skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who spent about a quarter of the last five years of my life traveling, I concur. After 7 months in SE Asia, I was pooped. I was tired of the constant search for accommodation, the constant price negotiations, the constant change of faces; all I wanted to do was settle down somewhere and relax for a while. It is certainly exhilarating go to a new place every few days, to constantly do new things and meet new, amazing people, but after a while it does get old.

That said, if you can afford it, why not travel until you get tired of traveling, and then just go to your favorite place from your travels over the previous six months and stay there for a while? I've often thought that this would be my dream life, at least for the next decade or so: travel six months, stay somewhere six months, repeat, with changes to the ratio as I saw fit. I'm not sure life could possibly get any better than that. Now I just need to get rich...
Why isn't that salary reasonable? It seems like you're being ethnocentric and judging that salary based on your own home and your own salary.

When confronted with cost of living data for Taiwan, you pivot and say that people are treated like disposable tools -- but how is this different than 90% of IT in America? Not everyone works for a progressive, modern startup, and the trenches of American Corporate IT aren't known for their mid-20 something's hipster cultures like Google et al. Very much a cold calculation where people are treated like assets.
I've read the PoP journals many times on Kindle, and it looks great. Can't speak to the Karateka journal, but I imagine it's not far off.
Every Canadian I know that's contemplated a change of employer has very seriously weighed up the Health Benefits at Company A vs. Company B.

In Australia, that doesn't happen.
It’s also a RAM issue. iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2nd gen only have 128MB RAM. That’s why those models can’t run iOS 5 or later. iPad 1st gen has 256MB RAM but it has to drive a much larger screen. It can officially run iOS 5.1 but the experience isn’t great; it’s better to keep it at iOS 4.3.

As for the upcoming iOS 7: it will run on almost all the devices that can run iOS 6 (except iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen). That means Apple is actually extending the period during which devices receive major updates.

Assuming iOS 7 will be released on September 20[1] and iOS 8 will be released a year from then, that means iPhone 4 will be able to run the latest OS version for 4 years and 3 months (I’m also assuming iPhone 4 won’t be able to run iOS 8).

[1] http://www.cultofmac.com/232580/when-will-the-next-ios-7-bet...
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Right since we can be certain that only the US government does anything like this. Put your data anywhere outside the US and it will be safe.
I travel to Singapore tommorow from KL for 3 days, but I guess it won't be very good experience :(
Is he secretly FAKE GRIMLOCK?
"Twelve of the 14 judges who have served this year on the most secret court in America are Republicans and half are former prosecutors."

More great coverage from The Atlantic shedding light on all this.

I'm going to have to subscribe.
It's good to be skeptical, and it's important to counsel against irrational or knee jerk judgements. But you're way, way too far on the other side of this.

When a related warrant, having "gone through courts and lawyers", turns out to have been a blanket demand for all call data from all Verizon customers, I think it's reasonable to assume that perhaps the checks and balances aren't as robust as we'd hoped.

And for those outside the US, a response like this seems quite reasonable to me. After all item #2 is "Uncover the facts".
I feel like for most beginners, 40L is the least they'll want to take, calling it too big is disingenuous I think. My wife and I both had 40L packs, the size was good, at then end perhaps we could have gone smaller, but not much below 35L each.

At the start, 40L was really tough and I think for someone doing this for the first time, 40-50L is ideal. The focus on bag size can be almost fetishistic for some long term travelers. Those who travel with two shirts, one pair of pants, and a laptop are going too far in the opposite direction in my opinion. I don't want to spend all my time doing laundry or smelling awful.
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I feel obligated to note that the soap is as great as the label is crazy. As a bonus, you have something entertaining to read if you ever get bored in the shower.
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Ruby is not the coolest kid on the block anymore
> Not sure if MPEG-LA will release another one 2 years from now.

MPEG-LA aren't compression engineers or a standards body. They're a law firm in Colorado. The LA stands for "Licensing Authority." Thanks to the blog roll half the internet can't distinguish between it and ISO WG-11, but it's not a trifling distinction.
There’s a correlation, but one can’t say ‘All sociopaths are criminals’, just as one can’t say ‘All drug addicts are thieves’.
The sad part is, 400 is not uncommon in Beijing (particularly in the winter) and nobody besides expats seem to complain.

Those masks in the picture are useless, though. You need to use the 3M 8511 or 9211 or similar. (And in addition to making the air breathable, they also help with allergies).
Ugh. I was going to just step out, but I can't let this pass, because it's incredibly insulting.

I'm not arguing for the banning of a substance. I'm not arguing one substance is subjectively better than another. I don't care that GHB or any other drug is being used in studies.

