skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's a fantastic presenter. I've found every single one of his talks extremely thought-provoking.
The Circular Economy
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That is the REVIEWERS opinion not the hardware maker. You missed the target for your angst.
Building software vs. building a bridge
This is great! I have coreData specific question that I could really use help with. I am signing up for a meeting with you.
It's been a long time since I've been involved with transferring files to and from clients, but even five years or so ago I recall enabling IIS's WebDAV mode in preference to handling customer-support calls about getting FTP working. Of course, WebDAV is still a ball of horror, even if it's not as bad as FTP, so please let's all stick to SFTP from now on?
It sounds like you have to be wearing the device in order to benefit from it. Do you work from home while "plugged in"? Or, can you just use it while thinking about a tough problem or while learning something new and then when it's turned off still have the insights/new knowledge you gained?
From building a marketplace at Ridejoy (YCS11), I can tell you that this early market building is very unique to each team/product/market and also one of the most valuable "secret sauces" for the company. Anyone who really knows probably won't tell you, and most people who might write a response are mostly guessing. At least that's what I think.
"Eat better, get exercise, reduce distractions" isn't a very sexy answer though, when compared to, "take a pill and become awesome like that guy in Limitless."

I've never understood these sorts of comments, although they appear reliably in almost every story on this subject. What in the world do diet, exercise, sleep, and clean living have to do with the subject of the story, which is the ethics and effectiveness (or lack thereof) of nootropic drug use?

If anything, having seen concrete beneficial effects from the dietary and lifestyle changes you've made to date, doesn't that make you even more curious about how far such effects can be pushed?
Would you advocate the use of cognitive or psych medication that had effects that were permanent? I don't think so.

So you're effectively arguing against the use of that entire class of medication in favor of "developing the abilities yourself".

Don't take this the wrong way but in my experience people who take this line of reasoning have never closely known anyone dealing with real issues in these areas who have actually been helped by medication, or they don't know about it (people are often reluctant to share their stories), or they're a Scientologist.
Doesn't work for my email account either. It would be a great thing to package up as a .js file to offer in support forms as something auto uploaded in a hidden part of the form.
It's expensive (calorically). As it is that little engine sunk in a bone casing behind your eyes consumes calories like a ravaged soul.
I disagree. I'll hire a 55 year old JavaScript developer. In fact I have two fifty year old devs: Python/Django and Java/C and everything else that they know, which is a lot. They rock.
I can't speak for Zynga or LinkedIn, but if you think Facebook runs on a stock kernel without a lot of internal tweaks you are sadly mistaken. If you are a hard-core kernel hacker looking for a new job then Facebook would love to chat...
Article assumes 1 arcminute resolution. This means at 6 inches distance you need 44 micron pixels, which is a bit smaller than 78 micron iPhone retina displays. The caveat is that that's ideal resolving ability of the human eye (black/white with good eyesight). For colors a lesser resolution is needed.

Takeaway for those of us using computers everyday. If you have a big monitor with good resolution and your eyes still hurt, perhaps you're leaning in too close. Take advantage of your eyes' limited resolution, increase your font size, and sit farther from the monitor.
That's how it's commonly prescribed, but I'm sure it varies depending on the person.

I have stopped taking the medication in the past and I did not have any withdrawal symptoms or felt happier or anything of the sort. I've always used caffeine though.

I guess what I'm saying is that someone who thinks they may have ADHD shouldn't discount methylphedinates because some people have withdrawal symptoms, which mostly happen only when someone is abusing the medication, or is nervous about it in the first place.
So if you have proper Wifi encryption in place then this device is useless?
Have you tried using SCP? I don't know if Windows comes with a client but a quick search turned up a few options. It is my goto method for transferring files these days but I admittedly don't use Windows.
Firefox 9.0.1.

(Just to clarify, the site works perfectly fine for me; and the bookmarklet does appear on upon the site; but when the iframes start loading HappyCog, they refresh the page, which sends it back to its original state.)
I disagree with your statement about "start managing and playing the political game".

In my group at BigCo which just got canned, the overly political managers with no skills who ruined the product due to their gross incompetence are the ones who have no chance of finding another gig. I feel kind of bad for them, but I'm pretty sure I'll get over it quickly.

Its critical to keep your skills current.
Tell me about it. I had to spend the better part of a day anonymizing my Quora profile, because their concept of private profiles seems like something the founders brought over from their stint at Facebook. Even so, it seems like there is still some history in my EDITS tab that I have no idea how to hide or purge.

Back when I decided to do over my Twitter profile, I used the API to automate the deletion of all my tweets. Any other way would be impossible.
Give it up. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, or it cured your cancer or whatever, you'll never get past the skeptics.
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Browser HTTP file upload is still terrible for file transfer. One of the last bastions of Flash, regretfully.
Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) (marketing, feminism, self-image, lecture)
PASV mode came with its own security drama, and doesn't address the core issue with the (absolutely pointless) multiple-connection model of FTP.

