skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a social signal, not a cause-and-effect relationship. You are not establishing that some quality of being an idiot causes someone to have poor grammer, you are saying that the ought to know their grammar “just because.”

Your argument reminds me of the argument that someone ought to wear a suit and tie to work: There is no excuse for not knowing that a suit and tie is what people wear to work, and anyone who doesn’t do so is not fit to work here.
Why is it I have no problems eating shrimp or lobster, but the thought of insects disgusts me? Shrimp and lobster are crustaceans which are arthropods just like insects.
I've tried a couple of times to keep an actual paper journal. Every attempt fell flat after within the second or third week. Even online attempts with tools like Google Docs, didn't hold out.

Last year (8 days short of exact) I started using the OhLife.com service. Oh Life will email you everyday at a set time of your choosing. All you do is reply to the email with your entry, you can even add a photo, and they store it away.

The emails also come with excerpts from past entries. E.g. "Two weeks ago you wrote...". (You can turn this off) Finally, the service comes with export features when you care to leave.

If you don't feel like writing anything for the day, just delete the email. When you get the next one tomorrow you can pick right back up. I still don't hit every day but I consistently at least recap the events in a week.

You can probably directly correlate the length of my entries with how stressed out I am about something in my life. My reason for starting a journal is to slow down and reflect upon things when otherwise things are just too crazy. It helps both at the time of writing, and later if I care to read through things again with a clear mind. When you're stressed out you can do all manner of irrational things when you're not thinking things through clearly.

Since starting, I've also picked up on writing about the pleasant things in my life. E.g. fun nights out with my gf and friends, vacations, funny things at work. Even when things seem dull and boring I'll at least throw it into a weekly recap.
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Because everybody can clearly read the trendlines. Including the executives mentioned in the article, who won't say it in public, but they know what's going on.
ABC News has been saying these protest started peacefully and then turned violent by other groups.
I agree as well, it would be great :)
That's probably because it's heathly. People in rice-eating regions, for example, typically ingest significant numbers of rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) larvae, and this has been suggested as an important source of vitamins.[37] ...

3.1.2 Wheat flour shall be free from abnormal flavours, odours, and living insects. 3.1.3 Wheat flour shall be free from filth (impurities of animal origin, including dead insects) in amounts which may represent a hazard to human health.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's The Food Defect Action Levels booklet.[39] Contamination on the average of 150 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of wheat flour, or below poses no health hazard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
While in the US I've seen devices that have a SIM card and WiFi. I don't remember if it was Verizon or not, though. It could be that you use one of these ?

Or you insert the SIM card into the notebook itself ? If yes, would be curious to know which OS is it - I remember seeing that Windows grouped the 3G and WiFi connection settings into the same dialog, but since I do not use windows at all nor have a laptop h/w which would grok a SIM card, can't check.

And the theory you describe with the same SSID - indeed that would be very much possible to pull off. Assuming there is a nation-wide standardized SSID, it could easily trick people into connecting to it.
An excellent example of Muphry's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
This is because all kindles in mainland Europe all have
(edit) AT&T SIMs in them. It costs Amazon SIGNIFICANTLY more for you to use whispernet, because you are constantly roaming. The reason you pay the tax if you buy it on something other than the kindle itself is because at some point you could sync it on to your kindle, though archived items.
M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000 years
What is the difference between unit tests and integration tests?
> Crickets, for example, convert feed to body mass about twice as efficiently as pigs and five times as efficiently as cattle.

So, with about the same efficiency as chicken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
he mentions CDMA, so I guess it's WiMax
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No, but it's more trouble to parse.

More importantly, I think it's fair to ask that people learn basic grammar, and if we don't take it upon ourselves to insist on seeing correct grammar, then that will never happen. That's why I think being a so-called grammar nazi is important. Now, being a dick about it is a different matter, but somehow people think you're a dick regardless if you try to correct their spelling/grammar, so there's only so much that can be done there.

That said, there are definitely some levels of pedantry that can be varied. For example, I tend not to be too put off by it's/its. There/their/they're, however, is annoying for me, because the words themselves have such monumentally different meanings. Same deal with fair/fare. Then/than is annoying to me because I actually pronounce them (subtly) differently, so as I'm internally reading the words, it throws me even more.

Overall, I'm really agreeing with you -- I don't think there is serious potential for misunderstandings. And indeed, a good point made with grammatical mistakes is more important than a correctly-made bad one. But a good point made in `proper' English is, I think, better than a good point made in `bad' English.
My household just cancelled our basic satellite service last week because of AppleTV+iTunes+Netflix.

