skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a known issue. It seems this doesn't work on windows at the moment... See https://github.com/kytrinyx/exercism/issues/20
I think that is actually a huge factor, and one of the key obvious things that the OP overlooked. Latvia (and I suspect the whole Baltic region) was at an artificially inflated population peak when the Soviet Union collapsed. It was one of the most economically prosperous areas of the Soviet Union, and had huge Soviet military bases. Retirement on the Baltic coast was the dream for military brass as well as many other Soviets in the 80s. Additionally, the freedom movements and greater autonomy in the second half of the 80s may have attracted others from other Soviet Republics.

Since independence, and particularly recently, Russians (who once made up over half of Latvia's population) have left, and in many cases not been welcome to stay. One of the major tensions in Latvian politics today is the status of Russian Latvians.

With that backdrop (and given the other factors, such as migration to the rest of the EU) it isn't really that surprising that population levels are returning to that of the 60's.
I agree. It reminds me of the old UNIX saying: "Documentation is like sex. If it is good, it can be really really good. If it is bad... well, it is better than nothing" :)
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It could be because less philanthropy is needed in higher tax places like Norway since they've effectively eliminated poverty there.
If you focus on just age you're not getting the whole picture. The average farm is getting much larger. In your grandfathers time you could raise a family and put kids though college on 160 acres. Nowadays it might take several thousand acres to do the same thing.

Outliers are managing 10-20,000 acres. To do that you need a lot of capital. The large need for capital makes it nearly impossible for an outsider to do a startup. Returns are small and farmers face risk with weather, markets and government intervention into the market.

Small farmers pay more for supplies and are at an extreme disadvantage before putting a single seed in the ground. Exceptions to the rule are niches like organic farming and greenhouses.
One feature I miss from distributing on RubyGems or PyPI is easy update functionality. Thankfully, go-update[1] looks to solve the problem by making it easy to create self-updating Go binaries.

[1]: https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update
Any advice on what to avoid? Also I feel Im at a slight disadvantage, being from Canada at a non-tech (up to date at least) oriented school.

Thank you, I may reach out to you later in the year if thats alright
Narrative mapping the world
Awesome awesome book, highly recommend you read it!
Sure. True, Angular has modules and dependency injection which we use (both before and after RequireJS). However Angular modules are more namespace than true modules. When you split your Angular app over multiple files you'll still have to manage these dependencies by yourself.

The real trigger for introducing RequireJS was our need to optimize our JS by concatenating and minifying it. And to do that in the right order, you need to know your dependencies very well. That's when I decided I didn't want to do that by hand. Not now, and not in the future. So I took https://github.com/tnajdek/angular-requirejs-seed as an example and started defining modules and dependencies. Now I can easily run the r.js optimizer as a build step before releasing and now I'll get a correct and concatenated/minified JS for production.

The nice thing is that RequireJS not only manages our Angular modules (defined in separate files), but also their dependencies on vendor scripts (JQuery, Hammer.js etc.) I really have the feeling I'm in control again.
For all those hating on this blog post: It's short, but it doesn't have to be long to be useful, and apparently it is useful given a substantial chunk of the comments here. If it wasn't news to you then ignore it, otherwise appreciate that not everybody is quite as enlightened as you are.

HN has a tremendous reach these days, from pioneers in the field to total (and often clueless) newbies. Fogus felt compelled to write down his thoughts, someone else saw fit to post it and as of this moment 100+ people thought it was useful enough to vote it up. If that's not validation enough for you then remember that time when you spent half a day tracking down an endless loop and you had to ask a more seasoned programmer to point it out to you.

Fogus is a respected member of the community because he tends to write down what he thinks in a way that others much further down on the totem pole can grasp it too, his articles are not upvoted because he's 'well known' but mostly because people find them useful.

If you feel like this article was 'devoid of content' or whatever slur you feel like directing at it then please, write a better one.
Google's spiders prefer you not to try and 'detect' them and serve different content up to them. However, afaik they're fine with this technique (I mean, they even provide a spec to do so). See their content guidelines on 'Hidden text and links' [1]

> However, not all hidden text is considered deceptive. For example, if your site includes technologies that search engines have difficulty accessing, like JavaScript...

