skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen both under and over diagnosis. There are many people in high pressure environments that fake ADD/ADHD to get access to Aderall and other stimulants. But there are also many others, some adults and some children, who could benefit from medication and go through life suffering, some times tragically so, because of un-diagnosed or willingly untreated ADD/ADHD.
See the bit about "Funding Choices" at https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-bett... and the documentation for that at https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7362965?hl=...

[Edit: I guess https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7074355?hl=... is a better toplevel summary of what "Funding Choices" is about.]
Datalore – an intelligent web application for machine learning
The problem is there are huge gaps between having a great idea, creating something really impressive, and bringing a product to market successfully and selling at scale. That last step is the most difficult of all. Very few companies pull it off.

The best I can tell, once a dev kit is released they still have 3 or 4 years before they will be selling their hardware at a meaningful scale - if everything goes alright. Their burn rate is way too high, guessing by how many people they hired. They will need to have an IPO or they are expecting to raise Uber level funds. Maybe that’s realistic but I wouldn’t bet on it.
I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the italicised tests below, the first has a prepended asterisk, the second has an appended one.

* Test

Test*

Test

Test

Test *

I think I just started using daggers because U+2020 was super easy to remember and to avoid Markdown issues and the habit has stuck.

You don't by any chance use Vim, do you?

I use the Unicode plugin[0] by Christian Brabandt in Vim to quickly search for Unicode characters.

You can use vim-plug[1][2] by Junegunn Choi, for instance, to install it and keep it updated or just install it manually yourself.

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim'

call plug#end()

Then within vim type :UnicodeSearch dagger to search for daggers. This gives me:

† U+2020 Dec:008224 DAGGER (/-) &dagger;
‡ U+2021 Dec:008225 DOUBLE DAGGER (/=) &Dagger; &ddagger;
⸶ U+2E36 Dec:011830 DAGGER WITH LEFT GUARD &#x2E36;
⸷ U+2E37 Dec:011831 DAGGER WITH RIGHT GUARD &#x2E37;
⸸ U+2E38 Dec:011832 TURNED DAGGER &#x2E38;
U+1F5E1 Dec:128481 DAGGER KNIFE &#x1F5E1;

[0] https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

[2] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tips#automatic-ins...
>Attribution of cyberattacks is hard, borderline impossible, without non-technical corroborating evidence.

Intelligence agency budget increases and sky-high consultancy fees are going to be more forthcoming when it's "a scary nation-state" behind an attack rather than a couple of teenagers or a band of cyber-criminals.

Also, Russia, after North Korea, does seem to be everybody's favorite bogeyman these days.

Intelligence agencies and security consultants will have to balance potential reputation risk as well, of course (if it comes out that they were wrong it's quite embarrassing), but if attributional evidence is weak then it pays to pick the bogeyman.
He comes off as a reactionary, for sure. Before someone calls out you for strawmanning, he does go there:

Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”

His entire memo is a distillation of reactionary talking points. That overall impression rather than any single argument is probably what pissed off a lot of his coworkers because these battles are much older than him.
“Google has confirmed it has been able to track the location of Android users via the addresses of local mobile phone masts, even when location services were turned off and the sim cards removed to protect privacy.”[1]

Not saying that’s what happened here, but with Google these days I’ll assume evil[2] instead of giving the benefit of the doubt.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/22/google-tr...

[2]: http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2014/06/0...
Bitcoin cannot replace banks, even at full adoption we would need banks for loans, investments, financial planning, etc. Bitcoin could replace Visa, but it uses orders of magnitude more energy per transaction. So yes, it is an environmental disaster. I don't see any possible way that a decentralized system that is secured by doing useless computations could ever use less energy than a centralized one, it just doesn't make sense.
If browser mining was a good deal for the end user the vast majority of its proponents wouldn't feel the need for stealth. As it is implemented currently It's yet another example of preaditory behaviour killing herbivores at the digtal watering hole.
This could be a SaaS "Socks as a service".
Are you saying that men pay less for housing in the expensive cities?
A staged roll out would mean only 5% of customers' cars lost their radio, navigation, climate control and rear-view camera.

I'll admit that's better than 100%, but it's still garbage. Where was the pre-release testing?
That still a kinda walled garden. What I'm imagining is like email. You choose your prefered frontend (email client), and pay for x vendors content (email providers). The communication between client and providers is standardized.
Can you write a little about your therapy? How does it work?
Which has collapsed more in the last month or two, Bitcoin, or the stock market?
I've tried a LOT of things, including meditation.

