skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's it!

We had been told it was used to nab the Soviet sub, but when I tried to verify that story when writing the above post I only saw pics of the Glomar Explorer, and figured we had been told a tall tale.

Glad to see some deeper research proved out the original story - thanks!
Signed up, and using this! I'm enjoying it.
God dammit. I downloaded this a few days ago and sure enough, I'm infected. What are reasonable mitigation steps to prevent this in the future? I noticed handbrake said it must "install additional codecs" which is mighty odd, but I didn't think much of it at the time.

Is there a security product on OSX that would have prevented this?
Combat it? They could begin by simply not allowing it. They seem to forget who runs these schools, and it's not the students. At least it used to not be. That's a great way to invite disaster. It's not a protagonist/antagonist proposition, but expectations need to be in place from the start. And leadership at places like Middlebury and Berkeley double-checked.
Summary: War is still heck and water is still wet. Author would have preferred millions to die in re-education camps instead of combat.
You're welcome to compile, sign and release your own Mac binaries, and even charge a fee for them if you want in order to cover the costs. It's OSS after all. Or even make a polite request or ticket on the problem. But don't tell OSS devs what to do in a snarky voice.
Fuck the shit-heels that can't deal with ideas that disturb their ideology. Pushing ideas underground isn't all that effective at suppressing them. Even worse is waving their liberal zealotry as some kind of emblem of pride.
It's not Haskell, strictly speaking. There are some weird global state mutations in NixOS (I.e. the pkgs object) that aren't as intuitive as you'd like. Also, the novel file structure makes composing packages that aren't already built to do so quite difficult. Trying to get eclimd to work with emacs and eclipse was a giant pain.
It says "I am submitting too fast"

So I had to create another account to continue the discussion

HN isn't for discussion. It's for writing long and thoughtful statements
Hanno Rein, one of the experts in the field, just published a new algorithm which is exactly time-reversible for floating point numbers. Figure 1 of the paper is pretty incredible:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07715
Please be satire.
I would say he or she should pick up whatever the people close to them use, because that's who they're going to turn to for help first. Yeah, there's a lot of online resources for just about every language and platform out there, so you've got plenty of people in the world who have blogged about X or asked questions about Y on stackoverflow, but ultimately its hard to beat sitting there with someone who walks you through the rough parts like stack traces that are absolutely shit and don't point to the root of the problem in that one out-of-the-way class method, or can point you in a more productive direction when you decide to rewrite a framework you didn't know existed.

Of course, some people learn things better the hard way, but that's what I wish I'd had...
> Right now training speed is the bottle-neck, and even though my Nvidia GPU is fast it is not nearly as fast as I would like it to be. It takes a few days to generate a new net from scratch but I simply don’t think it is responsible to splurge on a 4 GPU machine in order to make this project go faster.

Easy cloud training: https://www.floydhub.com/
I feel like this sentence sums up the opinion presented in the article:

> When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.

Whether you agree with her political stance or not is immaterial. Let's imagine Hitler (or if you like Hitler, imagine someone you think is/was horrible) was giving the speech. And then imagine Hitler writing a post on Medium talking about how terrible it was that he couldn't explain how important genocide was.

Would you feel sorry for him? Or would you tell him that just because he has freedom of speech doesn't mean he's guaranteed a platform to exercise it on a college campus with many students who really hate him?
Social status doesn't make you get bad grades on exams. Being stupid does. You can expect kids with poorer parents to do worse on exams in any place where smart people are better at making money.
Well, being a screenwriter is not necessarily a stable business on of itself. Therefore I would rather go with a one-time payment than staring on their monthly expenses horror show. OTOH you will have to support them endlessly, than again, this won't be that much more of a trouble; I am assuming.

The general advice is: testing. Drive traffic to your landing pages and see which one converts the best. With that I mean: which source of traffic coverts best AND which landing page design works best. HINT: hire a professional copywriter, he will work wonders for you there.

In any case, test and thus find the best performing combo.

You should put some effort into the presentation of your company. Why should anyone trust you with their data? This is a very big question, that you MUST address. (Minor nitpick: I've come across websites of small firms and they didn't even bother to tell in which city they reside. This is of course a form of mindlessness, which told me everything I needed to know to not do business with them. Details matter.)
And, depending on your belief system, perfectly fair, because the winner is determined by a higher power.
There is also a reasonable argument that the use of nukes would have demonstrated the US, being the only power to ever use nuclear weapons in combat until that point and having thus proven willing to continue doing so indiscriminately, to be a much greater threat to the world than the Axis powers were, or the Communist powers at the time.
It's the current topic that wannabe intellectuals have latched onto because it's easy to understand and reason about without actually thinking too hard. It also has the benefit of lending a cheap moral authority. That doesn't mean it doesn't actually deserve examination -- there are some excellent writings on race, gender, etc. that are well worth reading, thinking about, and designing policy after. But by and large the reason you see it everywhere is because it's intellectually fashionable.
Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped? Those of lower socio-economic status. Because those of such status generally engage in higher rates of criminal behavior [1], why is this presumed to be surprising?

