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I can confirm this. My wife used to work at a prison in California, and she told me about ramen being used as currency by the inmates. They would refer to ramen packets as "soups".

It sounded like the inmates got just enough calories to survive, and often supplemented their diet by purchasing additional food with whatever money was given to them by family or was earned through jobs (which paid 10 cents an hour or something ridiculous like that). Ramen is cheap, has lots of calories, and lasts a long time, making it very popular.

They also made their own alcoholic concoctions by storing fruit and various other things in their mouths and spitting it into a plastic bag, letting it ferment over time. That was referred to as "pruno". Pruno was considered contraband and would be confiscated upon discovery, so it was hidden in places like the toilet to prevent discovery. Pruno often turned out to be toxic in some manner, and sometimes made inmates very sick. It didn't stop them from making it though.
Wrong. If all the offers are around the same, you're still right where you were.
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If huge portions of the glaciers disappearing every year isn't convincing enough I pray neither you or your desendants are allowed to inhabit any other planet we decide to go to.
In the trucking industry, our telematics kept failing to the tuna can problem: A tuna can is the perfect size, shape, and material to cover a GPS antenna.
>>Sorry, but I take it personally when me and my colleagues are called substandard programmers.

I don't know what kind of programming you do, but he is talking mainly about kernel programming. He is mainly criticizing the people who want to bring C++ in the kernel world. Anyone is welcome to prove him wrong.

But I think, C++ is more suited for applications programming, where efficiency is not a prime concern and abstraction-costs are justified.

Even in such cases, (e.g. git, which is an application program) an excellent programmer like Linus can be very well productive with C and does not need the (sloppy/non-sloppy) abstractions provided by C++.

>>You can abstract yourself in a corner in C as well. In C++ you are more likely to pay less for abstractions.

Agreed. But the point you seem to be missing is that C doesn't force any abstractions on you. The STL/Boost abstractions are much more inefficient.

Linus talks about these inefficient abstractions and that's a solid argument because C++ abstractions come with various sorts of hidden costs. (e.g. even name mangling can be a significant cost factor in Kernel.)

>>Considering that the linux kernel is strongly tied to the specific C dialect supported by GCC and is not portable at all, this argument is bullshit.

The issue of portability to different compilers is not an important concern for kernel programmers. If they find a particular tool (e.g. gcc with some C dialect) perfect for their purpose, why should they bother with other tools?

Remember, for Linux kernel programmers gcc is just a tool to produce their product, the kernel.

edit: added point about portability
I'm an adult who takes Adderall. Just asked the doctor for a prescription and got it. I can work without it, but I work better with it. If I'm in a 'flow' it keeps me there.

The drug is safe and effective when used properly. Why limit it?
It is however already starting to get developer traction and mindshare, even a few donations if I am representative for the userbase, something it would never do now if sat waiting for the perfect timing to release a perfect product.

Also I think the README of workq didn't mention anything about raft, which is fine, you can go very far without it.

My point is: encourage people to write code! Don't infect people with paralysis-by-analysis.
>> "...But he believes that those who are disabled by the condition deserve a wider range of treatment options"

> so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD?

Conflating "treatment options" with "drugs" is kind of the central thesis of Schwarz's critique...

> to me it feels like the author is just manufacturing conflict for the sake of selling a book.

If you've ever worked in or around a private practice doctor's office, you're aware of the pressure to proscribe.

Many, many doctors are high-quality professionals who make decisions solely in the best interest of the patient. Many other doctors are only interested in pushing as many people through the office as possible, spending less than a minute per customer and quickly writing a script for whatever the pharma rep is selling. A little bit for the perks, but mostly because it's a way to push as many people through the office as possible. The pharma rep provides fantastic marketing and "educational" material that does the doctor's job for him, allowing him to push more people through than if he had to sit down and discuss an array of treatment options with the patient.

Regardless of the author's motivations, his critique isn't without merit (and certainly isn't specific to ADHD).
I'm generally not fond of this sort of article and this one is no exception. They present a case that drug companies like selling drugs but we knew that. What they don't do is present a good case that ADHD is actually overdiagnosed. The world in general is not very good at accepting psychological conditions. ADHD is commonly regarded as "youth", "laziness", or "lacking discipline". Watching a loved one fight to focus continually is just heartbreaking. We still have quite a number of cases where people are stuck fumbling without help.
A more likely claim would be that living primitively causes fewer emissions.

Emissions are a byproduct of our progress (thus far).
> Great, so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD?