And so, yes, firewalls and NATs "interact" with FTP --- because they all had to be hacked specifically to deal with the FTP protocol, which moots your rebuttal --- but in doing so they create additional security issues, like the NAT pinning stuff Samy Kamkar posted last year.

It shouldn't be necessary for middleboxes to hack in support for protocols by in-place editing TCP streams and dynamically changing filter/translation rules based on stuff that happens inside of connections. But, thanks to FTP, they do have to do that.

And for what? FTP is even on its own terms a terrible file transfer protocol! For instance, look at how it handles (or, commonly, doesn't handle) file listings.

FTP is an anachronism. It has no more reason to exist today than TFTP --- both were designed to make up for constraints in client software that simply no longer exist anywhere.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+50+kilob...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+terabyte+%2F+250+kilo...

So, between 4x10^6 and 2x10^7.
Browsers are terrible at file upload. The weakness here isn't really in the protocol.
I hate web page bloat as much as the next guy, but is it really true that “analytics gobbletygook” is “pushing the size of a typical web page up to 1 MB”? The Google Analytics code is less than 500 bytes and loads a JavaScript file that is 32 KB. Analytics is a fairly small part of the problem.
Google did this recently (HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469692) but since ended the "experiment".
Bad feeling? Bad feelings affect all sorts of decisions, so what? That would be different than, say, YC telling companies not to do so, and the companies agreeing en mass. That would be a conspiracy of criminal conduct. But most YC companies are so small that the idea of taking a person from another tiny company, YC or not, probably would cause a "bad feeling". Give the tiny companies a break. God, I interviewed at one and they asked if I was married and had kids, because if I did, then it wouldn't work out. The answer was no, and no, and the important one was also a no. They will get better some day, but when they are so small, it doesn't matter.
Everybody is convinced that they won't fail. You should absolutely be planning as if you will; being able to do that may be one of the differences between people who succeed in startups and those who fail, since most of the failures never get up and try again.
Infographic: Hollywood's long war on technology
I really don't think my psychiatrist would prescribe me anything that is neurotoxic.
Any time I see someone complaining about how much effort it is to "just print a string to std out in java" it boggles my mind.

Java was not really designed for ease of use in that way, clearly, and the syntax and vm itself heavily lends it to networked programming.

This post would be better if it was "Why I love Common Lisp" with the half hearted stabs at Java taken out of it.
Invert your perspective on this for a minute. Think of them as the site owners and you as a partner whose IP is being licensed. They need to continue covering the cost of that IP regardless of whether they make money or not.

Furthermore, I agree with others that you will change the dynamic drastically if you throw money into the equation. If you are really uncomfortable wi profiting, reduce the number of ads to give a better end-user experience. Paying the kids will start cool, but will poison the well.

Alternatively, you could create a scholarship fund for volunteers. It is not a guaranteed payment, but recognizes their contributions. Make the criteria a simple "who helped a lot" with "who has a life outside of animal crossing".
The information was interesting, but the representation was pretty bad. If you're going to have a chart with names, numbers and bars of different sizes, please make the bars proportional to the metric. I should see a chart and understand it immediately.
I indisputably have adult ADD, though mostly avoid stimulant drugs (not really at all because I have a tendency to avoid drugs, but because I dislike the subjective state of most stimulants, including caffeine).

I spent about six weeks doing a massive amount of research on nutrition. http://www.medicineispersonal.com/contest/home I designed a diet designed to maximize nutrient absorption, similar to diets used to great effect in people with various auto-immune diseases. I'll publish my research eventually but for now I'm happy to share it with people that email me (fair warning -- the paper is 9500 words with 125 references and not exactly easy reading).

I've been on this diet for about two months now, and was hoping that it would help me with ADD -- and I lost ten pounds to get to the lower end of the healthy BMI range and definitely gained physical energy, but I didn't get any smarter or less ADD from diet.

So I think nutritional interventions are unlikely to do much for ADD in people not suffering from marked nutritional deficiencies or on crazy sugar-loaded diets. Among therapeutic inteventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is pretty much the only technique with compelling evidence.

Keep in mind that adult ADD is mostly a condition of lowered productivity. Stimulant drugs increase productivity in basically all adults, ADD or not. Because of fears of neurotoxicity, I stick to Modafanil and use amphetamine sparingly when I need a stronger boost. This works with my rather charmed lifestyle, but I do plan on doing a venture funded startup eventually, and believe I'd be incapable of doing 50-60 hours a week as COO without stimulants.
WinSCP has served me well over the years:

http://www.winscp.net/
This app is a macro builder?
Maybe the nature is enhancing our brains (in evolutionary terms), but there might be devices or techniques to accelerate this process.
My sense is survival (as opposed to market outperformance - the subject of his later book) comes from 2 sources: Financial conservatism and culture.

