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> A phony ADD/ADHD diagnosis is cheating because getting diagnosed as a "learning disability" entitles you to special accommodation.

Only if you disclose it to the school, and request special accommodation.
If you remain quiet, you won't be treated differently from any other student.

> You're also a party to a felony, since you are either committing insurance fraud from the bogus prescription or are an accessory to fraud by illicitly purchasing the pills from someone.

Only if you have insurance, or decide to use your insurance for the prescription. You can always pay full price and be morally clear.

Secondly, I'd take arms against the idea that the prescription is 'bogus'. It was given by a licence doctor, and who is to say that you don't have ADD/ADHD? If a condition can be prescribed for purely on self-reported statements such as "I have trouble concentrating sometimes... more than I think is normal", then who is to say that the patient is to blame rather than the professional system?

In short, you've taken this situation and hyped an argument around possibility of someone already immoral acting to achieve the same ends that could easily be achieved through moral methods.
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Nice! I saw the tagline ("documentation") and thought, oh, that's a cool service. Then it changed to "blog articles" and I ooh'd a little bit.

The purpose is good, and I like the testimonials on the front page. One thing I might suggest is testimonials from people who buy your eBooks. As in, "9 out of 10 programmers prefer our elegantly designed eBooks to those converted by other services." Also, it's hard to see the "b" in your logo. I'm not sure what your intent was, but it looks like "Eoookcake" to me.
I'm interested! Can you elaborate a little on which points clashed with your experience?
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I was attempting to point out that unsupported dogma is useless in both directions.
Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom.
He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing
wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its
properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around
in bed for several days after. That's also part of the pattern too;
periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal
and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality.

Actually, that also sounds like the prompt on a psychology exam, and the answer is "Attention Deficit Disorder".
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And they have, with DRM and all that. Only problem with it is that it's a PITA for honest customers, but technology evolves and people always find ways to build better mouse-traps.

i.e. publish serially and demand advances, like authors used to do.
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"The assertion that people in privileged positions can never see their own privilege is refutation-proof"
Actually, I never said this, and I wouldn't. Most people who are privileged don't directly realise this, but it is common for concerned parties to learn about privilege to begin to "check their privilege" - to question how their privileges affects their interpretation of something.

I am privileged in some ways, and not in others. Generally privileges are treated as being different and hard to compare, because "oppression olympics" (arguing some are more harmful than others) never actually helps the discussion, and generally leads to people forgetting to check their privileges - who am I to speak for the experiences of other minorities?

The fact that you act amused at "not-abused" as a privilege is part of the whole problem, especially when you consider how this intersects with with privilege (or lack thereof) issues.

The concept of intersections between privileges (or the lack thereof) is important - that some combinations of the effects of a privileged society are worse than others.
Seems like the comments can not be indexed by Google so it seems bad if you want to the comments to help with your SEO efforts.
I'm getting a sky blue screen of nothingness on dashboard.html after signing in via github. Chrome 9.0.597.107 on Snow Leopard.

When going back to it again, the front sign in with github link tells me that someone already has my user id.
I hope this highlights the fallacy of using consensus to determine what is ethical:

"70% of the public finds rape socially acceptable"

Would we be having the same conversation?
Thanks for the feedback! Currently working on the overall presentation but I would compare the functions of Workola to that of a modern day briefcase. Users can store and share files (folders), add rss feeds (newspaper) and create online notes (sticky notes with email backend). Users can also create multiple projects to organize their feeds, tasks and ideas more efficiently.

The 'Tools' section adds a very modular dynamic to the desktop in that you can add your own code or any widget code you find on the web to customize your desktop. Tools are loaded into their own container so you can run a tool and multi-task with the other features on your desktop. I built the Toolbox to offer what I thought would be the baseline widgets a general user would be interested in.

I also added a few others tools to the 'Desktop' that provide what I would consider to be the baseline utilities for online life, Photo/Graphic editor (Pixlr) and online chat (ebuddy).

Workola also offers a mobile time tracker app that you can sync with dropbox and share between your mobile and desktop environments.

