skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many "good writing style manual[s]" are kind of full of it.

An interesting bit from the wiki(1) on passive voice: "For example, despite Orwell's advice to avoid the passive, his Politics and the English Language (1946) employs passive voice for about 20 percent of its constructions."

As with anything, it's important to be aware of what you're doing. But back when I tutored people in writing, hard-and-fast rules like this resulted in awkward, contorted writing by scared students. For example, I once knew a very smart person who avoided predicate adjectives at all costs. I don't really blame him for confusing passive voice and predicate adjective. I even found cases where the Hemingway app confused the two. But it was too bad that he had been so thoroughly brainwashed against the passive. Though I kind of admired how he managed to avoid, for years of his life, what I think is an indispensable construction.

1 -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_passive_voice#Advice_in...
Wow. And I thought my Tundra with a 5.7 V8 had bad mileage (15 city/18 highway).
Man, if only there were a national agency in the US that had infiltrated absolutely every aspect of every networked computer system anywhere and worked to provide security and investigate netcrimes against its citizens and others rather than commit its own crimes.

Wishful thinking, I guess...
Nope, that's actually very close to what it does.

I didn't develop this because the keystrokes were difficult, I just know that both git and SCP support this syntax and couldn't think of any good reason why SSH shouldn't.
Elasticsearch as a NoSQL Database (2013)
byteHandler is not a struct it's a byte slice. This is actually somewhat important since it highlights a nice feature of go where you can declare methods on any baseType by aliasing them to your own type.

There is no struct involved here and there doesn't need to be which is nice.
From the code. Were I to paranthesise the sentence, "perl as it was written in 2003" would be one clause.
Why do you think it's narrow?

(Question asked by somebody that got burnedout by trying to professionalise side projects just after getting boredout by my job. I see a huge distance between those.)
I'm using Zsh with Prezto (https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto), a fork of oh-my-zsh.
Development of the C Language by Dennis Ritchie [pdf]
Every time I see one of these videos I have two thoughts. One, insane never could do. Two, that's what flying in my dreams looks like, I can completely see why they do what they do.
Love it!

But, you need lists. In fact, I'd either document the exact commands you have implemented, or implement all the commands Medium offers, since you're inspired by Medium:

https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad

I want to use this, but I need lists before I do. I'll be using it to write interviews with breweries around the world in a brewery site I'm building.

* Note: I've never used Medium, so needed to Google what commands it has to offer.
I'm not dismissing it, but to ignore the fact that the iPhone is wholly dependent on tons of innovation in their supply chain is a problem. No matter how fancy your transistor layout gets, if, starting tomorrow, there were no more process node shrinks, and no more innovation in other ares of silicon (e.g. low-k/high-k), the mobile revolution would be effectively frozen in place.

Phones would have no choice but to get bigger to get more powerful or to get longer battery life and perf/watt would hit a wall.

Point being, Apple spends a disproportionately small sum on R&D relative to the size of their earnings and they don't seem to be funding basic research at all like large corporations of the past, e.g. IBM, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc.

With the government cutting funds for basic research, we need corporations who are sitting on $4 trillion in cash, to pick up the slack.
This is something I hadn't tested. I'll take a good look on this issue. This execCommand thing is new to me. I had never used it before I decided to create this editor.
The last sentence in this paragraph is hilarious:

P values have always had critics. In their almost nine decades of existence, they have been likened to mosquitoes (annoying and impossible to swat away), the emperor's new clothes (fraught with obvious problems that everyone ignores) and the tool of a “sterile intellectual rake” who ravishes science but leaves it with no progeny3. One researcher suggested rechristening the methodology “statistical hypothesis inference testing”3, presumably for the acronym it would yield.
I agree with you 100% that a company is stepping way over the line when it tells employees what software they should install on their personal devices, how they should pay for their own purchases, etc. (And after treating his employees like he owns them, the CEO will whine about how hard it is to find good developers.)

That said, people who create intrusive software to track the intimate details of their users are hypocrites if they'd object to being tracked by that same software themselves.
you weren't into all the kid rape stuff? makes sense.
Apple doesn't buy mobile chips from Intel, they buy them from Samsung.
What tear gas taught me about Twitter and the NSA
Is it possible to drive a lab monkey to suicide? I'm assuming suicidal people are usually in a state of learned helplessness from prolonged stress, which I understand is well understood in animal experiments.
I love ruby but this is bizarre. This example should not take that long.
I modded you up for your accursed intelligence or giftedness :-)

It ought to be called the curse of the lazy until you bring Linus or someone else gifted into it.
I took Wellbutrin back when it was popular to prescribe as an aid to get off nicotine. OMG, what horrible stuff (for me, anyway). I wasn't ready to stick a shotgun in my mouth or anything, but it gave me a severe case of what a friend called "the fuckits". Didn't care about anything (including the consumption of nicotine). I would have been content to sit and do nothing. One day when I had some from free time and the house to myself, I decided to go for a motorcycle ride down some twisty road. Got a few miles down the road and decided I didn't care about going for a motorcycle ride. Considering that one of the reasons I moved next to the Appalachian Mountains was for the fantastic motorcycle riding, that was a strong enough signal that I quit taking the stuff.

