skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point 4 is quite the only unbiased one. Big companies don't like shaky grounds, I had lot of hard times making one sign a contract.
Being invited/participate/compete/pay.. in my opinion every startup should do at least a couple of times, it's still an experience. But yea, over-doing meetups and stuff is a waste of resources.
the xenophobia in this rant basically amounts to "sweden for swedes", but it's more striking when you read this on the About page:

Please note that I enforce a zero-tolerance policy towards racism, violence and extremist comments.

Judging other people by the color of their skin is manifestly absurd. So please don’t submit such comments here

Edit: removed some sarcasm
Funny how, as a Finn, the more international vibe of Sweden is one of the main reasons why I'm planning on immigrating there after graduation.
there is a typo, it's FastCommit. :p
> This all changed, of course. Computing power eventually became a secondary draw to user experience. That's partly because broadband exploded, making sheer speed less of a selling point.

So here I am, with my beefy SSD machine, a 50 Mbit/s connection, a JS engine that is orders of magnitude faster than anything we had a few years ago, HTML5 offline storage, HTTP/2, still waiting >5sec for several Google properties to load, waiting >15sec for CEF-based Spotify to load, knowing that with today's tech, these things could fire up within <100ms.

It's no disaster if I have to wait for a few seconds, but especially for secondary tasks (like looking up an address on Maps or playing a song) which I do en passant while focusing on something else, I find that waiting for only a few seconds can already steal my focus. When I fire up a music app (be it non-Google Spotify, Google Play Music or whatever), it would be great if at least the search form was available immediately. Knowing that it won't, that instead my expensive PC will go sluggish for a few moments, I find myself just avoiding these things increasingly often.

And it's sad to know that Google once was pretty obsessed about reducing these little latencies wherever possible. Today, they develop SPDY and QUIC to save a few ms, then throw web frameworks at me that take whole seconds to load.

It's not that I didn't appreciate beautiful interface design. It's nice to have a mobile OS that arguably looks better than iOS. But it also was pretty awesome to have an almost latency-free experience (and good information design, making efficient use of my screen), even with an old netbook and shaky GPRS internet on the train.
Why I’m Breaking Up with the Apple Watch
No, because zodiac signs span on two months. :) They're useless.
I find it amusing that the article is so quick to assign a quote to Glenn Beck, just because they cannot verify his one attribution.
The idea is that one does not need a $1500 sofa if all one wants is something to sit on.

As an example, I purchased my first sofa costing more than zero at age 43. But I've always had sofas everywhere I lived before that. Sofas that meet the definition of "something to sit on" can be had for roughly zero dollars and are plentiful at that price point.

You would notice the difference if you put one side by side with a new one costing $1500, indicating that perhaps that difference in appearance is the real reason that somebody without $1500 to spare would choose to buy the latter in favor of the former.
I don't know about Parallels but VMWare Fusion 6 runs just fine on Yosemite – there's almost no reason to upgrade unless you want new icons.

That said, I'm completely with you on the value of Hypervisor.framework for people who are e.g. running Linux test instances and not really seeing much benefit from the UI integration but who still want to avoid the performance / stability problems caused by using virtualbox.
Where is he "judging people by the color of their skin"? Exactly what is xenophobic in this post?
Does "mare" hold any sexual connotations?

Because in our case, it could mean that the female is attractive and has good physique esp. stature or it's implied that she has good sexual appetite/stamina and that's why it's best to avoid all these terms altogether and stick to plain and simple pickup lines :)
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Go to Poland - 19% flat income tax rate for companies - you can get flat by 400 euro / month in biggest cities and work remotely for foreign clients.

To expand on this: one can operate as a sole trader company, and enjoy the 19% flat income tax rate. You can also register your company for VAT, and then claim back the VAT on company purchases.

The only other cost is ~$270 / ~240 EUR / ~180 GBP per month in social insurance taxes.

I've been here for the last five years, and the low cost of living (very low cost outside of Warsaw) combined with low taxes makes Poland a very forgiving place to be when your first few side businesses inevitably fail.

(for that matter, the startup community here in Warsaw, centred somewhat around Reaktor - http://reaktorwarsaw.com - is really picking up steam)

If you do what I do - remote consulting for clients in the UK and USA - and you have the talent to charge western rates, you can build a sizeable nest egg in next to no time.
I think user mahouse has confused liberal with European socialism (as opposed to Soviet socialism) and is blaming socialist policies for the death of Sweden. There is some truth in that Scandinavia has gone too far in favor of the world's poor at the expense of it's own citizens (by truth, read: popular opinion).

