skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure -- is the increased health contraindicated by the increased chance of injury or death from unobservant car drivers?
I'd imagine most other countries haven't thought of doing this, because most others countries don't have such a rigidly enforced group-think as does Sweden.

Did you know that Sweden's main export is not lumber or steel but in fact white guys with beards who think they are hilarious?

Sweden is also among the world leaders in exporting ISIS terrorists. Believe it or not.
http://swedenreport.org/2015/02/04/more-isis-fighters-from-o...

In fact a native Swede "Islamophobia Expert" joined ISIS and is attempting to recruit others. wtf?

http://www.thelocal.se/20150203/swedish-islamist-convert-in-...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/251905/swedens-multicultur...

I don't have time to look through many of these tweets, but I imagine there are a number of things the authors refrain from mentioning.

I've found this blog
http://swedenreport.org
to detail some shocking things that have transpired in Sweden in the past years that those tweets probably bypass.

From the author's About page:

[...]

The purpose of this blog is to highlight some of the news stories that don’t show up under the International News-section of your newspaper, yet might be of interest for your investment decisions, understanding of politics in the Nordic region, or perhaps just your vacation plans.

[...]

About me: I was born and raised in Sweden, but moved to USA as a young adult in 1999. I acquired naturalized American citizenship 2007. In recent years I had to relocate back to Sweden for family reasons, only to discover that much had changed in my absence.

I am not affiliated with any political party in either country. I hold a B.S. in Finance and an A.S. in Accounting from Excelsior College, New York.

(I have no connection with that blog, or the author, other than having read some of it with astonishment)
Indeed!

From time to time, I need to lease VPN services, VPS and so on. And I choose to do so pseudonymously, paying with Bitcoin. But bizarrely, sometimes providers want contact information. I need valid information, of course. And I do provide a working email address. But it's rare that a telephone number will be used. Sometimes I have setup VoIP. But mostly I just need a telephone number that won't raise alarm, if called. So I tend to pick restaurants that have recently failed, business hotels or hostels.

Sometimes I need a valid return address for mailing cash. In that case, I pick a homeless shelter or other charity. That way, if the letter is returned for whatever reason, the money goes to a good cause.
I mean finding the actual cause of a high load number. There's no way to break it down by process, or even find out if it's because of IO or network, etc. without using other tools.
Good point. We don't use such techniques when moderating because it seems important not to insulate ourselves from the typical reader experience.
I don't allow swap on my machines, and I mlock executable pages, so I'd personally be surprised if anything was paged out.
>What are you gonna do about it?

Suggest you look at abc2MIDI, which has been around since 2002:

http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/original/README.txt

>There are large communities around cli tools for music,

Actually there aren't. The biggest community is around Max, with PD a close second, and both are dataflow languages, not clis, although they have code affordances.

Most musicians don't get on with cli's at all. (I know this because I've sometimes tried to teach them.) Judging by mailing list volumes, actual volunteer user numbers - i.e. excluding students who have to learn them on courses before giving them up - are in the hundreds of users for each of the most popular clis, as a world wide total.

Trackers are a lot more popular - but they're a different subculture.

In any case, ALDA is barely a cli for music - it's a very simple ASCII music specification with a bare bones GM runtime, and it has some important features missing. (n-tuplets or chord symbols or key signatures?)

For a non-trivial cli look at Common Music, Csound, SuperCollider, Overtone (which runs on Clojure), ChucK, Impromptu, or even Sonic Pi, all of which do quite a bit more.
I was about to say this, exactly! I could easily see something like this kind of functionality in the form of a Vim plugin or Emacs mode.
Well, if the public defender doesn't know Spanish using software which helps them to understand their client is a start.

I definitely agree with you on just how bad existing legal research software is at finding factually on-point results. This was part of my motivation to help found ROSS Intelligence, which is building better legal research software with ML and NLP at its core.

And while pessimism and skepticism does help identify the difficulties in implementing different solutions, it's optimism that helps find the opportunities imbedded in the difficulties found :)
It's just a signal of a collectivist society.
That's curious. Running Win8.1 and Task Manager lists Task Manager with subprocess Task Manager, anyway, using variably 0 to ~1.0% CPU, 0.3% memory. How "truthful" these stats are, well I guess that's another question altogether...
I don't think it was ad hominem, but it's possible that I misinterpreted your comment as snarkier than you meant it. If so, I'm sorry.
Besides this being rad - you can see in the Alda repl screeny that the author has earthbound behind it. I love that game.
> But bizarrely, sometimes providers want contact information.

