skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an interesting aside, I'm pretty sure the technique used in this related post: [1] is how the press figured out that Romney was involved in Bain Capital after his supposed departure in 1999.[2]

[1] http://jtangovc.com/vc-economics-and-control-unveiled-on-the...
[2] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-mitt-ro...
We can say "Bon voyage" to ever seeing a Sparrow iPad app. shakes fist
This is awesome. As someone who has a 'dumbphone' but uses twitter, I'm really impressed by this.

Edit: Oh. It's only for Africa. Well I guess that's cool too.
My concern with using localStorage.has_paid isn't a malicious user trying to cheat, but a legitimate user loosing their has_paid status, which bring up the larger issue that you are saving the user data in the mysterius localStorage, and how many people know where that is, or that erasing your history will delete it, or any other thing that could go wrong.

Also,isn't saving key-value pairs on a per user bases a common enough problem to have already been solved. It would involve one blackbox program on the server, the javascript could be as simple as:

serverStorage.login(username, password)
serverStorage.getValue(key)
serverStorage.function setValue(key,value)
I have noticed the problem with the edge of the screen not being responsive since I've had my pre-order one since 17th.

My own gripe is the ghosting/flikering that was demonstrated earlier this week or last last week. When I turn the screen on and start reading Currents, as soon as I scroll to a new page I will see the screen flicker a little bit. This is after the screen gets refreshed with new content.

Umm reading through what I wrote makes me thing it is the auto-brightness changing.
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Is it just me, or does the announcement sound a little bit like "mission accomplished, time to move on"?

I seriously hope Sparrow continues to exist and develop as the app it is. Rather than being shutdown and a subset of it's features eventually appearing in Google's official offerings.
FWIW, I just played Shadowgun for 20 minutes on my n7 and I'm not having any touchscreen issues.
Not on Larry's watch.

Eric Schmidt's Google would have given it to you, though. Fond memories.
Except Sofa sold/transferred both Versions and Kaleidoscope to Black Pixel to continue to be maintained. I don't see that happening this time.
Damn, it was nice knowing you Sparrow. I seriously hope they don't let Google's UI/UX designers anywhere near Sparrow.
How incredibly awful.
This must have been Sparrow's game plan from day one, so kudos to them. Hopefully it'll become the official Gmail app for iOS, get push support, and we can all enjoy the benefits.
Yeah, I feel the same. Obviously, they had an offer they couldn't refuse, I'm sure, and I don't blame them for taking it. But that said, I love Sparrow and am saddened that it could end that fast.
Does this mean that there will be an open wifi driver coming out of this ? Will I be able to install gNewSense or trizeal on this?
Hi Mark, I'm interested to see Clojure in the LoB type of application. Yes, LoB is boring, but I'd like to see some comparison between the model-heavy/oop-heavy vs Clojure.

Would be nice if the apps show internationalization and some way to handle Time and Money.
I want a refund.
More like a "first glance"

so, how it's any different than buying a xps model?

Also, why do i have to be happy about paying OS tax to either MS or canonical? I hate both. Why can't i just get a machine and be done with?

It's like being forced to either buy a all season DVD box of either friends or family Guy every time you buy a new TV. Sure a few people may find one option useful, but overall it's just retarded.
no, just illiterate. the original author and the commenters here all made allowances for non-native speakers of english, which apparently you couldn't be bothered to read....
Why? If you use Sparrow, you use Gmail. So it's an odd place for a Google-hater to be.
Not everything that Google buys does. SketchUp was never free as far as I can remember.
Yeah, because Google has no interest in maintaining the official Gmail app...
No he says specifically that this doesn't apply to ESL or dyslexics.

As a writer he is objecting to hiring people who don't care enough about writing to use grammar correctly and he believes that this also strongly correlates with being a good programmer.
The email Sparrow is sending out, looks like there won't be any future feature additions:

Hello,

We're excited to let you know that Sparrow has been
acquired by Google! You can view our public announcement
here, but I wanted to reach out directly to make sure you
were aware of the news.

We will continue to make available our existing products,
and we will provide support and critical updates to our
users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at
Google, we do not plan to release new features for the
Sparrow apps.

It’s been an honor and a pleasure to build products for all
of our wonderful users who have supported us over the
years. We can't thank you enough.
We look forward to working on some new and exciting
projects at Google!

Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
Congratulations but...

Argh, I love Sparrow. Why couldn't you do the 37 Signals/Panic/Mail Chimp thing and not sell and just be a nice profitable company that provides some consistency - ohwell.
If anyone's looking for a photo printing API that's cheaper, ships photos internationally for a flat fee, and has already launched, check out Pwinty ( http://www.pwinty.com ).

We've very much a white label service, so you can add all your own branding etc, and we just do the boring stuff.

