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I pretty much feel the same as you, I would like to go to America but to me it's just not worth going through an American airport. The alternative ive come up with is to fly to Canada or Mexico and then drive into America where (as far as I know) there aren't these scanners.
If pharmaceutical companies were so worried about getting sued into oblivion, they wouldn't submit those drugs for FDA approval. Since if the FDA actually did approve the drugs, the companies would get sued into oblivion.
I always wonder what "legal" means in this case. I agree it should definitely be medically legal. I do not agree that it should be generally legal.
What is everyone's opinion of LabView. Clearly it was never designed as a server-side language, but it has a very not "linear" approach to designing.

I used to mock LabView (arguing speed and complexity), but now that I work with a colleague that exclusively uses it--we are a medical research engineering group--I really start to respect its utility.

So the question becomes: Would an opensource cross platform scripting language, modeled after LabView, fit this bill?
Direct link to article.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/29/apple-macbook-air-...
As a lurker and as someone who has never submitted to HN I can say that I was unaware that guidelines even existed. Yeah, I see them now at the bottom of the footer but I agree that adding, at the very least, a visible link on the submit page or as you suggested a summary could only be a good thing.
From everything I have read recently it is going downhill. I agree that it should be medically legal. I do not agree that it should be legal for general consumption.
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Just make sure you actually spell it out.
There are multiple serialization options for powershell though. And since it can be made to work fairly seamlessly with other commandline tools, it isn't usually that hard in practice
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"How effective do these measures have to be to be worth the tradeoff?"

More effective than "security theater".
Those abbreviated fatal conditions are severe systemic drug reactions involving skin. They are mostly idiosyncratic - in other words, not really related to the total dose and not more likely with long term use. Some people are unlucky and get these reactions, presumably due to genetic/immunological factors. HIV infection and SLE are known to increase the risk of TEN and SJS.

These reactions are rare, which makes it difficult to precisely quantify the risk. Other drugs which are known to cause these reactions are NSAIDs like ibuprofen, which you can buy from a supermarket, and antibiotics like amoxycillin or bactrim, which doctors prescribe without being particularly concerned about the risk of potentially fatal skin reactions.
> If you're using Vicodins legal status (requires prescription) as a comparison then pot and cocaine are already legal.

I believe in legalization, but this this is false (in the US at least). Pot is a Schedule I prohibited substance, Cocaine is a Schedule II prescription drug, and Vicodin is Schedule III. Each schedule carries with it a large difference in how available and legal a drug is.

"legal" is a spectrum, and vicodin is much more legal than pot or cocaine are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sched...
You'll get selection bias on your feedback here, so I'll try to provide some balance.

I wouldn't use it. Verbal information is way slower for me than written, and distracting when I'm driving. I also wouldn't trust the system to prioritize correctly.

You're not removing a pain point I personally experience. If the technology works it could be cool, but it won't help me.
Have you cut the cord yet?  Why?  Why not?
How do these drugs effect memory? If you can tear through books while on Provigil, is what you learned well retained when your brain reverts to its "scrappier state"?
The way you get better at talking to people is talking to people. At one point in time, I was too afraid to go buy a gallon of milk by my self. I've become one of the most extroverted people I know.

It takes time, but just say, I'm going to go talk to 2 new people today and then go do it. Say, "Hi, How are we doing today?" and then ask them a question about themselves. You'll fail a lot and things won't go as planned, but you'll have a few pleasant surprises too.
The problem isn't lack of source. Most GPL programs that have appeared on the App Store have included a way to get the source satisfactory for GPL purposes.

The problem is with the terms of use of the store. When an end user tries to use the store, the end user has to agree to certain terms, including that they will not reverse engineer anything they download, they will not copy it, and other terms of that kind.

When a developer offers his program through the store, he provides a copy to Apple. When an end user purchases the program, Apple makes a copy and provides it to the user. Hence, from a copyright point of view, Apple is making and distributing copies of the program, and so Apple needs permission of the copyright owner.

If the program is GPL, Apple has to obey GPL to get that permission. GPL prohibits imposing additional restrictions on the GPL code you distribute. Apple's end user terms of service are additional terms.

Hence, it is not possible to distribute GPL code through the Apple store unless you grant Apple an exception allowing them to impose their additional terms. If it is the copyright owner who is making the app, that is not a problem. However, if they use anyone else's GPL code, and that third party coder has not granted Apple an exception, then the app cannot be distributed via the store.
That's probably because with a distributed system, there isn't too much downside to everyone relying on a central service. If Github goes down, you can be up and running at a new host in 5 minutes.
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I would say being so immersed in the ecosystem makes his criticisms stronger.
I've ordered a number of times from: http://www.qhi.co.uk/intro.asp

They have not defrauded the cards I used and the stuff they delivered was, as far as I could tell, real (both from the packaging and from the effects).
Well, on the other hand, in all cases the bomber waltzed onto the plane without a care in the world and was stopped by passenger action. All that extra security was for nothing.

