skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm someone who is a non-coder, can you please recommend some books/blogs on how to build a successful SaaS business?
Fields and subfields are just one categorization, I wouldn't put too much weight on that. It is all connected, you can attack it from many angles.

With maths I personally need to really immerse myself and block out all distractions. Then I focus until my head is "full" for the day. Then the best course of action for me is to go for physical exercise (I run, bike, or swim.) I feel like this helps me digest what I've learned.

Great learning resources can be old-fashioned books ;-) Preferably written by someone really authoritative in the field, and not just written to make a buck or for a course. For example, I really enjoyed Davenport's The Higher Arithmetic [1]. Original research papers, even if ~100 years old, can be really enjoyable too.

What is your aim? To reach enlightenment? ;-) Or to solve/understand a particular problem?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1874246.The_Higher_Arith...
For comparison, about 10,000 unrestrained motorists die in fatal vehicular accidents every year, and millions are injured. https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.html
You're probably right - although saying the accusations are "nonsense, utterly ridiculous and should be ignored" isn't strictly speaking the same as saying that they're untrue. GCHQ could believe that (although they happen to be true) it's nonsense and utterly ridiculous for commentators to be asserting so without any evidence, and it would be much better for everyone to ignore the accusation.
> We still have a lot of people living for under 1$ per day on this world. That's a factor 20 off from the cited amount of money per year.

Those same people living under $1/day now would have their costs greatly increased if they became factory slaves. Can't be malnourished, so food costs go up. Can't live just anywhere, so housing costs go up to live on-site at the factory. Can't work with untreated illnesses and injuries, so healthcare costs go up.
Out of curiosity, is cycling a common mode of transportation where you are from?

I recall seeing studies showing that helmet-laws generally coincided with low use of bicycles. Places where cycling is extremely common (like Denmark and Holland) never seem to have them, and it's uncommon to see cyclists using them unless they're doing something particularly dangerous (riding in traffic, off-road, etc).
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What I've been noting in Web searches (Google and other providers) is that they're becoming less useful.

I'm not sure if this is a result of poorer relevance, gaming, my own changing interests, or increased access to more authoritiative sources. I'm suspecting all of the above.

As two Stanford University researchers noted in the 1990s, online epistemic services are highly prone to skewing information to favour interests of advertisers and business partners, rather than users. They proposed an approach which would avoid this problem, results suggest they've fallen short.

There's a tremendous industry that's emerged to game and skew search engine results. It's proved quite effective in its ends.

I've been shifting my explorations from programming and technical subjects to economics, history, and philosophy. Where the former are well-represented online and come from recent sources, the better sources for the latter are often at best nearline, and authoritative sources range from decades to centuries old, occasionally millennia. (Fortunately, the Data Explosion works to advantage, as the search space for older works is far smaller.)

I've also been rediscovering libraries and library cataloguing systems, including periodicals and scholarly indices (though far too few of these are available online). Google's Scholar is useful, as is Books, though both remain highly deficient. Samizdat and underground sources such as Sci-Hub, LibGen, and BookZZ provide ready access to material. I can turn up a reference, and in a few minutes, be reading it, from the original, unmediated by others' interpretations or editorialising. That is a refreshing change from online sources which skew to magazine articles, blogs, social media posts, and tweets.

Given all this, I'm finding DDG to be a more useful search engine in that from it, using bang syntax, I can hit specific sources (often from much better search dialogs than their own native facilities). From Firefox, bang searches work within the navbar. From Chrome/Android, "Home" => search. This is faster than going to or typing in individual domains.

The ability to permanently blacklist domains from search results, shifting more of the search filtering to client side, would be useful.
Most of the progress in the field came from the pursuit of photorealism and trying to simulate better what actually happens in reality.

The path tracing approaches in modern raytracers are actually very similar as computation to Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The big difference is that in the "classical" approach one integrates real values (radiance) and in the QED one integrates complex values (amplitudes) whose magnitude describe the probability of a given wavelength hitting the camera sensor.

I was pitching this idea as a research direction in a recent slide deck https://github.com/skaslev/fract/blob/master/mc-production.p...
I did an experiment once. Searched for some random stuff on Google and Duck Duck Go. Of the 10 topics 7 of them showed relevant topic on Duck Duck Go while only news articles on Google.
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Yes, but by making the air move you introduce a low pressure where it moved from, and a high pressure where it moved to. They are interconnected, just like how you can determine speeds through conservation of momentum or conservation of energy.
Cool example of vortices on an F1 car as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDnd3B1rhs
I disagree - and I also think the counter point needs to be more dispersed.

