skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big gulf between wage earners and everyone else, but, as I said to the other guy, the professional class and manual laborers don't have identical interests (for instance, which group is more likely to support a free-trade agreement that will cause US factories to shutter but drive down the prices of consumer goods?).
Average in this article is GDP per capita, which is the mean, not the median.
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i internalised it as the regular plural of stigma, so i'm guessing i've seen it in books. here's a 2010 Google books result from googling "societal stigmata". https://books.google.com/books?id=xXTcQ-TyK6MC&pg=PA947&lpg=...
Absolutely... the "1%" should continue to exist and be the countries rich. It's still quite rich, but not "greedily hoarding wealth well beyond what you could ever spend while others starve" rich.

That said, I've noticed Bernie using the language: "The top one-tenth of 1 percent [of Americans] own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
A home loan would've generated 3-4% in interest a year. The US government made over 14% in less than a year on this loan. That would make it terrible, not excellent, for the borrower -- more akin to a high interest credit card than a mortgage. Mortgages involve paying so much back because you have interest compounding on a large balance for 15-30 years.
This is great. It is very cool to see this link in the "way" back in 2007:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863.
Malmö

Foreign born persons |	Population

102,047	| 322,574

Foreign background | Swedish background

139 240 | 183 334

Seems pretty normal for a cosmopolitan city. Doesn't look like Atilla the Hun is at the gates, either.

The equivalent for New York City[1] is:

Foreign born persons |	Population

3,136,592 | ~8,344,000

[1] http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/population-geography/fore...

Toronto [2], on the other hand is ~49% foreign-born. Vancouver is 45%.

[2] http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/12/05/a_city_of_unmatch...
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There are usually mitigating factors when it comes to torture. I don't think anyone has discussed the benefits/drawbacks of torturing someone just because that's what you want to do. It's always framed in the context of national security, or things like that.
I'm pretty sure HN doesn't want urls to provide an SEO boost either for themselves or the people submitting - and if so, I would tend to agree with them.

It's well know that pg doesn't want this site to have mainstream appeal, so having HN articles list high in search engines would probably be a problem they would want to avoid, but also, submitters shouldn't have an incentive to use this site to boost their own SEO by submitting low-quality linkspam.

If it were me, I would go even further and route every link through a dereferring proxy just to mess with their analytics as well, and block everyone except maybe IA through robots.txt. For a site which is meant to be about discussion and thought-provoking stories and not content aggregation for the sake of ad revenue, I think SEO is a cancer.
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This whole issue appears to be virtually unknown outside Scandinavian circles - and to some degree inside Sweden, whose print and broadcast media are to all intents and purposes heavily censored.

I had a Swedish girlfriend for a while. She moved to Denmark, where I live. And within a month changed her entire outlook on the demographics of her native land.

It is actually getting serious. Artists are jailed for their work in Sweden these days. Malmø is going out of control. The country is in a downward spiral of violence and chaos, and in deep, deep denial.

The merest mention of these issues automatically trigger the full brunt of rightist extremism accusations. And a predictable loss of karma points.
Shame. other people seem to have had lovely connections with the service, like Karl mentioned in another comment: https://medium.com/@carlheath/stories-from-the-swedish-numbe...
Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate your help evaluating stories.
Nice post
Absolutely this. Lots of people I know who've lost tons of weight started attempting to eat better and then walked an hour or more a day. I started walking every day and dropped my resting pulse into the 50's, and lowered my blood pressure from barely normal, to near athletic.

All that walking is just awesome for people's health. And most people in the US don't get much exercise.
"Current and future quality of life for myself and others trumps paying lip service to ideals that are never realized."

Agreed. However, I bet we differ on the means by which one should go about achieving/obtaining (I separate those words very deliberately here) a high quality of life for oneself, and the means that will help others. If you're truly interested in a political conversation, and open to learning, my email is in my profile. While the HN community may benefit, we are going on quite the tangent from the main topic. Cheers.
I've looked at the prices between 1980 and 2010, seemed to be getting about 1000 times cheaper every 10 years.
And SSD pricing has gone down about 40% every year the last 4 years. Which would come to a price reduction of less, but some breakthrough is bound to be around the corner.
Another key element is that you have old style ethnic communities in NYC.
Hah! Yeah, right.

