skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also very easy to find a room to rent for a month for $300 or less in HCMC, even right in the center of District 1. I'm doing just that right now, in fact, and have a serviced room in a very good location. It's been my experience that Hanoi is generally more expensive in just about every respect but I haven't spent as much time there.

Personally if I'm going to put up with the hassles of living as a nomad I want to reap more of the benefits so I prefer to stay in cleaner, quieter beach towns and enjoy the slower pace of life but some people like city life I guess.
Same for the difference between Paris and Wroclaw (2 cities I know). The rent prices are way off (too high for Wroclaw, too low for Paris)
Annoyingly, a few authors decided to jump the gun and publish books around PHP 6. I think this was the main deciding point. On the one hand, it might be confusing for a newcomer who thinks that they're getting a book on the latest and greatest; on the other, perhaps they should check publication dates.

Either way, it wasn't a particularly important decision - any number signifying a major version bump, greater than 5, would have been fine.
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Can't label it bad advice, because it certainly did help many and for some other it was a red line. No advice in the world of startups should be absorbed as is. :)
Bucharest is way undervalued. The internet speed can easily be 1Gb/s for around 15$ I think, while the montly costs for living should be around 1000$ at most in my opionion.
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Can you elaborate on "awful grossing" of 2048 versus Threes. I'm not seeing any significant decline in 2048 grossing ranks.
Interesting that you mention HHO as crackpot theory.

What I am familiar with are kits to generate HHO gas for hydrogen welding. Mainly, they rely on electrolysis of water and gathering of H2. Of course, the amateur kits have blowback preventers and other tech to prevent gas explosions.

But nothing crackpot. Guess I don't read the cranks documents.
You need to talk to more people over 55 years old then (the metric system was taught in schools from 1974 onwards).
The way it's usually done is you publish your

A) exact compilation settings

B) hash checksums for everything, including the resulting binaries

You probably can't do this on iOS, but on Android you can have a third party app monitoring the changes, or simply disabling the automatic updates altogether.
(I'll indulge myself with a note excerpting some bits)

"""

[...]

The Stages of Employment

SURVIVAL STAGE. When first hired, this is critical. If you cannot last a week because you said something stupid or broke some unknown (to you) protocol, you're doomed. [...]

SOCIALIZING STAGE. Everyone approaches this differently, but you need to make friends who will teach you the ropes about the company and with whom you can bond and scheme. [...]

EFFICIENCY STAGE. The next stage in an employee's life is the awkward teen phase. You have to actually figure out what it is you are supposed to be doing. [...]

RESIGNATION STAGE. The person finds his or her groove and just does that until they are moved into some other position, often based on arbitrary metrics. The process resets to various points within the framework of survival, socialization, establishment of efficiency, and resignation.

[...]

Corporate culture is the grease that makes the operation run.

The combined experiences of the entire organization as combined into a single mindset or hive mentality forms the collective corporate culture. It's a foolish if not arrogant pipe dream to think that this amorphous "thing" can be altered by edict.

[...]

"""

Actually, coming to think of it, I'd say culture is a bit more ethereal than "grease" - perhaps the set of common unstated assumptions and expectations. That does make for smoother interactions - conflicts arise when different things are assumed or expected.
"I've always understood "dead man's switch" to literally mean something operating without human intervention.... That said, the options available to the commander do leave some room for interpretation".

Yeah, hence my gutless hedging with "sort of".

Maybe "failsafe" would be a better term, like in the film of that name, where the bombers are instructed to ignore any order to abort once they pass a particular point. (Actually, "fail-deadly" would be more accurate: why wasn't the film called that?)
Being registered is one thing, getting an actual visa is quite difficult. (If you are applying for your own visa that is)
Thailand has been clamping down on tourist visa abuse lately and working there in any capacity, even if your business is entirely online and outside Thailand is illegal. You might get away with it but you're definitely taking your chances. Getting a proper work permit there is quite expensive and difficult.

Cambodia and Vietnam are much laxer in this regard but also don't offer the same standard of living.
I came here to say the same thing. It might sound like nitpicking, but the site is unusable as is for us, civilized people. :-)
Put it that way and it sounds like 99.9999% is just an excessively precise version of 99%. Really it's the difference between .01 and .000001. It's just an expression of the order of magnitude: one in a hundred, a thousand, a million.
Renting a decent 1 bedroom apartment is about 350 dollars. 1Gbps costs 20 dollars, and it includes TV subscription (I think it includes HBO too), a fixed phone line and a 3G SIM card and/or USB stick.

