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>Just a few decades ago, all Greeks spoke Demotiki (modern Greek or "people's" Greek) but also learned Katharevousa in school ("pure" Greek, very close to ancient Greek). They don't teach that any more, but some of my friends say their parents can read Plato like it's the morning newspaper. How envious I am of that! :-)

That's correct, but katharevousa was nowhere close to ancient Greek, it was really a bastardized language created to sound more ancient-y in an era when the nation was searching for identity (Greece was heading for its revolution against the Ottomans).

But it was forced and unnatural. There's an era around the turn of the 20th century where many prominent scholars, poets and novelists formed a movement against it but nationalistic reasons (and thick headed archaists) made it stick until the 70's.

It's true that previous generations (like my parents') had a better classical education, but that has nothing to do with katharevousa
Yes, and that law didn't come out of the blue. More pertinently, a purpose built passenger rail line will have priority for passengers.
"We add an intermediary 15s step"
"Add a timer to lock items which your users can unlock by mining"
"you can delay showing the results for 5-10s to mine crypto"

"giving your users the awesome experience they deserve."

Awesome experience indeed.
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Please just leave personal attacks out of comments. They don't belong on Hacker News.
Hostname on open threat exchange: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/hostname/hints.netflame...
Wow, that's an old blog post. At first I thought the comments with datestamps of "16 years ago" were some kind of bug!

Pretty surprising this retrospective post was made only a couple years after the game released -- usually people wait a bit longer to "spill the beans" on development of games they worked on. :)
We do know. Taxes are already fairly low in the US. Kansas ran a broad scale experiment with dramatically lowering state taxes - the results indicate that some magic growth is not unlocked. My conclusion is that cities are just giving up local budget balance for little benefit.
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Update: The whois listing for the cc domain looks pretty odd. It's a person in Thailand, using a personal gmail address. Which would be odd contact details for a California company's domain. Possible of course, but unlikely.

See: $ whois -h whois.dynadot.com netflame.cc | grep Registrant
And straight track runs for really high speed. Which means that you need to acquire land to build through.
Another shortcut, while still remaining in the EU is a Maltese Limited company. Very similar rules and structure to operating a UK based Limited company, but a much better corporate tax regime.

I went this route, using an accountant recommended by a trusted friend. Bought an existing "off the shelf" company and have a Maltese business bank account, all without leaving the comfort of my desk.
It's on our roadmap and is actively being worked on right now. Should be available for version 1.2.
See:
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
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yeah I feel the same way. I actually got it because it was only 5 bucks, i could swing it for an mvp without having to spend to much cash. Maybe learnsearch.io would be better
Yes, thank you.

Boys behave differently around girls and will form weaker bonds with each other.

Boys grow up to be providers and need to be pushed hard because life is hard on them.

Men's income forms the largest tax base. The average man provides a net positive return on tax base whereas women a net negative in North America.

Men are disproportionately representing in:

- Wars, army (98%)

- Suicides

- Occupational death and injury

- On average tend to work longer hours

- Die many years younger lofe expectancy

- Hard, but important jobs like coal mining, drilling, construction, etc)

There are almost as many rapes of boys and men as there are girls and women each year.

I dare you to dig through and find the stata yourself and when you understand why these stats are buried, you will start to see what we have been tricked into.
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It's like repeating the Flight of Aeneas from Troy in backward direction but then missing destination a bit.
you have to continue doing taxes for another 3 years if I am not mistaken.
Depending on your accountant that would be around 1k per year.
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Yes. All threads have equal computation capability and cache coherent (although not uniform) access to main memory. This was the 'big iron' of the day like the Sun, SGI, and Cray "big iron" boxes.
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There's a good chance that the trademark is no longer enforceable due to their failure to apply enforce it against Ethereum Classic. There has been quite a bit of discussion about this within the community.
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Try using a private window. It only makes you log in if it detects certain FB cookies and thinks you're a user.
> If SSDs were forecast to overtake magnetic drives, then WD would be unwise to invest here.

Why not both?

WD bought SansDisk for a reason. WD is likely going to be investing in both Hard Drives AND NAND Flash in the near future.
It is not a fee you have to pay, you have to guarantee this amount of capital, sort of as a signal to other companies in the market what solvency to except at least :-)

You can actually spend the money on things after the court verified the capital is present with your corporate bank.
Does the vacuum part take a lot of money? I would think that if anyone knows, it'd be someone like Elon Musk who has built a spacecraft company from the ground up.

