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Advocating the daily use of stimulants is dangerous. I have tried Adderall but could never do anything productive while using it. It'd make me feel odd and irritated.

My roommate had a prescription and ultimately abused it to the point of destroying his life. Of course, it was his abuse that was the problem not the drug per se.

But to me, Adderall is no different than meth. It is more pure and clean but essentially the same thing. The best way to increase your productivity is to do it naturally as Dn_Ab outlines above.
I don't know... I thought section 1032 might be the one with the more general provisions, but 1032.a.2 ("COVERED PERSONS") is dependent on 1031's provisions that restrict it to people involved in 9/11 or al-Qaeda.

While the whole idea of indefinitely detaining people without trial is contrary to the principles of the constitution and circumventing due process opens a loophole where it's easy to accuse anyone of al-Qaeda affiliation, the press around this one seems to be disingenuously omitting that aspect of the bill.

I trust the ACLU as a source though, so maybe we are missing something.
Even on the slightest chance that a consumer device would cause interference, do you think having to put them away is so bad? On take off and landing you are also near other planes, populated areas.

Also don't forget with the 3.5 oz limitation someone did use that kind(Liquid) as an explosive to try and take down a airplane. poor electronics getting jolted from a peaceful sleep with a bullhorn.....
And yet, we can use our laptops during flight.

So, should I be skeptical of you, or terrified in two weeks when I fly to Dallas?
My college roommate was a pilot, and his explanation was that on occasion some devices can cause static or interference on the pilot's headsets. Since communication with the tower is critical during takeoff & landing, the policy of power-off is in effect. I guess it's not as critical during taxi, since that is allowed.
I was on a flight a few months ago where we stopped on the runway for a few minutes and the flight attendants told us we couldn't take off because "too many" devices were still powered on.

They also told us they had to "reboot Windows".

I'm pretty sure they were full of shit.
You are forgetting Google Buzz/Wave/Knoll, services that are shut down after launching with a lot of fanfare. Now days every time Google launches a new service I am not sure whether that service will be around for another year or so.

Except search I have lost faith in Google to solve my problems with new services. Google's main aim seems to be to serve ads. All the services they have launched for free is to serve more ads. They copy popular services to serve more ads, make it free, and kill competition.
Obviously the best market involves drinking if it is going to be US based. Being that 21 is the legal drinking age, I think I would try to do something where bars and liquor labels give discounts, coupons, incentives to birthday goes that are going out on the big night. This is a huge target market for them and offering a venue to reach that customer would be valuable if you can generate the traffic.
The general idea here, "praise effort, not smartness", is pretty well backed by the research, I came across a similar study some years ago and they keep popping up. (Maybe it was the same one?) It's definitely made it into my mental catalog of parenting techniques should I ever have kids.

It also reflects my own personal experiences I think a lot of above-average-in-something people go through: at some point in their academic or professional lives, they hit a wall where their ability isn't enough and they don't have the mental discipline and other habits to put in the needed effort. Some things stop being fun and look suspiciously like busywork even if it will help. (And sometimes it actually is unhelpful busywork.) I know some people eat up busywork, they just grind through it, personally I can't stand it and avoid it as long as I can. Nor have I found anyone suggesting a general solution to gaining a hard-worker attitude if you didn't develop one in your childhood, and it seems like a hard problem to solve since it's part of the wider motivation and procrastination problem.

Unfortunately the conclusion of the post is a bit too strong:

"No matter the ability — whether it's intelligence, creativity, self-control, charm, or athleticism — studies show them to be profoundly malleable. When it comes to mastering any skill, your experience, effort, and persistence matter a lot. So if you were a bright kid, it's time to toss out your (mistaken) belief about how ability works, embrace the fact that you can always improve, and reclaim the confidence to tackle any challenge that you lost so long ago."

Effort is insufficient, and great effort is not always necessary as those of us, who breezed through anything others struggled with, know. Ability is necessary though not sufficient. A 3-and-a-half foot tall person has no chance of being an NBA All Star, and I've witnessed not-very-smart students pour hours and hours into things like studying and still fail. Work smarter, not harder (though that requires you to be smart enough).

I remember Feynman reflecting on his art saying he didn't think it was very good, that he'd never in a hundred years rival a Renaissance master. Yet he still did it, probably because it was fun or interesting. Cultivating a spirit of playfulness and curiosity that produces effort in disguise seems more important to me than cultivating a spirit of effort for effort's sake.
True, though that gets back to your original point, since Zigbee tranceicesr are also (relatively) expensive.

