skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dang, I have to admit some surprise that you didn't "favorite" this post.
Flashblock blocks most of the videos on news sites.
> Nordic countries [...] owe large part of their success to colonization in the past.

The Nordic countries had no (or negligible) colonies. The Nordic countries are Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway.
Perhaps there's nothing that says so, but nevertheless that's the system which is in place in most of the civilised world.

If you want to enforce a law (it's always an option not to enforce a given law, but then you might as well not have it) against an offender that for whatever doesn't want to cooperate with the penalty decided, what do you propose doing?
US actually found a ginormous amount of oil, which is a large part of why it's GDP is that high. We currently out produce Saudi Arabia and regained #1.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

ED: bad math.

PS: The US problem was it got addicted to the stuff pumping most of it out early while the price was low and then stuck paying more during price spikes.
One day we'll treat your insistence on driving your own car the way we would treat you insisting on celebratory gunfire today.

At some point computers will be safer drivers than human driven cars in every way. Are you going to insist on irrationally putting your fellow man in harms way at that point?
Yeah, I tried playing with Elm several months ago, came back to try it again after 0.17, all of the docs are out of date, examples dont work...

I'll be back in another few months, hope the situation improves.

Also, I could totally make a case for Elm at work right now... if it had usable documentation.
I've never seen poverty in developed nations like I did in Atlanta, except maybe in Aborigines of Perth, Australia.

It seems to me, although I haven't lived it, that food stamps cause more problems than cash handouts.
I'm having fun refreshing your profile page and watching your karma jump around.
Misunderstanding? I develop on Linux day in and day out. Care to qualify that assertion?

it's quite dismissive to pretend that all possible problems that GNU/Linux faces today were solved "10+ years ago by experts in the problem domain".

As one of the principal kernel engineers of the FireEngine, yeah I think Sunay is the expert in the problem domain, having invented parallel enqueuing or what he terms "fanout", and Radia Perlman, who I believe collaborated with him on it invented the spanning tree protocol. If that doesn't make them the subject matter experts in the TCP/IP stack domain, then I have nothing more to add. And yes, some or the problems GNU/Linux is hitting today have been solved on Solaris more than ten, others more than twenty years ago. Solaris had large enterprises as paying customers throughout the nineties of the past century, and those customers both demanded and paid huge sums of money to have these types of problems solved, so in some cases illumos has up to 25 years of a headstart, and by the time GNU/Linux catches up, illumos will already be ahead, as the development is not standing still and it has professional kernel engineers working on the code base.
Service stations intending to defraud might be more likely to adjust their volume measurements than to mix their octanes? Either way, I don't see why one should trust the local station more than this service.
A URL link checker CLI command for text files
I'm running SaaS for B2B and it's successful now for 2 years. I started in 2008 and till 2014 was only covering the expenses. I changed my thinking from "If You Build It, They Will Come" to marketing and this really changed acquisition of new users.

In 2013 I also started another SaaS - monitoring service (Piltek - http://www.piltek.com/), but it doesn't have a lot of customers as the only thing I did was developing it an put it online. I didn't do any marketing (only 1 week at the beginning) as I focus on my first SaaS. It takes a lot of time to build and grow a company (if you are alone and bootstrapped).
I don't know the details for Finland, but Sweden has a similar system that works out like this:

If a company has agreed to pay you $100k, that's after any payroll tax has been paid, so they pay ~ $120k, you get (gross) $100k.

Of the remaining $100k, you pay 0 on the first ~ $2600, 31% on the portion between $2600 and $62k, 51% between $62k and $88k, and 56% above $88k. Do the math, it comes out to about $38500 in income tax.

There is no wealth tax or inheritance tax. You get free university education, free universal health care, great public transport, 480 days of parental leave (that can be split among the parents mostly how you like, and used for up to 8 years), and you get a child allowance of ~ 120 euro each month for each child until that child is 16.

Too much? Yeah right.
You should have stopped at No.
You left out:

5. Incompetent IT Ops mostly staffed by cheap contractors to offset overpaying for terrible hardware and software from Cisco to ensure a complete inability to reliably utilize the corporate VPN.
> it works on sites other than google?

Despite the name, so does the one that I linked. (I only see a mention of Yandex in the description, but I could have sworn it works on any page using the same tricks.)
Every Nordic country has higher median wealth than US.

http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2013/10/median-...
We did consider that, but sometimes one wants to collapse a very long top-level comment.
Love the minimalism of the collapse/uncollapse!!!
I'm sorry you found it condescending. I meant exactly what I said, because a personality is just a thing but some of them are unfortunate for the context in which you want to succeed. It truly is luck, and I called out it as such. Contrast with people who are deliberately hostile and deserve what they get.

