skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Young men have much healthier views on gender equality than when I was young.

Honestly, it broadly depends on what communities you're part of, IME. Some are wonderful, some are abysmal, and a lot are well-meaning but terrible at policing bad behaviour from a minority of members.
I'm British, we don't like to overstate things. When you see GCHQ call something "nonsense" and "utterly ridiculous" you can be assured that they are denying it.

And I think there's something more. I would read into their statement that they are very angry.
Have you played them FO1 was not linear at all? 3 and NV are not in any way remakes of the originals. But NV was not made by Bethesda, but a different studio with some of the orignal developers and that really shows.
So according to this answer[1], ~1.7MM fly/day.

Making a quick guess that from '80-'08, Americans average 1MM flights/day, then odds of serious injury are ~1 in 95,000.

Odds of death are 1 in 9,333,333.

Assuming the possibility of taking 3 'average' flights/day, then you'd need to board flights non-stop for 8,523 years to die, on average. 88 years to be injured.

[1] - https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-fly-domestically-in-th...
You kind of have to wonder if Trump is even aware of the implications and consequences of what happens when POTUS spouts off completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. You have to wonder if he fully groks that he isn't "just some rich guy" any more.
It's Grafana [0], backed by Prometheus [1].

[0]: https://grafana.com/

[1]: https://prometheus.io/
There are lots of products that don't have great design. We're on one now. But there are tons and tons of B2B products shipping from full stack developers every day that don't have great design. But they work, and because they work, they make people happy.

Good aesthetics are nice when you have them, but are absolutely not a requirement for a good piece software so long that it does it's job and the UX doesn't suck. Most real world people don't care how it looks as much as a lot of designers think they do.

Not too imply design isn't important for a real product. But if you're hiring full stack developers, then you're probably not making a ton of comps.
> The code in your website is likely 99% "transform a URL into SQL, then transform the result into HTML"

My live seems more trivil now.
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UX != Design
I think you and others on HN also need to consider a very critical issue on game design:

SKinner boxes posing as games.

While youth unemployment in itself generates flight/distraction direct behavior, game designers themselves are creating absolutely unethical skinner boxes which will generate addictive behavior.

This is like dumping a slot machine into the hands (literally) of vulnerable children/young adults (also literally).

I argue very strongly that this shit needs to be banned, and people on HN need to pick up that torch fast. Because if its not carried by the tech industry to clean its own house, its going to be used by those inimical to it.
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Yes, that is a good point -- it does include the percentages at least.
I suspect they are throttling UDP traffic on "non-web" ports, traffic might look like torrent encrypted stream :). Anyway you can test whats going on with https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go
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No, not really... prior to 2017, that was one of my biggest gripes with Visual Studio - opening multiple editor windows in one instance would quickly chew up enough memory to hit the 32-bit process limit and start page thrashing. Why, I have no idea, but that's what I've seen consistently the past few years in VS 2013 & 2015.
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This really looks great. I really wish the author(s) could provide a detailed overview of the human vision model algorithm being implemented, what it is doing and why, so we could reproduce an implementation, may be even provide improvements? Otherwise amazing work.
>Defending against that is costly.

Costly, yes. But do those costs out-weigh the immediate benefits of slave ownership? Probably not.

I have a hard time thinking slave-owners were hurt by slavery; they made out like bandits, but their gains don't counter all the harm done to those enslaved.
I feel like at a certain point this crosses the line from unintended use of a private API to unethical hacking.

If the data owner went through the trouble of encrypting the traffic between it and it's app they have a certain expectation of private communications that you'd better have a damn good reason for violating.
People aren't rational.
There is a larger number of threads we are opposing. I want everything over HTTPS because that how I know its actually the site that I wanted.

How many more cases do we need where some stupid ISP or middleware puts ads into other peoples webpage. Not to mention that those ads might also be a security problem.

Privacy is another issue that HTTPS Everywhere at least helps considerably. The NSA literally tcpdumps the internet and uses sophisticated tools to analyse it. I prefer to have a internet that makes it hard for the NSA and company.
Patrick Rothfuss work well too.
Suppose it is true that they wiretapped him. Then Trump has every incentive to prove it so, at huge risk of embarrassment to them. They could easily say "no comment" and nobody would blink an eye. So why actively lie about it?
It's seductive to believe that if we just use a clever model, we can create something that looks real.

It's not that simple. By definition, the closer that your engine looks to real life, the less flexibility artists have. If a scene looks perfectly real, artists would not be allowed to change anything at all, because any change would make the scene look less real.

