skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2 cents : I've been in my business for 20 years now. Most of my clients are in France (as a french citizen)

End of 2014, I've been approached by my former co founder to work on a project with him. So I packed my stuff and my family, and we went to Caribbean. The project was a failure (at last for me) but I kept all my client so I stayed ´til now.

Next year we plan to go back to EU, most probably Ireland, for our kids to learn English better. And still work for my clients in France.

Then next, it will be Spain, then probably Sweden.

My point is, am I a DN ? With my wife we decided that, until our kids tell us to stop, we gonna travel from a country to another, staying 2 years probably. So we're not moving every month or so, but still. As I can do my work from anywhere, I think it's a great opportunity to be able to travel like that.

The only problem I see is jet lag, as I am sometimes wake up in the middle of the night if there's an emergency.

But it will no longer be one when back to EU.
One thing that I haven't seen discussed, but I think is something that may be a factor in the site selection, is the future of online presence.

Specifically, I think it's plausible that advancements in VR over the next 20 years will drastically enhance the ability of people to work remotely; I believe that was one of the justifications provided by Facebook for their purchase of Oculus, and may also be one of the reasons behind Microsoft's push into "Mixed Reality".

A major factor for housing desirability currently is its physical proximity to jobs (SF, NYC, etc.); this could be a way to hedge a bet against that trend. And at $80M, it's really not a huge investment in the grand scheme of things. The biggest question is if VR can bridge the "uncanny valley" of video chat and other current technologies, and make virtual interaction/communication as seamless as in-person communication (or at least, within some acceptable margin).

If you're going to be sitting in what's essentially an air-conditioned VR cocoon for 8-10 hours a day, it probably doesn't matter where that's located, provided that the infrastructure is good. Since infrastructure seems to be one of the stated priorities, it could serve as a prototype for a "virtual outpost".
All desserts can be DIY. You just make them for yourself instead of someone else.
How so? They don't have to worry about snow, land is reasonably cheap. Not much water but this isn't a farm.
Smart city ... no traffic, affordable houses, public transit
They're number 3 now. Enterprise was the surprise, taking the number one spot
Not even close to the idea of what Epcot was suppose to be, though.
Contrast that with the fact that the half-life of S&P 500 companies has shortened — I don’t think web monopolies are here to stay.

Only thing holding those trio up is a self sustaining loop of VC money and ad revenue.
And behind a permission: see "Clipboard access" in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...
I recently bought a land line phone because mobile reception in my house was terrible and attending work meetings was troublesome. One of these days I start getting spam on the landline and then I realised there is no "reject" or "silent" button. I had to pickup a call to reject it which seemed like a chore in the age of mobile phones.
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The simple solution to this is using a physical switch instead of hiding that functionality in a BIOS setting. A clever designer could even design it into/near the port itself so each port can be switched independently.
This is neat, and reminds me a bit of the tricks used by RediSearch. I came across it on HN recently and have been geeking out on it since! http://redisearch.io
China can just firewall all its bitcoin nodes for a day or two and return them back. Do this several times and Western nodes will be very very tired rolling back everything..
I think it’s referring to how a lot of Chinese apps have micro transactions / are essentially payment channels with incentives built in or games built on top.
Most work will be done using environments like TensorFlow. It doesn't mean you don't need to learn how things work. It just means that you don't need that much of maths, beyond understanding concepts.

There will be plenty of grunt work as well as work related to developing and maintaining the infrastructure.
I have no social anxiety or fear of public speaking or anything of the sort (I studied theatre for years and now I do improv in my free time). I have no problems at work; I like to think I have no problems socially.

Yet I also hate telephones for all of the reasons that the author listed. Part of a past job involved helping customers over the phone. Calls are interruptive, unreliable, and inefficient. Repeating names, addresses, numbers, or relying on customers to accurately describe something. There is no real authentication.

Maybe it's a good medium for people who have trouble writing/typing effectively.

My friends do not use the telephone either. We agree where/when via text or email.
This article was extremely cringey, starting from the ridiculous assumption that "the world's best and brightest" are the most famous American billionaires, and through the flurry of shallow understandings about the philosophical ideas the author claimed to have studied.
> Or investing in borderline scam products like variable annuities.

It's interesting that you say this, because many VAs have embedded put options that were very valuable post-crisis. The "scam" happens when someone invests 100% of their modest life-savings in a VA.

Ben Bernanke invests the majority of his retirement savings in annuities, it's really just like buying into a pension.
Funny coincidence, but this is the same region where Paolo Soleri founded Arcosanti [1], another attempt at a utopian city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
It's true that using version ranges is incredibly dangerous. My take on it: https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2017/03/15/package-manag...

