skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two danish sailors picked her up while drunk in a rental car, one of them got off to the ship and the other drove away with her and was not seen until the next morning when he returned the car with a large odometer reading.

Her body was eventually found naked and battered in a distant location, and the rental had forensic sings of having been cleaned of her blood. The sailor was recorded buying cleaning products at the same time, his DNA was found on her discarded clothes and her driving license was found in his cabin on the ship (along with a few pounds of hashish). A truly disturbed individual that tried to pin the murder on his colleague up until the very end.
Ask HN: Would a self-aware AI be able to spot a buffer overflow in itself?
Fuck sake!
"semi-infinite"? Seriously?
I wonder how long it will be before this non-profit is bought out by a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company and that drug price magically skyrockets.
This is what I did when upgrading last year - bought a used one on eBay (which is a first for me - normally buy them new) - 2015 15" fully maxed out (fastest i7, 16GB, 1TB) and including the GPU, so it basically benchmarks only slightly slower than the top of the line current model.

I already had a TB2 hub and other TB2 peripherals and extra MagSafe 2 power supplies, so no additional investment in adapters, etc.

The kicker was the unit I bought has been purchased less than a year before I got it, so it was still eligible for AppleCare (you can check this w/ the serial number that most reputable eBay vendors provide). The time has probably passed for this, although you could still get a unit where someone else has already gotten it.

All in was US$ 2,050 including AppleCare
Opera had the "draconical" approach, where upon the error you just had that, an error. Firefox, iirc had a softer approach where you still got the page rendered, but you'd get the error reported too. Anyway it all depended on the proper MIME type for the XTHML (as it should). However the whole MIME type and everything associated with it (some elements and APIs are treated differently) is a whole barrel of worms, so XHTML in any of the incarnations was never a good idea.
> Oh? How many tools do you know that can parse a current HTML5 react app without importing any existing browser?

I don't recall XHTML deprecating JavaScript- pray tell, how would you render the XHTML version of a react app without a browser, or a JS engine as a bare minimum? (X)HTML is orthogonal to Js/react.

I could develop a self-driving car for $50 000 (instead of millions) if human drivers and pedestrians started behaving in well-defined patterns, following strict rules and stopped doing stupid, unexpected things. I'd really love that, but it's not going to happen even though there already are "standards" in the law books.
If it were primarily about providing housing as opposed to monopoly access to land, there wouldn't be a burned out house on the market in the Bay Area currently going for $800k.

The amount of free money yielded in real estate appreciation and rents in California is staggering. It could easily fill any state budget hole if the political will was there to take it from the people who did not earn it and give it to the people who did.
>> Using "money" to talk about value seems to be the hang up, but you haven't said why.

I'm specifically discussing the use of money as a measure of the value of life- not of anything else.

Why is it wrong? Because we use money to set the exchange rate of commodities, but life is not a commodity. For example, all modern societies have laws against slavery, which is precisely treating human lives as goods to be exchanged for money.

Further, money can be hoarded and there are great inequalities in income. If people are worth as much money as they have, the worth of human life will be as unequal as peoples' bank accounts. However, again, all modern societies have laws that recognise any human life is as valuable as any other, at least for the puprose of protecting and taking those lives - e.g. I don't really know that any modern societies have any laws that prohibit the murder of high-income individuals but not of low-income ones.

Finally, you can always make more money, as, to a certain extent, you can always make more of a valuable commodity. Human beings are unique entities- a person is born once, lives once and dies once. In that sense, one person is a distinctly different quantity than one kilo of oranges, one litre of milk, or one karat of gold. It is really not obvious how we can extend the use of a measure of the trade value of goods to the "worth" of human beings.

And by the way, we haven't even begun to define what this "worth" is that money is a measure of (or rather, a proxy). The worth of one kilo of oranges is that they can be eaten. The worth of a person is...?
> It says that the recipient won’t be able to forward email content, copy and paste, download or print the email.

DRM for email? that worked so great for the media industry... No thanks.
You mean, just like in many other languages? According to Wikipedia, French, Icelanding, Spanish, Swedish, and a few more have had varying degrees of prescriptive language standardization.

> Yes, the German language has had several big changes, but until the reform we‘re talking about it was linguistically „proper“ in that the existing language was described and codified. It was bottom up.

I just explained why that wasn’t the case. Many linguists in the past have intentionally invented words (see the ones I mentioned) to make the language simpler, and stricter.

And the same continued until today – the drug store chain Rossmann has been a constant supporter of linguistic prescriptivism, has sponsored groups supporting it, and has been using these concepts in all their published material as well. Many other companies engaged in this as well.

The language has never been defined by the people speaking it, but always by the journalists writing it, the linguists describing it, and the companies influencing it.

