skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that addiction is a disease was reinforced by decades of trying to help people with strategies that don't work. ... Pellagra is only cured with Vitamin B3; scurvy is only cured with Vitamin C. Treating diseases of nutritional deficiency with anything but the missing nutrients is an exercise in futility.

Addictions are not simple like Pellagra or Scurvy, but when you figure out what a specific person actually needs, they can rapidly recover. I've done it twice - my alcoholic friend is doing quite well; my poly-addict (opiates/cocaine/alcohol) would be doing quite well if she hadn't been captured and court-ordered to endure palliative Psychiatric treatment.

The Alcoholic became an alcoholic when she discovered that Vodka helped her anxiety more than Xanax. Benzodiazepienes lose effectiveness after about 4 weeks - when a person who is addicted to this class of drugs tries to quit, their anxiety is worse than it was before. She was peri-menopausal at the time, which was probably a huge factor...

As for the poly-addict.... When I met her, I said to myself, "this woman is 'high as a kite'..." As the months went by, she gradually invited me into her world, and I learned that she really was self-medicating with the street pharmacy.

She latched on to me like a life preserver. After almost six months of my influence, and a little non-quantifiable hocus-pocus, she called to share three insights, spread over 3 days:

- "I wish I wasn't a drug addict..."
- "I should only use substances which are legal!!! *Alcohol is legal...* "
- "I hate methadone, I hate everything about it."

Before these insights, drugs were fine, because they'd always been there to help when she was suicidally depressed. Her alcoholism started a month after she began treatment with Methadone... The problem with methadone is that it has all of the addiction of heroin, but none of the thrill.

So after six months, she was doing rather well. But alcohol is hard to kick on your own, and she was taken to the hospital as "psychotic"... The psychiatrists got hold of her - it's been a disaster. . They pretend that the symptom of withdrawal from substances ("psychosis") justifies the use of so-called anti-psychotics in perpetuity. Robert Whitaker has looked at the evidence, and has concluded that there is no benefit to the routine use of these drugs [1]...

[1] http://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-C...

The mental health field needs a clean-sheet redesign. Nothing else will help.

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I'm having a vague recollection about the company now. Did you spend any time at Clemson?
I think lack of stimulus at work is why addiction is (mostly) a poverty problem. I have even worked at factories where people got high to get through an inhumanely boring day.
Adobe did buy AEM "when i was little" (you know, for like 20M or something I have no idea) and it has grown to 10x as much. However that is purchasing a smaller company...kind of like venture capital investment I guess. there seem to be plenty of examples where buying companies hasn't worked out (yahoo+tumblr comes to mind, and that's only recent news).
Wish we had this when I was taking Discrete Math and Numerical Methods back in college. Really neat visualization!
Anyone that talks about AA like this isnt really doing what AA is... the helplessness thing also isnt true.

Powerlessness is just about "I dont have power over X" where x=other people, other circumstances, etc etc.

All you have power over is your OWN actions. And thru that you gain immense power.

The steps are just about clearing out the shitty character your developed lying and cheating your way to get high/drunk... So you can start making decisions without trying to cover up 100 other shitty decisions.

The higher power thing is just about not being so self centered and framing the world from a point of view where the addict isnt in the center of it, but a participant equal to all others.

Theres lots of crazy everywhere, and AA attracts alot of them. But people who have found true freedom outside of addictions thru the process. And many people just build new frameworks to be assholes with.
Commercial rents in the US are usually not advertised monthly but annually instead.

$66/sqft/month = $792/sqft/year would be far and away the most expensive commercial rent in the US, by nearly an order of magnitude.

Side note: commercial rents also imply different cost sharing than residential rents - many buildings do not include maintenance of common spaces (lobbies, restrooms if they are in "public" areas of each floor) in the rent cost, whereas it's nearly unheard of for residential rents to exclude common spaces.
And in the same vein, why not ask investors to if they'll fund a pacemaker company in a purely philanthropic fashion? Isn't it better to get pacemakers in a limited fashion than not at all?
Yes, this is a very annoying "feature" of gmail.

If list owners wanted this to be a feature, you could configure it on a list basis, at least in mailman. However nobody does, because it's incredibly annoying :-)
Was wondering the same thing? If he's not willing to offer a prize, I'm willing to post one with $50k prize with the assumption that 1000 signups of $100 per person.

