skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to go really small, Pullman WA is exactly what you're asking for. WSU and Schweitzer Engineering are the only shows in town (seriously) and the population is about 10k not including the students. We rented a 2-story, 4 bedroom house with a beautiful view of the entire town and almost 2 acres of lot for $1400/mo.

Wonderful schools, INCREDIBLY safe by any measure in the entire world, and lots of professors and engineer-types who have migrated there and found a home over all these years.

Now, the inevitable downside is that other than Moscow ID (~20k pop, another college town but with a little bit more "community") just over the border, there is nothing nearby. No, really, nothing. The few towns that are smattered about are 1000 people or less. The closest city is Spokane (~150k-ish pop?) and Spokane frankly sucks. Seattle is 5 hours away. If this doesn't bother you, and some snow and ice in the winter is fine, it's a good fit. Of course there is the lowest possible likelihood of finding a local job in software, but it is possible and I'm guessing from your post that this isn't a concern.

But yeah, I would 100% describe it as a low-cost place with a strong intellectual atmosphere.
See also "Moneyland": https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/moneyland-oliv...
Chromebook because it runs all day on a charge and I ssh into the many servers at cloud providers to perform the grunt work. Apps on Chrome are sufficient to whip up documents, etc if and when required. I use a desktop for editing images and running tests.
And an intellectual community?
It's a sad indictment of the tools we create being used to destroy the world we live in
Doesn't it have the crazy unfolding hexagonal mirror thing?

I guess the increased complexity will increase the risk of failure.
>when cool things happen I share them with the people I’m around

I really expect the next generation (I guess, kids born in the last 8 years) to launch a major backlash against over-sharing and pretty go back to the roots of relationships: exactly how you said it.
Lambda to the Rescue: Monoids
I find most of the Logitech desktop keyboards with numeric pad and cursor keys far more comfortable than the Apple Bluetooth keyboard.
I've seen it a couple of times.

More relevant: can you identify any examples of Breitbart content that is, and remains, factually incorrect?
What’s the BS? What do you mean by nothing works?
When you are that large, nobody bothers bringing contempt charges.

https://hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com

(The statute of limitations for charging Clapper has now run out.)

The “under oath” part is just farce now.
This is entirely false. POST requests with headers set automatically by the user agent aren't preflight-ed. There is a preflight only in particular cases.
If nothing requires my attention, then why make a screen in the first place ?

Of course something does requires my attention. There is content, and content has structure and different levels of importance. A screen in an installer is a step. A step has title, a domain, which probably would be nice to write somewhere. Then there probably are other steps i’ve performed, and other steps to come. Visual queues showing where i am in the navigation would be welcome.
If the background is the thing taking up the most space, then it means the screen either has no reason to be fullscreen, or that the input doesn’t justify taking a whole step, ... etc

Those are the kinds of questions that you should ask yourself when you see a screen like that. Just based on visual layout and style.
I was introduced by a coder in my previous role. He forwarded this link [1] to me to tell me that it is justified that he was taking time. I was pushing for him to complete 80% of the task so that we can push it in production, see the response and then complete it with testing. (I was heading growth at that time, and he was in product team.) I told him that the cases he was considering might not be encountered by 99% of users, so better launch something quickly, then we would know if we need to spend more time on it based on response. He gave me a timeline of four days, and I ended up doing it myself and making it live on a test branch in a day or so.
Coming back, the argument did not go well, but I liked HN, and started reading it as a knowledge source.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410661
But the sunshade is megascale engineering that you'd have to get everyone in on - and quickly, so that's a real project risk, even assuming it's worthwhile.

And the clathrate gun was overhyped.
> many other people don't use FB either

This is the problem, I'd be literally the only one. I tried it once - of course they didn't exclude me, but a lot of info got to me too late (when I had other plans already) and smaller events not at all.
> ProtonVPN was able to explain what happened to what I thought was a satisfactory degree

ProtonVPN's explanation was extremely hardly believable[1].

> Mullvad, absolutely no clue who runs it.

