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> The author didn't really delve into whether he uses meds to cope with ADHD.

This note is toward the end of the article:

A note on medication: When I take medication I feel these skills being dulled. I can't think as quickly, I'm not as outgoing. ADHD medication also contributes to an increase in anxiety, and so for me it's not worth it. If you're struggling you should absolutely try it. For some people, medication is a must. Don't ever feel bad about taking it if it helps you.
Hello culture of age discrimination in tech. Didn't expect to see you here.
DHS has said they know they're already trying to hack into various voting machines to alter ballets. They felt confident that even if they did, the decentralized nature of our voting process would make it to arduous to be effective [1]. Voting machines have made rounds here before, mainly due to their lack of security [2]. Let's not forget that there were other hacks designed to sway voter confidence in Trumps favor [3]. All the while social media has been lit on fire through various efforts, such as inflammatory meme's [4], actual paid advertising campaigns [5], and funding for extremist groups [6].

Yes, there's no direct proof that they hacked our voting ballots. I think there is some evidence, but that agencies assumed they just weren't effective AND witheld the information in an effort to prevent Russia's ultimate motive of undermining democracy entirely. This is why nobody is showing evidence and choosing to rely on "faith".

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-departme...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18093568
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUfYtHfw3A
[4] https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-rep...
[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/russia-is-...
> Works with Windows XP or higher and Linux/Mac (console version). On Linux/Mac the speeds are much slower.

How come?

> You'll just need a Micro-USB or USB-C cable depending on the connector type you choose. Please note the USB-C connector only has the USB 2.0 lines attached so it may not work with devices expecting a USB-C capable device; you might need a USB-C to USB-A adapter and then a USB-A to USB-C cable.

Do you know if there are plans for a future revision of the hardware which will allow for the greater speed that USB-C can provide to be utilized?
> We want everyone who can, rich or poor, to be able to go to college. So everyone gets a loan no questions asked

That doesn't mean the loan needs to be unlimited. Pretty much every story you hear about unreasonable loan repayments are from people who went to a private school and spent $50,000 a year on a major that doesn't have good job prospects. I went to a public state school and most of the people there were because it was cheaper than going to out of state schools or private schools and they majored in subject that had good job prospects.

A simple cap on college loans per major would force people to choose cheaper schools (like starting at community college and going in-state) and/or more job economical majors so they don't drown themselves in debt that they cannot pay off.

> Which leave one option, the one other developed continues use. Which is hammered with words like "socialist" or the like.

Except that solution involves subsidizing everyone to go to college despite how economically useful going to college is for each person. For a prime example, see this topic [0] where european colleges were losing all of their top AI professors because they wouldn't pay their AI professors market wages because they got paid at the same rate as un-economically useful majors.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15600275
Why reuse them when whoever you stole them from will have fresh ones tomorrow?
I've always been more concerned about hidden damage: something has been stressed significantly, but has not yet broken. This has ended up coming true on a refurbished phone I purchased: things seemed to rapidly wear over time. The microphone was imperfect, the reception was oddly poor (I would guess something was not correctly reassembled?), and the actual glass on top of the screen was replaced with something that was not gorilla glass. The adhesive used to re-seal the back was also poor, and quickly came loose. I realize that not every one who purchases a refurbished phone will have these problems, but they are still a risk. And they can happen out side of the warranty period, leaving no recourse. Buying refurbished can be a good option (especially as it can be cheaper for a technical person to just do necessary repairs himself), but buyer beware.
IME: It really depends. It's not a silver bullet, you HAVE to measure and calculate [1]. The pricing is transparent, so it's more predictable.

My experience with single-function lambdas in JS was very positive, because they're quick to run and don't consume too much memory. They're also quicker to write and to publish, IMO. Some apps are virtually free to run.

Bloated-but-low-traffic enterprise apps are also a good fit, because the low traffic offsets the memory/execution time. I think Microsoft is in a great position here, because of Azure.

Customer facing app using an MVC framework? No way. Even Heroku can be 100x to 1000x cheaper.

[1] Here's a calculator: http://serverlesscalc.com
We need political adverts otherwise we wouldn't know what any party supports. One solution I can think of is every party gets equal ad time so no one can buy more votes and we all find out whats going on.
I don’t know how you get “the whole point” as being that. The credit scoring system likewise doesn’t give the lender anything to resell and merely punishes the borrower, but we recognize it as having positive sum effects for the credit system. A program of revoking degrees would behave the same way.

