skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RTK [0] systems definitely can have centimetre-level accuracy, though they require a fixed base station within 10-15 miles or so to broadcast corrections. It would also require roads to be mapped to a high level of accuracy.

I have seen self-driving test cars in Silicon Valley (frequently, especially in the last year or so) using these types of systems, so they are at least being tested. I've also heard discussion of putting RTK base stations on cell-phone towers to provide wide area coverage, but I'm not sure if much effort has been put into that. I do know vast areas of the agricultural midwest are covered in RTK networks -- its used heavily for auto-steering control in agriculture.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
I wouldn't say it's equivalent, after all, blockchain is a layer on the internet. But it is common for people to underestimate the impact of technology in the long term. Just as the dot com bubble left people disillusioned with the internet as a platform for commerce, so too is the current state of blockchain. It will continue to evolve, it will continue to grow, and something will rise up and change commerce in a dramatic way. I'd argue that the industry has already come a long, long way and it still has a long, long way to go.
I don't think we are in disagreement. Certainly there are benefits from these things. The crux is that practices will reach diminishing returns at different times depending on context -- one such piece of context being market cadence.

Is continuous integration and automated testing helpful? Yes. Is the cost/effort to move from a process that can deploy monthly to one than deploy hourly worth it? Well, it depends -- if our customers want software updates once per year, then no, it doesn't particularly matter if "master is ALWAYS deployable" or "no builds are failing" on a given day.
It's important to note, that while it is now illegal to buy the Bible online in China....

They are still allowed to purchase the Bible from official church bookstores.

This is probably more about finding out exactly how many Bibles are being sold in the country rather than completely stopping them from being sold.
Twitter might wreck third-party apps in June
Somewhat related, there was also a "capitalisation shift" in the late 1600s where everyone (or their editors) started writing more nouns as capitalised (e.g. "The quick brown Fox jumped over the lazy Dog"), and then switched back in the mid-1700s. Interesting to know what might have been.

https://github.com/DanielJohnBenton/capitalisation-shift-goo...
and strong supporters of nazis... (speaking about catholics)
"If you're leaving your stuff in cryptocoin form I don't think you would pay capital gains."

Note this is only true if you hold onto particular coins. If you exchange some bitcoin for etherium, for example, you will realize capital gains or losses. This has nothing specifically to do with cryptocoins, the same thing would happen to you if you bough silver, say, and then exchanged it for gold.

Your latter point is straightforward tax evasion and will be caught or not in much the same ways as other forms.
I never understood it, either. By that reasoning, almost any technical question is an "opinion" question asking for a "recommendation".

For example, pretty much any question about C string handling has many possible answers, e.g., [1] admits that comparing two strings is "rather broad" and the various answers there recommend looping over each index and comparing chars with ==, sscanf, strncmp, regexes, and PEGs. Opinions galore!

But if you want to know the difference between AWS EC2 and EB [2], even though there's one pretty clear answer, somehow the admins unanimously find the question to be "primarily opinion-based".

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16013031
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25956193

My hunch is that due to the desire for longevity of content, there's a large unspoken bias in favor of questions about simple programs, and against questions about remote services (which are more likely to disappear or change, even though that's not likely to happen with major AWS services), and that the question closure explanations like "primarily opinion-based" are just a smokescreen.
...will ever go up against the power of the Chinese state.

There are lots of examples of religious fervor going up against a state and winning. If a movement gains sufficient mindshare and it’s adherents are sufficiently galvanized then things that get in the way have a tendency to fail. This possibility should not be discounted so cavalierly.
Jesus's anarchosyndicalism must be dangerous.
Another sign (among many) that China is preparing for significant social unrest and probably global instability. I suspect the CCP has concluded that a rebalancing of its economy is inevitable, close at hand, and will be painful for most Chinese. The scale of China's challenge, maintaining order in a nation of its size, guarantees there will be overreach.

I thought we might see mesh-networking emerge in Iran as a means for protestors to organize and communicate. Didn't happen. Now I think there's a pretty good chance China's restrictive communications networks are going to result in some real innovation in ad-hoc networking and covert communication as the months and years progress. The next Twitter may be found among USB keys embedded in brick walls, or rogue routers covertly attached to outlets in public bathrooms.

Ironically, the outcome would be better for all concerned if China allowed the debate and unrest to play itself out and impact policy. History proves bottoms-up accountability delivers much better outcomes than top-down oversight.
I would just need a few bookmarks really. Although I do like to open dev tools and see what some people are doing sometimes.
Religious conversion is not about making a religion available to those who are interested. Money, muscle, propaganda, deceit -all are used to recruit new members.
I don't think it's a justification, it's a contextualization.
If you liked that, check out the book "Wealth and Power": https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Power-Chinas-Twenty-first-Cent...

