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> I have to live crammed into an urban area with people everywhere

Some people prefer city living, some people don't. You say you have to live in crammed in an urban area with people everywhere: I say I get to.
I've found information passes by me if I do anything else than listening to the audio book.
Would really love to know the thoughts of others regarding this.
For ADHD I would recommend Concerta/Ritalin/Adderall; that would enable you to read for not just a few seconds more but even minutes more before you judge.
(I'm not joking here, I'm using 36mg Concerta for about about 4yrs now. Before that I also often came across as an asshole.)

There is also a less evasive way of improving your online communication quality: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
When we bought our first house in the early 90s, we were the only people in the neighborhood who were not retired. In fact, everyone in the neighborhood had been retired longer than we had been alive (26+ years).

They were living off of social security and savings, which was possible because their houses were paid off and because the social security taxes while they were working were much less (2%) than they are now (14%).

So, they were getting a fantastic payoff from their social security 'investment' that no future generation can hope to get, while at the same time able to save more since much less was being skimmed off the top.

It's too bad that our generation and later generations have not been given the same opportunity that they were, and instead face the ruinous 14% social security tax with the disincentive that it is likely that getting any benefits will probably be 'means tested' by the time we retire. Most of my peers that I've talked to don't expect to get any social security when they become of age.

Socking 15% - 20% away after 14% is taken off the top is difficult, but the benefit from it will far surpass anything I'll ever receive from social security.
Social Security is funded. politicians keep stealing the funds and putting IOU's in it.

Not to mention if we quit capping the income paying into social security it would be in the black regardless of the theft.

The thing that is evident here is the stock market is a method for the fleecing of the people by forcing them to invest or lose money saving.
Do you sound out each word silently? That is a common bottle neck.
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This brings back memories.

In the late eighties, I wrote a program similar to this one for archiving one Apple II floppy disk on a sheet of paper.

One floppy disk is 140 kilobytes (35 tracks of 16 sectors containing 256 bytes each), so a sheet of paper with a 7-inch by 10-inch printed area needs a data density of just 2 kilobytes per square inch to fit a floppy disk, which comes out to a linear resolution of 128 dots per inch. This was (barely) within the specs of my dot matrix printer.

I was a teenager at the time so I had no clue about error correcting codes and the like, it was a straight bit-to-pixel mapping.

At the time, this was a write-only medium, as I did not have access to a scanner. No matter, I used it to archive my most important data disks, figuring that after a few years, technology would have improved enough to allow easy scanning. I eventually lost the sheets of paper, but the floppy disks themselves were robust enough to last until 1994, at which time I wrote a program to send them to my PC through a null-modem connection.
Pssh. Democracy is 3 wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner. It is not the magical panacea everyone assumes.
FWIW, we MOVED to Canada from the US b/c our son is autistic and we wanted to get the support Canada (specifically BC) offered.

My wife is a GP and worked at the single best hospital system in the US and we couldn't get anywhere near the support we could up here in BC. That number you quoted ($80k/year) is almost exactly the number it would have cost us to get just therapy in the US, let alone an in class-room aid and in-home tutor.

That said, getting the official diagnosis did take some time but we were able to around that by paying out of pocket (around $1500 CAD) to get the official tests and what not. Also, once you have the diagnosis, there was no waiting for therapy. We could get it right away. Our son now has an aid 50% of the time he is in school. We have in-home therapy a few days a week (we pay for most of this; only some of it is covered), and we have access to parent training and special child social training courses.

There is a very good reason we live here and it is b/c BC has a great support system for autistic children. Like any bureaucracy the Canadian medical system can be very hard to navigate and I've heard stories of people giving up b/c they can't figure out the next steps, which is terrible. But the bottom line is BC was far and away better than anything we could have gotten in the US.
You almost want to laugh. This sounds like a story out of the Onion.

Unfortunately it is not.
http://www.medifee.com/tests/mri-scan-cost/ in India. So to the tune of $200 max.

However in US it costs on average $3000 USD. :(
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's meant as satire.
In all seriousness, is there anybody here who can seriously stand up and say that after working with a language for, say, three months, they still have frequent problems with the syntax of the language? I don't mean "I occasionally have to look up an obscure corner case", or "After working with X for three or four days I do need a moment to recall Y's syntax if I switch back", but literally after working with a language for a couple of months they have trouble typing a syntactically correct statement.

