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Is Google's Cash Pile a Sign of the End of Technological Progress?
Congrats on your launch. I like the concept of doctype and your slick UI design.
Looks good and all, but I really don't think it's worth $200K. And $150K more for Android support? Where's all this money going to go?
Heroes Wanted.  SEO Heroes.
The earlier generations of web companies were comprised of heroes. They built the foundation of the personal computer and the web. From Wozniak fiddling around in his garage to Larry Page working on back links. These heroes and so many others created opportunities for all of us today. The opportunity to build applications that are truly incredible. Applications that can solve the world's problems.

We're 42Floors. We help people discover their dream office.

It may not sound like much. Hell, it didn't to us at first. As entrepreneurs though, we realized how important having the right office is. And we realized how utterly painful it is to find an office. Why has no internet company tried to solve this problem yet?? In the last 20 years, no one has succeeded in building a user-friendly way of searching for office space. No one. It's $25B a year industry and it's lost in 1993.

We're a YC W'12 company. We're Series A funded by top investors. We're experienced Ruby engineers with a strong design focus. We're missing a Director of Performance Marketing that will run our SEO, SEM, and internal metrics.

That should be you. It's a greenfield opportunity. Go ahead. Try searching for 'Soma office lease' and see the crap that emerges. This is one of those areas of the web where nothing of quality has yet to emerge. No one good enough has tried.

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> $4.99 is a deal, regardless of whether there would be future versions or not.

Then they should've put it on sale for $4.99 today, after the announcement, with a note in the description that it will no longer receive new features.

If it's indeed a deal, surely all the people who bought last week would've bought this week.
super insightful. What happened to the Byoyo team after the workshop?
Smart move.

I would presume that a gesture such as this buys him and Lenovo more than $3MM worth of good will/publicity. A nice counter to the "world dominating corporate overlord" impression most people have.
Ask HN: How do I make better use of random browser checks?
Like most of HN probably, I spend a lot of time checking reddit, hn, fb, etc.. while waiting for things.

I love reading essays roughly the length of PGs but I find I get very little from reading traditional news articles. Books are fantastic, but not when I only have a few free minutes. Is there a good place I can check every once in a while to get digestible intellectual goodies?
Neat, thanks for that link. I'm not a full time JS developer and I always feel like I'm a few steps behind everyone else.
Must be some 3rd party app that proxies Dropbox services and/or login.
There's always the possibility that these app acquisitions are not to strengthen gmail and docs, but to strengthen Android. Google has just bought the maker of the best email client on iPhone, and announced that they're stopping development of it. To me, that sounds more like a direct attack on the iPhone than a vote of confidence for native apps.
In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software
1) They sold because they were a funded company and funded companies have to sell. That's how investors make money. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/sparrow-mac-mail-app/

2) I highly doubt Sparrow will work with upcoming iOS versions, which means the people that bought it recently have been ripped off.
If I ever go back to language teaching, I think I've just come up with an engaging and rewarding lesson:

* assign students the task of writing an N-word or -page paper and explicitly instruct them to use as much fluff as possible (creatively, i.e. not using "really" x100)
* allow them to read each other's papers and vote on the most vapid essays
* assign a follow-up task to ruthlessly edit a partner's paper to distill the real content
* never attach a word or page count to any future assignment, preferring complete coverage of assigned topic, and hold students accountable for use of fluff

Hands-on experience is a great learning aid. A frank acknowledgement and analysis of filler content (instead of just discouraging it in the abstract) coupled with an educator's willingness to forgo artificial targets or limits could go a long way in improving this aspect of writing style.
Feedback on the Listr (ugh, that name) re-imagining: the little icons weren't particularly informative in the original, but at least there was some text to try and explain. Now I get to guess what each icon means, plus instead of everything fitting on one screen, you apparently must scroll down to select e.g. "Projects".

By the way, what is up with every project talking about "beautiful"? "Beautiful Javascript", "Beautiful native apps", "Beautiful text icons", etc. Is this just the Steve Jobs school of selling?
The Sparrow Acquisition Is Not a Death Knell For a Beautiful Gmail Experience
Very nicely presented. My credit card page and code have been top search result for years - it's about time someone improved upon it! Thanks.

http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/
http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-generator/

If the code on darkcoding helped you build your project (we have the exact same card issuers), could you give attribution?

It would also be very cool if you open-sourced that site. The code on darkcoding is GPL, not AGPL, so you're not required to. Would still be cool of you :-)
"10. Allow Pets in the Office"

Wouldn't having dogs/cats/miscellaneous animals roaming the cube farms be in breach of health and safety regulations? Think of all the lovely 'surprises' people would find on the carpets.