A majority of the games created today are straight up skinner boxes which engender and support addictive/gambling behaviors. Especially since today, most games are in your mobile phone and not your PC/Console.

These programs use random reward schedules, linear reward schedules, everything. They use it with constantly fine tuned schedules, and with constant feedback.

These are machines, which send dopamine shots to the brain at precision tool levels.

There is no real world analogue that can beat

1) Random chance of huge drop (dopamine hit)

2) Clear performance metrics showing steps to next dopamine hit

3) Timers showing when next free dopamine hit is coming

4) Social tie ins to increase reach and invoke community/social mental systems as well as social proof/buy in

5) Streamlined, A/B tested interfaces and messaging.

6) Leader boards for the competitive

7) Mobile and thus constantly available

I used to dream of making games which were like that, because I thought I was being a sneaky bastard. Then I saw these creatures appear on the market.

Many people out there with less sense and more money are happy to blame the gamer and call it "just a game".

Lets be clear: This kind of design should be banned/disallowed.

And if anyone gets upset by using "banned" on HN, let me remind everyone that around the world Subliminal Advertizing is disallowed, if not directly illegal.

Shiny skinner boxes in everyones hand are planes of existence worse than Subliminal ads.

I am a gamer, and have been since the day I saw an atari, and fumbled with a sinclair spectrum.

This shit is beyond unethical.
Not even for the person managing them?
Color is not created by the "count" of photons, but by the wave length of each photon.

Multiplication is a simplification but it does have basis in reality (amount of light that bounces versus amount absorbed or converted to an invisible wave length). What is fake is the perception of colors other than the three wave length intervals we see.

Another approximation is assuming all surfaces, at the microscopic level, are flat or uniformly rough. Microscopic features that change how colors are reflected are not simulated.

Currently, the main road block with believable simulation is physical interaction between objects. There is just too much to simulate, even with the (incorrect) assumption that most objects are 100% rigid. Also the movement of organic things, esp. humans.
You're talking about the comment output, which is html after being processed. The text box is plaintext, and it word-wraps :)
Speaking as someone who has actually done seatbelt enforcement, (I worked as a cop for a year after college before getting into software development,) catching people who aren't wearing their seatbelts is really, really hard. Each seatbelt ticket written probably takes ~30 minutes of time for the issuing officer.
I sure hope they didn't make a new version of an old system with discontinued components.
Having the same issue (behind a company network) in Germany.
I wouldn't try to read anything logical or coherent into that tweet, Sean Spicer has been trying to walk it back and say it's just about surveillance in general and wasn't specifically about Obama.
Why - doesn't GCHQ do SIGINT and SIS (AKA MI6) does HUMINT?

NB I don't think they did snoop on Trump, but if anyone was going to do it from the UK it would presumably be GCHQ.
> although saying the accusations are "nonsense, utterly ridiculous and should be ignored" isn't strictly speaking the same as saying that they're untrue.

I would think that "nonsense" implies "untrue". I.e. it is "The subset of untruths that also are logically inconsistent"

We are splitting hairs of the fine parsing of the wording from GCHQ, when words of any kind are highly unusual.
For me, it's not that I have complete faith in the morality of Obama, NSA & GCHQ. It's that Trump has not presented any evidence for his claims, even circumstantial. If he believes something, there should be a reason for those beliefs, and he should be able to present it. There is no point debating someone who refuses to support their stance.
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I think saying they're "nonsense" is saying they're untrue.
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I've always been uncomfortable with that camera. Mario has always had trouble running into the direction that I wanted him to.
GCHQ is signals intelligence, so if he was tapped, it was probably by GCHQ. But let's face it, he wasn't, Trump is an imbecile that is just parroting right-wing media accusations.
I've historically just used matplotlib and it's TeX-based text renderer for labels. Output PDF, includegraphics in a latex document. Works fine, text looks great. http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html
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If there is, please submit it to HN and let's get an accurate summary of what's happening, i.e. 'Some Dutch and German providers break QUIC'.
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It's dense fluff...

There is a very wide range of snow. In particular, the heavy wet stuff acts and behaves very differently from "dry" snow -- whether that's light powder on top, or compacted, but dry, snow underneath.