But let us not forget what Scandinavia was like (and still is) without the mass immigration of 'those brown people', it was an Aryan wet dream with everything for us and none for you. In many ways the modern Scandinavia is a hugely successful human accomplishment. While some people have less (of material things) many have had their lives improved enormously. For every "svarte neger" that hits the headlines as a rapist, 10000+ or more no longer have to live in poverty, in a war zone, under an oppressive regime. Shed a tear for the leftists who saw a way to make the world a better place one life at a time, made that happen with their country's wealth even at the expense (in limited financial terms) of some, and have created a positive liberal society striving to reach a worthwhile ideal. The old Sweden is dead, long live Sweden!

What the blogger fails to address (and I haven't read more than that one post) is how any of this affects him, why this means he has to go back to the US and why any of us should give a shit about his tabloid fueled opinion.
I think it was in reference to a 2011 official statistic, but I have been unable to find the direct source, and the sources are all in Swedish. Sorry, should have hunted down the precise numbers before blurting them out!
Saying that Google gets design is a bit of a stretch. The new Inbox product is a case in point: it just looks so busy and "over-designed" for what essentially should be a list of messages and a few controls to manage them.
"I’ve worked remotely my whole career"

Regardless of all the perfectly valid reasons for being unhappy in what most people consider a cushy job (the author seems perfectly aware of that), this could possibly be an important factor here.

Working remotely means you only get a small slice of what most people get out of their job. Again, this is perfectly fine if you're not "most people", but if you've never known anything else than that may play a considerable role in being dissatisfied with having a job.
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Also, for those of you not used to wearing a jacket, please don't button up th last (lowest) button.
like that apple device is just a computer?
I don't agree with the author on almost anything but I wholeheartedly agree that voting with your feet is the only type of voting that brings immediate results.

Voting with your feet > voting with your wallet > voting though a ballot box every 5 years (you should still do that though as it costs you nothing!)
ClojureScript applications start smaller than jQuery so I'm not really sure what you mean. If you're already using jQuery then ClojureScript applications are not large in comparison.

As far as your experiences sounds like a lot of your problems didn't have anything to do with ClojureScript and everything to do with trying to getting overly complicated 3rd party setups going. I've only heard woes from people trying to get piggieback + Cider going. I now recommend that people avoid those entirely for ClojureScript anyway.

I admit ClojureScript did have startup time issues but these were addressed earlier this year. ClojureScript can now compile "Hello, world!" from cold JVM boot in ~1.5 seconds. Of course auto-building has be subsecond for ages. REPL sessions start similarly fast and can go for hours without encountering problems.

ClojureScript may still not be your cup of tea but your complaints are not the sort I hear from users much these days.
Well, to be fair, no, we couldn't do this, at least not for any significant fraction of the population. The carrying capacity for a traditional HG society is a tiny fraction of an agricultural one (there should be more deer than humans, etc.)

Mind you, very few people would take you up on the offer, as you know, so we could probably manage this for anyone who wanted it...but doing so would take a lot of work without providing a lot of benefit for the whole population. So there's no good reason to. :)
They don't really have to try very hard. He comes across as deeply incompetent most chances he gets imho, he's been especially embarrassing in international circumstances. He should have gone the way of Juholt, if not for timing and a lack of decent alternatives.

I left Sweden 5 years ago and I more or less agree with the post. It seems to have some undertones i don't entirely appreciate but on the whole it should serve as a necessary reality check if taken with a pinch of salt. It brings up many points that are worth discussing at length but which are essentially verboten in Swedish society. Even if it does overstate or sensationalize somewhat.

I doubt he is leaving specifically because it has abandoned some socialist ideals. For me it has more to do with not wanting to be part of the mass delusion, not wanting to constantly fit your opinions to an ever narrowing hallway of acceptable ideas and speech (not because they couldn't but because they shouldn't have to). At least when you don't live there you don't have to see and live it day in and day out. If anything I have grown more fond of Sweden and the ideals it represents since moving, because I am not forced to come to terms with its realities on a daily basis.
Sweden will not miss you.
Django-hijack 1.0.8 comes with a custom hijack function
We released a new version (1.0.8) of django-hijack today that comes with RemoteUser login/hijack support, a bugfix on the toolbar and the brand new, long awaited custom hijack function!