I do a lot of Perl programming at work, and even after literally 10 years with it it still does, every once in a while, manage to surprise me. (This is, IMHO, a fairly damning criticism, but that's a well-beaten horse.) But I don't particularly have to think about the simple act of writing a single statement and haven't for a long time.

It seems to me there's a debate here going on about a total non-problem.
All the answers here confirm my experience: read slower, concentrate more. The ability to concentrate on the subject is not to be underestimated.

Twenty years ago my grandparent finished a 400+ book in two and a half days while I was playing around. He did something else in between. I've never finished the book to this day - or maybe I did, but I don't remember. I was in a virtual contest to match those 2.5 days to retain anything of value.

Edit: As you concentrate more you tend to read faster. You get into the flow state and stuff. Also, I find several speed reading techniques to have some value (peripheral vision, non-vocalisation etc.)
"Justice" is the only thing I'm scared of, because of the "".

Laws are made to protect children, and "Justice" abuse those laws against... children.

"Justice" is just an administration today, devoid of logic and intelligence.
> So I don't think this is something historically people have believed in youth and rejected in adulthood. It's only coming to a head now.

This isn't about "youth" vs "adulthood", most of the people who wish to deny the old their due are adults themselves. But I believe historically, when resources get tight, the "community" doesn't mind putting their elders on an ice floe and letting them go, so that the current generation can have more.
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So let's say they killed all chicken because of some virus (why else would they die out but not cattle); then there must be some other animals that taste like chicken. Everything tastes like chicken.
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As weird as it may seem, I just Googled something like "how to get better at reading". And I found some tips, one of this biggest take-aways for me was to re-read something if you find yourself wandering, and make sure you really understand what you're reading. There have been times I've read several pages, or hell even a chapter, and looked back and realized I was zoned out. The important thing is to recognize this and go back, eventually the focus will come naturally.

I use a Kindle to read and one of my favorite features is the ability to look up a word I don't know. I make sure to do this every time I come across a word I don't know or don't understand given the context. If you don't have this ability, use a dictionary or something of the like.

Also a good tip was reading out loud, or mouthing the words while you read. Hope this helps!
I was watching Netflix this morning and a number of titles had troubles loading repeatedly. They did eventually work though.
>How do you propose YC approach an issue like this

By not being discriminating? You don't fight discrimination with more discrimination and the very idea is so mindboggingly stupid that it hurts. It's sad to see that the social justice warrior bullshit has arrived at HN.
The article. Did you read it all the way to the end?
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Benefits won't just stop completely. If Congress fails to act, SSA will have to cut benefits to 70%. So, instead of $2,600 you'll receive $1,820. At 70% payout, SSA can continue to pay benefits at projected income levels indefinitely.
Seconded. I look up basic syntax all the time of languages I use daily for years. It's been that way since I started coding 25 years ago. At least these days it's easier with Google and such instead of having to lead throughout reference books.

I don't know why I have that mental block, but I do. There have been some particularly notable cases in the reference book days where I could remember what page number to look at but not the syntactic construct on that page.
This is from personal experience - works for me, may not work for you.

I have found that people who enunciate every word they read in their heads read a lot slower than those who can pattern match (without reading out the word in their head). I belong to the earlier category and have friends who belong to the latter. No matter how fast I tried to read, I could never finish a novel in a night (like the others did).

It's really easy to see which one are you - try and read a line of text making sure you do not read out the words out in your head. If the line makes absolutely no sense to you, you are like me. The text pattern needs to be converted into audio, which then links to meaning. Maybe its just the way our brains are arranged.

What has worked very well for me is listening to books on audible. I can easily listen to most books at 2X (and sometimes 2.5X) the speed of narration. A typical large book (like the recent one on Elon Musk) is about 14 hrs narration. I could successfully finish the book in less than 7 hours - something I could never do if I was just reading it. I also feel like I retain more, although I cannot be sure of this without more data.
Me. I just poste elsewhere in this subthread so will spare the details but I'll stand up and say that.

It's not every simple thing but there are some bits that for whatever reason manage to never stick in my head
Thanks for the chronicle article. Great one.
You can read much faster if you can break yourself of the habit of sub-vocalizing words as you read them. I think most of us were probably initially taught to read aloud, and spent far too much time doing that during our schooling. If you can instead read the entire word as a logical unit, rather than having to break it down in your mind into syllables or individual letters, you can read much more quickly.