For many of Elon Musk's projects, I get the idea that Elon is mostly just bringing broad, multi-domain knowledge to bear on industries that have been siloed for a very long time. So everyone scoffs at a long vacuum tube and using turbomachinery, etc, but for someone with a physics background with extensive knowledge of the spacecraft environment, turbopump rocket engines, and all the subsystems and ground testing systems that enable all this, it really isn't far-fetched at all. Most physicists (of the experimental kind, i.e. those who have to have hands-on knowledge fabricating things in addition to theoretical background) that I've talked to understand his ideas and think they're fairly reasonable.

People seem to base most of their criticisms on the fact that it's different than what we already do without a fundamental, first-principles understanding of the system.
Run it down the center of the freeway? Having stations for trains in the middle of freeways isn't great for pedestrians, but might be fine for long distance transport such as hyperloop.
> The Hyperloop’s thermal issues are a hard enough problem that they alone put this in the domain of materials science. That’s the same category of problems separating us from a space elevator.

What? What are you even talking about?? That's a completely ridiculous statement. The pressure inside and outside the lunar landing module was 1,000,000,000,000,000x. 100 kPa to 10^-10 Pa. It makes zero sense to apply this kind of ridiculous relative measurement to pressures because it has no relation to how pressure works. The structural challenge in building a tube that works to .001 atmospheres is only 25% harder than building a tube that works to .2 atmospheres (same as an airplane). And it isn't any more dangerous.

The only challenge that occurs is sealing in that atmosphere without any leaks and that part isn't hard either. 100 Pa is achievable by a $50 pump.

I also have yet to see any compelling argument that there will be thermal issues. Floating mounts and expansion joints are hardly untested technology.
Off topic:

http://www.toutiao.com/a6474835351272686094/#p=7

The (Beijing?) smog pictured here is somehow more poignant since the article has 0 to do with pollution... just people living their lives. Scary.
I’ve been curious for a while if hyperloop and boring company are complimenting each other.
Yeah, Denver being chosen just convinced me that this whole thing is pump and dump cash grab.

CDOT has this thing for "public/private partnerships" which are just thinly veiled schemes siphoning off taxpayer money. The whole US36 debacle proved to me that they aren't capable of negotiating a good deal on the part of the taxpayers.
It doesn't, and the offered alternative is that they tend to be middling, which remains a huge exception considering they are generally considered to be the best countries for quality of life. It is thoroughly bizarre to have Scandinavia at the top or middle if you are claiming that suicide rates are an excellently sensitive barometer of happiness or fulfillment.
It was weird to me that they mentioned Ikea all over the place, but not Ikea Hackers:

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

Which I think is really interesting, sure there's some kind of obvious things in there, but also some really genuinely useful ones as well.

For example, I quite like this Ikea Pax to Synth station build: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2017/06/pax-synth-workstation.htm...
I was also under the impression that freight trains had priority, so I looked and found this article:

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Amtrak-has-priority-ov...

I've experienced these delays many times riding the California Zephyr, and the conductors always say something about the freight trains having priority. According to the article this is because Amtrak is persistently ceding priority, despite federal regulations prioritizing passenger trains.

edit: According to the WaPo article linked by jey in this thread, this ended up overturned in federal court, so I guess as of 2017, freight does have priority over passenger trains in the U.S.
For trivial programs sure... not when dealing with encoders, decoders, binary formats, etc, etc.

It all depends on how they wrote their Python 2.7 code. You can write it oblivious to Python 3 and screw things up, or you can write it in a way that you know you'll eventually support Python 3. In the latter case, you might as well just support both right away though.
Not quite the Crimea, but you might like the novelist Amin Maalouf. He primarily writes historical novels set in the medieval Islamic world -- with protagonists who travel a lot, so you see some of the (more-or-less accurate) interactions of different places and people.

'Samarkand' is my favourite of his novels, or 'Leo the African' is probably his most well-known.
That is the initial starting capital, not a fee. You can go on and invest or spend the money after court verified its available.
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Philip Pullman: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/magazine/philip-pullman-r...

> Every day from roughly 10 until 1, Pullman sits at his desk in a monkish study at the top of the house and produces three pages, longhand. He has written three pages a day ever since he started writing. Habit, he is fond of saying, has written far more books than talent. The ritual is sacred. As is the space. “Nobody’s photographed this, and nobody will ever photograph this,” he told me, both fierce and faintly amused by the severity of his own rule. “I’m superstitious about that, very superstitious about that.”
37 here.

It took me 2hrs and 37 minutes to beat Sonic 2 on release day. So that’s like... 1992.

Was a little annoyed but it was an incredibly fun ride (and it’s not like I got all the chaos emeralds or anything).

That doesn’t strike me as that sharp of a memory just a factoid that’s stayed around. I couldn’t tell you what I did in school that week for example.
Why not both? It doesn't have to be either/or: async/await is a great monad for cases where you need a simple imperative flow. Rx and the Observable pattern are great for cases where you have more complex data flows with complex needs like backpressure support (throttling and buffering), and complex time management.

