skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked this up, because I was confused about what authority deemed this part of the English language a "grammatical mistake". Meriam Webster notes

>Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear, but until comparatively recent times it was found chiefly in scientific or technical writing rather than belles lettres. Our current evidence shows a slight shift in usage: sense 3 is somewhat more frequent in recent literary use than the earlier senses. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.

So it's not even an issue of grammar, it's just a meaning of "comprised" that some people reject. And it's a usage which is clear, widely used, and doesn't have logical issues (like "could care less"). Go figure.
Your certainly write, it wouldn't of mattered for most readers.
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Vikings, the TV series, has nothing to do with Iceland.

So it has not boosted our national pride. The thing is that the 'Ásatrúarfélagið' has always been quite visible over here. I've always seen it as a "rebel"-religion over here.

EDIT: after writing this I realize your comment was probably sarcastic :)
Isaac Asimov took a 30ish year break between the original Foundation trilogy and the sequels/prequels. And I thought that was a long break!
Compared with what I know from Xerox PARC documentation and what I self experienced in Oberon and Visual Works Smalltalk, shells are like REPLs yes, but not quite.

It is a very different experience when the shell (e.g. Transcript in Smalltalk) is capable of interacting with the whole OS.

For example in Cedar, which Oberon copied, any public function/procedure exported by dynamic libraries can be used in the shell via modulename.function.

Depending on their signature they act on REPL text input, the active selected graphical element or some other OS element.

While this can kind of be emulated on an UNIX shell, it breaks down that there isn't an OS wide standard API to bring everything together.
I feel like the vast majority of people that bash on MongoDB didn't fully understand it and what it was good for when they tried it. We've been using it in production for nearly 3 years in online games and have had nothing but good experiences with it. This 3.0 release will be yet another big step forward and we are excited to reap the continued benefits.
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Took me about 4 tries before anything went through.
"To comprise" is differs subtly in meaning, too.

It implies encompassing or comprehending, not just being the sum of these parts. It places the whole above its constituents. Insisting on using it as a perfect but "smarter" synonym for "to be composed of" is poor writing and contributes to what may be the eventual loss of that word and, with it, our ability to succinctly express that notion, for no useful purpose.
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I agree, this is the first thing that jumped out at me when I was looking at the landing page. I don't know of quantitative evidence that this sort of thing causes harm, but I don't see any harm in mixing it a bit.
Dell went private for this reason, I think this is great that companies realize that there are a number of ways to contribute to economy while creating meaningful progress.
It seems that current IPO/VC based culture is similar to fast food culture of a ton of sugar, carb and fat that cannibalizes stability for quick energy/endorphin hit.
Thank you for the feedback. You are right that it's a rough idea at the moment; I wanted to get some thoughts on it before investing too much time and energy into it. A little bit more effort wouldn't hurt though.

My intention was to keep it reasonably close so you'd start at one spot and then would be directed to more generic spots in the areas like "a coffee shop". However, I see your point about going out of their way to participate which would definitely kill the game especially in locales where getting to the place is difficult (parking, mass transit, etc...).

To make the game successful, it needs a good, engaging story. I think that answers to your final two questions are answered by "the story" which I recognize is a pretty big assumption but not insurmountable.
If anyone wants the linux kernel on their wall : https://commits.io/builds/88548595a3c (or at least a chunk of it)

I find this service a bit expensive for something that can be made in 10 minutes with illustrator - maybe if I get fantastic glossy paper, but it doesn't seem to mention much about the paper specs.
"As a recent dad, I have found no real replacement for all the religious holidays part of my culture."

As an older dad, raised by non-denominational parents, you have a categorical error if you think chopping down pine trees, standing in line on black friday, and getting drunk watching football on TV are biblical in nature. (edited to add, we do that stuff for "fun", not because jesus told us)
Still I cant believe it. 150 rs/Month wage is history of 2-3 decades ago. Since 95-98 wages have been increased a lot. Atleast 100rs per day.
> About 8 million English Wikipedia articles are visited every hour, yet only a tiny fraction of readers click the ‘edit’ button in the top right corner of every page. And only 30,000 or so people make at least five edits per month to the quickly growing site.

You know, I used to make edits all the time. I stopped doing it because every single one was reverted. I'm willing to accept that maybe a few of the edits were possibly incorrect, but I know for sure most of them were correct. And yet the "owners" of the page are so uppity that they revert them anyway, so I gave up.
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>For me as a not to DB savvy developer it was easy to start developing and administrating

This point is repeatedly made about mongo, php and so on: to me it sounds like "This gun is so easy to use, it allows me to start spraying bullets around with no training and no knowledge of how it works!" or "This car is so simple I can go 150mph on the freeway the first time I got behind the wheel!"

