skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds troubling and it's a little disappointing to see comments suggesting "factory resets before travel" or "dual booting". These are not things anyone really wants to have to do.

Also, this issue raises some more questions:

1) It sounds like they might use a device to scan your hardware automatically, potentially opening the door to copying files for permanent record

2) It is a small step from here to install tracking software on your device (as China is doing in some places)
this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/geancn...

does a nice job of highlighting new comments since your last view.
I don't like to double post, however after skimming parts of the linked PDF, it turns out that the style of optical scanners you are talking about are actually in there.

One of the models (the ES&S M650) might be the actual scanners you are talking about, and that model has a number of terrifying vulnerabilities!
I found CLRS to be far too verbose for my liking. Skiena was as you said. My favourite is Sedgewick. More terse than CLRS; doesn't drone on and on and on.
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Or even iOS. Just downloading all the apps takes many hours on a fast connection. Restoring 2FA is also a PITA
An idea to combat hiring discrimination
So I just read this.. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/01/physics-was-built-by-men-cern-scientist-alessandro-strumia-remark-sparks-fury .. and it got me thinking about hiring discrimination.

It seems to be an issue in almost every workplace. People are getting discriminated against, others and railing against the measures taken to try and achieve equality.

I just had an idea that could achieve truly merit based hiring, that could be applied to STEM and anywhere else...

Carry out interviews anonymously. The people actually doing the interview and making the hiring decision dont learn the applicants name or background. When they talk to them, its text only or using a voice modulator.

They can see their work (with all names or hints at the applicants background redacted) and interview them.. But they never learn any of their personal details..

You could even use fancy technology to do a video interview and capture their mannerisms and facial expressions but project it onto a neutral character.

This is one way I can think of, to try and achieve truly merit based hiring.

I'm serious.. why not do this? Hiring discrimination is a serious problem, and I know this idea seems silly, but if this helps it'd certainly be worth trying out..

Are there any people here prepared to try this out?
I disagree with that, but it's just my opinion. I think artists must move beyond their own taste. A sushi chef doesn't really have to like squid.

I think using your own taste is a crutch. If you get good at it, you should be able to know it's good regardless of your own feelings.

We see this when game developers are shuffled around and work on ones that are completely different from their passion projects. The good ones still excell.
Anecdotally, I've heard of and seen nursing home patients and other elderly people that have seriously altered mental states, with anger and/or disorientation, that recover immediately with antibiotics, where the medical people describe the infection as a UTI. And also in my experience, even once it's repeated a couple times, they can be obtuse about inferring the mental changes are a sign that they should treat with antibiotics.

I've also seen a cancer patient on chemo with symptoms that resemble some forms of psychosis, and of course that is someone who is immuno-compromised and susceptible to opportunistic infections.

So I think that probably syphilis is only one example of an infection that leads to an altered mental state, and there's no reason to assume that because something is treatable with penicillin, that is is necessarily syphilis.
I have been thinking of going back to live in NZ to be a software engineer there, but now... uh, no. Such a shame, as it's a really nice country with very smart people.

Granted, it's been very "totalitarian" when it comes to immigration for a long time. Not that I don't think they have the right to do this, but when I went to live there with my kiwi girlfriend, I had to give them actual copies of letters she and I sent each other and get a chest X-ray to prove that I'm not just taking advantage of their socialized medicine. So this sort of scrutiny isn't totally out of character for NZ, but the digital search is where it gets intolerable.

If NZ wants to innovate on anything or to have more movies filmed there, they'll have to do it mostly by themselves, or pay ass-loads to import skilled workers.

EDIT: I made a correction to a part that probably gave people the wrong impression. This was not meant to claim wrong of NZ. I love NZ, and they have every right. I only take issue with the digital search.
Congratulations. That's great to hear. The eating part is going to be tough, but I figure that would probably be easier with invisalign than braces.
> I mean, you do realize their goal isn't and shouldn't be to make the best content possible, but to make the content that the most people would want to watch and be willing to keep their subscription active for ?

That "shouldn't" is doing a lot of work here, and I don't think the rest of the comment is supporting it. Unless your assumption is "making the most money in the short term is the greatest good," I don't see why you'd think that aiming for a broadly inoffensive mediocrity is something they should do. That sounds like creative failure to me.
Belief is not generally fact based. Going strictly with the facts is an incredibly disciplined thing. Feynman used to play games to keep himself sharp, to avoid fooling himself because as he said, the easiest person to fool is yourself.