It seems to me that the basis of the author's misunderstanding that leads to their surprise is the narrative of wealthy people being more likely to be corrupt on a per capita basis, which clearly runs counter to the statistics which demonstrate those of less economic means committing more crimes per capita.

It also runs counter to the fact that those of greater means have greater scores due to greater means, and thus less likely to need to cheat to have good scores.

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
There's a table with runtime comparisons for a convnet here: https://github.com/ryanjay0/miles-deep/ (GPU CuDNN: 15s, GPU: 19s, CPU: 159s)

(Also written w/ Caffe: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw)
Maybe part of what makes a good family offers is encouragement/tendency to work hard and make good choices?

Worth thinking about what a level playing field really looks like.
Has anyone used 23andme with fake information? If so, how?
As a person who loves Ruby, I would 100% avoid rails at every juncture.

If you want to write business software or "get things done", rails can help you to do things in the rails way.

However, I dont think its good to have a very VERY large set of conventions; you spend most of your time learning those and dont really spend your time solving problems in a way that teaches you about how to think about computing.
Don't bother. You already mentioned an statistic and he dismissed it on the exclusive basis of his arbitrary perspective and then provided less relevant alternatives as a show of his confirmation bias (not actual confirmation).

What this says is that this person is not interested in having a discussion, he just wants people to agree with him and will move the goalpost against any rebuttal of his view provided.
What about creating different users on a MacOS system to do different things? Wouldn't this mitigate exploits like this?

Why shouldn't I create a "Tommy Transcoder" user on my system? That user would have the Handbrake app in his own Application folder. I assume that Handbrake will run correctly without needing to be installed in the system /Applications?

I already do this for a few items of software. Maybe it should be SOP to do this for most/all software?

Or what about installing most apps into virtual machines and using VMWare to run them?

I do recognize that such an approach couldn't be used universally. E.g. VMWare itself must run on the native machine, and with elevated privileges.

I'm interested in "defense in depth". No single technique can defend against all possible exploits.
The behavior on these campuses is exactly why Democrats have lost over 1000 seats nationwide, lost the House, the Senate and the Presidency.

The Democratic party has been getting more and more radical ever since MoveOn.org and the DailyKOS became things. Long time Democrats that I know personally will have nothing to do with the party anymore because the party doesn't hold blatant criminals like ANTIFA accountable and refuses to denounce them.

Sad state of affairs. We're heading towards a single party system simply because one side has completely lost their moderate language. Everyone is Hitler, so now no one is.
In early Mac days I worked at an angel funded startup that was building a graphical programming language called Benjamin. It was amazing, had all the features of a compiled language, but was just too early. Still surprised no one has done anything close since.
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The students are customers. It's a business. If these customers will continue to get themselves into tens of thousands of dollars in debt to pay for something of sometimes questionable value then let them block or have whatever speeches they want.

Of course on principle this is a disgusting form a censorship that could come to bite them on the ass if it continues to be culturally accepted. They seem to forget that things like interracial marriage, or people of color even being allowed onto these schools were once unpopular ideas.

If they continue to create a culture of violence and intimidation against anyone who dares utter unpopular ideas in their vicinity they'll snuff out any hope of future social revolutions from happening. But this seems to be what they want. It's in some ways an ultra-orthodox, conservative, perversion of left wing ideals.
> From the balcony, I saw a petite blonde female walk by, her face covered by a Palestinian head scarf and carrying an amplifier on her back for her bullhorn.

Interesting additional context (scroll down to the part about Urban Outfitters and cultural appropriation): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_keffiyeh.
I think the bodies are disturbed, as opposed to not being disturbed.
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Alternate alternate explanation: wealthier students also stopped cheating, but corruption became even more rampant in the grading stage. A lot of papers were "marked" so that they could be recognized by the graders and given a more favorable grading.

I know people which were a constant 5 at math through high school but which got 9.85 in the exam (1-10 grades at the time).

Teachers preferred corruption to happen in the exam room, since it was the students cheating, than in the grading stage where they were liable.
>It's $100 for the signing and $500 for a Mac Mini. Any professional software developer would make that kind of money in a few days

Sorry but you are living in a bubble. There are thousands of software professionals who don't make that kind of money in India, South America and many other places.
> And with none of the extra weight, complexity, and cost of wings, landing gear etc.