And you trust those providers?
ATTACK ON MOBILE SECURITY
Sure. Businesses (in the US, anyway) pay tax on their profits, not their revenue. Profit is revenue minus expenses. Advertising is an expense, just like all of the other expenses that go into successfully bringing a product to market (research and development, transportation, etc.).
Public defenders are the only thing working against the Matthew Effect[1] when it comes to justice. But, when wealthy corporations or individuals can spend unlimited sums on prosocution or defense, justice is still usually determined by wealth. If you think the tactics of patent trolls are bad...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
Agreed. It's an absolute tragedy that 80 percent of the legal needs of the poor go unmet.
I think the problem is that the implementation process -- creating an actual exercise program -- is quite non-obvious. As far as I know, the studies that have been done on the dose-response curves of various exercises have reached somewhat inconsistent results, except that they consistently show significant inter-individual variability for a given tuple of type, dose, and outcome measure (NB: they do not generally show a single unified axis of exercise super-responders and non-responders, a common interpretation of such studies in the news media).

For the general population not trying to optimize performance in a specific sport, the nuts-and-bolts business of "what exercise should I do?" is fraught with bargeloads of pseudoscience, tribal lore, magical thinking, fad-chasing, and actively-amplified marketing nonsense.

And then if, despite the atmosphere of uncertainty, you convince yourself to try something and it doesn't work for you, that method's dedicated acolytes will waste no time in telling you that you must be doing it wrong, must by lying about something, are just looking for excuses to be lazy, and so on.

It's not really an environment that's shaped for success.
I know, that's what I think is confusing.
Polaroid's retro camera prints with zero ink
Not yet -- I've had this feature on my mind for a long time, though. It's pretty high up on the to-do list.

This is far from ideal, but as a workaround, you could set up a sound recording program like Audacity to record system audio output and play your score.

Hopefully in the near future you'll be able to do something like "alda play --file my-score.alda --output my-file.wav" or something to that effect.
I think that in every case where you're not entering into an agreement where you assert that

1) The physical address provided is an address at which you can receive correspondence or packages.

and

2) The information supplied is -to the best of your knowledge- correct.

and

3) You agree if you have knowingly supplied false or incorrect information, you will be subject to penalties or damages claims.

you'll be just fine.
There are certain states whose employees are exempt from FICA. This makes for some interesting double-dipping case studies cf. http://www.governing.com/columns/public-money/FICA-free-lunc...
I don't think it was the downturn that did it. Companies look at successful companies for hints on how to succeed. What has been the most successful company on the planet for more than a decade? Apple.

Apple are not shy about "owning" their platform, and they aggressively leverage their walled gardens. The market did not punish them; in fact, users raved about their "refined" experience. Other companies took note and ran with it.
I think you may have misunderstood. I'm not asking if we're allowed to submit links to Elsevier. I'm asking if we're allowed to include a mirror in the comments of an Elsevier submission. This is different from news articles because the news paywalls are only meant to kick in after a bit of usage and are easily avoided by new window or similar, while studies generally require a subscription or paying a fee. The "workaround" for those involves someone with a subscription downloading it and uploading elsewhere, and whether that's allowed on HN wasn't clear from this post.
The Multiverse of Perception
Valid address, why? I've used preloaded cards in the past and have never had issues making up addresses.
The 20 schools with the most alumni at Google
Well, retrospectively, I'm not sure I should have flipped that bozo bit. I just remember that I did, at least as far as computers were concerned. (My bozo bits tend to have 2 entries: a person and a subject matter.)

More generally, though, it was one of those unmistakable proofs that authority isn't always legitimate. This happened often enough that I now decide for myself who has authority over me.
Privacy+&+Data+Practices+|+AddThis
Where is the why?
APIs Are the New FTEs
Webtask by Auth0 https://webtask.io/
I, and many others it seems, would appreciate it. I simply asked if s/he would consider it as a feature request because although a small gripe, it is quite annoying. It wouldn't be as bothersome if it were not for mobile. Waiting 5+ seconds for several JS libraries to get served to the client, then after about a paragraph of reading a paralyzing modal covers the entire screen asking to subscribe to read the full article. Not so much well known "reputable" sites like wsj, nyt, exonomist, but others. There is limited popup blocking and thus sometimes the page needs to be manually shut off, so one must then find the link and try to find a non-paywalled version in google, possibly repeating that process instead of knowingly bypassing the article for the comments and following the top comment of a helpful community member.

