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I can't answer long-term because I just started stimulant medication. However: "Constantly being pushed to focus on one task" is not at all how I would describe it. It's much more subtle than that.

Prior to taking the meds, I could not tear myself away from some tasks (basically anything really interesting to me)[1]. One of the side effects is supposed to be reduced appetite, but I find I actually am eating more often because now I can get up from my desk when I'm hungry.

This sounds great and all, and it's actually useful when the task that catches my attention is also one I am supposed to be working on. However, interruptions don't work, and the minutia end up not happening (e.g. self assessment for performance review, answer question a customer or technical writer had about how X works, &ct.). Often times even writing down a note to do something later was not possible for me when I was in the middle of a task.

The worst, of course, is when a problem catches my attention that has zero value for my employer.

Today I had a similar interruption, I asked for a couple minutes to finish up the part I was working on, and two minutes later, I hit the stopping point I was anticipating and looked into the more urgent matter. Previous to the meds, I would have either completely forgotten about the more urgent matter, or would just have had to work for "just five more minutes" for an hour or two.

1: https://xkcd.com/356/ <-- this comic understates if anything what that's like. Though there is a 50-50 chance I don't even see the sign because I'm still thinking about whatever I was working on when I left work.
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Some people do their work. Some people are their work. For the latter group it's hard to deny an opportunity to be better and to do more.
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What's wrong with Uber and Lyft?
Has anyone proven logically that I, an entity, can create a new entity that is more intelligent than me? My intuition might be wrong, but how would that ever be a possibility, other than me aiding in the creation of a new human being?
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To clarify, I'm not referring to the image that society forces you to project. It's obviously a bad idea to claim incompetence.

That said, are you sure it's a good idea to remove modesty from your mind? It seems like more have fallen to pride than were lost to modesty.
Facebook have one of the leading teams on doing Deep Learning question answering. Jason Weston et. al wrote a paper introducing a machine-generated textual dataset[1] similar to what you describe, eg:

Daniel picked up the football.

Daniel drops the football.

Daniel got the milk.

Daniel took the apple.

How many objects is Daniel holding?

There have been plenty other papers published by them and others tackling that and similar but harder problems eg[2]

[1]http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05698v10.pdf

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02301
First of all, ADHD is hardly the only disease or disorder with an unclear cause. Alzheimer's, autism, and fibromyalgia come to mind.

Second of all, here is a comprehensive list of peer-reviewed studies defending the existence of ADHD and the efficacy of amphetamines for ADHD (much better than some random anecdote of an improperly diagnosed taxi passenger):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/3at2u2/psa_the_existe...

Admittedly, psychologists seem to have a problem properly diagnosing it, but let's not diminish a disorder suffered by millions every day.
It's a shame you were downvoted here, you're asking a pretty interesting question.
According to this article her net worth is $400m. That's still a lot of money.
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Hey Andrew,

First, I'm curious where you thought I was focused on unsupervised learning? It certainly didn't cross my mind when I was writing this --- I was (implicitly) strictly talking about supervised machine learning.

My post actually is in support of what the latter of your comment says in a round-a-bout way. In general, the people that are making huge strides in deep learning (Bengio, Hinton, Lecun are obviously the big three) understand the capabilities and, maybe more importantly, the limitations of DL. My main point is that the ML community at large is actually not on the same page as the experts, and that causes many more problems.

I want us, as a community, to stop treating deep learning any different than any other ML algorithms --- have a consensus, based on scientific facts, about the possibilities and limitations thus-far. If we, "the experts", don't understand these things about our own algorithms, how can we the rest of the world to understand them?
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Yes, states seem to do incentives like that on a "trust me" basis. You'd think they'd dispense the incentives after they got copies of the tax witholding forms showing the wages of the employees in the newly created jobs, but no.
Twitter's Scala school's "Concurrency" section uses Finagle futures which are different to Scala's standard library futures.

However this is never clarified to the reader.