[1] - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en
I'm on iOS and I used a bunch of the GA apps and they all sucked or asked you to pay which I'm not opposed to but its not worth it for me. Maybe things in iOS land have gotten better since I last tried one.
Yeah redistributing wealth to the top.
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Born, raised and educated entirely in West Virginia. Currently a Director of Product Management at a DC tech company. My dad, who worked for the National Park Service for 35 years (retiring last month) brought home a 25Mhz "shades of grey" decommissioned laptop for me to play with in Jr. High. The rest is history. If I look back on that history, I definitely see myself being incredibly lucky, but also putting myself in the position to capitalize on every break that I got. At any rate, thanks for sharing. Montani Semper Liberi.
Point taken, and I agree. I like to watch baseball sometimes, but I took issue with people who implied that children should be brought up with sports as a cornerstone of their lives whether they like it or not.
I'm not from CloudFlare, but AFAIK OpenOnload provides a TCP stack but DNA/DPDK/Netmap do not.
> It isn't as pretty as GA. I know this is petty and that its themeable but the UI was important to me.

I explored this too--it turns out that they make money off of the design of custom Piwik UIs for sale. A site license for their white-labeling plugin costs just under 2,000 euro.
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How frictionless was the application process through the "Who's hiring?" post? Was the company nearby where you lived? Or did you work remotely!

Thank you, would you be alright with me contacting you later in the year?
The best part about that horrible dialog is that I have to lie to it to make it go away. I'm okay with using my real name but I am NOT going to make a G+ profile to be allowed to use youtube.

Especially in the chance it starts publishing anything about my youtube usage.
The setup is pretty annoying. I still haven't figured out what permissions need to be granted to IAM users on AWS to do things like spin up the Hadoop jobs.

Having your granular end up in Redshift, ready to be enriched with other biz data sources is a beautiful, beautiful thing, and completely worth it.
This is one of the most stupid assertions related to programming I've ever read.
If that drives you crazy then maybe you should try to look at the evidence they see:

Climate research is used as a reason to create tons of new government bodies, including international rules about what countries can do (Kyoto), intergovernment tax-schemes that are insanely corrupt (see European Co-limit trading, which had to be shot down due to fraud), taxes on gasoline and limits on what kinds of light bulbs I can use (which makes sense from a corporation standpoint, but if you really wanted to do something about the carbon emmisions you would care about my total emissions and not treat light separately).

You have small solutions like wind-mills and solar panels and greener cars that are supposed to prevent a cataclysmic disaster.

And you may claim that you trust the scientific community, but frankly if you also claim that oil money corrupts the scientists then so should government money - and indeed it appears that it does as each time something like this is leaked (and really if we are doing science what should there be to leak? it is supposed to be open to all) a lot of scientists gets really angry. It almost sounds like they are trying to cover up something.

Then you have the East Angelia leak (again that word leak, there shouldn't be anything to leak in science) in which the scientists talked about abusing the publishing process to prevent a paper they didn't want to be published from being published. That is the one that did me in, as I am not a climate scientist so I can only evaluate the truth based on what I see the scientists do, but even I know that if you don't like a paper and can simply point out where it is wrong then you do that. It is only when you can't point out an issue that you have to do back handed deals (and you are playing politics, not doing science).

And lets not get into the way those of us who are skeptical of climate change gets shot down when we voice our points they are almost never refuted we are simply told that we are various stodges for the oil companies, misinformed, etc.
Ah, wait until the dead of winter when you're trying to take the bus to work in -40C weather. Walking across a large parking lot, with snow billowing along the ground like a National Geographic special on the Arctic Circle, your face in excruciating pain because of high-speed snow/ice blowing into it.

The fact that your arms and legs are toasty warm seems like a distant comfort at that point...

Plenty of weather conditions in Canada where, no matter how well you dress, you're just not going to be comfortable...
Yes, but they are not capable of getting away with it for any length of time.
I don't. But, as opposed to porn, in case of pg the incentive structure seems not to be there.

I remember reading some articles about sex trafficking and porn production, but would have to dig them up to find some actual data.

I somehow doubt porn industry works like IT; I don't think you get to dump your video studio because the formerly free sodas you used for refreshment after the act now cost $.50.
How about a camera on a long pole?
Forked and I don't even like PHP :) United we stand.
While generally I agree with you, in this particular thread people are sharing personal, impressionistic origin stories.

He's providing colorful detail, a small part of a larger story, and offering a bit of emotional support for the earlier commenter's attitude. (He's not proselytizing, or inviting anti-/pro-religion as a main topic, though there's always a risk someone else will take it that way.)

I would suggest that in such a thread, there should be more space for heartfelt honesty, rather than self-censorship-for-the-sake-of-decorum-and-equanimity. There's a time and place for all styles and topics of communication... and it can shift in just a single screen or replying under a different parent comment.
Even focusing on real rape only it's a delicate question.

Perhaps the focus on movie recordings is misleading. It's the same issue as photography, and on the still image side it has been and still is discussed to death: should image of victims be banned ? What can be broadcasted and what can not ? Shouldn't a rape victim's identity be always protected ? Or is it OK if he/she agrees with the publication of convicting pieces ? Or what if he/she kills the assaulter afterwards ? Is it OK to have private shots of events other people don't want published ?

