skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And therein lies the problem with making generalizations from single data points. Supposedly I have ADHD as well (I'm diagnosed such at least), and I generally become more mellow after taking adderall. I think the moral of this further anecdote is that generalizations should not be made on either of our experiences. Add into that the confounding factors of human bodies not being identical and having differing reactions to the same stimuli, and it becomes an even more dangerous game.
If not overturned on appeal it could set an interesting precedent to argue that in court for all other private equity buyouts that have ever taken place.
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I agree. I was also thinking of Ceph when I wrote my reply to Cantrill. Esp Ceph on XFS given maturity of both plus enormous effort that's gone into XFS. Sector/Sphere with UDT is also kick-ass. It took both of these a long time to get to where they were fighting all kinds of unforseen issues. They also tried to build on proven components that themselves were battletested for years.

So, this company is trading away stuff like that for custom components and Etcd? And for a component focusing on integrity and availability? Huh?
They just released a really clean new homepage too. Big stuff!

https://www.urbit.org/
Even in Switzerland it sometimes goes wrong. One interesting example is the bridge in Laufenburg. Construction was started on both the German and the Swiss side. In the end the sides didn't match up (Number 7 on http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27509559).

The German Wikipedia says Swiss engineers were at fault (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochrheinbrücke#Konstruktionsf...)
> therefore intrinsic quality measures (like security) are more important to their management

Right, I agree, but just because it is important doesn't mean they are good at it. And there is the fact that there is now likely 1 or 2 people attending to 1000 customers, than 1 or 2 people in house tending to 1 customer.
They're physically safe unless taken in hugh doses an have many side effects like mental and emotional problems which can occur at any dosage level but of course get worse with increasing dose. Having used amphetamines I can attest they have positive and negative properties and we should be aware of both. There is also physical tolerance and they are addictive. They need to be well regulated and controlled. Read "A history of Speed" - it's a very interesting pharmaceutical story.
I have personally seen someone in crunch replace a few terse lines written in 15 minutes that worked. With pages of boilerplate code and a few dozen files that must have taken days. His response, I did not understand what you did.

Ask? I mean no wonder that team was working 80 hour weeks. If you stop thinking then even very simple problems become monumental challenges.
Thank you for your well put answer. I have no experience with amphetamines, but have been thinking about this subject, but it's not something that is exactly being talked about in public.

Sometimes I even felt it a little bit unfair as a programmer, that I am competing with people who are medicated. But I don't think like this anymore.

And yes, I agree on the doing less is more, with highly intelligent tasks you just start banging your head against the wall at some point, and anything beyond this point can be time just wasted, when we could be just relaxing and resting, to be more in tune again the next day.
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You're missing a <'a> in the declaration there ;)

"from_bytes is a public function with one lifetime parameter, a. It takes one argument, a slice of u8 with the lifetime 'a, and returns an IResult, which gives back a slice of u8 with the lifetime 'a in the success case, and some type C, which is also parameterized with the lifetime 'a, in the failure case."

This is not really normal rust code; it's nom, which is a very macro-heavy DSL. There are decent upsides, and I love nom, but its downside is that it does look a bit odd.
Add this to your list:

http://sector.sourceforge.net/

I swore I added it to the Wikipedia links. I'll have to do it again, I guess.
Came to Mac gaming in the early 2000s. It wasn't the high-end overcommercialized hardcore market of twitchy games on the PC; it was a small community of indie developers, who made some fun games (Escape Velocity: Nova &c.). The big titles I was interested in (Sid Meier's Civilization) usually came to Mac within a year.
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You sure that's not passive? Exhausted: drained, used up. By what? Sounds passive to me.
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>Another phrasing might be, 'useful social constructs.'…there's no claim that they are objective

You can call the social constructs whatever you like and no one is foolish enough to deny their utility. But as you note, they are not claimed to be objective; it is admitted that they are nothing more than (subjective) opinions. In trying to learn what they really are Chris Hitchens and Carl Sagan teach us how to approach invented opinions with Empiricism's perspective: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence".

