skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the cameras, but I would imagine Facebook and Google's tech + data to be able to positively identify 99% or more of the people. Especially with multiple shots per person. Accuracy might be as high as 99.9% if you have drones go over the crowds, and have high res cameras at chokepoints.
Correlate this with cell phone data and probably they have 100% accuracy. There is a reason Google Fi exists.

I say all this as a happy Google User and a developer of Face Recognition Technology. Those in the know realized privacy has been dead for awhile now. Generally computers can do most anything we can do in say 200 ms or less with the proper training data, and they generally do it better than humans. The giants have all the data they need, they just need to spend time annotating training sets and running analysis over larger and larger sets until they reach super human performance.
Once a criminal, always a criminal... even if you get it expunged from your record?
Because they need the manufactures to put the radio in everything. If the radio is cheap enough everybody will have it by default so it is a no brainer for a large number of people to subscribe and use it. If the it isn't installed by default everywhere that shuts out a lot of potential market.
We now have a cure for HCV, relapsing blood cancers, genetic forms of blindness, blood clotting disorders (in a year or two). I can give you more examples if you have trouble finding them.

And yes, the companies are giving a monopoly on one drug which allows competitors to create others similar to it. And the patent only gives about a decade of monopoly, after which the price drops to ~10% of what it was.
> It seems to me that there is an absolute right to access factual historical information.

I agree. However people are lazy and subjective and settle with bits of incomplete information either outdated, out of context, or even wrong.
It is not cheap by any measure. Previously it was too overpriced and now its overpriced.
And you'd need to handle accessibility considerations, and font and encoding support, and a flexible layout engine, and multiple input methods, and scrolling, and search engine standardization, and more all yourself.

By the time you handle most of it, all you've done is make a wildly more complicated version of the DOM.
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of phrenology-level discourse we have on this site.
CasparCG at BBC Scotland
Awesome, self hosted!
A judge heard the case for two individuals. That's a pretty fair way to do it. Americans also believe in the rule of law, versus the rule of the powerful.
Or may be for now.
The whole show is based on it, but that (sub)plot starts coming together at the end of season 1 and from season 2 it's almost always on the forefront.
Quote from Dave Chappelle: "I say this with no disrespect. We’re all Americans, and we can all agree that America has a huge body count all over the world, but nowhere more than Asia. Literally, if you look at history recently, we have bombed the masculinity out of an entire continent. We have dropped two atomic bombs on fuckin’ Japan and they’ve been drawing Hello Kitty and shit ever since."
Much like the current Intel architecture is amd64, "ppc64" or "ppc64le" (for little-endian) is the name of the architecture, even for current POWER products.
So the fact that Go provides no solid dependency management solution is "personal opinion"?

If everyone followed this approach, we would never have ended up with amazing languages like Rust. Why try to improve C++ if you can build cool stuff with it, right?
Assuming gmail and g-suite share technology, I doubt any enterprise customers would be comfortable with the content of the email actually being purged. I'd guess there is some backdoor for corporate compliance and auditing reasons.

I also don't see any reason you couldn't build a bot that grabs these for you to keep via the gmail add on api.
> He said that in the beginning they had huge issues because they could not order servers fast enough for the demand.

We had the exact same problems in the beginning of Camarades.com, before the wankers found out about it. It's amazing how for nearly 6 months it was just 'nice people' and after that it went downhill rapidly.

We found out that hard way that 3 weeks lead time on a batch of servers only looks good if you don't double in size every two weeks or so :)

One Dell server we ordered didn't even make it to production, it was way too small by the time it arrived so they took it back and shipped us a much larger one. That's also roughly around the time that we figured out that it is much cheaper to have one large server to do all the writes and a bunch of slaves that do all the reads from local copies.

Of course a modern day server would laugh at serving up dynamic pages to a few hundred thousand people per day but in the late 90's that was quite a challenge.
Google is claiming to be acting in the interests of the public without the same mechanisms accessible to the public for moderating how this ability is used. Today Google can cite public interest, but it is just aligned and not acting purely on the public's interest. Like Facebook holding all user data forever, Google will definitely want to hold all data forever because someone it might make shareholders money.
I think that's the rub - if w3c wants to "document" what a browser conforms to - I imagine it will be a copy-paste from what the browser vendors are doing in their separate meetings of the minds.
Email is doomed either way. The standard is indefinitely stuck in "IE6" mode, where there's few if any improvements, updates, or fixes. Everyone time anyone suggests significant improvements one of the big players (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, etc) says no and it stalls.