There's hundred of questions we could think of in the lapse of a conversation, just making 'films' illegal won't answer them all.

Edit: skipped a word in last sentence
No, that's wrong. You just use links to /the/normal/looking/URL and let the browser use JS instead when it can. And obviously you serve the real content at /the/normal/looking/URL instead of behind the obscure hash fragment method.
You think 4 gigs of ram, sapphire display and 128gb ssd are going to be the norm in 2014? Not very likely. That would be just about double the Samsung S4 right now. I don't think it is very likely for 2014. 2015, maybe though.

And I don't think Canonical is going to build the phone but work with someone to do it.

> (3) would be a negative for me... you would get the slowest, least power efficient, and most app-baron experience.

Do you have any data to back that up?

And don't forget that Android had very few apps when first launched. Very few. At least an Ubuntu phone will be able to run all the standard Ubuntu apps, and in converged mode, you'll get all the desktop apps as well, which is awesome.
Somebody please create a good Gmail alternative and save us from this shit.
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>> we are on our fourth generation (G4) of servers. Our first generation (G1) servers were stock Dell PowerEdge servers. We deployed these in early 2010

Wow, 4 generations of servers in 3 years. Talk about iterating quickly.

Was Cloudflare bootstrapped or did they start with a huge investment? 23 datacenters full of equipment sounds like a lot to me.
The Realm of Racket is an enjoyable read
$11K is irresponsibly low if that's your savings when you move from one country to another, even if your start-up is somewhat funded. After all, your chances of success are just as low as every other funded start-up and you're going to have nothing but your savings and your skills to fall back on in an unknown market if your start-up should fail.

Personally I think that $50K in savings is more in line with realistic expectations of moving country, setting up shop and getting a company under way, funding is icing on the cake, it's not as if that's your money.
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> Canada has some pretty severe weather in the winter, everywhere except for the area around Niagara falls and Vancouver.

Niagara falls is still brutally cold and snowy in the winter. The only place you won't freeze your ass off is the west coast of BC. aka Victoria/Vancouver.

> Cost of living is slightly lower than in the US for most parts of Canada.

Unless you are in Vancouver, where it is quite expensive to live. Housing, food, fuel... There are very few places in the US that are as expensive to live as Vancouver.

Housing prices are a joke, literally: http://www.crackshackormansion.com/

> the laid back atmosphere and the different venture capital climate make it a lot harder to get off the ground in Canada

It is harder to get VC funding in Canada than it is south of the border. From what I've seen startup's in the US/Silicon Valley that may get 20million, you can expect ~1million in Canada, and most won't even look at you unless you already have paying customers. I don't really know all the factors that cause this but investors are much more conservative here.
> Cost of living is slightly lower than in the US for most parts of Canada.

I find cost of living in Vancouver (North Shore) quite high when compared, for example, with Portland, OR. Granted, this is one of the more expensive regions in Canada vs a city in a state with no sales tax, but still most of the goods and food in Canada are significantly more expensive than in the US.
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Sorry, but isn't science about more than one person getting access to the data and re-running the experiments? While I understand that it is politically inconvenient for the scientists, that shouldn't really be what decides what the public gets access to (especially since this is a tax-payer founded study).

In fact wouldn't it be fair that they are to check their report into a public subversion repository as it is being written?
From 'Napkin' to Product
I just pushed a fix: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/1265
We are not currently planning on supporting CDMA.
One of my co-workers wanted a standing desk but didn't want to have to stand all of the time. We ended up throwing together a custom solution. Here's a video of it in action. The video starts with the desk in the sitting position.

http://youtu.be/q2PVtl-_2f4

(apologies for the cell phone quality)

We took apart a normal desk and combined it with an old plasma TV lift (designed for trade shows back when TVs weighed a lot), a linear actuator, switch, and some random nuts and bolts. It worked out pretty well. It's a little noisy, but you only end up moving it once or twice a day, so that's fine.
"Given the runaway success of the iPhone for hardware reasons..."

I wish there were more folks who could see that. Your comments about Apple on this thread are worth contemplating.

There seems to be this silly idea that Apple is now "more than a (proprietary) hardware company". But if we took away the design-patented, hermetically-sealed enclosures, what is the value of Apple? What's left that we can use? Can any of it stand on its own?

It should be obvious, but only after you tie users to a particular piece of hardware do the other opportunities like playing middle man to digitized consumables like music, software or books arise. I surmise it is those opportunities that cause people to believe Apple is more than a hardware company. But maybe Apple is just a hardware company that, outside of their area of expertise - hardware, is very opportunistic? "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

How many times have we seen Apple "borrow" from third party software that supplements Apple's OS functionality and proceed to incorporate others' ideas into their next OS version?

