skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was student (1990-1993), there was no firewall. My girlfriend was in another school in Paris (I was in Brest). I used xhtalk to see if she was logged in and chat with her. I could perform a rlogin on any computer of the other school. When I was at her school, I could run programs (like xdvi) remotely by exporting the DISPLAY. The file /etc/passwd contained the hashed passwords and with a simple dictionnary, you could find passwords in minutes.

At that time, the main tools were newsgroups (for information sharing) and xarchie (to find ftp mirrors of free programs). I have used also gopher to find CERT list of vulnerabilities. I have found how to exploit one of them. I have notified the administrator. A couple of weeks latter, this was not fixed, I have setup a permanent root backdoor that was still working one year after my departure.

There were "site" you could connect using telnet. For example igs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Go_server). I remember also a site in australia that was used to find email adress of people from their name and their approximative location.

Using the ping delay, you could know if your communication was going throw a satelite or not.
Link is paywalled. It is talking about this video from ces 2019: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLIBCq5RZo
Incidentally, that's by far the most attractive HTMLification job I've seen on gutenberg.org - working index, italics, small page refs in margin, good fonts, nice-looking para info boxes etc. Usually scanned PDFs/DjVus are an incomparably superior reading experience, but that HTML looks very usable. Well done!
There are a bunch of Kolmogorov essays that might be relevant, judging by their titles.

https://www.turpion.org/php/reference.phtml?journal_id=rm&pa...

Perhaps "On the school definition of identity", Matematika v shkole 1966

* * *

Maybe a Russian speaker wants to go search? There doesn’t seem to be an English translation of most of Kolmogorov’s essays online.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Математика+в+школе+К...
Hasn't this worked via HSAIL for years?
Speaking of corporations: I was a teenager in the mid-90s and one thing that has stuck in my memory is a Coca-Cola truck. It had a website address on it. I'd been using the internet for a few years, but had never seen that happen before. The website probably existed but until now they'd felt no need to let anyone know.

I was too young to think about what it might mean in the long run, but it hinted that perhaps it wouldn't just stay a nerd's playground forever. It felt like a form of validation, that this internet thing would now become mainstream, and it definitely did in the lead-up to 2000 and all that happened.
AFAICT, the problem is have a separate, generic, distributed storage layer that is also performant is a solution very few have (like Google), and the rest of us have tried to hack things together with StatefulSets, GlusterFS, NFS, Persistent Volumes, etc.

The Borg/Omega model kind of assumes you have a Google-like storage tier interconnected with 10GbE links that is automatically replicated and accessible from potentially anywhere. Once you have that, then storage on k8s is "easy".
Add the apache user to every customer's group. It can get into the files but no other users can.
Style Transfer – Styling Images with Convolutional Neural Networks
It is absolutely relevant, it is your point that is not. Random drug dealers are not the Germans, and there is no war. They arrest shady people using tor all the time, and if tor is compromised, they can use parallel construction to hide their use of tor.
Yes, but SWER uses the Earth as the return (as the acronym suggests), whereas the research paper title implies using only the wire itself.
How to build a carousel from scratch with vanilla JavaScript
How I (sometimes) achieve academic work life balance
Maybe we mean different things by "critical thinking"?

To me, an essential part of a proof is checking that it is correct yourself... as opposed to "learning" it i.e. taking it on faith, believing it is correct because someone said it was. (Of course, in practice you can't verify everything yourself... but nonetheless that's the idea of mathematics, in theory).

Is that not the purest form of critical thinking?

OTOH I suppose when a proof uses a clever change in perspective, to show that it must be true (such as non-constructive proofs), it refutes many possible objections without ezplicitly considering them. So formulating those objections (or "criticisms") isn't needed.
Not really, as far as I can tell. The argument was not just that you're picking between choices, but that both choices are fundamentally wrong in a technical way. But taxonomic categories don't technically force you to be wrong. That part of the argument is just broken.
The comment about "three hours" was of course supposed to impress you with the sheer speed of it- but I can't help thinking it would take only minutes today!
Do you have any good examples?
*Geoff Hinton
I'm not sure how linking to an article about the hype cycle can be considered evidence of Ember's maturity relative to its peers.

