skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Psilocybin has shown promise in [...] relieving cluster headaches (a common form of chronic headache) and in alleviating the anxiety experienced by terminally ill cancer patients."

Cluster headaches are absolutely not a common form of chronic headache. They are fairly rare, affecting .1% of the population, and are extremely debilitating; many sufferers commit suicide rather than suffer through the pain.

Here is an amazing talk by Bob Wold, the guy who founded Cluster Busters, the non-profit organization that's partnering with Harvard to do the research on psilocybin as a treatment:

http://vimeo.com/10918637

"and in alleviating the anxiety experienced by terminally ill cancer patients."

Here is the talk by one of the researchers who was testing psilocybin for treating anxiety due to terminal cancer:

http://vimeo.com/10931182

Both are among my all time favorite talks, both are extremely powerful and moving. I submitted them to TED as potential talks last year, but apparently no luck so far.
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You do it to increase the accessibility to your product. Facebook and Mint don't want you going to other services, they profit because your data and attention is with them. If they can take advantage of platforms like mobile to engage you even more, than thats fantastic for their business and it increases the switching cost of leaving them.
I just finished my first year of Uni.

I'm spending the summer at an intership, where I'm writing very low level code. (For example, right now, I'm writing a utility to arping an address range. I've learned all about OSI, ethernet interfaces [I'm using BPFs [1]], etc.).

In my free time, I'm playing with opencv. For example, here [2] is an image I took of myself, ran through an edge detector, ran again through a distance transformer. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself.

I also know how to configure a LAMP [3], but that's nowhere near as interesting as the previous two paragraph.s

[1] http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bpf&apropos=0&#...

[2] http://michaelbrindle.com/images/meDistTrans.jpg

[3] in my case: FreeBSD, Lighttpd, mysql, and python, so... FLMP
Nope, the correct analogy is that he took all the green cars in addition to all the blue and red cars.
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I have never understood the mechanics of 'drug is bad if use equal entertainment'. It will be interesting to see if the release of this information and the refereed to thaw in the taboo will lead anywhere...
Mozilla: "I don't care about making Firefox enterprise friendly"
For example, think of all the software people go go to school, learn java, and then build big ugly enterprise bank, insurance, whatever software inside some megacorp that nobody cares about.

For what it's worth, nothing requires Enterprise software to be big, ugly, boring, hard to use, etc. Maybe I'm biased, since I'm working on an Enterprise Software startup, but I think this stuff can be damn interesting. Then again, I'm in the "Enterprise 2.0" space, and am working with interesting stuff like social network analysis, activity streams, machine learning, text mining, semantic web tech, etc. Maybe writing accounting software is boring, but the stuff we're doing has a lot of interesting aspects to it, IMHO.
You shouldn't shit on what other people do for fun or in their free time.

Some people use online games like this to escape their real life, whether its to escape disease, sickness or other less serious things.
"I changed the password every 3 days and never memorized it. Current password was on a post-it on my monitor. Did you guys lose the post-it?"

Simple as that, right? They can't compel you to remember information you never had in memory. It's probably too late, as he's likely admitted to remembering the password. Dumb move.
A question I haven't been able to answer from all this: is there, as of yet, a portable graph database library, ala SQLite, that can be used as a file format for graph-based data?
H1-Bs: They hurt the supply of U.S. CS students by making wages lower which makes CS a less attractive major. (For the record, I'm pro immigration, but anti-H1-B. H1-B workers have very little ability to negotiate salary and companies like Tata abuse the H1-B system).

I won't take any government blather about the lack of native-born engineers seriously until this is addressed. What kid in his right mind is going to go into a field in which the government undermines his ability to get a raise?
I didn't mean to defend the idea that every fact is true for a reason.

I remember reading something of Chaitin's a couple of years ago that drove home the point that most mathematical facts are, in some fairly-well defined sense, true for no reason at all.

(Alas, I don't remember the argument well enough to re-cap it here.)
Having a contract validation test would be a worthy exercise for the party who didn't write the contract.

This sounds like a great service opportunity for startup/employee contract lawyers... if contracts are like code, then a parser (or maybe legal code pretty-printer) could easily allow a skilled professional to sift through code. Even easier if the contract is standard for a large company.