Remember that 9/11 was only possible because passengers believed they were in a conventional hijacking situation.
If you blog, I'd love to see that comment fleshed out in longer form. Your story sounds very interesting!
Are there student groups you could join?
My concern is that once you start taking these drugs to artificially boost your intelligence your natural ability to concentrate without them might atrophy because it's no longer used. I guess this isn't an issue if you only take them every now and then, but isn't it a better idea to seek alternate ways to energize your brain that use your own body such as having a solid exercise routine, proper diet and getting enough sleep?
It isn't about imagination. It is the cycle of the valley. Mature companies have employees go to found their own companies or join other pre-IPO startups. Working for Google you'll have a great career and quality of life but going to Facebook has the potential to make you quite a bit more money through equity.
Thanks for the link - pretty expensive at 30 for 81euro (Alertec) or 30 for 143euro (Provigil)
> Dropbox and Tonido have been mentioned, but they really aren't the same thing.

As an aside, an interesting difference with Tonido is they also sell a "plug-in server" for their service too: http://www.tonidoplug.com/ I assume it's based on a SheevaPlug / Marvell Plug Computer style device.
For what it's worth, depending on your definition of God and how much LSD you take, I'd be inclined to believe that second statement.

I agree that anecdotal evidence is not worth much, however the problem with psychoactive drugs is that many of the most interesting effects are subjective (and thus the best data is always anecdotal) and that scientific studies of certain interesting drugs is illegal. Anecdotal evidence may not be worth much, but it's certainly worth more than prejudices based on zero evidence.

Also worth pointing out that not all interesting things in life can be studied with objective double-blind studies.
Not everyone wants to be in a startup. People running from Google to FB may be doing it for a different culture, for more money, or for a slight change in what they're doing. There's nothing wrong with that.
Well, I know a number of websites where you can buy sugar pills for a lot cheaper...

I ordered the Alertec from those guys quite a few times, and it always arrived without any issues. There's a slightly fussy initial sign-up procedure which involves sending them a fax, but beyond that I've had no problems.
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Noticed that "money per unit leisure time" isn't what I want here, as it tends to infinity as you work longer hours! Maybe you should seek to maximise (money x leisure time) instead. Anyway I hope the sentiment was clear.
I'm 110% with you on reforming the whole immigration and naturalization process. If we could make it really easy for legitimate immigrants to become citizens, enforcement would be a much less unpleasant matter. I'm also with you on pulling the politics out of the equation.

Unfortunately, until we can get some actual leadership who cares about real immigration issues, rather than the politicized "opportunities" that the two-party system we have right now sees it as, the border states (and even states farther north of the border, such as my home state of WA) are still hurting. What is their option right now other than trying to deal with the problem themselves?

Please note - I'm not referring to the people themselves as the problem, but rather the burden that a massive influx of non-tax-paying individuals put on public infrastructure, and the unfortunate criminal element that has also come across a s a combined result of non-enforcement and the drug war.
Facebook has far better security, far better privacy controls, and absurdly better UI/UX, and after a few releases I have lost my faith in the Diaspora core team to ever close the gap on any of these areas.

Diaspora was a nice thought experiment, but there is simply no reason to switch and will never be. Your data is going to be much more exposed on some rando's hobby Diaspora server than it will be on Facebook's.

Also, social networks are not tech problems; they're interface problems, even for a subproblem like privacy. And the UI/UX of Diaspora is pretty poor.

A real, viable Facebook alternative would focus much more on a novel interface that makes sharing and privacy more intuitive, not some technical solution that will be less secure than Facebook anyways.

I have a ton of respect for them throwing themselves out there, but i think they should hire a designer or two and refocus their efforts on interface rather than features.
This is silly. The purpose of a salt (what real cryptographers call a nonce) is simply to make it infeasible to precompute tables. Store it in the open, in the most convenient place possible; don't jump through hoops so you can pretend you're getting more security than you are.

If you really cared about the security of your passwords, you'd use scrypt, bcrypt, or PBKDF2, all of which are markedly more secure than "salted" anything.
Yup! Though they take a lot of flack over the draconian control they wield, the results are a brilliant ai, out of the box accessablilty! (I sound like a dirty apple whore)
I also would be interested to see how a doctor can ethically give you a prescription for a substance that does absolutely nothing to benefit you.