Money corrupts more than you think. Just look at Ricky Hendon, for example. He contracts his "services" to mayoral candidates and charges a heavy, heavy penny. Hell, there's a conversation on facebook where he talks to Dock Walls and Willy Wilson in the same post about how he worked at getting Amara Enyia kicked out of the election. He did this after Enyia's team kicked him out of their offices because of his incredibly shady practices and stopped paying him. The inside folk I talked to at the time all agreed - he's a scumbag, ex Senator who should've been sent to jail for corruption charges. So, because of his selfish, monetary reasons, Chicago's candidate pool completely thinned.

You can make the argument, "Yeah, that's just one person.", sure. But that one person fucked Chicago's election.

Later on in that election, Bob Fioretti, who used Amara's campaign manager, dropped out of the race and gave his public support to Rahm - Because he received 50k to do so. Even though throughout that entire election, he was a hugely public critic of Rahm.

If anyone thinks that money doesn't corrupt, or that it doesn't have strong negative influence, they're a god damn naive fool. "It never does", my ass.
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Does not change that the product of lower capital gains tax rates than income tax means those who earn absolutely less in a given year are paying a higher percentage of their income in tax than those who make absolutely (much) more.

I think the fundamental problem is everyone talks about capital gains as some flat thing. It needs to be progressive like income tax (or at least in the US, way more progressive than current income tax) to have the positive effects economists want so long as the gains are distributed across many people than centralized in the hands of few.

I'd say the same with waged income. In a theoretical better society we would even be taking income up to the happiness threshold and would progressively tax to an absolute income limit beyond that. And that is not just for bitternesses, sake, the problem we are going to face is that automation and the private ownership of automated production will produce literal money machines, where no human labor is required but goods are made and then sold which transfers money to you, that you then never spend back out again so long as you can own the whole supply chain. That situation is not sustainable - it is money flowing uni-directionally - and the consequences of uncapped income have precipitated how in the past five years we went from a little over 300 billionaires having more wealth than half the human population on Earth to just over 50 today.
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I've been running Firefox on Linux for 7 years, and I've hardly had any problems.
> The security model is totally different than Bitcoin - it's based on trusted nodes, leading to much different tradeoffs.

Tradeoffs such as?

I read that and it is hard to conceptualize the pros and cons. Sometimes I think about why blockchains weren't considered as a solution to the byzantine generals problem before 2008. Was it fucking stupid? Was the consensus idea improperly dismissed? Never considered? I would say from 2000 - 2008 internet latency was 'good enough' in some places for this. Maybe 2004 - 2008 the storage space improvements were also good enough.

Sometimes I really wonder.
Yeah, exactly. Blaming the victim isn't really appropriate here.
I wore a pebble for about a year and came to the conclusion that I'm much, much happier when I'm not immediately notified of every little email and text message I get over the course of a day. I cannot even remember a single instance in my life where I received an email that couldn't wait until later that night or the next morning.

Now I don't wear a watch, my phone is just a phone, and I deal with email in batches only once or twice a day on my laptop. I know a lot of people would go into tech withdrawal if they gave up their smartphone, but for me it feels great.
Oh come on. 16% of the population is foreign-born, of which half are Europeans. Of the top ten immigrant countries, only one is arab (Iraq), and they constitute 1.3% of the population. The many Syrians who came last fall are not in the statistics yet, but will likely also amount to less than 2%.

In Malmö, less than 30% are foreign-born, and the largest group is (unsurprisingly) Danish, along with Iraqi and former Yugoslavia.

http://www.migrationsinfo.se/demografi/fodelseland/
Well, most people would get very upset about someone going 120mph through a 25mph school zone but range from mildly disapproving to understanding of someone going 75mph on a 55mph highway.

Not an exact comparison, but it captures the general concept. Wage earners shaving some dollars off their taxes with exemptions likely has a much smaller impact on the country's financial health than those earning millions per year on ownership finding ways to lower their effective tax rate to the same levels.

Ideally, everyone should pay their fair share, but in the meantime, the higher volume offenders are going to be a higher concern.
Perhaps they simply do not want to live in a "successful city," or one that is successful by this definition.
I wonder how long will it last until it is filled with junk calls
My own experience has been background checks always.

Work with military data was by far the most extensive (required approved clearance). Government positions were the most varied, with one being very thorough (not quite as bad as the military), and an other being the least intensive. Financial institution were middle of the road.

But everywhere where I had database access required a background check and only one place didn't require a drug test. The lower income positions I worked required neither.

One thing I did notice from my friends is that smaller shops are less likely to have institutionalize policies. A small startup is less likely to background check you than a fast food chain likely has a policy requiring it. But this applies to any large organizations, not just lower income positions.
The quality of implementation (compiler) does make a big difference, yes.
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Swedes, as citiens of a kinda small and inherently insignificant county kinda fetishise any foreign recognition. I think that's why we like IKEA and H&M.