Therefore, no matter what kind of clever mathematics you use, or any algorithm you come up with, your flexible art pipeline will torpedo your ambitions of creating a CG video indistinguishable from real life.

This is a fundamental limitation that I don't think has been fully appreciated, or at least isn't emphasized in literature. I think most people can't really believe or accept that no one, anywhere, has ever successfully created a CG video of a complex scene that is capable of fooling all human observers 100% of the time. (If a set of human observers are asked "Is this video real, or computer-generated?" then their responses should be no better than random chance.)

Your research looks promising! It would be interesting to pair an analytic solution with some hypothetical art assets that were somehow generated from reality, or otherwise fully capture all of the variables in a real-life object (i.e. the textures are more than simply RGB values).
I think your estimate is off by a factor of about 40. RDS is great at what it does, but it doesn't do that much. Getting the stuff RDS gives you for "free" might take a a few days to set up, but after that, your automated backups are going to take just as much of your time as the ones RDS gives you, ie, none.

If RDS saves you 30 minutes a week I'd be surprised.
Lately i have been developing with Node.js/Express and React+Redux with rxjs. I also know Rails, some React Native, Java.

If you are interested send me a message and we can talk.
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crowds as far as the eye can see, waving the flag and chanting 'Oi! Trump! Wanker!'
I quickly glanced through the video without sound, but I wonder: is this video about running graphics primitives from LISP, or is it about speeding up LISP using a GPU? (I hope the latter).
The problem is why should I trust them, they exist to lie cheat and spy.
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There is also http://www.quicklycode.com/infographics_posters/unix-history...
I have started experimenting the same last year on our Android devices at a customer network, thanks to QUIC we weren't able to use their network authentication any longer.

For some reason, even disabling it did not help.

Our workaround, was to use the old system browser for authentication and then switch to using chrome after being authenticated.
You're right, unsanitized user input is a risk when its externally crafted. At best in this case, its more sloppy coding then a high security risk.
All it really says is that they were not asked to perform wiretapping by Obama. They could still have been collecting data as part of their normal duties.
The foot is nowadays SI-derived in that sense also, fixed at 0.3048 meters.
People who like Bill Gates believe it is a bad idea to volunteer your time. If you can earn $60 an hour, you should earn that $60 doing whatever you have to do so thus way you can later pay for four hours at $15.

I don't know. I mean it looks better than earning that $60 and not putting towards a charity?
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you realize if you piss off anyone doing this, they can have you sent to jail right? Automated scraping is unlikely to qualify as fair use in court.

As far as I know, only Japan has laws.that allow scraping without explicit permission.
I think I may have a better visualization for that [1].
But I definitely agree. Differences in prices come from fees and how hard and expensive it is to get cash from one exchange to another. Plus most exchanges offer preferential fees for bigger players so when you are just starting you are already at disadvantage.

One need to also consider order books not just the price difference (I also have a chart! [2]). Price difference may be 10% but there may be 0.01BTC in order book within that difference. Or if you just look at the price of the last trade, there may actually be nothing in order book to arbitrage against.

There may be some window to make money when there are really big price changes and basically those who do the arbitrage run out of money on one side (fiat is slow to move). But then you have to deal with high volatility.

1. https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/arbitrage/USD

2. https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/books/USD
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I studied literature in college and am a completely self taught mathematician. You're right about quality textbooks and topics not geared to beginners, but at the same time since I got through learning all the basics (analysis, linear algebra, probability theory, etc.) , I've just followed my interests i.e. messed with my own formulas/proofs/etc. in whatever topic I'm interested in (recently sieve methods) and looked at others results in that area.

Anyway, Springer brings out a lot of good books on specific math topics so I'd say look there for learning material.

In terms of topics, it helps if you have problems to solve that require maths knowledge i.e. you need to write a compression algorithm so you dig deeper into information theory.

Also as a side tip, I allot about an hour daily to just doing math stuffs, like many might with exercise or watching tv. I have to say this has made a huge difference in terms of my ability and math knowledge over time - and its my most favorite part of the day :)

Best of luck getting back into maths!
Keep in mind that bulldozers routinely shove other, equally dense, materials around.
> I don't think the data supports your claims at all.

I'm going off of Wikipedia's GotY list, which includes only more notable publications. That lists adds in a ton of small gaming blogs and regional user's choice awards, which I don't think gives you better data. In Wikipedia's list, TW3 is winning, but a little less drastically.

I think you're attacking a claim I'm not making, and we're not even disagreeing, though. I didn't claim TW3 was worse than other contenders in 2015, I said it's one of a few solid games that come out every year. Everything you're saying and everything I'm saying supports that.

