skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The industrial base, and the fact that production could continue unabated by bombings on the American continent for years, was a deciding factor in the war. As were the Russians repelling Hitler. My historical perspective on this has shifted massively since first learning about the war in school. It wasn't D-Day or the Battle of Britain or Midway. All of those battles were key wins but the war overall was really organized and executed by tens of thousands of typists and mid-level managers.
Engulfed in a Toxic Cloud: The Effects of Coal Mining on Human Health (2012)
There is the theory that the bear market is just the FED trying to buy all Bitcoin at low price.
Shouldn't it really be called "visamatrix", because you can lookup based on home and destination countries?
It all depends on one's perspective. There was a time when a typical PC was $5000+ in today's dollars. We just got used to Moore's law bringing cheap disposables.
Digital cameras, when invented back in the 70s. It took decades until they were usable, and still another decade until they started to approach the quality of nondigital.
> If you make selling blood illegal you don't get a black market

No, but only because the European countries which prohibit compensation for tissue donations solve their shortages by importing tissue from the US.
Thinking Ahead to 2019
> Home prices have barley hit their 2008 prices. These are prices ten years ago.

The total inflation over the last ten years has been ~20%, so you would expect prices of a stable asset with the same intrinsic value to be ~20% higher. But the pre-2008 prices were a known bubble -- overvalued by significantly more than 20%.

What you're saying is that it currently isn't as bad as 2008, which is likely true without proving that housing isn't still overvalued now.

And if the prices in Florida are now overvalued somewhat, what does that tell you about the prices in SF?
See also "Nord and Bert couldn't make head nor tail of it" which is a wordplay only infocom game.
The replication is for secure non-censorable trusted code execution.

For high-throughput computations, Golem is being developed, where there is (generally) no computation replication. www.golem.network. The repository is here: https://github.com/golemfactory
If the settlement was for less than you got from the ico it may have been worth it.
It's this thing called the law that -- in western democracies -- applies to everyone equally.
Builder as a (Fail-Fast) State Machine
> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted.

Even if we were to grant that these claims are true, we still have to ask what classes of application benefit from slower, more expensive distributed systems. Blockchains solve only one problem, which is consensus formation on ontrusted networks. They do not solve politics, governance, downtime, and certainly not application failure.. these things all exist on blockchains.

Essentially none of the application ported from centralized systems to Ethereum or even Bitcoin actually face Byzantine consensus issues when deployed as centralized systems. Bitcoin can be used as a 24x7x365 global collateral and value transfer instrument - such a system would face consensus problems if implemented on top of traditional banking infrastructure. That's hugely valuable, but pretty much the only problem-solving application to date.

For things like asset ownership and transfer, any kind of voting, real estate, IPOs, etc, most people still have to deal with incredibly bad centralized systems, that would be amazing if rebuilt as centralized node.js apps that talk to a MySQL database. This stuff is low hanging fruit that's a huge pain for massive swathes of humanity. And despite the fact that no Palo Alto real estate broker is talking to the city's land deed system over unreliable networks, where enemy messengers might swoop in and assign your deed to the wrong buyer, there's this myth that we need distributed consensus for this and other problems best solved by... databases.
How is a status code that almost nobody uses a problem.

Randomly posting a quote and a link is not discussion, nor is it an argument.
I don't even understand the benefit of 100.00% uptime, over 99.99% anyway? I mean, I probably spend more time in a parking garage with no internet available to me at all, than google spends being down in any given month.

I mean, I understand the idea that Google wants to increase their uptime because every lost query is lost revenue, but OP seemed to imply there's some intrinsic benefit that's more than just the incremental benefit...
I inherited one of these from my stepfather's business when I was a kid. They never used it. You should have seen the size of the external 8" dual floppy disk drive; it weighed 300 lbs!
https://medium.com/cryptolinks/maker-for-dummies-a-plain-eng...

A stablecoin run in a contract is pretty amazing and becoming more and more popular.
> does that mean GNU/Linux is no longer really free

I'd say it's a bit of a different situation, since the two are not being designed to work together and aren't even being developed by the same people. If the Ubuntu developers made your proprietary app key to the useful running of the system, which is the more exact analogy, then I'd say yeah, they would have made it non-free.
Unless you think they are "perfectly" matched, in which case you might bet on White to win because of a hypothesized first player advantage. I think it's still an open theoretical question as to what would happen with two equally matched perfect players: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
Linus hasn't used a MacBook Air for several years now. Apple's devices are now inferior in every category.
China is literally building land and has invaded international waters. You are living in a fantasy world
Time will tell
So basically for every person, its a list of countries they can travel based on their home country, hence the name. But yes it can be called that aswell!
Given the patent grants of the Firefox (MPL) license, I would feel Microsoft had lost their marbles.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/
I mean, you can drive a Bugatti Chiron 500km for the same amount of energy as a single bitcoin transaction. The cost of a single transaction using e.g. visa is utterly negligible in comparison.