If you want to be pro at Scala, I would recommend reading this: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610
A $10k basic income would require a flat tax rate of 27.5%. You realize that welfare/etc provides poor people with $20k, right? So either you are proposing a 50% cut in payments to the poor, or you are proposing 55% flat tax rates.

And that's ignoring taxes needed to fund a functioning government - e.g. roads, law enforcement, blowing up Afghani weddings, etc. So 65-70% flat tax rates? Or just a 37-42% tax rate, plus we've cut wealth transfers in half? Concretely, which one are you proposing?

(Incidentally corporate taxes are just taxes on people, merely hidden from view.)
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I didn't actually intend for my response to sound snarky, even though as I read it now, it probably does.
I think CS degrees should teach understanding (not practice) that will be useful to you for at least, say, the next 50 years if you are a computer scientist. Trendy tools and languages we can learn ourselves.
What might be useful in a Software Engineering degree IMO is learning to do the thing yourself (e.g. creating a chroot jail for an app you developed the previous semester), together with a short tour of tools that already do that (Docker or whatever is popular at the time can make a good case study.) However, for a CS degree where you have only 1-2 SE-related subjects, I believe such a thing would just get in the way.
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I agree.

Now, we mostly see the demand for parking at zero [#] marginal cost to the parker, not the demand for parking at its true cost---because the costs are shared by society.

The short term demand for parking is relatively inelastic---so right after introducing pervasive charging for curbside parking and dropping minimum parking requirements for new developments, we will see roughly the same number of cars parked. (That's where your dependency comes in.)

In the longer term, demand for parking is more elastic. (One can see a similar relationship between oil price and demand for gas guzzling cars: inelastic / path dependent in the short run. More elastic with enough time.)

This holds even without public transport at all. Public transport is just one of the things that can serve as an (imperfect) substitute for private car rides. There are other ones, like car sharing, choosing job/home combinations that are closer to each other, telecommuting, home delivery of groceries, buying groceries in bulk, etc.

(To take one example right now, people already prefer to work closer to home, and make trade-offs all the time when considering a home or a job. The point of indifference between eg home price/salary and commute length will shift. Full disclosure: I hate commuting myself and have decided to fork out the money to live very close to the office.)

All the people in the market are probably much cleverer than me in coming up with substitutes. The price mechanism can guide them.

Some of these substitutes can and are provided by the private market. Public transport is generally not. Though eg Britain has privatised train companies.

Add in as another complication that without careful regulation, lots of public transport options are natural monopolies. One attempt to blunt this effect is by careful separation: eg run the rail network as a heavily regulated, public utility and make private companies bid for the right to run trains on it and for slots at the stations etc. And be very careful to specify that apart from meeting some minimum standards, the height of the bid alone determines the winner of the auction---politicians like beauty contests, because it gives them power to meddle.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail for some lessons. Germany faces similar problems in eg their electrical power market.

Since I'm already on a tangent: the American freight train market and its history are another interesting piece to learn from. (It's doing pretty well, mostly because they don't have many passenger trains clogging up the network like in Europe, and the new regulatory environment of the Staggers Rail Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act) seems to have worked out reasonably well. (They called it `deregulation', but that almost never happens---it's just a different form of regulation.)

[#] Zero in terms of dollars plus the effort and hassle of congestion and cruising for parking.
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Thanks! That clears it up.
Then they can make their own choices about responsible use informed by the restraint and experience with other drugs (alcohol, etc.) It is far different, because it is much easier to become wired for a drug if you grow up using it (and being told to use it, by an adult authority), than dabbling in it later on, with a freedom to abstain.
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This is not true in Austin. The city passed a fingerprint and registration requirement and uber and lyft both left the following weekend. Smaller competitors are growing fast. I miss the nice apps and cheap prices but the alternatives are ok.
Also, you know, Amazon are not idiots. They aren't like, "Hey, you know what would be fun? Being bent over a barrel on last-mile shipping so that our profits can go to justify Uber's insane stock price."

