skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a LOT of "appropriated" viral code in our own DNA:
"Reverse-transcribed RNA molecules compose a significant portion of the human genome. Many of these RNA molecules were retrovirus genomes either infecting germline cells or having done so in a previous generation but retaining transcriptional activity. This mechanism itself accounts for a quarter of the genomic sequence information of mammals for which there is data."[1]

But that they are now part of us and when they are activated it's not some virus waking up but parts of viruses that we have adapted into doing useful things for out cells.

Viruses can cause significant changes in gene networks (for example oncoviruses usually suppress tumor-suppressing proteins [2] which dramatically affects things downstream), but the changes are not as holistic as I think you are describing them.

Yes point mutations (and viruses) can derail neural networks and that can have far-reaching consequences, but I think these things are accidental in both cases and not some virus plan as I felt you were arguing.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136952741...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus
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Indeed. It's been a few months I have been looking around for this sort of honeypot booting system, with no results!
> It may just be me, but I have a feeling that Dutch startups have a tendency to focus on the Netherlands first, and either don’t feel the need to go global or just fail to do so.

That leaves the more interesting question: why is The Netherlands different from Sweden in this regard? My impression was that The Netherlands, if anything, is more internationally-focused.

> Also, compensation. The Netherlands has a lot of good people, but they’ll leave for greener pastures.

Does Sweden pay better, taking into account cost of living? And if so, why?

(not disagreeing, btw, just more questions)
Salt Fat Acid Heat is another great cooking theory textbook. Amazing writing and the lessons can apply to any meal you'll ever make.
IMO it's the breadth and depth that is possible with our digital property. It's one thing to search the digital equivalent of some luggage (maybe the contents of a cellphone) and another thing entirely to be able to search through the entirety of one's digital property, which I see as the digital equivalent of authorities searching through your home, your car, and any other property you might own.
Fast forward: from identifying market niche to first 15 customers
I'm by no means an expert, so I'll definitely bear with you. But your hypothesis more or less matches mine. I do think you underestimate the amount of sexism men experience in nursing and child-education.

Now my problem is that gender ratio is the key metric we seem to be using to measure sexism in STEM fields, and I don't think any policy is going to fix that. We can try and mitigate cultural expectations, but if those cultural expectations are grounded on intrinsic interests, we're going to have a very hard time getting rid of them.

I think you really need to examine your idea that "men bear most of the responsibility". Men always bear most of the responsibility, and that's one of the oldest stereotypes. Men are generally considered to be more responsible for their own actions then women are. I think it's why they get longer prison sentences for the same crime. If you're not an object, you're a subject.

So why do you think men bear most of the responsibility, aside from historical precedent? Are men best situated to fix these problems?

I will note that a lot of new programmers are indian or asian men, which implies to me that tech is pretty good as far as racial discrimination goes. It certainly seems like a welcoming environment for those visable minorities. Or at least more welcoming then most of the alternatives.
>That sounds like willfully evading customs, which is a serious crime.

Do you have any citations or evidence that choosing to back up this line of thinking? I'd love to read more about the specifics of how downloading legal data from the internet suddenly becomes illegal if you could have carried it across the border.

For example, if once in NZ I pull down new music onto my device from my iTunes cloud library to replace what I listened to on the plane, is this "evading customs"?

Please provide citations to the specific law(s) I'm breaking by doing so, and how downloading the legally purchased music would be any different from a PC image.

Thanks!
But that looks awfully suspicious, so they might ask you for passwords to your online social media accounts etc.
I highly doubt a company such as Google or Apple will be doing this themselves into their phone OS.

I could see this happening in a privacy oriented Android image though.
> How do you do this with an Android device without spending hours restoring it?

There are plenty of backup tools available on the internet, this isn't really a problem with Android. Personally that's what I do each time I travel abroad. Both because I might loose my phone/laptop and because on can never be sure what software/content is legal(or not) in this or that country.