Ember's 1.0 release was 2013 which is the same year React was announced. Yes Ember has earlier history as Sproutcore going back to 2011, but Facebook was using React internally since 2011 as well. I'd also argue that Ember 2.0 was pretty different from 1.0.

Angular is older, going back to 2009, but as 2.0 is a total rewrite as well as departure from where they started out I'm willing to let that one go. (It is also a complete tire fire so let's just ignore it altogether).

VueJS is arguably the "new kid". But really only just barely. The first release was Feb 2014. I'd hardly consider Vue immature at this point though.

I really don't see how one can argue it has a tangible maturity advantage here. I also think that most of the newer generation of SPA frameworks have learned lessons both from the previous generations and their peers (with the exception of Angular perhaps).
At the very least, it would be good to release an sf3 version; sf3 uses ogg compression (as opposed to mp3). This can be 10x smaller for comparable quality.

Though I found that (fluidsynth, at least) is very slow at loading sf3. Takes a few seconds.
> But what about when no exit nodes are involved, when you connect to hidden services?

OP is claiming that a combination of traffic/volume analysis and dishonest nodes can find a hidden service source.
Quick question... how old are you (college or HS)? And did you grow up in a super-competitive school district?

Watching my son and his peers go through high school (he finished about 5 years ago) in the DC suburbs and the stress level is insane. The good state schools have become increasingly selective since the 90s (when I attended UVA). And it shows in the kids mental health.
When you take funding you lose control. Period. I am a technical consultant for VCs and my entire job is to evaluate whether a company and product will be a good investment and allow the investors to become more profitable. This always means losing control to said investors. I am sure there are a few minor examples of this not being the case. But my VC's have portfolios with 700 companies in them between them, they control all of them.

So my answer is simple, don't get to the point where you need outside funding. Work now to get profitable. If you can't, pivot and get profitable. If you still can't, then give up control because they can and should make you successful and profitable. The reason VCs often take control is so they can fix your lacking business knowledge and expertise.
idk, most people I know here in the UK have both iPhones and WhatsApp. Back in Australia, iPhones is fairly pervasive, and so is WhatsApp.
Kinda sounds like LSD, or entheogens in general. It's not yet common (AFAIK) but they can be used in conjunction with sources of information, like logging into an administrators account.
I run a 3 year old phone and no, I have never waited due to the phone's processor. Any lags have typically been the result of memory shuffling or lengthy app bootup times that have noting to do with processor speed. I'm fairly confident saying phone processors haven't been a bottleneck for most people since probably 2015.
Cleaning and Transforming Excel Data in the Browser With Data Janitor
I see tons of Rust CLI projects with precious little about their requirements.

Sure, a not complete README is nice, but not having one is not exactly weird.
Probably about as legitimate as the research of obscure computational complexity classes in computer science theory.
From a database perspective, 1ms to disk is an eternity.

A good disk subsystem had less write latency than that in the early 90’s.
I think it depends how it goes. Some people might gain trust if the community could move swiftly to fix the problem
Yes, same in UK where sadly designs tend to be quite bland and quality is atrocious.
Yeah, because living your entire existence in hiding, and instantly annihilating anyone else you come across just in case, is totally a worthwhile way to exist. Do you win if your civ makes it as far as the iron star era?
An incarnation of Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

Wraps together cool web technologies like clipboard API, local storage and web workers to create a wonderful user experience.
In the Alps?

I had thought the cable cars have all been there for a lifetime by now, and of course it seems like every great mountain has some ancient town or another at it's base. Where in the Alps was this?
A well crafted $CDPATH helps me jump from project to project and from directory to directory within a project without having to type many ../:

CDPATH=./:~/:~/Documents/:[...]