It's clearly stated on Mullvad's homepage[2]:

> The legal entity operating Mullvad is Amagicom AB. [...] Amagicom is 100% owned by founders Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson who are actively involved in the company. The rest of the team includes Robin Lövgren, Simon Andersson, Linus, Richard Mitra, Sanny Mitra, David Marby, Odd, Andrej Mihajlov, Janito Ferreira Filho, Elad Yarom and Jan Jonsson.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775554

[2] https://mullvad.net/en/
Pune may have some tech companies. But nowhere close to Banglore. It's remotely hard to convince even an engineer living in Banglore to move to Pune because of the lack of tech companies compared to Banglore. How can you even recommend someone from SFO to move to Pune?

> Universiy of Pune? Symbiosis? They may not be IIT's or MIT's but they are better than a lot of other universities in India and in Asia

Even students in India won't go there until they can't make it to the top 20 - 25 Universities in India. Dude he lives in SFO which is the home of Stanford and University of California and has more nobel laurates than rest of Asia combined.

Come on man. I get you like Pune. But this is just a terrible advice. Pune doesn't have anything to justify a person moving all the way from SFO especially if they are a foreigner.
One of the good things about Göttingen in particular is that it maintains the same (or similar) intellectual atmosphere at not only a lower cost than the bigger German cities, but also lower than some of the other similarly-sized university towns such as Heidelberg.

Moving from Göttingen to Heidelberg was an easy €200 per month rent increase for similar accommodation. The latter is certainly more scenic, but you pay for that with tourists, noise, etc.

Having said all that, there are plenty more university towns to choose from - but I've only lived in those two specifically myself. In both, the low cost of living is assisted by being able to walk or cycle everywhere around them, negating the need to own a vehicle. I only spent money on public transport if the weather was particularly bad, or when traveling long distance/with luggage.
Thank you for the sane response.

Having lived in the worlds most liveable city, Melbourne, for several years, I have so far found Barcelona to be far more enjoyable. The thing that has stood out is that people actually care about their city and socio-political events that affect their lives.

I personally think the tourist issue is overhyped and most of them don't stray from the centre of the city.My local beach, Mar Bella which is only 1.5-2km from the city has zero tourists. Airbnb is a problem but this is a global phenomenon.
tasmania has historically been a relatively poor part of australia, recently hobart has been having an issue with availability and affordability of housing, particularly relative to local wages: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-23/hobart-beats-sydney-mo...

hobart is not a great choice if you are looking to find software-related work locally. you'd be better off in one of the bigger "mainland" australian cities, melbourne, sydney or brisbane, or perhaps perth if the mining industry is in full boom phase. +/- intellectual atmosphere.
I came to the discussion to see if Portugal was mentioned, and was pleasantly surprised to see it as the top-ranked comment.

I will just add my suggestion of a another city to the mix: Aveiro. Small yet not too small, cheap, a short hop from Porto, 2hrs away from Lisbon, with trains and good highways, a very tech oriented university, excellent food, close by the sea and a huge lagoon good for all kinds of watersports.

I work for an US based company from here, and I used to live in Lisbon for 10+ years. Love Lisbon, but my quality of life here in Aveiro is so much better.
Because troll factories are a SaaS opportunity
London is pricy yes but 3.8k is not a bad salary for London. In fact it is about double the average London salary.
By the time you can see the motion on your image sensors it's too late - you want to detect and correct the motion you need to do it while you're imaging stuff, before it smears all your measurements.
There is also a Rust implementation of libp2p[0]. Exposing C functions from that library is probably the most "proper" way currently feasible to use libp2p from C.

[0]https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p
What is the long-term expectation of Telegram, once the current funding promise runs out?
Defining every single social transaction in terms of "Who pays?" is the problem.

Setting fire to the planet is just one of many symptoms which suggests this moral basis has one or two rather large bugs.
> simply denying them existence isn't much of a solution. E.g. You could equally solve homelessness by (humanely and painlessly) killing all the homeless people in their sleep.