Our reasoning was this: Netflix lets us have the "background noise" programs that we don't really care about for $8/mo and it has a big enough catalog that it's worth it. We can purchase everything else from iTunes and at our rate of "new show consumption", the $60/mo is better spent being put towards iTunes purchases where it's ad-free, on demand, and able to be moved to devices. For TV shows, that's about 15-20 episodes a month purchased without affecting our previous budget. In practice, we don't watch half that many new shows so we'll be saving around $30/month and building a catalog of content that we semi-own where the value increases the longer we use it. Cable/Sat services don't build on themselves like that. Plus, the AppleTV runs at 6 watts where the satellite receiver ran at 10x that, we might even see a lower electric bill.

Households that live for watching TV aren't going to be swayed that easily, but they're easily spending twice as much too.
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Just wondering if/why doesn't YC display a listing of their current incubator startups, I'd really like to look through them and see what they're all about! I'm sure there's some reasoning behind this, thoughts?
For restaurants that want more than a one page site, some customization opportunity, easy to generate html menus, etc. a new company called Theme Force is offering a hosted service that uses WordPress as a backend. I've done a demo of it and written about the company, and it's a solid solution: http://theme-force.com

The about.me style sounds like a good idea as well, for those that want a super low budget, no frills site. But a menu would be nice, even on something like that.
> People don't smash things just because they want to. There's a reason, even if you disagree with it and think it's unjust.

14-18 year old punks do exactly that... smash things just because they want.
Precisley.

It might not be an exact science, but it reflects somewhat on existing and future recruits, not to mention an indicator of corporate bureaucracy.
funny story, there was an android SW upgrade on verizon that weekend. i was halfway across the world and i accepted. i guess i'm boned! :( powerful mitm
No, I certainly do mean to regard matrices as a special case of vectors. While it's true that one rarely needs more than 3 dimensions to their array, I see no point in setting an upper limit.
I thought that's what the "ask" link at the top is for?
Maybe it's just a case of this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
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The problem with this one is that at one point in the English language's history (17th/18th century I believe), the correct possessive form of "it" was "it's", which is arguably more correct^.

^You make nouns possessive by adding a saxon genitive to signify the distinct possessive-izing "s" sound. The word "it" is also made possessive with this same sound when spoken, but for the sake of a contraction (read: abomination ;)), we have decided to arbitrarily remove the saxon genitive and replace it with a simple "s". The excuse for this inconsistency is "well it is a pronoun, not a noun, so this is not an inconsistency" does not take into account that English is a language primarily spoken. Written English, where reasonably possible, should approximate the spoken constructs.

Demonstration:

He stepped on the cat*'*s tail.
He stepped on its tail.

Notice that although these two sentences are expressing the same idea and are of the same approximate form (they would be spoken similarly), the second has dropped the saxon genitive. This is clearly, if you look at it ignoring what you were taught in primary school thanks to Webster worship, an absurd change.

At the very least, people who use saxon genitives with the word "it" do not deserve the ridicule people like to heap on them. "it's"/"its" is not a "there"/"their"/"they're" scenario.
It's less rampent than that article suggests. It's natural for ~5% more boys to be born the girls. Still, China and India are both significantly above that ratio.
Amazing infographic on people spending money habbits
It's undoubtedly true that you'll face some prejudice as a minority in the UK. However I would imagine if you have better qualifications than the other candidates most of the time you'll get the job.

I would say in the UK race and class both incur a noticeable handicap. Just not an overwhelming one.
www.topchan.tv is developed for people to seek alternative video content. Below are some examples of video not on the traditional TV.

The Game channel http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/10 has game play recordings and streaming.

The VLOG channel http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/12 has video blogs from people on Youtube.

The TED channel http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/264 has the TED presentations.
I am aware of what "attack surface" means and stand by my claim that anonymous, having done nothing novel so far, will not find attacks against facebook.
Something like an automated resume / CV generator would be a great feature for a site like Linked In, or perhaps Monster.com.
(Non native english speaker)
isn't the verb "to go TO" and the whole sentence: "Do you know where we're going TO?"
Building a JS front end only makes sense to me if you're leveraging a complete UI kit on the client side to ease handling of commonly-encountered UI problems: sortable, filterable, lists; autocomplete; tokenized inputs; etc.

The hassle of building a custom UI and event strategy without a pre-packaged UI kit seems like a recipe for headaches, but that may be a function of my own limitations in Javascript. I've tried it in Backbone and in Sproutcore 2 beta 2. Both are very promising, but I found myself dealing with so many common UI use cases that I really wished for plug-and-play UI kit modules.