We can debate neurodiversity and range of personality vs. dysfunction and "unfortunate," but the truth of the matter is some people do things that make them hard to work with and will make them hard to work with in any setting. Some examples might be as simple as interrupting and not letting anyone else speak, or always saying no, or never thanking people and always criticizing, and so forth. If you've never met one of these people then I'm happy for you, but they're not rare in tech. We're all a little mad here, as the old cliche almost goes.

I really have no idea what the OP's issues are that they were asking about--for all I know they think they're terrible to work with because of an inferiority or confidence issue. But my advice stands: get some perspective by reading about other people terrible to work with. Either you'll find out you're not so bad or you'll get the right input to tweak your own behavior.

I appreciate your advice too, but not everyone has to skills or opportunity to "freelance or job-hop" until they find something that works, and the idea that everyone needs to accommodate you while you find the right fit is laughable in the real world. We're not bricks but we're expected to supply our own glue code between us and everyone else, at least to the halfway point, and it's downright narcissistic to expect otherwise. And tight settings like Silicon Valley, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get a reputation as an asshole or team liability while you learn to do that if you're not crisp about it.

For 90% of the people out there, some small tweaks to behavior in order to learn to play the game is the right answer. I'm glad you've apparently found an alternate route to success, but I wouldn't dismiss the typical ways either.
Since Disney bought Pixar and John Lasseter took on a stack of top Disney roles, I assume that Lucas felt this was the closet he could get to handing Star Wars on to his old Lucasfilm colleagues.
I love puzzles. It's a power trip watching other people struggling with them under pressure with the secret pleasure that I had solved them before (in leisure) and that I am smarter than them. /s
Complexity is the mind-killer – Numergent
Report: SEC is investigating Tesla for possible violation of securities law
Agree and extend with the addition of troubleshoot the failed solutions and try to figure out how to verify or prove the solution works.

There are rail games where you have to progress exactly as the designer specified in the one true way. Then there are games where its a sandbox, minecraft style. I can't stand the former type of game and immensely enjoy the latter.

Bad puzzles remind me of rail games. You're trapped on the worlds most boring path and now its a boring ESP test to see if you can guess the exact one true path the puzzle designer baked into the cake. Once you realize anything can be baked into the cake, how incredibly boring it becomes!

Lets say you need to hire a navigator. You know, map reading, dead reckoning, digital tools like GPS, domain specific knowledge, all that stuff. Surely it takes great spatial awareness to be a navigator. I know, at interviews we'll hire navigators based on how well they solve those annoying string and rope puzzles. Now be a good little monkey and untangle the ring from the puzzle and we'll give you a job...
Did you try using an App password? Doesn't seem to work for me
A little over 50% of officers killed in the past 10 years were killed by accidents, mostly car accidents.

Feloniously Killed:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl...

Accidentally Killed:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl...
Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote – Michelle Alexander
>> Obviously, that's not a pragmatic statement, as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes - but this is the reality.

>Ah, it's their fault.

That's not what he said. There are many reasons for this, mostly parenting and culture.
The only problem is that the statistics can vary greatly as there are so many factors to consider. Car age/model, geographic area, roads driven, etc.
> Pajeet

I am not sure what you are trying to imply.
A stronger argument for random traffic stops is catching people driving with a suspended license.
It does happen at sunrise, just on different dates, around the Winter solstice
Avisynth [1] is what you're looking for. You write scripts that programmatically specify what to apply to the video.

[1] http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page
A Brief History of Trial by Combat
I wonder if there has been a roadblock to that that needs solving. Because replacing auto glass while you're at work has been a thing for a very long time.
Wow that is quite impressive jumping. Sometimes I forget how many people lurk on HN.
lol. He did. It bounced.
I dunno, I feel richer in Europe than I did in California. Rent in places I like living is cheaper, and I save a good $300-$600 per month on automobile costs. I also save several thousand a year on flights to Europe, since that's pretty much where I like to vacation anyway.

Also, I'm fortunate enough to work in tech which has pretty good PTO policies (for now), but my spouse does not, and 4+ weeks of vacation for her as well, letting us see more of the world, makes me feel wealthier than a bigger paycheck.

Oh, I'm not expected to answer emails on the weekend either. And I can cycle without fearing for my life every. damn. day - the US detests cyclists and disregards their deaths.
>Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

Really seems like they are missing the obvious answer:

IF you don't want to die, don't resist police orders. Do your resistance in the courts.
>Quality of life has never been higher for any social class

even if this were true (source?) it doesnt matter when there is a steady move toward lower social class on average for the overwhelming majority of Americans
>I changed my thinking from "If You Build It, They Will Come" to marketing and this really changed acquisition of new users.

What all did you change? What worked?
Achieving Autonomous AI Is Closer Than We Think
Is there any source/sample you can share ?