With people in general the belief comes first and then you backfill with supporting evidence and argument.

Also we tend to pull our beliefs into our identity. Then a challenge to our beliefs is a challenge to our identity, and very hard to swallow. So it is also difficult but important to keep yourself from identifying yourself by your beliefs.
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a phising attemp that emulates a OS window in html is lame and should have been spoted a mile away. real popups open as tabs to begin with.
> close friends and family

First, not everyone has close friends and family. Second, dysfunctional families and bad friends are absolutely a thing and can even be the cause of problems.

Friends and family can be an important part of rehabilitation, there's no doubt in that, but I don't see a reason to abandon people just because those have failed them, if they even had them available to rely on at all.

> why would one expect a monolithic system to do any better?

Because such systems have the resources available to hire and manage trained professionals. What in particular do you think makes a monolithic system unsuitable for solving the problem of effective rehabilitation?
You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Woz U, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak's $13,200 coding bootcamp, is 'broken,'
Good idea! But check out http://www.interviewing.io it already does this for programming - including voice masking, if you wish...
Monetary inflation affects all goods more or less uniformly

Money being created is like pouring water into a pool - it creates ripples outwards. Eventually, if you stop, yes the surface of the pool will become calm and the pool will be higher. But whilst you're pouring, the volumes are not even.

These days, when the government creates money it doesn't put that money into everyone's bank account overnight. When was the last time you got a cheque from the government labelled "new money"?

Instead the central bank engages in various forms of manipulation, like via the "QE" programmes that involved asset purchases. So, the prices of certain financial assets go up. They also purchase a lot of government bonds, or that money eventually makes its way into corporate debt. And what do governments do with this money, well, they often spend it on things like subsidising mortgages, or subsidising private banks (via bailouts), or healthcare, or education, or paying a large staff of government workers, or buying military hardware, etc.

So you go look at what's gone up in price very fast over the years and hey, look at that, it's the stuff near the centre of the pool. Things that governments tend to subsidise a lot or things that people feel they have to buy regardless of cost, like education, healthcare, homes, etc. The money pouring into the system ends up stacking up in a few places, it's not evenly distributed.
I use the iCloud Backup feature on my iPhone. It does not back up every night. It seems to be every other day or so. Right now, it reports that my phone was last successfully backed up 26.5 hours ago.
Also there could be explosives/drugs and other stuff in Luggage. What is the threat of shit on my phone?
Laws already codify experts' opinion of what should be punishable and how (both legal and domain experts).

The "jury of experts" role wouldn't be to punish "anyway they please" but to what is implied by their choice and description (as experts): to rule in accordance with their domain knowledge. And of course their job would be judged in turn.

If a society can't trust a jury of experts on a domain to clearly and effectively judge issues related to their expertise, then it has bigger problems, and laws wouldn't save it from them.
Alexa says that percentage of visits from a search engine has not dipped significantly. Maybe 15% to 13%.
I take free pass to imply you don't have to do anything. Preferential treatment is more like - this person is good enough to do the job and do it well, and they have a background we want to support so that's an extra positive.

I was once passed over for a job, and I somewhat knew the female candidate who got it. We were equally qualified, and I may have been slightly more experienced. I think it's likely that was preferential treatment (I could be wrong, maybe they just liked her more, maybe it was arbitrary). I think that's awesome. I most definitely wouldn't call it a free pass.
Child exploitation is not true. He was spying people, not especially children.
Law enforcement organizations have exactly zero qualms about simply concocting up cases that serve their political aims.
Digital Materials are an extension of your brain, a window into your files, a key to your bank account and safe deposit box. The government doesn't get to access those, the shouldn't get to access my phone?
Because there is a HUGE difference between the contents of your luggage (some clothes, maybe some souvenirs, etc.) and all of your digital accounts (personal pictures, credit card numbers, access to banking, home address, etc.) I don't really care if the TSA look at my underwear, but I don't want anyone, especially low level employees, having access to every single aspect of my life.
Fair enough, thanks for the correction.
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I have the same issue. I believe that technically my employer could be in violation with some of the contracts we have with some of our government customers.
It... clearly is a debate?