Also, the online community for JS frameworks so young that it's hard to find other people's solutions. For instance, I wanted to hook into devise to authenticate users and store the current_user on the client-side. I ended up making my own solution, with no guidance from google. As a self-taught developer working alone on a few projects, I always feel better when I can at least find a random gist of another solution, if for no other reason than to see if I've missed a feature of the framework in my solution. Given how incredibly useful these JS frameworks are for imposing some structure and convention, I expect the online guidance to improve drastically over the coming year.
First, most of the serious arson and crime in these riots seems to be committed by adults.

> 14-18 year old punks do exactly that... smash things just because they want.

Second, if that's the case then why aren't 14-18 year olds smashing things daily in California? And Tokyo? And all over the world? The question is why England? Why right now? Why not two weeks ago?

Those are valid questions to ask, and searching for answers is a useful activity. It will reveal knowledge about humans, help us build better societies in the future.

Ignoring all causes and blindly, ignorantly saying that people smash things "just because" is just as dumb as the people smashing things.
Wireshark or some other packet sniffer can be used to sniff the packets. From the packets you'll get a pretty big clue what's going on. If it's a connection-oriented protocol, you'll be able to trace back to the source ports with lsof, but for this use case often just a glance at what's coming out will be enough to give it away.
I was talking about people who just don't really know English very well (but well enough to communicate on some level)
For non-native speakers these captchas would be easy. These are very basic things we tend to learn very well when we first start learning english.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ad_hominem#Ty...
I use Gerrit at work and I do not recommend it to anyone. It's a half-assed tool that essentially turns Git into something that's worse than tarballs, diff+patch and an e-mailing list. The Gerrit UI is horrible, it can handle only one patch changes (worse than pull requests) and every time you upload a new patch, all your previous review comments are hidden with the old version of the patch.

Gerrit (and Android's repo) are based on cherry-picking and rebasing, not branching and merging. They will turn your history into a mess in any non-trivial setting. It also doesn't support Git submodule trees.

What the original article author wants is some kind of security. Git's way of doing that is GPG signatures.

My advice: if you have a choice, do NOT use Gerrit for anything. GitHub is gazillion times better.

(note: we might not be using the latest version of Gerrit, however it's so bad that I don't think a new version will help)
"Then" is correct, isn't it? The statement is an if-then statement. Am I wrong?
Darcus Howe was a very well known agitator in the 1980s and served time for assaulting a police officer.

As soon as he's backed into a corner he plays the "negro" card, he knows fully well how to manipulate the BBC.
I think LINQ is a special case of a monad comprehension. Syntax checked, type checked, composeable query languages (of which the "Structured" Query Language is only one example) are good things.

So far everywhere where I might have been tempted to use a Maybe monad comprehension, applicative functors were more clear anyhow.
Well, Mexico is a place where you can find places to eat insects fairly easily. Like "chapulines" (grasshopers)from Oaxaca. They are very crunchy and tasty. ;)

The mexicas (from prehispanic era) used to have a variety of insects in their menu.

Here you can find a table with a list of some of the species currently included in people's diet: http://entomologia.net/idolina.htm

It's in Spanish, but they have the scientific order and family name.
But it isn't speculation[1], he's organised riots[2]. Darcus Howe is a far-left ex-Black Panther who sees nearly everything through colour[3]. If you take a moment to read his columns you'll see recurring themes about how black people are treated. Take it with a massive rock of salt.

[1] - http://www.internationaltimes.it/index.php?year=1971&vol...

[2] - http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/08/brixton-and-the-ri...

[3] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4360054.stm
I understand (and appreciate) that part of HN's brand/allure is how simple and pared-down it is, but I think we can make room for this tab--it would be a great service to the community this site was built for. Right?
Similar experience here, except that I've solved similar issues (and far more complicated issues) with DTrace instead of strace. The range of information that DTrace can retrieve about a running application surpasses anything that strace can retrieve. DTrace can retrieve information on a systemic scale, whereas each strace instance operates on a single process. And the overhead is significantly lower with DTrace.

For many of the systems applications I design for Illumos, I've used DTrace probes as a way of logging very frequent events, on demand (to avoid frequent IO). All of the events that _must_ be logged for the application to function properly, are logged and fsync'd.

I think that in most systems dynamic tracing will eventually replace a significant portion of the logging functionality that people code into their applications.

Either way, if you think strace is sweet, give DTrace a spin.

Some helpful links:

[0] A video demostration of DTrace, by the creator of DTrace.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chLw2aodYQ

[1] A post I wrote, demonstrating DTrace. Similar posts can be found on the blog's dtrace-addict page.

