skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is touched on here: http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=46&Sh...

I agree it's interesting, if not very practical for anything.
Efficiency is an issue. You can generate thousands of faces using an algorithm meant for that in a few seconds and this would take lots of computer time to generate just one decent one. Even if pre-rendering you're still paying for all the computer time.
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And? Tidal forces are just an energy source like any other. This is a bit like saying you could use a gasoline powered engine to do the work.
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Glad to see the initiative sharing their notes.

As someone who has worked closely with MIT Faculty I did feel like one of their challenges would be in discussing and iterating on their learnings rapidly (as opposed to focusing on the learning quality them and seeing that they are of academic rigor).
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Sparrow acquired by Google
Sparrow has been acquired by Google
Oh god. I hate this attitude. Respect is a right, not a privilege. Why should anyone have to earn something so basic? Do we also have to earn our privilege to breathe air? We're all equals and equally deserve respect. Yes, even you after you muttered that banality.
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Of course, everyone takes them during the same time, and goes to the same place.
relatedly, there's a little-used rule that lets you use a semi-colon as your list separator if the individual elements contain commas: "My favorite law firms are Dewey, Cheatem & Howe; Robinall, Widowes, & Laffin; and Sue, Grabbitt, & Runne."
I've a feeling the site might go down, if it does here is the text of the announcement-

We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!

We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application. While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.
We had an amazing ride and can't thank you enough.
Full speed ahead!
Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
Haskell, Scheme (a LISP), Erlang, Clojure will all set you straight. What's great is, once you grok one; the others are much easier to get a handle on.
Either could be correct in this case but I'd say "Good ol' boy" is more accurate. "Old boy" network has a more specific meaning (childhood colleagues) vs. "Good ol' boy" which just implies cronyism.
Hey there, I made this. I'm not good with words, I'll definitely give you that. What I tried to say on the page is that you can't/shouldn't (someone has since told me there could be a shady website that might try to charge a card with only a number - this seems unlikely because anyone can generate these as the algorithm is in the public domain but yeah) use these for anything because you just have a random number which happens to validate. You will need more in order to buy anything. I've learnt that the expiration date together with the number can be sufficient, but you usually need a 3 or 4 digit sequence as a confirmation code as well.

As stated there (although as you said, poorly worded), the other use case by "normals" is for things like finding out how much it would cost to ship something from amazon before you actually want to buy etc.

Thanks for the feedback!
I've been following this and giving feedback on the IdeaStorm site for a while now.

A lot of people have the same feedback: Upgrade to ivy bridge, give it 8gb ram, give it a 1600x900 screen.

Until then it's too sub-par to consider my dev machine.
I highly support the idea of learning Scheme first too - particularly with the Little Schemer books!
In my case, I work for a SaaS provider that performs virtual hosting using customer-provided SSL certificates (myservice.customer.com). This puts us in the unenviable position of having to maintain thousands of IP address endpoints, one per customer, along with all the network-related complexity that goes along with it.

SNI would help a lot, but unfortunately it will never be a feature in the SSL client code in Windows XP (which MSIE uses) and so we're stuck with this for the foreseeable future.
Full text of the announcement:

We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired
by Google!

We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did
our best to provide you with the most intuitive and
pleasurable mailing experience.

Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger
vision — one that we think we can better achieve with
Google.

We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users
who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless
feedback and allowed us to build a better mail
application. While we’ll be working on new things at
Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and
provide support for our users.

We had an amazing ride and can't thank you enough.

Full speed ahead!

Dom Leca
CEO
Sparrow
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I've hired last minute applicants, too, so I understand where you're coming from. We are very happy to make exceptions to the policy in situations like that.

We've hired dyslexic people who have worked out brilliantly. Candidates that don't speak English natively are another exception. We try hard to hire people that can speak multiple languages. (I have found that learning a second language usually makes people better at English grammar.)

We don't expect a perfect score on our grammar test, and that test is one of many deciding factors in our hiring process. Just as we test programming candidates for programming competence, we also test them for writing skills. If you can't FizzBuzz, we're not hiring you. If you can't complete a sentence, we're not hiring you. Beyond that, we use a lot of discretion.
A must to try. It changes totally the experience of listening music.
“You see people graduating from top tech schools… and they’re starting companies in internet and mobile,” said Corey Reese, CEO and co-founder at Ness Computing. “They’re not starting companies to enhance the life expectancy, by and large.”