Now that's anecdotal, and your mileage most certainly may vary, but I now understand how a mis-diagnosis and an inappropriate prescription can cause problems.
Open Internet
Go for Objective-C developers
I think people are reading a bit too much into the name, and into the feedback the app gives. I don't think it's "get rid of all the pastels and your writing will be like Heminway's", nor do I even think "get rid of all the warnings" is what it's trying to do.

It is useful for a writer to throw some text at it and see what you can learn. More feedback is almost always better for writers. The trick, is always, is having the judgement to incorporate intelligently.

For example, I stumbled onto a book about procedural content generation in games[1]. As a writer, game programmer, and dedicated fan of roguelikes, if this book were any farther up my alley, it would be banging against the back fence.

But, ugh, when I tried to read it, I just gave up after a few paragraphs. It's not gibberish, but it's almost physically painful to wring the actual information out of it.

And, indeed, when I throw some of those paragraphs at this app, I see:

Paragraphs: 1
Sentences: 31
Words: 833
Characters: 4196
11 of 31 sentences are hard to read.
11 of 31 sentences are very hard to read.
10 adverbs. Aim for 0 or less.
10 words or phrases can be simpler.
13 uses of passive voice. Aim for 6 or less.

If the authors took a bit of advice from this app, they'd end up with a better book. That sounds like a win to me.

[1]: http://pcgbook.com/
What if they were also dealing with emotional issues? Unfortunately we only have so much emotional energy and sometimes it is depleted when our friends need us the most.
You're right. Klout as a standalone service was unviable from the beginning.
Especially in light of the up-and-coming services like Quora, Thoughtly, Medium, etc., that actually attempt to measure and curate according to the quality of the person talking, Klout is extremely lucky to be making their exit now.
If you implement a GC which runs on its own thread, doesn't pause the application, and achieves good overall performance on any real-world code, then it would be a terrific thing to mention in your big blog post announcing the system. We'd love to hear anything you'd like to say about it.

If you don't mention it, and if you also say numerous other things which give the impression that you may not have given the entire topic much thought, then even people who would otherwise prefer to be positive and supportive may struggle to take you seriously, and may react with frustration if you also make extraordinary claims.
Markdown is still a simpler, more lightweight markup than HTML. Storing text in Markdown is good when conversion is not just to HTML but other formats (e.g. EPUB). Even if the text is always going to be converted to HTML, it would make changing the HTML output more straightforward.
"The trade in spyware itself is almost entirely unregulated, to the great frustration of critics."

Not for long!

"Cyber war technology to be controlled in same way as arms"

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2903d504-5c18-11e3-931e-00144fe...

http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/5599

It's so thoughtful of the WaPo to stir up moral panic to push this all forward. Because major powers want to rewrite software law, in a military arms-control framework, in undemocratic and secretive treaty institutions: and yes, the purpose of this is to "protect journalists"; why do you ask?
I don't know anything about Wellbutrin in particular, so it's entirely possible that its effects are very different from what I'm aware of and that it won't fit this pattern, but in my experience it is always important that people who are just starting anti-depressants or are switching anti-depressants have extra support and people looking out for them during the transition period; this isn't because anti-depressants don't work, it's because they take time to gain full effectiveness. A typical pattern is that patients will start to feel empowered and motivated to do something about their situation before they start to feel happy- as a result, "doing something about their situation" frequently means "trying to end it through suicide". The medication is working just fine, it's just not up to full effectiveness, and needs to be given time to get the patient through the transition period to where they stop wanting to kill themselves.

(Source: several friends with clinical depression who have gone through this, plus a wife who recently completed a semester working as a psychiatric student nurse.)
>>>Honestly though, if I was ever in a fire/hire position bringing SQL-injectable-code to a code review would be grounds for being fired on the spot.

Code reviews should be about ensuring the integrity of the code base AND helping your developers write better code. If you fire someone on any teachable moment, your employees will never get any better. Mistakes should not equal firings for a first offence, that's a dead giveaway of a terrible manager. Making the same mistake twice is the inexcusable part.

There's an old story that's relevant here (I may get the specifics wrong): In the early days of Intel, before they were a behemoth, an engineer made a mistake that cost the company $50,000 (a huge sum at the time). The engineer was sure he was a goner, and many people were calling for this head. Gordon Moore (founder) was asked when he would be fired.