Here is a link to a folder with some mp3's:
http://www.workola.com/user/folder.php?id=6
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I wish they would focus on cleaning up their flight search before moving on to new features. While I like the idea of their flight search - in practice its a confusing visual mess. I really wanted to like it - but I found myself back on travelocity in short order. I think they're really on to something with their idea, but it needs some refinement before they move on. I showed it to my folks back home and they looked at it for about 2 minutes before just going to southwest.com and booking their flight there. While hipmunk may be all the rage here - it has basically zero traction outside of the tech community.
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Yes, the much more deceptive "Money Back Guarantee*" is what is usually plugged in instead of "Try Now".
> ACM and IEEE are membership organizations. Perhaps we need a grass roots effort to change the copyright policy to, say, one of the creative commons licenses and open the digital libraries and electronic journals to all comers.

Sounds like a great idea, especially in conjunction with the boycott/strike Matt's proposing.
This is a great point that too many entrepreneurs miss - hoping you didn't personally get burned on this! Unless you're in a partnership where you explicitly want to share IP, it's "works for hire". Good advice to avoid work with any developer (freelancer or otherwise) that doesn't fully and contractually recognize your rights to the IP.
Well if you want the hard truth most of the people I see doing these jobs on TV are actually better looking and less socially awkward than the ones I work with on a daily basis.
The "advantage" FB has is that comments on a 3rd party site get posted to your FB page, and replies to those comments on FB go back to the 3rd party page. I'm not sure that's really that big of an advantage - some may consider it a disadvantage..
what kind of app is it?
After playing with it for 10 mins here are a bunch of comments:

* There was no welcome page explaining what this thing and how to use it.

* I didn't quite see the need for the eye icon ("quickview"), since clicking on the image for the item seems to do the same thing.

* For images, clicking on the image should show the original image, instead you have the link on the bottom.

* When you click on an item's small picture, it's not obvious how to minimize the item again (click on the small icon), it would be nice to have a +/- icon on the right.

* Understandably, there are a lot of junk posts, i.e. currently the first one on the Android channel. Since first impressions are the key, you should try to create some meat asap.

* When you click on the small icon to the left of the channel name, it to the main channel, this is a little unexpected. Why not put the Yak icon for this channel there instead?

All, in all, nicely done. Will be hard to attract people to yet another sharing site, though. My suggestion would be to jumpstart it around an idea/event, i.e. Google I/O, Oscars (too late for that), etc. and advertise heavily on Twitter for that event's hashtag(s).

Good luck!
Not just a PhD. He had a Fullbright at MIT. You'll find his biography either incredibly inspiring or depressing.
Here's the paper she entered into the Intel Science Talent Search: http://www.natalieportman.com/articles/1998/chemicaleducatio...
Glad you liked that. I don't know that I quite have enough data to accurately use such a statement but hopefully with time I will.

Re: logo, the E and the B just lent themselves nicely to arbitrary ligature. It does make it slightly hard to read I admit.
On the other hand, a well run, professionally edited journal costs money to produce

But how much? I'm not familiar with ACM/IEEE but looking at the journals and standards bodies that I do contribute to, I know that they don't pay authors for contributions (in some cases the authors have to pay the journals) and they don't pay editors or reviewers. As far as I can tell, they only thing they pay for is administrators and the materials to publish hard copies.

If it were a case where the content producers were getting paid for their labor, I'd have a much easier time justifying the cost for papers and standards, but paying $50-$200 per PDF is a bit ridiculous.
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I guess I just don't personally see it as wasted space.

One doesn't want anything being touch-sensitive on the device when it's locked other than the unlock mechanism. So if there was more information shown, there'd be no way to do anything about that information (reply to it, clear it, delay it until later, etc) without unlocking the phone and then navigating back to the information that triggered the information in the notification through whatever app was doing the alerting.

Maybe I'd feel differently if I had a passcode/password on my phone; but, since I don't, unlocking is just a button-push-then-swipe that happens unconsciously during the transition from my pocket to in front of my face. So I might as well use the 'real' app by the time I'm ready to do anything on the device.

The exception of course is the time/date which are already shown - that's information that is strictly received by the user, who doesn't have to do anything (in the device) in response. So maybe adding things like the weather as an option makes good sense... but I don't personally think I want actionable things like emails/tweets/etc on the lock screen.

Of course, there is on iPhone the "alternate lock screen" that appears when you double-click Home and music is playing. Maybe there is room for an expanded not-quite-unlocked mode when you double-click Home to unlock?

I personally expect there to be changes to the notification system in iOS 5, but I won't be surprised if the lock screen stays approximately as-is. Wouldn't necessarily mind being surprised though!
Cool, sounds useful!
An interesting dilemma is it not? As you're young and inexperienced you are not unlike the 3 or 4 folks who become millionaires under the California lottery each year.

