skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While "The Economist" squabble over these pedantic style rules, a modest survey of various social media utterances proves a number of native English speakers can't figure out simple grammar: It's/its; there/they're/their; then/than; etc.

Those six—now seven updated—rules are on a higher intellectual plane than that of the average netizen.

I'd use a metaphor to summarize my observation, but I don't want to break the rules.
Have you looked at more conventional forms of funding? If you already have meaningful revenues, why not just get a small business loan from a commercial bank? I've never done it, but I expect the interest rates are laughably low at the moment if you have decent credit and some assets (hardware, so yes) to back the loan. Plus, you wouldn't have to give up any equity.
Am I the only one wondering what the fuck "progressive enhancement" is? Even the "enhanceconf" website doesn't explain.

>We're convinced progressive enhancement remains an important aspect in pushing the boundaries of the web while still providing a robust experience for every user.

What?

EDIT:

>Your HTML is not more accessible or more semantic when it’s rendered on the server.

IDIOT DETECTOR TO FULL POWER. It is by definition more accessible if it doesn't require Javascript to render.
Accelerators are actually a terrible business because you only make money if you get a big hit (which most won't), and even then it can take 10 years or more to realize the gains. I predict most will disappear in the next 5 years.
> It's your civic duty to answer the door.

If and only if I can reasonably expect that the officer at the door is competent and adequately prepared to perform whatever task he is present to perform.

If an officer comes to the door, then -effectively- locks me out of my own house for an hour+ because he failed to prepare for the possibility that I would refuse to permit a warrantless search of my property, then his incompetence has done me a serious injury. (Especially if I have an urgent need to urinate!)

I am under absolutely no obligation to -as a courtesy- permit the police to waste my time with their incompetence. There is a system that every taxpayer pays for that provides at least a cursory double-check of an officer's search plan, and provides written certification that said plan has been approved. If an officer CBA to get such a certification and announce that he has one in his possession when he knocks at my door, I CBA to waste my time while he locks me out of my home for the time it takes him to get the certification that he should have gotten before he ever made the trip to my place.
Could easily be explained by these bills originating with ALEC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
Ask HN: Why does programming language syntax vary?
I've spent time learning Python, R, Matlab, and a few of the traditional languages (C, Fortran, a few others. However, I'm no kind of language expert by any means! One thing that has confused me while learning languages is that while the conceptual ideas of a language, like control flow, stay the same between languages, syntax is varied and changes a lot.

I see the amount of effort that goes into development of languages and am surprised at the duplication effort that is required.

Will we ever arrive to a point where syntax between languages is constant, and the compiler is what changes? Where a computer science course can point to an example of a while statement--and that while statement is valid anywhere?
Advertisements are very localized some one from Thailand will not see ads in many cases which are aimed at say US buyers neither would Germans, and in most cases not even Brits, Australians or even Canadians.
Could be anyone. ALEC pushed "model legislation" to "great" effect (see castle doctrine, others) but other groups do it, too. See http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/05/lawm..., among others.
IIRC his number is $2-3mm ARR after 24 months bootstrapped in SaaS at the lowest end.
You should treat disease transmission vectors as subsets :

air > contact > sharing food/toilet facilities > sexual > blood

Any disease, say the flue, that can be transmitted by "sharing air" can be transmitted by contact, by sharing food, and sexually and blood transfusion (with very few exceptions)

They're subsets of one another. Sexually transmitted diseases are mostly that because they can't be transmitted any other way (other than sharing blood).

In fact a number of "sexually transmitted" diseases can't be transmitted sexually at all. But apparently it's somewhat common for humans' sexual organs to develop scratches during sex, resulting in blood mixing. So a number of sexually transmitted diseases cannot in fact be transmitted without exchange of blood. And euhm ... scratches are more common with anal or oral sex (sharp teeth near the relevant parts, I guarantee you there's 5 tiny bleeding scratches in your mouth right now, especially right after eating and/or stretching muscles and tissues beyond their normal limits ... leads to bleeding)

(this is not just true in humans, cats for instance are in fact much worse (due to the hook involved ... women might want to skip looking up what that means), when cats breed, you're pretty much guaranteed that you can find blood on the relevant parts. In fact, that is considered one of the signs that it's happened. Because scientists are not free to experiment on humans but are (more) free to experiment on cats we actually know more about disease transmission in pets and horses than we do about it in humans)
With HN data being provided by Firebase, why not leverage the realtime capabilities their service provides?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
You are suggesting what already exists, plus a guarantee. How does your guarantee change behavior? We already have the expectation of payoff for success, that's how we got to this point to begin with.
"Avast’s software kept tracking the phones after the other programs were cleared with a factory reset"

Does anyone know how that works?
Bitcoin Needs (Gasp) Formal Governance
A moderator just a hair left of your current moderation approach on the authoritarianism scale would "flag and remove" PG's entire recent article about income inequality with a note calling it "tedious ideological posturing."