Good for them. Internet and mobile are perfect for the first company you start. Elon Musk's first company was a non-world-changing Internet company (Zip2), but good for him that he started it. I'm sure he learned a ton about building a company, hiring people, etc.
While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.

Here's hoping that that means my Sparrow app isn't going anywhere...
Ah, just bought Sparrow for iOS. Expecting it to go freeware shortly.

edit: Ah, and they're not going to be adding any new features.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/20/3172222/google-buys-sparro...
Does your idea really need a server?
Should we build our religious prayer app?
I would assume this means that Google is going to push even more focus on native app development on the iOS and Mac Platforms. I imagine this was just a talent acquisition.
I bloody well hope they continue development, and it becomes the official desktop/iPhone client. I love Sparrow, and would hate to see it vanish into the "acquired company" ether.
There's an Allan Sherman song ("When I Was a Lad") where one of the rhymes depends on who/whom:

I learned who was going out with whom

And who had the keys to the powder room
Source code, please.
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OK, let's discuss the article in detail. :)

The article lists three reasons for why "JS crypto is bad" at the beginning:

- Secure delivery of Javascript to browsers is a chicken-egg problem.
- Browser Javascript is hostile to cryptography.
- The "view-source" transparency of Javascript is illusory.

The first issue is addressed by using SSL and controlling the page 100%. The third issue becomes a matter of trust, as many users trust closed-source vendors, so in an environment where closed-source vendors are truested (e.g. a typical accounting firm), the third issue becomes not about JS crypto but about vendor reliability.

That leaves the second issue. The article expands it as:

- The prevalence of content-controlled code.
- The malleability of the Javascript runtime.
- The lack of systems programming primitives needed to implement crypto.
- The crushing weight of the installed base of users.

The first and second sub-issues, again, are more or less addressed by using SSL and controlling the page, I believe. One can argue that because JS is so "malleable", it is very easy to add malicious code to a page. Yes, it is easy if you have access to it (via third-party scripts/XSS), but it is _harder_ to infect a JS crypto page that is properly set up than a regular online-banking page, for example, as most online banking pages have links to third-party advertising (often over plain HTTP!). So in the world where people and companies do online banking, the "malleability" does not seem to add a lot of issues.

The third sub-issue is being addressed in HTML5 and/or, via SSL, round-trips to the server (for random seeding, for example).

The fourth issue is, again, not much different from online banking.

In summary, it seems we are using somewhat different criteria of what "secure JS crypto" means. You seem to be saying that storing data in aes.io is less secure than in a truecrypt volume. I agree 100%. But what I am saying is that for an accounting firm that does online banking on a daily basis, using aes.io as opposed to a cloud collaboration service without client-side encryption would probably be a great idea.
Congrats to the team! Well deserved. It's one of the better apps I use daily, both on desktop and mobile. Hope they make it better and don't kill it.
> There have been many choices in grammar that have been decided almost arbitrarily by higher authorities

Just because somebody makes a decree about grammar doesn't mean it'll be widely accepted, any more than an organism obtaining a genetic mutation means it'll become spread throughout the population in subsequent generations.

My point is just that there wasn't any overarching plan. People design their own use of it, but whether or not that becomes popular enough to be considered "the rule" is analogous to natural selection - messy, convoluted, frequently arbitrary, but good enough.
Sparrow App acquired by Google
It's name will just be changed to "Gmail" in the next release, I suspect.
I wondered if the author really expected me to watch this for the rest of my life. Then I switched from my mobile phone to my notebook and noticed a "slight" speed-up.
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The test covers a variety of topics, and you don't need to get anywhere close to a perfect score. And it really covers the basics: misspellings, usage of to vs two, etc. This is about basic communication, not pedantry.
Any idea how much google paid?
But we need an expiration date for testing!
Why not just use the numbers the card issuers provide for testing purposes? Like 4111-1111-1111-1111 for Visa?

http://www.tech-faq.com/test-credit-card-numbers.html
I like the video, and the fact that it includes a relevant summary of what's going on. Lots of viral potential.

I have a hard time getting my arms around the voting thing though. The sad state of the two party system in the US leaves people with little choice.

If people don't vote for Obama, will they vote for Romney instead? Will they try to help Ron Paul win the primary? Will this help to make Gary Johnson more relevant?

I think an appeal that relied on something other than the presidential election might have been more effective due to the poor selection process we're currently stuck with.

I guess while I'm ranting about politics, I might as well say.. "why can't we have runoff voting?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Why is there need for a plugin to do this? Why not use CSS: position: fixed?
Wow. Hopefully this will give Gmail the kick in the pants it needs ... the interface really hasn't changed that much since the early days.

