skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monocle.io is not getting indexed correctly.

see:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Node+has+had+great+succes...

Notice how the monocle.io link is totally useless. Overtime, this will get you killed by Google as they realize your domain is returning useless results.
I've never had Ramen, so I had to look it up, but... let's take Ramen literally, using Amazon's Ramen pricing as a baseline, and try to inject health concerns! At $17.49 for a 36 pack of Ramen, we're talking ~$0.49/meal. Check!

Two kilograms (4.4 lbs) of Lentils costs me $2.49 at my local supermarket. According to the fine people at Wolfram Alpha, 1 cup of lentils (cooked) weighs 99grams and costs $0.125. Bags of frozen vegetables cost ~$2. I can get ~8 meals from one bag of such veggies, making each portion cost $0.25. That's a total cost of $0.374, which means we still have ~$0.12 to go.

One package of dried soup (with beans) costs $1.99 regular price - but can be on sale for $0.99. Taking the regular price into count, and getting 12 (small) bowls of soup brings the per-bowl price to $0.125.

So, you can eat (unfortunately, high salt) soup, beans, lentils, and veggies for ~$0.49/meal. You'll actually need less than a cup of lentils if you do this, which should bring the cost down a bit.
> I've personally found that life is what you make it, no matter where you come from or your background. If you are willing to make it happen, you can make it happen; it's all up to you.

I want this to be true, I really do; however, the article you're commenting on is telling us exactly the opposite. You're very likely to be here posting this comment I would say because on average people on Hacker News are more driven than an average person. I really think the success stories are exceptions that prove the rule.
Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law
They are stereotypical hate statements

Hate doesn't enter into it, unless you take a pretty damn expansive view of what "hate" means. I think Christianity is damaging to society, but I don't hate anybody.

that lead to emotional responses instead of intellectual discussions.

So? Not every discussion is some deep intellectual debate which needs to be held to rigorous academic standards. Sometimes people are just talking and sharing observations.

But statements like yours are equivalent to Christians walking around claiming that all gays are evil and will burn in hell.

Not really.
> There's an argument that mathematical functions are "back to front" and that it would be more natural to write functions left to right

Totally agreed, but until programming languages adopt "x f = ..." for a definition of f then I'd prefer to stick to composing the traditional way round.
It's not that Canada lacks a startup culture, it's just a smaller playground then SF or NYC.

But besides all this, there are popular and noteworthy startups based in Canada, like HootSuite, Shopify, 500px, UrtheCast and Freshbooks.
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is the Great Irish Famine, wherein around 10% of the population may have emigrated away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29

I'm certain there are other historical mass migrations of such enormous magnitude, but my point was really to glibly provide perspective for such a massive population decrease.
It does make sense to me, because:

- Not all search engines can handle JavaScript, Google is leading the way, but not perfect.

- Those NoScript users could be potential clients or users of your site. I love it when my conversation rate goes up 1%, and that becomes harder when you ignore 1-5% of users.

- Screenreaders generally do not support JavaScript [not true, see comment]. If only one blind user gets to access the content/design I created, then that is worth it to me. I am thinking as front-end engineer here, not as a business owner, where time is money. (Also depending on jurisdiction it may be against the law to be inaccessible).

- Noscript users will likely bounce in large numbers when seeing just a blank page. Simply adding a <noscript> tag, explaining why you need JavaScript goes a long way.

As a front-end engineer I go for maximum content accessibility. I don't meddle into the politics of things ("If we don't drop IE6 support, the web won't move forward!").

I totally understand the new landscape, where a lot of people have JavaScript on. Some web apps can not use progressive enhancement, because the JavaScript is core to the app. But for "static" content websites like these, it is certainly possible to make a website that is usable by most users, human and robot.
link to the article without paywall?
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I did not intend to give the impression that I thought that her seniority was a reason to keep her around. It was more of a half-assed lazy web request. In the interim I put a question on the politics SX and emailed an old professor. I do agree that it will not be as big of a loss for CA as it might be for other states, e.g. VT losing Leahy.

Not avoiding being overtly political: In my opinion the House is similar to the kids table at a big thanksgiving dinner. Representatives and children are Every now and then the kids get too rambunctious and noisy and the adults (i.e. the senate) have to step in and tell the little brats to behave. If I could choose any elected office I would pick being a senator. The House "is teh suk."
Yeah, I'm pretty confused now that I read the official federal government site. I suggest you contact a lawyer if you want a definitive answer.

But my reading of it:

- If you do not have a job offer, you must fall under a listed shortage occupation (i.e., not the entirety of the Type 0, A, and B lists).

- If you do have a job offer (a good enough job offer, at that) in a Type 0, A, or B occupation, you do not need to be in a shortage class.

