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Are they that different?

On the one hand, a single person’s ability to change government policy is pretty small. You can vote, call your member of Congress, or sign a petition. But it’s only true in a limited sense that the rules change if you ask.

On the other hand, a corporation’s “purpose” is to do what its owners ask it to do, not necessarily to maximize profit. (See Dodge v. Ford and its interpretation for caveats and nuances.) If Facebook’s shareholders vote for it to convert all its assets to glitter and distribute it evenly over the surface of the moon, that becomes its “purpose”. That won’t happen, just like it won’t happen that the people of the US vote for the US to do that, but in principle it could.

Facebook trades partly on its reputation. It has an incentive to not openly harm society and its members, because that would be bad PR and thus hurt its long-term profits.

Corporations and governments are different in important ways, and frankly I often wish they were more different, but I think it’s fair to compare them in this context.
Yeah, if you want a charging dock anyway, this certainly serves a nice dual purpose.

My solution to the cable problem was to buy a couple dozen off eBay for about $.70 each. This solution is not for everybody, of course.
What I would love to see on Facebook is a way for me to make all non-starred posts older than X private. That way I can post lots of stuff and have the recent timeline filled with all sorts of crap which gives an impression of me, now, but it also allows me to hide all the old and only bring out the highlights, the things I actively want to be visible.

The problem is that the things I want to be visible changes with time, so I can't just not post it in the first place, because what seems perfectly fine today may be really bad a few years from now, and I can't know that ahead of time. And there really is no way to delete everything as far as I know.
Au contraire, corporations are more likely to change at the behest of the public than are governments. This isn't surprising, because they have more to fear. A decrease in sales due to bad publicity is a very real possibility, whereas a large-scale armed revolt by the citizenry is not.
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Has anyone on HN ever used a brain booster / transcranial direct current stimulation system? What was it like? What equipment did you use? Can you buy it anywhere?
I know this is another anecdotal response, but, the high definitely didn't go away, I just became more mentally accustomed to it. It's exactly the same for an alcoholic who drinks excessively everyday. After a month, the same amount of alcohol has less effect (to an extent).

I strongly feel that if the parents of children on ADD meds actually used the meds themselves, many of them would decide on alternative treatments.
Keynote. You might be interested in:

http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/71
I found that section on 'cheating' completely bizarre. The reason something like a cheat-sheet counts as cheating is not that it's easier, it's that you haven't really learned it. The moral issue comes from the idea that the exam is meant to give an idea of how well you know something, and if you cheat you can get a good result without really knowing the subject matter.

If you are actually learning, and the effect is not temporary, then it's obviously not cheating, no matter how easy it is.
That is really freaking cool. And it might be the thing that spurs me to switch to KDE across the board. I run Gnome on my F12 desktop now, but have been reluctant to upgrade to Gnome3... KDE, OTOH, I've always liked, but I shied away from it in the past since there were some bits of software I used that didn't have native KDE support (purportedly because of the KDE libs being GPL'd).

Now, KDE is under the LGPL, this tablet looks pretty cool... and I'm thinking that it might be a good time to go head, bite the bullet, and make KDE my standard environment. I really need to upgrade the OS on this laptop anyway, since F12 is like a bazillion years old now.
Are there any tools for doing that in bulk? It will take me ages to remove all my posts for a single year in the past if I'm to delete them one by one.
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I agree 100% with what you are talking about. And such misuses of a device like this could be dangerous if not deadly. We should absolutely regulate such a device and control its use.

When I say throw ethics out the door I specifically mean ethical questions that would pose a problem for institutions such as universities. I feel like what you are talking about falls more under the category of health rather than ethics but the line between them here is very very thin.
My doctor prescribed it for daily use too, but I asked him about it and was told it's fine to take it whenever I feel the side effects are worth the relief from ADHD. Where did you get the idea that it's necessary to take it every day or not at all? Adderall is not a drug that requires that. You should ask your doctor more about it.
I work with a developer who is 70. He kicks butt. It's amazing.

My father in law retired at 75, a C coder doing embedded systems for the chip industry. He didn't kick people around, but was respected and was getting stuff done.

I'm 50. I'd be happy to be either of those two people. I have little sympathy for the people who say to themselves that they can stuff the career growth at 40 because they're doomed. Screw that, I have role models.

One thing that seems to help is: Be on a mission. Be on a fucking mission from God, take charge of design AND do all the little crap. Build system maintenance and code cleanup, who does that? Hint: It's not scutwork to make sure that things are working well, all throughout a project.
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From what I've read I don't believe there are any patents covering the basic concepts. Additionally patents expire after 20 years, and there is definitely prior art covering the basic device going back at least to the 60s.

