skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I don't really like that site either.

The author of [1] sounds really biased, given the fact that he writes about how people can't read or write, while studies[2] seem to prove that it about where the US is in that regard. What does the author blame for this?

"The minister of education is a man-boy who spends his time making Youtube-videos showing heart-signs"

That doesn't ound like a decent analysis of the Swedish Education.

Also the author seems to be overly afraid of other people and cultures coming to Sweden.

"Having said that, what Sweden is doing is something completely different. The once homogenous population has been forever altered by a rapid and massive addition of people from vastly different cultures and value-systems."

Comparing with the US again: It was built on that.

Another quote:

"As a result, personal debt of the Swedish population is at an all-time high."

It is for sure not the financial crisis, the European debt crisis?

I am not saying that everything that person says is wrong. I am pretty sure there are some valid points in this, but as a source it is really bad and to be fair: At least all economists I've ever met seem to prefer the US (for whatever reason) over pretty much every other country. That's a bold statement and it's not proving anything at all, but given the fact that this article is based on a very subjective of argumentation and personal experience too I hope that I may.

Also I see that this blog post is a personal thing, not a study or whatsoever. I am not blaming that person for liking the US more or anything like that. I honestly hope that person gets happy there. However as a source that blog really doesn't seem to be reliable.

One more thing. I highly agree with one of the last sentences on there:

"But I won’t. I’ll be back in the US being mad at Obama for being a lying scumbag. Every country has its problems. "

[1] http://swedenreport.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
People often forget that it was Germany that declared war on the United States. Isolationism (and even pacifism) rarely survives when one is on the receiving end of an act of war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai...
Interesting how "bitter" is important. Is it academia's codeword for unprofessionalism? A claim that someone lacks objectivity because their meatbody generated emotion along with reason?

(Was Newton any less of a scientist for often being "bitter"?)
Your proposed solution (read from disk on startup and never again) is really a memory-backed data store, not a cache. Caches can miss.

But let's analyze your example. If disk reads take tens of seconds and memory usage is high enough to purge the kernel's disk cache, nothing can save you. Had your process read in everything at the start, it would be using even more memory. Given the same load, one of two things will happen:

1. If you have swap enabled, parts of your process's memory will be swapped-out. Accessing "memory" in this case would cause a page fault and tens of seconds of delay.

2. If you have swap disabled, the OOM-killer will reap your process. When it respawns, it's going to read lots of stuff from disk... and disk reads take tens of seconds. Oops.

Even if an application-level data cache improved performance on heavily-loaded shared hosts, the added costs of software development and maintenance far exceed the cost of better hardware. Hardware is cheap. Developers are expensive.
Based on your writing style, you appear to be Indian yourself. I'd like to hear from an American, why this matters to people unrelated to India.
A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win
Is it OK to mention it when it appears that a poster is spamming paywalled content for a specific site? For example, this guy [1] stopped posting altogether almost immediately after I politely pointed out the sheer volume of paywalled WSJ articles he was posting [2]. It isn't inconceivable that this account (and many others) were created solely to spam paywalled content to HN. If we are forbidden from mentioning such things, I think we are going to have a problem around here with many more attempts by paywalled sites to exploit HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=abetaha

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9641922
> where you work at a company while you are studying at a special school that grants Bachelors

For reference, I think the English equivalent is a co-operative degree.
Try clicking all kings in a row.. ;)
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
The Sound of Life
You can do this yourself with a userscript
> What will you do when every article on the homepage is paywalled?

We'll all do whatever the overall population of the web ends up doing, should this come to pass. Which will be some combination of: subscribe, subscribe to an aggregated subscription (like cable TV), or don't read it.
I'm not sure I can add much over http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Remote_Car_Hacking.pdf - I'm a bit jealous. I'd love to get paid to pull firmware apart like that.
This was fun, the first random dude it came up with for me was an improbably cool 81 year old (occupation Chef, car 2015 Dodge Charger - not actually an option in the country he's located but still, cool car).

This could be used to generate test data. I hope nobody would be tempted to use it for dubious purposes of any kind.

Edit: Oooo, another legitimate use occurs to me - help generate story ideas (or at least flesh out fringe characters) for authors.
> We also need to think about number of round-trips. If you're on an old phone on a 3G connection in India, the extra round-trip from requesting the HTML then requesting the CSS makes a difference.

If your stylesheets are properly versioned, they can be cached forever, which means exactly the same number of requests as inline styles with much less bandwidth use.
I'm not entirely sure who wins here. The prescription doesn't mean much aside from that insurance will pay fitness-related bills. But exercise doesn't have to cost anything. Even in the most unwalkable cities there's some place you can go to just walk around in.