Amazon is investigating Uber-like delivery options [1]. If they decide that there's anything there (and I'm not totally convinced that there is), they'll build the service themselves and not pay Uber for the privilege. And if the service works well for themselves, you can bet they'll open it up to other people to use for a price, as they have for all of their internal infrastructure projects.

[1] Source for this claim: I worked at Flywheel, an Uber competitor. Amazon had a program to have our drivers deliver packages, and got fairly close to acquiring us, before deciding they would rather not. This was a few years ago at this point, information is not current, and I have no idea about the present state of Flywheel, as I do not work there any more.
While this is an interesting and welcome development, nothing is for sure until the clinical trials prove the efficacy of this approach. The article doesn't say how the treatment worked for the 3 cancer patients. It only states that the treatment was tolerated. This headline mostly clickbait!
I think that reflects the complexity of a storage product more than CoreOS itself. I use CoreOS. I like it. I love the update mechanism, and the tight focus on running as much as possible in containers.

But I also have spent enough time using it to run across certain warts, and Etcd clusters refusing to start without manual intervention etc. have been a frequent enough problem that when they go after something incredibly hard such as distributed storage, and it's relying on Etcd, I see that as a scary combination.
Seriously. I get more buzzed off a couple cups of coffee than vyvanse, but vyvanse helps me stay focused much longer. I'd have no chance of attaining the life I want to live without antidepressants and some stimulants, the weight of life is crushing without them.
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> You want to start to learn from a starter kit. here: https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit

Well, that was your first mistake.. The official react starter kit from Facebook is a lot more basic: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html

Secondly, calm down, and maybe try to look around for better education materials than rage against the machine, where the machine is {Facebook, Big Tech, github/kriasoft}

This article is just a rant, first against tech company profits, then against react, then against someone's bundle having too many libraries, then against people who try to solve too many problems at once.
This is not a great analogy since their first application is block storage, but think about a journaling file system. Typically file data is not journaled, but metadata is. By having a consistent view of the metadata, the entire filesystem (as far as you can interact with it) is consistent. That consistent journal is the same primitive that etcd is providing.
I also wrote a command line pushbullet client. I have bash and fish functions that check the status of the last command and then push me a success or failure. Pretty straight forward and little overhead.
Yes. When you open a directory that is a git repository, the files in the sidebar will have different color if they're modified, new, etc. When viewing actual files, edited/new/deletes lines will also have markers in the gutter.
Likely flagged by an automated algorithm, as it should've been. Automated tweeting at an account daily from a bunch of different accounts is blatantly spammy.
When there is no common understanding for what is right or wrong, what gives then somebody the right to cut of other people heads for some wrong doing. There can't be any crimes following your logic.
Predicting (function approximation) is perhaps the main use of neural nets but there is another very important use: generating, or in other words, imagination. And in generative mode we need to know about probabilities and latent variables - thus, we need a little more than neural nets to do this task.
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If those features had a negative impact on their bottom line they would never offer them for free to everyone so yes, they're doing it for themselves and it just so happens that some people find them useful.
You're right. I misstated it here and was clearly lying when I said I understood it.

Another good tip for interviewees: If you don't really understand something well enough to explain it, sometimes it's better not to bring it up than to introduce it and look silly. Sucks. But you're more likely to lose points than gain them for just kind of knowing something exists.

Also applies to hacker news comments ;)
It's not that simple. The compiler writers have caused security issues before in the Linux kernel. And the compiler writers are right: the undefined behavior that they exploit exists for important performance-related reasons.
Like another poster answer, there is the lowrisc effort that is probably closest to bringing out a risc-V micro-controller board?

In general, I wonder, what are the economics of producing micro-controller chips? I assume there is something like a minimum chip complexity (number of transistors), below which it doesn't make the thing cheaper since you need to produce a package big enough to have pins to connect to the outside world? And as feature sizes are reduced, that minimum complexity goes up?

And of course, for something like a hobbyist product like Arduino, the price of the micro-controller chip itself must be a (very) small fraction of the price of the board?