(Even if you have criticisms of the credit score as it exists today, most at least see the merit of “hey, other lenders, this person doesn’t repay loans, proceed with caution.)
That's exactly what I'm saying. Free college doesn't solve the problem, because the real problem isn't the cost of college, it's people pursuing degrees that aren't useful in the real world.
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Democracy is very very flawed, that is why the US is not a democracy, why at every level of government there are checks put in place to put in road blocks to democracy.

And why it is so extremely dangerous that people are trying to destroy those checks and institute a direct democracy with things like the national popular vote.
That's like complaining the yaml.org site was defaced, so we shouldn't use yaml.
I remember reading that the DEA seized 40 tones of cocaine one year. Sounds pretty good until they estimated nearly 10,000 tons made it into the US every year.

I would assume they’d tell you the chances were low enough to take a risk.
"It's really quite simple. Here, let me show you all these formulas..."

This reminds me of last week. I bought a house and want to get into woodworking so I looked up intro videos on YouTube. "It's easy. Just follow me over to this table saw and router and planer and all these other tools you don't own."

I know I'm not being fair. But a recurring frustration I have is when experts claim it's easy or simple or for beginners and then talk right over you. They don't mean to, but it can be insulting and demoralizing. "well if it's for beginners and I don't know what these glyphs mean, the problem must be me."

So back to the topic. Am I wrong or could you begin with, "a kalman filter is a way to get a guesstimate of a value from different sources where the trust in each source can vary."
ADHD is objectively a bundle of true deficits, not just a set of traits society frowns on. Certainly these deficits weren't as much of a disadvantage in early human evolution, but if you can create metrics and show that people with ADHD perform worse at some generic tasks vs. average human beings-- and you can, we have-- this is not just a world that has been created that is inhospitable to them.

The ugly thing I've found, which accords with what you have said here, is that the best treatment for me is as many hours of sunshine as possible and several hours of vigorous exercise a day. (Thanks for teaching that, Marine Corps.)

But of course there are very few jobs with security, brain exercise, and mobility that give me this, and essentially no jobs that are compatible with it (that it is, where I could take this time off per day and still retain a job).

So of course I use medication and stick with jobs that drive me nuts, jobs that are terrible for me but pay well. I feel for the ADHD people who weren't gifted as decent a brain as mine, as if it weren't for that I doubt my employers would have been as indulgent of my other flaws from ADHD.
There was a documentary about people who road freight trains illegally, basically hopping on them as a means to of transportation for the poor, run aways, etc.

Several people they interviewed did it even after they settled down. Something just drew them to it. They seemed to love the adventure, seeing the country, not knowing where they would end up or what they would see.

The randomness of the adventure sounded appealing.
It does nothing for procrastination and so proved useless to me.
Aah, yes, that round hole called “work”. All the creativity, all the beauty of being a square peg is absolutely useless in the face of having to make money to survive.

PTSD. Constant stress. Having trouble just keeping promises to friends. Failing to even keep up a hobby. The inability to control your own concentration.

ADHD most definitely sucks.
Other than corruption, which I don't see any indication of, I don't see how the union workers "work hard" to make sure the non union voters have a lower voter turnout.

It's simply the voter's lack of time, ability to absorb information about government finances, and most importantly, lack of willingness to engage in their civic duty that has led us to where we are. Even still, most people I talk to don't want to spend 15 minutes googling their local representatives.
military spending is greater than 50% of discretionary spending, which is 29% of the budget iirc. Which means military spending is around 15-16% of total spending.
Typically you pay $200 per semester in enrollment fees (bus ticket to the city included). And while private universities in Germany exists they are absolutely tiny compared to the public ones.
https://i.imgur.com/0cqb0kz.png is pretty self explanatory
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>The Electoral College is what really violates the principle of "one human, one vote".

No it really does not if you understand what a Republic of States is. We are the United States of America. A republic of states. Not "America the great democracy" like people seem to want it to become.

A federalist nation of independent states is what the constitution created, and what we should be protecting. There are many things that would improve our elections (Wyoming Rule, No Gerrymandering, Proportional Electoral College, Instant Run Off Voting, and returning the Senate to the States just to name a few) but a national popular vote for President is a TERRIBLE idea, and would rip this nation apart and in the long run likely result in another civil war.
I believe the social implications are way more complex.

While TFA compares cooking to sewing or gardening, in terms of a declining in both popularity and personal imperative, beyond the arguable claim that food trumps both those, is the social component.

Not so much that eating can be - let alone is necessarily - more social than pastimes such as gardening, but it's one of the few remaining opportunities to be social, both in the cooking and the partaking.

Of course, the erosion of shared meal times and the likely impacts are already well studied.