Also, really needs to be coaching during the weekend.
Go into http://reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction sometime. You may not be aware of the sheer volume of voices doing this, or you're surrounding yourself with actual open-minded people.
Due to a recent bad experience of email being mis-categorised, I've taken to checking the gmail spam folder again several times a week, just to be sure :-\
Well now, this isn't quite the same thing as your normal IoT device. You would need to be Really Damn Sure any updates are bug-free before you could push them, which would take actual financial resources. Open source would help here, but not quite as much as it normally would.
seems like a debate about semantics. Why can't the answer be a multi-variate model in which disease like factors get a weight and non-disease like factors get some kind of a weight? What's the point arguing about these non continuous binary options?
It does have a reputation (for me, anyway) of possibly being cheaper. And tons of reviews online of people having poor experiences buying from it. That's the rep. it has for me so far :)

It does have a cooler looking website than walmart, and possibly even amazon. FWIW.
PostgreSQL Index Internals
>Unfortunately too much of it is endless turtles-all-the-way-down yak shaving marathons, like in the JS world. I forget whether I'm supposed to grunt, gulp, babble, or barf.

I don't use any of 'em. If you can afford to give the finger to those not running in a near-POSIX environment, you can just use makefiles or npm scripts: write your code, and run shell scripts to build it, the way God, Doug, Dennis, Brian, and Ken intended.

As for good dev environments, I will not leave my beloved emacs (C-x C-e in geiser-mode means that you can run your software as you write it, and I love it: Most dynamic languages have something similar), but that would intimidate newbies. Gedit and a shell is probably the best environment to start them with: It's about as simple as you get, and every developer is expected to have a rudimentary knowledge of shell, so best to start early.
Honest question: do any readers here really order from walmart.com ? I am surprised they sell much at all, based on how much I personally have ordered from them (never).
>And man, I love watching the videos of dogs being reunited with their owners after not seeing them for months.

I could watch those forever.

What's amazing is it's almost like that, maybe on a slightly smaller scale, when you arrive home from work every single day!

It makes you feel like a celebrity. Hard to be sad when someone is so happy just to see you.
>Skipping clinical trials would be a major competitive advantage (lower costs, quicker to market etc.), but we don't allow that for the same reason

About that ...

Have you seen http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php and http://www.fdareview.org/07_market_failure.php?
Romantic Telepathy
The Chronicle? Who wrote the article, dr dre?
This was an odd article that kept saying trial "by jury" is a rare thing, and then made statements about trials generally being rare. It made me wonder how many bench trials occur.
Symbolic algebra. I think you may be confusing numerical scientific computing with symbolic algebra. In the science/math/stats realm the tools you mention (e.g. R and python) do numerical computing. They only have symbolic computing as add-on packages (e.g. sympy). Mathematica is the world's most capable symbolic algebra system by a long way. It can also do numerical operations similar to what R and python can do, but I doubt it has the statistical breadth of R.
No.

Tell me, how many vulnerabilities are running wild on Linux, the software that powers... well, pretty much anything (including the servers through which you read this content)? Even if you find a vulnerability, it gets patched within hours and it may take a day or two for it to be distributed to everyone.

> Security by obscurity [...] does raise the barrier to entry for script kiddies.

Which script can help you find a vulnerability inside of the source code? You'll need a script that can understand the code it's looking at. I'm not aware of any such script.
For good reason though. From Crockford:

> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't.

via https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...
No experience with this stuff, but it feels like you could do an abs(kernel) to extract some meaning from the negative value.

Applying this to the "outline" kernel, it seems like white bordered by black would show up just as white as black bordered by white, with homogeneous kernels still showing up black.
>We need to live in harmony with Nature. This kind of awareness (hard metrics) has to be fed back into our decision making to do it. I believe we can support current population

There does also exist other means of reaching this goal -- a lot of low hanging fruit, actually.

Public policy could do a lot more to provide incentives which reward for increasing sustainability, and punish for decreasing it.

For example, when I go camping here in the States, especially now in the summer months, I see a lot of people running generators, and sometimes this is even to run AC units.

I look at their rigs: A white roof could reduce heat. Generators and fuel adds weight to haul on the road, decreasing MPGs. Solar panels could add charge at reduced weight. It would be massively more efficient to have the solar panels that are located at solar powerstations, located on top of someone's RV, instead, but we don't do this.

The reason that does not happen is because the incentives for consumers don't line up. Fuel is cheap, and solar panels are expensive. Energy production must be subsidized with taxpayer dollars and heavy handed regulation to create solar generation facilities that then lose power as current is transmitted over the grid.

Still, the difference is close enough that a nudge from effective public policy would make a big difference. Some people do own their own panels. I own one that can charge my laptop and smart phone. It's great, actually.

The correct answer is not a system of carbon credits and tax incentives, creating more heavy handed regulation, bureaucracy, and power to government -- exactly what politicians want. The right answer is to do what America will never vote for: tax gasoline.

If gas taxes actually accounted for the externalities they produce: local pollution, global warming, noise, etc., people would think twice about investing in that solar panel. And the rest of us wouldn't have to live with the externalities.