It's a book on the history of these revolutions from 1850 onward.
Oh. I don't believe in worshiping it, so I couldn't address that.
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Stand by your words. Editing a comment to remove it after seeing downvotes undermines your credibility as a whole.
Tests for most of those micronutrients are not very precise, and actual blood levels can fluctuate widely from day to day or even hour by hour depending on what you just ate or how active you've been. So in order to establish a reliable baseline you'd have to do multiple lab tests spread out at various times over several days.
They have plenty of people, last I heard. Plus or minus one million people here or there doesn't really make any dent on their society and getting rid of "undesirables" without mass murder looks very beneficial in the eyes of the authorities.
>Instead of putting all the Java programmers in one little forum and all the C++ programmers in another, we dumped everyone together and just let them tag their questions

And yet for some reason the site can't handle off-topic and pure "answerable by fact" questions on one site? So often I search for something and the top post is an closed off-topic post on SO. I've never even had one of my own SO questions closed as off-topic so it's not a personal grudge - I just think the site is very stubborn about this. So many questions and organic search results is a huge signal that they are ignoring.

It's not like they're running a forum were the first page would be polluted with off topic stuff if they allowed it. Their fear of becoming yahoo Q&A has prevented them from filling a need that is there. Often I just want to people's opinions on stuff - that's mostly why I read HN.
The problem that proof-of-work blockchain solves is widely misunderstood. It uses proof-of-work to establish consensus over points in time which are universally unique. Prior to the publication of Satoshi's paper we did not have a solution to this problem and for that reason it is a significant advance in technology. I wouldn't call it crappy, it's actually quite brilliant.

For a detailed description see this: https://grisha.org/blog/2018/01/23/explaining-proof-of-work/
Though there are a couple more declarative ways to handle user package installs.
There is a Falun Gong group here in Kansas that had a float in local parade. Funny that they didn't have the swastika emblem shown on they wiki.
The FCC Is Refusing to Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video
I don't think there are tests for everything. For example, a search for "choline deficiency test" didn't turn up anything for me.
Wow--it's both amazing to me and yet deeply unsurprising that the comments here so far seem to ignore the thrust of the article. Well, whatever--I like how it makes explicit the political theses embedded in current discussion of an "apolitical" technology.
> The very places that made Austin so hip are being demolished to make room for the hotels and office spaces needed to accommodate the flood of tourists and newcomers

....

> When we arrived in Austin in

Sigh...
I use GuixSD on all my systems---servers, workstations, laptops. I also use Guix on a 200+ node bioinformatics HPC cluster at the institute where I work.
Spanish has five. Period. No exceptions. And crystal clear.
A few months ago I wanted to learn jq really well but unfortunately I didn't really know where to start and couldn't find much of what I would call well written documentation so I decided to train myself by contributing an answer to every reasonable jq question on StackOverflow.

I found many of the newbie restrictions off-putting and if I wasn't there with the specific goal in mind to improve my own skills by helping others with their real problems I probably would have just left immediately like I'm sure many others have. Getting involved in the pettiness of the self-appointed there isn't worth the time.

I stopped contributing when my free time evaporated after changing jobs. I might go back to StackOverflow when things settle down but I feel like I know jq well enough now, my experiment has run its course and for me to learn more I'm going to have to spend some time working on the jq internals and going into deeper questions then SO can handle.
Another one: in Castellano Spanish (not in Latin America though) foreign words are always spoken with their Spanish pronounciation, even the English ones. A funny cultural shock indeed.
I assume this is as a joke?
I've had a good experience as a customer. On the business side, they've navigated a difficult landscape and gone from zero to printing money in virtually no time. It's hard not to admire that if you're an entrepreneur.

I'll caveat that by saying that if they've managed it via shady practices, then it is not admirable. However, I have only heard rumblings here or there (admittedly, I am not hyper-plugged into the crypto community). But, given the volume they are said to be doing, issues seem far from widespread, relatively speaking.

I may be biased though: I've built and run a business where I've bent over backwards to go well beyond what could be reasonably expected at significant expense to the business, only to have a relative handful of unreasonable people impugn our company and even my personal integrity. It's a constant and these people tend to be very vocal, whereas the hordes of satisfied customers tend to quietly say thank you. So, I tend to filter for that.

