skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of what you wrote hit home; I feel like I could have wrote that post myself. So, having ADHD myself, I gotta be that guy who asks the patently absurd but obvious question – have you ever been tested/diagnosed for adult ADHD? And in no way am I asking rhetorically.

You see, ADHD - or more specifically, ADHD/PI [1] - is commonly overlooked, with only 10% formally diagnosed [2]. ADHD/PI is sorta special because you're not the kid shouting out in class or having problems sitting still. To the average person, you'd just be suffering from depression or lack of sleep, etc. Cycles of started projects with nothing to show for is definitely a symptom of ADHD/PI, but of course, not a formal diagnosis.

Imposter's Syndrome [3] is something I think most ADHD/PI suffers can sympathize with. When we look at others execute tasks, we can say, "Ya, I could do that. I understand how that works." Execution is a whole other matter. Programming/Design is such an attractive gamut for someone with ADHD/PI because there is always something new to learn, or a better way of doing it, but the incredible need to execute can only be seen far, far away.

ADHD/PI doesn't represent a huge percentage of the population in general. But in our circles, I believe the percentage to be quite high. Anecdotally, 1/3 in the arts/marketing/web have strongly associated symptoms of ADHD/PI. Let me be clear: I am not suggesting that as much as 1/3 of people working in these fields have ADHD or ADHD/PI. Just that, in a sea of introverted people - how many are actually suffering with attention deficits and not knowing?

My over-arching point here is - it's important to get diagnosed. Even if you choose not to take prescription medication to treat it, at least you'll have awareness. And with that, you can identify with yourself a lot better.

EDIT: ADHD/PI is so different from what people would consider traditional ADHD symptoms that it has been suggested it should be considered a completely separate condition [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD_predominantly_inattentive

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_attention_deficit_hyperac...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[4] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/clipsy.8.4.489/ab...
I think he ment to write "Git for farmers"
This is mostly wrong
. When the de Broglie wavelength becomes smaller than the size of the object, observing quantum inference becomes harder, but it's certainly not impossible.

In this experiment, the molecules (~10^2 atoms) are a few nano meters across and the de Broglie wavelength is a few hundredths of a nanometer. The same group is planning on future experiments with 10^6 atoms, where the wavelength will be much smaller than the object.
Aren't Red Gate an SQL Server shop though?
Skip the maths?! I bought volume 4 because the math was interesting. I just skip all of the coding bits. Reading Knuth, for me, is similar to reading Martin Gardner's books.
Windows is not produced by your computer; Windows runs on your computer they are separate concepts. The mind is a vary similar thing, it's an emergent property all the little pieces are individually understandable, it's not there until those peaces work together.

You mind works the same way. Apply a little voltage to this part of someone's brain and they are now having an out of body experience. It's just like a hardware interrupt in that it has meanings on several levels including the physical (QM) in all it's glory as well as the subjective. But, if you cut out that little area of someone's head and apply the same voltage it's not meaningful to suggest that those cells are having an out of body experience. In that context the experience is both the cascade that happens and the cells that are part of that cascade.
Wow, I've been using n++ for years and never realized that feature was there. It'll save me so much time. Thanks!
Hopefully the DOJ will eventually abandon ship. They won't forget how bad the RIAA et. al. made them look any time soon if this happens.
The Scottish Parliament actually has an element of PR, so we do get some minority parties with seats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament#2011_result

It wouldn't surprise me if we have Pirate Party MSPs in a few years.

[NB Scotland is still very much a part of the UK, at least for a couple of years or so!].
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The Green Party (can't remember if it was the German or E.U. party) added some of the Pirate Party's planks to their platform, since they didn't have an official stance on copyright before and were losing voters out of their core demographics to the Pirate Party.
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Reminds me a bit of "Parcycle" - the canvas particle effect thing I made a while ago: http://mrspeaker.net/dev/parcycle/
Which electoral system is better is another discussion. Both have their flaws, but a pretty good discription of how elections work in Germany.
I was able to do this in the previous version.
Another vote for Text Wrangler. I use Sublime 2 and Texmate a lot but if someone wants a free solution and not interested in Vim or Emacs then I always recommend Text Wrangler. It's from the same people that make BBedit.
Symfony2 Components - a common foundation for all PHP-based CMSs like Drupal 8
Geany is very similar to Notepad++ and is available for MacOSX.

http://www.geany.org/Main/About
Copyright et al. is just the most well-known program point they. AFAIK the movement started in scandinavia (sweden?) as response to some Pirate Bay issues I forgot about after all the SOPA, ACTA Megaupload stories. Already sorry for being to lacy to look it up right now.
Social sharing is not producing.