There may be patents covering some specific implementations, but I believe one could design a patent free device fairly easily.
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The author fails to see that people exist in a reality where stuff like the Facebook Timeline is just another fact of life, and the facebook profile is just a useful component of getting to know someone. That is, I would imagine that most people are familiar enough with the mechanics of social networks to be capable of seeing beyond random old posts on Facebook when learning about a person.
IIRC, I had it memorized by thinking that "anions" move towards the "anode" ; since "anions" are negative ("anion" = A Negative ION :D ), then the "anode" must be positive... I'm not a EE major, so I could be wrong.

This page has some schematics and the results of his own experimentation: http://brmlab.cz/project/brain_hacking/tdcs (not sure how legit it is).

Can you post your schematics and instructions?
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I guess this isn't an uncommon occurrence. I was checking our analytics this morning when I noticed we've been getting some strange traffic regarding "Laptop Repair In Cochin." Well I dug around and found a site that copied and pasted our codebase outright, HTML / JS & CSS - then tweaked a couple CSS variables.

I built the Wordpress theme from scratch about a year and a half ago and never released it for sale. This laptop repair site doesn't appear to be using Wordpress. Our site was featured on several design galleries at the time (it's in desperate need of an upgrade now, we just don't have the time) which, I'm sure, is how they found it to rip-off.

Check it out:
Our Site: http://www.tinyfactory.co
Their Site: http://www.laptoprepairkerala.com

I suppose imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - and a great reminder that it's time to upgrade our site ;)
The old information was always there. It's just easier to get to now. The lesson here is that one shouldn't rely on security through obscurity.
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If they've been sitting on their ass. But when the economy tanked, a lot of people took the money they saved during the boom years and traveled the world. Or learned a new programming language. Or built something useful. So 2 year gaps in work history shouldn't be a deal killer. If they are, the system is truly, tragically broken.
I don't think CAP applies to the proposed scenario (architecture with large number of cores on single chip) unless cores can lose connection and each core needs to accept the update to guarantee consistency. I'm unclear on the whole "incoherent memory" architecture. I think that would be sort of useless, what I think will happen is there will be high latency path to do global atomic operations and low latency for cached/local, ideal for COW/STM architecture.

But it's difficult to know with fictional architectures :)
Funny you should ask—I just started doing so about a week ago, for precisely this reason: https://twitter.com/#!/seligerj .
But it's not as simple as that. Geographic blocking happens because geography is tied into legal differences. Differences in laws must be obeyed.
If I remember correctly, a recent article pointed out that prescriptions in every category of drugs have increased year over year at a similar or greater rate, and that prescriptions for ADHD and ADD have actually been increasing slower than expected compared to other categories of drugs. An article like this should qualify the magnitude this way.

Secondly, as companies release new drugs that can target specific conditions better or safer than ever, treat conditions that were not treatable before, it makes sense that doctors prescribe medicines more and more often every year, especially as patents on proven drugs expire and the medications become available as cheap generics.
Depends on your geographical area, if you are very near a large city such as Chicago, Ad agencies will generally take you on as a temp to outsource to their clients if you have a web project portfolio to show even if its small..its not fully at freelance rates but still nice coin to get..
> Ritalin and Aderall seems analogous to taking pain killers to treat an open wound—masks the symptoms (pain) but doesn't address the cause (open wound).

And how are you going to address the open wound? There’s no brain surgery for ADHD.

A better analogy is that of wearing glasses. Glasses don’t actually fix your eyesight, and you need them all the time, but they allow you to function normally. Medications used for ADHD treatment are exactly like that.

> With the explosion of ADD prescriptions

There’s an explosion of sensationalist reporting by general media. ADHD is still under-diagnosed in USA, and it’s even worse in Europe.