Databases are massively powerful systems and they are used almost exclusively for business applications and matters of import. Why is "I can use it to make long-term consequential actions without any idea wtf I'm doing!" a plus point?
> Language is comprised of rules that change over time. If everyone understands a sentence, how can it be incorrect?

In the case of misuses of "comprise" like yours, because everyone doesn't understand it: when the phrase "is comprised of" is used, its not clear if the meaning is "is composed of" or "includes", which indicates a potentially non-exhaustive listing of constituents, or "comprises", which indicates an exhaustive listing of constituents.

The preservation of clear, distinct, and precise uses improves the ability to communicate ideas. Truly, language usage evolves over time, but it evolves due to the aggregation of choices people make, and those choices can improve or hinder communication. It is good to make those choices with open eyes -- and to advocate for better choices and against worse ones.
Small teams generally not looking to pay someone to spend a long time configuring their tools. Configurability is good, but I'd rather have sensible defaults if I can only have one.
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Cool, but I don't have enough of an issue with my wifi to make the switch.

I'm also really skeptical of anything that calls itself "self-fixing". I have yet to see any tech get that right. Usually that just means "we obscured most of the settings you need to fix things away from you, hidden behind a fancy UI".
This reminded me of the ever-failing WiFi at conferences.

I wonder if anyone is working on a relatively easy to set up system that could be rented out to small conference organizers.
If you need a repeater somewhere well, like your laptop, your repeater isn't going to have a good connection with the base station. Most homes make it really hard to deploy WiFi properly, especially in the 5ghz band, I don't see how they are solving this. The only way is in-wall Ethernet and different access points, hopefully they also support that.
At my current job we use Jira and personally I think it's a pretty good product, at least for a SCRUM workflow. Definitely beats any similar tools I've used in the past. I think the scrum board looks clear, it's easy to create user stories and tasks and it's also easy to switch between an operational and strategic workflow.

We also use Confluence which also seems to do it's job properly as a wiki.

I'm personally considering using Jira for my own projects in the future.
90%? If you're willing to commute from Redwood City (15min CalTrain ride to MV, 35 minute CalTrain tride to SF), you'll be paying $1500-2000/mo for a 1br-2br/1ba. That comes to 24% of salary, and you'd be hard-pressed to spend more than another 6% on food.
> What world are you living on?

Before asking OP what world OP is living on, perhaps you should ask that of yourself before trolling others. This isn't reddit or Slashdot.

I would beg to differ that things getting worse. I would much rather live in a world where the Internet exists and information flows relatively freely than 50 years ago where information was controlled by a few world leaders. Living and work conditions sucked 100 years ago for many people. Things, on the whole, have gotten better.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a ploy by Iceland's official tourism bureau. They're quite savvy and very in tune with popular culture. Check out one of their official videos: http://vimeo.com/12236680. BTW, I've been to Iceland and it really is a cool place.
I'm of the ilk that grammar should for the most part be prescriptive while dictionaries should be descriptive. And this is actually not a grammatical problem but a semantic one.

"The book is composed of many pages"
"The book is comprised of many pages"

If one of these is incorrect, it can only be because of the meaning of the adjective phrase "comprised of". The actual structure of the sentence is fine.

In my opinion, I think either one is totally acceptable, as long as the meaning is clear.
A British SaaS named after a mountain in Switzerland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn

It seems Uber started a new hype repurposing German words. The opposite is happening in German speaking countries: "handy" for cell phone and "public viewing" for watching a live TV event on a projected wall.

Can one integrate his mailbox? Outlook and MS project server/Sharepoint are a good example, though there is room for improvements.
How a birthday gift for my friend started my iOS career
Even if it was legal, not sure IANAL, I don't think it would be very effective.
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Is "do magic" supposed to do anything? Site seems broken.
Just to add to the positive feedback - the problem statement of "people in different roles have different goals" spoke to me immediately. If you stay focused on solving that problem, and pull it off really well, this could be a great product! (I signed up, but haven't played with it yet.)
I have a lot of sympathy with this guy and his hopeless quest.
But when he says,
"It's illogical for a word to mean two opposite things",
surely he knows that never stopped anyone:
http://lee-phillips.org/literallyEgregious/
Positively "Stross-ian" :-)

(see the exploits of a certain fictional Bob Howard, former programmer)
As other comments in this thread have pointed out, Unitarianism is one such project. For a very different perspective read what some neoreactionary bloggers have written about repurposing Christianity as a founding myth to fuel a form of traditionalism compatible with a high-tech society. In this society you wouldn't necessarily have to believe in the myth to follow the rites and take part in the festivals, the benefit being the creation of a sort of a lowest common denominator of cultural unity (compare to Shinto in Japan). Unfortunately, I don't know of any master-post overview of their writing on the matter and I am not equipped to summarize it better than I already have.