Edit: Some truly depressing figures here [1] including this

> Number of U.S. households powered for 1 day by the electricity consumed for a single transaction: 16.54

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
What app is key to the useful running of Android and that refuses to run on a modified system?
I've heard Amazon uses IRC internally?
Then lightbend should buy Scala.js and scalatags and add a virtual Dom based reactive renderer. (currently string and Dom are available)
I had an ablation, don’t know enough to know if it was “radio-frequency”. Home that night once they concluded that I wasn’t going to bleed out from the leg vein punctures.

That said, I would not have the same casual attitude of parent. Poking holes in your heart, no matter how small, is not without risk. And it is my understanding that most people stay overnight after an ablation.
Register Allocation: More Than Coloring – 2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting
Selecting USA, many countries are showing "13 to 11 hours ahead" for the time difference. I expect it to be "11 to 13 hours ahead" (numbers of ranges going smaller to larger)
Trains can fit far more people than cars.
Harvard College’s housing is pretty variable yet they don’t charge different rates. I’ve heard of schools having apartments for rent that varied (ones that have little housing) but never different rates for dorm housing.
Even better:

> Ethereum [...] apps [...] never fail

Just...

wow.

Listen, distributed ledgers are useful.

Breathless hyped up nonsense about "flaw-proof technologies that even YOU can use if you just give me 10 bucks!!!" (in used car salesman voice) ... yeah ... that's not so useful.

These people just can't seem to see the difference.
Sure, maybe there's a service that allows you to pay with live chickens for Amazon gift vouchers. By your definition that makes live chickens money, I guess.
Why would you want the wallet with you at all times? How often are you transacting? Seems like more of a risk than a benefit here.
This reminded me of the Programming Paradigms Poster:
https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng108.jpg
Very useful feedback! I will incorporte this soon
Yet wireless and large capacity proved, in the long run, to be exactly what the market wanted and Apple had to incorporate those features into later iPods.
I'm planning to add crowdsource features
"Easier for what?" is a legitimate question. I also had the question after I submitted my question because the "for what" wasn't specified in the article. If the target application only takes beziers, then that is the only tool you have.

My original question was that a rational bezier would be easier to use since a rational bezier would make an exact representation of a Euler Curve instead of an approximate representation.

I agree with you that full NURBs are difficult. But if you ignore the "Non Uniform" (NU) part of NURBs and just use the "Rational BSpline" (RB) part of NURBs then they are as easy to use as just beziers. The rational term just means a projection from n+1 space to n space. It is what gives an exact representation of a conic.

If you want to fully model the parametric equation then you would need the "non uniform" part. I don't know why you would want to do this since you can analyze the original curve directly.
> Poverty might be related to authoritarian, but not necessarily caused by it.

There are some good arguments for why it might be the cause of it. A book I really enjoyed on this subject is called "The Dictator's Handbook".

One of the arguments in the book is that in dictatorships, the rulers have much less need to please ordinary people, and they are better off utilizing their available resources to enrich themselves and buy loyalty from other powerful players. If they are not able to gain loyalty from other powerful players they risk a coup. Where as in democratic societies, the leaders need to please the people, otherwise they risk losing power by being voted out.

A reasonable explanation for the few authoritarian counties that do not have poor and struggling populations is that they have an outside player that is threatening them. In these cases, they have demands for something more than what they can bully out of their populations. So you are going to see widespread education, and ideally, prosperity. This gives them advanced military technology and economic power.

I am likely doing the book injustice in my representation of it, but it is able to provide a very solid argument for the above being true. Both from an analytical perspective, as well as a historical one.
Perhaps you could add relevant links, for example where a user can apply for an e-Visa. Or addresses of consulates, etc. Example visa application letters, and stuff like that.
my neighbor's mother makes $64 hourly on the laptop. She has been out of work for five months but last month her payment was $15080 just working on the laptop for a

few hours. Go to this web site and read more.....www.geosalary.com
That is absolutely irrelevant in every respect. Company A has costs of $10 and sells at $15. Company B has costs of $8 and sells at $11. Company B has undercut Company A. Company B still has a healthy margin on what it sells.
I wish I could remember the exact quote, but in the diary of a German soldier fighting on in France he said something like "For every Krupp shell we sent to the Americans, they sent a hundred Detroit shells back."
Wow I can sympathize. Sounds like you're discerning a S/N ratio problem that would have disqualified the designs from 'high fidelity' in the late 70s and through the 80s. And you have to wonder if in your TV/Apple the hiss is there but is being noise gated. I too believe there has been regression. All it takes is one generation to 'interrupt' consumer expectations of ever increasing quality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569013
True enough. But to my non-EE brain, when you remove parts like output stages from well known designs, you're just being gratuitously cheap.
> Chinese investors wanting to move their money out of the Chinese economy and into something they perceive as more stable, less corrupt etc.