It does help when I can get it to, but the biggest helps have been from following a VERY structured consistent schedule that I follow militantly, and some other small lifestyle changes like making sure I eat right and exercise helps quite a lot.

But at the end of the day, the medication just helps so much more, and the side effects are manageable, so I'm pretty happy with it. I do take amphetamines and I do worry about possible neurotoxicity issues that it may have, but I'm planning on working with my doctor in 3-ish months to start trying out other medications again (as right now I'm moving and don't want to mess with anything).
Someone Is Sending Sex Toys to Strangers. Amazon Has No Idea How to Stop It
You have a phone number with Google Apps and support PIN in admin console, has anyone had any success of talking with someone that isn't a human version of a Twilio phone to email transcriber? That can actually get shit escalated whilst your on the phone or at least shortly after. The presence of a phone number means very little if they don't answer or one of those annoying press 1.. for then press 2.. blah blah

A client was on Zoho business with paid support. Their phone number went to voicemail every single time, they called back four days later, great fun in an emergency. Stay away from them on the subject of email.
This could be the culprit - those women, that became independent removed themselves and their traits from genetic pool due to not having children or having fewer of them. That might also explain persistence of religions that emphasize sexual relationships for reproduction only and banning abortions, as it leads to higher probability of carrying on with one's genotype. So what we are observing could be some stochastic optimum in some game theory of natural conditions. A question is if our civilization that could seemingly solve cutthroat problems of the past leading to brutal competition like food scarcity will have completely different, stable stochastic optima. I guess we will see (or generations after us).
If you think RFC822 based mail is complex you obviously haven't worked with x.400 and x.500.

Though your right Google is having delusions of grandeur and the board should have stopped this for anti trust reasons and also I am not sure Googles developers have the required mind set to properly implement this
Ah, this explains why that text is so often the preview in Gmail. I always wondered why I couldn't see that text in the mail itself.
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Sweden is a great country which is showing the way in fathers taking paternity leave, for example this piece:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/07/e...

Finland is also somewhat similar, though there are still surprises. For example I took my son to his 10-month checkup when I was taking my own paternity leave and the very first question I was asked when I got into the doctor's office was "Where is his mother?" sigh.
This might be the best thing I've ever watched.﻿
Because actions are downstream from beliefs, while arguments are upstream of beliefs. I prefer to fix bugs upstream.
Problem is : even they're cheap, you have to build massive amounts of them... So fusion energy (or anything nuclear) is still required I think. But well, I'm no expert, just repeating what I've heard (check Jean-Marc Jancovici, french guy)
Hint: she just so happened to be a woman. Interesting how that happens every time one of these Internet mobs heats up. See also Justine Sacco, and many others.
This might be the worst thing I've ever watched.﻿
I've never seen anyone interpret any of that. Also has nothing to do with civil rights but was talking about men and women liking different things, so forcing them in equal ratios does more harm than good.

What exactly didnt make sense to you with that?
This “war” has been going on for centuries. The difference is that white men were totally dominating it until recent times, and a lot of them really don’t like that they may need to adapt behavior. African Americans had a right side of the street to walk on within the last 2 generations, for risk of being lynched. You better believe they’ve been parsing every word out of their mouths, not for fear of being labeled a mean word, but for fear of being killed, or having their families killed.

The “freedom of speech”, or freedom to loudly espouse any idea, has only ever truly existed for some small segment of the population. And it’s never been a problem for any of these squalking idiots. Until now, go figure.
Having the URL point to product-hunt, rather than your android-store entry feels very spammy - because it feels like you're encouraging people to upvote you there.
The fonts and images on the blog are really stylish. Props for the design!
It is strange though, that residential three phase is so uncommon there, especially when the single phase voltage is only 110, further sacrificing efficiency for high power applications.
Meaning no Chrome, no AMP based emails? Sounds good to me!
There was a very interesting summary of all dirty tricks FB is using to manipulate people in order to hook them, such as birthdays, "last seen" etc.; it was posted on HN a few months ago but I can't find it. Could someone help? I'd like to send it to my friend who would like to delete his account but is unable to.
It is a bit weird calling it therapy, it feels more like a "one-on-one class on how to deal with ADHD". They gave me a lot of tools to help with it, as well as provided a good base "structure" which was important when I was first starting (which was over a decade ago now!)