And German as a whole was created, as pure fiction, by people trying to publish books across the whole of Germany at a time when everyone spoke local dialects.

At no time has German ever been a bottom-up language – and if we already let our language be influenced and shaped by companies, by media – why not at least use similar influence to make it simpler?

Having a language be simple to use is more important than some fake emotional value of being "natural".
Are there any state governments that have shifted to defined contribution, especially for the politically untouchable judges and police pensions?
There’s also Hackett which provides a Haskell-style type system: https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
Web pages are information held inside containers, not code.

The analogy is a classic example of the "Everything must act like a compiler" fallacy.

There are many situations in which compilation is hopelessly inappropriate as a user model.

Not only is the web one of them, but the hypothetical semantic web is also one of them.

You can't force semantics into compilable tokens. The suggestion that you can - and should - is nonsensical.
Yes but the biggest issue with maintaining "bad code" is it's brittle. You make a change one place and it breaks something else down stream. With a microservice, the invariants are well known and the boundaries are clear. It's easy to know whether you are introducing a breaking change and just create a new version at a different endpoint.
Speaking truth to power! I like it! I so scared of saying that I never understood git and was getting by using only the most basic of the commands. Now Sqlite has called out!
FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts
They still sell shovels. but some times the dirt aka problem is projecting being cool, hip etc.
Susan Kigula: The woman who freed herself and hundreds from death row
- when you're sick

- when the bristles become less stiff (i.e. signs of wear)

- or every 3 months
Should have probably built/tested the comparison systems without SSDs, since the POWER9 had an SAS disk in it.
This is ridiculous

I expect the author and many others don't realize how many very small companies with very small budgets get amazing results from the intelligent targetting options available.

A small landscape company that does snowplowing and can now strictly show ads to the region a single operator can drive and just to "business owners and property managers"

A dog groomer who can target their reasonable physical area and "dog lovers" in Google or those who like specific long haired breed content on Facebook.

A Sports medicine doctor who can target only sports enthusiasts or more explicitly runners.

Business owners are not just large corporations. There are many people who get great value for their money, for their business and support families and their employees by not wasting advertising dollars in mistargeted or untargeted manners.

When we target "users" we are mostly targetting behavior and groups of people with similar demos or behaviors. Most worthwhile networks dont even allow groups of less than 200 to be live campaigns (remarketing/interest based)
>That's not true, while technically true in a legal sense,

That is true in a legal sense. That's why I put "legally" at the beginning.

The point is there are no legal hurdles to overcome for the government. These are the most difficult and this is absolutely true. Legally we have very little if any privacy in public. The only hurdles are technological ones, which automate the inspection of people in public areas. (i.e. facial recognition cameras).

Police can spy on your in your own home legally, if you leave a window open, because you just made that part of your home public. They'll setup across your yard and watch you with telescopic lenses. Police also spy on people in their own homes using IR and thermal cameras, which cannot be defeated easily, and this crosses (leaps) the boundary of your home being private. Apparently the thermal radiation emitted is now public space. I remember this in court, but don't remember the outcome.

I suspect though that when these laws were made, lawmakers didn't anticipate the ease and scope of which automation could make spying. Maybe they'll reconsider, but the police departments have a lot of sway over lawmakers, so I seriously doubt it.

Have no doubt though, police aren't interested in your privacy, they are interested in arrest counts. Privacy laws are an inconvenient burden to their jobs and they will use any methods they can think of to circumvent your privacy rights and argue technicalities in court. They will usually win.

Of course, all of this was enabled with the War on Drugs.
What makes that story (in my link) so compelling to me is that it happened to people who were XHTML advocates. They were the people arguing that browsers should be strict. They were the people writing blogging software The Way It Should Be Done, to ensure maximum XHTML compliance. It was a blog entry that was specifically arguing for strict parsing that it became invalid XHTML due to a bug.

If true believers can make this kind of mistake, how often will it happen to people who are just trying to get work done? People will have bugs in their code sometimes, but what should the failure mode be?
"can't afford" is equivalent to "won't pay".

this totally nullifies the purpose of a advertising based business model.

TV channels i pay for them and still they show advertisement.

i can afford and i pay for them and am ok with negligible nonsense here and there, and am only going to switch to other channels when an advertisement seems to begin.

i am sure 70% ppl are capable of going and finding wat they want. and the rest of them wont buy stuff any ways just because they saw an ad.

May b this whole advertisement caters to those 2 or 3 percent of entire population who are cat on the wall.
He provides a business overview: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/2017-year-in-re... .
I want to find an office that doesn't care when I come in with jeans and a cut-off. I'm a programmer, everyone knows we're not client facing in any clothes.
WhatsApp has lots of clients for the shitty phones poor people use and a ton of Russians use WhatsApp. It's also possible that some implementations of these WhatsApp apps or the phones that host them are hacked, while others are not so it could be less of a binary distinction than one might assume.
Or in many states, use the surplus from pension funds to operate the government, writing an IOU they know future governments won't be able to pay.