That's an extremely favorable reading of the Chinese(Russian, African, South American, etc.) buyers and of the markets they're buying into. These are often, and I would argue largely, the corrupt connected elites who dominate corrupt economies trying to move money out of their countries before losing power, being caught, or before disasters in their local economies cause their investors to attempt to cash out. They are helped by a west that has lost manufacturing capacity and largely survives economically by circular credit scams that need a constant influx of these colonial resources to maintain the illusion of growth.

The best thing about real estate is that it never goes to zero; the best thing about western real estate is that your networks of accounts and holding companies will never be seriously investigated, because skimming from and taking commissions from transactions between those things is the only inflow of wealth, source of new investments, and source of political contributions. You can also let your kids live in it while they're going to school in London and NY.
Ya... Are we sure there's no chemicals coming out of the eels? They look very, very calm. I wonder if something else isn't going on.
What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry
Such a good writer. His Wolfenstein book had the best explanation I’ve ever seen for how floating point numbers are encoded, and that explanation is in the first several pages. If you don’t have an understanding of floating point encoding, that alone is worth the purchase price.
Every big open source project has a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode, still alive and kicking.

Slack is not an alternative.
No, they chose to operate at a loss because they wanted to continue investing their positive margins from the large amounts of business they were doing back into building infrastructure so they could do even more business.

Now name a single crypto currency start-up that is making able to even cover their own operating expenses, let alone invest their cash flow into growth.
Microstartup? Do you mean just a webpage, which is exclusively not a startup/buisness?
That's not Google's gates, that's the OEM's and the ISP's. Google can only control that for their own devices, and the Nexuses have always been some of the most modded ones.
To be fair, I totally agree. And I do my best to explicitly not look for any particular degree - that doesn't mean HR isn't going to declare in all the job postings "bachelor of science in computing or related field required".

I think the core of the problem is people who never learn perspective or why you would do something outside of good grades - no one grades you at work.

I wouldn't say your GPA is a red flag without investigating the rest. If you have a GPA -and- other good qualities, then the GPA ceases to be a red flag.
I don’t see how it’s any better to put your money in the bank and have no control over how it’s invested—guns, tobacco, drugs, etc.
This study looked at Americans following the Mediterranean diet.
I really hope you haven't been neglecting to fill out form 5471 and form 8938 based on a misunderstanding of reporting requirements.

FBAR requirements are separate and distinct from FATCA.
You're both right- technically, nuclear reactors are on of the fastest-ramping sources available. A reactor in SCRAM can drop down to <10% of full output in minutes, and many reactors are capable of running at continuously at reduced power.

However, zero reactors are capable of doing so economically. The cost of a nuclear plant is in its construction, upkeep, and staff. Those costs are the same at 110% and 30% output, but revenue isnt. In order to turn a profit a nuclear plant needs to be running at 80%+, 24/7.

Ultimately that means nuclear needs batteries almost as much as solar and wind, since only ~30% of grid energy is constant 24/7. This should be no surprise- all three technologies have nearly no reliance on fuel, and are funded pretty much upfront. If you have no marginal costs then your only rational option is 100% output.
Where are you putting your money now?
I'd like to know more about the telemetry myself, but I'm not that bothered as it doesn't apply to me.
Anyone with experience selling content on SendOwl? I have bought digital goods from sellers using its service a couple of times, as a customer it was hassle-free.
Not sure. The main problem with Edge for myself was the mono-OS availability.

If Edge was available on more than just Windows I may have tested it more thorough. Basing itself on another browser, but remaining on just Windows won't help me ignore it.
Interesting, but how do you keep this up to date? These requirement change constantly and the only reliable source I'm aware of, Timatic (which is what airlines use), is copyrighted and quite tightly locked down.

Wikipedia does crowdsource this info fairly effectively though, sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c...
No. Computers aren't magic in that way, and we leave those types of decisions up to pilot's for a reason.

With any advanced system, we use automation to decrease the complexity of a task by which to act as a throughput modifier by decreasing barrier to entry for safe pperatiom.

If you start throwing in computers which fight the operator at every step, you'll start seeing people (1) move away from the system, (2) subvert the system, (3) start trying to make a buck off of selling systems they claim will fix everything, while not really dealing with the issue.