So good news and bad news, good news is you have choices, bad news is commercial real estate is (by some estimates) the next thing to go into the crapper).

Lets say you had $5M clear to work with. Yes, the 2 - 4% "return" is currently 'safe' money (which is to say treasury bill equivalents) so take $2M and buy a treasury bill 'ladder', these things are sold by the government quarterly and you can buy them at all maturities, so you split $2M equally into 40 parts, buy 10 year T-bills with their 3.5% return and you end up with about $70,000 a year (in the US at least) which is tax free. (So that is like having a salary of $110K/year before taxes.)You buy a place to live and if you want, you create another income stream to cover the taxes for that place.

At that point you've insured you're not going to go homeless or hungry and you are left with between 1.5 - 2 million to be a bit more speculative with. Putting .5 - .75M into equities is a reasonable way to capture that growth and it gives you a way to augment some of your return. If you want to just "participate" then buying index funds on the S&P 500 can do that with minimal hassle.

If you go the Angel route you can invite people to tell you how they are going to change the world and sponsor some of them. I suspect you will learn a lot doing this, but I would not expect it to be particularly profitable.

You can find another niche, create a company to fill that niche, build it up and sell it too.

Oh and I don't think you want a 'broker' what you want is a Financial Advisor (There is a separate certification for them, they don't trade stocks directly so they generally have less conflict of interest when it comes to fees).

Sounds like a nice problem to have, hope you do better than the Californians (the Lottery here has depressing statistics about how some very large percentage of lottery winners have lost it all in 18 months, sad really).
I'm envisioning a Chuck-Norris-esque meme evolving from said article. Personally, I'm much more of a fan of Greg Graffin, frontman of Bad Religion and Evolutionary Biology PhD from Cornell, who also happens to be a faculty member at UCLA: http://www.spotlight.ucla.edu/faculty/greg-gaffin_bad-religi...
That is really great!

How are you planning to achieve that? Via some X-to-LLVM-to-JS compiler? And what about system functions? Emulating some simple filesystem? Sockets would also be nice...
On the other hand, a well run, professionally edited journal costs money to produce.

Does it cost more money to produce than Wikipedia?

As I understand it, editors generally work for free. Reviewers generally work for free. Authors either work for free or pay for the privilege of publishing. Heck, authors generally supply their work already typeset. So what exactly is the cost here? I mean, I'm sure that IEEE/ACM have a staff that is used to getting paid, but what value are they adding if all the skilled labor is done for free by the community and all the technical wrangling is done by authors themselves?
While I'm quite glad you post the previous discussions, as I wasn't around HN when these were first posted - do you think "All have comments." is necessary? My initial thought upon seeing this is that you are trying to imply that we shouldn't comment in this thread since the topic has been worn out; while subsequent comments clarified that this is not your intent or the community's wish, I can't help but think that taking out the "All have comments" would better show what you're trying to do here- since if the previous discussions don't have comments you don't usually post them (from what i can tell)? Just a suggestion.
I'd like to gather some feedback for http://instagram.joshink.com. It was built for the fun of it, but it's been gaining quite a bit of traction and I'd like to hear from the people using it:

what do you like, hate or want to see added?

I'm planning on rolling it out its own domain and I would like to add the top features requested here.
I got the same. Just click the 'sign in' link at the top, then 'Sign in with Github' and it should take you to your account.
In my experience packaging, TDD and images have nothing to do with the problems that Common Lisp had (has?).
I tried to use Common Lisp for all my "home" projects between 2005 and 2006 and eventually gave up.
My conclusion was that the problem of Common Lisp was a combination of:

a) the standard is outdated, on one end it lacks many features that we now see as indispensable, due to not existing when the standard was ratified (unicode, networkings), not being commonly part of standard libraries at the time (modern packaging, regexps, C bindings) or simply were forgotten (parsing floating point numbers), on the other hand many features were specified in byzantine ways for compatiblity with systems that do not exist anymore (file system access, character encodings)

b) there were 5 major implementations, 2 of which commercial with expensive licences.

c) the community was small as much as that of any language that isn't C-like or PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby.

None of this was a problem in itself but, in one sentence, the community was too small and fragmented to bridge the gap between an old standard and practicality.
As a result even doing something as simple as a web scraper supposed to work on both OSX and Linux required major library juggling.

This doesn't happen in other languages not because of some psychological attraction of biploar minds to lisp but because other languages often have either a single implementation or a lot of modern features in the standard library or both. Or they have enough users that something like boost eventually gains traction.

