skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this a reference to "cat menu | grep shrimp | test -lt $10" there is more wrong with that than simply the senseless execution of the poor kitten in the processing of that statement.

It did follow with "though not syntactically correct". I believe the article was slated not for the current UNIX practitioners at the time but for communicating with NT administrators hence not following the concept where less external calls produces faster script execution; the referenced issue would have been `grep shrimp < menu` whereas the the redirection is optional as it's default.

None the less to be informative as the others which have responded I would like to expand on the concept as it's a logical pattern which is still passed down in explaining computational models and simply creating better development and scalable software where an interpreter is used.

Much like the current culture considers DRY( Don't Repeat Yourself) as a refactoring step to get their code to be the most bug free; fastest while being in form of a readable one-liner is much the same we do as stating "filter early and filter often".

Lighter weight tokens provide faster execution( i.e. use the utility command cut in place of the general purpose pipeline language awk; refactor to avoid unneeded call to xargs, and of course use cat only when it is useful such as testing heredocs prior to embedding the generator to log, mail, filesystem or network).

From my observations many people first begin to learn to use pipes with grep. First explanation is almost always to explore interactively the `cat file | grep pattern`. It's a poor pedagogy simply because it causes bad habits from the beginning.

We live in a autodidact world presently which is a good thing but the information on occasion seems to be diluted with a self starter which misinforms and creates a cancer growing within other sort of "what I learned on my OSX about this ancient UNIX thing" style posts.

We can't all have been lucky to read or learn from the philosophies of Kernighan, McIlroy et al. Though `cat` is a famous pet peeve (no pun intended) my personal favorite is when I read a post which explores regular expressions and claims that they came from grep or better I have actually seem someone claim that they came from perl. These are worse crimes than creating an award for executing kittens any day of the week.
If there is a euphoric boost it sounds like the dose is much higher than would be indicated for ADHD. Slight modulation of mood maybe, but euphoria speaks of abuse.
Nice idea. A couple of bugs I noticed while poking around on the site:

The sign in box seems to break Firefox's ability to save the username and password.

When signed in, the "Change password", "My Account", and "Sign out" buttons have three different clashing visual styles.

Please consider adding downvotes; for instance, I'd like to downvote ideas like http://hnwishlist.com/posts/ae15555a-f3c1-43f3-8a80-cef2a22e... or http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893f...

Also, a little more far-fetched: if you don't mind doing a bit of page-scraping, you might consider letting people link hnwishlist accounts to their HN account. Just have a profile field for an HN account, and let people prove their ownership of an account by putting something like "hnwishlist username: $NAME" in their profile temporarily. Then you could do things like offering upvotes and downvotes using the same karma thresholds as HN.
Too late to complain about lack of circle pit and wall of death. However, I will point out that it kind of seems like it assumes a uniformity of violence, whereas empirically speaking you always have at least one person who is just seriously dangerous either due to intoxication or mental issues combined with large stature/strength. This person both repels others with a stronger force as well as draws in/invites the odd skirmish. Also missing is the fact that in certain scenarios, the non-moshers will aggressively shove the moshers back into the pit, versus here where it seems like they simply tolerate them to whatever extent packing will allow.
Ah, I don't remember it from Brogue but it has been a while since I played it.
Fab.

I agree with you that many problems aren't currently fixable by existing markets, which is often why the problems are still problems. But a lot of environmental problems go away when you stop allowing negative externalities and treat them as market problems. Overfishing, for example, has a bunch of great examples of improvement. The same is true for pollution markets.

Positive externalities are harder to fix with markets. Improving society's level of education, for example, benefits everybody; it's not clear who to charge.

But I certainly agree that existing politics in the US makes it hard to solve any of these things. Or even admit that there are problems. I look forward to the pendulum swinging back toward sanity.
You should add a link of your github project.
I've got a few projects behind me, and some impressive clients behind me, so that part doesn't necessarily worry me. My biggest worry is whether being a part of the "dark side" of Microsoft will have a negative impact on my interview.

As for startups, my first company outside of university was a startup. I was the lead developer for a while and I left the company once they had been acquired because I felt that I needed to learn from more senior developers. I still feel that way, which leads me to want to work at a company like Google, so I can learn from the best.
I've associated Ritalin with a negative connotation until a few weeks ago when I saw what it can do. I haven't tried adderral yet but I'm guessing it makes you feel synthetic. Like a robot who just learned how to use it's reserved cores. It's not natural but I feel like someone should measure their heart rate when doing the activities I said while high on amphetamines. How would one feel?
"That’s slow, especially when you have to do dozens or hundreds of searches to deliver a single set of results."