Taxes will net you less of what you are taxing. Perhaps that doesn't sound so illuminating, but a person from another planet visiting earth would scratch their head looking at our choice to heavily tax things we always desperately want more of (employment), and to subsidize through world policy and military expenditure things we want less of (oil).

Just getting the economics of public policy right can have a big impact on our ability to live in better harmony with nature.
Wow, and it's on LINUX too!
That's the way I have always heard it framed,as what is your definition of disease?
Climate-Change Activism: What Went Wrong
I never understood why people on Linux always fight to have games on the platform. From the dev perspective, Linux is probably a sub 5% market share so it's never worth the effort compared to releasing new features/content.

Why fight this losing trend when you could easily dual boot or even have a dedicated gaming rig?
Anyone you're likely to classify as a "script kiddy" is not going to be able to read the kind of code going into embedded devices like a pacemaker to a deep enough level to find any problems. And if they can the software is really problematic, most likely.

Security by obscurity is never a good idea, but especially not when it might prevent a white hat from finding a bug that would allow a malicious actor to remotely STOP MY HEART.
There's a pretty big gap between $40 and "nobody can make any money".
Rat park is unreplicatable. It's a sham. I'm sorry.
The challenge of convincing white men they're not as meritorious as they think
Cultural Marxism comes from the Frankfurt School betting on Gramsci realization that Marxism will not work if tried to be implanted by an armed revolution but with a "long run" cultural subversion that can dominate culturally its institutions. Example: from destroying family and individual identity (specially sexuality) you prepare dudes that _will_ fallback to depend on what's left: the state. When that happens, gravitating to political clientelism is a piece of cake (everyone will defend The Matrix unless it starts to collapse like in Venezuela is).
> Why there are no comments?

Here's the answer: https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...

Not sure if I agree with it or not, nevertheless that was the reasoning.
I write scheme not for a living. My build script is a scheme file or a makefile, depending on the project.

The build complexity is one of the reasons I stay away from Java: If these people think they need XML for builds, what other needlessly complex horrors have they perpetrated? And that sort of thing.

Do you have your buildscript template on github?
Because as a developer, it's often easier to develop for Linux than other major platforms. You often get Linux compatability for "free". It's worth asking for for this reason.
It is pre-encoded, with a unique stream key (like a session key). The stream key is then encrypted with the public key of each playback manufacturer (multiple copies of the key, one per manufacturer) in DVD CSS. A more complicated scheme is used for Bluray which provides for unique keys for each player but without significant overhead (see http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/2nl.html).
That is why many linux aficionados have a game box (xbox, ps4). Trying to target linux sounds like a nightmare with regards to distro, hardware, etc.
for the ignorant (i.e. me) among us, what are the implications of factoring large numbers?
Not exactly ... but you can certainly use Nix to build docker images, which is very convenient.
This is why I don't run JavaScript unless I absolutely must. Unfortunately, a lot of sites leave no option; I find myself choosing to miss out on the content rather than risk the exposure and bad usability.

Side note: Michał is truly prolific, I get the feeling that his dream is to have a full system secure against common attackers, which consumers might actually want to use. He seems to attack every piece of system software in every way from design flaws to implementation bugs.
Are you referencing the ThreadLocal[0] issue? If so, it has been committed to master (as mentioned in the comments).

0 - https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/issues/742
A lot of widely-used cryptography relies on factoring large numbers being difficult.
That seems to seriously underestimate Google's footprint in SF. If 180000 square feet is enough space for 1400 twitter employees, you can extrapolate from Google's public leases that they have enough space to be either the #2 or even #1 tech employer in SF.

1: Both sides of the Hills Plaza building: ~450k sq. ft. 2: 250k sq. ft. at 1 market. 3: the entire 188 Embarcadero, which looks like maybe 75k sq. ft.

Just straight-line extrapolating from the Twitter property, that's space for over 5000 people.

http://sf.curbed.com/2014/7/25/10069066/future-google-landlo...

http://sf.curbed.com/2014/7/14/10074388/google-buys-188-emba...
In fluid dynamic sims for example. Water level can be positive or negative. Grids of data can represent more than colors in images.
Governments are accountable to constituencies and/or electorates. Companies to directors, management, stockholders, and other stakeholders, roughly in that order (where stakeholders == employees, customers, vendors, business partners, community, etc.).

Governments can be investigated by legislators, executive agencies, and courts, as well as subject to document requests (e.g., FOIA in the US), and journalists. Governments themselves don't typically operate as an advertiser in the press, hence, putting purse control over coverage.

Governments are typically more long-lived, and hence have longer-lived planning and concern horizons, than corporations.