I am currently working on some wireless hardware myself and while my devices do not need to be connected to the internet, they certainly could be since they do need to connect to a computer. Currently I am using ~$15 bluetooth modules for devices that can cost more and won't have more than a few instances deployed in one place. I will probably use wifi for high-cost, many-instance devices and I am currently evaluating solutions for low-cost, many-instance (though currently I only need low bandwidth one way communication for these). So far I have had some success with cheap rf-link mopules such as these[1], but am investigating cheaper/smaller/more-full-featured alternatives[1]. My target for these devices is sub €10 (~$13), which includes cost of microcontroller, rf module, passive components, circuit board and packaging.

My point is basically that sub-$10 may be possible depending on requirements - base station or standalone; one way or bidirectional transmission; point-to-point or broadcast; size requirements and so on. I think for some of the applications mentioned in the article, sub-$10 is very possible. Of course you lose the single general purpose device appeal, but perhaps a small number of more-specialised devices could be available and you can then mix and match, especially if everything works off a single base station.

[1] http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10532 they are ultra simple, but also quite bulky

[2] 2.4Ghz RF transceivers from Nordic Semiconductor among others
They do serve welcome-drinks as soon as passengers got on the plane. Oh, right! Never mind.
Most of the VCs I talked to about FaceCash refused to invest because they were afraid of the regulatory implications.

Given you have competitors that have raised money, this leaves two possibilities:

1. You were talking to the wrong VCs

2. You got rejected by the VCs for reasons other than the mere existence of the regulatory challenge(for example, they may have rejected you because they believed the regulatory challenges were surmountable but that you did not possess the skills etc. to deal with them in the manner that they'd like)

In either case, your attributing your failure to fundraise to the regulatory implications seems dishonest and/or misguided.
This has been a primary problem in education, and what you've said is quite true. And as said in PG's what you'll wish you'd known essay, the bright kids should seek hard problems so that they don't lose their abilities by thinking that there's no value in being smart.

I'd recommend watching Sir Ken Robinson's iconic talk with respect to what you said:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ken_robinson_says_schools_k...
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The list of people who didn't already know this is very, very short.
nknight mentioned iphones, ipads, and unibody macbooks.
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Almost there with you. Charade is useful if it prevents a confrontation with someone who does not understand the security theater.

Thus, I turn the screen off for the 3 seconds it takes the flight attendant to walk by. I've been doing this for years. A fair compromise? Silly, but effective perhaps.
Couldn't agree more.

Living in Argentina, it´s difficult for me to find a market for an iPhone app, or to try to make money out of a web application. However, there are lots of unsolved problems here, some of which may be addressed with software. The only difference is that it´s much more harder to monetize them. However, I think the extra incentive for me comes in the form of good karma, and building myself a reputation.
You're referring to the practice made widespread by Jack Welch when he was CEO of GE (20-70-10 aka "differentiation")[1].

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-04-1...
You say AirBNB isn't making a dent in the universe, but then you say people need shelter. I think AirBNB (and even before AirBNB, couchsurfing.org) is making a dent in the universe.
I just bookmarked this. They need to have something like this added to tax forms. I'd much rather 'donate' my money to the debt than the Presidential election fund or whatever other things they ask if I'd like to contribute to.
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Why sell your soul and make that decision? Why not do both, and try spending half your time creating trivial fart apps - shouldn't take more than a few hours, right? which you need to get away from your main project that's going to change the way I use my smartphone, etc., etc.
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It depends on what your motivation is. Are you trying to feed your family (or buy a fancy car), or are you trying to change the world?

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.” – Albert Einstein

Again, you need to qualify this. As a young developer who just graduated from college (or still attending one), you might be full of hope of changing the world and making it a better place. Your idea of "life lived for others" might be helping people who need clean water.

A person with a few years of experience out in the real world, or with a kid or two, "others" for you might be your wife and kids.
This article gives much more info on this topic. " Inverse Power of praise" http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/27840/
They just use yahoo/bing/google results and redo the links where they're an affiliate. Which means the search rankings are decided by a third party who has no hand in the affiliate pot.
Surprised the author doesn't bring up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossair_Flight_498.
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My god, this sounds so much like me!
Although I'm not always miserable, only I'd always done well in school except for the last two years when everything just got very, very boring.