Some people got jailed abroad for content/software that would be deemed legal in my home country, on their computer.
The only thing I can think of is to make a full backup of /system, /data (and /sdcard) with something like TWRP, move it to a small, encrypted usb drive (bonus points if the partition on the drive is hidden and there's a legit partition as a decoy). Then you just have to restore from your backup, which you would already have locally. Save the backup elsewhere before you leave home if you don't want to lose everything if the usb drive is lost.

That is all a major pain in the ass and, as others have pointed out here, those that want to do harm are likely already doing this. I wouldn't expect normal folks to be able to do this, nor should they have to in order to preserve privacy.
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>"It is a file-by-file [search] on your phone. We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode," Customs spokesperson Terry Brown said.

They will see my genitals and the genitals of many other people. Not sure how not going accessing my off-phone backups is supposed to be better.

This is a shame, my partner and I have been spending the last couple months seriously considering new Zealand as a new home, after we tire of SF, specifically because we felt that legally it was going down a better path than the USA.
The former, I am looking for a read about why we go on visual management, the good practices, the does and don'ts, etc.
So it is more a HR approach than a data one.
Here take my upvotes :P take them!
You should write a blog post explaining how to set this up in a little more detail.
* Donald Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"

* Jon Kleinberg, Eva Tardos's "Algorithm Design".

* Paul Horowitz's "The Art of Electronics"

* Agner Fog's "Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs": https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

Not a big list, and I've got a lot of textbooks. Knuth's writing style is difficult, its the hardest read I've ever had. But Knuth hits you with the hardest examples as soon as possible, making it very "efficient" reading.

Algorithm Design is clear, concise, and practical.

Art of Electronics is one of the few books that realizes that actual chips and actual specifications are important to electronics designs. It has the unfortunate effect of going obsolete as new chips come out, but its one of the few books that digs into specification sheets and tells you what's important and how to read them.

Agner Fog's microarchitecture was more specific, up-to-date, and understandable if you read it from beginning to end. Agner Fog has a little trick: he starts with the Intel Pentium, and then describes how features were added every generation. (Branch Predicction, Pipelines, out of order, etc. etc)
The worst part is that Hololens is now almost 3 years old and is going to ship a new model next year (rumored)...so Magic Leap is also so so so far behind. Microsoft is smartly pushing Hololens for industrial uses, where Magic Leap plans on military contracts? There is about a 0% chance the military will be using AR in any official capacity in the field for a while.

This kind of reminds me of Leap Motion, which is a very cool tech, but I could never find any practical use for it....at least Leap Motions are cheap.
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Well actually it's not just a CRT, it's a magnetic deflection CRT picture tube.

There were much earlier and simpler CRT's in commercial production:

http://www.magiceyetubes.com/
Ask HN: Resources about the fundamentals of programming languages?
Hi HN,
what is your favorite book/course to learn about the fundamentals of programming languages?

My goal is to learn more about things like different ways of how to implement the concept of a variable and also the tradeoffs of these concepts. However, I am not so much interested in compiler theory.
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And when I travel, I usually stay at hotels which means crappy internet.
Yes more inane drivel from somebody who know's nothing about application development. The author seems to think that one is LOCKED to one kind of database/datastore for teh entire application. The author most likely does not have the technical expertise to realise this fundamental principal in building large scale applications.
Quincy, what an incredible man.
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Really don't have faith in minority groups do you? Liberals think they have to protect the world. Stop race baiting and virtual signalling - if you're so worried about it go babysit some 'minorities' and be their protector.
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>Generally cursed gems and such are considered cursed for a reason

Even if the gems themselves weren't inherently dangerous, were some not considered cursed due to their value/rarity causing people to kill each other for them?
Using it less to get more perspective outside of the startup bubble
Robbins & Cotran pathology books. There are three versions of the same text textbook ranging from a massive, detailed tome to pocket reference book. We refer to them as "big-," "medium-," and "little-Robbins." I have all three, but "medium Robbins" is my favorite.
Requires root in my (limited) experience. TWRP + Titanium Backup does the trick pretty quickly.
It monetizes. It’s a funnel for the incubator. It’s not run as a charity.
Interesting. Generally, in conversations I've had before, the consensus-don't-stand-out aspect of Dutch (and perhaps moreso Swedish) culture is considered a bad environment for startups.