This is not what is meant by legalization. There would not be a black market because doctors would not prescribe these drugs, you would be able to buy them at your local, licensed convenience store (with proof of ID).

Is there a black market for alcohol or caffeine? If there is it's so tiny that somehow I've never encountered or heard about it. The same would be true for heroin, cocaine, etc.
Smoking has been banned in indoor public spaces in many a country [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans
The FDA is covering their asses politically, just as much as the pharmaceutical companies are protecting themselves against potential litigation.

(Also, your comment as posted contradicts itself, I think you meant to say "the companies wouldn't get sued into oblivion.")
Many entrepreneurs aren’t even that lucky. They wildly overestimate their chances of success. But this second delusion, suggests economic historian John V.C. Nye, may be essential to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture. In a 1991 article titled “Lucky Fools and Cautious Businessmen,” Nye, now at George Mason University, argues that countries become economically stagnant when their business people become too mature and rational.

This made me think of what Paul Graham said in his essay, "Why YC", that springing new startups on the world was virtuous.

But of course we don't want to be told that we are wildly overestimating our chances of success.
iPhone did support it more than three years ago.
If anyone needs smart drugs it's Johann Hari. That he's currently running in scrappy mode does explain the sloppiness of his journalism though.

(Note to downvoter: I say this because he's notorious for peppering his feel-good rants with factual inaccuracies)
some things are left undefined by the standard, here compiler implementors can do what they will. Another thing are GNU specific extensions, not only in GCC, leading to GNUisms in many scripts and sources. LLVM supports many GNU extensions.
> We can shut down the drug cartels in Mexico, like we did in Columbia, but the drug trade will be next be passed to another country like a baton. The next country to be promoted as a drug state will be Afghanistan with it's fields of poppies fulling the growing heroin demand.

So American, lets just go and make a mess where nobody called us. Anyway, if you were so successful shutting down the cartels in Colombia, how come it is still the world's leading producer of Cocaine[1]?

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
You say "definitely the best crypto flavor" as if you knew. But you don't, because no serious system designer cares about rainbow tables. Unix solved this problem in the nineteen seventies. Real system designers care about incremental crackers, of the sort used since the 1980's to harvest thousands of passwords from compromised Unix boxes, of the sort that forced Unix systems in the 1990's to adopt "shadowed" password files.

The solution to that threat, the real threat, is scrypt, bcrypt, or PBKDF2 --- the "adaptive" hashes that can be tuned to trade a marginal increase in defender cost for an untenable increase in attacker cost.
My experience was similar. I wouldn't say it kills all your creativity, but it makes it slightly more unnatural to practice lateral thinking. That said, I have come up with some great ideas while on Modafinil.

My best tips if you're going to use this drug is:

1) Take a very small dose. 50mg (taken around 8 or 9) is usually more than enough to get me through the day. Occasionally I used to take a 25mg bump in the early afternoon which carried over the hyper feeling into the early evening.

2) Try it out on a day when you're by yourself first, so you understand how it changes your perception of the world, because it does alter your perception. You might be quicker to make decisions or react to things, and you need to understand this and compensate for it before you interact with other people. If you can't be alone, at least tell your partner about it so they understand that you might behave slightly differently over that period (possibly more aggressively...).

3) The best way to make the most of it, for me, has been to prepare a solid list of big items that I want to get through before I take it, so I don't have to think about what to do next. Modafinil allows you to focus really well on whatever it is you decide to do, but it really doesn't help your executive ability (i.e. deciding what to do). I did once find myself having a really solid, focused, deep, 6-hour session of World of Warcraft. Don't give yourself too much opportunity to wander, or you'll find yourself doing anything that comes to your mind (whether that's reading a book, cleaning the kitchen, reorganising your office, or actually doing some productive work). Best to decide ahead of time so you don't fall into that trap.
Can anyone think of an example of one of these eight-digit "talent acquisitions" that would now be viewed as a success (several years later)?
So is that the true motivation for all of these xooglers? Cash in on something before they're completely burned out?
The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
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I would not recommend driving on Modafinil. Too much focus can kill you on the road, and I have noticed that my ambient awareness feels reduced on Modafinil.
Everyone screws up (far worse than getting bad grades). You should be proud that you've fixed your mistakes, not embarrassed that you made them.
Open source needs an attack of the heart
gcc, like other compilers, has it's own documented extensions which are used in many projects (such as the linux kernel, but also many interpreters/vms using direct threading for example).

