skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The Reddit thread was really interesting because some Irish commented, and they talked about how the Catholic hospitals and the Gardai (local police) worked together in this scheme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8ppl72/15000_ill...

If any of this is true, it's absolutely no wonder that Irish Catholicism is in severe decline.

Sometimes the Catholic nuns would tell a young unwed mother she was unfit, and they would escape the hospital with their baby only to get home and find the nuns waiting for them with the Gardai, or they would show up later.

In other cases they would simply show them a dead baby and ship the baby overseas to be sold in America. Some Spanish commenters came along and explained that the problem was even worse in Spain.

One commenter seemed to be saying they didn't always go so far as overseas, as they met their sibling one day when they moved in next door as an adult. If the Reddit commenters are to be believed, then so is the terrible, barely informative article, I'm afraid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip
Writing a simple inliner isn't too bad, writing a good one is hard. Let's pretend you just "copy/paste" the code into place, there's the question of deciding when/if to copy/paste the code in -- what heuristic do you use. Now there's constant propagation, possibly more doing dead code (from constant propagation), dependency reanalysis (because you've changed the basic block, possibly adding more basic blocks). There are reasons the resultant code could even be less efficient (register pressure for locals for the inline code comes to mind), and there's i-cache complexities that come from blowing up your code size.

Inlining is really hard.
Is it that bad in CS? In my field I'm constantly reading old patents for recipes to solve my problems. But I guess a lot of patents in chemicals are expired comparatively.
The modern, truly amazing unofficial "remake" of this game would be <strong>Crazy Machines 3</strong>. http://www.crazy-machines.com/

Crazy Machines started in 2004 with the same idea as the Incredible Machine, but the company behind it never disappeared and just kept going and going...
I think all he's saying is, that until he feels his own country resolves to use its arsenal in a somewhat responsible manner (he gave some pretty good examples to the contrary), he doesn't think you can make weapons for them in good conscience.
Speaking of pretty printing, here is a copy of that quote made readable for mobile devices. (Don't use leading spaces to format quotes on HN, it doesn't work well.)

> "We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at
the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele.
"He was perfectly willing to let me type, but he was
also telling me what to type.

> The programming session lasted 10 hours. Throughout
that entire time, Steele says, neither he nor Stallman
took a break or made any small talk. By the end of the
session, they had managed to hack the pretty print
source code to just under 100 lines. "My fingers were
on the keyboard the whole time," Steele recalls, "but
it felt like both of our ideas were flowing onto the
screen. He told me what to type, and I typed it."

> The length of the session revealed itself when Steele
finally left the AI Lab. Standing outside the building
at 545 Tech Square, he was surprised to find himself
surrounded by nighttime darkness. As a programmer,
Steele was used to marathon coding sessions. Still,
something about this session was different. Working with
Stallman had forced Steele to block out all external
stimuli and focus his entire mental energies on the task
at hand. Looking back, Steele says he found the Stallman
mind-meld both exhilarating and scary at the same
time. "My first thought afterward was: it was a great
experience, very intense, and that I never wanted to do
it again in my life." - Guy Steele
It's because USA has much more wealth per habitat. Everyone gun is pointed at N1.
I've never come across that recommendation before. I can't immediately think of a case where I'd want that or it would be anything but annoying.

> 99.9% of people know what they're doing

You have very different users than those of anything I've ever written then. :)
I suspect “unsafe” C leads to safer server side code when combined with a few, simple libraries.

One issue that seems to fly over the head of “safe” high level language proponents are that you need to know what data types you are manipulating in order to write safe code.

Also, language-level isolation is much harder to implement correctly than process-level isolation (and OpenBSD has spent tons of time hardening process-level isolation).

I’d love to see a security bake off of a few mature applications built with this and random-language-de-jour.
Very recently I heard Jon Stewart mentioned on NPR and it was in the context of his influence on American politics. It is indeed disingenuous for him to imply that his commentary during that time was just meaningless satire. I would wager that in 2004 Jon Stewart had much more control over the opinion of the voting bloc than Tucker Carlson, and I would secondly wager that he damn well knew it.
This is giving me Win32 flashbacks. I cannot HANDLE it HWIN this happens!
Just buying and selling, all GDAX maker to avoid any fees which would more or less cancel out even the best model I have. Lack of fees is another unique feature of the space.

The training period I keep to 3 months and haven't really moved much since initially trying things. A month or less and the model is overfit and useless, too long and it's not working with current data.

The prediction/"hold time" changes absolutely make a difference. I was running on litecoin and found about an hour to be the sweet spot.

> days versus seconds

Seconds would be useless because you can't trade that fast - minutes is what I use.