The cost of living is definitely less than 1000 dollars. After all the average salary in Bucharest is probably less than 1000 dollars per month, so we wouldn't be able to live here if it cost more, would we? :)
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Came here and noticed that ~70% of the comments were about, or replies to comments about, the imperial measurements.

Just goes to show how you can so quickly alienate your audience and derail any conversation if you don't localise the product (or in this case, de-localise).
They could (and probably do), but then, who actually tries to pay anything in wrapped stacks of money outside of the movies?
Well Rails doesn't scale, or at least it didn't at the time when Twitter jumped ship a few years ago.

Could argue that for the current earnings report to have even been possible, they had to move away from Rails; otherwise the user base could not have grown to what it is today.

Saying that, Rails' scaling story has likely improved since 2009/2010, I believe Github and other high traffic sites currently use Rails. For Twitter it was too late. Only high profile company I've heard of that left Rails for greener pastures.
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Hasten to add, this is not mine... I just found it.

There are more: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=%22Game%20about%20Squ...
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I'm quite unknowledgeable about this, but from what little I understand: That is actually a very major effort in many cases, isn't it?
This looks exclusively focused on fat people losing weight? I was kinda hoping to see what I would look like if I put on another 5kgs of lean muscle and reduced body fat by another 2%.
I also find it interesting that the effectiveness of these orders rely purely on the captain's sense of duty, as (assuming the system has worked correctly) the only other person who knows what they say is dead.
I think it really depends on the nature of your work at big firms
Except for the civilized ones with search engines

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=77+kg+in+pounds

:-)
And now it's cloned on Google Play!

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=%22Game%20about%20Squ...
The fake money already has a bunch of features that make it clear that it's fake if you actually look at it. Cutting it in half could work, because it'd break the routine of the person accepting it and make them pay attention.
Such activities should not just be labeled a crime against humanity but as a crime against the eco-sphere.
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I'm in Chiang Mai right now. Granted it's not a huge city, but it's got basically everything you need to work as a nomad; Cheap rent, internet, malls, coworking, gyms, cafes, bars, tourist sites, etc.
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Wow, that's really amusing to mess around with. However their method for sourcing the data isn't quite perfect. Messing with the height option to get the tallest few women returns a few men (or possibly very manly women?). Regardless, it's more than good enough to be useful.
Also 20MBPS internet in Tokyo seems very odd. According to their data, internet in Zurich is twice as fast as Tokyo. That's simply ridiculous.
Costs of living are definitely way off, I live in Wroclaw, you can easily live comfortably for $1000, probably even less
> you're definitely taking your chances

How could they catch you and what are the penalties, do you know? Any anecdotes you could share?

Been thinking about hanging out in SEA doing remote work for a few months, would like to know the real situation.
Not the Queen of England per se, since technically the Australian sovereign is the 'Queen of Australia' and the Canadian head-of-state the 'Queen of Canada'. They happen to both be Queen Elizabeth II, but legally they're distinct and these roles have little to do with the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Canada
http://www.reddit.com/r/blossomred/comments/2c4pbv/
Ah, interesting, a bit like a quantitative version of the anthropic principle. It presupposes that civilizations that have recovered from doomsday scenarios will never be as large as those that never had such an event occur. Perhaps on the timescale since the Cold War that holds.
Haha yes, that would be kind of interesting. I've been kind of thin/ectomorphic my whole life and have been trying to put on some more muscle lately.
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UK tabloid front pages about heatwaves are almost always in Fahrenheit.
You need to include visa situation, because Bangkok is 3rd, but unless you're planning to start a Thailand-based business via the BOI, you're working there illegally if you don't have a work permit, and they're cracking down on all sorts of visa irregularities at the moment.
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I wonder what other services would suit this small, "artisinal", paid-for internet service model?

There's some RSS readers and email providers. Photo hosting and blogging are too "bulk" and high-profile for this business model, probably.

I suspect the abuse/takedown request workload is tiny, which helps a lot in keeping the cost down.
And it is tagged 99% mosque, while it isn't one. (the building on the left of it, not in the image, is).
As a nomad who wouldn't mind settling down, I'm actually more interested in a place where I can register my company with prospects of becoming full-fledged citizen in the future, preferably in somewhat colder regions of the planet. I'm not entirely happy with my current passport, and working out of off-shores doesn't do much good for that.
This surprised me as well. "costs of living" on this page are higher than average monthly salaries in these towns.
Why did US weapon manufacturers choose a startup from Lithuania?
Same with Wrocław on this page.
>For example, I like Hong Kong, but you can't stay there more than 2 weeks (if you want stay more, you have to get work permit/get married/have business there etc).

Citizens of most Western countries can stay for up to three months without a Visa, 6 months if you're from the UK or Macau.