It's not perfect, but political power is a check on corporate or financial power, one of several.
Most cryptographic methods rely on factoring being computationally difficult. The outcome of this would be the near-total compromise of modern cryptographic methods, i.e. the backbone of the internet would fall out.
That is basically what we have built at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (lcogt.net). We have ~20 telescopes around the globe, all on a single network that essentially distributes a queue of observations to where and when they are most likely to be observed. The result is 24/7 coverage of the both the northern and southern hemispheres.

It's a lot harder than you'd think. There is no such thing as an off the shelf professional grade telescope, so we employ a large engineering team to actually build them. Scopes and their instruments are complex and made of many independent systems and require a TON of software to run without an human operator (and even with). Scheduling observations is another challenge, an np-complete one actually. Then there's the problem of analyzing and storing gigabytes of data a day.

As a member of the relatively small software team, we have a TON to do. But it's a really cool problem to work on!
I would send Bruce Schneier (or some other security expert) and encrypted message containing a good part of their private key, to convince them I was for real, then have them decide what to do.

Just because I've figured out the math of factoring large numbers, doesn't mean I'm qualified to make the non-mathematical decision of how to handle that information.
It's not quite as easy as you might think, but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS. The data analysis is quite a challenge, though. According to that site, the data rate from the PS1 telescope is ~ 10TB/night.
As a human-presenting, non-binary, therian (felinekin), I feel I must weight in.

Gender is a binary social construct used for oppression and it is disgusting to project your closed minded, heteronormative, racist ideas of gender on innocent animals who have no way of consenting.

Using the word "pussy" to refer to vaginal sexual organs OR to a feline animal is a micro-aggression against all womyn AND all feline-identifying otherkin and is the type of privileged, sexist language that enables our oppression.
In the business software world, the barrier to entry for end-users seems a lot higher than it used to be. Learning PHP, standing up a database and getting it all hosted is a lot more difficult that taking an application suite like MS Access, creating some tables, and then putting forms up on top of them.

Microsoft created a tool a few years ago called Lighswitch that allowed end-users to throw together CRUD apps quickly, and it seems to have been met with deafening silence. I wonder if managers and CIOs in BigCorps would tolerate their end-users throwing together little apps that solved their problems in today's equivalent of VB6, or MS Access (the ultimate agile experience since users are solving their own problems). Experience suggests not, and although those apps could have become unmaintainable, it seems that there is little effort being made by vendors to address that market, and to provide ease of use, with better maintainability and scalability.
I agree with what you observe, but I'd characterize Japan's solution as massively and strictly central planning, whereas the US has loosely adhered to local planning.
Worse than having no content is publicly showing an empty user-generated content section. Marketing-wise it also seems like a dumb idea to try to beat amazon.com on longtail.
Calling BS here.
a) A few years ago it was a sub 1% market share and no games bothered. Now it's a sub 5% (disclaimer: I'm making these numbers up) and i'd say approx 50% of indie games and 10% of AAA bother. We fight because we're slowly winning.

b) A dual boot setup is awfully annoying. I keep a ton of things open in a "i'm in the middle of this" state, and shutting everything down/losing that state in order to reboot is a massive cost, and it means in practice that I only ever boot into windows to play games if I plan on playing a specific game for several hours at least - it means I can't play a game casually. Over time, I've started avoiding windows only games altogether.
As for not having a dedicated gaming rig: Space, mainly. And cost, secondly. I could potentially set something up, but I'd need to share monitors/keyboard for practical reasons, which is a ton of setup I don't really have time to get right. Other solutions like a windows VM, same reason.
San Francisco real estate and Technology stocks are highly correlated. So is Twitter needing to lease its space, at high prices, a good or bad omen?
>other than time/resource availability

Time and resource availability is the whole reason plea bargains happen to begin with.

Even if you hire more judges and build more courtrooms, going to trial may not help unless defendants get good lawyers who can spend a lot of time on their cases. These are not hallmarks of public defender offices in states with budget woes (i.e. almost all of them).
I don't believe so... you could use the Family Lite account for $10/year (250MB, custom domain) - https://www.fastmail.com/signup/family.html
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Senior Back End and Front End Engineers
I think I disagree. You should be allowed to do anything you want of you aren't stealing or murdering anyone.
It's still sub-1% market share. Would you design a site that only works on IE6?
Would you design an app for IE6?
Of course. If I figured it out, then someone else has. People should know that their encrypted comms are not as secure as they thought.
Measuring a serial entrepreneur’s success – Robert Langer's 31 start ups
There are people doing the math.

The equation they're solving for is probably not, "How can we maximize Walmart's profits?", though. It's "How can I maximize my own immediate career goals?"
You are far from the first person to misunderstand/misrepresent worse is better. The best part is when people recommend reading the essay, and then demonstrate they they don't know what it meant: It's not about the battle between simplicity and complexity, it's about the battle between simplicity of interface and the simplicity of implementation.