Moore replied "Why would I fire him? I just spent $50,000 training the man!"
The point of the post is to help other people dealing with the same thing. Colleges have populations of young people on their own for the first time dealing with new and extremely taxing issues. They have a responsibility to take mental health seriously and offer support. The same way a disabled student would be supported.
Another reason to be skeptical of the statistics thrown around in popular news.
I don't really get the appeal of Dogecoin. I really like its intention to to keep some inflation going forever. That combined with the low transaction fees seems like it could be a currency that actually ends up being spent instead of hoarded. But, it's still 100% proof of work, so if it really does take off, a good chunk of the world's energy is going to be used to find the first n digits of SHA hashes (or whatever work Doge uses).
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/3924d8cabc4e8469af6fa91...

One question: Why is VW's R&D spending so high? It's BILLIONS more than other car manufacturers.
Adding generics to the language affects the language and reimplementing an interpreter/compiler for a language that fixes a performance issue without being incompatible are two completely different things.
Network Stack Specialization for Performance
Great analogy actually, because the President and Krugman are exactly right in this regard. We ignore the ecosystem that was built, and which we benefit from, by those before us at our peril.

You should see technology as a forest. You can mine it for medical cures, for wood, it's an enormous externality that you leverage. And you have a duty to continue planting more back into it to keep it going for yourself and everyone who comes after you.

The Apple narrative is too bound up in heroic origination stories, without due credit and acknowledge to the huge role played by the rest of the industry. I'm only saying that if one profits immensely by using knowledge produced by one's forefathers, one has a duty to reinvest and keep driving it forward, not hoarding piles of cash. (oh, and not going insanely litigious and secretive on discoveries either :) )
Disney Is Launching Its Own Startup Accelerator, With Help From Techstars
Scaling Asana.com
That's pretty dirty. If you have no legitimate claim to a trademark, just buy an existing slightly related trademark and use that!
>instead I found a thread full of guys trying to build a physical version of their imaginary chinese-cartoon girlfriends

Between this and the movie "Her", where's the "waifu" (virtual girlfriend) startup?
A member of our year took their life at college. None of us knew whatever was going on in their life or mind. And that is the hardest part - societal stigma prevented the person reaching out to peers and friends, and probably stopped us collectively being proactive in stepping in, in case we mistakenly labelled someone as appearing in need of help.

It transpired they had tried to reach help online, the place where most youth head these days, but instead of help they received encouragement to kill themaelves.

Cracking the very tough nut of getting people actually talking would save more lives and disrupt more attempts.
I don't think Hemingway could breathe at Cambridge.
Exactly, so the statement "I tried to kill myself at Penn because I felt so utterly alone." is probably wrong. I mean it's probably subjectively true, and it's informative, but loneliness probably didn't cause this person to attempt suicide.
Do you have a demo on either of those sites where I can input terms into a search box and look at results? What explanation do you give to users as to the options available when formatting the query?
You do realize companies make sure to game it such that they declare no profits in the US, right? And don't even care that much about repatriating it at all? And do so only when there are "tax amnesty holidays" where money can be repatriated "for free" during a short timespan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
I'd love to see a comprehensive article that shows what a research paper's analysis would look like using Bayesian methods. I've seen plenty of general hints about Bayesian methods, discussion of priors, and similar, but I haven't found any specific guide on how to apply those methods to the types of research papers that would traditionally use a null hypothesis significance test with a p value.
> it is that the environment here is so stressful that everyone is driven to the point where they need to be at CAPS.

I feel sorry for those who suffer from depression, I have been there myself in a rough patch of my life. It seems like the author is indirectly blaming Penn, that it causes all students to "NEED" a therapist. This simply isn't true.
How fast is a distributed computing platform made entirely of web browsers?
And be _insanely_ slow (not just the normal, python is slow comment - there are fast web servers in python; SimpleHTTPServer is not).
There is a constant struggle between doing what's right for your business and doing the right thing. Until you are placed in that position, you really have no idea what you'll do.

I hope this post brings about enough social pressure to ensure that the right thing, whatever that means, happens.
Erythritol and glycerol are also decent sugar-alcohol sweeteners.

Other types of sugar alcohols are not suitable as sugar replacements.

Methanol and ethylene glycol are poisonous. Mannitol, sorbitol, isomalt, maltitol, and lactitol will all give you horrible gas and diarrhea. To a certain extent, xylitol and glycerol will also have a laxative effect, but as erythritol is absorbed by the gut, it is the only sugar alcohol that can be consumed in excess without dire colonic consequences.
Thumbtack Needs AngularJS Developers - SanFran - PERKS
Now it's a race, if jQuery Notebook gets up to snuff by the time I need it, I'll use it, if not, Medium Editor it is (personally, I don't care if I have jQuery or not, I'm a pragmatist).
This algorithm can predict a revolution
ICracked's Manic Quest To Become The 'AAA' Of Smartphones.
I have no affiliation with Penn. However, I would be cautious before accepting the literal words of the story at face value.