This is a ridiculous analogy. Hypothetical children who don't exist have no rights (because, again, they don't exist) -- homeless people do have human rights.

The rest of your post is just eugenics.
Go to Bangalore, India.
True, but that's rather uncommon nowadays.
'True Detective' writer accused of plagiarising Thomas Ligotti's work (2014)
The culture point was a shocking one for me. I spent a week in Barcelona and you had to spend money to do pretty much anything, and if you've not pre-booked it's likely that you won't be doing what you want to do until at least tomorrow.
> and [unlike Barcelona] everyone speaks English

Do you have any stats proving that? Just asked a portuguese friend living in Barcelona and said that is a quite bold statement.
Are you living there, or how come you know this?

Tomsk is much smaller than Novosibirsk, walkable almost, famous for its +100 years wooden houses (https://www.tripsavvy.com/tomsk-the-hidden-russia-1502232). Khodorkovsky said it's his favorite Russian city. It has six universities and it's considered "the Boston" of Russia, not far, 250km, from Novosibirk.

There is also a Akademgorodok (translated: "Academic-city"), a city district of Tomsk with both a (nice) residential area and a zone with tech companies that get tax cuts. Some firms there exist for many, +20 years, and work on deep tech, like audio and video codecs: https://www.elecard.com/

There are also newly founded Ethereum/crytpo-companies located there; one I met personally rents a villa full of coders: https://playmarket.io

Also, Tomsk has quite a lot of bars and places to spend time. Although it can be -40°C in winter, it's very dry and you get by easily with good clothes. (-18°C in St. Petersburg feels colder due to the humidity)

The good thing about places like Siberia is that many people who live there are offspring of folk who opposed the Zar or the communists and have a non-conformist attitude. People there try to be as little dependent on Moscow as possible which is often hard to do.
> the same shady things

In one word, no
I think this does give an incentive to reporters to paint things in a more black or white biased one sided narrative. You can't just have an article that talks about the good and the bad and expect people to feel like they ought to buy or sell whatever is being talked about.

How does this promote fair and factually accurate coverage over the politicized FUD bullshit we are constantly being fed by the media nowadays?
Not sure why this is downvoted. All the big four and smaller firms have tax advisory departments which advice on how to avoid (not evade) taxes. They sometimes set up the structure as well but usually that's done by a third party, following the tax advice memos from firms like Deloitte.

It's hardly secretive, many (academic) books have been written about it. You can find a million fiscal books and papers on fiscal literature and many top firms offer tax avoidance advisory services.

Tax evasion is different, it's entirely baded on being secretive due to its illegal nature. But that's not what the article is about.
The West is weak now and to make matters worse our leaders are openly showing their weaknesses.

Therefore Russia sees us as fair game (which I agree in) and is attacking us over the best medium; the internet.

In my opinion its not going to be territorial wars that will dominate our future, but cultural wars.

You might maintain your national borders but you will lose in the cultural war, whether that's political ideology, identity, civil morale.

In a way the policies or slogans you hear like "One China", "New Russia", "Europe United" are cultural campaigns. Yes they might involve territory and resources but they all have different cultural identities packaged with them.

In science fiction they have entertained this idea. If you look at Blade Runner you can see that the world has been dominated by a hybrid of Sino-American culture with rampant capitalism.

Exciting but scary times ahead!
2015 15" macbook pro.
It has sufficient computing power for software development and linux server management.
I've been a mac/linux user for all my adult life.
Simply put, I enjoy the hardware.
Very timely post.
Full disclosure : my current project [1] deals with archiving content from social network, and we're considering adding more things to import from facebook. The friends list example from the article is a good one :

As for my friend list.. well.. It's all in Json format..
So now you can essentially use the power of your brain to think how your friend looked.
If you can't, well then you probably weren't friends anyway. Sorry.