This does seem to require a pretty strong visual memory to be able to store and recall the "look" of a word, and you also need to have a relatively extensive vocabulary, or else you will be bumping into unfamiliar words that you have to look up or infer from context.

That's what works for me, anyway. YMMV
author here. My RTOS of choice (ChibiOS) uses a lot of function like macros which are not supported by rustbindgen. Other RTOSes such as FreeRTOS or UC/OS-II would be easier but they don't provide drivers, making them less interesting.

If anybody has experience with writing C macros to rust bindings I would be interested in hearing about it.
I just wonder how you've got so much experience on flying.
Just want to say - if someone set aside 5% of their income every year for 30 years, with a median national family income of $50,000, and assuming 5% after inflation gains, they would only have $125,000 saved after 30 years - only 2-4 years worth of living.
>you can't get fired from government jobs for incompetence. //

This seems highly unlikely, can you expand further, some proof? [I assume you're talking about US state and federal government?]
I'm talking even better, but designed with the TI-like way of doing math. Something Matlab/Mathematica-level, but with a more reasonable input interface than something like Python for Android. I had a TI-92+ I used for years instead of fighting with Matlab since I had using it down to muscle memory. It worked well enough (until I needed more pro-level tools).

For example, adding better support for matrix math than the TI-89/92 series, and some built in image processing tools...the platform already even has image acquisition hardware.

Or a line of USB connectable voltmeters or other data acquisition hardware.

For field use, lots of people still use these middle-school calculators because they have a decent combination of power and an interface they've been using for 6-7 years. Heck, I use emulators for TI-83/85/89 on my phone for quick calculations in the field or when I don't want to have to fire up an overpowered tool. The CAS on the 89 is almost magic in lots of cases.
The Jewish scribes who copied the Masoretic text of the Hebrew bible did use a system of integrity checks, in a traditional apparatus called the 'Masorah parva'. It wasn't perfect, and didn't have checks throughout, but as a computer scientist, I was fascinated to see how they'd dipped their toes into the idea.

I wonder if there are other texts that were copied by hand that had similar approaches. The Qur'an, perhaps?
You are reading but you are not concentrating. You brain is going at a much faster rate than your reading speed, which also contributes to the problem. I suffer the same problem.
I don't know Maple, can't speak for it. But here are some tips -

1. Look for patterns - it usually is the case that languages use a particular pattern in their command/syntax structure.

2. Remember the reverse - instead of mapping commands to actions, choose one program you know uses some of them and reverse map actions to commands/syntax. You may forget the syntax, but you probably won't forget problem statements of programs.

3. Think of alternatives. When you have alternative methods in your memory, it's easier to recollect the actual syntax.

4. Practice. There's no better teacher than practice. You go out of touch from one language, you'll actually forget the syntax.

The trick to remember is to find alternative channels that'll aid you to remember; channels that you're sure not to forget.
In lisp there is almost no syntax. So nothing really to remember :)
Wow, even including the cost of outfitting all the readers, that metro card system has got to be at least two orders of magnitude higher than reasonable.
Can a legal expert please explain to me how this can even happen? Shouldn't a judge somewhere be able to take one look at this and realize the ridiculousness of the whole thing and throw it out?
I'm paying $1475 per month for a 2 br with a garage in Chicago right outside of Wicker Park. (The garage represents $100 built in)
You're on the right track because you realize that comprehending and retention are most important. It's not really SPEED READING, that you're after but SPEED COMPREHENSION.

To comprehend faster, concentrate on imagining and visualizing the ideas you are reading. This will keep your mind more focused on the ideas rather than simply the sound of words.

And let the speed increase on it's own. You can't push your speed, but it will automatically increase when you are reading more efficiently.

See "Reading with the Right Brain" on Amazon for a fuller explanation of how to read faster and more effectively.
I did something similar for about two weeks, where I'd choose an article every day and write my own notes about it: http://kovach.me/notes.html

They were all about a single topic though, and I skim through several articles a day now on various topics. I might start doing this again; I _did_ learn a lot from transcribing notes and I think it could work with a variety of topics.
After reading DrDuh's guide to install yosemite, I thought a bit more about the ~200+ trusted CAs on my computer. I removed about ~50 using various heuristics, mostly arbitrary stuff like removing goverment agencies, and international CAs that I was skeptical of or otherwise assumed I would not need.

To get to my question though, how many CAs does one need to trust for the safest browsing experience? What CAs should be trusted and how can they be evaluated? How many-ish are you guys trusting?
What's wrong with watching soap-operas on TV?