>just an observation

That's really all Hume did with a single paragraph known as Is-Ought. But it has frightful consequences, showing subjective morality to no more than a disposable invention in light of reason and logic. This line of thought from the 1700s that without God morals were made up gave us Surrealism, Dada, modern art, postmodernism, the thought of Max Stirner, Nietzche, Hobbes, Satre, Camus, Marx, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, et al ad nauseum and continues to this day.

>presupposes that your view is correct

If my view is not correct, it should be easy for you to refute Is-Ought. You can't and won't.
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Sourcegraph CEO here. Excited to show this to HN folks. Huge credit to Farhan Attamimi and John Rothfels on our team for creating it.

Happy to answer any questions here about how we built the Sourcegraph Chrome extension, future plans, issues, etc.

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I'm sure Yarvin & the team will be delighted to hear it!
Fugly? Compared to what alternatives? The offerings from Microsoft are even fuglier.
It's free software; You have no right to complain or dictate priorities when you aren't paying for it. You aren't the customer, KeePass 2 advertisers are.

Use 1password and pay $5 a month if you want the right to complain.
How to Build a Moral Robot
FYI. The rtmp module broke recently with the recent nginx 1.11.0 release.
This may be partially true, but my anecdotal evidence points elsewhere. I live in a very poor city in the US, and most of the private hospitals here run a surplus. The problem (like in tech) is finding adequate talent. Doctors and nurse practitioners (the people that are licensed to actually provide medical care) are in extremely short supply. The money problem is at the University level. Medical programs are so rigorous and expensive, that schools cannot expand and graduate enough students to meet the demand. Hospitals and clinics are expanding, but medical schools are not. So the students that do graduate and move on to residency are overworked due to lack of adequate staff for the facility (rather than lack of money). Residents are extremely cheap compared to boarded physicians and nurse practitioners. I know personally if the hospitals I work for could hire more residents, they would in a snap, but the local University won't fund the programs.

The only solutions are to either get more money into schools to graduate more practitioners, or hope that new technology and innovation can somehow alleviate the burden of work on the existing care providers.
summer 2016?
You aren't allowed to get the court to second guess the selling price if you consented to the sale, only if you were forced to sell.
"in-memory capabilities also includes unique features such as JSON support"

Does this mean JSON data is not stored on disk?
More places are starting to take it. It might end up being a grassroots thing.

Last month I was at a sheep and wool festival (yeah just what it sounds like) in central MD, visiting a merchant in a straw floor awning tent at the county fairgrounds. He had a sign up saying he preferred BTC because card fees kill him. My wife whipped out her Mycelium app and the transaction went through in seconds.

It's not Macy's or Amazon yet, but it's getting there. Overstock takes it.
Very good points.

They really make us jump through a lot of hoops just to get the medicine we need to live a somewhat normal life, all in the name of preventing drug abuse. I don't believe it actually does anything significant to prevent abuse, those who want to abuse drugs will always find a way.

There's so much of a stigma associated with low dose amphetamines and it's completely unfounded. I really noticed this when I switched from dextroamphetamine to methamphetamine (Desoxyn). Since my insurance wouldn't cover the brand name drug, I get the Mylan generic that says "METHAMPHETAMINE" on the label and I could really notice a difference in the way I was treated at the pharmacy. It was like they immediately assumed I was some dangerous drug addict. I'd try to be friendly with them and all I would get is really robotic responses.

It's ridiculous that they assume methamphetamine is this much more dangerous or addictive of a drug, it's not. In fact it's the best stimulant I have ever used. Way more effective than dextroamphetamine with fewer side effects.

Luckily I have a good psychiatrist that is setup to handle the monthly refills in a sane manor and doesn't treat me like a drug addict when I'm just looking to improve my life.
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Consistent is Correctable
I agree that consumer-facing IoT devices are a single vertical in a long list of verticals (many of which are more mature) but I really wanted to mention that IBM also has a platform in this space that was omitted from your list: Watson IoT.

(Disclaimer: I work on the MessageSight messaging engine used in Watson IoT)
It's probably all about dose. Just takes more for an ADHD individual to be affected the same.
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So it's simply grinding an axe against London, and not that, according to the UK National Crime Agency, "hundreds of billions of US dollars of criminal money almost certainly continue to be laundered through UK banks, including their subsidiaries, each year”?
You can't do qualitative work with a combination of blood, sweat and intercellular juice that you squeeze out of a finger prick.