I often grep/ag stuff only to think afterwards that I should have done that from Vim, so I have this to rerun the previous command and feed its output to Vim's quickfix:

vimq() {
vim -q <($(fc -nl -1))
}

Speaking of Vim, this one lets me open an arbitrary file from the current project in Vim without having to glob:

vimf() {
vim +find\ **/*$1
}

Create a directory and cd to it:

mkcd() {
mkdir -p "$*"
cd "$*"
}

It's not in my .bash_profile but I use this little command all over the place to get my IP address (and I need my IP address a lot):

#!/usr/bin/env sh

SYSTEM=$(\uname | \tr /a-z/ /A-Z/ | \cut -c-5)

# MacOS
if [ "$SYSTEM" = "DARWI" ]; then
\ifconfig | \sed '/vboxnet/{N;N;d;}' | \grep 'inet ' | \grep -v '127.0.0.1' | \awk '{print $2}' | \tr '\n' '-' | \sed 's/-.*//' | \tr -d '\n'
\exit 0
fi

# Linux
if [ "$SYSTEM" = "LINUX" ]; then
\ip route get 1 | \awk '{print $NF}' | \tr -d '\n'
\exit 0
fi

# MINGW/CYGWIN on Windows
if [ "$SYSTEM" = "MINGW" -o "$SYSTEM" = "CYGWI" ]; then
\ipconfig | \grep 'IPv4' | \awk '{print $NF}' | \tr -d '\n'
\exit 0
fi
I loved 98-2000. I went to a trade conference and saw a sales pitch with a guy escaping a straight jack a while riding a unicycle giving the technical details of the product.

I snagged a badge that said I was a venture capitalist. I was probably 17 looking like a 14 year old. People pitched me before realizing I probably wasn't VC. They saw the badge first. It was a great time to see the absurdity before the crash.

Hell I was able to get a million dollar license to some security software there. Which I promptly uploaded to IRC.

That era was epic.
I think it’s like a duality or equivalence through asymptotic states. Ie old universe becomes timeless energy and new univese.
Depending on your usage, a "script" done in a language like Swift, Go, or Haskell will probably take a little longer to put together than a bash script. Bash merely glues together generally-available command-line tools with pipes and minimal error handling, whereas the other languages typically require you to put forth some energy to use their library and validating outputs.

If all you care about is ticking a box in the shortest amount of time, I've found that small scripts are best done in bash whereas longer "scripts" would benefit from a safer language utilized in a JIT compilation paradigm (shebang for Swift or Haskell, `go run`, etc).
That extract function seems redundant. GNU tar already auto-detects the compression format of the archive, so `tar xvf archive.tar.xz` will work as expected (the J flag is not needed.) bsdtar does the same, and it supports formats other than tar, so `bsdtar xvf archive.zip` works too. These tools use the content of the file rather than the file extension, so they should be more reliable.
>I’m not sure the solution would be as simple as this…

Why not? This is clearly a bug in the (reference) implementation, rather than a bug in the specification. An alternate implementation (in a safe language) would have caught this. This is different than say, a buggy smart contract, where all implementations will produce the same result.
Plus Jeeps and motorcycles. “I recognize that you too are pursuing this weird combination of pleasure and misery.”
I realize it's somewhat ironic that I'm the one who posted the link but I myself am not a huge fan of the font itself. The site is cool, though. My main problem with the SoundFont is the same that many of them have: they, for some reason, mute the chirping sound in Duke3d's storm.mid. It totally changes the song and I just find myself getting frustrated when it's missing.
A Real-World Battle Over Dancing Avatars: Did Fortnite Steal the Floss?
Timing attacks especially.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/147402/how-do-t...

The referenced Tor Project blog post, "One cell is enough to break Tor's anonymity", was written in 2009, prior to any Snowden revelations about the scale and scope of state-level actors to see the entirety of the global networks.