This makes some logical sense. If you don't have a guaranteed job coming into Canada, it makes sense for the government to ensure you are in a shortage occupation to maximize your odds of actually being employed.
They should try to get some carriers to put some money on that. They could buy hundreds or thousands at a time, if they want more diversity in their offering.
we've checked them and they are doing a nice job in UK i guess. I wanna tap into the american market.
No one wants to immigrate here. And actually, I'm happy with that.
Now you have made me curious. Do you have any pointers to some source material about "pure objects"?

I find it especially interesting because under normal circumstances an object with no mutable state is no different from a collection of methods (which can be encapsulated in different ways of course; say as an OCaml module).

So I am curious as to what advantage an object system that allows only pure objects provide.
You don't need data to know that the initial product will be the least optimized (in terms of speed/power) and fewest apps. I was speaking mostly in the domain of Ubuntu phones, since the experience will likely improve as they develop the product more, however I would be very surprised if Canonical manages to be faster and more efficient than either iOS or high end android devices at launch.

I'm not saying they there isn't potential, I just don't have as much faith in Canonical as you seem to.
Not an early model Toshiba sattelite by any chance? My first computer had those specs, also dexomissioned hand-down, from my uncle.
I would take it down, not because of ethics or legalisms, but because you'll lose technically. They're making it clear that they don't want interoperable implementations. All you're doing is poking them in the eye with a stick. You probably don't have the resources (especially given your lack of interest) to keep your implementation working; they certainly have the resources to break your implementation. Why bother?
The Food and Drug Administration.
The surveillance state – Part one
The Baltic demographic situation is indeed very complex. The article does little justice to this.

Someone has already raised the question of ethnic Russians and other non-Baltic origin leaving these countries. This section of the population actually have a very strong incentive to leave - they are considered non-citizen and have none of the EU privileges[1].

According to the same Wikipedia article, Latvia alone started out with 715k non-citizen in 1991, and now has 290,660 as of March 2011 census. Some left, some died and some became citizen, but the drop is huge and the outflow is intentional with the aim of increasing the proportion of "native" ethnic groups.

At the same time, Russia has been taking in immigrants. The 1 million drop does not show the changes in underlying ethnic proportions. Russian politicians have not been as concerned with maintaining the ethnic composition, which they may start to look at as the riots fueled by ethnic tensions have become much more common.

In any case, pure economic speculations don't do justice to that region. It's a very complex balancing act, with nationalists on both sides willing to chop of their nose to spite their face.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)
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I think you misunderstand me. "class divisions, racism, sexism, etc" are impediments to talent. I firmly believe that talent and ambition are distributed evenly across humans, regardless of gender/race/class/etc, and I presume you do as well. "Advancement for some" as a function of talent is, in my opinion, society-wide advancement, because mediocre people aren't going to advance society, period. "Advancement for some" as a function of gender/race/class is an impediment to society, because the talents of those it excludes are squandered (or worse, turned to destructive paths).

To be sure, I'm being elitist here, and I don't deny that. But I think the empirical evidence is on my side. Show me a social revolution led by average minds, and I might rethink. More likely, I'll point out the brilliant minds that led the average.
I use a Firefox addon called RefControl so you can customise the referer that is sent on a per site basis. I have it configured to send the referer "http://www.google.com/" to nytimes.com which gets rid of the paywall.
I think video said if this thing succeeds, then there might be similar future projects. If not, there wont be next edge or similar projects.

"The Ubuntu Edge is an exclusive production run, available only through Indiegogo"

But there is no going mainstream, it is the whole point. This is not the mainstream pc/mobile. Good quote from comment section:

"It's a premier, demonstration platform, not a mass market device." -achiang

I think what they are doing is awesome and comparison with formula 1 is pretty spot on. They are trying to build mobile with new approach, build it as PC.
I was poking around the website and can't seem to understand what they're selling/offering. It seems like online hosting for VagrantFiles. That can't possibly be it. Anyone know what it is they're offering?
*>"We infer causality from these changes. Often our inferences are wrong."

Which inferences are often wrong? The demonstrated inferences are quite understandable and I'd wager their real life analogs of colliding objects, predators and prey, parents and children are more often right than wrong.
Find how many Steam subscribers are running Ubuntu and buying games, and subtract that number from the total estimated Ubuntu users.

