skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the reason people feel it's difficult is that a blank prompt is inherently not intuitive. There's no way you can hand someone a command line interface with an empty prompt and let them fiddle with it. They need to know what to type to start doing what they want to do beforehand, there's no way you can really "experiment" when you don't know where to start.

It's very similar to many mainframe interfaces with non-intuitive commands. Many legacy IT departments have these. Questions like "How do I do X?" have answers from experts like "Type XKY= and then hit PF3". But that sequence of steps is nowhere on the current screen's list of commands, or in it's help documentation. You just need to know it.

This is in contrast to a GUI where every single thing you can do (aside from keyboard shortcuts) is visible. I can hit a random button and see what happens. In a CLI, there are too many possible alphanumeric strings to try, so I can't do the same thing.

(This is of course different if the prompt is not blank, and says "Type 'help' for help")
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No I won't use it. It's not very useful. Following others doesn't make me happy.
If google charges $1/year, I will stay.
Is it 2Mbps for free over the air to as many devices as you want? Because that'd be pretty swell even if it ain't 1Gbps.

Considering they're talking about killing terrestrial to use the bandwidth for data, one can hope...
... not with 504 Gateway Timeouts. I did get a chance to see it last night and it certainly looked nice, but I'd already seen all the news stories on the front page at that moment, so I haven't quite gotten the point yet.

I'm not sure that FB and Twitter shares are the same as "diggs".
"502 Bad Gateway". I see the HTTP standard has already captured everything you need to know about digg's relationship to the internet in one succinct phrase.
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Digg is a tabloid, reddit is a community*

* dysfunctional, but community nonetheless.
Do you not constantly read about all the lawsuits over these apps? Do you seriously think some girl is going to want to go out with some random guy on a whim? I'd be terrified to meet the person who would be using this app.

And seriously? A "rap" video as your advertisement? That has got to be the worst way to get your point across.

No one needs a new "dating app" and all your "customers" are just going to be creepers. Before long, you'll get sued for child endangerment or some such thing.
The point isn't that you can do more with the command line, the point is you can do them so much faster.
> effectively posters can ignore this legalese

Operationally, probably true. However, ethically this is no different than the people who said PadMapper should just use "Craigslist's" data regardless of what Craigslist thought about the situation. To be consistent, either you believe:

1) It's ok for PadMapper to re-list Craigslist's data without Craigslist's consent.

OR

2) If you post a housing listing to Craigslist, you cannot post it anywhere else.
OT, but this seems like an appropriate place to ask.

I'm a competent computer programmer who hasn't done any front-end web development since 1999. Does anyone have a link to a good explanation of how to avoid these "obvious" mistakes?

Most of what I've found via google has been along the lines of "put interesting content above the fold" and "have consistent site navigation area," whereas I'm more interested in character encoding, where and how to specify CSS, when to use span vs div, and that sort of thing.

Thanks.
"...if she lists that couch on ebay as well she is technically in breach of craigslist's terms of service."

No, I do not think that has anything to do with the new craiglist terms of service. The new terms of service just prevents other people from copying the content of the craigslist ad.

So, no the hypothetical woman selling the couch would not be affected by the new terms in any way.
I don't understand the moral intuition here: why is working on that Oracle server morally wrong, but not paying taxes to the country which bombs those innocent civilians?
The Heathkit H8 hit in 1977 (some say 78, but I remember it under the tree in 77). Of course it was a kit.
yes, same here. I didn't benefit from using FB.
My buddy at Microsoft tells me that in terms of automation, they use the dogma that if you need to do it once or twice, you just do it by hand. If you need to do it more than that, you automate it.
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I'm just one data point of course but after the switch I actually type much faster in qwerty as well. No looking, somehow when I need to I just switch without thinking. It's especially helpful when running a VM or when the bootscreen is tied to qwerty only.
Why was Papermaster a disaster at Apple? I've never really heard why. The only thing I've ever heard was that Jobs lost confidence him in, and it was during antennaegate, but it was never clear if he played any role in it.
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The first bicycle skill I thought of for me when I read this: ZSH. I've seen people blaze through common tasks using ZSH that I do myself using an unholy combination of backscroll, mouse cut and paste, and cutting and pasting into my daily work notes in another window. I've never used zsh because I never wanted to take the time to learn it.