With unlimited storage, space, etc. there is no encouragement to focus on quality either. That's another topic.
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وفولهام 26-3-2012 بث مباشر اونلاين
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وفولهام 26-3-2012 بث مباشر اونلاين
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وفولهام 26-3-2012 بث مباشر اونلاين
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وفولهام 26-3-2012 بث مباشر اونلاين
This is broken thinking.

The iPad is for content consumption. So what? So are books. We survived them just fine. We survived TV, too.

Making content consumption easier is not a problem. You're just repeating the same hysterics we've heard time and time again.

More than ever before in history, people are empowered to create and share content. It stands to reason that it should have gotten even easier to sift through and consume this content. And it has.
Look forward to seeing what you have planned!
"We apologize for the inconvenience caused with watching the video of the interview. Richard did not want to upload this interview in youtube as it is not free ('free' as in free speech/freedom, not price). He also wanted us to use a non proprietary video format like ogg theora and not the patented formats like mp4. When we chose to use dropbox to stream the video, dropbox suspended our accounts for generating excessive traffic. Kindly download the video from the icon below."

How fitting that an interview with RMS should be preceded by this. I wonder if he realizes that he's already got a youtube presence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Microsoft employees seize Zeus botnet servers with the help of US Marshals
Your name may not be unique. That's not necessarily true for everyone else.

Given the prevalence of search, I would not be surprised at all if employers (more specifically recuriters) did a search and discard. It does not mean it's right or ethnical. But afaik there are no legal ramifications currently. Which is unfortunate.
Can you be more specific? I found Windows Phone 7 to be terrible as in worse than Android, iPhone, and Blackberry bad. The tile interface falls down vary quickly and the app store is a ghost town.
The "speed" idea came from an older ad campaign which kindof made more sense. It basically said "get off your phone and spend more time with the people around you." So having a quick phone was positioned as a way to be more engaged in life.
Don't forget they've also tried to prevent his ability to defend himself by seizing every bit of property and/or assets they could get their hands on. Kind of hard to defend yourself against a prosecutor that has an unlimited budget and you have no means to fund your defense.
Here's one example:

TL;DR They were throttling their wifi and when I beat them with LTE they didn't pay up saying it has to be one the first try.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...

Another one:

I too took on the challenge. Which was to post a message to facebook and email the same message to myself as well. Microsoft phone has a me tile, that posts to social media through windows live. Which is connected to your other social media networks such as Facebook, twitter and linked in. However, it does not email you. The guy argued that posting a status to windows live did the same thing. It does not, and therefore I lost.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...

But a few said they were able to win a gift certificate, like this person:

The first challenge was to find a five star restaurant in the area. I used my voice feature to search Google and yelled got it. Right when I said got it the employee was naming a restaurant and said we tied...So the second one was find a movie time for a movie playing in the theater at Tysons Corner. I used my voice to text feature again to search Google and found a time. This time there were like 3 other employees around and one of them said, "Dude, he got it." The manager eventually came out with my $100 gift card. They have it all set up on their phone to just click a button and the answer pops up. For some reason, the movie application took longer to load then normal which is why I won.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...
"The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" http://www.amazon.com/The-Code-Book-Science-Cryptography/dp/... has a chapter about the Enigma. This book is easy to read as a nice intro to many crypto topics.

"Alan Turing: The Enigma" http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Andrew-Hodges/dp/08... , supposedly the best biography of Turing, I enjoyed it. There's quite a bit on his work on the Enigma but not technical.
Simple, just use your SSN as an identifier. That will secure your identity :)
Most of the USA wealth is due to the monetary system with the dollar on top. Call it trade if you like.
"sudo su -" would. You can restrict sudo to give a set of users a limited set of tools, such as restarting specific daemons but not others.
If cited in support of the merits of the capitalist mode of production and growth, the absolute number of people below the threshold of hunger (not universally identifiable as "poverty") as calculated via the parity of a centrally controlled currency declining for the first time ever is absolutely embarrassing. I'd expect producers of post-crisis feel-good statistical acrobatics to set their standards much higher.
"Isn't this just a capitalist supporting publication trying to justify that which it supports?"

This is pretty close to ad hominem. No substance, just casting aspersions on the Economist's character.
I published a paper about a lock-free allocator back in 2006 that performed very well against Hoard and TCMalloc (http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html), you can find the paper and source code here: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/streamflow/

I think that our techniques worked very well, but TCMalloc is a better engineered allocator. That is, it's production quality code. People have used our allocator in their research projects when they wanted a low-latency, highly scalable allocator, but I'm not aware of anyone using it for production - and I no longer maintain it, so that's probably for the best.

