skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use cat because often I wind up doing a number of different commands on the same file. It's a lot easier to edit the end of the line, especially if you're just adding another filter, than to go back and modify the beginning.

eg

cat file | less
cat file | grep thing
cat file | grep otherthing
cat file | grep otherthing | cut stuff

instead of

less file
grep thing file
grep otherthing file
grep otherthing file | cut stuff
Facebook's value isn't going to vary any unless there is some migration from Facebook to Buzz.

It has been done before. Do you remember Prodigy? CompuServe? AOL? MySpace?

For that matter, how often do you use the search engines Excite, Lycos, AltaVista, or whatever Microsoft's search engine was before Bing?

Users go where the user experience is pleasant. Advertisers look for click-throughs, and try to estimate eyeball-minutes for the major sites, and Google has a fair chance of beating Facebook with Buzz. Not overnight, but steadily. Many of my Facebook friends haven't seen the Google Buzz roll-out yet, but they have seen the new Facebook homepage roll-out, and they don't like it.

AFTER EDIT: And it occurs to me that Calacanis's main statement, that Facebook lost value, is hard to test while Facebook is not publicly traded. But Google's value is easy to track in the stock market. If this move looks stupid to Google investors, their behavior will show that.
interestingly enough, some of them seem to like this "new facebook" :D
Same idea for pidgin:

New account, select XMPP as protocol. Username is your username (which is your slug if you have a custom url. So I'm facebook.com/daniel.jackoway, my username is daniel.jackoway). Domain is chat.facebook.com. Password is your password. Only gotcha is that you then have to go to the "Advanced" tab and uncheck "Require SSL/TLS".
Linking this news to what i read an year ago about google criticizing the router manufacturer for their lousy equipments(performance and both hw/sw quality) i just wonder from who they will buy their optical equipments...
Sadly they are not an hw company, so no google router anytime soon.
If there’s anything about its current organization, structure, diagrams, etc. that could be improved, suggest away. Otherwise, thanks for the vote of confidence!

*edit: Do you know what the most important papers are about the use of HSL/HSV in a computer vision context? I’ve tracked down a bunch, but haven’t really done a thorough search of the literature, to figure out which are seminal. (You’ll notice that the “use in image analysis” section is still a total stub.)
Sometimes turning off the key doesn't work:
http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/cruise-control-terror-...

Also - has has already been mentioned - the Prius doesn't have a key.
I think the argument is that democracies tend to be more stable. Weimar was an attempt to patch together a democratic successor to a fairly authoritarian state, and Louis XIV's rule was at best metastable. Near the end of his reign, the War of the Spanish Succession (among other things) was causing France to begin to run into the financial difficulties that would cause Louis XVI trouble.

More generally, if Amartya Sen is right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen#Research), democracies are rather less likely to do things that would lead to popular unrest.
Gmail uses SSL by default. Makes it a hassle to listen in on dissidents.
How much should I offer for a 5-letter URL?
My start-up came up with a pretty good name, and the URL is currently owned, but vacant. It is set to expire 22-Apr-2010.

Should I:
a) wait to see if they drop it, and then try to buy it
b) make an offer now
c) if b, how much should I expect to pay?

Any thoughts are appreciated
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People are hard-wired to give up. There has to be a carrot, stick or both to overcome it. Ideally, just wanting to make a change, or being really excited by something is what keeps people going against the odds: like Steve Jobs. Developers are basically problem solvers, I suspect giving up occurs when a certain set of problems seem or have proven to be insurmountable.
It would help to know what your business name is, and what your business does. Otherwise there is nothing to base a decision on, other than "it's pretty."
Well to be quite honest it's a bit slow and the design is basically nonexistent right now. Stuff like this shouldn't occur: http://prmanna.com/requests/list/1

I dig the idea though, but getting people to respect it will be a challenge.
At the expense of the data flowing from right to left to right, from the outside in. At least with cat, data flows unambiguously from left to right.
I blame Google for this, not the users. Google knows a large portion of its users use the "search" box for navigation. They should do a better job of accommodating that use case. It should be fairly easy to tell that a search for "facebook login" is likely a navigation query, and display a huge "Login to Facebook" button at the top.
I'm guessing this is the startup: http://tophatmonocle.com/

"Top Hat Monocle develops mobile applications for the Apple iPhone with focus on games and interactive applications."
Interview with Charlie Mcdonnell 3rd most subscribed(212,679) YouTuber in the UK
Yes, what message is your company trying to send with its logo? Or, would you prefer we didn't know what Top Hat Monocle does? If so, I'm certainly curious to know your reasoning.
The cost of leaving facebook is higher than it was for leaving any of those other platforms. People have their social graphs well-established on Facebook now. Not a bad guess at their desired graph, as Buzz provides, but a graph they've shaped themselves over the course of a year or more.