> And that first stage could be reusable based on the SpaceX model.

Do you see a contradiction in these statements?
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I don't follow your last point. Why can't both be true? That seems like a leap. The socioeconomic status can still be the predominant predictor of grades.
Are you suggesting that children in poorer families are born less smart than children from wealthier families?
I've already taught my eight year old that this kind of copy editing issue is a red flag when he is buying pokemon cards on amazon. For a core business service it's a showstopper. Also the website was oddly slow to show me any text.
Thanks for the info. Seems like I was indeed somewhat misinformed.

Learn something new every day.
Did you read the article? Here's the relevant parts:

The most likely culprit, it emerged, was that the "collective" and "petty" forms of corruption, as witnessed by Dr Borcan herself, had a curious effect: they might be paid for chiefly by well-off students bribing invigilators, but everyone benefited. It gave the poorer students "a free ride" to higher marks.

It also meant that when cheating was removed, the academic advantages of wealthier students became even more apparent. Cheating it seemed had provided a kind of levelling effect.

The more correct explanation would seem to be that wealthier students have other advantages - probably along the lines of test preparation, lower stress if it's anything as in the States - which allowed them to retain high performance once cheating was reduced.

I'm not sure from where you're deriving these narratives and counter narratives from.
That's like saying a car wash can save 3 drops of water at the end of the day.
That some might not understand is a poor reason to sentence half the world to slavery and death. Many of the peaceniks of the 50s grew to regret their positions when they found out what was really going on behind the iron curtain.

Remember when Bertrand Russell was advocating a pre-emptive nuclear war to ensure it would be the last nuclear war?
man what a refined piece of pretentious snobbery - finding fault with someone who reads research papers as a hobby. ha.
This guy ...
I quit FB because I wasn't comfortable with the company knowing as much about my network and online behavior as they do about all of their users. I'd suppose the more technical you are, the more this is likely to bother you, but that might be my own confirmation bias.

The peace of mind that came with stepping away from the constant barrage of useless information that I couldn't ignore or make go away to b/c it came from 'friends' was an added bonus.

Now several years later I created a FB account using a false last name and use it only for real-world groups I belong to that rely on FB groups/events features (athletic groups, my CSA, etc). My profile explains that "I only use FB for groups. But we can be friends in real life."
Most news doesn't actually inform us in any meaningful way though.

Here in the U.K. the last three weeks have been endless repetition of media managed slogans and photo opportunities.

There are very real injustices happening in the world - in Syria and in Chechnya for instance - but they're routinely ignored unless you really go looking for them.
The one nuance you are leaving out is that students invited her to speak. If Hitler was invited by students to speak then I would think he needs to be allowed or we have to be honest that we aren't supporting free speech except for ideas we are comfortable with, which is not free speech at all.
Your highly reputable source (appeal to authority) doesn't show what you claim. For the last four years, the percentage of computer-science graduates who were female according to their numbers is:

18.2% 17.7% 18.2% 17.9%

That's pretty darn flat, and pretty darn low. You're the one claiming an uptick. Prove it.

> Do you think there should be 50/50 parity in all professions from mining to nursing?

Of course not (strawman). However, a male:female ratio of 7:2 is a huge disparity. Few fields are so skewed. It's also remarkably inconsistent with other data - e.g. gender ratios in other STEM fields, enrollment rates, quantitative measures of ability. It's too glaring an anomaly to be passed off with a shrug.
Or, you know, they could simply discipline students who have blatantly broken their disciplinary codes. I'm still waiting on a decent explanation of why there were no expulsions after the Dartmouth Black Lives Matter protest last year...
For something like call center agents, as a small business $19.90 is too low a price. I have the same problem with Wordpress hosting. I use wpengine for $50+ per month (I don't recall what we actually pay) because for less money I presume the service provider won't care or have the resources to resolve any problem.
I just use a regular mac book pro. I mostly program, and got used to the trackpad.
I think you're wrong who the customers are and what the product is. The customers are the Dept of Education (and banks) offering low interest loans in return for guaranteed profit. This would stop if they stopped seeing returns. Unless they aren't allowed to consider academic prestige when giving loans, then I'm completely wrong.