For general design considerations for a "post-rationalist, post-nihilist" religion, however, I recommend http://www.moreright.net/postrat-religion/. I think you will find some insight in it
regardless of what your politics are. I especially like the idea of a "Truth-Myth barrier".
Biweekly, farther vs further, and so on. Many words have two completely disparate meanings, whether the meanings are formally accepted or not. It sucks. I don't know if one more word added to the list is such a big deal, given how big the list is.
You were just sentient for a minute. Don't worry. It'll pass.
The JIRA Agile defaults are ... okay.
This paper says the downlink uses a rate 1/6 forward ECC -- 6 encoded bits for every 1 message bit. From the context, the ~1 kbps figure should mean the information rate; the tone rate would be 6x higher.

6.3. DOWNLINK SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

The downlink card in each IEM is the exciter for the TWTAs
and encodes frame data from the spacecraft C&DH system into
rate 1/6, CCSDS turbocoded blocks.

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-fountain.pdf

and more details,

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~tcase/NH%20RF%20Telecom%20Sys%2...
"comprise" would be currently going through a transposition of meaning if English was an oral language. This should be perfectly fine and English would be the richer for it, i.e. we'd have a new useful way of 'aggrandizing a sentence' (as he mentions as a negative in his 6,000 word essay). Instead the 'hero' of this article is contributing to the fossilization and stagnation of the English language, making his case by appealing to etymology and notions of logicity [1] and precision more suited to a formal grammar. He specifically calls out its' novel usage (post 1970!) as being a negative.

I think his efforts are generally good, in so far as the phrase 'comprised of' might be a good signal that a new wikipedia contributer is trying to aggrandize their contributions over and above their knowledge, but I think he is misguided in dictating how language aught to be used.

[1] made up word, perfectly understandable
This is looking really nice, a big improvement on your initial release! The Cycle View is useful, it cuts down the time it takes to review jobs massively. Great work
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Legally, he should be permitted to beat people with a crowbar if they protest his edits.
It's possible for a sentence to be understandable, but still be jarring to read. His user page gives another example: "could of". If you see that phrase, you know what the author meant, but it interrupts the flow of reading. There's also the issue that an article (especially on Wikipedia) seems less credible when it contains spelling and/or grammatical errors. It gives the impression that the author wasn't careful when they wrote it, or that the article hasn't been widely reviewed by others.
Not every type of bacteria in your gut microbiome is known and/or able to be grown in culture.

As per your question regarding pro-biotics, some bacteria such as Lactobacilli can be dried and remain viable when reintroduced to a liquid medium.
There's a difference between evolution and mistakes. Otherwise why aren't we validating hundreds of extremely common spelling and usage (eg, "equivocate" when they mean "equate") mistakes? That's how the language is being used by native speakers, after all.

Then we really would be back in the 16th century.
What kind of edits did you make? I fix grammar and spelling stuff semi-regularly, along with sometimes more substantial edits, and haven't had that experience. Fairly often when I fix a typo, the author whose typo I'm fixing even clicks the "thank" button next to the edit. I recently had a minor hobby of tracking down a/an mixups, like "an member", and I got no flak for that.
That sounds like a deliberate dark pattern. Try to reload? Retweeted. Looking for something? Favorited.
You're both trading slogans and saying nothing. What "things" are bad / improving / getting worse? Access to shelter? Food? Medicine? Where?

Even anecdotes are better than this nonsense. Here's one for you: even the poorest people I know, those without regular shelter, have access to communication services that would've been prohibitively expensive a generation ago, allowing them to find assistance when "things" - lack of food and shelter, for instance - get really bad.
Thanks for the pony!

It's not just shipping costs. It's also the fact that doing business in a well-functioning first-world country is much easier than doing business in a third-world country.

Also, just declaring that Cambodian workers will get $7 an hour wouldn't just magically spill money into the workers. If the market wage is $1 an hour, a bulk of that difference is going to go into pockets of the people handing out the jobs via kickbacks.