I graduate this year, and everything you've said in:
> At 16 I found myself thinking seriously about killing myself. I spent more than one night at my sink with a kitchen knife at my wrist wondering if I should go ahead and make the cut or not. It was not a good place to be. I was saved by my music, and ability to experience frisson (as weird as it sounds).
I did plenty of extracurricular I suppose, just none that would work on a university application.
Kids who succeeded in school were "losers" (I mistakenly thought), since they didn't have the inner light that led to self-creation (or so I thought). Regurgitation of endless facts and conforming to what the teachers wanted did not impress me.
Despite being extraordinarily bright, I was also hopelessly naive.
Applies to me.

Could you please tell me how you got yourself out of this?
I'm quite desperate here.
I'm not sure I fully understand this product, but I have to confess I'm left with a lot of questions on various levels...

Copy says it's unique in that it "aggregates all picks giving something no other site gives you... real-time actual pick trends" - I'm not sure how this is unique. Isn't this the most basic responsibility of a betting agent (aggregating all of his better's picks to draw a balanced line on the game, and then make $$ off the vig)?

Secondly, are potential customers looking for a social layer on top of sports betting? It seems like there's certainly monopolistic incumbents but I'm not sure I understand the added value. For example, I see how it makes sense to "gamify" or "socialize" a ton of things that are boring, lame, or important, but I'm not sure betting is one of them.

If I really force myself, I can see how the idea of a social layer as such on top of gambling is interesting (e.g. what games my friends are betting on and how much), but feels more like a feature than a product. I wonder if this exists already.

Beyond that, I suppose I would want to know more about how it intends to monetize its product, how it fits in the bigger gambling and entertainment space (e.g. is it a stand-alone product or meant to be used in partnership with other gambling platforms), etc..

In general, I would say I'm not super excited by the idea, but I think perhaps I need to know more before really deciding. It would be helpful to see a response to some of these questions.
Thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to add the note frequency and no spam policy.
How come I can watch tv during this whole time if this is the reason?
I would add #4:
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Couldn't an EMP disrupt the fly-by-wire systems used in all the big commercial jets these days?

I'm not sure how big the EMP would need to be though. Probably too big to make it past security.
doh! I got it backwards. You are right that hashes are more efficient: http://redis.io/topics/memory-optimization

However, for this particular problem, the docs do say:

Don't use KEYS in your regular application code. If you're looking for a way to find keys in a subset of your keyspace, consider using sets.

I wonder why they don't suggest hashes?
This article is very interesting.
OK, call me ignorant, but I think that these highly paid strategy consultants are closer to a placebo than problem solving, i.e. in most cases the management thinks that calling in McKinsey (or Bain, etc.) was "totally worth it" because (i) no one would admit that their decision to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting was wrong and (ii) the problems do seem like solved, from the high managements POV. The truth, though, is usually different. Most engineers and mid-level management complain that such interventions of cocky consultants, who may be super intelligent (because, you know, they passed the hard McKinsey interview) and knowledgeable, generally understand little of the specifics of the company and try to get the gist of it in a couple of weeks to address deep problems. This is akin to going to cardiologist for a serious brain tumor, because he's a good doctor and expecting him to quickly learn enough to solve your problem.

Paraphrasing Ada, these people do not originate anything! I wonder how many McKinsey alumni sit in the tech startup boards. How many have created startups?
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Why do you think one thing excludes the other? Why do you imply that helping others is "outside the real world"?

I´m single, but my experience with people I know tells me otherwise, unless of course your wife doesn´t share the same desire of helping others, in which case I´d say you married the wrong woman for you.

You don´t need to move to Africa or India to help others. The "others" might be on your same neighbourhood. And thus, helping "others", you end up helping yourself AND your family. You just need to broaden your definition of "others".
the emergence of currencies that are not controlled by nation states in my lifetime

What we expect is the emergence, not of currencies, but of a currency. Money is a natural monopoly, and a single currency is the free-market equilibrium. It's the current system of multiple separate floating currencies—each with its own name, exchange rate, and central bank/counterfeiter—that is the anomaly.
> Perhaps a software update or two can fix the speed issues?

I think this has been the primary complaint about Android from discriminating users for years now. I swear there have been multiple rumors that "the next version of Android will fix that" (by providing hardware acceleration of native UI elements or some such), but I will believe it when I see it.