By "wider range of treatment options" he doesn't mean more drugs, he means nonpharmaceutical methods as well.
Funny you should mention the Cortex-M :) https://github.com/helena-project/tock/ (written in Rust, just linked to it down thread as well)
> Just because you want to do ABCDE does not mean it's feasible.

Every single language is able to do ABCDE, except for JavaScript. Yes, I guess that means it's impossible.

> The nature of a distributed system is inherently async, and so we have to live with it.

The nature of a distributed system is the one you impose onto it by design. Computer systems are not something that appear at nature and we just harvest.

There are plenty of synchronous architectures for distributed systems, from distributed logical clock ones, for clock domain ones. People tend to avoid async ones anyway.
As far as this scenario is concerned, it doesn't matter that the tax money is wasted. The point is to discourage consumption.
It's no coincidence that young males are more likely to exhibit ADHD symptoms. My school attempted to convince my parents several times that I needed medication because I disrupted the class.

While I am not proud of my prior misbehavior, I'm thankful that my parents had enough medical knowledge to refuse to put me on pills.
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Occam's is an abstraction, and a leaky one at that. It is not a hard and fast rule and should not be evaluated as such.
I think you hinted at the solution. "as long as people are rich enough to.." Well, put in place taxes high enough that people are rich enough to afford it! and use the money for sequestration tech or alternative energy.
> But he believes that those who are disabled by the condition deserve a wider range of treatment options than an endless litany of stimulants with chirpy names like Vyvanse and Concerta.

> ... Great, so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD?

"a wider range of treatment options than an endless litany of stimulants" is not the same as "more drugs". Now, that could include non-stimulant drugs if those would be effective treatments for the condition, but the obvious meaning seems to be that the excessive pushing of stimulant drugs as a treatment has swamped non-pharmacological treatment options for ADHD.
Should be the first one.
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I 100% agree. We use the drugs we do because they're effective, they're cheap, and they're relatively safe. If he thinks that we should be using non-stimulant drugs, then what classes of drugs should we be looking into? Is there (at least preliminary) research to show that another class of drugs is effective for treating ADHD?

This sounds like "I don't like the way things are, so buy my book and you can read all about how I don't propose a solution!"
I thought the same when I saw yet another "driven development".
Have to agree (although I'm one to rant)
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Even at equal capability a person who never tired, seldom erred, never forgot a sequence, never got distracted or emotional would surely be superior at chess?
What am I missing about self-driving cars?
look up James Brown's cape man:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/people/2011-11-13/james-br...
It's heavily regulated on paper, not in reality.
This is not what "offensive" means.
When I was a kid (6-12~) I had to take Ritalin everyday—sometimes during school the teacher had to give it to me (this was in South America were casually asking a teacher to give me meds was ok). When we suddenly moved to the US and I started middle school here I stopped taking it.

I've always suspected I was and am still "hyper", because I have trouble focusing and always have to fidget or walk around the office. I just don't get up and run around like I did when I was 7. Even then, without meds, I managed to do pretty great in school and college, as well as my programming career. I've always wondered how much different I would've been had I taken ADHD/"focus" meds.
It seems a really smart move to me.
At the stage they are investing, the quality of the people and their reputation is more important than the idea itself as a success predictor. Ex-Googlers have on average a good reputation and they know how they were performing. So it makes a lot of sense to put a small amount in convertible notes early on that could easily result in a lot of money down the road.

And if the idea doesn't work out, well, they are closer to them than any other company, much more easy to hire them with all the economical advantages of re-hiring someone you like and trust. I think that, from an economical point of view, there are few downsides and a lot of upsides...
No, it doesn't imply that at all. How do you draw that inference?
There are many who genuinely suffer from ADHD and their parents did not allow them medication due to ignorance. And they have the exact opposite story to tell.
I think the Bootsy connection is over-stated, actually. He was only with Brown for 11 months, and while there were a handful of key singles cut (including Sex Machine), the associate was really quite brief and didn't result in that many recordings.

If you look at the recording from late 1969 and early 1970, like Mother Popcorn, Ain't It Funky Now, Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud), the direction to harder funk was already very apparent.

This is to say nothing of, say, what Larry Grapham was doing with the Family Stone circa '68-'69, or other west coast funk pioneers.
It's still there for me in GV?

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115089?hl=en

http://imgur.com/a/9Dvrw

http://imgur.com/AxPTrUZ
Nope. The best ones recognize their audience, and are perfectly capable of making the same point with or without childish swearing.
> You probably don't have enough experience with Ember (if you are still pouring over docs) or aren't working on something of large enough scale to really benefit from Ember.