The clang devs try to support them nonetheless for compatibility, except, for what I understand, a few that are explicitly unsupported by design.
Also, using a hash (such as bcrypt) that can be made arbitrarily expensive. With a cost of 14, it takes this computer four seconds of CPU time per attempt to hash each password. While merely annoying for one user, that would really slow down rainbow table creation.
Syntax-coloring editors are the default. Why not make color part of the syntax?

Chuck Moore, of course, has done this with Colorforth. I read him somewhere saying that by encoding some of the program in color, a visual part of the brain not normally involved in programming was engaged, freeing up other cognitive resources to think about the problem at hand. He didn't put it that dogmatically; it was more of a speculation about he found this use of color so helpful.
it's a draft, so feedback welcome ...
Compilers are free to implement extensions if they want. A lot of programs depend on GCC extensions, so you'd never be able to compile e.g. a modern Linux distro with just an ANSI C compiler.
I just opened the letters page of UK Wired Magazine and there's a letter from the chief executive of National Rail Enquiries (Chris Scoggins) pledging to open up their data.

I'm sure that Wired would be interested in your story, and it's worth trying to contact Mr Scoggins directly.

(I'm not a regular Wired reader, but it seems this is in response to a letter published in the 09.10 edition)
I have actually searched for alernatve divers for my touchpad (on a pc) to do this, with no luck. I am sure it's possible though, the only limiting factrs would be the accuracy of the touchpad, and users unfamiliar with the new mode.
One random good prediction proves nothing, unfortunately. I tend to believe that Ricardo's comparative advantage and similar economic principles established for more than 150 years are solid enough to be relied upon when dealing with a relatively large markets; I'd go with HilbertSpace about the global macroeconomic BS, however. I'm pretty sure that global markets are too complex to be described by any current model.

I think one of the epistemological problem with economics is that it's almost impossible to run experiments(except maybe college kids experiments), and it would probably be irresponsible to run experiments on whole nations. That why some economists approach it by using entirely deductive logic as a mean of study.
I took ritalin for about a month to be able to play longer stretches of online poker. During the time I thought I was doing great but after reviewing my sessions later I discovered I was making a bunch of silly mistakes I don't think I would have done otherwise. And it was usually when I was already deep into the session, when I would otherwise have already stopped playing. After a month I found out that the amount of extra money was marginally paying for the cost of the drugs and stopped (yes, I played really small stakes). I know it's just anecdotal evidence and even my own sample size ( just one month ) is small but I think it's worth sharing.
The FSF addressed that back when GNU Go was the program getting pulled. They pointed to the section in the terms that said this:

The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect
to the Products, in addition to any other terms or
rules that may have been established between you
and another party.

They noted that it said it was in addition to any other terms between you and another party, and so the Usage Rules still applied EVEN IF the license of a particular program said otherwise.

However, looking at the latest version of the rules you cited (which is the same link the FSF cited), I don't see that language. The FSF published their more detailed explanation of the GNU Go problem, including the above explanation of why the Usage Rules still apply, on May 26th, and Apple updated the terms on June 21st.

On first glance, it appears that Apple may have in fact addressed the problem and GPL software is OK on the store after all.
Do they use perforce? It seems to be rather popular in the game industry, in part because its model suits projects that have a lot of large binaries in their repository.
It's the end user license that the FSF says is the problem.
Why do we still have to name variables OmegaZero when our computers now know how to render 0x03a9+0x2080 properly?

Ω is a valid variable name in C#. (But Ω₀ isn't).
I thought this would be a link to Steele writing about Fortress. He's said something similar.
You need surprisingly little actual explosive if you know what you're doing. Which is, you would not use the explosive itself to do the damage, rather as a propellant for shrapnel. I don't know if you've ever handled a grenade but they're quite small, about the size of an apple. You could easily manufacture one with the correct form factor for uhh, insertion. And if you were smart enough to do that, you'd also be smart enough to book a seat in the right place on the plane. Or even, use a shaped charge...
In essence, the GPL plays the long game and BSD plays the short game. This statement:

>The GPL ends up standing out as the "free" license that makes it hardest to actually distribute free software and reuse free code in other free software projects.

Is only true when you look at it immediately. In the long run, BSD licenses stand out as the ones that make it hardest to reuse code, because people don't have to think about reuse when they modify it, which is an important consideration. If you're just modifying some code for your company's internal use, not only are you not going to refuse to distribute it, you're going to avoid coding for situations that have wider applicability.

And of course this is my opinion. That was clear when I said "the important thing." There's no need to pepper my speech with "I think" when I'm obviously stating things that are not factual.