And who wouldn't doctors prescribe exercise to. If someone comes asking their doctor for an exercise prescription so that they can get a free gym membership, there's no reason for the doctor to say no (save for cases where the patient has a heart disease or similar where regular exercise is inadvisable). Not only will it not hurt the patient, it'll in fact help them. It will also help the doctor as it will help present them as someone who listens to patients and it helps fill appointments.

If this becomes widespread, the result will be more expensive insurance (or in Quebec, higher taxes) and more expensive fitness programs.
Fixed now..
> nurses

This is actually a blind spot of the German system. You simply cannot compare the skill set of a college-educated nurse and one that was trained under the apprenticeship system. This means in particular that in Germany you need a doctor to do things that in (say) America a nurse could easily handle on their own.
Any doctor can prescribe exercise, including doctors in the US. You don't really need a lot of equipment, you don't really need gym membership. The issue is whether or not the patient will be compliant with an exercise regimen, and educating them on the importance of exercise and physical activity in general.

If the purpose of this is to allow exercise during the actual work day - that would be interesting, but would require the cooperation of employers or some type of federal regulation - in the US, maybe thrown under FMLA.
Are you saying developers aren't as smart as teachers, or are cheapskates even though they make far more money?

A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179385

"To date, Teacher Synergy, the company behind the site, has paid about $175 million to its teacher-authors, says Adam Freed, the company’s chief executive. The site takes a 15 percent commission on most sales."

"Teachers often spend hours preparing classroom lesson plans to reinforce the material students are required to learn, and many share their best materials with colleagues. Founded in 2006, TeachersPayTeachers speeds up this lesson-plan prep work by monetizing exchanges between teachers and enabling them to make faster connections with farther-flung colleagues."
Except the call to arms is two pronged: call out bullshit, but also don't create bullshit.

Never gonna happen. Human beings are born to bullshit. The fact that we compete for mates and the way the different genders have differing optimal mating strategies pretty much ensures that. We are always going to bullshit each other to a certain degree, as we try to achieve the ends we are innately wired to pursue.

That doesn't mean we can't fight back against bullshit of the nature described in TFA, but we won't ever live in a world with no bullshit. Or if we do, it won't be recognizable as anything like human society as we know it. If anything, it'd probably look like the worst dystopian nightmare scenario we can think of.
I will personally never forgive Sweden and the people in charge betraying innocent lives abroad

The people just as betrayed or more so by the people making these decisions are these people's fellow Swedish countrymen. What these governments and people pushing this agenda of what I assume they believe is big-heartedness or something, but with a willful blindness to the consequences have done is just ghastly and absurd.

There are frequent bombings in Malmö, often directed at Jews.
The bombings appear to be spreading, just last month apparently, there was a blast in Billesholm in northern Skåne. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/sweden-musli...
I'm fairly certain these things didn't occur say 30 years ago, much less frequently.

Then also in the past 30 years, Sweden has skyrocketed up the charts to lead the world in rape and school arson attacks.

Great job Swedish Government!
Most of the technical innovation in the US is financed by military sources and state-sanctioned monopolies. Things like the internet and self-driving cars basically came from ARPA and DARPA fundings —at least initially.

Compared to those thing, the typical web startup we see in the Bay area innovates little and disrupts nothing. They're just facilitators and middle men. The likes of DropBox, YouTube, Twitter, Blogger, even Facebook… none are needed. They only compensate for our asymmetric bandwidth, without solving the real problem.

If you want real innovation, you need to finance fundamental research. You know, things that have no short term benefits, uncertain long term benefits, and uncertain monetisability.

In any case, the US is one of the most militaristic countries out there. It wages war all over the place for oil, and develops nice military devices to secure its supremacy. That's a pretty good drive for technical innovation.
It's either this or ads, and ads don't work anymore because people use adblock.
I should add that this invariably happens when I don't have the time to debug things. Then nothing works: clearing cookies, going incognito, switching browsers. But of course when I go looking for examples right now everything seems ok.

I'll keep refcontrol in mind next time it happens, thanks. I'm not sure why setting the header this way would work when clicking directly on the link or the google search page doesn't, but heck I have no model for this behavior anymore.
Especially if they want to keep parts like Splitter and Joiner and just copy them over. I just ran into too many libraries that copied Guava into their own namespace and now your project depends on x different copies of Guava indirectly. Besides that I find it strange to get rid of ImmutableList as I don't see any usable alternative. I also find the newXXX methods very helpful and much more readable (e.g. Maps#newHashMapWithExpectedSize) and preferable over constructor usage even with the diamond operator as it also allows you to change the implementation afterwards.
I hear that a lot. It kind of made me certain that I don't want to go for a PhD.