This seems like a simple communication problem. If this information was displayed to the user ( "36 Searches Completed" or something, ticking up while they waited ), watching that number quickly grow would make me feel crazy productive. "I just waited 5 minutes for a search result" turns into "Oh my god, it would have taken me an hour to do all those searches, this is awesome! Oh, I just did another 3!"

Of course, this is exactly what is happening. You just need to communicate that to the user.
Does anyone practice part-time pair programming? A day a week, or early on a project, perhaps when laying out the API for some larger system which is then worked on by individuals?

Curious, as I've never done pair programming. I'm instinctively against it, but with thought I can see it having value in certain parts of the development process.
South African Government Spends $4 Million on Wordpress Website (Template)
You responded to a comment that the US ranked poorly in relation to 'every other developed country' with an outdated casualty count implying the US government might have been less deadly to human life than Germany, Japan and the UK before 1945 (and also less deadly than a few non-developed countries since then). I'm pretty sure the same set of statistics points towards the US government causing more deaths than other developed countries since 1945, which is why I thought it probably didn't help your case. Sorry.
Show HN: A product search API
I took adderall for almost a year (under the direction of my GP), for what I thought might be ADD. It actually did almost nothing for me... Except each time we upped the dose, I got really dizzy for a day. Other than that, I felt no better able to concentrate, no better memory. I finally just stopped taking it because it was a pain in the assignment to get it each month, and it wasn't doing anything. The only effects of going off it was that my wife said I was kind of a jerk for a few days.
Website: http://www.freestateonline.fs.gov.za

Template: http://themeforest.net/item/london-live-3-in-1-news-magazine...

Why can I never score these types of jobs >.<
Great fun, a nice short diversion! Why did she do it! Such a senseless waste :-)

Achievements:

1 gold found
1 secret gold stashes found
4 precious gems found
27 enemies killed
2899 turns played
Why trust matters when choosing a VPN
I was told monitoring heart rate and blood pressure is standard for a patient newly prescribed it.
Yes. As far as I know, that's what happened when Iran started blocking YouTube in Iran and mistakenly blocked it in entire world.

Luckily, AFAIK, BGP is trust-based, so things go to normal pretty quickly.
I used to take lots of L-Tyrosine and Magnesium supplements to help restore the toll Adderall takes on your body. I was on 30 MG of XR daily and would indeed do the work of 2 or 3 of myself ... but you do pay for it at the end of the day.

Ever wish you could clone yourself? You can. It's called Adderall. I miss it dearly. Moving to Sweden has meant that I can't get it any longer. Heading back to the US in a week to pick up a 5 month supply.

I tried to quit, but to be honest the benefits are simply too great. I often wonder the number of successful people that are on Adderall or similar drugs ... because I genuinely think some of the amazing things people are doing these days are impossible as a "baseline human" ... or I am a severely broken one.

This is a nice post that sums up my thoughts nicely: http://backreaction.blogspot.se/2012/08/erdos-and-amphetamin...
Read only access!! ROFL
Related to your point about UI discoverability, I really like this article on the concept of "Almost Flat Design".

http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/

This points out how important and useful the subtle and tasteful use of gradients and shadows can be within flat designs.
Thanks for the feedback! And until I implement downvotes, maybe you could add quick comments to explain why you think those are bad ideas?
No, tone it up instead.

From the comments on that article:

My 3rd grade granddaughter has been put on adderall for ADD. This is really scary.

It's because of people like her and her self-absorbed, nugatory account of her experiences being featured on a high-profile news journal that we drift into a world where mention of ADHD medicine usage gets you the eye-roll 'wow you druggie' judgement. She's doing a tremendous disservice to individuals actually diagnosed with ADHD.
I think its utter bullshit to think tech can solve social problems. it can raise awareness, bring resources to people, and provide general help. If you want to reduce crime from the source put boots on the ground, and put intervention in schools.

end rant.
I think it's a bit too raw - unpolished at places. The "Messages" menu item for example; the red notification circle with the count of unread messages is off in padding. Some icons are a bit fuzzy when they should be clear (http://dribbble.com/shots/492245-Idiot-Tip-2, if you don't follow me).