In his 1994 book 'The Doubter's Companion', John Ralston Saul observed:

"Restaurants, until recently, were places of refuge for people excluded from the mainstream or seeking to escape it — poor students, aging unmarried men not rich enough to have themselves fed at home, richer men seeking sex not wives, and the proverbial artists leading their irresponsible lives. Over the last half-century, restaurants have risen in importance to fill the void left by the decline of the old public celebrations. They now provide the leading forums of public participation."
i'll take your word for it
The useful thing to take away from this is to how to combat them.

> Simply by asking them what their position is, or what they propose to debate, they are forced into a quandary: if they propose something, then they have to defend it, and can be argued with; if they do not propose anything, then they may be asked to exit the debate. This may be easier said than done, but it may also help stop a troll once in a while!

Be sure to read the linked posts

"The toll of the trolls" (5/25/19)

"Eristic argument" (4/6/19)
Throughout all of my years of schooling, I was never a strong student, but I made it to a position in life where I hold a very good career as a Facilities Director for a large hospitality group in NYC. I've had a few desk based "Operations" jobs that I struggled to be able to focus on. Being in this Facilities role is great because it's hands on which keeps me active but it's also very dynamic and evokes feelings of letting people down if I don't resolve time sensitive issues, fast. One of the worst feelings is that what I do is never enough. I always feel like I do a good job but can't seem to shake the feeling that I will somehow get fired because I am not good enough. Lots of anxiety. I do a good job at work, get compliments, but I can't go on a two week vacation w/o wondering if my job is on the line because I'm not there. How do those with ADHD shake the constant feeling of anxiety and of "not being good enough"?

I also can relate to the entire ADHD <> entrepreneurship affinity because I come up with so many "niche", interesting business ideas but I struggle to exceute. Some of these ideas could make me a lot of money too with minimal investment.
Ah, I see. So we should have free practical education. Free engineering universities and such, but not free ... let's call them, humanities universities?

I'd be ok with that. If you want a humanities degree, then you have to pay. Maybe those still have student loans, but not big ones.
Terrifying for you but my two and a half year old has absolutely loved Thomas for almost half her life. She has Thomas toys, clothes, books, dvds, had a ride-on electric Thomas complete with circular track that took up most of the living room, and we took her on the life-size Thomas train in Pennsylvania twice. Thomas is absolutely her jam, followed by Lightning McQueen and then Elmo. Her nostalgia will obviously be different than our nostalgia, but it's nice to see the joy it brings her.
If you get on a visual team for MK you'd better damn well be able to tolerate working with gore. If you can't then why the hell are you at this company in this role? If you're unable to do the job you were specifically hired for then like anyone else - you're looking at being let go.
That feels more in SMBC style than cyanide and happiness
Not OP, but as a sufferer, I boldly disagree. There may be some benefits related to brainstorming and "out of the box" thinking but they are overshadowed by the disastrous consequences of being unable to organize and execute.
Try Vyvanse or one of the other high grade, extended release alternatives to Adderall. Lots of people have had issues with Adderall, especially after the patents expired and it started being made almost exclusively overseas as a generic.
I'm really glad a16z put this issue to rest because it's the kind of problem that causes insane wheel spin at a certain kind of company. The "Data Acquisition Cost", and "Incremental data value," made me laugh because I had to solve that problem before.

The most interesting related work on this is a paper covered on HN at some point (http://blog.mldb.ai/blog/posts/2016/01/ml-meets-economics/) about economics' indifference curves and ML's ROC curves.

The big mistake I've seen data companies make is they approach their market based on customer vertical, assuming that say a Bank will be like other banks, and a health care provider will be like other health care providers, and this is the fatal error. The bank with the same sensitivity to fp/fn/tp/tn rates will have more in common with the health care company with that same sensitivity than it will with other banks.

Basic problem with any data product is the customer's ROC curve, or where they economically benefit from using your data service. Different customers have different sensitivities to false positive/negative, true postive/negative rates - and the customer categories themselves are defined by this sensitivity. e.g. What they have in common is not their vertical but their risk appetite. I have a blog post 3/4 written on this specific topic.

That sensitivity is specifically an artifact of the customers growth stage as a company, which determines their risk appetite and the economics of the asymmetrical value that the effective ROC curve of your data product describes. (see above link).

This is the fundamental problem for an ML/AI company, where they will go bankrupt trying to find their 2nd or 3rd insurance company customer because they think the value of their product is because their next customer is in the same vertical - not because they have the same sensitivity to fp/fn/tp/tn.