Wet snow is increadibly heavy, and frequently contains or mixes with ice which makes removal (blowing, ploughing, shoveling, 'dozing) far more challenging.
Procrastination doesn`t start at your work. I`m sure there are other areas in your life that could be better. Start establishing healthy habits. It will affect every part of your life and thereby reduce procrastination.

One important point is your level of energy and a fresh mind.

* Stand up earlier

* Decrease your coffee consumption

* Get used to cold showers

* Eat healthy

* Do sports

* Stop using social media

* Don't watch TV or series (make it a rule to only watch with others)

* Don't listen to music all the time. Enjoy music. If you definitely need it, listen to some without vocals. Vocals are more distracting and so you are less focused and so you get less stuff done and so you are less motivated and BOOM, back on HN.
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You can still do the exact same thing: have a specific (sub)domain for those crucial transactions, while the main domain gets served by the CDN.

Alternatively, and in my opinion better, is to have a (sub)domain for static assets, served from the CDN, and keep the main one free from man-in-the-middle.
I'm assuming heat related conditions.
Are there standards of strength that pilots have to meet for situations like these? What about female pilots?
Surely all these cloud services have agreements not to sue their customers for using their patented services that they market and sell?
>online support groups

Nice double entendre.
Helicopters. Indeed - there is a state known as "settling with power" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring_state where a helicopter is sitting inside its own vortex, and is incapable of climbing straight up with full power.
> isn't strictly speaking the same as saying that they're untrue.

It's way beyond just stating that they're untrue.
Locking it to the bike isn't a good solution if you live in a place where it rains or snows a lot. So you end up having to carry it with you on errands. If you bike a lot, those small inconveniences add up.

I can't imagine fashion sense is much of a reason, that seems like a strawman argument commonly conjured up by helmet laws advocates.
I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of killing anyone who tries to exert a claim over oneself, though I can't agree more: abolish the state, the class system and IP.
Seriously? BTW! I just checked the calculator again and the time I was offered a job, there was no calculator then. The calculator pretty much offers the same amount that I asked for but still Gitlab decided to waste by time by saying we expect to pay 70-80k max. The range is clearly 115-120k and I don't think you understand the concept of remote teams when this range can be quite different than US which I explained to your HR as well.
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Avoid the Fail.
Upvote for being the only person on this thread to have actually given a relevant reply (request was for people who used to procrastinate and have to some extent overcome it). Also I wish I could vote twice because - as a procrastinator myself - I've never heard it called "a massive fear of mental activity". But that rings absolutely true to me. Facing that fear seems to be the best route to overcoming procrastination.
I'm old, so I've had a lot more than 6 years. When I got my first job at a small unknown software company, I'd been programming in my spare time for 9 years already, and I estimate I had put in the proverbial 10,000 hours. I wasn't very good at that time, just good enough to get hired.
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As a general rule of thumb (UK, specifically) asking for implicit permission will either get a standard no or no response at all.

However, if the information is reasonably accurate and links back to the merchant's site it is very unlikely they will complain, especially if the links are 'follow' and not affiliated (not that it would make much difference anyway).
Luckily, there are people who aggregate this kind of stuff. I don't think the data supports your claims at all. Witcher 3 won an extremely high proportion of the awards in its year. Almost double what the three other 2015 games you list got combined if you look at awards from critics, and even more lopsided if you looked at fan awards.

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.htm...

(And really, a suggestion of Dark Souls II as some kind of awards powerhouse is totally detached from any reality).
Finding your direction is hard, usually at University you have broad range of topics at the start, then towards the end of the course you have an idea of where to go next.

I would suggest looking at MathOverflow, http://mathoverflow.net/, the level is high, don't expect to understand much of it, but you will see a wide range of topics of current interest and that may give you some ideas on direction.
Like the rest of Amazon (excepting the Cloud Storage, which is all-you-can-eat for personal use only) - it's not affordable. Unless you might need 400 4TB drives, and keep track of which one have what on them, which are up-to-date, which are in which fire/disaster zones etc. At that point the price starts to look more reasonable.
I mean sure in theory, we could if we had nano machines that can bypass immune system.

In practice, our best bet is viruses.
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While its different in each country, I know that teachers and counselors can be required by law to personally report such crimes to the police. If I remember right, this is true for Sweden, which would in this case result in a police report and then no further actions or communications from the university (in order to allow the police to do a proper investigation without interference). If it is a student that is accused, then the university might not even be allowed to suspend the student, through the police can of course put the accused in holding if the police suspect a continuation of crimes or interference of the investigation.