An awesome solution that doesn't work in the real world isn't an awesome solution.
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Pretty sure the 'to' there is a part of an infinitive. Replace it with a gerund and it becomes clear: "Try reading it upside down" vs "Try to read it upside down".
I had the same problem when doing edits about a major uk festival - second is size to Notting Hill.

I used to run one of the main events (1000 participants and 200k Spectators) and was a co-opted member of the councill committe - The objecting wikapedian was some student from a european country who would have zero idea about what is notable in the UK
Funny. I thought he was talking about Java 8 for a while. We (eventually, when the rest of the stack catches up) get functors / lambdas, but:

* red = instance methods.

* blue = static methods, which cannot call an instance method.
Thanks for sharing this with HN :)
> Once something like that happens it's usually on the way to becoming grammatically correct,

I wouldn't call that correct. Just "accepted". Accepting inconsistent grammar makes it more difficult to communicate, not less so.
I don't think you're going to be able to do all that for < $150. Here's a pretty good website for that sort of stuff. http://diydrones.com/
"eero is the world’s first WiFi system. A set of three eeros covers the typical home. They connect to create an intelligent mesh network that blankets any size or shape home in fast, reliable WiFi"

There is another product Open-mesh which is a system which was before eero so this part of the FAQ needs to be updated.

Smart use of two radios though for the repeating stuff.
A guest project would be great for us EE learning-by-fiddling types :)
I used to cuss like a sailor until I started gaming with a group of Mormons. Very nice guys and very intelligent. Instead of saying 'fuck' they say 'frick', instead of 'shit' they so 'shoot', instead of 'damn' they say 'dang'. Next thing I knew I started noticing other people swearing, and just how juvenile it sounded. One could argue that truly speaking like a child is to have no restraint over what comes out of your mouth, not the other way around.
I am concerned about the implications for free speech. And I don't mean the freedom to say whatever I want as long as the FCC approves or that I don't piss off a large enough political constituency. If I start a blog to post pictures of Alah am I going to be shut down? What about forums that discuss illegal drug use? How long till the FBI, DEA, etc. petition the FCC to shut these sites down? What about sites like reddit that carry porn, post pictures of Alah AND discuss illegal drug use? I don't care about these sites but I do care about their right to run these forums and the participants right to discuss any issue openly, even socially unacceptable ideas.

Free speech is a political principle but people pay lip service to it because they don't understand it and how important it is to a free society. If FCC starts to regulate speech on the internet (i.e. actual censorship which only the government can practice) by defining acceptable content and shutting down websites for so-called "hate speech", requiring a government "blog" license, etc. then it is game over for our freedoms and the future of the country.
FWIW I've been in tens of countries and the only place which does not include taxing in the price was the US.

Regarding the other subject in your comment, I think this sort of initiative[0] by certain countries is definitely
commendable.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins#Price_rounding
So I heard this means it's webscale now?
Because if someone had asked "What if it lands in the shade?" before it actually landed in the shade, maybe this could have been prevented.
The Eero 3 pack is listed for pre-order at $299 and $125 per individual unit.

I can pick up a Ubiquiti UniFi 3 pack for $189 or individually for $64 at Amazon today.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EORRBW/ref=olp_product_...
Titan is dead:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/aureliusgraphs/c07WE...
Overall the .99 is not so spread in Europe (.95 is more common I guess).
The VAT is included in the retail price by law within the entire EU. VAT is state global but it might have different rates for certain products or services (like books, baby food, hotel) in some countries.

Most people visiting the US would consider the hidden tax unfair.

About switching from one currency to another, in most countries the effective prices rose. Some notable recent exceptions are Estonia and Latvia where the previous prices (resp. in Krona and Lats) were kept on the price tags by law for months past the switch.
Would you be so dismissive if the overridden key were Ctrl-W?
This has been going on for over fifty years. McDonalds replaced diners with standardized food and processes. WallMart replaces smaller stores, often locally privately owned. Through efficiency and standardization they decrease the amount of labor needed and in particular the skill of labor needed.

The mobile web lets you standardize mobile services (like delivery and taxis) and replace small companies owned by middle class people with leaner, larger, public ones.
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Dell went private because the other option was Michael losing control of his baby and it being broken up into pieces and sold.
I think a reporting system could solve that problem. Classify potential changes, and force human eyes before approving all but the most minor updates
You're completely correct, but when the software is just a band-aid for the fact that work is hard and planning it is harder - well, you can sell all kinds of band-aids.
The phrase "could care less" has a logic error. It makes more sense for someone to say, "I couldn't care less" when the person wants to express that he doesn't care.