Censorship is generally the territory of petty proceduralism, not grand political gesture.

"It matters much more whether the author is wrong or right than what his tone is."

That's a direct quote from PG. Take it for what you will.
HN is a terrible place for conversations about complex economic issues. Many comments seem to be both confused about basic concepts and trying to make political arguments. Not a recipe for enlightenment.
Not weird at all. Sacramento overall is very conservative.
When I've dabbled in C++ in the past, worrying about safety (does my custom trie implementation segfault? is this iterator still valid? can I trust the code I just vendored into my repo?) was the main source of complexity, both in initial writing of my code and in debugging it. Working in Rust has been a comparative (and simple) delight for me.
You only care about pinning when you fear that a third actor somewhere between your server and the end client might MitM the connection with a valid certificate.

If a third party controls your keys, certificate pinning is useless to prevent against attacks from that third party or governmental agencies.
You can opt out of some of them with _nomap (maybe not all). https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssid+nomap
I dunno.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Parsing JSON in Swift
> I don't think that anyone argues that it doesn't the value of an ad impression is directly tied to the purchasing power of the audience it's presented to.

Your editing errors aside, what else is there to say? Why are you still arguing? It makes no sense.
Self reply. /u/mcnape on Reddit sends some corrections:

1. TerraPower isn't solid state, but dynamically relocates fuel rods to achieve a "travelling wave".

2. Fuel isn't radioactive waste but depleted uranium, a form of uranium in abundant supply, as a byproduct of fuel processing.

Suggested references:

http://terrapower.com/pages/design

https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors/twr.html
Agreed. The Material Design refresh for Google Maps replaced a design that had clear affordances with a completely flat, static-looking view. I'm sure it looked great on some Powerpoint slide shown to the higher-ups at Google, but it was a disaster for actual usability.
Perfectly edited trailer mashup, looks exactly like a film
Harvard wants to de-emphasize test scores
> Also whats up with Indonesia? they have a GDP 4 times that of say Ireland, the individual income is still quite low but as far as Indonesia as a country goes they probably have bigger purchasing power than many European nations.

If you don't understand the difference between GDP and GDP per capita, I don't even know where to begin.
100% of the Brazilians I have met (I'm in the US) are middle class and above.

Also, as if by magic, 100% of them appear white (or mostly white), despite non-whites making up a large fraction of Brazil's population.

It's absurd to act like everything is great for racial minorities in Brazil.
It's even more unfortunate that the committees designing these protocols don't think this way. People with an identifier number tattooed on their arm don't walk around continually reciting it. In fact, they generally wear long sleeves.
That's what we take it to mean today. And sure it was used in a negative context as early as 1960, but was first used in 1906.

Remember historically most people where poor by our standards. Yes, the things that survive where of high quality, but a lot of junk did not make it. Consider what a 'sod' roof meant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_roof#/media/File:Norskfolk...

Now picture such a thing without modern materials to keep dirt from falling on you. Granted, the floor is often hard pack dirt anyway and done well it's ok. But, again poor and minimally trained.

PS: Sure, if you where rich or competent you could go beyond that standard and there was plenty of high quality stuff made. But, the average farm house, private trail, foot bridge etc... was crap.
i seriously can't even believe you're asking this. i'll start with a real easy one for you.

how about being called a chink while walking down the street?

how about needing to be not just significantly better than the overall population, but specifically better than other asians at literally everything to even be considered for an elite school or job?

how about a 'comedian' openly saying everyone of your race has a small dick, and hearing mocking chingchong fake language, right on the stage at a comedy club, like you're not sitting right there? oh, and of course everyone laughing their ass off.

how many asian males have you seen on american tv? how many of the depictions even remotely positive, or even just neutral? and is this number something you can count to with the fingers on a single hand?

do you not think that the systematic, deliberate exclusion of an entire race of males from basically ALL media is not at least a little bit strange? do you think this is done on accident? it's not.

this one is at least getting better - asian men get to exist in the same reality as asian women now. i think even white people were beginning to feel uncomfortable that only asian females exist in the reality portrayed on screen.

you've seen very little racism toward asians because you're not asian and you probably can't even identify it when it happens because you think it's normal.
The reason Android is the only viable competitor is because they're an illegal monopoly, and they're under investigation for it in several countries.