In as much as Climate Change is a debate. Which is to say, it isn't, except for ideological wishful thinking. It's settled science that both nature and nurture are involved in human behavior to some extent. It's only a question as to how much, with a lot of noise generated in popular accounts motivated by ideology.

The political valences you choose to assign to each side of the debate: not so much.

Skewing of politics to the left or right in a given field can cause systemic bias. Both conservative and more open voices need to be heard to avoid groupthink causing the social environments within each field from going off the rails.

You and I have already had discussions about how fields can engage in such behaviors to produce artificial exclusivity and act in ways contrary to facts and their own and society's self interests.
Surreal to be at the CRI / cancer immunotherapy conference while this got announced.
Maybe his talk had more coherency than his slides. I imagine the talk must have been,

"Why does this inequality persist."

"But what if it's not unequal."

"Note this inequality paradox of M theory (dun dun dun what's the M)"

"Women in the field ARE treated equally if they deserve it."

"Women getting into the field don't deserve it."

"Because they are entitled cultural marxists."

"Gender studies is literally the problem."

"Please see these comics which I'm sure you haven't seen on reddit, tumblr, twitter and gab about a hojillion times."
An equivalent example would be giving customs permission to search something private and located somewhere else, such as your house, simply because you're entering the country. This is an obvious and disgusting overreach of authority.
Interesting. I'm almost not too concerned about the look but more so the impact it'll have on my daily life outside of that.
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Alex Tumay has several great video lectures on Youtube on mixing/mastering.
It's got your whole life in there. It's like allowing them to search your house first.
A lot of people here are saying you should just put your data online and then download it later. But should you do this you probably will be using a third party as your host (most people don't host from home even if they should).

In the USA at least under third party doctorine that means none of that data is 'private' anymore and can be accessed without a warrant.

I don't know about NZ but I bet it's the same.
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You might not be part of their target audience!
question: what countries on border entry can demand usernames/passwords to online services?
difference is that if they keep something from my suitcase, I will know. I have no such guarantees when they access my phone unless I see what they are doing.

That means, that you should expect your device and all access tokens on that device compromised.
A few things come to mind... Installing it. Setting up a project. Learning the whole language. Reading other people's code. Understanding how things work behind the scenes. Less surprising code, in the sense that it does what you expect.

I would add, "finding a third-part library", but that was mostly because there were not as many. :) Then again the current glut of libraries is a bit of mixed blessing. I can look for a library that does X and find dozens of them. Very few of them will be mature or do what I want. But that has more to do with the ecosystem than with Python-the-language.
I store information on my phone like my private thoughts, because I know that it’s an encrypted, secured device I always have with me. I wouldn’t store that information on paper — the best analogy is that it’s a backup of parts of my brain.

When you go through customs, they can’t just search your brain. They can search your possessions, but they can’t mind dump you.

That’s the critical distinction. It’s not my property that’s the problem. It’s that it’s an extension of my brain.
Are GANDCRAB and CERBER viruses made by the same devs?
Not to mention, the recently gone bankrupt Telltale, which suffered from decisions that claimed to make a difference to the story, but which really did nothing to the overarching plot (e.g. you choose to save character A instead of B, A is soon killed anyway).
He isn't a 'Cern scientist' - he worked at CERN, not for CERN.

Thus CERN have little, if any, control over what he says.

It's a shame the media can't cover the actual science that takes place there rather than some nutcase creating drama.
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I have set up multiple computers with the option enabled and the time never updates.

Also traveling between time zones with this option enabled, as well as "set time zone automatically" does nothing.

Do you have personal experience with it working? What is it supposed to do?
>There’s a border patrol show on Netflix and they show a few phones being searched. It’s pretty clear it’s not about terrorists and bad people having bad files in the cloud. It’s about people coming on a tourists visa and working. They’d find all sorts of emails talking a out a job.

Yes, those are non-citizens requesting entry. This sounds like it applies to everyone - including NZ citizens.

And regardless, searches need to be proportional.

Full blown cavity/strip searches at random could cut down on the importation of illegal drugs, but civilized countries require a reasonable suspicion for invasive searches.

Why not apply that logic to digital devices?
Well, let me downgrade a bit... how about a book about great apes, another one about old-world monkeys etc?
Will I be given an executive producer credit and residuals for my creative input in the choice of the ending?

I’m not doing your job for you for free, Netflix. >:|
Nice work! I would love it if we could get something like a codepen.io for this language, so we could share and debug code with people learning to program.
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