I also frequently hear that it was a great time and that people should do it (very shortly summed up) "if they love science". But to be honest, there is a lot of people who are researchers and scientists without ever getting any kind of degree. Okay, not a lot as in the majority, but enough to be aware that it is valid to write papers, etc. and be accepted in research communities. I am not saying it is easy and it probably is way, way more unlikely, but then this sounds a lot like "if you really love science".

I also agree that the utility part will probably be harder, so it may depend a lot on what you study.

Those are all my assumptions, based on the things I heard. They are not really statements. I really want to hear what others think about that and especially where I am awfully wrong.
A 4100 lumen torch
And which amendment would those privacy protections be located in?
> Marketing and design are surely down to a psychological science by now.

Really? I just read an article about how Apple is intentionally avoiding a traditional social media presence as a part of its marketing strategy. So does the science work like, "if you are rich enough to buy out several independent nations, do not use social media for marketing?" Or what?

And as a designer myself, I have to say "science" applied to design has a bad reputation among designers [1]. I put the word in quotes because true science is an interest of mine. And if one day in the future the application of science to design is solidified, hopefully this means fractal design software will rise from its current "American Idol without Simon Cowell" state of chaos to become part of the Adobe Creative Nebula, or whatever it's called by then. Because right now, the golden mean and fractals are just a couple of the millions of tools in a very intuitive toolbox, and they seem most likely to underwhelm when used alone as part of some grand demonstration of science meeting design.

So: If there's a science to all of this, by all means elucidate.

[1] http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
You may welcome the billboards, but "cognitive pollution" sounds like a perfectly good description to me. Something that disrupts your focus and is forced on you as part of the environment rather than asked for.
Same here in Brazil.
It helps a lot to have a trainer. In fact we should be paying for gym and fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it. The benefits are extraordinary especially in Canada where we all pay for everyone's healthcare.

Yes exercise costs nothing. But it is often repetitive and boring. And in Canada it's cold 1/2 the year so having some place indoors is very helpful and having it paid for is even more encouraging.

We need to make exercise free, fun, and with trainers that work with people. It needs to be like gym in school on days where the gym teacher didn't have a stick up his/her ass... for anyone at any age.
Science is in trouble. Before long we'll owe an apology to medieval astrologers and barbers.

What’s wrong with Science
(http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2159154...)

How science goes wrong (http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-re...)

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss Here's How. (http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-hel...)

How computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/26/...)

Bad Science – Study on Gay Marriage Was Fake, Gets Retracted (http://www.zmescience.com/science/bad-science-michael-lacour...)

Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/03/22885995...)

The Mind of a Con Man (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/diederik-stapels-...)

Why Biomedical Research Has A Reproducibility Problem (http://footnote1.com/why-biomedical-research-has-a-reproduci...)

I could go on but...you know...Google.
Eventually you learn these things, from living life (including reading HN for awhile). And if you can't read an article because there's no workaround, or because you don't know of a workaround:

- Just don't read the article.

- Subscribe. If you can't/won't afford it, then see above, or see below.

- Search for other sources of the information. And post them, it adds to the discussion. Most articles worth taking up space, particularly on paywalled sites, are worth that space in other venues. Almost nothing is exclusive, not after a day anyway.

In the WSJ case, I've noticed that yahoo often prints the article verbatim.
That is also a copyright violation.
I actually started using same vector faces now!
It's hilarious he would complain when it's simply reciprocity. It's almost like he's clueless that's how many people are treated when trying to visit the US.

I had first hand experience of this in Bolivia when all the American backpackers were complaining they had to pay $100USD to get into Bolivia.

Yes, that's because that's how much it costs Bolivian's to get into the US. Think about how much money that is for these people. Oh.
MRMCD Keynote: ESA head of operations talks about Rosetta [video]
> Many people have lost innocent-until-proven-guilty in their minds.

It's worse. Sometimes I feel like "innocent-until-proven-guilty" is considered a flaw in the system that should be eradicated to make it easier to catch/punish criminals.
This thread itself is pretty telling. As far as I can tell its made up of two groups:

1. People complaining about paywalls

2. People complaining about poor quality content

I'd wager that most HN users are using AdBlock as well. How do you reconcile this with the above complaints? I'm sure some users restrict AdBlock on certain sites, but I suspect it's far from the majority.
Under what circumstances will this decision be reconsidered? It would be very bad to adopt a permanent policy that prevented any discussion of itself, since there would be no way to correct any such policy if it turned out to be a bad one.
Love your posts Sam. So fun. :)
Wouldn't it be the other way around? Giving the account to an individual, one week at a time, seems like a pretty liberal solution to me. The group-think, authoritarian version would be to make it centralized and heavily filtered.