Any lawyers here care to pick my idea apart?
I'm partial to "I kept this week's password on a post-it note stuck to the keyboard. Did you lose the post-it?"
Arguably a generalization of the title question to span times beyond the present ("do") is more interesting: Rockefellers did and still do immeasurable philanthropy.
You aré looping for neo4j. It is beautiful.
And now an email from the CCP CEO has leaked, which ignores the significant problems with the deployment and essentially says that he will not listen to the users (cloaked in some otherwise reasonable language).

http://www.evenews24.com/2011/06/25/ccp-hilmar-global-email-...
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What disappoints me, really, is the attitude that's made its way over from other fields into tech: once you're at a certain scale, it is acceptable to provide no customer service whatsoever, even to paying customers.

Google and Paypal were the ones who started it in our industry, of course, but it certainly seems to be spreading.
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It's also not worth it and you'd be rewarding the building owner. Bistro Elan could move two blocks in either direction, reduce rent and recoup moving costs in months. (and I hope they do)
This sounds not only terrible but retributive. Did you know this would end this way?
I can tell you what happens if you don't cooperate. They break your door down and they search anyway. Still working on getting ours fixed.

There are two ways to avoid this, either build a house with no doors, or don't have one.
My first job was in a plastics plant and one thing I noticed was that when you deform clear plastic, it tends to become cloudy. I wonder how these will fight that, seeing as almost every one will be folded at some time in it's lifecycle.
The article reports, "The agency doesn’t offer specifics on what kinds of activities might boost computing’s appeal to teens, but they want programs to include career days, mentoring, lab tours and counseling."

Career days, mentoring, lab tours, and counseling are all surely good ideas. But building up desire to become a computer geek among teens will only go so far unless the teens have enough background coming out of high school to learn the actual skills of a computer geek.

Currently, the ACT college admission testing organization estimates that three-fourths of the young men and women entering colleges "were not adequately prepared academically for first-year college courses."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230407010457639...

There are varying amounts of mathematical background strictly necessary for working in various kinds of programming jobs. It would be a rare programming job that wouldn't require at least as much solid skill in mathematics as implied by completing a second year of secondary school algebra. But a lot of high school graduates don't reach that level of math skill, even if they have taken an algebra II course.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/requiring-alg...

http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/cccr10/pdf/Conditio...

I've given more citations to studies of United States mathematics education in another HN post,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562743

so I won't belabor that point here. I'll simply point out that with students who have decent math skills in shortage already, moving math-able students into computer science or computer engineering but from physics or medicine or other forms of engineering still leaves the United States with a potential national security problem.
I kinda wish Google had better versioning in their infrastructure. While I used neither of these products, their disappearance makes me reluctant to adopt Google products for any core infrastructure. If I buy a program from Microsoft, and Microsoft discontinues it, I get to keep using it forever. If I do the same with Google, since I'm not managing my infrastructure, at some point, it just goes away. It shouldn't be that hard to fork off sets of servers to run frozen, legacy applications, or older versions of non-legacy apps.
"It will be interesting to see if the release of this information and the refereed to thaw in the taboo will lead anywhere..."

This document shows the projected timeline for legalizing MDMA for medical purposes: http://maps.org/prospectus.pdf

Essentially the MDMA phase 2 trials are going to continue for another 2 - 3 years, at which point there will be an end-of-phase-2 meeting with the FDA, where they will come up with a plan for phase 3 studies. Phase 3 will take another 3 - 5 years, and that's assuming they're able to raise all the money it's going to take. However, it's looking like there is a good chance of getting MDMA legalized within ten years for medical use if MAPS can raise the money.

Psilocybin is also close to getting moved to schedule 2 or even schedule 3. However, AFAIK the research that's being done isn't formally designed to turn psilocybin into a prescription drug, so I'm not entirely sure how the current research gets used going forward.

Most research into the medical benefits of marijuana has been stalled because of Obama. Essentially the person Obama appointed has decided to block MAPS from getting any marijuana to use for studies that might show potential benefits from marijuana, so even though the FDA keeps approving their studies they can't actually go forward with any of them.
What a great move to get NFC accepted into the mainstream.
this is starting to get off-topic, but one could argue that athletics played at the highest level is an art form, with its own rich culture, history, and passion just like great music, film, or literature.
They are operating on obsolete data. CS enrollment has been on an upswing since 2009.

This topic reveals a bit of confusion within the industry. On one hand there's a commonly held belief that anyone outside of the top 1% of developers is next to worthless as an employee. Yet when articles like this come out suggesting a huge shortage of home-grown nerds, everyone agrees that "something must be done" and kids must be guided towards math and CS classes...
My understanding is that whether or not providing a password is or is not testimony is not clearly defined.