So- if you want to build the next PicPlum - think about using Pwinty to do it!

Oh- and we're completely bootstrapped!
Ignorance of a law that you haven't read yet because you're not allowed to is no excuse!
I wish Apple acquired them.

iOS Mail needs those gestures more than Google does.
it's old printers' stuff to do with physical properties of lead type, i think. as to why it won't go away, i have no idea. i happily ignore it in almost all my writing....
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Same here. Im always afraid that an acquisition will turn a service I love into some long-forgotten lines of codes as the team works on new projects.
I haven't used Sparrow, since I don't have an iOS device, but any particular reason why Google thought they needed to buy it? What could Sparrow bring to the Gmail mobile app that Google couldn't do themselves (or well enough)? Or maybe they just wanted it so the competition doesn't get it first, just like Facebook wanted Instagram?
This is a huge accomplishment for the Sparrow team. Now lets hope Google doesn't do what they do best and ruin this beautiful app.
"Men" as in mankind. It's just the way that word is used. I'm pretty sure Armstrong wasn't trying to be misogynistic there.
The one time I hired a home inspector, I got the report by the end of the 3-hour appointment, printed up by his laptop and portable printer. It wasn't until I read your comment that I now know how what a good thing that was.
What nonsense.

OK - the title is supposed to be link bait but...

jQuery is a platform - a foundation of you like that abstracts away the complexity of a large number of common tasks. You build your design on that foundation - and that is where the innovation is displayed.

Architectural designs are not criticised because they are all founded on a similar concrete base.
There is another way, but you can't keep it open forever. Any app can request to stay open for a short time to do anything it wants after close. I use this for an app that saves data to the cloud. No reason to make the user wait around for the save. You can't stay open forever though which I suspect is what they were doing.

Just wanting to point out there is a third option, though not indefinitely.
It should be "your mother's thong is Spanish"

However in the USA it's unusual to take the provenance of parental lingerie into account in the hiring process.
Key point, "we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps".
Strauss-Howe generational theory
I'm a long time reader of Ramit and his blog which has been fantastic in shaping my thinking about finances.

Admittedly much of his advice boils down to: "Figure out a way to make more money rather than trying to cut your expenses drastically (within reason)".

But the repetition and different ways that is expressed over time have really let the message sink in.
IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE???
Totally. Thanks for your comment.
Sorry for the caps, it was my initial reaction.
Google acquires Sparrow, the Apple-focused email app maker
Hooray! Now can they also buy BusyCal so that there's at least one non-braindamaged method of talking to Google CalDAV servers on a Mac?
Web reporting has very much become first-to-market, so I doubt it.
The screen resolution is an issue for me as well. I think they should have been able to fit in 1440x900 in a 13.3 inch size, similar to what the larger macbook airs ship with, which makes working on two editor or IDE panes side by side somewhat possible.
This is getting extremely frustrating. Sparrow is a fabulous email client both for iOS and Mac. I love and use both daily and this is fairly devastating. I was really looking forward to the products development, growth, and future releases. To read this announcement and hear that they won't be working on their apps but on Google projects is sad.

To bigger companies: chill out with the "acquihires." If anything, do what Facebook did with Instagram and keep them working on their product. It would be awesome to see the guts of Sparrow used in a Google branded Gmail client or similar (hopefully that happens, but I'm reluctant based on this statement).
I used a Dell Latitude e6510 laptop before with 8GB RAM, standard HDD (no SSD), Intel Core 5. I was running GlassFish 3.x, WebSphere Portal Server (don't ask), DB2, Eclipse 3.4 with plugins, Chrome with multiple tabs, and a VirtualBox running Windows 7 (don't ask). Pretty damn fast.

Given a reasonable price and a better battery support, and a wee bit lighter design with barebone Ubuntu + additional drivers, I'd definitely buy that machine to replace my MBP.
Looks like we can kiss getting push notifications on iPhone and the teased iPad version goodbye.
For clarity, when I talk about "grammar" here I'm talking about what Wikipedia calls "orthography", which is what I think the OP was talking about. You're right that #1 is a style correction and #3 is a typographic correction--on the other hand #2 is unambiguously orthogaphic[0], even if it's not as well known as it's/its, and if the writer feels justified in making up "itses" to mean "it's and its", presumably because people can infer what it means from context, that puts them in a very shaky position as a prescriptivist.

The interesting point that I'm trying to make isn't that that author is wrong or right, because I don't really care much about slips in orthography. It's that once you take a prescriptivist stance you're either making an appeal to popularity or you're entering an arse-kicking contest with a seven-legged monster with no arse.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_com...
The technology stacks for these companies, by and large, were selected a decade ago or more. I'm no more surprised they chose MySQL as their database as I am to see that they chose PHP or Java as their core language (in some cases).
The comments have become a firestorm of grammar-as-a-filter for programmers. While this is an interesting debate, I think there are three things about this filter that give it value:

1) Grammar serves as a cultural touchstone in the company, so using a grammar test in hiring is a strong signal to employees and future employees about what we as a company stand for. If you apply to this job and you disregard grammar freely (guilty as charged) you will not fit into this organization. It's a fast filter on both ends: I won't take the test, and if I did you would reject me immediately. Excellent.

