skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider myself something of a digital nomad, but somewhere in between a conventional worker and a digital nomad. I just recently moved country, and in a year or two, or when I get bored, I will leave my job, move to a new country, and find another job.

I'm in the somewhat uncommon position where I can work in most of the western world without having to get a skilled work visa. The only country that's locked to me (in terms of effort required to immigrate) is the USA. Otherwise I can work visa-free in New Zealand, Australia, and the EU; and Canada isn't difficult to get a 2 year unrestricted work visa for.

Obviously everyone is different, but I don't really think it's a sustainable lifestyle to end up in a different city every month, staying in Airbnbs (and apparently shunning coworking spaces). You don't end up getting meaningful social connections, I think I would just feel like a permanent tourist who still has to work.
I just use the date. Period.
Cool. Now they need to create a tool so that a person can animate a few frames deterministically to imply the physics they need.

Then the AI extracts the engine, and one can use that to write the game.

I am curious, though, as to what kind of concepts the game discovered or had to be taught. Was it taught platform concepts (platforms, killer objects etc) and then simply had to map to what is what on screen?

Or can it really learn almost any videogame?
It's worth mentioning there's no need for 51+% control of hashrate to execute this double spend attack. It's very possible to execute one with minority control however success is not guaranteed. With 20% control of hashrate an attacker would have a 2.33% chance of executing a double spend attack. Even at 10% control, the attack is still possible (0.059% success rate). At 40% control, the attacker has a near coinflip for success (49.30%).

Probabilities come from this paper which has a table about double spending on page 10. https://bitcoil.co.il/Doublespend.pdf
Simple Habit Is Hiring a Head of Design
In that event they may recapitalize or go private equity. Too big to fail.
Best retro social text web game – Tron Grid 2.0
A small community with friendly players, including programmers who play on their coffee breaks and hardcore strategy players. Create your beautiful text-based empire and rule it with a rod of 0's and 1's. http://codeelf.com/games/grid_1.php
Sales tax is the highest of all US states in TN (9.45%), but honestly it's a rounding error compared to CA health insurance, bay area cost of living, CA state LLC taxes, and other costs being in California and SF (lots of little taxes in SF like bag tax and SF healthy). No state income tax in TN makes a big difference.
Avis rent a car used to embrace that attitude: https://visual.ly/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/avis-1.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjhMFKRvyqo/SODNmsNEHCI/AAAAAAAAAk...
How to Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart or Just Average?
Airbus 3d prints titanium parts for its production aircraft [0]. It's cheaper than subtractive manufacturing, as there's no material wastage. You can 3d print metal, ceramics, or plastic. You can 3d print practically anything, not just plastic.

[0]: http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/09/fir...
Many of these solutions are about energy minimization. Sometimes its the lifetime energy. Sometimes, its the energy of creation/instantiation. If you start from a bundle of cells you don't have the option to yank a mecanno box of new parts into the system ready-made: you have to use cellular generative methods, to construct largely fluid and jelly filled sacs, which then accrete things, or form surfaces, and you badly want to minimize the energy cost of doing that, within the constraints of the physical system you are in.

Whales could be half a mile long and razor. Thin. or globular. They went somewhere inbetween for reasons.

Thats what I think, anyway. I base this on (mis) readings of D'Arcy Thompson. 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Growth_and_Form
Thats a product, not a feature.
That's all these extensions are. Injecting stuff into websites, usually all of them.

I needed a Chrome extension after they inexplicably broke backspace navigating backwards (it literally has the same icon as the backwards UI button). That extension needs to inject a script on every. single. website.

It's like Google is spending millions upon dollars building convoluted sandboxing security features, and there is a place for that in protecting us from code execution. But then everyone is pushing for "apps on the web" and here we are with random extensions that can do everything. And they do: lots of them make money through selling your browsing history.
5:4 as in the time signature? Very cool, I had no idea (not from UK).
They have some specials sometimes too. I've used it for a few tasks I seriously didn't want to do that involved calling multiple places.
If there is no revenue, then the offer is likely a one-off opportunity. Don't expect a bunch of prospective buyers even if you hassle their CorpDev departments or potential decision makers.

$50K is likely a guesstimated amount, not based on some kind of calculations. It's basically "looks like it might be valuable, so let's give him some figure big enough for an independent developer but not too much".

Personally, I would haggle a bit (say, try to raise it $80K, then meet around $60K-$70K) and sell. Do not underestimate the uncertainty and the amount of money that needs to be poured to monetise the business. If it's coming from a small company or a person, they are more flexible.
The Bitcoin community seems to be doing a pretty good job of destroying itself right now, and I say that as a long time (cautiously optimistic) believer in Bitcoin.

The division, infighting, toxic and dogmatic rhetoric, etc make me wonder if there’s an external force attempting to disrupt Bitcoin.