There's an old but good show that discusses the subject of our self-image pretty accurately (dunno if there are any english subtitles available) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-V8_r0y-o
I assume that's what the "$1.8 billion in consumer relief" is.

Previous settlements over 2008 have also had some of the money earmarked for helping out distressed homeowners that were affected. The JP Morgan settlement in 2013 (the mortgage one, not the London Whale one) had $4 billion earmarked for helping out borrowers[1].

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/19/investing/jpmorgan-mortgage-...
Is a 5B settlement a slap on the wrist? Goldman's yearly revenue is 40B a year, while profit is ~8B last year and may be closer to 4-5B this year. Would it be better if they were sued out of existence? Is this enough penalty for them to never to it again in the future? Could the gov't legally be able to get more?
> Thirty years of runaway incomes for those at the top, and the full armoury of expensive financial sophistication, mean they no longer play by the same rules the rest of us have to follow

They wouldn't have played by the same rules even without offshore tax havens because they would be required by law to pay higher tax percentages than most people anways.

Is it a surprise to anyone that people try to avoid paying 45, 50, sometimes as high as 90% on their earnings in tax and perhaps just as much on illiquid, inheritable assets?
A site doesn't need to be selling something (ads) to implement good SEO

What is the reasoning behind only an itemid in the URL for HN?

Like someone previously mentioned, easier to code, less thought required around site architecture and optimization

Is there an SEO impact?
Yes, from a basic standpoint, descriptive URLs are easier to crawl, index, and rank accordingly. They help readers find info better when searching for questions + answers

From a more highlevel standpoint, descriptive URLs and an optimized site structure helps in many ways including SEO, analytics, accessibility, and more. Reddit does it well
Skype has something similar back in 2005. You could ring random person and have a chat.

I dont understand obsession about Sweden. It is expensive country in decline with high crime. There are better places in Europe.
We didn't quite get zero downtime deploys worked out for our MVP :) If you refresh thing should be working now.

Thanks!
From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471151
Yeah basically.
>If the collection agency is going to screw you, you can screw them right back with a charge back.
If the agency is messing with you in some way, it's not a valid charge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen#Inventions

http://allaboutroboticsurgery.com/artificialkidneydevices/ki...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distill...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bionic-deka-arm-mind-controlled-...

He and his company are for real. He is a really nice person when you meet him in person.

Really only people in SV can invent things, not!
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This was part of the social purpose of Central Park.

Frederick Olmstead advocated similar parks for San Francisco, writing that people could be found in public parks: "with a common purpose, not at all intellectual, competitive with none, disposing to jealousy and spiritual or intellectual pride toward none, each individual adding by his mere presence to the pleasure of all others, all helping to the greater happiness of each."

https://books.google.com/books?id=hAItCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA368&dq=%...
They are the source for any new information they provide, which in this case is the score. They can deflect some responsibility by saying they base it only on information they receive, but then the question becomes why do they do nothing to verify the data they receive.
So your idea is creating a LinkedIn without spam. My thread of thoughts is like this:
1. Spams are from recruiters.
2. They are sending spams because no matching system can connect them with right candidates efficiently.
3. If there is this kind of matching system, recruiters will be redundant. Right now the decision makers are actually hiring managers and the team, recruiters can only filter obviously unqualified candidates, which is achievable with algorithms.
4. Eventually, why do we need recruiters then?
5. A more aggressive version of your website is similar to my idea, a LinkedIn (but better) without recruiters.
6. How to monetize this website since we cannot expect hiring team to do all the recruiting? We deliver a LinkedIn integrated with job boards and ATS and we charge enterprises. That's why I called it recruiting tech, not merely a website.
7. Actually, we can add many other ideal features.

Another obvious issue with today's recruiting is that every giant wants to maintain a talent pool, so they throw all kinds of events, and recruiters are helping with this. however, if they are able to socialize their candidate database attached with ATS, and keep them updated, I believe they are more than happy to. I think both your idea and mine is a good angle to solve this problem.

Anyway, let me know if you're interested in working together.
Yeah, I've basically given up on it. I'm not convinced that there's a single real woman on there actively, and I have some girl friends that are on there.
Dating has always been annoying. For guys, pre-internet dating heavily, heavily favored the outgoing and macho. Does this sound like you? Finding single women was at least as much of a chore then as now, and unless you were something of a pickup artist, it was just as awkward actually initiating a relationship out of the context of a few circumstances where introductions are easy (parties, a bar scene, etc.).