Compared to the US system, I actually prefer this way since it puts the whole process into its proper place as soon as possible, and puts a form of common-sense approach when a university employee hear or witness a crime.
You just have different taste. I can appreciate why people love Firefly. But I just can't stay interested past episode 2.
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I experienced problems with several Google services from DK after upgrading Chrome this morning.

Disabling QIUC as parent links to unbroke things for me.
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Why would anyone ever believe what an intelligence agency says? This would be akin to listening to a snake oil salesman about the qualities of snake oil.

EDIT: My point is much larger than whether or not they wiretapped Donald Trump. My point is that what an intelligence agency says about what it's doing is completely irrelevant because it has very low correlation to what they actually do.
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Oh- you ask these questions before eradicating religious extremism? That new way of life is even more 'sin' for them than what we have now with all sexual and liberal revolutions.

Assuming all newborn people will be smart and logical and will never fight for their local tales is an utopia by itself.
Hobbies, ie. work you you enjoy and are not forced to do.
That conclusion is not so obvious. Some middle managers might just be pushing back against automation because it eats their lunch, too.
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What I love about the Witcher stories are how well they can be looked at as a fantastical commentary on modern life, especially with business and politics.

Right now I’m playing through 3 and seeing Geralt as a monster-slayer consultant that occasionally has to deal with deadbeat clients. Interesting to see how he protects his finances before and after these encounters with the buyer (there’s only one quest I can recall where he actually asks for a deposit, since the quest giver reeks of thievery and corruption).
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Snake-oil. If I MITM, I'll just add my own code that copies the plain-text to my server, I don't need to break any encryption. It's nothing more than an obfuscation layer.
This place is full of snow but hats off to those people clear the path !
"The Guardian’s problem is understood to have arisen through the use of AdX, Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange service, which uses programmatic trading. ...."

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Nice Makefile, jirki. I really have to look into premake which generated it.

But I get a gflags linking error with 2.1 and 2.2 with -DGFLAGS_NAMESPACE=google. This is atrocious.
"google::SetUsageMessage(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)"
Without this it works fine.

Guess I still have some old incompat gflags headers around.

EDIT: The fix on macports with 2.2 installed default into /usr/local is: make CXX=g++-mp-6 verbose=0 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -v" CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include

i.e. enforce gflags 2.2 over the system 2.1
I'm not denying that some work has enobling aspects (e.g. social recognition (in various forms)), but much work doesn't. Speaking from years worth of bitter experience ...

Moreover there is probably quite a bit of rationalisation going on:
since I can't avoid work I might as well pretend I like it, for that
makes life more bearable. More importantly, there is a
virtue-signalling aspect to finding	work enobling: since human
emotions are contagious and human behaviour involves a lot of mimesis (= copying others), my public display of taking pleasure in
my own work increases the probability that others find their work
enobling, which in turn increases the amount/quality of their work, and that
leads a better / more productive society which in turn is in my own selfish
interest.

Aside: Max Weber uses a somewhat similar (but more elaborate)
argument when he seeks to explain the emergence of modern society out
of the protestant spirit. The issue of whether we do good because
doing good is intrinsically good or because we crave the social
recognition of good works, has been discussed since antiquity, see for
example Plato's Republic.

What will replace it culturally
when we don't have any work?

Why not look at the facts? Society has always had some members who did not
have to work, for example children, pensioners, the sick, the offspring of the
very rich, wives of middle/upperclass husbands (until recently), women
who divorce a rich husband (under current US alimony laws), the
Saudi/Qatari/Bahreini/Kuwaity royal families. Etc. Most	of them	don't
have a major problem spending their time. Typically they engage	in a
variety of play, fornication, sleep, sport, shopping, eating, hunting,
socialising, playing music, drawing and	the like. Moreover, even those
who work have leisure time (e.g. weekends, evenings, holidays) and
generally have no problem filling that time. There is no reason	to
believe that this will change when all work has been	automated away.
I don't think the target audience really matters. Film critics regularly cite Disney fare like Snow White, Fantasia, and Pinocchio as some of the best films ever made. Analogous lists of video games are pretty much required to have some Mario games on the list. Good is good.
Why wouldn't you compare games aimed at to similar audiences? And that analogy is pretty weak, I'd say Zelda is aimed at kids to adults, Witcher 3 aimed at teens to adults. I'd say it's more similar to Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings. Both "dorky" things to outsiders but slightly different range of audiences.
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