Why do people insist on creating a ton of bootstraps, straps or "Web UI Kits"? Let me rephrase the question, why do people want to make the web look the same? These days all I see is some site with Twitter Bootstrap on it and I'm pretty sure it's proven that it's really rare when someone bothers to use those UI kits or straps and make them their own, so in the end you don't help developers with those things, you make them more lazier.

http://xkcd.com/927/
Yaya, we plan on doing something like this.
Malkin really doesn't qualify as a credible source for, well... anything. You would have been better off pulling her bibliography.
I don't describe it like that to "sound edgy" or provide "shock effect." It's just pointing out that these drugs are very similar chemically and biologically, and that people should examine their own biases that divorce adderall (medicine!) from meth (evil drug!) in their minds — they are not so different substances.
Working From Home: Is it just a perk or a necessity?
Well, jailbreaking an iDevice usually takes one click or a visit to a website. I was just noting that many people forget that "rooting" is, in principal, the exact same as jailbreaking.
This nonprofit exists already: http://www.transparency-usa.org/
Documentary exploring personal dev. & tech...looking for leads in Canadian Media
I'm currently working on a documentary that poses some essential questions related to the growth of technology and personal development. I've spoken to several key friends and family members and am confident in the potential of the idea.

I would graciously appreciate anyone who might know a contact in Canadian media organizations such as the CBC, Bell, Cogeco, Rogers, Chorus, or Can-west/Global media. I'm looking for feedback, perhaps distribution/partnership, or perhaps even capital... but it's too early to say.

In return, I can pay it forward, offer web consulting, or offer anything at your terms.

thanks so much!

-- bakztfuture
If you're interested in Apple TV apps, also check out what Firecore is doing (http://firecore.com/atvflash-black).

Their "aTV Flash" product is $30 and can be added to a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (the third-gen ATV has yet to be jailbroken). It makes it easy to add weather, RSS, a browser, XBMC, Plex, and some other apps to the ATV.

Most notably, however, is their own "Media Player" app, which is a pleasantly robust media center (think XBMC if it were made specifically for the Apple TV). It handles almost any file format I throw at it without fail and is a much better experience than XBMC's own ATV app in my experience.

I can't wait for Apple to officially release the ATV SDK and really open the floodgates, but it feels like pre-March 2008 all over again (when Apple announced the iOS SDK).
To be fair, you only notice when it does look the same - you don't notice when someone has customized it successfully.
A different kind of college course
Twitter to drop TweetDeck for AIR, Android and iOS
> Do not play with BGP.

Well, okay. Don't touch it. It ain't broken.
I don't think there's anything wrong with showing people who are not network experts how easy it is to (believably) route things into nirvana. I guess the effects of fake routes being propagated could have been a lot worse than this. Why not promote some discussion and thought around BGP and friends? Maybe we can come up with something more resistant.
Perhaps the solution here is to include an "opt back in" link to that email.

Actually, it would be better to change the frequency (slow them down) of your mailouts to that person with the option to request a return to the old frequency.
I understand. I am guilty of only reading the comments when I feel an article is meant to address a single very interesting question, and then fails to go anywhere near it in the first two paragraphs.
This was built in the last 48 hours, will be growing soon.
To me this question depends greatly on to how you define the terms. Personally what I would prefer someone who is unbelievable in one area, but is able to apply their knowledge to other areas if that's whats is needed of them.

I would have a lot of hesitancy hiring someone who is extremely specialized and can't do anything useful whatsoever outside of their area of specialization, or someone who is so generalized that they can't function at a high level in any one area. To me both of these cases are signs of weakness in someones ability.

But if I had to give a black or white answer I would say specialist. If you are proven highly effective in one area, I believe it's more likely for you to be able to be highly effective in others if need be if given the time. Somebody aiming to be mediocre at everything is not someone I want to work with.
Certainly if there's a lot of small methods, they could have an optimization pass that inlines some of them and bring their overall method count down. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a small performance gain, too.
Yeah, I do these things on my "vacation" days. It helps, but it's hard for me to do it for a long time. Usually I end up walking around after a few minutes.
Sometimes I think people use these logical classifications to downplay others too liberally. In this case benihana's sarcasm is effective because it uses ad hominem. It's meant to point out that perhaps his response is too absolutist given it's a not widely held opinion.
You're forgetting about the 385,000% income tax.
"Using drugs to gain an unfair advantage over other people at work"

Perhaps the ABA (American Bar Association) needs to implement a ban on performance enhancing drugs similar to what MLB (Major League Baseball) mandates?
> This discussion has gone from bad to ridiculous.

Indeed - at this point I can't even tell what your argument is. We are not Luddites, no matter what you erroneously believe the definition to be.

You do realise that you are not the first person to have imagined the post-scarcity society, right? Well, yes, of course it would be nice to live in a socialist utopia of plenty. The trajectory we are on does not appear to lead to such a utopia, however - hence the conversation.

And I believe we will see the beginning of this within our lifetime, absolutely, in fact we are seeing it right now. In 20 years' time it may well be much too late.