Until then, I suspect every Android device will be continue to be unusable, including the ones with fancy n-core x gigahertz CPUs that are theoretically y times more powerful than a modern iPhone. When a flagship Android device obtains UI performance on par with the original iPhone, maybe I'll start taking Android seriously.
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Apparently Google ignores this character when searching for matches (so the matches are displayed normally), but the character appears when the query is reproduced in the search box at top of the screen, so the search string appears backwards.
If all electronic devices were dangerous, airlines would be asking passengers to remove the batteries from their wristwatches for the duration of the flight.
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tabby, I've also updated the article to mention the fact that KEYS may not be a solid use of the system. I would appreciate any feedback!
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I am reminded of the old adage, "Make aspirin, not vitamins."
there was a mythbusters on this. if i recall correctly, though they couldn't find any way to make the plane's instrumentation fail by bombarding it with a myriad of frequencies, even the mythbusters guys (possibly for legal reasons, or because they succumbed to pressure from their network) concluded that because the FAA can't rigorously test every device that comes out, that this is somewhat of a blanket policy to ensure that some new device that nobody has tested will be on during takeoff and cause the plane to crash.

this said, i never power off my devices...just put them in airplane mode if they have them, or to sleep. i fly a lot, both domestically and internationally.
"You are free to do as we tell you" - always springs to mind.
The whole rant against "free" software is just a straw man--the movement he decries as a cult against charging for software isn't about that at all. The whole idea lies in freedom: the "free as in beer" "free" is the Java to the movements JavaScript. The name is an unfortunate artifact of the English language.

Additionally, it's pretty clearly not an outright lie: you only have to look at the successful ecosystem of free/open source software, and the companies which live on it, to see that it does work. Perhaps it is an exaggeration, but it is no lie.
There is always, repeat always who is going to do more work than you. That's fundamentally how competition works. And the one who does more work than you do, will always have an edge over you. Both on the shorter and the longer run. There are rewards to do that extra. And that motivation will always drive a person to do more work than you do. And trust me inevitable he will end up being successful someday.

You may do a quick comparison and call that extra work 'not worth it' when you compare against other aspects of your life that demand time. But after say a decade when you look back and find that guy to have taken a huge leap ahead of you, suddenly you get that thought that occupies every person in such a situation:

'Why couldn't have I done that?'

And then starts the analysis. You will end up finding that you were a lot more intelligent than him yet the guy somehow manage to beat you.

That's when you will realize the most dangerous fact of the world.

Hard work * time gives surprising success.

In my case I will rather take my chances do more work than my peers and even fail. Then have a regret that I could have worked hard and won but I didn't.
Hey! Got your point, and agree. Just for the sake of the exercise, I’ll just reverse the viewing lense. 1) Let’s say I’m living in a 3rd world country (not in a war/famine/disaster situation) . Do you think what I want to buy is _always_ what I need to buy? Wouldn’t I get frustrated that people offer me what they think I need when I’d like to get access to what I want? I’d maybe say, let them take care of themselves first ! and 2) It gets to the second point: I invite you to look for “Design for the First World: The Rest Saving the West”. It raises good questions. --
IMHO, the problem is in defining what people NEED without being condescending, and still allowing freedom of choice (and wherever it’s in developed countries or not, we still have 3rd world everywhere, isn’t it?).

Just my 2 cents ^^
If airplanes were vulnerable to radio frequencies, then terrorists have no need to acquire SAMs. A nice powerful amateur radio should do much better.
>Some of my family members are kind of skeptical that I can get it done

Most people who tell you something can't be done are saying it because they don't want you to do it, people who truly want to see you succeed will tell you how to overcome your weakness or carry on despite it - they will never want to deter you by saying it can't be done. This is a personal observation - so don't let anyone shape your opinion there.

Secondly, VCs don't give just a 100k (thy usually give a million plus), angels do smaller rounds - get on AngelList or something similar.

Why do you not have a cofounder? (your posting screams you need one).
This does not say much for the value of testing _and making presumptions based on test results_. Note the emphasis on the second part of that sentence. Testing is ok. Recognising that all children are not the same intellectually is fine. But making presumptions based on limited evidence, like test scores, is something I have always wondered about. This story only reinforces my beliefs.
Bingo. I wish I had a price for you.
If we're offering advice from the peanut gallery (and I'm no smartphone developer, so I'm way up in the peanut gallery), why not spend that time on a program that can generate trivial apps.

Extract data [legally, now!] from some source (eg wikipedia), and skin it with some boilerplate and some generated UI elements. I think it'd be a more interesting project to implement the more general version, and once it's nailed down it's probably a better source of revenue too.