Although, how about training all the dogs to bark whenever upper management start talking?
To clarify, this has nothing to do with creating prototypes.
Yea, what killed Netscape was not the rewrite, but IMO the cancellation of Mariner:

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1708

And BTW, on IE6, the lack of competition resulting from the killing of Netscape was why MS can get away with stagnating IE for 5 years in the first place.
This paper is relevant: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~efros/courses/AP06/Papers/Blanz-siggr...

Of course, you need their database to make the algorithm work, but if you emailed the authors they might be accomodating..
Once again, kids: recurring revenue models. It appears to be the only way to build sustainable, quality software these days.

I love, love thick clients (even though I'm an ambivelent web guy) but every time I see an app as a one-time $10 or even $99 shot, I think: how are they gonna survive in the long run?
Judge: OK to use seized phones to impersonate you and entrap your friends
Ok, where I say 'alien', imagine I said 'extra-terrestrial'.

We know the probability of the universe evolving intelligent life from scratch is 1. We know nothing about the probability of the universe evolving intelligent life from scratch twice, and the Fermi paradox implies we're very unlikely to ever find out more.
Inconsolata is great for writing URLs in papers because they don't have that blocky look, and they don't stick out on the page from being twice as wide as your serif fonts.
This illustrates a key problem selling Linux. Linux hardware = commodity. Linux software = commodity. commodity + commodity = commodity.

There's no differentiator here, for anyone. You might as well put a pinstripe on it, or tint the windows, or put on a Type-R muffler: in the end it's still a Honda Accord.

The best you can do is make sure that Linux runs well on your hardware, but as the hardware is a commodity, that's not much of a differentiator. And for sleep/wake issues you may not have the skills to make Linux work well on a laptop, because nobody does.

This problem also exists with Android, but in the mobile space handset makers are having some success differentiating on hardware and adding custom UI.

IBM makes a good chunk of change on Linux, but their model (admitting their solution isn't turn-key and charging a bunch of money on customization) doesn't work for laptops. And, of course, it offers no incentive to actually create turn-key software.
It's too bad you failed to use the subjunctive properly then. ;)
These blanket statements you keep making remind me of this article:

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2187-incompetent-people-...
apt-get install virtualbox?
It'd be a Russian TV crew filming an empty spot that was supposed to be that of an Apollo landing :)
google reader and tons of blogs and sites
How to get Google to spam people for you in 3 easy steps
Where did they say that? It says in their announcement that they are going to continue to support it. Do you just mean active development?
Also this is Google, so it would be so out of character that it contradicts every single thing anyone has ever learned about Google first-hand, second-hand, or third-hand. This is not how you make a conspiracy theory.
I agree with all the current opinions, but I still donated, an iOS dev friend of mine really misses the three20 libraries ability to apply CSS.

I like the idea of doing it properly but to be honest I'd expect that someone would release an open source version that does something similar that I can contribute back to.
Ok, now that sparrow is dead....any good alternatives?
You should really check out Pinterest even if you aren't interested in the content -- the UI they have created is very slick and interesting.
That screen resolution spoils it. Devs like designers appreciate the additional pixels.
They should have been zero for him and an increase of $314 USD in revenue per employee.
"Frankly, my dear, I..."
My first thought was "how would locking the account if you miss it help, if you don't know how to miss it?"

However, if you're in a situation where someone is trying to forcibly extract access from you, there's s good chance that a stressed state of mind would be reflected in variations in how you play, which could be noticed by the system.

Even if it's limited to a specific secured location, though, you still have to worry about the possibility of keyloggers, which could be used to mount a reply attack without you ever having to know.
One interesting new feature is the "Cordova Webview". This will make building hybrid apps much more straight forward.

"Cordova WebView - This allows for the integration of PhoneGap, as a view fragment, into a bigger native application."
Woman's Pen Still Works After Being Lodged in Stomach for 25 Years
> 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.

I think it's a matter of perspective. As someone who doesn't use and has no intention of ever using OS X or iOS, this is great news for me! I've been hearing a lot about Sparrow's revolutionary UI, but haven't benefited at all because they don't support Linux, Android, or Windows. Now, there's a very good chance that some of Sparrow's UI features will be incorporated into the Gmail web UI and into the Gmail apps for Android phones and tablets.
Happy for the Sparrow folks, not so happy for my fellow users and me. I am using it since the beta and they kept promising from that version on that they would add the one missing feature for me (and a dozen of other users): undo support.
I stopped using Sparrow for this only reason; then at 1.6 I started using it again; just to see where it was at; lovely UI but one CPU hogging little app. Sad to see these show-stoppers will now never be picked up in the future Sparrow.
Who will be the new kid on the block?
> This illustrates a key problem selling Linux. Linux hardware = commodity. Linux software = commodity. commodity + commodity = commodity.