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That's what I was afraid of...
What is "sweden for swedes" to you? It sounds very much like the struggle of many other ethnic groups in the world. Kurdistan for Kurds, Israel for Jews, etc.
Ask HN: What does red star next to my thread means?
I created a thread called:
[Show HN]: App for chopping and downloading YouTube videos

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9691509

There is a red star left of my thread name where upvote arrow usually resides. Also, if I logout I can't see my thread, why is that? Couldn't find anything on Google.
12.5% corporation tax! That's really low. Just had a look around - is it 35% in the US?!
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I laughed when he said he was helped by seeing his "bad" night was one hour less than his targeted 7.

I can go 4 or 5 days a week not going to sleep before 4 AM and I am at work by 7 AM. I can also go 3 or 4 days waking up every hour on the hour and take 20 or 30 minutes to go back to sleep.

Most people don't know I am that tired thankfully.
There are a few differences.

Firstly - "sending all my paperwork to a bookkeeper who uses Quickbooks". In many ways we provide a service that is similar to this. However our website is focused on property investors - so you dont require any additional programs (like Quickbooks). We have many features that are specific to property investors, like tracking valuations, insurance, loan contract information. i.e. it is not "just" an accounting solution - it is an entire single platform to manage your property investments.

In regards to Buildium or Appfolio - they are generally aimed more at large property investors, or property management groups. Whilst there is overlap in what we do - we feel we provider a easier and simplier experience. We've invested a lot of time into the UX of the entire process to have it as simple, quick and easy as possible.
When people complain about JEE, I usually say they should have experimented CORBA.
I think you just described somewhat of a dystopian future... :)

Most work is a group effort. Group efforts require the feeling of belonging to a group to be effective. You just cannot get that if you work remotely. Real human interaction cannot be faked or successfully replaced by electronic means.

Working remotely a couple of days a week is probably beneficial. It alleviates the pressure of constant interactions preventing some tasks from being accomplished. Especially for us technical folk, where the dominant personality is not one that draws energy from other people. We still need to interact though.
I was told that it is indeed company policy to have employees in the office. There are only very few remote workers, and new hires are relocated to the next office location, with very few exceptions. Once there, one can basically forget about working remotely, because telecommuting is "only an exception under special circumstances".
What a shocking expression of cultural imperialism and contempt. "Yes, your culture is being disrupted by massive immigration that I freely admit you can't assimilate very well, and is causing significant problems. But it's OK, go ahead and suffer through the negative effects that are frontloaded into your lifetime, because I'm sure that in a few generations, after you're dead, it will all work out."

Are you really surprised that with a pitch like that that Europeans aren't falling over themselves to shape up? Especially if they lack your great and frankly historically baseless belief that their culture and their children are guaranteed to have a place in it?
I'm Swedish too, and this is just a typical right-winger rant. I've been seeing these on the internet for 20 years now.
Totally agree. This is essentially a political rant about the politics of Sweden and as such pretty exaggarating. I don't quite understand why it's trending on HN.
checked out beepi which seemed cool, but the others don't seem to be as 'new' as the title claims
Did you miss these lines?

"Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees. But what makes me the most pessimistic about Sweden’s future is how the social fabric itself has been undermined."

If the "social fabric" of a country amounts to it's prior ethnic homogeneity, then decrying it's unraveling amounts to being scared of people coming from the outside. People which, in the case of Sweden, also tend to have a darker skin tone than the average citizen 50 years ago. This, in conjunction with the suggestion that Muslim immigrants tend to be "Jihadist Trojan horses" makes it a very thinly veiled Islamophobic piece.
I see both sides of this. It sounds like Zenefits was scraping the HTML interface of ADP's web site, and according to ADP's response, generating huge volumes of traffic. Around here, there is a bias that startup = white knight and incumbent = arrogant and malicious. If it was me, I would have probably disabled these accounts too under my ToS against negatively impacting the system for other users.

I also see that Zenefits needs to move quickly. Is there an ADP API they could be using?
Kaspersky Finds New Nation-State Attack–In Its Own Network
I know backward compatibility with Java 5 is important for the clojure world, but I would love to see streams and invoke dynamic implemented in a "Clojure 2.0".

I would love to do it myself, if someone would pay me to do it :)
Doesn't Ireland have a graduated tax system?

According to Wikipedia, it does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Republic_of_Ire...

"The taxation of earnings is progressive"

Which makes the OP's post rather confusing.

Does any country out there not tax progressively?

I just can't imagine it - "Great, you got a pay rise! Now you get to take home less, until your pay rises by another $5,000!"

Edit: On second reading, I think I understand what the OP is talking about: leaving money in the company they operate, which pays out (I guess through dividends?) at a lesser tax rate than if it were paid out directly as wages. I'm pretty sure this is a standard technique in the rest of the world, and not particularly unique to Ireland.
> What incentive would this person not to kill you and take your wealth were she not getting welfare?