You're reading something into my comments that simply is not there. Please stop it.
Agreed. Take as little as possible and if you really feel you need something, you can buy it locally (often for much cheaper). It makes you realise how few things you need in life, and how much crap you end up buying back home.
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This is why codecs in WebGL, like ORBX, are so exciting. They require no new hardware, and every website can ship a different codec. This could really open up the area for innovation.
I'm Canadian, and it seems like we only get a 30 day tourist visa. I wonder if I can still make unlimited border runs? There seems to be very conflicting information on the web about whether the authorities care if you try to stay indefinitely through doing so...
That $10 battery costs US Cellular $2. A cheap price for some positive P/R and customer retention.
Do you mean "sans"? That word is commonly used in U.S. English to mean "without".
It's not just you and it gets worse on sites like SF where it's horribly elitist. On SO, it definitely depends on the category of your question. I've found that C# questions, which tend to be the most popular category, generally have the most thorough and complete answers, which I also don't find to be as elitist as some of the other categories.
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I like to create README files that are also shell scripts that perform some of the actions the README says you need to do to build/run whatever it is I'm writing about.
What was your comment about then? You appear to be comparing simply effect per weight, and drawing conclusions from that?
> In most cases, you're getting a deal.

I suppose you're going to tell me to get $100 worth of cell calls for $30 a month?

You've been tricked by marketing, and you're eating it up. The system doesn't have to be the way it is, and you're saying it's better this way because "you get a deal" because of the bulk-buying setup. If the practice of employers buying healthcare was outlawed, the system would change, and it wouldn't be more expensive for individuals to buy what they want/need.

> It's a benefit. The same way free coffee is a benefit.

Except that the healthcare is not free - it's coming out of your salary, and the choices are being made for you.

> It might not matter that much to you, which is certainly fair. Tell your employer as much

You miss the point. It's not about me, it's about society as a whole. From experience, I can tell you Canadians are a lot more reluctant to change employers than Australians, in part because their healthcare is tied to their employer. As a consequence, Canadian employers have a lot more power than Australian ones.

My brother had been in Canada for 6 years straight when he went back to Australia. After 1 month there I asked what was the biggest difference between Aus/Canada that he could notice. Without hesitation, he said "Employees in Australia are treated much better than Employees in Canada... nobody ever talks about healthcare in Australia, as it's a basic right of being born, and has nothing to do with your job"..

Until you've lived somewhere where unemployed (and never employed) people have the same set-up as CEOs, you won't know what we're talking about. Do yourself a favor - go and experience it.
The absence of screaming and waving seems obvious after reading it, I realize I am really am conditioned to think if people aren't screaming...etc they aren't in trouble.

That said there is definitely some lifeguard propaganda in the article (who knew such a thing existed?):

"From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”
To be slightly pedantic, I used the term "potency" specifically because that does have a pharmacological meaning: it's a measure of drug activity in terms of concentration. "Power", on the other hand, is a rather ill-defined concept.
We have an office in Singapore, here's one of our colleagues report alongside with this image.

http://i.imgur.com/nssEV4z.jpg

Singapore at 8.30 this morning, as Ali and Michael struggle to work through what appears to be Dickensian fog. The PSI (Pollution Standard Index) hit 321 which is well within ‘Hazardous’ levels, as Sumatra conducts its annual burning to clear land for palm oil, killing wildlife in the process. Reports say that nearly a 3rd of the only 200 remaining Sumatran Orangutan have already died as a result of this year’s burning. The whole island is wreathed in smoke, everything smells, inside and out, some people are wearing masks in their offices... a far cry from Leeds.
WOW, so surprised to see Sibel Edmond's stuff on this site. As a translator for the FBI, she had a lot to say about the 9/11 attacks and how corruption within the FBI's translation unit may have played a factor in failing to prevent those attacks [1]. She went on record to claim that the subsequent 9/11 Commission was a farce and did nothing to gather the relevant facts [2].

As she went through the proper channels to report what she had seen, she was eventually fired as a result of her allegations [3]. Her testimony was also sealed by John Ashcroft under the states secrets privilege [4], which is exactly what has happened with the recent Snowden allegations [5].

Personally I think Sibel Edmonds is one of the most reliable people in the whistleblower community and that she has a lot to say that's being hidden from the public.

[1] http://www.aclu.org/national-security/sibel-edmonds-patriot-...