All this being a long-winded way of saying I hope that a hypothetical RISC-V based micro-controller board wouldn't be noticeably more expensive than an equivalent 8-bit AVR micro-controller board? Oh, and compatibility with Arduino shields, and programmable with Rust. And a pony.
Why are we so preoccupied with the notion of "artificial intelligence" in the first place?

Artificial intelligence, if it can even be defined, does not seem like a particularly valuable goal. Why is emulating human cognition the metric by which we assess the utility of machine learning systems?

I'd take a bunch of systems with superhuman abilities in specialized fields (driving, Go, etc.) over so-called "artificial intelligence" any day.
> If reproducing the human nervous system weren't that complicated, we could do drug design inside a computer.

While the myriad nuances of the entire human body are indeed significant roadblocks to drug development, we have a long way to go before those concerns represent the primary bottleneck to progress. If a simulation of a protein's local environment were to reach chemical accuracy (via either some algorithmic breakthrough in quantum chemistry or the development of scalable quantum computers), that would be a huge boon to drug development.
Having skimmed the jobs thread a few times I would say that's an accurate thing. Feels like 99% of the posts there are for website devs that know javascript.

I'm not sure if that's because 99% of software jobs involve website dev with javascript, or because the majority of the people that visit hackernews are. Hrmm?
"we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly"

Love reading that!!
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There are a lot of checks for specific apps in the Cocoa framework. It's pretty much what the undocumented CFExecutableLinkedOnOrAfter() is for (sometimes called in conjunction with a check for a specific bundle name).
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A significant point is that starting with values, as you propose, is a departure from Empiricism. We have no scientifically-accepted evidence such a theorized value exists and (as you know) what Hume shows with his Facts-Values gap is that we can never use data we observe empirically to arrive at values.

You could admit you are starting with a Value but your personal opinion of what value to begin with would always remain a subjective whim in a mundane, materialist universe. This is why Hume understood our deepest convictions of our conscience could only be explained in a supramundane world, concluding they must be impressions sourced to the Supreme Being.

Again, you can't simply start with a Value and declare you have escaped subjectivity. Being subjective, your morality remains conditional and hypothetical. One's declaration becomes "If you begin by first valuing—as I do—that animals should not be killed, you should be a vegetarian" -- supposing one does not share this first (theorized) value regarding animals the sentence is dismissed as any other subjective moral claim. You speculate this subjectivity could be answered if you could demonstrate such a value had actually been what you term a "universal shared value" but this can never be done. Even if 99% of humans or life in the universe held the value "animals should not be killed" we could not declare that value a moral fact. A majority believing something is never able to tell us what is actually the case (ad populum). We remain unable to reason "99% of life in the universe desires not to kill animals therefore no one should ever kill animals" - the data (Is) cannot transcend and provide an objective should (Ought).
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In California, tax measures like the bond measures supporting transit investment have to be passed with a 2/3rd majority. Yet Los Angeles County voters have steadily supported them. A ballot measure is likely coming in November, raising $120B for transportation. It includes highway funding, but it's a massive contribution to transit investment.

Angelenos are massively in favor of transit investment. Now their motive can be ambiguous, maybe they just want other people off the streets to alleviate their traffic. But still, they support massive investments.
Sibling comments have mentioned Neural Turing Machines, but even just regular recurrent neural networks are technically Turing complete[1].

[1] - http://lipas.uwasa.fi/stes/step96/step96/hyotyniemi1/
> Not many barriers to these apps.

Two words: network effect. More drivers means more users. More users attracts more drivers. This is precisely why we have eBay and Craigslist despite them both offering, by modern standards, objectively terrible user experiences. Suffice it to say I am extremely bullish on Uber, Airbnb, etc. sticking around for a whole.
Correct, city, state and to some extent federal law. As well as various international companies and the international regional equivalents
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> Neural nets are universal function approximators.

True, but that's kind of like saying Rule 110 is capable of universal computation — possible in theory, but not really useful in practice.
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I also don't know, but since it is done at the store level, can probably replace those parts if needed.

Way easier than converting between Assembly languages.
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