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For general day to day stuff we all write, yes I agree. Hate reading emails and articles with a lot of unnecessary jargon.
However, Writing- as in writing fiction,poetry,drama etc is an art. Just like a great painting, it is complex and it gives people an idea of the great mind of the author and what he thought of the book from his perspective.

Imagine war and peace written in spoken language.:(
And so far it's working. Look at Valeant for a timely example. And they aren't the only ones facing federal inquiries.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/valeant-debt/

http://www.streetinsider.com/FDA/House+Oversight+Committee+D...

https://aishealth.com/archive/ndbn100915-04
Sure, but I'm wondering now if an ebook 'brought to you by todo.yt' might not be a better idea in your case. Real experience presented with a real solution. You could collect emails, let people pay what they want (as thanks) via Gumroad etc. or just give it away under CC. Or do all of those... If you want help writing, happy to look it over with you.

Really like your thinking with todo.yt. I'm between folded lists in Vim and Trello most days. TBH I could live without Trello if I just tagged each todo line effectively, but your app brings all that timetracking and priority goodness to the situation.
I am assuming that when you refer to "the other project trying to create a better implementation" you are referring to ntimed? It seems that you are forgetting about Chrony and OpenNTPd.
As long as they are relevant to the general use cases pull requests are always of interest! The develop branch is currently very different from the most recent release due to 1.0 roadmap features so there may need to be a bit of conflict resolution to merge cleanly.
>Explain that if they do not remove their copyright claim within the time allotted that I will revoke their rights to use my footage in their video due to a terms of use violation.

The DMCA states they are filing the take down under penalty of perjury. It's very slippery though.

If Sony says "This is A, and I own A. Take down Small Time's video." Then all is good so long as Sony actually owns A. If the content is B, it's a great inconvenience to Small Time, but there's really no recourse.

However, what Sony did was say "This is B, I own B. Take down Small Time's video." The content IS B. Sony has misrepresented their ownership of B. Now they've perjured themselves.

My understanding is that perjury is punishable by up to five years in prison. It seems like someone at Sony should now be under investigation for this little 'oops.' Even if Small Time is satisfied with the outcome, it sounds like someone at Sony still violated the law.
I wish I could talk like I write. When I have a lot to talk about, I have a hard time not jumping around and end up being a little incoherent.
It is popularly said that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

I wish there was a similar cautionary expression for those who are ignorant of or dismissive of philosophy.

Why is there such a vocal minority nowadays who claim that philosophy has had its day? Can you explain your reasoning please?
On the contrary, it's a tautology. There are only a finite number of articles, so either your chain reaches philosophy, it ends because there are no links/broken links, or it gets stuck in a loop. The other possibility is that it never ends but never reaches philosophy, but that means it must loop since there are only finite number of articles.

The interesting thing is two fold: most articles end up in the philosophy case, and the loops that do exist tend to be small.
I'm not entirely sure that info (% of traffic) is possible for wikipedia to obtain accurately.

There are however 3.3 billion people in the world estimated to have internet. Assuming that 90% of internet traffic is autonomous, each person who has internet visits wikipedia on average roughly 30 times a year. In reality, it's estimated that closer to 60% of the traffic is autonomous; which means an average of 121 visits per year per person with internet.

Now we can't claim with 100% certainty the exact numbers (although I'm sure some statisticians could find a reasonable range with 99.95 certainty), but it's still pretty difficult to say that 1 trillion doesn't mean much.
Hueh! And that's how I naturally talk, too.
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Yes, as long as you aren't writing about emotion or sensation or philosophy or psychology or anything deeply human.
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Maybe they are being manipulated but I just think its a little classist to second guess the beliefs of those in lower socio-economic classes. Just as you may rightfully reject the idea that the poor are poor because they're stupid, I equally reject the idea that the poor vote against their self interest because they're stupid or easily manipulated.

The alternative to believing that you are pre-wealthy is believing that you are stuck in your current socio-economic class and don't really need to strive for anything. Working towards a goal is a benefit in it of itself. Explains why those that are handed everything in life are often unhappy.

The ironic thing is people angered by inequality and also angered by the belief that social mobility is even possible.
Especially with email I value brevity over "natural" language. I spend time editing my written communications so others don't have to waste time getting to the meat of the message.
Please don't write like you talk. It's bad enough having to listen to them, I don't want to have to read the expletives as well.
IMO, the answers to those questions are "no" and "yes" respectively. Redox in particular seems like it has way more unsafe code than it actually has to (though it seems to have gotten a bit better very recently).
This works nicely in theory, but (just like with other humanitarian efforts in the region) there is no way of ensuring that the money the hunters pay actually ends up funding conservation efforts and not some official's new car.