Are all the components of Apple's allegedly diversified business dependent on the success of Apple hardware? Try the following thought experiment:

Subtract the fact of the Apple hardware with its attractive form factor and imagine other companies designing the world's most popular mp3 players, phones and tablets. Imagine Apple does not make, sell, or have made hardware enclosures or the cheap, Chinese-made electronics that are hidden inside. Now, ask yourself, "What is the value of Apple?"

The value of iTunes without Apple hardware?

The value of the AppStore without Apple hardware?

The value of Apple's latest Mach/BSD hybrid OS without Apple hardware? OK, but how easily can Apple's graphics layer run on other hardware?

...

Filemaker Pro for Windows? Eureka!

Yes, Apple is much more than just a hardware company.
Thanks for the kind words X4! Marketing-wise - we are just growing organically, slowly building the userbase as more people come into contact with what we're offering.

Deployment-wise - it is a bit fiddly to set up. A community member is hopefully going to work on some Opscode Chef and Amazon CloudFormation scripts so that should make it a lot easier.
> Elsewhere in this thread someone asks why not go to the US

Well, to add to what you said, US does not have a startup visa yet.
Im from Canada as well (London, Ontario to be specific). Im unsure what to expect, and I highly doubt that any startup companies will be at my universities job fair. Im not very interested in making tons of money, but I want the experience more then anything.
The C64 was my first computer too. I was 7 at the time, and 28 years later I'm still coding, only now I'm getting paid for it. Wonderful, wonderful machine, and I have the fondest memories of it.

(Actually ours was an SX-64, the ill-fated portable version, which did so poorly that my parents got one from a discount catalog for $50 in 1985, only a year after it debuted at $1000. Folks didn't know what they were missing! Years later we got a full-size C64, and when that broke down, a C128. As far as I know, the SX works fine to this day.)
Interesting, ok, you can xordon both mention Vancouver to be much more expensive these days, please note that any information about Canada that I have is likely to be 6 years out of date (that's when I last spent time there) and wrt Vancouver closer to 8 years.

I know several people that moved there from Toronto recently and neither of them mentioned expensive housing but I'll take your word for it.
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> Violent movies typically feature death but briefly and without detail.

You watch boring movies.
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Unfun fact, the person who invented tetraethyl lead gasoline additive also invented chlorofluorocarbons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.
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Maybe. Or maybe it'll backfire and they'll lose a lot of money.

If it was that easy, it's all that everybody would do. But it's harder than that (just ask the Hunt brothers), I believe.
That's not fair at all. The author's points are: 1) there has been a major population decline in the Baltics; 2) the decline is staggering even by comparison to Russia, which is widely thought to have a problem with population; 3) people making claims about economic reform in the Baltics should not ignore such a major factor.
The fact that high-frequency trading is big and specialized enough to merit hardware vendors catering specifically to their niche shouldn't have been surprising to me, but totally was.

In general, though, Cloudflare's posts continue to be totally fascinating.
It's not a slippery slope to limit speech. It's a slippery slope to limit speech based on that speech being offensive to a person or group. There is plenty of evidence for this, just look at the Muslim world, or the world as hardline American Christians would like to see it. There are a million groups and individuals who are genuinely and actually offended by some bit of content that is currently legal. Open the floodgates just a little and they will all try to shove their way through.
That's just greed!
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Currently the way the regs stand, people have to keep paying rent until the metal leaves the warehouse. So if the owner/manager of the warehouse drags its feet on every shipment and every shipment takes an extra week, that's a lot of rent.

One of the proposed solutions is that the warehouse isn't allowed to charge rent once the order to distribute the metal has been made, but that's not in the regs yet. It's merely propsed. Right now they do charge and as such have every incentive to delay as long as possible.
No, but it's better than not having it even get to your blood, especially if you test for the bio-available compound in the blood.
I'm actually no longer sure that I am right, unless you have another source. The website states [1]:

> You must have at least one year of full time experience in the last ten years in a management or
> professional or highly skilled occupation. These are listed as Skill Type O, Skill Type A or Skill
> Type B on the National Occupation Classification List. You will find further details in our
> skilled worker guide.

At first reading, it would seem that only "shortage occupations" [2] meet this criterion. However, the precise language would suggest that any occuption with an NOC skill type of 0, A or B qualifies. That would suggest any job with a NOC code beginning with 0 or with the second digit 1 or 2 would qualify [3].

Please let me know if I'm wrong about this.

[1] http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm

[2] http://www.workpermit.com/canada/employee_list.htm

[3] http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/FAQ.aspx
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