I am starting on a big SPA project.
react+horizon+rethinkdb seem ideal for the read-only parts, but i worried about how to integrate some business logic which will require relational transactions on the backend
I think after 8 hours you can't downvote a comment anymore.
Why do you think you have nothing to learn from any society that is smaller than yours?
"simple services like filling up the air in a car’s tires, replacing windshield wiper blades and washing cars, as well."
Yes, please!
Norway has a) a tiny population and b) a gigantic supply of oil.

All the countries above the U.S. on that Wikipedia list are tiny countries that have a specialized economy (oil for Norway and Qatar, financial services for Switzerland and Liechtenstein).

You see exactly the same pattern when you look within the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...

The top of that list is also dominated by oil (Alaska and North Dakota) and financial services (Delaware, New York).

Note that Alaska has a per capita GDP considerably higher than Norway, Switzerland, or Qatar (only being beaten by Luxembourg).
> 1. You can collapse comments in threads. If you're logged in, collapses persist across page refreshes and devices for a week.

The most impressive thing to me is that this feature exists and yet HN seems to have kept its good ol' fashioned <table>-layout. Obviously, it logically follows that it is perfectly possible to write a script to traverse a hierarchy of nested-<tables>, just as it's possible to recreate the Apollo guidance software in Brainfuck...but it's still impressive nonetheless.
Wait, you revoked access from within google, and then the pokemon app was able to give itself access again without asking for permission?
I find your assessment inherently racist,but I would like hear more logical reasoning , if you have any of course.

1.The fact that you could buy neatly stitched Calvin Klein , H&M , GAP or Zara apparel is because some 'Trained and Skilled' bangladeshi tailor is stitching all of those clothes.

2.The fact that you could kick around Adidas, Nike, Puma, Select, Litto, Umbro, Mitre, Micassa, Diadora, Wilsoms and Decathion footballs around is because some 'trained and skilled' person in Sialkot is sitting and making them.

3.The reason you could wear stylish Adidas and Nike shoes is because , some'skilled and trained' vietnamese people in a factory somewhere outside Ho Chi Min City are making them !

I could endlessly add things to this list, which showcases how trained labour from south american countries , Africa , Eastern Europe and other parts of the world make stuff that is sold as 'premium'/'top of the line' products. I am not sure if you understand Globalization and International Trade enough, May be some research in those area might realign your perspective.

On a different Note , I am not sure if you might have thought there would be more Malware Apps on the Apple AppStore if there were 2 million more iOS/ Swift Developers. It suggests something about how you perceive Google Vs Apple's Appstore Approval criteria.
this is just really not the case in the US. Top universities have need blind admissions - they will subsidize for you to attend. There are in state tuition universities that are affordable, there are grants, scholarships, etc. Percentage of Americans with college degrees is really not any lower than in Europe
Just a side note. Living in the states I went to make a left turn. I turned on my signal and waited for oncoming traffic to clear. I was about to make a left and someone behind me passed me on the left! I almost turned right into him as he flew past. I wondered what the heck happened why would he pass on left. I pulled in driveway and tested my blinker and it was out. Not using that to refute your premise, it just made me think of it.
Now you're making me want to play OpenTTD again
U.S. Treasury Chief Lew Set for Apple Tax Showdown with EU
I did see interesting behavior when I crossed the threshold: I couldn't downvote comments that existed before I reached that karma level (or at least the UI didn't render them with a down vote button).
It would also cover the land area of a small country. ;-)
Not sure I follow; introducing collapses makes it harder to extend trees (once they're collapsed), so wouldn't that argument go the other way?

In any case, we didn't think much about that concern in discussing the new features. We did (and do) worry about whether they will lessen the impact of HN's having a single communal front page and threads, now that people can hide and collapse things they don't want to see. That's something we'll try to watch out for, though I'm not sure how to measure it.
I don't think this is correct.

Each day when we drive we assume a certain degree of risk and implicitly acknowledge that we may be hurt. We make the decision to put ourselves in danger, whereas in the trolley problem we are led to assume that all parties are not responsible for their present situation. This distinction may be very important: if all parties in the trolley problem had entered into a covenant acknowledging that they may be killed, would more people opt to kill the one and save the five?
There's a MFM disk emulator project here, but I don't know if it's compatible with your drives: http://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml
What would be its core features?
Very interesting article and sounds well researched and conclusive on the toxic oil case. I'm not expert enough to draw any real conclusions or doubt the evidence but it seems all rather sound. But his wholesale dismissal of most of science as agenda driven is just absurd.

