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Ask HN: Dumb Machine Learning question – how to get insights, not predictions?
3 points by thenomad 10y ago|2 comments
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Also worth noting that a major point of the anti-independence campaign last time was that Scotland would get to stay in the EU if they stayed part of the UK. That has obviously changed somewhat.
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Indiehackers has some good examples: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
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Just Do It. Assuming you have any significant knowledge (and you probably do), the good you'll do by sharing that knowledge will massively outweigh the harm any mistakes may cause. Just be open to corrections if they come up. This sort
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...Motion control for VR. It works incredibly well in VR - whereas I know a fair few people find gamepad controls immersion-breaking, compared to interacting with the virtual world with your hands and your body.
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Seconded. There's nothing at all wrong with wanting to improve your situation, even if it's what others might consider "pretty good", if it's not making you happy and fulfilled. And also, seconded on the goal commen
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I'd recommend a DO instance, or one of their competitors. IIRC there's a VPS provider out there that does $3pm VPSes, but I'm not sure the $2pm difference is worth it over going for a provider you know. Alternatively if you r
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Doesn't detect Reddit, which I understand to be affected?
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And this is why I love HN. I'm a massive coffee nerd and I'd never heard of that. Thanks!
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Not only is this not really an appropriate response for the topic, but I'd imagine its presence will also make FB employees feel unwelcome and less like answering the OP's question. I'm not the biggest fan of everything FB do
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That's very cool, but a LOT of production work. Probably fails the cost-benefit analysis for most people doing Mixed Reality videos for their VR products. However, if it was productised, that'd be a different story.
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I like the Aeropress, but my favourite coffee production method is the Kalita Wave. Again, it's beautifully designed - almost impossible to damage, very simple to use, comparatively quick (about a minute longer than an Aeropress for on
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Minimal and cool. Nice. Some kind of top pages or top bounce rate stats would also be good. Usually I'm using analytics to figure out either a) what's working or b) what's broken.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 - Left-Hand Path, a Dark Souls-inspired horror RPG for the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch VR platforms where you cast spells by drawing arcane symbols in the air. It's going rat
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The best-known forum for the adult industry is gfy.com . That'd be a solid place to start. (I don't work in porn - but I have an eclectic knowledge of the entire "making money on the internet" landscape, and various adul
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My point is that some artistic work is valued extremely highly. The issue with saying "we'd like everyone who wants to be an artist to be able to make a living at it!" is that thanks to easy duplication, a very few winners
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The average monthly income of artists is massively lower than that of software developers. It's probably lower than that of janitors. In the UK a professional author, on average, earns below minimum wage, for example. http:/&#x
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What do all these roles have in common? They aren't usually valued very highly by society. Artistic work is valued very highly by society. J.K. Rowling is a billionaire. Notch, creator of Minecraft, likewise. George Lucas is a billio
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"Witches... certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have." - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters.
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Every one man success story on HN was largely possible due to existing audience from another entity that took years to grow That's absolutely not the case. Some of them are - including this one, by the sounds of it - but it's no
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Right now? Hugo. It fits all the boxes you're looking for except "Looks great". For that, you'll need a theme - but fortunately Hugo themes are pretty easy to implement given a base HTML theme, or you can use one of the
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How's its image handling? If it's just "write Markdown to display the image", that doesn't work so well for me - can't view offline, lose context if the image disappears from the Web, etc.
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If you started in 2002, and particularly if you have been actively link-building since then, you have a huge advantage in terms of visibility SEO-wise. It's quite simply much harder to build a link profile in 2017 than it was 15 year
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Can't answer the source of the stat, but where they're getting contacted - FB messenger or Twitter, for starters. I've done most of my non-B2B communication with businesses over the last year or so via FB messenger, Twitter o
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Good tips, but I'd add one more requirement: the group who are interested in what you're writing about should be a group with money to spend . Advertisers generally have a lot less interest placing ads with audiences who will nev
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Yup, there are quite a few. Steam functions as the main one for the HTC Vive - obviously it's focused on games but also offers non-game utilities. Vive has Viveport, although I honestly don't know how well that's doing. And O
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Won't work as well: the market now prices in the drop in GBP after she speaks, so as soon as there's even a hint she's going to say something substantive, the market drops like a stone, then recovers a bit if she doesn't
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No, they're in the process of doing it right now. The Digital Economy Bill is currently in the Lords. It's actually going to the Committee Stage tomorrow. That's the bill that will force age verification (with security implic
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Ah, interesting - I might have to give it a try some time. Thanks!
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Does Org-mode handle images? If not, that's an issue for a lot of creative work.

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