If email gets a "HTML5"-like major refresh at some point then I'd be proven wrong but that hasn't happened yet in my lifetime. Microsoft in particular between Outlook.com, 365, and Exchange/Outlook Desktop are a major hindrance to any advancement.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...
And when you run out of patients to cure, just start making up new diseases to treat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul...

> Genital herpes simplex was not always stigmatised. It was merely a cold sore in an unusual place until the 1970s. As late as 1975, a study of "Psychological morbidity in a clinic for sexually transmitted disease" does not mention herpes simplex because at that time, no significant morbidity problem (i.e. mental anxiety or illness) was associated with the virus.

> Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir (Zovirax), marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the 'normal cold sore' from the 'stigmatized genital infection' was to become the key to marketing the drug, a process now known as 'disease mongering'.

> Since the creation of the herpes hype, some people experience negative feelings related to the condition following diagnosis, in particular if they have acquired the genital form of the disease. Feelings can include depression, fear of rejection, feelings of isolation, fear of being found out, and self-destructive feelings. These feelings usually lessen over time. Much of the hysteria and stigma surrounding herpes stems from a media campaign beginning in the late 1970s and peaking in the early 1980s. Multiple articles were worded in fear-mongering and anxiety-provoking terminology, such as the now-ubiquitous "attacks", "outbreaks", "victims", and "sufferers". At one point, the term "herpetic" even entered the popular lexicon. The articles were published by Reader's Digest, U.S. News, and Time magazine, among others. A made-for-TV movie was named Intimate Agony. The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982, forever stigmatizing the word in the public mind
Get older.
You should never reach that stage where you feel like you are burned out. Then you are doing it wrong.

Slow down. Let things take time. Learn to say things took longer than planned. People who are not devs will not understand why you need rest sometimes.
Unless you follow browser or specification development you are unlikely to know about WHATWG.

In talking to teachers and web developers few know about the difference between the W3C and WHATWG. The W3C still has the mindshare lead.
I think its prudent here to try to separate out innovation vs state backed and protected interests.

Although I do agree there are some eastern sentiments that are driving some interesting innovation.

Wired documentary on Shenzens rise: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
No, the article covers this.

The recipient receives a link instead to the content.
Just another guy speaking subjectively of something he barely know.
All these pensions are going to be wiped out soon in the coming run. Most funds currently assume 7% to 8% future rates of return but the ability to generate returns like that have been impossible for a long, long time now. To compensate for low returns, pension funds have dumped money into stocks, private equity funds and illiquid and very risky investments, like subprime auto loan securities and commercial real estate. Some pension funds have as much as 20% of their assets in private equity. When the stock market inevitably crashes a little, it will wipe pensions out. Then politicians will be forced to admit there's a problem, and everybody is going to immediately do a run on their pensions to try and cash them out. For anybody who doesn't know if your job offers a pension scheme and you quit before retirement, you are paid out a lump (taxable) sum. There's no way these states like CT or NY with massive unfunded liabilities can afford 20%+ of their employees trying to cash the pensions.

The International Forum of the America's holds an annual pension conference where the data on the coming run on public sector pensions can be found, such as all the risky investments to make up for poor returns. Interestingly, private sector pension schemes are fine.
I'd really, really like to see Namecoin succeed. It's not gained wide adoption to this point but it's not a dead technology.

Further, it can be integrated well within the current DNS infrastructure - granted, without the censorship/security protections offered by the natively decentralized nature of running a full node yourself. There's absolutely no reason a DNS server couldn't maintain a list of entries for .bit domains.
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I don't think Mobile Safari has push notification support yet.
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I've seen:

- The program can only be compiled in a particular Eclipse environment, that is copied from one machine to the other. Every attempt to replicate the environment from a plain Eclipse installation fails.

- Building the program depends on specific versions of system executables. Those versions are long outdated.

- The program depends on specific and very complex system settings for building and running. Those are comparable in size to the source code.

And I mostly do not work with legacy systems.