vi is something I did take the time to learn, and it's paid off hugely over the last couple of decades.
I think editor skills are a perfect example of bicycle skills. When you're effectively editing text all day long, learning an editor like vim or emacs really pays off in the long run, although it might be painful in the beginning.

Bash scripting is another bicycle skill I think. The power of automating tasks is obvious but often it's easier to just type stuff in quickly rather than writing a script and let the machine handle the job.

There are probably many many more, but those just popped into my mind right after reading the definition of a bicycle skill.
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Wow, this is a sick language. I've heard of it and coco in passing but never looked into it.

Looks gorgeous, though. And suitable for those like me who enjoy coffeescript but feel it should go further down the functional rabbit hole (underscore as a bolt-on feels like too much like a bandaid).
There's an important difference between these two activities. One trains creative thinking, critical thinking, and respect for science, the other teaches teamwork, following orders and respect for authority.
But… Of course it's not the correct setting for QM. Before even talking about Turing computability and infinite set atheism (which rule out a continuous, infinite configuration space), configuration space is folded on itself around the identity axis.

Unless you think (a,b) is not the same configuration as (b,a), even though their amplitudes would add up before we have access to their square at the experimental level? Evidence towards "its the same configuration" looks quite overwhelming.

Or, could a "permutable" space, where (here with 2 dimensions) (x,y)=(y,x) for all x and y, be a Hilbert space as well?

Overall, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you be more explicit, or provide some links?
I've said it before, but to make the Nexus Q awesome: give it Google Now, and have multiple users able to set up their own Google accounts on it.

I don't want an Android console, I don't need something else to stream content to my TV, but what I do want is a couple of glowing orbs in my house that will remind me over speakers that I have an appointment at 10am but heavy traffic means I should leave at 9:15am. Or, using built-in mics or connected Android devices, ask it Now-style questions and receive Star Trek style responses.
And I think most users of reddit would disagree. Sometimes I visit /r/gaming or even gasp /r/all knowing what I'm going to get. Likewise, I visit /r/games knowing I'm not going to get the same content as /r/gaming.

Trying to make everything automatic seems like a job for a different site entirely.
I'm thinking of just having the USPS deliver once a week, so the efficiency is still there but just not the excess.
Depends on how you define launch I guess. Gmail began as invite-only around 2004, I believe. Publicly available, but still in beta around 2007, and released from beta in 2009. If you use the publicly available date, then it's about 5 years.
No one's calling it the end of Apple, but these are extremely ill-timed events in light of the big question mark hanging over Apple's head after Jobs' death.

When you have that kind of reservation looming about a company, you need to see encouraging signs, not the recent flow of tepid-to-bad news we've been seeing lately.

Between the ads, the loss of the CPU designer, the less-than-inspired iPhone 5 product image leaks (assuming they are real) and insignificant incremental product updates, one shouldn't be blamed for not ignoring the writing on the wall.
The new digg == 504 Gateway timeout. Great job guys.
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Have to appreciete the direct honest approach

You know, they are only referring to smoking pot once or twice, right? Admit to running a small botnet or monitoring GSM calls and I'm sure your 2nd interview will be with the FBI .. not for a job.

This whole NSA/DEFCON relationship smells funny. I've lost a lot of respect for DEFCON.
What exactly is fundamentally broken in subscribing to subreddits? If you are interested in fitness, you subscribe to /r/fitness. Fitness materials won't all of a sudden be posted to /r/gaming where you (if you are not subscribed) will miss them.

So, what's the point of automatic recommendations on Reddit? If there is any fitness-related material on Reddit, I'll see it in /r/fitness anyway.