This is the reason why the United States Wildlife Service has imposed a moratorium on imports of all hunting trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe. You can read more about it here http://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/questions-and-answers-s...

There is nothing to indicate that the situation is dramatically different in other countries.

Also your argument doesn't explain why the populations of many of the species protected by Initiative 1401 have been declining. If what you are saying actually works in practice, the populations should have been increasing.
Writing style is an aesthetic: It should suit the subject matter. I wouldn't want to read Tolstoy in the athletic clothing of ideas. The article feels like an overgeneralization.
Yes. Clarity can creep up on you, and before you know it people can find your mistakes.
The BSDs are nice operating systems with considerable interest here.

These interviews are interesting.

The subject of this particular interview is a respected member of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tedunangst
To the contrary, I explicitly do not write the way I talk; they are very different mediums! Each is better suited to communicate different things / emotions.

Writing gives me the freedom to edit, iterate and polish; something speech cannot do.

I love both writing and speech/presenting - do not be reductionist and reduce writing to mere "written conversation".
The passive agressive answer is 'because people voted for it'.

Ignoring that, it very well might be because Ted is rather active on HN. I don't quite understand your question/concern though?
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Saying that GPSD is "a daemon to extract accurate time from GPS receivers" is a little misleading. GPSd primary function is to make "data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to...the host computer." It also has functionality to share data with ntpd but timekeeping is certainly not the primary purpose.
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I find that if I need to use a word like mercurial it helps to add a four-letter word in proximity. It seems to aid digestion and thus cuts down on the commentary.
Explain what you mean by 'semantic markup'. I find people mean the term in two ways: so trivially it's uninteresting or so unrealistic it's implausible.
I remember reading one of Isaac Isimov's biographies, where he mentions that one of the critiques of his writing is that it is too simple. His response -- that's the way it is supposed to be!
This guide is slightly old (Last updated May 2014) but seems fairly comprehensive: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...
I like this sort of conversational writing style and it's my preferred style as well. But it's not actually much like natural speech. Anyone who's tried transcribing a recording of a conversation knows that they need to be cleaned up quite a lot to be readable. We don't actually talk in essay format.

Writing this way takes practice and probably a lot of reading as well to understand what you can get away with. People don't start out just knowing how to do it. Many people's native dialects are pretty far away from this style, so "write like you talk" wouldn't have the same results for them.
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It's also fun doing this on Wikidata with "subclass of".

* Go to a Wikidata item, e.g. "sailboat" [1]

* Click on the "subclass of" (P279) value or, if no such value exists, the "instance of" (P31) value

* Follow the "subclass of" chain up to "entity" [2]

You can do the reverse -- i.e. go down the classification tree -- with tools like Wikidata Generic Tree [3].

---

1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075310

2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35120

3. http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?q=Q35120&rp...
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The burden of proof lies on you - any philosopher worth his salt could tell you that, and also that a popular maxim does not an argument make.

Maybe you could start with the two questions I gave in the post you are replying to.
The thing keeping me from agreeing with this is a qualifier. If it were "write like you talk when writing a X", where X could be substituted by tutorial, essay, lesson, etc. I think I'd be more inclined not to disagree here. But as it stands "write like you talk" cannot hold true across the board for the set of all writing goals that exists.

For example just watch any Tarantino film (or read the scripts), none of those characters talk like Tarantino does, I really would not want to watch a film where Uma Thurman walks around talking like him either.

Entire fields of writing would not exists if this statement were true: Poetry, Rap, Music, Marketing slogans ("Think Different"), many types of Comedy, etc.

EDIT: After a reread it looks he does suggest a qualifier, which is basically the general use case, which appears to be when "you want people to read and understand what you write" ie. informative essays, tutorials, emails that would occur in normal or every day communication situations, in which case I would agree.
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I had to look up "abstruse". I understood it's meaning from context, but wasn't sure if it was a portmanteau of abstract and obtuse, or an actual word. I've honestly never heard it in my life, and wouldn't stop someone saying it in a sentence, but it did stop my reading.

That made me wonder, does the fact that you sometimes have to listen to the spoken word over-estimate the impact the same words will have when written?
>This is obviously dumb and a problem nobody needs solving

So she'd fit in pretty well in SV :)
So it's the same level of anecdotal evidence as all of those suspected in-person voter fraud cases, which justified the introduction of voter ID laws?
The first step is to wad up your self-doubt and chunk it in the nearest incinerator. If you've been tinkering with code for eight years and have won competitions, odds are pretty certain you can do good enough work to justify a junior dev's salary.