Even if accuracy increases with a hold time over days, the average trade value doesn't go up nearly enough to make up for the trade frequency of the minutes/hours level. Why make 3 trades per week with an average value of .5% when you can make 4 trades a day for an average value of .15%? The compounding of that frequency works wonders, and that 4 trades a day for .15% is what I was actually hitting for a few months.

For the record, I do also compare to both naive buy/hold over the training period and the average trade value for the period for all times (different than the buy/hold time because I have a profit lock-in threshold for individual trades, also tuned with genetic algorithms), and the model outperforms both still.

The model is still predicting positively but the average trade value is shrinking + market thinning hence why it was breaking even recently until shut down.
Can anyone compare the JVM's technical merits with Microsoft's CLR? I always hear that the JVM compared to advanced alien technology, with its millions of engineer-hours, but not so much glowing praise about the CLR.

With Oracle remaining evil and Microsoft making waves in open source these days, I wonder how likely it is, for example, that a Big Data ecosystem like Hadoop/Spark/etc. could evolve around C# and .NET.
(chez (chez scheme))
Just as a second monitor its a killer app. The ability to drag windows into it seems like a big deal.
Lying to the FBI is a crime by itself - if they're talking to you at all, there's a good chance that it's only to save them the effort of having to prosecute a more difficult to prove crime.
That does makes sense, thanks.
His show was an exhibition of positive philosophy. Calling it a Christian show is pushing a misleading narrative.

Also, Christianity is not just the positive parts. Selectively emphasizing only those parts means leaving out much of what makes up Christianity, now and throughout history.
It's a proof of concept. What are you expecting?
Nice work, love SVG use.

Can this be flipped for left handers?
They are naked and starving because of Russian "help", not because of USA. Look at North Korea and on South Korea, if you still have doubts.
Yeah. My main point is that, if these babies were really being taken without consent, then calling it "illegal adoption" is like calling bank robbery "speeding" because the robbers broke the speed limit in their getaway car.

The term "illegal adoption" carries connotations of (intentionally or otherwise) misfiled paperwork, not kidnapping.
I managed to land a dev job where the entire enterprise is Mac-based and they issued us laptops with the touch bar. Everyone runs them lid-closed with external keyboards and monitors. Touchbar issue solved.
Quite true, the copy-paste compatibility with C was a bless for its adoption, and now has become a curse, impossible to take away.

There is always that guy using a C++ compiler as if writting C.
It's a bit of weird defence for misinformation though as satire doesn't become better when it represents a position inaccurately. In fact the opposite is the case, the closer you can remain to the truth while still being comical the better the satire.
Yes? In certain circles you could get off with saying just about anything about the current US administration however in poor taste it might be. In those same circles, I wouldn't recommend off-color criticism of many people on the other end of the political spectrum.

ADDED: For those who apparently disagree with me, does anyone seriously dispute that jokes of a certain slant are going to be acceptable in some circles and considered in very poor taste in others?
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> “Everyone’s legs feel restless now and then”

Yes, and everyone feels sad now and then, so depression is a made-up problem too.

I know Restless Legs Syndrome gets some laughs because it sounds like the name of some mid-90s jam band, but naming the condition really helps when you’re searching for solutions. It turns out that supplementing magnesium was sufficient to eliminate my RLS, but I probably never would have found this out if I had to search for “legs feel like they are being attacked by electric ants at 3 in the morning”.
Indeed. Factorio's use of the arrows to indicate a sense of direction ("back" points backwards on the timeline and "OK/Confirm/Play etc. point forwards, towards progress) makes it instantly clear what will happen after each button press.

I've always looked at interface choices like this: As a non-Chinese reader, if I see a dialog in Chinese and the "Yes/Confirm" and No/Back" buttons are the same size, shape, and color, I will have no clue which does what. However, if the "Yes" option is a darker shade, or has bolder text, or the button shape makes it scream "click me!", I'll feel relatively confident that this is the button I need to press to proceed with whatever I'm trying to do.
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ahhh can see that. Bears are lumbering and Bulls are wildly exhuberant. Although, usually that exhuberance smashes everything in it's path (China shop) or tries to fling a human and gore them (rodeo). Then again maybe that is still apt -- everyone is happy about a bull market until it gets out of control and we are all flung off if it!
Very cool - I've run into the exact problem you described many times in the past and actually considered building something very similar to this.

As a side note, it looks like <img>'s aren't working - try adding something like this:

<img src="https://www.google.ca/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" />

Making images format correctly in GitHub READMEs has always been a bit of a pain point for me, so this would be a nice feature to have.
While I agree with your basic premise, I think there is some room for debate.

Firstly, regions/geography with cheap power and/or natural cooling are at a clear advantage with respect to payment for proof of work.

Secondly, regions where black markets thrive are at a clear advantage with respect to use and potential liquidity.