Tools like how I greatly benefit from a very strict schedule that needs many things packed tightly together at some points, but very big gaps in others, and I need to follow it to the t. Tools like knowing that exercise and eating right help quite a lot, tools like how to structure my days and put external reminders or blocks up that can keep me on track. Tools like being able to figure out that I work well in COMPLETE silence, or a very chaotic atmosphere, but not much in between. And information about things like "hyperfocus" which is an ironic symptom of ADHD for many people, and ways that I can kind of "trigger" it sometimes and use it to my advantage (while making sure I set alarms to make sure I don't keep working until 9PM because I forgot what time it was and the last time I looked at a clock was 3 in the afternoon...)

They are basically just people that have dealt with ADHD before, and can help me find what works best for myself. Also, just talking to someone about how something you tried (either medication or lifestyle change) worked can be really eye opening. You never really think on your own about how something you tried in your life really affected it, and just verbalizing that helped dial in medication amounts and show the effectiveness of lifestyle changes.
Google nonlinear junction detector
Equality of Chance is more desirable than Equality of Outcome as it values the decisions of a neutral individual more than the later.

Of course, for Equality of Chance to be properly implemented you need to do away with as many barriers to it as possible but you should be willing to accept that no matter what you do, there won't be a perfect 50/50.

From all evidence we have, there is strong evidence that male and female humans grow up differently independent of their social surroundings, for example, we found that the brains of newborns can be easily distinguished into female and male as little as 1 month after birth, before any social factors have had much chance to get deep into development.

From that I find it easier to believe that there will be some statistical biases in one direction or another (like how will have, on average, a bit more height) outside of the purely physical domain.

I would rather see some evidence that despite all the physical, hormonal and developmental differences in male and female humans, there is absolutely no statistically significant difference in the brain and/or mind.
> We always answer requests from authorities for user information in the negative.

This has got to be bollocks, right? Always?

If they're served a warrant or subpoenaed or whatever the correct legal procedure is called, they're going to have to comply, right? And all they need is an IP address and you're hosed... unless you're taking multiple other steps to hide.

If I put my TFH (Tin Foil Hat) on, anyone who uses language that strongly is probably a CIA front.
Why is Google Hangouts so bad?
Every time I get a message from a friend, it shows up late in my android. Many times I never get the notifications.
These are very basic use cases and they are so annoying even for a casual user like me. Thankfully I don't use it a lot for serious work.

Is Hangouts being so bad the reason for the popularity of Slack? Is there any specific technical reason for why this software is not upto the standards their other products have?
The search for dark matter–axions have ever-fewer places to hide
Great post!

> The email in your mailbox is your copy of what was said, and nobody else can change it or make it go away. The fact that the content of an email can’t be edited is one of the best things about POP3 and IMAP email standards.

I rely on this feature of email all the time as I'm sure most people do. We cannot let this change.
Florida school shooting witnesses detail horrific events
Long distance running benefits from anti-abrasion garments as well. Inner thighs can get real raw, ouch!
Yes, because he was wrong about something that he had no business or expertise or business position to even be discussing, and because he did it in a very loud way.

Damore got what he wanted, he wanted to be a martyr, probably because that was all he was ever going to be good for. He’s the truest of snowflakes, stop giving idiots this platform and maybe they’ll go away.
The trillions of dollars was spent on what is the us military industrial complex. If the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost 2-3 trillion 80-90% actually went to american companies. One of the reasons it is hard for the US to get out of wars and decrease spending on military is that will stop the economic growth in many US states. If us gave billions in aid to fighters in Syria most of the money came back to the us through sales of arms.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Airbnb in particular. It seems like something that would be an equal risk however you went about renting a place.
> Men outrepresent women about 2:1 among perfect SAT Math scores. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this represents a real difference in mathematical ability. Even if programming ability were 100% correlated with mathematical ability, you’d expect a much higher ratio than you see in practice.

That doesn't follow for reasons explained in the article. Choice of whether to go into sciences over humanities isn't correlated with just science ability in school, it is correlated with relative ability between science and reading. The 2:1 ratio tells you precisely nothing about expected ratios of entrance into science programs until you compare it with the performance ratio on the English portion (assuming here, I don't know anything about SATs) of the SATs.
I'll hop on this train. 7 happy years for me!
How too much fructose may cause liver damage
Until it comes back, crashes into Earth and sends mankind the way of the dinosaurs...
You should read the memo. Apparently lots of people just skimmed it, or read a summary. Your sibling comment quotes the exact footnote text where he references the popular anti-semitic conspiracy theory about "cultural marxism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marx...

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that William S. Lind in 2002 gave a speech to a Holocaust denial conference on the topic of Cultural Marxism. In this speech Lind noted that all the members of The Frankfurt School were "to a man, Jewish", but it is reported that Lind claims not to question whether the Holocaust occurred and suggests he was present in an official capacity for The Free Congress Foundation "to work with a wide variety of groups on an issue-by-issue basis""
your logic is funny, is like having a busy site with a postgress db, and saying postgress is at fault, look at my mysql wordpress site with 1.3 visitors per day, how fast it is.