However, I've got a few friends in Hong Kong who just do visa runs every few months to Macau, one has been living like that for 2 years. Fairly risky though.
A question for the site author: I'm working on an idea that involves user uploaded photos of themselves; however, I'm wondering how you get an initial "batch" of photos. Clearly, I'm not going to use anyone's photos without permission, but how do you get roughly 50-100 photos to start with? Just contact people and ask? A stock photo website would be even better if I knew one that I could just pay for portraits of a variety of people.
Chiang Mai can be one of the best locations to bootstrap a biz by many many factors. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs in varying stages at any given time. I've met ex-Googlers, ex-Applers, developers, consultants, writers, artists etc. etc.. It's a cheap and convenient place to live and focus. Depending on your budget, you can have whatever you please as far as standards go. A quick search on Google will show you that even mass media picked up on CM as a location for digital nomads.
I've lived in Bangkok the last 7 months and I spend approximately half the stated sum.

I am by no chance saying that the sum is invalid, it is probably pretty damn accurate (from what I've heard elsewhere).

Just mentioning that it is not the minimum. Not even I am at the minimum because I have a /relatively/ expensive apartment. And I don't live on breadcrumbs or anything like that :)

EDIT: As the reply posted by OP saying

> NomadCost is based on short-term staying in a hostel, hotel or apartment in the center, working in a coworking space and having a basic meal three times a day.

(I am not really close to that actual lifestyle)
It's the other way around. They make losses because they grow.
Cute. Any numbers on how fast this gets the job done? What are the data volumes involved here?
"textbooks being more affordable in general" -- but that's for university. I thought the conversation was about school systems where the schools might loan books to children, that is, primary and secondary school.

In the US, the same cost is 0, so is €250 is a lot less affordable than that, yes? (This $0 isn't quite true; in high school English class we would have to buy some of the books we were reading. These were relatively cheap paperbacks.)

Based on the 1990s report, it seems your experience of the Irish school system, based in the 1980s, is not really applicable. The increase in teacher choice of the teaching material has changed the market quite a bit because in your time the resale market was larger.

"The patches cost only a few euros" -- certainly, though the addition of a crest also serves to limit the clothing market. My question was how the school justified the extra cost. I assumed it was to establish a sense of school esprit de corp, but you suggest it's more a "that's the way it's always been" issue.

The "semi-pro sports facilities" for US high schools are usually voted on by the local community, since it calls for a tax raise for the funding. Is the crest requirement voted on by the parents? I thought it was determined by the school staff.

The illuminated signage I know of for schools seem primarily to provide messages to parents who drive and drop off the children at school. I don't think Ireland is a much a car-oriented country as the US.

"Heavily designed sports logos"? Are you talking again about college sports logos? I thought most high school logos were designed locally, and often either by the parents or the students. Many of them are outright copies of college and professional sports teams, which has gotten a few of them in licensing trouble.

This may be changing as some high schools are now seeing their logo as something to trademark and license. See http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/2010-12-06-high-... and http://fox2now.com/2014/06/13/parkway-school-district-to-lic... . As far as I'm aware of, this is a small minority.
I guess the problem for me is that the lazy thinking that's required to accept the general premise is uncomfortably close to the kind of lazy thinking that people are prone to anyway, that makes it all too easy to treat each other badly.

Almost the exact same article could have been written about the original story "The Marching Morons" written in 1951 (with the much-smaller SF community of the time replacing the movie's audience). It makes similar lazy errors of casually mixing indicators of poverty with those of low intelligence, and of implying that fine degrees of intelligence (and not just the grossest levels of mental fitness) are strongly hereditary. In the story the problem is resolved via mass genocide of 99% of the human race. Kornbluth intended it as uncomfortable black satire, to be sure, but that hardly means that the premise can't be taken seriously.

The story was widely popular in the SF community despite its serious logical flaws (ironic given that community's ostensible preference for "hard SF" that rigidly adhered to good science). It's really all too easy to read it and think that because you "get" it, you are clearly not one of the marching morons. You can argue that people didn't take it that seriously, but my own experience wouldn't support that conclusion. (I think Asimov made similar observations as well, at some point in his career.)
Ok. The idea is great, but as other have also said, the figures seem way off. Just two examples:

Basel being cheaper than Berlin? I have a hard time believing that.

But:

Hong Kong being cheaper than Leipzig? That just can't be true.
> How long until Berlin startups can expect reguler SV-level exits?

At a guess, never. There will be the occasional outlier (see recent big acquisition) but the advantages of having a 300M plus people mostly unified market with associated economies of scale can simply not be beat.