(imho)
> I suspect “unsafe” C leads to safer server side code when combined with a few, simple libraries.

As many mentioned this might be true, but only if you don't have to deal with user input, strings, unicode and anything but extremely simple manual memory management.

The essence is, C and similar languages like Rust are great for writing an OS or a browser, but you really, really, really do not want to write complex server side web apps in those languages.

Sure, you can force your way through and if you have 30+ years of C in your head, it might even be safe. But it is not reasonable nor advisable for the general case. IMHO.
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Somebody is working on "escapable" capsules inside planes, though for the purpose of surviving a plane crash. Maybe they could extend it to grant you your wish at some point ;-)
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Satire = joke + partial truth. It can become misinformation when people lack the sensibility to see or hear the actual joke and/or miss the partial truth .. nothing here to read, move along, move along.
Hello all! I have created a bunch of Jupyter Notebooks for teaching/learning Python 3. Most of the topics include also exercises. I think that the beginner section starts to be quite complete and have also drafted a plan for the intermediate section. After/during creating the intermediate section, I'll focus also on domain specific materials. I've added a couple of examples for domain specific topics and I'm open for proposals.

I'd appreciate any kind of feedback!
Just a note: if HN is the only tech news you follow you’ll be getting a VERY skewed & narrow view of tech.
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Get a Mi Book Pro, it's working fairly well Hackintosh wise.
moving the monitor window (rendered video preview) to
the touchpad area might change that considerably

It'll boost sales of neck-strain relief products, at a minimum.
I'm guessing Large OBject - a data type commonly found in databases that stores a large chunk of unstructured/semistructured data. Usually a large chunk of text (CLOB) or binary data (BLOB).
The actual paper is paywalled, so meh, I don't really know what the paper says.

I only know what the author of the article says the paper says.

So yeah, unless some of you have access to the PDF and want to share it, we're only discussing about an interpretation of a paper, not the paper itself.

(yeah, I know sci-hub exists)
This article is terrible and seems to have been flagged off the front page, but how do you know that it didn't happen exactly like they say?

The Reddit thread I linked below had corroborating witnesses showing up to say that is exactly how it happened. Some children were shipped overseas with their mothers' coerced consent, some parents were shown dead babies and their children were never heard from again.

Some were left to die and tossed down a hole without a funeral, some were made to work as slaves in the orphanage... and it's not the only primarily Catholic country where this scam was prevalent; if the stories are to be believed this was an order of magnitude more common in Spain around the same time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8ppl72/comment/e...
+1 for Spring boot and the Spring ecosystem in general. I said it here a few weeks back, Pivotal(the company behind Spring) continue to keep that ecosystem innovative, modern, stable and performant and open sourced. That’s amazing...

We had a few rails developers work port some of their apps to Spring Boot, they struggled initially but after getting over that hump their feedback was it’s light years ahead of rails in terms of ease of use and performance. Easy of use = Groovy & Kotlin both of which compile to the JVM

The real game changer is when Spring runs on GraalVM. Once that happens it would be really really hard to beat java on the backend
Thanks! If you’re thinking about reposting broken quotes, just do it. A lot of people browse HN on mobile and will be happy to see that.
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I thought about this a while ago and came to the conclusion that if my goal wad to keep information private that's not the function of a social network. At best you'll find a different company to abuse you or a permanent decentralized network where attackers can scrape everything if they are ever let near your circle of friends.

If your goal is to simply have a better implemented social media network you will likely face a network effect problem where nobody is on that platform - I mean technically MySpace still exists.
Is there a basis for quantum cognition beyond “I want my brain to be different from my cell phone.”?
well, I'm cagey with "unnecessary" because I honestly think it's going to take a good few cases in front of judges until we properly understand where that lays. Which will be fun.

I'm also curious where other points will land in reality. eg, if I ask Apple to remove all data they have about me, will that also remove me from your address book? If I ask Google to remove all data they have about me, will that also remove any emails you've received from me?

In this light, I'm happy to see the first complaints arrive against Google and Facebook, as they're exactly the examples we all have in mind, and we need to see how they'll play out in reality.

(Albeit, I also trust the European legal systems won't commonly wield the maximum possible fines, but rather seek compliance. The scary big numbers, the source of so much FUD, should be reserved for wilful disregard after this step. "Walk softly but carry a big stick" style.
What time of day did you submit? Did you tell other members ahead of time when you would post so they could upvote? What headline did you use?
I don't think calling it a race is all that strange. It's perhaps more strange to talk about winning the race or beating another country though, as that implies some finality/conclusion to the endeavor.

