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alainchabat··on Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art
I love this idea of generated content. I'm wondering what artists thinks about that.

There was a recent Show HN project about generate quotes having some great results having sense : https://machineswisdom.com

alainchabat··on Show HN: Machine Wisdom – Generated Inspiration from Deep Learning (GPT-2)
That's pretty good, which data set did you use?
alainchabat··on Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
So grateful for working remotely from anywhere, in average 5 hours a day, and making 6 figures
alainchabat··on I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
In China, you usually pay the rent for the next 3 months so it's tricky to do
alainchabat··on I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
I lived 2 years in a "hutong" (old residential area) in Beijing. Rented an apartment via a middle man that could only get those apartments. After signing the lease, a friend warned me this middle man will certainly find every excuses to not give back the deposit (many stories about it in the foreigners circle).

The week I was leaving, she didn't want to give me the deposit .I warned her I'll public shame her if she didn't gave me back the money, and use "internet magic" to collect other poeople stories so it will stop people renting from her. Nothing happened until 3 months later she sent me a wechat transfer. I've closed the website. But then learned again she was keep doing the same thing with an other business name. I've reopened the website with adding her new business name. She didn't contacted me yet.

She get away since foreigners just don't want to to deal with that when they are about to leave the country or deal with that.

You can Google/Baidu/Bing "courtyard007" or "homeudream"

alainchabat··on Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns
Gitlab decided to not hire people living in China/Russia because of all risks linked to the Chinese/Russian government.

Isn't censoring one of their employee to not enflame the situation would be what China/Russia would do with their citizen for the same reason? kind of an ironic situation.

alainchabat··on 38 People are looking at this post right now
is there any plugin/website to find out the "normal" price of a hotel / flight at a given time?
alainchabat··on S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal
We have a large s3 bucket 2 billions objects and we start thinking about cleaning it a bit. Is anyone had done such things or any tools on :

- categorising what's inside

- checking what's used or not

Thanks!

alainchabat··on WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
what are the other companies you'll never work for?
alainchabat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
anything similar but for Taiwan?
alainchabat··on The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
Was lurking profiles of the Taiwanese crowd on HN. How is it to work as a Software engineer in Kaoshuing?
alainchabat··on The Chinese fascination with numbers
I was always wondering when I see a sign saying to not flush toilet papers. Do you need to throw it in the trash can after wiping your butt? Because I always flush it, don't want to make the toilet room smell bad or give a hard time to the cleaning lady/boy!
alainchabat··on Flight to China turned back after airline forgets to remove Taiwan reference
Talking about Taiwan, they're trying really hard to attract foreign talents. (one big reason is that China is poaching all the talents here, but this is an other story).

If you're interested, check their Gold Card Permit. It's a visa+redisent card allowing you to stay and work for anyone there up to 3years. The only requirement is to justify of a salary of 160k NTD/month(~USD 5210/month), anywhere in the world, if you don't earn that, try the skills application[1]. And about the article, they are now requesting feedbacks from the public for the next immigration bill [2], that will make even easier to apply fo the visa.

[1] https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...

[2] https://join.gov.tw/policies/detail/1b688f9c-5f05-47ce-ab56-...

alainchabat··on Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data
Thanks! I'll make my research on what kind of investments accredited investors have access .

If you have any interesting leads on this, I'm interested!

alainchabat··on Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data
Yes, trying to get my long term investment plan done. I'm allocating a small % (few thousands a month) to riskier things. I'm betting on few cryptocurrencies now, but wouldn't mind to explore your advices :)

Also debating with myself I should do my investment via my personal account or via an offshore company.

alainchabat··on Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data
I'm genuinely curious, where do you invest your money for the next 10+ years?
alainchabat··on YC 120
How do you do that? Any article/book you recommend?
alainchabat··on Show HN: Share one-liner command snippets
Like it! Feature request: when we click on the command line, select all the command line and copy it in the clipboard, instead of having to double click then ctrl+c?
alainchabat··on Show HN: Convert a Markdown Doc to WordPress Posts and Pages
Is there a solution to do the other way around? I have a wordpress blog that I don't update and cost hosting fees. I would like to move it to a free hosting solution like github
alainchabat··on Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
It's been a while I'm thinking about this. As an european (french if that helps), living in asia , does that worth it to invest in an american fund ? Anyone has a recommendation?

Thanks!

alainchabat··on Why No HTTPS?
https://whynohttps.com/country/tw. Taiwan, Province of China. Taiwan is a country. This would be the correct wording: Republic of China.

China used its influence at the UN to have that included in ISO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Naming_and_dispute

alainchabat··on Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale
Is anyone has a solution/tool to run easily kubernetes on a single bare metal server? Kubernetes or anything other docker container "orchestration" tool. Tried to google (certainly wrong keywords), and found some quite complex process, or maintained tools that are mainly for aws/gcp
alainchabat··on 6.4 Earthquake hits Taiwan
Will China send them help of any kind since they consider Taiwan a part of the country?
alainchabat··on MacOS High Sierra
It looks like a theme from themeforest. They must have had a tight deadline
alainchabat··on Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
https://github.com/Netflix/ice looks pretty good. But you have to pay $780 for the highstock license to use it. Anyone has a free alternative to this?
alainchabat··on Prometheus reaches 1.0
Is anyone using Promotheus for monitoring micro-services deployed with Kubernetes? Any feedbacks?
alainchabat··on WireGuard: next generation in-kernel modern VPN
same question here
alainchabat··on Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta
Hi, sorry to report a bug (or is it me missing anything?). I successfully created the first story. However, the second story (basic, just text) keeps failing. Wondering what I did wrong ? https://www.dropbox.com/s/32bly2hei8ehm1s/Screenshot%202016-...
alainchabat··on Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta
Hi! that's awesome! I started to play with it .

I was wondering if there is any way to have predefined stories? I'm sure there is already a bunch of "weather" stories or "how are you" stories that must come over and over. I don't want to spend much time on it

alainchabat··on OwnTracks: Self-hosted, open source location tracking
I really like your forum theme. Do you use discourse? is the theme open source? Thank you!

https://community.owntracks.org

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