Sure, I don't disagree. I just don't see how the situation is different from Windows. Selling Wintel boxes is a low margin business, and it seems that selling Lintel boxes will be in the same boat.
Definitely not bad -- I can also really appreciate an even split to all employees -- I know some might view it as unfair that someone who just started might get the same bonus as a long term employee, but for just a windfall, I think it was a good idea to keep it all even.
Actually I find the Chrome developer tools better, specially with the integrated editor and V8 tools.
Using Celery with Pyramid
Have you thought of naming it lipsum.cc? Catchy and available.
I received the equivalent of a month's wages as a bonus when I met a certain set of criteria for my teaching. It was a nice pat on the back. This feels good.
When will US based CEOs start giving their workers their 300 million+ bonus?
> I am not married and I don't have kids.

So you lack experience.

> And I was not the kind of kid who troubled my parents much. I used to keep pretty much to myself as a kid.

Maybe that explains your attitude? Either way, it means nothing.

> I might be wrong,

You are. You are wrong in the sense that an effective way to make a political statement is to crash a few planes into some buildings.

> Besides you haven't given me a single reason as to why I'm wrong.

You've given no reasons to back up your claim, which flies in the face of common sense. So sorry, I just cannot stoop to that level of ignorance. Good parenting takes effort.

Oh, sure. You are right, bad parenting means you get lots of free time. If that's what you are referring to, being a bad parent, sure. Is that what you were talking about?

> Your post seems like a rant out of some frustration in your life.

And your comments seem to come from someone who was treated like you suggest growing up. We generally refer to that as neglect.
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
sudo: apt-get: command not found
$ sudo apt-get install django
sudo: apt-get: command not found
Maybe there is a small chance a window client might shows up in the pipeline :)

Anyway, there is a mail client (that began as a project of midori's author) that looks a little bit like sparrow: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki

It's very early in its dev. stage though.
Kickstarter is being used, more and more, as a way to build interest and create revenue before the official "launch" of a product; even a product that would be produced anyway. It seems to be a rather effective way to get press coverage for a percentage of projects, and presents a clean interface on a trusted system for interested potential purchasers.

The risk, of course, is that a huge goal is less likely to be reached than a smaller goal. The ideal situation is that you have a reasonable goal that will actually help maybe some outsourcing or consulting costs or distribution set-up or what have you, blow away the goal early, and keep interest to drive revenue.

Personally, I don't find this kind of Kickstarter project very interesting, and I believe it's a suboptimal way to launch a product that could instead just be released as a MVP and iterated on based on user feedback.
Show HN: evemi - Connect through interests
"I've always had the opposite effect."

Interesting. Thanks for that comment. I'd like to hear more of what others experience whether similar to what you feel or what I stated. I would consider myself a workaholic and prefer to do something rather than lounge around. To me doing nothing or relaxing generally feels negative with only a few exceptions or rationalizations.
So I am optimistic we'll be returning to the Moon within the next 20 years. The reasoning is that technology is advancing to the point where its less and less of a 'big deal.' The last remaining hurdle is 'on-orbit refueling'.

Today, the last remaining challenge of landing on the moon, is carrying enough fuel for a trans-lunar injection orbit into orbit, and then for the lander to land on the moon itself.

With modern launch vehicles, it is straight-forward to launch a moon landing mission as three components (command module, lander, and engine/fuel. And link them together in orbit. However, there is a significant penalty to not launching all at once into the correct earth orbit to later elongate into a trans lunar orbit. So a 'modern' mission actually would need two loads of fuel in orbit, one to move the whole assembly into a prepatory orbit, and then one to move from that orbit to the moon.

If we have on-orbit refueling then you manage a depot of fuel for the second step, and the sequence becomes launch lander, dock it with a tug. Launch command module, attach that to the tug. Move the tug (with its command and lander modules) into the same ecliptic as the moon's orbit. Then refuel, and then use the tug to move you to the moon.

By re-using the tug multiple times the costs drop dramatically. (like $100M every time you re-use it, that is a tug you didn't launch from earth).

People want on-orbit refueling so that we can have longer lived satellites. (there are perfectly serviceable communication satellites in 'dead' orbits because they no longer have the fuel for station keeping.)

Once we get that capability it won't be a question of 'will' to get to the moon, it will simply be a question of money. And there is enough disposable income amongst the young billionaires of the world that getting the money won't be an issue either.
Also much more expensive and not as easy to find though
Is mixing Java classes in Clojure okay? or to some degree it is acceptable but there are gotchas or the do's and don'ts?

Hey, I checked your website just for fun and it says there you can speak Indonesian, awesome :).
I really hope this sets an example for other CEOs and executives. It is not just about the money but about the gesture that says a lot about how much a company really cares about its employees.
From the announcement: "... we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps."