I really hope quicklisp fixes this but it isn't simple.
The manipulation being referred to is most likely some form of layering. Basically, since you know how some bank will respond, you can manipulate the bank's trading program and rob the bank.

This has already occurred even without code thefts. Remember Trillium?

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/09/14/trillium-wa...
Upvoted. If not 'merge' (hard), at least detect the duplicate and automatically add links to the previous discussions and save @RiderOfGiraffes from doing it manually. :)
Did Andrew Warner write that headline?
From the article, it sounds like 'fiscal 2009' must've encompassed late 2008/early 2009, in which case 30% losses would not be abnormal. Otherwise this line sounds a bit odd:

At the end of fiscal 2008, Yale continued to turn in the best 10-year performance with an average annualized gain of 16.3 percent, which was followed by Harvard with 13.8 percent.
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The thing is they have professional graphics, high profile clients, high quality video testimonials & upfront pricing. The website is actually pretty free of gimmickry. While it is long the actual text is only about 3 paragraphs. Also you're on their homepage, which is more trustworthy than your e-mail inbox.

There's a pretty big difference from Basecamp's website vs someone trying to get you to buy "Forbidden neck pain reliever that the pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know about!!" or a cheap saw made in china that will probably break after a month and cost too much to send back for the Money Back Guarantee*.
I like the idea. However the results did not seem to be completely accurate for me. For example, I searched for Steak, Midtown, NYC. The first result, was Peter Luger (an amazing steakhouse) but it's located in Brooklyn (a real schlep from midtown). Other than that it would be great if you could incorporate the reviews in their entirety within your site, rather than pointing us to an external URL.
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Well sure, but the folks on TV are better looking and less socially awkward across the board than their real-life counterparts.
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I'm in the high school currently, hacking on a project, studying for few AP subjects and want to learn some additional interesting things too as new programming language every 2/3 months, computer graphics, do sports... Trying to do all of them I end up not meeting with friends, not keeping in touch on social sites. How do you deal with this?
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Don't these commercial publishers hire editors who actively contribute/edit to papers which they choose to publish? Also, don't many of these publishers pay authors for work?

Decrying that they are "socially irresponsible" and that everything should be available for free seems to be looking at this in a very simplistic way.
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It would be interesting to know the distribution of incorrect answers for the problems. Another interesting thing would be how many incorrect guesses people had for each puzzle (that is, how many people had >5 guesses and did not solve it and such up to how many solved it firs time).
This is really cool. At first I was like whatever this can't be better than Yelp. But after playing around with it I like the way the recommendations work. Would be cool if you emailed me where I should go eat on a weekly basis.
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I love Hipmunk, but 'ecstasy' is a strange word to use in a headline about an airline travel booking site.

In all seriousness, if they put an alerts feature in, it would be amazing. I find that I have to check back really often to find the best deals because airlines rejigger the prices so much.
All right everyone [insert brisk clap-clap], get back to work. Natalie Portman isn't wasting her day wondering about your scientific (or acting) credentials, so you've got better things to do than worry about hers. Go work on your business or some other more fruitful activity.
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I have a robot that used to do that, but it provoked an extremely strong negative reaction from a sizeable proportion of the community. I discontinued its use, and after some of the comments, I'm reluctant to bring it back.
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one of the reasons i loved Avatar is because the foundation of its universe is relentlessly scientific and natural, on top of which there is spiritual and social goodness

another movie like this that comes to mind is The Incredibles, which despite featuring superheroes has clear respect for physics

i sure wouldn't mind more movies like that. i think there is greater creativity from starting with a rigorous foundation
I know it's (barely) related to the current thread, but Queen has an astrophysicist as a lead guitarist... Face it, some people can pull this multi-discipline s*ht off.
Only two real complaints are:

- no "Load More" button on the main feed

- no way to Like a photo without clicking on it first

(if there were an Ajax-y way to comment on a pic without leaving the main feed, that'd be cool too. But the Liking seems more feasible and necessary.)
This limitation seems very bizarre on the iPhone 4, which has 512MB of memory. (I'm actually pretty annoyed that MobileSafari doesn't have configurable caching in general; I'd happily give up a gig of solid-state storage if it meant that web pages always stayed in memory once loaded.)
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It's not surprising that piracy is becoming more acceptable, since for much of the world the opposite of "piracy" is "giving money to the US".

(Independently of how much the numbers in this particular poll were manipulated.)