For context, the app was well over 10k loc, and was a socket connected video chat (+ contacts) application. I had enough experience with Ember to upgrade the app from 1.3 to 2.x stopping regularly along the way. I do expect knowing Ember more thoroughly would have helped but that was always my problem: I felt like I had to be intimate with every aspect of the docs to get the simplest things done. Towards then end I was spending a great deal of time which felt antithetical to the entire point of using Ember.

> Really? I think the React model of inlining HTML in your Javascript is atrocious

I suspect there will always be a segment that would prefer not to use JSX / inline templating, and that's totally ok.

> Ember is sometimes painful in ways that jQuery wouldn't be (e.g. what I don't have access to the children components of my component!)

This is exactly the type of thing using React for the view layer would address. I always found myself making extra components and 4-6 files then contriving ways to communicate between them. I'm quite sure there's a reasonable way to handle this in Ember, but when I do similar things in React, I don't have to look anything up. I just write javascript and things behave the way I think they should.
Or British people saying they're "knackered".
More details:

https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/08/zenimax-claims-creation-of-o...
How about MonetDB? I think it was one of the earlier column store dbs, and its seems to remain actively developed open source, when others are proprietary products now.
I took off all my clothes.
Some children don't just have trouble with sitting at a desk at a 7-hour school day. When your imagine children with ADD/ADHD that's probably what you think because it makes sense that inattention or hyperactivity is most correlated with the times where that would be most detrimental. But most of these children have just as much trouble with a whole day of regular indoor/outdoor play too.

Edit: As a parent of special needs child who recently started non-stimulant ADD medication to great success -- I really wish my reply wasn't downvoted. The amount of misinformation in this topic is staggering and frankly a little depressing. I think I'd go crazy arguing against every post talking about boring school work so I'm not going to do that. Many problems are far deeper than this straw man.
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Very well said (written) and an epic way to conclude it ^^
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It upsets at how anti-science and anti-technology some of my friends have become. Some of them believe that vaccines shouldn't be used. Some of them reject medicine and medications. Some of them avoid GMO foods. They use essential oils and 'natural' products that may potentially cause more harm than good.

But, it makes sense. I guess they fear what they don't understand, and others take advantage of that fear.

That isn't to say that we shouldn't be extremely careful with new technology and inventions. But, we also shouldn't be scared.
Watch 'Hungry for Change' on Netflix.
They seem to have some YouTube pages archived e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?... They're definitely interested in archiving interesting videos but the project isn't there yet.
A couple important pieces of information were omitted from the article--according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) offshore wind is the second most expensive source of new electricity generation. In fact, offshore wind is 250% more expensive than onshore wind, but it only produces electricity 5% more of the time. https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation...

Also, the Block Island project is 50% more expensive than EIA's numbers assume (It was $10,000 per KW while EIA assumes $6,331 per KW for the first few offshore facilities).
Cisco's former CEO John Chambers, made famous a concept called the "spin-in".

The concept is similar to employee's leaving to start their own company but their former employer funds the endeavor and often has a right of first refusal for a sale.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cisco-showered-three-men-...

This acquisition driven R&D worked well for Cisco, it doesn't always, see former Canadian company Nortel for the down side of acquisition driven growth.

As a side note, check out John Chambers some time. Common wisdom is that the CEO of a tech company should be a technologist. He is the exception to this rule. He was an amazing CEO who didn't have a strong technical background. In my opinion, one of the more impressive tech CEO's of the 90's and 2000's.

http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/ci...
> traditional response has been amphetamine-salts

Not exclusively. Methylphenidate (Ritalin and friends) is generally the first-line drug in the US at least, due to milder side effects and a lower potential for abuse.
Please don't. Your other comment was fine, and can and should speak for itself.

We detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345023 and marked it off-topic.
So he called unsuccessful transplant recipients "lazy". That's not nice.
It does seem like I could have phrased that differently, since a number of people have taken it to mean something rather different than I intended.
Wrong RSA. I'm referring to the algorithm, not the company.
> I've always thought that the symptoms (inattention and/or impulsivity and hyperactivity) are only maladaptive in modern culture

If you read through any edition of the DSM, you'll find that most disorders in it are defined by symptoms being maladaptive in the subject's current actual environment, not by objective, context-independent criteria.
Also pity them if they want to fix the mission-critical thingy (after staring into the void for so long) but the business' "plan" is to quietly limp along forever.
Try introducing a rule that says you have to pick someone outside of your group/department that you worked with. So Sales could pick Developers, Developers pick Designers, etc.
Google PubSub has TTLs on each message, with the queue having the default value for new messages. I've found this to work really well in practice.
Meh. So long as you don't graduate to a full blown cocaine or meth addiction, you should be fine for a long while. You'll have cardiovascular issues further down the line if you don't work out and/or smoke.