Count me in the 'buys games' lot.
So let's say this campaign comes close but doesn't reach its goal. Someone is then on the hook for close to a million dollars in credit card charges. It doesn't appear to be the individual. But the FAQ is deeply unclear as to whether it is Indiegogo or Canonical who gets to pay these fees. Anyone know?
It coud be that all nvidia drivers (for pc) that is we're doing constant patching with some clever caching behind the driver.
We need hierarchy to manage complexity. Complex functions must be decomposed into component functions. Complex data structures must be decomposed into component data objects. And event streams must be decomposed into manageable chunks. Recursively to some degree.
Maybe deep nesting is only a problem because your language does not let you nest all three easily.
thanks for the tips buddy. can you just clarify the 3rd bullet? What do you mean my 4984 people have used us to find a space in Chicago?
I think he means he wants to submit prior art directly to the patent examiner. Is there a way to be sure they'll see it?
I own a low-powered Android phone and iPhone 3GS for testing, but my normal phone is an IP5. Old phones can be had very cheaply on Craigslist or Ebay. You don't have to make your everyday phone use a nightmare.
yup, just uk!
Interesting. If you're into repo'ing property I could maybe see it working. I feel like it would be easier for a similar reture to use something like LendingClub to loan money to people who actually want to pay it back, as opposed to people who are 1-2 years late on their taxes.
I imagine if you managed 50k in angel funding or 200k VC, you can probably scrounge together 11k somehow. You may well be able to borrow it personally from your existing backers if they're already willing to fund your company. You will need to eat and pay rent for the first few months at the very least, so you'll need to have some money.
Housing in Thunder Bay is much more affordable because it's in the middle of nowhere. Beautiful place, great steakhouse but not exactly a start-up hotbed.

Of course, if you really only need an internet connection and a couch then it might actually be an advantage but for most start-ups (apparently outside the medical research ones but those are few and far between) access to facilities, a nearby university, a pool of schooled talent to pick from and capital are their lifeblood.
I run Win7 in a virtual machine on OSX for .Net development, since I don't need hardware layer specifics it works great. If I were building applications for the desktop I wouldn't likely it do it this way, but for Web dev it works great.

I installed them as dual boot at first but all the driver issues started getting annoying. So I created a VM and it works great now, plus I dropped a couple Linux distros on there as well.
To anyone wanting to learn more about Vagrant via a screencast, I've created one @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/4-vagrant
I asked one of our kernel guys. Here's his response:

"We are indeed looking at Codel. We were actually working on backporting BQL+Codel to the 2.6.x kernel but the Google guys finally got the network stack under control enough for us to deploy >3.3. The 16MB of buffers hasn't hurt us much yet, and may in the long run save us from switches that have too shallow a buffer for the high contention ratios we run on the switch." -LinuXY
If you are in a country, where people can't afford MS products, then they usually don't give two damns about legal issues(because there are none). All hail the pirates, because pirating is the norm.

Source: From country where pirated windows used to be norm. Still is in ethical standpoint. Only OS bundled with computers has changed that.
So, basically, the article says that in order to have good SEO with full js apps, you must also expose a non js app?

Like, you have to implement 2 sets of templates - one "classic", html only, and one for js?
Interesting that 27 people have opted to pay the $830 today, rather than the $600 that they could have paid.
"Screenreaders in generally do not support JavaScript."

Please stop saying that. It hasn't been true for a good 5 years or so.

* http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade...

* http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/#javascript

* http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/client-side-script.html
Still C# comes with it verbose baggage and it shows, even with your simple example of:

Get["/"] = _ => "Hello World!";

Or even the class declaration:

public class SampleModule : Nancy.NancyModule

My RSI is starting to flare again...
Chrome: Right-click, Open Link in Incognito Window
CodeProject 10 Million Members Celebration Giveaway
No, we are talking about porn-rape, which is a) not real and b) between two consenting adults.

Real rape isn't really relevant since nobody supports it (to my knowledge).
Author here. We're building a service to make dev/prod parity and deployments easy. Thanks for the feedback - our landing page needs an overhaul :P We're still adding features, right now all you can do is generate Vagrantfiles and AMIs.

You can contact me at hello@stackmachine.com if you'd like more details.
Royal baby: Kate gives birth to boy
You can buy a dashboard camera now (example: http://www.amazon.com/DashBoard-Camera-Vehicle-Accident-Reco...) for your own protection if you'd like. They aren't widely used in the US though, you are right.
Read the entire paragraph:

"An amazing 60% of all Internet end devices/users exchange traffic with Google servers during the course of an average day. This analysis includes computers and mobile device as well as hundreds of varieties game consoles, home media appliances, and other embedded devices (Google’s device share is much larger if we look only at computers and mobile devices)."[1] (SIC, Emphasis Added)

[1]http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-re...
Of course, someone will try and get the list of "opt-ins" with a FOIA request. And if they succeed, the Daily Mail will have an absolute field day...
You can post bounties on Stack Exchange if you have enough reputation to cover it. Whoever posts the bounty (not necessarily the patent examiner) gets to pick who wins the bounty. If they don't, it can be automatically awarded to the highest-scoring answer during the bounty period (one week). More details: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-b...
I think maybe you don't understand what the word "prove" means.