I accept without reservation that this is how this person perceives the interaction with the administrator. But before accepting that this is how Penn's administrators believe they interacted with the person, or how a third party would perceive the interaction, I'd like more information. Being ill enough to be in the hospital -- even for non-psychiatric disease -- can cloud the sensorium. And this is a grave allegation.
www.pracly.com provides e-Advising for under $10 and that makes its pricing unbeatable
Perhaps because they take those features for granted because it uses some GC provided by LLVM ?

(I don't know anything about LLVM support for GC, but I would be surprised if it comes with a GC that doesn't require to do something special in order to make it concurrent)
SolrCloud is nothing like ES in terms of management: you end up running a separate zookeeper service with even more files which all have to be configured correctly just to get it running and you have to micromanage shard allocation to ensure that you can add nodes in the future but also not have it intentionally deadlock when a server fails and you no longer have enough nodes for a quorum. All of this happens with the usual contempt for sysadmins where things you need to know (“refusing to process requests”) won't be logged but a bunch of startup boilerplate will be, and simply configuring logging correctly requires (IIRC) editing two XML files and a properties file.

`java -jar elasticsearch.jar` does a better job and that's basically all it takes. I'm planning to switch as soon as https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/256 lands.
Interesting lifehacks: Use a wooden spoon to block part of your screen
"The night of my suicide attempt I called a friend and told him that I was contemplating suicide. He told me he was sorry and to call a suicide hotline. We have not talked about my suicide attempt since that night. "

The word 'friend' is used over ten times referring to some human acquaintance or other but it really seems like this person doesn't have a single real friend.
I think this very much depends on what your kids are like. Are they very outgoing and good in new situations? Then it most likely won't matter where you send them - they will find a place they fit in and have a great group of friends they can be supported by. However if they may not be as naturally personable, then looking into what the school itself offers and how your child will be able to take advantage of that is crucial.

And the other huge factor to me is what your kids want to study. A big factor in this person getting into this situation in the first place was the crushing sense of loneliness she felt at Penn due to the fact that she couldn't have real social interactions with her friends. There was always some secondary motive (studying most often) that didn't allow her to just relax and be comfortable. I went to a large state school where people certainly valued doing well at school, but where socializing and being there for each other was paramount. There just wasn't such an ingrained culture of '4.0 GPA or death' that seems to come up in these more competitive schools. I had a bunch of friends with minor to severe mental health issues and there was never any doubt about what came first - grades or friends, and this seemed to be the way I saw most people interact.

However I was also lucky to be in a field where my side-projects and initiative counted for more than anything else. If I had been trying to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or some trader on Wall Street, my choice in schools could have been a serious detriment to my career. But to me becoming a well adjusted person and learning to deal with all the world can throw at you were perhaps the most important things I got out of college. Just my 2 cents.
With blocks, the semantics and programming paradigms of Objective C are now very close to Smalltalk. Seems like a Smalltalk targeting OS X and iOS would be a very good fit, similar to RubyMotion (which further demonstrates the underlying similarities between Ruby, Smalltalk and Objective C).

http://www.rubymotion.com/
Great. Good for you.

Your initial comment, however, is filled with a denigrating tone. It is that tone your parent is addressing. Not so much the content. The tone. It is unkind.
Why Crypto (new Python cryptography library)
Actually I believe object lesson is correct. Abject means severe, humble, or weak. Most commonly seen as "abject poverty."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abject?show=0&t=13...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abject%20lesson

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/object%20lesson
And even spawns new heirs, such as Objective-Smalltalk: http://objective.st/
You can take pictures of ephemeral things, but they're still ephemeral.
Nuclear fusion breakthrough raises hopes for ultimate green energy source
I suggest that you think a bit more deeply about this. It's possible that the administrator was being thoughtless, but there's another interpretation -- it's a bad idea to give suicide attempters too much attention. By responding with too much sympathy, one can become a "suicide enabler", the suicide equivalent of a narcissistic enabler.

If a person threatens suicide and gets nothing but attention and sympathy, this can trigger a cyclical, escalating pattern of threats and sympathetic responses that can sometimes trap the person into going through with the suicide.

Here's a true story -- many years ago one of my brothers committed suicide. After a few weeks, another brother told me he was compiling a list of people he felt were responsible for the suicide. My first comment was, "Is [the suicide] included on the list?" Of course, he wasn't. My next comment was that the list was dangerous -- the suicide's son would see how attentive and sympathetic everyone was being and he might begin to think suicide was a good idea. My brother didn't really understand what I was saying, the list got created and passed around, and a few years later, the suicide's son committed suicide also.

True story.