Support is not "development" if you are just fixing outstanding issues, that's "maintenance".
Awesome. It is refreshing to see companies not only stand up to the trolls but to actually win. We need more of this.
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you misunderstood me.

The /Application folder itself is owned by root:

achilles /$ ls -ld Applications/
drwxrwxr-x+ 55 root admin 1870 Jul 20 06:54 Applications/

But that wasn't what I meant. I meant /Applications/Postgres.app. That is owned by the user who installs it to /Applications. Here it is on my machine, for example:

achilles /$ ls -ld Applications/Postgres.app/
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 achilles staff 102 Jul 18 20:17 Applications/Postgres.app/

Beyond that, you can login (with no password), this way:

achilles /$ /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/psql
psql (9.1.4)
Type "help" for help.

achilles=#

I'm sure it works because I just did it. The setup is arguably insecure, but again I don't think it's meant to be a production database. It's meant, as I understand it, for a single developer to use while coding.
Good point. Asus manages to fit a 1920x1080 screen in the same size.
Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future of news
> In a free-for-all I'd have to put in the effort of peer reviewing every paper I read.

You seem to be criticizing a straw man. Nobody is suggesting that peer review should stop. We're suggesting that there's no longer any reason to link peer review with publication and access.

The real value is added by the reviewers and the authors, and they can keep on providing that value the same as always. It's the publisher who has become nearly superfluous, yet it's the publisher who charges boatloads of money for access.
git add -p
git commmit
git stash
build && test
git stash pop
rinse && wash && repeat
It is said that programming language is just a tool, so you shouldn't stick to any particular language, and be flexible.
Paradoxically this is the reason why I want to stick to particular modern language, such as Clojure.
As programming language is just a tool, I don't want to suffer from a tool originated problem, and if possible, I don't want to spend a lot of time to learn several languages.
Almost certainly, Clojure is one of the most modern languages, and it let me focus on solving problem.
I don't really know how much of a model it is. Usually it points to a type A CEO who won't give up responsibilities as the business grows.
A framework for real-time, mobile presentations
Hi Hacker News, I am a long time reader and first time contributor - I have just started learning to code and evemi is my first attempt at building both a website and a startup.. I think it is pretty cool but would love to have a couple of beta testers from here to give me some good feedback and advice.
Look at history: The Digg v4 rewrite was catastrophic. Not in that it didn't work (it was quite elegant engineering wise e.g. Cassandra-powered Digg buttons) but in that it took a really long time and when it was finally ready it was already behind.
Me as well, no mobile phone at all actually. But I just made decision to buy a WIFI only smartphone (meaning an Ipod Touch or Galaxy player) since I am connected 12 out my 16 waking hours. The rest of the time (driving, reading, relaxing) it's probably best I stay disconnected.
Yes, it seems to produce things that look like the noise that is accidentally marked as faces in current software.

Which could be kind of neat actually... you could train it to look for Jesus for instance.
> I like the example of Mother Theresa. Whatever you think of her work, she was tremendously devoted and dedicated to her religion. And yet, when her letters and diaries were published following her death, they revealed an immense uncertainty about her faith.

This is a really bad example, as she believed that those in suffering should be denied access to medication, particularly pain relieving medication. It could be argued that she should have felt bad and uncertain in making active decisions to allow others to suffer.
I think the heading regarding people one might socialize with needs fleshing out. Firstly, something-something-something-etc about mirror neurons; less cheekily: we're all heavily impressionable people. -- I highly doubt the problem is as straight-forward as others directly, or perhaps persuasively?, claiming one is a failure. The problem likely is that the people one may socialize with are limited, first off, by the economic categories of industrial-capitalism: they whine about their day, their job, lost objects, their ex, that so-and-so died -- they fill one's mind with trivial, largely distinctly particular statements that cannot be used to develop a theory, in the most general sense. It is the "intuitive" level of socialization limited by the economic-social categories of industrial-capitalism.

They _reflect_ failure, express it, and as impressionable people we are always subject to thought-patterns which compel us to ruminate, rather than problem-solve.
first edit: take it or leave it

I have a "zero tolerance approach" should be: I have a "zero tolerance" approach.

your third edit, which I also don't agree with, isn't quite right, it should be: people who mix up "its" and "it's".

fourth edit: I've always hated this jamming of words together with an em-dash: it appears that "job" and "even" have something to do with each other, but they don't.
The Anime weeaboo japenese 13 year old female furries/biochemical engineers/lawyers.
I quite like being able to answer email when I'm in a railway tunnel, on a transatlantic flight or in a 3G dead zone.

Desktop software is quite useful if you haven't bought into all the post-PC hoopla and still like typing things on a keyboard.
The Man Who is Literally Shaping The Ouya Device is Answering Your Questions Now
Google is essentially lobbying against actual mail clients. They think gmail is all you need. They'll just buy anyone who disagrees :-P