skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They hardly let anybody in.

Norway is in the top ten in terms of the migration rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

> their nobel production

In terms of Scientific Nobel prizes, Norway is in the 7th position, with a rate of 15 per 10 million compared to Sweden(rank 5) with 17 per 10 million. Not a big difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_per_capita#Sci...
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I'm not sure what conclusion you're drawing, the final two screenshots didn't have any explanation.

As far as I can tell, you've observed that if you force your browser to stop displaying the cookie preferences overlay, the hidden page becomes visible again.

Does this reveal something controversial that I haven't inferred?
You are saying that a company(!) can make a conscious(!) choice. That’s... well, a little bit too much.
It's unacceptable to be a jerk anywhere on HN, but especially in Show HN threads. Please read the rules and follow them from now on. We ban accounts that won't.

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>>In India for example - people do get called "Kitabi Kida"(bookworm)

We also have a saying: पढोगे लिखोगे बनोगे नवाब, खेलोगे कूदोगे बनोगे ख़राब

Which literally translates to education makes you a king, and playing makes you spoilt.

The generic किताबी कीड़ा insult is largely for nerds with awkward interests and lifestyles.

>>I forget but there is a insult for people who have gained knowledge from reading books but aren't street smart.

Mostly in our culture we try to accumulate a lot at little effort, so cheating is a valuable skill.

>>India elected Narendra Modi who is decidedly nowhere as educated as previous prime minister. The state I am from(Bihar) had series of Chief Ministers who weren't all the educated(or even intelligent as a matter of fact).

For the most of India's political history leaders were about representing people and segments of society backward compared to already well of folks. So what matters really is what policy outlook you have.

But you still have Jawaharlal Nehru who was the prime minister for 17 years, Manmohan Singh was for 10 years. Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi were both well read and groomed individuals. And you could say Indira was a far better Prime minister than we've had since Nehru.

You have like a good 40 years of well read people running the country.

>>I think people select their politicians differently than how they would select their Doctor or mechanic to repair their car or engine.

No, its the same. If a person is a deep bigot, violence monger from within, he choses leaders who are best at that. Its just that intention doesn't show on people's faces. And whatever they may say outside, they vote with their hearts at the voting booth.

>>The point is - smart people are not always likable and in a politician likability and ability to relate yourself to him/her(even if faked) are desired qualities.

The Doctor analogy describes this better. You chose a good doctor to treat your heart. You don't go to a bad one whole smiles and cracks jokes.
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I took the trial and really liked it - would probably subscribe if it was a bit cheaper or my employer would pay for it.

I usually prefer paper books but some language and framework specific books get outdated fast (anyone need a couple of Rails 4 books?) so this service nicely solves the problem of bookshelves cracking under the pressure of outdated information.
Reminds me of when Facebook sent an order to Unfriendfinder:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-chan...
Truth be told, the brexit hasn't happened yet, thus the causes of those recessions are not in place.
IIRC even Corbin acknowledges that brexit will have a deep impact on the UK's economy.
Me too, but we've had a strong sequence of "the US is a horrible place to live" stories on the media for decades now, so that point of view is rarely objective.

I have friends that don't want to visit the US solely because of Trump being elected. Very smart software engineers.

Politics and worldview doesn't correlate at all with ones abilities, although this is often portrayed that way.
I have to agree regarding China. Admittedly I only spent there 6 weeks (an the country is naturally enormous and diverse) but I've seen less shady situations than in any of Western EU countries I vacationed in.

Most Chinese people I know feel much safer in their homeland than in the west. Funnily enough some of them even prefer eastern parts of Europe for the same reason.
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It's not propaganda or a myth. Norway mostly only allows in skilled labor immigration, thus they have tight immigration policies. I didn't say they allow zero immigration.

Norway also went out of its way to avoid the very large immigration influx that eg Sweden allowed. They have a careful, rigid immigration approach (for obvious reasons, they'd be flooded instantly by immigration if they allowed it). Their immigration for 2017 was the lowest number for the last decade and it has been declining persistently since 2011. They're locking things down.

The US doesn't use a merit or equivalent based immigration system, as most developed countries do, including Norway and other nations such as Canada or Australia. That means if you are a low skill or low wage worker, you can actually get into the US. It's one of the few developed nations that allows such a thing.