Slight aside, it's so important that an investor like these can weigh on in these issues and other technical economic factors, because IMO when I listen to every technical person I know, the #1 cause of internal suffering at companies is caused by people trying to bullshit their investors, and blog posts like these just wipe away a big source of that temptation.
The students in the article were taken advantage of. It sounds like nobody even got the chance to find out whether they would like or succeed at coding.

So many responses in this thread are written from a middle/upper-middle class context. Folks who had reasonably good schools, access to computers at a young age, a stable home environment in which to work with them, a culture (parents and/or peers) that supported them, an expectation and pathway to higher education at a young age. Maybe not all of those boxes are ticked for every successful software engineer but I bet a good number of them are.

The people in this article didn’t have as many of these factors. Maybe they had none of them. That doesn’t mean that they’re dumb, untrainable or not cut out to be coders. I think what it means is that an appropriate approach to training needs to be taken.

That approach is probably something akin to a gateway aptitude test to demonstrate ability and commitment followed by a significant period of apprenticeship combined with some formal classes at the community college level.

This is the way that people enter the skilled trades, and also seems similar to military occupational training. I don’t see why it couldn’t produce competent entry-level folks who are capable of working on 95% of business systems/websites/etc at the end of their training.
Interesting! On that note, is there a service like this to request drawings not from photos? Maybe with early sketch phases to suss out the specifics before committing to the final iteration?

I've got some work i've been wanting to commission, but i'm not sure on where best to find an artist
That's a very cool intro to a variety of shader techniques, especially post-processing effects.

What's even more wild, is that modern engines include all of this stuff out of the box, you just have to tick a few check boxes to enable them in your game. :) For example, check out these postprocessing filters built into Unity and Unreal - a ton of person-hours went into these:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PostProcessingOverview.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Rendering/PostPro...
That’s called marketing. Also sometimes pre-sales with solutions engineering and onboarding.
Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture
Seems like a neat project to get auto-steer driver assist going on a car that supports it. It's basically a Tesla Autopilot 1 ( Mobileye ) mod.
Or, we make the applicant apply and only give them a lone we think they'll be able to repay based on their skill, the school, and the choice of major. If they start doing poorly then we don't give them future loans. It's really not that hard -- get the government out of the loan business.
I think nearly all of us that aren't secretly abusing medication feel that ambivalence.

For me and I assume for others, it is not a fully adequate treatment. Some symptoms it fixes, some it helps with, some it does nothing for, some it actually makes worse. (In particular, impulsivity and inability to task switch accurately.)

Then there are the side effects, and the comedowns after tolerance builds.

Nevertheless you must still learn coping skills, still pursue other treatment (exercise, decent diet, sleep, CBT if needed), still struggle as the square peg.

I have used medication for roughly 5 years ish of 30 some years of life, intermittently. I'd say taking it is better treatment than not, but honestly, like you, I feel a deep ambivalence towards it. (Even resentment, sometimes.)
Well unless this MK takes a way different direction than all the ones before, there are going to be some gigantic physics defying titties in this game...
I can see that explanation. Particularly with respect to those candidate's overrepresentation. I think that looking through their transcripts would generally reveal those people pretty easily though.

Also at some top tier schools it's actually relatively harder to completely flunk out, so that might have something to do with it.
> It's always wise to invest in education.

That’s debatable. Regardless, college involves some education, for some. There is also a lot of partying, drug use, indoctrination, and impractical pursuits. I don’t want to fund that with public dollars, especially since our college graduation rights are already on the higher side relative to our competitor countries. If we were talking about spending public dollars on commuter trade schools, I’d feel more positively.
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Exactly this. Prices started doubling when everyone starting getting loans. At the same time we need more craftsmen and tradespeople. The lesson is that if you give out free money, people will fight to be the first to get it.
signal-weechat looks very interesting. do you have any idea how well it works?
Are you talking about the riot-web client? There are Debian packages for it, but even if you don't use those the client is all client-side JavaScript so you can statically host it. I will submit a bug report to add a quick-install guide to the README but it's quite trivial (untar into /var/www/html).

matrix-synapse does have quick install guides but a RPi is probably a bit too low spec to run a matrix server that will federate with matrix.org (though it depends strongly on what rooms you join and how many users you have).
It does if you're a totalitarian state that really really wants to win an ideological battle by producing Olympic medals and Nobel prizes. Only one of those were produced.
This is just guessing, but I'd think population density plays a major factor. I'm just eyeballing this list here [1], but Japan is roughly 10x as dense population wise as the US.

1 - https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_popul...
Those numbers need adjusted for population size. But I would guess that schools stopped growing. I also think looking at the past to predict the future is probably a bad way to look at things. I know I would not buy stocks that way.