I'd be interested in your experiences either in leaving facebook, or about things you'd which you could have saved

[1](https://www.getkumbu.com/)
And that's how the public is duped into voting for incompetent corrupt, but manly!, politicians who promise they'll put things back in order!! Seed rage and you'll get politicians like Orban (Hungary), Bolsonaro (Brazil, on his way to power), and Trump. All Putin lookalikes who have their own oligarchies (call them friends) and everyone else is f*ed poor. And that is how nations/systems fail.
> paying yourself/co-founders [Tax Free] dividends.

I'm not a tax expert but I don't think you can do it. Dividends are not tax free. You have to pay 28%(IRS) + ~20% (IRC) so in the end you pay more than a regular freelancer (for salaries below €80K).

edit: except if you are a non-habitual resident..
It's 20:00 according to https://www.twitch.tv/events/NyJSsF3hQkGHdnsKA2f4JQ .
Calling Berlin "marginally" cheaper than the
Valley is something I'd be highly sceptical of.

Presumably sneak means "Costs of living are lower, but if you salary goes from $150,000 to €50,000 it's not clear you'll be left with higher discretionary income."
Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. Because I can (and have) easily take it apart to add SD storage and replace its previous hard drive, or battery, or etc. It pairs perfectly with my other devices. It can handle most post-production software I throw at it.

It's also a tank, built in the era before Apple got the idea that they can make their machines more flimsy and make more money.
Right after a brain rollercoaster and a brain brothel ;).
What can John McAfee's 2020 presidential bid do for crypto?
Hoaxes in general
can I ask how did you save your notes ? Just view source and save the html as files ?
A centimillionaire is someone with assets of $10k. Perhaps you meant a hectamillionaire ($100M).
1) Summer is less hot than in California;

2) Looks like you were here only as tourist - locals just avoid touristic restaurants, there's a plenty of good restaurants in Barcelona;

3) Barcelona has a lot of really exceptional architecture examples, not just "old church" buildings like in all other cities of Europe. "Really tight together in the center" - 4.75 meters sidewalk on the each side of the street, it's numbers for Eixample district, center of Barcelona. If all you saw was Gothic district ("old town") - it's just small district of the culture legacy;

4) It depends on skills. Salaries here are good enough by Spanish measures;

5) Pure lie. Really, you want to say you measured air pollution levels? Or you can see transparent gases? Try to check your map next time - maybe you'll see huge source of the fresh air - sea.
See some photos of the streets to argue about "extremely dirty".

One criteria is against OP: it's not a cheap city, definitely. Most expensive in Spain, one of the most expensive in Europe.

https://instagram.com/p/BgYt8jwAiAp/
https://instagram.com/p/Bh_gZkcHRvf/
https://instagram.com/p/BgJJQlWA_mJ/
It's the fastest secularizing one, though [1]. And, with recent sexual abuse reports and the success of a related movie [2], I sense we're on the verge of an outbreak of an unprecedented wave of anticlerical rage.

[1]: http://www.pewforum.org/2018/06/13/young-adults-around-the-w...
[2]: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2018/10/06/church-in-po...
Spent 2 years in Joburg (Otherwise split my time between Manhattan and Bangalore). Joburg has some of the best of the world in terms of food, sport and nature.

But.

The fear of being mugged or shot at always lingered - always. When you sleep, when you drive, when you go for a jog. We stayed in one of the expensive parts of Joburg (Sandhurst / Hyde Park) and still that did not help feel secure. Next door neighbors got shot at. The neighbors on the other side got their gate rammed in and plundered.

Our company refused to give us our rental allowance if the property did not have 24/7 surveillance including armed guards.

We did not mind losing our possessions, but a break in would have affected my wife for life. As sad as we were to leave Joburg, and South Africa in general, we were happy we left safe.
You’re going to want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneser–Ney_smoothing for further improvements on an ngram based approach.
It sounds like you really didn't try because there are things on literally every weekend for free or low cost.

Everything from free or lowcost music festivals, to street parties, to lighting installations in the park. And thats just been the last 3 weeks in a very small radius. Theres also free museums and music gigs are incredibly good value.

Plus the beach is free, the mountains are free, walking around Montjuic is free.
Apart from being the largest and most complex of its kind ever sent to space, the tricky thing is that it will be positioned at the Sun-Earth L2 point, far beyond the orbit of the moon.