[2] http://www.nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/NSWBC-911Comm.htm

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#cite_note-oig_upd...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#FBI_career

[5] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/us-government-sp...
+1 for wikitravel on iPad (or wikivoyage - I don't know which fork has more info these days)

The new offline support in Reading List is really a godsend for this. Just hammer cmd+shift+D on the laptop/desktop while browsing along the wiki, and the iPad will have it all available when you need it.
Of course, your examples shouldn’t just be brief two-line snippets. As Rich Bowen of the Apache project puts it, “One correct, functional, tested, commented example trumps a page of prose, every time.”

If HN allowed signatures, that quote would be mine. I grok libraries and other people's code so much faster when I have a good working example, and the mere existence of that example makes me 10x more likely to use the lib (or, when I have no other option, 10x more likely to complain less).
My comment was about what was, in my view, an objectively inaccurate characterization of alcohol being "just as powerful" a CNS depressant as GHB. That is all it was. If you want to argue about something else, I'm not the opponent you're looking for.
>2 months in Chiang Mai

I really like Chiang Mai, I'm currently trying to buy a flat near there, but the sales agent is giving my lawyer concerns so it is looking like it might fall through (it has taken 4 months to get this far, I will not be out of pocket any money bar lawyer fees).

However I much prefer the mountains outside Chiang Mai. Heading up to Pai, which sadly is overrun by hippies, is great. If you were able to get a place there with good internet, you'd have a wounderful time. Assuming you either can afford to rent a car or can ride a motorbike.

I think I was very nieve about the moving every week or two bit, but I was limited by travel companions.

A friend of mine ended up in Chiang Mai just before Songkram festival, ended up staying there for 5 months before moving on.

One of the reasons I'm giving up the super stable income of whoring myself out to large firms as a consultant (the more you charge, the more they believe you must be good) to do a start up, is partly so I can spend large parts of the year out there.

I also have some Vietnamese friends near Hoi An (my favourite place!) who I intend to rent a room from, that I can have set up nicely for working from, on the side I hope to help kick their business up a notch.

When I mentioned to a few friends if they would be willing to work on a project for a 3 month contract coming out to visit me in SEA, I was suprised, they all immediately said things along the line of "I'd discount my rate".

Ask me again in two years what happened to the dream :D
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Not my point at all. If I put my data in a European datacenter I'm in the same legal jurisdiction as the potential government snoop. If I put it in the US the USG may be more or less prone to snooping than my local government but what I'm sure of is that I will never have any legal standing to challenge it if it does snoop.

I knew this before of course. And before I assumed the snooping was low enough that I didn't care that I didn't have any legal standing to challenge it. Now I'm not so sure.
Solid article. If you like that, you should read Four Hour Workweek. He outlines a full plan for how to stay productive while globetrotting for months at a time.
Thing is though, that doesn't matter. No country places any restrictions on whether the foreigners its spy services monitor are part of a foreign government or not because it wouldn't make any sense. To use a pertinent example, none of the dozens of countries trying to intercept al-Qaeda communications cares which country they're in as long (in most cases) as they're not domestic.

So what the NSA is doing to foreign citizens is no different to what every other country with the means does. My country will happily (and legally) spy on American citizens indiscriminately if it feels the need to, as will all of Europe.
I was a heavy SO user during it's first year or so, until a user named RichB started harassing me (and others) on the site, to the point where he got put in the penalty box many, many times over the years. I guess I just realized it wasn't worth getting so upset at a very small subset of the users/trolls and investing my time & energy into the site and quit visiting regularly.
My question is why is it up to the facility to investigate? Shouldn't there be a police investigation? Why's that not happening?
He's still the commander in chief and he could still order the end to the detainment program even if he can't cause the base to be closed. And yet he didn't.
It seems like each brain is unique and it is meaningful to speak only about "connections" between regions and areas, given that even structure of nerves are different from person to person.

And, of course, it isn't even near to what we could call a "working model". Just a mapping of every neuron of some particular brain specimen. No one understands how it works yet. There are detailed description in textbooks of how each kind of cells in the brain works, but still can't see the mind among neurons.))
This thread is making me want to travel again. To that end, now I'm thinking about changing my major from engineering to programming...
Reading the backs and forths of various drugs and medical treatments over the years has left me with two overall lessons:

* A drug with horrific potential side effects can be worth it, if the condition it is treating is worse. For instance, a drug which can cause strokes might be worth it to prevent horrible seizures, but not to prevent mild hay fever.

* Even if a drug can be abused, it doesn't change the fact that some people legitimately need it. You see this most in pain management, where people who need powerful pain killers just to function face criminal charges and roadblocks to getting the medicine they need.
How did you like Bolivia? I'm bolivian and somewhat curious about what does the country look like from other devs perspective.
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This get re-published every summer for good reason. Drowning happens frequently and it's theoretically preventable if people knew what to look for.