Besides, how are you going to train the recommendation engine? By analyzing what submissions people upvoted?
Sorry? I didn't understand. What's not what statistically insignificant means?
It is WebGL so it would require a video card.
I would love to see the end of broadcast TV. I know too many people that waste their lives away sitting in front of a TV every night and letting it stream content. Yes, someone will come along and duplicate that functionality on the web, but let's just ignore that for now. Content should move to and stay on-demand only.
Precisely. I'd be happy with 1-2 day per week delivery.
you say "hey, I'm really interested in fitness."

With which you also say -- or so Reddit believes in its current level of imperfection -- "and I have complete affinity with everyone else who happens to vote in /r/fitness".

Is that true? Is there any subreddit where that is true?

It perplexes me that this is being treated like an either/or. It is not. In reality subreddits see a constantly exploding entropy as users try to fix a broken mechanism of correlation -- the fact that I like gaming doesn't mean that I like the same thing as every other reader of /r/gaming, for instance. Just fix that by splitting off into /r/truegaming, or maybe /r/games, or maybe...
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If a sizable part of the community can agree and come up with a better OAuth 2, then by all means possible, implement it! Shipping code wins, always.

I'm admittedly unable to assess the situation, but from what I gather from people who can, there will be N implementations of OAuth 2.x anyway, all non-interoperable. One may just as well literally fork the standard, fix it, implement the fixed spec and release that. If it ends up more useful than both OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 then people will hopefully use it. If not, we'll have a broken standard anyway.
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Expecting one site's landing page to encompass everything for everyone is ridiculous and something a lot of user-generated content sites fail at understanding. You need to filter it to the extent that there's enough for everyone to at least recognize that there's content somewhere there for them, but not overwhelm them.

Between being generically named, being linked in similar subreddit sidebars and showing up in the search, I think it's pretty easy to find what you're looking for or create it yourself and know that it will get more bites than a random website people would have to Google to get to. I would even say that in Reddit's case, there are just so many users from so many different walks of life that it is an easy bet to find a subreddit that suits your fancy in both content and personality.

There's an exploratory phase that anyone who wants to delve into a community has to go through, and if that takes too much time, perhaps that's the user's problem, not the site's.
Huh. That's interesting. I guess it's akin to learning a second language...? Thank you for posting this -- it's changed the way I feel about learning Dvorak.
To be honest, I'm having difficulty understanding what I should be seeing when I "pinch," as you say. In Chrome it makes all text/images larger, including the banners. This is standard in Chrome. In Safari 6 I zoom into the page, the actual page, as in the banners disappear. This is standard for Safari 6.

Please elaborate on what exactly should be happening, otherwise it's just people spending 2 minutes discovering functionality in their browser, not your site.
WebGL isn't really supported by any mobile device.
In terms of TDP, maybe, but not performance per watt, unless I've missed something.
Do some people really find the command line so difficult to use?

Yes. Very yes. To the point where, when you say "some people", what you really mean is "most people".

I don't think the problem is "the command line" so much as it is "the Unix command line". You don't see a lot of people having difficulty with text-adventure command lines. You demonstrate HELP and GET LAMP and they're off to the races.

Whereas Unix commands are hard to discover unless you already know their names, have illogical names, have inconsistent behaviors, have poorly designed documentation (every command has 27 options and they're often documented in alphabetical order on man pages, with the obscure corner-case options given equal weight to the most useful ones), require combinatoric thinking (because many options can be used at one time), take invisible actions ("gzip foo" returns no output and modifies a file in your current directory; you need "ls" to see that it did anything), are context-dependent (you need to know what a "working directory" is or you won't get past square one), and often require a working knowledge of pipes and redirection to be useful (and pipes and redirection aren't intuitive skills).