Unsurprisingly when the shortfall comes the same politicians who borrowed will be shouting how pensions are unsustainable.

In New York, the pension fund is firewalled from the state budget and run fairly independently.

After the last recession, the pension fund made several changes in conjunction with the unions:

* Ensured the forecasted return estimates were in-line with reality (7%, which it has exceeded in the past decade)

* Introduced a new tier so new employees contribute for their whole career, with contribution rates progressively increasing as you earn more

* Introduced a limit on the final average salary that determines pension payout

* Lengthened the window of final salary calculation and introduced rules preventing large overtime variances counting towards this calculation.

Still a decent pension system if you can vest, but with reasonable expectations set. As a result, NYS is one of the best funded pensions in the country and in the upper 90s% of future funding levels.
Why Myrtle Beach Takes Mini-Golf So Seriously
Serious question: why are the W3C still publishing or trying to publish standards for DOM and HTML and probably a few others, when no one that matters cares about them? Why not rather throw in the towel on those particular standards and acknowledge that the WHATWG has won on them?
Gmail’s new design will include a ‘Confidential Mode’
"move fast and break things". Seriously though, short-sightedness and disregarding externalities like other people's lives is endemic in all areas of life. Sad world we live in.
So what was with your comment about Ubuntu? You seemed to be implying it wasn't a desktop OS but it is. And why are you dismissing FreeBSD, which can perfectly reasonably run on a desktop?
Even assuming everybody in that village knows everybody else to the degree that Facebook knows you, it is at least mutual; ol' Grandma Francine knows I'm foolin' around but I know what Grandma Francine got up to when she was my age and who her daughter's real dad is, too. What private things do you know about the people serving ads to you? Nothing. Yesterday I saw someone on HN discussing their download of info from Facebook, which is supposed to include what advertisers know what, and they found they couldn't even find the advertiser's company name in Google.

And ol' Grandma Francine doesn't scale. Her bad behaviors can't bend the very social fabric of society, nor is she corrupting the public square by abusing her knowledge of the townspeople to sell them things and "nudge" them and manipulate them; Grandma Francine is very talkative but not necessarily that bright, certainly not "we hired every PhD who we could get our hands on and turned them loose with an open expense line to buy hardware with" sorts of smart and manipulative.
By "self-destruct" do you mean stored on a Google server somewhere?
But doesn't that still violate the DMCA that prohibits working around access control technology?
> ... Person of Interest; I highly recommend that show. IMO it's still, to date, the best and most realistic discussion of superhuman artificial intelligence in the popular media.

When did that happen in the show? I vaguely remember some kind of episode about slipping a question to an AI or something. Maybe I should give the show a second chance.
Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts
> You see, if the current nominee Michihito Matsuda happens to earn the most votes during this election, that would make them the world's first AI (Artificial Intelligence) mayor, ushering in a new wave of possibilities for the district.

I understand that 'it' is an inappropriate pronoun when describing people of unidentified gender (although I still find singular 'they' abhorrent) , but an AI is very clearly an 'it'...
My info wasn't leaked-- if it had been, I'm not sure if it would tell you how it was leaked (wether it was you who gave access to "This Is Your Digital Life" or a friend).

If you're actually very curious, all I can think of is you could ask your friends if any of them had their info leaked, and if it was through themselves or a common friend. If you're friends with anyone who gave access to the app, you're part of the bunch.
Agreed. Making microphone input work in iOS Safari was a nightmare. The AudioContext has to be started in response to a tap, but the tap on the permissions dialog to grant microphone access doesn't count.

And, it still doesn't work on iPod Touch, because for some reason Safari there claims it doesn't have a microphone. (It does.)
About one gram every 2 hours.
I never tried to take less than 1 gram since my spoon is dosing at one gram (I take it in powder form).
Uhmm... screenshot the mail; self-destruction circumvented.
The publishers are an enemy of a free Web, and we mus not let them encroach upon our territory without repercussions, or else the next thing we know the Web will look like cable TV.
> In the absence of a desktop toolkit to rule them all

Qt. Runs everywhere, works everywhere, just fine.
What's your best recruiter catchy email ever
(de-identified)

Subject: You're killing me smalls!
Message:
Hey ____!
What is your favorite movie quote ever? ~haha We are the guys in the very back of the room...the ones having a great time and still getting our work done. We care about our customers and we are looking for a Sr. Software Developer/Team Lead to join our team. I realize you are in the _____ area and we are allllllllllllll....alllllllllll the way in _____, IL. (Inserting drama, we aren't that far, same planet) But in case you haven't heard....this is Silicorn Valley. We want to build cool sh...stuff and are looking for unmista-COB-ly, POPetually, A-MAIZE-ING people to add to our team. Conversations are free...let me know if you'd like to connect and hear more.