Hardware manufacturers would be better off with their own platform than forking Android. Because Android's built that way. Between proprietary APIs apps are built on, and Google having a chokehold over the primary distribution channel for apps, forking leaves a manufacturer with almost nothing to go on. The only thing they gain is a loss: They don't control the development direction of the platform.

Meanwhile, OEMs have to bear the cost of deploying software updates, even if they're to fix Google's security mistakes. When Stagefright went out, any of the few devices that got patched, that cost the OEMs money. Why isn't Google paying the burden of all of that development and deployment? It's their screw up! OEMs signed a deal with the devil on Android, and now they're in a situation where they have no way to escape. Dropping Android means financial ruin, but sticking with it means they can't do anything without Google's approval.
Ask HN: How to Donate to Charity Through API
Does anyone know of a good service or plan of attack for donating to charity through a REST API?

I'm writing an Amazon Lambda job that will run every week, check how days that week I committed to GitHub, and charge me money if I'm not keeping up with my goal. I could just have it send me angry emails or something, but I think having real money on the line will keep me motivated.

I don't want to have money go to waste or anything, so I think a nice use of it would be to give it to a charity. However, I haven't yet found an easy way to go about this. Has anyone faced a similar challenge and found a good solution? Most everything I've found is about solutions for the charities themselves, which isn't what I'm going for.
This is great. When I go to the new page, one of the first things I look for is articles where a conversation is just starting. This makes it really easy to see which submissions are starting to get some attention.
Airbnb is a tool for landlords, hotels claim
I'm following the premises of inequality mongers and deriving logically a conclusion that disagrees with their mood affiliation.

Do you disagree with the premise that local inequality is worse than global?
GBPUSD+Threatens+More+Recovery+Pressure+On+Recovery
> Who hires people to work in theorem provers, or using languages allowing proofs alongside code?

The military, aerospace industry and once in a while the medical industry will require provable code. Certain components need to be validated by frameworks like SPARK written in Ada. F* and Idris are pretty close to real-world usable in the capacity you're referring to. Those and ATS are probably the most 'real world' other than Ada/Spark. Other than that it's mostly universities and research facilities.

Another Microsoft Research project (I've said it once, I'm going to say it a million times more - hate on them all you want - it's not Google, Facebook, or Apple that's the Bell Labs of our generation - it's Microsoft) has a formal C verifier[1] which is paired in Z3, but I'm not sure if you could enforce an invariant like ensuring only a certain type of memory fragmentation. This Microsoft Research paper[2] strangely enough might be relevant re: memory alloc guarantees.

Other than that,'who hires people' ? Universities (INRIA of OCaml/Coq/Smalltalk Pharo fame probably at the forefront, that Swiss uni likely second edit: ETH Zurich is apparently ranked significantly higher than Jusseiu, mea culpa) Institutions like the Max Planck and Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK tend to hire people in a purely research-for-the-sake-of-research capacity which is exceedingly rare in the climate of only-think-about-this-quarters-profitability. I think JetBrains was doing some work with MPS that was really interesting though not quite in the vein of formal verification.

[1] https://vcc.codeplex.com/
[2] A Precise Yet Efficient Memory Model For C. Ernie Cohen, Michał Moskal, Wolfram Schulte, Stephan Tobies. 4th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV2009).
> Amazon is taking billions a year, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the people who make that possible should see some of that.

Amazon has never made a significant profit and never paid dividends. AFAICT, the people who made Amazon's billions possible (including non-labor costs like suppliers and real estate) have seen pretty much all of it.
> That said this is "somewhat" mitigated with local ad partners. People from Indonesia will receive ads that are provided by local ad partners and while their spot will still be considerably cheaper this is regional pricing rather than pure valuation.

You are either stupid or drunk. Cheers!
Casualties of the Kremlin: insane list of Russain political assassinations
The interesting thing is that by letting it sit in a bank account they really are throwing a bone to the employee. Not their employees in particular, but all users of US currency (which is the sort of people their employees are) are wealthier by X if a corporation hordes X, under the quantity theory of money.
All this time I thought it was a big mystery why there's more matter than anti-matter, but now you're telling me we've known this whole time that the rules were different between them? All we're waiting for is to find out what specific processes made it work out? I've always gotten this breathless "how could it be?" impression when people talk about that issue.
I do not understand how YC is anything at all like Paypal.
The "shall" wording is going to keep this in courts for years, even if it does pass.