Edit for trhway's comment below (I'm throttled on my replies):

I said nothing about absolute figures, I'm aware of the population difference between the two. One would naturally adjust what a 'large influx' means based on the population figures per country.

Show me the vast count of refugees that Norway took in versus Sweden. In just 4-5 years, Sweden took in 600,000 people, many of them from countries like Syria. While Sweden was doing that, Norway remained locked down by comparison (as did Finland).

Norway's very tight immigration policies would never allow that mass influx of refugees to happen. I don't necessarily blame them, they have an extraordinary situation for themselves. They're not interested in flooding their country with low wage / low skill persons that would dilute their very wealthy welfare state heavily through cost addition (without the off-setting tax base gain you get from skilled immigration). It's a cultural choice. Sweden is now seeing blow-back from the choices they made, in the rise of anti-immigration far right political parties there and a rejection of their former immigration policies.

Norway is one of the most desirable countries on earth to live. It has one of the highest standards of living. Its people are among the richest that have ever existed in history. You know why they aren't drowning in immigration? That's their tight immigration policies in action. Otherwise, it'd be a million people a year pouring in.
I think all publicly funded software should be open source. The public paid for it, they should have a right to look under the hood, like they can with almost every other piece of government.

I’m also a realist, and have you met the EU? We’ve been working on architectural standards for organizational data for almost 20 years, and it’s nowhere near finished. :p

If we can’t figure out a standard for how to define a department or employee object in a data model, then how on earth will we ever maintain a universal Linux distribution?

I think your strategy for implementation is flawed though. You really don’t want to tear the house down and build a new one when people are living in it.

I realize I’m a bit of a conservative in that sense, but people’s lives depend on our critical systems.

As far as Microsoft goes, they are a company. I think they are a great business partner in an ocean of bad ones. It goes against my personal political beliefs to use proprietary software, but the public sector isn’t primary a tech sector and we don’t operate on personal ideology. We use the best and most efficient tools, at the cheapest cost, to support our primary function.
It's the same about finance (outside of the FT and WSJ). A journalist once defined the profession as "the art of explaining to others what one hasn't understood".
Bullish - i'm feeling bullish

Personas - we have to recreate product material for the different personas (before it was for departments, postions, industry, etc..)
When the correct gas is used, they are more efficient than resistive heating down to -20-30 C. Very few places in the world get that cold. That said, and as I mentioned, using wood or district heating, is far more common in those parts of the world. At least in Europe.
In their stomach is a way of transporting the roots/tuber material they forage, back to the hive.
Also we do not begrudge bovines for having multiple stomachs to break down cellulose why begrudge the NMRs for just having one but using multiple times.
Plus they are just amazing creatures, they are not more likely to die when older than when younger (that is huge)
which means they can get old, consider when you have ever heard of a 32 year old hamster.
They are the only mammal which resists cancer (that I know of) zero cases in the wild and only recently a couple of siblings who's colony lived at Disney for the last 50 years were found to have tumors.
They can survive without oxygen for several times longer than other mammals(18 minutes if I recall) they do this by switching from metabolizing glucose to fructose which I am not aware of any other mammal doing.
So what they do in the privacy of their burrows to achieve these incredible results is of no moment when compared to what we can learn from them.
Then I'd need multiple hard drives for redundancy, and I have to bring them back and read them regularly to make sure the data is all readable. And while I have a large amount of data that I rarely touch, I have a small amount that changes frequently, so I need to include that data in my off-site backup too.

Or I could just sign up for a cloud backup service, spend a month or so uploading my initial snapshot of data, and then backups are automatic and always offsite, replicated, and scrubbed. For $10/month.
Cryptography doesn't solve social problems.

Cryptography doesn't solve political problems.

Cryptography solves communication problems. That's. It.
I completely agree with you. There is a screaming hypocrisy here.
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between surveillance laws and gun control?
^ this indeed.
I agree, it's very click-baity. C is actually great and is only really dangerous because it gives the programmer so much control.
No the oldest block chain was invented by Acient Greeks, take Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. They are similar to blockchain as follows:

- Memorization of whole piece == Proof of work
- You need lots of people to agree upon the story == 51 % of nodes
- You can only append to the piece, because many others know and have memorized the piece so they will not agree to your version.
Video at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14127607
This comparison is very complex. You cannot just compare European wages with US wages [1].