AFAIK, Tor still refuses to have nodes add random delays and random padding, etc. to make this style of analysis more difficult, but I am just going off what I researched a few years ago, so I could be wrong.
Has he tried raising the prices of his products? Based on the average rents cited in the article, and what the average tech salary is there, his customers may well be able to afford it.
Making libraries concise is key - if you're trying to "write bash" in Swift, then being able to glue things together quickly and easily (as if you were piping to/from curl, grep, etc) is important.
I would say, ones that are begging to be regulated more intensively. Disclaimer: I'd like to see the government generally begin to tighten the noose around the health care industry.
> So if he had actually collected data on rape culture among Portland-area dogs, it would have been legitimate research

Yes, actually.

There is a big difference with publishing a paper with no data a la Sokal vs publishing a paper with made up data.

If you are presenting data as true, it must be true. Editors and reviewers don't get to argue with your data--that's a cornerstone of the process. They can argue that you collected the wrong data, interpreted it incorrectly, etc. but the data you collected should be real.

If this professor really made up data, he absolutely should get fired.

I suspect that he probably didn't falsify data or the administration would simply wipe him out fairly unceremoniously. The fact that they are invoking a review board violation tells me that the case isn't that cut and dried.
>You have Kurzweil who basically predicts that the singularity is imminent every five years

Kurzweil has always predicted the singularity for 2045. He may be wrong but I don't find that prediction or Musk and Hawking say AI may be dangerous as wild fantasies. You can make reasoned arguments for all that stuff.
Ish.

Research in the educational setting involving routine educational activities is exempt from most IRB requirements, except for an initial review to confirm that it is the above.
MH17 was shot down from the ground while flying at 33,000 feet, so 20k is definitely not out of reach.
>So you believe that while these departments have shrinking budgets, are the subject of continual staff cuts, and its not possible to use the degrees they give to make any money, that they still have influence over university administrations?

Administrators don't enjoy staff and budget cuts, they work to prevent them. That's a big part of their jobs, actually. If anything, the sinking of the (as another commenter called it) "wokeness" ship is driving an even larger fraction of that group of people into administration, as their prospects elsewhere dwindle.
>Grievance scholars isn't a real label

I agree essentially, its a meme created to debase the humanities.

And I'm not too worried about the legitimacy of this viewpoint from within the academic community.

What is dangerous is that people who are only marginally invested form a dangerous and disingenuous opinion of large fields of research on the basis of "SJWs are annoying".

> On Pearl

Obviously a counterexample within the context of STEM.
What this guy hates about the humanities is that it challenges the status quo.

The point I'm trying to make with this relates to communities and the perception of criticism.

Foulcaut would say all the humanities are capable of is to criticize modern institutions.

> I'm just talking about the modern context.

When we say "greivence studies",

This is a phrase this guy came up with, to obviously target a subset of the humanities with a left leaning adgenda (i.e. womens studies, african american studies, and whatever gay studies is called), and target a low quality journal to confirm his preheld belifes.

It's not a useful idea to try to understand discourse or solve any problem within the humanities, but an disrespectful attempt to mar whole departments.

The choice of the label Grievence scholar is deliberate.
If to critically understand anything is impossible, all you're doing is complaining.

> Marring whole fields of study

This is the intended response.
Not to expose flaws in the paper to publication pipeline.
So people could point and laugh.

It doesn't help that STEM people love to do this anyway.

Until you bring up research fraud in their respective field, and how dumb did that made them all look.

In bio this happens all the time, most often at the top of the research hierarchy.
Indeed, the STEM community has recently taken decisive action on mass:

https://www.bipm.org/en/news/full-stories/2018-11-si-overhau...
One of the challenges, I think, is that landlords don't want to rent to you if your salary isn't three times annual rent. I'm not a real estate professional, but I've been told that multiple times when looking for my own apartments.