Edit: GotY is a decent signal, but discussions about which videogames are better are always going to be highly subjective. The Walking Dead won in 2012 and most people don't consider TWD to be on the same level as a lot of the other GotY games.
So the best you can really do in terms of not giving access to all your other projects is to create a new GitHub user just for your site?
The author of this article is a man.
It was a joke. Their name is HeavenBanned, so they're obviously fully aware of their situation.

This subthread ended up being boring and cluttered up the main topic. If the mods have a problem with what I'm doing, they'll say so. In the meantime, you have both a downvote button and a flag button to employ. I think there was nothing wrong with what I did, right up until it spawned a useless subthread about whether what I did was ok. At this point it's worth detaching, which is frustrating: I really wanted to know the answer to the original mystery! Since I have to vouch a banned user's comment in order to ask them the question, there's no way to ask them without also spawning an offtopic subthread. I was hoping that people would see that it's an interesting subthread and worth giving some leeway to see where it leads.

In general, it's ok for subthreads to veer off topic as long as it's intellectually interesting and substantive. Some of the most interesting comments are generated by that kind of process. But it's easy to push it too far, and it doesn't work if people get caught up in metaquestions.
Black hole blew Fermi bubbles, polymer stabilizes ultrathin silicon
At the same time, it's hard for people to learn about those things in any real way without some understanding of how to put it into practice.
gyrocopters are light weight and can takeoff and land in small patch of land.
lisp programs are used in the industry mostly. everything which is bit more complicated, and is happy with a one-man dev team. extremely cool apps.
open source I only know gmane and sawfish.
emacs and autolisp certainly not, these are atrocious dialects.

Famous are schedulers or AI apps, such Orbitz and DART.
http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/543579/what-is-the-most-... and http://franz.com/success/ have lists.
Is it really difficult to see why this wouldn't have value for non-technical users? I'm a developer and I still enjoy it because I don't have time to mess with a pi-based solution, and I love the original NES controller.
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>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.*

Whether Trump, Obama, Clinton or even Pailin had said it, and whether they gave evidence or not, it's obvious that it happens.

Not from an smoking-gun evidence based standpoint, but from a knowing history, and people, and such agencies priorities and how lose their leashes are standpoint.

When it comes to such agencies, evidence is the last thing one would find. It's not like their advertise their operations except in extreme fiascos. But such wiretapping is completely in agreement with the essence of what they do.
> Finally, you have to realize that you are dealing with a very powerful and conservative management culture.

Has anybody tried to address the patient needs before?

Patients should be easier to convince. It could be a good strategy to influence the doctors and mangement to change their habits.

I'm thinking of a tool to allow the patient to enter data that they could give to their doctor.
If they did do it, they'd just keep quiet. When POTUS proves it, they just smile smugly.

To say they didn't, and then get found to have done, will be infinitely worse.

It just makes no sense.
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> I would read into their statement that they are very angry.

This is my interpretation too (as a fellow Brit). As far as diplomatic language goes, it's one step short of saying "He's a bit of a twat".
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Can you provide a source? If this is the case that's quite a serious fault, but it seems unlikely that multiple independent providers would simultaneously do this.
Re: skiing off piste being a rich man's sport, are you familiar with the term "ski bum"?
could you explain with more details. I'm curious what is all about.
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You're taking the term "millionaire" too literally. There was a time when a million dollars really was well beyond the reach of a salary worker, but a century of inflation took care of that. The term is still used as a synonym for "really really rich". Last time I heard the true threshold for really rich was about $100 million.
http://www.lensman.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/140223-Dalm...

"and then he said, 'ounces'"
Off topic: ~15 years ago a colleague stayed in a small town in Colorado where everyone seemed to use "wanker" as a term of endearment. My colleague, being from the UK, was surprised to be greeted with the statement "Oh you're from the UK you must be a wanker".

Apparently this was caused by the local policeman being from the UK and he'd been going round using the term for years and the locals had interpreted it as something nice.
Just because a game _can_ be beaten like that doesn't mean that's all there is to it. Example: far cry 4 [0]

[0] http://kotaku.com/far-cry-4-has-a-hidden-bad-ending-16589899...
There are some surprises here.

> For women, occupations with a high risk of suicide include nurses (23% above the national average), primary school teachers (42% above average) and those working in culture, media and sport (69% above average).

That culture, media, and sport number is unexpected.