Procter and Gamble does well because of low leverage, and a culture that values long term investment in the company's brands and people. Same with GE, IBM and many others of the Collins list. I would add Berkshire Hathaway to the list.

Unfortunately I find that concepts like Passion, Best in Class and Economic Engine to be hard to measure.

One of the comments on your post had to do with innovation. It's very hard thing to identify is what's the right level of innovation - too much and you're chasing every fad, not enough and you're stuck in the mud like Xerox.
How much money are you investing in it ?
4 or 5 years ago I made a registration workflow for a event I was working with as part of a freelance gig. We had a giant bolded text link, something like 24 points, that said "Click Here to Register," right on the front page above the fold.

I got several emails from users who asked me "How do I register? I looked all over the front page and found nothing."

In hindsight, I wonder if maybe I needed to make it look like a button, or if these particular people were beyond saving and wouldn't have bothered to read the text on the button anyway.
There's a sad real-world example of people who are willing to shorten their lives in order to earn more money: the sulphur miners of East Java ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12301421 ). The motivations are a bit different in this case - the miners are doing this to be in a little less poverty - but the net effect I think is to make things a bit harder for the people who choose to take lower-paying jobs and not to put their lives at such risk (since the miners who have more money presumably get first dibs on available food to purchase).
Someone should bring this to market, or at least make a DIY kit available. It sounds super fascinating to experiment with (at super low levels). Perhaps someone from Make is reading this -- if so, this would be a great project to feature!
I had this happen yesterday with Chrome on Mac
Also, quick question -- what's the difference between
the two different play buttons in this screenshot?

http://shadowcatcher.mindcast.com/clips/1327872538erq6k2sfdr...
Tell me which mind boosting drug does not wear off?
I'd love to know the transfer speed differences between SCP, SFTP and FTP - because when I can view both ends of the wire then security is less of a concern than transfer time.
Exactly this. A big budget is not required for a movie to be good. Even dramatic special effects no longer need megabucks.

Good writing, good acting, good cinematography, are all pretty cheap, relatively speaking.
> if it is so easy to enhance brain functions, why hasn't nature done so herself?

A good question to raise, but it has a lot of plausible answers. For example, maybe having better cognitive ability causes people to spend more time doing science and less time procreating/looking after their offspring.
Why Android isn't gaining on Apple in the Enterprise
Just had my first look at the Timeline. As part of my "I'm leaving Facebook" project, I've been manually deleting every single submission I've made on Facebook, going back about 5 years. When I finally delete my account, there will be nothing left. This has taken awhile, because it is such a pain that I can only do a short period of time at a time.

However, Timeline actually makes this a lot easier. I can click on 2008 and then see everything in 2008 and delete it all right from the timeline.

The reason I'm deleting it all is because Facebook asks for confirmation of "Delete this post?" for every single one. If I say yes, and they remove it from view, I have, as far as I'm concerned, both a moral and legal right to believe it is actually deleted from their database. Otherwise "delete this post?" would be a fraudulent offer.

Thus, if any information that I've deleted shows up in the future, I will have a claim against them. (Whether its practical to press that claim or not, I don't know. I just want them to be obligated to have deleted it because their software made the promise that they were.)
I think it's probably a lack of familiarity with this sort of thing. Sort of like how folks are thinking 56mgs is insane, and 25mgs are almost cocaine and speed.

High dosages are up in the 150+, more like people who binge on 3 pills, or crush and snort them. That would create withdrawal symptoms and be neurotoxic. Therapeutic dosages (like the ones the doctor will prescribe you) are supposed to be just that.
It is said there was some very promising early results, enough to prompt them to consult with ethic experts.
RE: The Death of Business Founders
Except the "kid that will give you the most bang for your buck" might be aware he's slightly below the best in the pile when not more artificially stimulated than the competition. Artificial stimulants might deliver a payload rather more disturbing than cumulative intelligence gain when applied systematically over a period in an intelligence arms race: we know a few other ways of stimulating certain aspects of the mind that aren't entirely benign.

As for entertainment, I'd probably not object to watching steroid-pumped athletes if I was confident they wouldn't end up with anger-management and biological gender disorders afterwards. Same applies to stimulating the brain with electrodes, except we don't know where/whether that might go wrong yet. Ben Johnson wasn't competing to run the world; but at the risk of invoking Godwin's law, the track record of those using stimulants to help them run the world isn't great.
So you had XP boxes connecting via WebDAV? I think I'd take FTP over having to support that.
For Germany there are plenty of websites for that. Did you google it?!
Something that most people miss is that at least part of what makes Google search so good (and Bing for that matter) _is_ the tracking.