Shall is the source of more litigation than any other single word in the English language. It can always be debated because no one knows if it reliably means "can", "must", "may", "might", "will", "should", "ought to", or "is allowed to".

All the above uses can be supported with evidence. Because language evolves.

It's killer word for any law or contract and guaranteed to be disputed.

I am not a lawyer, btw.

But if this somehow passes, it will get tossed because of the wording.
Seems like its what Redux/React is doing at the moment with server side rendering

http://rackt.org/redux/docs/recipes/ServerRendering.html

On server request, render the first snapshot of a React app into pure HTML and send it out, and then that HTML snapshot uses a script tag to get the actual JS file of the react app.
I am from the Southwest and it is not very diverse compared to SV. Having a lot of Latinos doesn't make a place diverse.

There are tons of Latinos and tons of Whites in Arizona. Not much of anything else.
> Where would the knowledge of this phenomena be stored?

Brian Krebs appears to have a local police force that knows how to perform this witchcraft: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for... :) Search for the 'graph that starts: "I informed the responding officers that this was a hoax" and read through the one that starts: "One of the officers asked if it was okay to enter my house, and I said sure."
The main problem with Web design, I'm increasingly convinced, is that Browser Defaults Suck.

Seriously: if Motherfucking Website, (or Better Motherfucking Website) were the defaults, we'd be ahead of the game. A few other hacks (use "http { font-size: medium }" for example, to default to the user's preferred font size) to further address that.

I'm looking for a browser that defaults to Reader Mode by default. Maybe including comments.
CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'
Interesting...nice list of plug-ins...

Good luck!
Side notes on European "uses" of mummies in 16th / 17th centuries . . . "mummy brown" is a paint originally made with substances + ground-up-mummy-corpses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown) . . . people ate mummy-flesh-based concoctions as medicine (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...).
It's interesting that Yegge places Clojure into the 'conservative' camp whereas the author of this post places it into his equivalent of the 'liberal' camp. Personally, I think that says more about Yegge than the author of this piece, but I suspect that it might also say that the distinctions that each is making might be subtly different.
The cheap beer I mentioned was Yuengling, which is definitely not for slobs =)
The Gruesome History of Eating [Mummy] Corpses as Medicine
Hi there I found a character rendering issue.

HN front page:
"Why do people keep coming to this coupleâs home ..."

HNLive front page:
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If you wanted both a platform and an OSS approach why not just deploy something like ghost:

https://ghost.org

I like supporting OSS business models that allow me to host my own platform or just post my content to their hosted version of said platform.
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1335134/youtube-k...
Huh. Really surprised this isn't about Kandinsky. His short little texts on theory are gloriously impenetrable.
I think wealth is a very natural thing to tax. The state creates and guarantees to protect a property right in land/personal effects/corporate equity/etc. In return, it taxes you 1-2% of the value of that property right each year.
Since economics touches our every day lives so often, people often think they have a lot to say on the subject but underestimate how little they know. Imagine if you got the same group of people with the same educational background from HN together (college-educated, usually, but not a specialist) and had them debate unsettled questions in geology or astrophysics. Surely not a single original or useful insight would come of it unless an actual geologist or astrophysicist happened to stop by, and I think economics is closer to those subjects than some people realize.
I don't use heroin any more.
I wrote some posts on using ATS and interfacing with C if you want to dig further into it https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/
Great question!
I'd actually like to take one step back and would love to see AI assist with the data cleansing. The actual analysis with BI seems to be getting easier and easier already, especially since the bigger players are stepping in and competition is increasing day by day. If you have enough money you can get a tool to slice and dice the data anyway you want. But even if you have a big budget, cleaning up the data is always really hard. The number of people I've spoken to that say the data cleansing is the most nightmare bit tells me this is a huge and lucrative problem begging to be solved.
Wow, this is awesome for my needs.
Why do you even need our emails? Marketing later?
He'll try it once....refusing to comply with a sobriety test means the loss of a license for a year in most states.
Glio (YC S13) Is Hiring Rails Engineers in Brazil
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Our main practices include:

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The two things you need if you want to make a great impression
SportOn – Sports Messaging Now Available on iOS and Android
Agreed, it's almost universally better for young people. With families I would argue the US has higher cost of living though (education costs mostly).
That's the most unexpected and off-the-wall Godwin I've ever seen.