There have in fact been a few instances where judges have determined that providing a password does constitute giving testimony.

http://www.easterndistrictblog.com/?p=57

and older

http://mises.org/Community/blogs/crypto/archive/2007/12/18/c...
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What makes you think they don't? and that you should know when they do?

There is a whole lot of well financed good going on under the radar.
Yeah, when I saw Paul's post, the first thing I thought was that it would encourage every landlord of a place that a lot of very rich people love to triple the rent and force a rich person to buy it at a favorable price.
I understand that the CTR makes a difference to the network, but I am pointing out that a low CTR doesn't necessarily mean that the advertiser is worse off. It means two things: it means the advertiser's ad is terrible, or the targeting is suboptimal (relative to an ad with higher CTR), and that you are actually getting more impressions per dollar spent.

All else equal, you actually want to pay LESS per impression, given the same number of clicks per dollar (your CPC). Of course, in any well-designed dynamic system, the prices of the auction should reflect the different probabilities of being clicked.
Yes, you are right, and I thought that as soon as I posted it. Maybe a better answer is that the whole media frenzy around professional sports is the problem, not the sport itself.
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I'm not quite sure; I was imagining something with a small C API like SQLite's (which can usually be incorporated into anything), whereas Neo4j requires the JVM. This means, for example, that if I want to write a Ruby app that interacts with the graph database, it has to become a JRuby app. I suppose a service-based architecture could avoid this (where only the process interacting with the graph has to be run on the JVM), but that defeats the whole purpose of using a database library rather than a client-server database. I suppose it works well enough for languages that are already founded on the JVM, such as Clojure—but that doesn't make it universally portable to systems that don't even have a JVM implementation (such as iOS), in the way that SQLite is.
If these people really thought about it, they would see that the market is flooded with lawyers and screaming for quality engineers of all kinds. I know this because my wife is in law school and the law schools are admitting and churning out more lawyers than ever despite many law jobs dissolving into thin air.
He settled, and he did so because of his rising legal costs, which is to say even if he won he would still pay those large legal costs. Under loser-pays rules, if he'd pressed on and won, he would not have paid his legal costs, the other guy would have covered them.
I wanted to see what she had said that had started such a remarkable flamewar, but apparently it was flagged for review and not visible. Does anybody have a copy?
My firm is working on this, together with other like-minded law firms. Indeed, we are lawyers who write code (gasp!).
Anyone using Eclipse can confirm that? I've moved away from that IDE for years because how slow it was. (Also because it was so damn hard to configure it the way I wanted)

I remember though putting somewhat similar in my config file.
Contempt of Court is a serious business. You can be jailed indefinitely for it. For example: this guy was jailed for 14 years because he couldn't (or wouldn't) turn over information about missing assets during his divorce: http://www.judicialaccountability.org/articles/7year.htm
It's not that there's anything wrong with internationals, but rather that when a team of 12 has 11 internationals you know that our country is having issues sustaining it's own tech sector. We may not always be able to ship in brilliant minds from Moscow and Berlin and Bombay to save our butts.
Of course. I'll send you an email. Meanwhile, my firm's site is here: http://yusonirvine.com/
I got quite put off by lack of email integration in Basecamp and recently wrote this: http://goo.gl/Vthjb

I've, since, moved away from Basecamp and am almost completely on Jira now.
The gatekeepers are angry, and they are experiencing major cognitive dissonance.
I wonder, is this shortage they see only an issue for CS-type work, or geeks in general? They have many other fields of development besides security, algorithms and the like.
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Ok, so, really, what is the plan to get to IPv6? So far as I can tell, there is no plan.
Why can't I down vote? That advice was horrid, and basically said 'learn all about buzz technology and blog stuff'.... Seriously, thats what they should be doing way LESS.. They should do more things such as the following: (My own biased list)

1. Designing their own CPU
(this will go along with learning memory management, paging, translations, etc)
2. Learn about Linking and Loading
3. Write Toy OS
4. Learn C and x86 assembly
5. Learn TCP/IP and OSI model well.
6. Write some damn code and try to contribute to open-source
7. Learn about application security (stack overflows, heap, etc.)
8. Write your own API for anything to learn how to create consistent and easy to use code.
9. Apply what you learn about an algorithm or data structur in a novel way to solve a practical problem. Who knows you may see something and say 'wow I could use that algorithm and apply it to finding words that rhyme' or something like that....
10. Please... have some damn system administration skills. Learn your way around a modern system be it linux, bsd, windows.
11. Figure out why design patterns and OO aren't goddamn silver bullets for every issue.
12. Christ sakes, learn some damn math.
13. Stop trying to learn every damn language you see. Just because proggit/hackernews is buzzing about some new technology doesn't mean it is worth your time. Be different go against the grain.