EDIT: Oh, and there is the obligatory "90% of the executable source lives on the database" kind.
Yet we have a ton of breakthrough drugs coming to market, most of which were created by private companies.
If you've never heard of direct marketing, you're in for a big surprise.
It's possible at some companies by default. And even if you think it isn't, it may be possible at your employer too, if you ask.

Replacing existing employees is expensive. You understand the code, the business, the processes, the knowledge network (who knows what), etc.. Hiring someone straight off the street to replace you, even if they on paper have same technical skills, is a huge cost.

Thus, given a rational manager, if you are willing to quit your job over this you have a lot of leverage.

You can make your negotiating position even stronger by:

1. Living below your means, so you have lots of savings in the bank.

2. Getting a job offer you're willing to accept that does have this benefit, then going to your employer and asking them to counter it.

3. Pointing out the ways this will benefit your employer.

There's a couple chapters about this in my book, The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/), but it's similar negotiating dynamic to part-time job, except much easier to get, so this blog post may also be relevant: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
...are they wrong about this?

It feels very much like a "shoot the messenger" response. GS isn't saying this is a good outcome, or even that gene therapy companies don't deserve investment. They're just claiming that the existing revenue model for drug companies won't lead to success here. The obvious defense of that claim is "if it's true, saying it isn't a sin".

I mean, I'm not sure Goldman is intending to make an argument for public healthcare and state-funded medical R&D, but in practice that's what this is.
Yeah, no. You wouldn't have only 1 out of 100 drugs actually making it to market if companies knew which ones would work and which ones wouldn't.
That is fascinating. Would love to read more about how this is determined and applied.

To me a big issue is, does this drug cure a condition or merely treat and contain it...?
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yeah, some of this is fluff like the "block youtube, make youku" stuff. but there is some genuine innovation, and i'm glad for increased supports for start-ups in asia in general
Imagine a corporate AI trained with empathetic traits as its primary goal and with its secondary goal, profits. I wonder if it would decide vaporizing certain individuals at Goldman Sachs would be more empathetic overall to humanity while improving their corporate image and stock evaluation.
The security model for service workers looks interesting. Will other browsers do similar things?

"A service worker registered by an example.com iframe inside a webkit.org page will be able to communicate to all service workers and clients that share the same (webkit.org, example.com) partition, but not to any other example.com or webkit.org client. A network load made by a (webkit.org, example.com) service worker will use the same cookies as if the network load was made in an example.com frame embedded in a webkit.org page. Similarly, private browsing mode is enforced in a service worker by partitioning service workers according the browsing session."

https://webkit.org/blog/8090/workers-at-your-service/
I don’t think it’s fair to say they ignored advances in modern programming languages. There are opinionated reasons for the omission of generics and they do make sense in the overall architecture of the language. At the end of the day it’s about trade offs and ultimately my opinion is that, having written a lot of both C# and Go, I can see the pros and cons of feature sets. Its about choice of tool for the solution in mind. I’m happy with that.
Buffering channels doesn't avoid deadlocks. As I understand it: buffering is a performance feature; if your code isn't correct without buffered channels, it isn't correct.
It seems to me that there is an absolute right to access factual historical information.

This isn't a comment about the case, or the right to be forgotten, but something quite important nonetheless - Google's search results are not "factual historical information". They're an index of webpages that anyone and everyone can create, saying whatever they like. Google claims their engine ranks pages that more reputable higher than others, but without any transparency around that we can't know whether or not we agree with it's decisions.
If this is the case, then the government should pass laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of criminal record. Instead they've passed the puck (rather badly) to Google.

And it's not like Google is the only way to find things. Should newspapers be required to delete pages about an individual or destroy print copies? What about other search engines such as Yandex or Baidu? Of course anyone could just search on Google.com, too.

Mankind has done perfectly well without a "right to be forgotten" for hundreds of thousands of years.
Start a business. No better way force personal growth than put yourself in harms way ;)
I didn't realize it was released
I think most modern programmers prefer explicit destructuring and taking an element from a collection by its key rather than excplicitly traveling node links using car and cadr. The 'original' lisp has some really arbitrary naming conventions. Languages are cognitive tools and as such they should be able to evolve, rather than dogmatically stick to a specific formulation laid down in the formative years of a field.