Anyway, the topic of actually finding work is broad, but this might help you get in the right direction; pick some things you'd like to work with, and look for specific job boards for them. For example, I'm pretty proficient with the Drupal framework/CMS, so I'll usually watch the official Drupal jobs board when I'm on the lookout for a new gig. There's also LinkedIn; you should at the least have a profile there, even if you aren't actively searching for jobs there. It also helps to have a personal site and do a little SEO on it so that it comes up if someone searches for "Lua developers in [your city]."

That's a basic answer, but it might be enough to get your foot in the door at a few places.
This x 10 for legal documents.
Simplify them please.
I think there is absolutely a place and time for writing the way you talk and that the same goes for writing formally.

The discussion of when and where for either case is a topic in and of itself.
Use Firebase.io for the back-end. Use JavaScript or ClojureScript for the front-end. Use Semantic-UI or Bootstrap for HTML/CSS.
iOS has a history of breaking the API with version updates. Sometimes it's such a PITA, large companies choose to remove their apps instead of upgrading them:

https://toucharcade.com/2015/09/23/bioshock-removal-2k-suppo...
I love this as an example of how broken the USA is. Democracies, for better or worse, mean that the government represents the will of the people. Determine 'will' however you want (majority vote, enlightened representatives, reddit poll, &c), and you would find overwhelming support for at least stopping Shkreli from doing this, and probably worse.

What do we get instead? Shkreli will gain a few hundred million dollars from this scheme, and Millennials will complain about him on message boards.

And don't think that the system is broken because corrupt system is unyielding and impenetrable. It's broken because our generation lacks the constitution (and possibly aptitude) to push for the changes necessary. There has never been an easier place and time to than 2015 USA to enact the changes you want to see. But we're content eating fast food and watching Netflix instead.
>Had awards at competitive programming competitions, national/international, contests, stuff.

Try codementor.io, your credentials will most probably help you to find some gigs and you'll be paid on the hourly basis. Also you can try toptal.com and gun.io.
>Thanks to Jessica Livingston for reading drafts of this.

Did she read drafts without contributing to them?
Paul Graham says "ummm" a lot. Luckily for us he doesn't write like he talks.

However, as others have said, the important thing is to write naturally and with clarity to get the message across.
I've read through what was here, and last night, actually built the first post's code. I really like the depth and style of this particular posts, it really hits a sweet spot.
This is exactly how I write. It works great. Except in college where English teachers mark down your paper for stupid reasons.

Many good, powerful speeches have repetition. Using the same word to end three sentences in a row. This can make for a great speech. It does not make for a good school grade. Oops.
Despite me not liking what he has done, I can't really find any faults with what he has done. If he purchased the drug legally then why can't he charge as much as he want? Can anyone point me to the law that says he can't do that? I'd be curious to know if he has done anything illegal.

Additionally, I wonder if he is doing this on person to make a point about drug pricing in the USA.
Ask HN: How to raise a hacker?
I have a 6yo son, who's really interested in engineering (details see below). I'd like to help him develop his interests and skills. Which resources - toys, projects, activities, websites, books etc. would you recommend?

His favorite toy is a German construction set "Fischertechnik" which he play's like a pro, inventing own designs and models. He's very good at handicraft. Is interested in computers (but we almost don't let him play computer games). Likes 3dprinting very much (I've built a Mendel Max a while ago). I can go on, but from all what I see, he's really technically interested.

"How to raise a hacker" is probably a bit too provocative. I have no intention to raise a technologcal wunderkind or force my kid into something he does not want. I'd just really love to help my son develop in the areas he's already interested in - or maybe open a few of the branches he might also find potentially interesting. For instance, programming or electronics. And that we have fun together doing that (you can call me "technically interested" too).

But I have a feeling I'm just not aware of the good options. How would I teach him coding? Introduce to electronics? Robotics?

What I'm looking is basically some general advice. I believe there are a lot of parents here who share their passion for technology with their kids. What would you recommend? What was inspiring for your kids? What was your "best toy ever"? Please share, I'd be very grateful for that.