It was a polite feature request, asked civilly.
Science fiction technology terms
Surprisingly few tips for traveling have changed since medieval times
A lot of the ticky-tacky McMansion cul-de-sac developments constructed from about 2000 to the end of the last housing boom in the United States don't have sidewalks. However, in my experience, the streets become de facto multiple use pathways for walking, bicycling, driving, etc.
This is the only valid/legal/moral use case I can imagine for this project, but a good one.
The health benefits outweigh the risks [1], if measured by increased life span. This is a relatively common question about cycling.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920084/

---

Edit for clarity.
This isn't just about advertising. It's equally about bad or distracting design.

But ultimately it's about concentration. I believe, for the most part, that multitasking is a myth. When I am reading something difficult, or that I would like to remember in detail later, I need to focus on it exclusively and read it without interruption. That means ad blockers, print view, etc.

> As the landslide of bullshit surges down the mountain, people will increasingly gravitate toward genuinely useful, well-crafted products, services, and experiences that respect them and their time

This sounds like wishful thinking to me. Marketing and design are surely down to a psychological science by now.
> In the Germanic world (Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia) doing a degree is choosing a life path. You're an Electronic Engineer? Great, you can apply for jobs in EE. Nobody else can.

Not really. Unemployment among people with college degrees wouldn't be so low if hiring criteria were as strict as you intimate, and they aren't. For example, I have a Ph.D. in computer science and work at my university's math department. I know astrophysicists working in IT and at least one historian (by training) working as a journalist. Businesses will hire someone with a college education not necessarily because they need the specific subject-related skills that have been installed into them in college, but just as much because of the subject-independent skills they learn; this is also why a master's degree is still the gold standard: a bachelor's degree in many quarters is still seen as something that's too much like school where you receive knowledge rather than researching it, but neither conveys the practical skills of vocational training.

Humboldt's ideal [1] has become more difficult to maintain in a world of ever expanding knowledge, but as an ideal, it still exists.

The exceptions are occupations with very specialized requirements (such as law, medicine, or teaching) and the vocational system: it's actually one of the biggest drawbacks of the system, where changing careers (in a society where 90% have a credentialed education) can be a daunting perspective past your 20s, but where vocational training often being too specialized [2] may necessitate it. This is where the situation that you describe occurs far more often.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt%27s_Ideal

[2] Vocational training has its own career paths and options to expand your skill sets, but that doesn't always work.
People are worth more than property.

Would I kill someone I don't know in order to save someone I know and love deeply? No. That is murder. Now saving a loved one vs. saving someone who is a stranger is a different scenario. The scenario depicted here is very clear. Kill or suffer loss of property that will impact your family physically.

I can see that this would be much harder to do in a collectivist society, I'll give you that much. But murder remains immoral.

I also agree that the consequence of injuring someone should be less. But I don't know what it's so high in the first place so I'm not at a point to really comment on that.

As an aside, I was not born in the U.S. and have lived the vast majority of my life in my country of origin. You stating that I would have the same perspective of those in China if I grew up there does not make that perspective the morally justifiable one. Not having grown up in that culture has given me (or most of us) the freedom of thought to come to the point where we can clearly identify it as immoral, even if we are never faced with the proposition.
I generally agreed with your parent, and think it worth repeating. So I'll take your comment at face value and attempt to paraphrase.

Their problem with the article is that it makes the wrong assumption that everyone should be able agree on what does / does not count as bullshit. Including, recursively, the article itself.

In the past and in places many of us prefer not to go now, there were "arbiters of taste" who were able to influence many people's thinking by representing themselves as "the truth" (you know - the one without the bullshit).

We now live in a more open marketplace of ideas which, most likely, your parent is happy about. He / she would not like the article's author, nor anyone else, to resume such authority. They likely believe that though bullshit-everywhere might be true, it is still a price worth paying for diversity of ideas.
Does this have notation for quarter tones? I can't find that on their website.

That's always been a pain point for me. No quarter tone notation rules out a lot, including most of Arabic and Turkish, and much of Greek maqam music.
Playskool is how I thought of the old logo. At least this one is inspired by a desire to conserve bandwidth rather than being the best aesthetic decision a bunch of engineers could come up with using microsoft word while just trying to check off the logo requirement of running a company...
Damn sorry, I did misunderstood your first comment indeed! I totally align with your question: is pasting the content on the comments (or a link to the contest illegally reuploaded) an allowed workaround?
I wonder if these magnets would work in spherical cows.
Lamda does not work inside a vpc nor can it connect to one. You cannot use RDS period. This severly limits options currently available from a database and security perspective.
All that is missing now are doctors to give the prescription. (seeing a family doctor in Quebec is really difficult)
Frankly, it seems more like you want to attach your pop issue to another issue. The "I'm not reading" bit is fun though.
That's my question as well.
If billboard advertisers had to pay every person whose life experience is degraded by seeing a billboard for a product they'd never buy

I've never found my life "degraded" by a billboard, even if it was for a product I'd never buy. In fact, some of them are still useful, especially when driving long distances on the Interstate. They're something to break the monotony and give you something to think about, if only for a minute or two. Some are downright funny/amusing, and others at least provoke a "I wonder what that's supposed to mean" reaction.