2) It is a binary, non-complex test. You write the test once and there is a unambiguous right and wrong answer, if you get the questions right you pass, if you don't you are rejected. This has several benefits:

Applicants: They know this is coming and can prepare/not prepare for it. The test is objective, so they can't really argue with its validity. At one point they probably knew this material, meaning that an hour of time to prepare for the finer points of colons/semi-colons is probably doable if they really want the job.

Employer:
Since the answers are unambiguous this filter is easy to use: passed candidates go through. There is no subjectivity around assessing a candidate using a resume or cover letter. In my experience (CEO in hiring efficiency space) this easily-actionable filter means that the task at hand will actually get done. If you watch recruiters try to parse through 200+ resumes against a job req, they will stop after 10-15. They might come back to it on another day, or they might not. Either way the applicant pipeline stops dead on their desk. It's frustrating for the recruiter because the task becomes "analyze this free-text against a free-text requisition and then filter this list of 200 people down to 20."

The reality of this situation is that most resumes don't get read and the person who ends up getting the job is one of the first 20 that were read. Obviously this situation is non-ideal, so I generally advocate an objective, simple filter as the first step to any process (before looking at resume.) Internal recruiters, in their heart of hearts, want to find the best applicant in the bunch, if you don't give them the tools to do their job then they won't.

3) They've thought about their process and institutionalized it. When I see a company that has thought seriously about the filter stage of the process then I know: a) they care about their employees' time b) they care about quality applicant's and the culture they project in the hiring process c) they have probably thought about all stages of the hiring process so things are likely to move quickly and smoothly.
So how do companies like Google, Amazon, Genentech, Facebook, etc. get started at all? These are "heavyweight" companies that raised lots of VC money.
GMail has changed A LOT since its early days. What are you talking about?

Gmail is pretty much perfect and the Labs additions can basically give you a "Sparrow-like" window and viewing pane already.

APPLE needs these improvements, not google.
I agree with him. You just have to use the Android Gmail app to notice that Google can do an awesome native e-mail app if they want. The phone client is so good that many times I prefer to use it than the web even when I am with my notebook.
They bought talent. The client is great but I don't see a need in Google for it.
Just read Strunk and White's Elements of Style.
I think you grossly missed the point of Sparrow—as a webapp, it's 100% useless, because the current Gmail interface exists.

At best, they can take some UI/UX elements from Sparrow and incorporate them into Gmail as is, but porting it as a webapp or porting it to ChromeOS are both defeating the point of the app and platform, respectively.
You can do a fast, conditionless count that ignores current transaction state and therefore risks being slightly out of date, but usually good enough for most use cases:

select n_live_tup
from pg_stat_user_tables
where relname = 'mytable'
Apple Mail sure did miss me. It's welcoming me back with 40% CPU usage.
Agreed.

Sparrow needed to be acquired by Apple. Period.

Imagine iOS mail with Sparrow's gestures and organization?

Fantastic.
That's your opinion and I'm guessing it's based on cultural expectations, nothing more. Your culture is not everyone's culture.

There are households where the nanny raises the children and parents see them perhaps less than one hour per day. Are you going to tell those parents that by your decree they should not have had the child? Are you going to approach these children and tell them that their lives are somehow miserable and less worthy because of their parental situation, even if the children seem completely content?
I really like the idea of allowing the student to take a year instead of a semester, with the deadlines adjusted accordingly. This seems like a good alternative to "dumbing it down" to accommodate those of us who don't have the time or who find the material difficult.
I requested one from the App Store support site.
HP's reputation was also destroyed over that time period. We and many other companies we worked with switch to Dell during Fiorina's tenure.
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Clearly Sparrow was created for Gmail - so it's in Google's best interest to use those guts to enhance the Gmail app and dump the Sparrow app itself eventually. I thought that statement about not adding features is a clear indicator of that. I don't see why one would get frustrated with that or ... feel devastated about it.
Yah, it did come out that way. Sorry.

What I was really thinking was how awesome it would be if Marissa did bring her baby to work every day for the first 6 months or so. That would really be noticeable and would hopefully do a lot to remove some of the bias against women of childbearing age as well as encourage other companies to allow this sort of practice.