Without the ability to track some user behaviors the quality of the search results would be impacted.

For example, if you click on a link and then immediately hit Back and perform a different query, you can infer that the link wasn't all that useful.

I don't like the idea of Google being "creepy" either, but I'm gladly willing to send them at least some of my data if it means I can get a better experience.
I bet there's a pile of 20 year olds with some jQuery and Rails under their belt, consider themselves a ninja rockstar, and this scenario won't happen to them cause jQuery rocks, and rails will be around forever and ever...

Guess what... you'll all be out of work in 10 years unless you work your ass off to keep up. The computing world is changing faster than I ever remember. We are entering a new computing paradigm faster than most people will be able to upgrade their skills. If you aren't hacking your iPad, and you don't build mobile apps, have no NLP or machine learning experience, and you aren't hacking away at Kinect in your spare time, then your livelihood is gravely in danger.

Welcome to the game.
Thank you. This has been a lot of fun. It took about 2 hours from inception to the first iteration. You're right, I was worried that Curebit will capitulate before we're done and would take much humor out of it. Luckily, it still did pretty well with the crowd, even though we published this after their apology.
IOSOpenDev Creates Jailbreak Applications in Xcode
Dynamic Artificial Intelligence (2)
High dose stimulants in rats are neurotoxic. http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/neuro/20091104/msgs/931964.html Your mileage may vary, but I think prescribing patients >50mg amphetamine is often irresponsible. Ask your psychiatrist at what dosage he thinks amphetamine is neurotoxic. 90mg maybe? Doctors agree that a certain dose is neurotoxic but disagree on what that dosage is. 60mg is the official maximum safe dose, but it's not like you should put all of your trust in the FDA. Given clear stimulant burn-out I have noticed in multiple taking >50mg of amphetamine daily, I have no doubt that dosages like that cause negative neurological effects and that caution is merited in amphetamine dosing.
Nice.

What use cause does the item 'color depth' cover?
Nature has widely enhanced brain functions. There is variation in intelligence. But since traits are selected for against usefulness and not toward an abstract goal or destination you don't see much variation above or beyond that needed to promote the trait. Even today most people do not need much more abstract reasoning power than the median to survive and reproduce. (By "today" I mean within the last 10,000 years or so.)

But in normal healthy people we see enough variation in abstract reasoning to have a profound effect on their performance in our brand spanking new technological environment of the last couple of thousand years; less than an eyeblink in evolutionary terms. And not just in competitive terms, but in absolute ability. A lot of that advancement can be simply be attributed to better nutrition and better mental and language models. I have little trouble believing that fiddling and tuning up the brain's electrical environment might might have some comparatively striking effects. (I can also see it possible to do great damage as well)
I've built one for ~ $30 in parts from Radio Shack using an LM317 current limiter.

But the data sheet for the LM317 says the minimum operating current is 2.0 mA, yet the amount delivered to the brain should be 1 mA. How did it work?
Consider selection bias: You'll only hear about the people who won. Those who bought a ticket and lost say nothing, because everyone knows that the chances of winning a lottery are dismal to say the least. So you only hear about winners!
I think that would fall under conspiracy to commit crimes, but talk to a lawyer. In the end, I think it would show that the accelerator was pretty stupid. There will be a natural inclination not to do so inside the program anyway, so why cross the line like that?
I was also taking Adderall XR 25mg for about 2 years until I had to change doctors and the new doctor was concerned about my high resting heart rate so he gave 1 month of 10mg. After that was gone, I was pretty unproductive for about 2 months. I simply had a hard time concentrating, like I was in a haze.

I just restarted on Adderall (generic, 5mg x2 a day) and the side-effects are definitely difficult to deal with. I am able to hyper-focus but I also get irritable, daily headaches and exhaustion when it starts wearing off. I tend to take it one in the morning as I start work and perhaps once in the afternoon if I find that I need it, but I don't take it on weekends at all.

There's definitely something to be said for behavioral adjustment rather than medication. That's how my mom deals with it, but even so she's pretty scatter-brained.
I would suggest you followup with a request to facebook for whatever information they have on you, once you feel you've completed your deletion.

As someone who has never had a facebook account, though just about 99% of the people I know do, I am interested to see what this "shadow profile" of me looks like.

My wife and others have logged into FB from my machine, phone and ipad previously - thus I am sure that there were periods of time where my actions were tracked based on the install of their cookies.

I'd wonder what the legal basis would be of FB tracking those without accounts, based on the cookies of others.
All the classes I took at MIT let students bring a "cheat sheet" to exams. Additionally, many exams were completely open-book. I know that this is neither here nor there, but I felt compelled to comment on the notion that if you haven't memorized something, that you haven't learned it. This idea is all too prevalent.
Thank you for the suggestion. We've fixed the "See Plans and Pricing" link to give a more appropriate response.