This can be looked at as a continuous race to see who can build the highest-throughput computer, where the competitors' positions in the race are decided based on a well-defined set of benchmarks. The periodic updates don't indicate who's won -- they're just a snapshot of what everyone's positions are in the race around the time of publication. So it's more apt to say one competitor is ahead of another in the race, but talking about winning or beating someone maybe gets more clicks.
The article reports several hours battery life difference.
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Here’s the thing: you don’t get the benefit of the doubt when you hold opinions that have been demonstratably wrong for 40+ years.

It counts as evidence of your poor judgement and terrible moral compass. Especially when you espouse other opinions that are toxic trash and are highly correlated to the previous ones.

The benefit of doubt has been long used up on these topics. If you hold these opinions today as an adult you made a concious choice to be a bigot.
Most of the 2D Castlevania series, really. Later releases like SoTN had the player go back and forth multiple times through certain levels to fully progress, and even had a version of the castle flipped upside down which made the player think on their feet (no pun intended).
Yes, that's one of the three CVE's I posted ;).

You got me thinking about ways one could get strdup wrong:

- input is not a string -> possible UB

- input is a string, but the character encoding wasn't what you thought -> possible UB

- input is a string, but it was the pointer-plus-length kind -> possible UB

- input is modified by another thread -> possible UB

- strdup called from within a signal handler -> possible UB

- failure to handle error return values -> possible UB

- failure to free the memory when it's no longer needed -> memory leak

- freed the memory more than once -> possible UB

- used the memory after freeing it -> possible UB

I've personally seen several of these in real-world code.
I agree. It is almost exactly the same as r/startups and it's just ebook authors and newsletter owners marketing to themselves. The value of the forums is incredibly low, and the signal to noise ratio even lower. The interviews and podcast do still have value though.. But the forum, is a cesspool imo.
Same old ideas as stock prediction, yes, but the crucial difference here is a market with high volatility and no trade fees. Circumstance is everything.
The spec for the JVM (as the one for the Java language) is also freely available here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html
Maybe there are a lot of other trading algorithms that worked for some time but ended with a loss so big that exceeded all the profits, and we will never see those stats. Publisher bias.
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I didn’t make any self referential call out to authority. I provided no authority whatsoever. I posited beliefs and spoke in such terms. I just stated how I see things. As I said, I believe the problems are emergent phenomena. Of course I could be wrong. It could be an organized effort as you say. It seems reasonable that it would become organized even if the origin isn’t.
It's really broader than that. A lot of comedy has always been about skirting close to the edge of appropriateness and good taste. (And maybe going over it a bit.)

As I was discussing with someone in the wake of some of the recent outrage outpourings, the cliff that comedy skirts has become very steep and very public. The joke that bombed in a small nightclub and gets quietly excised from the routine is now all over YouTube and Twitter, perhaps completely out of context.

Or a stupid dongle joke of the sort that I might have rolled my eyes at a coworker making and maybe told them to "give it a rest" years ago now gets people fired because of online outrage.
I agree, but he also made his jokes so silly that no one could've mistaken them for reality. Most were accompanied by bad Photoshop thumbnails.
Is this going to be like a snopes? Congrats on getting it up and running.

Feedback: on my phone the header takes up a full third of the screen. I'm seeing this more often these days. The headline is at about 50% mark, and it would be less confusing IMO if the headline were within the top quarter of the screen. Galaxy s8
Oh yes, good catch.
Thanks for the feedback.
What do you recommend to round out opinions?
The touchbar isn’t underneath your hands/wrists while using your laptop though.
This is neat. But it needs some purpose. Maybe some indy developer will invent a good use for it!
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Yes and no.

The military's responsibility is to defend the country. If they're buying fighter jets when they should be buying laptops then they are failing to do their duty.
The article hints at a suspicious death, possibly linked to his project. Maybe, but also people die unexpectedly. Add drugs and diseases and you multiply the odds.
I don’t know if they’re still being built, but parent didn’t make that statement. You can be paying for something even if there aren’t more of them coming off a factory line.
As a product person. I personally feel if the designer should know how to code so they can skip this tools process. It seems to add more unnecessary complexity to the design process for those designers who know how to code and understand how to fix issues as they arise.
I read once that this is the difference between research and hacking. Research is about researching related work and the field and ensuring that we’re not re-inventing the wheel. Hacking is about writing code as fast as possible.
I love this; we are definitely in the territory of Poe's law here.

I strangely really like the css formatting used in the website's source code
(e.g. https://github.com/kristapsdz/bchs/blob/master/json.css)
I suspected this was the case, but had no idea of the search terms. It strikes me I do enter several contracts per day, offline, almost always simply implied by actions. And we have consumer protection acts to guard the edges of these implied contracts.

I think what the web needs right now is to figure out what the implied contract is, and save the modals for those out of the ordinary.