Also, be careful if you have to save a drowning person. The drowning response will cause them to instinctively push you under in an effort to get above water, so make sure you have your own floatation device so they don't end up drowning you.
Or university.
What do you do with the local things you buy? I'm assuming you don't keep accumulating them after moving to another country. Is it easy to resell them?
Google cache to the rescue:
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You can also go downvote Adecco's ripped off video.
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Well, I thought this was pretty cool. Apparently you can mix in regular, UI oriented, Javascript with specialized library routines "compiled" from other languages that use the fast asm.js subset.

I would not start an entire project like this, but if I discovered I had a computationally bound chunk of code on the browser side, this looks like a nice tool to pull out and attack the problem -- recode the "hot spots" in (emulated) C.

Is there a FreePascal front end? :-)
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Solving problems sells software - features are just one way of getting there.
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I haven't used Vine at all, so this may very well be a restriction of the platform rather than an oversight by Paddle, but surely they could have placed a link on the page back to their site? or is everyone just expected to know that "@" means, find us on twitter? I can understand that works perfectly fine for the HN community, but for most audiences, surely they're missing out.
> quietly swapping things out with no questions when people come in to complain.

Your tone makes this sound like a bad thing. Isn't this exactly what you would want the company making your hardware to do? In what way is the typical alternative (a gauntlet of ignorant script-jockeys) preferable?
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RIP Ed Iacobucci. Another tech founder leaves us.
Thats why much of this is a call for more transparency and law within Europe, including banning things that may be happening in the US, whether they are or not. We know that some European governments are doing things along these lines (with lower budgets). We had the Stasi in Europe, just a few years ago; we invented the Panopticon, and we have had a very mixed record.
Keep in mind that, in general, you need an infinite number of Fourier bases to represent an arbitrary waveform. But if you want to use a finite number of bases (and indeed as small of a number as you can get away with), and if the waveform you wish to represent has known structure, there can be more efficient representations.
Hmm, well there is the thai visa forum, which is probably the best place.

However, everything can be bought there.... Everything.

You can get your 90 day without too much hassle, I would recommend this lawyer firm, as I have used their Chiang Mai branch and found them good, however they are a big firm, so YMMV.
http://canada.siam-legal.com/90-Day-Thailand-Visa-for-Canadi...

I would have thought that the worst case would be a 5 day gap between two of these, obviously, check with the lawyer.

If you want to spend 5 days in a nearby nation you are spoilt for choice. Myself I like Vietnam, the food is really good, friendly people, stunning, stunning scenary.
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The internet is a funny place a guy with no real traction on his project (sadly
because his idea sounds great ).

68 subscribers
16,535 views
Youtube

2,2k Twitter

just has to reach out to the right channels reddit/twitter/fb to start a PR disaster for a Adecco.

Around the world in 80 (days/jobs/parties/x)

Lets see how they will turn it around, they got bitten by a mistake of not doing
enough market research.
The Atlantic is kinda kidding themselves if they think merely bringing on Democratic judges would make it more 'balanced'. Both parties seem hostile to privacy rights right now (or at least, the primary movers of each party do).
Keep forgetting - is that conference groper guy still working there? That's always been one issue which has kept me away from the idea of working for Twitter.
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Especially since the OP is working on the road. I would feel shitty being a CouchSurfing guest and immediately asking for the WiFi password because I need to fix something.
Exactly.

So why did they make a direct comparison?
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It's unlikely that the powerful institutions will give up their powerful tools.

What I do think might work, though, is a system added to it where every human query is logged & their human peers can ask, "WTF Carl? Why are you looking at data on your ex wife? Or, Why are you looking at your political enemies?"

I think the humans inside those institutions would not limit their power, but they would want to keep an eye on their peers to make sure their peers are not abusing their power.

Those query & access logs can be periodically reviewed by their peers, and their superiors, and those logs should be kept as long as the data is, & queryable just the same as any other data.
You may fault Apple all you want for various decisions, but they are very good when it comes to product replacement. My iPhone 5 had a faulty screen (it just conked out one day.) Within 3 days I had a brand new one on my table having not walked into an Apple store and opting for pickup instead.
Pesticides wipe out beehives all the time.

One of my hives was destroyed last year.
If you were right, people would routinely refer to nicotine as being the most powerful street drug, given it's punch-per-gram ratio.
You can change the catcode of the upercase "T" and define it as a macro that peeks some characters to see if it if part of a "Therefore". This may break other commands that have the upercase T in their name, so it will create some random unexpected incompatibilities. (Many babel languages change catcodes to make accents easier to use, and therefore they create some random unexpected incompatibilities.)

More info about catcodes: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=activechars