(Well, of course it's been prettified a bit, but besides a few things like Priority Inbox there have been scant few changes to the interaction. And I always liked that using Sparrow felt different to using the Gmail web interface.)
Great to see Google investing in email UX. Sparrow is awesome and bringing the Sparrow UX ideals to Gmail will be a big boost forward.

The Sparrow co-founder and CEO Dom Leca discusses Gmail in some detail here...

Interviewer: Why can’t Google write a mail client for the iPhone that’s worth a crap?

Sparrow CEO: Because they don’t really care about it. I mean, they’re not in the native app business, and all that matters with them is to have an app that is identified as the Gmail app on the iOS App Store for mainstream to use, I think. I mean, they don’t believe at all in native things, which makes sense in relation to the whole company.

Interviewer: Right. So they just, they don’t believe in the native thing, or, they probably could deliver it, but they just don’t want to?

Sparrow CEO: Oh, yeah, of course. They could deliver something I think far better than Sparrow or the application they released, but they’re just not allocating any resources to this because they think it’s irrelevant.

Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/03/15/interview-dom-leca-of-...
> People value things in different ways, it's really a complex equation and you are over simplifying it.

I'm not the one oversimplifying it.
Seems to be pretty widespread :(
If the App Store requires a valid credit card, I'm surprised they don't try to do a preauth for $1.00 or something similar to validate your information. (I'm unfamiliar if this is actually the case as I don't generally use OS X / iOS.)
Conor, Gabriel and the rest of the team are building something really cool here. It really fills a gap in the current offerings.
There's also Lenin's famous line "Who? Whom?", which is a lot harder to translate without a "whom" available....
And the cost will be $0?
I take the Steiner view on this Free Will thing. Yes, if you're looking at other people, you can't know whether they have free will. But when you examine yourself, you do have some level of insight into your own thought processes. How much freedom you have does largely depend on how much insight you have, but the point is, the difference between a mechanical process happening without your awareness, and our will, is that in the latter case, we can observe it, think about it, and change it.

That's Free Will. The fact that there are subconscious influences is almost irrelevant. The important aspect is that it is self-reflective, able to understand and change itself.
Ugh.
Say hi to Aardvark (and Dodgeball, and Jaiku) for me.
Hopefully they're also not using Google's definition of 'support.'
Great acquisition by Google. Will help Google in stream lining it's iPhone and iPad app offering.

I believe now, Sparrow will be a free product :)
This is a good post all about using PG Schemas and Rails/ActiveRecord. Ideas could be adapted for Django, etc.

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2011/07/building-multi-tenant-rai...
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Regarding the use of LXC, I presume since it is a container you're still on the same version/release as the host which in this case is Ubuntu 12.04? So this is the new open-source lock in?

When is someone going to create a tiny gui-less linux distro meant for purposes like this (local and uploaded to your hosting provider) which can then run in KVM and company? And by tiny, I don't mean Debian minimal or an equivalent Fedora. I mean a default size of probably 50MB and not much more for your choice of localization/i18n. Then simple package management to install your language platform and database support.
You've moved the goalposts.

You ask people to use your service because it is more trustworthy than others because it uses (presumably) AES encryption.

Then, when it's pointed out that your service is no more secure than any other service, in that all these services rely entirely on a promise by their operators not to breach privacy, you say "well that's no worse than any other service".

Now, I think there are a bunch of ways in which services like this are worse than other services. But I don't think I need to make that case, because, more importantly, they're not any better.
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Also if you go back an read his early stuff during the Bush administration, you can add hater of muslims to the list as well.
Sparrow gets acquired by Google
they have their place. i saw a lovely translation recently of a french request to "tutoyer" (address in the familiar) as "i must be thee to thou".
Yes Chas, you're definitely no stranger in the Clojure community :) (I watched your O'reilly webcast btw).

I'm not saying that Clojure should address a narrow problem but if we look back at the history of Java, it offers a few "real" improvement over C++ such as garbage collection, nice standard library, and the promise of WORA (albeit lots of hiccups here and there). By real I mean something that people can see and immediately take advantage of.

I'm sure there are always going to be alpha-nerds who love to try new programming languages out there (especially the hip ones) but when these people are to write Clojure code or to build Clojure tools, they tend to bring their old habit from the previous language, which in turns make their code look like the previous language as opposed to something totally new, probably refreshing, or even have the potential to blow people's mind.
Sparrow Email Client For Mac And iOS Acquired By Google
Very well designed app, so congrats to them. My only gripe and what's prevented me from using it as my main email app on my phone has been the lack of push notifications. I'm really, really hoping they implement that in an upcoming release.
Lets plan this, and do it in a couple months... Sign up with your availability here:
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My first reaction was - oh fuck. Am I alone.
> the interface really hasn't changed that much since the early days.