... and other stuff I can't think of..
"I plan to use my wealth to become an angel investor..."
There's an old saying about counting your chickens before they're hatched.
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I wrote a little shim that allowed to write me to write Hadoop jobs in Clojure, and had two small test functions that would apply a map / reduce to a test file -- it made development of Hadoop jobs a bit easier. See: https://github.com/brool/hadoop-shim/blob/master/wordcount.c...
Interestingly, Microsoft's BPOS standard terms include summaries above the salient sections. They are entirely non-binding, and quite well done.
For some reason this post by alnayyir is dead:

>Why don't more startups choose to solve problems that would really improve peoples' lives?

People keep bringing this up, but I never see examples. If I saw one, I'd chase it like an alcoholic that's spotted Jim Beam at the bottom of a hill.

To my detriment, and with gusto.
I'm American, and I have to agree with you. I travelled to Ireland last month and having 1 and 2 € coins was great. The different sized bills took a little getting used to, but even that was great because I could quickly tell them apart (along with the different colors). I'd like to see wider adoption of 1 and maybe 2 $ coins here sometime in the bear future.
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On my Aspire 4745G laptop with 4g ram windows 7 x64, it is fairy slow to run eclipse x64 with jdk x64. So I adjusted the vm arguments and some eclipse setting mentioned above, and found it runs super fast after the change.

If it works or does not work on your machine, or any other smart way to speed up your eclipse, pls let me know.
The most notable change is probably the RAM disk, anyone with an SSD would be able to agree that eclipse is fast (more usable) when running on a drive with an SSD. All that compile on the fly as you're typing would be quite IO bound.

I use eclipse at work on a spinning disk and at home on an SSD, using the SSD makes an incredible difference.
Yeah, I don't have data to back this, but my gut tells me that big software companies' consumer surplus on payroll is significantly higher than it is in other knowledge industries, i.e. Microsoft/Google/etc. aren't paying you nearly as much as they'd be willing to.

I think that's part of the reason talent acquisitions are becoming increasingly common -- you can't just pay new hires 50-200% more than what everyone around them is making, because that would infuriate existing employees. But if you pay them that same figure via a talent acquisition, none of your current employees will care much because they can mentally file it under "special cases".
Yes but BattleHeart is not a top 200 even in iPhone games if I remember the article correctly. Camera+ is Top 10 overall, which based on my experience in the app store means its probably selling at a 100x greater rate than Battleheart. So there is a huge difference in addressable market between the two apps.
Inflation has been so rampant here in Vietnam that the smallest bill worth mentioning is 1,000 Dong and I hardly ever see coins at all. It's actually a lot more convenient not to have to separately juggle coins and bills though.
Aren't most recreational drugs addictive and destructive? It's not too hard to understand why there's a stigma.
Engineers and scientists provide better water and better food. Actors and musicians do neither. I consider that pretty valuable.

That said, it's a question of balance. And it's also a question of not accepting all things as of equal value, which is required for progress.
These days the media pushes sports and actors more and more. They show being a TV or Movie star you can make a lot of money. What they do not show is that there are 1,000's and 1,000's of people trying to do that same thing that never make it anywhere.

This is the same thing for sports and even less make it to the big leagues and make the money that you see the stars make these days.

I have to agree that there needs to be a push to make computers and science more appealing to the younger generation. The more we can show that engineers and scientist are not labeled geeks the more we will get the younger generation test out the different fields.
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It's on the wall next to the shower.
I'm at my limit with the ad quantity on Hulu already. I cancelled my Hulu+ account after one month when I discovered that none of the shows in my queue were available for mobile devices. I would consider subscribing again if the Plus subscription included an ad-free option.
The kind that profiles. The common case to optimize for may be insertion (especially with US $1 notes) rather than withdrawl. Semi-sorting by putting all change at the front while withdrawing for payment from the large bills at the rear is a decent tradeoff.
"vocational schools are still seen as having less prestige..."

Except for a few vocations that have managed to get themselves tagged as "professions". There are a number of fields where students are supposedly taught to think in general-purpose undergraduate programs, and then taught the minutia of their chosen field in "professional school". e.g. law school, medical school, and a growing list of professional doctoral programs in fields like Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Optometry, Nursing, Education, etc.

Maybe someday we'll have a "Doctor of Network Configuration" or a "Doctor of Database Schema Design"? (I'm not sure if I'm kidding or not)
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