For one, the cost of living is going to depend on where you live. Which country, which city, which town. And you cannot just compare the costs. Each person has different values. Some prefer to live in a village, other in an apartment in a city. Some are cool with 1500 EUR rent a month, some find that ridiculous. Some can't stand the smog, others don't mind. If you live in a village the value of a car increases, while in a city the public transport system is invaluable. Each has their + and -, beyond just the cost of living, and how important these values are is also going to differ.

On top of that you get healthcare in Europe, even if you end up sacked. You pay more tax in Europe, but this also gives you more social security. Then there's state pensions.

In the USA the native language is English, and its settled on that. In Europe, this isn't the case (though it is in Amsterdam) with e.g. the stoic French and Germans. Not even the EUR is the main currency in whole of EU.

[1] I suppose we'd need some kind of statistical analysis.
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>Norway also went out of its way to avoid the very large immigration influx that eg Sweden allowed.

what are you talking about?! Have you tried to Google? Sweden has 2x population of Norway and 1.4M immigration population which makes it under 15%.

>Show me the vast count of refugees that Norway took in versus Sweden.

With regard to specifically refugees - both countries mostly have refugees from Middle East and Africa - Norway has 160K total refugee population, Sweden - 230K. Thus one can say that Sweden even less refugee friendly than Norway.

>In just 4-5 years, Sweden took in 600,000 people, many of them from countries like Syria. While Sweden was doing that, Norway remained locked down by comparison (as did Finland).

sorry, man, you just have to at least to google before posting.
> Unfortunately, the kinds of projects where technical excellence is legitimately required and rewarded are relatively rare.

I find that this really depends on the situation one is in. Its true that building a CRUD app may not really require excellent technical skills, but building a highly available app that can be updated without outages, able to serve traffic in sometimes strange patterns (e.g. Lyft's traffic pattern v/s Walmart's) while being resource-efficient is still a challenge.

I'm still astonished at how much interesting, practical innovation continues to happen in our Industry. I somehow assumed that once things got standardized around certain environments, interesting things to do would stop. That has not yet happened and I am very grateful for it.
Well, it's an editorial in the Japan Times by a guy who only talks about America...and Europe.

Ted Rall, ladies and gentlemen.
I also remember reading this.

I think even safer (i.e. drivers keep more distance while overtaking) than no helmet was pretending to be female by wearing a wig with long hair.
More generally: sync is not backup. Backups need to have versioning (like Time Machine) or manual syncing (like rsync to external/remote drive).
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And this is why I have private mattermost servers running - I can do whatever I want.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fui
GitHub projects is a much worse experience and still missing a lot of what ZenHub offers. It ranges from obvious holes like half decent filtering of the project board to niceties like viewing issues in a pop up modal rather than their own page (causing you to lose your spot in the board).

GH projects also has this arbitrary distinction between notes and issues, and notes are more or less useless yet the default when adding new items to the board.
All they can do is threaten or terminate your access. And even that is debatable. If I create a new browser with BetterStack as one of its features are they going to mandate which browsers I use? What monetary or image damage can they prove? None.

I hope not, but one could argue that the adage that a quality of a product reflects the company that makes is indeed true...
EDIT: HN is a magical place, thanks :)
When I started I did lots of migrations in schools, police stations and hospitals. From Windows to Linux based systems.
From what I heard none of that have survived, IIRC the first "rollback" happened after 3 months.
Programming RISC-V will for most people be practically just like programming Thumb2,x86,etc - because they will use a standard high level languages and compiler toolchain.
Inspiration. I constantly seek new forms of thereof.
Speaking as someone working on matrix and riot, we would love you to come and do BetterSlack style things to Riot - we are getting tantalisingly close to being “as good as Slack” (except entirely FOSS, decentralised, standards based and with E2E encryption) - and positively encourage folks to customise the apps as long as they don’t introduce bugs or harm the security model. Plus we can just accept changes straight into the app rather than injecting via an extension. Pleeease come help us make it better - #riot-dev:matrix.org would be the place to come :) And yes, we have bridging to slack too.
70's counter-culture and early hacker culture are not that far apart. It's more than likely their origins are related.

Now if "Slack" means the pretty protocol-breaking irc-client to you, that's perfectly fine. But if some party starts threatening someone with 'That's not what "Slack" means! We're the authoritative source on the meaning of "Slack"', a hacker should resists. Slack is for everybody. Many may have forgotten, but it's not VC-money that makes the Internet go round, it's Slack.

