but they're of limited utility because I'm not really paying attention to them. It's all about going faster, and staying alive. Really a rush; I recommend it for those who can arrange it.
The "street" is clueless. Not only does Google have plenty of cash to burn, but this could snowball into something that pays off for them. Google has a vested interest in a faster internet, just like shipping companies have a vested interest in better highways.
Ask HN: Are you over social networking? What is next?
Social Networking, the hot topic for the past 5-6 years. Is anyone else over it? There are so many social networking and social media sites out there now and it seems like a new one is being launched every other week. I feel like it's been done one two many times and with every service that launches it begs the question, so what? I mean we already have decentralized social services and others to aggregate them into combined streams. Everything links to everything else, we get it, we are being overloaded with all this social content.

Should companies not be focusing on what's next rather than what has already been done? The social networking scene has been saturated, its time to move on.

What are your thoughts HN?
why, oh why would you link to the comment anchor? please fix?
"Simeon Strunsky never said that" - Joe Ball
I would never have noticed. I've been using the Chrome extension to open PDFs in Google docs for weeks now. Chrome is now my preferred PDF reader. It is fast, usable, and lives where I live: in my browser.
The Mysteries of Parallel IO
So how should that paragraph have been written?
Right now, I wish I was you...
I use "Flock" to handle all of my Gmail and social networking needs.as well as for a host of other net trolling and data mining tasks...can get a bit cluttered though So why do I want to learn all the new BUZZ particulars ..imho google's a day late and a buck short.... who am I kidding I'll try it when I get bored w/ FLOCK...
Look at the sick amount on activity on this thread.... and this is day one of Buzz.

Right. The day when every bored geek in the valley gives it a spin.

Mark my words, a year from today Facebook will be in no weaker position than it is today, and Buzz may or may not be relevant, but it certainly won't be dwarfing Facebook—not by a long shot. If you disagree name your metrics, and I'll do a writeup a year from today and whore it up here on Hacker News.

Typically I don't consider you to be as much of a koolaid-drinker as Scoble, but man you really went off the deep-end this time.
At least three people got jailed in China because of Y! mail. We (Chinese) are actively boycotting Yahoo!
Perhaps Buzz will prove to have enduring value, but so far my experience is like this: I'm 'following' people I never followed, some of whom I don't even know but who I apparently emailed at some point; and they're clogging up my Google Reader feeds to boot. It sure seems like Google doesn't understand social behavior very well...

I may be wrong about Buzz, but my first impression was not good.
So far I've yet to see a post consisting only of a racial slur in caps repeated a dozen times, so I'd say RWW is still ahead. For a little while.
although adding their fb profile pic to all of their comments might take away the edge of anonymity.
That 0.005 seconds I saved by not piping cat will significantly increase my productivity! No more wasting time!
Sounds like a dick who thinks being hard means he'll succeed.
They actually did start to role out this kind of thing. At first it was invite only, then available in certain circumstances (place, budget, etc.). I don't think it was very successful. They pulled some of the campaign types associated with these things.

It was a sort of automated system for specifying what you would like to pay per conversion and Google guaranteeing that you won't be charged any more for it.. I thin Given your conversion rate performance, it could give you some ppc bid for the system to work with. Then it could "optimise" your system to get you as many conversions as possible at the price you specified.

I think the problem was that they had to offer it to customers who were fairly sophisticated already. In the back-end it was really just converting it all back to pay per click anyway (I think). These advertisers were in control of their costs per conversion anyway. All the system really did was (potentially) save them time. But, you lose some flexibility which I think made it not worth much. I found that it performed less well then I could do myself.

Now they offer automated bid management, which really does something fairly similar, it automates your campaign for conversions.

What they cannot do under their system is offer you X conversions @ Y cost.
It's also a zero-sum game, where the most interest-free credit accrues to those in the best negotiating position.