I don't love lockfiles, but you need some way deterministic dependency resolution.
The other concern is that it turns into a dystopian nightmare, with all the "smart" technology being used for pervasive surveillance and in general maintaining tight control over its residents.
There's definitely a lot of wanking about learning methods, but if you're taking an immersion class, you have to consider the amount of word study you're already doing. I'm just responding to the self-learner folks who want to start by "learning kanji", as if that's some kind of preliminary step to learning the language. I've met a bunch of those people, and it rarely works well for them.

(Though, it should be said that the reason the Chinese kids are better isn't that they "know kanji", but that many of the words are written the same way in Japanese. Substitute some of the kanji with hiragana, and they'll lose the bubble quickly.)
Agreed, it’s much easier to create a fork and sow discord within the community than it is to launch a 51% attack.
Sorta. Arcosanti is north of Phoenix, half way to Flagstaff. Belmont is west of Phoenix.
Does this really learn a game engine that a human user could play the game with? I can't tell from the article or the paper. It sounds like it learns rules from how the objects are seen to move and tries to replay that from the learned rules. I'm not sure what the point of that would be, when the video it learned from already replays without error. If someone has more insight let me know what I'm missing.
Left unsaid is that guys are expected to ride in front, women in back. Guys less likely to cause violence in front, women less likely to receive/accuse anything untoward in back. Sitting next to someone is more conducive to having a chat.
China’s forcing its citizens to install a Spy app on their phones or go to jail
Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, is a massive master planned city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
For me, gaming was all about secrets. Obviously pattern detector can't replicate that..
Many years ago I used to take the time to put the calling number into a ProComm script for a modem to dial repeatedly every 3 minutes for several hours, if they were toll free to me (expense to the original caller). I had way too much time on my hands then...
Try listening to The Mountain Goats
Do you really want to grant an app power of attorney over you? That's like adding yourself as a co-signer of a loan. If they mess something up, it's your problem and "they should have know I didn't want that" isn't usually considered a valid reason to undo anything.
Even in the current state, it’s not sustainable due to the water situation. Arizona is already fighting with Nevada and Southern California over the water supply of a single lake.

And it’s only going to get worse.
This isn’t a “master planned community” in a traditional sense. The intent matters. I worked for KBHome and Toll Brothers. The builder’s intent determines the outcome - Bill Gates didn’t buy that many acres to master-plan a community 45 miles from downtown Phoenix - not with 3500 acres of office space. No, this is something much more.

Perspective: CA is expensive. Seattle is expensive. Phx is not... this is a big deal. Perhaps more so than Google in Toronto.
Decentralization only works when everyone is in accordance with the mission and with the implementation. Bitcoin community is together in the former, divided in the latter.
This a long winded ad for a course. It never even approaches the title in question. And there is this:

Over the years, as I’ve studied all of the above entrepreneurs, I’ve also aggressively applied their teachings. Even if I didn’t understand what they were saying at first, I took their advice on faith.

If someone makes money follow their advice, eyes closed. Not really a sound advice.
At some point in the early days of Lyft, the way to signal this was by getting in the front seat for a friendly conversation or the back seat for a boring but efficient taxi-like experience. I've done that recently, but I'm not sure - is that still a meaningful norm, or did that disappear along with the giant pink mustaches?
Tried feedly and it did not stick for reasons I no longer recall :-)
Article is from 1996.

Another study was done last year and they also found humans can probably see single photons, though the study is limited as its sample size is n=3.

https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-...
> Considering the extremely poor state of private defined benefit pension funds

The poorly funded ones make the news, but there are many healthy ones that don't. It isn't agency risk that causes problems, it's a combination of increased longevity and low interest rates.

A big problem with 401Ks is predatory investment advice. "Advisors" channel money into high-fee funds and commissionable investments and often "churn" money to generate additional commissions. The Obama administration cracked down by instituting a "Fiduciary" standard for retirement funds, but Trump has delayed implementation of the rule twice.
Wear a headphone and when you get in just let them know you are on a call.
Everyone here is so optimistic; no one is talking about a dystopia in which one man owns everything. Obviously planned experimental cities ala Disney are cool, and interesting to think about, and perhaps beneficial, but it's worth playing devil's advocate anyway.

We used to have butchers and bakers and vegetable-sellers and dry goods stores, then we had supermarkets, and they employed cashiers and truck-drivers and shelf-stockers.

Now we've got supermarkets with self-checkouts, robot price checkers, soon shelf stockers, and sooner still self-driving trucks. One guy owns the warehouse, the supermarket, and the trucks, and employs, essentially, no one.

Now, imagine a city owned by one man, you rent your house from him, buy from his stores, work in his factory, and let his cars drive you around.