Each has very different strengths, and it's very easy to work with both together.

const someStream = Rx.fromPromise(myAsyncAwaitFunction())

const arrayINeed = await myRxObservable.toArray().toPromise()
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My thinking at the moment goes mostly like this:

<thought_process>

It will be far easier for businesses who do this sort of thing to assimilate themselves into the "fiber" of the local tech community.

The businesses who do that will find it far easier to obtain and retain top local talent.

</thought_process>

I agree that the question that needs to be answered for something like this to bootstrap would probably be something like "what is the value to the organization". But I think that question, over time, would evolve into the assumption that "we need to do this in order to survive".
> Wait, who said that they need to compress the air all the way to Earth pressure?

No one. The Hyperloop alpha paper explicitly contradicts this assumption on page 18, where the flow diagram gives the compressor input at 99 Pa and the output at 2.1 kPa (a 21:1 pressure ratio).

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...
I'm pretty sure at least some of the individual developers kept private backup copies that they then "forgot" to erase.
"98% of my success can probably be attributed to my parents being awesome"

All traits are heritable.
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> Civil War Generals 2

Oh, wow, another fan of that! Great, great game. Huge improvement over the first one, in every way. Still haven't seen anything quite like it. Closest I've played in feel (if not interface or actual play) is Ultimate General: Gettysburg. There's an Ultimate General: Civil War out now that I haven't tried yet but assume includes a ton more content. Not as stat-crunchy and no equipment purchasing though, at least not in Gettysburg. :-(
That doesn't help with "for more that 1tb storage".
no, the question is as ambiguous as the source material, there is no specification. And the authors likely couldn't answer coherently either, so it's indeed an cboose your own adventure type of question.
You probably won't love it if you're black, if that makes a difference.
Given the key function railroads had in opening up the west, I think you'll struggle to argue that that was even close to a bad deal.

Indeed, that, if anything, is exactly the kind of investments that a government should be making.
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This is a great application of computer vision applied to everyday business problems. Kudos to the shutterstock search/CV team.
I really hope Paramount and any other studios get onboard so a single standard can finally exist. UltraViolet seemed like such a good idea, but never really seemed to work.
It's mentioned, very briefly: "Until recently IKEA was a bit uppity about hacking: its lawyers sent cease-and-desist letters to websites like Ikeahackers.net that innocently collated techniques."
You could phone up and get your message(s) included in local pages.

Also there were personals which involved writing your advert, and the ceefax service working as a PO box to route letters.
There are currently possible ways for the public to access and invest in high potential private start-up companies like Mesosphere.

For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets people to invest in private pre-IPO:

https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comm...
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When does Hyperloop One get a go on the Dubai - Abu Dhabi line?[1] That's quite feasible. Straight route across flat, open desert.

Hyperloop One is a maglev vactrain. It doesn't "fly" aerodynamically, like Musk's original plan. This means a more expensive track in the tube, but higher riding height. Musk's original plan required a ride height of 0.3mm to 1.3mm, which means a really smooth tube. Maglev clearances are typically 1-2 cm, which is much easier to maintain over many kilometers of tube. Also, only the track has to be flat; the tube can have seams and expansion joints, so it can be fabricated by standard piping techniques. Vehicles can draw power from the track; Musk's original design was battery powered. Maglev track is expensive, though. That's why maglevs are rare.

If somebody in Dubai has the money, there's no reason it shouldn't work. Japan already has 42km of maglev running, part of the Tokyo-Osaka maglev route under construction, with full-sized trains. That's mostly in tubular tunnels. Hyperloop One is easier than that.

Hyperloop One's test track uses a 3.4 meter tube, instead of Musk's original 2.4m tube. Maybe larger in the production version. Musk's very optimistic cost proposals are based on his undersized tube. Hyperloop One will work, but it may not be all that cheap.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fu-6IDp3Fo
I interpreted "provide a set of files for a court case" as some form of sending it either through the Internet or to some portable storage media. He also said "The client insisted we find and copy the original empty file from the original media", which also indicates that. I therefore intended "move" to mean "move from one storage media/computer to another". You're of course correct that if you "move" a file on one file system, the bits won't actually be copied (or moved) anywhere.
Not to mention that "gluon" is the name of a particle (strong force carrier). There seems to be a trend recently to ride science hype by choosing a sciency-sounding name. :/
That is entirely untrue. Releases are regular, big changes are anything but.
And they were all Sonic ripoffs. Nintendo had Mario, okay fine, but then Sega had to come up with a character to "beat" Mario and that was Sonic. Then all the other companies came out of the woodwork and they had to have mascot (with 'tude!) of their own to represent their brand. So we got GEX and Aero the Acro-Bat and... motherfucking Bubsy...