"cognitive pollution"? That smells suspiciously like bullshit to me.
Thanks for the kind words!

1. I do have plans to implement start and end points for playback, either in the form of minute/second markings or the already-implemented "markers" you can place in an Alda score. I agree this is a crucial feature -- it will be very useful when working on one small part of a large score. Eventually you should be able to do something like: "alda play --file my-score.alda --start 0:30 --end chorus"

2. Not yet -- I'm hoping we'll implement a way to generate LilyPond ( http://lilypond.org ) typeset scores from Alda code.

3. My philosophy on bar lines (and the reason why Alda ignores them as if they were comments) is that they're essentially "invisible to the ears," and so they don't serve much purpose except as a way to visually organize your score file. However, in order to generate sheet music (e.g. by generating LilyPond code), we will probably end up making them significant to the parser after all. I can see how it might be useful to think of your score in terms of measures, e.g. "play a few eighth notes, then rest until the end of the measure," so I'm certainly open to the idea of implementing measures.

4. I agree, although I'm a Vim user :P
Thanks, really appreciate you giving it consideration would be awesome. Cheers. Also, couldn't it just be as simple as adding a "tag as paywalled" button next to the flag option. Then, if 3 people, (or a reputation heuristic meets a threshold) a small wall icon appears after the article. It doesn't have to crank up gravity or affect the post.

Thank you for your contributions to this site.
A: This is something pretty terrible and should be in violation of search engine rules. So perhaps file a complaint.

B: Even Google gets on the geo-IP bus and will outright 404 pages in some zones with zero indication that the URL was ever OK. Recent example was the Google Solar Roof thing - in some countries, it was just a 404, nothing else.
AFAIK the AWS team is working on this. It's one of the most asked for features.
I've been vaguely following the blog called Once Upon a Saga [1], where Torbjørn Pedersen is chronicling his even more ambitious project of visiting every country in the world without flight.

[1] http://www.onceuponasaga.dk/

I think being from an unthreatening country (Denmark) and traveling as a representative of the Red Cross is helping him avoid the distrust, bureaucracy, and corruption that the author of this article encountered.
Please clarify: is pasting the full text/screenshot of the article in a comment an acceptable workaround under this new policy?
Wouldn't it be interesting if personal income taxes worked the same way?

(Capital gains tax kinda does, at least in the jurisdictions I know about; you can offset losses against gains. But earned income seems just as much like business revenue as capital gains...)
True story. Although the consumer isn't helping at all.

https://blog.applovin.com/data-desk-6-whatever-it-would-cost...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory

https://dx.doi.org/10.1006%2Fjtbi.2001.2430

"Reliability theory is a general theory about systems failure. It allows researchers to predict the age-related failure kinetics for a system of given architecture (reliability structure) and given reliability of its components. Reliability theory predicts that even those systems that are entirely composed of non-aging elements (with a constant failure rate) will nevertheless deteriorate (fail more often) with age, if these systems are redundant in irreplaceable elements. Aging, therefore, is a direct consequence of systems redundancy. Reliability theory also predicts the late-life mortality deceleration with subsequent leveling-off, as well as the late-life mortality plateaus, as an inevitable consequence of redundancy exhaustion at extreme old ages. The theory explains why mortality rates increase exponentially with age (the Gompertz law) in many species, by taking into account the initial flaws (defects) in newly formed systems. It also explains why organisms “prefer” to die according to the Gompertz law, while technical devices usually fail according to the Weibull (power) law. Theoretical conditions are specified when organisms die according to the Weibull law: organisms should be relatively free of initial flaws and defects. The theory makes it possible to find a general failure law applicable to all adult and extreme old ages, where the Gompertz and the Weibull laws are just special cases of this more general failure law. The theory explains why relative differences in mortality rates of compared populations (within a given species) vanish with age, and mortality convergence is observed due to the exhaustion of initial differences in redundancy levels. Overall, reliability theory has an amazing predictive and explanatory power with a few, very general and realistic assumptions. Therefore, reliability theory seems to be a promising approach for developing a comprehensive theory of aging and longevity integrating mathematical methods with specific biological knowledge."