It’s exactly the same as the “explosion” of autism. No, the vaccines are not causing autism, just because there’s more data and a better awareness of the disorder.
Wow... 100 people seems like it'd be really unwieldy...
Do they sub-divide the group into functional areas?
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It's running on the Mer Core http://merproject.org and I wonder why developers aren't given credit for in in the article.
How does the switch to 3D-Stereo make the issue worse? The process of 3D rendering consists of rendering the same content from two angles and blending the two, is that right? To an amateur like me, it doesn't sound like additional data to transfer.
Especially for catching pre-booked travel, making an exam or meeting, etc. Better safe than sorry. Fortunately, you don't need a fancy alarm for that type of usage.
You’re not supposed to use the medication “on and off,” if you want to avoid such side effects.
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The place I work at has a majority of 30 somethings and 40 somethings. We do C++/C & various mobile platforms.
I always thought that a parallel-independent-underground network is inevitable and if it's achieved succesfully I think the ramifications could be huge, it could be the first step towards seriously thinking about the posibility of leaving Earth and start to colonize the space, if you can have a reliable network out of a DIY space program, I can't think why in 100 years they wouldn't start a colony outside to basically move further away from the rules of goverments on Earth.
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I think this already exists in many forms. Crunchbase has search-by-location if you want to find startups in your area to check out.
What is "tech"? I think the game development world, at least big console games, is mostly closer to Hollywood than it is to the "web startup" world. Hollywood uses and develops plenty of technology too (e.g. in computer graphics) - it's silly to talk about "tech" as something cohesive.
SQLAlchemy is one of the best designed libraries I have ever used for any software task, period. I've done all sorts of crazy reflexive joins with it, used the meta programming capabilities to bootstrap my ORM from nothing, added my own rails like scope features to the session maker, etc. SQLAlchemy just plain works(TM). If you're a Python guy, learning it is one of the best things you can do.
Interesting juxtapose.. if the #3 story about the 2011 Adderall /ritalin shortage drops off the front page, read that too.
My only interest in Facebook is keeping in touch with old friends and having a way to remind either myself or others to reach out and say hello.

If it wasn't for e-mails (gmail), I would had never re-connected with some people on Facebook. The interface is an ice breaker and a way to less awkwardly contact someone you haven't spoken to in years. Or quickly see how someone is doing.

Most of what I want is simple and fundamental. It doesn't require me giving a never-ending marketing survey on my interests. My desired service is connectivity with a simple interface that can largely exist off my e-mail contacts. I don't see why a $75 billion company is needed to do this.
I suppose I came off as snarky with my comment but I still don't think this was HM worthy. My reason for disliking it was because it simply showed a bunch of examples of obscure flaws in languages that aren't really useful. There wasn't enough substance to it. It was just "look at the weird result you get when you write code in a way that you never would in the real world. Wat?". Meme pics are funny. Meme pics and a good talk are funny. This was meme pics and a really useless, trying too hard talk. I've seen presentations that offer up a lot of value in terms of stuff you can actually use and topics that are really relevant. This was just language quirks and nothing more. No talk about why these quirks exist, uses for them, how they could affect you without knowing, none of that. It was just bad humor and no substance. I'm not against humor showing up on HN from time to time but this was more like something that belongs on Reddit or even any random forum. Oh, and the title too bothered me. It was kind of immature.

And for the record, I'm 25 so either I'm really mature or I have no sense of humor. The jury is out. I'm definitely still not hacker though as I watched it again and still barely chuckled.
"... many VCs (Khosla, etc) are quite open about the fact that they are unlikely to fund you if you are over 25. ..."

The balance of power might make it easier to deal with 25 year olds who may grasp at any opportunity, compared to 25+ who bargains harder?
solid, thanks!

Once again, Macs are prettier...

Although, it's just a tool, you really kicked some ass on that one. nice job
Same here, but i'm a bit younger at 26. Obviously mature for my age.
This works outside the computer related industry as well. I was made redundant from a managerial job in teaching. I did some authoring of e-learning materials, did some sessional work (fee paid teaching) for a couple of local institutions, then found a salaried job within six months. At no time was I officially unemployed. My CV is seamless.
Where did you get the information that the alleged deaths/sicknesses were of students rather than, say, construction workers?
I went cold turkey from all caffeine. One day, almost 10 months ago I said enough is enough and quit. While on caffeine I was always highly irritated, and was snappy with people. I just couldn't get enough caffeine to feel good, and was always tired.

When I went off I was dead to the world for about 2 - 3 weeks. I had a splitting headache which no medicine seemed to fix, and felt laggy. But after those 3 weeks I started to feel better. I had more energy, I was a lot less irritated and was happier in general. I was able to contain angry outbursts and in general have changed entirely. I have more energy now than when I was binging caffeine. I can stay awake longer, fall asleep faster, and I feel refreshed when I do get at least 6 hours of sleep.

Not drinking any soda has also helped in other ways. I no longer have a real need for sugar throughout the day and don't have nearly the same headaches I used to get from not getting my sugar fix. Since I have also lost a major source of calorie intake I have started to lose weight.

I don't drink anything with HFCS in it, soda's with natural sugars every so often (maybe once or twice a month), but mostly I drink water. I drink a glass or two of milk a day as well. One thing I have noticed is that living in America is that soda is pushed with every single meal. It doesn't matter where you go, what soda would you like with that.