To quote the prophet:

"If someone is making money off ``Slack'', it better be me."

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to trade their precious Slack for worthless trinkets."

"The Slack that can be described is not true Slack."
I’d much rather have a native app, thanks...
The IIT guy is only saying if you don't fix education and healthcare, you won't have people who can do basic knowledge work, let alone write operating systems and do other big research work.

That was the whole idea behind Nehruvian socialism. The problem in essence is in a country with poverty levels comparable to Africa, absent education systems, near zero literacy levels. How do you run a capitalist economy? The best you can manage with that kind of human resources is give them dumbest possible manufacturing jobs, by letting foreign investors control what is a newly independent country. Hence around 1947, the then PM Jawaharlal Nehru, came up education institutions the likes of IITs, IIScs and other regional colleges. Once you have these people first rung of talented human resources ready, you can now use them to build your private industries. But you can't wait till then, so you still have to build your bureaucracy with pretty darn high civil services exam standards. This is important because while you are building your people, you need to build some government owned industries. This will eventually feed momentum to later to come private industries.

The net result is you get public sector industries, you get ISRO, you get DRDO, you get a stable bureaucracy. All of this will essentially run your country.

The next set of work to do is to fix primary education. So that even the bottom most layers of the society can get a shot at doing good things in life.

You also need healthcare. Because if 20% of your population is limping with polio or can't breath properly because of TB then you can't be a decent economy anyway.

For all that is told about things like Bay Area. The edge California has is not US-101-N or the Caltrain, Its the people.

The IIT guy is the first guy in decades who is taking sense, instead of trying to sell building websites(which any idiot can build) as progress.

Fix your people, then your people fix everything.
Only if you retain the MIT license file with your distribution, that is the only condition of it.

You could sell it commercially sure, but you can't remove the MIT license file and replace it with your own EULA, which is what effectively happened here.
Ahh... that explains the poor quality of the writing in the article.

Ted Rall is perhaps the least interesting, least insightful, and least amusing living political cartoonist. He fills a certain political niche though, which I guess pays the bills.
America is definitely more anti-intellectual than Japan in my experience.
You say Ramstein [sic] I say Laibach. Laibach - NATO [1] and Laibach - Opus Dei (Life is Life) [2]. Brilliant remixes. They're also a steal live [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_(album)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4r_KhNakeM
Sorry for noob question, but what is wrong with OSGI ?
Impersonating PS3 Rockband Devices with the USB Gadget System and a Raspberry Pi
Much better motivator than math classes in school too
Unfortunately progress can only happen using the resources we have at our disposal. Currently we have an economy heavily based on hydrocarbons. There is a wide consensus (unfortunately, not wide enough) that this is neither sustainable not desirable, so we are trying to come up with alternatives. Those alternatives are not going to appear from thin air: we need to transition, as fast as we can can, to the next paradigm.

I think you underestimate how difficult is to change a country-wide economy. The huge challenges involved is what underpins the whole peak-oil movement [1] - irrespective of whether the theory is correct or not, the challenges posed by a big scale energy source transition are very well described.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
You seem to know a lot more about this than me, so pardon my ignorance, but how come cruising at low altitude is more economical with an electric plane? I thought that the primary reason for wanting to go high was because of the decreased air density and thus resistance, and I reckon that that would not change for an electric plane. Is it just because the energy is cheaper so the extra overhead is less significant?
On the other hand, the battle-tested formula for startup domination is:

1) Get to <insert singular mind-blowing metric, like 1 billion users or 1 million drivers>, whatever it takes (bending the laws of unit economics or bending the law in general).

2) Monetize.
I understand the advantages of an electrical motor to an ICE, but I have doubts regarding your third paragraph. The energy density of Li-Ion batteries best-case scenario is around 1 MJ/kg, whilst Kerosene is 42.8-42.6 MJ/kg. That's a 40x !!! difference in energy/weight. Of course the electric engine will have a big efficiency advantage (think 80% vs 40% for ICE), but the gap in energy density is still enormous.

The other (huge) advantages in flight safety and reduction in noise and overhead costs still apply, but I don't believe electrical planes will be as disruptive as portrayed without significant advances in battery technology.
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