There was recently a paper in PACT last year that extended on our design. Myself and my advisor would like to release a tech report with a more full description of our algorithms and designs, but both of us are busy with our current work.
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I've been working on a project for a few months that has actually turned into something that I think might be userul to other people. It's a niche market, but one that I work in and I see the need for this sort of software in my own work. My application is nowhere near finished, but it's in a decent prototype state.

My secret fantasy is to turn this into a business-- but I'm a noob, both at programming and certainly in business. Has anyone done this who can give advice on how to start, or things to consider? Or maybe stories of your own successful or unsuccessful first attempts at starting software-related businesses?
> “These are revenues that belong to ValCom, and we’re
> securing them for the benefit of the company and to
> increase value for our shareholders,” ValCom president
> Vince Vellardita said in a statement.

This is like an MBA madlibs statement, all he had to do was fill in the company name.
It looks like PolicyKit is a little bit unknown, although all major distributions have been using it for a while.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit

The Wikipedia page works very well as TL;DR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolicyKit
You should also keep in mind, that the german pirate party isn't only about copyright stuff.

They're also "the only" party in germany that represents the interests of web-centric citizens. While the conservative parties try to regulate the internet in germany more an more (you know, germany has A LOT of regulations, everywhere) the pirate party is a good alternative.

I'm really happy about this movement, even if they don't land a huge hit after a few years, you can see more younger people getting more interest in politics etc.
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One of the more interesting things to come to light in the Steve Jobs biography is the frequency with which he was opposed to some of Apple's greatest moves. Including some where if he had gotten his way Apple quite simply could not have become what it is today, such as making a PC-compatible version of the iPod or allowing 3rd-party apps on the iPhone.

That leaves me suspecting that, purely in terms of product design, Apple could still make the next iPhone. The engine behind the creation of such products has apparently not been diminished as much as one might expect. What I'm less sure about is whether we will line up to buy it the same way now that we don't have our turtlenecked Ron Popiel to tell us how much we want one.
I feel it's worth mentioning that, while word count alone isn't an indicator of quality, the #1 most common hurdle most writers (and developers, and anyone pursuing a creative art) are facing is producing. Real artists ship. 10,000 words might not all be good, but you're a hell of a lot more likely to spit out a few good ones in that pile versus a pile of 500 words. Make it work, then make it work well, right?
"Moreover, JS is really fast to write and test. Write – save – refresh[2]; it’s an absurdly fast dev cycle that lets me iterate on questionable portions of the code much faster than any environment I’ve worked in."

That is just full of crap. What he forgets to mention is that you have to fix a good deal of the bugs at runtime(spending time in debugger), that would otherwise be picked up by a compiler and also figuring out the workarounds on the shitty toolchain.

"We now send hundreds of kb’s of minified Javascript to the client, and we expect all of it to run smoothly."

Again, these are inherent deficiencies of the toolchain, where you have to compress the textual code, instead of using byte-code.

And on top of that we have Coffee Script, LESS, SASS, Jade and God knows what to try to compensate for the amount of legacy, instead of just rebuild proper framework from the start, right and for all.
The point is not to just write a press release, it is to get your platform noticed. They missed this opportunity with ACTA and also when our president resigned. Fefe ranted about this in several posts on his blog.

My hunch is they simply lack the political shrewdness required in these matters at the moment, but that also makes them more appealing to me, they are not just playing the same old game (yet).

PS: nice nickname :D
I think he mixed up the observation and the conclusion/interpretation:

Well, as soon as you "observe" it, we will no longer see an interference pattern
We made the decision to keep job posting free for now purely to help drive content and to give people a reason to return. The off-shoot of that is that we are manually vetting every single ad that gets posted.

Your test ad wasn't removed by a spam filter, it was removed by either myself or Jon manually.

Eventually you will have to pay to post your job on our site as well as more secure email verification but for now, we are happy staying up all hours of the night making sure that the quality remains high.
Turns out I'm already collecting this data… Vim has recently added a persistent undo feature (enable by setting 'undodir' and 'undofile'; 'undolevel' can also be raised from the default 1000); there is a Gundo plugin that displays the undo tree like a DVCS commit graph.
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Thank you for explaining it in detail. Now it all makes sense.

Edit - Without the internet, the forums and the good people, i would have remained as ignorant as I was before.
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I mean the wealth of one person in 1800, is relative to the wealth of another person in 1800. Likewise for today.

So perhaps comparing the wealth of people in 1800 to today isn't actually that productive, because the baseline has increased?