You might be able to test for the presence or absence of a gene, but to determine cholesterol levels, electrolytes, etc it isn't feasible because you don't know what you are getting.

Back in the 1980s they developed fast cholesterol tests, for instance, that work from a fingerprick. They used to use these for mass screenings, but the accuracy is awful compared to the real test. I bought a pack of them and found that I don't bleed enough of the right kind of blood for them to work.

Real cholesterol tests, on the other hand, are a bit expensive for real because you do have to get a good sample and centrifuge it since you are not just trying to determine one quantitative number but differentiate between HDL and LDL types that settle out at different places in the tube.
FreeBSD jails, I would think.
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#1) Let's get specific about our dosages then. I know people prescribed 60mg of adderall a day. And lots of people prescribed 40mg. I guarantee if you give a person with no amphetamine tolerance 40 mg of adderall (yes, even if you split it into two doses) they are going to know they are on some speed. In fact, most people I know that use adderall "recreationally" (whether for pleasure or productivity -- that is they aren't prescribed, take the same or less than the people I know taking it prescribed -- I usually take 20 mg to crank on some work or be more chatty at a party.

#2) Whether ADHD is "real" or not requires a complex discussion about epistemology, etc, as do all mental health diagnoses. What do you mean, "real"? Yes, of course it is real in so far as there are people with various clusters of symptoms that seem to go together, but they are all on a spectrum. Psychiatric diagnoses are inherently unreliable[1] -- in that it can't generally be replicated sufficiently from doctor to doctor with the same patient (or even doctor to same patient at different times) even with that giant bible sitting there we call the DSM.

So yes, there are a variety of states of consciousness that vaguely cluster together that we have decided to call "depression". We know some chemicals that help some of these states -- though it's arguable that many of them are better than placebo (hello, SSRIs, but hey ketamine seems quite promising). Any therapist worth hir salt knows that depressions are different for different people -- different causes different manifestations etc. Yet thanks largely to the pharma industry, we have begun to collectively think there's this very specific thing called "depression" that's due to "brain chemistry" that can be fixed with XYZ and in fact human consciousness is much much much more complicated than that -- from both a psycho-spiritual angle and from a neuroscientific angle.

Lastly, there's no doubt amphetamine usage has been around for a long time, and probably at higher concentrations than today among some population groups (middle-aged women in the 50s for example). But I doubt you can find me any study showing that we've ever seen so many people on high-dose daily amphetamines from a young age through adulthood until the past decade or so.
>Look for hidef wireless hmds in 20-36 months, not 20 years.

How do you suppose that will happen? On-device computing hardware or a wireless tether?

The latter appears to only be maybe possible with microwave radio, but requires constant line of sight which is a huge issue.

The former may be possible depending on your definition of hidef. IMO I doubt it though, much of what makes VR immersive is having a HMD lightweight/comfortable enough that you forget it's on. That's hard enough when the only hardware in the HMD is essentially screens and an IMU. I can't imagine the added weight of CPU/GPU/batteries/etc not making a significant enough impact on comfort to make it not worth it, in the next 20-36 months.

For reference, my standard of hidef VR right now, not in 20-36 months, is Vive level resolution/FOV/tracking accuracy and latency; I wouldn't put GearVR in that group, or any platform without submillimeter positional tracking for that matter.
So why not use both? Just like iPhones use a M9 processor for some dedicated computations, why can't MacBooks offload some less intensive computations to an energy efficient ARM processor.

This in no way eats the x86 market but in fact grows the ARM market.
This framework seems to have practically the same API as nickel.rs https://github.com/nickel-org/nickel.rs
Not really a fair number to quote when Fidelity accidentally voted a huge number of shares in favor.
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Does Salesforce pursue the same model of customer acquisition as Oracle does? I know Oracle is known to sell to existing customers additional products & services, so Salesforce might be "acquiring" new customers if there is little overlap in current customer base.

It seems highly unlikely this sort of acquisition is for the technology alone.
Is anybody advocating arbitrary confiscation of private wealth? It seems more likely to me that BI would involve lawful taxation.
Try having it read from a fifo instead.