There's also a hideous new word - "postvention" - this is an intervention carried out after an event. In this case, an intervention carried out after a person dies by suicide.
What is even the problem here? Why shouldn't the GCHQ wire tap the US president? At best you could complain about US intelligence agencies if they used foreign intelligence agencies to circumvent restrictions on targeting US citizens. But foreign intelligence agencies spying on US citizens, especially politicians and not average citizens? No matter whether it is the GCHQ, Russia or somebody else, that is simply their job, especially since the US itself doesn't care much about friends and enemies in this regard.
I posted a link to the research, which is in english. A google translated version of the news article can be found here:

https://goo.gl/M1jpas and the original dutch article: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/122465/tu-e-onderzoekers-realise...

TL;DR; It could replace wifi als an alternative. Because there is no network congestion and interference. But it will take another 5 years before it can be put to practise, because of "source/location" detection

Multiple licht beams can be added

It isn't dangerous for your retina ( eye)
You should not trust GCHQ. But if you decide that they are definitely lying, you are trusting Donald Trump. Do you?
Not right now. I'd argue with only a handful of casual game ports, and no sport games, that requires a 300 eurodollar investment (as opposed to 200 for a PS4/XBone), it's not a casual gamer's console.

Actually it would only make sense as a purchase right now if you're a hardcore game dying to play Zelda.
Indeed, there's nothing to be gained from denying it. They could have kept totally quiet, and everyone would just assume 'that's what spy agencies do'. A denial, especially in these very strong terms, never happens.
> When I originally went to experiment with sending Bitcoin there were really no good choices.

https://ofek.github.io/bit/guide/intro.html#why-bit
If there's no robots.txt, then you can scrape all you want.

That's how Google got big.
Exactly yet we believe unrest will bring revolution.
Imagine you are remaking Raise The Titanic.

The original film had a very renowned detailed model 15m long and weighing 10 tons. It was quipped that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.

Now imagine in your remake you choose to raise a virtual photo-realistic Titanic. Your artists and critics are not going to complain that it is too realistic.

Realistic rendering is strived for even when the scene being rendered is conjured up by artists.
The missing compatibility layer is peanuts compared to the string performance problems underneath. This was my important question, which is not answered in the release announcement.

You could force guile on everybody, just as e.g. perl5 did with their Test2 replacement, but not everybody will be happy with a 20% performance hit in the real world, and esp. when telling nobody about it. This would be pure marketing shit.
Ask HN: What are some innovative ideas for improving democracy?
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well, it works for anything that you deploy often. some features are just big, and you don't want to have something sitting there undeployed for weeks. it helps to have bigger teams, because merging and deploying often is obviously good, but merging and deploying often help to make sure your individual parts don't slow anything down/etc, especially if the feature isn't self contained
I agree with much of what you've said. The game had an initial wow factor for me but I'm growing tired. I can't work up the excitement to go on to the Goron and Geruda divine beasts. The story telling in it is also ham-fisted more than the usual Zelda games.

I like it even love it but it's not the best Zelda I've ever played. I still like Wind Waker better.

But honestly it's better than Skyward Sword, which I found tedious and annoying.
^o is always the one lacking for me.
No need for a robot army. Sabotage the electric grid, then watch a continent starve in a single month.

I've heard New Zealand is highly prized by the powerful. That being said, their days are probably numbered as well.
>Color is not created by the "count" of photons, but by the wave length of each photon.

The count of photons (of the same wave length) though helps the eye and sensors to better match colors. In other words, low light scenes have less color information.
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One of my favorite side-missions in TW3 is Fencing Lessons.

This article[0] goes into detail on why I think it's so great, but contains spoilers.

[0] https://killscreen.com/articles/lets-talk-about-rosa-var-att...
Ask HN: Is the Web the future of indie games?
So, in today's news that Chrome supports WebGL 2, I thought I'd ask related personal question.

I want to get into indie game development — and as primarily a JS developer — was wondering whether it's worth going the traditional desktop/Unity route, or perhaps going into more unchartered web-based territory.

It seems to me that the web lacks a marketplace for WebGL content (please correct me if I'm wrong), in terms of what Steam does for the desktop — so getting stuff out there and in the hands of many remains a challenge (as a small-time publisher).

I don't know whether to take the plunge into the relatively unknown web-3D, with tools such as PlayCanvas and ThreeJS, or simply just pivot into developing with Unity.

Are the winds about to change?
The problem is Donald Trump appears to have made the whole thing up, and then committed the government's time and money to chasing after his paranoid fantasies.

It's as if he watched Star Trek, then demanded an investigation into Romulan incursions into the Neutral Zone.
I bought the WiiU version of Zelda and will hold off on the Switch until they get more games and get the glitches out.

The WiiU version plays fine. A few frame rate hiccups on complex scenes here and there but nothing terrible. And I hear the Switch has this when docked anyways.