The US case... might be possible if it's to protect local industry, like the whole fracking instanity. That being said, the line he draws from the Spanish case to conclude without any actual evidence that the newer cases are the same is spurious at best and just pure conjecture. I highly doubt that German ministerial staff would avoid food warnings for a known polluted food. They give such warnings or ban sales all the time and certainly wouldn't risk their heads for some Spanish farmers. No link to the PDF or hint at the source makes this sound like just a typical crackpot.

As the author said, the media is not always to be trusted and while scientists might worry about funding, journalists certainly often have to make bold claims and publish unverified theories to make a living.
Are you certain? Maybe you are thinking of the 'collapse' button, which is represented by a minus sign?
It's about the potential for deadly interactions with police as a consequence of creating new laws for police to enforce. I think the title is slightly obtuse, but it is attention grabbing.
That's bit different. What I'm saying is that in other places than USA you as a rich, self made, person, you would expect people to be distrustful of you, gossiping, trying their best to make your life harder. You wouldn't expect them to try to exploit you to the point of driving you away.

The only idea I can think of that expresses same sentiment in USA culture is keying someone's car. Not exploitation. Just general malice with only being better of as the reason for it.
You could probably set up uMatrix rules to block the video provider.
I subscribe mostly for the physical paper. I rarely read it online, but it comes in handy for times like this. I think my most recent renewal was $100 for the year. Very small price to pay for top quality writing and news. I'd pay for the NYT as well if they actually delivered to my home.
See hackernews2000's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064870) very nice comment.
> homogeneous society [...] Scandinavian fetish

Foreign-born population of Sweden: 16%
Foreign-born population of Norway: 13.9%
Foreign-born population of USA: 13.1%

https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm
2 million well trained, motivated devs willing to work for far less than Americans. Now is a good time for android devs to start looking at alternate career paths.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074272.
> The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some

As long as the user is aware of the misclick, I don't see this as a likely problem, personally. Awareness of the misclick is, in my opinion, quite likely, given that they will see the arrows disappear and won't observe the expected thread collapse.
It's not as simple, for example ISP's or "interactive computer service" providers do have to comply with DMCA, and probably quite a few other legislations, meaning that the protection from liability is not absolute.

Facebook also isn't just a bulletin board, or an aggregate since they do construct your feed, hence one could potentially argue that they are not a service provider but are the "information content provider" as defined by the Communications Decency Act.

That argument could potentially be even made stronger by the fact that facebook does employ selective moderation, they do remove certain content that goes against their TOS including "extremist" content they have deleted groups/pages of ISIS and other organizations in the past, so one could argue that they might be "unwilling" to act in this case (if that indeed is the case).

ANAL but It could quite likely not be a case that would be dismissed in a summary judgement, and considering that quite a bit of internal information about what and how facebook moderates, and more importantly how it chooses which information to show to you would potentially be revealed in the lawsuit there's a good chance that Facebook would likely go into a settlement, probably not a billion dollars but also probably not a small penny either.
Strange, I thought that was a nice, personable and non-egotistical piece of writing by Wolfram.
Whenever I've mentioned all the health costs associated with offspring (which I don't have!), the HR dude has always referred me to the Parable of the Vineyard Workers. I'm not sure it really applies, but I get the feeling we're not supposed to complain about that sort of thing...
>the US detests cyclists and disregards their deaths.

to be fair, many cyclists in the US ignore traffic laws wholesale
Cannot underestimate SO support. My wife fortunately shares my entrepreneurial spirit.

Automation is certainly crucial for one-person shops. Leave nothing to chance or human error.

TDD for both front and back-end code, lint checks, version control, server-less DevOps.... embrace as much as possible.
Welcome Scott.
@dang - Good luck with the initial "vacations and a day off". I found that the initial incantations of these turned into a "Astro work day on neglected home projects" by the life partner. Hopefully not too many down rounds before you see a positive cycle.

Like the new features.
The simple hack I use in my own extension to provide that feature on reddit without Gold just simply logs the timestamp of every visit of the thread in a cookie, and then allows to select "new comments since visit X", and then just computes the comment time back into a timestamp, compares, highlights.

If HN would provide the actual timestamp in ISO format, as reddit does it, we could've had that a lot simpler a lot earlier.
Kinda.

I think it would fail utterly in practice. The per-person incentives are all wrong. You're less likely to get picked if you ruin one of your kidneys, for example. "Donors" are going to be unwilling in general, and that will cause a lot of trouble and turmoil. Lots of protesting. Not to mention any abuse of the system would be kind of horrifying.

But the general idea of substituting "bad luck you got a disease" with "bad luck you lose the lottery", when there's only half as many lottery losers as there were disease losers... maybe that's not so bad. When it comes to trolley problems, you also have to imagine yourself on the track. Do nothing and there's a 5/6 chance you die. Throw the switch, and there's a 1/6 chance you die.