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Since you mentioned no longer eating meat ... I have recently started eating a lot less meat, and even in the past week have stopped eating meat altogether, and I have yet to feel a real difference. It does make it a lot harder to think of meals to make though as I have been eating meat my entire life and it is an integral part of any meal my family used to make. Will see what happens in a couple of weeks from now :-)
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"remove it. It's that simple."

FTFA: "And if you have been even partially active on Facebook for the past few years, there is simply way too much of it to possibly delete manually. There is no button to simply “delete all” (trust me, I’ve looked)."
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But the point of those two industries is different. On the STEM side of things why wouldn't you want the kid that will give you the most bang for your buck? Whats the point of holding ourselves back just to create a fair playing field for everyone else. If we can get 100 engineers with brain boosters to do the job of 1000 engineers why not?

At the same time athletes surve a different purpose. They entertain. The perception of a fair playing field is much more important to a bottom line than the actual performance of a person. No one wants to watch a machine pitch a perfect pitch every time. Likewise no one wants to watch a juiced up player hit a home run every time. Theres no spectacle in that.
Without revealing too much of what I am doing, this doesn't really solve any existing problems. Honestly, Intellectual Ventures is better than this in that they get straight to the point. They will just buy your IP for some ridiculous amount of money, whether it's from the university or your company.

If you ask a science researcher to be able to do the research outside of his lab, the size of your potential audience falls to fingers on one hand.

At least Bill and Melinda Gates foundation does better in pushing a goal with their own agendas. This seems like an unfocused attempt to throw money into the pit, though money always helps.

So, as a researcher, I've learned that researchers are the best ones who can dictate their own goals. That's freedom that hasn't been seen yet, and there's a very simple solution. Just execution is very difficult.
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That's fair. Meditation is hard, and I don't claim to be particularly good at it. On the other hand, I would say it's an extremely difficult task for just about anyone.

The study the article you posted cites successfully correlates brain differences with AD(H)D diagnosis. Part of the argument in the original article, though (which I can verify in my own case at least), is that while the brain affects observed behavior, behavior also affects the brain. So it's a very real possibility that experience and learned behavior are causing both the observed behavior and the brain chemistry differences.
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For 3D rendering, yeah, the geometry and textures are the same, so you re-use them.

But you get double the output. And it's not just RGBA data, generally you output AOVs of Z depth, UV coords, Normals, XYZ world position pass, motion vectors (forwards and backwards), specular contribution, reflection, ambient occlusion, object ID, material ID, etc, etc.

And that's stored normally as EXR files (16 or 32-bit float), which can be compressed, but for 4K res is generally around 40MB per frame (RGBA). For a full set of AOVs, you can be talking 640 MB per frame, x 2 for stereo which adds up to a lot. Assuming a 2 hour movie, at 24 fps, that's around 172k frames.

If it's not a full CG film, if you're lucky (i.e. no manual 3D conversion) you've got double the video footage as well.

These all need to be composited together, producing twice as much on the output of that.
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they have public errors enabled and contact and propose teach are both throwing errors about invalid cookies =/
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Very well optimized CRC is significantly faster than MD5, but note that MD5 is very fast.

MD5 is also a poorer choice for UUID-type applications than the SHA-2 functions, which offer more flexibility in output size at not much cost in performance.
I just signed up for an invite, along with an extra message! I want to learn more about this.

Also, I've been meaning to contact those guys at Quartzy too. Can I also get in on the strategic partnering?
Sorry, I downvoted you by mistake :|
Mad Men produces 13, 45-minute episodes a season. 13 hours of content for $33 million (at 2.5 million an episode.)

That's $55,000 a minute, versus $1,462,962 a minute for Avatar. An order of magnitude difference. Each minute of Avatar cost nearly as much as a small episode of Mad Men.

That's exactly the kind of feature a shrunken Hollywood, not focused on blockbuster hits, might produce.
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With only 2 projects and 100LoC each, I would have doubts whether you have sufficient experience to go freelance yet.

Have you thought of scoping out the established freelancers in your area and contact them to do some of their lower level work at a competitive rate and with permission to link to those projects that you worked on? You certainly don't want to claim credit for work you didn't do. So you do need to be clear as to what you did. Showing your are a dependable team worker is going to be in your favour.
EEG is the opposite of TDCS. EEG listens for brain waves, tdcs runs a current through your skull.
Whoa, you actually built a brain-boosting machine in your garage? Who are you? :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback are not the same thing.