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Re:Show HN: Mortgage calculator using discounted cash flow on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:17AM (#24449809)
Annual discount rate the rate by which you want to discount the future cash flow. For example, 6% means that $1000 in a year should be valued at $1000/(1 + 6%) = $943 in today's dollars, because if one has $943 today and invests it, one can probably get $1000 in a year. The recommended rate is the long-term (10 yr) government bound return rate, which is about 6% in the United States.

Ask HN: Is there market for self-host, customizable web UI for Google BigQuery?

Posted by kjhitcher on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HNers,I’m trying to build an open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-customize web UI for Google BigQuery. Do you find it a product that you would like to use? Discussion on features are also very welcome.The product is to solve some problems I experienced when using Google BigQuery:(1) Cost saving. There are quite a few common, well-known “best practices” that a self-hosted web UI can easily...

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Re:Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:54PM (#22771359)
I did a bit, but there are tables that simply don't have any lines. Given that human beings are just so much better at detecting tables than AI, I figured maybe the solution is to help people quickly draw the table they see, rather than tweaking algorithm -- hence this new product.
Re:Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:43AM (#22770376)
Yes, agreed that this is indeed a difficult tradeoff.

Just curious, does extracttable.com provide offline mode? It seems that quite a few people can't submit their documents to 3rd party server

Re:Show HN: Coronavirus Dashboard on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:38PM (#22400369)
just fyi, I usually use this one https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...