Also, consider how scripted and industrialized the quest for "serendipity" actually was - for most people, it amounted to an otherwise boring trawl through bars often devoid of anyone attractive to you.
You need to figure out the signaling then. It isn't that most people would never settle with a Republican pro-lifer, it's just that being a Republican/pro-lifer is an indicator of other incompatibilities (which usually is a good indicator of other things).

Take for instance you yourself are better off filtering out all the Republican/pro-lifers because of the baggage they'll bring with them.

Usually the signally has evolved to be different. You don't say Republican, you say Libertarian (considering gay rights being one of the topic of difference).
Those are some number flying...

But I have to say they dont surprise me that much, by the sheer amount of data. The meat is in efficiently retrieve them, ie index.
The strict dietary laws make their diet less healthy, generally. Orthodox Jews have a very restricted diet which is heavy on starch and fat. When you can't eat fresh fruit or vegetables because of the possibility of accidentally consuming insects, your diet isn't going to be the healthiest.
Same here. I lost 75 pounds on the keto diet. It's not so much a diet for me anymore, it's just how I eat. I wrote about my experience here: https://thedon.me/2015/10/07/i-lost-63-pounds-heres-how/
Depends on where you get your news from. If all you do is watch the evening news, you will never get the full picture. Most of what is on television is so dumbed down as to be useless.
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For those doubting that: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/11/30/volatile-a....

Note that volatile in Java and C# has different semantics (http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/volatile-vs-volatile/2127014...)
Definitely a Koenigsegg.
Well, it's debatable. Take the Battle of Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence. Several bombs go off every day. French paratroopers take over, kidnap, torture with electricity and most often assassinate a bunch of people (total death toll ~ 3,000 people, a bunch of them innocent). Three months later, the FLN support network in Algiers has ceased to exist.

On the other hand, a successful operation by French intelligence led to the FLN torturing a number of their members (based on forged documents), which started to denounce additional members, etc, resulting in the torture and execution of hundreds of loyal FLN members.

So, operationally, torture can work (but it's not a sure thing), and it has been part of (AFAIK) the toolkit of all counter-insurgency efforts to this day. The problem is that whoever uses it instantly loses the moral high ground.
Fixing that right now.
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I agree to an extent, but doesn't the NYPD have trucks that go around and scan on the inside of buildings? There's no checks and balance in place right now to prevent them from abusing people's privacy...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/the-nypd...
lol, are those really the pictures that women want?

This sounds too much like the stereotypical stuff women want and less like actual things a individual would consider worth while.
Are the algorithms employed by theses agencies to produce these "scores" public?
So people with cultural ties never go to war?
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We would not accept shitty ingredients in our food, being told it was a grade beef, when it turned out it was actually alley cat, sewer rat and suchlike mixed in.

How on earth did they get away with a grade securitised mortgage products that actually contained a stink load of ready to default loans?

Forget blaming a specific person, or whether it may have been technically legal, what can be done to stop them doing this again?
Cool, didn't know that and I use his invention literally every day!
"YC has said [..] their software doesn't play well with view counters. Every application gets looked at by multiple reviewers." So don't worry about it, they surely have seen it ;)
Any sources on that?
... says he who lives in Denmark?

Numbers aside, there's a lot more to cultural changes than merely existing in a country. During my time in Sweden I found people from all over the world in droves. Africa/ME didn't stand out in any way and it seems like anyone who ever talks about this stuff any other way hasn't even stepped foot in Sweden.

Come visit southern france some time to see what an "arabized" region looks like.
I don't think it's so much goal post moving as a lot of us never claimed it buys elections. My assertion has always been that generally speaking if you want to be competitive politically you need to scratch the backs of elites to get the proper funding to be relevant in elections. It's not an absolute, rather that there is excessive corporate influence that undermines the political process

A couple of studies from Princeton
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf

A biased write up on some of the findings, along with references to other sources at the end

https://represent.us/action/theproblem-4/
Don't confuse addiction with withdrawal.
where do u live if it's already time to sleep? :)
I avoid buying things that I do not understand and I also avoid buying things that seem too good to be true. If both of those traits happen to reside in the same item, I avoid it even more.
Because we live in a civil society, if the police can't break into your house and take what evidence they want, and they won't accept evidence from anyone else who broken into you house what exactly does this serve?

If the only thing that is ok here is to leak stuff to the media stuff that usually cannot be collaborated, and often might actually be intentionally if not completely fabricated than at least edited to some extent you are advocating for mob rule and trial by public opinion.