[1] http://nickziv.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/adventures-of-a-dtra...

[2] A wiki that contains DTrace examples for various languages and system facilities. Some examples may be Illumos-centric.

[2] http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/DTrace_Topics

[3] DTrace's home. Contains blogs by the engineers behind DTrace.

[3] http://www.dtrace.org

UPDATE:
Meant to reply to parent's parent.
Pretty much, yes. But it's not just easier, it's also simpler. If you do the distribution at the DNS level (which is pretty much as low as you can go), you don't have to deal with the much messier geo-distribution on a higher level.
There's still one thing missing from the non-cable services: live sports.
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Neither:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
True. Without defending the reporter, as I have my own opinion about the interview, it isn't a bad thing that she tries to challenge his view of the situation to get more information, but the way she does it seems forced and coercive, trying to almost pin him as "one of them" without saying it directly.

Edit: I've also read about his past, as a few other people have responded to your comment linking to some of his history as an activist. That's a whole different ballgame from the one I was originally talking about, which is responsible journalism.
I am very good at failing standard captchas on many sites.

I always blamed Captchas as being to hard and not user friendly.

This title got me wondering - maybe it was by design, and I am an idiot.
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Exactly right. These disaffected young people clearly feel that they are not a part of society, so they're just going to take from it what they can whilst they can. I'm not saying it's justified, just that that's how it is.

Now the reason for them feeling that way is at least partially the fault of our society, and we need to ask ourselves some deeper questions on why this happens. To do otherwise and to just call them "yobs" is sticking your head in the sand.

And have you seen the pictures of the police kicking the crap out of some boy whilst he's on the ground? How can the police possibly justify that? He's on the ground! You've got him! Well done! NOW - Just arrest him!
Your argument is overdetermined. If that were the case--if there are no underlying causes except evil people burning things for the lulz--then why now?

Why isn't it a constant presence in every society that has evil people?

Indeed, why hasn't it been a constant presence in England until a few days ago?

Going further, if it's only happening in England now because people have become evil, why did they become evil at this particular point in time?
I've the feeling that when you're speaking in a foreign language, you are more careful than in your own language.
Maybe it's language thing, but I make ton of typos in French (double consonants, en/an, or/hors), and I can correct native English speaking people on stuff like your/you're.
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Told you so a year ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118012
If you don't want to hear from anyone who isn't a pedantic, highly literate writer in English, that's your prerogative.

I, however, wish my Web had more input from illiterate people. There are a lot of them -- the majority of the world, an overwhelming majority when you restrict yourself to the English language. They have lives, thoughts, and stories too. And if it weren't for recorded music, oral historians, and the occasional documentary they'd be completely invisible in our media.

Of course, the average comment thread on the web is a terrible way to interact with the literate and the illiterate alike. ;)
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I'm thinking vegetarian options are not necessarily more eco-friendly than this solution, which is 10-100 times more efficient than pigs. Factory-grown bugs take little room. The corn around here (I'm in Iowa) take up 96% of the land surface of the state.

Organic vegetables take up - more ecosystem. More passes thru the field to baby them, more loss to insects etc so less yield. And they are labor-intensive so load them with the cost of raising the humans that tend them. Humans are Really eco-unfriendly, especially when used as laborers.
Thanks for the clarification. I've just never heard anyone be as specific about it as you, and I appreciate it. Almost everyone (non-financial sites and reports) considers it all "cash" and reports it as such.
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Mine has it built in, and it's a Windows netbook. The wifi and 3g are indeed grouped together and the name is pretty standardized, and I am pretty sure other 3g providers might offer the same standardization of their naming schemes.

Additionally, there are times my 3g connection does not show up correctly and I have to initiate it by dialing out (#777 I believe) as if it's a modem - but if the SSID of a wifi connection were there I could see someone who was not fully paying attention to click on that by accident when the default one does not show up right away.
I will agree with the others. Non-native speakers (such as myself) tend to pronounce the words more carefully, thus they don't confuse them as often.

In my head, "then" and "than" sound totally different. Same with "they're", "their", and "there", "loose" and "lose", etc.
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Yes it is, but the post was edited. It used 'than' before.
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I had no idea that some people like to code standing up; why is this? (Genuine curiosity, someone enlighten me please :))
silverbax88 originally used "than"
You don't always need causation, sometimes correlation is enough.

EDIT: To clarify, it doesn't have to be that stupidity causes bad grammar, but if bad spellers are likely to be bad commenters, that's all you need.
The CurVe package for latex does exactly this.