CORNsider this the uniCORN of opportunities!
____

P.S. If you are looking to work with all the newest technology we are gearing up to architect our 3rd generation that will blow you mind!
P.P.S We have so many talented people from all walks of life working here~Musicians, singers, tilapia farm owners, artists, welders...and more CROPPING up daily!

Response:

____,

I have taken the time to distill out your message. There are a cornucopia of reasons why this opportunity is not something I am able to pursue at this moment despite having familiarity with your industry. It is with sad spirits that I decline. I hope you cornpletely understand.

Best regards.
_____

P.S. Let your manager know that I appreciate your approach.
Seems like people will figure out the screenshot approach pretty quickly here.
can't wait till this is used as an excuse to break SMTP compatability.
You simply don't understand what I have written. I think we can leave it here.

I don't care about your opinion that it's "fake" and "emotional".

Language is a core part of my being, and a fascist power-grab killing my mother tongue is simply a crime against humanity. It's no different from how the Turks have been treating the Kurdish language.

I have only weak hope, but still hope, that we can someday reverse this. Violently or non-violently.
Musk says Tesla will be profitable in third-quarter, fourth-quarter
Awesome Computer Vision
"you must log in first", er no, I deleted my account, I'd still like to know what they shared, is that possible ?
> I wonder if Carp could fair well with a more academic, heavy-processing sector....

Could you expand on this? I'm not sure I understand your comment.
A sign of the times perhaps? It makes sense given the repository, but of course, it does make it challenging to verify the authenticity of the request when, for all we know by looking at the messages, they could be random users.
All I can say is I use

git commit --patch

(and therefore `add --patch` is never even required!)

git checkout --patch

to selectively revert hunks, and

git stash --patch

to selectively stash. I couldn't be happier with this workflow!
A game is a shovel. People don't want to play games, they want to have fun, or disconnect from the real world for a period of time, or they want to connect with their friends. Games enable them to do so.
frankly i think turning sex work into a profession that requires a license to operate with the requirement of being verified to be of age by the state would do far more to cull child exploitation than making a grey market greyer, more underground & dangerous for the workers involved.

make it taxable, zoneable and most importantly, give those involved the ability to find recourse and protection under the law.
Why should I pay for an app?
What a bunch of hype garbage this is. If you send something in plaintext to a server it's already game over.

If Google was serious about privacy it would pgp-encrypt everything so only the client, client-side can decrypt it, just like what protonmail does.

pfff, 'self destructing emails', what a heaping pile of razzle dazzle no-ops that is -- this is more likely subliminal advertisement for the new mission impossible movie.
So it isn't encrypted? That doesn't seem substantially more secure.
Bicycles take over City of London rush hour
I found this comment unintentionally hilarious.
With a population of about 120,000 Reykjavik wouldn't meet most definitions for a large city though.
NFL cheerleaders subject to 'stringent' rules on weight, personal attire
Please, let's not "disrupt" the email: it's so beautiful because it's so standard. For example, google's dot rules already (ko.me@gmail.com = kome@gmail.com) make no sense and break many applications: they need to stop.

I like innovation, but to innovate email wouldn't be better to innovate in a slow and consensual way using RFC after RFC, at least in the case of email?
That seems controversial considering all the people who found the opposite.

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/00346530055...
Wow, these are some great resources. Thanks for sharing! I have a call with one of your colleagues in 5 minutes ;)
Really well done. The lang design, the docs: intend is clear in every case and very on point.

I've never been a fan of lisps, but that has more to do with the common lack of strong typing discipline, than that it was a syntax issue. Currently I'm using Haskell a lot.

But this lisp is a breath of fresh air to my type-loving brain.

Maybe I've overlooked them, but what about higher kinded types and reflecting purity at type level? Are they not-in-and-never-will-be-by-design, or maybe-if-someone-implements, or on-the-road-map?
>Yes, we should also start calling black people a term they used to be called because it used to be okay.

Actually we're not all US-based here, and we don't have any historical baggage with our black people like that.

Plus, instead of worrying about words, maybe people should focus on stopping cop shootings, mass incarcerations, red-lining and other, non-trivial matters, affecting black people?

And yes, one does preclude the other. One is hypocritical theater, the other is actual change -- opportunity costs and all.

>What kind of insignificant life does someone have to lead to have the time or energy to question a small change in vocabulary that relates to respecting another's preferences?

There was no "respecting another's preferences". It was mostly due to people having insignificant lives (sic) and compensating by being worried about words on behalf of another. Nobody actually asked the Chinese...
Honest headline:

Google is allowing you to hide emails from its public interface after a specific amount of time.