I think maybe my view of economics is flawed. My basic premise was that traditionally cost has traditionally been defined by scarcity of an item / service and consumer demand. In which case there's no limit to scarcity (say through sale of IP) how can the system work without bubbles developing / the economic system breaking down?

Likewise how can everyone be wealthy when wealth is measured relatively? (i.e. how wealthy you are is defined by how wealthy your neighbour is).

I think I need to read a bit about economics in general.

EDIT: prosperity -> wealth.
This is a good point. But my main point is: Being a developer (if you have the aptitude) you are pretty much guaranteed a decent salary, usually a good one. Playing video games and making cash is more of a pipe dream. Everyone would LOVE to play their favorite game and make money on it, truth is that those who do play that game like it's a job.

I'd even argue that those people winning at SC2 are probably the same who were winning in SC1, and possibly other games, so they may wind up being the few lucky ones. It's like hackers, not everyone will be the next Zuckerburg, but the average pay is damn good, whereas with gamers, not everyone will be the best, but the average pay sucks.
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The approach with a separate timeline for opened embeds on the side makes a lot of sense. If skype had media embeds it would be so much more useful but having them on the side takes it even further.

Can't wait until vox.io adds group chat. Then it's byebye skype for me.
What could probably work out well for them is the opposite of a "fresh approach". In an interview today, one of the new members of parliament said that he sees the PP as representing classical liberalism, as opposed to the FDP's neo-liberalism. That would be something to unite behind, beyond straight-forward internet themes. But we'll have to see whether it's something the whole party can agree on.

In its ideal form, that's something good about the German electoral system. Due to the fact that traditionally most parts need a coalition to form a government, you can have some kind of "mixin" system, i.e. vote for a party because it adds something valuable to the whole effort, not because you could see them govern totally on their own. Especially if the party isn't tied to one particular big sibling, which more and more seems to be the case now.
On the other hand, if performance was critical to you then you'd change your code to not allocate memory so much.

This was a problem we ran into with the Streamflow project (http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/streamflow/). There was no benchmark suite for multithreaded allocators, so we had to pull from HPC benchmark suites, but what's the first optimization many people do when improving an application's performance? Remove dynamic memory allocation.

We were motivated to do our work because of runtimes for multithreaded programming that need to dynamically allocate memory to represent parallel tasks. And I think that motivation remains, but that pain wasn't felt until recently.
Take don't seek pleasure for pleasure's sake.

Which guy do you think does better with women:

The one that goes up to a girl looking for sex?

Or the one who is confident in himself, and goes up to the girl for the experience of it, to make friends, and depending on if the girl is cool or not, pursue something deeper?

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I'm not sure how any of these principles prevent you from being an awesome confident guy that gets women.

Maybe these rules that you're talking about are just made by guys to prevent themselves from doing what they're scared of.

But, don't these principles suggest to do exactly what you're scared of?
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Typical fireworks are mortars, so they just have a high initial velocity and decelerate en route to maximum height, edit: or until the explosion!
Thanks for the edit. I understand what you mean - but then wealth is relative to your neighbour. In which case I don't understand how everyone in 1800s or today can be wealthy.

EDIT: prosperity -> wealth
Like the politicians who kept the Vietnam War going long after victory was impossible, they don't understand sunk costs. They are all in at this point. No prosecutor of a case this big will accept the embarrassment of merely dropping the charges. They have to win, so this will go to court.
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You might also enjoy this http://jsdo.it/event/html5hanabi crowd sourced fireworks show
I second every word you say. Modularity in particular is a significant downside of the toolchain.
because you were a foreigner, a guest, an attraction.

i went to iceland and only found nice, cheerful people. i am from austria, so did blend in a bit. if you're nordic and visiting uganda your appearance alone makes you something special and easily recognized (and potentially wealthy, so treating you nice might pay off).

that's why being a short-term visitor teaches you practically nothing about a culture. you need to live and work there to actually see the true nature of everyday people, you're novelty needs to wear off.

exceptions to this exist, some cultures simply treat foreigners/tourists badly. classic viennese coffee houses have some of the most irritating waiters on earth, embodying the anti-thesis to the US-services-smile. try getting a cheque in under 5min, i dare you :)
It can depend on what you count as riches, in part. For example, several African countries are being enriched by oil and mineral sales, if you count wealth in currency. But several of the countries have cut very bad deals (often due to corrupt governments) over their commodity exports, so that they're exporting considerably more valuable commodities than what they're getting paid for them in currency. So if you include commodities as a form of value, net value is flowing away from the country, enriching the government's short-term budget figures at the expense of draining their long-term commodities reserves.