Or perhaps it’s just the inevitable outcome of a leaderless/decentralized project with billions of dollars on the line.
Bill Gates buys land in Arizona to build 'smart city'
https://www.uber.com/info/elevate/summit/

Uber Elevate had a really interesting summit to explore this idea. The keynote recording/slides are in the link above.
Maybe this is an individual thing but I'd rather talk on the phone for any important conversation. For example, if I need to contact my bank for something, I'm always going to choose a phone call over chat. A phone call with a follow-up email if needed.
I think SNAP could benefit from being a content creation hub like YouTube. It's great for spontaneous content creation, even more than Instagram, and a ton of people already use it for that purpose.

Right now the app is mostly messenger focused. People with interesting, creative snap stories aren't advertised at all.

Snapchat could accomplish this with a "discovery" feature that shows snap stories a user might be interested in. It would also get users spending more time in the app and watching more ads.
IIRC, there was a time when just a few large pools were crossing over into the 51% threshold, thus control of the network if they got wise to it. Does anyone know what happened to that? What are the largest pool control stakes now?
I thought this was going to be about the Australian band who sang "Down Under."
Parent's phone is weird that it doesn't have a call-blocking feature. All flagship androids give you the option to block spam calls.
Also inspiration for Slackware. One of the oldest Linux distributions in existence.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding#Personal_li...
slack... discord... ?

what next, microsoftskypianity?
> The division, infighting, toxic and dogmatic rhetoric, etc make me wonder if there’s an external force attempting to disrupt Bitcoin.

I would say the force has a name, and it’s “Pride”.
"white flight" is invoked here often. I'm not sure exactly why, but maybe it allows a certain amount of feeling morally superior, and/or allows the author to feel like these people's predicament is entirely of their own design, and thus they are not real people deserving of solutions or sympathy.
Heart breaking story, really (from a heavy Kubernetes user btw).

Would you mind giving more details about what happened exactly? Why did you have to go back? What was the reason why they didn't renew your visa (I'm assuming it's a renewal problem since you mentioned 3 years)? And is there something that is being done by your company or yourself to get your US life back, or you just "gave up"?

I mean why the hell would a person with a 250k+ offer be kicked out, assuming you didn't commit any crime? Isn't the offer itself a proof that you're desperately wanted here and it should invalidate any RFE?
ESA had a slower pace of innovation, somehow on purpose. They chose risk avoidance above anything else. Now for sure Musk and his friends kicked the tree quite hard .. but it's not really a sad thing that ESA was lagging behind.
You're looking at the average sales tax. Tennessee has a 7% sales tax, and Davidson County (containing Nashville) has 2.25% sales tax.

Washington also has no income tax, has a 6.5% sales tax, and King County (containing Seattle) has 3.6% sales tax.
Ask HN: How to ship a Java web service app as a local desktop app?
I have a Java web service that I want to ship as a local desktop app. Ideally, the user would interact with the app by starting running the jar and opening localhost:$someport.

But I want to provide the ease of use by providing the user with a single click and run app experience like an electron app and not have to ship a separate jar and a separate front-end app. So how can I ideally have:
1. Ideally a single executable app which when clicked, launches like a Chromium app
2. If the above is not possible, then what's the suggested way to ship such an app?
Would love to hear more details about this too (same comment as the one I left in the parent message).
This doesn't belong on HN. Take this garbage to reddit.
I read "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" and seeing how these agents committed these crimes and their jail sentence and then sentence that Ulbricht received seems a bit unjust to me.
From https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-20... it says 7.0% state tax rate and an average local tax of 2.45%. Either way rounding error compared to California.
Is there a real reason to believe that highways can provide all the transit the city will ever need? Like, if only people would finally rideshare (which cities have been promoting since, what, the 60's) all the traffic would be gone?

Is there a train layout that would be much more attractive?
Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (2013)
Anybody else a Rev. Dr. here?
There's one in our town- the one pitfall I've come to feel is placement of the crossings. Close but not part of existing intersections means another traffic light whose timing you can now bungle.
Nobody else has mentioned it (yet), so I'll be the first.

The problem with the DN lifestyle is that everyone marketing it hard has a vested interest (they run some product/service tied to the DN lifestyle).

For everyone else that wants to get their feet wet in this type of living, they soon realize that things get expensive really quickly (this applies to everywhere except South East Asia).

You just need to account for plane tickets, visas and short-term rent alone to see how it is expensive.

Also, the article conflates "work from home" with "digital nomad", which aren't exactly the same thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669262
> I am trying to teach myself Japanese, which allegedly is easier than Chinese.