As for customer support, their growth was meteoric and I'd expect there to be scaling pains. Customer support in particular is difficult to calibrate from the outset because needs are uneven and also tend to spike around policy changes, etc. You eventually pick up on patterns, learn to identify and develop support for oft-asked questions, etc. Then, you have to hire, develop and communicate processes, etc. Unlike with scaling other processes, the timeline for this is very visible to customers since they are typically waiting on the other end for a response.
HouseHodl Claims World's First Platform for Buying Real Estate with Bitcoin
Thank you for saying this. I always try to find the words but you said it eloquently.
You're publishing your editorial content to a large number of strangers here, it is not that different from the situation of reporters. While it is true that no such requirement exists, the reasons to choose the alternate wording are still the same.
> One thing is sure, if you're hanging on to the past you'll always lose in the end.

That does not seem to be a truism on the face of it. Some things change and some things stay the same. New or old is not clearly a winner, the world is more complex than that.
"Data scientist" is the new "business analyst".
In Germany the Church still manages to use the government to fill its coffers, and the Christian Democratic party has been a major force in politics for decades.

In Spain we have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Spain)

And in Italy we have the Pope as one powerful element, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Italy) (which is Christian 'left').

That it is with 'popular support' is obvious to me, that's the whole point of these movements, to get so many people into their organization that you're going to have to take them into account. That's been their strategy for centuries, if it was just a bunch of priests nobody would care.
Many people probably don't know how much taxes they have to pay until right before tax day (because they haven't done their taxes yet). Especially with something like cryptocurrency, where actually calculating your true tax can be really complicated (if you have a lot of trades, are trading alt coins for alt coins, etc).
This is a necessary evil unfortunately. When loading 3D content from disk, every cycle counts. Therefore storing and parsing this content in plain text is just too inefficient. A number of 3D scenes are quite large in size as well, and benefit highly from compression.
there's already a ton of censorship deployed worldwide, one of those is ban on literature spreading hate, killing and humiliation of others, and frankly - most parts of bible aren't very different in this. bible "morals" are extremely outdated
>People who can't maintain proper speed without either flooring it, or taking their foot off the pedal, shouldn't be driving.

Not entirely true. I've been to German driving school and my father really pushed the concept of smooth throttle control on me as a beginning driver. Be smooth always. However, as I was able to afford higher and higher performance vehicles my take on the smooth maintaining of speed without noticeable accelerator input has changed. While I'll drive my SUV very smoothly, when I drive my manual six speed German roadster, my style is entirely different. Because of the weight, size, and HP, it's really not possible to drive it smoothly outside of tossing it into 6th which isn't terribly "fun". In the gears where it's "fun", it's a very much "on" or "off" throttle experience simply because of the HP produced by the engine.
I can't disagree with this more strongly. Not only is it a useless opinion piece with not a bit of data to support the conclusions drawn, but I'm certain it's dead wrong to boot.

English is the beginnings of a global language. The language of human beings, rather than just the language of a particular culture or nationality. More people speak English than any other language. More people are learning English as second language than any other language. It's the defacto language of international business, the sky, the sea, of science, of movies, television, and games, and most importantly of the internet itself. There is more information available on any topic, in English, on the internet than any other. To the point that if you don't know how to search in English and read in English, you're at a serious information disadvantage. This is why for software developers, where information is king, English is the lingua franca.

Look at us, here we are people from all over the world, and we're all communicating in English because it's the common denominator.

It has little to do with the relative economic power of England and America at this point. In terms this group will relate to - English has stronger network effects going for it than any other language - and I expect its importance to only increase going forward.
That would drop the whole crypto market cap to $50bn from the current $250bn.
Even strident atheists (Bill Maher) are not exactly picky about mocking whatever form of "invisible friend" you delude yourself with.

It's just easy to mock an overgrown persecution complex and blatant hypocrisy on high-profile Christian/evangelists.
Presumably if you think BC is going to go continually up you want to wait until the last minute to sell.
I agree that it'll be hard, if not impossible for bitcoin to work as well as normal systems built on normal trust. However I think we increasingly do need some system of verifiable trust in a world where anonymity is common, since all current forms of trust require it's participants to not be anonymous.
> Ireland is very much a part of the UK

Well, that would simplify one of the thorny issues in Brexit, but, no, it's really very much a separate sovereign nation, and not even one of the UKs former possessions that still shares a monarch with the UK.
I find this really puzzling, as Americans, we seem to have this strange implicit assumption that the market should protect and reinforce culture. That is to say, that as demand increases for cultural artifacts, that the market should grow without affecting access to such artifacts.

It seems that when this assumption does not seem to play out, our reflex is to say that the markets are obviously failing and that policy should step in in order to preserve the integrity of the culture (i.e. we need to stop ruining our neighborhoods with all this development and letting all these _other_ people in!).