Hubble was as successful and long-living as it was because of several manned maintenance, upgrade and repair missions mentioned by others already - but Hubble is in a LEO, only a few 100km from Earth.
The JWST? 1.5 million km. So missions like these aren't going to happen, this has to work on the first try.
> A new paper challenges the traditional idea that our species evolved from a single population in one region of Africa.

every article or paper on this topic in the last 10 years talked about a complicated network of genetic branches instead of a simple linear tree
Saturday is still legally considered a work day in Germany.

One of the more important places to remember this today are public parking lots with usage limits on work days: those apply on Saturdays just like on Mo-Fr.
Perl 5 static analysis: how to hide errors in macros
Why not? But of course if you prefer to be entertained by latest tech gadget that you absolutely
must must must buy here it is https://www.bestproducts.com/tech/g864/cool-tech-products-yo...
I'd argue this is a matter of marketing.

Also, you don't have to go all-in at once. Introduce a special veggie burger, maybe even in a few stores or selected countries only. Gradually, switch more and more burgers to the veggie version.

Defaults matter, as they say.
Climate engineering seems like a better bet than massive political/economic change across the entire world in advance of clear harm.

It is relatively easy (but still difficult in an absolute sense) to get support in sufficiently rich countries to handle clearly demonstrated, immediate threats — clean air, clean water, removal of litter, etc. These also tend to have relatively low costs, and the costs they do impose tend to be on large industries which also have pricing power to pass it along.

There have definitely been successful global environmental actions. The CFC/Ozone thing was probably the most clear; it was a pretty substantial and demonstrable harm, and the costs of switching were relatively low. (It was painful for fire suppression, since halon is still superior to alternatives, and did require a lot of special stuff around auto air conditioners, but it was basically industries which could pass along costs.)

Acid rain/sulfur dioxide/etc was a lot harder because it crossed jurisdictional boundaries, but within the US it was at least pretty easy to use the federal level. Hasn’t worked as well with China...

CO2 has the problems of an indirect link between the pollution and harms (merely raising CO2 in the air is fine; the issue is science showing a few levels downstream this is a problem, and it isn’t as clear as most other forms of pollution.). It is also much more fundamentally tied to economic activity, and alternatives have much higher costs (including higher forms of other pollution due to decreased efficiency...), and is pretty widely distributed across consumers and smaller businesses. As well, a lot of the problem is the 3-4B people living at a lower standard of living who if they industrialize the same way will make 50% reductions in the other 3-4B pretty meaningless.

I’d rather bet on climate engineering.
> watch your friends quickly get baited

Yeah, that's a good sign that you need smarter friends.

Autoplay is cancer, though.
The same algorithm is found among human racing cyclists to rotate position at the front of the pack.
I'm not aware of any journalists or political opponents being arrested or tortured in the US.
Yeah, English ability in Japan is really limited overall. My mom (who's a Japanese national) was surprised/disappointed at my cousins' English ability after taking six years of English classes (the norm, I think).

From what I understand, part of it is just English being vastly different from Japanese, and the other part is the Japanese school system being really terrible at language teaching.
Going through the mbasic interface of facebook for this is brilliant. Good job !
a hack conspiracy website that among others peddled knowlingly false 1) pizzagate and 2) Obama birther conspiracies

Surely you can provide an example of each?

Actually, Breitbart was one of few media that pointed out that it didn't matter where Obama was born, as his natural-born citizenship was automatically conveyed from his mother. "Birther" arguments were a fabrication of "mainstream" media.
Venom: what is a one-star film like in 4D?
I miss him. Anyone got a list of the "hidden" pages on searchlores?
That that would also be a generation who had their baby and childhood pictures unwittingly shared and now owned by social media companies. This is something I find really strange and unsettling.
I don't have many applications for constraint solving in my day-to-day work, but I genuinely think there is a need for a well-designed common language to express constraints on data sets - non-turing-complete, easy-to-use quantifiers etc. MiniZinc is that.