As an aside, I was the one that did most of the baby-wearing. My wife has short arms and large breasts, so she was unable to do much with her arms while wearing. My daughters spent a large amount of time in a sling while I was standing up at the computer.
No, sorry. The paper appears to have been released in April.
Google Acquires E-mail Genius Sparrow
First thing that came to my mind too. Would be interesting if they still upheld the same pricing model as before.
By "developer" they really mean "newbie to-be developer". Otherwise I don't understand what's with all the emphasis on software rather than hardware, as if an experienced developer wouldn't already have a preferred developing enviroment and wouldn't already know how to set it up.

And the price tag is outrageous even from the perspective of a to-be developer that values having everything setup before hand.
This strikes me as good advice, but it also matches a lot of the advice I have gleaned over the years, so it may just be my bias talking. Getting rid of mush-mouthed "in my opinion" stuff and cliche phrases, moving from the general to the specific, all good advice.
<sarcasm> Yes, we're all geniuses here </sarcasm>

I read The Master & Margarita when I was 9 (or 10) AND my first Harry Potter around the same time... and yes, I enjoyed both of them thoroughly! :)
This is one of the issues one confronts (at least myself, as a user and startup founder) when purchasing goods and services from other startups:

>... we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.

I was hoping to see Sparrow for Mac further develop, it's my default email client, but it still has plenty of room for improvement. I just hope that "someone" continues where it left off.

Anybody knows if this is an acq-hire, acquisition with intention to further develop Sparrow, acquisition + shutting Sparrow?
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I think Google was the best destination for Sparrow simply because sparrow was created for Gmail. If Apple acquired it then it's focus would be iCloud email which is garbage.
Nice service and API (plus love that you're bootstrapped). Any chance you'll be doing DVD burning in the future?
Right there with you. Sparrow is effectively done now. Gmail itself doesn't need the improvements, the clients need to improve, which won't happen if they join the gmail team.
So... I just let mine bake for 30 minutes on the same game he did. The device was hot by the end of it. No problems with touch/multitouch recognition afterwards.
It is odd to think about but Facebook is at heart a social photo sharing site. Photos drive a tremendous amount of the activity within the system (posting, tagging, commenting), even their name 'facebook' stems from class photo books.
I don't know the technical details, but it sounds like the purpose of the magic number is interacting windows programs with linux. Regardless of how accurate that is, unless the magic number is used only within 1 program (or maybe only withing Microsoft programs), changing it is going to cause problems.
Ask HN: App.net is closing - how to approach their old customers?
As most of you probably know App.net is closing their current service in the favor of starting a new one - completely different. It was the biggest competitor of the start up I'm working on - www.apptlantis.com . I see this as an opportunity to attract new customers and I am wondering what would be the best way to approach their old clients. In general these are developers who are already interested in this kind of service so it shouldn't be very difficult.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Very interesting. Now to apply this to today and tomorrow.
Pick any date in the future... unless you actually need a valid card number, then this site is no help anyway.
I think the "imperative" here is actually better understood as the bare infinitive. (Of course, the two are morphologically identical in English, so you can't see the difference.) My guess is that in a language with a morphologically distinct imperative form, it would sound downright weird to put the commit message in the imperative, but it would sound fine to use the infinitive. For example, Spanish has a distinct imperative, but I've noticed that signs, instructions on shampoo bottles, etc., generally use the infinitive.
Since it sounds like the service itself is being shut down its probably about acquiring the team and (possibly) some bits and pieces of tech.
http://i.imgur.com/POqNb.png
Google recently acquired QuickOffice too. So now Google owns native clients for GMail and Docs. In addition, they're continuing to build native apps for GDrive, Google Plus, and probably others.

This is similar to GitHub and Twitter. Both grew out of the web, but have increasingly acquired or built desktop clients, not to mention mobile ones. And Facebook has made an about-turn on HTML5 everywhere and focusing heavily on native mobile apps.

So I see a trend is that cloud-based services are realising they can't just rely on a website. It would be great to see the web catch up, or even close the gap, but right now, native is offering so much more capability, that both web and native apps are necessary for prominent cloud services. That's good for users, they get the best of both worlds, but also going to be a big challenge for resource-limited startups.
Time and Money are handled exactly the same as in Java.
I hope the Google+ team doesn't get ahold of them before they can fix Gmail and apps.
Even if an in-use credit card number is generated, you would still need the name, expiration date and cvv2 to complete most online purchases. Depending on the vendor, you may also require the billing address of the cardholder.

It's somewhat unlikely that this tool will generate many "real" account numbers, as the Bank Identification Number field is being randomly generated as well. These account numbers only satisfy the Luhn check for validity.

You might find these links interesting, they explain credit card data in depth:

http://www.dirigodev.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-credit-card-numbe...

http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2012/02/deconstructing-...
As long as it will run Fedora, I might be tempted to buy one. And if the hardware is "linux compatible" enough for Ubuntu, I'm guessing Fedora will run just fine on it as well. I hope so anyway...
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