We have to do away with this moronic idea that people must be productive. A man's life is more than what he produces.
You can get inotify-or-equivalent support in Go for specific OSes reasonable well with bindings (simple enough even to write your own if push came to shove), what's missing is a cross-platform, simple API. Which, arguably, is because it turns out that despite the problem sounding simple, a cross-platform, simple API is all but impossible. You can sort of get one for a single file or a single small directory with no recursive subdirectories, but beyond that, you're surprisingly boned.

This hasn't got much, if anything, to do with Go specifically; in particular, I've been aware of everything I write in this post since before I was even aware of Go. The OS support is just too variable and shot through with subtle-yet-critically-important semantic differences, in addition to the fact the problem is harder than it looks at first. Trying to write a lowest-common-denominator API leaves you with a really low LCD. Trying to write a higher level API that offers the more convenient stuff leaves you with an API that makes it trivially easy to write something that works really, really well on one platform and is completely non-performant on another (in particular, trying to automatically "recurse" on the directories). It turns out there's no happy middle here for the general case.
In my opinion Arduino Due are overrated. They are pricey, their processor isn't really top-tier and you don't get a builtin JTAG probe for debugging (I think).

You should try ST's discovery/nucleo boards. Much cheaper and ChibiOS (www.chibios.org) has some nice API and examples to get started.
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Nice! Any pointer to a documentation / wiki explaining how to use it ?
Don't want to alarm you, but, be aware that you are at a higher risk for a heart attack[0][1] (and apparently various other ailments, although I can't find the other studies right now). The tonsils are apparently a "fore scout" of the immune system, and removing them hurts its effectiveness. (Similarly, the appendix is a cache of good bacteria which the body needs - removing it robs the body of the ability to repopulate those bacteria populations). Turns out those organs are not useless after all.

[0] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601075128.ht...

[1] http://ki.se/en/news/increased-risk-of-heart-attack-after-ea...
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Going in on a keg share with friends can make that less than $15. Also, in some parts of the country there are BYOB places. (That would greatly bring down the price of alcohol)
So what's the best OSS search autocomplete these days? Solr's, Elasticsearch's, Linkedin CLEO?
The Church of Scientology is transcribing L. Ron Hubbard's writing onto stainless steel plates, encased in titanium capsules and buried in the desert[0]. So in the event of a global apocalypse any future survivors or aliens may think that Dianetics was the pinnacle of our culture!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trementina_Base
not sure I can be more specific, but it's a generalization based on 20+ years of "going out" in various states (US).
The feedback is valid. If they can't figure it out in 10 minutes, then they can't figure it out. It doesn't help that the inner workings are obfuscated through multiple license agreements and hidden/closed source.

We are constrained by time. We can't invest our time into investigating every claim that we come across.

Drugs can help some, but they are not necessarily the answer in all cases (including this case).
Why would this have any more impact on your rent than if your landlord's car payments were to go up?
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Free book explaining the usage of this @ http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ark/bcbd/
Yes, I simply misspoke. For adulthood substitute old age.
To back up my drive took 2216 meters of paper, writing front and back.
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That is external cameras used for sensors...
I'm curious where you got that 14% number. The source I found says 6.2% [1], and 0% after 118.5k/year in wages.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751.html
Is that typical for Chicago?
What I don't understand is, that the two young persons didn't choose to say: f*uck you, stupid law, we won't strike a plea. You.are.nuts!

Is the pressure in the US that strong that a sane person 'just has to do this'?
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How does every single person involved in faciliating this case not wake up every morning and think "My entire live is an absurd joke".

I've always been fascinated with the concept of institutional insanity - where a group of people can behave rationally but the combined effect of their behaviour is insane. It's possible there's some kind of 'gridlock' whereby it's impossible (or even damaging) for any individual involved to try and resist.

It's a milder form of the level of insanity you see within totalitarian states. Reading this echos some of the bizarre logic I read coming from guards at Cambodia's horrific S21. The penalty for resisting (or merely lack of enthusiasm for enabling) was immediate and horrific and would have taken superhuman courage. And it would have most likely made no difference.

In this case - the penalty for speaking out is probably nothing worse than damage to one's career.

I'd love to know how many people involved in this at any level harbour doubts without acting upon them.

I'd like to remind people that this is destroying the lives of two young people. Maybe not beyond repair but possibly sending them on a different course than before and probably not a better one.