In your example, you have the worker coming out okay or possibly slightly ahead (compared to lower COL areas) by spending half their net on rent. But by this 3x rule the landlords renting a property that costs $19k/yr would want to see an income of at least $57k and the worker wouldn't qualify.
Sounds just like Infogami used to be. You know what infogami turned into? A small public database. 99% of the traffic we got was to a single page which was just a config file for a popular Firefox add on.
If you've got a mature, all-encompassing build flow (hierarchical Makefiles, Bazel, etc), then ensuring a required tool is up to date after a pull is very straightforward. The weaker your build system, the more you really depend on tools being interpreted scripts so they "just work".
By this logic performance art done in view of humans should be subject to IRB review — it is, after all, trying to provoke and observe a reaction in a group of humans.
> The problem is value can only really be ascribed afterward, and sometimes not even immediately afterward; something might have to sit in a drawer for fifty years before somebody has another 2 to put together with it.

I think we appropriately assign the probability of this to nil. All work has a model and context; we can look at ancient Indian writings on zero or some of the interesting mathematical conjectures on non-real solutions to Greek math problems, but without a "fertile field" for them to fall upon, they ultimately had no impact. It's fun to find them in the historical literature, but they are significant to us only because they foreshadow, or partially foreshadow, modern fleshed-out work.

Compare that to, say, Maxwell: his theory was hard to understand and did take decades to be accepted, but it was part of an active discussion of theories of light and electromagnetism and it's not like it sat in a dusty cupboard for 50 years before being found in a eureka moment.

So when I defend some of the crazy deconstructionists, they do rest upon centuries of hermeneutics and linguistics and do have something useful to say...but like I mentioned it's perhaps 1% of what is published. And even some of the smart ones like Derrida and Barzun are self-admittedly also, (my paraphrase), performance artists. But their early work was part of an intellectual tradition.

The problem is the language is so vague and high-faluting that it's easy to simply generate what I honestly consider bullshit. I think you can tell that if it really exists without attracting even critical commentary (TBF some percentage of the recent publication in machine learning, and some much that appears in the "predatory journals" of pharmacology, fall into the same boat) it's worthless.

So that's part of where my concern lies: it's really important to point at the emperor, but I think if you consider the whole idea of a "stance" to be absurd, you throw out something very important.

My other concern is that indeed, the pompous journal editors were unwitting human subjects...
https://clyp.it/zbkee0uy (better quality)
Thanks, but my computer's too old to read that page. It's a thing already?
>I agree essentially, its a meme created to debase the humanities.

Associating "grievance studies" with the humanities might be a little too broad, after all the ultimate villain of modern critical thought (Colonial-era affluent Englishmen, probably), loved and generously funded the humanities of their day. To cast the claim in the strongest light I would say that it simply refers to the minority of people that, under the flag of helping, have made horrible accusations towards innocent people (a brief review of the literature will turn a few of these up, after all there's nothing stopping them from being published). In the most pessimistic light, "grievance studies" would just be, as you say, a conservative action word belonging right next to all of the similar liberal action words. The fact of the matter is that it is probably being used right now in both ways, by different camps.

Edit to respond to edit in the parent comment:

>but an disrespectful attempt to mar whole departments.

The claim that "whole departments" deserve to be marred is exactly what he's saying, and a lot of people agree. In this comment thread, I saw someone call the group of people (which out of respect for your argument against using the term I will not name) a "gangrenous foot." There is no word-mincing going on when someone calls whole departments gangrenous feet.
I agree with #1, usually there is a good reason one starts with a certain job. For instance money or interesting problems. That in turn can fit into the current life situation, e.g. when expenses need to be done or the previous field got boring.

I disagree though with laziness. IMHO it protects us from doing things that we don't like. People try to hack themselves to overcome it. That's actually dangerous.
>2) No, he should not be fired. In fact, the punishment should be very mild (e.g. a warning, attending a tutorial on research ethics).

Is attending a tutorial a form of punishment? What about an exam? If yes then what does this imply about the nature of the university education?
Just in case someone has this, I'd love to hear the Loom theme on this soundfont. This game was one of my favs back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJVM-R3PxY
> lax publishing standards allow the publication of clearly ludicrous articles if the topic is politically fashionable

Did they send any papers to string theory journals?
Welcome it or not we're probably on our way to living it...

http://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/