That's ok though, 'enough' is enough.
All we need is a solar frame, pandemic, or string of larger earthquakes in some parts of the globe. That would cause some nuclear plants to meltdown. Life on Earth would become impossible. No need to worry about some accidental nuclear war. Damn, we're dumb.
I believe this is amount for lifestyle above the average. Discount Macbook Pro for 4 years and other stuff. Same apply for London. You can live off 1000 a month, but 2500 gets you comparable life.
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A point that bears repeating is that this level of overkill was actually counterproductive. One way of disabling a high efficiency nuclear device is to blast the thing with neutrons (causing a premature and incomplete fission reaction in the core of the weapon). This was actually how the Sprint ABM system was intended to destroy its targets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_%28missile%29

Now picture the skies over Moscow with ~400 warheads coming in, most of them having been launched in a coordinated wave by Minuteman, Titan, or MX missiles within the space of a few minutes: it turns out that the prompt neutron pulse, blast, EMP, or thermal effects from one incoming warhead can disrupt another if it arrives within 10 seconds of the first. This is termed nuclear fratricide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fratricide

... And there were enough weapons in play during the Cold War that this was a thing war planners worried about.
I came here to say the same thing. There's no way Hanoi is cheaper then HCMC, even living in D7 or D2.

Been here the last three years.
Derek Sivers (founder of CDBaby) created an amazing project that caters to these needs: https://woodegg.com/
Hi HN! I made this. Here's some info on the data before everyone goes berzerk :)

Firstly, it's crowdsourced from this spreadsheet http://nomadlist.io/edit/ so it might not be 100% accurate.

Secondly, NomadCost != cost of living. NomadCost is based on short-term staying in a hostel, hotel or apartment in the center, working in a coworking space and having a basic meal three times a day. That's the average digital nomad's lifestyle. They move around every few months, so they can't rent long-term. So NomadCost will be way more expensive than cost of living for a resident.

I'd like to monetize this by selling city specific nomad guides on how to set up in each place and letting people find jobs remotely. Hope this helps! I think this is the future of work, so I'm very happy to help push this.

P.S. this is part of my goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months (see http://levels.io/12-startups-12-months)
Site states on front page:
"the accuracy of the data on this site is limited to the accuracy of the user-submitted data on reddit.com and the automated scraping of that data" - apparently scraped from subreddits r/loseit and r/progresspics
For working remotely, another factor which should be considered is time zone. It is very difficult to have a fruitful arrangement if you are always trying to scramble for times in the wee hours..
Added Phnom Penh to your list.

If you're a remote worker it's great place. In the city most people speak English, huge expat community, USD is the main currency, stable internet, a few co-working spaces, amazingly cheap to live, and a business visa is no problem.
Firing the nukes after the destruction of the government is 50% of the purpose of Trident. It's a second-strike deterrence weapon. It's not as if it could be practically used as a first-strike weapon independently of the US, there aren't enough warheads to obliterate Russia or China on our own.
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This particular site seems to be scraping reddit for images so asking the site creator about using photos not without permission might be slightly off.
I honestly cannot imagine how you may end up spending 2000$/month to live in budapest.

I got by with 400€ for years.
Technically you can face a hefty fine or even jail time. I can't say I've known anyone personally that's faced this but I've heard stories. Apparently right now there's a big crackdown on tourist visas in Thailand, with people being asked to justify 2-3 month stays in Thailand with extensive itineraries and documentation and people with multiple previous tourists visas being denied entry.

If you're just there on the 30-day exemption you're probably ok, particularly if you've never been to Thailand before.

Cambodia and Vietnam are much laxer in this regard. Technically you're not supposed to be working in either of those places either without a permit but I've never heard of anyone having issues.
As fast as physically possible means "as fast as allowed by physics".

It's all physics!
This is a great starting index for remote workers! Thanks for this.
It isn't easy to compare artists at the moment. It would be interesting to be able to select a word and see how frequently all artists used it (as a percentage of all words they used, of course)

I suppose I'd be thinking something like "Eminem always seems to be talking about himself". Let's see if he used "I" and "Me" more often than other artists
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Ha.

I wrote about a ZeroVM-on-Docker thing I was working[1] on in another thread just before this story showed up.

Note that ZeroVM isn't a conventional VM at all. All your software needs recompiling for it, and it is entirely deterministic (with all the positive and negative aspects of that).

For one set of use-cases this is very useful. I was looking at using it to run untrusted user-submitted, and potentially hostile code when a Docker container isn't sufficient on its own.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107151
What it shows is that most of the US population is sleeping right now. Those comments would most likely be down-voted.