I mean, all stimulants to some degree or another are bad for your heart and blood pressure.

Perhaps look into that other brain pill all the kids are taking now, Modafinil. I've been meaning to try some at some point. Apparently it gives you all the bonuses of Normal Person on Ritalin but none of the jitters.
Oh gotcha... I interpreted Linus's comment about archs. Boost is supported on far less archs than the Linux kernel is:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/context/doc/html/c...
And your qualification is that you read HN?
I'll stick with the scientists thanks.
Has anyone heard of this business? Why did I not know about this company around 2010 when I needed a loan modification?!? They are in 42 cities in the U.S. and have been around for 22 years. No down payment, no closing costs, no fees, no income limit, no need for perfect credit! https://www.naca.com
The "ize" suffix generally means "make something more X." Americanize, tenderize, civilize, legalize, etc.

Following that pattern, I guess to burglarize something is to make it more burglared, rather than just the act of burgling it.

It's a strange linguistic distinction to make. Take a house that's not burgled and make it burgled. Why we talk about it that way instead of just using the normal verb "burgled" I have no idea.

You would not, to take the example from above, say that Michael Phelps had made a race more swum. You'd just say he swam it.
>> I challenge someone to provide evidence enough to scare me into stopping. Go ahead, save my life

From TFA: Schwarz traces the Icarus-like trajectory of Richard Fee, an aspiring medical student who fakes the symptoms of A.D.H.D. to get access to drugs that will help him cope with academic pressure. When he eventually descends into amphetamine psychosis, his father tells his doctor that if he doesn’t stop furnishing his son with Adderall, he’ll die. Two weeks after burning through his supply, Fee hanged himself in a closet.

Are you sure your supply will never be disrupted?
How many batteries can we build? How do we build them on such a large scale? Do we mine enough raw materials for so many batteries? Are there enough materials for so many batteries? How do we cool them? How do we replace the faulty ones? How long do they last? How many people do we need to maintain them? How do we train them? How do we dispose of the batteries?

Not all of these questions have have hard or problematic answers (e.g. especially the last one is probably much worse for nuclear), but they do need to be answered, at all. We've been answering these questions for nuclear for the past 50 years.
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Insertion into an array list at a uniformly-distributed location is always O(n): you can't avoid moving half the list. Appending is amortized O(1).
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I think the dispute is over exactly how effective they would be at actually changing the climate, though.

In the meantime, since they are very effective at changing economic activity, as you describe, the argument is that you would soon see disparities in economic output, and geopolitical power, and even immigration inflows / outflows between the countries that institute these onerous regulations, and those that don't.
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https://developers.google.com/v8/design

C-f for "Dynamic Machine Code Generation"

V8 compiles it to native machine code for execution. It's not an interpreter or a VM with its own bytecode.
HLL's (at least those which have a VM) often try interesting techniques to combat this, since string handling is so often a performance problem (it's a performance problem because they often make it relatively painless to manipulate strings, at least to the point where it's not obvious you may be doing something really inefficient). It's interesting if you follow the development of a language while it's being developed, you can usually see a few of the techniques they've used come and go. Starting with simple string handling, then global shared copy-on-write strings, then ropes, possibly a fourth weird representation, and likely back to one of the prior, simpler models.

At least, that's what I hazily recall from the long, jumbled Perl 6 history, but that includes a few changes to the language and multiple VM's and multiple string handling regimes per VM, sometimes.
I think there's a lot to be admired with experiences like these and can't help but feel a sense of tragedy when I know I'll never have these experiences because of my modern lifestyle choices or where I live. I often think I may be missing countless similar experiences because of my rushed city lifestyle. Interesting and something I'd like to try now.

Recently experienced the green northern lights and nothing I say will describe a beautiful and almost spiritual experience. I only suggest you try and see for yourselves.
The quote says:

> a wider range of treatment options than an endless litany of stimulants

Notice the "than an endless litany of stimulants" part. Saying something like:

> so it all boils down to the pharma companies not creating enough drugs for ADHD?

afterwards almost seems like you are intentionally misconstruing this.

Is it not possible that the author wants "Big Pharma" to spend time researching alternative treatments rather than just cranking out "yet another stimulant?" Is it not possible that the author wants more non-medicinal treatments to be explored?

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That said, I think that "Big Pharma" has earned its negative moniker. Just look at the front-page story from yesterday about EpiPen prices being jacked up to the point where people may not be able to afford them. I don't think that being against price gouging a "captive audience" in a way that possibly threatens their health is the same thing as being against "a pharmaceutical company selling a product."