The rules of Curators of Sweden stipulate that the
curators are free to write whatever they want. Tweets
will only be deleted if:

they violate Swedish law;
they promote a commercial brand;
they are a security threat.

As for the rest of your post: while I'm sure that you've a point, I don't really see what it has to do with Curators of Sweden.
Complaining about paywalls on HN is strong irony. Paywalls are erected around websites intended to make money.

A significant portion of the HN community are specifically building websites intended to make money. Perhaps the majority in the past, before the Elves left the forest.

What's special about news sites, that compels people to complain about them popping up on HN? If it's really a bad thing, then shouldn't we be complaining about non-news sites that make money (or are trying to?).

Isn't every YC company trying to make money, and charging for what their website offers?

Sheesh.
Show HN: FileKit – Simple and expressive file management in Swift
Blockchain with 100k transactions/second borrowing lessons from LMAX
Here's an example. You have a 100MB C++ executable that needs 4GB for its own various purposes and 20GB of data that it's serving. The machine has 64GB of memory. If you allocate 24.1GB of memory to the container for this service, disable swap, and mlock the binary and the data files, nothing will go wrong.

On the same machine is a batch process which is reading a 1TB file and writing another 1TB file. If your serving process was reliant on the OS page cache, it would find that its pages were routinely evicted in favor of the batch process.

You're right about swap, that's why only a crank would enable swap. The moment at which swap was a reasonable solution was already behind us 20 years ago.
Remember the full web framework on Bash? Bash on Balls!

https://github.com/jneen/balls

I just love the name :)

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781019
Whoa, really smooth animations!
I'll go out on a limb and answer that on Dan's behalf: Yes, please post these links in the comments. They are a benefit the community. Dan's needs to walk a fine line between having working links and not being sued by evil companies. This is what he is referring to in some of his comments when he mentions 'lines that should not be crossed'. He can't (read 'would be wise not to') offer you blanket permission in advance to post such links. The link may even be removed in the unlikely (?) event that HN receives a threatening letter from Elsevier, and at that point, a policy may be loudly proclaimed. But until you are explicitly told not to, please keep posting the links that let people read the publicly funded research.
Are JavaScript comments useless?
That's now fixed!
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (CC Available)
Business expenses are tax deductible by default. They only change to non-deductible under special circumstances, for example if the company buys a fancy car for the CEO's personal use. But normally every expense incurred as the result of carrying on business is deductible. That includes payroll, infrastructure, cost of sales, advertising, market research, utilities, postage, travel, contractors, consultants etc.

In general an expense is deductible as long as it has a legitimate business purpose.
> The fact that we compete for mates and the way the different genders have differing optimal mating strategies pretty much ensures that.

I think we've accumulated some nuance over the millenia. Killing the mating competition, or even lower level violence, is very relatively rare these days. And I'm pretty sure that significant numbers of people approach meeting and mating with more sincerity than bullshit.
> Something that disrupts your focus and is forced on you as part of the environment rather than asked for.

By that definition, anything outside of one's immediate focus and interests is "cognitive pollution." If that's the standard, then it's so vague and subjective as to be nearly useless. As forms of advertising go, I can't think of many which are less disruptive, or easier to simply ignore, than billboards.
Mike Acton – “Data-Oriented Design and C++” – CppCon 2014 [repost]
And the ones who didn't get to go to the Gymnasium -> University route will hit a ceiling and be unable to progress beyond a certain point.
If the website itself wasn't cringeworthy enough, the '#svpol' crowd showed up in the HN comments to make damn sure no one could leave with even the slightest doubt that everyone in Sweden is a complete tool.
I think malka meant both officially and "how it should be".
Personal income tax is more restricted but still works in a similar way. For example if I need to purchase a high-vis work outfit in order to do my job, that expense is deductible.
The Trump in every leader
Could Slack's Slackbot herald the era of virtual colleagues?
The ad hominem was "doesn't get HN in the first place". It's very dismissive of people who disagree with you. And it's not the first time you've responded like this.

I don't get it? No, you don't get it.
> It helps a lot to have a trainer. In fact we should be paying for gym and fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it. The benefits are extraordinary especially in Canada where we all pay for everyone's healthcare.

This mindset that the government should be spending tax revenue on anything beneficial is bizarre.