Who did you hear that from? The Japanese writing system is the Chinese one, minus all of the internal consistency, plus lots of characters the Chinese aren't traditional enough to keep in the language. It often uses the same character to write distinct Chinese loanwords which differ wildly in pronunciation based on when and from whom the Japanese heard them, and they often have different shades of meaning.

Chinese, on the other hand, uses only one writing system in any given body of text, uses the Latin alphabet with tone markings for phonetic spelling for learners, and is much less reliant on garbled loanwords.
I built a project just for this that allows you to find newsletters in specific topics. Most of the newsletters I've added are curated so you might find some you like.

http://inboxreads.co/
Jack Ma Stars in Martial Art Film Featuring Jet Li
There are many things about Chinese which are very easy, in particular the grammar and the fact that many words are constructed by logical combinations of smaller semantic units. There's nothing easy about Japanese IMO, it has extremely complex grammar with standard and non-standard inflections, it uses a mix of two different alphabets and Chinese characters, and the Chinese characters often have multiple different readings. Chinese has a big learning curve because of the role of tones and context, but once you get over the hump it's a pretty simple language.
I'm with you, many folks seem to believe self driving cars will increase existing road capacity tenfold or something- I just don't see it. Once every car on the road is self driving they can maybe drive "too close" at speed, but overall there's still a limited amount of space on the pavement.

Now, if these self driving cars were high passenger capacity, that might have a great effect- but of course then we'd just call them a bus.
The cash payout part of a pension is, as you point out, just math. The problem is health care. If you retired in, say, 1980 with a pension that included health care, the company ended up paying out (on average) far, far more than they expected.
Are you a EU citizen? How are you able to work in those countries visa-free?
Great guide.

On point 6, find the asn, my own service https://ipinfo.io can help you there. Curl ipinfo.io/ANYIP/org and you'll get the ASN info. Also see ipinfo.io/developers for more options such as geolocation, hostname, hosted domains, and more.
That’s also true of common characters used in English depending on font and other things. Context generally makes things pretty clear, which I would guess is also the case with these glyphs in other languages.

Capital I, lowercase l, numeral 1

Numeral 0 and uppercase O
It'd be interesting if they released the replicated levels for humans to play, as well as the level source code for examination.
Or maybe their kids rent a closet in Silicon Valley, with nowhere to put mom & dad.
What do you need/want in a time tracker?
In theory you can hedge that risk with an annuity, and anyway you get social security until you die.
Hey all, working with a friend on improving his time tracker app (http://timeboost.webflow.io/). Anyone want to check it out and give us some feedback? Dying for good feedback. Is this something you would use? If not, why not? Thanks!
After $1B investment from CapitalG, Lyft may also go public before Uber:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/20/new-york-times-digital-lyft-...

It will be very interesting if their two paths diverge. With Uber aggresively investing in autonomous systems, logistics and emerging markets. While Lyft provides its Open Platform to car manufacturers. And pivots to a more "experiential" consumer-centric culture and service.
My comment about the highways is that people live/work in 6 directions (due to traditional access via interstates). A train on one of them won't do much, especially since it isn't even the busiest direction.
I agree. the calligraphy was in some sense the excuse for going over and over the talk and making the result a considered effort. I think many speakers have the same problem I do. I stop being able to look at my own work far too early, and have to really force myself to go through more than two passes.

Practice talks help a lot, not even because of the feedback from other people but because it forces me to pay attention to what I've done and how lacking it is. (edit: obviously feedback is helpful too)

maybe if I wrote it out multiple times in longhand I would make sure to finish all my thoughts/sentences and actually read the thing through
Acer is crushing the Chromebook market
Julia marginally makes sense in some academic environments. Outside of that? Not really.
What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
Wouldn't you just design a self replicating nanobot that gives us all cancer? Apocalypse complete.
The Simpsons in China and Bullet Subtitles
Twitter doesn’t verify people - people reach out, then get verified. It’s likely he just never tried?
> > Can you spot the difference between 𠮟 and 叱? Me neither.

> Of course I can, not because I am Chinese, but they really do look different. How can you NOT see the difference? Also they have different meanings

The difference at my resolution is about 10-15 pixels, this seems like much less than the difference between one font and another. But then of course I don't have any knowledge about Hanzi. Is the difference whether the diagonal dash touches the part to the left? Seems very hard to notice.
Sure, but now you see why it's easier to text: you might not be able to reach a person at that moment. That's why it takes your daughter and hour to organize things, because the people she's organizing with are busy for the hour.
Presume no communication is private in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT)
For a week in September 2017, I created and used my new facebook account for the vorotrans artistic movement, an art movement that I am launching this fall. My goal was to reach the million facebook friends by the end of the fall.