Me-too or even evolutionary won't cut it for draining Facebook of its users. It's got to provide signficantly more value immediately upon signing up. So far, it doesn't.
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Design isn't merely taste. That you can't immediately rule out half of them says you don't really know what you want the logo to convey. Some of these logos say "playfully campy," some "serious" and some "5 year old with clipart." We can help pick which achieves any particular goal, but you better start by being sure about the goal.
Interview with a startup selling umbrellas
> somebody put google on my computer and I do not want it. how do I remove it.frank cancilla 586-757-5155

Oh wow, thats even worse then the RWW thread.
Not to rain on your parade here, but a multi-party system isn't paradise either. I'm not saying the duopoly is better, but multi-party systems are plagued with immobility, compromise for the sake of compromise, and lack of differentiation. Any European cynic will repeat that for you.
I've never heard that saying before. SO, SO true.
I understand the reasoning and she at least gives the impression that she is busy with other things. However I've also learned that some people just like to talk about how "busy" they are to make themselves feel more important.

Some of my best ideas or solutions to problems come to me when I'm doing "petty, outsourceable" work like washing the dishes or making dinner.
Guilty as charged on both accounts. I just turned on caching on the homepage, so hopefully that'll be a little snappier. Caching for the rest will need to wait until tomorrow. I'm not a designer, and I didn't want to wait until the design was perfect before launching. Hence, it looks like does :) I have some plans for the design, but it didn't seem likely to be a show-stopper at this point.

Agreed on the "empty pages" problem. I want the browse categories page to be a lot more informative, and show number of open requests in each category + 1-2 recent requests for that category.

Isn't getting people to respect any new web app a challenge? :) Thanks for the feedback!
Ah, good point. If you look at the brief at 99designs it does a better job of explaining what we're going for. http://99designs.com/contests/36804

But I'd say "playfully campy" is a pretty good summary :)
Ok, I have to talk about this. I am always nice and polite to poeople, but somehow I see people that who are actually rude and obnoxious, get treated better in every way. At a shop, restaurant, taxi, you name it. Rude people get there way, sure when they leave the clerks whinge about them.

No matter how much people complain about rude people, if they actually treat them better, what do they expect.
Right now in a parallel universe, ReadWriteWeb users are trying desperately to log in through some website called Facebook...
i wish there was a way to send calacanis a virtual slap in the face for this one. So wrong.

To answer his questions:

1. Have you used Google Buzz? Yes, I think I'm perceived as a target user. Tried it, quit it.
2. How is Google Buzz better than Facebook? It's not.
3. What advantages does Google Buzz have over Facebook? That it lives in Gmail, but that's still not compelling.
4. What advantages does Facebook have over Google? My friends/social graph algorithms/news feed
5. Did you see this coming? Sure, why wouldn't Google try this. They have 20,000 employees. This maybe took 5 weeks and 3 dev guys to hack up.
6. What do you attribute Google’s recent string of AMAZING products
including: Chrome, Android, Nexus One and Buzz? Nexus One has a nice screen resolution. That's about the only good thing.
Clay Shirky wrote about this, see eg [1]. The idea is that you need to minimise the number of decisions people have to make, or they won't use the service much. You don't want to cause "decision friction" on every site and every month again.

Kachingle [2] and Sprinklepenny [3] apply pretty much the same rules that are outlined in this video - it seems a point of convergence for this type of service...

[1]: http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
[2]: http://kachingle.com/
[3]: http://sprinklepenny.com/
Oh man, that was entertaining. They're all old people judging by their profile pics.
Wrong on all counts. Dynamic scoping depends on having a construct to introduce new scopes (a fancy way of saying 'let statement').

Here's what the classic problem of "how do I test my code using a fake service?" would be solved with dynamic scoping:

(defvar service <default service>) ;; in Common Lisp you have to declare that certain variables will have dynamic scope, otherwise they would be lexical

(defun some-function ()
(use service))

(defun test ()
(let ((service <fake-test-service>))
(do-something (some-function))))

This is more than global variables, because now you can plug in any service you want in any runtime context you need without affecting other code.

If this looks a bit like AOP, it's because applying dynamic scope to functions is the actual underlying mechanism behind AOP: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113...
Facebook will still exist, but I think it will split the market.

Google will probably win young professionals that have a g-mail account and use g-chat at work. Facebook is a target on your monitor in an office.

It may segment the Highschool and College kids from the older market, as Facebook is ingrained into teen culture and they don't make quick shifts for technological reasons.
Well, I dodged this by never setting up a public Google profile. And now I most certainly NEVER WILL. Did you guys learn nothing from the recent Facebook fiasco?