Does student censorship affect that directly? Probably not, but students running the school more than teachers certainly could.
ISAF and RS are functions of NATO, not the EU.
You can go even further. Think about how your live would have been if you were born in most of Africa.
Thanks for the ad hominem. You might want to note that the person you're supporting just made a claim that is contrary to their own evidence. Next time, contribute.
Reductio ad Hitlerum

The people being barred, and often assulted, are fairly mainstream conservatives, not nazis.
I see something in common between those birds and the modern western females. We will see soon how well nice look can compete with artificial intelligence for survival.
Have you looked up the incomes of students at Stuy? There are plenty of poor Asians in NYC.
That's the easy answer. I'm thinking an alien ship resting deep in the pacific needed metal materials for repairs. Or a travel souvenir.
Explicit vs implicit is a false dichotomy, or at least, an artificial one. With Projectional Editors you can have either one depending on your needs.
Can't speak for other people, but I'd like to think I don't. I try to let them make a better decision by sharing relevant information, when I have some. My goal is to let them achieve their goal.
i would absolutely defend the right of anyone to express their opinions in public, even if i despise their views. that's the principle of free speech. who decides who is "hitler" in this scenario? who is the ultimate arbiter of acceptable speech? you might agree with them today but you should be incredibly wary of ceding the power to regulate speech to them lest you disagree with them tomorrow.

why is the preference of the protestors more important than the civil rights of the speaker and the preferences of the inviters?

it's alarming to me how common your viewpoint has become.
Maybe we should let the free market decide. Start your own conservative university and spout whatever nonsense you want there. Not giving you a megaphone for your hate is not censorship.
You make a good point. Communist countries tend not to have a lot of obesity.
Shame you're being downvoted, you're absolutely right. I'm one of those many liberals who are done w the party.
Shakespeare once wrote to suspend one's belief in someone's accusations until you ask the accused about them.

The accuser has a lawyerly attention to detail and wrote an interesting story that is sure to bring political outrage, but what does the other side have to say in their defense?
Wealth correlates well with opportunity and choices; students coming from wealthier families can better afford to acquire other compensating controls -- like private tutoring, or simply eating the fail on the exam and relying on social capital and social networks to make up for it after the fact.

The poor can't afford such measures and lack the social connections, so they have no choice to play outside the confines of the system and expect results; they have to obtain the relevant differentiator -- in this case, grades -- leaving some desperate subset among them to resort to the most overt, blatant types of cheating to get ahead.
I enjoyed Jonathan Haidt's lecture from Duke on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8
Nary a consideration of the possibility that poverty and cheating were correlated. "Equality" is euphemism for "the world how I arbitrarily want it--facts be damned."
I wouldn't feel sorry for him, but I'd certainly want to interrogate the psychology of the people who insisted, wailing and screaming, that he be disinvited.

The arguments I've seen on this subject revolve around two poles. One argues that if we give "hateful" (replace hateful with whatever fashionable adjective) speakers a platform, it will "promote," "validate," and "normalize" them. If Hitler gets to give a talk, it "sends the message" that he's a reasonable guy.

The other pole argues, "sunlight is the best disinfectant." If this Hitler guy really is as bad as you say, let him babble without interruption. The more the talks, the more people will realize how crazy he is. And if they don't, have someone sane and reasonable respond to his ideas. The stark contrast will be apparent to the audience.

It seems to me that the first camp always uses such vague language. What on earth does it means to "validate" or "normalize" someone? What does it mean to "send a message?" Who is the recipient of this message? Who is the hypothetical citizen today who will look on the stage, see Hitler there, and think to himself, "Hmm, that man is standing on a stage. That's where the important people stand. Gee, his ideas must be pretty good."? Who is conceivably that dumb, and why should political theory be informed by such a mentality?

As someone who sometimes attends these college talks as a member of the audience, I find it insulting that I should be disallowed to listen to someone on the basis that they are so odiously toxic I have to be protected from them. Can't I just decide for myself?
You've got the analogy wrong.

A better one would be as follows:

"imagine a group of students went around calling anyone they disagree with to be equivalent to Hitler. And then imagine these people went around assaulting, not only these people that they disagree with, but ALSO people who merely support the concept of free speech.
"

You better not walk around campus at night wearing a red hat during these events. You can expect a group of black clad people to smash your head in with baseball bats.
The majority of universities being discussed are government institutions.
Our only two options are dialogue or violence. By suppressing dialogue, you're not leaving people much of a choice over the long term.
Absolutely. Because smart people are better at making money and intelligence is a heritable trait.
The Department of Education is the entity receiving the majority of profit from student loans, not banks.
Everywhere, the majority of people in every field will be of the majority race of that country.

In USA, that is white; where I live, it's latino/hyspanic.

The gender disparity does seem to be widespread, though: For instance, of the 90 students that were accepted for SI in my University, only 10 were women. Of the 30 who ended up graduating, 5 were women.

Funny, that means that women have a higher success ratio, at least in that sample.
> people who disagree with me are Hitler so I am ethically obliged to do anything in my power to stop them