By the mid-90s, even Sega seemed discontent with Sonic headlining their brand, so we also got Ristar, Tempo, Wild Woody, etc.

But the lesson the marketroids failed to take away from Mario and Sonic is that this really only works if you have a strong game, not just a strong character.

Two mascot platformers from the side-scrolling, Sonic ripoff period that really delivered on their promise, gameplay wise, were Jazz Jackrabbit and Rocket Knight Adventures. Both of those had consistent gameplay, a tight feel, and neat mechanics that made them fun. Hence why I still remember these, but tend to forget all the others...
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Ah yes the CCNUMA patent. This bit is the relevant part:

However, SMP systems suffer disadvantages in that system bandwidth and scalability are limited. Although multiprocessor systems may be capable of executing many millions of instructions per second, the shared memory resources and the system bus connecting the multiprocessors to the memory presents a bottleneck as complex processing loads are spread among more processors, each needing access to the global memory. As the complexity of software running on SMP's increases, resulting in a need for more processors in a system to perform complex tasks or portions thereof, the demand for memory access increases accordingly. Thus more processors does not necessarily translate into faster processing, i.e. typical SMP systems are not scalable. That is, processing performance actually decreases at some point as more processors are added to the system to process more complex tasks. The decrease in performance is due to the bottleneck created by the increased number of processors needing access to the memory and the transport mechanism, e.g. bus, to and from memory.

Alternative architectures are known which seek to relieve the bandwidth bottleneck. Computer architectures based on Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (CCNUMA) are known in the art as an extension of SMP that supplants SMP's "shared memory architecture." CCNUMA architectures are typically characterized as having distributed global memory.
I understood the GP argument as "having voted on the issue", not "having voted to leave". The former implies that a significant portion of the population want independence.

and i'm not sure i understand you correctly, but the very first sentence in the wikipedia link says that the 1995 referendum was the second one... this [1] was the first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1980
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Well, Tay-Sachs is also prevented through similar measures sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Tay%E2%80%93Sach...
> Still, my concern is not about the results. My concern is how easy it is to game this proposal.

Approximately the same difficulty to game the US Court system.

At the end of the day, Judges will adapt the rules to future cases. Law is an innately human process, not the cold machine logic that most of us Computer Science folks deal with.

If a major mistake is made in the current rubric, future lawyers and judges will bring it up on a case-by-case basis. Unlike code, Law is pliable and changes on local conditions. The issue isn't the "edge cases" which are dealt with as they come up.

If the proposal isn't working for say, Washington DC, then you can expect a case to bubble up through the Washington DC Courts, to maybe the US Court of Appeals, and eventually back to the Supreme Court if its major enough. If its purely a Washington DC issue (and not applicable anywhere else), there might not be any need for the US Court of appeals or US Supreme Court to hear about the case!
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I can't help but think of the movie the Big Short. There's a large pool of social media marketers, influencers and other tangentially related businesses, all in some way propped up by this fake activity. They're not unlike all the hands that got involved in the mortgage business and securitizing of sub-par, high risk loans. If only there was a way to "short" the Instagram industry.

p.s. To those debating what constitutes a "fake" account, don't forget that the term was only recently invented: https://www.avclub.com/merriam-webster-points-out-that-trump...
I remember posting about it here in the past, because I was so in love with the service that allowed me - a complete beginner - to get a case 3d-printed cheaply and easily.

The project itself is documented here:

https://steve.fi/Hardware/helsinki-tram-times/

It consists of an LCD-screen and an ESP8266 device. (Think "like an arduino, but with on-board wifi". Programmed in C++ it basically polls an online URL to decide what to display with a simple web interface you can point your browser at to change the timezone, the stop-id being monitored, etc.
> Delay of the ice age / difficulty bomb by 1 year, and reduction of block reward from 5 to 3 ether

I wonder if the planned switch to proof-of-stake is ever going to happen.

In any case, what's the point of continuously postponing a pre-programmed difficulty bomb (via a hard for), when miners can just remove this part from the code and continue with that fork if they wish? Because of this, it seems like it doesn't do much difference compared to just switching to PoS via a hard fork whenever it's ready. I mean, if miners really want to continue with PoW, removing those couple of lines, that define the difficulty time bomb, from the Ethereum code surely won't be a problem, right?
By that logic, Lasik is ethically dangerous because some people have regarded brown eyes as inferior in the past.

That slope isn't anywhere near as slippery as you're trying to make it out to be.