Just because things could work out well doesn't mean they will.
More specifically:

"If a business collects and processes IP addresses, but has no legal means of linking those IP addresses to the identities of the relevant users, then those IP addresses are unlikely to be personal data. However, businesses should note that if they have sufficient information to link an IP address to a particular individual (e.g., through login details, cookies, or any other information or technology) then that IP address is personal data, and is subject to the full protections of EU data protection law."

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
This exactly, without specifying the scale and method of monitoring it's impossible to even know what the article is talking about...
No, it is the exchanges who's coins are "stolen", but still not really.

51% hashing doesn't allow you to `undo exchanges going back as long as you want`. There is a small time frame with exchanges/merches that accept <6 block confirmations that a transaction could be reversed. And if a fork in the chain is happens (it does more often than not that 2 blocks get made and 1 is orphaned,) all other miners switch to the longer chain as soon as a fork is detected.
I think this article is complete nonsense. The author presents no evidence to support the claim that credentials are stored in the clear.
Celebration, Florida?

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to "make history" and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
Neil Patel talks about broken/dead links
Ronald Schott, executive emeritus at the Arizona Technology Council, says the land Gates' company purchased is in a good spot, in part due to the proposed I-11 freeway, which would run right through Belmont and connect to Las Vegas.

That sentence is such a grandiosely engineered testament to everything that's wrong with urban planning in the US.

Bill Gates has done excellent things (after Windows). And this executive emeritus (aka pensioner) isn't connected to the project, and his point, if interpreted with good will, isn't actually wrong. But still: could there be anything more uninspiring than that sentence?
My questions were in the context of effective caching in the query process, sorry that wasn't clear. A process on a single machine somewhere has to get enough of the indexes and data into memory to answer questions about it. Though I guess there are other types of queries you might want to do, like streamy mapreduce type stuff that doesn't need the whole log.

I will have to think about if a key-value-time storage backend would have any implications in Datomic. One thing Datomic Pro doesn't have is low-cost database clones through structure sharing, and it doesn't make sense to me why.

Here is a description of some storage problems that arise with large Datomic databases, though it's not clear to me if ZLog can help with this < http://www.dustingetz.com/ezpyZXF1ZXN0LXBhcmFtcyB7OmVudGl0eS..., >
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We have plenty of more ambiguous characters in our limited alphanumeric set and if special care was not given by don't designers it could look exactly the same.

Every written system has its own clues that readers learn to focus on.

In Japanese the number and direction of strokes is important but may translate to barely noticeable pixel differences that Westerners would dismiss as noise.

I think that this particular pair is confusing because in Japanese orientation is not supposed to be important, but is, in that case.
You may be interested by Xapian (https://xapian.org/) which is a very solid alternative to Lucene.
It would be swell if folks in this thread could stop pretending Bill Gates is a moron. I mean seriously, I swear folks with no real experience feel the need to chime in and pretend their ignorance is as good as everyone else’s intelligence.
I think that depends on the phone model. I recall owning a cordless home phone years ago where you could just hit the Hang Up button without answering first.
Discussed in 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299724.
They ran each subject for 2400 trials. Was that decided in advance? This really needs a registered replication.
One thing that bugged me about the 2009 Star Trek film was why Checkov runs over to take manual control of the teleporter to beam up Kirk as he’s freefalling towards the planet: surely a a machine at their level of technological sophistication would be able to calculate the trajectory and beam them up in real time without too much trouble.
It would probably be useful to include hardware.

60 FPS in Firefox 57.0, Chrome 62.0.3202.89, and Safari 11.0.1, on a 2017 iMac running High Sierra (10.13.1) with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 and a Radeon Pro 570 4 GB.
I will! Keep visiting :)
That’s left up to the font.
Please stop blaming the victim for being ignorant and/or falling prey to marketing.

> most don't seem to value their privacy

Most people do value their privacy, but are either ignorant of how strongly technology can damage their privacy[1] or fee there isn't any other option or alternative.

> nothing will change

It will change when the people that do understand technology work to preserve privacy over profit and convenience, educate the general public about privacy issues, and inform them of privacy respecting alternatives.

[1] Businesses tend to encourage ignorant and/or misleading beliefs when they promise impressive features backed u[p with useless promises to "take security seriously".
> At what point does personal responsibility kick in? Every 401(k) I've been on has given the option of investing in funds that ramp down risk exposure as the fund's target retirement date comes closer.

There is no reason to assume that a target-date fund is actually any good. It's like any fund, there are good ones and there are really bad ones, and we're not even talking about whether the 401(k) account that holds the fund has its own problems (which an employee won't be able to avoid if they want to actually invest to the tax sheltered limit every year).