Wouldn't it be good to manage the transition gracefully, rather than risk 200 years of near-feudalism, fighting to regain something akin to democracy in the face of an immensely empowered capital-class aristocracy?
Population is concentrated on the coasts. Has anyone worked out what fraction of US Citizens have lost their 4th amendment rights?
sehksy
Am I the only one who doesn't love the whole flat trend? It seems like once the novelty wears off, it becomes bland more than anything else.
For very creative definitions of "usually". I watch the iOS jailbreak scene as most of my friends have such devices. Exploits that easy haven't been around for a while now.

This conversation is quickly becoming pointless anyway.

It is amusing however to watch my karma bobble with intervals of 4 as people vote enmasse by username.
That sounds like a drag for the patient to update their statistics. Did they tell you if they have to drive to the doctor's weekly? I doubt it though because people don't get into the specifics on stuff like this. I can't imagine someone normally saying, yeah um, I was prescribed adderral the other day and they gave me this device that measures my heart rate-- so far I'm doing fine. Etc. Now I'm interested if it's done online or not, what device is it. Taking adderral means you don't have much time on things like reporting back to your doctor. So I'm curious, has anybody been given a device after being prescribed adderral, anybody?
I didn't like the article either. The whole thing struck me as melodramatic and narcissistic.

Perhaps there are intelligent commentaries to be written about this culture's abuse of Adderall, but this is not one of them.
Awesome find! Thank you sir!
> have a second computer generate a good password

Why a second computer?
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/3.0.0-wip
You don't have to be necessarily at home to fulfill expectations in your job. It's good to have an option to work from home when necessary. There are jobs that require an employee's presence in the office. There are remote jobs only (WFH). Does it make it a necessity? No.
In general I think you've don't better than most your age and most developers.
I still ask the question "So what?"
Meaning - what's better about you than your neighbor?
Dude, have some compassion. It's upsetting that this is the top voted comment. Not everyone is as well-informed and knowledgeable about things like this as you are, and this first-hand account of her experience will likely help a lot of people experiencing similar issues.

>>Using drugs to gain an unfair advantage over other people at work has unhealthy emotional side effects? Am I to be suprised by this?

Your claim that this stimulant gives its users/abusers/misusers an "unfair advantage" over those who don't use it (ie you) not only contradicts your following statement (that it causes emotional side effects) but also tells me that perhaps you're angered or upset by this perceived 'unfair advantage' you see this drug giving your peers.

If you looked at the big picture, or her story, you'd see that the drug doesn't, in fact, give its abusers an unfair advantage. Whatever temporary 'gain' they are getting is unsustainable and clearly destructive both emotionally and physically.
People hate on systemd as much or more than Upstart, so I wouldn't say it's any better or worse. But init is an example of something that the neckbeards thought Ubuntu didn't need to fix.
Thanks for this.

Placename disambiguation is something we've wrestled with a lot lately. The way we do it now is: (a) find the most likely origin you meant based on proximity & size; (b) if we have historical data, choose the most likely destination given previous popularity, and (c) whatever the case, give prompts on each one to let you tell us you meant a different one.

Also, we don't currently support multi-city trips, so that would've confused the search parser.

But just running these searches now, they seem to give results:

http://adioso.com/us/boston-massachusetts-to-tunis-tn

http://adioso.com/tn/tunis-tn-to-barcelona-es

But yeah I know what you mean; the results can be baffling when they're not what you expect.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Great website, love the idea! One thing I still don't get is why exactly it is slow? How come you can pre-load some data, but not other? The first thing that comes to mind is caching, but I guess I am not understanding the problem correctly.

Side note: 2 weeks ago there was a hackathon at our university (Edinburgh) and in the Travel category one of the teams tried to do exactly the same thing. However, they only implemented the NLP part as they were using data via Skyscanner's API. Our entry[1] had a similar flavour, but rather than typing, one could select their cities and we did the planning for them.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ir7XrlC0aw
Well, I often zoom it on the desktop computers too (depending on OS/Browser settings). :)

It could be like killing two birds with one stone actually, because making it mobile friendly quite likely would make it friendlier for non-mobile uses too.
Don't Windows, OS X, and all phones get fine battery life with compositing?
Can you elaborate on what you dislike about bazaar and Unity? Or how Canonical is able to "force" a vcs on its userbase?

I've used Unity since it was released, never had any issues, and generally think it's the best GNU/Linux window shell around.

Bazaar is also ridiculously simple, and I've started using it as a front-end to every other vcs. The support for git is a little rough, but I can do in one command what git users have to do in four, so I deal with it.

I think that the vocal minority of Ubuntu power-users (which is sort of a laughable term) hates change. This is what made Unity such a "failure" when really it's a pretty great system.