You need to read a book. Nobody has time to read books. Reading books is a bicycle activity.
The Mac vs PC ads were amazing? I found them unbearable
Like maybe a new Digg? :)
Also, an armed citizen if far more likely to suffer consequences if they shoot the wrong person by mistake. And the training they get is going to be much more "Don't shoot unless you're really sure" rather than "shoot first to protect yourself".
Nice. Works pretty good on iPad. I will borrow this for my future project.

Why you are not using native iOS touch scrolling?
I wonder if there's a market for a rewriting service ... takes a volume of text, and rewrites it using different words so that it's the same content, but not copied.
How do you conduct computer science research?
Is it really-system wide? I've compared Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and Nexus 7 side by side. Android UI seems smoother and more responsive on Nexus 7. But there is no difference in page scrolling in Chrome browser. Still lagging.
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I think its sad that our society has become so divorced from reality that Uranium- a naturally occurring element- is considered a "crazy" thing for kids to have. It takes huge amounts of uranium and processing and a lot of technology to make a bomb, most of the difficulty has nothing to do with the uranium.

You can get uranium simply by buying old fiestaware. The paint they used in certain colors used uranium as part of the pigment.

If you have a geiger counter you can make noise with it. (not that I think there's much useful to do with uranium in a chemistry set, but then I was always poor at chemistry.)

It is just a real shame that "uranium" has become a scary word.
I'm glad that my very non-techie friends won't come across this app in the App Store and start having anxiety over whether they need a screen saver for their iPhone. Or, worse yet, start opening it up every time they're not going to be using their phones for a while.
What about Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc?
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Indeed, I think your accessibility argument is spot-on. The same issues apply for making websites accessible. Thankfully, more often than not, it behooves a site to follow accessibility, because it falls in line with semantic web design, which in turn plays better with Google. Google search, in a way, is the regulatory body to keep sites semantic and accessible.
Use the HTML validator Firefox extension. It will give you quasi-sensorial awareness of how the pages you visit are doing.
Optional stopping theorem
Cool. How do you decide on order of the items in the search results? for instance:

http://pinstified.com/search?searchCategory=search-alias%3Dj...

vs

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

Also, where do you get data on new and best selling? Is that just the "popular" breakdown on Amazon?
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Interesting. Just met them at the Toronto Rails Pub Night a few weeks ago.

Good for them! Had a good conversation about how much Paypal fraud prevention sucks.
Was it really the reason reddit is successful? Or was that a combination of the creation of imgur, reddit moderators allowing any and all meme posts (low-investment content) in most of their subreddits, and Digg's v4 disaster?

Sure, there are users who adjust their subreddits, but (if I'm remembering this correctly) jedberg has stated the vast majority— some 90%— of users never make an account. I'm betting subreddits aren't the main reason reddit attracts so many people.
Two to five "goodguys" exchanging fire is still a vastly better outcome than the one that occurred.
Ask HN: Could charities function differently?
Recently I've been thinking about the current structure of most charities, and I've been wondering whether or not there might be new/better ways to help out the poor.
After researching charities and thinking through the whole matter, I thought about a different approach. What if a charity took in donations, and used those donations to start businesses in impoverished areas. My thinking is that this economic boost could snowball into jobs and more businesses generated in the area, thus stimulating the local economy.
I definitely haven't considered all of the politics of this idea, or whether or not it is even plausible. However.. I invite everyone to post their thoughts!
What alternatives? How is it any less secure than another mail host?
"Could you imagine [..] key person departing -- happening while Jobs was running the show?"

Avie Tevanian, Jon Rubinstein, Tony Fadell and Bertrand Serlet, all key people at various points in the history of Apple, left while Jobs was still in charge. I wouldn't read too much into this.
Thanks Michal. I'll check out your web site and get back to you.
Awesome, best of luck to the ShopLocket team! I remember their post on HN awhile back about not getting into YC (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668469). It's fantastic to see them not only soldiering on, but thriving.
Looks fairly interesting. I wonder how it will behave if you add slides after initialization. If that was supported, I could try to build a http://createjs.org/ based slide editor for this.