In case it's relevant, we live in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my wife, we both work in IT (I'm a dev/architect, she's a test manager).
Engineers build functional products. If there is implementation risk it's much better to focus on functionality first. A beautiful product that does not supply needed functionality is worse than an ugly one that does.
Which is funny because economics is to a large extent a branch of philosophy.
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> I just think its a little classist to second guess the beliefs of those in lower socio-economic classes

I am second-guessing based on their actions not just beliefs. After talking to wealthy acquintances and poor ones, I can see why the wealthy might not mind paying more taxes longer term. After talking to more poor acquintances and how they justify how and why they vote, I don't a good rational explanation often.

> Working towards a goal is a benefit in it of itself.

That's a good point. I believe in that as well. I just think it is better if goals are realistic and it is important to understand how the world works and how power is distributed, should they want to make any change or affect or change it, they'd be able to.
No one ever gets charged under that, because it requires knowingly filing a false claim. Almost all of these takedowns are automated, and it's hard to say an algorithm knowingly lied.

Even with a human in the loop (for example, the "copyright holder has confirmed the claim" from the article) it's hard to prove someone lied. "Idiot intern" makes a generally acceptable defense.
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I think you are taking the article too literally.

It's not that you must say something orally, use a computer automatic transcript and publish that, with all the errors and fillers.

You should edit it heavily to fix errors and increase clarity, but the style should be like something you would say oraly. An uninformed reader must feel that it's just the transcript of an informal talk.
PG is on to something here, which is that when most people try to make their prose better, they do it the wrong way. They make the language stilted, they add silly descriptions (such as "the mercurial Spaniard"). But, writing is different from speech, and you can learn techniques specifically to make your writing better. I highly recommend Steven Pinker's new book "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century" http://amzn.to/1LVI7eJ He has many concrete tips for improving your writing.
Honesty and vocabulary are not even loosely correlated. I agree that, given the choice between the two, you should choose honest, humble friends.

But if you're ever judging someone's worthiness of friendship because of their Flesch–Kincaid score (whether it's too high or too low!), you're doing it wrong.
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Why write rules based on intent? Seems like it'd be far better to write rules specifying limits on ordering. So if you cancel more than X% of orders, a set suspension or fine gets issued. Write rapidly increasing suspensions or fines.

Or is it that there's just too much legitimate orders meeting this criteria? If so are there no other material criteria to discriminate on?

Edit: It seems there are already limits in place both for absolute frequency as well as trade/order ratios.
Spending in physician/nurse compensation is higher than spending in drugs. If reducing the price of drugs to European levels would result in big savings to the system, imagine the effect if the compensation of healthcare professionals was reduced to European levels.
>it sounds like someone at Sony still violated the law.

good luck with finding that person, especially when decisions weren't made by single one.
> If you're trying to convey an idea in hopes of transferring knowledge then yes -- write like you would talk to ease the others' cognitive load.

Even for transferring knowledge, it depends a lot on what knowledge you're trying to transfer, and to whom. In scientific writing, the more pop-science the goal of the article, the more conversational the style should be, and vice-versa. In a paper by someone in my field written for other people in the field, a pop-science conversational style isn't helpful, and would increase the cognitive load. In that case, I want clarity, precision, and accuracy, which is often helped by using a more specialized language.

This has been one of the main changes in science writing from earlier centuries. If you read 17th-century mathematics, it's actually trying to explain it all in a jargon-free conversational style, written as if you were having a parlor conversation about numbers. "Consider three whole numbers, such that the sum of the square of the first two equals the third", etc. This does not scale well and is error-prone.
Make sure to see http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-21/regulators-... for some reasons to doubt the charges here.
> one of the world's most precise clocks in his home

Seriously? More precise than the clocks in national labs that contribute to the derivation of UTC? (USNO, NRL, NIST, NPL, NRC, etc) I don't think that is a claim phk has ever made and I am not sure why you are making it for him.
True, but if source code is available and is open, presumably you could configure it send the finger print to any place you want, right?
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The OP talks about this in the most recent post:

"In the previous post we switched from assembly to Rust, a systems programming language that provides great safety. But so far we are using unsafe features like raw pointers whenever we want to print to screen. In this post we will create a Rust module that provides a safe and easy-to-use interface for the VGA text buffer."
Feels like the first time
On this topic, I would like to get a book's recommendation on how to build a full stack product like this. Something more technical with war stories.

My background: I'm a very strong iOS engineer with decent Python and JS skill. However my backend skill is limited at: building a Flask app with custom end points. It will talk to a single sql instance. I'm completely oblivious to memcache, load balancer, different AWS services. My plan is (surprise surprise) to quit my day job next year to pursue my own project and I would like to gather enough best practice and understanding of a full stack app.

Thank you!
See http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-08/why-do-high...
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