Plus, computer vision just isn't there yet.you're talking about giving a machine the ability to integrate a whole lotus different streams of data and reliably making a decision to veto the pilot's instructions.
Ask HN: I am building Lazylog (logging for lazy devs) in public right now
Yesterday, I started to build a simple web service where I can POST any type of log (code exceptions, user visits, notes) in the most straightforward way possible. I am continuing to work on it today and documenting the process here: https://twitter.com/gduverger/status/1071477233678721025. What do you think?
I second the multiple citizenship option. I would love to be able to see what countries I can enter with my passports.

But great job with the app, regardless!
For those that don't know- scalatags is an amazing html-ish library that allows you to write html once and render both from server and from client. SSR and SPA in one for you cool kids out there.

Not to mention no more misspellings of attributes with strong typed html
Is language just a tool?
I definitely feel that remote work reduces politics and I'm valued in terms of my performance than anything else. Your organization may have less politics than most, and I commend you but it's easier for politics to creep in on-site.

But when your performance is tracked empirically for everyone in the organization to see, everyone knows how much you're worth.
Is Flynn still about? I've not heard from them in ages (subscribed to their blog) - checking on it, looks like they've not posted anything in over a year

Really liked it when I was testing it a while back but reluctant to use it if it's going to sunset on me
I haven't tried Mastodon — what makes you ask about that versus Twitter or anything else? I'd be curious to try it if you think the accessibility community would be strong there!

My startup is BeeLine Reader [1], which launched via an unexpectedly successful Show HN. Our Tumblr page is not very impressive — almost all of the traction there was from organic user posts.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
The underlying tech is potentially powerful and useful. The current popular implementations are slow, have very wonky hyperdeflationary economics (which makes them Ponzis whether intended or not), and are surrounded by a toxic ecosystem that is shockingly riddled with scams and fraud.

HN has, like many other circles, gotten sick of the breathless vaporware hype and scams.
>If crypto is a store of value can I trust it will have any rational storage value over any time period?

There are different types of cryptocurrencies and the one you are looking for is known as a "stable-coin". I suggest looking into Bancor and Maker DAI to get a better view of how these currencies keep their value over time.
I think of it as pessimism in the sense that SF real estate will never ever be affordable to the middle class buyer
How? Retirees aren't buying houses, they're selling them.
> we should be filing or looking for a proper bug report for this instead of crafting hacks or talking about alternative products altogether right off the bat

As if Google even considers reading any bug reports ... :(
Ask HN: What are some good indicators of what one is good at?
Asking this in the context of helping a friend who is going through a sort of career rethinking. I have never done something like this so I thought why not ask the smart folks of HN.
Chickens could very well be money, at least bones have been used before.

edit:https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-18827269/a-brief-histor...
Thank you! Testing nightly the next couple of days and will report in the bug tracker if i still have problems.
I once did my own calculation to answer the question: "How much land do you have to cover with solar panels to meet Toronto's electricity needs". The answer: about 3.5x the size of the city. Covering every square inch of the city is not sufficient, you need a lot more land.

You can double-check my calculations: take the output of largest solar farm installations, note their land area, adjust for solar radiation at your chosen location/latitude, then use the target city's electricity consumption to see how many of these solar installations will be required. Note, I'm talking solely about land-use requirements here, not cost/battery requirements etc.

So covering cities in solar would work great if the overall electricity mix was 50% nuclear for base load, 50% solar/wind/hydro for peak times, but relying heavily on solar will bring its own issues.
i was thinking of adding useful tips / content in the future
GP is not commenting on the ability of an Asian-American to write or think on par with W.E.B. DuBois, but that the presented body of work is not necessarily a parallel to The Souls of Black Folk. As other commenters have mentioned, this book does not exclusively discuss the role of Asian-Americans in American culture and society, apparently being relegated to a few essays. For a book which proclaims to be about "The Souls of Yellow Folk" - invoking DuBois's book, this does indeed seem a little ambitious.
You're just going to run into loads of people who don't understand what "legal tender" is and, when you explain it, will insist that you must be wrong because they've heard that phrase and attached a different meaning (generally: a vaguely positive aura plus "it's money")

For those reading along, a useful baseline to get you straight on legal tender is in countries where fiat currencies are just broadly assumed to be valuable any legal tender laws are basically just ornamentation. Scotland, for example, doesn't have any bank notes as legal tender, just some old coins. Nobody in Scotland doubts that the notes they have are valuable, but its laws don't bother explicitly privileging this as "legal tender". Nevertheless if you get on a bus in Edinburgh with a goose and some shiny rocks and try to barter, well, you'll be lucky if the other passengers let you back off in one piece, let alone to get an actual ride. "Exact cash fare only".