A twelve-gauge with #4 buckshot would do the trick nicely.

I am obliged to give taxes for welfare because if I don't men with guns from the government will come and confiscate my private property.
There is "free" healthcare if you are unemployed and qualify for a medical card, tho if you open the newspapers any week you would hear all sorts of horror stories about our public hospitals. The public system is under immense stress after years of negligence and cuts so your experience of a public hospital might quite literally be your last.

If you are employed you have no choice but to pay for private insurance:

* Family with 2 kids ~ €2600 per year

* Singe person ~ €500-€1000 per year (dependant on age etc)

Tho the costs for health insurance are rising of course...
I have to admit, it's amazing how often video games seem to be in the mix these days. Slack was developing a game before they happened upon their product. Gamifcation is being used to help decipher complex genomes etc. Pretty impressive
Global airlines to reduce size of carry-on bags
"crumbling rail system"? Going to Sweden on vacation. Please tell me it's BS :)
Show HN: Xtype.js.org – 40 efficient data-validating pseudo-types for JavaScript
I think WWIII sim is probably a better description. Or could go with the 1985 War Games "Global Thermonuclear War". Just nitpicking. The simulation is awesome.
A real world example for a taroof related conflict:
"I think on my last visit she hasn't tried to convince me hard enough to stay overnight so I think I am not wanted" - 1 1/2 years siblings not talking any more.
Other sign of taarof-related conflict (real world experience): When family meets, brother has, for some unknown reason, now always "important work" to do and can never attend, when before everything was right.
If my first game hasn't finished (It wasn't a complete stalemate yet but they have stocked up a lot of fighters and bombers) when I get home I'll try that! I find zero-player games fascinating, especially ones such as this.
Agreed, but some of their other products are very well designed IMO. It usually takes a while for them to get to that point though, so Inbox may be headed there soon.
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How much does this differ from other JS related newsletters? I already have a decent amount of overlap between JS Weekly, ng-newsletter, and Node Weekly
One of the reasons why stealth technology was so important to Cold War tech.
Here in Denmark, in my opinion much of the worry is not based on first-hand experience with actual immigrants who have moved to your town and are not integrating well, but rather with a more generalized worry that the culture in some sense is threatened. That's harder to solve with practical measures like integration assistance, because it's not based on specific daily problems but more general ideological worldviews.

If anything it seems anti-correlated with presence of real live immigrants. The largest group of immigrants to Denmark go to Copenhagen. But Copenhagen isn't where you find the strongest anti-immigrant sentiment, as you'd expect if anti-immigrant sentiment were caused by contact with immigrants. Such sentiment isn't absent, but Copenhageners are comparatively okay with immigration and the majority take moderate views, focused on practical issues like programs to improve integration. The strongest worries and the more "militant" style of anti-immigrant politics comes from rural and small-town areas which do not really see large-scale immigration.

I believe this is also the case in a number of other European countries, for example in Austria and Switzerland, where immigrants go mainly to the cities, but anti-immigrant sentiment is concentrated in the rural areas and small towns. Some of this probably has nothing to do with immigration per se but is a result of preexisting cultural splits between cosmopolitan, liberally oriented cities, and more conservative countrysides (a 19th-century sort of romantic nationalism is very strong in rural Scandinavia).
It is obvious to me: I think they chose to load, parse, prettify, colour etc. and keep the entire file into an in-memory data structure, which is easy to reason about, and totally reasonable for "human sized" data. However, for arbitrary sized files, you need a mechanism for leaving most of the file in a raw state - that's harder (but not impossible, obviously).

So, it makes sense to me that they would assume only "human sized" data (and expect users to use another tool for looking at large files, "do one thing well" and all that) and opt for a slightly simpler programming model. Apparently, they decided that the assumption was wrong, and so changed the model.
Interesting approach. It would be nice to see some benchmarks of IntStream vs. traditional loop.

I would expect that IntStreams are slower if it does not use the parallel execution, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22658322/java-8-performa...

And even parallel execution might be tricky:
http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-parallel-streams-ar...
Would be great to see a nice visualisation tool built on top of OpenStreetMaps or something like that which allows you to see the predicted temperatures for a given location though time. Sadly this is way over my capabilities, also a 11 TB dataset is not easy to work with :(
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But it'ss much easier to avoid burnout. Even if your objective is based on an "us vs. them" mentality, you still have a purpose. If you feel like you're working alone (and sometimes this happens even with other people around) it's much easier to find out that your work means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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