I feel like this is putting the cart before the horse. IMO (and I'd love to hear other people's opinion about this) cultures are emergent properties from markets. When people come together in order to trade goods and services, market forces will reward economies of scale to those who minimize costs associated with things like time to market, access to labor, etc. This increase in density with others leads to community development, which in turn leads to an exchange of collective values, shared cultural artifacts, etc.

From this perspective, the desire to limit market expansion is really an attempt to say which values are acceptable and places incumbents as cultural police for which values are allowed entrance. This seems entirely antithetical to the American ideal of being a nation of immigrants and/or being a culture of acceptance and tolerance.
If nothing else, I suppose you could also train yourself to think in code.

That word you keep using - I don’t think it means what I think you think it means.

That sort of thing.
https://www.bizfilings.com/toolkit/research-topics/managing-...

What I'm saying is that trading btc for ltc is barter- and it is taxible.
I am sure the region is stunningly starlit, but if it were Olber's-paradox- bright, would not the dust in the region also be glowing white-hot?
I am far too lazy to tag every file and I would despise such a system if forced into it. Some files I want to keep realizing I may never need them again. Tagging is a time waste. It's also difficult to anticipate future use and what tags are helpful.

Now a tagging system that could be built over time from search results could be very useful. Apply tags as you go in batches in other words to aid future searches.

If I were designing a new OS, I'd force each piece of software to auto-tag and index the file contents in meta tags and feed it to a global OS search function.
What about や (ya), ゆ (yu), よ (yo), わ (wa), ー (dash)?
For someone coming from an atonal language, it can be very difficult to learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
Well, yeah. There is little beauty or structure to the mainland's new-new writing system, but the traditional one found in Taiwan can be used as a great help when homophones confound.
That does not seem to be a truism on the face of it.

Agreed. It's actually quite empty, on the face of it.
Trying to download the Bible?
10 points from Gryffindor!

You just lost access to public transportation.
Yes and no. NACLs are, indeed, associated with a subnet so more of a networking construct. It's somewhat a firewall, but it's also stateless which is different than many (non-network engineer) people's mental model of a firewall.

Security Groups have some key differences from a host-based firewall. A packet destined for an EC2 instance will not make it to the instance IP stack and be evaluated there, it will be evaluated before it gets there.

It depends on your audience. A web dev that's relatively new to syadmin tasks... sure, it's like a host based firewall. For a syadmin or network admin, that explanation might be more confusing than helpful.
I think it was both was graduate and deliberate, in different ways. San Francisco has actually allowed a remarkable takeover of pedestrian space through curb cuts and a lax attitude toward paving front yards and and sidewalk parking.

http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2008-06-01...

I grew up in SF, and it wasn't really until I read this article that I realized why I found the urban streets in NY and Paris more relaxing than SF. I really mean it, relaxing. Once you allow cars to cross back and forth over the sidewalk to get to driveways, the pedestrian areas become hazardous. This became especially apparent to me when I had small children. I found I really had to grip my kid's hands when out on walks when were were on the sidewalk.

There actually were a few close calls - I let my kids run ahead on a street with relatively few curb cuts, and they crossed the driveway section just as a car was turning in - and being small, of course they couldn't be seen above the other cars. It actually wasn't that close a call, because the other driver was very aware and paying attention.

But go through this a few times, and I gotta tell you, no driveways and curb cuts is actually a very, very desirable aspect to an urban neighborhood. The sad thing for SF is that it was originally build without the curb cuts - many of the curb cuts and garages were added to the older houses. And SF did go through that very foolish period of time where new houses were required to add parking.

And apparently, because the curb cuts break up the sidewalk, they don't add much net parking - supposedly every curb cut removes about 2/3 of a parking space.

We really did let cars run all over us, and it's very ingrained now. hard to change.
That's entirely your fault. If you had no idea what you were doing the correct play would be to raise your hand and ask for help. Find seniors that could help out. Stop pretending (lying) and start being a professional.
I've also heard the Agile Fluency people use the term "Release at Will".

The idea is that you could release, if you wanted to... but there might be good reason not to want to, in a particular market. For instance, a retailer might time the release of certain features around Christmas or summer clearance.
Good point, I should have written 'Northern Ireland', apologies.
> You could approximate this with Latin characters too, say 2018Y04M05D, but I think there is something to be said for having a distinct ideograph to improve readability and unambiguously mark a day, month, year, hour, minute or second.

Great, now you have n+1 standards …
It would be logistically easier to keep the same calendar and ban the idea that it's based on Jesus Christ.
nit: Ireland is very much not a part of the UK.

Germany's church tax is only paid by members of a particular religion.
I am going to hazard guess that they dont' spend their days in front of a computer and evenings on the couch.