In a week I sent lots of requests for friendships and in that same week, I made 5000 completely unknown facebook friends. Following the acceptance of the facebook friendship requests, they were all trying to get to chat with me. I think, in this week, I managed to chat with 1000 of these new unknown international facebook friends. Half of the people either asked to be extracted from their country, begged directly for money, or begged indirectly by asking for an iTunes card gift, looked for love online, or desperately seeked to come to my home in Montreal, invited me to their country, or assumed I was looking for love online, etc.

...

See my blog for the complete story at http://oifii.org/ha-org/2017/10/28/presume-no-communication-is-private-in-the-era-of-the-internet-of-things-iot/.

Cheers everyone!

About spi the blogger:

Art portfolio and social networks:

https://www.gofundme.com/vorotrans
https://stephane-poirier.pixels.com/
https://www.facebook.com/magicvan3000
https://twitter.com/vorotrans

Bio and detailed resumes:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephane-poirier-58619314/
https://remote.com/stephane-poirier
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan_Poirier
http://oifii.org/ha-org/2017/10/27/why-did-it-take-30-years-of-collaborative-research-before-i-start-to-deploy-my-orgs-in-the-society/
https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/3447321
I like these stories because I know so many people in places like this do not.
> Subgenii annoy me, because they do tend to make everything a joke

They've even got a slogan about that.[1]

[1]http://subgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Slogans
An extension overlay API would have saved me so much pain when building Saka (saka.io). There are two options for injecting UI today:

1. Inject UI directly into the document

2. Inject an iframe containing the UI into the document

Both rely on manipulating the document, which can be used to fingerprint users. Most developers opt for 1 because it requires no setup and lets the content script synchronously access the UI. 2 is needed when the injected UI containing sensitive information.

I'd like an extension overlay API that lets you inject:
1. UI local to the tab
2. UI that persists across all tabs

In a brief #webextensions IRC discussion, I was told an overlay API isn't viable for a number of reasons, one of which is multiple extensions may conflict.
When I was reading about Kotlin Edu, I thought it is far too soon to think in the lines of PyCharm Edu. Pycharm Edu cashed upon a widespread adoption because Python was already a de-facto language be it through MOOC or classroom teaching.
Kotlin on the other hand, though not anywhere close to python in terms of popularity, is a language built on a strong IDE which was almost default among students(who in CS-field wouldn't know this best thing is free?) and industry (Open source contributors who grab this free product and paid users in the most competitive parts already revere it).

I think Jetbrains is marketing itself for a huge investment into the future by giving itself away free to right people( for now). Kotlin, given its partnership with Google for Android Dev and its popular opinion as 'what Scala should have been' is already winning a slow battle to replace Java. I guess Jetbrains will gain more this way than Oracle did with Sun and Java.

In steps the Edu version and a little bit of convincing that it is a good learning language for universities to teach programming, language design features, design patterns, implementation of complex and abstract algorithms, and how better off it is replacing Java in industry.

This is a huge step. This is a surprising business strategy to gain competitive advantage for a noob like me to learn.
Rev. Dr. Scatological Warfare checking in.
It's a bit more work but, alternatively, you could also add a "new" search engine to your browser that uses a custom keyword (e.g. "!mdn") and passes your query to the search interface on the MDN site.
Can't. You can block individual numbers, but there is no tool in the base Android to block all unknowns. Fortunately there are plenty of apps which will do exactly that - but I'm confused as to why I need to install an app to do something so simple.
Actually, I think the force is called natural selection. The blockchain is kind of like DNA and these branches represent evolutions.
Probably goes without saying that there are as many ways to learn Japanese as there are students. The only really hard-and-fast rule is that whatever you're doing, you need to do a lot more of it than you think.

That said, I've found that the kanji separately really helped my Japanese studying. If nothing else, it's kept me from falling too far behind the Chinese and Taiwanese students in class...

The book I used for the kanji is The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course by Andrew Scott Conning. Can't recommend it enough.

https://www.amazon.com/Kodansha-Kanji-Learners-Course-Step/d...
You can, but with a lot of caveats:

- single-thread CPU performance is pretty much 'good enough' now

- WebGL and WebGL2 too, but you have very different performance behaviour than a native GL driver (much higher call overhead for instance)

- pretty much all other HTML5 APIs: oh boy what a mess :/

Don't expect a 100 GB AAA Steam game to run on the web anytime soon, but mobile games will port over fine. It's better to define the web as your main platform, and design a new game from scratch around it's limitations.

So if you have a project which needs to do 3D rendering, audio, touch input etc... CPU performance is the least of your problems.
Seeing 1802 and Lisp together is not something that happens very often.

This code was written while I was an employee of JPL in 1993. I don't know what its copyright status is.

IANAL but I believe it would be public domain due to being a work of the US government..

https://www.quora.com/Is-content-produced-by-U-S-government-...
Did anyone else just have a flashback to Transcendence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_%282014_film%29
What does that mean? What's the 46% supposed to represent