> and we wouldn't see solutions that don't try to clamor peoples freedom (say putting up mirrors in the ocean to send some of the suns rays back out into space) but might work (IANACS so I don't know if it works).

Actually, solar mirrors or similar space structures have been proposed. The main reason they aren't part of the dominant current recommendations is that they are very high-risk, in terms of engineering, compared to the existing short- and long-term mitigation recommendations, and also that many of the existing mitigations mitigate other risks that share common causes with AGW but which solar mirrors don't.
Yes, what does Canada offer that the UK doesn't? Same language, both have a Queen both have a functional government that mostly respects other peoples rights.

The US has a great ecosystem for start-ups. Does Canada?
the same is happening in many other countries where salaries are a third of (relatively) nearby countries and people are free to move. I don't expect the population decline in the Baltics to continue at that pace though
It would be nice to add Docker as a another VM to compare.
I was just trying to give pagekite love. I like it quite a bit :)
>why do you think it's useful for users to read meta descriptions?

It isn't, really. I made a mistake and thought that every page (served to users and search engines) had the same title and description. A user is unlikely to read a meta description, unless he/she is on a search results page.

>How does making this a pure JavaScript web app degrade the end-user's experience?

NoScript users and special need users are unable to access your website's content.

> JS and client-side rendering makes for a much better experience.

Agreed. Progressive enhancement makes this possible and get the best of both worlds: Accessible content for NoScript users, spiffy JS rendering one page app for JavaScript users. RMS can even download your pages through Lynx.

If you go pure JavaScript, you can at least add a <noscript> where you explain why you need JavaScript to enjoy this site.
There aren't much in the way of specs here. The screen will likely be 1024x768 or similar, seeing as how they say that they are shooting for around 300ppi in a 4.5in screen. The battery technology that they say they want is unproven, produced only in sample quantities, and has issues with the electrolyte expanding to 4x it's size (which they say will be fixed via carbon nanotubes, the latest 'magic pixie dust'). I am pretty sure they will have an announcement later on saying that they had to switch battery technologies in order to source what they need. For $800 it's quite expensive. I imagine they could easily just buy a bunch Galaxy S4s and offer that with Ubuntu as an option... that way they wouldn't have to deal with certification and all that jazz. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but seriously people need to think about this before just handing out their money. My bet is one year from now if you had given them your money, there will be better phones out that make this one seem like a joke. Compare what they are offering to the Galaxy S4, the S4 will definitely have a better screen, it's running at 1.9ghz (will 2.1 or whatever is the fastest make much of a difference? probably not). A better battery may be great, but the S4 has great battery life, which will last almost all day, good enough for most people. I'd be surprised if I don't see batteries explode on this device if they do manage to ship with the new technology (and expensive) battery. The ram may be the one reason to purchase the device, but it would be a lot less expensive just to ask any of the vendors on Alibaba to up the ram to 4gb (as long as you are ordering in large quantities).
Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times
iAd Workbench vulnerability reported right before Apple dev center taken offline
The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana'
He mentioned on a podcast that Amazon's 1-click is one of them.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/podcast-43-false-facts...
Because marijuana is a schedule 1 drug it's rather hard to study. Not that it should matter because any adult should be able to put whatever they want in their body.

http://popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/why-its-so-hard-sc...
Yay, another HN post that seeks to denigrate the idea that individuals have any control over the outcomes in their lives, and tries to attribute everything to luck and uncontrollable external factors.

The reality is, we all live in a cold, uncaring, unsympathetic world, and are subject to multiple random and unpredictable (and uncontrollable) forces. Pointing this out is no great insight, and this notion does little or nothing to change how one should approach the world. In the end you can only play the cards you are dealt, whatever they may be. But what you do with those cards is what matters.

People are born into disadvantageous situations all the time, and yet they manage to escape that environment and go on to have great success. Is is really all just "luck" or is it the case that your choices and actions affect your ability to even take advantage of what "good luck" happens to come your way?

"Luck = preparation + opportunity" might sound like just a silly slogan for Nike t-shirts or something, but there's a lot of merit to that. Maybe using pedantic definitions you can't literally "make your own luck" but in an effective sense, that's exactly what you do. You make your own luck by putting yourself in a position to have good things happen to you. You make your own luck by preparing yourself to take advantage of opportunities that come along. You make your own luck by acting to change your circumstances.

And, yes, "black swan" events (of the "bad luck" variety) can come along and destroy you. It can happen to all of us, but that's just another tautology that isn't a very insightful observation.
> The Soviets had hugely increased the number of ethnic
> Russians in the Baltics

It depends on country a lot. E.g. in Estonia 70% are Estonians and 25% are Russians, meanwhile in Lithuania 84% are Lithuanians and less than 6% are Russians—there are more Poles than Russians.