It does not manner how you name your tokens or how you choose to destruct your data structures. It's still lisp.
You really, really have your data wrong. Obviously you have a cliché-type idea of what Mexico it's.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/people-mexico-show-st...
Probably not what you mean, but there's an alternative patch theory implementation as a Haskell library: http://liamoc.net/posts/2015-11-10-patch-theory.html
It’s eye-opening to start a brand new Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or reddit account and view the feed and recommendations they give to a fresh account.

For instance, on Instagram I followed one middle eastern celebrity and my Explore tab became filled with pregnant ladies’ bellies and babies.
Sounds like doctor-as-insurer, financially speaking.
You don't need CPU threads for threads that don't need CPU...
I am a dev, but I am not uniquely qualified to require rest. All humans do.
> My favorite was a guy who was supposedly not able to walk

Isn't this something that the insurance company would be able to confirm by forcing the person to undergo a medical exam? Seems hard to imagine that such a disability can be faked well enough to fool a doctor.
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You might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire there. Be careful. All the consultants I know want to make a product.
> accidents

Engaging in criminal behavior would be negligence, not accidental.

http://justicespeakersinstitute.com/traffic-crashes-theyre-n...
The lysine dependency.
If it was a high-profile case and the screenshot was evidence of a crime, I’m assuming they have people that could weigh in as an expert on doctoring images?
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To be fair, it takes time and money to build the new traffic SpaceX has not been low cost for long enough to enable the new markets. I would suggest if all the new markets had the correct foresight and built their satellites for launch starting now SpaceX would be forced to refuse a lot of customers (probably by raising prices until they are not low cost) since they can't make/reuse rockets fast enough yet.

Note that I specified correct foresight above. I'm confident that some things will be launch on the now cheaper rockets over the next 20 years that turn our to be commercial failures. I don't know which they are though, just that they are. If you have an idea that might work with a cheaper launch you should start building it, but you should start small to prove it can work.
I think the genie's out of the bottle on that one, I can already do the same with a million other services.
Ask HN: Which tools/services do you recommend when building a SaaS?
I think that simply deleting references to information is a crude way to solve this problem. People who want to continue to bias against ex-convicts (like landlords and employers) will use background check services that aren’t regulated here, but the general public will be deprived easy access to information. This seems ripe for abuse, especially for government officials.
I've just stumbled across this - CasparCG is an open source software originally developed by a Swedish TV station to render on screen graphics, and has now grown to quite an involved piece of software.

It's open source, and getting widely adopted. It's very niche, but with a big impact - millions of people see graphics rendered by it every day, but only a few dozen use it.

I've used it in my student days at the student TV station - no budget means free is pretty much the only option, and I thought it was incredible that it's just rendering any HTML to make it look so professional - here my own football client from a couple of years ago [1]. And now the BBC does that same.

[1] https://github.com/xtv-online/football-graphics
A human is multifaceted. In previous decades, disagreeing with a person politically did not disqualify their friendship--today that is increasingly the case. People tend to flandarize real people (that is, reduce them to singular elements) nowadays in a way that makes me skeptical most people would use information on crimes in productive ways. A person should not have to pay for their mistakes years and years after they've paid the price (in this case, jail time).

As a generalization: the push against the right to be forgotten seems like a case of information bias. Does more information really help society make decisions? And even more importantly: how do we, as a society, process information like this in a way where it could be helpful (in the common case)?
What the hell is with the scrolling on that site!
He's an easy reference, shouldn't be surprising that he's used - he's fresh on people's minds, recency effect and all that. When I reference Elon and the companies he's leading, it's not stating an assumption he's doing it alone - I'm simply referencing his thinking style based on the videos I've seen of him speaking. They're big industries too he's disrupting, forcing change and innovation from others/competitors - so that makes him even more prevalent in my mind as well.

Who would you jump to referencing if wanting to include an example of holistic thinking, empathetic person, who is known to work/think/make decisions from founding principles?
> Good hardware generators are based on Johnson–Nyquist resistor noise

No, good hardware random number generators are based on nothing, because there is no existing problem with software random number generators that HW rngs can solve.
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noun informal
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(on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.

Note that it doesn't say anything regarding being devoid of content. You can have clickbaity articles with actual (although questionably useful) content in them.
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