So the "personal responsibility" kicks in once you've educated yourself on all the ins and outs of the way the retirement system in the US can rip people off, intentionally on the part of those peddling bad products or as the result of poor decisions on the part of the investor. Something maybe half of the people out there are qualified to do, and somewhat less than 1% of the people out there are actually interested in doing.

We could fix all this with better policy (allowing everyone to do fee-free in-service rollovers of their 401ks and IRAs to the retirement funds federal workers use, which rely on low-cost index funds, might be one basis of a decent system) but we won't. Too many people are making money ripping other people off.
You can pay the tax bill separately, which is a better move than letting it come out of the rollover amount if you have cash to afford it.
Reading more about Disney's EPCOT is quite inspiring and almost felt ahead of its time. We Americans should experiment more and build towns and cities under a different set of assumptions other than cars and gasoline. Why hasn't the past half century been filled with at least trying new things? What happened to laboratories of democracy?

Although I admit I have a slight repulsion to the thought of a few billionaires being able to wield almost complete autonomy, and assuredly the tech billionaires have a vested interest to build these cities such that the inhabitants depend on their technology (e.g. what would happen if Google built a city, and look how convenient it is that the ISP is Google Fiber, with Google self-driving cars servicing the roads, etc.).

In any case, I wish any effort to re-think how we build towns and cities the best of luck, because it feels like to me we've been grasping this (failing) strategy of car-addiction for far too long now, and it's draining our society financially, environmentally, and socially.
Ask HN: I have an interview with Google in a week.  What should I prepare?
I have an interview scheduled with Google in a week's time. It's for a Developer position. I have 7 years of experience mostly with Java, Scala and Ruby. I am shitting bricks as I am a Google fanboy and this opportunity is my Atlantis.

How should I prepare in a week and go about it?

Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Throw Away account because I am not taking any chances.
You actually can do it, it's just hidden and sort of a pain in the ass. You can insert a SQL-linked datatable that can pull parameters from your spreadsheet, if the cell changes the query updates.
It can be quite terrifying to consult for some banks. That’s when you get to see how bad things really are in the industry, and how common some bad practices are.

For these banks, anything is okay, so long as the auditor okays it. And the auditors are on the payroll of the bank.

In one case, they wanted OS patching to be done no more than yearly, and they didn’t want the OSSEC tools to be run to tell them if there were any vulnerabilities unless they were planning on doing OS patching. But the auditor had okayed it, so that was that.
Well, that was how the government described it initially. More recently they've admitted wrongdoing and apologized. I think it's more likely they were trying to assert sovereignty in the high arctic using people they knew would stand a good chance of surviving there.
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Anyone knows how to loan or buy an ENS registar Ethereum domain?

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Well, to be fair, short length limitations are odd in that if the password is put through a KDF, the output is always the same length, so it shouldn’t really matter how long the user’s password is.
Bill Gates buys big chunk of land in Arizona to build 'smart city'
Seems like unjust complaining about the phenomena, when the technology is actually to blame. I do dislike phones myself, but have accepted the status quo of obligatory having one and answering the calls. But it seems unacceptably stupid how hard it is in Android to configure what seems to me like the most basic features of the dialer. One would think that built-in answering machine, completely transparent phone number blacklist/whitelist configuration (including time of the day, CID, "mode" and appropriate action — reject w/ or w/o notifying me, silently ignore, answer automatically, answer manually, etc.) is a must have. But call handling (on par with a contact list and other "mandatory" apps) is about the lamest software on my smart"phone". Why the hell this device has a browser built-in, but cannot handle incoming/outgoing calls properly?!
I'm literally typing this from Celebration, FL, where I live. Disney doesn't own the place, they just put forth the planning. They do retain some land in the area through various sub-companies, though.
It’s hard to do in Japanese due to all the homonyms. Kanji gives meaning where romanizations would not.
> Pinning is absolutely crucial

Precisely this.

The problem isn't with versioning, it's with non-deterministic builds. Once you have a large enough project that you can no longer keep manual track of version changes, you build tooling which checks for the latest version and opens a pull request (and subsequent CI build on the pre-merge commit) with the latest version. This keeps your project up to date and prevents the woes of non-deterministic building.
As a Computer Engineer by training I am curious about the field of research regarding conciousness.

Is there any contemporary book or resource that summarizes the current academic views and discoveries on the subject?
Hey Swapnil, did you get a lot of response from this post?
JPL is run by California Institute of Technology and the work they do is under contract to NASA, so I would be cautious about calling things that stem from there a public domain government work.
That Nature article and the OP are in complete agreement. Neither say humans can visually experience single photons.