I don't think our electronic music scene is less commercial though.
I think you're pretty much begging the question now, aren't you? "There's no debate except HOW MUCH genes influence behavior". Well, we pretty much all agree that Downs Syndrome exists, so I think we knew going into this thread that there was some genetic component.

I'm just not interested in your politics, sorry.
Probably nit-picky but I feel it's worth pointing out and it supports your point:

> Over 95% of the citizens have no way of auditing the integrity of the results and have to put blind faith in for-profit corporations who are (1) disincentivized from disclosing flaws and (2) do not suffer penalties when security flaws are found to be present by researchers.

It is WELL UNDER 5%, I would be surprised if quality security engineers constitute 0.1% of the population.
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But don't be completely in denial of aesthetics. Looking good often helps function a lot.
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I think the mentality in general is a lot more conservative, financially speaking.

So also a lot of employees won't take stock options over a bigger pay.

I also think most developers are not in the mood to live like people in SF do - just barely scraping by after accomodation and food. Most people here want to live a good life on their "developer salary" which is already pretty good for Germany in the most cases.
Aye. I now assume "Fulfilled by Amazon" means there's a real chance of counterfeit. If getting the real thing matters, I take my custom elsewhere.
That's still confirmation bias.
That is the same approach used by TrueCrypt (RIP) for it's "hidden volume", to solve pretty much the same problem.

https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/plausible-deniabi...
I see that, so I should be thinking of the use of the phrase "probabilistic programming" to be more analogous to "Nonlinear programming" than to "Functional programming".
So true. I read this article recently about doctors not switching to the newest techniques.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/its-hard-for-docto...]

The interesting thing is that I think the author makes the opposite point of what they were intending.
The tl;dr of the article is that a study came out saying doctors should strictly control blood sugar in
the ICU. It was very slow to gain adoption. Eventually it started to take hold but a new more rigorous
study came out and said this was a bad practice as it was actually causing too many hypoglycemic events
and killing patients. The new recommendation was to not strictly control blood sugar in the ICU. The
author states that doctors are now not switching back to the strategy they had in the first place. It
seems like waiting for a preponderance of evidence might always be the best path forward, especially
doctors and other situations where people's lives are at risk.
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> It’s impossible ... to prove

Not after they subpoena this HN comment. ;)
My issue is with the fine.

Presumably,refusing to submit my phone to search is an criminal offence, the mind bending part is that I can get out of this by paying money to the government. I can see how a terrorist or drug dealer could be happy with this.

This sucks all round
Neither am I a lawyer, but the key part is if you're (a) doing this as a regular security precaution or (b) doing it specifically to evade customs. If it's the latter, it's probably illegal. If it's being done for legal reasons, it's legal.

Twice now you've expressed this belief. Please share some primary sources that inform your beliefs.
Love this. Isn't there also something for Android that presents a "safe" account when you type in a particular passcode?

This regulation is clearly made by people who don't understand the technology and capabilities of these devices. A waste of time and money; who is going to train customs officials to search through phones?
I'd be interested in hearing more about this as well.
It was mostly a neutral, intelligently written article until that last paragraph.

It's as if the author wrote a good article about confirmation bias, and someone jumped in at the last second and said "wait, add a line implying this is all about shitty conservatives so our readers will like it." I wonder if anyone at the New Yorker appreciates the irony.

Only those idiots who disagree with me have cognitive biases.
Xiaomi does this with MIUI's Second Space feature. Different pins or different fingerprints take you to their intended space of the phone