And why should it? I haven't used Sparrow, but I have no problems with gmail. How is it different / better?
"He who is unaware of the workings of his own mind is of necessity unhappy." -- Marcus Aurelius
Wow, just learned git add -p

That is fantastically useful.

*(Walks you through "hunks" (finer granularity than files) and asks if you want to stage them.)
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I can't wait unti they bring all of Google's UI/UX power to Sparrow. I'm sick of being able to get to my unread email so quickly.
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I'm with you. Got mine a few days ago and have noticed zero issues like this, even while running games with the tablet flat on a bed.
I hate that book, actually. I started reading it, and I got the impression that it made the point that all you need is a burning desire, and you will succeed.

That is really not what I'm saying. Having a burning desire, convincing yourself that you want to succeed, etc, is by no means a guarantee of success, and implying that people who didn't succeed failed because "they didn't want it hard enough" seems rude, wrong, despicable even.

My point is that negative beliefs will reduce your chances of success (perhaps even to zero), and that fixing those beliefs can give you a higher chance of success.
I have been looking for a piece of open source code that would accept some facial parameters and generate a 2D or 3D rendering of a face or a head.

The degree of flexibility found in, for example, Second Life would be awesome.

Any leads?
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> For example if you have a zero tolerance policy for it's vs its, or for commas making things confusing, the framers of the US Constitution would fail the test.

that's a question of knowing something about history. i wouldn't hire anyone with perfect grammar and style who was too dim to know that both are subject to change over time.
The rebuttals you're making are addressed in the article you're commenting on, in detail.

The problem here is that the core value proposition of services like this one are "you can put your documents here even if you don't trust the operators".

But that, as it turns out, simply isn't true. You are exactly as reliant on the operators of aes.io as you are on the operators of Dropbox.
Mine was "Shit!" so no you're not alone. It was the same reaction I had to Sofa (the guys behind Versions) selling to facebook
ESR was an evil prophet of the dark god Cthullu.

Reading sendmail configs out-loud are believed to summon the evil one and bring about his reign of terror.

So fetchmail is the equivalent of an evil prayer wheel
And it will stop being maintained
"The problem with a simply "fixed" positioned element is that it doesn't react well to a scroll or window resize. In many cases the sidebar will overlap elements such as the footer or content area. Generally this is not the intended effect."
I was hoping for eigen faces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface), but this was cool nonetheless!
Yes, that seems to be the case: "you need to learn it to believe it". And I hope people take their time to learn it because there seems to be a few articles out there with the message of "I picked up Clojure in a few weeks and re-wrote critical piece of my software in 2 days and it works super-scale".

Maybe that's the power of Clojure?

I really think that it will take a few years before a select few (persistent users, not alpha-geeks) from the Clojure community can come up with some sort of breakthrough that replaces today's best practices, whether it is the replacement of the whole OOP/*DD-movement or the way testing is done, or something else, I don't know. But I do believe that this is what needed.
Would be nice to see a port to ChromeOS or as a webapp.
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Like Gabe he had a rather large collection of weapons. The difference is he wouldn't hesitate to use them on those that disagree with his leadership.
Nice idea, it might find some quirk of the face detector though, and exploit that, instead of producing a truly face-like image.

On the other hand, I vaguely recall a talk by VS Ramachandran where he claimed that in essence that's what Picasso and many others did also, i.e., you might see a painting that objectively doesn't strongly resemble a face, but it hits the right spots in your brain's face detector, so your brain says to itself "now that's what I call a face". A bit like how colorful candy triggers "ripe fruit - eat it!".
They had already implemented it, but were using a way of keeping the app running in the background that's reserved for apps that play music or track your GPS location. Apple rejected the app because Sparrow was neither.
I've always seen prayer as personal relationship with God, not one to be turned into a popularity contest. Putting prayer into social media kind of sickens me.

If you want to channel good will and enter into a conversation with God about an issue by way of prayer then you should do so fully committed.

You should not be able to touch a button and 'upvote' a prayer by a stranger who has tugged at your heartstrings from only a glance. That is shallow and lacking in love.

God's grace may cover many things, but this? I think not.
At least he's enjoying his time in the spotlight.