I guess I'm going have to just declare myself done with the whole social web meme and sites that embrace it. Maybe local clients as well as self-publishing -- Opera Unite, if nothing else -- really are the better way to go.

Google (and I know a number of HN'er's are Googlers), I am very disappointed in the lack of thoughtfulness and consideration that this change reflects. Such changes should ALWAYS be OPT IN, not opt out.

P.S. Sufficient stupidity approaches (and also often begets) evil. (Not that I'm the brightest bulb on the string; nonetheless, I'm saying.)
I would suggest the ones that don't look like sperms :)
There is always the chance that they aren't trying to attract customers but give themselves the best opportunity to win patent cases by actively pursuing their patent?
I should also emphasize that this alleviates the "password proliferation" problem.

The customer logs into her Loom folder using a passphrase she already knows. She creates a new Loom location there, nicknaming it "valuable-information.com" to remind her what it's for. Then when she signs up at valuable-information.com, she simply pastes the location into the sign-up form and presses Go.

As long as her browser cookie lives, she never thinks about it again. If her cookie ever disappears, she just logs into her Loom folder, copies the location, and pastes it into the log-in form at valuable-information.com.
wow. Facebook will now know when, where and how long you are online.
What to do with Ideas
Yes, go for it.
Facebook has lock-in. I don't think most Facebook users jump from app to app that quickly.
Hey guys

As an employee at Top Hat Monocle, I hope I can answer some of the questions that have been brought up:

We started out as an iphone gaming company, but did a 180 shift very early on and are now in the process of relaunching the company as an education software company.

One of the goals with the logo redesign was to retain the quirkiness of the name (it's been scoring very well among our current users), but we want to shift the focus more towards the icon, for a couple of reasons:

- we want to be able to use the logo on stationary, tshirts, the product, application icons

- we're targeting the academic market

- it gives us a lot more flexibility with how we name our products in the future

Thanks for all the feedback! It's all incredibly helpful
It's still good to keep it in mind, in case there are instances where it's being executed many times causing a bottleneck (though one-liners aren't really meant to be used in such situations).
They aren't a mining company. So what about them? Companies source "Canadian diamonds" I would be surprised if Brilliant Earth could guarantee none of their diamonds are from DeBeers.
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Given no other information I think I prefer (c).
Fire Your Relatives. Scare Your Employees. And Stop Whining.
Watching cable tells a story of a generation that decided to fight a trillion dollar war without including the price tag in the national budget...pushing the cost onto future generations of Americans. Not a good story of "pre-millennials".
I disagree in that this channels a (perhaps irrational) human behavior - the desire to click a button just to be able to click it. Present a button to someone in a clean layout without much clutter, and they are going to want to press it. And given Sunde's pseudo-internet-rockstar-type status, this could very well take off.
Ask HN: customer appreciation in start-ups?
Hello, my name is Trista Myers, I am looking for a community management/ customer service internship this summer. Ideally, I would like to be a part of a small company where I can make a difference. I am looking to help a company develop or build-up their customer service strategies, customer relations, and community engagement.
I am interested in helping companies stand out because of the way they treat their customers, by creating crafts or projects and by adding an element of cuteness and selfless-ness in the form of custom ideas and handmade items. Carsonified (http://carsonified.com/projects/), the company that I interned with last summer does a great job coming up with unique things that stand out and surprise their followers and it’s something I think could be worked into most web start-ups. But I am looking for some feedback and perhaps a little guidance to see if this is something start-ups think about, if it’s something your start-up would like to do or is already doing?

Is “make-customers-happy-by-making-cute-things” a position that you would consider creating within your organization? If not, why don’t you think this could apply?

I think it’s also something that can be used to develop or maintain relationships with other start-up founders or people of interest-- sending them some swag or a card when something worthy happens in their life is a nice reminder of your connection.

So, let me know what you think: is this a topic that has been tossed around by your team? Are you already doing some things like this? How do you see this fitting in?
Do you have any examples of other companies who do nice things for their customers that go above and beyond what you’d expect?

You can contact me at trmyers[at]clarku[dot]edu or message me on twitter @tristamyers to be in touch.
But does the time it takes to launch the subshell equal the amount of time it takes to launch cat? If so your improvement is a NOOP.
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Man, only if http://www.modernballots.com (from this thread earlier today -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1115385) supported images (or better yet, some kind of web markup, i.e. textile) as "candidates" this would make for a great use of the site, seeing as I don't love or hate any of the logos and would find giving each a star rating much more appropriate.

bradbeattie, i hope you're reading this thread :)
I think you have to think of this utility in terms of how the two social graphs are different.