Ethereum will colapse on itself sooner of later, no one managed to sync a node recently.
I'm sure in an alternative universe there's a mouse complaining about how many vaccines seem to work so well on the humans they test but too few make it market.

Maybe we should skip the middleanimal? I'm sure some of those drugs that failed to work on surrogates are perfectly fine for humans.
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I think you're reading into the answer a little too much. The role of a scrum master is really to shepherd the work through, not micro manage.

In software, a manager's job is to help plan work and shield the team. It is critical that they can do this diplomatically with their peers. Planning involves career guidance, budgets, meetings. If you don't have someone doing those functions properly, the dev team is inundated with distractions.

Scary-smart is buzzwordy and really isn't needed for a team doing CRUD apps of some kind. You need self-sufficient competent people not some "rock star" or "scary smart" person. There's a reason why stereo-types are there indicating those types are hard to work with.
You should watch the launch, its probably one of the most interesting engineering projects of the last few years.

https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=21m31s
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Bed bugs tend to bite multiple times, usually in a straight line. If they’re one off bites then it’s likely not bed bugs.
There's also the GloBee[0] payment processor. It accepts Monero, so you're able to maintain your privacy whilst consuming like a capitalist zombie.

[0] https://globee.com/
Optional micropayments incorporated in to the browser, paid out to content creators based on site usage.
I'd agree with a lot of that. I moved from Scotland to Finland, along with my (Finnish) wife. Moving mostly involved hiring space on a shipping container, and carrying a couple of big suitcases each. The hard part starts when you land.

Luckily my wife moved over 1 week before me, and in that time managed to handle some of the obvious needs - she signed a year long lease on a flat, and then visited a recycling center to buy a dining-table, chairs, a sofa, book-cases, a bed, and similar essentials.

In my case I had to register with the police, get a residency agreement, open a bank account, sort out a mobile phone, ad similar things. They weren't difficult, as most people were able to speak to me in English, but they were time-consuming and beaurocratic.

Two (three?) years later I'm fully settled, and the experience has largely been positive. I miss UK-TV, I miss hearing a wide array of accents (and I hate that I can't tell anything about Finnish people from their name, or their accents.) My language skills are slowly improving, and life
feels good (although much more hectic these days due to a small child. Who we're trying to raise as bilingual ).

My only real suggestion for people changing countries is: Resist the temptation to hang out with ex-pats. Meet locals. Interact with locals. Be local.
How can you tell if someone is shadowbanned? I thought shadowbanned people can’t have their comments seen by others.
Even better: change the link to

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco_a_0099...
It's not insignificant. Bitcoin mining already consumes as much energy annually as Denmark – that means the entire country, heating, cooling, industry, everything:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-...
There are several aneutronic fusion projects. The biggest is Tri Alpha, with over $500 million invested. They proved stable plasma in 2015 at 10 million degrees, and just completed a new reactor they plan to take to 100 million degrees; according to their model, the plasma should get more stable at higher temperatures. If it turns out that way, pumping up the heating to boron fusion temperatures is relatively simple, and they have a straightforward path to a practical reactor in 2025 or so. (Source: recent articles plus a presentation I saw from one of their people in 2016)

There's a group that thinks a sufficiently powerful petawatt picosecond laser could ignite fusion in a block of boron fuel. This will be testable with an off-the-shelf laser before long; these lasers are improving by a factor of ten every three years.

YCombinator has an investment in Helion, which is working on a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reactor (the He3 comes from the D-D reactions), saying only 6% of the energy would be released as neutron radiation.

Plus there's LPP, a tiny dark-horse project that will finally get a decent test of their idea this year.
I'm not entirely sure that the same goods marketed at women as men are meaningfully more expensive for one group or the other. But it is undeniable that there are entire classes of products marketed and produced for female audiences and considered essential that males can disregard completely. One easy example is health and beauty products, and another fashion and accessories.

For example, my shower routine involves a bar of Ivory soap and basic shampoo. For my sister, my mother, my female friends and romantic interests, add conditioners, body washes, face scrubs, and all the associated paraphernalia, which easily triples the cost in dollars, not to mention time and hot water.
Lots of people pay their own electricity but can't pay directly for online content.

Especially in the third world, people often don't have credit cards or bank accounts. When they do, transaction costs make microtransactions inefficient.