The Facebook social graph is established by people you meet in person and who decide later to send you a friend invite, or people you knew at some point who saw your picture on someone else's friends list. The strength of the connection is determined by Facebook based on how often you interact with or stalk that person.

The Gmail social graph is people you actually communicate with, and is more dynamic in the sense that you probably communicate with more people on a day-to-day basis then you interact/stalk with on Fb.

The question is, which of these makes for a more relevant following system, and for what kind of user?

Perhaps one way to think of it is that people who are all about sharing pictures will prefer Fb, but those who are all about sharing ideas will prefer Buzz. Which target demographic has more income?
Iranians are pretty sophisticated when it comes to finding ways around government filters. I think the reason for the government banning access to Gmail is Google's decision to switch to HTTPS for all users. That makes it harder to spy on what people are emailing about. Do Yahoo and Hotmail use HTTPS by default?

This probably makes the deep packet inspection the IRG have been accused of much harder.
I'm not saying the reason for the US's poor infrastructure development is decidedly because the US has left it in the hands of the market, I'm just saying I have a feeling it has something to do with it, that it's one of the factors.

In Sweden, government policy and government subsidies have ensured widespread broadband coverage, not just in major cities, but in large but sparsely populated areas as well. This is true for both internet infrastructure as well as mobile networks. It hasn't been squarely up to the market to decide which areas deserve high capacity broadband and mobile infrastructure.

I remember back in 2001 when I traveled to the most northern part of the country to teach programming; Kiruna — the world's second biggest city by area, population 19,000 — had wi-fi network connectivity over the entire downtown area (which admittedly wasn't as large as it may sound). This was not due to the power of the open market.

In Sweden there is no such thing as lack of cellphone connectivity. Calls suddenly disconnecting does not happen. The only reason I even know of these phenomena is because I've heard Americans speak of it. And, finally, service is cheap, dirt cheap, by US standards.
Yeah, I missed those actually.
Cute site. I had never seen it before...

What should be done with ideas? We all have a ton of them - or there is no shortage good ones. I think many of us feel like we need to keep them quiet in case we decide to use them... but we actually never will us all of them.

It seem like a pretty common theme in stories/post on HN that ideas are really pretty worthless. The real value is in how they are implemented.
Ask HN : Google buzz, your views ?
For me google buzz is a huge disappointment. The inability to block anyone from following you, who does not have a public profile is huge downer.

What do you think ?
hey Ritarius,

Most domains that 'expire' are set to auto renew, but if you can wait until 22nd of April you might find that someone else snaps it up before you do. Expired domains are quite frequently back-ordered somewhere.

As for what it's worth, I can understand that you don't want to post the name but it's hard to say what it is worth without knowing the domain. If it is prlxz.com then I figure 200 bucks would do it, if it is light.com then I think it should sell for considerably more.

So without more information that part of the question is unanswerable.
A mashup between Gist and Ideone which allows to execute gists.
How does one sign in?
People don't seem to understand what the word "Domain" in "Domain Specific Language" means. It means this: http://domaindrivendesign.org/

Syntax extension (which in the case of macros is not about syntax at all, but about controlling when evaluation happens, something else that people do not understand about macros) is not about inventing a new, stupider way of writing for loops. It is about clearly expressing domain concepts.

For an article about "missing the point," the author manages to fail to understand both how syntax extension works and how it's used.
I dunno, I feel like you're being a bit overly critical here. In my mind, Buzz isn't competing with Facebook, it's competing with Twitter. Buzz is Twitter for the masses. And personally, I know that due to Gmail integration, I'm going to be using it - unlike Twitter or Facebook.

People seem to want Buzz to fail for some reason. I feel like people saw Wave, decided "Oh, Google failed, they can't possibly make a new product right", and are now trying to pin that on Buzz too.

Anyway, I'm using it, as are a bunch of my friends. People are already using it in my social friend graph, and enthusiastically, too - which is much more than could be said for Wave. I'm not saying it's going to be a huge success, but I think it's silly to just brush it off as crap so quickly.
"I'm convinced that some people approach the internet like an angry driver gripping the wheel without any sense of reality. Things like this remind me who we're often designing for and has to be done to make our work usable."

Now you got me thinking; the intersection of people who use the Internet and people who drive is a pretty large set.

Looking at that thread, I may never go on the road again.
Is Calacanis really this much of an idiot?
Sure, my connection is advertised as 10 mbit/s.

At 7PM, I'm lucky to get 512kbps.
it seems like what is happening is they are typing, "facebook login" into google, then they click the first link, which is "news results for facebook login", the first link on that page is the RWW article.